I Grind to Martial Saint

The eerie human heads stopped looking at Su Chen and the others, turning to face a different direction.

Su Chen froze in place, stunned.

'A second ago, I was fighting for my life against a dozen eerie human heads.'

'How is it that the very next second...'

'...these eerie heads are just ignoring me?!'

Ge Xin and the others quickly came to Su Chen's side.

"Captain, what happened?" Ge Xin asked in alarm.

"I'm confused too..." Su Chen said, shaking his head.

"I think someone's there!" Lu Jun exclaimed.

Their gazes snapped to the street ahead.

Two figures slowly appeared from the front.

A tall, imposing young man with a deep, brooding expression.

And an old monk with a wizened face.

"Eat.... eat…."

"I must eat you!"

The several hundred eerie heads on the withered tree stared intently at the old monk, letting out strange squawks.

"Master, it seems you're quite in demand."

"Even an Evil Demon Seed doesn't want to let you go," Han Yuan chuckled softly.

After passing through the checkpoint, they had sped along the main road and soon arrived in this small town.

With Han Yuan's perception, he had naturally seen that something was wrong with the town at a single glance.

However, an Evil Demon Seed had long since stopped being a threat to him, so he couldn't be bothered to take a detour.

"This Evil Demon Seed is not after me."

"It must have sensed the Source Evil Seed within my body."

"It wants to devour this Source Evil Seed and advance to become a Source Evil Seed itself."

Xu Shi had guessed the withered tree's intentions.

"Evil Demon Seeds can devour each other?" Han Yuan asked, stunned for a moment.

"Yes... Evil Demon Seeds are actually incompatible with one another."

"They can devour each other's power to grow, and even to advance," Xu Shi said, his palms pressed together.

"So that's how it is."

Han Yuan nodded, then turned his gaze to the eerie withered tree.

'I've been paid to solve a problem.'

But the heads hanging from the eerie withered tree were already rushing to attack Monk Xu Shi.

Han Yuan grinned and directly activated the first stage of the Transformed Whale!

BOOM!!!

His muscles swelled, and his veins bulged menacingly as if he'd turned into a small giant. He threw his fists out in a furious barrage!!!

Su Chen and the others in the distance only saw a large swathe of afterimages.

It was an illusion created by the speed of his punches, as if Han Yuan had thrown several hundred punches in an instant.

Those incomparably hard eerie heads suddenly became extremely fragile.

As if they were pieces of tofu, they were continuously smashed by Han Yuan's fists.

BANG BANG BANG!!!

Every dull thud was accompanied by the shattering of an eerie human head.

A dozen breaths later.

The street was filled with putrid flesh and blood....

Several hundred heads, just like that, were beaten to a pulp by Han Yuan.

Seeing this, Su Chen and his group, who were not far off, stared with wide eyes.

It took them a great deal of time just to deal with a single eerie head.

Yet this man had single-handedly taken care of all several hundred of them.

"What terrifying explosive power... With that strength, I bet a single punch could shatter a small hill," Lu Jun said, horrified.

"Yes... this man must be an Innate Grandmaster, and not an ordinary one at that."

Su Chen nodded.

He felt a surge of relief in his heart.

'I thought I was a dead man for sure, but I never expected such a powerhouse to show up.'

"This power... is a bit weak," Han Yuan said, shaking his head.

The power of this Withered Tree Evil Demon Seed was weaker than the Ice Ghost from the Snow Dragon Mountain Range.

But the withered tree's branches suddenly extended strangely, lashing out at Han Yuan like bared fangs and claws.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH~~

The force of the lashing was quite ferocious, and the whistling of the wind was unusually sharp.

But Han Yuan's expression didn't change at all. He erupted with the Innate Great Demon Qi in his body and, using his hand as a blade, swept out with a chop.

With his current Blade Technique realm, he could unleash terrifying power even using his hand as a blade.

The Innate Great Demon Qi covered his palm, transforming into pitch-black Evil Qi and severing the lashing withered branches.

Su Chen, in the distance, got a strange feeling.

He felt that in front of Han Yuan, this Withered Tree Evil Demon Seed seemed far too weak.

BAM!

Han Yuan's figure flashed, appearing before the Withered Tree Evil Demon Seed, and he viciously chopped down with a Hand Blade!

SQUELCH!!!

