After stepping out of the Hall of the Sacred Flame, Tang Hao suddenly turned back.
He planted many explosives there before leaving.
Back at the clearing, Lei Shou and the others were whispering to each other. Upon seeing him return, they all looked at him with curious expressions on their faces.
Soon, they started laughing, and their expressions returned to normal.
“You’re back!”
Lei Shou smiled warmly.
Tang Hao nodded and sat down. He knew that those people were already suspecting his identity.
“Don’t think about it. Just pretend that you don’t know anything. Also, he’s fine!”
The last sentence was directed at Lei Shou.
After saying that, Tang Hao stood up and knocked them out one by one. They did not resist. When it was Lei Shou’s turn, he cupped his fists and said, “Thank you, friend!”
After knocking him out, Tang Hao tore his clothes into tatters and smeared some blood on them. He tried his best to make himself look pathetic.
A group of people was waiting at the entrance of the cave.
“This time, my boy will be the most outstanding one. He’ll pick a good weapon.”
“Pah! Your child can’t compare to mine!”
People in the crowd were talking.
It had only been about five hours since the trial began. It would be a long time before they would be done.
After a while, a shout suddenly came from the cave.
“Help! Something bad has happened!”
A figure covered in blood dashed out madly. At the entrance of the cave, he collapsed out of exhaustion.
Everyone was shocked.
“What happened?”
Several elders rushed up and asked sternly.
“Dead! They’re all dead! An outsider sneaked in and started a massacre. Many people have died!” Tang Hao shouted in panic. His acting was very realistic.
Everyone’s faces changed drastically.
All of the elites of the younger generation were inside. If something bad happened to them, the consequences would be unimaginable.
They heard rumbling sounds from beyond the cave. They could not help but become more anxious.
“Everyone, follow me! Quick!”
An elder took the lead, and everyone swarmed in.
No one was paying attention to Tang Hao. He slowly crept away, and after he moved away for quite some distance, he started running and did not stop until he was out of the tribal grounds.
Meanwhile, the barbarians came out of the other end of the cave.
They could not hear a single sound.
As they searched the area, they found the corpses of the ferocious beasts strewn about. Also, their elites were stripped naked, tied to the trees, and had arrows sticking out of their butts.
“This is outrageous!”
Their bodies trembled with anger.
When they entered the Hall of the Sacred Fire, they were even more shocked.
They thought that they had come to the wrong place. Was the entirely barren place without even a single floor tile their Sacred Hall?
Where was the sacred flame?
Where were the tables and chairs? What happened to the floor tiles?
They could not even find a single mote of dust. It was as if a swarm of locusts had wiped the place clean.
“The Hall of Panaceas! Quick, go check on the medicinal pool!”
They hurriedly rushed over to the Hall of Panaceas.
When they entered the hall, their heads began to spin, and they nearly fell to the ground. There was nothing left. Everything had been taken away.
“Heavens! How is this possible?”
“Who! Who could it be!”
They gritted their teeth furiously.
“They must be in the Hall of Ancients. Let’s go!”
They charged toward the Hall of Ancients with murderous intent, but they did not see anything inside. Not even a mote of dust could be seen, let alone a human.
“All the weapons… are gone!”
“The remains of the Barbarian God are gone too!”
The elders widened their eyes, clutched their chests, and fell to the ground.
The shock was too much to handle.
“Hang in there, Elders!”
A group of people rushed forward and helped them up.
“This is a disaster!”
When they came to, they could not help but lament. The ancestors had bequeathed them the remains of the Barbarian God. It was said that it was extremely ancient, and the barbarians worshiped it.
That incredibly precious relic was lost.
“Right, where’s the culprit? Why isn’t he here?”
At that moment, someone asked.
Everyone was stunned. It was then that they realized the problem.
“Oh no! It must be that kid from earlier! He deceived us all!”
Someone realized it and slapped his thigh.
“Isn’t he just a herb gatherer?” Someone asked.
“Sigh! Someone must have disguised themselves as an unremarkable herb gatherer. That’s why we didn’t notice him. Quick, we must stop him!”
They rushed out of the cave.
By then, Tang Hao had already left Lei Mu behind and used his Fleetfoot Stride to run away.
After leaving the mountain, he rushed straight toward the borderlands and returned to Nanping City.
As a precaution, he dumped everything in the Kunlun underground palace.
That way, even if the barbarian tribe had left an undetectable qi signature, they would not be able to track him.
There was no news from the barbarian tribe for the next few days. As far as he knew, the major factions were still hunting down Nameless Qin.
Tang Hao was relieved. It was likely that the barbarian tribe would not spread the news that something so humiliating had happened to them.
In those days, he managed to subdue the elemental fire and practiced how to control the Myriad Constellations Cauldron.
He thought that he had not returned to Huaxia for a long time, so he went back and stayed there for ten days.
Upon his return to Ritian Valley, he took out the voidstone. It was time to return to the Void Realm.
He would be breaking through to the State of the Golden Core next. Once he was in the State of the Golden Core, his cultivation base would be suppressed in the first level of the Void Realm. That way, he would not be able to kill those overlord beasts.
Now that he had unsealed nine chakras and his body had been baptized by more than ten types of elemental fire, he could be said to be in his strongest physical state.
That was the perfect opportunity to kill the overlord beasts and collect their dark gold shards to exchange for a supreme cultivation technique.
Upon arriving at the market in the Void Realm, the place fell silent instantly as if time had frozen.
In the next moment, everyone fled in panic.
“The supervillain is here! Run!”
The Ninth Region was once again in a mess.
The disaster had begun again.
No one even thought of resisting. When Primeval Mountain and Broken Sword Mountain received the news, they did not gather their forces like before.
They knew that it was futile to go against that supervillain.
After unsealing nine chakras, no one in the first level could defeat him. He was invincible, like the demonic roc.
It did not matter how many troops they sent. It would not be enough to kill him.
Tang Hao sneered and walked past the now-deserted market.
He headed north and arrived at a mountain range.
In the vast mountain range lived an overlord beast called the aureus lion. It was not as powerful as the demonic roc, but it was not that much weaker either.
