Inside the spatial tunnel leading from the Saint Martial Sword Sect to the Celestial Fate Ancient Realm.

Young Master Silver Moon, Xin Yuhuang, had a cold and stern expression. Behind his head was a silver moon, emitting a faint, silvery glow.

A surging True Essence Power emanated from Xin Yuhuang’s body. The eight Life Palaces within him erupted with a brilliant radiance, enveloping the five hundred Celestial Alliance experts under his command. He spoke with a composed expression, "Our Saint Martial Sword Sect has too many people, and the spatial tunnel has a limit on how many it can transport at once. We might not be sent to the same location as the other Celestial Alliance experts, so you must all stick close to me!"

"Don’t worry, Senior Brother Xin! We will definitely follow you closely!"

"With Senior Brother Xin leading us, we’re sure to make a huge splash in the Celestial Fate Ancient Realm!"

"It’d be best if we run into Jiang Chen. After we kill him, Senior Brother Xin can take the lion’s share, and we can get a piece of the action too!"

The five hundred Celestial Alliance experts behind Xin Yuhuang all broke into smiles.

When they spoke of Jiang Chen, expressions of greed and bloodlust appeared on every face.

Xin Yuhuang nodded in satisfaction and said with a composed air, "Follow me, and I will naturally protect you. As for Jiang Chen... he is nothing but an ant!"

"Senior Brother Xin is right! If Jiang Chen runs into you, he won’t even have a chance to escape!"

"Do you think he’ll get on his knees and beg Senior Brother Xin for mercy?"

"Hahaha..."

The crowd laughed boisterously.

A slight smile also appeared on Xin Yuhuang’s cold face. Just then, an exit suddenly materialized in the spatial tunnel ahead.

Xin Yuhuang’s expression sharpened, and he quickly said, "The exit is right ahead! Follow me out!"

SWISH—

Xin Yuhuang was the first to charge out of the spatial exit.

The five hundred people behind him followed one after another, rushing out close behind.

However, the moment they emerged from the spatial tunnel, a powerful inertia sent them plummeting directly toward the ground.

"Fuck..."

"This speed is too fast! I can’t stop!"

"What’s there to be afraid of? We’re all experts of the Heavenly Destiny Realm! Even if we land face-first, we won’t get hurt!"

However, just as his words fell, a bloodcurdling scream rang out.

"Aaargh..."

"Fuck, my asshole..."

"Who’s so goddamn wicked? Who put so many iron spikes here? It hurts like hell! My balls have been pierced..."

In an instant, screams rose and fell, one after another—a truly tragic and inhuman chorus!

Xin Yuhuang’s cultivation had reached the Peak of the Heavenly Destiny Realm Eighth Stage. When he first exited the spatial tunnel, he too was unable to stop his body from falling. Especially as he neared the ground, he felt a jolt as if a mountain had been dropped on his back, and his descent quickened.

’Not good!’

A glance from the corner of Xin Yuhuang’s eye revealed the ground covered in a dense array of black iron spikes.

At this very moment, dozens of Celestial Alliance experts, caught completely off guard, were being impaled by the iron spikes. Some were pierced straight through the head. Others landed butt-first, the spike entering their rear and exiting through their mouth. Some even had their testicles skewered, leaving them half-hanging on the spikes, howling in agony.

’Dammit, who could be so depraved as to place something like this here?’ A chill washed over Xin Yuhuang.

In his panic, he made a grabbing motion in the air. A large True Essence Hand seized a Celestial Alliance expert and threw him directly underfoot. Xin Yuhuang stomped hard on the man’s head, using the rebound force to finally stabilize himself. But that Celestial Alliance expert, now under the combined force of gravity Inscriptions and Xin Yuhuang’s stomp, plummeted at an incredible speed.

"No—"

The Celestial Alliance expert screamed as he fell backward onto the iron spikes, which pierced him hundreds of times until he resembled a human sieve.

Xin Yuhuang hovered in midair, his handsome features twisted to their limit in a grimace. His incredibly gloomy gaze swept across the surroundings.

His expression darkened even further.

