Sky-Suppressing Hongyuan, shattering the void

Azure Nether Secret Realm, the western ruins.

Half a month was enough to stain the once-desolate ruins with more blood, and enough for Chu Bai, this unusual "hunter," to strip the medicinal herbs from hundreds of miles around.

At that moment, Chu Bai stood before a newly excavated ruin of the Pill Dao Pavilion.

He had just tucked a stalk of Azure Soul Zhi, glowing a luminous green, into his robes. His aura, which had been circulating steadily under the [food injury leaks elegance] fate destiny, briefly faltered as the Earth Vein beneath his feet shuddered.

The tremor was not violent, but it was deeply penetrating, as though some colossal creature deep underground, thousands of miles away, had delivered a dull blow that struck straight at the soul.

Thud—thud—

In the tremor's aftermath, not only the air but even the Divine Edict flowing through the soil seemed to quiver.

Chu Bai raised his brows slightly. Through his divine sense connection with the clay Earth God, he could clearly feel the tremor spreading wildly from due west, crossing countless mountains, rivers, and ruins before converging on the spine of the dragon vein beneath his feet.

"Old sir, did you feel that?"

Chu Bai steadied the basket on his back and looked toward the gloom-shrouded western horizon. "The Earth Vein over there seems to have fully 'come alive,' too. This feels... even more ostentatious than when that Mountain God revived."

The clay Earth God shrank back. Tiny beads of moisture, like cold sweat, seeped from the surface of his clay body, despite how much it had healed. His voice dropped extremely low, tinged with apprehension:

"It's Lord Sky-Suppressing Hongyuan... hiss, even that lord has been awakened. Tsk, tsk. It seems this batch of 'travelers' includes not only someone like you, my lord,