Chapter 336: The Present World

Mo Hua was utterly stunned, unable to believe it.

The Qian family's ancestor… just died like that?!

Mo Hua had just said that those who commit many injustices will perish by their own hand, that such acts invite retribution.

But it was only something he said offhand.

He never imagined the Qian family's ancestor would truly face retribution—and so swiftly!

Mo Hua's emotions churned, but what followed stunned him just as much.

After swallowing the Qian family's ancestor, the pig demon's dead white eyes began to glow crimson.

Its blood began flowing again, its demonic power recondensed, the bloodstains on its body shifted from dark red to vivid scarlet, even emitting blinding red light.

Mo Hua's pupils trembled.

This pig demon is refining the medicinal power!

The two were startled: "What kind of beast is that?"

Weak attacks would only injure it; strong ones, like the Qian family's spiritual energy, would be devoured by the pig demon.

Xiao Jia retreated while approaching nearby encampments, sending word upward:

Zhang Lan and Commander Yang witnessed an unbelievable sight.

Zhou Zhangsi placed Mo Hua down; everyone exhaled in relief.

"That's… Wu Xiaoyao…"

Yet after a moment, blood qi began to coalesce again where the front leg had vanished.

Commander Yang dragged Zhang Lan, while Zhou Zhangsi slung Mo Hua onto his back.

After running a while, the pig demon's roar came again from ahead—it hadn't risen yet.

After running only a few steps, Mo Hua spotted people ahead: Commander Yang and Zhang Lan.

At the same time, the pig demon turned its head, its blood-red eyes fixing on Mo Hua.

We saw Mo Hua form a fireball at an excruciatingly slow pace, activating the array in the corner.

Run!

Mr. Zhuang said: the Dao is born and perishes; where there is no birth, there is no death.

Strangely, this aura was utterly unlike the array's collapse—more like a force of regeneration, life reborn.

At the eleventh hour, Mo Hua had a sudden insight.

The fireball shot forth at Mo Hua's mental command, arcing through the air and precisely igniting the array.

I am a Foundation Establishment cultivator; my movement is much slower than Mo Hua's two.

An hour ago, all cultivators—including Mo Hua—had gathered at the foot of Shenshan.

"What array is that? And who is this fragmented Xu Bai Laozu? How could it dissolve the body of a seventh-rank beast?!"

"What kind of beast is this? Why is its flesh regeneration so fast?!"

At that moment, a sudden transformation erupted within Shenshan.

Mo Hua was protected before them; he felt both moved and relieved.

Jie Zhili and the others exchanged glances: "We're all Foundation Establishment cultivators here—even the Qian family's spiritual energy has a chance to fight…"

At this moment, cultivators far away in Xiancheng all felt it—they looked up and saw the towering blood aura.

Zhou Zhangsi's face turned pale: "But how… how could this be…?"

When the pig demon charged, the array had not been activated.

Upon hearing this, everyone was struck with shock.

"Run fast!"

Some elderly beast hunters, unable to believe it, trembled as they cried out in terror:

At the same time, a terrifying aura coalesced on the pig demon, causing all to shudder, even giving the illusion that the Dao itself had reversed and spawned anomalies!

Commander Yang and the two others were profoundly shaken:

I suddenly remembered—the underground array I set up is still there.

Born from death: it was dead, yet it came back to life.

It is not only refining the medicinal power of the Transferred Lifespan to Golden Core Pill, but also refining the blood qi of the Qian family's ancestor.

"What happened?"

Mo Hua shook his head: "The Qian family's Wei Lan was eaten. It's not just you who must run—every cultivator searching the mountain must flee Shenshan!"

Mo Hua's body hair stood on end; he pushed the Departing Water Step to its limit and sprinted toward the stone chamber's exit.

When the array collapsed, it occurred at the pig demon's left front leg—within an instant, one of its front legs vanished, as if space itself had collapsed and erased it.

No one hesitated; they immediately withdrew.

"Run faster!"

It seemed the pig demon was charging wildly right and left, smashing the stone walls to rubble, and the aura coming from the cave entrance grew increasingly bloody and horrifying.

Zhou Zhangsi, Jie Zhili, and Young Master An were all there.

Shenshan is in upheaval—great danger looms; all cultivators must evacuate immediately!

Commander Yang, without further delay, scooped up Mo Hua under one arm and dragged Zhang Lan with the other, racing backward.

There was no one left inside now.

At that moment, another thunderous crash echoed from within the cave.

