The several guards charging over happened to face the Blazing Lion, which had regained its freedom.
With a single mouthful of fire, it turned them into burning men.
Then it pounced on the others.
This was a ferocious beast that had been starved for days, incomparably savage.
Like a ball of blazing fire crashing into the crowd.
It either bit or breathed fire.
The entire beast fighting arena instantly plunged into boundless chaos.
Screams, shrieks of agony, and the furious roars of guards rang out without end.
Even Luo Tiansheng panicked.
He had never imagined this would happen.
There had not been the slightest warning; it had come far too suddenly.
Protected by the guards, he quickly withdrew.
But Lu Chen, having released the Blazing Lion, felt that was still not enough. He charged toward the twenty fighting pens.
His bone blade, wrapped in Qi and Blood Protective Aura, was unstoppable. Before long, it tore open the railings of three fighting pens.
The beast fighters battling inside seized the chance to slip out, with pursuing demonic beasts behind them.
Lu Chen kicked the demonic beasts away one by one.
As he continued, he was intercepted by a Foundation Establishment expert who lunged at him.
"You're fucking courting death... Ah!"
Before the words had faded, Lu Chen suddenly erupted. Like a bomb, he leaped three zhang into the air, his blade moving with his body, and cleaved the man in two.
The only advantage Foundation Establishment cultivators had over Martial Dao Cultivators in the Qi Surge Realm was their ability to fly.
But the explosive power of Martial Dao Cultivators was absolutely their nightmare as well.
With one moment of carelessness, a Soul-Piercing Blade would kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator on the spot.
Before the body even hit the ground, it vanished.
It was directly collected by the Myriad Manifestations Furnace.
Yet more and more experts came rushing in.
Lu Chen led them on a circle, tore apart another five fighting pens, then plunged into the crowd and disappeared.
The disturbance lasted half a day before it finally subsided.
But more than three hundred people had been injured or killed. Over sixty beast fighters escaped, while more than thirty died.
Not one of the hundred beast fighters remained.
Most crucially, among the innocent dead were quite a few young masters and young ladies from other Lineages.
Their statuses were too special. Compensation had to be paid!
The entire Luo Family flew into a rage, searching everywhere for Lu Chen and swearing to skin him alive.
But after calculating every possibility, they never expected Lu Chen to have blended into their search party.
Short on manpower, the Luo Family had recruited people on short notice, and he had slipped in among them.
After cleaning himself up, no one could recognize him.
Naturally, he had done this because he wanted revenge against the Luo Family.
He wanted to remove this malignant tumor that had plagued Cangwu City.
Of course, he also had his eyes on the treasures in their treasury.
If he stuffed them all into the Myriad Manifestations Furnace, how much energy essence would he gain?
Following the search party, Lu Chen secretly dealt with one Luo Family guard after another, finally obtaining the intelligence he wanted.
When it was time to return and change shifts, he began his operation.
Late at night, the light in Steward Luo's room was still on. The steward was leaning over his desk, taking a brief nap.
He did not dare lie down to sleep at all.
Such a huge incident had happened at the beast fighting arena. So many people had died. Whose people had died, and who the culprit was—everything had to be confirmed and reported to the Luo Family Patriarch.
News could arrive at any moment. No matter how exhausted he was, he had to hold on.
Lu Chen quietly opened the door and walked in.
Though he had been careful enough, he still startled him.
After all, he was a Foundation Establishment expert, and his vigilance was keen.
Lu Chen suddenly smiled, cupped his hands, and stepped forward. "Lord Steward, the captain sent me to deliver a message!"
As he spoke, he reached into his robes.
The steward, waiting to receive the message, received a flash of blade light instead.
"Insolence!"
The man abruptly retreated. The blade missed, splitting the desk in half.
Steward Luo was furious. He took the treasured sword from the wall and slashed with a flick of his wrist.
Sword light flashed forth, striking like lightning.
Lu Chen gave a cold laugh. Buzz!
A layer of Blood Qi appeared over his body. Ignoring the sword light entirely, he pounced like a wolf and tiger.
Sword Qi struck his body, and the Blood Qi violently shattered.
But Lu Chen had already reached him.
