Chapter 263: Slash Our Way Out!

Gongsun Ji swung the Sky‑Opening Axe and hacked at the demon Guards who were attacking.

One swing, one hit.

The demon General, seeing this, hurriedly sent a message requesting reinforcements.

But as soon as his words finished, the blood‑soaked youth suddenly turned his head, his eyes blazing ferociously at him.

The demon General felt a chill down his spine and instantly tried to flee.

But the youth immediately charged forward, swinging an axe at him.

The demon General's pupils trembled; he poured all his strength into dodging, barely evading the youth's astonishing strike!

The youth twisted his wrist slightly, gripping the Sky‑Opening Axe and slashing horizontally.

The demon General's abdomen was swept by the axe blade in an instant, flesh torn open, blood gushing, the pain contorting his face into terror.

"Stop him!" he shouted while clutching his wounded abdomen and fled wildly.

Gongsun Ji sneered, immediately pursued, and cut off his head.

This scene filled the demon Guards present with dread, and they scattered toward the exit of the dungeon.

At the same time, Cang Li pretended to be frightened, blending into the crowd of demon Guards.

"Let us out!" the human Cultivators trapped in the dungeon shouted.

Gongsun Ji didn't hesitate, cleaving open the cells and cutting the binding cords on their bodies.

"I want to exit the Radiant Light Secret Realm!" a young human shouted.

"Now wanting to leave the Radiant Light Secret Realm, might it be too late?"

"Friends, what is the Radiant Light Secret Realm?" the human Cultivators from over seven hundred years ago looked bewildered upon hearing their conversation.

The words silenced the surroundings instantly.

No one spoke again.

Revealing the truth within the Radiant Light Secret Realm would contradict its very operation.

A female Cultivator said gravely, "Friends, we must leave quickly, or once demon reinforcements arrive we won't be able to escape."

The others agreed with her and headed toward the dungeon's exit.

But they never imagined the demons would go so mad as to set the dungeon ablaze, intending to trap them to death.

Thick smoke poured into the dungeon, choking everyone into sudden coughing.

Faintly, the road ahead could be seen lit by flames.

"Damn demons!"

"We must slash our way out!"

"We cannot sit and wait for death!"

"Think you can trap us to death? Dream on!" a young man drew his sword, slashing; in an instant the blade sliced the air, a water dragon leapt from the void toward the flame.

Other human Cultivators also sprang into action.

Outside the dungeon.

Rows of orderly demon soldiers blocked the dungeon, led by one of the Demon Emperors—Kou Zhang.

Demon Emperor Kou Zhang was born with a fat head and large ears, a rotund belly, his eyes squeezed to a sliver by his fleshy face, yet those tiny eyes gleamed sharply.

He stood with his arms crossed behind his back, aura powerful.

Behind him stood two women and a man, all of Demon King rank.

Five demon Generals also arrived.

One Emperor, three Kings, five Generals, and thousands of soldiers were present; even if the human Cultivators escaped the dungeon, they would be unable to fly away.

One Demon King smiled and said, "When did Ten Thousand Miles Plain become mixed with so many human Cultivators, all looking so young, and why?"

Another Demon King sneered, "These human Cultivators are as annoying as flies."

At that moment, the dungeon collapsed from the fire, and a few human Cultivators rushed out first.

Before they could see their surroundings, countless arrows targeted them and shot.

Startled, they quickly raised weapons to block.

In an instant, two human Cultivators were shot dead.

Other human Cultivators, through the thick smoke, saw the outside scene, and their hearts cooled by half.

"How can we break through this encirclement?!"

Many looked toward Gongsun Ji.

Although reckless, Gongsun Ji was not foolish; his face grew serious as he contemplated the next move.

He could handle a Demon King, but not a Demon Emperor!

The Demon Emperor was overwhelmingly strong, comparable to a Celestial Sovereign.

If they stay, flame and smoke will eventually trap them; if they go out, how can they escape under the Demon Emperor's watchful eye?

Moreover, Qingcheng is the main stronghold of both demon and monster races, its guard extremely strict; leaving Qingcheng is virtually impossible!

Then they discovered a monster troop arriving.

The monster troop's leader was the Snake King.

"What now?!" the young human Cultivator's face changed; now he finally understood why the great war of over seven hundred years ago, when the demon and monster races invaded the cultivation world, filled humans with despair.

Because the demon and monster races were too powerful.

This is the Radiant Light Secret Realm, a rewind to over seven hundred years ago, essentially reproducing all beings that ever existed, yet it could not fully replicate the true strength of the demon and monster races.

The danger they faced was real.

While they hesitated, a hissing sound came from outside the dungeon, followed by countless poisonous snakes slithering in.

Their pupils contracted.

"These snakes are highly poisonous!"

"Use fire!"

Before the words finished, a young human female Cultivator quickly gathered a fireball and hurled it at the dense swarm of poisonous snakes.

One cluster after another of flames briefly blocked the snakes' advance.

But some of the poisonous snakes cleverly dodged the tongues of fire and lunged toward the human Cultivator.

Sss—

Amid flashes of blade and sword, the poisonous snakes were sliced into several pieces that fell to the ground.

Many people began forming spirit shields to fend off the snakes' attack. They attacked while defending.

Outside the dungeon.

A Demon King sneered, "This group of humans are still cowering inside and won't come out."

Demon Emperor Kou Zhang narrowed his eyes, "Make the fire burn even brighter."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Immediately, several demon soldiers carried out the order.

Soon, the dungeon entrance erupted in fierce flames, and the thick smoke surged into the dungeon.

Inside the dungeon, the human Cultivators were choked by the smoke, struggling to breathe.

"To hell with you!" Gongsun Ji could no longer hold back, shouting angrily, then rallying the others, "Let's all charge out and kill them without leaving a single piece of armor!"

"Staying here is a dead end; rather than be this pathetic, let's fight with all we've got!"

Everyone's morale surged.

Led by Gongsun Ji, he swung his axe to cleave the dense snakes on the path, then hurried out of the dungeon.

But as soon as he emerged, an archer took aim and fired!

Gongsun Ji swung his axe.

In an instant—

A deafening blast rang out, and all the arrows were shattered in that instant, scattering on the ground.

Immediately, Gongsun Ji stepped forward; the Heaven‑Opening Axe in his hand swelled to a massive size in an instant, as heavy as ten thousand jin, and he swung it at the demon soldiers guarding the front.

Just as the demon soldiers were about to be crushed into mush—

One of the Demon Kings flashed forward, gathering palm force to block Gongsun Ji's massive axe, but his expression soon changed.