Free Web NovelChapter 194: Chapter 191: Upheaval
The massive pillar of spiritual light above Wu Family Collection provoked a dozen or so hidden Soul Emergence Realm experts into taking action.
It was clear that an immense opportunity was involved.
It made even experts of the Soul Emergence Realm lose all reason.
But Shen Changchuan wasn’t the least bit interested in any of it.
He had never been an exceptionally greedy person and had always had a clear understanding of himself.
Never mind that he didn’t even know the specifics of this opportunity.
Even if he did know the details—that this opportunity could allow him to ascend in a single step, advance to the Soul Emergence Realm, or even reach the Divine Travel Realm beyond it—Shen Changchuan still wouldn’t even consider getting involved.
The reasoning was simple.
It was like buying a two-dollar lottery ticket in his past life with a chance to win a five-million-dollar grand prize.
But could you really be the one to win that jackpot?
Forget five million—it was hard enough to win even two hundred dollars!
If you’d never won five million from a two-dollar ticket, what made you think you were that one-in-a-million person who could easily navigate a battle between a dozen Soul Emergence Realm experts and claim the fruits of victory?
Shen Changchuan had a very sober perspective on the matter.
He was nothing more than an ordinary person who had gotten a little lucky.
To him, being able to transmigrate and be reborn with a modest cheat system was already a blessing from the heavens.
All he needed to do now was cultivate to the Soul Emergence Realm as quickly as possible and escape the potential danger posed by the First Madam. After that, he could simply proceed step by step, slowly building his strength. He was confident he could continue to advance that way.
There was absolutely no need to risk his life gambling on such a slim possibility.
And so, Shen Changchuan’s only thought was to quickly deal with those Shen Family members, nipping the threat in the bud, and then get the hell out of there.
As for the opportunity within the crater at Wu Family Collection, he had no interest in it whatsoever.
Soon, Shen Changchuan’s figure, like a gray bolt of lightning, closed in on the Shen Family members.
At that moment, the group not far away had stopped, apparently arguing about what to do next.
Killing intent began to flicker in Shen Changchuan’s eyes.
However, just then, within the massive crater several miles wide in the distance, a brutal, back-and-forth battle erupted among the dozen or so Soul Emergence Realm Cultivators.
Boundless, tyrannical Magical Power surged in a vast torrent. Deadly beams of magical light shot across hundreds of yards, repeatedly clashing with deafening roars.
The terrifying Magical Power shockwaves from the battlefield turned an area thousands of yards across into a forbidden death zone!
In the midst of this chaotic battle, two people were ganged up on and their bodies blown apart.
In his final moments before being killed, one of them violently hurled the Jade Ruyi-like Magical Treasure in his hand toward the pillar of light. It shot forward like a luminous cannonball and slammed into the pillar.
In that instant,
BOOM!!!!
Another earth-shattering roar sounded as the ground once again began to tremble violently.
The entire world seemed to echo with the boom.
Then,
CRACK... CRACKLE...
Accompanied by a crisp cracking sound, as if space itself was shattering, spiderweb-like fissures appeared on the giant pillar of white light, spreading rapidly across its surface.
Immediately after,
SHATTER!!!
The pillar of light violently disintegrated.
A terrifying, visible shockwave, like a colossal white wall, erupted from the pillar’s former location and swept outwards in all directions!
Space itself seemed to visibly distort!
The faces of the dozen or so Soul Emergence Realm Cultivators changed drastically.
They all turned and fled for their lives!
Simultaneously, as the white pillar disintegrated, streaks of white light shot out from its core. They scattered like meteors, tracing paths across the sky before crashing into the forests several, tens, or even hundreds of miles away!
But at this very moment, no one was paying attention to those white streaks of light...
"What?!?!"
In the forest, Shen Changchuan suddenly sensed an immense danger descending upon him.
The hair on his body practically stood on end.
He forced himself to a stop.
Turning to look, he saw the white shockwave on the horizon sweeping toward him with the force of a tsunami!
It was the impact from the cataclysmic explosion above the crater where Wu Family Collection had been!
Everywhere it passed, towering ancient trees were uprooted one after another, swept high into the air with tons of soil and rubble, only to be torn to shreds!
"This is bad!"
Shen Changchuan’s expression changed dramatically.
With no time to think, he unleashed all the Magical Power in his body in an instant, stacking layer after layer of the Golden Bell Technique upon himself while simultaneously throwing up multiple Magical Power Shields.
The next moment, the shockwave, a torrent sweeping across the land like a tsunami, crashed over him and engulfed him completely.
He felt as if he’d been thrown into a washing machine, tumbling and churning violently.
After what felt like an eternity,
Shen Changchuan felt himself hit the ground.
He immediately circulated his Magical Power, using a skill like the Thousand-Pound Weight to anchor himself firmly to the ground.
His body was pushed back continuously, carving a long trench in the earth.
But Shen Changchuan paid it no mind, focusing every ounce of his being on pouring all his Magical Power into the Golden Bell Technique and Magical Power Shields around him.
He resisted with all his might against the raging storm outside, which felt as solid as a physical object.
Fifteen minutes later,
the storm finally began to subside.
Shen Changchuan lowered the arms he had crossed in front of his eyes.
A vast expanse of bare, yellow earth appeared before him.
The land before him looked as if a whole layer had been violently scraped away.
Not a single blade of grass or a fallen leaf could be seen on the ground!
It was just a vast expanse of ochre earth.
Massive tree roots were half-buried, the other half brutally torn from the ground.
The ground was a mess of peaks and valleys.
’What in the world happened?’
Shen Changchuan hurriedly looked back toward the massive crater where Wu Family Collection had been.
He discovered that the vast, abyssal crater, which had originally spanned several miles, now looked no bigger than his thumb!
It wasn’t that it had shrunk,
but that he had been blown several miles away!
Shen Changchuan quickly realized this.
But then, his expression turned grim.
His gaze swept quickly over his surroundings.
Some people had already recovered from the terrifying impact.
Some, filled with fear, were hastily fleeing in the opposite direction from Wu Family Collection.
Others, filled with greed, were flying back toward Wu Family Collection.
Still others were digging in the dirt, one of whom cried out in surprise after unearthing a glowing, unknown Heavenly and Earthly Treasure.
It seemed to be the physical form of one of the white streaks of light that had scattered when the pillar collapsed, and it quickly attracted a crowd of onlookers.
And farther away,
in the direction of Wu Family Collection,
the auras of the Soul Emergence Realm could be felt once more.
The surviving Soul Emergence Realm experts in that area seemed to be fighting fiercely again!
But none of this meant anything to Shen Changchuan.
His face darkened.
He couldn’t find any trace of the Shen Family members.
In that terrifying shockwave, who knew where the storm had swept them off to.
His targets...
were lost!
