Chapter 450: Awakening

Jun Wushuang suddenly frowned. He turned to look, but there was no one around—not a trace of Gu Muyun.

Just then, the sand at his feet began to churn.

The next moment, Gu Muyun's ethereal, white figure shot out, sword first.

Jun Wushuang paused, narrowly avoiding the attack with a sidestep.

He raised his sword to counterattack, but Gu Muyun suddenly dove back under the sand and vanished.

BOOM!

Jun Wushuang's sword struck nothing but air, and he couldn't help but frown.

Du Qingshu, who had been observing from the side, seemed to realize something and said suddenly, "Something's wrong. She isn't trying to win. She's stalling for time!"

Just then, a dazzling, dark green beam of light shot out from the center of the desert.

Seeing this, Du Qingshu's brow furrowed. "This is… They've found the Celestial Mirror Order! Damn it, we've been tricked!"

Jun Wushuang's expression darkened instantly. Without hesitation, he raised a finger, upon which a miniature sun materialized.

Jun Wushuang pointed toward the center of the desert, and the scorching miniature sun shot off with a WHOOSH, vanishing into the sands as a streak of light.

「Meanwhile.」

A brilliant red light suddenly erupted from his body, dazzling to behold.

"Break!"

With a furious roar, Jun Wushuang raised his arm. In that instant, an enormous Great Sun materialized in his hand.

Then, Jun Wushuang lifted the Great Sun and slammed it violently into the ground.

BANG!

Sand flew everywhere, and a huge crater suddenly appeared where Jun Wushuang had struck.

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

...

Immediately after, waves of scorching power erupted from beneath Jun Wushuang's hand, spreading in all directions and surging deep into the desert floor.

"Argh!"

A woman's miserable cry rang out.

The next moment, Gu Muyun's slender figure was blasted out of the sand with a WHOOSH. She coughed up a large mouthful of blood in mid-air, her face deathly pale.

...

Meanwhile, in the center of the desert, within Stone City, Shen Daoxing picked up the Celestial Mirror Order.

He then turned, leaped down from the Stone Palace, and entered the lake, carefully swimming toward the outskirts of Stone City.

The massive Thousand-Eyed Demon Chapter lay at the bottom of the lake, but it seemed to be in a deep sleep. Shen Daoxing swam across the lake without incident. He then leaped up, landing on the roof of a stone house, and began bounding from rooftop to rooftop toward the city's edge.

Outside Stone City, Wan Hai and Gu Tianyao saw Shen Daoxing bounding across the rooftops and grew excited. "Shen Daoxing did it! He's getting out!"

However, just as Shen Daoxing was about to make it out, a dazzling red light suddenly streaked across the sky and fell into Stone City.

BOOM!

With a tremendous crash, a swath of stone houses suddenly exploded.

"Oh no!"

Wan Hai and Gu Tianyao froze, both stunned.

The next moment.

ROAR!

An indescribably terrifying roar suddenly erupted from within Stone City.

Immediately after, a massive, round head suddenly emerged from the lake in the city's center. In an instant, hundreds, even thousands, of hideous eyes on it snapped open, emitting a terrifying, dark glow as they all fixed on Shen Daoxing.

It seemed to have been thoroughly enraged.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Stone houses throughout the city exploded one after another. Then, terrifying, blood-red tentacles erupted from the rubble, soaring high into the sky and smashing down on Shen Daoxing from all directions.

「At the same time.」

ROAR!

The Thousand-Eyed Demon Chapter's round, red head roared again, revealing a shocking, blood-red maw as it lunged at Shen Daoxing, looking as if it would swallow him whole.

Seeing this, Wan Hai and Gu Tianyao, outside Stone City, were shocked. Their eyes widened in alarm. "Damn it! The monster's been woken up!"

"Quick, run! Shen Daoxing, run!"

"Junior Brother, run!"

But at that moment, Shen Daoxing, surrounded by terrifying tentacles in Stone City, showed no fear. Instead, he burst out laughing.

The next moment.

He suddenly pushed off from the stone roof, launching himself into the air.

But instead of leaping out of Stone City, he flew toward the terrifying monster.

"???"

"???"

Wan Hai and Gu Tianyao were momentarily stunned.

"Shen Daoxing, what are you doing?!"

"Junior Brother, what are you doing?!"

But in the next moment, Shen Daoxing had already raised his arm high. A brilliant light flared, and his entire arm suddenly transformed into something like black gold metal, gleaming in the sunlight.

"Venerable Invincible, Serious Punch!"

The next moment.

Shen Daoxing threw his punch, carving a graceful arc through the air before smashing it viciously onto the giant monster's head.

CRACK!

The Thousand-Eyed Demon Chapter's massive body froze, and black arcs of electricity crackled across its form.

BOOM!

The giant Thousand-Eyed Demon Chapter suddenly plummeted.

RUMBLE!

It crashed back into the lake, sending up a colossal splash.

ROAR!

Another indescribably terrifying, monstrous roar echoed from the lake.

This time, it seemed Shen Daoxing had truly and utterly enraged the Thousand-Eyed Demon Chapter.

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH...

All at once, a dozen more terrifying, blood-red tentacles shot high into the air, then whipped out with a sound that tore through the sky.

CLANG!

A loud, metallic clang rang out.

Shen Daoxing was struck hard by the dozen terrifying tentacles simultaneously, but his chest, now a sheet of black-gold metal, was completely unharmed.

ROAR!

Seemingly driven to the peak of fury, another indescribably terrifying roar erupted from the Thousand-Eyed Demon Chapter's mouth.

Dozens of the monster's shocking, terrifying tentacles once again shot up from the ground, smashing down toward Shen Daoxing with world-destroying force.

But at that moment, Shen Daoxing used the force from the Thousand-Eyed Demon Chapter's blow to suddenly fly backward, shooting out of Stone City with a WHOOSH.

BANG!

The ten shocking, terrifying tentacles could only smash viciously against the golden Restriction surrounding Stone City's walls.

Everyone felt the ground shake violently.

But no matter how the Thousand-Eyed Demon Chapter battered the Restriction, the golden light only flashed dazzlingly. It could not break through. Its hundreds and thousands of hideous eyes could only glare helplessly at Shen Daoxing.

Soaring through the air, Shen Daoxing slowly descended, landing on the sand. He turned and gave a slight smile to the furiously glaring Thousand-Eyed Demon Chapter inside Stone City.

"Junior Brother!"

"Junior Brother!"

"Shen Daoxing!"

Wan Hai, Tang Yi, and Gu Tianyao immediately rushed over, worried.

"Junior Brother, it's so good to see you're okay!"

Seeing Shen Daoxing was unharmed, Wan Hai let out a sigh of relief, though he was still shaken.

"Junior Brother, what were you thinking just now?" Tang Yi grumbled. "You barely had time to escape, so why did you deliberately provoke that monster? Do you have any idea how worried we were? We thought you weren't going to make it out this time!"