Fortune Favors the Bold

"Split!" Shen Luo gripped the axe with both hands and brought it down through the air.

With a sharp hiss, an enormous azure axe shadow more than a dozen zhang long shot from the short axe, flooding the entire stone chamber with dazzling lightning.

The giant axe carried the force of a thunderbolt as it struck the black stone.

The blood-red light around the stone parted with difficulty. But when the axe shadow struck the black stone, it vanished in a flash, as though the stone had absorbed it.

Shen Luo's expression changed. He had put everything into that strike. If it still failed to break the seal, he had nothing left to try.

Fortunately, his fears proved unfounded. After absorbing the azure axe shadow, the black stone cracked.

The crack spread rapidly. Within a few breaths, it covered the entire stone, which crumbled into countless specks of black dust and vanished on the wind.

Black light flickered across the wall where the stone had been. Without a sound, it revealed a pitch-dark opening about a zhang across, its depth impossible to tell.

A howling yin wind poured from the opening, cold enough to pierce bone.

Kill! Kill! Kill!

The wind also carried a violent, frenzied intent that seeped straight into the six people's minds. Before their eyes appeared endless scenes of war: blood-soaked mountains and rivers, corpses piled into peaks, and bones filling the sky...

Shen Luo snorted and activated a secret technique from the Body Refining Secret Canon that steadied the soul. In his mind rose the shadow of a majestic mountain stretching from earth to heaven. The visions of war vanished at once.

The technique was called the Buzhou Suppression Divine Art. Legend held that in ancient times, a towering mountain named Mount Buzhou had supported the