Patrol Captain

"boom"

Above the black mountain, an endless sea of ​​lightning roared, and streaks of silver lightning struck the mountain.

The lightning bolt was struck and turned into a jet of electricity along the mountain ridge. Tiny arcs of electricity traveled through the dark mountains, illuminating the abyss-like landscape below.

Amidst the dark mountain walls, shadowy figures leaped and bounded like tigers and monkeys, rapidly ascending from the lower slopes. Among them were powerful beings whose entire bodies glowed, defying this desolate land, their physical bodies traversing the air at incredible speeds.

Beneath these shadows, on the pitch-black mountainside, countless white bones crawled upwards in a dense mass, like locusts swarming across the landscape. The sight was chilling; once trapped inside, there was no chance of survival.

At this moment, the sea of ​​lightning above Black Mountain suddenly erupted, emitting a huge roar, and then a huge black vortex appeared in the sea of ​​lightning.

Within the black vortex, a streak of light, like a streak of fire, ripped through the darkness, plummeting from one side of the black mountain into the bottomless abyss beneath the horde of white bones.

Many people saw it and were greatly surprised.

There seems to be one person inside?

Who could have fallen from there?
They were too far apart to see clearly.

However, looking at the densely packed white bones below, surging like a tidal wave, and especially the eerie presence among them, in this desolate place, that person's fate was simple and clear.

At this critical moment of life and death, no one cared about a person who was destined to die. Everyone rushed up, even fighting each other, just to get rid of the bone tide below and the monster hidden in the mountain wind.

The streak of fire fell along the massive black mountain, disappearing into the darkness, its trail of light gradually vanishing as it rubbed against the air.

This is a dark and desolate place, filled with a deathly and eerie atmosphere.

Here, bones littered the ground, the mud was like a swamp, the skeletons were astonishing, many scattered and blackened bones were stuck in the silt, the yin energy was exceptionally heavy, and the smell of decay filled the air.

The air was filled with specks of eerie light, like the glow of fireflies' tails, but they were actually phosphorescent lights from bones exposed to the air.

This place seemed to be a wasteland, eerily quiet, devoid of any living creature, barren of vegetation, and filled with the aura of death. Darkness surrounded it, with only phosphorescent lights floating in the air providing a sinister glimmer of light.

Shortly after, a flash of fire pierced the darkness and crashed to the ground with a loud bang. The fire disappeared, and shattered bones flew everywhere, creating a large crater. Then, silence fell.

The commotion attracted the attention of some creatures in the nearby wilderness.

Several miles away, a hill tens of meters high suddenly split open, a plume of black smoke billowed out, and then a monster crawled out.

That was an exceptionally ugly and ferocious bone demon!

It was a skeleton, with a goat-shaped skull, a horse skeleton, a human hand bone and a bird claw on its shoulder. It looked like it had been pieced together from various parts, and it looked extremely strange and incongruous.

Between the goat's skull, two fist-sized, bluish-green flames flickered, suggesting that it possessed intelligence.

After the skeletal demon appeared, it galloped and flew towards the place where the firelight had appeared, moving with unusual agility.

At the same time, on the other side, a white shadow several meters in size suddenly appeared in the void, as if formed by the wind. Its appearance was ferocious and it was ethereal in the void. This monster was exactly the same as the monster in the Black Mountain Wind, and they were collectively called "Xi Yi".

The two monsters rushed toward the direction where the firelight had disappeared, and soon arrived at the edge of the large pit.

The pit was a hundred feet wide, and the two demonic creatures, their ghostly flames flickering, were able to see what was inside.

It's a person!

The creature was made of flesh and blood, not a skeleton or monster from this deadly place, and a rich aroma of blood and flesh wafted through the air.

The person lay inside, seemingly unconscious, with half of his arm a bloody mess, the flowing blood shimmering with a golden light, an eerie sight.

"whoosh"

The fire in the skull demon's eye sockets immediately blazed fiercely, filled with excitement and fanaticism. Its craving for fresh flesh drove it into madness, transforming it into a black whirlwind that swept towards the man, while simultaneously opening its white bone teeth and biting him directly.

But when the demon's sharp bone teeth landed on this person, with a clang, it was as if it had bitten into something of metal, producing a metallic sound, and several sharp teeth shattered instantly.

Before the demon could react, a powerful recoil surged forth like a tidal wave, spreading from its teeth to its head, spine, and throughout its entire body, causing cracks to rapidly spread and open on its bones.

Then, it exploded with a deafening roar.

The two blue-green ghost flames floating in the pit let out a sharp cry and shot out of the pit.

It was only during the rapid launch that it exploded in mid-air with two "poof" sounds, and was destroyed.

