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Chapter 656: Chapter 350: Ashen Soul Flame Prison Heart-Seizing Spell

After drinking a cup, Xuan Chang ordered a few large jars to be brought in.

The two drank until midnight.

Just as Xuan Chang was secretly wondering why the poison hadn’t taken effect yet, the black-clad youth finally showed a reaction.

“You…” Chu Ming played along, blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, and looked at Xuan Chang in terror.

“Heh,” Xuan Chang sneered, “I don’t know whether to call you brave or brainless.”

With that, the black-clad youth fainted.

Xuan Chang clapped his hands, and a few people came out to carry the black-clad youth away.

“Take him to the outskirts. I want to personally refine him.”

“Yes.”

“Sir, considering this person is in the Late Stage of the Bone Marrow Cleansing Realm, his identity might not be simple. Should we investigate him first?”

“His identity is not simple?” Xuan Chang laughed coldly, “Whose identity could surpass mine?”

“Understood.”

“…”

…

In the Seven-Star Kingdom, the capital, outskirts, a hidden underground palace.

In the pitch-black underground, the air was stinky and damp, the sinister atmosphere was enough to make one’s skin crawl, and the distant cries were blood-curdling.

A few carried the black-clad youth down the long corridor, walking for a long time until they reached an open space.

But under the flickering candlelight, there were people shackled with cold iron chains.

No, they were no longer human, but corpses.

What was even more terrifying was that as Xuan Chang stepped into the area, all the corpses suddenly opened their eyes in unison and broke free from their chains to kneel on the ground.

“Not bad, not bad.”

Xuan Chang nodded in satisfaction and then looked at the unconscious black-clad youth.

“You are the third Late Stage Bone Marrow Cleansing Realm expert I have captured. I shall confer you the title of Great General of the Three Sha Demons.”

“Someone, prepare for my refinement.”

“Yes.”

They carried the black-clad youth further inside until they reached an even more eerie and sinister room.

The walls were covered in dark red patterns, and in the center was a high platform, with four blood streams flowing below it.

“Place him on the platform.”

“Yes.”

The others retreated, and Xuan Chang walked to the platform, with a faint blood glow emerging from his hands.

Just as the blood light was about to fall on the black-clad youth, Xuan Chang suddenly paused, then frowned and took out a Communication Treasure, from which a phantom emerged.

The phantom was none other than the fourth strongest in the Seven-Star Kingdom, Xuan Jing.

“Are you refining Iron Guards again?” Xuan Jing looked furious.

Xuan Chang dared not speak.

“Hmph, last time you refined the Seventh Star Lord’s offspring into an Iron Guard, I have yet to settle that score with you. How dare you do it again? Do you feel that because I indulge you, you can act recklessly in the Seven-Star Kingdom?”

“Grandfather, this person is merely a…”

“Silence!” Xuan Jing voice was stern, interrupting Xuan Chang.

“Don’t think I don’t know where you are refining your Iron Guards!”

“Grandfather…” Xuan Chang knelt in submission, but his eyes flickered uncontrollably.

The phantom of Xuan Jing, the fourth strongest in the Seven-Star Kingdom, sighed as he looked at Xuan Chang: “The situation in the Seven-Star Kingdom is chaotic now. The Third and Fifth Star Lords are dead, and the First and Second Star Lords are filled with rage. I know you want to become stronger, to help your grandfather, but Iron Guards are too sinister and easily backfire.”

“Listen to your grandfather’s advice and destroy all those Iron Guards.”

Destroy all the Iron Guards?

With a drooping face, Xuan Chang felt a wave of unwillingness in his heart.

The Iron Guards underground here were an army he painstakingly spent five years and countless resources to refine and assemble. How could they be destroyed just like that?

The outside world may speak of his exceptional talent, but in reality, he had been stuck in the Late Stage of the Bone Marrow Cleansing Realm for as long as thirty years.

The delay in breaking through had already caused a subtle shift in his mindset, especially towards other Late Stage Bone Marrow Cleansing experts. He wanted nothing more than to annihilate them all.

However, facing Xuan Jing, his grandfather, the fourth strongest in the Seven-Star Kingdom, Xuan Chang still compromised.

“Alright, grandson will listen to grandfather.”

“Grandson will go and destroy them immediately.”

“Hmm, I’ve already found a treasure to build the foundation of your Sea of Qi for you. Once you destroy those Iron Guards, come to the Fourth Star Palace to get it. I’ve already sent the Passage Jade Scroll for you.”

A treasure to build the foundation of the Sea of Qi?!

“Thank you, grandfather.” Xuan Chang was overjoyed.

“…Go handle it.”

“Yes.”

After breaking the communication, Xuan Chang’s eyes burned with passion.

“Grandfather has found me a treasure to build the foundation of the Sea of Qi?!”

“Am I finally going to take that step….”

Xuan Chang was very excited.

After a while.

He looked grimly at the black-clad youth on the platform.

“Hmph, grandfather only told me not to refine Iron Guards, but he didn’t say I couldn’t kill you!”

Xuan Chang flipped his hand, revealing a long sword engraved with the Seven-Star Bead, and slowly began to polish it.

“For your bravery, I will kill you with my strongest move.”

With that, he slowly raised his eyes, sneering at the platform.

But as his gaze landed on the platform, it was empty.

Where is he?!

Xuan Chang was startled, seemingly not expecting that after just lowering his head, the person disappeared.

As he was taken aback, a chill that pierced the heart came from his back, followed by dizziness and blurred consciousness.

In the darkness, Chu Ming calmly walked out in a black-clad attire.

Xuan Chang only saw the black-clad youth’s face visibly changing. Before his consciousness faded into darkness, the black-clad youth had already transformed into his appearance.

Having discovered a way to approach Xuan Jing, the fourth strongest in the Seven-Star Kingdom, Chu Ming no longer needed to maintain his disguise.

Xuan Chang wasn’t dead; he was poisoned unconscious. To prevent any anomalies from being detected by treasures like Life Stones or Life Lamps that might trigger Xuan Jing’s, the National Guardian Realm, attention, Xuan Chang couldn’t be killed just yet.

Originally, in Xuan Chang’s mansion, Chu Ming intended to knock him out. However, the mansion was complicated; the Sword Gourd Spirit detected some kind of array set up underground, so he refrained from acting to avoid alerting the enemy.