"Qu Xuanlang, you coward, do you dare to come out and battle me?"

Seeing that it was impossible to catch up with the Divine Spirit realm powerhouse with the strange hand growing from his forehead in a short time, Xu Qianwu stopped in his tracks and loudly challenged him to a fight.

He and Qu Xuanlang were old adversaries. In the past, due to the damage to his Divine Spirit rank, he not only lacked the ability to defeat his opponent but also suffered losses in several encounters.

Now that his Divine Spirit rank was restored and his strength had greatly increased, he naturally thought of Xu Qianwu at the first opportunity.

"Heh heh!"

The sneering voice of Qu Xuanlang came from the west, "Xu Qianwu, don't be arrogant, today is the day you die!"

"Do you dare to battle me? Qu Xuanlang, I'm asking you, do you dare to fight me?" Xu Qianwu's gentle words turned as he looked westward, recognizing the escape light of Xu Qianwu, and once again he shouted out the challenge.

Where would Qu Xuanlang have the courage to fight Xu Qianwu one-on-one? Xu Qianwu's strength had increased so terrifyingly that in a solo fight, he would only get slaughtered.

With a snicker, "The bravest are the most foolish, that's what the stupidest people do. Xu Qianwu, you think I'm as dumb as you?"

Xu Qianwu replied contemptuously, "If you don't dare, you just don't dare, why bother finding so many reasons for yourself. Qu Xuanlang, your words only make me despise you."

"Haha!" Qu Xuanlang responded to Xu Qianwu with laughter, followed immediately by a roar of anger, but this was him issuing a command to the people of the Curse Gate, "Everyone, surround him!"

Whoosh whoosh whoosh! Whoosh whoosh whoosh! Hiss hiss hiss!

The Mutated Beings of the Curse Gate surrounded from all directions, closing in on each other as they approached Xu Qianwu and Xiao Mu.

The momentum of a dozen Divine Spirit realm powerhouses linked together, instantly covering the entire Heaven and Earth.

Boom!

Qu Xuanlang was the first to release his Mountain God rank, a black light shot up into the sky, instantly dyeing the sky above his head a terrifying black that sent shivers down one's spine.

In that terrible blackness, curse power transformed into a black liquid that dripped down from the air drop by drop like raindrops.

A black Mountain God emerged from within the black light, seated cross-legged. His eyes suddenly opened, unleashing two sword-like giant beams of Spell Light.

Boom! Boom! Boom...

As Qu Xuanlang released his Divine Spirit rank, the other Divine Spirit realm powerhouses of the Curse Gate also began to release their ranks one after another.

Curse power spread, black light descended from the sky, one after another pressing down on the Earth, enveloping the region.

All the black lights interlinked, endless curse power began to permeate this space, everything it touched withered, and all living beings in the area were cursed.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In the sky, strange rumblings resounded continuously, ranks for Mountain God, Land God, Kitchen God, Door God, Judge, and even lower ones such as Underworld Messenger and Wandering God appeared one after another.

One rank after another revealed itself, one Divine Spirit after another appeared in the sky.

Divine Power spread in all directions, the power of a dozen Divine Spirits slowly linked together.

"Xu Qianwu, if you've got the guts, don't run!" came Qu Xuanlang's triumphant laughter, dripping with mockery.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

The Escape Light merged into one, and more than a dozen Divine Spirit realm powerhouses simultaneously flew towards Xu Qianwu and Xiao Mu.

"Suppress!"

Boom! Still at a considerable distance, the dozen Divine Spirit realm powerhouses suddenly used their Divine Spirit ranks, launching a distant suppression at Xu Qianwu.

Xu Qianwu's expression changed.

No matter how conceited he was, he didn't think he could withstand the joint suppression from nearly twenty Divine Spirit realm powerhouses.

"Run fast!"

He signaled to Xiao Mu, then unfolded his Escape Art and fled.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Xiao Mu was even quicker to act, unfolding the Earth Escape Technique to flee before Xu Qianwu even signaled him.

His Escape Art was even faster than Xu Qianwu's; in the blink of an eye, he had widened the gap between them.

"This..."

Xu Qianwu looked at Xiao Mu's fleeing light with surprise and an expression of wry amusement on his face, realizing that Xiao Xiao's technique was quicker than his own and extremely clever; he needn't call out for help at all.

