You said mechs were going to fight monsters, but instead you're destroying stars with your bare

Chapter 217 War

A month later.

Li Zhe completely refined and absorbed the last trace of medicinal power.

He slowly opened his eyes.

In those deep eyes, it seemed as if lightning flashed and stars were born and died.

A terrifying pressure, indescribable in words and enough to make heaven and earth change color, flashed through his body.

He not only regained all his strength.

Taking this opportunity, we will strive for even greater heights!
Although he still couldn't find a way to break through to the "Foundation Building" stage, his basic combat strength directly broke through to 50!

"Congratulations, young master, you have mastered your divine skill."

Shangguan Wan'er looked at him, and a genuine joy appeared on her beautiful face.

"Happy together."

Li Zhe stood up and stretched.

It made a series of crackling sounds all over its body.

Looking at the beautiful sect leader in front of him, who looked slightly haggard from a month of working tirelessly without sleep, a warm feeling welled up in his heart.

"Next, it's time..."

A cold smile curved at the corners of his mouth.

"Going to collect some 'interest'."

……

A month is enough time for many things to change.

When Li Zhe and Shangguan Wan'er stepped out of that spiritually rich underground chamber once again.

The outside world has already undergone earth-shattering changes.

The entire Qingluan Mountain Range was shrouded in a black demonic aura filled with an ominous and eerie atmosphere.

Those mountains that were once full of ethereal beauty and spirituality are now barren and devoid of any vegetation.

The mountain streams had turned into a foul-smelling, viscous black liquid.

The air was thick with the stench of death, a mixture of blood and decay.

"This……"

Looking at the scene before her, which resembled a living hell, Shangguan Wan'er's beautiful face was filled with disbelief and shock.

"The demonic path... has it really become so rampant?"

Li Zhe's brows furrowed as well.

He could clearly sense that within this demonic energy was a trace of something extremely familiar to him, an aura filled with chaos and destruction…

Abyssal energy.

It seems that the "demonic path" of this world is inextricably linked to the abyssal monsters he encountered before.

"Let's go, let's go and take a look at your Misty Cloud Sect first."

Li Zhe's voice was steady and powerful.

Now is not the time for sentimentality.

The most urgent task is to figure out the situation as soon as possible, and then...

Send those damned demonic brats to hell one by one.

The two flew north towards the "Tiandu Mountain Range" where the Misty Cloud Sect was located.

All that could be seen along the way were broken walls and ruins, and countless lives lost.

Countless villages and towns were burned to the ground by the demonic army, turning them into barren wastelands.

Occasionally, one can still see some ordinary people who have survived by sheer luck, struggling to survive amidst the ruins like frightened birds.

Their eyes were filled with despair and numbness.

As Shangguan Wan'er watched all this, her beautiful eyes were filled with pity and self-reproach.

She clenched her fists so tightly that her nails dug deep into her palms, drawing a trickle of blood.

"It's...it's all my fault..."

There was a tremor in her voice.

"If... if I had been a little stronger back then... perhaps..."

"Don't think too much about it."

Li Zhe's voice, calm yet powerful, interrupted her self-blame.

"The problem lies with this dog-eat-dog world."

He paused, his tone turning utterly chilling. "And what we need to do is use even greater power to change these rules."

……

Several days later, the two finally arrived at the outer edge of the Tiandu Mountains.

However, the scene before them plunged their hearts into despair.

That sacred land, which should have been shrouded in ethereal mist and clouds, has now been completely replaced by a massive demonic city filled with an ominous and eerie aura.

The towering city walls are constructed from countless twisted skeletons and wailing, wronged souls.

Thick, foul-smelling blood flowed in the dark moat.

On the city tower, a huge banner embroidered with the head of a ferocious demon god fluttered in the eerie wind.

"The Misty Cloud Sect... is gone..."

Looking at the demon city before her, filled with despair and death, Shangguan Wan'er's beautiful face drained of color, turning deathly pale.

My own sect, my own home...

It has completely fallen.

"It's not over yet..."

Li Zhe's eyes, however, gleamed with contemplation.

He could clearly sense that deep within that demonic city, there were still a few faint fluctuations of spiritual energy belonging to righteous cultivators.

"They...are still alive."

He turned his head and looked at Shangguan Wan'er, his tone filled with an unquestionable determination.

"Let's go in and rescue them."

……

As night fell, the Demon City was brightly lit.

But that light was not a warm candle flame; rather, it was a sinister, ghastly green composed of countless burning will-o'-the-wisps filled with resentment.

Countless demonic cultivators patrolled the city, maintaining a tight security.

In the heart of the Demon City, within a colossal palace constructed from bones, a bloody and depraved "feast" is unfolding.

One of the three giants of the demonic path, the gaunt old man known as the "Blood Slaughter Demon," sat high on a throne made up of countless beautiful female skulls.

While gnawing on the thigh of an unknown monster that was still twitching slightly.

They watched as the captured female disciples of the righteous path below screamed in agony under the scorching flames of the demonic fire.

A satisfied yet cruel smile appeared on his face.

"Hahaha... These girls from the Misty Cloud Sect are really quite delicious."

He licked his lips, his cloudy old eyes filled with greed and desire.

"By tomorrow, I will refine them all into 'blood slaves,' and my 'blood nerve' will be able to... reach another level!"

Just as he was immersed in his beautiful dream.

"boom--!!!!!"

A deafening roar suddenly came from the palace gates!

The sturdy gate made of white bones shattered under this unparalleled force, turning into a shower of bone dust.

A figure exuding an aura of mystery and power slowly emerged from the darkness outside the door.

"Who?!"

Blood Demon King suddenly stood up from his throne, his cloudy old eyes filled with vigilance and killing intent.

"How dare you disturb my enjoyment?!"

When he saw the person's face clearly.

The old face, which had been filled with arrogance and cruelty, was instantly replaced by disbelief and shock...

"Shang...Shangguan Wan'er?!"

He looked at the woman dressed in white, covered in blood, yet still unable to conceal her unparalleled beauty, his voice filled with astonishment.

"You...you weren't...dead?!"

"I'm perfectly fine."

Shangguan Wan'er's voice was cold and devoid of any emotion.

The longsword in her hand gleamed with a chilling light in the glow of the will-o'-the-wisp.

Today, I've come to...

"I'll kill you!"

(End of this chapter)