Flee

Rumble--

A white light capable of devouring everything burst forth from the darkness, rapidly spreading to both sides of the underground passage.

Along that dazzling, sun-like expanding white boundary line, a blood-red figure frantically teleported and flashed along the passageway.

Chi Feng's immense power after unleashing his barbarian runes, Xu Yuan dared not give him any time to react, not even for a moment. In that instant, the guy could easily escape the center of the energy released by the Source Crystal.

However, after activating it, Xu Yuan realized that he seemed to have underestimated the power of this Source Crystal bomb.

Previously, Li Qingyan had detonated the explosive at a fixed point. Due to the distance and his cultivation level, he didn't feel much of it. He only felt the earth shake violently in the cave, and then the Source Qi spread out from the source Source Crystal he had set up, and then it was gone.

This time, he himself led the Source Crystal in a self-destruction.

Xu Yuan truly experienced what it means for a moment that the body runs ahead while the soul chases behind.

After the Source Crystal Bomb fully unleashed its power, as its aura spread, a massive suction force was generated at its edges, pulling people towards the raging energy center. The spatial tremors caused by the overflowing energy made the life-saving technique, Void-Stepping Slash, somewhat uncontrollable.

die

This immense energy source made Xu Yuan, despite his Strange Ghost form, sense a deathly aura.

If he gets involved, he will die.

At least as a human being, he would die.

Fortunately, the spread only lasted for a few breaths.

Everything around seemed to have been frozen in time; the enormous sphere of energy suddenly stopped when it reached a critical point.

The next moment,

In an instant, all sources of light were sucked back to the center of the explosion and disappeared!

Time continues,

Boom!!!

A hurricane suddenly rose from the center, blowing debris and dust into long, surging streams that rushed towards the end.

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Everything returned to calm.

The Cloud-Treading Boots landed softly, and the blood-red robes fluttered in the strong wind. Xu Yuan stood at the edge of the pit and let out a long sigh.

It seems his verbal Cultivation Method aren't quite up to par yet; he can't do what that Crown Prince from a certain manga in his past life did—can win over a villainous boss with just a few words and turn him into one of his own.

But there's nothing we can do about it.

The Barbarian King Chi Feng was able to rise to this position step by step; his mind was incredibly resilient. How could he be swayed by a few words from him?

Xu Yuan wasn't surprised by his refusal.

Every instance of verbal sparring is a gamble with a small stake for a potentially huge return.

Gambling is something where nine out of ten times you lose.

He had been able to win bets all along, either because he was fooling the naive and inexperienced young man, or because his father had given him the chips to run the betting operation.

Facing a player like Barbarian King with insufficient resources, success would be a pleasant surprise, while failure would be the norm.

However, this experience served as valuable lessons for his later self-destruction at the Blood Nest with a bomb.

Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.

The power of a single box of Source Crystal is so great. If, as he had thought, he had foolishly carried four boxes of Source Crystal to the Blood Nest and had them activated at the same time, Xu Yuan wasn't sure if he would die, but he would most likely not be able to escape the devouring range of that energy sphere.

Thinking,

Xu Yuan casually cast his gaze toward yet another massive cavern swallowed up by the source Source Crystal energy, preparing to retrieve the remains.

The Barbarian King should have quite a few things on him.

Um?

Where is the Barbarian King's body?

A chilling sensation shot from his heels to his head, and the aura of death made his hair stand on end. Xu Yuan instantly pushed his Blood Origin Heart-Fall Technique to its limit.

And the next moment,

In Xu Yuan's vision, a giant fist with bone spurs the size of a face was already pressed against his face.

It was so sudden, so fast, that you could barely see the other person's speed.

Void-Stepping Slash.

Boom!!

Fist to the ground

The stone surface within a radius of more than twenty feet sank under the force, and was shattered and sent flying like tofu by the enormous force of the punch!

Amidst the swirling pebbles, Xu Yuan reappeared, his back pressed against the top of the passageway, staring down at the imposing demon god radiating a ghostly blue light. His mind sank to the bottom of the valley.

He's not dead.

Why isn't he dead yet?

How could Chi Feng, who had lost an arm to Li Qingyan and whose injuries were aggravated in the continuous battles, survive a box of Source Crystal bombs?!

However, it was clear that the Barbarian King Chi Feng had no intention of explaining anything to Xu Yuan.

The shattered rocks continued to tumble through the air, and Xu Yuan noticed that the Black Death Fungal Mat he was constantly absorbing had undergone a certain degree of change.

Not good!

"Qi Long!"

Gravel flew everywhere, Root Bone shot out from the fungal carpet behind him with lightning speed!

Clear Speech, buzzing sound rang out, and Xu Yuan turned around, intending to sever it.

Bite!

