Extreme Dao True Scripture

"While you're down, I'll take your life!"

Zhang You reacted quickly as well. Enduring the pain, he swung his right hand again, slashing viciously at Old Daoist Qingyuan's neck!

This old bastard had to die!

"Pfft!"

A head shot into the sky!

Old Daoist Qingyuan, who had some reputation on the Dao, had ended his sinful life!

Zhang You absorbed a wisp of blue-white qi!

But in his final moment, Old Daoist Qingyuan drove the Immortal Artifact Broken Sword into Zhang You's chest!

"Boom!"

He even detonated his own backpack!

Mana raged at the scene, reducing everything to chaos.

Old Daoist Qingyuan was blown apart, leaving neither corpse nor bones behind!

Even at his final moment, he regretted it. Why had he been so greedy?

The explosion directly blasted a breach open in the already unstable ghost domain!

Before long, the breach began repairing itself and gradually closed.

"Whoosh!"

At the final instant before it fully closed, a black shadow shot out in a flash.

Silence gradually returned within the ghost domain. Yin energy once more filled the air, as though the great battle before had been nothing but an illusion, yet the devastation carpeting the ground told of just how fierce that battle had been!

Xiaolin City had already passed midnight.

The sky was overcast, and dark clouds had swallowed the moonlight. The city was pitch-black and even quieter than usual.

Among the ruins near Fahua Temple, a mass of Black Flame suddenly appeared out of thin air, wrapping around a severely wounded person.

That person collapsed onto the ground without moving!

It was Zhang You, who had escaped from the ghost domain!

Faced with the old Daoist's desperate counterattack, Zhang You had retreated as quickly as he could, yet he had still been caught in it!

He had defended with all his strength. Together with the Immortal Artifact Broken Sword in his hand and the aid of Netherworld Ghostfire, he had ultimately survived.

Before losing consciousness, he had charged out through the spatial breach.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhang You's fingers twitched, followed by a fit of coughing.

He had regained consciousness!

But his injuries were still severe. Without two or three days of rest, he definitely would not recover.

About another half an hour later, he shakily sat up.

The Black Flame enveloping his body suddenly shrank back into him, finally entering his soul sea and quieting down!

After repeatedly confirming that Netherworld Ghostfire had no further plans, Zhang You withdrew his consciousness from his soul sea.

At this moment, aside from his pale complexion, he appeared completely unharmed on the outside.

Yet his internal injuries were still serious and would need to be slowly nursed back to health.

"Finally, I'm out of that godforsaken place!"

He looked around and discovered that he was in the ruins on the eastern side of the city.

"Hm? I'm right here!"

He soon realized that he was near that teacher's schoolhouse.

The three crooked dead trees beside it were the best landmark.

While in the ghost domain, he had carefully observed the surrounding area, so those three trees had left an exceptionally deep impression on him.

He had not forgotten the exquisite box in that secret chamber.

Within the ghost domain, the books inside had not manifested.

According to that old dog Qingyuan's guess, there ought to have been some secret treasure there!

Zhang You had his doubts about that too!

This place had been abandoned for so many years. Even if there had been anything good, it had probably been picked clean long ago. How could it possibly have remained until now?

Since that old dog Qingyuan knew about this place, he must have come here before. Otherwise, he could not have gone into the ghost domain looking for the Blood Spirit Annihilation Array.

Or perhaps the old dog had simply been talking nonsense!

"Better take a look."

Even in the ghost domain, he had felt something indescribable about that object.

After fumbling around for quite some time, he finally discovered an exposed underground passage.

It was the secret chamber!

It seemed it had long since been visited.

After giving it some thought, Zhang You still walked inside!

Everything in the secret chamber had been burned away. The blaze had not spared this place either.

Burn marks covered the surroundings. Nothing remained intact.

There were even some footprints on the ground, left behind by people who had come later.

After searching for a long while, he found nothing useful.

There were only some burned, misshapen remnants of books.

His internal injuries were severe now, and he could not easily use his physical strength. So he drew on a slight thread of blood qi, enough to lift some fallen wreckage and check whether anything had been buried beneath it.

The moment he entered, he had not held much hope.

"What's that?"

When he lifted a toppled bookshelf again, the blood qi around his body was suddenly absorbed by a black tabletop.

He hurriedly tossed aside the bookshelf and picked up the tabletop. Beneath it lay a book that had already been burned to ruin.

The back cover of the book had not burned away, though it had been charred into something like charcoal.

The blood qi had entered there.

Curiously, he picked it up. After thinking for a moment, he increased the flow of blood qi.

The thing accepted everything without refusal, utterly without ceremony!

Of the fifty percent blood qi Zhang You had painstakingly recovered, more than forty percent vanished in an instant.

Soon, the charred layer on its surface scattered across the floor, revealing a glowing hard plate.

"Damn!"

A beam of light suddenly shot from the hard plate directly into his head.

He had no time to react at all!

A flood of information soon filled his mind.

It turned out to be a body-tempering cultivation technique.

Extreme Dao True Scripture!

At the same time, clouds suddenly churned in the sky. Lightning flashed and thunder roared as countless bolts of lightning gathered in this direction!

When Zhang You entered the secret chamber, Shopkeeper Li of Auspicious Cloud Teahouse had just emerged from cultivation.

"Hm? It's appeared!"

He sprang to his feet and looked toward Fahua Temple!

He had actually sensed once more the mark he had left on Zhang You!

After hastily notifying the others, he rushed toward Fahua Temple.

The moment he neared the ruins around Leyun Workshop, he sensed Heavenly Thunder rolling overhead, while a chilling, murderous aura gathered in the sky above this area!

After considering it, he ultimately stopped, intending to wait and see what happened.

A little while later, Tang Julou arrived first, followed by City Lord Qin Fengtian and Boss Ren. Pang Biao was the last to arrive.

"Shopkeeper Li, are you sure that little thing has appeared?"

Pang Biao was the first to ask.

"I don't know whether it's him, but the mark I set has indeed appeared again. It's right over there!"

Shopkeeper Li did not speak with certainty as he pointed toward Fahua Temple.

"Whether it is or not, won't we know if we go take a look?"

Boss Ren shook his head. He did not want to make wild guesses here; there was no point.

"I presume you've all sensed that murderous aura as well?"

Tang Julou looked grave as he glanced at the sky—or rather, at the thunder still gathering there.

"I wonder what happened inside?"

Qin Fengtian felt a shiver of alarm as well.

"Wait! As long as that mark remains, it's enough!"

Tang Julou looked at Shopkeeper Li as he spoke.

"Indeed. We only need the other party's flesh and blood. Whether he's alive or not doesn't matter much!"

Shopkeeper Li nodded as well, indicating that the mark was still there.

"Tomorrow is the final day. Looks like we really waited him out!"

Pang Biao did not overthink things. He only cared about what would happen after tomorrow!

"Boom!"

Just as they were discussing it, the lightning gathered in the sky instantly struck down into the ruins!

Inside the secret chamber!

Just as Zhang You was still stunned, a thick bolt of lightning descended from the heavens and struck directly at him!

This was deadly!