Chapter 113: Return to Dongyue City

  Xu Hua walked alone in the Taihang Mountains, constantly operating "Sheng Gong" to absorb the life essence of all living things around him. In the two years spent in the earth tomb fire vein, although Xu Hua did not have the opportunity to absorb life essence, the range controlled by "Sheng Gong" was much larger than it was two years ago.

  Xu Hua now controls an area of a hundred feet around him, and as he passes by, the life energy of the plants and demonic beasts is transformed into a surging torrent that flows into his body, condensing into a crystal of life.

  Two years ago, Xu Hua had over 1,200 Life Crystals in his body and reached saturation. After two years, Xu Hua's physique strengthened several times, and he could also hold more Life Crystals.

  After two years of consumption by the Earthly Fire, Xu Hua's Life Crystals were almost depleted, leaving only 70 or 80 crystals left. The Life Crystals were an extremely important means for Xu Hua, and if not for the nearly endless supply of life energy as a backup, he wouldn't have been able to survive until now. Now that his Life Crystals were running out, he naturally needed to replenish them in large quantities.

  For more than a month, Xu Hua himself didn't know where he was. However, in the place he is now, third-grade demon beasts are almost invisible, mostly first and second grade demon beasts. It's clear that they have already reached the edge of the Taihang Mountains, and it won't be long before he can get out.

  Although this period of time was not long, Xu Hua gained a lot. Along the way, unless it was a fourth-order demon beast, he almost didn't need to spend much effort. After killing those demon beasts, Xu Hua also absorbed the life energy within their bodies in a short period of time. Now Xu Hua's strength is powerful, and the few fourth-order demon beasts he encountered were all killed by him, turning into streams of life energy that converged into his body.

  However, Xu Hua's strength has almost reached an extreme now! For more than a month, he also tried to cultivate, but there was almost no effect. Apparently, he encountered a bottleneck, and only by crossing this bottleneck can he continue to rapidly improve his strength.

  With just physical strength, it's close to 80,000 catties, enough to kill most late-stage martial artists. In terms of true energy cultivation, he is only a late-stage martial artist, but his foundation is extremely solid, and the 75 drops of true liquid in his dantian can burst out with nearly 10,000 catties of force in an instant.

  Both are overlapped, unless it is Liu Yidao, Luo Cheng, Bei Chengtang and other top-notch martial emperors. Among the martial emperors, Xu Hua has few opponents.

  However, this is only for Wu Huang. If it's against a stronger Wu Zun, even the weakest one, he wouldn't be enough to look at. Xu Hua's strength is strong, but unfortunately, his understanding of the law is too shallow. The vast majority of Wu Zuns have a deeper understanding of the law than Wu Huang, and with the suppression of the aura on the true energy, Xu Hua really doesn't have much chance.

  Xu Hua's methods were not limited to this. If Xu Hua used all his tricks, even the strongest martial artists would be afraid and wouldn't know what to do.

  Whoosh! Whoosh!

  As he walked through the mountains and forests, Xu Hua suddenly heard the sound of running in the distance. He immediately followed the sound.

  In the dense forest, weeds are lush and trees stand tall. For humans, especially weak humans, this is absolutely not an advantage. In any clump of grass, a monster may jump out and attack weak humans at will.

  "It's here! It's here! The antidote is here!" A rough and burly man, holding a bunch of green grass in his hands, rushed over hastily.

  On the ground, a young man who looked like he was only in his early twenties lay on his back against a large tree. Beside him, an emaciated old man was using thin vines to tightly bind the young man's calves, below which were two small, purplish holes.

  A burly big Han came running, suddenly tripped and almost fell over due to the intertwined old vines on the ground.

  The withered old man took the green grass from the rough big man's hand, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed carefully for a few moments. The old man's eyebrows furrowed as if the grass was dry and bitter. Finally, he spat out the now-powdered grass onto the young man's spot with two small holes.

  Hmph!

  As if stimulated, the eyelids of the young man who was originally drowsy and sleepy jumped slightly, as if he was about to wake up.

  "Father, how is Ah Kun?" The burly man finally spoke up after watching the frail old man finish his task.

  He glared at the burly man, and the thin old man said somewhat discontentedly: "It's nothing, just rest for a while! Fortunately, the toxicity of that red snake is not too strong, otherwise, with the delay you caused earlier, Ah Kun would have died by now! At that time, I, this white-haired person, would have sent off a black-haired person."

  "It's all right as long as nothing happened! It's all right as long as nothing happened!" Hearing that his son was fine, the rough and burly man finally put his mind at ease.

  Cough, cough!

  At this time, the young man coughed slightly and opened his eyes. The rough big man immediately scolded him, saying: "You little rabbit, I told you to be careful, be careful, but you didn't listen. Look what happened! This is Taihang Mountain Range, full of danger. If you're not careful, you can lose your life at any time. If you die, how can I explain it to your mother?"

  The thin old man immediately interrupted the rough big man's words, "Qun Er, rest well, you'll be fine after resting!" He then glared at the rough big man again, "In your youth, weren't you the same? Qun Er is your offspring, naturally he's just like you!"

