Departure, Killing

"Hmph~" Liu Yue gave a soft snort, his voice carrying a trace of unwillingness.

Yi You had succeeded, while he had actually failed.

He had never thought that, in terms of talent, he would lose to that archery brat. After all, the Celestial Human Race ranked far above the Yi Clan.

Yet he had only opened his divine aperture and failed to nurture an innate divine ability.

Yi You was still celebrating when he heard that displeased snort. He immediately grinned. "Well, if it isn't the prodigy of our Celestial Human Race?"

"What's wrong? Brother Liu Yue didn't succeed?"

"You failed?"

"Tsk, the odds were seventy or eighty percent... and you still failed? Tsk, tsk, tsk... Brother Su, Brother Su, it seems someone has let down your expectations~"

"..." Veins bulged across Liu Yue's forehead.

"Hmph~"

With another stifled snort, Liu Yue turned away, unwilling to bother with this bastard any longer.

The main issue was that without an innate divine ability, the combat power granted by opening a divine aperture was far inferior. If they truly fought, he had little chance of winning.

Getting beaten up was nothing. What he feared was this guy using it to mock him for a hundred years.

"By the way, ol—" Yi You was in high spirits and wanted someone to share his joy with. At the same time, he wanted to see whether he could catch up to Su Bo, that monstrous freak, in strength.

Liu Yue was curious as well.

Even this idiot had managed to nurture an innate divine ability. With Su Bo's terrifying talent, his opened divine aperture and innate divine ability were surely incredibly formidable, right?

The moment the two turned around, they saw a horrifying scene.

More than a dozen Withered-Bone Demon Corpses, each overflowing with demonic aura and comparable to the peak of the ninth body tempering, erupted with monstrous demonic energy and charged at Su Bo, who was trapped in their midst.

Their expressions changed instantly, and they both stepped forward. "Holy shit..."

"Old Su, hold on! We're coming to save—"

"Stay back! Don't get in the way!" Su Bo took a step forward, strolling leisurely through the dozen or so Withered-Bone Demon Corpses.

No matter how those demon corpses erupted with demonic aura or unleashed the martial arts they had possessed in life, attacking him from all sides—

Not one of them could touch even a corner of his clothes. He evaded them all, then casually crushed the demon corpses one after another with his palms.

Dragon might suppressed their lingering obsessions, divine intent ground away their residual consciousness, and his blood and qi ignited the demonic aura within the Withered-Bone Demon Corpses.

Torches rose one after another amid the graves, blazing into roaring flames, while the Withered-Bone Demon Corpses turned to ash and scattered away.

In only a short while, more than a dozen Withered-Bone Demon Corpses comparable to the ninth body tempering had all been slaughtered.

Crushed. Completely and utterly crushed.

The ninth body tempering Withered-Bone Demon Corpses were not even worthy opponents for Su Bo in a single exchange. Once his fists and palms fell, the demon corpses were thoroughly annihilated.

Moreover, they could clearly sense it.

A ninth body tempering Withered-Bone Demon Corpse was roughly equivalent to a martial artist who had tempered their body with eight strands of blood and qi.

In terms of strength, they were somewhat stronger than Liu Yue and Yi You before they opened their divine apertures and obtained innate divine abilities, but weaker than they were now.

Yet in raw strength alone, they were not much weaker.

"More..." Su Bo had not enjoyed himself in the slightest and wanted the Withered-Bone Demon Corpses of the Astral Gang realm to come out.

"Clack~" Astral Gang realm, Spirit Skeletons... cannot release~

The Gravekeeper Spirit Skeleton refused outright.

It itself was only comparable to a martial artist at the peak of Blood Refining into Astral Gang. It was not that there were no Astral Gang realm Withered-Bone Demon Corpses, but every demon corpse at that level had already ceased to be a demon corpse.

They had transformed into Spirit Skeletons and possessed considerable intelligence. They could all be considered its clansmen.

Therefore, it could not release its own clansmen for Su Bo to kill.

Even the Gravekeeper Spirit Skeleton found Su Bo's strength somewhat troublesome. If they truly fought, suppressing him would not be easy.

The Gravekeeper Spirit Skeleton refused.

Su Bo stared at it with blazing eyes, considering whether he should test its strength.

Gravekeeper Spirit Skeleton: "..."

