Chapter 813: Chapter 803 Survival

The blinding red light swept across the entire sky, lingering for a long time!

The clever martial artists, especially those who had heeded Ye Zhen’s warning to ‘disperse’ earlier, were relatively fortunate. They retreated swiftly for over a kilometer before the shockwave and red light surged from behind. Those severely injured had their protective spirit armor shattered by the shock wave, vomiting several mouthfuls of blood, while those less injured tumbled a few times but were otherwise unscathed.

Those martial artists who didn’t notice or ignored Ye Zhen’s warning, however, met a tragic fate.

The more than two hundred Soul Sea Realm martial artists and over ten Vein Forging Realm martial artists closest to the explosion’s center, primarily from the Brotherhood, hesitated slightly and were engulfed by the red light!

Then, these people did not even let out a scream before directly disappearing!

Over two hundred martial artists vanished into thin air without leaving a trace behind!

The martial artists on the outer edge who hesitated and did not evade were blasted like willow fluff caught in the wind, flying in all directions. Some fainted mid-air, while others turned into a pool of flesh while still in flight!

More martial artists began to vomit blood frantically, some even spewing tiny dark red organ fragments along with the blood!

The massive casualties thus unfolded!

A very small number of curious martial artists at a distance, retreating swiftly, kept their eyes fixed on the explosion’s center, eager to witness the horrifying scene of two beings with the aura of Ninth Stage Establishment Kings self-destruct!

They saw it!

With their strong eye power, they witnessed those monster-like entities explode from toes to waist, then from waist to chest, from chest to neck, and finally the head, turning into the tiniest red light!

At the last moment of the explosion, two peculiar rays of light emerged from the head, one a massive fan-shaped red light filled with grievance, seemingly carrying the final trace of consciousness of Yun Pochuan and his wife, momentarily restraining the vast waves of impact, directing them towards Ye Zhen’s escaping direction!

However, the direction Ye Zhen escaped to was precisely the spot where the Demon-Annihilating Spirit Arrow blew up Gongsun Li’s Green Demon Blade, the massive crater a kilometer in diameter and a hundred meters deep!

This became one significant reason why many martial artists present were able to keep their lives. Most of the exploding force chased Ye Zhen into that giant pit, and that very chasm effectively blocked the shockwaves from scattering in all directions!

Otherwise, the number of martial artists dying the instant of the explosion could have doubled or even multiplied several times!

The other ray of light emerging from the twisted mind of Yun Pochuan and his wife was a thick black fruit-like thing the size of a watermelon, emitting intense Divine Soul waves as it emerged, dazedly floating in place!

This was the extremely rare scene those curious and excessively bold martial artists witnessed!

However, this scene also became the last sight they would ever lay eyes on in their lifetime—not dead, but blinded!

The piercing red light directly stung their eyes into tears, instinctively forcing them shut. When they opened them once more, everything was shrouded in darkness.

“My eyes…”

“Why is it dark, why can’t I see, my eyes…”

Of course, there were only a few of such overly brave individuals!

The dazzling red light flashed continuously for tens of breaths before it slowly faded away, restoring the world to its original hues!

As the light receded, the higher-ups of the Red Fire Subdivision, no matter whether it was Hong Jiyin, Yua Qianlou, Zuo Xiong, or the Brotherhood’s Sect Master Yuen An, all underwent a drastic change in complexion!

Especially Sect Master Yuen An of the Brotherhood, whose face instantly darkened—not only had his master Ye Zhen vanished, but the Brotherhood martial artists returning to him had also dwindled by over four hundred!

Among these more than four hundred, over two hundred had directly disappeared without a trace, neither alive nor dead!

Another part had turned into shattered corpses, while nearly a hundred were writhing in agony on the ground, with some treatable and others evidently beyond saving!

Hong Jiyin, Yua Qianlou, and Zuo Xiong’s expressions had turned intensely grim as well, their eyes fixed on the expanding crater below with a face full of desolation!

The pit initially blasted by the Demon-Annihilating Spirit Arrow was once a kilometer in diameter and a hundred meters deep. Now it had expanded to ten thousand meters, resembling a gigantic scar on Tiger Mouth Gorge!

As for its depth, a mere glance already estimated a thousand meters, though further details were indiscernible!

No wonder; because at the bottom of the crater, molten magma had begun to spray intensely, emitting scorching high-temperature magma resembling liquid, erupting from underground like water.

The explosion just now had, unbelievably, directly ruptured an Earth Vein below, unleashing its buried magma!

But the altar master Ye Zhen who had previously hid in this pit was now nowhere to be seen!

The three frantically scanned the immense crater with their divine sense like a sieve, repeatedly, only to find streams of powerful spiritual power accompanying the eerie spurt of underground magma—but nothing else!

The situation was bizarre, yet no one had the mood to address it now!

“Any sign of the altar master?” Although he knew the answer well, Hong Jiyin couldn’t help but ask.

The response was naturally the shaking heads of Zuo Xiong and Yua Qianlou!

Hong Jiyin had a look of utter desolation. To be honest, after so many years of ups and downs in the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, having followed many people, Ye Zhen was the first to give him real hope!