  A rough and robust Han man, with a dry smile, the young man finally spoke up: "Grandfather, don't blame Father for this, it was really my fault this time, I won't do it again next time!"

  Not far away, Xu Hua watched this scene and felt warm in his heart. Suddenly, he thought of his father, elder sister and second brother! He hadn't seen them for more than two years and was deeply worried about them, wishing he could be at home right now.

  "Where are these three from?"

  As they heard this sudden sound, all three of them trembled and looked around to find Xu Hua approaching from the left.

  "What kind of person are you!" The three men were obviously very vigilant and did not relax their vigilance just because Xu Hua was very young.

  Xu Hua smiled faintly and said: "I'm just a traveler lost in the Taihang Mountains! May I ask, are we still in Song Dynasty?"

  "It's just within our country's borders, and East Moon City is just ahead!" the burly man said.

  Upon hearing this, Xu Hua was overjoyed. "I didn't think I'd be back in Dongyue City again."

  "Little brother, have you been to Dongyue City?" The withered old man began to speak enthusiastically, seemingly also discovering that Xu Hua had no malicious intentions towards the three of them.

  Xu Hua nodded, thinking back to when he was being hunted down by the Red Shadow Sect in Dongyue City. He still remembered it vividly. "At that time, I was just passing by, and I didn't know much about Dongyue City, only knowing of a single sect called the Red Shadow Sect."

  "Does the young brother have dealings with the Red Shadow Sect? I really didn't expect that someone as young as you would be able to interact with such a large sect. It seems that your talent is extraordinary and your strength is profound!" This thin old man was a late-stage martial artist, naturally unable to sense Xu Hua's true abilities.

  They were just three people from a small town under the Eastern Moon City, although they had some understanding of the major powers in the Eastern Moon City, but they didn't have any chance to get in touch with them. In their eyes, those powers were the strongest! As for the entire country and the entire Southern Domain, it was too big for them! Many times, their dream was just to join a large sect like the Red Shadow Sect!

  Xu Hua smiled lightly, "If I didn't have some strength, I would have been killed by the people of Chi Ying Sect long ago! I'm the one who beheaded the young master of Chi Ying Sect, they won't let me off easily."

  "Little brother is really good at joking!" The rough and burly man looked at Xu Hua's expression, thinking he was just joking, and Xu Hua didn't bother to explain. Only the thin old man quietly looked at Xu Hua for a moment, saying: "Is there anything I can help you with, little brother?"

  "You've already told me what I wanted to know, and there's nothing more to bother you with. As a reward for your troubles, here, take this!" Xu Hua suddenly took out the corpse of a third-tier demon beast from his spatial ring.

  Boom!

  A gigantic three-stage demon beast, the Golden Tiger, heavily crashed to the ground, causing the earth to slightly shake. The three people from different generations were shocked, their eyeballs almost popping out.

  "What a huge... monster..."

  After holding it in for half a day, the three of them only managed to utter this one sentence. When they finally realized their own loss of composure, Xu Hua had already left.

  "Alas, we missed a great opportunity!" The thin old man said with some disappointment. The rough big fellow shook his head and said: "Didn't we get this?"

  The withered old man gave him a brainy look and said, "Do you understand? Being able to conjure objects out of thin air is the legendary Spatial Ring. This demon beast is so enormous, it must be a third-tier demon beast. A strong person who can kill a third-tier demon beast means what to us, do you know?"

  "What?"

  "One step to heaven, just ask him for a copy of the Xuanjie Secret Manual, and our strength will be greatly enhanced! In the future, Xu Er's achievements will far surpass ours! Let's leave this small world!" The withered old man's face was full of helplessness, but unfortunately, there is no turning back in life. Xu Hua has left, and all of this cannot be reversed.

  "Father, we're just giving him a worthless message, he's being so generous, shouldn't that be enough for us? One can't be too greedy, isn't that what you've always taught me?" The burly man continued, "Besides, with the meat of the three-stage demonic beast, our strength will greatly increase. Who knows, Father, you might even break through to Martial King!"

  "It's also true, I was too greedy!" The thin old man let out a long sigh and gradually calmed down.

  "Grandpa, what should we do with this demon beast's corpse now?! It's so big that we definitely can't take it back, and even if we did, it would probably be snatched away from us. Why don't we just find a suitable hiding place in the woods, deal with the corpse, and then head out again?!" The young man's snake venom seems to have been mostly detoxified, with only a small amount of toxins left in his body; he'll be fine after resting for a few days!

  "Alright!" The three of them immediately began moving the massive corpse of the demonic beast.

  On the other hand, Xu Hua had already left the Taihang Mountains and climbed to the top of a large tree, looking out at the distant houses and high walls, all of which were signs of human habitation.

  "Dongyue City? Now that you're here, I'll take the opportunity to avenge my grudge against the Chiying Sect! Back then, Luo Cheng and I were chased by you until we were in a sorry state! Chiying Sect, are you prepared?" Xu Hua gave a sinister smile as he rushed towards the distance.