"puff……"

Upon hearing what his junior said, Chen Wu was immediately overcome with anger and spat out another mouthful of blood.

"Patriarch, you must hold on! Whether we can get out of here alive depends on you," a Chen family disciple who had previously gained Chen Wu's favor said, trying to comfort him.

"Yes, Senior Zhou has been doing his best to transfer his true energy to you. I saw that his face is a little pale. Don't let his good intentions go to waste." A disciple of Hanliu Martial Arts School saw that Zhou Chen's expression changed slightly and he looked a little pained.

Upon hearing this, Chen Wu's face flushed even more.

It is now clear that Zhou Chen is using his body to filter the earth's energy and cleanse his meridians, which, in the eyes of outsiders, is actually helping him overcome the tribulation.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Wu completely forgot what he had done.

After a while, Zhou Chen felt the earth energy in his body becoming increasingly rich, and his meridians had been tempered to the current physical limit.

Because of the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, he could withstand a much richer amount of earth energy than Chen Wu.

Even so, it couldn't withstand the continuous influx of local energy from Xingde County.

Just then, the enlightened martial artists who had gone out to search for the surviving civilians returned.

The moment Li Mingde saw Zhou Chen's hand on Chen Wu's back, his expression changed drastically.

"Young friend Zhou, you're so foolish!"

He looked extremely remorseful, thinking that with Zhou Chen's talent and the friendship he believed between the two, there might still be opportunities to curry favor with him in the future.

But after he had only been gone for a short while, Zhou Chen's hand inexplicably landed on Chen Wu's back.

Once you've taken that step, there's no turning back.

Chen Wen, who had found several more Chen family disciples nearby, had a strange expression on his face.

He looked at his son, whose face was as pale as gold paper inside the magic circle, and then at Zhou Chen, whose face was rosy and who was completely unharmed. He roughly understood what had happened.

"Well, without young friend Zhou's help, my son might not be able to hold on until the passage opens."

Outside the magic array, several awakened martial artists had strange expressions.

They were all shrewd and experienced people who had lived for many years and had served in the government. They were very familiar with the formations inscribed on the official seals.

The current situation clearly shows that Chen Wu wanted to use Zhou Chen as a substitute to escape, but his plan was thwarted instead.

Only now did Gao Tian, ​​Yi Lianxing, and the others realize that Zhou Chen had fallen into Chen Wu's trap the moment they made contact.

"You!" Gao Tian was about to step forward to argue, but Yi Lianxing held him back tightly.

"Junior Brother Zhou is alright." She gestured with her lips and looked into the magic array.

At that moment, Zhou Chen looked outside with a smile on his face.

Seeing that everyone on the periphery had arrived, he held nothing back and suddenly accelerated the transmission of true energy in his palm.

Or perhaps due to external influences, the earth's energy stirred up by the official seal expanded further.

The golden beam of light grew brighter and thicker, reaching the top of the dense blood-red net in the sky and revealing a vortex-shaped passage.

The vortex spun slowly, its edges gleaming with a faint golden light, while its center was a deep darkness.

At the edge of darkness, the azure sky outside could be faintly seen.

"Go." Zhou Chen felt Chen Wu's body, which he was pressing against with his palm, swell up more and more. No matter how much true energy he poured in, he couldn't suppress it. He shouted out loud.

At his father's prompting, Li Youde was the first to rush into the magic array.

He looked at Chen Wu and Zhou Chen inside the magic array, his pupils contracted sharply, but without the slightest hesitation, he leaped into the pillar of light.

With a flash of light, the figure vanished.

Immediately afterwards, one by one, the surviving residents of Xingde County filed in.

With each person teleported out by the golden beam of light, Chen Wu's body swelled by one unit.

When more than half the people had gathered, he was suspended in mid-air like a balloon, his skin swelling and stretching to the point of being almost like a cicada's wing.

Seeing this, Zhou Chen sighed; the buffer had finally expired.

