In the next moment, the pegasus soared into the sky and turned into a golden beam of light. In the blink of an eye, it had already disappeared into the horizon, leaving behind countless stunned cultivators.
In the void, Venerable Han Bing's eyes flickered with a faint blue light. He allowed Xiao Chen to go far away. He had misjudged this time. That desolate horse that no one had noticed was actually a pegasus, a pegasus at the level of a Three Star Cloud Galloping Colt. Even with his strength as a Venerable, he was far inferior to it.
Unless he tore the void and hurried through the turbulent void, he would not be able to do so. However, he had just become a Venerable. If he wanted to tear the void and rush through the turbulent void, he would not be able to do so. If he made even the slightest mistake, he would be torn to pieces by the turbulent void. He did not dare to take such a risk.
Crack!
The Ice Venerate crushed the Massacre Spear that Xiao Chen froze beside him. However, in the next moment, a pitch-black energy wrapped itself around the Ice Venerate.
"This is …?"
"Massacre Intent!"
In an instant, Venerable Han Bing's pupils shrank.
"This is a Massacre Intent that has been comprehended to at least the Great Accomplishment Realm!"
Venerable Han Bing's face turned ashen as he extinguished the Massacre Qi. He suddenly realized that he had been too careless in trying to kill Xiao Chen today. Now that he had let him escape, there would be a lot of trouble in the future.
"Hmph!"
Not long after, Venerable Han Bing snorted coldly. His cold eyes swept over the surrounding cultivators. Everyone could not help but feel a chill when they saw his gaze. They kept guessing whether Venerable Han Bing wanted them to vent his anger over Xiao Chen's escape.
Fortunately, Venerable Han Bing did not lose his reason because of his anger. He did not pay attention to the crowd of cultivators for a while. He flew towards the desolate border city, leaving the crowd of cultivators behind.
In the depths of the desolate land …
This was a continuous desolate forest. It was filled with towering ancient trees. Green vines were entangled like coiled pythons. Ferocious beasts roared from the depths of the forest.
In the primordial Desolate Wasteland, there was an ancient forest. The ancient trees were like coiling dragons, and the overlord of this land was a Three Star Early Stage Flame Tiger. However, it had already turned into a corpse.
With the help of the aura left behind by the Flaming Tiger, the area within five thousand kilometers was still safe for a short period of time. Xiao Chen's figure was hidden in a cave that was temporarily opened in an ancient mountain, with the Heavenly Horse protecting him.
Whoosh!
At this moment, azure flames continuously soared up from Xiao Chen's body. Surging heat rose up. However, after a while, the flames vanished and a white cold Qi swept through the cave. This was the Ice Venerable's Battle Qi that he left in Xiao Chen's body.
As an almighty Venerable, the cold intent cultivated by this Ice Venerable was already incomparably pure. It was like maggots in one's bones, continuously wrapping around Xiao Chenxue's flesh and bones.
Fortunately, only a trace of it entered his body. Otherwise, even if Xiao Chen managed to escape, he would still be frozen into an ice statue.
As the azure and white light alternated, a layer of white ice formed on Xiao Chen's forehead. The cold Qi that entered his body was too domineering. It was even purer than Xiao Chen's Battle Qi. It would take Xiao Chen a lot of effort to drive it away.
Half a day later.
Within Xiao Chen's body, the original situation of alternating between green and white disappeared. An azure flame floated on the surface of his body, and his entire body gave off an immortal bronze radiance. His skin was incomparably crystalline. The cold energy that was rampaging within his body was finally completely suppressed.
Rumble!
His Battle Qi was like a tide. It ran in his Heavenly Veins like rolling thunder and constantly penetrated into his limbs and bones. It nourished his frozen flesh and blood, allowing his flesh and blood to regain vitality.
After a long time, Xiao Chen opened his eyes and slowly let out a breath of cold air. He didn't get up immediately. Instead, he stretched out his right hand. In his palm, a little crystal flashed.
Then, the crystal became bigger and bigger. Finally, it turned into a crystal ball the size of half a fist. It emitted an incomparable cold Qi. As soon as the crystal ball appeared, the entire cave was covered with a thin layer of ice. The ice was melted and evaporated by the scorching flames of the little pegasus.
This sparkling cold pearl was the cold energy that Xiao Chen had refined from his body. Xiao Chen could not help but sigh at the strength of a Venerable. Don't look at his current strength of the Third Celestial Layer, which was only three realms away from the Sixth Celestial Layer of the Heavenly Building Realm, the gap between them was like a vast ocean.
What's more, there was the existence of the Lightning Fire Tribulation and the Heavenly Fire Tribulation. Without experiencing the baptism of the Tribulation Fire, the gap was too big!
Roar!
Seeing that Xiao Chen had woken up, the little pegasus roared and gently patted the golden head of the Pegasus. This time, the Pegasus could be said to have made a great contribution to the Desolate Border City. Let's not talk about whether the Dragon Blood Turtle egg could hatch according to the little pegasus's hint and whether the void battleship refining plan would be useful. Just the fact that the Ice Venerable took Xiao Chen away was enough to be regarded as a great contribution!
Ten days later.
Boom!
At the edge of an ancient mountain, there was a thunderous explosion at the foot of the mountain. A huge Black Scaled Giant Python was swept away, successively breaking the huge trees behind it. The huge Black Scaled Giant Python fell into the wilderness, its fresh blood staining the ground red. After a few breaths, this Three Star Black Scaled Giant Python finally stopped breathing.
