254: Chapter 254 A Net of Heaven and Earth?

The violent air currents swept up the shattered steel door panels, smashing toward the center of the secret vault.

The Luoxia Commandery City Lord, clad in heavy armor, strode across the deformed threshold.

Dark red blood Qi condensed into physical armor on his body, radiating suffocating heat.

Vajra Realm Peak.

Such cultivation, placed in this Spirit-Severing Land, was already the pinnacle of Mortal martial arts.

The City Lord stared fixedly at the back of the figure in the green robe.

The elite death sworn on the vault's perimeter had been wiped out, yet this thief still dared to stand grandly before the altar.

"You seek death!"

The City Lord roared, his right fist carrying the momentum of wind and thunder as it blasted toward the center of Gu Changsheng's back.

Wherever the fist wind passed, the air was brutally compressed and exploded, letting out a series of ear-piercing sonic booms.

Gu Changsheng faced away from the City Lord, not even turning his head.

He casually tossed the bone fragment that emitted a cold aura.

Terrifying blood Qi instantly finished gathering in his Meridians.

Not until that heavy fist, carrying the blood Qi of the Vajra Realm Peak, was less than half a foot from his back...

Gu Changsheng moved.

He didn't turn around; he simply gave a casual backhanded wave.

Blue-black blood Qi transformed into a visible violent wave, crashing head-on into the City Lord's heavy fist.

Bang!

The two forces collided violently in mid-air.

There was no evenly matched stalemate.

Only a pure dimensional strike.

Crack! Crack!

The sound of grinding bones shattering exploded densely.

The Vajra Realm protective blood Qi the City Lord was so proud of was as fragile as a layer of window paper before this power, which was like that of a primeval behemoth.

It was smashed to pieces in an instant.

The violent power surged upstream along the fist's edge.

The City Lord's entire right arm, along with the heavy steel armor covering it, snapped inch by inch.

Flesh and blood were directly ground into a crimson mist.

"Ah—!"

The shrill scream had just escaped his throat when it was abruptly cut off.

Gu Changsheng grabbed backhand, his five fingers like steel claws, accurately clutching the City Lord's throat.

The burly body, weighing several hundred pounds, was lifted off the ground with one hand.

The City Lord's legs kicked frantically in the air, his left hand desperately clutching Gu Changsheng's iron wrist, trying to pry open the large hand that controlled his fate.

It didn't budge an inch.

That fair and slender hand contained enough power to tear apart a True Dragon.

The City Lord's face turned purple-red, his eyeballs bulging severely and bloodshot.

Extreme fear finally broke through the line of defense formed by his anger.

This man in the green robe was not a Martial Artist at all!

This was a Primeval Vicious Beast in human skin!

"You... just who..."

Broken syllables squeezed out of the City Lord's throat, full of pleading.

Gu Changsheng had no interest in listening to his nonsense.

At his fingertips, a wisp of extremely faint green blood Qi quietly circulated.

Withered Wood Blood-Draining Formation, activate.

Overbearing devouring power erupted from his fingertips, nailing directly into the depths of the City Lord's flesh.

Boom!

The essence of the Vajra Realm Peak blood Qi that the City Lord had painstakingly cultivated for decades became a bursting flood, forcibly drained from his body.

Dark red blood Qi flowed continuously into Gu Changsheng's body along his arm.

In just three breaths.

The City Lord's originally burly body shriveled into a skeleton wrapped in skin.

His eyes bulged, completely dead.

Gu Changsheng's five fingers exerted a slight force.

Bang.

The shriveled remains turned into powder that filled the air, rustling as it fell.

Not even a drop of blood was left.

Destroying the evidence, clean and efficient.

Gu Changsheng flicked away the ashes on his fingertips; his green robe remained untainted by a single speck of dust.

The violent blood Qi traveled through his Meridians and was quickly purified by the wither-flourish dao seed.

The cells of his Physical Body emitted a joyful hum, and the gray-white chains locking his mana loosened slightly once more.

He turned around, his gaze falling back onto the broken bone fragment in his hand.

This thing was the greatest harvest of this trip.

With a flip of his hand, Gu Changsheng took out the pale bone flute from his Storage Ring.

