Bang! Bang! Bang!
The dull thud pierced through the heavy black stone door, spreading continuously through the deep, deathly silent passage.
Outside the stone gate, the air inside the canyon was violently distorted by the raging True Qi.
Panshi's fists, enveloped in an earthy yellow light, pounded against the stone door again and again.
With each punch, the entire canyon would tremble.
The force of the recoil tore his hand open, and blood dripped down the back of his hand, splashing onto the ground in small flowers.
He didn't care at all.
The rage in his chest almost burned his internal organs to ashes.
Being robbed of something right in front of you is worse than being killed.
"You little beast! I'm going to crush you inch by inch!"
Lijian held his longsword, his chest heaving violently.
The azure Sword Qi around him went out of control, slicing in all directions and carving deep, crisscrossing grooves into the hard cliff face, causing gravel to fall in a flurry.
They were dignified Mystic Realm Eighth Level cultivators, and former elders of the Mystic Sword Sect.
He's a figure who can do whatever he wants in the entire Qing Province.
But that purplish-black lightning bolt was so fast that even their divine senses couldn't fully capture it.
That's definitely not a movement technique used in the Mystic Realm Early Stage!
A mere boy could unleash such terrifying speed.
This is blatantly trampling on their decades of accumulated common sense.
Lijian gritted its teeth.
"Who exactly is that kid? When did the Demon Suppression Bureau produce such a prodigy?"
Tianji held the compass in one hand, his face ashen as he stared at the wildly erratic needle.
"Enough!"
He roared, his voice booming like a bell, causing both of them to feel their blood surge.
"Although the ' Ghost Shadow Heart-Locking Restriction ' on this stone gate has been closed, its core array patterns have been shattered by us, and now it is at its weakest!"
"Once it draws power from the earth's veins to repair itself, it will take us at least ten times the effort to get in!"
This Tianji statement was like a sudden, shocking revelation.
The Lijian and the Panshi paused, forcibly suppressing their frenzied killing intent and regaining their clarity.
"Do it!"
Lijian a flick of his wrist, the sword once again burst forth with a blinding blue light.
A ten-zhang-long azure Sword Qi aura shot into the sky, cleaving a passage through the miasma above the canyon.
The muscles in Panshi's arms bulged high, and the earth-yellow True Qi condensed on his fists, forming a tangible halo that transformed into two miniature mountains.
Tianji bit his tongue, spitting a mouthful of blood onto the compass.
The runes on the compass lit up instantly, shooting out a beam of blood-red light that firmly held the restriction on the stone door in place.
Three streams of power at the Mystic Realm Eighth Level once again slammed into the stone gate without reservation.
Boom--!
The stone gate shook violently, and the gray-black ripples on its surface, which had just healed, began to crack again.
Inside the stone gate.
Su Yu leaned against the cold stone wall.
The tremors behind me grew more and more intense, and fragments of the stone gate fell in a flurry, hitting my shoulders.
This door won't last long.
In no more than half an incense stick's time, those three old guys will be able to blast open a passage.
The foundation of Mystic Realm Eighth Level is indeed substantial.
Su Yu quickly analyzed the battle situation in his mind.
Force a direct confrontation? Three cultivators at the Mystic Realm Eighth Level joining forces could pierce through the physical body of Mystic Realm Sixth Level in a single blow.
He abandoned the idea of setting up an ambush at the door.
These three old guys from the Mystic Sword Sect possessed powerful qi and blood, but their moves were wide and sweeping.
In this narrow underground passage, the power is reduced by at least 70%.
The optimal solution is to avoid being surrounded, use the terrain to create distance, and defeat them one by one.
Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps activated.
A purplish-black arc of electricity cracked at the ankle.
Su Yu's figure instantly transformed into a blurry afterimage, rushing inward along the deep passage.
The divine sense of the Spirit Realm Ninth Level spread forward without reservation.
One hundred zhang (approximately 33 meters).
Two hundred zhang.
Three hundred feet.
Every inch of space within three hundred zhang was constructed into a clear three-dimensional model in his mind.
The air was thick with the aura of death and the lingering stench of blood.
The scenery on both sides of the passage gradually came into view.
Thick iron fences divide the space into separate areas.
cell.
This is not a cultivation cave at all, but a huge underground prison.
The path was not flat; broken stone slabs and deep, bottomless cracks appeared on the ground from time to time.
Purple-black lightning crackled beneath Su Yu's feet, each strike landing with unparalleled precision.
A faint red light appeared on the stone wall on the left.
A surviving crossbow bolt mechanism was triggered.
Three short crossbows, entirely black and coated with potent poison, tore through the air and shot in a triangular formation toward Su Yu's throat and heart, accompanied by sharp whistling sounds.
