Mrs. and Mr. Smith
Chapter 2229

Chapter 2229: Chapter 2227 Bone Refining River Chapter 2229: Chapter 2227 Bone Refining River “So what if you're here? Just in time to settle the matter of Moon Pavilion disturbing my cultivation.”

Ethan Smith's demeanor was indifferent.

He stepped forward and was already in front of Turtle.

He threw a punch, and Turtle's entire chest caved in. With one strike, who knows how many bones were broken.

“Still not dead! You truly are a stubborn old turtle,” Ethan remarked.

“Someone! There's a human cultivator here!” Turtle shouted in fear.

Earlier at Moon Pavilion, he thought Ethan was just an ordinary True Saint Second-level cultivator. Who would have guessed that one punch nearly cost him his life?

Dozens of strong divine senses instantly locked onto Ethan. Before he could react, a black figure streaked past him like lightning, leaving five clear blood marks on his flesh.

The Gu Carving, with a human body and an eagle-like head, stood a thousand meters away, its cold, sharp gaze fixed on Ethan.

“Such speed!”

*Ethan's pupils contracted. He hadn't even caught how it had happened.*

Suddenly, the shadow a thousand meters away morphed into a blur. In the next instant, razor-sharp claws slashed toward Ethan's dantian.

By sheer luck, Ethan twisted his body at an extreme angle, narrowly avoiding the attack. Even so, his abdomen bore new bloody gashes.

“Coming back for more!”

Electricity flashed through Ethan's eyes as he unleashed the Destruction of Ten Punches. Dozens of black fireballs instantly enveloped the Gu Carving.

A sudden whirlwind arose without warning; debris and sand swirled everywhere. The Gu Carving accelerated under the wind's force.

At the very moment the black flames surrounded it, it shot out like an arrow.

“Think you can escape?”

Ethan didn't hesitate to expend spiritual energy in his body. With the line word formula in hand and the Shrinking Ground Into An Inch technique underfoot, he pursued the Gu Carving mercilessly.

“Die!”

Ethan stomped down with explosive force. Under the cosmic form, the air seemed to compress entirely under his foot.

The Gu Carving crashed to the ground like a cannonball, barely clinging to life.

Ethan descended lightly, prepared to deal the killing blow to the Gu Carving.

“You again, you little punk!”

The Monster King Quixote Titterington roared viciously, leaping down from a distant mountain peak.

Bang!

A massive figure, towering like a mountain, came crashing down on Ethan, the terrifying momentum even seeming to suck the air from the surroundings.

“Don't think for a second you can escape!”

Quixote bellowed.

A tremendous gravitational force suddenly pulled on Ethan, causing his movements to stall sharply.

In the brief moment of delay, a massive shield descended upon him with brutal force.

Ethan crossed his fists and blocked the attack, but the horrifying impact sent vibrations through his internal organs, making him spit out a mouthful of blood.

“Hahahaha! Wonderful, someone has come here willingly to die. It seems my Blood River will gain another slave.”

Quixote laughed thunderously, leaping to the peak of a nearby mountain. He raised the giant shield on his back and hurled it toward Ethan with earth-shattering force.

Ethan activated the Saintly Body Skill, stomping down with all his might.

The sheer force tore open the ground, with cracks extending tens of kilometers outward. His stomp shattered Quixote's gravitational field entirely.

Ethan felt the Void tremble as a massive green serpent, nearly a hundred meters long, suddenly burst forth from a spatial tear nearby.

Within a blink, the serpent coiled tightly around Ethan.

Meanwhile, Quixote's descending charged strike arrived precisely at the same moment.

“Desolate divine eye!”

A white pupil appeared on Ethan's forehead, and the massive descending shield turned into transparent lines in his vision.

The turtle shell's six-thousand-year-old protective armor revealed its cracks and weaknesses clearly.

Ethan raised two fingers, and his entire body surged with spiritual energy like a tidal wave.

Then, the Purple Spirit Fire ignited furiously around him.

The innate monster-spirit fire's extreme temperature caused the massive serpent coiled around him to loosen its grip instinctively.

Ethan jabbed a finger precisely at the crack in the turtle shell. Quixote's overwhelming momentum abruptly halted.

“How is this possible?”

*Quixote's eyes widened in disbelief, staring at Ethan in utter shock.*

That golden finger pierced cleanly through his massive shield before going right through his abdomen.

“What a shame. If the crack in that shield had been slightly to the left, this strike could've pierced your dantian directly.”

Swish!

The serpent, sensing the danger, quickly retreated into the Void.

Ethan grabbed its tail forcefully. Activating the Traceless Dharma Aspect, he tried to pull it out of the Void.

“Rip!”

The serpent, realizing its predicament, severed a portion of its own body and escaped into the Void, never daring to emerge again.

“Hmm?”

*At that moment, Ethan's perception shifted–his world transformed into a gray-white transparency.*

*The space within several kilometers appeared structured with countless threads of laws, clearly visible under his divine eye.*

On a nearby mountaintop within his desolate divine eye's range, Ethan spotted a faintly glowing dark river.

“Such immense demon power!”

*Ethan's heart raced in awe as his divine eye revealed the spiritual energy and demonic qi without obstruction.*

*Normal spiritual energy manifested as faint white specks, but this river was entirely formed by demon energy.*

He darted toward the river and stood over it.

A pungent, overwhelming stench of blood enveloped Ethan. It was a river glowing crimson with blood.

Countless white bones, belonging to both human cultivators and Demonic Beasts, floated on the river's surface.

The concentration of demonic qi here reached an extreme. Within the Blood River scenario before him, a Giant Ape calmly soaked in the river.

Under Ethan's astonished gaze, the ape's body began to expand, hundreds of jet-black bone spurs bursting from its back.

Its muscles and bones cracked repeatedly while the blood water surged into its body.

To Ethan's shock, the ape's broken flesh regenerated visibly, almost instantly.

The ape's newly formed skin shimmered with a black hue, and the bone spurs on its back transformed into wings.

The Giant Ape was evolving within the river!

*Ethan's heart pounded violently. He wondered: if he jumped into the river himself, could he also use it to temper his body like the ape had?*

*Even if he couldn't replicate the ape's transformation, his chaotic constitution could absorb the abundant demonic qi, far surpassing the efficiency of hunting Demonic Beasts.*

His desolate divine eye scanned the area, revealing over a hundred such Blood Rivers within its range.

This meant the Seventh Layer held even more rivers infused with demonic qi!

He turned his attention back to the closest Blood River. Within its largest and most perilous stretch, he spotted a young woman soaking in it.

*Ethan felt a surge of curiosity as intense demonic qi radiated from the girl's body. Yet he couldn't discern her beastly origins.*

The girl's eyes remained closed, her long, slightly curled lashes trembling ever so faintly. Even while submerged in the Blood River, Ethan could faintly see her graceful and enchanting figure.

A prominent moon mark adorned her forehead.

As if sensing Ethan's divine sense, her eyes suddenly snapped open.

The cold gaze swept over Ethan briefly before she shut her eyes again, diving back into her cultivation.