Thirty million credited, an old acquaintance in peril
The blinding white light of the teleportation beam dissipated before my eyes.
I was standing on soft, scorched earth, surrounded by dark purple dead trees as thick as a bowl.
The air was filled with a dense Taiyin Sha Qi, more than ten times thicker than that of the Thirteen Cities of the Outer Domain.
Chen Changqing put away the Fragment of the Creation Jade Disk and patted the spatial dust off his robe sleeves.
This is already the southern hinterland of the Nine Netherworlds Central Domain, at least several million miles away from the Guiding Divine City.
He casually altered the coordinates on the interdimensional teleportation array just now. Even if the Nangong Family turned the ruins of the Guiding Divine City upside down, they wouldn't be able to pinpoint his whereabouts in a short time.
Just as he was about to release his Divine Sense to explore the surrounding terrain, a series of crisp system notification sounds exploded in his mind.
[Ding! Detonated the Three-Tribulation Ghost Immortal Grand Elder Nangong, using him as a scapegoat to kill 2,800 elite iron guards of the Nangong Aristocratic Clan and 14 Heavenly Monarch Realm elders, gaining 12,000,000 AFK Points!]
[Ding! The Three-Tribulation Ghost Immortal Grand Elder Nangong has been annihilated, body and soul. You have gained 18,000,000 AFK Points!]
[Current AFK Points Balance: 30,000,000 points!]
The account, which had just been reset to zero after breaking through to the Early Heavenly Monarch Stage in the void passage, suddenly received a full 30 million in the blink of an eye.
Chen Changqing was in a great mood, and the nine Purple Mansion Worlds within his body began to operate joyfully.
The Nangong Law Hall Grand Elder was arrogant and domineering in life, but he still managed to exert considerable influence after his death. He not only blew up the main force of the Nangong Family in the Guiding Divine City, but also gave away 30 million AFK Points for free.
I wonder how many good pieces of flesh are left of the Second Master Nangong, who was sitting on the chariot and got hit in the face by his own brother and self-destructed.
Chen Changqing stroked his chin and activated the Twelve Primordial Spirits within his Sea of Consciousness.
A vast Divine Sense, spanning ten thousand miles, spread out, traversing layers upon layers of purple, withered trees, extending in all directions.
This area is called Black Wind Ridge, a no-man's-land on the southern edge of the Central Domain. Apart from a few abandoned ancient mines, there isn't even a decent city in the surrounding area.
The five Inheritance Tokens inside the Heaven-Stepping Ring lay quietly in the Minor World. The intense buzzing that had occurred when they were separated by the boundary had subsided, leaving only a faint directional indication pointing further north to the Senluo Deathland.
As for Xiaoqian's whereabouts and the so-called Ten Thousand Ghosts Worshipping Heaven Grand Sacrifice, in this unfamiliar Central Domain, aimlessly wandering around is undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack.
I need to find a local Cultivator familiar with the distribution of power in the Central Domain to ask for directions first.
Boom!
In the northeast direction covered by Divine Sense, about three hundred miles away in a Duanhun Gorge, several violent fluctuations of Law Power suddenly emanated.
Chen Changqing raised an eyebrow slightly.
That aura, which was struggling to hold on, was fierce and domineering, carrying the pure pressure of the Divine Dao of Punishing Evil. He had just experienced it a few days ago on the White Bone Battle Platform in the Primordial Ancestral Land Minor World.
Zhong Cheng?
Didn't this kid admit defeat in the third round of the competition and leave the Ancestral Land to return to his Lineage in the Central Domain? How come he's being ganged up on in this remote, desolate wilderness?
With a thought, Chen Changqing took a step and began to use the Drunken Immortal Moon-Gazing Step.
His figure left a faint afterimage in place, and with the next step, he had already passed through the barriers of space and traversed hundreds of miles of mountains and forests.
In just three breaths, the swirling Black Sha clouds above the Duanhun Gorge were already close at hand.
