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The white paper lanterns went out, and the shadow creature died at the hands of the True Form of Heavenly Demon, and Chen Mu couldn't help but feel a sense of relief.

He retracted the Fire Cloud Gourd but didn't rush to land just yet, fearing that this bizarre ancient city might harbor other secrets.

Just as he was about to investigate carefully, a faint vibration transmitted from the United Heart Rope.

With a thought, Chen Mu activated the United Heart Curse and discovered that Lu Ku and Shang Huan, whom he had previously cut off from sense sharing, seemed to be very close to him now.

Had these two also been captured into this peculiar ancient city?

"Someone is coming to capture you!"

"Brother Mu, run quickly!"

Just as he opened the sense sharing, Chen Mu heard Shang Huan's urgent voice, and his heart startled, instinctively activating Truthful Listening.
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The next moment, he couldn't help but tense up all over.

He suddenly looked down and saw, without knowing when, a strong man over two meters tall with a full beard had appeared silently on the rooftop of a building not far beneath his feet.

When did he?!

Before Chen Mu could suppress the shock in his heart, the figure vanished like a phantom.

Almost at the same time, he saw a black shadow flit by, and a rough, furious roar suddenly appeared over his head, "You seem very pleased!"

Chen Mu's pupils contracted, and he abruptly looked up, only to find that the strong man had already reached above him!

At this moment, the man looked down at Chen Mu from a high position, his gaze filled with rage and coldness.

"But I'm not pleased!"

"You useless Lian Cheng!"

The man's face turned beet red as he almost roared out loud.

At the same time, he raised his right hand and, in the process of naturally falling, he swung down his fist with the force of a giant axe.

Without a sound, his fist, heavy like a sledgehammer, appeared abruptly above Chen Mu's head as if it teleported through space.

Chen Mu's pupils suddenly shrank, and his hands instinctively lifted to brace upward, his Body Protection Spiritual Light automatically activating.

Bang!

Upon contact, the circular Spiritual Light was smashed into a concaved distortion, becoming nearly as thick as a pancake.

Chen Mu felt a surge of mountainous force acting upon his whole body as if he were a baseball being struck and his entire form just whooshed away into nothing in midair.

Boom!

A three-story building instantly had a large hole smashed through its roof.

On the first floor of the building, before Chen Mu could push away the broken clay, wood, and bricks on top of him, a large foot descended from the sky, wrapped in a chilling wind and appeared before his eyes.

The spontaneously manifested Body Protection Aura barely held for a moment before it shattered into flickering light fragments with a pop.

Chen Mu's expression abruptly changed dramatically.

Escape!

His figure suddenly burrowed into the ground and disappeared from sight.

The next moment.

Boom!

An intense shockwave exploded, tearing the damaged building into pieces with violent force in an instant.

As dust and rubble billowed, a crater about seven or eight meters in diameter filled with dirt and rocks appeared, centered on Chen Mu's last position.

And that three-story building had been utterly torn apart by the residual force of the attack!

Ten or more meters underground, Chen Mu's face was ashen. In that instant, he felt like his head was nearly crushed!

"Is he the horned monster that's been chasing you?" Chen Mu reestablished the sense sharing, "With that kind of speed and strength, how could you possibly escape?"

"That's why I said they specifically came for you," Lu Ku couldn't help but give a bitter smile.

It was just a guess before, but now it was a certainty.

The initial instances might have been the Seven Kills Puppet confusing the enemy's sight. But later, it was clear the enemy was deliberately letting them go, all to disturb Chen Mu and lure him away from the Lower Courtyard of Gan River.

"Do you know any of his weaknesses?" Chen Mu frowned deeply.

Shang Huan bitterly smiled, "In front of someone like him, we could only run; how could we know his weaknesses?"

"Chased all the way and you found nothing?!" Chen Mu's expression turned ugly.

"He can transform into a horned monster, with great strength and speed. Particularly fierce is his regenerative ability for flesh and blood," Lu Ku's voice was full of bitterness.

"I once detonated a Seven Kills Puppet strapped to myself close to him, yet all I managed was to blast open the skin on his legs, and in the blink of an eye, it regenerated completely."

"He's not on the level of the Sect Master of East Fence Path, but he's much stronger than an ordinary Condensing Aperture Elder."

"You… basically don't stand much of a chance."

Chen Mu's face immediately turned exceedingly grim.

"I can only try to hide underground for a..."

He hadn't even completed the thought when that familiar fluctuation in the earth around him suddenly became chaotic.

A force of restraint descended, followed by a tremendous springing force attacking from below.

He was like a cannonball being kicked out of the ground with a pop, wrapped in a clump of earth.