In ten days' time, Xiao Chen had already traversed hundreds of thousands of miles across the Wasteland. He was already not far from the territory of the Iron Hoof War Division. When he bypassed the border of this ancient mountain, he was ambushed by a Three-Star Black Scale Python. However, this Black Scale Python had overestimated its strength and was already dead!
The vast wilderness was a natural graveyard. Although the Pegasus had broken through to the Three-Star level and his strength had improved greatly, powerful beasts could be seen everywhere in the depths of the Desolate Ancient Forest. There were even Five-Star Beasts.
As a result, the man and horse did not dare to be ostentatious. They circled around the edges of some ancient mountains and dense forests. Fortunately, they were less than five days away from Huge Rock Valley. Furthermore, the closer they got to the territory of the Iron Hoof Division, the fewer high-ranked ferocious beasts there were. Thus, Xiao Chen's speed also increased.
…
In the territory under the jurisdiction of the Iron Hoof Battalion, even the most remote tribes knew that a new battalion had risen beside them after nearly two months of spreading the news. The new battalion's strength was comparable to the Iron Hoof Battalion, the Suzerain Battalion.
As for the rising battalion, it was the Ancient Yuan Battalion that already had a great reputation in Giant Rock Valley. They had once challenged the dignity of a superior battalion with the strength of a lower-ranked battalion, and left the jurisdiction of the Iron Hoof Battalion with just a word of disagreement.
Now it seemed that the Ancient Yuan Battalion had a plan. How could they not be prepared? Now that the Ancient Yuan Battalion had been promoted to a middle rank battalion, they were on equal footing with the Iron Hoof Battalion.
A new battalion had risen. Its patriarch had killed his way to the Iron Hoof Battalion and consecutively defeated the two Heavenly Building Realm experts of the Iron Hoof Battalion. The patriarch and the Great Elder had forced the Iron Hoof Battalion to surrender and hand over Tie Mo, the culprit who had provoked the conflict between the two battalions. Moreover, he had killed him in front of all the warriors of the Iron Hoof City.
In Duanmu City.
There was a hubbub of voices in a stone building with five floors and a height of 30 zhang. Under the stone eaves of the stone building, the three words Treasure Trove Tower were written in bold and powerful letters.
Now, everyone in the Giant Rock Valley knew that the Treasure Elephant Tower, which originally belonged to the Treasure Elephant Battalion, now belonged to the famous middle rank Ancient Yuan Battalion!
As for the Treasure Elephant Tribe, which had shaken the entire Giant Rock Valley and was one of the four overlord tribes, it had already turned into a fleeting cloud. Countless cultivators had forgotten about it, turning it into a topic of gossip when they were free.
The Treasure Trove Tower was bustling with activity. This bartering place had just opened for less than two months. Its prestige had reached its peak after the patriarch of the Ancient Yuan Battalion had killed his way to the Iron Hoof Battalion and forced the patriarch of the Iron Hoof Battalion, Great Elder He, to submit.
What made many warriors more satisfied was that the Treasure Trove Tower did not bully the owner. The forging materials, ore veins, medicinal herbs, and precious blood brought by the warriors were all affordable. The Treasure Trove Tower did not lower the price in the slightest, which made many Wanderers choose to come to the Treasure Trove Tower to barter.
The only thing that was surprising was that the Treasure Trove Pavilion didn't just trade ordinary cultivation resources, but also put up a signboard to purchase all kinds of strange items. Whether it was ancient books or antiques, or even some unknown items found in ancient treasures, they didn't refuse any of them.
The Treasure Trove Tower was divided into five floors. The first floor was where ordinary items were traded, and the second floor was where treasures were traded that were useful to Blood Refining Realm warriors.
As for the third floor, in theory, it was a place where treasures were traded that were useful to Heavenly Building Realm warriors. However, there were only a few Heavenly Building Realm warriors in the entire Giant Rock Valley, and their whereabouts were uncertain. It was not open yet.
The Treasure Trove Tower was just the beginning, and everything was still being explored. It was believed that after a period of operation, the resources and warriors of the Ancient Yuan Battalion would be in place, and everything would be on the right track.
Not to mention anything else, even if there were not many Heavenly Building Realm warriors on the third floor of the Giant Rock Valley, there must be warriors of the same level to suppress it to ensure the stability of the Treasure Trove Tower. These decisions could only be made after Xiao Chen returned!
On the second floor of the Treasure Trove Tower, Tie Wen stood above, looking at the flow of people below. These people came from the major tribes, or rogue cultivators and wanderers, bringing many resources to the Treasure Trove Tower to exchange for yuan stones. In just two months, about three hundred thousand yuan stones worth of materials left by Xiao Chen had been recovered by more than ten percent.
As for the current Tie Wen, he had already reached the peak of the late stage of the Blood Refinement Realm thanks to the Medicinal Pills that Xiao Chen had left behind. As for the less than fifty brothers, half of them had already broken through to the Blood Refinement Realm.
Now, they did not have to be on tenterhooks and hide like before. Today, the new Ancient Yuan Battalion was famous throughout the Giant Rock Valley, and no one dared to disrespect it. All of this was brought about by the Ancient Yuan Battalion's promotion to a middle-grade tribe.
Not only that, after Xiao Chen's promotion to the Heavenly Building Realm, the destruction of the Treasure Elephant Tribe, and the defeat of the Iron Hoof Battalion, the tribes who had gathered troops to besiege the Ancient Yuan Battalion had taken out the heritage of their tribes and came to the Treasure Trove Tower to ask for forgiveness!
Not to mention, after hundreds of years of accumulation, these tribes still had some good things. Tie Wen found a few pieces of spiritual materials that could be used to cast spirit weapons from their gifts of apology.