The moment the claw touched the construct, instead of a thundering explosion of spiritual qi or the clashing sound between two powers, the claw of the avatar of death cut through the construct and immediately severed the formation connection.

The thirty men within the battle formation all received the full backlash of force. All of their qi reversed and their dantian were severely injured from the backlash.

Pffhh!! Splash!

Blood spurted out of their mouths as all of them clutched their own dantian before collapsing on the ground and losing consciousness. Their dantian were not destroyed, but the spiritual qi they accumulated leaked like cracked glass. The qi slowly leaked out to the point that their injured dantian could no longer contain their accumulated cultivation.

All of the assailants had their cultivation regressed to various degrees. The worst among them had their cultivation regress to the qi refining realm, turning an expert into trash in a mere moment.

"What!? How is that possible!?" Murong Wen uttered in disbelief as he saw all of his men defeated in one strike from the opponent mysterious combat technique.

He looked at Wei Chen, who quickly canceled the full power of the Underworld Bone Claw into its normal state.

"Is this man someone from a hidden ancient sect?" Murong Wen uttered, deep in thought.

This man knew many secrets that most people did not know. He had high cultivation and a mysterious, powerful combat technique that had never been seen before.

And most importantly…

This man discovered the first ever primordial ruin.

No, it should be said that he knew about its existence in the first place.

While Murong Wen was contemplating Wei Chen's true identity, Wei Chen sensed the dense spiritual qi leaking from the thirty people. He let out a smirk. With thirty peak Nascent Soul cultivators, he was sure he would reach the next level.

With this in mind, Wei Chen did a quick run of cultivation for half a circle to draw in all of the dense spiritual qi.

His black hole core did its work. Like a vacuum cleaner, the qi without an owner quickly rushed into his dantian and was immediately broken down into pure spiritual qi without any impurities, since the qi of most cultivators was full of them.

Whether due to consuming pills or using cultivation methods that were too low level and full of flaws, the qi in the dantian of most cultivators contained many impurities.

Wei Chen's dantian was filled a little bit. Even though he gained a lot of spiritual qi from pulling in all of the ownerless qi, the impurities expelled by the black hole core and the nature of his dantian that need massive amount of energy didn't make his cultivation advance by much.

After everything came to an end, Wei Chen walked back to the first assailant he took down and poked his blood acupoint to stop the man from bleeding. The first assailant was already unconscious from losing too much blood.

"What happened here?" A powerful and charismatic voice sounded from the sky. Wei Chen raised his head toward the direction of the voice.

In the sky, he saw a man in his mid-forties floating in the air. The man had a muscular frame, and his beard and mustache made him look even more fearsome. The vibe he gave off made him look like a military leader.

"City Lord Li!" Dream Butterfly uttered the identity of the man who was looking down from the sky.

[Damn… why does the authority or the guy who is supposed to keep the peace always arrive only after everything is already over?] Wei Chen thought in his mind but did not say it out loud.

The City Lord looked at Wei Chen and noticed the way Wei Chen was looking back at him. He did not know why, but he felt irritated. This guy must be thinking something rude.

"You, cultivator in the black robe. Are you the one who used a forbidden technique in the middle of my city!?" the City Lord asked Wei Chen with an unfriendly tone.

"Ah? What are you talking about? What forbidden technique?" Wei Chen was confused.

He knew what forbidden techniques were. These kinds of techniques ranged from simple attack techniques to transformation techniques that borrowed the power of other beings, or even summoning other beings. Most of them were techniques that greatly increased the user's power output far beyond any normal technique, and they usually came with a cost.

Whether it was cultivation, blood, life, or even the soul.

But his Underworld Bone Claw was not the kind of technique that required sacrifices. The only downside was that when unleashing its full power, it drained spiritual qi like an F1 racing car drained fuel.

Hearing Wei Chen's explanation, the City Lord's anger rose.

