Chapter 27: Guo Huo, You’re Here?

The ten leaders of the Wan Dao Alliance—Yu Qiu, Xing Jia, Han Heng, Yu Shuqing, Yue Mingxue, Yun Yuqing, Yi Ziang, Xuan Qiming, Yan Jingwen, and Xuan Qinghui—were barely holding on thanks to their own cultivation levels.
What allowed these ten to survive was the fact that each of them possessed a defensive battle suit.
Having operated in the Inner Sea for a long time, the Wan Dao Alliance had amassed vast wealth—partly through plundering. It wasn’t surprising, then, that the ten elders who ruled the alliance each had their own defensive battle suit.
When defending against the attacks of the powerful warriors at the Divine General level from Tianfeng Fort, these ten elders relied not only on their magical defenses but also on their battle suits, which prevented their bodies from being destroyed and allowed them to survive at great cost.
Yet now, the situation had become even more dangerous.
The thousand Divine General-level warriors from Tianfeng Fort, after killing another hundred such warriors from the Wan Dao Alliance, had now gathered together. They formed groups of a hundred and attacked one of the alliance’s elders at a time.
Undoubtedly, if this continued, the ten elders of the Wan Dao Alliance would surely not be able to escape.
“Everyone, today our Wan Dao Alliance is in trouble. We’ll take revenge another day. Stop holding back—flee at all costs!”
Yu Qiu, the first elder, understood the situation and shouted loudly as they defended against the attacks of the hundred warriors from Tianfeng Fort.
“Agreed.”
“Flee separately.”
“Reunite another day.”
The other nine elders immediately replied, their eyes filled with madness, as if they had made a difficult decision.
Upon hearing their shouts, Zhu Chen felt concerned, realizing that they were about to use escape spells. He grew anxious—after all, if they escaped, the pirate crew of Tianfeng Fort would surely be disturbed by them in the Inner Sea, causing trouble later on.
“Attack! Attack!”
Zhu Chen shouted fiercely.
The thousand Divine General-level warriors from Tianfeng Fort also understood the situation. They abandoned their playful attitude, became serious, and launched fierce magical attacks.
“The Art of Spiritual Escape!”
At that moment, the ten elders of the Wan Dao Alliance spoke simultaneously and immediately began using this escape technique frantically.
Once activated, the Art of Spiritual Escape could tear through space, enveloping the soul in a spiritual body and allowing the person to vanish into the void—effectively performing a spatial jump that made it impossible to track their whereabouts, thus enabling them to escape.

This method was no secret among the various pirate clans under the Wan Dao Alliance. Anyone at the Divine General level practiced this movement technique to escape in emergencies.
Just then, Qu Yi’s figure suddenly appeared.
“Again the Spirit Concealment Technique? How troublesome. It forces me to step in and clean up the mess.” Qu Yi said indifferently, then, with a single thought, he released the Tiny Realm Ball.
Previously, Qu Yi had encountered cultivators at the Divine General level using the Spirit Concealment Technique and had suppressed them with the Tiny Realm Ball.
The Tiny Realm Ball expanded rapidly, exerting an extremely strong gravitational pull, like a black hole, sucking in everything. The ten elders of the Wan Dao Alliance abandoned their physical bodies, attempting to tear apart space through explosions, but their souls were horrified to find that the energy from their explosions vanished entirely, absorbed by the suddenly appearing giant green sphere.
“No!”
“Don’t!”
Ten terrified screams erupted instantly before disappearing, all falling into the Tiny Realm Ball.
Qu Yi immediately retracted the Tiny Realm Ball and smiled faintly at the thousand Divine General-level members of Tian Feng Zhai. “Alright, now that the Wan Dao Alliance has been completely destroyed, your next task is to eliminate the Sea Emperor Pirate Clan and the Swallow Sea Pirate Clan. Here’s the plan: Divide the four thousand pirates of Tian Feng Zhai into two groups of two thousand each, attacking the Sea Emperor and Swallow Sea clans simultaneously.”
These two most powerful pirate clans had basically retreated to their headquarters, making it the perfect time for a final assault.
“Yes, Clan King!” Over fifty thousand people responded in unison, their voices shaking the sky.
Qu Yi smiled in satisfaction and vanished.
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Near Nan Yin Island, there was an island covering a vast area of one million square kilometers.
This was Sun Devouring Island, the headquarters of the Swallow Sea Pirate Clan.
At present, over a hundred thousand members of the Swallow Sea Pirate Clan gathered on this island, with five hundred of them at the Divine General level, serving as clan leaders.
With such strength, the Swallow Sea Pirate Clan could have dominated the inland seas, but the sudden arrival of the Tian Feng Zhai pirates, who swept through the inland waters at lightning speed, destroyed many of their bases, severely weakening them. Forced to retreat all their remaining forces to their headquarters on Sun Devouring Island, they planned to recover later.
At that moment, chaos filled Sun Devouring Island.
“Enemy attack! Enemy attack!”

Screams echoed everywhere on Sundevouring Island. The pirates at the Divine General level of the Sea Devouring Pirate Gang had already seen a large number of flying sea ships appearing in the sky, with the people on them exuding an aura of utter destruction.

