Chapter 82: Humanoid Creatures, Melee Battle

Rather than sitting and waiting for death, it was better to strike first. You made your move!

Enduring the physiological discomfort, your Phantom Sound Zither began to play. Waves of sound, some tangible and some formless, crashed against the humanoid creature that was devouring human flesh raw.

Facing a two-pronged assault on both body and soul, the humanoid creature did not stop its chewing. A formless shield of light surged from within its body, blocking all of your zither attacks.

At this sight, your brow furrowed slightly. An attack capable of severely wounding a ninth-layer Nascent Soul cultivator had actually had no effect whatsoever.

Soon, the humanoid creature finished the first Nascent Soul cultivator and raised its hand to continue eating, paying your assault no mind at all.

As the humanoid creature kept feeding, you felt the aura within its body grow ever more immense, filling you with a profound sense of threat.

At this point, in order to survive, you no longer held back. Hundreds of flying swords emerged above your head, and among them was a Broken Sword!

Hundreds of flying swords merged as one with the Broken Sword. You channeled all your spiritual power into it, and a majestic Immortal Sword might slowly emerged. The surrounding void began to shatter, and the rules of the Holy City grew unstable.

The humanoid creature below seemed to sense it. It set down the food in its hands and raised its head to look at the Broken Sword above you, its face turning very grave.

The charging was complete — even your immensely deep foundation was now nearly drained of spiritual power!

Chi!

The Broken Sword instantly stabbed toward the humanoid creature. That formless light shield was torn apart directly. The humanoid creature was forced to raise both hands, trying to catch your sword with its bare palms!

"Agh!!!" The humanoid creature roared, because your Broken Sword had driven straight into its palm. It stopped one centimeter from the creature's skull.

Just that tiny bit more, and your Broken Sword would have plunged into its head, letting you see with your own eyes just what was inside its brain!

Your mind stirred. The Broken Sword flew out of the humanoid creature's palm and instantly returned before you.

You looked at the humanoid creature's blood on the Broken Sword, and your brow furrowed slightly.

Because the humanoid creature's blood was not red, but black! And it also gave off a nauseating stench.

Under the humanoid creature's furious gaze, you took out a bottle and collected the blood from the Broken Sword, to study later.

The humanoid creature felt it had been insulted. Killing intent raged in its eyes as it instantly appeared behind you and struck out with a palm!

You hurriedly turned, crossing your arms, and through sheer physical might forcefully withstood the palm strike.

At the same time, you drove your knee straight up!

You discovered in surprise that this humanoid creature's physical strength was in no way inferior to your own!

You and it engaged in a brawl of bodies. After hundreds of exchanges, both of you were panting heavily.

"Who are you?" The humanoid creature looked at you with uncertainty and alarm. The longer it fought you, the more panicked it became.

"I'm your grandfather!" Heavenly Lightning power surged in your hand as you threw a punch!

The humanoid creature had just wanted to meet you head-on, but upon seeing the Heavenly Lightning power on your fist, it hurriedly retreated to dodge.

Your Heavenly Lightning Fist grazed past. When one move failed, you swiftly changed tactics, grabbing the humanoid creature's arm and dragging it into a brawl of bodies.

Every punch of yours smashed viciously at the hand the Broken Sword had wounded.

With each punch thrown, the wound on the humanoid creature's hand worsened. The Heavenly Lightning power followed the wound into its internal organs.

Constantly ravaging the humanoid creature's body, the humanoid creature endured the pain and fought you for thirty rounds. To put distance between you, it forcefully took three of your punches.

Your half-step Spirit Transformation fists all landed on the humanoid creature's chest. On the last punch, you even heard the sound of bones cracking inside its body.

The humanoid creature let one arm hang limp, a trace of black blood spilling from the corner of its mouth. It was in a wretched state.

"Very good. This seat will remember you!"

"Once this seat recovers its cultivation, that will be your death day!!!"

The humanoid creature glared hatefully at you, as if to brand your appearance deep into its mind. With one hand, it tore open a rift and slipped inside!

Heavenly Lightning power emerged beneath your feet. You stepped out to give chase, but in the end you were one step too late. The humanoid creature escaped.

Having provoked a great enemy out of nowhere, your mood was very poor. What discomforted you even more was that the Holy City's exit was gone!

You looked at the two Nascent Soul cultivators lying unconscious on the ground and slapped each of them awake.

"Do you know how to get out of here?" you asked coldly.

The two knelt on the ground, trembling, seemingly still unable to collect themselves.

After a pause, one of them said in a quavering voice, "The passage can only be opened from the outside. From the inside, it's impossible to open."

You took out the Immortal Treasure Pavilion's token and tried to call Zhang Wuji. It failed.

With the passage gone, it seemed even the signal was gone.

"In this Holy City, is there really no other passage out?"

"This…" The two hesitated.

"Hm?" You gave each of them a punch, directly injuring them severely. Now the two were completely obedient.

"Spare us, Senior, we'll talk, we'll talk!"

"A thousand years ago, a cultivator was trapped in the Holy City for over thirty years. Without waiting for the passage to open from the outside, he escaped on his own."

"It's said he escaped the Holy City from a secret chamber within the City Lord's Mansion!"

"Is that all?" you asked with a furrowed brow.

"That's all, that's all there is." One of them nodded and said in a low voice, "That was all a thousand years ago. No one knows the details."

You nodded, then suddenly asked again, "A thousand years ago, the Holy City was sealed for over thirty years. In all that time, no faction tried to open it?"

The Nascent Soul cultivator smiled bitterly. "To open the Holy City's passage — how could that be easy?"

"Um, Senior, can you let us go now?"

You glanced at him and said, "The exit passage is gone. Where exactly do you think you're going? Stay honestly by my side!"

"I'm warning you, if you dare play any tricks, watch your little lives!" You warned the two thoroughly, then took out the Human Sovereign Banner and continued collecting Remnant Souls.

Hopefully the people from the Immortal Treasure Pavilion can put in some effort and open this passage soon! you thought to yourself. If it really came down to it, you would have no choice but to go to that City Lord's Mansion and investigate for yourself.

Inside the City Lord's Mansion, there was still that smiling Eerie Being!