Chapter 728: Is This a Human or an Ancient Fierce Beast?

Chapter 728 -188: Is This a Human or an Ancient Fierce Beast?

This faction had seven great masters.

Another faction, led by Lingkong Jade, included the recently escaped Su Wenqin of the Four Symbols Palace and Yun Zaitian of the Profound Celestial Sect.

The third faction consisted of only three people.

They were Xia Qiu from Sword Heart Island, Feng Luoyan from the Wuji Sect, and Song Qing from the Profound Ice Palace.

These three represented the three great reclusive sects. ℯℯ𝘭.

According to intelligence from the Demon Suppression Bureau and the memory fragments Chu Fan had previously refined from the Zhang Family Ancestor, these three great sects were also clearly aware of the secret of Burial Immortal Valley.

Even the Extreme North Profound Ice Palace, which had always remained aloof from worldly affairs and never participated in the Profound Origin Secret Realm competition, had broken precedent and sent someone this time.

Although only Song Qing had secured a spot, the profound implications behind this were self-evident.

To lure out the person holding the “key” to Burial Immortal Valley, the Zhang Family had long since spread the news that the Immortal Demon Blood was hidden within the valley.

Although these three great sects had not colluded with the Moon Worship Sect, they would certainly never cozy up to the Demon Suppression Bureau, which represented the imperial court.

For the sake of the legendary Immortal Demon Blood, they had likely already formed some sort of offensive and defensive alliance in secret.

But Chu Fan wasn’t afraid of them joining forces.

What he truly worried about was that this group of self-proclaimed “hunters” would be devoured by the “bigger hunter,” Zhang Tianyu, before they even saw their prey.

The Zhang Family had already calculated that the “key” was among these twenty people.

The Zhang Family Ancestor’s Soul Division had a fine scheme… As long as he hunted down these prodigies one by one within the Secret Realm and devoured their Divine Souls, he could not only use the power to break through to the Ruyi Realm, but also find the “key’s” whereabouts by reading their memories.

At that time, the gates to Burial Immortal Valley would swing open, and the Immortal Demon Blood inside would become his and his alone!

Everyone was his fodder.

Everyone was his pawn.

‘Too bad you ran into me.’

A cold glint, unique to a hunter, flashed in the depths of Chu Fan’s eyes.

‘Who will be eating whom… that remains to be seen.’

While lost in thought, Chu Fan’s figure shot forward like an arrow released from a bow, passing through the rugged and treacherous Profound Demon Mountain.

After crossing the greyish-black mountain ridge, the scene before him changed dramatically.

A boundless primeval forest came into view.

Ancient trees towered into the sky, blotting out the sun.

A thick, damp air mixed with the scent of decaying leaves washed over him.

The trees here were each hundreds of feet tall, their canopies overlapping in dense layers.

The forest’s interior was dim and deep.

Chu Fan’s speed didn’t decrease in the slightest; he was like a bird darting through a sea of trees.

At the same time, his immense and astonishing Divine Sense spread out silently in all directions like an invisible net.

The breathing of flowers, the crawling of insects, the rustling of leaves in the wind—every movement for miles around was reflected in his Sea of Consciousness.

Everything was revealed in perfect detail.

Suddenly—

As he flew, Chu Fan’s expression shifted slightly. He abruptly changed direction in mid-air, darting off to his right.

In his Spiritual Perception, just a few miles away, two powerful fluctuations of Primordial Qi were clashing violently.

One was as sharp as a sword, yet it carried the weakness of an arrow at the end of its flight.

The other was sinister and bizarre, like silk, like a net, filled with the taunting playfulness of a cat toying with a mouse.

‘Is that them?’

Chu Fan instantly recognized both auras.

Fleeing for his life ahead was none other than the young prodigy of Sword Heart Island, Xia Qiu.

And the one in hot pursuit, relentlessly chasing him, was the Demoness of the Emotional Silk Sect, Hong Mei’Er!

For Chu Fan, a distance of several miles could be crossed in an instant.

But before getting close, Chu Fan didn’t just barge in conspicuously.

With a thought, the way Primordial Qi circulated within his body changed abruptly.

‘Light and Shadow Escape Technique!’

‘Spirit Turtle Hibernation Technique!’

He activated both Secret Techniques simultaneously.

The light around him seemed to subtly distort, and his entire body blended into the air, becoming transparent and invisible.

At the same time, his formidable vital energy and Primordial Qi fluctuations were instantly suppressed to their absolute limit, making him seem like a lifeless piece of deadwood or stone.

In the dark, dense forest, an unseen specter was silently closing in on Xia Qiu and Hong Mei’Er.

The hunter had entered the fray.