Chapter 1: When the father suffers humiliation, the son must avenge him

  Xiao Chen pretended to be vigilant, opening his eyes wide, and when he saw that it was Wu Wanli, he showed a few points of relaxation. He then sighed and said: "I thought my skills were enough to escape from these two puppets, but I didn't expect to end up like this. Although I managed to kill them with great effort, the spiritual energy in my body has also been depleted by eight or nine tenths. With the injuries on my body, I'm afraid I won't be able to continue with fellow Taoists. At this moment, my spiritual energy is exhausted, and after meditating for a while, I will naturally recover from my injuries, so I won't bother Wu Daoist." Xiao Chen's face showed a few points of fatigue, as if these words had also consumed his limited strength.

  "Oh, fellow Taoist, you're really fine. I think I'll just give you a helping hand and let you break free soon." Wu Wanli put his mind at ease, a faint smile on his face, with a hint of murderous intent in his eyes.

  "What do you mean, fellow Taoist?" Xiao Chen's face was full of shock and anger, his voice low and stern.

  Wu Wanli's eyes showed a few points of fiery color, and he excitedly said: "Fellow Taoist may not know that before this exploration of the ancient repairman's cave mansion, you and I have already met once. At that exchange meeting, I used a volume of residual scrolls to exchange some elixirs from Fellow Flow Cloud."

  "Your elixir is indeed extraordinary, it's thanks to this that I was able to break through the bottleneck and reach the 8th layer of Qi Refining. So today, please hand over your storage bag to me for safekeeping, how about that?"

  "You... you're in cahoots with that Chu Kuang, what is this place, what kind of conspiracy do you have going on, why did you bring us here?" Xiao Chen sneered inwardly, thinking that Ming Yue and Chu Kuang had indeed been plotting together beforehand, and the mention of the ancient cultivator's cave dwelling was probably just an excuse. However, his face was full of terrified expressions, and his acting skills were quite impressive.

  Wu Wanli seemed to feel that Xiao Chen was no longer a threat to him, and a hint of complacency appeared on his face as he laughed: "Haha, since you're about to die soon and will be soul-refined by me, never to be reborn, I'll tell you some things. It's not like it matters anymore, just so you can die with your eyes closed."

  "Three years ago, Chu Kuang and I were just two unremarkable true disciples within the sect, with low-grade spiritual roots. We would likely spend our entire lives stuck in the third or fourth layer of Qi Refining. But we refused to accept that fate, so we applied for external training. Who would care about the lives or deaths of two insignificant true disciples? Yet, it was during that year that we narrowly escaped with our lives and entered this mountain cave, where we met Master." Wu Wanli's face revealed a hint of infatuation, his eyes filled with admiration and respect. "Master is so perfect, so strong and invincible. With Master's help, we were able to achieve our current level of cultivation. Within these three years, we used the treasures given by Master to lure cultivators into this place, breaking the seals and weakening their power. Now, the seal has become extremely fragile, and it's almost time for Master to break free from his shackles and reappear in the world."

  "Now that you know so much, are you willing to die?" Wu Wanli sneered and suddenly, without warning, he manipulated his spiritual energy with his hands and slapped it down towards Xiao Chen's head.

  "Not bad, knowing so much, you can indeed die in peace." Xiao Chen's eyes burst out with a dazzling divine light, his powerful spiritual pressure broke out of his body and transformed into an icy killing intent that firmly locked onto Ming Yue.

  "You're not hurt, you lied to me!" Wu Wanli's face revealed a look of horror, under Xiao Chen's killing intent, he felt as if the spiritual energy within his body was about to be frozen.

  "Master, save me!" Wu Wanli suddenly shouted loudly at a critical moment of life and death.

  A strange fluctuation occurred, and Xiao Chen's heart suddenly rose with an endless sense of crisis, followed by a sudden pain in his mind.

  Divine Sense Attack!

  Xiao Chen's heart skipped a beat, and before he could react in the slightest, the golden seal that had been quietly embedded in his mind suddenly emitted a faint golden glow. Xiao Chen seemed to hear a muffled groan of pain beside his ear, and then his head cleared up immediately.

  What a close call!

  That wisp of divine consciousness just now, although not particularly powerful, made Xiao Chen's entire body stiff and unable to muster even a hint of resistance in his heart. If it weren't for the golden seal suddenly erupting with power, he would probably have died on the spot by now.

  But this was not the time to delve into that matter, Xiao Chen's eyes suddenly locked onto Wu Wanli, who had a stunned expression on his face. It seemed he hadn't reacted yet, and Xiao Chen wondered how he managed to survive in the hands of an all-powerful master, considering many foundation-building cultivators were easily killed by their masters before.

  "Swallow the sky with one finger!" Narrowly escaping death, Xiao Chen's anger reached its peak. At this moment, he launched his most powerful technique to quickly kill Wu Wanli and prevent other crises from arising.

  Xiao Chen's spiritual power suddenly went wild and began to rotate rapidly in his hand meridians, forming a vortex that spun wildly under the force of rotation. A finger made entirely of spiritual power released a chilling spiritual pressure that descended upon the crazed forward-rushing figure.

  "Run!"

  When he sensed Xiao Chen's release of the Devouring Heaven Finger, Wu Wanli's face instantly turned bloodless, and he didn't dare to have any thoughts of resistance in his heart. He spat out a mouthful of vital energy and his speed suddenly increased several times as he frantically fled outward.

  Xiao Chen's mouth curled up in a cold smile, his face slightly pale, but the spiritual energy within him was still abundant. This Heaven-Devouring Finger had consumed a lot of spiritual energy, but with his current cultivation at the 15th layer of the Refining Qi stage, it was still within his tolerance range. Seeing Ming Yue escape using her secret technique, there wasn't a hint of urgency on his face.

  "Can you get away?"

  It seemed to be confirming his low voice, that spiritual power finger suddenly emitted a strange suction force, forcibly absorbing the external spiritual energy, and its momentum was even stronger, and the speed was also getting faster and faster.

  "It's impossible to escape!" Wu Wanli was shocked in his heart. After using his secret technique, his speed was not inferior to that of an ordinary foundation period cultivator. This was also the reason why he dared to come back alone to investigate. If the two puppets didn't die, he would have had a chance to escape. However, at this moment, he felt the power behind him getting stronger and stronger, and the speed of Tianyi's finger increased sharply, locking him in a deadly shadow.

  He suddenly turned around, this person was also a decisive person. Since he had confirmed that escape was impossible, it was naturally better to face the situation as soon as possible. Otherwise, waiting until his strength was exhausted would leave him with no chance of survival at all.

  "Xiao Yue Mo Gong!" Wu Wanli suddenly shouted, his originally handsome face twisted, and his body transmitted wave after wave of bone-shattering sounds, apparently enduring immense pain.

  "Roar!" "Roar!"

  A low, inhuman growl emanated from his mouth. In Xiao Chen's astonished gaze, countless black scales burst forth from his body in a short period of time. His back, elbows, and knees also sprouted sharp, jagged bone spurs. The aura around him surged violently, approaching that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator at the initial stage.

  "Roar!"

  When the transformation was complete, what appeared before Xiao Chen's eyes was a black-scaled, bony-spurred, green-faced and fang-toothed demon.