"Clack..." Trial, over, leave...

After transmitting the mental wave, the Gravekeeper Spirit Skeleton planted its greatsword upright. The soul fire in its eyes erupted with gloomy, chilling coldness. "Clack... clack, clack..."

"Three-Turn Soulfruit, you owe me a favor. In the future, you must free my clan..."

After transmitting that final mental wave, the Gravekeeper Spirit Skeleton fell silent, and the brilliant soul fire in its eyes suddenly went out.

It was as if, after declaring the trial complete, its mission had ended as well.

The dim glow of the Soul-Spirit Burial Grounds gradually faded into darkness. Thick black mist spread outward, seeming intent on burying this graveyard completely.

Naturally, Su Bo understood the Gravekeeper Spirit Skeleton's investment.

He had been absorbing Dao resonance and immersed in enlightenment, but he had not let down his awareness of the outside world. He had clearly sensed the Gravekeeper Spirit Skeleton's actions.

"As long as I do not die, I will return in the future and free the Spirit Skeleton Clan!" Su Bo looked toward the Spirit Skeleton that was about to be completely swallowed by the black mist.

It seemed to have heard him. A faint white gleam swept over its skeletal body.

"The forbidden ground trial is over!"

The two behind him no longer had time to care about anything else.

They darted toward Su Bo in a flash and hurriedly said, "Old Su, hurry and go! The forbidden ground is closing. If we don't leave, we won't be able to get out of the Withered Bone Demon Forest."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. This place is damn strange. Without the Gravekeeper Spirit Skeleton suppressing it, who knows if monsters comparable to the Astral Gang realm might come rushing out." Two flames of light ignited in Yi You's eyes.

"Follow me. I can see the way..."

As he spoke, he transformed into an arrow shooting outward, vanishing into the black mist in an instant.

Liu Yue stuck close behind him. The Heavenly Eye between his brows opened into a slit, locking onto Yi You's trail, and with a flash of his body, he gave chase.

Su Bo was not stubborn enough to stay behind either. With one step, he seemed to shrink the earth beneath his feet as he pursued them without pause.

The three raced wildly through the black mist...

Outside the Withered Bone Demon Forest.

The ground throughout the forest lay shattered, trees snapped and broken. The destroyed area stretched for hundreds of meters, as though it had been bombarded by something.

All life force had been wiped from the land.

Foxwolf's narrow eyes stared fixedly at the black mist as it swelled and contracted. A cold killing intent radiated from his sinister gaze.

"Who was it? Who the hell was it?"

"Who dared steal my opportunity? Who severed my Soul Vine?"

"The Yi Clan? The Celestial Human Race? Yi You... Liu Yue, you must give me an explanation!"

Foxwolf had never expected that after delaying just briefly to break through to the eighth body tempering, he would be unable to enter the forbidden ground.

Only when all three slots had been taken would the forbidden ground reject other living beings from entering.

According to their agreement...

The Soul-Spirit Burial Grounds should have had one slot for the Yi Clan, one for the Celestial Human Race, and one for his Heart-Moon Fox Clan.

The third slot had been occupied by someone else. That meant those two despicable bastards, Yi You and Liu Yue, had brought one of their followers inside.

Since they had refused to follow the rules first, then he could not be blamed for doing the same.

He secretly clenched an item containing the great killing weapon bestowed by his clan's ancestor in his palm.

No matter who came out first... kill!

Even if word got out, Foxwolf would be in the right.

Yi You was the first to rush from the thick black mist. The instant he broke through it, his divine eyes, activated through an innate divine ability, saw Foxwolf standing outside the forest.

Almost the moment his eyes met Foxwolf's killing gaze, he understood.

"Yi You..." Foxwolf made no attempt to conceal his malice and killing intent.

When Liu Yue, the second to break through the black mist, emerged, his eyes also collided directly with Foxwolf's gaze, filled with malice and killing intent.

Like Yi You, Liu Yue understood as well!

"Quick-shot!"

"Three-Eyes!"

The two spoke at once. "Kill!"

Heavenly Eye Soul-Sealing! The Heavenly Eye between Liu Yue's brows opened completely. A silver-white arc streaked across several hundred meters, carrying the power of his divine aperture as it directly suppressed Foxwolf's soul.

Yi You grinned, his smile filled with killing intent.

"Divine ability..."