CHAPTER 272: CHAPTER 268: DISASTER

Three days later.

Chen Xuan and the group officially entered the territory of the Ten Thousand People Mountain Range.

At this moment,

four green-clad guards rode at the front.

The first carriage was Qin Ke’s, who was sitting cross-legged on its rooftop.

Alertly watching the surroundings.

After all, Chen Xuan had said he would intervene only against Immortal Grade demon beasts.

Meaning anything below that would require him to act himself.

The middle carriage belonged to the two little ones, Ning Feng and Ning Long.

Chen Xuan and Ning Xin were in the last carriage.

As for the others, they were behind the last carriage.

"Creak... Creak..."

The roads in the Ten Thousand People Mountain Range were winding and rugged, but fortunately, Qin Ke had crafted these three carriages from top-quality wood.

Otherwise, encountering such mountain roads, the carriages would likely fall apart in no time.

Daytime!

The wind was calm and tranquil.

After the group had dinner, in hopes of leaving the mountain range early.

Qin Ke consulted Chen Xuan and decided to continue traveling without rest.

The night in the Ten Thousand People Mountain Range was exceptionally quiet.

Aside from the occasional wind blowing, rustling the leaves.

Only the sound of the wheels could be heard.

Under the dim moonlight, the group traversed the mountain road.

Suddenly,

a dark shadow appeared.

"Alert!"

The middle-aged guard at the front immediately shouted, his tiger eyes fixed on the direction of the shadow.

Qin Ke on the carriage rooftop subtly released his aura.

The next moment, the shadow fled in panic.

"It’s fine, keep moving forward!"

Qin Ke said calmly, it was just a low-level demon beast.

After sensing his powerful aura, it fled.

"Yes, Young Master!"

The middle-aged guard replied immediately.

The group continued onward.

Thus,

seven days passed.

The strongest demon beast they encountered was just mid-level.

Qin Ke didn’t even need to act, as the guards from the Qin Family dealt with it.

By now, the group had reached the center of the mountain range.

From this point onward, it was the most dangerous phase.

Inside the carriage.

Chen Xuan had already spread his spiritual power, scanning an area of roughly ten kilometers.

Suddenly!

Chen Xuan’s brow slightly furrowed.

"What’s wrong?"

Seeing this, Ning Xin asked.

"There is a pack of wolves on the path we must take, the strongest one is comparable to a First-Grade level."

But that’s not the main concern.

With Qin Ke’s strength, dealing with this wolf pack shouldn’t be a problem.

His frown was because back then the people from the Yang Family also encountered a wolf pack, leading to their demise.

"Is it these beasts?"

Chen Xuan pondered in his heart.

Then he transmitted a message to Qin Ke, "Ten kilometers away, there’s a wolf pack, several hundred in number, the strongest not inferior to a First-Grade!"

"Thank you, Master!"

Qin Ke immediately stood up, transmitting back.

Master is indeed powerful, sensing from such a distance.

"Be alert, there is a wolf pack ahead!"

"Yes, Young Master!"

The four green-clad guards replied in unison, drawing their weapons and raising their guard.

About half an hour later, Qin Ke sensed the aura of several hundred demon beasts.

In a flash, he rushed forward!

"Awooo..."

Suddenly, a series of wolf howls rang out.

"Boom, Boom..."

The entire mountain shook.

At this time Qin Ke was enveloped by spiritual power, smashing out with a punch, turning several wolves into a bloody mist.

In just a moment,

only a five-meter-tall black giant wolf remained.

Its cold wolf eyes fixed on Qin Ke.

"Roar..."

A howl, and in the next moment, a fierce aura burst forth.

Instantly transformed into a dark shadow, charging toward Qin Ke.

"Hehe..."

Qin Ke chuckled, although the giant wolf was fast, to him, it was nothing.

His form flashed, disappearing from his original position!

The next moment! A ’boom’ sounded, immediately causing a rain of blood to fall from the sky.

This First-Grade giant wolf couldn’t withstand even a punch from Qin Ke.

But just as he prepared to return, suddenly an overwhelming aura surged skyward.

Instantly, a hundred-meter giant wolf appeared in mid-air.

Under the moonlight,

the huge wolf shadow completely overshadowed this area.

At this moment, Qin Ke was no longer as relaxed and carefree as before, his expression turned extremely grim.

"Immortal Grade!"

This aura was much stronger than Gu Tongtian back then.

"Courting death, daring to kill my wolf cub!"

The giant wolf slightly lowered its head, its blood-red wolf eyes, the next moment, a massive pressure descended from above!

Qin Ke couldn’t move even a finger, not to mention that the spiritual power within him was completely stagnant at this moment.

"A mere First-Grade human, daring to kill my kin! Die!"

The giant wolf opened its massive mouth, diving down, intending to devour this damned human alive.

"Your mentor is here!"

Chen Xuan’s voice sounded, then he appeared out of nowhere in front of him.

Facing the murderous giant wolf, already inches away.

Chen Xuan remained unperturbed, "Kneel!"

"Bang!"

The hundred-meter giant wolf was crushed onto the ground by a colossal pressure, just like it had done to Qin Ke moments ago.

At this moment, it couldn’t move even a single hair.

"Gulp..."

Qin Ke involuntarily swallowed saliva.

Staring dumbfounded at Chen Xuan’s back, he was utterly shocked.

This was the first time he witnessed Chen Xuan in action.

This strength... terrifying beyond words!

With merely a command "Kneel", the Immortal Grade level giant wolf was instantly subdued to the ground.

"Words manifest as law?"

Suddenly these four words arose in his mind.

