Thousands of Red-Eyed Soul Beasts completely annihilated, even the Demon King couldn’t escape—the scene was truly explosive!
Gu Chaoxi was stunned!
Even peak Pill Transformation Realm level couldn’t possibly accomplish this, right!
Could it be… that Old Brother, with battle armor and cloak, had reached Truth-Seeking Realm level strength with that one rod strike?
Exaggerated!
Too exaggerated!
“Whoosh whoosh!”
The molten lava-like battle armor dissipated, and Jun Changxiao gradually returned to normal.
Seeing the crystal cores scattered all over the ground and recalling the explosive power that had enveloped him earlier, his eyes revealed disbelief.
It wasn’t that he hadn’t used the Great Sage set special effects before, but why was it so powerful this time? Powerful to the point of being frightening!
Moreover, different from the past, after the special effects activated, Monkey Brother didn’t appear. Instead, he himself transformed and resolved all the demon beasts with thunderous means.
“Because.”
The System said: “You obtained the Great Sage’s recognition. At that moment, the Great Sage was you, and you were the Great Sage.”
“Is that how it is?”
Jun Changxiao expressed skepticism.
“Old Brother!”
Gu Chaoxi stood up and walked over, circling around him as he said: “You were too awesome just now. Your little brother’s admiration for you is like the rolling Yangtze River, endless and unceasing!”
“Less flattery, hurry and collect the crystal cores!”
“Right away!”
Gu Chaoxi transformed into a tool person, collecting the crystal cores scattered on the ground into his spatial ring one by one. Especially recalling the earlier scene, his heart still held tremendous shock.
With such a powerful Old Brother, would they still fear not thriving in the Upper Realm in the future?
That death-courting heart grew increasingly intense.
“Let’s go.”
“Back.”
After collecting the crystal cores, Jun Changxiao stood up and headed toward the valley exit.
Gu Chaoxi looked confused: “Old Brother, aren’t we going deeper to look for heavenly materials and earthly treasures?”
The Red-Eyed Soul Beasts and Red-Eyed Soul Beast King had all been annihilated. This second-class forbidden zone should have no dangers now—they could completely obtain resources without restraint.
“Tired,” Jun Changxiao said.
Gu Chaoxi had an epiphany.
That rod strike Old Brother delivered just now must have consumed quite a bit of energy.
Since that was the case, they should leave.
Thus, the two walked along the path they came, and before long emerged from Soul-Loss Valley.
Li Qingyang, Xiao Zuiji, and the others saw the sect master and uncle-master return safely. First they all breathed sighs of relief, then inquired why there had been such great commotion earlier.
Jun Changxiao didn’t explain and led them to set out on the return journey to the sect.
“They came out!”
“They look fine.”
“What was that earth-shaking, skyward radiance situation earlier?”
The warriors hiding in the dark to watch the excitement discussed among themselves. Because their levels were too low, they didn’t dare enter Soul-Loss Valley to investigate.
…
On the return journey to the Eternal Sect.
Gu Chaoxi vividly described how Jun Changxiao had annihilated thousands of demon beasts, and perhaps because he had a storyteller friend, his tone and expressions were quite exaggerated.
“Oh.”
“Oh.”
Li Qingyang and Xiao Zuiji gave bland responses.
“…”
Gu Chaoxi collapsed.
Although what Old Brother did just now couldn’t be fully depicted in words, I didn’t speak too poorly, right? Could you at least give some shocked expressions?
In fact, for the disciples, Jun Changxiao doing such things was simply too ordinary. After all, just on the Planar Battlefield, he had annihilated tens of thousands of warriors wielding only a watermelon cleaver.
“Old Brother!”
“I admire you so much!”
Along the road, whenever Gu Chaoxi had an opportunity, he flattered wildly, clearly having transformed into a little fanboy.
Jun Changxiao remained deep in thought the entire time.
This venture into Soul-Loss Valley made him realize one problem—the third form of the Difficult-to-Retrieve Blade could no longer adapt to the current environment, so upgrading it with Modification Stones was necessary.
“What a pity, those few Unsealing Talismans.”
“The Recycling Pavilion can recycle them.”
