288: Chapter 288 Second Legion Commander, Ten Thousand Year Heavenly Vine

The Lady in White said angrily, her face pale and her aura withered.

Previously, she had unleashed the Lion-Tiger Gold-Shattering Chant, launching a sonic attack to disrupt the central army.

Who would have thought that before she could even react, this detestable youth would take the lead.

Though she did not know what he had done.

However, the blood-colored soldiers had turned into statues, calmly awaiting his command.

Hiss...

As the two argued, a hissing sound came from outside, and a dense baleful aura rushed toward them. It was the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, blinking its large eyes and looking at the two of them with curiosity.

Hun Tiandi spoke indifferently: "You had better heal your injuries first; there will be dangers ahead that will require your assistance!"

"Hmph, in her eyes, there is only this detestable youth!" The Lady in White said coldly.

She immediately went out to find a place to consume medicinal pills and heal. In the Heaven-Reaching Tomb, the energy of heaven and earth was tainted, so she dared not absorb it easily.

In the military camp, only Hun Tiandi remained, looking at the blood-colored figure before him. A faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"What is your name?" Hun Tiandi asked.

"This subordinate has no name!" the blood-colored commander said coldly.

"From now on, you shall be called Yun Xiao! I hereby appoint you, effective immediately, as the commander of the Second Legion of the Dazheng Dynasty!" Hun Tiandi commanded.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Yun Xiao bowed respectfully. Yun Xiao's ability was unquestionable, even though he had not yet earned any military merit.

However, Hun Tiandi still promoted him; only he knew the meaning behind this.

These blood soldiers and war generals all had indifferent expressions, like killing machines. Their weapons and swords were unsheathed, and each sharp spear emitted a shocking sharpness.

If they had the support of a battle formation, it seemed they could even pierce the sky.

Without a trace of emotion, their moves were simple and direct, and their killing power was the strongest, simplifying the complex.

Hun Tiandi had a deep understanding of this from their previous encounter.

"I will take you to a place first, and when we leave the tomb, I will let you out!" Hun Tiandi said slowly.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Yun Xiao accepted the order and immediately organized the troops. Hun Tiandi nodded in satisfaction.

With a wave of his sleeve, the countless blood-colored soldiers disappeared before his eyes.

"I... this..." The Lady in White had just finished healing and slowly opened her beautiful eyes. Seeing this bizarre scene—with a wave of his sleeve, one hundred thousand blood-colored soldiers had vanished into thin air—she was dumbfounded.

She stared at the youth before her in shock; it was too bizarre.

The Lady in White even tried it herself, waving her sleeve, but nothing changed.

Her gaze toward Hun Tiandi became increasingly wary; people are always wary of the unknown.

With a grab into the air, the nether demonic zither tore through the sky and dove into his sleeve. This action made The Lady in White go crazy; could his sleeve be a bottomless pit?

He could not only store one hundred thousand soldiers but also store treasures. She had already seen the nether demonic zither earlier.

However, she did not know that the one hundred thousand soldiers were not in his sleeve, but in the Netherworld.

The tomb was shrouded in mist, making it impossible to distinguish reality from illusion. Everything returned to calm as they continued to venture deeper into the tomb. The Lady in White behind him pondered for a moment before following.

"We can be considered to have shared hardships; what is your name?" The Lady in White asked with a hint of curiosity.

"Yun Tian!" Hun Tiandi said casually.

"Yun Tian? No, that's not right, Hun Tiandi." The Lady in White's figure suddenly paused, and she exclaimed, her heart filled with stormy waves. This youth was the one in the Black-Corner Region.

The mastermind who stirred up the winds and clouds, having spent five years to nearly unify the Black-Corner Region.

She had left her family this time and appeared at the Xiao Sect specifically for Hun Tiandi.

However, she had not expected to meet him so quickly. She wondered in her heart: "This Hun Tiandi only appears to be at the Dou Ling level; he does not look like the legendary forbidden existence."

"Could it be that he has hidden his strength?"

"What is your name?" While The Lady in White was thinking, Hun Tiandi's voice rang out.

"Oh? Qing Lian!" Xiao Xiao casually made up a name, her beautiful eyes fixed on Hun Tiandi.

