The broadsword slashed down, bringing up a bloody sword energy that was more than ten feet long, and the space where it passed was slightly distorted.
If this knife were to strike hard, not to mention Earth Palace Realm, even the strong Heavenly Palace Realm of the same level would be seriously injured!
Gu Sheng, however, did not dodge or dodge. He clenched his right fist tightly, veins popped out on his arm, and a terrifying physical force was gathering.
"Sky-Breaking Fist!"
This is Tianlan Holy Land's most powerful physical training martial skill, and only core disciples are qualified to practice it.
Gu Sheng condensed 80% of his spiritual power on his fist. Wherever the wind of the fist passed, the air made an explosive sound, as if it could really break through the sky!
Qing Sheng City Lord suddenly felt a Array Core palpitation, which was a strong Heavenly Palace Realm intuitive warning of danger.
Instinctively I wanted to retreat, but it was too late.
"Boom!"
An ancient bronze bell appeared out of thin air, hanging above Gu Sheng's head.
The bloody sword energy struck Zhong, making a deafening sound.
The blade trembled violently, and then spiderweb-like cracks appeared, breaking into several pieces!
"My Blood Soul Blade!"
Qing Sheng City Lord exclaimed.
This sword was his natal spiritual weapon. It had accompanied him in battles for decades, and now it was shattered by a bell?
Before he could react, Gu Sheng's fist had already passed through the broken blade and hit his chest with a force that shattered the sky!
"Boom!"
Gu Sheng's fist hit Qing Sheng City Lord's chest firmly, making a loud thunder-like sound.
The force of the punch passed through Qing Sheng City Lord's back, exploding a bloody hole, and shattered bones and internal organs spewed out.
"Pfft——"
Qing Sheng City Lord spurted out a mouthful of blood mixed with broken internal organs, flew backwards, and fell heavily in front of Nie Shan.
He struggled to get up, but found that half of his body was unconscious.
"Father?"
Nie Shan stared blankly in front of him, his mind going blank.
The father who was invincible in his heart, the strong Heavenly Palace Realm who made the whole Lin Yuan City tremble, was defeated by a Earth Palace Realm junior with one punch?
Qing Sheng City Lord raised his head with difficulty, pointing his trembling fingers at Gu Sheng.
"You you are"
Gu Sheng came slowly.
"Recognizing it now? It's too late."
"No, it's impossible."
Qing Sheng City Lord's voice is hoarse.
"He was being chased by the Upper Realm. How could he appear in such a small place?"
Nie Shan looked at his father blankly.
"Father, he. Who is he?"
Qing Sheng City Lord smiled miserably, blood continuously spilling from the corners of his mouth.
"Son, I and the others have provoked someone they shouldn't have provoked. He is the one who is jointly hunted down by the three Upper Realm sects."
Nie Shan Hearing this, his face turned pale instantly.
He had also heard about the great chase that shocked the entire Cultivation World.
It is said that that man fought against three major Upper Realm sects with one person. Although he escaped with serious injuries, he also caused heavy losses to the Upper Realm.
"It turns out to be you."
Nie Shan was shaking all over, full of regret.
"I actually captured people like you to practice martial arts."
Gu Sheng bent down to pick up the spirit sword that Nie Shan had dropped. The tip of the sword was gently pressed against Nie Shan's throat.
"I know now, it's too late."
"Please"
Nie Shan begged tremblingly.
"Spare my life. I am willing to be a cow or a horse."
Qing Sheng City Lord suddenly jumped up and used his remaining strength to pounce on Gu Sheng.
"Shan'er, run!"
Gu Sheng's eyes turned cold, and the sword light flashed.
"Tsk!"
Qing Sheng City Lord's head flew high, with a crazy expression on his face.
The headless corpse staggered a few steps and fell to the ground.
"Father!"
Nie Shan rushed towards his father's body.
Gu Sheng didn't give him a chance to cry. With a twist of the sword, a thin line of blood appeared on Nie Shan's throat.
His cries stopped suddenly and he fell slowly.
The guards who were still alive couldn't believe what was happening in front of them.
The city lord and young city lord who they thought were invincible were killed so easily?
Gu Sheng shook off the blood beads on the sword, and his cold eyes swept across the audience.
"It's your turn."
The guards immediately dispersed and fled in all directions.
"Can you run away?"
Gu Sheng's figure suddenly blurred, and the next moment he appeared behind a guard, sword light flashed, and the head fell to the ground.
No fancy sword moves were used, but every sword strike must take a life.
"Devil! He is the devil!"
One of the guards collapsed and shouted, but was stabbed through the heart by Gu Sheng who appeared in front of him.
The massacre lasted for less than half a quarter of an hour, and there was no longer a standing guard in the City Lord's Mansion.
The smell of blood was too strong to be resolved, and there were nearly a hundred corpses lying on the ground.
Gu Sheng stood in the middle of the pool of blood, suddenly turned his head and looked into the depths of the City Lord's Mansion.