Below the canyon, jagged rocks lay scattered, and the ground was ravaged by violent Technique Method, leaving more than a dozen deep trenches.
A burly young man in tattered black armor was kneeling on one knee in the pile of rubble, gripping a heavy Heavy Sword with three chips in its hand, panting heavily.
His face was covered in blood, half of a black bone-piercing nail was stuck in his left shoulder, and the chest protector was cracked into a spider web pattern. He was none other than Zhong Cheng, the prodigy of the Zhong Family in the Central Domain.
Around Zhong Cheng, twelve Cultivators dressed in uniform dark red outfits and wearing Blue-Faced, Fanged Demons- faced, fanged demon masks were closing in step by step in a fan shape.
All twelve of them were at the Early Heavenly Monarch Stage to Middle Heavenly Monarch Stage the Heavenly Monarch realm, with the tall, slender leader in Hong Yi at the very front possessing an aura that had reached the peak of the Late Heavenly Monarch Stage!
"Third Young Master, don't force yourself."
The leader in Hong Yi toyed with two poisoned death nails in his hand, his voice hoarse and unpleasant.
"You expended a lot of energy in the Outer Domain Tournament, and just now you were hit by my Seven Baleful Intent Bone-Eroding Nails. You can't even unleash 30% of your internal Law Power."
"Just stick out your necks and let us cut off your heads to take back and report, then you'll suffer less of the physical torment of soul-searching and spirit-refining."
Zhong Cheng spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, gripped the hilt of his Heavy Sword tightly with both hands, and swayed as he straightened up from the ground.
"Blood-Robed Guards lackeys, how much did my elder brother give you to dare ambush and kill your own clansmen at Black Wind Ridge?!"
"Same race?"
The leader in Hong Yi sneered, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world.
"Third Young Master, you've probably gone mad from staying in the Outer Domain. Don't you know what the rules of the Zhong Family are?"
"Even if the young master himself gave the order, and we chopped you into mincemeat and fed you to the wild dogs today, the clan's ancestors wouldn't ask a single question!"
"Act now, or things will change. Take his Primordial Spirit and Storage Ring back with him!"
With a flick of his wrist, the Hong Yi leader sent two poisoned death nails transforming into streaks of black light, aimed directly at Zhong Cheng's eyes.
Eleven Blood-Robed Guards simultaneously sprang into action, their blades flashing and forming an impenetrable net of death that descended upon the already exhausted Zhong Cheng.
Zhong Cheng gritted his teeth, forcibly burning the remaining Zhong Kui Bloodline within his body, ready to risk self-destructing his Golden Core to take two others down with him.
Just then, a ripple-like movement appeared in the space above the canyon.
A tall, slender figure in white robes stepped out without warning, landing right between Zhong Cheng and the group of Blood-Robed Guards.
"Ding! Ding!"
Two crisp sounds.
The two poisoned death nails, powerful enough to pierce the skull of Heavenly Monarch, stopped abruptly three inches from Chen Changqing's nose, and were then firmly held between two slender fingers.
Chen Changqing glanced down at the iron nail that was glowing green at his fingertips, then casually tossed it to the ground.
"The young master of a prestigious clan Central Domain the Central Region is worse off than a Rogue Cultivator from the Outer Domain."
Chen Changqing turned his head and glanced at Zhong Cheng, who was covered in blood, behind him.
"If I had known that Central Domain would be a dead end for you, I should have just twisted your head off for Points back on the White Bone Battle Platform."
Upon hearing that familiar voice, Zhong Cheng, who had been waiting for death with his eyes closed, trembled violently and suddenly opened his eyes wide.
Upon seeing the spotless white robe and the handsome profile before him, Zhong Cheng slammed his Heavy Sword against the stone with a clang, froze on the spot, and even stammered.
"Chen... Chen Changqing?!"
"It's you? What are you doing here?!"
Zhong Cheng's brain was completely overwhelmed.