Chen Mu immediately adjusted his Escape Skill, but before he could free himself from the earthen sphere's imprisonment, the dirt in front of him suddenly exploded, and a sullen iron fist with a blood-red glow abruptly appeared in front of him.

Yang Cuo!

A pale Bone Shield appeared just in time as the Spiritual Light around his body shattered, a series of ripples bursting from the contact surface of the iron fist, spreading quickly and buffering towards the hollowed Bone Shield behind.

Chen Mu was struck by an immense force, involuntarily sent flying backward.

The Spiritual Light around his body surged once more.

Longitudinal Rainbow Light!

His figure, flying backward in a straight line, suddenly plummeted downward in an arc, diving into the ground like jumping into water.

Immediately after, he hurriedly urged his Escape Skill to leave the spot, chaotically dashing through the ground ten meters below without any sense of direction.

But soon, a familiar chaotic fluctuation hit, his Earth Escape Secret Technique was interrupted. As imobilizing force seized him and the earth's elasticity emerged, Chen Mu was again kicked up to the surface.

The next moment, the scarlet iron fist suddenly appeared behind him, and Chen Mu was smashed up into the sky with a boom.

Once could be a coincidence, twice had to be inevitable!

Either able to see through the earth or able to find an enemy from miles away, his idea of hiding underground was already unachievable!

Chen Mu's heart sank in an instant.

He had no choice but to run the Truthful Listening Technique at full power, straining to catch the movements of the burly man's iron fist.

The next instant, he suddenly twisted his waist and turned around, a thick black smoke bursting out from his body.

Five Ghosts Shadow Escape Great Technique!

His speed instantly increased by a third, dragging a tail of black smoke, narrowly dodging the oncoming scarlet iron fist in the nick of time!

It was then that he noticed a strange figure through the feedback from the Truthful Listening Technique. The person stood in a dark alley, next to whom Lu Ku and Shang Huan lay on the ground. What caught his attention the most was the person's face covered in dense, tiny eyes.

Is it the eyes of this fellow that perceived me through the earth?

Between the flashes of lightning, two red lines tore through the air in an instant.

Vermilion Feather Sword!

Pfft!

Just miles apart, reaching in the blink of an eye.

As it rapidly spun back, the red glow left trails like a ball of yarn. The two Magic Swords turned into a dense barrage of arrows, piercing the figure hundreds of times in the blink of an eye.

Like a bursting balloon, Qian Mu's figure exploded into pieces.

A sense of elation filled Chen Mu's heart, and he was about to dive back into the ground.

But then he saw countless fragments from Qian Mu's explosion each split open a crack, and in an instant, they all turned into variously sized eyes filled with scarlet blood vessels!

In those constantly blinking eyes, there was nothing but a mocking gaze. They scattered in all directions, flying into various dark corners and disappearing without a trace.

Chen Mu's pupils abruptly narrowed.

Damn it!

As his spirit shook, the deflection of light briefly stalled, and in that moment, Jin Er's figure reappeared, his scarlet iron fist viciously smashing towards Chen Mu.

An enormous force came barreling down, and the Bone Shield trembled violently.

Crack!

A faint noise, as soft as a whisper yet as deafening as thunder, reached Chen Mu's ears.

He stared fixedly at the point of contact between the scarlet fist and the Bone Shield, a tiny crack catching his eye; in the next moment, dense fissures suddenly spread out and raced across the back of the Shield!

"I want to see how long your turtle shell will protect you! Hahaha!" Jin Er laughed loudly.

His fists, like shooting stars with a scarlet glow, slammed into the same spot of the Bone Shield ten times in a row.

Bang!

The pale Bone Shield shattered in an instant, and the fist, hot like a red-hot hammer, appeared fiercely in front of Chen Mu.

No time!

Can't dodge!

Chen Mu's eyes bulged as he instinctively clenched his right fist, his body's strength flowing in waves, fiercely slamming into the scarlet iron fist.

In a flash of thought, black smoke from around him furiously burrowed into Chen Mu's body.

Under the skin, the muscles seemed to come alive, violently surging left and right.

As his fair fist broke through the air, the muscles around his knuckles twisted, bulging with veins, and a dark blue color rapidly crept over his fist.

Bang!

An invisible shockwave burst forth suddenly.

The swirling black smoke around him was instantly dispelled.

Wrapping a gust of wind around him, a shadow was struck flying towards the ground with a whoosh.

Buildings made of hard earth and stone shattered as if they were made of paper, instantaneously pierced and blown apart.

In midair, Chen Mu with silver light swirling on his forehead, opened his palm and then clenched his fist again, his eyes, turned dark scarlet, intently gazing at the ground.

"The strength of this man is so... so..."

"So utterly feeble!"

He bared his teeth, and on that demon-like dark blue face, a ferocious smile suddenly emerged.