Chapter 124: An Accounting for Earth!

Li Xianyi had once again, without anyone noticing, spread the idea that Earth was immensely powerful!

There was no other choice. When Kun Jue had just seen the masses of corpses belonging to Earth’s humans, the contempt in his eyes had been utterly undisguised!

If Li Xianyi did not put it this way, he feared Kun Jue would return and tell Kun Sha how helpless Earth’s martial artists were.

To be slaughtered by alien beasts was hardly something to take pride in!

Kun Jue had indeed been shaken by Li Xianyi’s words.

He was now imagining a scene in which the humans of the outside world were incomparably powerful, leaving the alien beasts afraid to run rampant.

There was no helping it. The Kunlun Secret Realm was overflowing with spiritual energy, and when spiritual energy was abundant, the chances of wild beasts mutating increased dramatically as well.

With alien beasts emerging one after another and gathering in great numbers, there would naturally be some extraordinarily gifted among them who rose to prominence.

In the Kunlun Secret Realm, the number of powerful alien beasts was hardly fewer than the number of humans.

Back when the Kunlun Tribe still existed, it had organized the tribes of the secret realm to hunt down and exterminate the alien beasts. But after the Kunlun Tribe was wiped out, the top ten tribes grew wary of one another and became mutually hostile.

They no longer organized joint campaigns against the alien beasts, allowing them to grow steadily stronger until the situation became impossible to control.

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Li Xianyi had just been about to bury the corpses when Kun Jue, who had still been standing beside him in shock, shot into the sky.

An eighth-rank Venerable followed Kun Jue upward, roaring furiously.

Another eighth-rank expert stood before Li Xianyi, his aura surging ceaselessly as it gathered around him.

A streak of azure radiance flashed across the sky.

A gigantic eagle appeared overhead!

The instant the eagle emerged, the great handprint formed from Kun Jue’s gathered aura swept across the sky and struck toward it.

The Azure Sky Eagle looked at the approaching handprint, a trace of disdain flashing through its sharp eyes.

It spread its wings once more and rammed straight into the handprint!

In an instant, the great handprint was pierced by the Azure Sky Eagle.

Without the slightest reduction in speed, the Azure Sky Eagle continued charging toward Kun Jue.

On the other side, the eighth-rank Venerable Kun Tong roared as he unleashed the Kunpeng Tribe’s forbidden technique, the Kunpeng Transformation.

In an instant, Kun Tong’s aura began to soar. His aura, originally at the peak of the eighth rank, reached the ninth rank in the blink of an eye.

As it flew, the Azure Sky Eagle sensed that Kun Tong’s attack was already close.

Having completed the Kunpeng Transformation, Kun Tong shot toward the eagle in midair like a bolt of red lightning.

At that moment, Kun Jue stood motionless in the Azure Sky Eagle’s path, all the aura in his body converging before him.

With a furious roar, he collided head-on with the eagle.

Almost in the same instant, the three mighty experts crashed into one another in midair.

At the moment of impact, Kun Jue fell from the clouds, vomiting blood as he descended.

Meanwhile, Kun Tong’s full-strength strike landed squarely on the Azure Sky Eagle’s wing.

A massive bloody hole appeared in the eagle’s wing!

The Azure Sky Eagle let out a series of furious cries.

It had actually been injured!

It had been careless. The person who had wounded it had originally been only an eighth-rank martial artist, so it had paid him no attention. Even if an eighth-rank human self-detonated, he should not have been able to inflict any damage upon it.

Yet it had never expected that, at the very instant it launched its attack, that person would transform into a ninth-rank expert.

There was a fundamental difference between the eighth and ninth ranks!

An eighth-rank expert was incapable of harming it, but a ninth-rank expert was different. A ninth-rank expert’s desperate strike absolutely possessed the power to wound it!

Before the Azure Sky Eagle could attack Kun Tong in midair, Kun Tong had already withdrawn from the Kunpeng Transformation and fallen downward.

His task was complete.

The purpose of coming to the Azure Sky Plains this time was partly to send Li Xianyi back to Earth, but also to see whether they could lure out the Azure Sky Eagle.

Then they would leave it here forever!

