When the man broke through the prohibition, it caused a huge commotion.

In the Black Valley, some Spiritual Beasts that were lingering in the valley and had not yet left, smelled the scent of a living being and swiftly gathered towards his location.

This area, when Cannibal Flower Qiu Tian was still present, belonged to the absolute forbidden zone in the Black Valley, where no Spiritual Beast dared to approach.

But now that Qiu Tian had "died," the courage of those Spiritual Beasts had grown.

"Human... it's a human..."

Several Eighth and Ninth Stage Spiritual Beasts, with their eerie green beastly pupils flashing, drooling, stared at the man who suddenly appeared.

Among them, some Ninth-grade Peak beasts, which could even speak rudimentary human language, were so eager that they pounced on him immediately.

Seeing those Spiritual Beasts, the man glanced sideways, his grey pupils showing a hint of amusement.

"Tsk tsk, seeing you guys, I realize I'm hungry. Just in time to fill my stomach with you."

The man's eyes turned icy cold, his fingers suddenly exerting force, a flash of icy cold Primordial Power swept out from his fingertips.

Wherever the Primordial Power passed, the ground instantly froze over with a layer of frost.

The man grabbed a Ninth-grade Silver-Maned Leopard, his fingers suddenly growing several inches long claws.

The claws pierced into the fur of the Silver-Maned Leopard, as if its tough skin was merely paper, fragile and breakable.

A nauseating sound of flesh being chewed, that grey-clothed man swallowed a Silver-Maned Leopard as big as a young colt, skin and all.

Drinking blood and consuming flesh, this man who had burst forth from the seal, was no different from beasts, and even more brutal than the beasts themselves.

Watching the man's Adam's apple move, blood sliding down the corner of his mouth, his pale and demonic face gradually obtaining a rosy hue, his grey pupils filled with a satisfied look of bloodlust.

Those Spiritual Beasts frozen by the icy cold air, if not for their stiff limbs, would have already collapsed in fright.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the man had completely devoured the Silver-Maned Leopard. Finally, with his long, slender tongue, he licked the fresh blood off his claws.

"Truly refreshing, there are a few more, I'll save them as a snack for myself later." The man belched contentedly, stretched lazily, and with a flick of his hand, all those Spiritual Beasts were sucked into his tattered clothes.

After doing all this, he stomped his foot, and a stream of cold black smoke wrapped around his body, soaring into the ninth layer of clouds.

Such actions, if seen by other Martial Artists on the mainland, even the Reincarnation Five Paths experts like Marquis and Hong Qingyun would be profoundly shocked.

Without flying by controlling objects, without the aid of a Spiritual Artifact, he could walk above the clouds – this man who had forcefully broken through the prohibitions of the Black Valley, was actually an existence that had transcended the Reincarnation Realm.

He sneered, those narrow and long eyes like blades, overlooking the entire Xixia Plain.

Deeply inhaling the air thousand years later, the man let out a sinister laugh.

"Hehe, it's been a thousand years, I have finally arrived in the Human Realm. Three Sects and Nine Schools, I must capture a few to devour alive, but before I start my revenge, I need to create some chaos to warm up."

After saying this, a rumbling sound came from his throat.

Puff—

From his mouth, he spat out a mass of black air, which exploded when it hit the sky, turning into countless black spots that quickly spread across the sky, scattering over the Xixia Plain.

As soon as the black air touched the plants, they underwent a strange transformation, and when it touched the Spiritual Beasts, a mass of yin energy appeared on their foreheads.

A barely restrained irritable aura was emanating from every corner of the Xixia Plain.

After completing all of this, the man's figure penetrated the clouds and disappeared without a trace.

Not long after noon, the reinforcements sent from Qi City arrived, something Nie Fengxing and Ye Huang did not expect was that this time, the reinforcements were personally led by the Western Expedition General Hong Fang, totaling three thousand men.

Nie Fengxing also received news that Hong Fang and others had gone directly to Black Valley.

"Stay in the camp, I will go to Black Valley to check." Nie Fengxing's words relieved Ye Huangyu.

Although she and Hong Fang had not met for over a decade, they had once been husband and wife, and Ye Huangyu was unsure whether Hong Fang could still recognize her when he saw her.

Hong Fang's visit was, however, for the meteorite.

"Hurry, immediately search for the whereabouts of the meteorite." Last night, Hong Fang was observing from atop the city and saw a celestial phenomenon.

He was well-read and knew that a meteor breaking through the sky would surely become a meteorite upon landing.

A meteorite, also known as meteorite iron, turns into meteorite iron once refined by an Alchemist.

Meteorite iron is a rare and treasured material.

That fool Nie Fengxing, the so-called Tiger Wolf General, didn't even know the important news that meteorite iron comes from meteorites; this time, it truly benefited Hong Fang.

Even Hong Fang, a scion of a noble family, had seldom seen meteorite iron.

Fearing that Nie Fengxing would compete with him for the meteorite, Hong Fang led his men and headed straight to Black Valley.

But just outside Black Valley, they encountered a barrier at the entrance, where several soldiers from the Tiger Wolf Army blocked Hong Fang's way.

"General, ahead is Black Valley, with restrictions set by the Three Sects and Nine Schools. General Nie has ordered that no one is allowed to enter without his token."

After discovering the falling meteor event, Nie Fengxing ordered barriers to be set up at the entrance of Black Valley around noon, to prevent uninformed people from entering.

"Dammit, what is Nie Fengxing? I am Western Expedition General Hong Fang, sealed by His Majesty as a Secondary First-rank. Get out of my way!" Hong Fang shouted furiously.

Hong Fang was the Crown Prince's Grand Protector, and before he was deposed, he was one of the most prestigious officials in the Xia Capital.

In the past, even Crown Prince Hong would show some deference to him. Although this time he came to the Xixia Plain to redeem himself with the title of Western Expedition General,

In the entire region of Xixia Plain, the highest rank was only that of the third-grade official, Tiger Wolf General Nie Fengxing.

Believing in the principle that higher rank crushes the lower, Hong Fang thought that upon arriving, all soldiers and civilians should look up to him.

However, upon arriving in Qi City, Hong Fang realized that all of this was merely his own fantasy.

Having been in Qi City for only a few days, all Hong Fang heard about was Nie Fengxing.

Among the soldiers, the Tiger Wolf Army led by Nie Fengxing was well-disciplined and undefeated in battle.

Among the civilians, Nie Fengxing was the guardian god of the Xixia Plain; with him and the Tiger Wolf Army, the cities in the vicinity of Xixia could remain safe and sound.

That Nie Fengxing truly had an excellent reputation, causing those soldiers and civilians to only recognize Nie Fengxing, completely ignoring him, the court-appointed Western Expedition General.

For Hong Fang, this was simply humiliating.

~Surveys show Miss Feng's popularity soaring, the witch deity expresses strong dissatisfaction, recently feeling very stuck and soul-draining, continue to ask for monthly tickets to replenish energy~