Unleashing Peerless Might, Just Like Mowing Grass!

What did it mean to mow down enemies with peerless might?!

An experience he had only ever known in games in his previous life, Gu Qingfeng now got to play the leading role in himself.

The description in his sea of consciousness said that Geng-Metal Power restrained Yi-Wood. When Gu Qingfeng had faced the formidable Eldest Senior Sister, he had indeed fiercely overcome her from a lower position, but it had never felt like this.

This exhilarating sensation of charging into a thicket and hacking through it like chopping melons and slicing vegetables.

It was surprisingly addictive!

Yes, these bizarre trees had originally been strange and difficult to deal with. If the old Gu Qingfeng had come here, he would likely have been dragged away within moments, his navel and mouth stuffed full of roots. Sadly for them, he was no longer the man he had once been.

The reversed Geng-Metal Power had completely fused with his body, and he wielded it with ever greater ease.

Against these strange trees, he was an unsheathed golden sword—a divine sword!

Incomparably sharp!

The Core Branch he threw sliced the fleeing bizarre tree cleanly in two, spraying sap everywhere.

Just as he was about to pick up the Core Branch and continue the slaughter, Qi Lingguang hurriedly hugged him and said, "Senior Brother Gu, enough, enough!"

"Y-Yes, yes, enough, enough."

"Enough, enough."

The others joined in to dissuade him.

They were afraid that if Gu Qingfeng kept killing like this, they would not even know where he would slaughter his way to.

Held back like that, Gu Qingfeng gradually calmed down.

That was right. He was fleeing for his life, not here to slaughter indiscriminately.

What was more, only now did he realize that he had been so absorbed in his own exhilaration that he had ignored the fact that this wild hacking had consumed no small amount of strength. Once he stopped, he found his back aching and his limbs sore, with the hollow emptiness of having forced a powerful stroke.

He hurriedly recovered his breath while getting back on track.

It was clear that using this Geng-Metal Power from within his body felt incredible. Combined with the grass-mowing carnage it caused, it was pleasure piled upon pleasure—but it was not inexhaustible.

It had to be said that he had been chopping too frantically while saving people earlier, leaving Gu Qingfeng with no time to inspect his surroundings. Now, on their way back, he saw many human figures faintly tangled among the roots.

There were men and women among them, and some even wore uniform robes identical to theirs. Their identities needed no explanation.

They had once been disciples of the Golden Core Immortal Sect.

The Golden Core Celestial Venerable devoured the "Golden Cores" cultivated by his disciples, but a Golden Core was only one part of the body. Some of the remaining corpses had been made into human-skin umbrellas, fire tongs, and the like, while others had been wrapped into the roots of these bizarre trees to serve as their nourishment?

Then when they had gone to the practice hall earlier and had been required to burn incense and kneel before the strange forest, could it be that these "seniors" were the ones they had been worshipping?

The people wrapped in the roots were deeply strange. Though they were clearly dead beyond doubt, some could actually roll their eyes to watch them, while others suddenly spoke.

"Junior Brothers, Junior Sisters, don't go!"

"There's danger ahead!"

Suddenly, a hand shot out from the nearby thicket, trying to drag Shen Yun inside!

Gu Qingfeng raised the Core Branch and smashed it down, breaking that hand clean off.

The owner of the hand was wrapped in tree roots. Not only did she not cry out in pain, she continued waving her severed hand and called out with concern—"Don't go! There's danger!"

None of them could tell whether she was genuinely trying to warn them.

This place was far too strange!

They followed the path Gu Qingfeng had cut and retraced their steps. Wang Wu walked at the back, occasionally looking over his shoulder.

At one glance, his expression turned frantic. "Senior Brother Gu, the tunnel is shrinking!"

Gu Qingfeng's earlier rampage had cut a huge opening through this thicket thick with branches and roots, but that opening was constantly narrowing.

Seeing this, Gu Qingfeng said, "Faster!"

Because he noticed that not only was the tunnel shrinking, but the corpses wrapped in the roots were drawing closer as well.

