Han Chao exerted all his strength to activate the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda. The Nineyered Pagoda burst forth with massive devouring power, swallowing all the ferocious beasts into it to suppress them. Then, it turned into an escape light, fleeing along the path it hade.
After two years of fighting at the frontline, his escape skill had been refined to perfection, allowing him to escape numerous times from being surrounded and killed by hordes of demons.
"Quite skillful!"
The Purple Lion’s voice echoed in theboratory, with speakers installed in every corner: "Falling into my hands today, you should meet your death, your path extinguished. I have studied the art of formations on the Alliance’s official website!"
As his voice faded.
Theboratory was filled with shes of spiritual light, which solidified into mysterious formations, blocking all exits.
Han Chao had no choice but tond his escape light, with the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda shedding spiritual light to protect him while he threw a Spirit Talisman at the formation and prohibition.
The formations trembled but did not break; instead, countless ferocious beasts with bared ws and teeth charged at him.
The Purple Lion obviously knew that Han Chao was not easy to deal with, so he deliberately used a formation to trap him, using a mass of ferocious beasts for the kill, believing that one at the Foundation Establishment Stage could not hold out for three to five days before dying from exhaustion.
"I was somewhat reckless this time!"
Han Chao frowned deeply, pondering how to break the formation, when he heard the continuous roar of explosions.
At that moment.
Several figures appeared outside theboratory, led by a young Taoist priest who was none other than Zhou Yi’s eldest disciple, Jin Jiuxiao.
The rest were real persons at the Foundation Establishment Stage, activating spells and magic artifacts, bombarding the top of theboratory together, and soon created an opening in the formation.
Whoosh!
Han Chao seized the opportunity, transformed into an escape light, and flew out through the opening. After seeing the people who came to his aid, he quickly bowed and showed his gratitude.
"Thank you for saving my life, eldest senior brother!"
"The master sent a message saying that junior brother was in trouble, so I immediately brought people to help."
Jin Jiuxiao, being a Heavenly Spiritual Root carefully nurtured by the Alliance and carrying the hopes of official Golden Core entities, was even assigned several Foundation Establishment cultivators tomand, despite already being epted as a disciple by a True Monarch.
Only by treating him sincerely would they be able to count on his protection once he attains the Golden Core!
"Master’s divination technique is truly like that of a ghostly prophet!"
Han Chao eximed in admiration and then said, "Today, the three demons have gathered, and it’s the perfect opportunity to eradicate them all, leaving Binhai with no natural dangers to defend."
"That’s exactly what should be done."
Jin Jiuxiao looked down at theboratory below, where the three demons, knowing they were no match, tried to hold out by relying on their formations and prohibitions.
"These demon creatures have quite a keen mastery over formations and prohibitions, but unfortunately..."
"Times have changed!"
While speaking, he took out a cylindrical object over ten zhang long from his storage bag, entered aplex password, and casually threw it down at theboratory.
Seeing this, Han Chao’s face turned pale. Without waiting for his eldest senior brother’smand, he pped on several talismans and transformed into an escape light, darting away into the distance.
Boom!
A deafening explosion silenced heaven and earth.
A thousand-zhang high mushroom cloud rose from the ground, and the terrifying shockwave swept over the mountains, engulfing theboratory’s formations and prohibitions, which onlysted a few breaths before turning to dust.
The mountains were snapped in half at their waist, and the elite ferocious beasts stationed in the mountains simply vanished.
Ten miles away.
Han Chao couldn’t help but look back. Far away, it was as if a great sun had risen, illuminating and obliterating everything in its path.
Dusty haze filled the space between heaven and earth. When he used his skill to see through the spiritual world, the sight caused his eyes to tear up from the irritation. All vegetation and living creatures in the mountains had disappeared, leaving behind a huge pit in their ce.
He vaguely sensed strange fluctuations, eroding the meridians of the flesh body, making it impossible for cultivators to meditate nearby.
"Such power... it must surpass even that of a Golden Elixir True Monarch!"
"No wonder people at the frontline call the eldest senior brother mad, carrying around a nuclear bomb with him, not fearing any idents..."
...
Year 202 of the Alliance.
Winter.
The Battle of Binhai erupted.
The remnants of the Cloud Continent’s eastern demon races gathered sea andnd beasts by the millions,unching a beast tide in an attempt to repel the Alliance Army.
Fierce shes urred at the old site of Binhai, dragging on for a month, with heavy casualties on both sides.
By the beginning of year 203, the Alliance Army’s g was nted at the ruins of Binhai, and the entire eastern region of the Cloud Continent came under human control.
...
Qiong Continent.
Southwest of the Nameless Barren Mountain.
In the mountains lived a pig demon, rted by some blood to the Heavenly Peng Demon Emperor among the Three Emperors, ruling its territory carefree and unchallenged.
