Loan Wusheng

Chapter 199 Battle against the Yuan Dan, Ultimate Sublimation!
"boom!"

Zheng Jun, who had transformed into a streak of starlight, heard a loud bang behind him. Looking to the side, he saw a scarlet, withered claw, carrying the power of heaven and earth, fiercely grabbing towards his direction!

The withered claw, carrying a torrent of bloodlust, crashed down, causing the hairs on the back of Zheng Jun's neck to stand on end.

Between life and death, Zheng Jun's body trembled violently. He activated the Tai Xu Ning Yu Pian to its limit, and then without hesitation, he clenched his five fingers and used 'Flowing Shadow Life' to throw a punch backward, intending to resist the scarlet withered claw.

After throwing a punch, Zheng Jun was well aware that the ink-colored jade seal transformed from Liu Ying Fusheng could not stop the devastating attack of the withered claws.

Zheng Jun did not hesitate at all. He drew his sword and raised it horizontally, simultaneously unleashing the "Abyss Stillness and Mountain Stance" technique and the "Radiant Sun" technique!
"Qiang!"

The moment the Longyuan Blade was held horizontally, the golden patterns on its spine erupted like molten lava.

The scarlet, withered claw arrived and struck Zheng Jun's blade energy, instantly causing Zheng Jun to feel a jolt throughout his body. He felt as if he had been affected by a powerful force, and half of his body became numb and lost sensation.

At that moment, Zheng Jun used the immense force of the withered claw's strike to fly backward. After the water curtain formed by the deep pool and towering peaks was shattered, he continued to speed backward without hesitation.

The power of the Yuan Dan is terrifying.

"Ok?"

The high priest let out a soft exclamation, and the tip of his bone staff suddenly blazed with crimson light: "You actually withstood my attack?"

Before he finished speaking, the world suddenly darkened.

Zheng Jun's pupils contracted sharply as he saw twelve blood-red vortexes split open in the void, each vortex extending a scarlet chain covered with barbs.

These scarlet chains intertwined into a net, causing hills to crumble wherever they passed, even drawing away the earth's spiritual energy into a vacuum!
The Yuan Dan Martial Saint can mobilize the power of the earth's veins. Once they start fighting, it's comparable to gods fighting, and the scene is extremely majestic and magnificent.

Amidst the deafening roar of the blood-red chains shattering mountains, golden lines surged between Zheng Jun's brows, his eyes gleamed with golden light, and his pupils reflected the twelve scarlet trails beneath his Heavenly Eye.

"break!"

Zheng Jun roared and unleashed a continuous barrage of blade energy, the azure dragon shadows crashing against the chains in layers.

The instant the blade energy touched the blood chains, the solidified azure-gold true essence was corroded into wisps of green smoke, and with this strike, several chains snapped in two.

However, more blood chains had already wrapped around him, chasing after Zheng Jun like venomous snakes spitting their tongues.

"Crack!"

The high priest lightly tapped the void with his bone staff, and the gravity within a radius of a hundred feet suddenly increased tenfold.

In an instant, Zheng Jun felt as if his entire body was being held down by gravity, sinking into the mud, and he couldn't move an inch.

Meanwhile, the remaining crimson chains around him also began to attack Zheng Jun, intending to strangle him to death.

Not only that, Zheng Jun also clearly felt that as the scarlet chains swirled around him, the true essence within his acupoints was being rapidly devoured, and his dantian was drying up at a visible speed!

"What kind of ability is this, that it possesses such terrifying methods?"

Upon seeing this, Zheng Jun couldn't help but feel a sense of dread.

If you do nothing, you'll only have one path left: to be slaughtered.

"All phenomena are without form, arise!"

At the critical moment of life and death, Zheng Jun suddenly frowned and detonated three golden talismans in the chaotic vortex!
The golden patterns on the Heavenly Eye suddenly tore open the eye sockets, and two gilded beams of light pierced through the blood-red sky.

The previously suppressed radiant light burst forth with a roar under the blessing of the talisman, and nine collapsing suns burst forth from the gaps in the chains!

"boom--!"

The blinding golden light pierced through the blood-red clouds like thousands of sharp swords. As the sandstorm swept through, the high priest instinctively raised his grey-white robe to avoid the dazzling golden sun, and his grey-white robe was instantly charred black.

Having broken through to the Yuan Dan realm for decades, the High Priest had never seen such a powerful method.

Taking advantage of the moment when he raised his hand to block, Zheng Jun bit his tongue and spat out his essence blood. His body, which was bound by the blood chains, turned into stardust and dissipated.

The meteor surged forth, and the 'Star Shift' phase was unleashed at full power, tearing a half-foot-wide rift in space!

Only then did the high priest realize that he had been somewhat out of line.

He subconsciously raised his sleeve at a martial artist who had reached the Qi Refining stage.

"Want to go?"