"You've been watching for so long and you still haven't come out?"
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Figures came out from different directions, all bearing the aura of the Earth Palace Realm.
They had obviously been lurking in the dark for a long time, and now they saw that the situation was not good and wanted to escape for their lives.
"Want to leave?"
Gu Sheng snorted coldly, made a hand seal with his left hand, and golden light shot out, hitting their backs accurately.
Several of them were killed on the spot. Only the Earth Palace Realm peak expert with the highest cultivation level could barely withstand the blow and continued to run away.
"Something capable."
Gu Sheng was slightly surprised and chased after him.
The Earth Palace Realm peak expert was extremely fast and could escape to the City Lord's Mansion edge in the blink of an eye.
Just as he was about to climb out of the wall, he suddenly felt a chill on his back and the tip of a sword emerged from his chest.
"How is that possible?"
He turned around with difficulty and saw Gu Sheng's indifferent face.
"Who the hell are you?"
Gu Sheng withdrew the spirit sword, watched the opponent fall to the ground and died, and said softly.
"Just a passerby."
After all threats were resolved, Gu Sheng returned to the center of the square.
The cultivators who were tied to the stone pillars looked at him in horror, fearing that it would be their turn next.
Gu Sheng glanced at these scarred cultivators.
Logically speaking, in order to prevent the news from leaking out, he should silence all these people.
Seeing their desperate eyes, Gu Sheng's hand holding the sword relaxed.
"You."
Gu Sheng As soon as he spoke, those cultivators knelt down and begged for mercy.
"Senior, spare your life!"
"I and the others will never reveal even a word!"
"Please show me your noble hand."
Gu Sheng sighed.
"Go away."
He cut off all the ropes with his sword, and the cultivators rolled and crawled to escape from the Shura field.
Only the white-haired old man saluted Gu Sheng before leaving.
"Thank you fellow Daoist for saving my life. I will never forget it."
Gu Sheng waved his hand and said nothing.
On the other side, the people had spontaneously rescued the tied girls.
Most of her and the others were in a daze, obviously very frightened.
Those who saw their loved ones still alive threw themselves into each other's arms and cried loudly, while those whose family members had suffered misfortune sat on the ground blankly with empty eyes.
Gu Sheng looked at this scene, feeling a little tight in his chest.
Turn around and walk towards Qing Sheng City Lord's body, taking off Void Ring from his hand.
I also searched the storage bags of Nie Shan and several Earth Palace Realm masters.
"Which direction is Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge?"
Gu Sheng stopped a cultivator who was about to leave and asked.
The cultivator trembled with fright and quickly pointed to the northwest.
"Often if you walk three hundred miles over there, you'll find a black mountain range."
Gu Sheng nodded and said no more.
Taking one last look at the devastated City Lord's Mansion, it turned into a streak of light and disappeared into the northwest sky.
After leaving Lin Yuan City, Gu Sheng did not stop, flying hundreds of miles in one breath before stopping in a desert.
It was getting late at this time, and the temperature in the desert dropped sharply, but it was nothing to a cultivator.
The strong winds rolled up the yellow sand, forming moving sand walls in the vast desert.
Gu Sheng was dressed in white and walked against the wind, but he was spotless.
He was playing with a dark spiritual stone in his hand.
"What the hell is this."
The spirit stone is about the size of a fist, and its surface is covered with fine blood-colored lines, slowly squirming like a living creature.
What's even weirder is that these blood patterns are actually oozing out traces of blood, dyeing Gu Sheng's fingertips scarlet red.
Strong evil energy emanates from the spirit stone. Even with Gu Sheng's cultivation level, he will feel Array Core fluttering after being exposed to it for a long time.
"Qing Sheng City Lord Why collect such evil things?"
Gu Sheng murmured to himself.
"And it's so secretly hidden"
He recalled that when Void Ring cracked the ban, this spiritual stone was stored alone in a sealed black box. Obviously Qing Sheng City Lord attached great importance to it.
What's even more strange is that when Gu Sheng touched the spirit stone, he could faintly hear the sound of thousands of ghosts crying. There must be some mysterious connection between this stone and Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge.
"Perhaps you will understand when you get to Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge."
Gu Sheng put the spiritual stone into his own Void Ring and threw away Qing Sheng City Lord's ring.
The ring fell into the yellow sand and was swallowed up in an instant.
According to the information obtained from those cultivators, Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge is located about three hundred miles northwest.
At the speed of Gu Sheng, it can be reached in less than three days.
Looking up at the sky, the setting sun dyed the desert into blood, exactly the same color as the spirit stone in his hand.
"We have to hurry up and get on our way."
Gu Sheng said softly.
"People from Qinghe Holy Land should have discovered my whereabouts."
As Gu Sheng expected, Qingsheng City was already in chaos at this time.
Dozens of streams of light fell from the sky and landed on the City Lord's Mansion ruins.
The leader is a white-haired old man, wearing Qinghe Holy Land elder clothes, with seven gold stars embroidered on his chest, representing his Seven-Star Elder identity.
