Scavenging a Bargain

The self-destruct device secretly enhanced by the Capital Prefectural Governor exploded with a thunderous boom. The heat wave rapidly spread, swallowing everything around it.

Feeling the heat waves assaulting him from all directions, Chen Xu's Essence surged forth as he pushed his defenses to the absolute limit of what he could currently achieve.

His scorching effect was on an entirely different level from the blazing heat rushing at him. The bone armor lasted less than a moment before being charred black, only for fresh bone armor to emerge and replace it.

His dark golden body crackled as it was scorched. Chen Xu felt the wounds that had partially healed split open once more.

The smell of charred flesh filled Chen Xu's nostrils. Lowering his head with difficulty, he saw that his body had shriveled, exposing bones faintly glimmering with gold. The moisture within him had nearly been forcibly evaporated dry.

If not for the effects granted by Flesh Derivation and Immortal Gold, he would likely have been reduced to ashes in the first instant.

As the heat wave gradually weakened, Chen Xu let out a long breath. If that temperature had lasted a little longer, he would have been burned alive here.

As the flames weakened and the temperature fell, his chances of survival multiplied.

Once the heat wave's temperature dropped again, Chen Xu began climbing toward the surface.

He was not sure how far down he had burrowed, but it had definitely been deep. Otherwise, he could not have escaped disaster.

The air was filled with the scorched stench of corpses that had failed to evade the blast's heat wave. The enormous crater spanning nearly a thousand meters was utterly empty. As far as the eye could see, no one had survived.

Suddenly, a charred hand reached out of