The high priest, enraged, laughed instead, and the skull staff exploded, scattering countless vengeful spirits.

A blood-red, withered claw instantly appeared and chased after Zheng Jun!

Just as the blood-red withered claw was about to probe into the crevice, Zheng Jun did not hesitate and directly threw out the male dragon demon core, adding a portion of azure-gold true essence into it!

Although consuming the inner core of this male dragon can improve one's cultivation.

But in such situations, saving your life is the most important thing.

There will be another chance to obtain a demon core at the fifth level of the Qi Opening Realm in the future!

"boom!"

The demon core, containing the life's cultivation of the fifth level of the Qi Opening Realm, exploded with a roar. The violent energy from the explosion turned the surrounding area into a chaotic vortex, and the twisted void rifts, like ferocious jaws, devoured the blood chains.

The high priest's blood-red withered claws were caught in the energy turbulence and instantly disintegrated into a sky full of blood mist.

"How dare you! I have already killed an ordinary cultivator who has reached the Qi Refining stage, and you managed to escape? I will not let you live this time!"

A fierce killing intent flashed in the high priest's eyes. His voice shattered the remaining clouds, and thousands of vengeful spirits screamed out from the skull staff, transforming into a crimson wave that blotted out the sky and swept across the land.

The divine sense of the Yuan Dan realm spread out like a raging torrent, forcibly extracting the spiritual energy of the earth's veins. Within a dozen miles, mountains collapsed one after another, and sand and stones suspended in mid-air turned into dust.

This was a true carpet search; wherever the high priest's divine sense swept, grass and trees were burned, and earth and rocks were cracked!
They've gone all out.

We can't let this kid get away!

This kid is too terrifying. He has so many supernatural abilities that even Yuan Dan Martial Saint can't count them all. This kid refuses to submit to Xi Di, and he will surely become a pillar of the Central Plains in the future, which will be a devastating blow to Xi Di!

Even if it costs me a great deal of my true energy, I will keep this kid here!

"Blood Fiend, rise!"

The high priest's fierce roar shook the heavens, and twelve blood rainbows exploded from the tip of his bone staff.

The twelve blood rainbows landed on the ravaged ground, each transforming into a figure. Moments later, twelve burly figures clad in tattered battle armor appeared in the spot.

Each puppet had a scarlet, mysterious rune embedded between its eyebrows, and the totem patterns of the Western Barbarians could be faintly seen beneath its decaying armor.

"In the past, you helped our people expand our territory; today, we will use the blood of the proud sons of the Central Plains to sacrifice to our flag!"

The high priest bit his tongue and spat out his essence blood, and the hollow eye sockets of the twelve puppets simultaneously lit up with ghostly blue soul fire.

These twelve blood-red puppets were forged from the blood of twelve martial artists at the peak of the Qi Refining stage. These people were heroes of the Western Di over the past thousand years. After they died in battle, their corpses were used by the High Priest to be forged into puppets.

After lighting up the twelve blood puppets, the high priest waved his sleeve and said, "Go, find the person from before!"

"boom."

Upon hearing this, the twelve blood-red puppets did not hesitate and began to act.

As for the High Priest himself, he also took to the air and used his Yuan Dan realm divine sense to sweep southwards, intending to find Zheng Jun.

Zheng Jun was currently huddled in a nearby ley line fault, his body covered by a semi-transparent jade shell formed from the Taixu Ningyu Chapter.

The so-called most dangerous place is the safest place.

Zheng Jun didn't run away at all; instead, he burrowed underground on the spot.

Even with the aid of supernatural powers, Zheng Jun felt that his speed wouldn't be any faster than that Yuan Dan Martial Saint.

After all, 'Swift Meteor' is only a mastery, not a minor achievement.

Zheng Jun's condition was not very good. His dantian was almost depleted and he had some wounds on his arms, but he still used his remaining true essence to activate 'Yuan Ting Yue Zhi' and merge his aura with the rock strata.

Above his head, a rumbling sound like muffled thunder occasionally came from above. The twelve blood puppets summoned by the Western High Priest were tearing the earth apart, and barbed chains were drilling into every crevice of the rock like living things.

"cough."

Zheng Jun wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his brows furrowed: "What's wrong with this old man? Why did he leave the front lines in Suzhou to come looking for trouble with me?"

To be honest, Zheng Jun was caught off guard by the arrival of the Western Di High Priest.

He truly hadn't expected that the High Priest of the Western Di, one of the three great Yuan Dan Martial Saints, would arrive so suddenly.

Zheng Jun was so confident because he had already found out everything.

Within Suzhou, there are two Yuan Dan Martial Saints of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

One was Prince Zhao, Li Bi, and the other was Wu Liyang, the military governor of Suzhou.

This time, the Western Di also had two Yuan Dan Martial Saints: one was Hu Yang Chanyu of the Western Di, and the other was the High Priest of the Western Di.

