Goodbye, Lang Tian Mountains!

The explosion had destroyed the mountains' foundation, leading to the rocks tumbling over the beast tide and the cultivators in one fell swoop. A man man that was wearing cracked golden armour slowly crawled out from underneath the rubble that had formed.

"World spirit explosion... this is my first time seeing someone reckless enough to pull this off... Very impressive results." Zhou Qing coughed out some blood from having his internal organs crushed. Even though he had gained some resistance to physical damage through his incomplete world spirit, he could not carry the weight of the mountains.

"I should see if anyone of them is still alive." Extending his world spirit, he used the Qi inside of him to increase its power and frantically search through the rubble. With the world spirit acting as his eyes, he could see that two elders were indeed nearby. Both of them were struggling to hold up against large pieces of rock.

"Zhou Qing, please save me!" That elder in particular that spoke was Elder Shan. She was one of the younger elders, with a high talent. Zhou Qing had remembered her as a person who had reached peak Rotating Core Realm at the ripe age of 134. Blood dropped from her forehead, as she struggled to hold up the rocks that were binding her down.

"What about me! Zhou Qing, grab me first! She has more power than me! She can handle this for a few more minutes!" The other elder, Elder Zhong, shouted while breathing sharply. He was also one of the younger elders, but he had not reached the peak Rotating Core Realm yet. Sweat was constantly dripping down his body, along with a puddle of blood that was forming around his body. It appeared that he could not hold on any longer!

"Okay then! I will grab Elder Zhong first! Hang on for now, Elder Shan!" Zhou Qing made his decision in a split second, as he used his world spirit to shatter the rocks that were hindering Elder Zhong. With one swipe from the world spirit, the rocks flew away, directly on top of Elder Shan.

"No way! Shit! This can't be happening right now! Arghhh!" Zhou Qing's face fell in horror as he looked at the various rocks driving deeply into the rock pile that Elder Shan was carrying.

Elder Shan showed a pained expression, as the giant pile of rocks got too heavy for her to handle. Without the strength to carry it any longer, she let go, and the rocks instantly crushed her body into bloody pieces brutally. Zhou Qing commanded his world spirit to quickly dig out the body, but the body was so battered that it was almost recognisable.

"That damned demonic descendant... how many lives will he take away, even after he's dead?" Zhou Qing's face filled with hatred, and in a fit of rage, he channeled the Yang Burning Art.

Using the skill, he burned off several years of his life, in order to fill his world spirit with Qi. It was a forbidden skill which he had stolen from an evil cultivator, but he secretly practiced it, which had resulted in his accomplishments. Sacrificing the potential to make Qi, that was the crux of the art.

"Zhou Qing, a cursed Yang aura is radiating from you... Could it be? You're practicing the dark way?" Elder Zhong looked crestfallen upon seeing Zhou Qing use the Yang Burning Art.

"Hush! Do you think that's important now?" The world spirit of Zhou Qing slowly grew more and more powerful through the Yang Burning Art, before it turned all the rubble into fine dust with a single strike.

All the survivors of the explosion started sighing in relief. All of the beasts that had been here were all eliminated, while the other demonic beasts had disappeared. Now that the demonic descendant was gone from this world, at least they had gotten rid of a great threat from the world.

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"I actually got out of there! I got out of there alive! I can't be...believe it!" Tang Peng's hands were shaking with excitement. He had experienced very dangerous enemies, but he had eventually prevailed over them in the end! Who wouldn't be excited if this happened to them?

"Kkegh! Ptui!" Tang Peng started coughing on the ground. He had accumulated some internal injuries too, even if the Hatred Form's outer shell had protected him from most of the damage. The explosion had launched him far away from the Lang Tian mountains. In fact, he was now located near a city area. He could see an entrance to a town just ahead.

"They should think I'm dead, right? Since I destroyed that centipede inside me, Heng Tan should not be able to trace me either. I'm so lucky!" Tang Peng felt that he had resolved all the obstacles that were chasing him. As long as his Hatred Form was not seen by anyone left alive, the "Dragonic Sect" should not be able to chase him.

"Hahahaha! Hahahaha!" Tang Peng felt like the luckiest man alive. He would be able to abandon his own identity, and switch this cursed destiny of his for a new, blessed one.

Drawing out the "Yin Gathering Art" book from the ruby ring that had shrunk back to his normal size, he clenched it tightly in his hand. This was the key to improving his cultivation. This was his future!

"I need to recuperate for now. This pain inside me of me can't be solved easily." Tang Peng could feel a pain running through every part of his body. It was as if a fire was being lit inside his body, burning everything inside of him. It was likely a side effect from using the Hatred Form so harshly.

He had overexerted his body in the explosion, and had probably caused hidden injuries to appear as a result. His original cultivation had been reduced to nothing as well. The Hatred Form and Yin Qi could not be sensed by him as well. The damage done to his body could not be ignored.

He was a mere commoner now, but perhaps that was a good thing. It would absolutely be harder for any threats to distinguish him from the normal folks in this town. "Goodbye, Lang Tian Mountains!" It was time for him to begin a new chapter in his life.