Strike While He's Wounded, Take His Life
"Divine Lord, are you really going alone?"
Su Zhan was already standing in the center of the Teleportation Array. The golden patterns beneath his feet were half-lit, awaiting the final activation command.
"Who should I bring? You?"
Yuan Ji opened his mouth, then closed it again.
He knew his own limitations perfectly well. Going along wouldn't be helping; it would only cause trouble.
"I just feel that... the Black Demon Sect Sect Master is, after all, Second Level Martial Emperor, and even while he's healing, he's not someone who can be easily shaken. You could at least... send someone to deliver a message."
Su Zhan patted Yuan Ji on the shoulder.
"What message are you sending? A death notice?"
Yuan Ji choked.
"Don't worry, if I can't win, I'll run away. If I can't run away—" Su Zhan paused, "Then you should close the door to the cave tightly and not open it for anyone."
Yuan Ji wanted to say something heroic, like "I will follow you to the death." But looking at Su Zhan's relaxed, almost irritating expression, any grand words seemed superfluous.
"Your subordinate awaits your return."
"Hmm."
Yuan Ji pressed the Rune.
The golden light from the Teleportation Array surged, and Su Zhan's figure was engulfed by the light.
After a brief feeling of weightlessness, a salty, damp smell filled my nasal cavity.
Black rocks lay beneath my feet.
The sky overhead was a leaden gray.
In the distance, a vast expanse of dark red mist churned on the sea, stretching endlessly towards the horizon. A strong, pungent stench of blood filled the air, not just the Ordinary Grade smell of the sea—it was the nauseating stench of decaying matter and being soaked in Devil Qi.
The Demon Sea.
Within their Sea of Consciousness, the Cultivation Method almost simultaneously activated their microphones.
[Blazing Dragon Venerate]: What's that smell? Who put it there?
[Nine Heavens Divine Lightning]: The concentration of Devil Qi is very high. If the outer perimeter is at this level, it becomes more terrifying the further in you go.
[The Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon]: (Taking a breath) Wow, such concentrated poison. There are at least seven kinds of high-level toxins mixed in this sea area. For Ordinary Grade, standing here and taking three breaths would cause them to bleed from all seven orifices.
Su Zhan glanced around.
The reef beneath our feet marks the exit of the Teleportation Array, approximately three thousand miles from the coordinates of the Black Demon Sect Headquarters's headquarters as indicated in the Soul Search intelligence.
Three thousand miles of the Demon Sea.
Is there a faster way to get there?
[Nine Heavens Divine Lightning]: If I use my Lightning Light Escape Technique at full speed, I can arrive in an hour. But the noise will be too great, and I will be discovered halfway there.
[Shadow Thousand Silk Lock]: I suggest stealth. My threads can weave a concealment shield, blocking out fluctuations in your aura. It will be slower, but at least you won't be exposed prematurely.
Su Zhan thought for a moment.
"I'm not diving anymore."
The Chat Group fell silent for a moment.
[Blazing Dragon Venerate]: Hmm? No more hiding? Just going all out?
"I checked during the Soul Search; the Sect Master wouldn't recover to his peak condition for three months. How much time has passed now?"
Su Zhan recalled the time since he entered the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven.
"At most a little over a month. The wound in his soul hasn't healed yet."
"Strike while the iron is hot and kill him."
Su Zhan stomped on the rocks beneath his feet, shattering them. He soared into the air, enveloped in the Purple-Gold Lightning of the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning.
"Go through the main entrance."
Lightning tore through the air, and a streak of purple-gold light shot like an arrow into the depths of the dark red sea of mist.
Extremely fast.
The sea beneath my feet was churned into a long trench by the shockwave, the seawater bursting out to both sides before closing back in.
He forcefully smashed open a passage through the dark red blood mist.
The purple qi of the Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon automatically formed a protective film on the body's surface, blocking all the Demonic Poison that tried to seep into the pores. Not only was it unaffected, the Divine Farmer's Manual was also quietly absorbing the high concentration of toxins, consuming them as it ran.
[The Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon]: The poisons here are quite good, with a wide variety. There are several that I haven't encountered before, which will be perfect for enriching my poison inventory.
[Blazing Dragon Venerate]: You're really something, you can eat wherever you go, I'd never starve if I followed you.
They flew for about fifteen minutes.
A muffled tremor suddenly came from beneath the sea surface.
Su Zhan's speed remained unchanged, but an anomaly appeared within his perception range—deep in the sea, numerous shadowy figures were moving. These shadowy figures were enormous, and their swimming speed was not much slower than his.