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

"What kind of flame is that? Even my cultivated demonic energy can't resist it! No, I have to get out of here right away." The bald man wasn't stupid. After a simple exchange, he already knew that he, who had just awakened, was no match for the man in the black dragon robe in front of him.

"Boy! Just you wait, I'll come back for you someday!"

He glared at Xia Jin with resentment, uttered a harsh word, and then transformed into a cloud of black mist, fleeing at top speed.

Xia Jin glanced calmly at the black mist that was getting further and further away from her, then turned around and looked at Leng Yuexi and Su Xuanji behind her.

"Alright, you two go back to the palace first. I'll bring that guy back later and interrogate him properly."

"Husband, be careful..."

"Don't worry," Xia Jin smiled, not taking it too seriously, "that guy poses no threat to me."

After seeing Leng Yuexi and the other person leave, Xia Jin's divine sense spread out rapidly, and in an instant, he sensed the black mist hundreds of miles away.

"I let you go first, but unfortunately you can't leave now."

He sneered and then took a step forward.

"The ends of the earth are only three feet away!"

Space seemed to fold beneath his feet, and a void rift appeared in front of him. Xia Jin's figure quickly disappeared into it.

……

At this moment, the bald man, who had transformed into a cloud of black mist, gritted his teeth, extremely angry.

"Hmph! I, 'Viper,' the leader of the Ten Fierce Generals, have only just awakened today, and I've already run into a tough opponent! I've had the worst luck imaginable!"

"But who exactly is this guy? I've never even seen him before!" As he fled, he frantically searched his memory for anything related to Xia Jin, but he couldn't find a single clue. "Could he... be a newly emerged powerhouse in recent years?"

"Alright, let's go find the Blood Corpse first! With his strength, he should have awakened before me. With him around, we won't need to be afraid of that guy again!..."

He sped towards the Southern Region. Soon, he had crossed the border of the Southern Region and could clearly see the dense jungle below, as well as the miasma that rose from it from time to time.

But just as a smile appeared on his face, a somewhat familiar voice suddenly rang in his ear:

"Hey, hey, hey, why are you running so fast? Where are you trying to escape to?"

Wait, that sound...!

The black mist that the bald man had transformed into suddenly stopped abruptly while it was moving at high speed.

Not far ahead, in the void, a figure dressed in a black dragon robe appeared at some point, looking at him with a half-smile. Who else could it be but Xia Jin?

"You...you son of a bitch! You're like a ghost that won't leave you alone, aren't you?!"

The bald man was practically cursing. He had tried his best to escape, but the other party had caught up with him so easily!

"Damn it!! Even if you catch up with me, you can't stop me!"

In an instant, the black mist transformed into dozens of smaller black mists, which shot out in all directions.

Xia Jin frowned slightly, not expecting his opponent to have such a method of escaping by creating a clone. But he immediately snorted coldly and pointed to the sky.

"Divine Firmament Thunder Technique!"

The sky within a radius of dozens of miles suddenly darkened, and thick thunderclouds gathered wildly around Xia Jin, with purple and white lightning bolts dancing and weaving within the clouds.

In an instant, several bolts of lightning, as if they had eyes, fell directly down and struck the fleeing wisps of black mist!

The black mist vanished completely in the intense heat of the lightning the instant it came into contact with it.

However, the number of black mist fragments was quite large. Even after Xia Jin continuously summoned divine lightning and annihilated dozens of black mist fragments, three black mist fragments still managed to rush past him.

Xia Jin sneered, watching the several wisps of black mist merge together again and continue their escape, and shook her head.

He took another step forward, and his figure reappeared in front of the black mist whose aura had clearly weakened considerably.

"Stop wasting your energy! I told you, you can't leave."

Xia Jin said it in a low voice, and then raised her hand and pointed to the sky.

"Boom!"

Instantly, the sky darkened, thunderclouds surged, and then a huge, silvery-white pillar of lightning struck directly down towards the black mist.

"You're insane! This is outrageous!!"

A furious roar came from within the black mist.

"Blood Corpse—come out and save me!!!"

The enormous sound instantly spread throughout an area of ​​hundreds of miles.

Upon hearing this, Xia Jin frowned slightly, a hint of surprise flashing in her eyes: "A blood corpse? Does this guy have accomplices?"

Sure enough, the bald man roared in anger.

From the depths of the jungle below, a beam of blood-red light suddenly shot into the sky! It instantly appeared above the viper's head.

Just then, the enormous silver-white lightning bolt was about to strike the black mist!

The blinding lightning made Xia Jin squint slightly! The violent energy generated by the collision instantly leveled a large area of ​​forest below, sending dust and debris soaring into the sky.

As the smoke and dust cleared, a gaunt figure slowly came into view.

"Is this guy his companion?" Xia Jin's eyes flashed with a strange light as she looked the suddenly appearing figure up and down.

It was a gaunt, middle-aged man with two fangs protruding from the corners of his mouth. He held up his right arm, which was charred black and emitting smoke, clearly severely injured by the lightning strike.

However, this man called Blood Corpse seemed to have no sense of pain.

He glanced down at his charred right arm, then suddenly grabbed his charred forearm with his left hand and yanked hard! He tore off his entire charred right forearm, then casually tossed it aside.

However, there was no blood at the severed arm wound. Instead, granulation tissue was rapidly growing. In just two breaths, a new arm had completely grown!

"Huh?!"

Xia Jin's eyes lit up as she watched this scene, as if she had discovered something interesting and novel.

"Severed limbs...regenerated?...Interesting! I've never seen such methods before; they're quite sophisticated!"

At this moment, the bald man, who had transformed back into human form, saw the newcomer and his face lit up with wild joy: "I knew I wasn't wrong! Blood Corpse, you did awaken before me!"

The blood corpse glanced at the somewhat disheveled bald man and frowned. "Viper... what happened to you? You look so disheveled, and you've even lost a lot of your essence."

Upon hearing this, Viper's face flashed with resentment. He immediately pointed at Xia Jin not far away and said angrily, "Blood Corpse, enough nonsense! Let's join forces and take this guy down! His life force... is a great tonic for both of us!"

The blood corpse did not respond immediately, but slowly turned around and carefully examined Xia Jin again.

A moment later, the blood corpse unexpectedly shook its head and slowly uttered three words:

"It's impossible."