After leaving that dilapidated palace, Chen Fei and Pei Wanning sped toward the depths of the Underground Palace.
From Ji Xing's mouth they had learned that, aside from the Scarlet Sky Army's Military Talisman, there should be no other treasures within this Underground Palace. So he had to hurry over as fast as possible, in case the Scarlet Sky Army's Military Talisman was snatched away by someone else.
This Underground Palace was built an extremely long time ago, using the exceedingly rare Demon Leaf Spirit Stone as the main material, dark yet gleaming with a crystalline luster. Even though the marks of time had corroded much of it by now, the value of something of this level was still displayed vividly and to the fullest in Chen Fei's eyes.
A palace of this level, if it weren't buried deep underground, could probably be used to block the Mountain Gate Residence of some great sects, and would be more than enough. It had that kind of qualification.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Very quickly, the figures of Chen Fei and Pei Wanning entered the first palace hall deep within the Underground Palace.
At this moment, the ground here was covered in bloodstains, and many bodies of corrupted Corpse Demons lay scattered in all directions, Spiritual Energy raging and surgingā¦ Clearly, not long ago this place had absolutely gone through a fierce battle. Some people had died here.
Chen Fei was slightly taken aback at the sight, but he still didn't hesitate and sped toward the second palace hall.
The scene inside the second palace hall was even more astonishing. The blood-soaked corpse of a Corpse Demon giant tiger lay on the ground, clearly torn apart, with half its body turned into tattered, charred flesh and blood.
However, on the ground there, Chen Fei also saw the corpses of some human cultivators and demon cultivators.
Obviously, in this palace, experts from Ghost Wolf City who had come to hunt him, Chen Fei, had already paid the price of blood and life here.
"That should be a well-known sword expert from Ghost Wolf City. I know him; he possessed the Cultivation Level of the Second Heavenly Layer of Foundation Establishment True Person Realm." Pei Wanning suddenly spoke, looking at one human corpse with a complicated expression.
"Is that so?" Chen Fei paused for a moment at her words, unconcerned. That Corpse Demon giant tiger was clearly a powerful fellow at a glance, so it wasn't strange that a cultivator of the Second Heavenly Layer of Foundation Establishment True Person Realm had died here.
Immediately after, they quickly arrived at the third palace hall.
"Hm? That isā¦" In that third palace hall, four or five Corpse Demons with silver wings growing from their backs had been forcibly shaken to death on the ground. Although those Silver Wing Corpse Demons were dead, the ferocious aura still lingering on their bodies was enough to make one's heart palpitate.
"Silver Wing Corpse Demonsā¦ I didn't expect that this Underground Palace has actually already birthed such things." Chen Fei shook his head as he spoke.
"Silver Wing Corpse Demons? You mean the Silver Wing Corpse Demons from legend that can rival experts of the Third Heavenly Layer of Foundation Establishment True Person Realm?" Pei Wanning was slightly stunned, and then a look of shocking astonishment surfaced directly in her beautiful eyes.
One Silver Wing Corpse Demon was equivalent to an expert of the Third Heavenly Layer of Foundation Establishment True Person Realm, and hereā¦ there were at least four or five Silver Wing Corpse Demon corpses. Could it be!?
"Let's keep going." Chen Fei glanced at the corpses in the bellies of those Silver Wing Corpse Demons that hadn't yet been digested. These monsters had one major trait, which was that they liked to swallow their enemies whole, eating them alive.
So don't be fooled by there being few corpses in this third palace hall now; the number of people who died in that battle earlier was definitely not small.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Then the two of them again sped toward the fourth palace hall. This time, they flew for a full few minutes before their eyes suddenly lit up, and a vast palace full of radiance appeared before them.
This palace actually existed above the earth veins several thousand meters underground. A section of the region had been hollowed out, and it floated in midair, shocking to behold.
"Boom!"
"Zhuge Xun, hand over that Military Talisman! Otherwise, today I'll see you, this so-called Snow Cloud Tower prodigy, die here!"
Just at this moment, a terrifying aura surged out from that floating palace.
A voice filled with cold indifference exploded out right after.
"Military Talisman?" Chen Fei's eyes narrowed. It looked like they had found the thing.
"Zhuge Xun? He actually came too." Pei Wanning clearly had an emotional reaction to that name.
"You know him?" Chen Fei's gaze shifted as he asked.
"Mm. He's a genius of Snow Cloud Tower, one of the leaders of this generation's younger cultivators. Within Snow Cloud Tower, almost no one of his age can stand shoulder to shoulder with him; his status is very high. However, compared to Zhul Xing, he's still slightly inferior." Pei Wanning said.
"Boom! Boom! Boomā¦"
"That's right, Zhuge Xun, I admit your status is very high and your background is terrifyingā¦ but you'd better think this through. This place isn't Ghost Wolf City, and if we kill you, as long as we leave Ghost Wolf City, even Snow Cloud Tower won't be able to do anything to us."
"That's right! Hand over the Military Talisman, or die!"
"What are you still wasting words with him for? Just go up and kill everyone from Snow Cloud Tower."
...
At this moment, one terrifying aura after another appeared, followed by many voices dripping with greed.
"We're going in." Chen Fei's eyes flashed; he didn't delay any longer and turned into a streak of flowing light, rushing inside.
Pei Wanning hesitated for a moment, but still followed and charged in.
Inside that floating palace, there was a towering Commander's Platform. Around the Commander's Platform, powerful Ghost Wolf City experts, each with formidable aura, acted on their own, some forming small groups, directly sealing off a squad of people currently standing on the Commander's Platform.