As soon as the bone flute appeared, it let out an irrepressible buzz.

From the natural holes on the flute's body, the illusory sounds of ghosts wailing and wolves howling faintly emerged.

The attraction of a common origin caused the two items to vibrate violently.

Gu Changsheng slowly brought the bone fragment closer to the bone flute.

The moment they touched.

Buzz!

The temperature in the sealed stone room plummeted, and a layer of pale frost even condensed on the surrounding walls.

That gray-white broken bone fragment actually melted at a visible rate.

It turned into a pool of thick black liquid, enveloping the entire bone flute.

The bone flute greedily devoured the liquid.

The originally pale body of the flute was gradually dyed with a layer of deep, dark black.

Complex Nether Dao Runes appeared on the surface, exuding a cold, lonely ancient dao rhyme.

Its grade approached that of a high-grade Magic Treasure.

Gu Changsheng's fingertips stroked the upgraded bone flute, feeling the majestic rhythm dao rhyme within.

The Bottleneck of the third Divine Ability, [Soul-Guiding Melody], shattered at this moment.

Heart-bewildering, soul-hooking, mind-controlling, and illusion-breaking.

With the enhancement of this dao rhyme, the power of these four effects surged several times over.

It could even ignore the suppression of some rules in this grotto-heaven and directly launch attacks on the Divine Soul.

This was his true trump card.

Gu Changsheng hung the bone flute back on his waist.

He looked around; the low-grade blood crystals in the secret vault had been swept clean.

The City Lord had mysteriously disappeared; this messy account would naturally be blamed on the Imperial Guards who had rushed into the City Lord's manor.

Luoxia Commandery was in complete chaos, which happened to buy him the perfect time window to head to the Far North.

Gu Changsheng stepped forward, crossing the pile of powder on the ground, and walked out of the secret vault.

The taiyin submerging spirit jade quietly circulated, completely erasing his figure.

The fighting on the long street continued.

The Imperial Guards and the City Lord's manor guards had already fought until their eyes were red, and corpses were strewn everywhere.

Gu Changsheng moved through the asura field like a ghost, without alerting anyone.

Returning to the dark alley.

Monkey was clutching Stone tightly, shrinking into a corner and shivering.

The Old Man used his body to shield the two of them, staring warily at the entrance of the alley.

Seeing Gu Changsheng appear out of thin air, all three of them breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Sir!"

Monkey scrambled forward and lowered his voice.

"The city gate area is even fiercer. How are we going to get out?"

Gu Changsheng didn't waste words and gave a wave of his hand.

Taiyin Mana instantly enveloped the four of them.

"Follow me."

The three simple words exuded absolute control.

The four of them silently passed through the chaotic streets and arrived at the edge of the city wall.

Gu Changsheng grabbed Monkey's collar with one hand and picked up the Old Man and Stone with the other.

His legs exerted a sudden force.

Bang!

A deep pit exploded in the bluestone pavement.

Gu Changsheng took the three of them and soared into the air, directly clearing the ten-zhang-high pitch-black city wall.

The guards on the wall were busy firing arrows downward and didn't notice the black shadow passing overhead at all.

They landed silently.

The wind and snow outside the city still raged.

Gu Changsheng set the three of them down and pointed to a snow mound in the distance.

"Mount up."

The three inferior horses were snorting from the cold.

The four of them mounted the horses and galloped toward the north under the cover of night.

Luoxia Commandery City was left far behind, the firelight and sounds of fighting gradually buried by the wind and snow.

Heading north.

The gale kicked up large clumps of ice shards, hitting Gu Changsheng's green robe.

He sat steadily on his horse, his knuckles lightly tapping the saddle.

The boundary stone was in hand, the bone flute had been upgraded, and his Physical Body's blood Qi had surged again.

This trip to Luoxia Commandery could be described as a full harvest.

Next would be the Desolate Gods Main Tomb, where the complete Vital Wood Dao Rhyme was buried.

Just then.

Deep in his Sea of Consciousness, the golden system panel began to flash crazily without warning.

Words brushed down like a waterfall.

[Intelligence: In the Hundred Thousand Mountains of the Extreme Far North, the Emperor has already personally led a hundred-thousand-strong army to set up an inescapable net!]