"Search!" The old man waved his hand.
"Don't let go of any clues within a hundred miles!"
Dozens of Qinghe Holy Land disciples immediately dispersed.
Half a day passed and no one found anything.
"Strange." The white-haired elder frowned.
"Obviously a disciple reported that he found Gu Sheng's aura here, why is there no trace now?"
One disciple said carefully.
"Elder, could it be that Gu Sheng used some secret method to cover up his aura?"
"Impossible!" The white-haired elder flatly denied.
"No one can completely erase their own aura unless someone at the Holy Lord level takes action. Keep searching!"
At the same time, in a valley more than two hundred miles away from Qingsheng City, Gu Sheng was sitting cross-legged on a huge rock and adjusting his breath.
The jade pendant hanging on his chest glowed slightly, forming an invisible barrier that cut off all his breath from the outside world.
"First Elder's 'Hidden Heaven Jade' is indeed magical."
Gu Sheng opened his eyes and caressed the jade pendant.
"You can't even notice Seven-Star Elder from Qinghe Holy Land."
This jade pendant was given by First Elder when he left the Holy Land. It is said that it can change the breath characteristics of the wearer so that he cannot be tracked.
Now it seems that the effect is even better than the rumors.
Gu Sheng got up and continued on his way.
Deliberately avoid the main roads and travel through deserted wilderness.
Along the way, he could feel powerful spiritual consciousness sweeping across the sky from time to time, but they all turned a blind eye to him.
At dusk on the second day, Gu Sheng suddenly stopped.
Keenly aware of changes in the air.
The originally dry and hot desert wind was mixed with a bit of cold air.
"It's Yin Qi"
Gu Sheng was refreshed.
"Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge should be not far away."
As he continued to advance, the Yin Qi became stronger and stronger.
By the early morning of the third day, the scene in front of us was completely different.
The yellow sand was gradually replaced by gray-black gravel, and the vegetation became less and less, and finally disappeared completely.
The sky also became gloomy, as if there was an invisible barrier filtering the sunlight pale and feeble.
When Gu Sheng climbed over a sand dune, the sight before him took his breath away.
A Death Qi heavy mountain range lay across the front. The mountain was an unnatural gray-black color, and the rocks were as jagged as ghost claws.
The entire mountain range was shrouded in gray mist, with no trace of life in sight.
What's even more weird is that the shapes of those abrupt and twisted rocks look like human figures struggling in pain when viewed from a distance.
"This is Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge."
Gu Sheng murmured.
"The place where Ancient Deity fell."
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a powerful god who fought with his old enemy here, and then both fell.
The resentment of the gods after their death persisted and merged with this land to form the desperate place Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge.
Any creature that enters it will be corroded by Death Qi and turned into withered bones.
Gu Sheng cautiously approached the foot of the mountain and felt a biting chill.
The sound of the wind here is mixed with faint wails, like countless ghosts whispering in the ears.
"So strong resentment"
Gu Sheng operates spiritual power to resist Death Qi erosion.
"No wonder ordinary cultivators dare not approach."
He was about to find a way into the mountain when his ears suddenly twitched and his figure instantly disappeared behind a huge boulder.
After a while, footsteps and voices were heard in the distance.
"Senior sister, do we really want to enter Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge? I heard that very few people who go in come out alive."
"Shut up! The Holy Lord has an order to find the whereabouts of the traitor Gu Sheng. Someone saw him coming in this direction, maybe he is hiding in Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge."
Gu Sheng's pupils shrunk—he is the disciple of Qinghe Holy Land!
Six cyan figures walked out of the gray fog.
All Heavenly Palace Realm are strong, and they are not ordinary Heavenly Palace Realm. Judging from the aura, they are all at least mid-Heavenly Palace Realm, and the leader may even be Heavenly Palace Realm at the peak!
"Stop!"
The man in the lead had sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, and a sapphire token hanging on his waist, with the word "Qinghe" engraved on it.
His eyes were like lightning, scanning over Gu Sheng.
"Who are you? Why are you here?"
Gu Sheng wore a bronze mask, revealing only a pair of calm eyes.
He had already used the secret method to change his voice and replied hoarsely.
"Rogue cultivator Qing Feng, passing by here."
"Qing Feng?"
The man's consciousness swept over Gu Sheng's body unceremoniously.
"Take off the mask."
Gu Sheng stood still.
"Fellow Daoist's control is too lenient."
"Presumptuous!"
A female disciple next to her shouted sharply.
"I, Qinghe Holy Land, patrol everywhere, why can't I control it?"
Qinghe Holy Land! Gu Sheng was shocked, he was indeed someone from the Holy Land.
He deliberately hunched his back and sounded frightened.
"It turns out he is an expert from the Holy Land. He is disrespectful and disrespectful."
The man stared at Gu Sheng for a long time and suddenly said.
"You have a strange aura, not like an ordinary casual cultivator."
Gu Sheng was nervous, but his tone remained unchanged.