Soldiers against soldiers, generals against generals, kings against kings.

With the departure of the Western Di High Priest, are Prince Zhao Li Bi and Suzhou Military Governor Wu Liyang two incompetent fools? Won't they seize the opportunity to make their move?

You're missing a Yuan Dan Martial Saint!

This is a great opportunity to defeat the Western Di!

Zheng Jun couldn't understand it at all; he couldn't figure out the reason.

But what can Zheng Jun say now that things have come to this? He can only say that he has indeed gotten a bit carried away these past few days and that he needs to be more low-key.

With this thought in mind, Zheng Jun took a deep breath and began to slowly restore the true essence and spiritual energy in his dantian using the 'Tai Xu Ning Yu Pian'.

Zheng Jun was actually not seriously injured. The injury to his arms was caused when he broke free of the chains, and it was not serious. He would recover in three or four days.

The main problem is that too much of the true energy in my dantian has been consumed.

Zheng Jun really didn't expect that this Western Di High Priest would have the ability to devour true essence.

Fortunately, his 'Tai Xu Ning Yu Pian' had just been completed; otherwise, his dantian would have dried up and he would have been captured on the spot by the Western Di high priest when those twelve blood-red chains wrapped around him.

However, right now, the most important thing is to seize the time to restore your true energy.

Seven or eight hours later, Zheng Jun finally opened his eyes. The true essence in his dantian had recovered by more than half. He immediately thought to himself, "That old thing is gone, isn't he?"

There was indeed no trace of the Western High Priest outside.

All that remained was the aura of the blood puppet.

"Humph."

A cold glint appeared in Zheng Jun's eyes.

I can't beat a Yuan Dan Martial Saint, but I can't beat your Blood Puppet?

Blood Puppet, Peak of the Qi Opening Realm!

They looked impressive, but Zheng Jun didn't take them seriously at all.

Without intelligence, it cannot adapt, cannot use supernatural powers, and has no magical artifacts or treasures to protect it. To Zheng Jun, it is just a wooden stake, making it much easier to kill.

Golden light flashed between Zheng Jun's eyes as he activated his Heavenly Eye Breakthrough technique. He looked up at the ground and calmly planned the blood puppet's route, preparing to break through the ground at the most opportune moment to kill it.

After killing the blood puppet, the Western High Priest would surely sense it, so Zheng Jun had to be quick, accurate, and ruthless, killing the blood puppet instantly.

After waiting silently, Zheng Jun saw the blood puppet wandering near him and immediately set off without hesitation.

"break!"

The ground exploded with a deafening roar, and fragments of the jade shell, along with rubble, rained down like a storm.

Zheng Jun transformed into a golden-blue meteor and soared into the sky, instantly appearing before the blood puppet clad in tattered bronze armor.

The blood puppet's eyes blazed with a deep blue soul fire. Upon seeing Zheng Jun, it did not hesitate for a moment. Twelve barbed chains twisted and strangled from behind, accompanied by a gust of bloody wind that stung people's faces.

The barbs on these chains are similar to those used by the high priest, but they are far less sharp.

Zheng Jun spun around to avoid the grappling chains. The golden patterns on the spine of the Longyuan Blade were as hot as molten lava, and the shimmering light of the sun surged like a river in his meridians. The phantom images of nine collapsing suns emerged one after another from the blade, illuminating every detail within a radius of several dozen feet!

"Qiang!"

The first strike shattered three chains, and sparks flew, burning scorch marks onto the puppet's breastplate totem.

The blood puppet let out a non-human roar, its decaying hand actually clashing with the blade, its fingernails rubbing against the blade and bursting out a dazzling bloody light.

Seeing this, Zheng Jun sneered and changed his move, turning his blade from a slash to a flick, and the sun-like phantom at the tip of the blade suddenly collapsed to the size of a needle tip.

"boom!"

With a deafening roar, Zheng Junyi's dazzling sword light exploded into a shard of light like the sun falling to earth, and the puppet's left arm armor melted into molten iron.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Zheng Jun shattered the puppet's shoulder armor and soared into the air. His Heavenly Eye broke through the barrier and the golden pattern pierced through the soul fire, revealing a crack in the rune stone between the puppet's eyebrows. Without hesitation, he swung his sword diagonally again!

Upon seeing this, the Blood Puppet twisted its body at an unbelievable angle, and twelve chains wrapped around it like a thorny cage.

Zheng Jun neither dodged nor evaded. The Dragon Abyss Blade suddenly flew out of his hand and spun, transforming into a green dragon that bit the core of the chain. He then pointed his fingers like a sword towards his brow.

Nine collapsing suns shot out one after another from his fingertips. The blood puppet chains were instantly entangled by the illusory blue dragon, and seven suns exploded in a series of light bursts in his chest and abdomen!

In an instant, Zheng Jun grasped the spinning Longyuan Blade in mid-air, his entire being becoming one with the blade's light.

