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"Rush!"

After a dozen or so circular shockwaves passed, four figures emerged from the street behind the overgrown weeds like ghosts.

The target was the lakeside factory, which had been horrifically bombed and razed to the ground.

Seeing someone leading the charge, most of the martial arts practitioners who were blown away by the shockwave of the explosion immediately got up as if nothing had happened and ran towards the factory that had been leveled by the explosion.

"Who are you?!"

As the smoke cleared, a fiery barrier was seen at the center of the explosion, on the verge of shattering.

The shaman of the Fire Cult, dressed in sacrificial robes and surrounded by black mist, stared with bloodshot eyes at a figure wielding a large spirit iron spear as it fell from the sky.

Blood was spilling from his mouth, clearly indicating that he had expended a great deal of energy to maintain the barrier.

The Fire Cult followers who assisted him in the sacrifice inside the factory, except for a few important members within the barrier, were all torn into blood mist by the shockwave and ascended to heaven together.

"The Demon-Suppressing Captain of the Jiangnan Ten Thousand Households Prefecture has come to take your dog's life!"

The warrior wielding the spirit iron spear fell from the sky with overwhelming momentum. His spear seemed to cleave through the waves, striking the crumbling flame barrier from above.

As soon as this man uttered his powerful voice, the martial arts practitioners who rushed forward all stopped in their tracks, their faces filled with surprise and doubt, and they gasped in astonishment.

The Demon Suppression Captain of the Jiangnan Wanhu Prefecture is at least a Feathered Realm expert who has undergone "Blood Refining and Transformation".

The appearance of such a powerful figure in the outer city was like a dimensional attack, terrifying everyone.

Bang!

The flame barrier suddenly exploded under the bombardment of the spirit iron spear.

The Fire Cult priest maintaining the barrier, coughing up blood and with a ferocious expression, said to the surviving priests beside him, "Each of you take two Blood Pills! Go first!"

Having said that, he drew his rune-inscribed greatsword from his waist, his body wreathed in crimson flames, and leaped to meet the gunslinger falling from the sky.

All six priests, without exception, were seriously injured in the explosion.

Upon receiving the shaman's order, they didn't hesitate, taking the pills and transforming into six streaks of blood-red shadows, scattering in a flurry.

when!

The runic greatsword clashed with the spirit iron spear, producing a deafening sound.

A fiery dragon danced wildly in mid-air, and a figure plummeted from the sky like a falling rock. The ground seemed to be subjected to an invisible gravity, and a clear trench appeared, as if cleaved by a spear.

"We have already made a three-point agreement with Commander Cen!"

"You are not from the Jiangnan Wanhu Prefecture!"

"Who exactly are you?! How dare you oppose my Fire Sect!"

The shaman of the Fire Cult was slammed into a deep pit plowed by divine fire crows by a single spear thrust into the ground. He looked up to the sky and howled with venomous malice.

Snapped!

A priest of the Fire Cult who had just entered the Spirit Realm had just turned around to see the shaman's miserable state when his ankle was grabbed.

brush!

The blade flashed upwards, instantly slicing off half of the person.

"Pah!" Tang Xi spat out blood and mud as he crawled out of the ruins, still carrying half a human corpse in his hand.

"Damn it, Cui Qianji is so unreliable! He said it would launch at 12:20, but he launched a minute early."

Young Master Tang was covered in dust and dirt, and the jade pendant he used to protect himself was now broken into three pieces.

"Jianhong, are you alright?!"

A burly figure carrying two maces came to Tang Xi's side.

His hands glowed with a crystalline green light and pressed against Tang Xi's body, causing his originally severe internal and external injuries to heal rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"With you, this monster, around, even if I'm just a skeleton, I won't die."

In less than three minutes, Tang Xi's injuries had almost completely healed. He pushed away the burly man in front of him and said, "That's about enough. Fan Sheng, don't worry about me. Go after the other priests of the Fire Sect. Their pills have serious problems."

"Alright!" Upon hearing this, the burly man called "Fansheng" turned around and left without hesitation, chasing after the Fire Cult priest in another direction.

……

The night was dark and the wind was howling across the lake.

