Eerie

A moment later!

Zhao Yuling opened her eyes, and a flash of brilliant light burst forth from them, dazzlingly bright.

She rose to her feet, feeling the terrifying power coursing through her body, a smile appearing on her face.

She had successfully broken through. Escaping danger had become much easier!

This place could no longer hold her!

She was no longer who she had been before.

"Aliens!"

"Hmph!"

Zhao Yuling let out a cold snort, Fighting Spirit blazing around her.

She clenched her hands!

It was her habit whenever she gripped her sword in preparation for battle.

But this time, there was no sword in her hands—only two sheets of paper, making the sensation in her hands strangely unfamiliar.

She lowered her head.

Looking at the two blood-stained sheets in her hands, she felt baffled.

What were these?

Her jade-like brows furrowed slightly as she curiously unfolded the blood-stained papers.

After reading their contents...

Zhao Yuling was utterly dumbfounded!

"Distribution of Charm Clan personnel within Xia Clan territory, along with detailed records of their strength! What does this mean? And who put these in my hands?"

???

A string of question marks seemed to appear above Zhao Yuling's head.

She recognized every word on the paper and understood what they meant, but why did she feel so utterly confused after reading them?

Her expression shifted uncertainly between shock and suspicion!

At that moment, she noticed something else strange.

When had the manacles and shackles binding her hands and feet broken?

First, she could rule out the aliens suddenly growing kindhearted.

She could also rule out the manacles and shackles breaking on their own.

Then, had someone done it?

Zhao Yuling warily swept her gaze around the area.

She found nothing suspicious.

After lowering her head to ponder for a moment, she still had no clue.

The more she thought about it, the more her head swelled!

This was too mysterious!

Everything reeked of eeriness.

"Forget it. Never mind that for now. I'll get out first."

In the end, Zhao Yuling tucked the blood-stained papers into her clothes.

Then, the Fighting Spirit that had just subsided flared up again.

She struck.

She fiercely slammed her palm toward the bronze-gold door.

Surging force burst from her body, and amid a thunderous boom, the bronze-gold door was blasted open by immense power.

It was easy.

The door had not been locked!

Even the door had opened so easily. Things had become even stranger.

However, Zhao Yuling did not relax because of that. With utmost vigilance, she walked out of the cell.

There were no guards outside.

More accurately, the guards were dead, with only several puddles of scraps remaining.

"Fairy in White, you're out? Wonderful! Help us open the cages and chains!"

Besides Zhao Yuling, this underground prison also held other martial artists captured by the Zhang Family.

However, unlike Zhao Yuling, they had not been specially imprisoned.

They were merely bound by chains, locked in groups inside ordinary cells.

They were still conscious.

They could shout, scream, and curse!

The moment they saw Zhao Yuling appear, someone cried out in delighted surprise.

He had been captured in the same batch as Zhao Yuling and knew her.

"Who killed these guards?" Zhao Yuling asked with a frown.

"The guards are dead?"

The prisoners looked toward where the guards usually stayed, only to see a pile of scraps on the ground.

"You don't know how the guards died?"

The prisoners in the ordinary cells were separated only by iron bars. They merely had to look up to see the guards, yet they did not even know how the guards had died.

Things were even eerier now.

It was like the place was haunted!

Combined with the gloomy atmosphere here, it made everyone's scalps tingle.

They had to get out quickly.

Otherwise, they would keep feeling as though their hearts were trembling in fear.

"Once I let you out, don't act recklessly. Follow me, and we'll kill our way out together," Zhao Yuling said in a deep voice.

Having broken through to the King realm, she was naturally the strongest person here.

As her aura spread, all the trapped martial artists stiffened.

This was not an aura an Innate Grandmaster could possess!

They realized that the Fairy in White had broken through to the Half-step King realm!

They were both jealous and delighted.

With such an expert among them, their hopes of killing their way out had greatly increased!

Zhao Yuling acted, using her force to blast open the iron cell doors and shatter the chains on the prisoners one by one.

Intimidated by her strength, none of the prisoners caused trouble. Everything remained orderly. Those rescued first helped rescue the others, while some collected iron bars and actively prepared for the bloody battle of breaking out.

Half an hour later, a group of martial artists rushed out of the dungeon.

When they saw the situation outside, they were all stunned!

There was not a single living person.

They had already released their auras, ready for a bloody battle.

But what was this now?

They searched cautiously and finally confirmed that the entire Zhang Family had been massacred!

"Heavens! None of them even have intact corpses. Who knows which senior was responsible! What ruthless methods!"

"These people were all killed in a single blow. It looks like they did not even get a chance to resist."

"There's a palm print here. It seems to be the only place where there are traces of battle."

"Look, the entire ground has sunk down by a layer. The earth is harder than stone now, as though someone had forcibly compressed it into a mass with overwhelming strength."

"What kind of existence could have acted to create such a terrifying scene!"

Everyone gazed at the site where the Zhang Family's ancestral hall had once stood, at that terrifying giant palm print, and felt deeply shaken.

This was not something human strength could accomplish.

Even an ordinary Half-step King might not be able to unleash such a soul-stirring attack.

"Fairy in White, can you tell what level of expert unleashed that attack?" a martial artist asked Zhao Yuling curiously.

He was only at the fifth level of the Innate realm. He could merely sense that the lingering aura on the giant palm print was exceptionally terrifying and made his heart palpitate, but he could not judge it accurately.

"Very strong. So strong it's frightening. I don't think I can compare to them. It may have been left behind by a senior Half-step Invincible King!" Zhao Yuling said.

Zhao Yuling believed she had broken through to the Half-step King realm.

Judging from the lingering aura on the giant palm print, she felt herself inferior to it, so she boldly guessed that it had been left behind by a Half-step Invincible King.

She could never have imagined that Chu He had left this behind using strength at the King level!

Her horizons were still too narrow!

In truth, at her current level, if she possessed a secret art, she could also create a scene with the same power. But afterward, her body would be drained dry, even her foundation would be damaged, and she might even fall from the realm she had only just entered.

"Half-step Invincible King? Could the disturbance caused by the aliens have been so great that one of the Old Ancestors guarding the three border regions returned?"

Someone cried out in shock.

In his understanding, only the three Half-step Invincible King Old Ancestors guarding the Xia Clan's borders possessed such mighty power!

"Have you forgotten? The Lin Family also has a hidden Half-step Invincible King Old Ancestor. This is Lin Commandery. Perhaps the aliens alarmed his old self, and he took action!"

As though recalling something, someone spoke up.

The moment those words were spoken.

A spark flashed through Zhao Yuling's mind.

Chu He's figure appeared in her thoughts.

Then, all sorts of scenes that made her feel ashamed and indignant surfaced one after another.

Her cheeks reddened, and her thoughts immediately became a tangled mess.

"Fairy in White, people from the investigation team have arrived. They want all of us to go over!" At that moment, an Innate martial artist strode over and said respectfully.

P.S.: Thank you, boss Sun Quan's Dad, for another reward of one hundred.

Thank you, boss DK, for another reward of five hundred.

Thank you, boss Ten Realms of Great Desolation, for another reward of one hundred.