"cut!"

The blade, carrying the sun, cleaved down, and the talisman stone exploded into dust.

The blood puppet stood frozen in place, its ghostly blue soul fire gushing out from its seven orifices, causing the twelve chains to crumble inch by inch. Zheng Jun then slashed down with his sword, and the blood puppet snapped in two, utterly destroyed by Zheng Jun!
After Zheng Jun severed the blood puppet with a single strike, he became alert to the fact that there was actually a demon core of the Tongqiao Realm within the core of the blood puppet.

"What a pleasant surprise!"

Zheng Jun flicked the blood off his knife and caught a glimpse of three streaks of blood-red light hurtling through the air in the distance. He laughed and said, "Twelve bodies, one less. That old bastard is going to be heartbroken."

With this thought in mind, another meteor streaked across the sky, and his figure vanished like a firefly into the Gobi Desert dunes.

Next, Zheng Jun directly started working on it.

They fled north.

Zheng Jun simply fled, able to go anywhere in all directions. He refused to believe that the Western Di High Priest could find him!
Not only that, Zheng Jun also wanted to teach this Western Di high priest a lesson he would never forget.

Twelve blood golems, right?
If I can't beat you, can't I beat this blood golem?

All you have to do is spread the blood golems around, and I'll remove them one by one!
Fortunately, killing blood puppets isn't a thankless task; for each one killed, you can obtain a Qi Opening Realm demon core.

Perfect, this will make up for my male dragon demon core!
Upon realizing this, Zheng Jun's gaze immediately turned ruthless.

At the same time, a message in gilded lettering appeared before his eyes.

[Battle against Yuan Dan, slaying the Blood Puppet. 'Abyssal Stillness and Lofty Peak' repayment progress +565, current repayment progress: 5000/5000.]

[Battle against Yuan Dan, slaying the Blood Puppet. 'Tai Xu Ning Yu Chapter' repayment progress +4291, current repayment progress: 4291/50000.]

[Battle against Yuan Dan, slaying the Blood Puppet. 'All Laws Without Form' repayment progress +4000.]

【当前受箓（小成）：熠日流光：4000/10000；渌水斩蛟：10000/10000；天目破障：10000/10000。】

Apart from the "Tai Xu Ning Yu Pian", the repayment progress for the other pre-borrowed supernatural powers, namely Liu Ying Fu Sheng, Sa Ta Liu Xing, and Yuan Ting Yue Zhi, has been completed.

It just lacks additional conditions.

The swift meteor absorbs the power of the stars, and its fleeting shadow floats within the earth's veins to cultivate.

As for Yuanting Yuezhi, he intends to refine ten water-based medicinal herbs.

None of the problems are major.

You can try to get involved with the Cai family's resources, and you can also inquire about the ley lines of Liuying Fusheng.

As for Yuan Ting Yue Zhi, he had already begun to send people to make the purchases.

I believe that once I return to my territory, I will be able to recover to some extent.

The Radiant Sun has now moved into the Realm of Formlessness, giving him an extra opportunity to preemptively draw upon supernatural powers.

Upon realizing this, Zheng Jun took a deep breath and immediately activated his divine sense.

[Is it possible to preemptively utilize the supernatural power 'Overwhelming Power (Mastery)'? Because it borrows the results of a future event, one must exhale ten thousand times, absorbing the essence of the sun and moon before it can return to oneself.]

"Advance payment!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Zheng Jun immediately chose to receive the advance payment.

[Advance payment successful.]

After successfully drawing upon his overwhelming momentum, Zheng Jun looked far into the distance and, without hesitation, sped off in the north.

……

The high priest of the Western Di, who was speeding south and had almost returned to the city of Jinyang, suddenly noticed something unusual about the scepter in his hand.

He stopped and looked up, only to find that one of the twelve Blood Refined Divine Lights surrounding the scepter had dimmed. He was immediately stunned, then furious: "One Blood Puppet is missing! It's the Eagle Shooter, Arslen!"

The archer was a symbol of the warrior among the Western Di people.

Each archer would enjoy treatment that ordinary Western Di people could hardly match.

Because every archer is a martial artist who has reached the Qi Refining Realm, and this archer, Arslen, was an archer who reached the fifth level of the Qi Refining Realm seven hundred years ago. When he was conquering a small country in the Western Regions, his ancestral artifact was detonated by a king of the small country who had reached the third level of the Qi Refining Realm, and they both perished.

Because the archer devoted himself entirely to the Xiongnu chieftain, his corpse was used for corpse refining.

Now, this Blood Puppet Archer Arslen, who has been passed down through generations of high priests for seven hundred years, is gone just like that.

The high priest's face immediately darkened: "Right here in Cloud County, who has the audacity to kill my Blood Puppet?!"

He didn't consider Zheng Jun's perspective at all.

