Jade Chen World, a stretch of azure sea. A Cyan Escape Light appeared on the horizon and rapidly swept across the sky. Before long, it descended onto an island over a hundred li in circumference.
The escape light withdrew, revealing a gleaming Azure Flying Boat, with Wang Desheng and more than ten others standing aboard.
Wang Desheng's face was pale, his clothes tattered, and several terrifying bloody wounds marked his body.
He had brought nine Spirit Transformation cultivators and dozens of Nascent Soul cultivators into the Jade Chen Grotto Heaven to search for the Profound Nether Ghostwood. They had accidentally triggered some Restrictions, and several Nascent Soul Realm clansmen had been killed by them. Fortunately, they had successfully found the Profound Nether Ghostwood and transplanted it away.
As they were leaving the Jade Chen Grotto Heaven, four Lizard Race Spirit Transformation cultivators suddenly appeared and ambushed them. Two Spirit Transformation cultivators had died, four had been injured, and most of the Nascent Soul cultivators had been killed or wounded.
The Lizard Race experts possessed formidable abilities. They had waited at the exit of the Jade Chen Grotto Heaven and ambushed them as they left, catching them off guard and making them pay dearly.
The Lizard Race Spirit Transformation cultivators had descended to the Lower Realm through Soul Avatars and possessed no Heavenly Treasures. They had relied entirely on their abilities to fight. If not for the Lizard Race's ambush, their losses would not have been so severe. By contrast, Wang Desheng and the others had obtained several Heavenly Treasures after destroying the Fire Lizard Clan.
The Lizard Race Spirit Transformation cultivators' ambush had caused them a great deal of trouble, but the Lizard Race's losses had also been substantial. Two Lizard Race Spirit Transformation cultivators had been killed, and one