Chapter 127: Gods in High Martial Arts (Part 3)

That aura... there's no mistake!
Su Chen had personally experienced the Dark Turmoil.
He had also fought against the fallen powerhouses of the forbidden zones.
He had a deep impression of this aura... the aura emanating from that towering pillar of light shared the same origin as those ominous auras!
In other words,
this dwarven secret realm was connected to an ancient being within a forbidden zone!
Su Chen's heart sank; this situation was far from optimistic.
Even the weakest being in a forbidden zone possessed a Saint.
This world was far worse than he had imagined.
However, Su Chen was even more curious about why these weak beings were connected to a forbidden zone.
These dwarven beings, even after being baptized by the divine pillar, were at most at the fourth rank, the Spirit Sea Realm.
Seeing the suddenly appearing humans, a dwarven chieftain wearing feathers and carrying a cane suddenly shouted, babbling incoherently.
"What are you babbling about? Speak to my greatsword!"
Su Chen slashed down, cleaving a dwarf warrior in two before he could react. This scene enraged the entire dwarf race. At their leader's roar, the dwarf warriors fought fearlessly.
And then they all died.
Su Chen was like a god of death, trampling over green blood.
The dwarf leader, seeing his men die at the hands of the human before him, was enraged. His aura surged, transforming him into a three-meter-tall giant, his power subtly surpassing the limits of the Spirit Sea Realm.
A serious look appeared in Su Chen's eyes.
He raised his greatsword, totems appearing before him. With a single strike, the totems shattered, transforming into a terrifying hundred-meter-long blade of energy that cleaved the earth.
This was a longsword he had obtained in his previous life from a Saint King who specialized in the way of the sword—a sword that had slain countless heroes.
"Heavenly Divine Blade"
The dwarf chieftain, who had just transformed, froze instantly. Without hesitation, he turned and ran, but before he could cover a hundred meters, he was cleaved in two by a single strike.
After the cleavage, Su Chen's face was pale. Using a Saint King-level ultimate technique had undoubtedly been incredibly taxing.
After extracting all the crystal cores, Su Chen arrived at the mysterious ancient tree.
There, Su Chen saw the true face beneath the tree... human skeletons lay haphazardly scattered. Within the tribe, Su Chen also discovered some living humans, kept like pigs and dogs.
Upon seeing Su Chen's arrival, the surviving humans looked at him as if he were their savior.
From the survivors, Su Chen learned the whole story.
"The Black Tiger Gang...colluded with the dwarves to slaughter their own people?"
Upon entering the dwarf dungeon, many adventurers had not died at the hands of the dwarves, but at the hands of their own kin.
Not only that, the Black Tiger Gang also continuously captured people from the outside world and sent them to the dwarves for sacrifice.
The corpses that died were all human.
Su Chen's face was grim.
The clues connecting the dots made Su Chen realize that some ignorant beings from smaller worlds worshipped powerful beings in the forbidden zone as gods, held sacrifices, and acted as accomplices, offering their life force as sacrifices to these powerful beings.
The powerful beings within the forbidden zones occasionally send back some power, giving these weaker beings a chance to grow stronger... but they will eventually have to pay the price; those powerful beings in the forbidden zones are no pushovers!
These small worlds are related to the forbidden zones!
"The commotion here may have already been discovered by the Black Tiger Gang. If I leave the Dwarf Cavern now, there are definitely members of the Black Tiger Gang waiting for me outside."
The Black Tiger Gang is the gang that controls the Dwarf Cavern, with a fifth-tier Spirit Soul Realm expert at its helm.
Although he has many methods, he is not strong enough to contend with a Spirit Soul Realm expert with only the Spirit Pattern Realm; the gap is too great.
Therefore, Su Chen decided to cultivate in the Dwarf Cavern for a while, and leave when he is strong enough to eradicate the Black Tiger Gang from the outside.
Su Chen told the survivors to stay in the Dwarf Cavern until everything settled down before leaving.
He himself embarked on a journey to find alchemy materials.
Three days later, Su Chen looked at the five round, glowing pills before him.
Su Chen swallowed one pill in one gulp.
His cultivation level soared, breaking through from the first level of Spirit Pattern to the fourth level in less than a few hours.
Without hesitation, Su Chen refined the remaining four pills one by one.
A day later, golden light shone in Su Chen's eyes. His cultivation level had skyrocketed, reaching the ninth level of Spirit Pattern.
That's how capricious a strong person can be when rebuilding.
Reaching the Spirit Sea Realm from the ninth level of Spirit Pattern is a major hurdle for others, but for Su Chen, this realm was no secret at all. He spent another two days refining and consuming pills, naturally breaking through to the Spirit Sea Realm.
In this world, that's equivalent to a fourth-tier expert.
More than enough to guard some weaker dungeons.
Su Chen breathed a sigh of relief. His goal had been achieved; it was time to leave the dwarf dungeon.
However, when Su Chen passed through the village again, he found more corpses on the ground. The former survivors were now dead, their bodies bearing wounds—they had been murdered.
Su Chen sighed.
He had told these people not to leave the cave, but clearly someone hadn't listened, secretly leaving and leading the Black Tiger Gang in, resulting in the annihilation of the survivors.
Now, the Black Tiger Gang members were probably searching the world for him.
Suddenly, Su Chen's head turned in a certain direction, and he took two steps, disappearing from the spot.
...
A dozen or so burly men in black seemed to be searching for something.
In the hand of one of the tattooed men was an iron chain, which bound a blood-soaked man lying on the ground, barely breathing, seemingly with little time left.
Seeing this, the tattooed man's face darkened considerably: "Damn trash, can't even find a single person!"
When Su Chen wiped out the first dwarf tribe, the Black Tiger Gang had already noticed something amiss, and their leader was particularly alarmed.
If the outside world were to learn that they had colluded with the dwarves to slaughter their own people, they feared a terrible retaliation from the Federation.
The Black Tiger Gang, believing it was better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free, wanted to eliminate all those who knew.
They had long ago laid layers of ambushes in the outside world.
Until they captured a man who claimed to know who knew the secret, the Black Tiger Gang sent their elite members into the dwarf caverns, lest anything untoward happen, to eliminate the person who knew the truth.
However, they searched for several days without finding the one who dared to kill the dwarf tribe.
“Boss…Boss…”
A henchman suddenly pointed to the sky.
The tattooed man looked up and saw a figure appear in the sky.
The Black Tiger Gang members' expressions changed drastically.
“He…he…can…fly!”