Chapter 54: Killing Two People in a Row and Seizing the Opportunity

That streak of white lightning seemed to ignore spatial distance, directly piercing through the protective Spiritual Light Lin Hao hastily put up!

Lin Hao didn't even get a clear look at the newcomer's face; he just felt a slight chill at his neck, followed by a dizzying sensation.

The last thing he saw was his headless body twitching violently, and a steady, powerful hand reaching for the Storage Pouch at his waist.

“Hmph, easily defeated.”

Zhou Chen’s cold voice rang out, devoid of any emotion.

The terrifying speed of White Rainbow Pierces the Sun, combined with Tiangang Swordplay and the Blood Soul Burning Flame Sword, this unparalleled speed and terrifying Physical Body strength, easily decapitated an eighth-layer Foundation Establishment dark guard!

With Zhou Chen's current strength, even an Early Stage Core Formation Cultivator might not be able to withstand it.

He reached out, and the Storage Pouch was in his hand.

The entire process happened in a flash.

Lin Hao's corpse was swiftly kicked by Zhou Chen into the black pool nearby.

The black water churned, as black water crocodiles, like sharks smelling blood, quickly gathered and soon dragged the corpse into the water, devouring it completely.

“Ding! Detected that the host successfully intercepted the Son of Heaven's Opportunity—Earth Rank High Grade Juling Pill! Triggering a hundredfold return! Reward: Heaven Rank High Grade Juyuan Pill!”

“Hmm? Only a hundredfold? Heaven Rank Medium Grade Juyuan Pill? So little?!”

Zhou Chen was slightly surprised, but soon his lips relaxed; a Heaven Rank High Grade Juyuan Pill was also very rare, after all, this was just a minor character! He couldn't be too greedy.

“Next one!” Zhou Chen murmured.

He brought up the panel again, locking onto the second target, dark guard number five, Wang Chong!

Wang Chong's inevitable path was the Wind-Eroded Canyon on the third floor, and Zhou Chen, without stopping, headed directly for the third-floor passage entrance.

The Wind-Eroded Canyon on the third floor of the Asking Immortal Tower, as its name suggests, was a place where fierce winds raged.

The steep rock walls on both sides soared into the clouds, with grotesque rocks carved by millennia of ceaseless wind blades into countless twisted holes and cracks.

When the strong winds passed through these naturally formed wind channels, they emitted heart-wrenching wails and screams, like thousands of wronged souls crying out, disturbing the minds and senses of intruders.

At the bottom of the valley, strange rocks stood in a complex, dark labyrinth, striking against protective Spiritual Light in the strong wind, rustling.

Wang Chong, a Blood Demon Sect dark guard, was currently lurking in a shadow.

His Outer Sect Disciple robes were already covered in dust, and his ninth-layer Foundation Establishment cultivation was fully concealed.

His sinister eyes surveyed his surroundings, and his body was filled with a chilling Evil Qi, indicating he was certainly not a benevolent person.

Wang Chong had just experienced a fierce battle.

A Wenxian Sect eighth-layer Foundation Establishment inner sect Disciple had ambushed a seventh-layer Foundation Establishment Yao Beast, the Wind Shadow Leopard, which was guarding a Spiritual Plant, and obtained a Profound Rank High Grade Wind Chime Grass.

Before this Disciple could rejoice for long, Wang Chong, who had been following, ambushed and killed him from behind.

He didn't even have time to crush his identity jade token.

At this moment, Wang Chong was holding his breath, meticulously searching for something in the intricate rock crevices at the bottom of the valley, guided by a faint, blurry sensation.

His movements were extremely cautious, his spiritual sense, like a spiderweb, carefully scanning every suspicious inch of the vicinity, while also having to constantly resist the strong winds blowing in his face.

The wind was very loud, providing Wang Chong with natural cover, but also greatly interfering with his own perception.

Wang Chong was completely unaware that deep within a large wind-eroded hole higher up above his head, a pair of cold eyes had already locked onto him.