Of the five hundred Celestial Alliance experts he had brought, more than two hundred had been lost the moment they left the spatial tunnel—nearly half their number. The survivors were either lucky enough to have missed the spike-covered area, or the spikes below them were already occupied by the corpses of their comrades, allowing them to use the bodies to break their fall and escape.

Even so, they had still lost nearly half of their experts.

And they had only just emerged from the spatial tunnel!

Xin Yuhuang’s face was ashen, a cold light flickering in his eyes. Suddenly sensing something, he looked to the east.

There, at the edge of the iron spike forest, stood Jiang Chen. His arms were crossed, a blade of grass dangled from his mouth, and a half-smiling, half-mocking expression was on his face as he stared at him. Seeing Xin Yuhuang look his way, Jiang Chen grinned and gave him a wave. "Young Master Silver Moon, I prepared this grand gift for your Celestial Alliance. How do you like it?"

Xin Yuhuang trembled with rage, so furious that he coughed up a mouthful of old blood.

’Grand gift?’

’Like it?’

’Like your mother’s cunt!’

Xin Yuhuang glared at Jiang Chen, his killing intent so palpable it was almost tangible. He roared hysterically, "Jiang Chen, I will tear you to pieces!"

BOOM—

The silver moon behind Xin Yuhuang vibrated violently, its silvery light flickering erratically. His entire body shot toward Jiang Chen like an arrow released from a bow.

Jiang Chen gave a cold laugh, utterly fearless, and charged forward to meet him. "Heaven-Breaking Finger!"

"Endless Moonlight!"

Xin Yuhuang roared in fury and thrust out a palm.

The light of the finger and the light of the palm collided, vanishing in an instant and condensing into a single point of light. Immediately after, this rice-grain-sized speck of light suddenly expanded, becoming as brilliant as a Blazing Sun before exploding in the void with a deafening roar.

Jiang Chen and Xin Yuhuang crashed into each other like two falling meteors.

DONG—

One formed a Sword Finger, the other conjured thunder in his palm. They clashed.

Both figures shuddered from the impact. Immediately, Jiang Chen’s left hand glowed with a dark golden light as he threw a punch straight at Xin Yuhuang’s head.

The powerful force of the punch distorted the side of Xin Yuhuang’s face before it even landed.

Xin Yuhuang snorted coldly and countered with a palm strike of his own.

Fist and palm collided, and both men were blasted backward.

CRACK! CRACK!

They retreated several hundred meters, each stamping on the void and shattering the space beneath their feet. They then shot back toward each other, clashing again and again in midair. Fist met fist and palm met palm, their movements so fast they were impossible to see. All that was visible were terrifying explosions of energy erupting in the sky.

They fought to the top of a mountain, and the entire peak collapsed and crumbled.

They plunged into a lake, and the entire surface began to boil like a kettle.

White steam rose into the air.

A moment later, with a tremendous BOOM, all the water in the lake exploded into the sky, leaving not a single drop behind. The airborne water then transformed into a torrential downpour, splashing back down to the earth.

The raindrops fell on Jiang Chen and Xin Yuhuang but were automatically deflected, never touching their bodies.

Xin Yuhuang hovered in the air, the silver moon behind him flickering weakly. His face was filled with surging killing intent. "Jiang Chen, you are so despicable! To set such a malicious trap for the people of my Celestial Alliance."

"Despicable? Malicious? As I see it, any method that can exterminate you Celestial Alliance scumbags is a noble one," Jiang Chen said calmly. "It’s just a shame I couldn’t kill all of you in the trap. That is a bit of a regret!"

Xin Yuhuang’s anger surged. His face was dark as he ground out through clenched teeth, "You’re courting death..."

"Courting death? You’re not qualified to say that to me!" Jiang Chen replied with a calm expression.

"Moonlight Divine Fist—Kill!"

Xin Yuhuang let out a furious roar as the silver moon behind his head suddenly expanded, enveloping his body. He then shot violently toward Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen’s gaze turned cold. He clenched his fists, his body transforming into a streak of Flowing Light as he met Xin Yuhuang’s charge with a punch of his own...

[Third Chapter of the day. The fourth will likely be around 12:30!]