“True.”
Jun Changxiao opened the Recycling Pavilion.
Currently, he still had two unused third form Unsealing Talismans. Since the Difficult-to-Retrieve Blade couldn’t keep up with the times, converting them into contribution points was clearly more cost-effective.
“Damn!”
“The recycling price is only 10,000?”
Jun Changxiao collapsed.
He remembered that the second form Unsealing Talismans seemed to be this price too!
“Having something is better than nothing, right?”
“…”
Although very unwilling, Jun Changxiao still exchanged the two third form Unsealing Talismans.
“Ding! Sect Contribution Points: 220,000.”
Transforming into the Great Sage to instantly kill the Red-Eyed Soul Beasts, the branch mission was smoothly completed, rewarding two hundred thousand contribution points plus two Experience Talismans, and then… there was no then.
The System said: “Isn’t this slowly getting better!”
“Better my ass!”
Jun Changxiao roared: “Can two hundred thousand compare to the lost several million?”
On the surface, he was bickering with the System, but his soul had already merged into the spatial ring, taking out the previously rewarded Modification Stone.
Since the third form Difficult-to-Retrieve Blade couldn’t keep up with the times, he could only promote it to fourth form.
“Whoosh!”
The Modification Stone melted.
“Whoosh!”
The Difficult-to-Retrieve Blade advanced to fourth form.
The upgrade process had not a drop of water added—quick. Praise me.
Because there were no fourth generation Unsealing Talismans, Jun Changxiao couldn’t test its power for now.
…
Having been out for quite a while, Jun Changxiao very much missed every disciple in the sect, every high-ranking member, so he abandoned continuing to harm forbidden zones and focused his thoughts on hurrying home.
However.
A few days later, the Upper Realm exploded again!
Because high-level Pill Transformation Realm experts successively entered Soul-Loss Valley and discovered the dark environment had been replaced by light, and the existing Red-Eyed Soul Beasts were completely gone!
Later, the relevant departments sent specialists to investigate. After careful comparison and analysis, they officially announced to the outside world that this place was immediately downgraded from second-class to third-class forbidden zone.
“Downgraded?”
“What’s going on!”
“I heard the Red-Eyed Soul Beasts inside are gone, and the danger level has greatly decreased!”
“Wow, this is great news!”
For a time, Soul-Loss Valley gathered large groups of Sky-Breaking Realm and early-stage Pill Transformation Realm rogue cultivators. The grass at the entrance had long been trampled flat.
Second-class forbidden zones being downgraded was quite rare. Also, because abundant resources existed inside, the warriors who entered early all benefited, even obtaining higher resources than in third-class forbidden zones.
“Sect Master Jun is a good person!”
Many rogue cultivators could roughly guess that the downgrading inside Soul-Loss Valley definitely couldn’t be unrelated to Jun Changxiao, so they were full of gratitude toward him.
Although Tiemu Forest, Fire Cloud Cliff, and Water Fairy Lake suffered destruction and were reduced to ordinary places, one second-class forbidden zone becoming third-class brought quite a few benefits to low-level warriors. It could be considered losing in the east and gaining in the west.
However.
Soul-Loss Valley becoming a third-class forbidden zone soon brought bloody storms.
Because the danger level decreased, large groups of martial cultivators entered, increasing the probability of competing for opportunities and conflicts. For a long time after, people could be seen brawling inside and outside the valley in groups, and perishing became commonplace.
Jun Changxiao had brought opportunities to the various warriors, but also opened the door to hell.
However, this already had nothing to do with him. After all, in the cruel martial dao world, people dying for wealth and birds dying for food was very normal, unless there were no more forbidden zones in the world to tempt greed.
…
**Eternal Sect.**
Jun Changxiao and Gu Chaoxi and the others returned.
However, just as he sat in the study, considering going to bathe, Hua Meigui walked in and said: “Half a month ago, someone sent a brocade box.”
“Brocade box?”
Jun Changxiao looked bewildered.
Hua Meigui placed the exquisite box on the desk.
He cautiously opened it and found a human head placed inside, so he blurted out: “Golden Hair?!”
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