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As Chen Yuan leaped into the air, he glanced at the end of the void, where the Five Finger Peak was clearly visible, constantly erupting with booming sounds and dazzling light as it soared into the sky!

It was clear that the Chen family's protective formation had not yet been broken and was putting up a stubborn resistance.

Chen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and was about to charge back when a voice transmission suddenly sounded in his ear.

"Ah Yuan, the family is still manageable; you save Tianqing County!"

It was Chen Qingcang's voice, which made Chen Yuan's heart leap with joy.

"Grandpa, are you alright?"

Chen Yuan quickly asked.

"I'm fine. I'll take care of things here with the family. Don't worry, go and save the people of Tianqing County."

Chen Qingcang said, his voice firm and unwavering.

"With your Yellow Court Realm Great Perfection, plus the Golden Crow Flame and the Heavenly Righteous Evil-Slaying Sword Technique, you can definitely kill all the remaining corpse puppets."

"Although I don't know why those corpse puppets with Purple Mansions in the city left, they can't come to Tianqing County for a while, since you have already damaged that teleportation array."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yuan's gaze sharpened.

He hadn't expected that Chen Qingcang had been paying attention to this place all along, and that even his being teleported back and destroying the teleportation array had been known to Chen Qingcang.

Chen Qingcang, who was hiding somewhere, seemed to notice that Chen Yuan was silent, so he continued speaking.

"Although Tianqing County is the territory of the Beast Immortal Family, there are countless civilians in it, at least tens of thousands of whom gather near the county governor's office."

After a pause, Chen Qingcang spoke again, his voice solemn.

"Go and save them all. We can't let them stay away just because they're with animals."

"us……"

"We cannot abandon any member of our own people..."

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Upon hearing this, Chen Yuan was stunned for a moment, and he instantly understood what Chen Qingcang meant.

Chen Qingcang thought he would want all the living beings in Tianqing County to be destroyed here.

Chen Yuan shook his head and said seriously, "Grandpa, I understand..."

He paused, a look of worry appearing on his face.

"But...don't the family still have a dozen or so Purple Mansion Corpse Puppets?"

Chen Qingcang immediately said, "There are indeed more than a dozen Purple Mansion Corpse Puppets above this great formation, but they are not a cause for concern."

The family here has a lot of people, and they want to wipe them all out. That's what attracted them. Go ahead and do it.

"Of course, don't worry. If Grandpa gets really angry, these dozen or so corpse puppets won't be a problem."

"Don't worry, go do your own thing. There's nothing to worry about at home."

Hearing this, Chen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and then stomped his foot on the ground!

boom!!!

The ground beneath their feet exploded, creating a huge crater.

Chen Yuan's figure had already soared into the sky.

He then took out the Heavenly Righteous Sword, gripped it with both hands, raised it high, and his human cultivation spiritual power surged wildly within him, rapidly converging on the sword!

Buzz!

The Heavenly Sword hummed and instantly burst into flames.

boom!!!!

The flames expanded instantly as he raised his sword high, growing to a size of hundreds of meters, resembling a giant golden crow soaring through the sky!

"Golden Flame Burns the Phoenix Tree!!"

With a roar from Chen Yuan, the giant golden crow swooped down and pounced directly on the densely packed corpse puppets on the street!

"Holy crap, A-Yuan unleashed a powerful attack!!"

Below, Li Wei, whose body was bursting with golden light and who was wielding a golden greatsword, killing people and sending heads flying, screamed and quickly dodged when he saw this.

Nuomi hopped and launched herself hundreds of meters away.

boom!!!

Several streets instantly erupted in massive flames, and a terrifying wave of fire shot into the sky, sweeping in all directions, directly blasting the dense corpse puppets into pieces, with blood and flesh flying everywhere!

Rumble!

Rumble!!

The earth began to shake violently, trembling incessantly, as if a terrifying earthquake had occurred.

Those corpse puppets at the Yellow Court realm, upon witnessing this scene, also showed expressions of horror on their ashen, dead faces.

Some of the skull-shaped evil corpses had their green flames flickering in their empty eye sockets, as if they had been extinguished!

boom!

Chen Yuan slammed heavily into the ground high in the sky once more, shattering the earth and sending debris flying. A terrifying shockwave swept outwards again, blasting away countless corpses and remains of the zombie puppets!

"laugh!!"

Chen Yuan's figure transformed into a blur, disappearing from the spot without pausing, sweeping across all directions.

One by one, human heads flew into the sky, accompanied by the explosion of the bodies of the Yellow Court Corpse Puppets.

A dozen or so breaths later, Chen Yuan and his two companions fought their way out of the area.

All that remained were scattered limbs and broken bones, and a raging inferno.

Some tall buildings in the distance, originally the residences of powerful families, possessed sturdy protective formations that preserved their hiding places from being breached by the corpse puppets. However, they were teetering on the brink of collapse under Chen Yuan's attacks and flames.

"Damn it! Who is that? Why is he so strong?"

