1403: Big loss

On the ruined ground, Wang Chen saw Ice Purity controlling the mental anomaly, looking full of Divine Qi, and almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

"You should go back quickly. If I let you stay a little longer, I'll really be drained!"

He said weakly, and immediately dismissed the mental anomaly that was slowly returning to its original size.

"Don't..."

Little Ice Purity only had time to let out half a wail before a wisp of mental will was kicked back to her main body.

"Whoosh!"

Without the mental anomaly continuously drawing power, Wang Chen finally caught his breath.

A moment later, he stepped to the side of the giant deep pit.

At the bottom of the Dragon claw-shaped deep pit, the Black Armor Night Demon's body had long since disappeared, leaving only a puddle of broken, decaying flesh.

"Damn it, the experience points this guy provided were even less than the contamination source that had just reached Five Realm last time. This is... a sad thing."

Looking at the puddle of broken, decaying flesh, Wang Chen's mouth was a little bitter.

This battle left him severely injured, but the gains he got were less than what he obtained in that Forbidden Ground on Jin Yu Star. It only advanced his upgrade progress bar by twenty percent, which was a huge loss.

"Fortunately, the remnants of these guys can still be exchanged for source stones, otherwise I would have scattered your ashes."

Wang Chen thought indignantly, and with a movement of his feet, he jumped into the deep pit, ready to collect the Black Armor Night Demon's remnants after its death, keeping them to exchange for source stones at the Liuyun Sect Foreign Affairs Hall.

A Five Realm Nightmare Ghost was worth ten thousand source stones, which could barely soothe his wounded heart.

However, as soon as he arrived in the deep pit, Wang Chen's expression froze.

The broken flesh left behind after the Black Armor Night Demon's death, as he approached, seemed to be blown by the wind he stirred up, scattering like ashes, leaving nothing behind.

"Damn it!"

Seeing this scene, Wang Chen was completely stunned.

He quickly left the deep pit and went to other areas to check the bodies of the Nightmare Ghosts he had killed.

As a result, there was nothing left.

"So, the Nightmare Ghosts I kill don't even drop a single hair?"

After a moment of silence, Wang Chen reluctantly accepted this reality.

Because he didn't know that Nightmare Ghost remnants could be exchanged for source stones when he was on Jin Yu Star before, he hadn't paid any attention to what the dead Nightmare Ghosts dropped.

After all, these monsters were covered in contamination, and cultivators would avoid their body parts at all costs.

"It seems that the idea of killing Nightmare Ghosts and earning money at the same time is completely unfeasible."

After a helpless sigh, Wang Chen no longer delayed and immediately left the area.

The commotion he had just made attracted this Five Realm Middle Stage Black Armor Night Demon. If he stayed longer, it would be troublesome if another Nightmare Ghost of similar strength appeared.

...

After leaving the previous combat zone, Wang Chen did not immediately go looking for trouble with Nightmare Ghosts again.

He found a relatively safe area, immediately burrowed underground, and opened up a space two hundred meters deep, quietly waiting for his condition to return to Perfection.

Before, he first used one-tenth Time Stop, then manifested a mental anomaly for Ice Purity to control, and also used an Extreme Cold Breath.

All these actions directly drained all the power from his body. If he hadn't decisively kicked Ice Purity back and dispelled the mental anomaly, he probably would have collapsed on the ground, unable to move even a finger.

Even now, after leaving the combat zone for nearly half an hour, his injuries had only just recovered, and his internal power had only recovered to less than thirty percent.

Although the subsequent recovery speed would become faster as his condition improved, Wang Chen estimated that it would still take at least an hour to return to Peak condition.

"The situation with high-level Nightmare Ghosts roaming around is even more serious than what Senior Brother Chu of the Liuyun Sect said!"

"Moreover, a Five Realm Nightmare Ghost has appeared, and it's a Five Realm Middle Stage one, which indicates that the Nightmare Ghost Contamination Source deep within the Forbidden Ground has recovered most of its power, at least reaching Five Realm Peak, or even returning to Six Realm."

"Next, I'll play it safe and go to the areas where Three Realm Nightmare Ghosts are active."

"Once I reach level two hundred and eighty, I can try to pass the first great tribulation of heaven and earth. Let's accumulate experience first."

Thinking to himself, Wang Chen closed his eyes and began to actively absorb the power of the earth to restore himself. The atmosphere in this space gradually became silent.

...

And shortly after Wang Chen entered his recuperation, in a valley more than ten miles away from his location, two groups of cultivators were confronting each other with drawn swords.

If Wang Chen were here, he would discover that one group of cultivators was Li Xiaowan and others whom he had met at the Liuyun Sect Foreign Affairs Hall, while the other side was a group of six, both male and female, led by a fierce-looking big man.

Beside these two groups, there were also several corpses on the ground, each with disheveled clothes, apparently having been searched earlier.

At this moment.

Although Li Xiaowan's group of ten had the advantage in numbers, they were somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of Aura when facing the six people opposite them.

Because among these six people, the fierce big man leading them had the strength of Four Realms Late Stage, and among the other five, one was Four Realms Early Stage, and the other four all had the strength of Three Realm Perfection.

"My brothers and I do not wish to cause trouble, nor do we wish to offend you, who are Disciples of the Liuyun Sect. How about we let bygones be bygones today?"

"The road is wide open, and we each go our own way."

The Four Realms Late Stage big man's gaze swept over Li Xiaowan and the others, his eyes filled with apprehension, and he spoke with a somewhat cold tone.

"You're dreaming!"

"Killing cultivators is forbidden in the Yunshan Forbidden Area. You few robbed and killed other cultivators, disregarding our Liuyun Sect's prohibition. How dare you say such a thing?"

"I advise you to surrender obediently, otherwise our Liuyun Sect's Law Enforcement Hall will surely tear you to pieces!"

A goose-egg-faced Junior Sister behind Li Xiaowan said indignantly after hearing the big man's words.

Her sense of belonging and identification with the Sect made it impossible for her to ignore what she saw before her.

Hearing her words, the fierce big man's group's expressions immediately became very ugly.

And on the Liuyun Sect's side, Li Xiaowan's expression also became a little stiff.

She really wanted to open the skull of the Junior Sister who spoke behind her and see what was inside.

Don't you understand the situation?

If you want to uphold justice and maintain the Sect's precepts, you also need to clearly see the strength of the opponent!

Although their side currently had a numerical advantage, they were at a disadvantage in terms of strength. No one among them could stop the Four Realms Late Stage big man opposite them.

The other party was currently only wary of their background with the Liuyun Sect and did not want to cause more trouble.

Do you really think these desperate people wouldn't dare to kill them?

As long as these guys killed someone, they would immediately leave the Liuyun Sect's territory, and even if the Sect's Law Enforcement Hall found out who the murderer was, they would be beyond reach by then.