Three days ago, during the grand competition at the Ancestral Land of Heavenly Gate, this malevolent star from the Yang Realm before him had slain Wang Long and Wang Hu, and directly shattered his Zhong Kui Faxiang, forcing him to bow his head and admit defeat to save his life.
At the time, he was glad that he had escaped quickly and hadn't fought the monster to the death like Nangong Tian.
To avoid the limelight after the competition, he secretly sent a message back to the Central Domain overnight through the Zhong Family's secret channels. How could he have run into this jinx as soon as he arrived in Black Wind Ridge?!
Did Nangong Tian fail to stop him? Even Heavenly Gate's interdimensional teleportation array couldn't kill him?
Before Zhong Cheng could figure out the details, the Hong Yi leader opposite him had already changed his expression drastically and shouted angrily, "Who goes there, daring to interfere in the affairs of our Zhong Family's Blood-Robed Guards!"
The leader in Hong Yi took a half step back, warily eyeing Chen Changqing who had suddenly appeared.
The skill with which he caught the Deathly Nail with his bare hands was so fast that even his Divine Sense couldn't catch its trajectory.
Even more strangely, the white-robed youth in front of him did not possess the slightest Yin Baleful Qi of the Nine Netherworlds Ghost Race; instead, he exuded a majestic and intense Pure Yang aura.
"Cultivator from the Yang Realm?"
The leader in Hong Yi narrowed his eyes and gestured to his eleven subordinates behind him.
"No matter who you are, since you've interrupted the young master's good deed, I'll kill you too!"
Without the slightest hesitation, the eleven Blood-Robed Guards at the Heavenly Monarch Realm abruptly changed direction in mid-air, their swords and blades, originally aimed at Zhong Cheng, carrying with them a rolling black wind of blood and evil, and slashed wildly down at Chen Changqing's vital points.
Upon seeing this, Zhong Cheng turned pale with fright and hurriedly shouted, "Senior, be careful! They are practicing the combined evil technique Blood Sea Spirit-Slaughtering Formation. Even a trace of Blood Qi will corrode your meridians!"
Chen Changqing stood still, not even moving the hem of his clothes.
"Noisy."
Faced with the eleven top-grade Ghost Artifacts raining down on him, Chen Changqing didn't even bother to use the Immortal Execution Sword at his waist. He simply raised his right hand and gently waved it in the void in front of him.
Boom--!
The Pure Yang Immortal Essence condensed after breaking through to the Early Heavenly Monarch Stage surged out from his sleeves, transforming into a crimson-gold wave ten feet wide.
There were no fancy moves; it was pure, overwhelming power and superior skill.
Those eleven Heavenly Monarch Realm Blood-Robed Guards had run rampant in Black Wind Ridge, along with their prized Combined Blood Sha Formation, were as fragile as paper windows the moment they collided with the crimson-gold aura.
Snap! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The eleven top-grade Ghost Artifacts shattered into countless iron filings on the spot.
Immediately afterwards, the protective Gang Qi of the eleven Blood-Robed Guards exploded, and they all spat out a mouthful of black blood. Their bodies disintegrated in mid-air, turning into eleven thick clouds of blood mist that burst out!
A fierce wind swept through the canyon, the blood mist dissipated, leaving only eleven blood-stained Storage Rings on the ground, which rolled to the feet of the Hong Yi leader.
With a single sleeve of power, eleven Heavenly Monarch were annihilated!
[Ding! Eleven Blood-Robed Guards of the Zhong Family the Heavenly Monarch Realm have been defeated, gaining 11,000,000 AFK Points!]
[Current AFK Points Balance: 41,000,000 points!]
The canyon was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Zhong Cheng stared wide-eyed at the empty, rubble-strewn ground in front of him, clutching his bleeding left shoulder.
This is Late True Lord Stage?!
Three days ago on the Ancestral Land Battle Platform, when this fiend fought against me, he clearly used several Swordsmanship to break through Zhong Kui Faxiang.
How could it be that in just three days, eleven genuine Heavenly Monarch Realm experts were wiped out with a flick of his sleeve?!
