204: I'm devastated!

I opened my system backpack and took out the optimized black fiend blade.

"Holy crap!"

Chen Heng stumbled under the weight of the black fiend blade; he hadn't expected the optimized black fiend blade to be so heavy.

"?" Chen Heng froze for a moment, staring at the black fiend blade, which still had cracks, and fell into contemplation.

"That's not right, isn't this the optimized black fiend blade?"

After glancing at the black fiend blade's System description, Chen Heng's mind became even more muddled.

"black fiend blade +1"

"Hardness, sharpness, weight, and density are all comprehensively strengthened. A divine weapon still some distance away from evolution."

"No, then why didn't you repair it!"

"How am I supposed to use it when it's cracked?"

Chen Heng angrily slapped the blade of the black fiend blade, and an unexpected event occurred.

With a crisp clang, the black fiend blade split into two halves, starting from the hilt.

"?" Chen Heng stared at the black fiend blade, now in two pieces, completely stunned.

Bang!

The upper half of the black fiend blade fell to the ground, creating a large pit in the hard ground.

"Huh?" Chen Heng picked up the half that had fallen to the ground and realized that the black fiend blade didn't seem to be broken.

Instead, it had split into two long blades!

The original door-wide black fiend blade had transformed into two heavy blades, each two palms wide, after splitting.

Even split into two, the black fiend blade was still much larger than a normal heavy blade.

"Around 1,200 jin..."

Chen Heng weighed the two split black fiend blades in his hands; each weighed approximately 1,200 jin.

"Not bad, it's quite handy."

Chen Heng lightly swung the two black fiend blades a couple of times, and the feel was even better than when it was a single blade.

"I'll test the blades on those two Demon Kings in the next big city."

Putting the black fiend blade back together, Chen Heng took out the map Qian Fa had given him earlier.

"Let me see, next we're going to Golden Tiger City."

In Golden Tiger City, there are two twin tiger demons, both Demon Kings.

And both possess a trace of White Tiger Bloodline.

The further Chen Heng advanced, the closer he got to Jade Fan Kingdom. After passing Jade Fan Kingdom, it would be Zhenxi City of Great Liang.

"Soon, if I don't waste time, a week should be enough to get back."

Putting away the map, Chen Heng lay on the bed, ready to rest.

But as soon as he closed his eyes, he remembered what Zhu Hongying had said earlier.

'The last key to the Hundred Corpse Tomb is in the hands of Jade Fan Kingdom's Grand State Preceptor.'

"Should I, by the way, go to Jade Fan Kingdom and get the last key?"

"No, I need to discuss it with that kid, Bai Jun."

Chen Heng sprang up from the bed with a carp-like flip and ran to Bai Jun's room next door without even putting on his shirt.

At this moment, Bai Jun was practicing his daily Cultivation Technique.

As a Genius, Bai Jun was extremely diligent despite his exceptionally high talent.

Even when outside, he would still run his own Cultivation Technique every night to increase the spiritual energy reserves within his body.

Bang!

Chen Heng kicked open Bai Jun's door and strode in swaggering.

"Big Brother Chen, what is this?" Bai Jun stopped the Cultivation Technique he was running and turned to look at Chen Heng.

"You've seen that map, right?"

Taking out and unfolding the map, Chen Heng pointed to the two major cities they needed to pass through next.

One was Golden Tiger City, and the other was Phoenix Cry Pass, which bordered Jade Fan Kingdom.

"I remember, if it weren't for the area where the Eastern Demon Alliance and Zhenxi City meet being a death trap, we would have gone straight through."

"That's right, to return to Qiyang City, we must pass through Jade Fan Kingdom."

Chen Heng just stared intently at Bai Jun, waiting for him to respond.

But after waiting for a while, Bai Jun had no reaction except for the question marks on his face growing larger.

"Do you still remember what Zhu Hongying said earlier?"

Chen Heng sighed. He didn't know how many times he had sighed today.

"She's over sixty?"

"No! The last key to the Hundred Corpse Tomb was given by her to Jade Fan Kingdom's Grand State Preceptor!"

Chen Heng slapped Bai Jun. How could this kid's thought process be even stranger than his own?

"What, Big Brother Chen, are you going to cause trouble in Jade Fan Kingdom?"

Bai Jun suddenly understood; so that's what Big Brother Chen was thinking.

"No, why would I harm them?" Chen Heng shook his head.

"The few of us will just go to that Grand State Preceptor and get the last key, that's all."

"After Jade Fan Kingdom is Zhenxi City, isn't that taking care of it along the way?"

"What, aren't you interested in the Hundred Corpse Tomb?"

Chen Heng raised an eyebrow, using the Hundred Corpse Tomb to tempt Bai Jun.

He knew Bai Jun had always been very interested in the Hundred Corpse Tomb, he just didn't talk about it much.

"No, I don't seem to be interested in the Hundred Corpse Tomb..."

Bai Jun's words were cut short when he saw the door-sized black fiend blade already picked up by Chen Heng.

"Of course, I'm very interested in the Hundred Corpse Tomb! Let's go to Jade Fan Kingdom and get the last key!"

"You said it, then we'll go together."

Chen Heng put away the black fiend blade and turned to leave contentedly, leaving Bai Jun in disarray... At this moment, Chang Yutian was enjoying his human sacrifice feast.

"Achoo!"

While eating, Chang Yutian suddenly sneezed.

"What's going on? I am already a body without impurities, how can I still sneeze?"

Touching his nose, Chang Yutian frowned, very puzzled.

"Never mind, I wonder how that dead girl Xie Run's task is progressing."

"No, I always feel something is wrong. Could someone be trying to harm me?"

After consuming human sacrifices for a while, Chang Yutian felt increasingly uneasy.

"It shouldn't be, no one knows my true identity."

"Could it be that guy?"

Chang Yutian recalled the monster who had blown up his Clone back then.

"That's not right either, he didn't even know that was my Clone. Then who could it be?"

Just as Chang Yutian fell into a dilemma, a figure, covered in blood and staggering, stumbled in.

"Reporting, Grand State Preceptor, I have retrieved the soul suppressing bell and corpse quelling gong for you."

This person was none other than Xie Run, who had rushed back from Qiyang City.

It had taken her a full six or seven days to get there, but only a little over a day to return.

"What happened?" Chang Yutian calmly asked, taking the soul suppressing bell and corpse quelling gong that Xie Run held above her head.

"When I arrived, I learned that Chen Heng was not in Qiyang City, so I used some small tricks to obtain these two keys."

Spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood, Xie Run knelt on the ground, trembling.

"I asked who beat you like this?"

"Could there still be such a master in Qiyang City?"

Chang Yutian knew Xie Run's strength; even an Innate master would absolutely not be Xie Run's opponent.

Moreover, there were no Xiantian Grandmasters in Great Liang, so it could only have been the Noble and powerful clans who acted.

"Zhenxi City, the general of Zhenxi City, Hong Lie of the Hong Family."

After a while, Xie Run slowly said.

"When I passed through Zhenxi City in my mist form, they discovered me, and I had to abandon thirty percent of my mist to escape."

"That's not surprising then." Chang Yutian nodded, putting away the soul suppressing bell and corpse quelling gong.