In his view, Zheng Jun must have been terrified by him and would definitely try his best to flee south.

The one who killed Arslen, the Blood Puppet Archer, must have been someone else.

According to the high priest's guess, it was most likely that some kind of Yuan Dan Martial Saint or Tong Qi Peak Central Plains martial artist sensed the aura, rushed over to check the situation, and just happened to run into the blood puppet.

Although this blood puppet has been nurtured for many years and its aura has reached the peak of the Opening Aperture realm, in a real fight, it is no match for a peak Opening Aperture realm cultivator. It can only be on par with a fourth-stage Opening Aperture realm cultivator, or even slightly inferior.

Therefore, the high priest could only guess that the blood golem had been killed alone.

"Enough. Arslen has served the Great Chanyu and the Sun and Moon for so many years. It is time for his soul to return to Dragon City."

The high priest muttered to himself, clearly not intending to pursue the matter of the Blood Puppet Archer Arslen's death. His immediate priority was to find Zheng Jun thoroughly and then kill him!

That kid is incredibly talented.

If we cannot kill them, the Central Plains will surely rise in the future!

For another thousand years, the Western Di had no chance to rise again!

So the high priest ignored it and prepared to continue his advance south.

He wouldn't hesitate to enter the territory of Xuanzhou and Lanzhou!

However, the situation would be quite different if they entered Xuanzhou or Lanzhou.

The High Priest of the Western Barbarians knew very well that if he ventured deep into the Central Plains, he would be seen as an offender by the Yuan Dan Martial Saints of the Central Plains.

Although the Central Plains are currently engulfed in war and conflicts are ongoing in various places, there are still some reclusive Yuan Dan Martial Saints who are unwilling to get involved in these conflicts.

But if one hears that the Xiongnu high priest has entered the heart of the Central Plains, then everything will be different.

Especially those few Yuan Dan Martial Saints with completely different beliefs.

People like the abbot of Jinglong Temple in Pingzhou and the master of Jianlu in Shu would probably travel thousands of miles to come and expel the high priest of the Western Di from the country.

Even the Western Di people's arrangements in Suzhou will be destroyed.

The High Priest of the Western Di still needs to carefully consider the gains and losses in this regard.

However, less than half an hour after the High Priest of the Western Di flew south, he suddenly felt the bone staff in his hand tremble. Looking closely, he saw that the blood-refined divine light had dimmed again.

Upon seeing this, the High Priest of the Western Di was taken aback.

"Sarenna, why has the Condor Heroes, Sarenna, also dimmed?"

The High Priest of the West had a furrowed brow full of questions. This Sarena was the only female archer among the twelve Blood Refined Divine Lights.

It is much more difficult for a woman to become an archer, which is why Sarena is extremely powerful among the twelve Blood Refining Divine Lights, ranking among the top three blood puppets.

Thus, they were all killed.

It seems that the person who made the move is most likely a master at the peak of the Qi Refining stage!

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter."

The Western High Priest thought to himself, "Slay that little thief first..."

However, before the thoughts in the mind of the Western High Priest could even arise, he saw that the blood-refined divine light had dimmed in one spot.

Tehvatai.

This time, it was the Blood Refining Divine Light of the Condor Hero Tie Fatai that dimmed!
"Three blood puppets were killed in two hours?!"

The High Priest of Xidi's face darkened completely, but before he could think further, the blood-refining divine light dimmed again.

This time, it was Uwei Chanyu!

Uvi Chanyu is the strongest among the twelve Blood Refining Divine Lights!
That was a Shanyu at the peak of the Qi Refining stage!
At that time, the Western Di were in a weak position, and even the Chanyu was only at the peak of the Tongqiao stage.

When the Western Regions turned against them, Wuwei Chanyu did his utmost to protect the honor and disgrace of the Western Di. When he died, he voluntarily offered his body to save the fate of the Western Di.

Now, this great hero and Chanyu, who was famous in the history of the Western Di, has also been beheaded!
"Too deceiving!"

The high priest of the Western Di was furious.

Once, twice, but never three times.

This is the fourth time!

Who on earth is hunting down their own blood puppet?!
Most importantly, Uvi Chanyu had arranged for his blood puppets to be searched on the border of the grasslands.

If all of Uvi Chanyu's blood puppets have been killed, doesn't that prove that a martial artist at least at the peak of the Qi Refining stage is heading straight for the grasslands?!
Today, only the Huyan clan possesses the Yuan Dan (Primordial Elixir) in the grasslands.

However, the Huyan clan was stationed in the Western Regions to prevent these vassals from making any trouble. In the grassland dragon city, there was no Yuan Dan stationed there at all!
These martial artists have stormed in; could they be heading straight for Dragon City?!
"You little thief, you're lucky!"

The high priest of the Western Di gazed southward, his face grim, filled with resentment and his entire being radiating anger.

