Chapter 250: Who Else?!

"What in the world is happening?!"

Cries of shock and alarm rippled from within the shop as stream after stream of fiery light streaked inside, followed by earth-shattering explosions. Stripped of its spiritual protective barrier, the masonry used to construct the establishment proved far from sturdy against Fang Qi's sword-controlling technique paired with an infinite barrage of rocket propelled grenades. Before anyone could blink, the entire shop began to buckle and collapse, sending the remaining shop hands who hadn't yet fled wailing and scrambling out into the open air!

Meanwhile, the crowd of customers who had long since evacuated gathered in a wide perimeter outside, watching the spectacle unfold as a cacophony of hushed discussions broke out.

"The Defying-the-Heavens Online Gaming Guild? Why have I never heard of them?"

"This is far too audacious! They actually marched right up to the doorstep to smash the place?!"

"Audacious?" Someone pointed a trembling finger toward the half-dead Qin Honglin. "Look there, that's the grand boss of the Honglin Medicine Workshop!"

"Isn't that a great cultivator of the Divine Ocean Realm?! Gone, just like that?!" A collective gasp echoed through the crowd, leaving them utterly struck with awe!

It was true that Half-City was not always a peaceful place, but if even cultivators of the Divine Ocean Realm could perish so casually, who would dare venture into such a city in the future?!

Therefore, even though conflicts were common in this city, it was usually only the low-level lackeys who lost their lives; the true grand cultivators and almighty figures naturally slept soundly, free from worry!

Even if two Divine Ocean Realm figures did clash, causing too great a disturbance, the Inner City would step in to mediate. Thus, these people had not heard of a Divine Ocean Realm cultivator falling for at least several decades!

Yet now, right before their eyes, this old fiend of the Divine Ocean Realm was ruined, if not dead!

"What on earth is the background of this Defying-the-Heavens Online Gaming Guild?!"

"A Divine Ocean Realm cultivator has fallen?!"

"More than just fallen!" a bystander remarked. "Look at that, this guild leader and the others still look completely robust and full of vigor. It's obvious that slaying this old fiend took barely any effort at all!"

One must know that when Divine Ocean Realm cultivators fought, even the victorious party would usually suffer a massive blow to their vitality! Who would still have the energy to come and ransack someone's home base like this!

As Fang Qi fired shot after shot, the entire shop collapsed almost completely. Not only that, but as his projectiles continued to blast downward, Fang Qi actually blew open a basement hidden deep within the earth!

By this time, the shop that had once been so exquisitely and luxuriously decorated was reduced to nothing but a massive crater!

However, the defenses of the basement were clearly much sturdier than those outside the shop. Fang Qi fired two more shots, only for a sheet of bloody light to flare up across the outer wall. The viscous blood completely swallowed the explosions, rendering them entirely useless!

"Uh..." A few girls followed behind him, looking at one another in bewilderment. "Boss, what do we do now?"

The spectating crowd also fell into a flurry of discussion: "This must be that old ghost's core secret!"

"I'm afraid it's the legendary Blood Elixir Chamber!"

"Over all these years, who knows how many human elixirs this old fiend has refined, but it was always done in secret, and he never revealed to anyone where that Blood Elixir Chamber was..."

"Could it really be here...?!"

Rumble!

Suddenly, at that exact moment, a resounding boom echoed from beneath the earth!

It was as though a colossal hammer had slammed violently against the ground, causing the entire earth to shudder along with it!

"What's going on?!"

Hardly had the words left their lips when another massive tremor resounded from below!

"There seems to be something underground?!"

Heavy, thumping impacts sounded one after another, as if some entity were trying to break free from its subterranean confinement!

The spectating crowd was suddenly seized by a strange, inexplicable dread. What kind of thing could be so immense that it could cause such a massive vibration on the ground even through a spiritual barrier?!

Beneath the earth, something seemed to shatter!

Everyone watched as thick pools of gore began to seep silently out from the road where the shop had once stood!

