Chapter 726 - 726: Going Deeper

It turned out that just as Venerable Thousand Blood's corpse was flying backward, its feet not touching the ground, the six members of the Martial Soul Hall all saw it. At some unknown point, several vines had been secretly wrapped around the corpse!

The corpse's sudden standing up and reaching out to catch that faint red power had all been orchestrated by Chu Qingyun, who was controlling it with the vines.

The vines were naturally a dark green. Coupled with the dim light in this Underground Space, they were impossible to see clearly without looking closely.

After seeing clearly that Chu Qingyun was the one pulling the strings, the Martial Soul Hall envoy and his men were instantly enraged and lunged at him.

They had gone through so much trouble, wracked their brains, and taken such huge risks. The Venerable's damaged Martial Soul they coveted was finally within their grasp, only for Chu Qingyun to snatch it away. It made the six from the Martial Soul Hall want to flay Chu Qingyun alive!

Meanwhile, Chu Qingyun grabbed Venerable Thousand Blood's corpse, let out a cold laugh, and immediately turned to flee.

The Martial Soul Hall's group had four Level 6 Martial Kings alone, and their leader, the envoy Cao Zhixin, possessed a mysterious and unpredictable Illusion Martial Soul.

Chu Qingyun wasn't suicidal enough to think he could take them head-on with his Level 2 Martial King Realm.

Perhaps because it had been forced out of Venerable Thousand Blood's body, the faint red mass of power now clung to his hand, showing no signs of falling off.

As he fled, Chu Qingyun prepared to collect the faint red mass of power.

This was his goal all along, even if it meant risking being hunted down for provoking the Martial Soul Hall.

Unlike the people from the Martial Soul Hall, however, what he wanted was the Primordial Power within it, not the broken Martial Soul.

To a Venerable, this bit of Primordial Power was just a minuscule amount that remained in their body after death.

But, as the saying goes, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse.

No matter how minuscule, it was still a Venerable's Primordial Power!

To put it bluntly, a single leg hair from a Venerable was thicker than the waist of a Level 2 Martial King...

Chu Qingyun estimated that if he refined this mass of Primordial Power, he might be able to advance directly to the Level 3 Martial King Realm.

Then he wouldn't be in his current predicament, unable to fight even a slightly stronger Earth King Realm expert, not daring to contend for the treasured short blade, and having to pick on the weak just to snatch some Blood Crystals or Crimson Crystals.

However, just as he reached out his hand, a streak of Blood Aura suddenly flowed out from the center of Venerable Thousand Blood's brow.

As if drawn by some force, the Blood Aura unerringly merged into the faint red mass of power.

The faint red power was instantly stained a bloody color.

The broken red ant Martial Soul within it was instantly corroded by more than half, becoming even more damaged to the point where it was no longer recognizable as an ant.

Seeing this, Chu Qingyun wisely retracted the hand he had just extended.

The Blood Aura flowing from Venerable Thousand Blood's brow was identical to the one in the crystal coffin.

Although Chu Qingyun didn't know what it was, he had just seen with his own eyes how wary the six from the Martial Soul Hall were of it.

'So, it's best not to touch it.'

"Damn it! Chu Qingyun, damn you!"

"The Venerable's remnant Martial Soul has been tainted by the mutated Power of Origin!"

"Kill him! Kill him!"

When the faint red power was tainted, the pursuers from the Martial Soul Hall behind him instantly flew into a rage, grinding their teeth and wishing they could tear Chu Qingyun to shreds right then and there!

A broken Martial Soul was already exceptionally fragile.

Now that it had been struck and tainted by the mutated Power of Origin, it would probably be useless even if they recovered it. Cao Zhixin and his men were practically fainting from rage!

Dragging Venerable Thousand Blood's corpse was, after all, a huge burden.

Chu Qingyun quickly took out a large, empty jade box used for storing Primordial Spirit Liquid from his Storage Ring, placed the tainted mass of Primordial Power inside, and put it away.

"You can have the Venerable's corpse back!"

"Blood Flame!"

After storing the jade box, Chu Qingyun flung Venerable Thousand Blood's corpse backward, then activated his Ten Thousand Spirits Saint Body Secret Technique, his speed suddenly increasing by a great deal.

"Get out of the way!"

The Martial Soul Hall envoy roared, slapping Venerable Thousand Blood's corpse away with a palm strike. His pair of seven-colored eyes stared daggers at Chu Qingyun, filled with irresolvable resentment and fury.

This envoy, due to his sense of superiority, had been disliked by the true upper-echelon experts of the Black Demon Tower ever since arriving in the Northern Domain.

Because of this, he had long been holding in his resentment, wanting to get revenge and turn his situation around.

He had pinned all his hopes on Venerable Thousand Blood's corpse, even risking his own life to venture deep into the sect's territory.

But now, Chu Qingyun had ruined everything!

Therefore, he had to kill Chu Qingyun to vent the hatred in his heart!

SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!

Streaks of tyrannical Primordial Power repeatedly whizzed past Chu Qingyun, missing him by inches.

The six from the Martial Soul Hall launched Primordial Power attacks at Chu Qingyun as they gave chase.

Fortunately, after activating the power of the Blood Flame, Chu Qingyun's speed had greatly increased. Combined with his strong Perception Power, he managed to evade the Primordial Power attacks again and again.

But this couldn't go on forever.

His speed was ultimately no match for the Level 6 Martial Kings of the Martial Soul Hall, so the distance between them was shrinking. This also made it increasingly difficult for Chu Qingyun to dodge.

"Wind Shadow Sword Intent!"

Chu Qingyun unleashed his Sword Intent, kicking up a gale of Sword Shadows behind him that momentarily hindered the six from the Martial Soul Hall.

But this was merely a temporary solution. Unleashing his Sword Intent also affected his own speed, so he failed to pull away.

'This can't go on,' Chu Qingyun hesitated. 'Do I really have to use the Shadow Martial Soul again...'

As they had been running deeper into the Underground Space, they were now far from the crystal coffin. There were fewer people fighting, and the surroundings had grown much darker.

If he used his Shadow Martial Soul and the Hidden Qi Technique, escaping shouldn't be a problem.

The dark environment of the Underground Space was his greatest natural advantage.

But doing so would inevitably make the people from the Martial Soul Hall recall the night he impersonated Jiang Gaofeng to escape, and they would easily put two and two together.

While he hesitated, the chase continued, leading them into a much deeper area.

The glow of Primordial Power from the people near the crystal coffin behind them had already shrunk to tiny, hazy dots of light in the distance.

"Chu Qingyun, you—die!"

Just then, the Martial Soul Hall envoy gathered an extremely powerful blast of Primordial Power, which shot out from his hand and rocketed straight toward Chu Qingyun's back.

Chu Qingyun's heart leaped. He hastily dove forward and rolled on the ground, narrowly and clumsily dodging the attack.