The bark on this withered tree's surface was abnormally tough and slippery. Han Yuan's Hand Blade strike had unexpectedly only broken a small part of its bark.

Immediately after.

A rotten Ghost Claw suddenly shot out from within the withered tree, fiercely clawing at Han Yuan's heart.

"Courting death!"

Han Yuan sneered and threw out a palm strike!

Even though he hadn't practiced any Palm Techniques, relying on his muscle control and his own explosive power was enough for him to instantly unleash terrifying might.

It was utterly devastating!

Han Yuan's palm shattered the rotten Ghost Claw and even left a deep palm print in the tree's trunk.

"I'd like to see just how tough you really are!"

Han Yuan roared wildly and unleashed the Celestial Spirit Divine Fist, madly smashing into the withered tree.

Every punch, brimming with ferocious power, became a blur of countless fist shadows.

BANG BANG BANG!!!

The Withered Tree Evil Demon Seed continuously retreated, its bark flying and bursting off.

This scene was violent to the extreme.

Su Chen and the others, standing so far away, could feel waves of the fierce fist wind washing over them.

"Such terrifying Fist Force..."

"If one of those punches hit me, I'm afraid I'd be turned into a bloody paste," Ge Xin said, horrified.

"Yes... I feel the same way."

Lu Jun nodded.

Under their watch, Han Yuan used this brutally ferocious fighting style to beat the Withered Tree Evil Demon Seed to a pulp!

Following the death of the Withered Tree Evil Demon Seed, the eerie aura entwining the town also gradually dissipated.

"I am Su Chen of the Celestial Net Department. Thank you for saving our lives."

Su Chen brought Ge Xin and the others forward to thank him.

"We were just passing by."

"The rest is up to you."

Han Yuan was unwilling to have too much contact with Su Chen and the others.

Mainly because Monk Xu Shi's condition did not allow for any wasted time.

"Amitabha."

Xu Shi also just put his palms together, as a greeting to Su Chen and the others.

Afterwards, he and Han Yuan left directly.

"Those two... seem to be in a big hurry."

Su Chen said thoughtfully, gazing in the direction Han Yuan had disappeared.

"I get that feeling too."

"And something seems wrong with that old monk's condition."

As one of the Abnormal People, Lu Jun sensed a trace of a strange aura from the old monk.

Of course, this also proved that Monk Xu Shi was indeed on his last legs.

Back in the Snow Dragon Mountain Range, he was still able to suppress this strange aura within him.

But the current situation showed that the corruption he suffered was already extremely severe.

"Mm... I felt a little of it too."

"But neither of them are ordinary people. They must be on their way to find a solution."

"Let's clean up this mess first, then report this intelligence," Su Chen said with a nod.

....

「Elsewhere.」

After leaving the town where the Evil Demon Seed had appeared, Han Yuan and Monk Xu Shi continued on their way.

On the road, Han Yuan asked about the matter of Evil Demon Seeds devouring each other.

"Master... if a Source Evil Seed devoured all other Evil Demon Seeds, including other Source Evil Seeds... would it advance to become a Source Seed?" Han Yuan asked curiously.

"Patron, I do not know the answer to your question."

Xu Shi shook his head, then said, "However, from what I know... during the Chaotic Ancient Era, we once brought a tiny piece of Source Seed Shredded Meat out from that strange Immortal Sect..."

"This Source Seed Shredded Meat holds a terrifying attraction for both Source Evil Seeds and Evil Demon Seeds."

Han Yuan instantly thought of the Source Seed Shredded Meat sealed in the Taicang Mountain Range.

At that time, even Chunyang Daoist hadn't dared to open the Pill Furnace to see if the Source Seed Shredded Meat had truly been refined.

But with the Alchemy Furnace there, even if the Source Seed Shredded Meat wasn't refined, its aura couldn't escape, so the Source Evil Seeds and Evil Demon Seeds naturally couldn't sense it.

"I've heard of that too," Han Yuan said.

"It seems that pieces of Source Seed Shredded Meat are sealed in various places across the Southern Star Continent."

"Correct... our Great Vajra Temple has also sealed a small piece," Monk Xu Shi nodded.

"The Profound Celestial Alliance?" Han Yuan asked in surprise.

"I didn't expect you to know of that organization's existence."

Monk Xu Shi was also very surprised.