The Purgatory Calamity-Chapter 84 - 71 Slaughter Battlefield_1

Chapter 84: Chapter 71: Slaughter Battlefield_1

Chapter 84 -71: Slaughter Battlefield_1

Bagua City, at the end of the street was a blood-soaked battlefield, and behind that approached the endless darkness.

The vast majority of people in the city did not think calmly, simply striving to move forward.

Pang Jian paid close attention to what was behind him.

They kept a proper distance from the darkness, moving towards the city center without panic.

After slowing down, Pang Jian even tried to practice the powering method of the “Ground Flame Spell,” hoping to add some strength when the big battle broke out.

“Zhou… Zhou,”

Suddenly, from the side of a stone building on the street, a frail and delicate voice called out.

The voice was timid, seemingly filled with surprise and yet somewhat uncertain.

Zhou Qingchen was suddenly shaken to his core, and a look of wild joy filled his rough and unrestrained face in an instant.

He abruptly looked toward the stone building, suppressing the excitement in his heart, and called out in a low voice, “Jiang, is it really… you?”

“Zhou,”

A refined woman dressed in a black robe, with a Red Mountain pattern on her chest, appeared at the window from where the voice had come.

She had a delicate and exquisite oval face. She appeared somewhat pale at the moment; sweat beads glistened on her smooth forehead, constantly emerging as if she was enduring excruciating pain.

Zhou Qingchen suddenly let out a bizarre cry, startling everyone before he charged towards the stone building, shouting from afar, “Jiang, how come you are here?”

The woman in the building, seeing that it was indeed Zhou Qingchen, quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, with a despondent expression, she said, “The Heavenly Phoenix Remains appeared in the world. After the Phoenix Bone exploded and scattered, I and a few fellow cultivators went to explore where a Phoenix Bone had fallen. By chance, we saw a White Mountain, where a Mirror Tunnel appeared…”

She walked out of the stone building as she talked about her experiences.

The woman, with her handsome and elegant appearance and refined temperament, revealed her true self. After that, Zhou Qingchen exclaimed, “Jiang, your left hand?”

“It was chopped off halfway.”

Jiang Li let out a wistful smile, glancing at the half-arm that only reached her elbow, and sighed sorrowfully, “We were just hurrying towards the city center, who knew…”

She spoke lightly of her experiences.

The corpses Pang Jian and the others had encountered earlier belonged to the Red Mountain cultivators who were with Jiang Li. They had been ambushed on their way.

Only Jiang Li, with her arm chopped off, had managed to hide carefully in the nearby stone building and escaped disaster.

The rest were all ruthlessly killed.

It was only when the light column in the city center reached the sky and the Strange Treasure suddenly appeared that everyone rushed to the city center and Jiang Li dared to come out.

Badly injured, she had fallen behind and did not dare to get too close to the city center. She had been walking slowly and unexpectedly encountered Zhou Qingchen and others who had deliberately slowed down to keep a proper distance from the darkness.

“Who did this?”

Zhou Qingchen had already approached her. He fumbled in his storage ring, taking out some bottles and jars, his tiger-like eyes red with rage, “Here are some medicinal juices for healing wounds, Jiang…”

“No need, I have bandaged myself and stopped the bleeding long ago.”

Jiang Li forced a weak smile.

“Who did it?!” Zhou Qingchen roared again, furious.

“People from the Second Realm. Others seem to call him Qi Qingsong; that’s all I know,” Jiang Li said, looking at Zhou Qingchen, who was eager and furious. Her brows quivered slightly, and she couldn’t bear to deceive him any longer, tearfully saying, “Zhou, I used to avoid you, repeatedly rejecting you, because… I am older than you, my talent is limited, and I don’t come from a good background.”

“I’m sorry for being so ruthless to you.”

“Actually, I felt that I was not worthy of you and didn’t want to hold back your future.”

Jiang Li shook her head incessantly, teardrops falling onto the stone pavement with her movements.

Zhou Qingchen’s eyes reddened, and he forced out what he thought was a brilliant smile, saying with a wide grin, “Sister, I don’t care about these things. From the first time I saw you, I liked you a lot; I’ve always wanted you to know.”

“I know,” Jiang Li replied softly, her voice trembling like the buzzing of mosquitoes and flies.

“Sister…”

Zhou Qingchen took out a green pear wrapped in a white handkerchief from the most important little corner of his storage ring.

He meticulously wiped the pear clean, then with a radiant smile, handed it to Jiang Li, “I know you like pears; I’ve always carried one with me. You have never accepted the ones I offered before; please eat one today.”

The green pear shone brightly as he wiped it, almost rubbed raw.

Looking at the pear he offered, and seeing the determination and sincerity on his face, Jiang Li’s eyes became misty, and she couldn’t help but recall their first encounter when Zhou Qingchen was as reserved as a big boy.

At that time, she found it amusing, but later she realized that big boy would only become so reserved and flustered in her presence.

In dealing with the other Red Mountain senior brothers and sisters, the big boy was completely at ease and never showed any signs of stage fright.

“Okay.”

Jiang Li smiled as she took the pear, said nothing more, and started eating it in small bites, head bowed.