Hun Tiandi judged that in all likelihood, this woman named Qing Lian was using an alias, but he did not care in the slightest.

The two wandered around for several hours before finding a spiritual plant by a low-lying poisonous pool.

"This is... a Ten-Thousand-Year Heaven-Severing Vine?" Xiao Xiao said happily. Before her was a Heaven-Severing Fruit vine with a ten-thousand-year maturity, bearing seven or eight light red fruits.

It was filled with the intoxicating fragrance of exotic fruits, and nearby was a golden centipede. Clearly, the golden centipede was the guardian magical beast.

Hun Tiandi was somewhat surprised; he could not have imagined that such a rare spiritual plant would grow in this tomb.

Hiss... The Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python flicked its tongue, emitting the aura of a high-level magical beast, causing the golden centipede to lie on the ground trembling before being swallowed in one gulp.

Xiao Xiao immediately stepped forward, flipped her hand to take two jade boxes from her storage ring, picked the fruits and placed them into the jade boxes, and closed them excitedly.

"Since we both saw it, we should share. These three Heaven-Severing Fruits are yours!" Xiao Xiao reached out to hand over the jade box, looking at him with curiosity.

"These belong to you!" Hun Tiandi said indifferently.

With a wave of his sleeve, he uprooted the entire Heaven-Severing Fruit vine and stored it in the Netherworld, where the environment was most suitable for the vine to grow.

After the Heaven-Severing Fruit vine landed, it was nourished by the pure energy, regained its vitality, and began to grow rapidly.

The rest could be left to time.

"Weirdo!" Xiao Xiao muttered, then put it into her storage ring.

It was not that Hun Tiandi was unwilling to accept the Heaven-Severing Fruits, but based on the Green Lotus Core Flame that the woman had unleashed earlier, her identity was likely related to the Xiao Family.

He did not want to attract too much attention from the Xiao Family for the time being. To topple a behemoth like the Xiao Family, his own influence and foundation were still too shallow.

The Heaven-Severing Fruit could not extend life, increase Dou Qi, cleanse the physical body, nor save lives. Yet, it was an extremely rare spiritual fruit.

According to the alchemy canon, the Heaven-Severing Fruit had a strange effect: it could increase the probability of breaking through the shackles of one's cultivation realm.

There were quite a few breakthrough pills on the continent. For example, the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill could allow a Dou Master to advance to a Great Dou Master, and the Break-Sect Pill could increase the chance of a peak Dou Huang breaking through to the Dou Zong level by ten percent.

But the effect of the Heaven-Severing Fruit was even more powerful and had no side effects.

If the Heaven-Severing Fruit had sufficient age and was refined into pills with other medicinal materials, it would be of great benefit even to Dou Zuns and Dou Shengs.

Unfortunately, the Heaven-Severing Fruit was called Heaven-Severing precisely because the medicinal power of the spiritual fruit was too mysterious. Heaven-severing and earth-destroying, it had nowhere to depend on and could only grow in places where life was extinct.

No one would have thought that in this tomb isolated from the world, a Heaven-Severing Vine would be nurtured. If the fruit appeared golden-red, it belonged to the ten-thousand-year medicinal age.

The vine earlier was only the size of a water vat, with only seven or eight fruits, and the most mature one was only about a thousand years old. Clearly, it had been eaten by the golden centipede quite a bit.

Hun Tiandi did not care at all; being able to obtain the vine was considered good luck, and he was very happy to be able to obtain a ten-thousand-year Heaven-Severing Vine.

The few spiritual fruits were accepted by Xiao Xiao. After all, the iron-blooded killing generals from earlier belonged to him.

If the Netherworld could successfully cultivate it, there would inevitably be a continuous supply of hundred-year, thousand-year, and even ten-thousand-year Heaven-Severing Fruits.

At that time, the strength of the Dazheng Dynasty and the cultivation of experts would grow at an astonishing speed. This was the reason for his happiness.

Subsequently, Hun Tiandi and Xiao Xiao did not waste any more time and walked toward the depths.

Rumble! In the distance, a sea of thunder covered the sky, raging and roaring, with lightning surging like snakes. Within the sea of thunder, an ancient palace appeared from time to time, covering the sky and containing an aura of destruction.