He exerted his strength suddenly, and with a light clap of his hand, Chen Wu's body floated into the sky like a balloon.

The moment the golden beam of light shot out, Chen Wu lost the combined power of his true energy and earth energy, and exploded with a "bang".

Before the bloody pulp that Chen Wu had splattered out of his body could even land, it was already ground into dust by the rich earth energy.

"Zhou Chen, are you crazy? Without Wu'er maintaining the magic array, we will all be stuck here!" Chen Wen shouted angrily when he saw Zhou Chen's actions from outside.

The other cultivators at the Enlightenment Realm were also extremely anxious. They suddenly regretted why they had willingly stayed behind to cover the retreat.

At such a critical moment of life and death, it is the "leader" who should go first!

"Such despicable people deserve to die."

Zhou Chen sneered, snatched the official seal from Chen Wu's hand, and held it tightly in his own.

He was unfamiliar with formations, was not a county magistrate recognized by the Daqian government, and was even less familiar with those complex runes and incantations.

But he knew that since Chen Wu dared to let him replace him, as long as he could withstand the backlash from the earth's energy, he would definitely be able to maintain this passage.

Otherwise, even if Chen Wu manages to escape, he will have nowhere to run.

"boom--!"

The official seal trembled violently, and golden light flashed wildly!

The backlash was like a raging beast, frantically assaulting Zhou Chen's meridians!

Zhou Chen's incredibly resilient meridians, forged through tempering, broke inch by inch, only to rapidly regenerate.

At the same time, his internal organs felt as if they had been hit by a heavy hammer, and bright red blood gushed from the corners of his mouth as if it were free, with every inch of his skin bleeding.

However, Zhou Chen did not lose consciousness.

The excruciating pain in his soul caused by the numerous serious injuries and even deaths within the Qiankun Realm not only brought Zhou Chen suffering, but also endowed him with an endurance far beyond that of ordinary people.

"absorb!"

He suddenly shouted, and ripples appeared on the pale blue panel under his eyes.

In the blink of an eye, most of the earth energy overflowing from the condensed channel of the magic array beneath his feet was absorbed by the panel, with only a small portion being absorbed by Zhou Chen's body.

The Eight-Nine Arcane Arts were operating wildly, constantly repairing the injuries in Zhou Chen's body.

In just a few breaths, Zhou Chen's body had fully recovered.

Take a breath.

Two breaths.

Three breaths.

The onlookers outside the magic circle looked utterly astonished, as if they had seen a ghost.

"How is this possible? He can actually withstand the earth energy overflowing from the magic array!" Shen Tieshan exclaimed in surprise, his eyes wide as copper bells.

"If this boy doesn't die, my Chen family will surely face great trouble in the future." Chen Wen's face was cold, and a hint of killing intent flashed in his eyes.

As agreed by everyone, the major families took turns arranging for their disciples to escape Xingde County via the pillar of light.

Now the number of people has decreased by more than half, and many of the outstanding members of the Chen family have also moved away.

Although Zhou Chen was not seriously injured at the moment, he was still unable to move due to the pressure of the earth's energy.

If he makes a move, he will surely succeed.

Once Zhou Chen leaves Xingde County, even if I can suppress him temporarily because of my higher cultivation level, I cannot suppress him forever.

Just as Chen Wen was pondering, Li Mingde patted him on the shoulder, "Old Chen, how about we go out together?"

Feeling the force from Li Mingde's palm, Chen Wen's expression changed slightly.

At the same time, Shen Tieshan and the others focused their attention on Chen Wen, wary of his movements.

Given how things have developed, they certainly wouldn't let Chen Wen cut off everyone's livelihood for his own selfish reasons.

"Hurry up, don't delay." At this moment, the panel was continuously absorbing the earth energy overflowing from the magic array.

On the panel, the proficiency levels of Spirit Tracking, Seventy-Two Transformations, and Eight-Nine Arcane Arts all began to rise simultaneously.

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