116: Chapter 116 Mission Completed, Treasure Acquired!

Xia Jin's current speed could be said to be unparalleled in the world below the Land Immortal Realm.

He had already closed most of the distance between himself and Elder Mo Ya.

Elder Mo Ya was currently burning his life essence without hesitation, fleeing at high speed with the heavily injured Hei Tu and the mentally traumatized White Luan. He had only one thought in his mind: Fast! Faster! Get away from that monster! Otherwise, once they were caught, the three of them would surely perish here today.

However, this thought only lasted for a few breaths of time.

The Void Realm in front of him rippled slightly like the surface of water.

In the next instant, a figure dressed in a black dragon robe stepped out from within, blocking their flight path directly ahead.

Xia Jin stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes still blood-red, staring at them indifferently.

"What? How is this guy's speed so fast!" Elder Mo Ya hurriedly stopped in his tracks, looking ahead with a face full of horror!

"Do you really think you can escape from this Prince's grasp? You've wasted my time, so I'll send you all down to be reunited together!!" A sharp light flashed in Xia Jin's blood-red eyes.

He moved.

This punch was aimed directly at the front, targeting Elder Mo Ya, who was the only one among the three not yet injured.

A transparent ripple emanated from the fist's edge.

This punch was not fast. Elder Mo Ya wanted to retreat, but he found that the Void Realm around him seemed to be imprisoned, making his movements dozens of times slower than before.

"No... I don't want to die yet!!" Elder Mo Ya felt his scalp tingle. He suddenly bit the tip of his tongue and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood. Above his head, space distorted, and a two-foot-long illusory crow suddenly rushed out from his Sea of Consciousness!

"Hmph! A deathbed struggle, is it of any use?" Xia Jin sneered. Ignoring the sharp crow's cry that suddenly appeared, he punched Elder Mo Ya directly in the chest.

"Ah!! You... why..." Elder Mo Ya only felt a chill in his chest. He lowered his head and saw a bowl-sized hole passing through his chest from front to back. Only a trace of despair remained in his eyes.

Then, Xia Jin grabbed his corpse by the head and threw it down from the Void Realm.

"Mo Ya!!"

"Old Ghost!!"

Beside him, the already heavily injured Hei Tu and White Luan were completely unable to intervene. They could only watch helplessly as Elder Mo Ya, a member of their trio, was easily slaughtered by Xia Jin.

"Don't be in a hurry; the two of you will soon go down to be reunited as well." Xia Jin's gaze coldly swept over Hei Tu and the other.

He slowly raised his right hand and threw his second punch.

The target of this punch was Hei Tu.

"Hei Tu, watch out!!" Behind Hei Tu, White Luan saw Xia Jin's gaze fall on Hei Tu and shouted in a panic.

But what use was such a warning?

Not to mention being heavily injured now, even in his prime, Hei Tu would have been completely unable to block this punch from Xia Jin.

"Big Sister, go, hurry and leave!" Hei Tu instinctively crossed his arms in front of his chest, but his eyes were fixed on White Luan.

"You still have the heart to warn others?" Xia Jin sneered.

With one punch, he shattered Hei Tu's arm bones, which were comparable to refined gold. The fist's momentum didn't slow as it continued to strike Hei Tu's head, causing a blossom of blood to explode in the air.

Hei Tu's sturdy, headless body convulsed in the air before following Mo Ya as the second to fall from the Void Realm.

"Only you are left!" Xia Jin looked expressionlessly at the remaining White Luan and raised his right hand once more.

At this moment, White Luan, having witnessed her two companions killed in an instant, had eyes filled with the ash of despair.

Facing Xia Jin's punch, she simply gave up all resistance.

Her abdomen was pierced by Xia Jin's punch, and the sound of shattering bones echoed from within her body. Her delicate frame shook violently, the light in her eyes rapidly fading, until she finally fell like a withered white petal, drifting downwards.

The three "Ten Fierce Generals," who had been notorious and feared by countless people centuries ago, had turned into three corpses in just a few breaths of time.

Almost at the exact moment White Luan's breath was completely cut off, a System notification sounded once again in Xia Jin's mind:

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for completing the mission—[Mission Two: Slay the three members of the 'Ten Fierce Generals': White Luan, Hei Tu, and Elder Mo Ya.]]

[Received the following rewards: Three Feet to the Horizon (Entry-Level), three thousand years of cultivation!]

Xia Jin stood in mid-air, the corners of his mouth curling up uncontrollably into a smile.

After receiving this reward, he would surely take another step forward and step above the Land Immortal Realm!

But soon, he calmed his inner excitement, his gaze falling on White Luan's corpse below.

He was quite interested in the jade pendant that had caused so many experts to fight over it.

Xia Jin landed beside White Luan's corpse, knelt down, and after a brief search through her clothing, his fingertips soon touched a hard object.

It was indeed that jade pendant.

After Xia Jin took out the jade pendant, he looked it up and down.

"Eh!? This kind of script..." Xia Jin's brow furrowed slightly, a trace of contemplation flashing in his eyes as he thought to himself, "It seems I've seen this somewhere before."

"Right! This Prince remembers that in Great Xia's Scripture Pavilion, there seemed to be an anonymous book with script very similar to what's on this jade pendant! Perhaps after going back and studying it carefully, I'll be able to know what the carvings on this jade pendant actually mean!"

Xia Jin gripped the jade pendant tightly in his hand, stood up, and after glancing at the corpses of Hei Tu and the others, pointed directly at the sky.

Instantly, a lightning pillar several meters wide descended from the sky, submerging the three corpses.

Once the lightning pillar vanished, the three corpses had also disappeared.

Having done all this, his figure flickered, and he instantly disappeared from the valley.

...

Just as Xia Jin left, two sounds of breaking air came from the distance.

In the next instant, two massive figures appeared in the sky above the valley.

"To think someone actually beat us to it!"

Fire Phoenix spoke, its voice carrying a hint of rage.

It stared intently at the scorched earth below, fury swirling in its golden pupils. "The aura of that treasure... has completely vanished! It's been taken!"

The black flood dragon beside Fire Phoenix was coiled in mid-air. Upon hearing Fire Phoenix's words, a trace of gloom flashed in its lantern-like purple-gold vertical pupils.

"With the three of them working together, their strength was definitely not weak. In this current Eastern Profound Continent, who else could have killed all three of them in such a short time?"

As if remembering something, a trace of wariness flashed in its dark-gold vertical pupils: "With that thing emerging, more and more people will wake up from their slumber! Could it be that the one who dealt with these three is also someone who just woke up from slumber?"

"What? You just said it might have been done by some sleeping person after waking up!?" Fire Phoenix's gaze fell on the black flood dragon, the fiery-red flames on its body momentarily stagnating.

"That's right." The black flood dragon nodded, a trace of worry flashing in its eyes.

"During this time, we should still keep a low profile. I have a premonition that experts from hundreds or even thousands of years ago will be appearing one after another!" The black dragon twisted its massive body, its voice carrying a warning.

"The heavens... have already changed."