The Wu Yang Venerable looked at Ji Hongwen in the void, his hand holding the gray bone tower, emanating wisps of blood light.
"Hmph, obstinate fool!"
Ji Hongwen looked at the Wu Yang Venerable, shook his head, and a trace of ferocity flashed in his eyes, unleashing a punch.
Instantly, the surrounding peaks collapsed, and a giant orange fist, radiating terrifying pressure, appeared. The moment this pressure manifested, the raging inferno in the entire northernmost region instantly dissipated.
"Ji Hongwen, this Venerable vows to destroy your primordial spirit!"
"Open!"
The Wu Yang Venerable raised the gray bone tower in his hand. The entire basin was suddenly filled with crisscrossing blood light, like a dense spiderweb surrounding the gray bone tower.
Vast streams of blood fiend energy surged in the void!
"Ji Hongwen, even though this Venerable has fallen from the Yu Shen realm, you still cannot defeat me!"
"Gather for me!"
The Wu Yang Venerable sneered, his eyes becoming increasingly bloodshot. The gray bone tower in his hand directly shattered, and a dark primordial energy flashed above the basin.
"Whoosh~"
The blood sea churned, and heads floated in it, each with a dark spiritual bead identical to those in the Emperor Corpse's eye sockets.
"Roar!"
Ten thousand skeletons howled in the void, demonic energy obscured the sky, and blood dyed the expanse!
"Soul Devour!!"
Ji Hongwen's face turned pale. Seeing the frenzied Wu Yang Venerable, his expression instantly turned cold, "I truly regret not having the Cave Master exterminate you back then!"
"Shatter for me!"
Ji Hongwen roared, his orange fist shadow, like a divine strike, descended in fury. The void blood sea churned, orange light flashed, and they collided fiercely.
"Boom boom boom!"
Layers of blood-red ripples spread through the void!
"Give up, Ji Hongwen, you cannot break this formation!"
"Even if the Cave Master were here, he couldn't do anything to this Venerable!"
"Is that so?"
"Shatter for me!"
Ji Hongwen's face flushed slightly. He slammed his fists onto the blood sea. The ten thousand skeletons howled within the blood sea, their assault causing blood to flow from Ji Hongwen's ears.
"Boom!"
The blood sea surged with ten thousand-foot waves. The orange fist shadow directly enveloped everything. With a series of crashes, the ten thousand skeletons instantly shattered, and the blood sea dissipated.
"Pfft!"
The Wu Yang Venerable spat out a mouthful of blood, his face pale, "I never expected that the pawn I personally supported back then would now be so eager to destroy me!"
"Wu Yang, this Venerable has long repaid the great kindness you showed. Now, I am acting on the Cave Master's orders. Why do you not surrender quickly!"
Ji Hongwen clenched his fists, layers of orange flowing light circulating on them. His eyes suddenly sharpened, and he unleashed a punch. The orange light cracked the void, and the sonic boom left He Yuanqing and Liang Shitai's heads in a daze.
"Rumble!"
The punch descended, dazzling and brilliant, so much so that even the dense dust could not completely obscure it!
Ji Hongwen threw punch after punch, continuously striking the Wu Yang Venerable's grand formation. Blood light filled the sky, and fist shadows illuminated the ground.
Divine thunder roared, and the entire earth trembled violently. He Yuanqing and Liang Shitai were immediately knocked unconscious by the deafening noise.
"Where do you think you're going!"
Ji Hongwen roared from within the dust, his fist shadow streaking across the sky. Accompanied by the receding roar, the basin gradually became peaceful.
"Gurgle gurgle~~"
"Crack crack crack~~"
The Emperor Corpse, kneeling on one knee, suddenly stiffened and twisted its neck. A figure gradually appeared in the black spiritual bead in its eye sockets, and a crimson light transformed the bead into an eyeball.
"Hoo...!"
A mouthful of turbid air was exhaled from the Emperor Corpse's mouth. Scales gradually covered its skin, and in an instant, another Bloodfiend Desolate Lord materialized.
"Fortunately, this Venerable left a backup. Although this wisp of broken primordial spirit is only at the peak Nirvana realm, it should be sufficient in this Desolate Realm!"
"Ji Hongwen!"
"Fire Cloud Cave!"
"This Venerable will destroy you all sooner or later!"
The Bloodfiend Desolate Lord sneered, identified a direction, and then shot towards the Blood Spring Desolate Region.
Half an hour after its figure disappeared, two streams of golden primordial energy slowly flowed out from the Emperor Palace. Accompanied by bursts of tiger roars, they completely enveloped the bodies of He Yuanqing and Liang Shitai, and the tiger roars coursed through their entire bodies.
Gradually, their primordial energy was restored to its peak, and streams of blood that did not belong to them surged into their chests. Their powerful heartbeats drove their bodies forward, advancing towards the Nirvana realm.
"Senior, when can Xu Chu go out?"
A voice called out softly from the palace, with a sense of urgency, "The Human Emperor needs Xu Chu!"
"No!"
"It is not yet time!"
"The demonic path is rising. The Wu Yang Venerable spared no effort in refining the Desolate Realm, searching among billions of martial artists for chosen ones to become his vessels for possession. He has now succeeded and instantly entered the peak Yu Shen realm.
"You just saw it, even Ji Hongwen, who is at the Venerable realm, could not defeat Wu Yang. What about the demonic path behind Wu Yang?"
"If you go out now, you will not be able to help your Human Emperor. Stay here and cultivate diligently, break through to the Venerable realm as soon as possible, and then you can help your Human Emperor protect our human race!" Su Dan Novels Net
...
"Hoo... Hoo..."
"Liang Shitai!"
He Yuanqing's eyes snapped open, and he sat up in a panic, shouting loudly.
"General He!"
Liang Shitai also woke up instantly, hurriedly looking at He Yuanqing. The two looked around in a daze, then lowered their heads to examine their bodies, "Nirvana!"
"What happened?"
He Yuanqing stood up and looked at the desolate surroundings. Ji Hongwen, the Wu Yang Venerable, and the Emperor Corpse were all gone. Even the Emperor Dynasty palace had vanished without a trace. Only the shattered peaks and the devastated earth reflected the great battle before they fell unconscious!
"Sigh!"
Liang Shitai shook his head, "This is beyond our capabilities. I never imagined that the Wu Yang Venerable would be so malicious, selecting suitable bodies from the entire Desolate Realm for possession!"
"None of that matters. What's important is that the path of cultivation for the native martial artists of the Desolate Realm is flawed. They can never reach the Yu Shen realm, let alone the Venerable realm!"
"At most, they will stop at the peak Nirvana realm, forging the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Golden Body!"
He Yuanqing frowned, looking at the dust-covered land, "The mission that the Human Emperor assigned to you and me will likely not be completed!"
Their journey to the northernmost region had yielded no news of General Xu Chu. However, they had learned the secrets of the Desolate Realm and the important reason why there were so few martial artists at the Nirvana realm in the Desolate Realm for millions of years.
Desolate Realm!
Myriad Beast Realm!
Fire Cloud Cave!
Yu Shen realm!
These new pieces of information continued to reveal a brand new world to the Great Han Dynasty, as well as the filth hidden beneath the surface.
"Let's go!"
After searching the basin fruitlessly, the two of them then soared into the sky, heading towards the Great Han Dynasty.
...