This immortal was clearly ordinary, yet he was unusually confident.

Du Xue's first step froze. He slowly turned to the side, revealing a smile more painful than a grimace, and asked:

"Senior... is there anything else?"

Zheng Zhuang carefully examined Du Xue, and said thoughtfully, "Are you familiar with this forest? How about you be my guide?"

"No...we're not that familiar." Du Xue smiled apologetically.

"Oh, then you're no use to me," Zheng Zhuang muttered under his breath.

"Yes! It's useful. Although I'm not very familiar with it, it's still good enough to be a guide," Du Xue quickly corrected himself.

Zheng Zhuang nodded in satisfaction and sighed softly, "In today's cultivation world, people like you are truly rare."

Du Xue, on the verge of tears, said, "Senior is too kind. I am always happy to help others. May I ask where you are going?"

"I've heard that passing through this boundless dense forest leads to the lands of other states?" Zheng Zhuang pondered for a moment before asking.

He recalled the Blood Demon he had encountered when he first emerged from the ancient tomb. That demon had wanted to massacre all the living beings of Cangzhou, but fortunately, he had stopped him.

But from another perspective, if the Blood Demon dared to commit such heinous crimes, there must be some secret method that allows him to escape this karma.

Zheng Zhuang felt that he was in extremely poor condition at the moment, and even if it was a method of the demonic path, he could only risk trying it.

However, he only knew that the Blood Demon came from another state, and how to leave Cangzhou was a problem.

"Senior is joking. That's just a rumor. Since ancient times, no living being from Cangzhou has been able to leave, and few people from other states have come here either."

Du Xue smiled bitterly to himself, for the Ghost Spirit Sect was well aware of this matter.

Back then, the Ghost Spirit Sect was hunted down by the righteous sects throughout Cangzhou. Some members of the sect suggested fleeing Cangzhou, but after losing a large number of experts, they had no choice but to give up.

“No one has ever seen this road before, but there is another one,” Du Xue added.

"What road?" Zheng Zhuang pressed.

Du Xue was somewhat surprised, but dared not ask any further questions. He could only reply, "This is not a secret. There is another road leading to the outer state through the Qingtian Sect. It is said that a peerless demon is suppressed underground in the Qingtian Sect. There is also a saying that the entire Cangzhou was used to seal that demon."

Zheng Zhuang couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. This was the first time he had heard this claim, but for some reason, he felt a strange sense of unease, as if this claim were the truth.

It seems I'll have to make a trip to the Sky-Supporting Sect sooner or later.

"It's time to get going!" Zheng Zhuang suddenly said.

"Yes, yes, we're leaving now. Senior, have you decided where you want to go?" Du Xue responded, then asked with a puzzled look.

"No, I mean you should get going!" Zheng Zhuang's tone suddenly turned cold.

"Senior... what does this mean? I..." Du Xue was so anxious that he couldn't speak coherently.

"To be honest, I'm in a really bad state right now. If it were anything else, I might just turn a blind eye, but you actually dared to touch my people!"

"What? I didn't. Senior, have you misunderstood?"

Du Xue quickly created some distance and waved his hand repeatedly.

But he couldn't help but tremble. Could the little girl he had ambushed earlier be related to this god of death?

This just happened? What bad luck!

"Senior, please listen to me. It's all a misunderstanding. I had a conflict with them, but they weren't hurt at all," Du Xue explained as he backed away.

Zheng Zhuang said no more, but simply extended a finger, then mobilized his killing intent, condensing it into a bloody handprint, and gently pressed it towards Du Xue.

"boom!"

As soon as the fingerprint was formed, Du Xue felt the entire sky turn blood red, obscured by a huge fingerprint.

The fingerprints weren't fast, but they gave people a feeling that there was no way to avoid them.

Then, Du Xue seemed to fall into an endless hell in an instant, with screaming wronged souls everywhere.

This move is somewhat similar to his Ghost Shadow, but its power is incomparable.

"Really... you could kill me with a single finger, haha!"

Before long, Du Xue's eyes became unfocused, and then he collapsed.

He had no wounds on his body, but his soul had been obliterated by boundless killing intent, making him utterly dead.

In truth, he deserved to die. The main power of this move lay in its ability to intimidate the mind. He had seen Zheng Zhuang make a move before and was already afraid, so he had little intention of resisting, which made the move even more powerful.

The man in black robes was terrified when he saw Zheng Zhuang kill Du Xue with a wave of his hand. He kept kowtowing and pleading, "Immortal, spare my life! Immortal, spare my life!"

"Your soul is clear, so you probably haven't done much evil. Be careful in the future and get out!" Zheng Zhuang waved his hand impatiently.

The man in black robes was surprised to find himself spared. After a moment of stunned silence, he quickly bowed in gratitude, then transformed into a wisp of black smoke and sped away, wishing he had two more legs.

"Oh no!"

Not long after the man in black left, Zheng Zhuang could no longer hold back and coughed up a mouthful of blood, then staggered and almost fell to the ground.

Fortunately, I managed to steady myself by holding onto a tree trunk.

Although Du Xue's cultivation level was not high, he was still a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Normally, Zheng Zhuang would not take him seriously at all and would have a hundred ways to kill him.

But his forced attack just now shattered the fragile balance within him, and an uncontrollable killing intent surged forth once more.

Not only that, at the same time, invisible flames ignited within his body, relentlessly scorching his soul.

Zheng Zhuang never expected that before he could overcome the "killing calamity," the "karmic calamity" would arrive at the same time.

It's truly a case of "when it rains, it pours," or "when the boat is broken, it gets hit by a headwind."

Because of the killing of too many living beings, the Heavenly Dao would send down karmic retribution. Zheng Zhuang was not surprised, but he did not expect it to happen at this time.

Boundless killing intent raged across his body, while the karmic fire targeted his soul, and his condition was at its worst at this moment.

In the critical moment, Zheng Zhuang mustered the last bit of his divine consciousness to try and activate the sword of his primordial spirit in his sea of ​​consciousness.

Unexpectedly, everything went black before his eyes, and he suddenly fainted.

On the other side, Niu Daben, seeing that the enemy was not pursuing him, did not let his guard down at all and kept running forward.

On the one hand, they were afraid that the enemy might have some kind of conspiracy, and on the other hand, they wanted to take the opportunity to lure the enemy away.

However, as he ran, Niu Daben sensed something was wrong.

She ran for half a day without feeling tired at all; on the contrary, she seemed to have inexhaustible energy, and in just a short while, her cultivation level actually improved.

"Has my potential been squeezed out?"

Niu Daben was suspicious and only stopped slowly after running more than a hundred miles away.

She had just stopped walking when she suddenly froze.

The surrounding area was lush and green, and it was a completely unfamiliar place.

I was running too fast and didn't pay attention to the direction at all. Not only did I not meet Qin Qianqian and the others, but I also got lost...