And among the encircled group in the center of the Commander's Platform, a young man who was clearly the leader held in his hand a crimson Military Talisman, which projected faint rainbow-like auspicious light that cascaded down, drawing every eye.
Buzz!
Swoosh!
Right at this moment, just as Chen Fei and Pei Wanning stepped into the palace from outside, the military talisman in that young man's hand suddenly stirred, shot into the air, and in the blink of an eye broke free from his grip, turning into a streak of light that fell into Chen Fei's hand.
"Hm?" The young man froze on the spot, his expression full of shock.
The others were the same. Almost everyone was baffled by what they were seeing.
"It's him! Chen Fei, the one wanted by Yee Mu and Yun Zhen Pill King." At this time, someone finally recognized who Chen Fei was, face dark and wearing a cold sneer as he spoke.
"So it's you? There's a road to heaven and you don't take it, but you barge into hell with no door? Hand over that military talisman, or I'll have your head." A powerful figure, aura surging, charged at Chen Fei, snarling viciously.
He was an expert at the Peak of Second Heavenly Layer of Foundation Establishment True Person Realm, so in his eyes, snatching the talisman from Chen Fei's hand would be effortless.
"Zhuge Xun?" On the other side, an elder of Snow Cloud Tower at Third Heavenly Layer of Foundation Establishment True Person Realm frowned at the young man, asking in puzzlement.
He couldn't understand why this suddenly happened. The talisman flew away on its own!?
"Elder, the military talisman flew away by itself, I didn't manage to hold itā¦ and I'm afraid I couldn't even if I tried."
The young man, Zhuge Xun, said with a bitter smile. Then his gaze landed on Chen Fei, and he muttered, "He's that Chen Fei Elder Qiu and Jinming mentioned? He really is very youngā¦ but he actually didn't run!?"
In his view, with so many people here this time to hunt Chen Fei, for the latter not to run and even show up in front of them, how could that not make his heart feel strange and shocked?
Of course, he hadn't come to hunt Chen Fei; he was only here to watch the showā¦ but he hadn't expected to run into the emergence of this Mysterious Underground Palace.
Besides him, there was another group who were just as stunned by Chen Fei's appearance.
"Elder Zhou, he, heā¦ where is Senior Brother Zhul?" Within the Yan Zhen Sect camp, one Yan Zhen Sect expert asked the Yan Zhen Sect expert at Third Heavenly Layer of Foundation Establishment True Person Realm.
They knew very well that Zhul Xing had entered that mysterious space together with Chen Fei to undergo the Scarlet Sky Army inheritance trial. The reason they had not continued to stand guard and chose to leave was because they simply never put trash like Chen Fei in their eyesā¦
They had absolute confidence in Zhul Xing!
But now, Zhul Xing hadn't appeared, while this piece of trash showed up out of nowhere. Could it be?
No! How is that possible!?
Boom!
Just then, a shocking fluctuation erupted. In everyone's field of view they saw a figure plummet like a meteor and smash into the ground with a thunderous bang. The ground began to collapse, layers of it rippling and shaking. It was utterly shocking.
"What!?" Everyone's pupils shrank as they stared at the ruined figure on the ground.
This person was none other than that Peak of Second Heavenly Layer of Foundation Establishment True Person Realm expert who had just pressured Chen Fei with arrogance, intending to force him to hand over the military talisman!
But, but heā¦ was this vulnerable!?
How, how was this even possible!?
"I don't want to kill anyone, so get lost, far away. Otherwise, bear the consequences yourself." At this moment Chen Fei cast a cold glance at that Peak of Second Heavenly Layer of Foundation Establishment True Person Realm expert and spoke with disdain.
With his current strength, he was already qualified to completely disregard any Expert of Second Heavenly Layer of Foundation Establishment True Person Realm.
"Hm?"
The pupils of the experts present trembled, their expressions grave and incredulous. This kid could treat a Peak of Second Heavenly Layer of Foundation Establishment True Person Realm expert like trash and casually crush himā¦ Such strength was something the vast majority of people present likely did not possess.
He actually possessed such terrifying power!?
This, thisā¦
"Commander Ji Xing, is this the Scarlet Sky Army military talisman?" The next moment, they saw him asking Ji Xing inside the Octagonal Mystic Tower.
"That's right." A voice came from within the Octagonal Mystic Tower as Ji Xing said, "My lord, shall we brothers enter the talisman now?"
"Yeah." Chen Fei nodded, and in secret transferred all the Scarlet Sky Army statues within the Octagonal Mystic Tower into the Scarlet Sky Army military talisman. At once he felt the talisman in his hand become much heavier, and that powerful aura began to grow visibly apparent.
"Huh!?" Sensing the changes in the Scarlet Sky Army military talisman, everyone's eyes narrowed again as they exclaimed in shock, "What did he do to that talisman!?"
This Scarlet Sky Army talisman had suddenly become turbulent, overflowing with a fierce battle will. That instantly made them realize that the true foundation of this talisman had probably been drawn out by some mysterious means of Chen Fei's!
In other wordsā¦ could it be that this mysterious military talisman was far more precious than they had imagined!?
Many people's hearts trembled, and, almost subconsciously, their expressions turned greedy as they stared at Chen Fei.
Boom!
But right then, a truly terrifying aura appeared.
Then they saw that Yan Zhen Sect expert at Third Heavenly Layer of Foundation Establishment True Person Realm walking toward Chen Fei with a grim face, cold light flickering in his eyes, his tone icy as he said, "You little bastard, where is Zhul Xing? Where did he go!?"
"Hm?" Everyone's expressions changed. Zhul Xing?