110: Gu Chen's death

Burial Corpse Mountain Range.

The dense Yin Qi had already reached a level where it could alter the environment; within a thousand-mile radius, dark clouds perpetually swirled, and the dazzling sunlight was completely unable to penetrate this colossal burial mountain.

Outside the mountain range, a void suddenly shattered, and a figure appeared high in the sky.

“This is the Burial Corpse Mountain Range; it truly has extremely heavy Yin Qi!”

He carefully surveyed the land beneath his feet, and with his Soul Strength, the situation of the Demonic Beasts within the mountain range immediately became clear to the Elder.

“There are indeed many poison-attributed Demonic Beasts, and the soil here also possesses an extremely potent Corpse Poison. It truly is a good place for the Calamity Poison Body!”

The Elder nodded to himself, “It seems that person didn’t lie to me!”

“The Burial Corpse Mountain Range is enormous. I wonder where Xiao Lei is hiding?”

Muttering to himself, the Elder activated his spatial power and instantly teleported towards the depths of the Burial Corpse Mountain Range.

However, unbeknownst to the Elder, he had already triggered a secret technique used by the Hall of Humans to detect outsiders, and the Hall of Humans had already received the message.

Upon learning that a Half-Saint expert had entered the Burial Corpse Mountain Range, Gu You immediately became agitated and promptly informed the Grand Heavenly Lord, “Big Brother! A Half-Saint has intruded into the Burial Corpse Mountain Range!”

Among the Three Halls of Heavenly Gang, the Heavenly Hall was overseen by Soul Mie Sheng, the Earth Hall by the Vice Hall Master, and the Hall of Humans by the Grand Heavenly Lord and the Second Celestial Zun.

Inside the pitch-black hall, a mass of black mist surged forth, accompanied by a few mournful, wailing cries that echoed within the hall.

The next moment, a dark figure appeared before Gu You.

“How could the location of the Hall of Humans be leaked? Did some Protector leave with a tail?”

Faced with the Grand Heavenly Lord’s questioning, Gu You was dumbfounded. He also didn’t know why the Hall of Humans’ location would be exposed. “Big Brother, I don’t think so. If he knew the Burial Corpse Mountain Range was where our Hall of Humans was hidden, how could a Half-Saint dare to come and probe?”

Hearing this, the Grand Heavenly Lord also found it hard to understand. “Never mind the rest. Since he came alone, let’s find a way to kill him first!”

With that, the Grand Heavenly Lord was the first to tear through space and escape into it.

Seeing this, Gu You dared not delay and immediately followed, escaping into the Void Realm.

At the same time, the Gu Clan Elder was still grumbling, “Of all the places Xiao Lei could choose, why did he have to come to this cursed place? And speaking of which, I’ve been searching for so long, where exactly is Xiao Lei?!”

“Hmph! Could it be that I was conned by that unscrupulous merchant?!”

Before his voice faded, a powerful Qi fluctuation emanated from the Void Realm, and then a blood-colored chain pierced through the Void Realm, shooting directly towards him.

The next moment, a Dou Saint aura descended, its mighty Saintly power shaking the Elder’s heart.

“A Dou Saint! How could this be?!”

His eyes filled with horror, the Elder could not imagine that a Dou Saint expert would be in the Burial Corpse Mountain Range and, moreover, attack him without hesitation.

Hastily dodging the attack, the Elder immediately shouted, “I am Gu Chen, an Elder of the Gu Clan!”

However, the Grand Heavenly Lord naturally wouldn’t care about the identity of an Elder from the Gu Clan.

Gu Clan?

Still going to hit him!

His response was Gu You’s pair of white bone giant palms.

Two giant white bone palms formed from Dou Qi appeared lifelike from within the Void Realm, slamming down fiercely towards Gu Chen.

Boom!

Gu Chen, who had just dodged the Grand Heavenly Lord’s attack, had nowhere to hide and was slammed hard onto the ground of the Burial Corpse Mountain Range by the two giant palms.

Damp soil clung to his body, and chilling white bones scraped against Gu Chen’s face.

At this moment, Gu Chen’s heart had already sunk to rock bottom. He realized that he might have been tricked. He had some understanding of the situation in the Central Plains and could naturally guess from their auras that the two individuals before him should be from the Hall of Souls.

