Chapter 21

The emotions of the Ning family cultivators began to become chaotic.

"Shut up, all of you!" Ning Zhanji shouted decisively, "If it were really Zheng Shuanggou who wanted to harm us, we wouldn't be able to escape here."

"But this possibility is too small; if they really wanted to take action, why harm us? To alert the enemy?"

"We won't be the primary target of the attack!"

Ning Zhanji stabilized his emotions slightly, and then saw a figure holding double hooks, directly breaking through countless demon beasts and killing their way into one of the passages.

"It's Zheng Shuanggou!"

"I saw his signature weapon, the Sun and Moon Hooks."

"Phew, he didn't come to deal with us!"

The hearts of the Ning family cultivators, which had just been put down, were lifted again the next moment.

Because the intensity of the demon beast attack surged, and the pressure on the array defense increased sharply. Ning Zhanji had to order his subordinates to form small teams of several people to kill their way out of the array to relieve the pressure on the array.

After all, the array was laid out in a hurry and was not secure.

The demon beasts were fierce!

Even though the Ning family cultivators fought to the death, the first ice wall was soon broken.

The second spherical cover did not last long either.

Fortunately, the Ning family cultivators took the opportunity to set up a fourth array.

Everyone huddled in the pillar of light, struggling to hold their ground.

Ning Yong's face was pale, his body trembling, "A-are we going to die here today?"

Ning Chen was no longer calm, his face panicked, and he was at a loss.

Ning Zhuo had a similar expression, but strands of faint light rippled in the depths of his eyes.

Boom, boom, boom!

Suddenly, three loud noises shook the earth and mountains.

The demon beasts fled crazily, and a black figure directly smashed through the wall and rushed into the underground square.

Subsequently, the Zheng family's Golden Core cultivator, Zheng Shuanggou, also chased over.

"Rat, how dare you covet the Immortal Palace, leave your life behind!" Zheng Shuanggou roared.

Zheng Shuanggou swept out with all his might, shooting out a five-meter-long blade aura.

The black figure's voice was old, laughing wickedly, "The treasures of the cultivation world are obtained by those who are fated. You big clans of Fire Persimmon Immortal City want to swallow the Lava Immortal Palace privately? Dream on!"

As he spoke, the black figure fought hard, dispersed the blade aura, and took the opportunity to borrow the force to fly backward toward the Ning family cultivators.

Ning Zhanji's alarm bells rang wildly in his heart for a moment, and he hid in the center of the array, while shouting, "I will preside over the large array!"

The defensive magic array bloomed with unprecedented brilliance.

The black figure arrived in front of the magic array, waved his hand lightly, and instantly defeated the magic array.

With another wave of his hand, a large group of cultivators fell, their bodies unharmed, but they lost their lives forever.

"Demon cultivator, still rampant!" Zheng Shuanggou was furious and rushed up.

The black-shadow demon cultivator turned around and fought fiercely with Zheng Shuanggou.

"Lord Ning Zhanji!" the Ning family cultivators shouted.

But Ning Zhanji's eyes were wide open, and he fell to the ground, dying with eyes wide open.

Losing the protection of the array and without a leader, the subsequent demon beasts continued to pounce and kill, and the Ning family cultivators could only flee in all directions!

Casualties expanded quickly.

At the critical moment, Ning Zhuo suddenly shouted, "Take the passage where the Golden Core cultivator rushed over; the demon beasts there must be the fewest!!"

Getting the reminder, the Ning family cultivators, who were at a loss, were all jolted.

"That's right!"

"In that passage, it was clashed through twice by two Golden Core cultivators, so the demon beasts must be the fewest."

"Go that way!!"

Thus, the Ning family group twisted into a rope again and killed their way to the passage entrance.

"Ning Yong, Ning Chen, follow me closely!" Ning Zhuo opened his chest and took out pieces of frost talismans, waving them everywhere. These were all accumulated from his talisman-making in the school on weekdays, and he had long had a source for them.

Ning Yong and Ning Chen both had red eyes; in their panic, they subconsciously followed behind Ning Zhuo, fighting with all their might to win a chance of survival for themselves.

The three supported each other and "dangerously" caught up with the Ning family's main force, entering the passage entrance.

Looking back, the two Golden Cores fought with great momentum, scaring the demon beasts into fleeing everywhere.

