Chapter 163: Chapter 161: Dawn

“Looking for death!” Bao Changtian’s eyes flickered with ferocity.

With a casual wave, spikes rose from the ground, surrounding the giant tree.

“Ha!” Bao Changtian waved his hand, sending someone flying backward.

The young man Yan watched from a distance as his companions fell one by one. His face twitched, but he remained impassive.

In his palm, a red shard spun and floated.

“The time has come!”

The young man Yan’s eyes widened, and the red shard shot forth.

This was his master’s life-saving object bestowed upon him, specifically instructed to be used only in life-threatening situations, but now the young man Yan couldn’t be bothered with such considerations.

The instant the red shard appeared, it caught Bao Changtian’s attention.

The red shard transformed into a stream of light and shot toward the giant tree.

Bao Changtian was about to move when he felt a heavy weight on his foot, as a Sea Suppression City cultivator clung tightly to his leg.

“Get off!” The Sea Suppression City cultivator flew away instantly.

“Young one! You truly… underestimated the Red Body!” Bao Changtian’s eyes flashed a trace of dark light.

In place of Bao Changtian, a sculpture made of sand and earth crumbled, and before the giant tree, soil quickly gathered to form a human silhouette.

A withered hand grasped the red shard tightly…

Despair colored the young man Yan’s eyes.

And around him, those who barely had a spark of hope showed a dimming gaze.

“Boom…” Suddenly, the ground started to shake.

Bao Changtian stopped paying attention to the Heart Lamp cultivators and turned sharply.

He saw, at a distance, a man in a blue robe forming hand seals, watching the giant tree with interest.

“You!”

Bao Changtian’s pupils shrank as he saw his fallen and lifeless old friend lying on the ground in the distance.

That was a strong figure of the Red Body Realm! Although his cultivation was far inferior to his own, stuck at the first step of the Red Body Realm, he was dealt with so quietly?

“Who… Who are you…”

Bao Changtian stared fixedly at the man in blue.

The man in blue no longer had flames engulfing his face, revealing a visage not particularly handsome but rather refined.

Even though both wore blue robes, Bao Changtian was sure this man wasn’t the same as the previous one.

The biggest difference was the aura around them…

This person… his cultivation had reached the Red Body!

“Me? I am Zhu Chen.” Zhu Chen smiled.

With the hand seal completed, the earth rolled, and the giant tree began to collapse.

“Ah, no—” The giant tree screamed.

The giant tree, which had previously ceased crying out to avoid drawing fire, never expected to face such calamity now.

“Hm, earth attribute ability?” Bao Changtian’s eyes showed confidence.

With his hands pressed on the ground, the earth began to pulse.

Zhu Chen’s magic was swiftly suppressed.

“Your magic is impressive, but unfortunately, Zhu has yet to learn anything more powerful.” Zhu Chen shook his head, straightforwardly abandoning the magic confrontation.

The next second, he was in front of the giant tree.

Zhu Chen placed one hand on the giant tree, and a moment later, a flame burst from Zhu Chen’s body.

“Boom——————”

Fire began to blaze fiercely from Zhu Chen.

The scorching flame shot into the sky, illuminating the stone walls in the air, and the entire dark underground space began to glow.

Liquid True Essence of Foundation Establishment burns with power at least ten times that of Gaseous True Essence of Qi Refining.

Fire began to engulf the giant tree, and the tree let out a wail.

“How dare you…”

“This is Lord Wu Ye’s plan!”

Bao Changtian’s face finally turned sour.

“Die!” Bao Changtian appeared beside Zhu Chen in the next second, his Qi-blood surging fiercely.

“Oh?” Zhu Chen’s eyes flashed curious as he grabbed Bao Changtian’s arm.

“Crack.”

A crisp sound echoed as Bao Changtian’s entire arm was dismantled.

“Your physical body is so remarkably thorough… truly impressive. As far as I know, only a few Secret Techniques in the Cultivation Realm have such results…” Zhu Chen murmured softly.

In Zhu Chen’s view, the Human Race’s cultivation techniques could be considered a special cultivation technique.

With a pinch of his hand, the arm in Zhu Chen’s hold burned instantly, turning to ash.