This cultivation speed is outrageous! Even someone who grew up eating elixirs wouldn't be this fast!
Opposite them, the only one still standing, the Hong Yi leader, was stiff all over, his weapon clattering to the ground, his face trembling uncontrollably beneath the demon mask.
They've kicked a hornet's nest!
This is no ordinary Yang Realm crossing the river from the mortal realm; it is clearly an old Tribulation Immortal of the Tribulation Immortal realm who has concealed his cultivation!
"Spare me... spare my life!"
Without any hesitation, the leader in Hong Yi knelt down on the pile of rubble with a thud, his head hitting the ground repeatedly.
"Senior, spare my life! I was blind and didn't recognize your greatness! I was only following orders from Zhong Wanchou, the eldest son of the Zhong Family. It was all Zhong Wanchou's doing; it has nothing to do with me!"
Chen Changqing strode up to the leader in Hong Yi and looked down at him.
Where is Zhong Wanchou now?
"In... in Heavenly Wind City, eight hundred miles to the north!"
In order to save his life, the leader in Hong Yi confessed everything.
"The eldest young master predicted that the third young master would return to the clan via the shortcut through Black Wind Ridge, so he specially led three hundred elite troops to set up a checkpoint in Heavenly Wind City, and sent twelve of us to patrol the mountain ahead of time to intercept and kill him..."
Chen Changqing nodded and turned to look at Zhong Cheng behind him.
Is there any use for keeping this person around?
Zhong Cheng snapped out of his daze, looking at the Hong Yi leader kneeling on the ground, wagging his tail and begging for mercy. He gritted his teeth in hatred. "This man is called Blood Butcher. He's the most vicious mad dog under my elder brother's command. There are at least eighty or a hundred members of the Zhong Family's collateral branches who have died at his hands. He can't be allowed to live!"
"Then kill him."
Chen Changqing lightly touched the ground with his toes.
A wisp of Pure Yang Sword Qi burrowed into the ground from the sole of the shoe, and instantly rushed into the leader's Hong Yi Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness along the knee.
"Ah!"
Before the leader in Hong Yi could even finish begging for mercy, his entire body was engulfed in a raging crimson flame, instantly reduced to ashes that scattered with the wind.
[Ding! Killed Late Heavenly Monarch Stage Blood Butcher, gaining 2,000,000 AFK Points!]
[Current AFK Points Balance: 43,000,000 points!]
Chen Changqing rolled up his sleeves and collected all twelve Storage Rings on the ground. Then he turned around and looked at Zhong Cheng, who was in a disheveled state.
"If I remember correctly, your Zhong Family is considered a top clan in the Central Domain, with a history spanning tens of thousands of years. You even have the bloodline of the Orthodox God of the Evil-Punishing Bureau within your clan."
Chen Changqing asked with some curiosity.
"As the direct descendant of the Zhong Family's prodigy, instead of enjoying a life of luxury within the clan, why are you being chased like a rabbit by your own elder brother the moment you Central Domain?"
Upon hearing this, Zhong Cheng gave a bitter, wry smile.
He plopped down on the bluestone beside him, reached out and forcefully pulled out half of the bone-piercing nail from his left shoulder, drawing out a trail of black blood, and winced in pain.
"Brother Chen, you may not know this, but every family has its own problems."
Zhong Cheng took out a bottle of healing pills from his pocket, poured them into his mouth, and sighed.
Outsiders only see the Zhong Family of the Central Domain as glorious and powerful, wielding the divine authority to punish evil, but who knows the ironclad rule of raising Gu poison within the Zhong Family?
"According to the strict rules passed down from our Zhong Family ancestors, any member of the Zhong Family who breaks through to the True Lord Realm will be immediately stripped of all protection and resources within the clan, forcibly expelled from the main family, and forced to wander alone in the Nine Netherworlds for ten thousand years."
"In these ten thousand years, whether one is killed in the Outer Domain or secretly killed by one's own kin, the clan elders and ancestors will never interfere; life and death depend entirely on one's own abilities."