Su Yu didn't even draw his sword.
The " Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps Thunder Devours Shadow is activated.
His figure instantly split into three afterimages on the spot.
Three poisoned crossbow bolts pierced through the afterimage and embedded themselves in the opposite stone wall, emitting a piercing corrosive sound.
Su Yu's true form had already appeared ten zhang away.
For him, such a high-level organization was not even an obstacle.
Su Yu stopped in front of a prison cell.
The iron fence was as thick as an adult's arm, and its surface was covered with dark red rust and dried, blackened bloodstains.
The gaps in the fence were engraved with densely packed suppressing runes.
These runes are of extremely high level; even after being eroded by the passage of time, they still exude an aura of power that suppresses all things.
His divine sense swept across the interior of the cell.
It's empty.
There were no remains, no instruments of torture, not even a trace of a living creature that had ever existed.
Su Yu's gaze swept across the ground.
Scattered in the corner were several pieces of dull spirit stone fragments and half a broken black blade.
Su Yu raised his hand, True Qi transformed into a suction force, drawing the broken blade into his hand.
The blade is made of a special material and is extremely heavy.
After storing it in his storage ring, Su Yu continued forward.
The cells, one after another, were all empty.
The deeper one goes, the higher the standard of the prison cells become, and the more intricate the runes on the iron bars become.
Where did the things that were being held here go?
Was it moved, or completely lost to the passage of time?
What exactly was the Ghost Shadow Sect plotting back then, that they built such a massive prison system in this dark and sunless underground?
The deathly and Sha Qi in the air had become so dense that it was visible to the naked eye.
The gray-black mist churned within the passage, constantly eroding Su Yu's True Qi and hissing as it passed through.
The Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Qi operates automatically.
Dark golden True Qi circulated on his body, refining all the approaching Sha Qi.
Su Yu suddenly stopped in his tracks.
A huge blank space appeared at the edge of the divine sense three hundred feet ahead.
His divine sense probed the past, but it was like a clay ox sinking into the sea, without causing any ripples.
Something is blocking our senses.
Su Yu slowed down, concealing his aura to the extreme, and moved Soundless along the wall.
Pass through the last narrow passage.
The view ahead suddenly opened up.
An underground plaza, thousands of feet wide, appeared before our eyes.
Scattered along the edge of the square were numerous skeletons.
These skeletons are crystal clear; they must have belonged to highly skilled martial artists in life.
At this moment, their bones were covered with dense teeth marks, as if they had been eaten alive by some terrifying creature.
Su Yu squatted down and picked up a piece of arm bone.
A gentle squeeze.
The hardened arm bone turned directly into powder.
The essence of the bone marrow inside had long been drained.
Su Yu stood up and glanced at the center of the square.
On the ground, a vast and complex crimson array was carved.
Thick, black liquid flowed within the patterns of the array, emitting a pungent, fishy stench.
At the very core of the formation stood eight black copper pillars, each as thick as a water vat.
The surface of the bronze pillar is engraved with ferocious demon patterns.
These demonic images are not inanimate objects, but rather slowly writhing and struggling violently, as if they were about to break free from the bronze pillar at any moment.
Each bronze pillar was wrapped with a steel chain as thick as an adult's thigh.
The chains were covered with yellow talismans, most of which were already broken and tattered.
The viscous black liquid was continuously transported along the chains into the depths of darkness.
This is not just a sealing formation.
It's also a giant blood pump.
It draws upon the earth's ley lines to nourish the being bound by chains.
The other ends of the eight chains all converged into the deepest darkness at the heart of the square.
"Splash--"
A dull metallic scraping sound suddenly rang out in the deathly silent square.
Su Yu's muscles tensed up suddenly.
His right hand gripped the hilt of the sword, and the Saber Force of the Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash surged wildly within his body.
That sound came from the depths of darkness.
The chains are moving.
There are living things there.
Su Yu condensed his divine sense into a thin line and forcefully probed into the darkness along the direction the chain extended.
boom!
An extremely violent and Sha Qi surged back from his divine sense.
Su Yu groaned, a sharp pain shooting through his mind.
This Sha Qi, imbued with pure brutality and slaughter, surpassed any demon he had ever encountered.
The mere aura was enough to make his soul tremble instinctively.
The moment his consciousness was repelled.
In the thick darkness ahead.
A pair of scarlet eyes slowly opened.
They were a pair of blood lanterns hanging in the abyss.
Cold, cruel, and filled with boundless greed.
It didn't roar at all.
They simply watched silently as their prey trespassed into their territory.
The surrounding air temperature plummeted, and a layer of dark red frost condensed on the ground.