Gu Qing stopped in front of the hole and released a vast surge of qi and blood power imbued with martial true intent, forcing it inside like an enema.
In an instant, crimson light filled the entire bottomless tunnel. Under the furious burning of martial true intent, the earth melted into pools of thick lava, and great clouds of scorching smoke billowed from the entrance.
To catch a rat hiding in a hole, you had to smoke it out hard.
Nobody knew how to catch rats better than Gu Qing.
About ten seconds later.
"Boom!"
An earth-shaking explosion rang out.
In the bushes not far ahead, a muscular figure suddenly burst out of the ground, entering Gu Qing's view.
Gu Qing looked up at the figure, studying him expressionlessly.
It was a man in a blue suit, wearing a tattered Rat-Head Mask. His entire body looked mangled, covered in horrifying bloody craters, without a single patch of intact skin.
His chest, in particular, had a gaping bloody hole through which his ribs and heart were clearly visible, a gruesome, unsettling sight.
Just what had this advanced Rat God Cult Follower encountered?
How had he been injured so badly?
What terrifying being could have reduced an advanced Transcendent to this state?
Gu Qing studied the Blue-Suited Man before him, deeply puzzled.
"Hah! Hah! Hah..."
The Blue-Suited Man opposite him panted heavily, thick blood constantly gushing from his body. His half-broken Rat-Head Mask revealed part of a deathly pale human face.
He slowly lifted his heavy head, his bloodshot crimson eyes fixed on Gu Qing like a wounded, bleeding beast.
When he saw that the person before him was none other than Gu Qing, the man he wanted to kill, he could not help voicing his confusion:
"Gu Qing?"
"Why is this