As the Western High Priest's anger flared, a sudden burst of blood-red lightning erupted in the sky.

Without hesitation, the high priest pulled open his grey robe, revealing a dense array of totem tattoos on his withered body. His hoarse incantation echoed across the land: "Sun and moon above, grant me divine vision, let me see clearly the vision of Uvi!"

The next second, those cloudy pupils flashed with a golden light like a hawk's!
The view that Wuwei Chanyu's blood puppet had seen before it disappeared was immediately revealed in all directions.

This vision, like a blood-red scroll, unfolded before the High Priest of the Western Di.

Under the setting sun over the Gobi Desert, Zheng Jun, his robes fluttering, stepped onto the shattered bronze shoulder armor of the Blood Puppet, the gold patterns on the spine of the Dragon Abyss Blade burning red like lava.

He made a hand seal with one hand to draw out the demon core from the puppet's chest cavity. The azure demon core, at the peak of the Qi Opening stage, floated in his palm and was absorbed into his pocket by the azure-gold true essence.

"The fourth one."

Zheng Jun wiped away the splattered blood from his cheekbone, lightly flicking the tip of his blade at Wuwei Chanyu's tattered totem mask. A smile appeared on his face: "These blood puppets are really good. Each blood puppet has a demon core that is at least at the third level of the Qi Refining Realm. After killing twelve of them, the harvest is unimaginable!"

Upon witnessing this scene, the strongest Western Di warrior finally realized that he had made a fatal misjudgment.

That thief from the Central Plains didn't flee south at all; instead, he was incredibly audacious and stayed in the battlefield ruins to hunt down blood puppets!

"How dare you, you coward, insult me!"

The greyish-white robe exploded into dust!

Before the words were finished, the ghostly blue soul fire in the eye sockets of the blood puppet that Zheng Jun had already killed suddenly surged as if in a final burst of light.

Upon seeing this, Zheng Jun was taken aback. His Heavenly Eye broke through the barrier and the golden patterns suddenly shone brightly. He abruptly looked up at a certain point in the void: "Is the old thing watching?"

The withered claw tore through the void, carrying a monstrous wave of blood that pierced through thousands of miles, as if it were right there in the scene, and grabbed at Zheng Jun!

"What kind of trick is this? He wasn't even in front of me, yet he still managed to hit me?"

Zheng Jun's pupils contracted sharply, and the Longyuan Blade hummed as it leaped into his palm.

The power of swallowing mountains and rivers surged through his meridians, and spiritual energy within a five-mile radius poured into his mouth like a whale swallowing its prey. Behind him, the faint phantom of mountains and rivers appeared.

At the same time, Zheng Jun's sword energy was also ready to be unleashed!

The sun shines brightly, the clear water slays the dragon, the spirit swallows mountains and rivers, the deep pool is as still as a mountain, the Heavenly Eye breaks through the barrier, and the meteors fly by.

Zheng Jun unleashed all six of his supernatural powers in a single, all-out attack!
He wanted to see if he could match a strike from a thousand miles away!

The blood-red, withered claws crushed the Gobi Desert rock layers and crashed down with a deafening roar!

Zheng Jun used the Flowing Shadow Floating Life Steps, his figure transforming into nine afterimages in a small space. The collapsing sun and the Azure Dragon Blade Qi intertwined to form a spiral storm, forcefully tearing a crack in the center of the blood palm!
Zheng Jun's true essence erupted like a volcano, his overwhelming power crushing all the sand, stones, grass, and trees within a five-mile radius into dust. The surging spiritual energy transformed into gilded patterns that wrapped around the blade. The golden patterns on his Heavenly Eye, which had broken through the barrier, flowed like molten gold in his pupils. The spiritual energy nodes on the blood-red withered claws appeared as clearly as stars.

"You old scoundrel, you dare to act so violently even from a thousand miles away!"

The Dragon Abyss Blade rang out like a dragon's long roar, and the collapsing sun and the illusory image of the azure dragon intertwined at the tip of the blade to form a cyan-gold tai chi symbol!

Zheng Jun's feet moved swiftly like shooting stars, instantly transforming into nine afterimages. At the same time, he unleashed the Azure Wave Blade Qi of the Green Water Dragon Slayer, each blade of light precisely piercing the blood-red vortex at the knuckles of the withered claw.

"Today, I'll show you what I'm capable of!"

With a loud shout, a cracking sound was heard, and the surface of the withered claw that crashed down was instantly covered with cracks that spread outwards.

Meanwhile, a thousand miles away, the totem on the high priest's palm suddenly ignited with blue smoke, his body trembled violently, and an unbelievable scene was reflected in the golden eyes of the eagle.

His right palm, covered in tattoos, was slashed open by the blade's energy, leaving a three-inch wound!

I was actually injured by this junior from the Central Plains!

"How dare this junior from the Central Plains harm my Dharma body!"

