The name "Yue," or rather this single character, evokes many associations in Zhang Rongfang’s mind.
And this character, combined with someone who knows many of his private matters and personal information, probably points to only one person.
"Could it be Yue Shi!" Zhang Rongfang felt a slight joy in his heart and took a few steps forward.
Most of the flesh and blood on his body automatically detached, forming a new Zhang Rongfang beside Zhang Zhenhai.
He then subtly signaled the Celestial Maiden to stay here.
He transformed into a red light, shooting out and descending from the Celestial Lotus Palace to make arrangements.
His power is needed here to suppress and monitor Yi’s movements. But only power is necessary.
Currently, power is actually determined by the abundance of ancestral bloodline.
As long as he leaves most of his vital energy here, he can continuously suppress Yi, who is trying to break through and emerge.
Since coming outside the Celestial Curtain, he also established Yuan City but never stopped searching for Yue Shi and the Moon God.
He knows clearly that as a powerful spirit person like the Moon God, it is highly likely to be polluted by evil radiation outside.
But after screening, he did not find any trace of Yue Shi among the evil spirits.
After a long time of searching, and never getting any clues, Zhang Rongfang gradually forgot about it. He simply handed it over to his subordinates, waiting for the results.
Yet unexpectedly, the person he could not find came to Yuan City on their own initiative and found him.
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In the core area of Yuan City, besides the Celestial Curtain Pavilion, there are many newly built tall red buildings.
Some are the lodges where Zhang Rongfang and the immortals reside. These lodges are filled with celestial aura, surrounded by red mist, representing a significant place for immortals and forbidding entry to anyone without permission.
Others are important management agencies of Yuan City, such as the city management office, which is the regular workplace for City Lord Hongye.
On the outskirts, many department heads responsible for clothes, food, housing, and entertainment live here, adjacent to the Daoist Ancestor’s lodges.
At this moment, at the outer perimeter of the core region, a group of bloodlines is quickly armed, rushing outside the city.
"Hurry, hurry, emergency mission!"
This group of bloodlines quickly rushed outside the city, followed by blood-colored illusions moving even faster toward that direction.
Moreover, a group of Four Institutes experts stationed outside Yuan City simultaneously received notice at this moment.
To head to the designated location and retrieve someone named Yue Dewen.
At least half of the experts stationed at the Four Institutes mobilized to search the agreed location stated in the letter—the ruins of Hongyuan.
Meanwhile, in the ruins of Hongyuan.
Black smoke evil spirits were swiftly pursuing and hunting the two people ahead.
In the black ruins, the evil spirits moved quickly, like strands of black smoke, crossing lava puddles and madly chasing the two ahead.
Ounan’s face was stern, dragging Yue Dewen, constantly circling around the broken walls and garbage heaps in the ruins, rapidly tracing strange curves.
Many curves were barely made. A slight deviation might get them stuck in the ruins.
But this precise body technique made these clumsy evil spirits unable to leverage their speed advantage.
In fact, the evil spirits’ straight-line speed surpassed that of adaptors like Ounan.
But their minds were flawed, preferring straight paths, which led to the evolution of this refined method of restraint.
Ounan dragged Yue Dewen, suddenly flipping over, crossing a stone ruin over three meters tall.
Boom!
Suddenly, the inside of the ruin exploded.
A black, spider-leg-like arm reached out from the center, grabbing at Ounan.
"Bloodline bearer, die!" An Evil Spirit Horse lurking inside roared as it clawed at Ounan.
This completely disrupted Ounan’s rhythm.
The speed of the evil spirits was known to him; thus, this close encounter took away all his space for evasion.
He could only withstand it!
He made an immediate decision, his eyes flashing coldly. His right hand swiftly lifted the long knife, bringing out a phantom, slashing down heavily.
Clang!
The blade precisely chopped at the tip of the claw, splitting it open heavily.
Sparks scattered, Ounan spun sideways, his body rolled, and the blade brought out a perfect arc.
Shh!
The specially crafted blade slashed across the Evil Spirit Horse.
This cut accurately targeted the crucial vertical pupil on the Evil Spirit Horse.
Scoring a hit with one strike, Ounan sprinted forward at full speed, headless.
Boom!
The Evil Spirit Horse’s entire body exploded, transforming into a mass of purple light covering the ground within a hundred meters.
But by now, Ounan had already run far with Yue Dewen.
Taking advantage of the Evil Spirit Horse’s explosion, blocking the other pursuing evil spirits.
He briefly discerned the direction, sprinting toward Yuan City at full speed.
"Useless!!" Behind him came the angry roar of the white-haired demoness.
On the black earth, Ounan continuously dodged smoking dark red lava lakes.
"Is that the demon?" Yue Dewen asked on his back.
His body hadn’t recovered, conserving energy was essential.
This was his first encounter with a high-ranking entity among the evil spirits, the so-called demon.
"Yes, that is a high-ranking cadre of Chana Tower." Despite sprinting at full speed, Ounan’s breath remained unchanged.
As the strongest human adaptor, he already possessed exceptional physical fitness and rapid reaction speed.
He wasn’t genuinely human anymore but some kind of mutated form.
"Where are we going now? What about the kids in the city?" Yue Dewen asked solemnly.