This demon was naturallyzy, with no interest in fighting for supremacy; its days were filled with eating, drinking, and merrymaking.
The only interest it had was in collecting peculiar items, which didn’t necessarily have to be exotic treasures—anything rare caught its fancy for y.
The ferocious beasts produced in theboratory weren’t used to fight with other demon races, but rather to dig up graves and search for rare objects.
Over the decades, it umted quite a collection of oddities, turning theboratory’s center into a museum, and would asionally brag by posting pictures online. Even though the majority of its kind mocked it, it was still overjoyed by this activity. Had it not grown a pig’s head, it would be indistinguishable from the human race.
That day.
The pig demon was strolling around the museum, touching and closely examining everything—even a strange branch could bring it great joy.
In the central position was the museum’s treasure, a peculiar transparent stone coffin.
The coffin was only the size of a palm, an apanying burial item from an ancient tomb in the mountains. Within its nearly transparent materialy a golden figure.
The pig demon couldn’t identify the material of the stone coffin and had tried to break it open, but even a tens of thousands tonnes hydraulic press couldn’t damage it in the slightest.
"Hehe! Even science can’t detect this coffin, a truly supreme oddity. Not even the Demon Emperor has one, old pig me..."
While admiring it, the pig demon noticed that the coffin suddenly developed tiny cracks on its surface.
"What’s happening?"
Just as the pig demon was about to grab the coffin, it rose into the air and floated.
Inside the coffin, the golden figure shifted from illusory to solid—it was an old man in a simple Taoist robe, with hair, skin, and robe all of a golden-red color.
The old man’s eyes suddenly snapped open, scanned the surroundings, and then, his divine sense projected through the coffin and sensed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
"So sparse. By using the Heavenly Corpse Secret Technique, one can barely cultivate a Golden Core..."
"Given that the lineage is severed now, only a little over a thousand years have passed—could the secret technique I used to seal myself have failed?"
The old man furrowed his brows, then looked at the pig demon and said coldly, "Howe there are demons in Qiong Continent? The bloodline seems somewhat extraordinary; it could serve as a temporary vessel!"
Before the pig demon could react, the old man emerged from the coffin and drilled directly into his forehead and into his mind.
Soul Search!
"Kunlun legend? The Great Beast Cmity?"
"New skills? Ancient methods?"
"Martial Saint... Golden Core... Dragon Emperor?"
More questions arose in the old man’s mind. Only a millennium had passed in the heavens and earth; not even as long as his own lifespan, yet so much had changed that it was almost unrecognizable!
After the soul search, the old man didn’t possess the body but rather applied the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s secret technique.
The pig demon’s skin turned purplish, two sharp fangs protruded from its mouth, its eyes turned pale, and its entire body was shrouded in the aura of death.
"For now, I’ll reside in this corpse demon’s body andter look for someone with a Heavenly Spiritual Root to possess."
The old man took out the pig demon’s cellphone and clumsily searched online. As the web pages rapidly scrolled by, he roughly understood the events of the past thousand years.
"Hahaha! Yuan Ling, that fellow, turned out to be even unluckier than me!"
Upon reading the records about the One Qi Sect, the old man couldn’t help butugh heartily.
——My apologies, a refresh will do the trick——
The old man’s eyes suddenly snapped open, scanned the surroundings, and then his divine sense projected through the coffin and sensed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
"So sparse. By using the Heavenly Corpse Secret Technique, one can barely cultivate a Golden Core..."
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"Given that the lineage is severed now, only a little over a thousand years have passed—could the secret technique I used to seal myself have failed?"
The old man furrowed his brows, then looked at the pig demon and said coldly, "Howe there are demons in Qiong Continent? The bloodline seems somewhat extraordinary; it could serve as a temporary vessel!"
Before the pig demon could react, the old man emerged from the coffin and drilled directly into his forehead and into his mind.
Soul Search!
"Kunlun legend? The Great Beast Cmity?"
"Kunlun legend? The Great Beast Cmity?"
"New skills? Ancient methods?"
"Martial Saint... Golden Core... Dragon Emperor?"
More questions arose in the old man’s mind. Only a millennium had passed in the heavens and earth; not even as long as his own lifespan, yet so much had changed that it was almost unrecognizable!
After the soul search, the old man didn’t possess the body but rather applied the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s secret technique.
The pig demon’s skin turned purplish, two sharp fangs protruded from its mouth, its eyes turned pale, and its entire body was shrouded in the aura of death.
"For now, I’ll reside in this corpse demon’s body andter look for someone with a Heavenly Spiritual Root to possess."
The old man took out the pig demon’s cellphone and clumsily searched online. As the web pages rapidly scrolled by, he roughly understood the events of the past thousand years.
"Hahaha! Yuan Ling, that fellow, turned out to be even unluckier than me!"
Upon reading the records about the One Qi Sect, the old man couldn’t help butugh heartily.