Chapter 256 (2/2)

Thoughts flashed through Mu Chen’s heart and more blood dripped from the tip of the sword onto the black demonic pillar beneath his feet, and disappeared.

Onom.

“Look at that black stone pillar!”

Someone cried out in surprise. Dark-red runes were slowly lighting up on the surface of the crumbled stone pillar — the only one still standing at the center of the black basin. Even the heavens and earth seemed to take on a red tint.

Mu Chen was also startled by the strange change and he grabbed Su Xuan by the wrist. “Get away from the stone pillar!”

By the time his warning landed in their ears, he’d already taken Su Xuan and retreated. The others immediately followed.

“Trying to leave?!” Bai Xuan’s eyes turned cold as he followed too.

Boom!

The instant that Bai Xuan burst out, the black demonic pillar exploded with a blinding bloody light. The light soared into the clouds like a column of scarlet blood and dispersed into the sky, turning it into sea of blood. A ominous ripple spread beneath the sky.

It made that Ominous High Rank Spiritual Spiritual Artifact in Bai Xuan’s hands look like a fragile toy.

The abrupt events startled everyone present. Even Bai Xuan’s face took a drastic change. He sensed a frightening and indescribable ripple from that sky of blood.

“What’s that black stone pillar? Why’s it so horrifying?!” Bai Xuan stared at the claw marked pillar in shock.

“Could that stone pillar be the supreme treasure of this Spirit Treasury?!”

Bai Xuan’s heart trembled. His mission was to retrieve a supreme treasure from the White Dragon Sovereign’s Spirit Treasury; however, he had no detailed information of the treasure’s characteristics. At first, he thought it was the white spiritual pear that Mu Chen had seized — the Spiritual Energy ripples that it emitted told him that it was most likely ranked as a supreme treasure. But now, this mysterious black pillar was even more shocking!

It was so horrifying that even Bai Xuan didn’t dare to move.

The bloody sea of clouds spread and covered the entire dimension. Everyone watched in shock as the space around them twisted and seemed ready to shatter.

Even this mysterious space couldn’t suppress that frightening stone pillar?

Countless experts became overwhelmed with shock. Just what kind of treasure was it? Could it be a Divine Artifact?!

“The space is going to shatter!” Bai Xuan warned.

Mu Chen and the rest immediately circulated their Spiritual Energies to guard their bodies.

Bang!

All Bai Xuan could do was clench his fist as he no longer dared to move. He immediately circulated his Spiritual Energy to protect himself.

Bang!

The space twisted until it reached its limit. With a bang, it shattered like a mirror, sending violent ripples through the fabric of space around them.

One maelstrom of space appeared after another and devoured the people still trapped inside. Before anyone in their party could say anything they, too, were enveloped by a space maelstrom and disappeared.

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White Dragon Hillock

Far in the distance, a series of holes appeared in the sky. Numerous figures fell out like trash being dumped into a garbage pit.

Mu Chen and his party were lucky, since they hadn’t been separated as they were thrown out. They stabled their fall and landed together on a mountain peak.

“All out.” Su Xuan said in astonishment as she looked at the sorry figures dotting the mountain range.

“Just what was that black stone pillar? It was so horrifying!” Guo Xiong asked, dumbstruck. The space created by the White Dragon Sovereign had been extremely stable. However, it’d been so easily destroyed by the black stone pillar.

Only experts like the White Dragon Sovereign, or stronger, could accomplish something like that, right?

Mu Chen was deep in thought. He’d seen something like that before. He understood that the black demonic pillar was the supreme treasure that the White Dragon Sovereign had stolen from the Demonic Dragon Place. However, that item was way too demonic. Even Mu Chen was wary of touching it.

“We need to leave while Bai Xuan hasn’t noticed us!” Mu Chen declared.

That Bai Xuan was indeed formidable. It’d be best if they could avoid him. Otherwise, a battle to the death would be unavoidable.

Su Xuan and the rest nodded as they turned around and prepared to leave.

However, that instant they did so, Mu Chen saw a new crack appear before them and a torrent of ominous energy surged out. Before he could even react, a bloody light burst from the rift and hit Mu Chen dead between his widened eyes.

Mu Chen’s body stiffened. He could sense an extremely frightening ominous aura spread throughout his body, originating from the black demonic pillar.