"What?" Steward Luo was horrified and raised his sword to block.
With a crack, the sword in his hand snapped. Blade light poured down, splitting Steward Luo in two from head to toe.
After finding the treasury key on him and sweeping the corpse into the furnace, Lu Chen blew out the light, smashed through the window, and leaped outside.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh...
The moment he appeared, arrows shot toward him with piercing sonic booms.
The guards had already been alerted.
Lu Chen withstood the arrows head-on, vaulted over the courtyard wall, and vanished into the night.
The alarms in the Luo residence rang out endlessly, throwing the entire estate into uproar.
When they finally reacted and reached the warehouse, the Luo Family Patriarch saw the utterly empty treasury, threw back his head, and fainted.
They were still waiting to pay compensation. Now not even a single hair remained—how could they compensate anyone?
Lu Chen had only just reached the outskirts of the black market when his expression abruptly changed.
He had devoured too many things. The Myriad Manifestations Furnace was going berserk.
Looking at the black market, his expression hardened, and he flung out the Myriad Manifestations Furnace.
Rumble...
The Myriad Manifestations Furnace swelled against the wind, transforming into a colossal furnace. As the furnace tilted, the rioting energy within surged down like a rolling tidal wave.
The entrance exploded into fragments, and the raging energy poured into the underground black market.
The booms continued without end. Even the earth trembled.
Finally, with a thunderous crash, the entire black market district collapsed, turning into an enormous deep pit.
Fortunately, the beast fighting arena riot had happened during the day, so no customers were present. Otherwise, it would have been an enormous disaster.
Even so, quite a few people died.
They were all people belonging to the black-hearted merchants who did business here.
After releasing most of its energy, the Myriad Manifestations Furnace finally stabilized. Lu Chen put it away with a pained expression, dusted off his hands, and left.
Once the news spread, all of Cangwu City was shaken.
No one believed a mere beast fighter could have done this.
Another force had to have been involved.
The purpose was simple: throw Cangwu City into chaos and give King Yanbei a warning.
After all, establishing beast fighting arenas was forbidden in Great Yan.
Yet he had turned a blind eye and amassed wealth on a grand scale. Some people had long been resentful and envious.
But destroying the black market was like poking a hornet's nest. Too many merchants and forces had been implicated.
All of Cangwu City mobilized, searching everywhere.
Their first target was the beast fighter Lu Chen.
Once they caught him, they would know what had happened.
And that terrifying furnace that could change size was definitely a supreme treasure.
Not only did the great Lineages take action, even some Rogue Cultivators sneaked in and waited for an opportunity.
Wealth stirred people's hearts, let alone a colossal spatial treasure.
Gradually, Lu Chen's identity was exposed as well.
He was a member of the Lu Family in Chixiao City.
A prodigy who had awakened his bloodline, only to have that bloodline stripped away.
This indirectly exposed the Lu Family's evil deeds as well.
A lineage commander who had specifically carried out the deed was directly crushed to death by the enraged Lu Family Patriarch.
For the sake of a few spirit stones, he had actually poked such a huge hole in the sky. Were spirit stones really that important?
He could accomplish nothing and ruin everything.
The key question was, how could Lu Chen kill Foundation Establishment experts?
Could his bloodline have recovered?
This was something they could not accept no matter what.
They wanted to send people over, but unfortunately, they did not dare.
Cangwu City lay within King Yanbei's territory. The Lu Family, which belonged to Great Yan, did not dare run wild here.
Moreover, since the Cangwu City disaster, a month had passed without even the slightest news of Lu Chen.
No one could have guessed that Lu Chen, who should have fled far away, had never gone far from Cangwu City at all. He was in seclusion behind a waterfall ten li outside the city.
After emptying the Luo Family treasury, what he had obtained was not merely the resources he had released.
He still had plenty on him.
He carried a bag of low-grade spirit stones, a full three hundred of them. There were also several dozen bottles of various pills, as well as several Spirit-grade martial skills.
He needed to refine what should be refined, absorb what should be absorbed, and learn what should be learned.
After making such a huge disturbance, the other side definitely would not let the matter rest.
He needed to arm himself first.
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