When My Demonic Arts Reach Great Accomplishment, I Will Stain the Azure Heavens with My Blood!

[Chapter 206: When My Demonic Arts Reach Great Accomplishment, I Will Stain the Azure Heavens with My Blood! Rolling black smoke loomed close at hand.]

[You did not continue approaching. Instead, you followed the edge, tracking the scent of the supreme treasure forward, with Hongluan close behind.]

[Suddenly, you spotted a familiar figure.]

[She was an old woman dressed in a loose traditional Southern Border robe, holding a cane in one hand and a bamboo basket in the other.]

[She stood quietly atop a cliff, watching the forbidden zone upheaval ahead.]

[Her body was stooped, without the slightest hint of imposing aura. She looked like nothing more than an ordinary old woman from the Southern Border.]

["The witch?"]

[You should not call her that anymore.]

[You should call her Hua Wuyan.]

[Though you had not heard her admit it herself, you felt that the Human Race's current Dao Protector could only be her.]

[Just as you were about to step forward and greet her, Hua Wuyan gently struck the ground with her cane.]

[In an instant, with the point of impact as its center, the earth surged like ocean waves, rippling outward in rings.]

[When the shockwave reached you, even as a Martial King, you could not withstand it and were sent flying on the spot.]

["Myriad Ghosts Going to Market!"]

[You used your classic old move, having the Demon Souls within the Myriad Souls Banner serve as your eyes and ears as they approached Hua Wuyan.]

[Hua Wuyan swept away all the surrounding dark energy with a single stroke of her cane, and everything within a thousand li instantly cleared.]

[But the black smoke in the distance boiled, seemingly unwilling to accept this as it prepared to make a comeback.]

["Master, life and death are decreed by fate, fortune