Zhou Chen had no Spiritual Qi fluctuations on his body; the Divine Concealment Art was operating at its peak, his entire presence gone, almost perfectly merging with the environment.

He looked at Wang Chong not far away, a cold sneer in his heart, “This Blood Demon Sect minion, he hides quite well, it took me a while to find him.”

Time passed bit by bit, and the tense expression on Wang Chong's face was replaced by a trace of uncontrollable ecstasy.

At the bottom of the crevice between two giant rocks, he touched a small piece of cold, hard, non-metallic, non-rocky, cool object!

Carefully sweeping away the adhering sand and stones, a palm-sized ancient Formation Plate was revealed; although it was covered with fine cracks and slightly dim, it still couldn't conceal the Spiritual Qi inherent to a treasure.

“I found it! It's indeed a good thing!”

Wang Chong almost couldn't help but laugh uproariously.

Just as his finger touched the Formation Plate, prying it out of the jammed rock crevice, at the moment his mind was most relaxed.

Now!

Behind Wang Chong, an extremely illusory white afterimage appeared almost out of thin air, instantly tearing through layers of fierce wind, accompanied by bursts of sonic booms, striking down like a meteor towards Wang Chong at the bottom of the valley!

White Rainbow Pierces the Sun!

The moment Zhou Chen's figure fully appeared, the Heaven Rank Low Grade Blood Soul Burning Flame Sword was unsheathed!

“Buzz—!!!”

An indescribably dark crimson sword light suddenly illuminated the entire dark corner of the valley bottom!

There was no earth-shattering Aura burst, only an extreme sense of deathly stillness and incineration!

Where the sword light passed, even space seemed to twist slightly, emitting a painful groan.

On the sword body, the blood-colored demonic ghoul face seemed to come alive, emitting a silent shriek, and the dense Blood Evil Qi seemed to erode all Dao and freeze the Divine Soul!

This was precisely the terrifying aspect of the Blood Soul Burning Flame Sword!

“Who is it?!!!” Wang Chong was scared out of his wits; that fatal sense of threat came too quickly, too fiercely!

He had no time to react to how Zhou Chen appeared, only feeling as if he were in a Hell of blood, simultaneously locked by billions of evil spirits and ten thousand zhang of molten lava!

The instinct for survival overwhelmed everything; he frantically injected Spiritual Qi into the Formation Plate he had just pried out, activating it, and at the same time, desperately burned his vital blood to activate his protective Magic Treasure!

A pitch-black bone shield instantly expanded, its dark light surging, attempting to protect his entire body.

Too late!

Splat—!

The sword light of the Blood Soul Burning Flame Sword arrived instantly, like a red-hot branding iron piercing through ice and snow.

The hastily deployed bone shield Magic Treasure, which was capable of withstanding the full-force strike of an ordinary first-layer Core Formation Cultivator, disintegrated the moment it came into contact with the Blood Soul Burning Flame Sword, its terrifying power dissolving it!

The dark crimson sword light easily pierced through the dark glow, accurately and precisely stabbing into the center of Wang Chong's glabella!

“Uh…” The horror in Wang Chong's eyes froze; he looked incredulously at the young yet extremely cold face so close to him.

Only a tiny, charred hole was left in his glabella, not even blood had time to flow out.

His corpse instantly shriveled; all his vitality and Spiritual Qi were instantly annihilated by the Evil Qi of the Blood Soul Burning Flame Sword, like dry weeds being swept away!

The Formation Plate in his hand, which had just lit up faintly, completely dimmed, falling to the ground like an ordinary broken stone.

Zhou Chen's figure did not stop; he sheathed his sword, reached out, his actions seamless, swiftly pulling off the Storage Ring from Wang Chong's hand.

The black and white runes formed by the Primal Chaos Scripture within his body circulated, instantly refining the Restriction on his Storage Ring!

With a thought from Zhou Chen, a small plant, entirely black and lustrous, about three inches long, was revealed!

It was precisely the Soul Condensing Grass!

The moment the Spiritual Plant appeared, a clear, cool Aura, as if capable of washing away Divine Soul fatigue, instantly permeated the air.