In the blink of an eye, the skull demon vanished into thin air.

On the other side, another strange creature seemed startled. Its crimson eyes stared at the person in the pit with suspicion. It hesitated for a moment, then its eyes flashed with a fierce light. It suddenly floated into the pit and transformed into a pale white wind, rushing towards the person's body.

The pale white mist, like a gust of wind, entered the person's body through the seven orifices.

But in an instant, a scream came from inside, and a stream of air rushed out.

The next second, two golden flames shot out from the man's nostrils, igniting the white mist. The strange creature, resembling a demon from hell, appeared inside, struggling and writhing in the flames. But soon, the golden flames swept the creature in and sucked it in.

Soon, the large pit became quiet again.

The person in the pit only twitched slightly at the golden fleshy crease between their eyebrows; they did not wake up.

In the darkness, day and night were indistinguishable, and this wasteland remained deathly silent. Only from its depths could terrifying roars occasionally echo, growing more and more frequent, as if something had happened there. As for the person in the pit, their severed arm had regenerated on its own, growing fresh flesh and blood.

After an unknown amount of time, the person in the pit finally twitched their eyelids, opened their eyes, and woke up.

A pair of golden pupils darted about, radiating a chilling light that was utterly terrifying.

Chen Yuan sat up, his eyes gleaming like a beast in the darkness, surveying his surroundings.

Then, he frowned. His senses were severely suppressed, and he could not sense any trace of the essence of heaven and earth around him. It felt as if his body was wrapped in a thick membrane.

What is this place?
He remembered that when he led his troops to cleanse Xiaocishan and then went to Hunxishan to launch another cleansing campaign, several old monsters from the Ten Fiends tribes who had been sleeping came over to kill him.

It was the old demon from the Bronze Demon Palace who forcibly awakened them, causing them to come to him and engage in a great battle. At first, there were only two, but more appeared later.

Facing the relentless pursuit of these old monsters, Chen Yuan relied on his indestructible body and various magical abilities to forcefully fight his way out. However, this caused his primordial spirit to be severely depleted, so he retreated to the sand sea, attempting to teleport back, but was interrupted by the arriving demon king. Before falling unconscious, he remembered that the teleportation channel was shattered, space collapsed, and he was swept into a spatial vortex. Before entering, he activated the Five-Colored Divine Tree to protect himself, and then the intense dizziness caused his battle-weary primordial spirit to fall into a coma.

With the teleportation channel interrupted and looking at this strange place, Chen Yuan guessed that he had probably been sucked into that forbidden land of demons by a spatial black hole.

This place is filled with deathly energy and resentment. There is no essence of heaven and earth here. If you stay here for too long, you will be tainted by the deathly energy here. Your flesh and blood will gradually lose their essence, your cultivation will regress, and you will eventually decay into a pile of withered bones.

This is a terrible place.

Chen Yuan focused his mind into his body and discovered that the flesh and blood furnace was steaming, with each furnace vigorous and powerful, flesh and blood shining, and blood with a golden hue and a certain divinity. The five divine treasures were like five stars, dazzling and bright, circulating a vast amount of essence to drive the flesh and blood.

However, within the Niwan (a point on the head), the primordial spirit is still recuperating.

The situation wasn't as bad as I had imagined.

My own flesh and blood have been transformed, my qi and blood are vigorous, my blood contains gold, and I am immune to all evils.

There is no spiritual energy outside, so he cannot draw energy into his body or activate the five elements of heaven and earth, making it difficult to use his supernatural powers. However, he has five spiritual roots of fortune within his body, which are like five nuclear power plants that continuously provide Chen Yuan with "powerful energy" and form his own cycle.

Therefore, supernatural powers may be effective on others, but not on him.

Chen Yuan felt a slight weight lifted from his heart, but then he thought of his soldiers and a thought struck him.

"Ok?"

The mental connection between myself and the Hutian space has become very weak and cannot be opened. Or to put it another way, the spatial barrier of this world is too strong, and the difference in level between the two sides is too great, just like the difference in atmospheric pressure.

This discovery is quite intriguing.

Is this place special, created by a powerful being, or is it no longer the familiar human world he knows?
Chen Yuan's eyes flickered. He stopped worrying about opening the Pot Heaven Space and letting them stay inside, thinking that it might be safer. With that thought, he leaped out of the pit, opened his Dharma Eye between his brows, and golden light flowed, penetrating all directions.

Although he could use his supernatural powers, he was still suppressed by this place, and his divine eye could only see within a dozen miles.

The burial mounds were strewn with white bones, and the ground was filled with ghostly flames. It was a deathly place, but in his eyes, the dark dead land was as bright as day. A faint mist swirled around it, and the white bones scattered all over the land were like snowflakes, covering the wasteland. It was terrifying.