Mo Hua didn't know what had happened, but at this moment, he had only one thought:

Seeing the two still frozen, Mo Hua couldn't hold back—he used both hands to slap each of them hard and shouted:

Mo Hua gasped for breath, said nothing else, and repeated only: "Run faster!"

Zhang Lan and the seven others looked solemn, quickly shielding Mo Hua in front of them, hoping to hold back the pig demon for a moment and let Mo Hua escape.

In the span of a single breath, Mo Hua pressed two fingers together, channeling Qi to form a Fireball Technique.

Mo Hua's voice carried deep shock.

This ferocious malice and deadly aura shook the spirit of every cultivator.

Inside the stone chamber, there was a moment of deathly silence, as if even sound had been dissolved.

Everyone's heart jolted.

But the array did not explode; the Elder reversed the transformation, gradually disintegrating, producing intermittent white Qi.

In the white night, a torrent of blood qi surged into the sky, the mountain peak collapsed, and a massive, bloody pig demon suddenly appeared—its terrifying roar seemed ready to tear apart the white night.

The pig demon's front legs had been annihilated by Wei Lan's reversal; though regenerated, its blood qi was blocked for now, struggling but unable to rise.

Mo Hua pushed his spiritual sense to its limit, instantly locking onto the location of the First-Rank Earth Fire Reversal Array he had laid outside the chaotic stone chamber.

The two froze, still unaware of what had happened, when at the end of the stone steps, a bloodied, grotesque pig head emerged.

Following the bell's resonance, they reached the cave entrance but had not yet located the exact spot when they heard tremors inside and a roar echoing from within.

Zhang Lan and Commander Yang appeared at the cave entrance, saw Mo Hua's pale face, and were about to speak when Mo Hua urgently cut them off.

The Qi produced by the disintegration resembled black, tiny daggers, one by one, instantly slicing the pig demon's body into a thousand cuts.

No matter how the Elder's disintegration dissolved the flesh, the blood and muscle regenerated just as fast.

The stone walls on both sides, like tofu, were crushed into fragments by its massive body.

This pig was terrifying.

This place was the boundary between Shenshan and Neishan; a few steps further and one reached Neishan, which was relatively more dangerous.

That calculating, deeply cultivated Qian family elder—who could break free even under siege by several Foundation Establishment experts and Dao Soldiers—had been eaten by that pig?!

But the pig demon's aura was too terrifying; both knew they were outmatched, sweat oozing from their palms.

First bones formed, then flesh and blood vessels, finally skin.

He knew Commander Yang and the others were no match for that demonic pig, and could not possibly stop it.

In a few breaths, the group had run into the cave.

First skin, then flesh, finally bones—all were reversed and dissolved into black powder.

The aura emanating from it made Mo Hua feel alien and eerie.

The pig demon lost balance and fell, halting its forward lunge.

The pig demon's head was stuck in the stone chamber entrance; its crimson pupils rotated irregularly, glanced sideways, spotted Mo Hua, let out a screech, and charged straight at him.

Commander Yang and the others snapped back to their senses, then simultaneously activated their movement techniques and sprinted toward the cave entrance.

Mo Hua's heart turned cold—he didn't know exactly how powerful the pig was, but years of array-crafting insight and an inexplicable dread rising within him told him: if they didn't run now, everyone here would be devoured by the pig demon!

The strange thing was, its aura resembled that of the disintegrating Elder Yu—both faintly contained the power of the Dao.

Jie Li Li, without hesitation, said firmly: "Withdraw!"

It was not just Mo Hua and the others who saw this scene.

If you don't run now, you may not have time to escape.

They didn't know what was happening, so they waited at the cave entrance.

Qian family's Wei Lan… was eaten?!

If the array's disintegration was Elder Yu, then this pig—was regeneration!

Zhou Zhangsi, standing beside Mo Hua, saw the pig demon's current form and felt its aura; recalling ancient legends among demon hunters, he instantly felt as if plunged into ice, crying out:

Jie Li Li, seeing Mo Hua and the others' solemn expressions and pale faces, frowned and asked:

In the deep night, the noise of Shenshan was shattered; the search teams of cultivators, in panic, withdrew in disorder from Shenshan.

At the same time, the First-Rank Earth Fire Reversal Array began to disintegrate!

Commander Yang was about to speak when Mo Hua grabbed his sleeve.

The pig demon looked light, but its speed was extremely fast—it was about to catch up.

"The Xiao Yao has emerged…"