Starting as a Grandmaster, all of my cultivation techniques are at max level.

Xia Jin's current speed can be described as unparalleled in the world below the realm of terrestrial immortals.

This had already brought them much closer to Old Man Moya.

The old man, Mo Ya, was burning his life essence to carry the heavily injured Hei Tu and the mentally wounded Bai Luan as they fled at top speed. He had only one thought in his mind: Faster! Faster! Get away from that monster! Otherwise, if they were caught, the three of them would surely perish here today.

However, this thought only lasted for a few breaths.

The void in front of him rippled slightly, like the surface of water.

The next instant, a figure dressed in a black dragon robe walked out and blocked their escape path.

Xia Jin stood with her hands behind her back, her still bloodshot eyes coldly watching them.

"What? How can this guy be so fast!" Old Man Moya quickly stopped in his tracks, staring ahead in shock!

"Do you really think you can escape my grasp? You're wasting my time. I'll send you all down to reunite with your families!!" A glint flashed in Xia Jin's blood-red eyes.

He moved.

This punch was aimed directly at the one in front, the old man Mo Ya, who was the only one of the three who had not been injured.

A transparent wave emanated from the fist.

This punch wasn't fast. Just as Old Man Moya was about to retreat, he found that the void around him seemed to be imprisoned, making his movements dozens of times slower than before.

"No... I don't want to die!!" Old Man Moya felt his scalp tingle. He bit his tongue hard and spat out a mouthful of blood. Above his head, space distorted, and a two-foot-tall phantom of a raven suddenly burst out of his sea of ​​consciousness!

"Hmph! A desperate struggle, what good will it do?" Xia Jin sneered, completely ignoring the sudden sharp cawing of crows, and punched the old man in the chest.

"Ah!! Why...?" Old Man Moya felt a chill in his chest. He looked down and saw a huge hole, about the size of a bowl, in his chest. Only despair remained in his eyes.

Then Xia Jin grabbed his head and threw his body down from the void.

"Ink Raven!!"

"Old ghost!!"

The two, Hei Tu and Bai Luan, who were already seriously injured, were unable to intervene and could only watch helplessly as Mo Ya, one of their trio, was easily killed by Xia Jin.

"Don't worry, you two will be reunited soon." Xia Jin's gaze swept coldly over Hei Tu and his companion.

He slowly raised his right hand and threw his second punch.

This punch was aimed at Black Butcher.

"Black Butcher, watch out!!" Bai Luan, who was behind Black Butcher, saw Xia Jin's gaze fall on Black Butcher and shouted anxiously.

But what's the point of such a reminder?

Even if Hei Tu were at his peak, let alone now that he is seriously injured, he would be unable to stop Xia Jin's punch.

"Big sister, let's go, let's go quickly!" Hei Tu instinctively crossed his arms in front of his chest, but his eyes were fixed on Bai Luan.

"You still have the nerve to remind others?" Xia Jin sneered.

With a single punch, he shattered Black Butcher's arm bone, which was comparable to refined gold. The fist, still carrying considerable momentum, continued to smash into Black Butcher's head, causing it to explode in mid-air, creating a spray of blood.

Black Butcher's massive headless body twitched in mid-air before falling from the void, just like Mo Ya.

"You're the only one left!" Xia Jin looked at Bai Luan, the only remaining one, expressionless, and raised her right hand again.

At this moment, Bai Luan witnessed the instant death of her two companions, and her eyes were filled with despair.

Faced with Xia Jin's punch, she gave up resisting immediately.

Xia Jin punched her through the abdomen, the sound of bones shattering echoing from within her body. Her delicate body trembled violently, the light in her eyes quickly dimmed, and finally, like a withered white petal, she drifted down lightly.

The three "Ten Fierce Generals," who had been infamous for centuries and whose names struck fear into countless hearts, were reduced to three corpses in the blink of an eye.

Almost at the very moment the white phoenix's breath completely ceased, a system notification sounded in Xia Jin's mind once again:

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have completed the mission—[Mission Two: Slay Bai Luan, Hei Tu, and Mo Ya Lao Ren, three of the 'Ten Fierce Generals'.]]

[Receive the following rewards: Three Feet Across the Horizon (Beginner Level), Three Thousand Years of Cultivation!]

Xia Jin stood in mid-air, a smile uncontrollably spreading across her lips.

After receiving this reward, he will definitely take another step forward and step into the realm of terrestrial immortals!

But he quickly calmed his excitement and his gaze fell on the white phoenix's corpse below.

He was quite interested in that jade pendant that had attracted so much attention from powerful figures.

Xia Jin landed beside Bai Luan's corpse, squatted down, and rummaged through her clothes. Her fingertips soon touched a hard object.

It was that jade pendant.

After Xia Jin took out the jade pendant, she looked it over from head to toe.

"Huh!? This script..." Xia Jin frowned slightly, a thoughtful look flashing in her eyes, as if she had seen it somewhere before.

"That's right! I remember there's an unnamed book in the Great Xia's library, and the text on it is remarkably similar to the text on this jade pendant! Perhaps after returning and studying it carefully, I can figure out what the jade pendant actually means!"

Xia Jin gripped the jade pendant tightly in her hand, stood up, glanced at the corpses of Hei Tu and the others, and pointed directly at the sky.

In an instant, a bolt of lightning several meters wide descended from the sky, completely burying the three corpses.

After the lightning bolt disappeared, the three corpses also vanished.

After doing all this, he flickered and disappeared into the valley in an instant.

......

No sooner had Xia Jin left than two whooshing sounds came from afar.

In the next instant, two enormous figures appeared in the sky above the valley.

"Someone beat us to it!"

Fire Phoenix spoke, her voice tinged with anger.

It stared intently at the scorched earth below, its golden pupils blazing with fury. "The aura of that treasure... has completely vanished! Someone took it!"

The black dragon beside the fire phoenix, coiled in mid-air, also flashed a gloomy look in its lantern-like purple-gold vertical pupils after hearing the fire phoenix's words.

"With the combined strength of these three, they are definitely not weak. In this Eastern Xuan Continent, who else could kill all three of them in such a short time?"

As if recalling something, a hint of apprehension flashed in its dark golden vertical pupils: "With that thing appearing, more and more people will awaken from their slumber! Could it be that the one who dealt with these three was also someone who had just awakened from their slumber?"

"What? You just said it might have been done by someone who woke up from a deep sleep!?" The Fire Phoenix's gaze fell on the Black Dragon, and the fiery red flames on its body froze for a moment.

"That's right." The black dragon nodded, a hint of worry flashing in its eyes.

"For now, let's keep a low profile. I have a feeling that powerful figures from hundreds or even thousands of years ago will gradually reappear!" Hei twisted his massive body, his voice carrying a hint of warning.

"The world... has changed."