Among them were some astonishing skeletons. Some enormous skeletons rose like hills, stretching for miles, buried in the dust, with white ribs piercing the earth. Others had nine empty eye sockets growing from their skulls. The skeletons of various enormous creatures, corroded by the years, had become ruins like ancient city walls that had collapsed. It was unknown how powerful they were in life, but they died in this place.

To Chen Yuan's surprise, he also saw a lot of human skeletons. Among these skeletons were many decayed swords and armor that had been almost completely worn away and were severely corroded, with only a few scattered fragments remaining.

Could this place have been an ancient battlefield where human armies once fought and clashed?

Are those enormous demon skeletons the targets of our conquest?
Chen Yuan was unaware of this, but his divine eye detected numerous fluctuations, indicating that there were white bone demons wandering around.

A dozen or so breaths later, he appeared several miles away, having dismantled a pile of bones. In his hand, he carried a huge, beast-shaped skull with two flames leaping inside.

"What is this place?"

Chen Yuan asked, his eyes gleaming with golden light, exceptionally piercing.

"No...I don't know..." A wave of soul energy emanated from the flames, and two empty skull mouths moved up and down, making a clicking sound, awkward, bewildered, and fearful noise.

Chen Yuan's eyes flashed with golden light, piercing directly into the skull's eye sockets like two golden swords, shattering the soul fire within.

"Slaying the Bone Demon grants +7 Luck Points,"

"White Bone Demon, a small monster that has been absorbing Yin energy over the years and has become sentient."

Chen Yuan did not linger and went to the next place.

After he had dismantled more than a dozen skeletons, a skeletal demon finally pointed him in the direction of the wasteland.

These skeleton spirits, though possessing sentience, were incredibly dull and clueless. They knew nothing about their surroundings, not even where they were, and were completely lost.

Only one skeleton, slightly stronger and with a soul fluctuation comparable to that of a master of the Heavenly Gate, possessed some intelligence. Its soul fluctuations suggested that one should head into the wasteland, where there was a giant mountain, and that it was said to have a path leading out.

Chen Yuan then set off.

This deadly place was indeed strange and its details unknown. He remained cautious, not using his physical body to travel through the air, but only using his two legs to travel, covering a distance of a hundred feet in a single leap.

Along the way, all sorts of bizarre skeletons, glowing with ghostly fire, came with ill intentions towards him, but he casually swatted them to death. He discovered that the further he went in, the more powerful and numerous the skeleton monsters became.

He gained a lot of luck points.

Soon after, he crossed the wasteland and came to a swamp where two powerful demons were fighting, emitting real roars rather than soul fluctuations.

A demon wielding a white bone spear, with two pairs of rotting flesh wings, two horns on its head, and rotting flesh growing between its skulls, was fighting a bone dragon that was seventy or eighty feet long. Bright, aquamarine light shimmered from the belly of the bone dragon.

Flames burned fiercely in the eye sockets of the two demons, revealing the evil and dark aura of Musashi. The demon with fleshy wings relied mostly on its physical body to fight. Its bones grew flesh, and its wings vibrated at great speed. The white bone spear in its hand stirred up the swamp and turned the world upside down.

The bone dragon let out a metallic roar, its body soaring into the air, stirring the swamp, and spewing out streams of blue frost, covering the rotten, stinking bone swamp with a layer of brilliant icy crystals.

Chen Yuan watched the two demons fight from a distance of several miles, his eyes narrowed with interest.

As he walked along, he noticed that the creatures here were different from others. To be precise, they were spirits made of bones and belonged to the category of monsters. They had no flesh and blood, unlike humans and demons. They cultivated Dao weapons and divine treasures. The strength of the soul fire in their eye sockets seemed to represent their strength.

Chen Yuan couldn't help but think,
How did they cultivate and advance in rank?
Will the memories of my past life awaken?

Look at that horned bone demon, its body is actually growing rotten flesh. Is it because its flesh and blood are slowly regenerating after it has cultivated to a certain stage?

Furthermore, Chen Yuan's gaze was fixed on the skeletal dragon, his eyes fixed intently on the ball of aquamarine light within its belly.

Even from such a distance, he could feel the rich essence of heaven and earth.

This thing was so conspicuous in this place where vital energy had vanished that it was hard for him not to notice it.

Inside the bone dragon's belly was a small, water-blue dragon, winding and swimming around, but in Chen Yuan's eyes, it was clearly a tree stump with roots still attached.

It glows with a deep blue light, radiating vitality.

This bone dragon actually contained a segment of a rare, previously unseen spiritual root of destiny within its belly! (End of Chapter)