Retreat

A dim expanse of land was littered with chaotic boulders,

At the center of the boulder field stood a black stone pillar roughly three hundred meters tall.

The pillar was covered in marks left by something unknown. They resembled claw marks, carved into the stone pillar.

A ferocious aura that seemed capable of devouring heaven and earth quietly spread out, causing Futu Yun's eyes to redden slightly.

Futu Yun slowly stepped forward,

The instant his palm touched the stone pillar, his mind boomed, and countless fragmented images flashed past at high speed.

In the images, there seemed to be a vast pool,

Its waters were crimson as blood. People were continuously thrown into it, and the moment they fell into the blood pool, they instantly melted away.

Deep within the blood pool, a section of a black pillar could vaguely be seen,

It lay hidden beneath the water like an unparalleled demon god, silently devouring the surrounding blood-fiend aura.

Quite a few blurry figures stood above the abyss,

Then, the blood pool suddenly shook. A towering pillar of blood violently pierced the clouds, and the abyss shattered along with it,

A streak of blood shot skyward along the blood pillar before finally hovering in the heavens.

It was a black stone pillar stained with endless blood, with countless demonic patterns seemingly writhing across its surface,

Deep claw marks were etched upon it, making the entire stone pillar seem as though it could shatter at any moment.

Yet this ancient demonic pillar, which appeared to be on the verge of breaking apart, erupted with boundless ferocious energy at that moment.

Futu Yun's mind focused on that scene,

That ferocity seemed to invade his heart, and his reason was nearly consumed by the violent aura in an instant.

But the daze lasted only a moment. The roar of Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder suddenly rang out in Futu Yun's heart,

He immediately woke from his trance, his heart jolting in alarm,

He stared at the cracked black stone pillar as though he had seen a ghost, hurriedly backing away with terror and vigilance filling his eyes.

Having read the original novel, Futu Yun naturally knew what this was:

The Great Sumeru Demon Pillar had originally been the Dragon Demon Palace's treasure for suppressing its sect, but it had been lost after the White Dragon Sovereign defected;

It was also because of the White Dragon Sovereign's actions that the Dragon Demon Palace had been defeated by the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and lost its position as overlord.

Futu Yun had originally believed he could suppress this ferocious aura, but he had still overestimated himself,

Fortunately, the Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder had cleared his mind. Otherwise, he would have suffered badly this time.

Futu Yun frowned tightly and moved his gaze upward along the black stone pillar until it settled on its peak.

A white spirit pearl roughly the size of an infant's head floated there.

The white spirit pearl was crystal clear, radiating a milky white halo that dispersed the surrounding darkness,

Beneath the halo's cover, Futu Yun's heart calmed somewhat as well.

Cloudlike mist churned within the white spirit pearl,

A deep, resounding dragon's roar echoed out, and a white dragon could vaguely be seen swimming within.

The White Dragon Spirit Pearl had originally been used in the novel to suppress the black demonic pillar,

It contained the White Dragon Sovereign's spiritual consciousness power, and this was Futu Yun's ultimate objective on this trip.

Because this spirit pearl concerned information about a Lower Plane!

However, just as he grabbed the white spirit pearl, a cold snort exploded above his head like thunder.

The White Dragon City's lord, Bai Xuan, had appeared before him with a grim expression,

Seeing Futu Yun seize the white spirit pearl, a cold glint immediately flashed through his eyes as he threw a punch without hesitation.

"Heh!" Futu Yun played with a small stone statue in his palm. With a thought, he poured spiritual energy into it.

The stone statue instantly erupted with dazzling light and then rapidly expanded in the wind,

Within only a few breaths, it transformed once more into an ancient stone statue nearly thirty meters tall,

It stood quietly at his side like his most loyal guard.

Even an early Heaven Transformation Realm expert could only avoid confronting this stone statue head-on.

It was simply a pure fighting machine.

Moreover, a pair of spirit-light-flashing bracelets rested around the statue's wrists,

One was shaped like a dragon, while the other was shaped like a flood dragon,

These Dragon Flood Spirit Rings should have been top-grade spiritual artifacts.

In the original novel, Li Qing, who had been only a step away from entering the Heaven Transformation Realm, could rely on this artifact to contend with an early Heaven Transformation Realm expert,

Now that it was in the hands of the stone statue guard, it was enough to contend with a Late Heaven Transformation Stage expert, perhaps even remain invincible within the Heaven Transformation Realm!

Having read the original novel, he knew Bai Xuan had concealed his strength, but Bai Xuan was only at the Late Heaven Transformation Stage.

The instant the two collided, even the sky seemed to tremble,

Immediately afterward, violent ripples of force spread outward from the point of impact.

Bai Xuan's body shook violently. He spat out a mouthful of blood and was sent flying back in a sorry state for over a thousand meters.

The blood fell onto the black demonic pillar and soon vanished without a trace.

Dark crimson light patterns slowly emerged across the surface of the shattered black stone pillar,

The moment these light patterns appeared, heaven and earth seemed to be veiled in a faint crimson gloom.

"Damn it!" Futu Yun's expression changed,

In the original novel, it should have been Mu Chen's blood that fell upon the demonic pillar,

Futu Yun had clearly gone out of his way to avoid that outcome, yet Bai Xuan's blood had still touched it through some twist of fate.

Now that Bai Xuan had shed blood instead, could the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar end up recognizing Bai Xuan as its master?

But before he could think further, the black demonic pillar suddenly erupted with a towering blood-red light,

The bloody light shot straight into the clouds, seeming to have been condensed from blood. It spread across the sky and transformed into a sea of blood,

A wave of ferocious energy spread out with it.

From that surging sea of blood, Bai Xuan sensed a terrifying fluctuation beyond description.

"Could it be that this stone pillar is the true supreme treasure within the Spiritual Treasury?"

The mission he had received was merely to seize one supreme treasure from the White Dragon Sovereign's Spiritual Treasury,

But there had been no precise information about which treasure it was.

He had originally believed the supreme treasure was the white spirit pearl taken by that brat,

But now, this mysterious black stone pillar was clearly even more astonishing!

Yet precisely because it was so astonishing, Bai Xuan did not dare make a move at all.

The sea of blood in the sky filled this entire space,

Then everyone watched in horror as the space began to distort,

It was a sign that space was about to shatter.

This terrifying mysterious stone pillar could not even be contained by this space?

Countless people were horrified. What kind of supreme treasure was that? Could a divine artifact have emerged?

"Space is about to shatter!" Bai Xuan did not dare attack either. He hurriedly circulated spiritual energy to protect himself.

The distorted space finally reached its limit and shattered completely like a mirror falling to the ground,

Violent fluctuations swept outward.

Spatial vortices appeared one after another, swallowing everyone inside.

High above the depths of White Dragon Hill, cracks suddenly tore open across the sky,

Countless figures were spewed out like garbage, falling densely toward the ground below.

"They're all out." Su Ling'er stared in surprise at the bedraggled figures scattered across the mountains and plains.

"What exactly was that thing? It was terrifying!" Guo Xiong said with lingering fear,

That space had been created by the White Dragon Sovereign, yet it had still been shattered.

Such means could only be achieved by an expert at least on the same level as the White Dragon Sovereign, right?

"Leave immediately before Bai Xuan notices us!" Just then, Futu Yun appeared beside them,

A terrifying ferocious aura suddenly erupted from within Futu Yun,