Chapter 625 - 174: Refining the Golden Body with Geng Metal Evil Qi, Old Fiend Ghost Bone’s Killing Intent Arrives

Chapter 625: Chapter 174: Refining the Golden Body with Geng Metal Evil Qi, Old Fiend Ghost Bone’s Killing Intent Arrives

Chu Fan seemed quite satisfied with his increase in power. With a flicker of his body, he activated the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step. His form became like smoke, an illusion, as he flashed rapidly along the edge of the woods.

His fists were like drumbeats, his feet like shooting stars. He smashed and kicked, struck with his palms and jabbed with his fingers. Each move was vicious and sharp as he used the numerous scattered boulders as practice targets.

The sound of shattering rock was incessant. The wind from his fists howled, revealing the young man’s fierce and domineering power.

"BANG!"

"BOOM!"

"CRACK!"

Dust and smoke billowed through the woods, and shattered rock fragments rained down.

Wherever Chu Fan’s figure passed, boulders large and small were reduced to dust.

The overwhelming force was like a primordial Fierce Beast awakening, unleashing the rampaging, boundless power within its body.

Suddenly, the wind from his fist stopped, and his movements came to an abrupt halt!

He raised his hand, bent his fingers, and lightly touched the skin on the back of his neck.

A strange, searing heat was radiating from that spot, mixed with a piercing, tingling itch. The sensation was unmistakably clear.

It was the Blood Curse left by the Ghost Bone Elder!

Thanks to the spell cast by Demon Suppression Envoy Leng Qingqiu, this Blood Curse had long since become a tool for reverse tracking.

As long as that old Demon stepped within a hundred-li radius, Chu Fan would be able to sense him!

Chu Fan whipped his head around, his gaze sweeping across the southern horizon like a cold blade.

A piercing killing intent shot toward the heavens. The surrounding air seemed to freeze in an instant, and the temperature dropped by several degrees!

"Young Master, what’s happened?"

Tang Yu and Mo Yunzi were instantly on alert. With a flash, they appeared at his sides, protectively. They spread their Divine Sense like a dragnet, carefully scanning the surroundings.

But with the strength of his Divine Sense at the First Heaven of the Bright Heart Realm, Tang Yu detected no sign of any unusual aura approaching.

Chu Fan slowly lowered his hand. His tone was calm, but tinged with a cold chill. "He’s here."

"The Ghost Bone Elder is finally here."

"That old Demon from the Yin Demon Sect?!" Tang Yu blurted out in shock, his expression changing slightly.

Although Mo Yunzi had been mentally prepared, he was now panicking. "Young Master, this place is dangerous! We should get away as quickly as possible!"

"No need." Chu Fan waved his hand, a sharp glint flashing through his eyes.

’For the past half a month, all has been quiet, and the Blood Curse has shown no activity.’

’That cunning old Ghost Bone Elder must have been probing and hesitating in the shadows, afraid this was a trap set by the Demon Suppression Bureau to lure him to his death.’

’But my staying here for so long without moving has finally exhausted his patience.’

’In the old Demon’s eyes, there was no way a powerful expert from the Demon Suppression Bureau would waste half a month in this desolate wilderness for a mere junior.’

’Greed has finally overcome caution. The old monster has delivered himself right to my doorstep!’

Chu Fan took a deep breath, feeling the terrifying power of his Vajra Undying Body surging within him. In his Qi Sea, the Demon Seed, wreathed in pure Geng Metal Evil Qi, spun slowly, circulating through his limbs and bones.

An unprecedented confidence and a blazing will to fight erupted from his chest like a volcano.

After half a month of arduous training, his Vajra Undying Body had reached a new level. Why would he fear that old Demon now?

After breaking through to the second level of the Vajra Undying Body, he had dared to leave the city to train precisely because he no longer took the old monster seriously.

Besides, his Vajra Undying Body had improved significantly since then.

Back when his Vajra Undying Body was at the first level, he had been able to withstand the full-force attack of a peak Bright Heart Realm expert—a fourth-realm powerhouse—using "Immovable as a Mountain, Pillow Sea as Emperor."

Now that he had broken through to the second level, he could shatter even an Ancient Treasure with a single punch. Even in a direct confrontation, he had absolutely no fear of a peak Bright Heart Realm expert!

If one had to point out a gap between him and a peak Bright Heart Realm expert now, it would probably just be his lack of ranged attacks.

’Once I get close to someone...’

’That black-robed woman from the Burial Demon Marsh who struck me with her sword several times? I could beat her to death with my bare hands now!’

’Besides, the Vajra Undying Body isn’t my only Bottom Card...’

’Ghost Bone Elder, you’ve come at the perfect time!’

Chu Fan’s gaze swept over the two men, who stood ready for battle. His voice was calm again, but it carried an undeniable decisiveness. "Since he’s come to take my life..."

"...then let him bury his old bones here in Fallen Star Mountain forever!"

"My Ten Thousand Souls Banner can gain another Fierce Soul!"

Hearing this, Tang Yu and Mo Yunzi exchanged a look, a bitter taste filling their mouths.

...

「Half an hour later.」

A dense, ink-black fog, like a cloud hanging from the sky, silently enveloped the edge of the Geng Metal Evil Qi Forbidden Land.

The fog churned ceaselessly, blocking all prying eyes from the outside and concealing the appearance of the newcomer.

"This is Geng Metal Evil Qi?"

From deep within the black fog, a hoarse, aged voice spoke, tinged with a hint of shocked suspicion.

Immediately after, the black fog was parted as if by a giant, invisible hand, rapidly converging inward before dissipating.

A terrifying, three-zhang-tall skeletal Demon Puppet was revealed.

Its bones were a dark, blackish-gray color, as hard as iron and stone. Eerie green Soul Fire danced in its eye sockets. Its entire body emanated a nauseating aura of deathly silence and Resentful Power, and the stench of rot could be smelled from a great distance.

And perched atop the massive skeletal Demon Puppet’s shoulder blade stood a stooped, skinny old man.

His face was as withered as dry wood, his eye sockets were deeply sunken, and he wore a loose black robe embroidered with twisted, grotesque skeletal Runes—it was none other than the infamously vicious Ghost Bone Elder of the Yin Demon Sect!

"That brat... he’s actually cultivating by absorbing Geng Metal Evil Qi in a place like this?"

The Ghost Bone Elder’s murky eyes stared intently at the area ahead—an area overflowing with sharp energy and devoid of life. His brow furrowed tightly, his face a mask of utter disbelief.

’Who the fuck is the real Demon here?!’

Even he, a man reviled by Righteous Cultivators as an "old Demon," only practiced Evil Techniques like Exorcism and Ghost Control or Corpse Refining and Bone Transformation.

He had always kept a respectful distance from an energy as extreme and domineering as Geng Metal Evil Qi—something that specifically countered Yin Soul Ghosts and Spirits—and would never dare to touch even the slightest bit of it.

Let alone directly absorb it into the body for cultivation!

But a junior from the Demon Suppression Bureau had actually come to this kind of Desolate Land to brazenly absorb Geng Metal Evil Qi, and he had been doing it for more than half a month?