Chapter 56: Chapter 56: Fierce Battle in the Canyon
"A thousand years have passed, and the seal is finally broken."
The burly man in black, his Demon Fiend aura as vast and deep as the abyssal sea, muttered to himself.
He had just broken the seal,
and could feel that the Demon Fiend power within him was incredibly weak,
barely reaching the Spiritual Martial Level.
’Still, it should be more than enough to deal with these few little guys in front of me. They’re not even ants in my eyes.’
The burly man in black glanced first at Li Xingyue, then at Gu Yun.
Finally, his gaze fell upon Xiao Chen, deep and penetrating, as if he could see through everything.
"How interesting!"
The expressions of Gu Yun and the others turned grim, as if they were facing a powerful enemy.
At that moment, Xiao Chen was the first to strike, confronting the mysterious figure who had just been unsealed.
Fiery red True Yuan erupted from his body, and the surrounding space seemed to ignite into a raging inferno.
A scorching heat swept out, transforming the area into a fiery crucible. Then, countless fireballs materialized around him.
They tore through the air, hurtling toward the burly man.
Seeing Xiao Chen make his move, Gu Yun and Li Xingyue immediately followed suit.
Thunder Power erupted from Gu Yun, his long hair whipping about though there was no wind. His body flickered with lightning, like a swarm of wildly dancing electric serpents.
In an instant, he formed a massive Thunderous Hand dozens of yards wide in the air and sent it smashing toward the burly man!
Li Xingyue, for his part, unleashed power far beyond the Half-Step True Martial realm. In a sudden flash, he slashed out. His Sword Qi soared into the sky, resembling a celestial Flood Dragon as it dove toward the burly man.
The burly man stood with his arms crossed, watching the attacks approach, completely unmoved and his expression unchanged.
A razor-thin, dark barrier automatically materialized about ten feet in front of him.
The countless fireballs, the immense Thunder Power, and the sharp Sword Qi all slammed into that incredibly thin, dark barrier.
BOOM!
A powerful shockwave swept out in all directions,
yet the razor-thin, dark barrier didn’t even show the slightest ripple.
Gu Yun and Xiao Chen stared at the scene. ’This newly awakened old monster is just too powerful.’
Without a moment’s hesitation, Xiao Chen waved his hand. Three Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fires appeared around him, then rapidly condensed into a lotus shimmering with intermingling shades of purple, blue, and cyan.
"Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus!"
Upon seeing this, a flicker of emotion finally crossed the burly man’s stoic face, and his brow furrowed slightly.
"Spiritual Fire fusion... Flame Venerable..."
At that same moment,
Gu Yun acted in concert with Xiao Chen.
Unleashing all his True Essence Power, he manifested a colossal golden palm in the air, thousands of yards wide and radiating a brilliant light.
"One Palm Imprisoning Heaven and Earth!"
The terrifying power made the very air tremble. With an incomparably ferocious momentum and a vast Divine Power, it surged forth like a tsunami!
The colossal golden palm seemed to blot out the entire sky,
as it descended from on high, bearing down on the canyon.
The burly man, arms still crossed, looked up at the colossal golden palm descending from the sky.
"Tsk, tsk. Even Desolate Venerable’s ultimate technique has appeared..."
At last, the burly man moved.
A boundless, oceanic tide of Demon Fiend power erupted from within him, blanketing everything.
In an instant, his Demon Qi flared violently, and a fierce gale began to howl.
He clenched his right hand, grasping at the empty air.
In that instant, a blinding black thunder erupted, its roar filling the entire canyon.
"Annihilation Dark Thunder!"
Xiao Chen’s Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus instantly swelled, unleashing terrifying power, as Gu Yun’s thousand-yard-wide golden palm descended from the heavens.
The Annihilation Dark Thunder collided with the Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus and the golden palm,
producing an earth-shattering explosion in an instant! It was like the collision of colossal meteorites in outer space.
A vast wave of power erupted forth,
a torrent like a tsunami, a force that could shatter mountains and rivers, a cataclysm of landslides and cracked earth.
