A scorching heat washed over Xiao Chen's face, carrying the smell of burning trees and the foul stench of blood evaporating in the air. He focused the last of his 2nd-Class Qi into his leg muscles, shooting up the trunk of an ancient pine tree with an agile movement and landing silently on the highest branch, right next to the violently trembling Xie Yunfei. From the height of the Forbidden Forest's canopy, the scene unfolding in the distance was enough to make any mortal warrior's courage shrink. Along the entire perimeter line that separated the forest from the outside world, the morning sky was no longer blue. A dome of deep red energy stretched in an arc, forming giant pillars of blood-red fire that connected to each other like the bars of hell. The air around the pillars was distorted by an incredibly deadly temperature. A flock of panicked crows flying across that border instantly exploded into black ash, even befo

The earth screamed as the law of gravity was forcibly broken. A vortex of blue and golden wind exploded from Guan Santong's small body, enveloping Xiao Chen, Xie Yunfei, and Ning'er in a dense energy dome. Outside the dome, the air scraped by at an insane speed, creating a deafening, high-pitched hum. Santong pressed one of his small soles against the muddy ground. BOOOOM! A kinetic explosion that surpassed the limits of mortal reasoning occurred. The ground beneath them instantly collapsed, creating a crater thirty meters wide and a dozen meters deep. The steel-hard roots of the ancient banyan tree snapped and crumbled into dust. From the center of that crater, the energy dome carrying the four of them shot vertically into the air like a cannonball fired by the gods. Inside the dome, the g-force that should have been able to crush a mortal's internal organs into a bloody pulp wa

The threat was spoken in a childish tone, but the killing intent of the Eternal Realm that accompanied it was enough to freeze anyone's soul. Xiao Chen didn't blink. He looked straight into Guan Santong's vertical golden pupils, which radiated a savage instinct. As a tyrant, Xiao Chen knew that this mythical creature was not bluffing. "I will prepare a worthy meal for you, kid," Xiao Chen answered calmly. He raised his left hand, pointing south where the silhouette of Falling Star City was faintly visible behind the morning mist. "Look for the Lin Family's branch residence. Its scent won't be hard for you to find." Hearing that, Guan Santong snorted loudly, waving his hand in a dismissive gesture. "I don't need directions from a mortal insect," Santong grumbled arrogantly. He puffed out his small chest. "I just need to sniff out that strange scent of yours! Don't forget, my nose can smell your soul f