Zhou Qingchen, who had been waiting for this moment, could only watch her with a silly laugh, as if her way of eating pears was the most charming thing in the world.

Zhou Qingchen was blissfully unaware that the endless darkness from the Fifth Realm was drawing ever closer behind them.

“Zhou, we need to hurry up.”

Seeing Su Meng with tears in her eyes as well, Luo Hongyan, who was unusually silent, had no choice but to urge them on as Han Duping went to do so.

The distant and indifferent Luo Hongyan, who had always disliked Zhou Qingchen, was quietly watching him and Jiang Li. Upon hearing the call, she coldly said, “You’re so annoying!”

Han Duping made a bitter face: “We have to push on.”

“Got it.”

Zhou Qingchen nodded, aware that they really couldn’t afford to delay any longer.

He made as if to help Jiang Li up, but looking at her, one hand holding a pear and the other missing half, he hesitated, unsure of what to do.

“I can walk by myself, it’ll just be slower. I… just don’t want to drag you all down.”

Jiang Li said anxiously, looking at the completely unfamiliar Pang Jian and then at Luo Hongyan and Su Meng beside her.

Luo Hongyan said with an indifferent face, “Except for Pang Jian, the rest are all burdens, one more won’t make a difference.”

“Thank you.”

Jiang Li crouched slightly to express her thanks and walked forward on her own without waiting for Zhou Qingchen’s assistance, showing her understanding of the situation.

Zhou Qingchen gave Han Duping a stern look, signaling him to carefully look after Jiang Li, while his own eyes reddened as he stayed behind.

After Su Meng and Luo Hongyan moved forward one by one, Zhou Qingchen took a deep breath and said to Pang Jian, who had been silent until now, “Help me kill Qi Qingsong. I don’t care what his status is in the Second Realm! Regardless, you must help me this time! By any means necessary, I must kill this man!”

Pang Jian nodded and said just one word, “Okay.”

…

Even the longest streets eventually come to an end.

Pang Jian and his companions abruptly arrived at the center of Bagua City, the first thing they saw was a huge plaza littered with dead bodies.

In the middle of the plaza, with a floor as white as jade, stood an imposing stone tower, on which three striking characters were prominently displayed.

——City Lord Mansion.

The column of light reaching up to the sky, and the Strange Treasure displayed within it, originated from inside the City Lord Mansion.

This extraordinary City Lord Mansion sat at the center of the plaza, where nearly a hundred people were still immersed in a frantic slaughter.

Pang Jian was slightly shaken.

The pungent smell of blood permeated the square, and several hundred bodies lay scattered around the area.

The battles he had fought against Dark Ghost and his killing of Dong Tianze were small-scale compared to this.

He had never before witnessed a battlefield where so many cultivators fought amidst a river of blood, with severed limbs and amputated arms scattered everywhere.

“Jiang, do you see Qi Qingsong?”

Zhou Qingchen came over, surveyed the battleground, and asked with wide eyes.

Nearly a hundred people were fighting outside the City Lord Mansion; he didn’t recognize any of them.

“No, he’s not here.”

Jiang Li was the first to answer his question. She then bit her lip, her face pale as she said, “Zhou, I appreciate all you’ve done for me, but I don’t want you to die here.”

“That man… he only cut off half of my arm. He comes from the Second Realm, his personal combat strength is really strong, really strong. I don’t want you all to die because of me.”

Clearly, she thought that Zhou Qingchen and the others didn’t have the power to kill Qi Qingsong.

Being alive up to this moment and seeing Zhou Qingchen once more was already something she was grateful for. She didn’t want her vengeance to cause Zhou and the others to die here.

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Seeing Zhou Qingchen’s silence, she added in a low voice, “It would be good if we could go back. I don’t want you to risk your life for me; it’s not worth it.”

“For you, everything is worth it!”

Zhou Qingchen declared sternly.

“Someone’s coming.”

Pang Jian, carrying a Long Spear, noticed a white-clothed girl emerging from a street to the left, suddenly making an appearance just like they had.

The girl in white wore a thin veil over her face as if she too had ended up at the rear and had only just shown herself.

Seeing Pang Jian looking over, the girl in white nodded gently by way of greeting, her eyes cold and distant.

“Let’s get off this street first, stay at the edge of the area and watch to see if the Darkness will spread to the plaza.”

It was Luo Hongyan who suddenly spoke. She suggested they leave the street corner and stepped onto the White Jade Plaza, and they all quickly moved off.

As they watched the Darkness creeping slowly forward, their attention shifted from the people in the midst of battle—they all turned their heads.

It wasn’t just them.

Seeing the endless Darkness of the Fifth Realm pouring in from the eight streets, the fighting cultivators also hastily stopped.

At this moment, everyone was nervously watching the Darkness that had appeared at the mouth of the street.

Surprisingly, the Darkness only hovered at the street entrances and did not encroach on the White Jade Plaza by an inch, as if the brilliance within the square was keeping it at bay at the street’s edge.

“Boom!”

Upon seeing this, those cultivators who had been anxious relaxed and plunged back into the fray.

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