Chapter 50: Black Giant Shadow

Inside the Earth Temple.

The four of them only saw.

A massive black giant hand descending from the Third Heaven. With a loud boom—! The roof shattered instantly, and broken tiles rained down onto the ground, kicking up clouds of dust.

Tang Rong hurriedly used her body to shield her child, Lu Xun.

Lu Dafu, who was nearby, was greatly alarmed to see the mother and child doing this; he hurriedly shoved them aside, preventing them from being struck by the shattered roof and suffering head injuries.

Ye Qing, however, dodged the falling tiles with ease, appearing quite relaxed. But when he saw the true face of this black giant shadow, his expression could not help but turn grave.

Damn it... it's actually at the Blood Exchange Realm!

This black giant shadow had the appearance of a human, yet lacked human facial features; its entire body was pitch black, as if composed of shadows, yet it was capable of interfering with physical matter in the world.

At this moment, the black shadow lowered its head, looking at the four of them. Then, it pressed its large hand down, intending to perform a dimensional strike to crush the four of them flat.

Seeing this, Ye Qing realized things were bad; he increased the speed of his Qi and Blood circulation, swiftly flew out of the already dilapidated Earth Temple, and arrived on the street, intending to flee.

As for his good friend Lu Dafu?

He would just have to pray for his own good fortune.

But the next moment, the body of the child named Lu Xun suddenly erupted with firelight, manifesting an intent to banish demons and eliminate evil. Before the black palm could even press down, it began to burn, forcing the black giant shadow to retract its hand.

Seeing this scene, Ye Qing was suddenly shocked.

What exactly was going on with the firelight on this child?

It was one thing that it could erupt earlier to eliminate the Resentful Souls and Weirds chasing them. After all, those Resentful Souls and Weirds were just cannon fodder, not worth mentioning.

But this Weird black shadow was comparable to the Blood Exchange Realm!

The Blood Exchange Realm is where one refines marrow like frost and blood like mercury. Shedding one's mortal body and exchanging bones, cleansing the hair and marrow, and achieving a flawless physical body is known as a Martial Saint.

This is a realm where one's very essence begins to transform; anywhere one goes, one can be called a great expert. It is certainly not some cannon fodder of the Essence Nourishing Realm!

If one accounts for the Yin Qi surrounding the Weird, and the fact that even a Blood Exchange Realm Martial Saint cannot withstand a Weird of the same realm under the assault of Yin Qi, one can imagine how terrifying its strength is.

Yet the firelight erupting from this child could actually injure a Weird of this level. What exactly is this firelight? How could it be so profound? Could it be that a True Qi Realm Grandmaster is acting from behind the scenes?

Ye Qing had no time to ponder; he realized this was an excellent opportunity to strike. Perhaps he could successfully counter-kill it and avoid falling into a hopeless predicament of endless flight.

After all, he was the only one left here now.

"Roar!"

The black giant shadow roared, forcing the surrounding air to vibrate and ripple outward like waves in water. The sound was so loud that not only could the entire Sanshan Gathering hear it, but even the three villages near the Sanshan Gathering could vaguely hear it.

Of course, it still couldn't wake those who were already fast asleep.

Taking advantage of the black giant shadow's palm being scorched, Ye Qing circulated his Qi and Blood, accumulated his strength, and lunged forward, throwing a punch in an attempt to knock the black giant shadow to the ground.

Crack! A snapping sound rang out.

His punch landed on the black giant shadow, and he was sent flying backward, the bones in his arm shattered, his face filled with shock and terror. How could this Weird's body be so hard?

The black giant shadow was somewhat bewildered; had some little ant touched it just now? Never mind, it had to complete its mission as soon as possible. It scanned the area and locked its target onto Ye Qing.

The thing the Master wants is on this ant.

Noticing the black giant shadow's movements, Ye Qing didn't even care about his injuries; he turned and ran, darting across the street, wanting to escape this Ghost Domain.

However, this was not very realistic.

The black giant shadow was two or three stories tall, while Ye Qing was only five or six feet tall; to a massive Weird like the black giant shadow, he was nothing more than a little ant crawling on the ground.

Ye Qing couldn't even cover the distance of one of the black giant shadow's steps in ten of his own, so he remained under the shadow's shroud, falling into panic and even despair.

Just then, Li Heng arrived.

He watched the chase, narrowing his eyes. A person at the Bone Refining realm, and a Weird with an aura suspected to be at the Blood Exchange Realm, or perhaps the Half-step True Qi Realm?

Seeing someone appear, Ye Qing was overjoyed. But when he noticed Li Heng's aura, he fell into despair—a martial artist who had just broken through to the Bone Refining realm?

He wouldn't even be enough to fill the gaps in this black giant shadow's teeth!

Nevertheless, Ye Qing hurriedly ran over; although he couldn't stop this Weird, he could at least serve as a scapegoat to help him buy some time.

Seeing Ye Qing run over, Li Heng's expression remained indifferent.

A wisp of Sun True Fire flew out, brushing past Ye Qing and accurately striking the black giant shadow Weird.

The black giant shadow had been in the middle of the chase, but under the scorching of the Sun True Fire, it instinctively sensed a crisis and began rolling on the ground, emitting cold Yin Qi.

It attempted to extinguish the flames.

However, it was a pity that all of this was in vain. How could the essence of the Sun True Fire be easily extinguished? Thus, after a few breaths, it was burned directly into fly ash.

Source Power +19.

Li Heng felt the feedback of the Source Power and raised an eyebrow. It seems it really was a Half-step True Qi Realm Weird; the Source Power was only a little more than that of Butler Wang.

Ye Qing turned his head to look at this scene, completely stunned.

What kind of flame is this? Someone from the Ma Family?

However, he quickly regained his composure and suppressed his distracting thoughts. He hurriedly ran up to Li Heng and spoke respectfully.

"Many thanks to you, sir, for your help; this humble one is deeply grateful."

Li Heng ignored him and looked ahead down the street. At this moment, Lu Dafu and his family of three had also run out of the City God Temple and were fleeing rapidly, the reason being that they were still being pursued by Weirds from behind.

More than a dozen Resentful Souls were following them at high speed. Logically speaking, a mortal like Lu Dafu could not outrun these Resentful Souls and would have been caught before taking many steps.

However, the faint firelight radiating from around Lu Xun made that group of Resentful Souls afraid to approach, so they could only follow from a distance.

It wasn't that Lu Dafu and Tang Rong, these two adults, had lost their heads; they had likely realized it long ago and were using their own son to clear the path—why would they still be afraid of these Resentful Souls?

Watching this scene, Li Heng couldn't help but shake his head.

It was simply too disgraceful. With his Sun True Fire Seed, they were still panicking like this? Had they not noticed that these Resentful Soul Weirds didn't dare to approach?

He flicked his finger, and the Sun True Fire flew out.

It burned the Resentful Soul Weirds following behind to nothing, and his Source Power increased by +11. Li Heng's Source Power reserves returned to fifty—neither too much nor too little.

Lu Dafu was still shaken. But seeing Li Heng help them deal with these Resentful Souls, his expression turned respectful, and he hurriedly ran to Li Heng. "Many thanks to you, sir, for your help."

"Many thanks also to Brother Ye for helping us lure away the black shadow Weird."

He thanked Ye Qing, who was beside him, once more.

In his view, if it weren't for Ye Qing luring away that black shadow Weird, they would have long since been turned into meat paste.

Li Heng heard this and raised an eyebrow.

He looked at Ye Qing and spoke indifferently.

"Your surname is Ye?"