Boom!

Splat!

Xu Qianwu, slightly slower, got grazed by the descending divine light. The combined Divine Power from over a dozen people instantly injured him, causing him to spit out a mouthful of black blood imbued with curse power.

"Run fast!"

Clearly, Xu Qianwu had no intention of stopping to fight with the people from the Curse Gate; he urged Xiao Mu to flee while nursing his injuries.

"Xu Qianwu, haha! Xu old dog, weren't you going to fight me? Why are you running away? Come on, I'm here; come and battle with me."

Qu Xuanlang's taunting scorn carried over as he led the people from the Curse Gate in pursuit of Xu Qianwu and Xiao Mu.

Unwilling to show weakness, Xu Qianwu retorted, "Qu Xuanlang, if you really are capable, fight Ancestor Xu one-on-one. Otherwise, spare me the nonsense!"

"Heh! One-on-one, do you think I would fall for your trick and give up my advantage to fight you alone? Xu Qianwu, don't tell me you think everyone is as foolish as you?" Qu Xuanlang's taunting voice came again, filled with disdain.

Xu Qianwu sneered, "All your talk is just to cover up the fact that you are no match for me."

Qu Xuanlang scornfully replied, "You may be strong, but unfortunately, you are still going to die today. Xu Qianwu, I'd like to see where you can flee to; if you've got the guts, keep running."

"I forgot to tell you; apart from you and Fang Ying, all your people from the Human world have pretty much fallen into the hands of our Curse Gate."

"You can keep running; that's fine, because during your escape, the Humans from your world will be killed one after another by us, haha! Xu Qianwu, are you really going to abandon them and flee alone?"

"If that's what you really think, then run!"

Xu Qianwu's complexion changed.

The words from Qu Xuanlang had hit a sore spot.

The Mutated Beings from the Human world who had been captured were his weakness.

As an elder of the Great Tang Ruins, guarding the South Five Regions, including all its Mutated Beings and ordinary Humans, was his responsibility.

"Elder Xu, don't fall for his provocation!" Xiao Mu sensed Xu Qianwu's emotional turbulence and quickly warned him.

"Xiao Mu, Qu Xuanlang said that all our people have been captured by them, is it true?" Xu Qianwu asked while fleeing, seeking reassurance from Xiao Mu.

If all the Mutated Beings sent out this time were to be slaughtered by the Curse Gate, even if they eventually managed to drive out the Curse Gate's people from the Nanhua Domain, it would be a pyrrhic victory.

Killing any number of the Curse Gate's Mutated Beings could not make up for the losses on the Human side.

"It's possible, but don't worry, they probably won't start a massacre of our people from the Human world recklessly anytime soon," Xiao Mu suddenly remembered something and comforted Xu Qianwu.

"Why do you say that? Xiao Mu, do you know something?" Xu Qianwu picked up on something from Xiao Mu's words and sharply pressed him for confirmation.

While escaping, Xiao Mu explained, "Elder Xu, I had previously encountered a massive Black Stele in the Central Area of the Nanhua Domain..."

Xiao Mu relayed everything related to the massive Black Stele to Xu Qianwu, including events like the Curse Gate capturing ordinary Humans from the Nanhua Domain and using their blood to sacrifice to the massive Stele.

He concluded, "I suspect the Curse Gate's capture of our people from the Human world is also to take them to the massive Stele for a blood sacrifice. Their ultimate goal is to bring forth the strong entity behind the Stele into the Human world."

Xu Qianwu's face became gravely serious, "Xiao Mu, do you think behind that Black Stele, there is a True God?"

Xiao Mu nodded, then immediately corrected Xu Qianwu, "Elder Xu, not a True God but a True God. The existence behind the Stele is likely to be a True God."

"A True God!"

Xu Qianwu's face was completely stricken.

The terror of a True God was something he knew all too well; not even Lord of Bai's Mansion, the strongest and the highest Divine Spirit in the Human world, was more than a True God.

At present, with the strongest of the Alliance, the Human Emperor, in slumber, and the whereabouts of Lord of Bai's Mansion unknown, there was no one amongst the rest who could stand against a True God.

Should the True God behind the Black Stele enter the Human world, it would most certainly become Hell on Earth.

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