The roar shook the clouds for miles around, causing them to churn like waves, while the withered claws that traversed space began to crumble inch by inch.

Zheng Jun's sword strike not only didn't weaken but increased, and the nine radiant suns poured into the withered claw through the cracks, causing it to vanish in an instant.

Zheng Jun sneered, bent down and landed directly. He looked at the blood puppet he had just killed and said without any politeness, "I can't take this attack head-on, but you think you can suppress me from a thousand miles away? You old fool, you're really confused!"

Without hesitation, Zheng Jun raised his sword and cleaved the blood puppet into dust with a single blow!

My vision suddenly disappeared.

After losing sight of him, the High Priest of the Western Di went completely mad.

"Okay, okay, okay, okay!"

The Western Di high priest, enraged, laughed repeatedly, "You Central Plains brat, how dare you! How dare you!"

He had never felt so frustrated since breaking through to the Yuan Dan stage!
"Boom--!"

Blood-red lightning crackled around the High Priest of the Western Di, and the Gobi Desert beneath his feet suddenly collapsed into a pit hundreds of feet deep.

"You brat, I'll rip out your soul and burn it to the heavens!"

The high priest's pupils turned completely blood-red, and in the next instant, they transformed into an extreme beam of blood-red light, heading north at an almost terrifying speed.

He wants to skin Zheng Jun alive!

"..."

King Zhao Li Bi also sensed the overwhelming hatred of the Western Di high priest and was immediately surprised: "It seems that the guy who killed the North Sea demon is quite powerful, to be able to make the Juqu clan so angry."

After hesitating for a moment while standing on the city wall, King Zhao Li Bi also took to the air, transforming into a golden light, and followed the Western Di high priest from afar, heading north.

He decided to see what was going on.

……

"This old dog is probably going crazy."

After slaying the fifth blood puppet, Zheng Jun skillfully put away the demon core and decided to stop hunting blood puppets and instead try to escape.

Continuing to kill the blood puppets would expose their location.

Now, I must not reveal my location.

After all, what awaited him was a Yuan Dan Martial Saint who had been provoked and even injured by a junior.

"However, the illusions I've created along the way are almost complete."

Zheng Jun thought to himself.

The blood puppets that Zheng Jun killed along the way were all feigned attempts to head north and venture deeper into the grasslands.

He even killed the last two blood puppets on the grassland.

Not only that, Zheng Jun even casually wiped out a small tribe of seven or eight hundred people who had come south from the grasslands to reinforce them.

In this way, Zheng Jun can drive freely.

Next, Zheng Jun will head west.

They detoured through Longzhou, passed through Guanzhong, returned to Suzhou, and then returned to Lanzhou via the same route.

This set of tactics was enough to completely outmaneuver the High Priest of the Western Di.

After all, for the High Priest of the Western Barbarians, there were many routes he could take back to the Central Plains.

Those who want to travel further can take the Longzhou route they mentioned, or the Liangzhou route, or even the Qizhou route.

Those who prefer a shorter route can take the Xuanzhou route, or even risk crossing the Northern Demon Court to go directly to Bozhou.

There are many routes, and they are interconnected.

Given this situation, how should the Western High Priest choose his route?
Moreover, there is also the possibility of them penetrating deep into the grasslands and directly attacking Longcheng.

He could only watch himself walk away!
Upon realizing this, Zheng Jun couldn't help but let out a soft hum, and even his speed of movement increased significantly.

However, doing so also presents some problems for myself.

That means he was supposed to come back in fifteen days, but he might not be able to.

If I continue this way, it will take me at least two months to get here.

Hopefully, my army can hold out for two months.

If they can't hold on, then there's nothing we can do.

The incident happened suddenly, and Zheng Jun never expected that he would be entangled with the High Priest of the Western Di, a Yuan Dan Martial Saint.

In the blink of an eye, Zheng Jun transformed into a streak of azure-gold light and sped eastward.

Then, it transformed into invisible light and flew westward.

……

About an hour later.

The high priest of the Western Di, having given his all and even burned his lifeblood, once again traveled thousands of miles to arrive.

Looking at the devastated ground and the corpses of the Western Di people scattered everywhere.

The high priest of the Western Di immediately turned grim.

Upon arriving here, he suddenly realized this as well.

How should I chase after this petty thief?
This cunning thief possesses a magical ability that can isolate one's aura, making it impossible for him to track it.

However, there is one thing the High Priest of the Western Di can confirm.

This kid is definitely going to return to the Central Plains.

but……

There are many routes to return to the Central Plains.

In the past, the Western Di relied on this strategy of advancing southwards in multiple directions to cause the Central Plains dynasties great trouble and leave them besieged on all sides.

Now, he finally felt the disgust he felt when the Western Di people captured him.

There are too many routes; we have no idea where he escaped to!

