Chapter 1: Siblings

  A shocking battle in the skies above the imperial capital, it was as if a heavenly god had descended to earth to punish mortals, astonishing and startling the world...

  The flickering flames had long since illuminated the capital of the Great Zhou Kingdom in the dark night, making it as bright as day.

  The mighty power of Wu Lei's curse not only intimidated mortals, but even Lian Qing Zhenren's expression changed, and he joined the battle group, forming an alliance with Nan Xingchen to surround and kill the demon Li Can from the Western Ghost Domain.

  Round after round of fierce battles, Li Can had long been unable to catch his breath, and the injuries on his body became increasingly severe under the influence of the Five Thunder Curse. Nevertheless, he was still able to single-handedly hold off the combined forces of Lan Qing and Nan Xingchen. After a prolonged and intense fight that lasted for about an hour, all three of them had suffered varying degrees of injury.

  "Hmm"

  A ghostly claw appeared out of thin air, and Li Can's strange claw was used with full force. Nan Xingchen did not dodge in time, and his chest was hit by the claw. This claw was much more powerful than Man Ji's "Ghost Claw", and the five deep claw marks almost shattered Nan Xingchen's breastbone. Fresh blood spurted out, and Nan Xingchen's body retreated violently backwards.

  He struck Nan Xingchen, and Li Can's sword swept out, with a dark and gloomy aura surrounding the blade, greatly increasing its power.

  With a "ding" sound, Li Can and Lan Qing retreated, their bodies borrowing momentum to shoot out dozens of feet away, steadily landing on the wall head of the West City Gate.

  "Haha, Dongzhou Dao Gate, it's nothing but this. I don't have time to play with you today, farewell."

  Li Can also knew that his injuries were extremely severe, and if he didn't find a secluded place to recuperate and rest, he feared that the unhealed wounds would become incurable.

  Just as he was about to leave, a yellowish light suddenly appeared from afar and reached the top of the Western City Gate, blocking his path at an extremely fast speed.

  "Lu Chen?"

  Just as Nan Xingchen and Lan Qing were about to get up and chase after him, they saw a figure appear on the city gate tower in the west, and their hearts suddenly skipped a beat.

  Under the city gate, tens of thousands of soldiers were at a loss, but they didn't know why. At the moment Lu Chen appeared, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

  It was a murderous aura, an unprecedented murderous aura, that suddenly erupted from Lu Chen's body on the west city gate tower, and it was even more intense than those generals who had survived the bloody battle.

  "Finally found you..."

  The scene was once dead silent, people didn't even dare to breathe, quietly watching the two people staring at each other on the city wall. After a moment, Lu Chen finally opened his mouth coldly.

  Li Can was taken aback for a moment, looking at this unassuming young man, his heart filled with doubts.

  After sizing him up for a moment, he saw that the aura emanating from Lu Chen's body was not much stronger than Nan Xingchen, whom he had just knocked down. He couldn't help but curl his lip in disdain and sneer: "You ignorant little brat, how dare you block my way? You're really asking to die!"

  Lu Chen remained silent, but the real person of Ling Qing below shouted anxiously: "Lu Chen, you are not his opponent, let go quickly."

  Nan Xingchen also struggled to get up, but he didn't remind Lu Chen. On the contrary, the eerie aura on Lu Chen's body made his jaw drop in disbelief.

  "What a terrifying killing intent, when did this kid become so sinister?"

  Lu Chen hung his head low, not lifting it at all. His body was shaking violently. Don't misunderstand, he wasn't afraid, but excited. At this moment, in his heart, there seemed to be countless strange voices shouting and yelling.

  "Kill... kill him, he's an enemy, enemies should die, you have to kill, use every trick in the book to kill him, hurry up."

  "Kill..."

  The voice in his heart grew darker and more terrifying, Lu Chen seemed to have heard the evil spirits' voices from the nine hells, or perhaps it was the devil's urging. He slowly lifted his head...

  Very slow...

  But...

  As Lu Chen's head slowly lifted at that moment, the two black lights that suddenly shot out of his eyes made everyone involuntarily take a step back.

  "What the...? What kind of eyes are those......"

  "Beast? Damn it, even beasts don't have eyes like this..."

  "It's too scary, it's all black, a person's eyes shouldn't be like this..."

  ……

  The city gate was surrounded by a bright, fiery glow that illuminated Lu Chen's black pupils, which were as clear as two black swords, even colder than the swords themselves.

  Nan Xingchen's heart skipped a beat, and he involuntarily shivered as if the chill of the two cold lights had frozen the wound on his chest.

  Lan Qing's eyes widened in incredulity: "Seven layers of Qi refinement? How is that possible? He's only been cultivating for a little over four months, what about that killing intent... has he gone mad?"

  In his mind, he recalled the rumors about someone on the city wall of Qianyu Gate: that street urchin who dared to play a joke on Qingyue Zhenren in Yuning Hall, that kid who defeated Chen Hu and still didn't forget to step on him several times, that good-for-nothing kid who would shout loudly at the top of his lungs on Wangduan Peak, cursing heaven for being unfair whenever he had nothing better to do. When did his eyes become so sharp? Where was the carefree and arrogant look he used to have? Was this still Lu Chen?

  Lan Qing's mind was a jumbled mess, and in his eyes, Lu Chen had transformed into someone else entirely, someone he couldn't believe could change to such an extent...

  "I've finally found you..."

  This sentence had been said before, but in Li Can's ears it was still echoing like the first time, giving him an overwhelming and terrifying shock. He was a mid-stage Foundation Establishment expert, originally not even bothering to glance at Lu Chen because Qi Refining stage cultivators were nothing in his eyes. But...

  Today... seems different somehow.

  Subconsciously retreating two steps, Li Can's feet had already reached the edge of the wall head, only one step away from falling off. Li Can stood still, standing extremely difficultly...

  "Who are you?" He started staring at Lu Chen. After asking this sentence, Li Can only felt that it was really inconsistent with his own identity and strength.

  "Why should I be afraid of a Qi Condensation stage kid? Impossible, he's just pretending, his strength is far from being my match, I can kill him with ease..."

  He kept warning himself not to be afraid, but the more he did so, the thicker the chill in his heart grew.

  "Who am I?" Lu Chen suddenly laughed, it was unclear whether he was pleased or excited, but in any case, it was an unusual and eerie smile: "This question is really good, I don't even know how to answer it. Heh... But there's one thing that's certain, I... am the person who has come to send you to the afterlife..."

  "Haha......ha......"

  Li Can seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world, a Qi-practicing kid actually dared to say such big words to him. He was indeed laughing, but this laughter stopped abruptly under the piercing gaze of Lu Chen's eyes...

  "Haha... you're going down, motherfucker! Soon I'll make you cry so hard you won't be able to stop... watch this..."