Fleeting Splendor

Xiao Chan, with Jie Xin in tow, hurried toward Xi Mountain, intending to tell Fa Yan everything that had happened at Boundary Mountain.

The two had barely fled a thousand li when they saw Fa Yan speeding toward them.

Xiao Chan was puzzled. Why had Fa Yan stopped attacking Xi Mountain's mountain-protecting grand formation?

Could he have already learned of the upheaval at Boundary Mountain?

Just then, Xiao Chan noticed something.

Several hundred li behind Fa Yan, corpse qi surged into the sky and swept across the air.

Xiao Chan's expression abruptly changed, and his eyes widened.

For within that corpse qi stood a gaunt, withered figure.

The Corpse Demon Sect! Patriarch Gou Jun!

"How could Gou Jun be here? Could what Ku Yan said before have been true? Is Gou Jun really near Xi Mountain?"

Xiao Chan was horrified, his thoughts in turmoil, but his movements were not slow in the slightest. With a casual toss, he cast Jie Xin aside, turned, and fled.

Seeing Xiao Chan suddenly abandon him and run, Jie Xin was terrified and hurriedly took flight on his sword.

Yet compared to a Nascent Soul Cultivator, his speed was as far apart as heaven and earth.

In the blink of an eye, he saw Chan Master Fa Yan flash past him from nearby.

Immediately afterward, corpse qi swept across the sky.

Helpless and despairing, Jie Xin was swallowed by the corpse qi.

Jie Xin's consciousness vanished instantly.

When the corpse qi passed, nothing remained where he had been. Jie Xin's figure had disappeared without a trace, devoured completely by the corpse qi.

In truth, not only his physical body, but even his soul had been consumed along with it. Not even a fragment of his soul had escaped.

"Xiao Chan, don't run! With the speed