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Chapter 466: Chapter 263: Wiped Out with One Palm

Sending Gu Xue and Gu Feng was merely a side test.

...

Half a month after Gu Xue, Gu Feng, and the others entered the new region to explore, Gu Zheng received another report about the Devouring Insect Race.

It was from his Seal Slave, Eternal Star.

The son of Yue Country’s Duke Xiaoyong had been an undercover agent in Jing Country. He faked his death three months ago, returned to Yue Country, and became a Demon-slaying Grand General in the Demon Slayer Bureau.

That’s right, Eternal Star had already broken through to the Heroic Body Realm.

A third-order Domain had just manifested in the province he was currently responsible for.

And within that Domain, the Devouring Insect Race had appeared!

...

WHOOSH!

WHOOSH~

In Yue Country’s Black Wind Gorge, a bitter, astral wind howled without end.

There were many places named "Black Wind Gorge," but the one in Yue Country was the most famous.

The entire gorge twisted and turned for a thousand miles. Even before the Celestial Change, it had been a place of certain death, where the frigid, harsh wind shrieked like the wails of vengeful ghosts.

At this moment, in the western part of the thousand-mile-long Black Wind Gorge, a third-order Domain was in the process of opening.

A sky-blotting darkness shrouded more than half of Black Wind Gorge, agitating the whistling astral wind and making the place live up to its name—dark, gloomy, and cold.

Demon Fiends darted through the black wind, and Evil Spirits shrieked.

A team from Yue Country’s Demon Slayer Bureau had entered the Domain, hunting for Source Fruits and Magic Gold while slaying Demon Fiends.

Besides the Demon Slayer Bureau personnel, there were also disciples from other Noble Families.

And then there was a team with a peculiar, high-and-mighty air, as if they were gods themselves.

The Celestial God Organization!

The Yong Family of Yue Country was in league with the Celestial God Organization.

This granted the organization a great deal of freedom within Yue Country; as long as they didn’t appear openly, they could move about freely in the shadows.

Gu Zheng rushed over, used a Heaven-Covering Leaf to enter the Domain, and followed the aura of the Devouring Insect Race. When he saw these people along the way, he casually struck out with his palm.

WHOOSH—BOOM!

The Divine Wondrous surged for one instant, and in the next, it mixed with a vast amount of the Power of Heaven and Earth, coalescing into a Palm Seal that descended upon the Celestial God Organization’s team.

The team’s leader, an expert at the second stage of the Heroic Body Realm, had just sensed the attack. He was about to shout in anger when he realized something was wrong, but by the time he thought to flee, it was too late.

BOOM—

RUMBLE!!

First came a muffled, tremendous bang, followed by the earth shaking and the mountains swaying. The area for several miles around trembled, and the cliffs on both sides of the gorge collapsed and shattered.

The howling, shrieking black wind was forcibly cut off, forced to either detour or be warped out of shape.

Dust and debris scattered everywhere, carried by the chaotic air currents and astral wind.

At the epicenter of the tremor, a massive Palm Seal was clearly imprinted on the ground.

Beneath the Palm Seal was a large pool of blood and a few chunks of minced flesh.

The sound of the wind whimpered and died down, only resuming its flow after a long moment.

On a nearby cliff wall, Ding Chunjing swallowed hard and said dryly, "Who was that just now? How could they be so terrifying? Even a peak Heroic Body expert couldn’t smash a fellow Heroic Body Realm cultivator into paste with a single palm strike, could they?"

"That was definitely beyond the Heroic Body Realm!"

A burly, black-faced man beside him said in a low voice, "A King’s Body! It could only be a King’s Body!"

"This is a third-order Domain, how could a King’s Body..." Halfway through his sentence, Ding Chunjing came to a realization. "You mean a King’s Body expert used a Heaven-Covering Leaf to get in? Who would be so extravagant? Using a Heaven-Covering Leaf just to enter a Domain... aren’t they afraid of taking a huge loss?"

"Who knows?" The black-faced man shrugged. "An expert of the King’s Body has their own considerations. Speaking of which, those people from the Celestial God Organization had it coming. They really thought that just because they were in league with the Yong Family, they could look down on everyone else. They got addicted to playing god in the Southern Wilderness and thought this place was just like those tribal Deserted People, letting them decide who lives and who dies."

"That’s true."

Ding Chunjing laughed. "The Celestial God Organization is used to being arrogant, and they’ve stayed high-profile since coming to Yue Country. They didn’t even bother to conceal themselves when entering the Domain. Well, look what happened. A King’s Body expert who didn’t like the sight of them just casually wiped them out. A team-wipe with a single palm strike!"

...

Gu Zheng, having team-wiped the Celestial God Organization with a single palm, had now found the Devouring Insect Race.

Thousands of members of the Devouring Insect Race had just swarmed through the connection to the Demon Realm inside Black Wind Gorge.

WHOOSH—BOOM!

