Chapter 72: The Lion Seal Again Manifests Its Divine Power

Chapter 72: Chapter 72: The Lion Seal Again Manifests Its Divine Power

Yun Xi lay on Chu Fan’s back, her head turned to the side. She gazed at the sharp contours of his face and his focused expression, her heart aching for him, yet also deeply moved.

She had been closest to him during the fight, so she could sense his immense power more keenly than anyone else.

’I can’t even imagine what he must have gone through in just half a year.’

Her thoughts differed from others’. While everyone else assumed Chu Fan must have had a fateful encounter or was hiding some great secret, Yun Xi could only wonder about the price he had paid over the past six months to gain his current combat power.

"Chu Fan, why don’t you put me down? I can heal your injuries first, and then we can run together. I’m not slow, either."

Chu Fan shook his head. "Just hold on tight. I feel more at ease carrying you. It won’t be long before more people catch up. Don’t let me get distracted."

"Chu Fan, I’m so glad I have you!"

Those few words were enough. Everything he had done was worth it.

Chu Fan had a plan from the start. After getting Yun Xi, he would head straight south. At his speed, an hour of travel in any direction wouldn’t be enough to leave the Eastern Domain.

But to the south lay the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.

He had caused such a huge incident at the Celestial Derivation Sect. Any of the other Eastern Domain sects, if they were careful, would surely connect him to the events at Zao Ying Mountain.

That was why his initial plan was to escape into the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.

He just hadn’t expected the complication of Master Ni, who exposed his actions at Zao Ying Mountain before he had even left the Celestial Derivation Sect.

’You can know a person’s face, but never their heart,’ he thought.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain was a mountain range, more than ten times the size of the Yunmeng Mountain range.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain bordered the great sea to the east, the Central Domain to the west, the Eastern Domain to the north, and the Southern Domain to the south.

It was a paradise for Profound Beasts and a forbidden land for the Human Race.

Others wouldn’t dare enter, but Chu Fan would. After all, he had obtained the scroll from the Divine Statue, so he had a connection of sorts with the Profound Beasts of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.

’If it really comes to it, I’ll just have to negotiate with the Profound Beasts inside and leave once the trouble blows over.’

Less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn after shaking off Qu Lingce, Qu Lingce caught up to him again.

With him were four other Divine Separation Realm experts.

Upon catching up, they didn’t attack immediately. Instead, they surrounded Chu Fan and Yun Xi.

"Chu Fan, I truly never expected you would end up in such a state. When I met your master, Ling Zhexing, I praised him for taking on such a fine disciple, one who would surely lead our Eastern Domain Cultivation Realm to greater renown. I never thought that so soon after your master’s death, you would become a villain poisoning the Eastern Domain."

The speaker was an old man in a brown robe. He was Elder Dong Congzhang of the Chenqing Sect.

"A villain?" Chu Fan scoffed. "So, when others try to kill me, I’m only not a villain if I stick my neck out and let them do it?"

"How many Cultivation Disciples of the Eastern Domain did you slaughter at Zao Ying Mountain? Were all of them trying to kill you?" Dong Congzhang demanded.

"Were there any disciples from your Chenqing Sect among them?" Chu Fan shot back.

"The Six Sects and Eight Gates of the Eastern Domain are all connected. As someone who slaughters the innocent indiscriminately, are you saying I have no right to interfere?" Dong Congzhang’s tone grew heavier.

Chu Fan furrowed his brow, instantly understanding their true motives.

’This talk of punishment is just a pretext. Their real goal is probably my power. They’ve seen what I can do today and think there’s a profit to be made, don’t they?’

Arguing with them any further would be futile.

’But right now, facing five Divine Separation Realm experts... I’m not confident at all.’

"Fine. What do you want?" Chu Fan asked.

"Come with us old men. You’ve killed so many disciples of our Six Sects and Eight Gates, so you must give us an explanation. If you don’t make things difficult for us, I will personally guarantee this young woman’s safety," Dong Congzhang declared with an air of righteousness.

"Go with you? And leave my life in your hands?" Chu Fan asked again.

"The heavens value life. As long as you cooperate with us, we don’t necessarily have to kill you."

Chu Fan sneered inwardly. He swept his gaze across the faces of the five old men and said, "I have a proposal as well."

"Speak!" Dong Congzhang said.

"The five of you fight it out. Whoever wins, I’ll give them the Sword Technique I used to kill Elder Wu of the Celestial Derivation Sect."

"Brat, are you joking with me?" This time, it was Qu Lingce who spoke.

"You’re the ones who started this joke. Don’t think for a second I don’t know what you’re all thinking. If I really fell into your hands, I’m afraid even dying would be a luxury, wouldn’t it?"

As he spoke, Chu Fan’s right hand formed a seal, and he began to chant, "Spiritual Power of all creation, heed my call—First Seal, gather!"

None of the five elders knew what Chu Fan’s words meant, as they had never heard them before.

Chu Fan roared—"Roar!"

The moment the word left his lips, a majestic Lion Shadow burst forth.

The Lion Shadow was as large as a mountain. The instant it appeared, it opened its cavernous maw and let out a deafening roar.

Everything happened too quickly for the five men to react.

As the roar blasted their ears, their minds went blank. An instant later, a massive, unparalleled force slammed into their chests.

The five Divine Separation Realm experts were sent flying like kites with their strings cut, thrown miles away by the shockwave.

It wasn’t just the five of them. The very mountaintop beneath Chu Fan was sheared in half by that single roar.

Gazing at the scene, even Chu Fan himself was left utterly dumbfounded.

He had never imagined that unleashing the Lion Seal today would have such devastating power.

Furthermore, his head didn’t feel dizzy from the Spiritual Power overdraft that he’d experienced the previous times he used the Lion Seal Divine Techniques.

’Is this the effect of the Earth Spirit Pill? Or did the power of the Lion Seal Divine Techniques increase after my Spiritual Power reached Level 20?’

For now, there was certainly no way to figure out the answer.

He had to make the most of the time he had just bought.

As they fled, Yun Xi looked at Chu Fan, her eyes filled with bewilderment.

Those five were all famous figures in the Eastern Domain. She could never have imagined that Chu Fan would send them all flying with a single move.

Sensing her confusion, Chu Fan said, "Once we get somewhere safe, I’ll tell you everything I’ve been through over the past six months. Yun Xi, you have to remember, I might hide many things from others, but I have no secrets from you."

"You can have your own secrets from me, too. I don’t mind."

Yun Xi meant what she said. When a man was willing to disregard his own life and death for her, what more could she possibly ask for?

About a quarter of an hour after Chu Fan and Yun Xi left the battle site, dozens of Soul Emergence Realm Martial Artists arrived.

When they saw the devastated mountaintop, they were all horrified.

"Just how many secrets is that brat Chu Fan hiding? A battle between him and several Divine Separation Realm experts caused this much destruction? Doesn’t that mean that even five Divine Separation experts couldn’t handle him?"

"Chase him! We have to catch that brat! To achieve so much in just half a year... what he’s obtained is probably something we can’t even dare to imagine."

The man who spoke showed no fear in the face of Chu Fan’s current combat power; on the contrary, he grew even more frenzied.

If mere wealth could stir a person’s heart, how much more so an opportunity to ascend to the heavens in a single step?