94: Valley Dilemma

In the Xuanhong Secret Realm.

The valley was littered with white bones, and traces of battle remained on every corpse, seemingly recounting the brutality of the past.

The lingering malevolent Qi persisted, turning this place into a land devoid of life.

Chu Yuan's heart tightened. He gripped his light-chasing sword and cautiously walked forward.

Suddenly, a slight tremor came from beneath his feet, and Chu Yuan quickly turned his head to look.

He saw a skeleton slowly stand up, holding a rusty longsword, and thrusting it toward him.

Chu Yuan hurriedly dodged sideways, his expression turning somewhat grim.

"A skeleton becoming a spirit?"

"It actually has the speed of the Spirit Crystal Realm Middle Stage, what is going on?"

"That's impossible. I clearly sensed the area just now. If there was something wrong with this skeleton, how could I not detect it?"

Chu Yuan was startled. He struck the skeleton with a sword, immediately disintegrating it.

Before he could even catch his breath, he heard a series of cracking sounds, and his expression changed drastically.

That sound... Seeing one skeleton after another stand up, Chu Yuan's face completely changed.

"Damn it!"

He cursed under his breath, immediately soared into the air, planning to leave the valley.

But at that moment, the malevolent Qi in the valley suddenly surged violently. Several streams of malevolent Qi condensed into longswords, rushing toward Chu Yuan with sharp, murderous intent.

Chu Yuan's expression changed again. He hastily swung out his Sword Qi, colliding with the longswords.

"An attack at least at the Emperor Stage Peak?"

Although Chu Yuan scattered the longswords condensed from the malevolent Qi, his expression changed once more.

"What the hell kind of place have I stumbled into?"

"I clearly didn't sense any danger or abnormality before. Why did it suddenly become so perilous?"

Chu Yuan looked uncertain and suspicious, only to see the malevolent Qi in the air surge violently again.

The scale of this surge was even more terrifying than the previous display of power.

Seeing this, Chu Yuan was startled and quickly descended.

Facing an unknown Emperor Stage entity, he decided it was better to deal with the skeletons.

As Chu Yuan landed, the malevolent Qi actually stopped surging.

Seeing this, Chu Yuan's expression was unsightly. This thing didn't want him to leave!

But if he had to fight these potentially endless skeletons, wouldn't he be exhausted to death?

At this moment, those skeletons, some holding broken weapons, others bare-handed, charged toward Chu Yuan.

Chu Yuan quickly tightened his grip on the light-chasing sword. Several streams of Sword Qi flew out, directly scattering many skeletons.

Afterward, he immediately chose a direction where there were slightly fewer skeletons, intending to break through the encirclement.

There were no treasures here, so who would want to fight a bunch of skeletons in this place?

Chu Yuan rapidly swung out several streams of Sword Qi, quickly disintegrating the skeletons in front of him, and hurriedly escaped the encirclement of hundreds of skeletons.

Seeing that Chu Yuan wanted to escape, the skeletons' speed suddenly increased.

At the same time, wherever Chu Yuan passed, one skeleton after another stood up with cracking sounds and joined the pursuit.

The malevolent Qi in the air remained thick, covering the sky above the valley.

The posture suggested it wanted to trap Chu Yuan in the valley, keeping him company with the skeletons.

Seeing this, Chu Yuan's expression grew heavier. His figure rapidly dodged within the skeletal encirclement, his light-chasing sword ceaseless, swinging out stream after stream of Sword Qi.

Wherever the Sword Qi passed, not a single skeleton could withstand it.

But Chu Yuan glanced at the hundreds of skeletons following behind him, and his expression became increasingly grim.

He discovered that the more skeletons he killed, the stronger the remaining skeletons seemed to become—this was what frustrated him.

If he didn't kill them, he would be stalled by the skeletons, with consequences easy to imagine; but if he killed them, it seemed to empower the ones pursuing him.

Chu Yuan sighed, then swung his sword again, clearing the obstacles on his path.

As time passed, fewer and fewer skeletons could be seen on the ground, but the strength of the ones that could stand up became greater.