The group hurriedly quickened their pace.

This place was getting more and more sinister!

"Senior Brother!"

Wang Wu suddenly shrieked.

When everyone turned around, they saw that the opening behind them was rapidly closing, branches and roots writhing together!

All the bizarre trees that had previously dared not approach came sweeping back in!

It was not only behind them. The same was happening ahead. They were now like prey trapped inside a net—and the net was tightening!

"Everyone, stay close to me!"

Holding a Core Branch in each hand, Gu Qingfeng charged forward while sweeping aside the branches and trunks closing in on them!

The golden Core Branches remained incomparably sharp. Like knives slapping through tofu, they smashed the attacking branches to pieces.

It was obvious that these trees had gone mad. Even though they were reduced to fragments in an instant, they still surged at them in a frenzy.

If they had been frightened into retreat by Gu Qingfeng's slaughter before, then now they had become deranged, charging fearlessly toward death!

Along the way, corpses of that kind also came curling through the branches.

Gu Qingfeng's hands never stopped, and in a flash, he hacked them to pieces as well!

The bizarre trees controlled their branches and roots to close in, yet they still could not stop Gu Qingfeng from forcibly carving out a path!

By then, they had returned to the road where they had been blocked by the two "Man-Dogs."

Yet the bizarre trees before and behind them continued to press closer. Then, voices sounded overhead.

"Careful, there's a ghost ahead!"

"There really is a ghost!"

They came from the corpses hanging from the branches above, drifting there like wandering ghosts.

They had come alive too, and those voices were coming from them.

"Go right! Go right! Take the last right turn!"

The group rushed right along that path.

This place was becoming more and more "lively." They had to get out as quickly as possible.

"Right, right, keep going right, don't stop!"

"Hurry, hurry."

"You'll be turning left soon."

The directions were undoubtedly correct, yet Gu Qingfeng and the others felt their scalps prickle.

Because those words had not come from their own mouths, but from the corpses above.

They were actually showing them the way!

And from the urgency in their voices, it sounded as though something terrible was happening.

All of a sudden, the sound of tearing and biting rang out overhead, followed by a string of shriveled chunks of flesh dropping down.

The voices of the "seniors" guiding them became broken and intermittent, yet they still called out, "Left, to the left!"

Gu Qingfeng and the others looked up to see that the "seniors" guiding them were being torn apart by other corpses that had newly emerged.

These corpses were clearly more numerous and more vicious. As a result, many of the guiding corpses were bitten full of wounds, with flesh falling from them.

Just then, one corpse swooped down at Gu Qingfeng's group like a bat.

But the moment it had descended halfway, its body suddenly stalled. Gu Qingfeng had apparently anticipated its sneak attack long ago and had already leaped up ahead of it!

Ever since reversing his power into Geng-Metal Power, Gu Qingfeng had never deliberately exerted himself to jump high.

This leap startled even him.

He had jumped nearly two zhang high. Any higher, and he might have developed a fear of heights.

This was qinggong formed entirely through brute force!

Not only was he startled, even the corpse was startled. Its ambush had instead caught it off guard. It tried to evade, but it was already too late.

Gu Qingfeng had not only jumped high—he was fast as well. His entire body shot toward it like an arrow released from the bowstring.

Slash!

The Core Branch swept through it like a hot knife through butter, splitting it in two!

But that was not enough!

Gu Qingfeng kicked half the corpse flying and continued springing upward, reaching the cluster of corpses above in the blink of an eye!

After that, golden light swirled around him as he chopped the corpses biting the "seniors guiding the way" into scattered fragments!

Below, Qi Lingguang and the others were still looking up at him when his voice rang out—"Keep running! Don't stop!"

As he spoke, Geng-Metal Power surged beneath his feet. His body was almost perpendicular to the tunnel wall, yet he raced across it as though walking on level ground.

In the blink of an eye, he had already rushed ahead of Qi Lingguang and the others.

Zhao San stared in shock. "Holy shit, Senior Brother can fly!"

Only then did the others come to their senses and hurriedly chase after him from below.