"The Formless Guardian, judging from his clothes, is a member of the Formless Guardian."

"What? Where did our Tianqing County get such a powerful Wuxiang Guard? Isn't Chen Guohai already dead?"

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Many people gasped in surprise, staring in disbelief at the figure disappearing down the street.

The terrifying, earth-shattering attack Chen Yuan had launched earlier was still fresh in people's minds.

"It's...it's him!"

"He is... Chen Yuan!!"

"Oh my god! He's back!"

"Wasn't he leading the way to explore that secret realm?"

"Why is it only him who returned? Where are the powerful figures from the Earthly Realm families?"

"The flames he used were the Golden Crow True Yang Flame of the Chen family. I heard that this is a flame technique passed down through generations of the Chen family!"

Wasn't that for alchemy? How could it unleash such a terrifying attack?

……

Someone recognized Chen Yuan, and an uproar immediately erupted!

What followed was extreme shock and a sensation!

It wasn't just because Chen Yuan led the Earthly Spectrum Clan to explore the secret realm in the morning, but also because Chen Yuan's return was a miracle in itself!

In particular, the Chen family's ancestral fire magic has always been used only for alchemy, never for flames like the one Chen Yuan is now displaying.

The attack's power was so terrifyingly overwhelming?

Suddenly, countless people were shocked to discover that the Chen family had been hiding their true strength all along.

I thought the flames used for alchemy could explode indefinitely, forming a devastating sea of ​​fire!

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Tianqing County City, Prefectural Governor's Office.

Above the main gate of the prefectural government office hangs a gilded plaque with the five powerful and majestic characters "Tianqing Prefectural Government Office," which now gleam with dazzling golden light!

Above the prefectural governor's mansion appeared a colossal divine figure clad in golden armor, wearing a helmet, with rings of divine wheels emanating from its back.

This enormous divine figure soared into the clouds, its divine power vast and awe-inspiring!

It rests its hands on a long sword, its long golden hair fluttering, majestic and awe-inspiring!

On his chest, a large bronze seal floated.

A lifelike blue ox is carved on the seal, seemingly about to leap out of the seal!

The bottom of the seal is engraved with eight characters: "Seal of Tianqing Prefecture, Guarding the Territory and Protecting the Borders".

This is the official seal of the prefect of Tianqing County!

The enormous divine figure was the guardian deity of Tianqing County, whose protective power emanated from the county town's shrine!

hum!

At this moment, empowered by the power of the Prefectural Governor's Seal and the Divine Shadow, it floated and sank, shining brightly, complementing the four large characters on the plaque above the Prefectural Governor's Mansion, making it shine brilliantly!

Moreover, the light it emitted and the aura it exuded enveloped an area of ​​more than ten miles around the prefectural governor's mansion, protecting the safety of the local people and preventing the corpse puppets from entering the light barrier even half a step. They could only wander outside, howling and roaring, their eyes full of bloodlust.

Some of the more frenzied corpse puppets simply crashed into it, their bodies corroded by the protective power of the light barrier, emitting a sizzling sound as if they were being burned.

But they feel no pain; driven by an obsession and instinct to kill, they charge forward with frenzied fury!

Even if it means being reduced to ashes by the light barrier in the end, I would not hesitate.

However, the power of these light barriers gradually weakened as more corpse puppets were killed, and the area they spread out became smaller and smaller.

From a radius of more than ten miles, it shrank to ten miles, then to five miles...

Countless creatures, having lost the protection of the light barrier, were forced to confront the corpse puppets directly, engaging in fierce and bloody battles.

Because they had nowhere to retreat; behind them were crowds of people, and there was simply no way out.

As for the prefectural governor's mansion, it was entirely occupied by officials, such as the Niu family, the prefectural governor, and the Gou family, the chief minister.

The gates of the prefectural governor's mansion were tightly closed, and most of the cultivators standing around the prefectural governor's mansion were members of the Xuanxiang family.

The outer perimeter was guarded by their family, as well as officials, yamen runners, and law enforcement officers from within the county.

Further out to the periphery lived the human people.

The faces of these people were filled with fear, confusion, and helplessness!

Even though their bodies were polluted by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and tainted with demonic and malevolent power, giving them a certain fighting ability, they were no match for these corpse puppets.

In front of them was a screen of light.

Outside the light barrier, swarms of corpse puppets, like locusts, were flying in.

These corpse puppets seemed to be under command, frantically rushing into the light curtain in the same area, their bodies smoking and turning to ashes.

Soon, on a huge street in front of the main gate of the prefectural governor's mansion.

The energy of the light curtain in this area is consumed by the frantic impacts. Gradually, this energy is exhausted, and a passage more than ten meters wide appears.

Before the light barrier could cover the passage, the corpse puppets surged in like a tidal wave!

They roared and howled ferociously, easily tearing the terrified common people who stood there to pieces!

The wall of flesh and blood, formed from the blood and flesh of the lowest-ranking human people, collapsed with a deafening roar!

They couldn't stop the ferocious corpse puppets at all.