"Go."
The old man abruptly raised his head and uttered that single word coldly. With just a shake of his sleeve, a vast cloud of black mist surged out, engulfing both him and the young man before him.
The nearby streets instantly erupted into chaos, with countless ordinary citizens shouting in alarm.
The next moment, a ball of black light shot skyward from the mist. A blurred figure was faintly visible within it, carrying the young man in one hand and a black banner in the other. In the blink of an eye, he escaped Fengyuan City and streaked toward the horizon like a meteor.
"Fellow Daoist Wu, isn't it a little late to leave now?" The middle-aged scholar sneered. A great mass of glittering yellow sand suddenly spewed from the yellow gourd on his back, swept him up, and rose into the air as a bank of yellow radiance, pursuing the black light ahead...
Several days later, a succession of astonishing reports spread from Celestial River Prefecture, shaking the entire cultivation world of the Wu Kingdom.
Old Devil Wu of the Black Soul Sect had secretly appeared in Celestial River Prefecture, only to be discovered by Sandless Valley's two Golden Core Ancestors, Kun Fangzi and Windless Daoist, who joined forces to hunt him down. The three fought as they traveled, but just as Old Devil Wu barely reached the border between Celestial River Prefecture and the Yu Kingdom, three other Golden Core demonic cultivators from the Black Soul Sect appeared together.
After a battle that shook heaven and earth, Windless Daoist fell, while Kun Fangzi escaped with severe injuries, his whereabouts unknown...
Zhu Wuyan, once renowned among Foundation Establishment cultivators, went entirely unmentioned in this great battle.
And a mere half day later.
Six Golden Core demonic cultivators from