Wu Shattered Star River

The speed of the fall was terrifying. Jiang Han felt a blur before his eyes as he plunged into a bizarre, enormous underground palace.

This palace was incredibly large, spanning tens of miles in circumference and thousands of feet in height. The surrounding walls emitted a faint light, barely illuminating the interior.

Thick black and purple mists swirled within. The purple mist was identical to that of Undying Valley. The black mist was clearly highly poisonous, and toxins were frantically burrowing into Jiang Han's body.

As far as Jiang Han could see, the ground was covered in a dense mass of corpse ghosts and skeletal beings. Seven or eight corridors led from the underground palace's perimeter, and countless more corpse ghosts and skeletal beings surged into the main hall.

Clinging to Jiang Han's arm was a retractable, dark-golden skeletal hand. The main body of this skeletal hand was a colossal skeletal beast, resembling a small mountain, coiled in the center of the hall.

"Ha!"

Jiang Han swung the God-Slaying Blade in his hand once more towards the skeletal hand, this time employing Heavenly Thunder Burst, detonating ten thunder orbs in one go.

"Swish, swish, swish!"

Countless corpse ghosts and skeletal beings below shot towards Jiang Han, attempting to engulf him.

From one of the corridors, flying corpse beasts shrieked as they hurtled towards Jiang Han, spewing mouthfuls of black mist from afar.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Muffled explosions echoed from within the dark-golden skeletal hand gripping Jiang Han's calf. After a series of consecutive blasts, it finally shattered.

Jiang Han broke free from the skeletal hand's grasp, but the corpse ghosts and skeletal beings below had already surged up, surrounding him and launching a frenzied assault.

"Buzz..."

A hundred thunder orbs appeared around Jiang Han's body, rapidly flying towards the surrounding skeletal beings and corpse ghosts.

One by one, the thunder orbs detonated, unleashing terrifying shockwaves that sent groups of corpse ghosts and skeletal beings flying.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"

The space trembled slightly as bones flew everywhere, corpses splattered, green venom sprayed, and flying corpse beasts crashed to the ground. The scene descended into utter chaos.

"Go!"

Jiang Han dared not linger. This underground palace was so vast, and riddled with passages. Who knew what awaited in the other chambers?

If a necromantic creature comparable to a Divine Transition Realm expert emerged, he would face a gruesome death.

"Whoosh!"

The colossal skeletal beast with the dark-golden skeletal arm stirred. Two dark-golden skeletal arms on its body extended rapidly, moving like lightning, and before Jiang Han could react, they seized his legs once more, quickly dragging him back towards its main body.

"Damn it!"

Jiang Han had just intended to fly upwards, but was suddenly yanked downwards. He flew into a rage.

He ceased attacking the two dark-golden arms and instead, wielding the God-Slaying Blade and gathering thunder orbs, slashed at the colossal skeletal beast's head.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Ten thunder orbs detonated inside the skeletal beast's head, causing muffled explosions. Many of the skeletal beast's bones were blasted away, and it emitted a shrill roar.

Although injured, the dark-golden skeletal beast maintained its grip on Jiang Han with its two arms.

The surrounding corpse ghosts and skeletal beings seized the opportunity and swarmed forward, instantly engulfing Jiang Han. Countless skeletal beings and corpse ghosts began tearing and clawing at him.

"Get lost!"

Jiang Han flew into a rage, releasing nine-colored light from his body, then rapidly phasing into a void state, causing the surrounding space to become blurred and distorted.

These blurred, distorted spaces manifested into spatial rifts, which rapidly expanded, ultimately enveloping the entire underground palace.

"Crack, crack, crack..."

The power of spacetime fragmentation was extremely terrifying. The defensive capabilities of these skeletal beings, corpse ghosts, and flying corpse beasts were weak. They were instantly shredded by the tearing force of space.

Skeletal fragments filled the air, corpse ghosts were minced into pieces, and the wings of the flying corpse beasts were instantly destroyed, followed by their bodies being torn asunder.