A visible shockwave slammed into the canyon walls, fracturing the rock strata. Under the force of this immense collision, the entire canyon instantly collapsed.
Countless huge boulders came tumbling down.
After the exchange of blows,
the burly man in black gave Xiao Chen one last, deep look.
He then transformed into a streak of dark light that shot into the clouds, vanishing from sight in an instant.
’It’s not that I didn’t want to slaughter those little brats for a warm-up,’
’but that handsome youth in the Profound Robe seemed to be harboring a remnant soul of the Flame Venerable.’
’That’s an existence even I had to be wary of at my peak!’
’Never mind now, when I’ve just broken the seal and am at my absolute weakest.’
Gu Yun saw the canyon collapsing entirely.
The moment Li Xingyue had triggered the seal, the powerful cultivator’s cavern dwelling had instantly collapsed and vanished, leaving nothing behind.
Watching the sky fill with falling boulders, Gu Yun’s figure flashed, and he appeared beside Li Xingyue.
"Xingyue, we can’t stay here!"
Then he shouted to Xiao Chen, "Brother Xiao, let’s go!"
He then grabbed Li Xingyue, transformed into a streak of lightning, and shot into the sky, vanishing toward the horizon!
Hearing this, Xiao Chen glanced at the collapsing canyon and the sky full of falling boulders.
He knew time was short. His figure flashed, transforming into a streak of fire as he sped after Gu Yun.
...
「Within the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm」
Ancient trees towered toward the heavens amidst a vast, verdant sea of forest.
Not long after flying off, Gu Yun and the others arrived in this place.
Over the next half-month, they encountered no other mishaps.
With Gu Yun watching over them,
the three sworn brothers traveled with their Spiritual Senses extended, collecting Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. They even found three stalks of an extremely precious Profound Tier Spiritual Medicine: Nine Yang Ginseng.
After consuming them, their strength grew. Gu Yun’s Cultivation reached the True Martial Second Layer Peak,
Xiao Chen reached the First Layer Late Stage,
and even Li Xingyue, thanks to his solid foundation and the boost from the precious Spirit Medicine, finally broke through the barrier ahead of schedule.
He broke through to the True Martial Realm, a fact that made him ecstatic for a long time.
As expected, by following a Child of Fortune like Xiao Chen, the other two found their own luck had improved considerably.
Moreover, having faced numerous crises together, the three had long since become companions who had weathered life and death, and their bond was unshakable.
Although they had to fight many Demon Beasts along the way, including a few at the True Martial Third Level,
with Gu Yun’s formidable strength, these Demon Beasts simply became resources for their training.
At this time, within the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, in a barren, desolate land...
Heavy clouds blanketed the sky. Beneath the pitch-black canopy, the world was dim and gloomy.
The land here was visibly desolate, the soil parched and covered in one clump of scraggly weeds after another.
This place was a continuous range of desolate mountains, dotted with all kinds of bizarrely shaped ancient trees.
Each one was dozens, or even hundreds, of yards tall, but their branches were coated in a thick layer of black dust.
All sorts of strange and misshapen leaves hung from their boughs.
This area was the complete opposite of the Spiritual Qi-rich environments found elsewhere in the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm; it was as if the Spiritual Qi had been completely drained away, leaving it desiccated.
Suddenly, a fierce wind swept through,
letting out a rising and falling WAIL, as if souls were weeping in the darkness.
Meanwhile,
in a desolate valley nearby,
the figure of a handsome young man in black floated in mid-air, a terrifying aura flowing from his body.
The very space around him seemed to ripple like the surface of disturbed water.
He stood with his arms crossed. On the ground below his feet, dozens of corpses lay scattered about, blood flowing out in streams.
If anyone were here, they would surely recognize the dead as renowned prodigies, some of whom were even talented disciples of the Profound Celestial Sect.
So, who could it possibly be?
Who would dare to hunt and kill the prodigies of the Profound Celestial Sect, an Overlord Level Influence in the Eastern Profound Domain?
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