Just then, the High Priest of the Western Di sensed a Yuan Dan aura coming from behind him, and his face immediately darkened.

It was Prince Zhao, Li Bi!
He couldn't mistake that aura.

After all, they had been locked in a standoff for so long under the walls of Jinyang City. Even if he were reduced to ashes, the High Priest of the Western Di would still remember his aura.

What is he here for?
The Western High Priest had this thought in his mind, but soon he understood.

I understand now, I understand everything!

It was all a conspiracy by this man surnamed Li!
That little thief was definitely bait released by Zhao Wang Li Bi!

They deliberately lured me away!

At this very moment, the Western Di warriors beneath the walls of Jinyang City have probably already been slaughtered by these Central Plains people!
All this talk of conflicting interests and eliminating dissidents... it's all part of King Zhao's scheming!
He wanted to use this method to deceive the Western Di people!
Just like the "Mayi Plot" launched by the Wei Dynasty against the Western Di more than 2,500 years ago!
This time, however, the strategy is even more ruthless!

Even he was fooled!
Damn it, how could people from the Central Plains be so evil?!
But what is the most tragic thing?

To this day, he still doesn't know the name of that petty thief from the Central Plains!
People from the Central Plains are so wicked!
"King Zhao, is it? Today I will use your life to vent the anger in my heart!"

The Western High Priest's body was writhing with bloodlust like boiling lava, his long gray hair whipping wildly in the gale, his withered claw-like hands clenching in mid-air, his powerful aura steadily rising.

"Li Bi!"

Looking at the approaching figure of King Zhao, before King Zhao Li Bi could even stand still, he roared so loudly that the clouds shattered and the skulls and staffs exploded into countless vengeful spirits, which condensed into a giant blood-red hand that blotted out the sky and struck King Zhao: "You used such insidious tricks to lure me away from the camp, you deserve to die, you deserve to die, you deserve to die!"

"You old devil Juqu, have you lost your mind?"

Zhao Wang Li Bi's black python robe billowed like a black dragon turning over. Faced with the overwhelming attack from the Western Di high priest, he seemed to have no reason to attack and immediately said, "If I really wanted to set a trap, the 100,000 Di cavalry outside Jinyang City would have been reduced to dust by now!"

"boom--!"

The moment the two powerful primordial energy forces collided, the hundred-mile stretch of yellow sand swirled back into a towering tornado.

The High Priest of Xidi's eyes bulged with bloodshot veins: "Who knows if my Xidi's iron cavalry has been completely slaughtered by you? Enough with the nonsense! Who exactly is that little thief who attacked and killed the North Sea Dragon Clan and slew five of my blood puppets? If you can't hand over this person, you won't leave here alive today!"

"What petty thief? You old devil Juqu, are you out of your mind?"

Li Bi's Dragon Sword suddenly split into three thousand afterimages, the sword light as sharp as a shadow, repelling the blood wave of the Western Di High Priest. Then he roared, "Do you really want to settle things with me here?"

King Zhao, Li Bi, was utterly baffled.

He only came over out of curiosity, how did it become like stepping in dog poop?
Didn't we agree on a win-win cooperation?

What are you doing, Xidi?

"Death!"

"Very well, if that's the case, then don't blame me for being impolite!"

"..."

Several days later, the rumors spread throughout Yunzhong County and Yanmen County in Suzhou, as well as various tribes on the grasslands.

The Western Di Yuan Dan Martial Saint, the high priest of the Juqu clan born of heaven and earth and placed by the sun and moon, fought a three-day and three-night battle with Li Bi, the Grand General of the Zhou Dynasty's Suzhou Military Road, the Minister of the Imperial Secretariat, and the Prince of Zhao, on the border of the grasslands. In the end, both sides were severely injured.

The high priest of the Juqu clan of the Western Di had his arm cut off and returned to Longcheng to recuperate, while the King of Zhao also fled back to Jinyang, reportedly with serious injuries.

Upon returning to Jinyang, the King of Zhao immediately ordered the extermination of the Western Di, declaring that not a single Western Di person should be left alive within the territory of Suzhou.

Two hundred thousand troops from Jinyang City launched a brutal offensive against the Western Di people. Within two days, the Western Di army was completely routed. The Western Di Left Wise King and Right Grand Commander were killed on the spot, and the Western Di Tu Dang King and Xiu Hun King were captured.

The Zhao Prince's Tiger and Leopard Guards, Tianhe Guards, and Xuanze Guards built a mound of 80,000 severed heads in Shuofang County, and the Great Chanyu of the Western Barbarians was trapped at Yanmen.

The situation in Suzhou underwent a dramatic transformation.

All of this has nothing to do with Zheng Jun.

Zheng Jun has now entered Longzhou territory, and has even crossed Longzhou to reach Guanzhong.

Guanzhong was the main base of the King of Qin.

Zheng Jun naturally had to be more careful and cautious.

(End of this chapter)