Chapter Eighty-Eight: Escape
In a certain passage, two streaks of light flew past rapidly, carrying a stunningly beautiful girl and a handsome man in white.
As a master already at the early stage of the Void Refinement realm, Han Wei naturally noticed the strange attack much earlier than Zhou Yating and the others. Although she didn't see the black mist, she was already aware of it and knew she had to leave this cursed place as soon as possible. However, Han Wei hadn't expected that the Heavenly Yuan Demon Lord would break free of the seal so quickly.
"Hahahahahahahaha..."
The eerie laughter seemed to come from a distant place, yet it also seemed very close.
Han Wei and Gu Qi stopped in an open area, standing in mid-air. Large swaths of black mist surged from the surrounding passages, enveloping them. Countless figures moved within the black mist; these figures were vengeful spirits, beings killed by the Heavenly Yuan Demon Lord who had transformed into vengeful spirits.
Among these vengeful spirits are Zhou Yating, Cheng Yan, and the brown-haired old man, who have just died.
Countless vengeful spirits wailed in the black mist, emitting mournful cries. The number of these vengeful spirits was terrifying, certainly in the hundreds of millions.
Han Wei broke out in a cold sweat.
It won't be easy for them to escape safely today.
"Since you're already here, why rush to leave?"
The voice of the Heavenly Demon Lord rang out from the black mist.
As a series of shrill screams rang out, the black mist surged madly toward Han Wei and Gu Qi. The vengeful spirits within the black mist bared their fangs and claws, seemingly wanting to tear Han Wei and Gu Qi to shreds.
Han Wei's dark eyes turned emerald green, and a petal-like mark appeared on her forehead. A bright red light shone around her, and cherry blossoms condensed, forming a terrifying number of cherry blossoms around her, turning into a huge pink vortex that enveloped her and Gu Qi.
Petals spun rapidly, then shot out, piercing the bodies of the vengeful spirits.
Touched by the petals of the spirit cherry, the vengeful spirits let out shrill screams.
After these low-level vengeful spirits were killed, powerful figures emerged from the black mist. These were also vengeful spirits, but their strength had all reached the Void Refinement stage. Each transparent body was surrounded by a bluish-black aura, their expressions were icy, and they exuded an ominous and overwhelming resentment.
The powerful vengeful spirits rushed towards Han Wei and Gu Qi again. Gu Qi stood in front of Han Wei and swung his long sword. The sword energy surged and raged, and this violent sword energy instantly killed these vengeful spirits who were at the Void Refinement stage.
"Walk!"
Han Wei gave the order to Gu Qi.
Gu Qi embraced Han Wei, releasing azure lightning from his body. Then, his longsword unleashed a sword aura a hundred times more terrifying than before, creating a huge hole in the sky. With a deafening roar, the entire ruins trembled.
Gu Qi carried Han Wei as they flew out of that opening.
The black mist followed closely, and a red beam of light shot out from it, carrying terrifying and destructive power, its target Han Wei and Gu Qi.
Han Wei's expression changed drastically.
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In the primeval forest, an ancient ruin is covered by lush vegetation.
Suddenly, the entire ruins began to shake violently, and exaggerated cracks appeared on the ground. As dust billowed, the ruins collapsed on a large scale. Then, a streak of blue lightning shot out from the collapsed ruins and immediately fled in one direction.
The terrifying cracks in the ground continued to extend and tear open in all directions. Countless birds and beasts in the dense forest sensed the dreadful aura and fled from the place in a panic.
Black mist billowed from the collapsed ruins, and large swathes of mist also emerged from the cracks. Wherever this mist reached, birds and beasts, flowers and insects—all living things—were stripped of their vitality and turned into lifeless objects.
The Heavenly Demon Lord has been sealed away for countless years, and he is now frantically seizing the life force of other living beings to restore his power.
Han Wei also sensed that the demon hidden in the black mist was growing stronger. It had started as the late stage of the Integration Realm and was now at the Great Ascension Realm.
boom--
A massive beam of light shot towards Han Wei and Gu Qi. Gu Qi stepped in front of them, and with a swift swing of his longsword, a hundred-foot-long white sword beam collided with the thick, blood-red beam. The instant the white and red lights met, a terrifying shockwave erupted, spreading wildly in all directions and leveling everything in its path.
Gu Qi took several steps back, clearly having been at a disadvantage in the previous exchange.
That's true. He's still in the late stage of the Integration Realm, while Tianyuan Demon Lord has already recovered to the strength of the Mahayana Realm.
Han Wei had already donned the Thunder King Armor, whose protective capabilities surpassed even the Five-Colored Celestial Robe. After donning the armor, she released the Thunder Beast Chariot. Standing atop the chariot, Han Wei held the reins in one hand and a golden longsword in the other.
The Thunder King Armor released streaks of lightning, and the totems on the armor appeared and disappeared before finally becoming fully visible. The two thunder beasts pulling the Thunder Beast Chariot roared, and the chariot changed. The totems on the chariot changed, and the bodies of the two thunder beasts swelled to twice their original size. Clearly, the Thunder King Armor and the Thunder Beast Chariot were reacting in some way.
The two lightning-attribute spiritual treasures combined are now even more powerful.
But Han Wei had no intention of using these two magical treasures against Tianyuan Demon Lord; she fled without hesitation.
Rumble—
Han Wei drove the Thunder Beast Chariot away at breakneck speed, and Gu Qi jumped onto her chariot as well.
Even with Gu Qi and her abundance of spiritual treasures, Han Wei didn't believe she could defeat the Heavenly Yuan Demon Lord right now. He was definitely an extremely dangerous figure. His strength was unfathomable, and she didn't know how much he would recover after escaping. Han Wei wasn't about to confront him head-on.
The Thunder Beast Chariot was incredibly fast, but even at such a terrifying speed, it couldn't shake off Tianyuan Demon Lord.
In the sky, a bolt of lightning swept across a hundred miles in an instant, followed by endless black mist. Wherever this eerie black mist went, all life was stripped away, and humans and animals were reduced to bones.
Hehe~
A man's laughter echoed from within the black mist.
"Why are you running away so fast? I'm not going to kill you. With your rare Wood Spirit Body, I'll definitely pamper you properly. Hahahaha..."
The black mist is moving faster than before.
It wasn't that no cultivators noticed the anomaly, but these people often didn't have time to figure things out before their lives were taken away, turning into a pile of bones in the black mist, and their primordial spirits becoming one of hundreds of millions of vengeful spirits.
Han Wei gritted her teeth. Damn it! He really saw through her Wood Spirit Body; he definitely wouldn't let her go. If she fell into his hands, she would surely become his furnace. She absolutely refused to suffer that fate.
Han Wei drove the Thunder Beast Chariot, frantically channeling her magical power.
She just wanted to be faster, faster and even faster!
But what should she do?
Where can we escape to?
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