“Damn it! So strong! Could this be the headquarters of the Hall of Souls?!”

Daring not to hesitate any longer, Gu Chen immediately took out a scroll and fiercely tore it apart.

The residual spatial power from the spatial scroll drifted out, but the spatial aisle he hoped for did not appear.

“How could this be! This was a spatial scroll given by Elder Gu Dao!”

Gu Chen roared furiously in his heart, clearly unable to accept this result. Without the Gu Clan’s support, how could he possibly contend against two Hall of Souls experts?

The next moment, a whisper sounded from within the Void Realm, and a flying Soul Scythe sliced across Gu Chen’s neck, “You think you can call for reinforcements in my Hall of Souls’ territory?!”

The Grand Heavenly Lord’s figure emerged from the Void Realm, kicking Gu Chen, who was beside him, as if to vent his anger.

At the same time, in a secluded cultivation chamber of the Gu Clan, Gu Dao’s originally tightly shut eyes suddenly widened. Just moments before, he had felt a strong connection appear in the Central Plains, which was then forcefully severed.

“This is bad, it’s Gu Chen! Something has happened to him!”

The next moment, Gu Dao broke out of his seclusion… “Big Brother, this person is from the Gu Clan, but judging by his demeanor just now, he must have stumbled in here by mistake. What should we do next?”

Backed by the Hun Clan, neither of them showed much fear about killing a Gu Clan Elder; instead, they were only concerned about whether the Hall of Humans’ matter had been exposed.

The Grand Heavenly Lord’s voice was faint, “He just crushed a spatial scroll, but I used the Formation here and my own spatial power to shatter the spatial tunnel. However, the Gu Clan will receive the information soon!”

This was why the Grand Heavenly Lord was so furious. The Soul Origin within the Hall of Humans had been collected for many years, and it was almost fully formed and ready to be sent to the Hun Clan in a few more years.

“It had to be at this time!”

Although he was very reluctant, he knew that the Burial Corpse Mountain Range could no longer be stayed in. “Gu You, now, immediately go to the Hall, organize all the Protectors and Elder Zuns to leave, and take all the Soul bodies in the Hall, as well as that unformed Soul Origin, with you!”

“B-Big Brother, what about you? Won’t the Hall Master kill us if he finds out?!”

With such a major incident happening in the Hall of Humans, Gu You could already imagine the Hall of Souls Hall Master’s furious expression. After all, the previous great defeat in the Starfall Pavilion battle had already enraged him once… “Go do your work; I’ll explain to the Hall Master!”

The Grand Heavenly Lord was also somewhat uneasy, but he knew that the Hall of Souls Hall Master was currently guarding the Purification Lotus Demon Flame. Even if he was angry, any punishment would have to wait until the matter of the Purification Lotus Demon Flame was concluded.

“Yes, yes!”

As the two were about to part ways, they turned around only to find a young man had appeared behind them.

The other party stood with a saber, a smile still on his face, as if watching their performance.

The moment he saw Xiao Lei, the Grand Heavenly Lord seemed to understand something. “Xiao Lei! You led this person here!”

“Hateful! You die for me!”

Xiao Lei merely smiled slightly. A Two-Star Dou Saint at the Middle Stage wanting him to die was truly a bit overestimating himself.

“Pupil Technique — Illusory Dream!”

The next moment, a milky-white abnormal flame flickered, igniting in their hearts. Subsequently, a giant emerald green eye appeared in their vision.

The Grand Heavenly Lord’s Dou Qi surged, immediately extinguishing the Heart Flame, but Gu You was not so fortunate. He was instantly burned by the Heart Flame, and even his Soul became somewhat disoriented.

The next moment, his Soul Strength, at the Late Stage of the Heavenly Realm, like a vast celestial river, slammed against the Grand Heavenly Lord’s Soul at the Spirit Realm.

“Hiss—ugh!”

The next moment, the Grand Heavenly Lord, whose defenses had been breached, fell into the endless illusory dream woven by Xiao Lei for him… And just as his Soul defenses crumbled, a long saber wreathed in pitch-black flames slowly passed through the Grand Heavenly Lord’s head!

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