Seeing three more skeletons blocking his way, Chu Yuan swung his sword, unleashing three streams of Sword Qi, still planning to finish the fight quickly.

But unexpectedly, those streams of Sword Qi were unable to scatter the skeletons before him.

Chu Yuan was slightly startled. Although these were three streams of Sword Qi casually swung out by him, they were enhanced by the Falling Star Sword Stance.

In his understanding, even a Fifth Rank Perfection wouldn't be able to block this Sword Qi, right?

"They are very likely at the Sixth Rank Early Stage!"

Chu Yuan murmured softly. He swept his longsword, and Silver Frost Glimpse of Shadow was cast for the first time.

His speed was like a phantom, instantly passing through the encirclement of the three skeletons, and then continuing forward.

After he left, the three skeletons disintegrated one after another, turning into three piles of bones.

At this moment, the thousand-plus skeletons pursuing him from behind arrived. They did not stop, continuing to chase Chu Yuan.

Their speed was now not much slower than that of an ordinary Sixth Rank Early Stage Yao Beast.

Before long.

Chu Yuan slightly slowed his steps, his eyes scanning the surroundings with suspicion and uncertainty.

The land around him was still desolate, but there were no longer any skeletons present.

A few hundred meters behind him, thousands of skeletons filled one end of the valley, standing still.

Seeing this, Chu Yuan's heart tightened.

There was another danger present here!

Moreover, this danger was likely not weak, otherwise, it wouldn't cause the skeletons to stop in their tracks.

Just as the thought crossed his mind, he saw the ground tremble violently, and rocks split and rolled down the mountainside.

Just as Chu Yuan soared into the air, he saw the malevolent Qi above the valley begin to surge violently again.

Seeing this, Chu Yuan couldn't be bothered with it anymore.

Since both were unknown dangers, he might as well confront the malevolent Qi directly and try his luck.

"Wuwu..."

The malevolent Qi rapidly condensed, transforming into various weapons like blades, spears, swords, and halberds, attacking Chu Yuan.

"Frost Splendor Dance!"

Chu Yuan shouted lowly, swinging his longsword. Countless streams of ice frost Sword Qi condensed, meeting the weapons formed by the malevolent Qi.

The two collided, and terrifying residual waves swept in all directions, directly pushing Chu Yuan down slightly.

Chu Yuan looked up, seeing that the ice frost Sword Qi had dissipated, and the weapons had also been scattered.

But he wasn't happy at all.

The two sides were evenly matched, which was exactly what he didn't want to face.

Furthermore, after the weapons were scattered, the malevolent Qi didn't seem to suffer much loss and quickly gathered back together.

In other words, if he couldn't instantly scatter the malevolent Qi above the valley and quickly leave the valley, he might very well be dragged to death here by the malevolent Qi.

Seeing the malevolent Qi surge violently once more, Chu Yuan took a deep breath.

"Ice Soul Sword Dragon!"

Chu Yuan shouted lowly. He released most of the remaining spiritual energy in his body. Countless streams of ice frost Sword Qi condensed and then merged into a massive Sword Qi Dragon.

He felt that with the power of this move, even a Sixth Rank Perfection would have to avoid its edge.

He took a deep breath, swung his longsword, and the massive Sword Qi Dragon instantly charged upward.

Seeing this, Chu Yuan did not hesitate, his figure following closely behind.

As if sensing the power of the massive Sword Qi Dragon, the countless streams of malevolent Qi instantly surged violently.

"Wuwu..."

Countless weapons rapidly condensed, swooping down toward the massive Sword Qi Dragon like a torrent.

The scene was extraordinarily spectacular!

He stared unblinkingly at the sky above, his figure closely following the massive Sword Qi Dragon.

"Clang! Clang!..."

Countless clanging sounds, like the collision of weapons, rang out incessantly, and the space itself seemed to tremble non-stop because of it.

The massive Sword Qi Dragon destroyed the weapons condensed from the malevolent Qi with irresistible force.

Even the malevolent Qi itself seemed to have been worn down by more than half.

Witnessing this scene, Chu Yuan felt a surge of excitement. "There seems to be hope!"