Indeed, the 2,000-pirate gang from Tianfeng Fort, located on the southern side of the Inner Sea, had now gathered together, commanding nearly 10,000 flying sea ships as they flew straight toward Sundevouring Island.

The 100,000 pirates of the Sea Devouring Pirate Gang were initially panicked but were quickly silenced by their 500 gang leaders at the Divine General level. They all gathered together, standing on the ground and staring solemnly at the dense fleet of flying sea ships in the sky.

In the sky, Zhu Chen and Qing Wugui were on the same flying sea ship, at the forefront of the entire fleet. The 500 gang leaders at the Divine General level of the Sea Devouring Pirate Gang also took to the air simultaneously to confront Tianfeng Fort’s flying sea ship fleet head-on.

“Who are you?”

In front of the 500 members of the Sea Devouring Pirate Gang, a middle-aged man in a purple robe radiated a fierce aura. His cold eyes intimidated everyone as he shouted loudly.

This middle-aged man was the leader of the Sea Devouring Pirate Gang—Hai Butong.

As the leader, Hai Butong was naturally the strongest member of the gang. Moreover, he ranked 76th on the Earthly Ranking List, with an astonishing 9.5 million water, fire, earth, and spirit entities within his body.

Zhu Chen glanced at Hai Butong and smiled faintly before saying, “Are you stupid? Can’t you tell? Of course we’re here to destroy your Sea Devouring Pirate Gang.”

“You…”

Hai Butong had never experienced such disregard in his life. He was too stunned to respond immediately, only pointing at Zhu Chen, too angry to speak.

At that moment, Qing Wugui’s eyes lit up as he spotted a familiar figure among the Divine General level gang leaders of the Sea Devouring Pirate Gang.

“Guo Huo, so you’re here,” Qing Wugui suddenly called out.

Qing Wugui had been casually observing the members of the Sea Devouring Pirate Gang when he unexpectedly discovered Guo Huo there. He was overjoyed, his eyes shining. Ever since Guo Huo had secretly attacked Qu Yi inside the “Void Mountain” on the Galaxy Battlefield, Qing Wugui and Wu Yuan had learned of it. Over the years, they had been searching for Guo Huo in the Inner Sea, and now they had finally found him.

Yes, Guo Huo, who ranked first on the human rankings back then, had an astonishing four million spiritual entities within his body. After returning to the divine realm from the Galaxy Battlefield, Guo Huo immediately advanced to the rank of Divine General and then joined the Sea Devouring Pirates. With the resources of the group, the number of spiritual entities in his body has now reached six million, making him a key pillar of the Sea Devouring Pirates.

Guo Huo naturally also noticed Qing Wu Gui, and he was extremely surprised at that moment. But when he heard Qing Wu Gui shout those words in public, his heart trembled, and he anxiously glanced at the leaders of the Sea Devouring Pirates around him.

Qing Wu Gui’s words seemed to be reminding these leaders that the people from Tianfeng Fort had come to attack the Sea Devouring Pirates today all because of Guo Huo.

Sure enough, as soon as Qing Wu Gui finished speaking, all 500 leaders of the Sea Devouring Pirates turned their attention to Guo Huo.

“Guo Huo, do you have a grudge against him?” Hai Bu Tong immediately called out.

Faced with the gazes of his former accomplices, Guo Huo became panicked but didn’t dare hesitate. He replied directly, “Leader, I had differences with this man on the Galaxy Battlefield.”

At that moment, Qing Wu Gui shouted coldly, “Guo Huo, you betrayed my brother on the Galaxy Battlefield. Now that you’ve joined the Sea Devouring Pirates, not a single person here will be allowed to leave alive today.”

At these words, Guo Huo’s face turned pale. Wasn’t this a way for Qing Wu Gui to force the leaders of the Sea Devouring Pirates to get rid of him first? After all, with the group in such danger of destruction, these leaders might seek revenge before dying.

“The Art of Spiritual Escape!”

This idea flashed through Guo Huo’s mind instantly, and he acted right away, trying to escape right then.

Although his physical body was lost, as long as his soul remained alive, Guo Huo could slowly restore his body and regain his strength. This kind of suffering was far better than dying here.

“Brothers, kill Guo Huo!” Hai Bu Tong said decisively and immediately called out.

Just as Guo Huo tried to use the “Art of Spiritual Escape,” the 500 leaders of the Sea Devouring Pirates attacked immediately. They threw punches, used palms, swords, and spells, all of which surrounded Guo Huo.

“Ah!”

In an instant, before he could escape, Guo Huo’s entire body was destroyed by the sea of spells, and he died on the spot.

At that moment, Hai Buteong turned to Qing Wugui and said with a smile, “Esteemed fellow cultivator, since Guo Huo has offended you, and now our Tunhai Pirate Gang has also gotten rid of this scoundrel, the misunderstanding between us can be resolved gradually. How about we sit down and talk it through?”
It turned out that Hai Buteong’s order to kill Guo Huo was aimed at getting closer to Qing Wugui, so as to prevent his Tunhai Pirate Gang from being slaughtered. Although such an approach had already cost the gang its dignity, Hai Buteong could endure this slight humiliation rather than seeing his gang destroyed.
Qing Wugui smiled faintly and immediately said, “Talk? There’s nothing to talk about. The Tunhai Pirate Gang must be eliminated.”