Inside a palace in the Ancient Battlefield’s Core Area.
A tormented soul donned in a long scarlet robe slowly stood up. He stared at a spot outside the palace while appalling ferocious qi emanated from his body.
After a while.
Cries of agony sounded from outside the palace.
One by one, the tormented souls outside were slashed by blades of runic swords. Then, a man and a woman slowly stepped into the palace and scanned their surroundings.
They looked like they were visiting a tourist attraction.
“How bold of you to trespass the Blood Fury Palace. Do you not want your lives?”
The scarlet-robed man stood up and locked his eyes on the pair. Ferocious qi circulated his body, and a tremendous domineering aura poured out.
Chu Kuangren activated his Eye of Revelation.
“Blood Fury Sage Ruler, one of the Ancient Battlefield’s Three Kings…”
After Chu Kuangren looked at the information, he said calmly, “I’m only here to ask about one thing. Where is the White-Robed General?”
“Oh, you’re here for the White-Robed General?” Blood Fury Sage Ruler asked in surprise. “I never expected living humans would step inside the Ancient Battlefield’s Core Area to look for him. This is truly surprising. What is your relationship with him?”
“That’s none of your business. Where is he?”
“He’s currently imprisoned here. But if you intend to rescue him, you must first kill me. Otherwise, you can stay here and keep him company!”
Blood Fury Sage Ruler grinned with ferocious qi surging over his body.
“I shall grant your wish, then.”
Chu Kuangren replied nonchalantly. He lifted his hand and amassed a sky full of runes to form countless runic swords that covered their entire surroundings.
The incredibly powerful runic aura overpowered Blood Fury Sage Ruler’s ferocious qi and aura almost instantaneously, enveloping him entirely.
At this moment, Blood Fury was no longer his arrogant self who had total confidence in his Sage Ruler cultivation level. In fact, he was horrified.
What the hell?!
What kind of domineering aura is this?!
Blades after blades of runic swords slashed through the air like a meteor shower.
Blood Fury Sage Ruler howled in rage. Then, he took out a scarlet pike and swung it about, shattering one incoming runic sword after another!
“Such terrifying runic energy. Who is this person?!”
Tormented souls of the Ancient Battlefield were never permitted to leave the place, so they had little to no knowledge about anything or anyone in the outside world.
They had never even heard of an elite character like Chu Kuangren.
One sword, two swords, ten swords, a hundred swords…
The runic swords that Blood Fury Sage Ruler destroyed kept increasing in number, while shockwaves from their clashes sent the entire palace into incessant quakes.
“D*mn it. There’s no way I’m going to win if things continue like this.”
Blood Fury Sage Ruler gritted on his teeth with a spiteful look in his eyes.
His figure turned into a scarlet flash of light and dashed in Chu Kuangren’s direction, ignoring all those runic swords that were hurled at him. By using some strange body techniques and his own combat experience, he somehow managed to dodge them.
He may have sustained quite some injuries this way, but he had made it to Chu Kuangren. Scarlet ferocious qi began to amass on the pike held in his hand. They looked like a vicious serpent that was about to lash out at Chu Kuangren at any moment.
“Divine Blood Serpent Fury Pike!!”
This hit was very ferocious as it almost tore through the fabric of space.
Just then, a black-colored mantle emerged.
Ripples of energy formed as soon as the blood serpent landed on top of the mantle. It emitted surges of strength qi that cracked the surface of the earth and sent the entire place into quivers.
“What!!”
“This is a Boundary-Emperor Weapon!”
Blood Fury Sage Ruler’s eyes widened.
Chu Kuangren scoffed softly. By then, several runic swords had already formed on top of Blood Fury Sage Ruler’s head, and it rained down on him like comets.
Bang!!
The runic swords pierced into Blood Fury Sage Ruler’s body, brutally pinning him onto the ground. The runes that formed these few runic swords were all Sage-grade runes. Therefore, its Daoist Rhymes were as terrifying as ten thousand great mountains!
Blood Fury Sage Ruler could no longer move once he was pinned to the ground.
Chu Kuangren lifted his arm and readied to end his opponent once and for all.
Right when he was about to, Blood Fury Sage Ruler’s body lit up in scarlet flames, escalating his energy by multiple folds.
