Chapter 335 - 259: Rescue

In this life-or-death crisis, Yuan Tianhao’s potential was utterly unleashed. His aura connected with heaven and earth, gathering the Beidou Starlight and seizing the very fortune of creation, seeming to be on the verge of breaking through a boundary no one had crossed in a millennium.

Under the starlight, his battered body healed at a visible rate. His nearly depleted Physical Ability, like parched earth receiving a welcome rain, was rapidly replenished. As his Spirit, will, and life force combined, a peculiar power began to brew within the valley.

To be divine is to be enlightened; to consume Qi is to become Undying.

As the foremost figure of this chaotic era, Yuan Tianhao, in the midst of this calamity, finally caught a glimpse of that legendary realm.

However, at that very moment, a humanoid shadow appeared atop the valley peak, looking down on him. A terrifying influence was released in absolute silence. In Yuan Tianhao’s eyes, the entire world seemed to twist and distort. Within this distorted vision, Black Flame surged upwards, forming a gigantic Black Flame Strange Bird that blotted out the sky. Its blood-red eyes fixed upon him.

In that instant, his Spirit and body seemed to freeze, solidifying for a split second.

Yet that single moment was utterly fatal.

The swelling momentum of his Spirit and aura was brutally cut short. It was like a sudden burst of inspiration being violently interrupted; reconnecting with it would now require a period of recovery.

Furthermore, because the breakthrough process had been disrupted, the Qi Yuan Tianhao had gathered into his body had not yet been fully "tamed." It now ran rampant, surging violently against his Acupoints All Over the Body, his internal organs, and his meridians.

SPURT!!

The wounds that had just begun to heal burst open once more, spraying blood everywhere.

But that was not the most fatal part.

The deadliest threat was the swarm of attacking Neon experts!

A split second was more than enough time for them to act.

When Mitsuro and the others saw Yuan Tianhao suddenly freeze, they didn’t know what had happened, assuming only that his breakthrough had gone wrong.

Regardless, they would never let such a perfect opportunity pass them by.

Streaks of light shot out, Primordial Qi roared, and Sword Light flared with a metallic ring!

The mysterious figure had appeared for only an instant, yet it was enough to reverse the situation completely!

By the time Yuan Tianhao snapped out of it, multiple attacks were already closing in. If they landed, he would be torn to shreds!

’Even if I have to die, I can’t die here!’

Grim determination flashed through Yuan Tianhao’s mind. He knew very well that with his breakthrough interrupted, the tide had turned against him tonight. But no matter what, he could not die here.

The fate of the Divine Land currently rested on his shoulders. If he were ambushed and killed here, the consequences would be unthinkable.

The world would descend into chaos, the people would live in terror, Neon’s armies would march south, and the Divine Land would be in danger of being overthrown!

ROAR!!

An extremely vicious glint flashed in Yuan Tianhao’s eyes. He was, after all, a man who had been on the verge of reaching the Divine General realm. Erupting with his full power, he forcibly manipulated the untamed Qi within him, ignoring the devastating backlash, and unleashed it all at once.

VMMMM!!

He blasted out a palm strike, and the towering divine effigy formed from his aura simultaneously pressed down with its own palm. An unfathomably terrifying power surged wildly from within him.

Within a radius of dozens of meters, all the Neon experts felt an immense pressure crushing their bodies. The Beidou Starlight burst forth, suddenly detonating all around them.

SPURT!!

The charging experts were instantly struck by a heavy blow and violently thrown backward. Among the Twenty-Eight Celestial Emperors, three or four collapsed on the spot, gushing blood and unable to rise. The others were all grievously injured. Even the four restricted-level masters had blood trickling from their mouths, their bodies wracked with Vibration. For a moment, they found it impossible to muster their Qi or exert any Force, leaving them helpless.

This single strike seemed to possess the might of a Divine General!

However, after unleashing that strike to repel everyone, Yuan Tianhao was in no better condition himself.

The skin all over his body had burst open, turning him into a bloody figure. Forcibly mobilizing the rampaging Qi within him meant that the resulting explosion of power wounded him as much as it did his enemies.

His internal organs, his Seven-Star Life Palace, his blood vessels, and his meridians were all in a state of utter ruin.

But Yuan Tianhao knew this was not the time to collapse. Enduring the immense pain wracking his body, he forced his power to circulate. With a single step, he flashed forward and grabbed Meng Dongtai, who stood nearby, missing an arm and stunned into a stupor by the sudden turn of events. In another flash, he leaped over the side of the valley.

The moment he left Fulong Valley, he snapped his head around to look at the peak on the opposite side of the valley.

It was completely empty. There was no sign of any figure. It was as if everything he had just seen had been a hallucination—that the humanoid shadow and the terrifying Black Flame Strange Bird had never existed at all.

When Shakyamuni was on the verge of enlightenment, a Celestial Demon came to assail him.

A sudden realization dawned on Yuan Tianhao. ’Perhaps the reason no Divine General has appeared in the Divine Land for the last millennium isn’t simply because the world itself has changed.’

He firmly believed that whatever had affected him so profoundly could not have been a mere "Demon Tribulation." Its presence had felt far too real to be faked.

This world still concealed immense secrets.

However, the situation was urgent, leaving him no time for further thought. He immediately began to run, carrying Meng Dongtai as he fled north—in the direction of Beichuan County Town.

Fulong Valley was only about a hundred kilometers from Beichuan County Town. News of the attack on his private train must have already reached the town, and expert reinforcements were surely on their way. His only sliver of a chance for survival lay in that direction.