Just as the Azure Sky Eagle was about to attack Kun Tong and Kun Jue, who had not yet fallen to the ground, an enraged roar came from the distant horizon:

“Beast! Give me your life!”

Kun Sha descended from the heavens, wrapped in a murderous aura.

His great hand slammed directly toward the Azure Sky Eagle!

The Azure Sky Eagle was stunned.

It had not sensed when Kun Sha had arrived. It was certain that Kun Sha had not been among the humans who entered the territory of the Azure Sky Plains.

But Kun Sha did not care what the Azure Sky Eagle thought. His attack continued to close in.

The eagle’s sense of danger surged.

It had just begun to beat its wings and flee when an intense pain suddenly erupted from its right wing. Its wingbeat became sluggish for an instant.

That instant of hesitation was enough for Kun Sha’s attack to arrive!

The Azure Sky Eagle had no choice. Its aura burst outward, and it collided head-on with Kun Sha.

The two forces met.

The Azure Sky Eagle’s enormous body was sent flying through the air.

Kun Sha’s powerful frame stood proudly in the void.

When the Azure Sky Eagle finally stabilized itself and looked toward Kun Sha, it at last understood how he had managed to enter this place while evading its keen eyes—eyes capable of overlooking the entire Azure Sky Plains.

Kun Sha’s clothes were in tatters, and countless bloody gashes covered his body.

He was wounded from head to toe.

He had forced his way through the storm belt above the heavens!

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Twenty thousand meters above the Kunlun Secret Realm, there was a sealing barrier.

The barrier was filled with violent winds capable of killing a tenth-rank Martial Emperor.

Above it stood an even higher formation, and that formation manifested the sun, moon, and stars.

Kun Sha had forced his way through it.

At that moment, Kun Sha was also breathing heavily.

The journey had been anything but easy.

He had also underestimated the violent winds within the barrier high in the sky.

Every blade of wind had been capable of injuring him.

The journey had put him through immense suffering.

But there was no other way.

Kun Sha felt that he had to give the experts of the outside world an explanation.

Yang Fan had encountered trouble while under the protection of his subordinates. That meant Kun Sha bore an inescapable responsibility. Now that the incident had happened and could not be undone, he could only do his utmost to make amends.

And there was only one way to make amends for this matter:

Kill this tenth-rank Azure Sky Eagle and wipe out the entire Azure Sky Eagle Clan inhabiting the Azure Sky Plains!

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The Azure Sky Eagle’s desire to retreat had now grown overwhelming.

It had never been Kun Sha’s match. Not long ago, Kun Sha had chased it across the world.

Now, it had first been grievously wounded by Kun Tong’s desperate strike and then ambushed by Kun Sha.

In such a state, it had no chance of defeating Kun Sha.

Seeing the evasive look already appearing in the Azure Sky Eagle’s eyes, Kun Sha stomped through the air.

He charged toward the eagle at tremendous speed!

The Azure Sky Eagle turned and spread its wings, soaring away.

But to its despair, the injury to its wing had greatly reduced its speed.

Behind it, Kun Sha continued to close the distance.

At this rate, it would be caught sooner or later—and it would not take long, because the distance between them had never been great to begin with.

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It did not take long before Kun Sha caught up with the Azure Sky Eagle.

The eagle’s enormous body wheeled through the air as it launched attack after attack.

Kun Sha dodged each strike while relentlessly counterattacking.

Before long, the Azure Sky Eagle was covered in wounds.

One of its talons was even torn off by Kun Sha with sheer force!

For a moment, blood rained from the sky.

Bathed in blood, Kun Sha launched his final killing blow against the Azure Sky Eagle.

On the ground, Li Xianyi and Kun Zhong caught Kun Jue and Kun Tong as they fell from the sky.

At that moment, Li Xianyi also understood the intention of the Kunpeng Tribe.

This was already an enormous gesture of goodwill.

Yang Fan had been injured.

The Kunpeng Tribe had used a ninth-rank expert as bait to lure out that eagle.

The patriarch of the Kunpeng Tribe had personally taken action, crossed the barrier, and sought revenge for Yang Fan.

Such an act was already enough to give the martial artists of Earth an explanation.