Xiao Chen was taken aback by the sight and couldn't help asking, "Boss... what are you planning to...?"
This time, Xiao Chen called him "Boss" with genuine, wholehearted respect.
Li Guanqi patted his shoulder and channeled a wisp of pure lightning primal energy into him, clearing the clogged meridians in his body.
His expression was as sharp as a blade. Looking at him, Li Guanqi said softly, "Today, Boss will teach you your first lesson."
"What lesson?"
"Cut the grass and dig out the roots—eliminate them completely! Tell the Xiao clan to get ready to take over all the resources of the six clans."
How could Li Guanqi let these people off so easily?
If he was going to strike, he would strike hard enough to make everyone tremble with fear!
He would make everyone shudder at the mere thought of the Xiao clan!
Xiao Chen raised his hand and reattached his severed arm, a sharp light gleaming in the depths of his eyes.
Initially, he had been somewhat hesitant. But when he turned around and saw his mother's worried expression and the group of elders in their twilight years watching him...
A ruthless glint suddenly flashed in Xiao Chen's eyes. Tugging the Blood God Spear free, he shouted, "Understood!"
Li Guanqi smiled faintly. With a surge of surrounding primal energy, he erected a lightning barrier around the Xiao clan's domain.
Within the lightning barrier, Xiao Chen likewise established a heavenly flame barrier.
Li Guanqi then produced a jade slip and sent a transmission to Li Changqing.
The old man hurried over upon receiving the word, and also relayed the message to Meng Jiangchu.
However, Meng Jiangchu could not receive any transmissions at the moment, because he was currently heading toward the Purgatory Abyss alongside an old man!
Beside him stood an emaciated old man with a slightly stooped posture.
Meng Jiangchu smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Gu, it seems you are on the verge of breaking through. Congratulations, congratulations."
Gu Yong waved a hand dismissively, feeling no pride in it whatsoever.
In fact, his voice sounded somewhat bitter as he said, "I have no choice but to break through. If this old skeleton of mine has to face two more Body Integration heavenly tribulations, I won't survive them."
Meng Jiangchu nodded with lingering dread, recalling how he had also endured several recurring tribulations back when he was in the Body Integration Realm.
That feeling... only those who had suffered through it truly knew...
Soon, the two arrived at a desolate, uninhabited black desert.
The sky above was an expanse of murky gray, and black sand churned across the world, blotting out the sky and sun so completely that the distance was invisible.
Without extending one's divine sense, the visible range reached a mere three feet.
Anyone else would likely have gotten lost here shortly after stepping inside.
Along the way, the black sands shifted, revealing many skeletal remains of cultivators scattered on the ground.
However, as soon as the wind blew, these dry bones crumbled into gray powder and drifted into the air.
As the two ventured deeper, an unidentifiable pressure and an eerie, sinister aura abruptly enveloped them.
This aura also had a potent suppressive effect on a cultivator's primal energy.
To the two of them, however, such suppression was negligible.
When they reached the edge of a pitch-black chasm fully a hundred zhang wide, several plumes of demonic qi suddenly surged forth!
Yet when the demonic qi reached within a few zhang of them, it was repelled by an invisible force.
Seeing this, Meng Jiangchu could not help breathing a sigh of relief.
"It seems the sealing power here is still intact."
Beside him, Gu Yong frowned and murmured, "If the seal is still intact, why did an Abyss Demon appear in the world?"
At that point, the old man paused briefly, his voice turning somber.
"Nearly ten thousand years have passed since the last time an Abyss Demon appeared."
Meng Jiangchu took a deep breath and said heavily, "Indeed. Back then... the Six Domains were plunged into misery and devastation, and only at an agonizingly steep cost were the entrances of the Abyss Demons completely sealed."
"This time... I fear someone has done this deliberately!"
As he spoke, the old man drifted out above the chasm and looked at Meng Jiangchu.
"Come, let's go down and take a look."
Meng Jiangchu nodded slightly. Together, he and the old man simply disregarded that barrier and began sweeping downward!
This barrier was merely an obscuring veil; the real seals were all down below.
If whatever lay beneath could breach the lower seals, this barrier would be practically useless anyway.
The light around them seemed swallowed whole, leaving nothing but pitch-black darkness.
Almost no spiritual energy existed here; it was like a land of death.
After descending over a hundred zhang, a dazzling golden seal appeared before their eyes.
Meng Jiangchu retrieved a bizarrely shaped octagonal dharma artifact and slowly pressed it against the formation screen.
The two were instantly enveloped in golden light, their figures dissolving as they completely passed beneath the first layer of the seal.
When the light dissipated, Meng Jiangchu suddenly frowned.
*Howl!!*
Suddenly!
Several dark silhouettes shot violently up from below toward the two.
Gu Yong merely extended a single finger and crushed these weak Abyss Demons into pieces.
Even so, more and more Abyss Demons charged at them!
Dense swarms of dark shadows swooped at them like a colony of bats.
After all, the primal energy fluctuations emanating from them were far too intense; in the eyes of the Abyss Demons, they were as conspicuous as blazing suns.
And rich primal energy held a fatal attraction for them.
The old man gave a cold snort, and every Abyss Demon surrounding them abruptly exploded!
Beneath the churning demonic qi, not a single Abyss Demon remained circling them.
At this point, they had descended barely a hundred zhang and had not even reached the second layer of the seal.
Yet the sheer number of Abyss Demons alarmed them...
This meant the number of Abyss Demons on the first layer had already reached an appalling scale.
Meng Jiangchu frowned and said, "How could it... turn out like this?"
"The Purgatory Abyss stretches a full eight hundred li, cutting across the entirety of the Taiqing Domain."
"There are nearly a hundred Abyss Demons right here alone. Just how many must be crawling across this entire first layer?!"
Beside him, the old man also knit his brows tightly. Neither of them had anticipated such a horrifying number of Abyss Demons.
Closing his eyes slightly, the old man extended his formidable divine sense hundreds of li in an instant.
When he opened his eyes, his expression changed drastically!
Looking at Meng Jiangchu, he said in a heavy voice, "A tear has been ripped in the second layer's seal. Demonic qi is surging up from the layer below."
Hearing this, Meng Jiangchu's face darkened immediately. He turned to his side and said grimly, "Come, let's take a look!"
As the two flew forward, they slaughtered every Abyss Demon in their path!!
Yet the closer they flew to the tear, the uglier Meng Jiangchu's expression became.
One had to know, this was by no means his first time here!
The lords of the Six Domains were all aware of the Purgatory Abyss. Every person who became a Domain Lord had to take turns coming here every thousand years to clear out the Abyss Demons in the first seven layers!
As for below the seventh layer...
No one knew where it led, and no one dared venture down there...
It was not that they couldn't, but that they dared not.
Meng Jiangchu snorted coldly.
"To think no one discovered what was happening here until now! Hmph!"
"It seems those fellows have lived in comfort for far too long to become this negligent!"
Gu Yong had no desire to get overly involved in the affairs of the Domain Lords of the Six Domains, so he merely said in a low voice, "We're almost there."
Sure enough!
When the two arrived, there was indeed a tear about a zhang wide in the sealing formation screen!
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