Originally, he had already resolved to fully devote himself to Ye Zhen, to thrive within the divine sect alongside him. Unexpectedly, just when he made this decision, Ye Zhen disappeared!

“Everyone, everyone search for the altar master! Alive, we need to see him; dead, we need to see the body. Even if it’s just a finger, we must find it!” Normally taciturn, Zuo Xiong suddenly roared, startling the martial artists present!

The martial artists of the Red Fire Subdivision, densely surrounding them on all sides, didn’t move at all under Zuo Xiong’s roar!

It wasn’t that Zuo Xiong’s prestige wasn’t enough, nor that they were defying orders!

Everyone was staring blankly at the gigantic pit in the center of the ground, fully understanding that the chance of finding someone alive or dead, as Zuo Xiong demanded, was absolutely impossible!

Under such circumstances, forget the body; not even a strand of hair could be found!

If the altar master died, he would have turned to ashes in these circumstances, not even leaving ashes behind!

“Are you all deaf? Are you defying orders? Search, search for me…” In his rage, Zuo Xiong’s spiritual power surged, and he charged at a dazed and motionless subdivision martial artist nearby!

Yua Qianlou and Hong Jiyin were startled and rushed up. Yua Qianlou tightly hugged Zuo Xiong’s thick waist, “Commander Zuo, they aren’t defying orders! Tell us where to find, tell us where to look…”

Zuo Xiong let out roar after roar, “Search, search even if you can’t find anything…” Like an enraged lion, he was unstoppable!

In his urgency, Hong Jiyin suddenly froze, noticing Ye Zhen’s demon servant, the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten, panting in the sky, his eyes shining brightly!

“Look, Commander Zuo, look quickly, the Tiger King is still there, the Tiger King is still there, the altar master is alive, he’s alive!” With that, Hong Jiyin began to jubilantly wave his arms.

Zuo Xiong froze, instantly calming down. He knew very well that Ye Zhen’s Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten was raised in a divine communication blood pact with Ye Zhen since childhood.

Their hearts and minds were interconnected, their lives tightly linked. If the master died, the servant would also perish!

Now that the kitten was fine, it meant that altar master Ye Zhen was alright!

“Cough cough… What’s all the noise, I’m not dead yet…”

Ye Zhen’s voice suddenly sounded from behind. The moment the crowd turned back in delight, they saw a figure, covered in dust, clothes ragged and hanging with tattered strips, wobblingly rising from the ground!

Flying while coughing blood and gulping down pills!

“Altar master!”

Hong Jiyin and Zuo Xiong shouted in surprise, while Yua Qianlou was dumbfounded, silently astonished, “He survived that…”

Of course, Yua Qianlou didn’t want Ye Zhen not to survive, it was just too shocking, incomprehensible how Ye Zhen survived under those circumstances!

After all, just moments before, the couple Yun Pochuan had instantly reached Ninth Stage King power in the Establishment Realm. The explosive power was so great that even the earth vein below shattered.

Forget about Ye Zhen, even a true Ninth Stage King of the Establishment Realm couldn’t have survived in such a situation!

“Don’t worry, I’m not dead yet, cough cough… eh, where are those people…” Ye Zhen glanced around. Aside from the Red Fire Subdivision martial artists, not a single other figure was in sight!

Offhandedly, he gestured to the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten with a wave. The kitten chirped happily, flashed with light, and leaped into Ye Zhen’s arms!

“Does it hurt? Come on, open your mouth!”

Ye Zhen, full of compassion, looked at the still bloodstained mouth of the kitten, and tossed over ten bottles of healing pills, bottles and all, into the kitten’s mouth!

This scene made Yua Qianlou, Hong Jiyin, and some vein forging realm martial artists around them gasp in surprise.

The altar master Ye Zhen threw in who knows how many healing pills, but just the special Yin Yang Reforging Pills from the Sun and Moon Divine Sect alone numbered over six bottles!

What does six bottles of Yin Yang Reforging Pills represent?

One Yin Yang Reforging Pill sells for twenty thousand mid-grade spirit crystals per pill, and a bottle contains ten pills. Six bottles total over one million mid-grade spirit crystals!

The kitten just swallowed one to two million with that bite of spirit items!

Yua Qianlou and Hong Jiyin felt at a loss. They had been in the Sun and Moon Divine Sect for so many years, living frugally, enduring even minor injuries, and never had they had more than one bottle of Yin Yang Reforging Pills. Yet here Ye Zhen casually used six bottles!

The effect of six bottles of Yin Yang Reforging Pills was immensely powerful, and one could clearly sense an abundant surge of pure energy bursting from the kitten’s body, with the color of exhaustion vanishing from its form, and its injuries rapidly healing!

“Altar master, when those two monstrosities began to swell, the survivors from the Heavenly Net Sect and Longevity Sect took the opportunity to flee. They didn’t stop for a second in the chaos caused by the explosion!

By the time the radiant explosion subsided, they had long fled far away, disappearing without a trace!” Hong Jiyin replied!

“Uh… what about Demon Blade Gongsun Li?” The words had just left Ye Zhen’s mouth when he suddenly froze, his eyes fell upon the two fruit-like orbs of black light hovering low in the air, “Eh, what is that?” (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote with your recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)