Many demon beasts fled in the same direction as the Ning family group, pouncing from behind them.

The front of the passage was full of demon beast corpses, with very few survivors, but behind them, demon beasts were surging in one after another.

Under this pressure, the Ning family cultivators could only bite the bullet and run desperately forward along the passage.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Along the way, they encountered some demon beasts blocking the way, all of which were killed with all their might by the Ning family cultivators who were fleeing for their lives like madmen.

"That is?!"

"Lava Immortal Palace!"

"I didn't expect this passage to lead to the Lava Immortal Palace."

The Ning family cultivators discovered a magma lake, and a corner of the Immortal Palace building was exposed in the lake.

"Lava Immortal Palace..." Ning Zhuo whispered, his expression quite natural. As an ordinary youth, seeing the Immortal Palace for the first time, his mind was inevitably captured by it. Only no one saw the flash of brilliance that suddenly appeared in the depths of his eyes!

In fact, he had already anticipated this result.

Ning Chen, who was to the side, was panting and reacted, shouting, "This is actually not hard to guess!"

"Didn't the words spoken by the two Golden Cores when they were fighting earlier already reveal the answer?"

"It's very likely that the black-shadow demon cultivator wanted to sneak in, but was intercepted by Zheng Shuanggou!"

The situation of the Ning family cultivators was very awkward.

In front was the lava lake, exposing a corner of the Immortal Palace building, and behind were demon beasts surging in continuously.

Forced to be helpless, the remnants of the Ning family could only form an array to defend again.

They formed two arrays, one outside and one inside, nested within each other. The intensity of the demon beast pouncing was much weaker than at the underground square.

"We can block them!!" Just as the Ning family cultivators were happy, a violent roar followed.

"Where are you going?!" Zheng Shuanggou's roar grew closer and closer.

The Ning family cultivators suddenly felt like they had fallen into an ice cellar; listening to this movement, it was very clear that the black-shadow demon cultivator had killed his way back again!

"It seems that today, we are dead for sure!" Ning Yong's face was pale.

Ning Chen simply closed his eyes, completely desperate.

Just as hope for survival had been ignited, it was ruthlessly crushed again; under the great ups and downs, the fighting spirit of the two new cultivators was lost.

"If we die, we die! So what?" Ning Zhuo suddenly shouted, "Dying in battle like this is better than dying like a coward!"

Provoked like this, Ning Yong's face changed, and in the desperate situation, he ignited courage and stood up, gritting his teeth.

Ning Chen opened his eyes and looked at Ning Zhuo, secretly admiring this classmate's bravery before death.

He was also ignited with courage, "A-Zhuo, well said! Being able to die under the hands of a Golden Core, in front of the Lava Immortal Palace, can be considered dying in the right place."

Just as he finished speaking, vast thick smoke surged over. The thick smoke was extremely pitch-black, containing surging dark energy, which could shield spiritual sense perception.

In the blink of an eye, shadows moved in the black smoke, condensing together to form countless dark shadow snakes and pythons, crashing toward the Lava Immortal Palace in the magma lake.

But just halfway through the crash, the terrifying giant snakes and pythons dissipated powerlessly one after another.

Zheng Shuanggou's roar came, "Attacking the Immortal Palace? Don't even think about it!!"

But immediately after, snakes and pythons were generated again; this time, however, they did not attack the Immortal Palace, but directly attacked the surrounding passages.

Under such a wild attack, the cave walls of the passage were immediately covered with cracks and were on the verge of collapsing.

"Madman!" Seeing this scene, Zheng Shuanggou also felt a chill in his heart.

He had no choice but to turn from offense to defense, using all his strength, surging magic power, covering the passage to protect it.

In the black smoke, a dark shadow long snake suddenly crashed into the Ning family's array.

Without any accident, the Golden Core-level attack was not something the Ning family's array could withstand, and it fell apart in an instant!

The black smoke surged over, covering the sky and the earth, and the vision of the Ning family remnants was completely obscured.

"Come on!" Ning Yong shouted, bursting with all his courage, determined to fight to the death.

Rolling black smoke, one could not see one's fingers.

Ning Zhuo seemed to have become alone in an instant.

He took out his token and transformed into the Pale Iron Han Armor. With the iron armor covering his body, he immediately possessed Foundation Establishment combat power!