"Their target is me; I’m leading them away now," Ounan replied calmly.
"You knew this would attract disaster, so why come back?" Yue Dewen questioned solemnly.
"I...." Ounan fell silent.
If not returning, where should he go?
He actually hadn’t thought that far ahead. Or rather, he harbored a lucky thought in his heart.
"As long as I can lure away the strongest demon, the rest will be fine with Asalu there."
After a moment of silence, he spoke.
"You...."
Boom!
Suddenly, the lava pool in front of the two burst open.
Something massive fell from the sky, crashing hard into the lava.
The scorching lava scattered like a torrential rain, splashing in all directions.
An Evil Spirit Elephant, over ten meters tall, knelt in the lava and slowly stood up.
The high temperature burned wisps of black smoke on its surface, but it remained unmoved.
"This is... an elephant!!?" Ounan showed a trace of despair.
The Evil Spirit Elephant may look bulky, but in reality, they are extremely fast. Their strength, speed, and radiation pollution levels far exceed those of the Evil Spirit Horse.
Moreover, their weak points constantly move rapidly within their bodies, so even if you injure the surface or sever a limb, they can regenerate instantly.
Such a monster... he was simply not a match for it.
"It seems... I’ll die here...." Ounan put down Yue Dewen, gripping the knife handle tightly.
"You go, I can hold it off for now."
This was his responsibility, his disaster, so it was only right that he bore it.
"Kid." Yue Dewen was furious. "How many seconds do you think you can hold out? Do you think I can escape now?"
He had planned to retire in peace, and now look what happened?
This kid lured the Evil Spirit here, putting everyone in the underground city in a life-and-death crisis.
And now the kid wants to die to let go? In what world is it so easy to escape responsibility?
...Now, his body was weak, and although his injuries had healed, without the support of the Spiritual Line, he was not adapted to the Celestial Light. His physical strength was far inferior to Ounan’s.
What could he use to escape?
"Listen, kid." Yue Dewen thought about it and felt it was a dead end.
He watched the over ten-meter-tall Evil Spirit Elephant lift a foot and step onto the normal black ground, approaching them.
"You have a strong body but don’t know how to use it." Yue Dewen said quickly, "From now on, I’ll say, you do!"
He was one of the top-tier Grandmasters.
Even back then, he could seek the power of Spirit Flying Heaven for hundreds of years, relying not only on his strategy but also on a tremendously strong fundamental strength.
So even without physical prowess, purely in the martial realm, he had reached the peak.
However... during his seclusion in the underground city, he realized there was room for his seemingly maxed-out martial arts to improve.
He mastered the ultimate preemptive defense and achieved Absolute Defense.
And beyond that, from the Heart-Burning Furnace, he gained inspiration.
"What are you planning to do?" Ounan sensed a trace of hope in Yue Dewen’s words.
"I don’t want to plan anything, I just..." Yue Dewen paused, "haven’t lived enough."
Swoosh!
At this moment, the Evil Spirit Elephant’s massive arm came crashing down on them.
The heavy shadow instantly covered the two, rapidly closing in.
Just then, Yue Dewen grabbed Ounan’s knife-wielding hand and nudged it upward.
The large and small arms crossed simultaneously.
A strange emptiness flashed in Yue Dewen’s eyes, an inexplicable aura.
Within his pupils, the immense, complete body of the Evil Spirit Elephant was clearly reflected.
And on this complete body, there were red lines rapidly shifting.
These red lines moved, faded, darkened, evolving continuously with the Elephant’s actions.
Squelch.
Ounan’s knife precisely pierced the Evil Spirit Elephant’s forearm wrist.
Squelch, the thick wrist fell with a sound.
"Go!" Yue Dewen pulled Ounan, turning and sprinting into the distance.
That was the limit of what he could do just then.
If he still had his original strength... such an Evil Spirit Elephant...
Ugh... he’d probably still be unable to defeat it.
He feared being polluted and turned into an Evil Spirit before getting close....
If he weren’t polluted, he could have easily killed it.
Strangely, the Evil Spirit Elephant that should have continued pursuing stood there, clutching its wrist, howling in pain.
Its arm, which should have self-healed, was lifeless, showing no sign of regrowth.
Swish!
The white-haired female demon suddenly appeared beside the Evil Spirit Elephant.
Her gaze also fell on the non-regenerating wrist.
"This is...!?"
She couldn’t understand.
Clearly, the Evil Spirit Elephant’s core was intact, so why couldn’t the wrist regenerate?
"They’re fleeing towards Yuan City. Lord Mo City, we must hurry. Otherwise..." A demon flashed and appeared.
"What are you afraid of? Even if they reach Yuan City, they won’t survive! The Blood Alliance can’t stop us!" the white-haired female demon said sternly.
"Chase after them for me! Useless fools!" she ordered harshly.
Immediately, Evil Spirits darted towards Ounan.
They all had wings, and if it weren’t for Ounan’s erratic route, they would have caught up by now.
"What was that technique just now!?" Ounan was running with Yue Dewen on his back.
Yet, he was puzzled by what had just happened.
Evil Spirits possess infinite healing and recovery abilities, yet his strike nullified that capability.
This was simply... unbelievable!