Without a second word, Gu Zheng struck out with his palm. The Power of Heaven and Earth condensed, forming a giant, flaming palm that cut through the void, surging forward to engulf the swarm of the Devouring Insect Race.

Spirit Capturing!

[Demon Points +1]

[Demon Points +2]

...

With a single palm strike, he harvested several thousand Demon Points.

With a flicker of his body, Gu Zheng used the tunnel connecting the Domain to enter the Demon Realm, sensing for the location of the Devouring Insect Race’s nest.

Once he found it, he quickly flew over.

Just like last time, it was underground. The nest was a labyrinth of countless tunnels and caves.

SWISH SWISH SWISH~

Flashes of his blade danced, transforming into lines of light that fanned out with a SSSST, shooting into every cave to exterminate the Devouring Insect Race one by one.

He expanded his senses and found no fourth-order Demon Fiends, so he simply took out the Crimson Moon Heaven-Covering Blade and executed Ten Thousand Blades Heaven Slaughter.

SHIIING~!

A flash of blade light bloomed underground.

In an instant, it transformed into millions of Sword Gang, crisscrossing and slicing through the thousands of caves.

SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!

Tens of thousands of the Devouring Insect Race were instantly diced into pieces.

Spirit Capturing!

[Demon Points +2]

[Demon Points +4]

[Demon Points +1]

...

With a single slash, he harvested over fifty thousand Demon Points.

This was a good haul.

All members of the Devouring Insect Race within the range of his senses were annihilated.

The only downside was that this nest was a bit small.

...

He emerged from the underground space.

Gu Zheng scanned his surroundings. As expected, in the region inhabited by the Devouring Insect Race, other Demon Fiends were almost nonexistent.

However, the patch of the Demon Realm connected to Black Wind Gorge this time was not limited to where the Devouring Insect Race was located.

Gu Zheng returned to the Domain and traveled against the wind for a while, arriving at another connection point. He discovered that the Demon Realm on the other side was a floating region.

A ghastly, sinister wind swept through the air, and one Floating Island after another could be seen in the distance.

The sinister wind howled, mixing with the black wind from Black Wind Gorge and growing even stronger.

As it blew past the gorge’s cliffs, it left deep gashes like a blade, SSSST-ing against the rock.

The aura of Demon Fiends was also dense, but nothing was visible to the naked eye.

SWOOSH!

Gu Zheng immediately activated his Eyes of Golden Flame. With a single sweep, he saw hundreds of Demon Fiends of varying sizes and with no fixed form, as if their entire bodies were made of blades. They were drifting through the air, flying from the floating region toward the connection point.

Wind Demons!

They were invisible to the naked eye, yet it wasn’t ordinary Invisibility.

Their bodies were like the wind, able to gather and disperse, but their destructive power was immense.

Their cutting and tearing power was comparable to a Spiritual Soldier.

A first-order Wind Demon was as sharp as a Middle-Grade Spiritual Soldier.

SWISH SWISH SWISH~!

Gu Zheng stood at the entrance and released streams of light that formed into lines of blade energy.

With a great WHOOSH, the hundreds of Wind Demons flying toward him instantly dispersed, dodging the cutting attack.

But as the attacks passed through them, they still tore holes in their shifting, wind-like bodies. Their ghastly shrieks instantly grew louder, sounding like a raging gale to the ear.

"A little interesting."

Gu Zheng chuckled, infused his Crimson Moon Heaven-Covering Blade with Divine Wondrous, and slashed out.

SHIIING~!

SHINK! SHINK! SHINK!

Myriad rays of light swarmed out, engulfing the hundreds of Wind Demons.

The ghastly, shrieking Wind Demons were instantly silenced.

And then...

There was no "and then."

A sinister wind blew past, and the void returned to normal. The wind still howled, but the shrieks of the Wind Demons were no longer mixed in.

It was as if all the Wind Demons had never existed.

’Bloodshed?’

’None of that either!’

’No reward for killing them?’

Gu Zheng raised a sharp eyebrow, somewhat surprised.

The power of the Crimson Moon Heaven-Covering Blade was immense, but not so great that it would have eliminated the Bloodshed as well.

This situation clearly meant that the Wind Demons were special in some way.

After a moment of thought, Gu Zheng stepped through the connection point and entered the Demon Realm, finding himself in the floating region.

This third-order Domain in Black Wind Gorge had only been open for two days; there were still five days left, which was enough time for Gu Zheng to explore the floating region and discover what was so special about it.

If the Wind Demons lived here, and were also born here, then there was most likely something unique about this place.

With this in mind, Gu Zheng’s figure flashed as he darted into the distance.

Less than half a minute after he left,

SWOOSH SWOOSH SWOOSH~

a series of whooshes broke the air.

Figures flew in from all sides of Black Wind Gorge, approaching the connection point.

"He’s in there."

The speaker was a man with long silver hair and handsome features, but his words were cold and merciless.

"This is about the ’Wind Demon Crystal.’ We must kill everyone who has come here!"