Chapter 742 - 191: A Change of Plans: Monsters Emerge in the Secret Realm, and Valiant Chu Fan Slays a Great Demon with an Iron Fist

Chapter 742: Chapter 191: A Change of Plans: Monsters Emerge in the Secret Realm, and Valiant Chu Fan Slays a Great Demon with an Iron Fist

The Profound Origin Secret Realm now seemed even more vast and mysterious.

Towering ancient trees blotted out most of the sky.

Dappled shadows crisscrossed the ground like the sharp claws of ghouls, exuding a bone-chilling aura.

In the forest, Chu Fan pushed the Nine Heavens Wind Mastery Scripture to its absolute limit. A layer of flowing wind condensed around him, transforming resistance into thrust as he flew swiftly, skimming just above the ground.

His speed was like a fine blade skipping across water—incomparably swift.

He passed without disturbing a single fallen leaf, leaving only a faint Residual Image in the air that vanished in an instant.

Suddenly—

"GWWAAAAAH—!!!"

A blood-curdling, bizarre shriek suddenly erupted from the dense shadows ahead!

The sound was as sharp as tearing silk, instantly shattering the age-old, deathly silence of the mountain forest.

Startled crows took flight with a great flapping of wings, cawing incessantly.

This sound was not human, nor was it the wail of a specter, nor did it resemble the roar of a Demon Beast.

To the ear, it sounded twisted and venomous, like a heinous villain fallen into the eighteenth level of hell, letting out a final, crazed scream of despair as he was seared by the Red Lotus Karmic Fire!

The sound made one’s scalp tingle, one’s blood roil, and one’s Divine Soul tremble uncontrollably.

An ordinary cultivator hearing such a sound would have likely turned tail and fled in terror.

But Chu Fan merely narrowed his eyes, his gaze as sharp as a blade. Instead of retreating, he pressed forward.

Spiritual Light flashed at his feet as his speed surged once more. He shot toward the source of the sound like a bolt of lightning, his figure becoming an unrecognizable blur.

Before he even reached the battlefield, Chu Fan’s Divine Sense was already sweeping forward. He felt the Spiritual Mechanism ahead in total chaos, lashing out in all directions.

From miles away, he could see chaotic flashes of Magic deep within the forest.

Red fire, green wind, and blue lightning intertwined, forming a brilliant curtain of light that concealed a deadly killing intent.

The roars were like rolling thunder, so deafening they made one’s eardrums ring!

Chu Fan came to a halt several hundred yards from the battlefield, his figure stopping abruptly as he landed steadily on the ground.

He took a deep breath, his fingertips rapidly forming a spell seal as he cast the Secret Technique, the Light and Shadow Escape Technique.

In an instant, his aura was completely concealed without a trace. His body merged directly with the light and shadows, flickering between visibility and invisibility before vanishing into thin air.

Using this Concealing Skill, he crept toward the heart of the Primordial Qi disturbance as silently as a phantom cat.

His steps were light and made not a single sound.

A moment later, Chu Fan peeked out from behind a large tree.

The brutal scene at the foot of the mountain ahead assaulted his eyes. The horrifying sight made his pupils contract to pinpricks in a single glance. His heart plunged into an icy abyss, a bone-deep chill sinking straight to his core.

At the rugged, rocky foot of the mountain, a desperate life-and-death battle raged, the sounds of slaughter shaking the heavens...

Chu Fan recognized all three people in the fray.

Wang Yanfeng, the prodigy of Qing Province’s Wang Family; Feng Luoyan, an outstanding female cultivator from the Wuji Sect; and Zhang Tianyun, a core disciple of the Zhang Family.

All three were renowned prodigies in Qing Province, possessing extraordinary strength and standing as elites among their peers.

But at this moment, they were all in tatters, battered and bruised, covered in injuries, and their auras were in disarray.

Besieging them were several nightmarish monsters!

The creatures vaguely had the silhouette of a white wolf, but they possessed the heads of wolves and the bodies of men, a truly bizarre sight.

Their bodies were swollen to a height of ten feet, their massive forms exuding an oppressive aura.

But what concerned Chu Fan the most was...

Their once snow-white fur was now wreathed in viscous, ink-black tendrils of dark energy!

This dark energy clung to them in wisps, emitting an aura of depravity and destruction. They had all undergone Demonic Transformation!

In the surrounding gloom of the forest, countless eerie green eyes glinted in the darkness.

Hundreds of baring-fanged white wolves prowled the perimeter, encircling the battlefield so tightly that escape was impossible.

Fortunately, these ordinary white wolves had not undergone the transformation, still retaining their original appearance.

The only things that truly threatened Feng Luoyan and her companions were the three demonized monsters in the center of the battle, wreathed in dark energy.

On the battlefield also lay the long-dead corpse of an Exotic Beast Chu Fan had never seen before.

The Exotic Beast resembled a giant, incredibly sturdy rhinoceros, but it had three tiger heads with protruding fangs, a terrifying sight.

The earth-shattering shriek from before must have been this Exotic Beast’s dying cry.

He had no idea which of the three cultivators had brought the beast into the Secret Realm, only to have it die so tragically. A huge chunk had been bitten out of its belly, which was still gushing blood.

Chu Fan’s gaze returned to the Demonized Demon Wolves, a storm raging in his heart.

The map of the Secret Realm flashed through his mind as he focused, deep in thought...

The majestic mountain ahead was called White Wolf Mountain.

It was the ancestral home of the Demon Wolf clan in this Secret Realm, where they had lived for generations.

Since ancient times, a powerful restriction had been placed on the mountain, forbidding the Demon Wolves from leaving its confines for centuries.

Intelligence from the Demon Suppression Bureau had indicated that the white wolves here were formidable, with quite a few at the initial stage of the Great Demon realm, and were not to be underestimated.

However, neither the top-secret files of the Demon Suppression Bureau nor the clandestine intelligence from Prince Zhennan’s Mansion had ever mentioned any signs of transformation among the Demon Wolf clan!

The Profound Origin Secret Realm opened once every ten years...

In other words, ten years ago, there were no demonized wolves on White Wolf Mountain.

’What kind of drastic change could have possibly occurred here in just ten short years?’

’What could cause so many Demon Wolves to be corrupted by darkness and degenerate into demons?’

Chu Fan’s brow furrowed, his heart heavy with doubt and concern.

When he first entered the Secret Realm, he had sensed a strange peculiarity about its Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism.

The Spiritual Mechanism in the air was as dense as water, viscous and difficult to refine. When absorbed, it felt sluggish and obstructive in his body.

This wasn’t the Pure Spirit Qi that nourished all living things. Instead, it felt like a "living" Spiritual Mechanism, one that possessed some unknown consciousness!

The Spiritual Mechanism was laced with countless subtle negative emotions: resentment, brutality, venomous hatred, madness...

All kinds of malicious thoughts were interwoven within it, as if formed from the grudges of the dead, emanating a heaven-piercing, baleful energy.

The unnaturally lush vegetation, which appeared full of life, was in reality more like a monster on the verge of collapse, exuding a morbid and bizarre aura!

’But I never imagined the situation in the Secret Realm had deteriorated to this extent!’

’For such ferocious demonic creatures to have appeared within the Secret Realm...’

’The situation has spiraled completely out of control!’

Chu Fan was already aware of the venomous plot hatched by that old monster from the Zhang Family.

He planned to devour all the prodigies in the Secret Realm as blood food, allowing his Soul Division to break through its cultivation bottleneck and step into the fifth realm: the Ruyi Realm.

And what he most wanted to Devour were precisely these powerful, demonized beings!