He was burning his own tormented body!
“Set it ablaze!”
Extremely ruthless ferocious qi erupted from Blood Fury Sage Ruler’s body. In the blink of an eye, the runic swords that were lodged onto his back had disintegrated.
After that, he got up to his feet and charged at Chu Kuangren. The long pike in his grip once again pierced into the Black Mantle.
This time, the Black Mantle dented inward, and that long scarlet pike gradually closed in on Chu Kuangren, threatening to impale through his body.
“It’s a shame that you’re not strong enough, but your actions have bought me some time.”
Chu Kuangren said indifferently.
A silvery-white rune gathered at the center of his palm before it spun around slowly. That was an incredibly mystical spatial rune.
That spatial rune looked identical to the rune Chu Kuangren had used at the Craggy Ocean Tower, where he dominated the countless Sages.
The only difference was that this was much smaller in size.
It was the Spatial Cessation Rune!
As the name implied, it had the power to freeze time and space!
This rune was also the most mysterious Sage-grade rune recorded in the Elysian Emperor Scripture. It was second only to an Emperor-grade rune. For normal sorcerers, even a lifetime’s worth of work might not guarantee that they could craft one small part of it.
Even Chu Kuangren himself required some time to prepare for this.
The moment he saw that Blood Fury Sage Ruler was a Sage Ruler, he immediately portioned out a part of his mind power to craft this rune.
Although this rune’s power was incomparable to the one he had used at Craggy Ocean Tower, it was still strong enough to suppress this Blood Fury Sage Ruler before him.
With that, the Spatial Cessation Rune was cast.
Once the rune landed on the tip of the pike, a mysterious spatial fluctuation emerged and enveloped the space of three meters around Blood Fury Sage Ruler.
Now, he was entrapped within this space and could hardly move.
“D*mn this. D*mn you!” Blood Fury Sage Ruler exhumed his tormented body frenziedly, hastily dispelling the effects of the Spatial Cessation Rune.
However, this little period was sufficient for Chu Kuangren to land the killing blow.
Several dozens of runic swords gathered and lashed out from the sky above. Unable to defend himself from Chu Kuangren’s runic power, Blood Fury Sage Ruler pulverized into nothing in the blink of an eye.
At the ground where he previously stood, only a huge cloud of innate ferocious qi and the crestfallen scarlet pike remained.
Chu Kuangren stared at that innate ferocious qi and smiled satisfyingly. “When I eventually remove the seal, this billow of innate ferocious qi alone would suffice to elevate my Infallible Tormented Physique to its perfected form.”
Of course, this was not the main intention of Chu Kuangren’s visit here.
His spiritual thought traced through every nook and cranny of this palace, looking for the White-Robed General. That was when he found that two parts of the place were placed in prohibitory seals. If the White-Robed General was indeed inside this palace, he should be in one of these two places.
Hence, he headed to the first prohibitory seal’s location along with Lan Yu. Although he did not find the White-Robed General, he did find a black-colored altar.
There were four stone pillars atop the black altar, and each one of these stone pillars was coursing with incredibly strong innate ferocious qi!
All the innate ferocious qi on all four stone pillars combined would be much stronger than what he had obtained from Blood Fury Sage Ruler.
“If tormented souls get their hands on some innate ferocious qi, they would devour them all instead of storing them like this, let alone building an altar.”
“I wonder who built this?”
An idea sparked inside Chu Kuangren’s mind. He recalled what the other tormented soul said on their previous encounter, that there was another living human inside the Ancient Battlefield.
This person was even regarded as a great one.
Was this thing built by this so-called great one?!
“It’s that great one, huh? Pfft, I don’t care who he is. Since I’ve discovered this goodie, I might as well take it!” Chu Kuangren smirked as he picked up the altar and kept it into his Yin and Yang Ring.
After that, he went to the other prohibitory seal’s location.
About three hundred meters underground.
Inside a prison, a white-clad man was restrained by several pitch-black chains. Behind him were two sharp spikes that were impaled into his backbone like two huge straws.
The other end of those spikes was connected to a giant bottle, where streaks of black innate ferocious qi were continually suctioned out from this man’s body and then infused into that bottle.
This man was the person that Chu Kuangren was looking for — the White-Robed General.