Bao Changtian’s eyes began to teem with redness.

“How dare you! How dare you!”

“This is immortality! The hope of immortality! No! I’ve waited so long… so long…”

The giant tree began to scream, and the light in Bao Changtian’s eyes started to become chaotic.

Pan Rong was healing the Red Body Cultivator nearby, watching the burning giant tree with an expression full of unwillingness.

Clenching his fists, he wanted to step forward but couldn’t intervene at all; the only thing he could do was report what happened here to the outside world.

However, the Red Body Lord who came wasn’t even his opponent.

Pan Rong suddenly felt a flash of black light at the corner of his eye.

A black light suddenly flew from Snake Princess’s corpse towards the front.

“What is this…”

A black light unknowingly flew to the back of Bao Changtian’s head.

Zhu Chen raised an eyebrow, waved his hand, and a lifelike fire snake turned into a flying shadow, but Bao Changtian tilted his head, dodging the fire snake.

The black shadow entered Bao Changtian’s head.

Bao Changtian’s pupils lost focus instantly.

Dark aura swirled around Bao Changtian’s body, and the flesh under his skin began to surge as if countless insects were moving beneath his skin.

“Not good! He’s going to go mad!” The young man named Yan suddenly shouted in shock.

“Go mad?” Zhu Chen was taken aback.

In the Cultivation Realm, cultivators could also enter a state of madness, but theirs is a mental madness due to cultivation technique issues, severely affecting cultivation, disrupting their mindset, and making breakthroughs difficult.

Demonic cultivators, when mad, could become frenzied, turning into insanely violent beings.

The person before them had some resemblance to a demonic cultivator in madness…

“Stop… quickly stop him! When going mad…” the young man named Yan hadn’t finished speaking.

A blade light, brilliant to the extreme, flashed in heaven and earth.

Bao Changtian was instantly cleaved in two, and the lingering storm of blade energy further shattered him into pieces.

Zhu Chen sheathed his long blade.

Although he had not yet mastered Foundation Establishment Stage magic, his cultivation was solid, and with the long blade of spiritual artifact level, he could unleash the power expected of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Zhu Chen looked at the giant tree in front, suddenly reaching into it with his hand.

The sound of a baby’s wail and a scream echoed.

Disgust appeared on Zhu Chen’s face.

“Who dares combine human birth with natural spirit plants… Such actions against the Heavenly Dao, are you not afraid of celestial punishment?”

More intense flames completely consumed the giant tree before them.

The screams and wails gradually weakened.

The young man named Yan stared somewhat stunned at the figure within the flames.

The flames, like his subjects, protected him, and all filth would be thoroughly consumed.

Zhu Chen shook his hand.

Several streaks of green light spread casually, and the wounds on the few people on the ground healed at a visible speed; even those cultivators on the brink of death were brought back from the gates of hell.

“Thank you, senior!”

The young man named Yan exclaimed joyfully.

Zhu Chen shook his hand, saying, “I, Zhu, do not want to owe anyone anything…”

“Moreover… this place… is a bit too stifling.”

Flames surged out from Zhu Chen’s mouth, nose, and even from every pore on his body.

“I really dislike it.”

A flame shot straight at a distant cliff.

“Boom ——————————”

The rumble of crushed stones echoed.

A large hole appeared on the cliff.

Light flooded into the underground space, and Zhu Chen transformed into a flowing light, escaping through the opening.

The young man named Yan, supporting each other, headed towards the distant light…

In the pitch-black space, light shone in through the opening as if… dawn had broken.

“This time… we must let the great lords know what happened here!” The young man named Yan spoke with a tinge of sadness in his eyes.

Though they received Zhu Chen’s aid,

several of their companions had still perished.

“This place… indeed is within the belly of Longevity Peak…”

When the young man named Yan exited the opening, they shielded their eyes from the long-missed sunlight, looking around, supporting one another, and leaving Longevity Peak.

The enormous underground space was, in fact, the interior of Longevity Peak’s mountain body.

And Longevity Peak was the largest mountain in all of Mingwu City, yet it had been unknowingly hollowed out.

On the mountaintop, Jiang Ming watched the group leave.

Beside him, Xun Yuan sat paralyzed on the ground.

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