After receiving the great general's rewards.
Qing Chen struck again and again like a man possessed, slaughtering his way forward until "Hundred Poisons True Person" and "Centipede-Insect Daoist" could only cower inside Miaochong Prefecture City, no longer daring to attack.
He had successively flattened Ghost Wail County City and destroyed the Ghost Fiend Sect, and was about to ride his momentum to take Hundred Gu County City;
-but the forces of Pingnan Prefecture suddenly intervened, forcing him to withdraw his troops for the time being.
Elsewhere, the situation in Qiong Prefecture was even worse.
Even a Nascent Soul True Lord had fallen at Qing Chen's hands, and with the fighting at Heavenly Abyss Pass growing desperate, Wu Gui simply could not spare any True Lords to reinforce them.
The only two remaining Dharma Nascent Soul cultivators and the dozen or so Pseudo-Nascent Soul cultivators, leading the thirty to forty thousand surviving troops, only dared hold the Prefectural City to the death, not venture out to fight.
Only when Lotus Prefecture sent troops to intervene did Qing Chen lead his army back.
Before leaving, he even plundered Qiong Prefecture, the capital of Qiongzhou.
For a time, Qing Chen's fearsome reputation cowed the entire cultivation world of Qiongzhou, and everyone feared for their own safety.
Yet at this moment, the scourge who made Qiongzhou tremble and whose might shook the prefectures had long since slipped away.
He was not in Miaochong Prefecture, nor in Qiongzhou, nor even in Lingnan Circuit.
[Southeastern Circuit · Minjiang Province · Official Route Cloud Boat]
Inside a quiet room, Qing Chen sat cross-legged, his aura completely withdrawn, looking like nothing more than an ordinary peak Golden Core cultivator.
He had taken off his signature Black Demon Blood Armor and changed into an utterly unremarkable blue-gray spirit robe.