The sound of metal clashing rang out.

The blade of Xu Yuan's sword was blocked by the jet-black bone spikes.

These eerie, jet-black bone spikes were incredibly tough; even the Blood Ink Jade's splashed-ink Sword-Ray only left a shallow sword mark on them.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan abandoned his idea of a direct confrontation.

Void-Stepping Slash.

Once the obstruction was removed, the jet-black bone spike instantly pierced the ground from the cave ceiling, penetrating the entire cavern!

Given the quality of the Blood Jade Glazed Robe, it should only be used to cover those spikes.

His figure appeared dozens of feet away. Before Xu Yuan could even figure out what the bone spurs were, the Barbarian King's tall and imposing figure had already reappeared in front of him:

"Something like a fly!"

Chi Feng stomped his foot hard, shattering the ground. His muscular thighs drew a dark blue semi-circle in the air, and his whip kick went straight for Xu Yuan's shoulder!

"Buzz--"

With a clang of the sword, Xu Yuan narrowed his eyes and swung his sword, its blade glowing with a dark, blood-red light, to meet the opponent's whip kick.

Blood Ink Jade - Heavenly Edge

Just as Xu Yuan was preparing to unleash his ultimate attack to take the hit head-on, an aura of death suddenly enveloped him.

Without any hesitation, the flow of Source Qi was forcibly interrupted.

Void-Stepping Slash.

The sound of the ground cracking behind him rang out. Xu Yuan landed, and his scarlet pupils, devoid of whites, pierced through the smoke to see the scene within.

Chi Feng's attack was not just a single whip kick; countless dark bone spikes surged out from all directions of the tunnel, intersecting and colliding violently.

At the very center of those countless bone spurs was the spot where he had just been standing.

If he had chosen to confront the Barbarian King head-on, he might have been able to inflict damage, perhaps even severing one of his thighs, but his body would have been instantly pierced by those bone spikes.

Of course, as Strange Ghost now, he cannot die.

In other words,

This Barbarian King actually wanted to capture him alive with those bone spikes for interrogation?

Thinking to this point,

Xu Yuan no longer hesitated, and a massive amount of crimson Source Qi spread out, while the Qingyan Sword Blade emitted a clear hum.

Void-Stepping Slash.

Run away!

Although the exchange was brief, Xu Yuan already understood that he was no match for Chi Feng, who had unleashed his barbarian Chi Feng.

Without Luo Xiran's Abyssal Rift, which can resonate with the Strange Ghost, he is currently unable to use the Dao Domain on his own.

Unable to use his Dao Domain, not to mention those strange bone spikes, the Barbarian King's current ghostly speed is already so fast that he can barely react.

Xu Yuan once again felt the gap between himself and the world's top geniuses.

If it weren't for Qin Mo's self-created Void-Stepping Slash, he would have died three times by now.

If it were Xu Changge, that arrogant king, controlling his current form as Strange Ghost being, perhaps it would be this Barbarian King Chi Feng who is running away now.

Between thoughts,

Xu Yuan's escape and the Barbarian King's pursuit—the two figures, one in front and one behind, had already covered a distance of hundreds of feet.

Debris flew everywhere, the Underground Palace roared, and large areas of the land began to collapse.

He did not lure the Barbarian King to where Li Qingyan and the others were; the ant-nest-like terrain of the Dead Silence Underground Palace provided him with a complex escape route.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Xu Yuan had more than a dozen irreparable wounds on his body.

But he still ran away without looking back.

However, with each step he took, the fungal carpet on the surface of the passageway withered rapidly, and all the vitality of the Black Death Fungal Mat along the way was greedily absorbed by the Black Death Fungal Armor on his body.

Furthermore, Xu Yuan also figured out what those bone spurs were by using the fungal carpet covering the inner wall of the tunnel.

Dao Domain.

Unlike the Dao Domain Xu Yuan had ever seen, the Dao Domain unleashed by the Barbarian King Chi Feng was completely without any warning.

It doesn't even emit Source Qi fluctuations.

Centered on Chi Feng, within a radius of several hundred feet, all the cave passages within this area would be permeated by his Dao Domain, and at any moment, those jet-black, tough bone spikes might suddenly pierce out.

Boom!!!

Having narrowly dodged another punch, Xu Yuan gritted his teeth and glanced at Chi Feng face remained cold and stern.

The opponent's speed was still lightning fast, but with the enhancement of the "purple" Black Death Fungal Armor, it was now possible to barely catch up.

Feeling slightly relieved, Xu Yuan once again disregarded the damage to his meridians and used "Void-Stepping Slash" to create distance.

Barbarian King, huh? You just wait.

Since I can't compete in talent, I Xu Changtian, will use cheat codes to out-equip you and stack stats!

This is from yesterday.

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