Horrified, everyone began to retreat in rapid succession: "What kind of monstrous thing is that?!"

"Did that old ghost raise some kind of monster underground?!"

Cracks began to spider web across the earth as blood continuously welled up from the depths. Suddenly, the very outer wall that Fang Qi had blasted with his rockets was violently burst open!

Viscous blood slithered out like a serpent, slowly oozing forth to fill the subterranean crater of the Honglin Medicine Workshop. Though it was mere blood, it gave off the distinct impression of a living creature! It possessed no eyes, yet everyone who looked directly at it felt as though they were being stared down by thousands of malicious eyes, sending a spine-chilling sensation rising from the depths of their hearts!

At that moment, Qin Honglin, who lay on the ground breathing his last, let out a cold sneer: "You destroyed my cultivation, yet you have no idea that you have unleashed the Underworld Spring Blood Demon that I imprisoned beneath the earth. All of you shall die!"

In that instant, the blood below rose up like a cataclysmic flood, surging toward the heavens!

Countless spectating cultivators wailed and fled in all directions!

"What kind of junk is this?!" Fang Qi pulled a cigarette from his pack, produced a lighter to spark it up, and took a deep drag. "Man, I've noticed that the knock-off culture in this crappy place of yours is pretty severe. A thing like this dares to call itself the Underworld Spring Blood Demon? Let me ask you, are you guys just not afraid of death, or what's the deal?"

A flash of sword light, carrying an incomparably clear and resonant hum, soared straight into the highest heavens!

The cry of the sword stirred the four quarters of the world!

In an instant, a furious gale erupted all around, and the clouds in the sky began to boil!

The sky, which had already looked rather gloomy, darkened to its absolute limit at this very moment!

Fang Qi stepped off his flying sword and pinched a sword formula with his fingers. Suspended in mid-air, his feet trod upon the positions of the Seven Stars! Stepping through the void, he took seven consecutive steps!

He chanted aloud:

"Nine Heavens Profound Chasm, transform into divine thunder.

Splendid heavenly majesty, guided by the sword!"

Dark clouds rolled and churned at the horizon, thunder rumbled, and flashes of lightning sparked continuously along the edges of the black clouds. A chilling, murderous aura enveloped the space between heaven and earth!

Everyone who witnessed this scene opened their mouths in sheer terror, as if feeling a primal dread that had existed within the instincts of their lineage since ancient times!

It was an boundless fear born from a minuscule human facing the grand majesty of heaven and earth!

The dark clouds pressed down heavily, and a colossally massive vortex slowly formed in the thick cloud layers!

It was like a passage connecting to the netherworld, hanging upside down in the sky!

Like a demon of the Nine Heavens opening its maw, wishing to swallow the world whole!

Beneath that matchless heavenly majesty, the blood torrent that had been raging fiercely just a moment ago now seemed as insignificant as a single drop in the vast ocean!

In the sky, at the very center of that vortex, countless bolts of lightning converged into a single point!

Finally, an earth-shattering sword light was brewed, descending upon the world wrapped in an incredibly thick column of thunder!

Beneath this dark cloud in Half-City, at this very split second, a tree of lightning that connected heaven and earth seemed to blossom!

In the next instant, heaven and earth became a single color, leaving behind only an eternal white!

Countless agonizing shrieks boiled within the thick blood!

Innumerous resentful spirits that had been imprisoned within the body of this demonic creature broke free with sorrowful wails, only to vanish into ashes amidst the thunderous light!

Fumes of foul-smelling black smoke billowed upward, and the surging river of blood shrank smaller and smaller at this moment, until finally, nothing was left but a floor full of withered bones!

Fang Qi took a drag from his cigarette and looked around him: "Let me fucking ask, who else is there!"

Looking at the Honglin Medicine Workshop that had been turned into a field of ruins and the completely obliterated Blood Demon, everyone swiftly retreated several hundred meters away: "..."

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