Chen Changqing shook the dust from his white robes, then strode through the air straight toward the grimly fortified ancient city.
Above the pitch-black Shattered Sky Bone Plain, azure sword qi spanned the sky.
Chen Changqing made no attempt to conceal his aura.
Pure Yang Sword Intent spread beyond the thirty feet surrounding him, forcibly slicing a straight passage through the black clouds gathering around him.
The undead creatures densely carpeting the ground raised their heads.
Sensing the vitality of a living person, they forced strange shrieks from their throats and scrambled out of the bone-strewn soil.
Tens of thousands of corpse wolves, bone bats, and vengeful spirits gathered into a black tide, lunging toward that streak of azure light.
Chen Changqing pressed his right palm down through the air.
"Get lost."
The golden, overwhelming power of humanity poured from his palm.
The might of the Human Emperor Heaven-Subduing Seal became an invisible crushing pressure in midair, abruptly forcing the ground within a hundred-mile radius to sink dozens of feet.
The tide of undead lunging into the air was crushed to powder before it could descend.
Countless bone fragments and splashes of black blood rained over the earth.
The AFK Point total on the system panel kept ticking upward in irregular increments, but Chen Changqing did not even glance at it.
His speed remained entirely unhindered, and he crossed a hundred miles of empty air in an instant.
At the far end of the land ahead, a massive black city had come clearly into view.
Its walls rose over ten thousand feet high, built entirely from black mystic ironstone unique to Nine Nether.
Layer upon layer of defensive demonic inscriptions covered the walls, and tens of thousands of pitch-black Nether Banners fluttered in the wind atop the battlements.
An enormous