"Don't lie to me! I saw you summon a large demon a moment ago! Where is it!? Has it already returned to where it came from? Or did you release it into this world!?" The City Lord roared as he pointed accusingly at Wei Chen.

Wei Chen tilted his head. "It's not a summoned being. It's a combat technique. And other than using my spiritual qi like any other technique, I didn't need to sacrifice anything," Wei Chen explained.

"You still dare to lie to me!?" the City Lord roared again. "There is no technique in this entire realm that can produce such a life-like large construct controlled by a single person. You must have summoned an otherworldly being to help you fight that battle formation!"

"You not knowing doesn't mean it doesn't exist," Wei Chen said with his usual smirk.

The City Lord looked at Wei Chen's punchable face and his anger rose again. He clenched his fist, itching to punch him, but he held it in. He was certain that the thing earlier was a summoned evil being, and the best a summoner could do was restrain such a being from attacking the summoner or the summoner's allies.

With this in mind, the City Lord let out a cunning smile.

"If you said that evil being was not your summon, then why don't you use that technique and write my name on the ground."

"What's your name then?" Wei Chen asked.

"I am the current City Lord. You mean to tell me you do not know my name?" City Lord Li said as he crossed his arms. Who in this city would not know his name?

"Ah?" Wei Chen looked at the City Lord as if looking at a hooligan.

Dream Butterfly, who was standing nearby, was sweating at the situation. She knew the City Lord was sometimes unreasonable and domineering. She quickly walked toward Wei Chen, afraid he would start a conflict with the City Lord. She wanted to tell Wei Chen the City Lord's full name, but…

"Fine. I will write your name then!" Wei Chen replied and jumped up, leaving Dream Butterfly staring up at him with a complicated expression, unsure whether to laugh or cry.

With that said, Wei Chen quickly unleashed his Underworld Bone Claw once again. A ten meter tall avatar of death stood behind him.

The City Lord, witnessing the dreadful avatar of death at such close distance again, felt dread as if he were staring at an unstoppable and inevitable force of nature.

[What kind of being is this? At first I thought its dark and ominous qi was evil qi, but I did not feel any revulsion like I normally would. It has the same nature as death qi that corrodes life, but it is not against the natural order, which should be impossible.

If it were normal death qi, the heavens and earth would show signs of rejection. Thunder, storms, or even tribulation lightning would strike if the death qi were too powerful!] the City Lord thought.

At Murong Wen's side, seeing that the City Lord had arrived and was talking to Wei Chen, he decided to use this chance to eliminate all evidence.

"Kill those useless people," Murong Wen said to his right hand man.

"Young Master, what about Ah-Niu?" the right hand man asked.

Ah-Niu was the name of the leader of this team. He was the strongest one, the one taken out first by Wei Chen, and he now lay near Dream Butterfly, who was surrounded by the guards of the Immortal Dream Garden.

"Ah-Niu is one of my personal guards. Even if he is captured, he won't spill anything. He would rather choose death," Murong Wen said as a matter of fact.

The right hand man nodded before taking out a blood-like pearl and squeezing it.

Crack… Crunch!

The pearl was crushed, along with the lives of the thirty unconscious men, silently snuffed out like the blood red pearl in the hand of Murong Wen's right hand man.

With this done, Murong Wen and his right hand man quickly left without anyone noticing, leaving the lifeless bodies of their men behind without looking back.

On Wei Chen's side, he controlled the avatar of death's scythe-like claws to write on the stone-paved floor just behind the Immortal Dream Garden gate.

Creak… Creak… Crack…

The sound of breaking stone echoed as the avatar of death wrote the name on the ground, while the City Lord stared in disbelief.

This should not be possible. Was it because this man had mastered the control of this summoned evil being, or was this thing really a construct created by a combat technique, just like he claimed?

At this moment, Wei Chen finally finished writing.

"李狗屎" (Li Goushi, or Dog Shit Li) was the words Wei Chen carved into the stone-paved floor.

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