Even the colossal skeletal hand gripping Jiang Han's calf was shattered, its two arms releasing him limply. Jiang Han regained his freedom.

Within this great hall, there were at least nearly ten thousand skeletal beings and corpse beasts. A single spacetime fragmentation completely obliterated them, leaving none capable of movement.

"Awoo..."

A heaven-shaking roar suddenly echoed, followed by an aura of extreme terror that emanated from the distance.

That aura made Jiang Han feel like a lamb who had heard the roar of a tiger in the mountains. His soul trembled.

"A Divine Transition Realm Undead!"

Jiang Han was terrified. Eight wings manifested on his back, and without hesitation, he shot towards the sky, heading for the black hole above.

He quickly emerged outside the mire. Ignoring the surrounding corpse beasts, he fled at top speed.

"Awoo..."

After fleeing for several hundred miles, a earth-shattering roar echoed from behind, followed by a massive behemoth that burst forth.

The behemoth was thousands of feet tall, roaring furiously towards the sky, its voice shaking the heavens and earth, causing Jiang Han's eardrums to ache.

"Swish!"

Jiang Han was gripped by extreme terror, not daring to pause for even a moment, continuing his frantic flight.

"Swish..."

The gigantic corpse beast behind him locked onto Jiang Han with its two green eyes. A semi-transparent beam of light shot forth, instantly striking Jiang Han.

"It's over!"

The beam of light was too fast; Jiang Han had no way to evade it. His body and mind trembled violently, anticipating his imminent disintegration.

"Huh?"

To Jiang Han's delight, the unexpected happened. This semi-transparent beam of light was actually a soul attack?

A surge of violent energy rapidly coursed through his body, then flooded towards his sea of consciousness.

"Heavenly Beast Cauldron, hold on!"

Jiang Han grasped at this as if it were a life-saving straw, roaring inwardly.

If the Heavenly Beast Cauldron couldn't withstand it, his sea of consciousness would definitely explode, and he would become part of the corpse ghosts, eternally trapped in this swamp.

"Buzz..."

The Heavenly Beast Cauldron shone with a brilliant golden light, then began to spin wildly, proactively flying into the sea of consciousness and rotating within it.

The tidal wave of terrifying energy swept in, rapidly being absorbed by the Heavenly Beast Cauldron, wave after wave. A dozen waves of energy impacted, yet all were completely absorbed by the Heavenly Beast Cauldron.

"Good!"

Jiang Han was overjoyed. He continued flying at a terrifying speed. The skeletal beings and corpse ghosts that charged forth, including the Earth Immortal-level corpse beasts, couldn't match his speed.

The Divine Transition Realm Undead behind him was no longer visible. Jiang Han continued his frantic flight, not stopping until he was certain that the powerful corpse beast wasn't pursuing him. Only then did Jiang Han breathe a sigh of relief.

Jiang Han didn't dare enter the Demon Suppressing Pagoda. He disregarded everything else, continuing to fly at top speed.

Along the way, he encountered many Earth Immortal-level corpse beasts, but he didn't attack them, relying on his Earth Immortal peak-level speed to bypass them, then flying madly along the edge of the swamp.

Half an hour, an hour, two hours!

A tall mountain appeared ahead, and the terrain finally began to change. Jiang Han's eyes lit up, and he continued his mad flight. Soon, he flew out of the swamp area and plunged into the mountains.

After Jiang Han left the swamp area, the corpse beasts and corpse ghosts that had been chasing him stopped, standing at the edge of the swamp and roaring incessantly towards Jiang Han's direction.

"Huff, huff..."

Jiang Han stood on a small mountain, panting heavily, his face filled with lingering fear.

If the Divine Transition Realm corpse beast's attack had been a physical one, he certainly wouldn't have been able to withstand it and would have been pulverized long ago.

Xia Jiuge was right; whether they could reach North Plume City depended on their luck.

The dangers along the way were probably far from over; even more terrifying and powerful races awaited them ahead.