At this moment, Chen Xuan slowly approached the giant wolf, facing the human-height wolf head with a calm expression.

"I ask, you answer! Dare to deceive me, and die!"

Chen Xuan’s voice was not loud, but the blood-red wolf eyes were filled with terror.

The human in front of it did not emit a hint of aura from his entire body.

He seemed just like an ordinary person.

Yet the heavy force pressing on it reminded it that its life was entirely in this human’s hands.

"What do you want to ask?"

After a long moment, the giant wolf spoke.

It had calmed itself down; after all, it was an Immortal Grade Demon Beast.

"Hundreds of years ago, your clan killed a group of humans. Do you know about this?"

Unexpectedly, as soon as Chen Xuan finished speaking,

the fear that the giant wolf had just suppressed surged again, causing its entire body to tremble uncontrollably, even under the suppression of Chen Xuan’s Eight Directions Profound Realm.

"No... no.... don’t!"

The giant wolf suddenly lost control, behaving frenziedly.

Chen Xuan’s brow furrowed tightly. What on earth was going on?

Just asking about a past event had provoked such a strong reaction from the giant wolf.

"Calm down!"

Chen Xuan shouted, while a burst of Spiritual Power stimulated the giant wolf’s sea of consciousness.

Instantly,

the giant wolf’s eyes returned to normal.

"What exactly happened back then?"

Chen Xuan opened his mouth to ask.

"Disaster... the disaster of the Ten Thousand People Mountain Range..."

The giant wolf slowly spoke, its voice trembling slightly.

"After our clan slaughtered that group of humans, it wasn’t long before someone descended upon the Ten Thousand People Mountain Range, indulging in a bloodbath, seemingly searching for something."

"This person killed for several days!"

"The demon beasts were nearly driven to extinction."

"The entire Ten Thousand People Mountain Range turned into a hell, with demon beast corpses everywhere."

At this point, the giant wolf’s body trembled again.

The stench of blood was so overwhelming during that time that even as a demon beast, it couldn’t bear it.

Luckily, back then, it was only a mid-grade demon beast and managed to hide underground, thus escaping danger.

’One person wiped out the Ten Thousand People Mountain Range!’

’Then this person must have been at least a Late-Stage Immortal Grade in power!’

Chen Xuan speculated internally.

"And in the end? Did they find it?"

"No!"

The giant wolf shook its head.

And that’s why that person massacred us!

Chen Xuan withdrew his Spiritual Power, and the pressure from the Eight Directions Profound Realm vanished instantly, but the giant wolf only slowly stood up without any intention to flee.

"You’re not stupid!"

Chen Xuan smiled faintly.

"In front of you, is there any point in running?"

The giant wolf said helplessly.

In the face of absolute strength, any little schemes are laughable.

Its life or death was entirely up to Chen Xuan.

"It’s reasonable that you survived with such wit."

Chen Xuan complimented.

"Alright, off you go!"

Although he didn’t get the information he wanted, he also didn’t plan to kill it either.

Even the giant wolf found it hard to believe.

It was momentarily stunned, but quickly regained its senses, "You’re really just letting me go?"

There was a tone of doubt.

After all, humans killing demon beasts and demon beasts eating humans.

This was the most normal thing.

But Chen Xuan spared it?

No wonder it was dumbfounded earlier.

"If you want to die, I can send you on your way!" Chen Xuan grinned.

"No need, no need!"

The giant wolf shook its head repeatedly, who the hell wanted to die?

"Thank you!"

After nodding towards Chen Xuan, it then headed towards the depths of the mountain range but suddenly stopped.

Turning its head, "I seem to remember the person said, ’This is the cost of killing the Yang Family!’"

"Hmm!"

Chen Xuan waved at it.

Yet, the giant wolf still didn’t move.

"What?"

Chen Xuan looked at it with some confusion.

"I don’t know if this is what the person was looking for, but I’m giving it to you, consider it as buying my life!"

With that, it spat out a white shadow, then turned into a black shadow and disappeared from Chen Xuan’s sight.

"This is....?"

Chen Xuan looked at the white stone in his hand.

His brow slightly raised.

Because the stone did not contain any energy, it was completely like an ordinary stone.

But the giant wolf wouldn’t randomly give him a stone, would it?

Teasing him?

Unless it wanted to die!

"Forget it, I’ll study it later!"

He then looked back at Qin Ke, "Let’s go back! There shouldn’t be any more demon beasts daring to appear."

Saying this, his figure disappeared.

"Whew——"

Qin Ke stood there quietly.

Recalling everything that had just happened, his master’s immense power brought him great shock.

In a moment, his eyes lit up with excitement.

He tightly clenched his fists.

"I will also become as strong as my master!"

...

Just as Chen Xuan had said, no more demon beasts appeared in front of them afterward.

After successfully leaving the Ten Thousand People Mountain Range,

nearly three months later, the group stopped at the entrance of a magnificent city gate.

"Molan Mansion!"

Chen Xuan stood there, slightly raised his head to look at the three large characters carved at the gate.

The towering city walls, entirely black, stood tens of meters high.

Moreover,

these black stone walls gave Chen Xuan a sense of indestructibility.

This even shocked him greatly inside.

Knowing that he was now in the Profound Realm.

Causing such a feeling in him suggested this black stone was indeed extraordinary.

"It seems that after arriving at Molan Mansion, I must be low-key and even more low-key."

Just a city wall alone was this abnormal, then.... Molan Mansion, unfathomable!

"This is Molan Mansion!"

At this moment, Qin Ke also became excited.

This was his first time coming here.

"Yes, this is it, and in the future, your name will surely be recorded here!"