Chen Jue, masked, trailed behind three martial arts practitioners, who in turn pursued a priest of the Shi Huo Sect relentlessly.

"You scoundrel! Leave the pills behind and I'll spare your life!"

"Run again! If we catch you, we'll tear you to pieces!"

The three martial arts practitioners were not particularly fast, but one of them could barely use hidden weapons. Five plum blossom darts flew out one after another. Although they all missed the mark, they did indeed slow down the steps of the Fire Cult priest.

Two more martial artists quickly followed, one on the left and one on the right, their weapons flashing, cutting off the retreat of the seriously injured priest of the Fire Sect.

Clang! Clang!

The priest of the Fire Sect flicked out his soft sword from his waist, splitting it in two, sending out two swords to the left and right like venomous snakes spitting their tongues, aiming at the wrists and tendons of the two martial artists.

The two martial arts practitioners' pupils constricted sharply, and they hurriedly sheathed their swords to parry.

But the fire priest in the room retreated immediately upon contact and continued to flee.

However, this person's internal organs had already been shattered by the shockwave of the Divine Fire Flying Crow. His forced attack only caused his blood and qi to become disordered. He had only taken ten steps when he could no longer suppress the rebellious blood in his lungs and coughed up a mouthful of blood mist.

"A great opportunity!"

Seeing this, the three martial arts practitioners rushed forward together, surrounding the priest from three sides. In just a few moves, they successively stabbed the priest of the Fire Sect in vital points, forcing him into a deadly situation.

"You're asking for it! You forced me to this!"

Seeing that he was doomed, the priest of the Fire Cult had no more scruples. He took out one of the two pills and put it into his mouth.

"Wait, even a minor boss like this, who's just a random mob, has a second stage?!"

Chen Jue, who was trailing behind the group, was stunned. Did these three martial arts practitioners have some serious illness?

Just stand by and watch the priests of the Fire Cult swallow pills and elixirs?!

A crimson flame quickly appeared on the body of the Fire Cult priest after he swallowed the elixir, like a shield as thin as a cicada's wing.

At the same time, his appearance also changed dramatically. His originally thin body suddenly swelled up and became a big guy with a round belly but full of muscles.

Even its appearance changed; its eyes turned bloodshot like a demon, its nose became high like a pig's, and its canine teeth, which split to the roots of its ears, grew two pale white tusks.

"That Ascension Pill turns people into monsters?!"

Upon seeing the pill's severe side effects, the three martial arts practitioners immediately had second thoughts and subconsciously took a step back.

However, it was too late.

Despite being a late-stage True Qi priest of the Fire Sect, he swallowed a late-stage Second Realm pill. The violent energy surging through his body left him with no way out but to release it all.

Bang!

The mud pit beneath the feet of the Fire Cult priest exploded with the speed of an arrow released from a bow, heading straight for the wandering swordsman who had fired the plum blossom dart at him.

*Thud!* The spinning plum blossom dart pierced straight into the belly of the pig demon that the Fire Cult priest had transformed into.

Thick blood plasma flowed down his belly and onto the ground, a horrifying sight.

However, the priest of the Fire Sect, who had already transformed into a demon, was now utterly ferocious. He disregarded his own injuries and life and death, and violently slashed out with his sword. The force of the blow was so great that it shattered the soft sword into an unyielding steel ruler.

brush!

The martial artist, who was directly attacked, drew his swallow-feather saber from his waist and swung it horizontally, intending to block, but he was a beat too slow.

"Ah!" Its scream startled the wild ducks by the lake, and they flew away in flocks.

The soft sword in the pig-headed monster's hand cleaved from his left eye to his right waist, tearing a deep, gruesome wound that revealed the bone, from which blood gushed out.

Upon seeing this, the remaining two martial artists split up and fled in horror.

The pig-headed monster, seemingly with its brainstem destroyed, hesitated and remained rooted to the spot, unsure of who to chase.

Upon seeing this, Chen Jue knew it was his turn to take the stage.

His gaze was cold. He took a step forward, and the true meaning of the perfected "Six Harmonies Blade Technique" spread out like a domain, causing his aura to change abruptly.