Chapter 493: Chapter 169: Arriving at Great Zhou Imperial City! The Rising Mushroom Cloud! (10,000-word Mega Chapter, Subscription Requested)_5
He coughed up all the fresh blood, mud, and leaves that had gotten into his throat.
Only then did he struggle to stand up.
Fortunately, he was a cultivator, with a physical constitution much superior to that of ordinary folk.
Otherwise, being struck by such a massive rock and after crashing through a tree,
his body would have been flattened into a pancake!
"Hiss!" When he managed to open his eyes and look ahead, he inhaled sharply, his face expressing immense shock, "What immense power is this? Had this explosion occurred within the county city..."
He dared not even imagine the ghastly, horrifying scene that would have ensued!
"Wait! Hold on a moment!"
The muddle-headed Little Banner Officer from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau finally recalled something and murmured, "The Daoist Priest Fan Wu who was in there... Hiss!!"
It wasn’t that he wished ill on others.
Rather, it was hard for him to imagine anyone surviving such a terrifying explosion.
This possibility...
was too remote!
"Thank goodness... I was prepared beforehand this time," Xing Fengzi was unscathed, his body bearing not a single injury. He had anticipated such an event, so as soon as he heard a massive disturbance, he immediately hid behind a large tree.
Even though the blast still broke the tree, at least it absorbed much of the impact.
The blast that then hit Xing Fengzi was neutralized by the Protective Talisman on his body.
That was the reason for his unharmed state.
Xing Fengzi looked at the members of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau scattered around and after seeing that none of them were in danger of losing their lives, he shook his head and muttered to himself, "I had intended to warn the esteemed ones from the Bureau."
"But unexpectedly, before I had the chance to warn them, this happened... Merciful, merciful." Xing Fengzi felt a little guilty, if only he had spoken just a few breaths sooner.
Then these members of the Bureau might not be in such a disarray as they were now.
At least no one was in life-threatening peril.
Although more or less everyone was injured, at least there were no serious wounds or deaths.
Xing Fengzi looked towards Yun Jiuqing.
Yun Jiuqing’s "Power" attribute was lower than Xing Fengzi’s, so when the shock wave came, she appeared more disheveled than Xing Fengzi, albeit her clothes were merely a bit messy.
"Yun Scholar, you’re not hurt, are you?" Xing Fengzi asked.
Yun Jiuqing shook her head: "No, I’m fine. The repercussion of this event was much smaller compared to a few days ago."
"Indeed," Xing Fengzi nodded.
Compared to the aftermath of the battle a few days ago, the reverberations of this one seemed significantly less intense.
Perhaps...
it was because those Witch Gu Cultivators hiding in the deep mountains couldn’t match up to the might of that Evil God of the Great Revered One.
"It’s Daoist Priest Fan!" Suddenly, Yun Jiuqing seemed to see something and couldn’t help but exclaim.
And there,
Fan Wu who was also unscathed, strode out from the swirling dust. His figure was so clean that it seemed almost unbelievable.
Fan Wu calmly surveyed the scene, his gaze settling on the Little Banner Officer of the Bureau.
He could tell the Little Banner Officer was in a sorry state.
He could also see the expression of profound shock on the other’s face.
The Little Banner Officer indeed felt deeply shocked!
He had presumed that Daoist Priest Fan Wu would have a hard time protecting himself amidst such a terrifying explosion.
However, the Little Banner Officer discovered,
He was wrong! Completely wrong!
His own shallow strength had led to his shallow understanding!
"He’s really... completely unharmed!" The Little Banner Officer murmured in awe as he looked at Fan Wu with reverence, as if looking upon a divine being.
In a daze,
the Little Banner Officer found that the Daoist Priest Fan Wu in front of him seemed to have tossed him something.
He endured the pain in his body,
and quickly reached out to catch it.
It turned out to be a hard object, and upon closer inspection, he found it was a token emitting a faint, odd aura. Clearly, this was no ordinary token—it resembled a Magic Artifact.
But what caught the Little Banner Officer’s attention even more were the few characters inscribed on the token:
——Blood Gu Sect Elder Cheng Xiankai!
Huh?
Blood Gu Sect?!
The appearance of these three characters was like flipping a switch, causing the Little Banner Officer’s eyes to bulge wide.
"Blood Gu Sect!!" He exclaimed in shock, "These practitioners of Gu magic are disciples of the Blood Gu Sect?!"
"And there’s even... an Elder?!"
"Those inside, even at the brink of death, did not wish to disclose any detailed information about the Blood Gu Sect," Fan Wu spoke, "But I think there’s no need to ask them; you’re from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau after all—you must know about this Blood Gu Sect, right?"
The Little Banner Officer swallowed hard, for of course, he knew of the notorious Blood Gu Sect.
Thus, he began to relay to Daoist Priest Fan the information he knew about the Blood Gu Sect.
From the mouth of this Little Banner Officer...
Fan Wu learned that the Blood Gu Sect was considered a heretical church, at least according to the Imperial Court of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It was said that their base was not within the Great Zhou Dynasty, but rather in another dynasty outside of Great Zhou.
