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"Foul beast, I'll fight you to the death!"
Xu Qingxuan cried out and shot awake from his dream, drenched in a cold sweat.
'I'm not dead? Was that whole experience just a dream?'
Just a moment ago, Xu Qingxuan had vividly dreamed of his experience in the Barbaric Wilderness. A demonic beast army that blotted out the sun and sky had surged toward them like a tidal wave from the distance. Whether they were Golden Core cultivators or at the Foundation Establishment Stage, they were surrounded and slaughtered. Within moments, all of them were dead.
The cataclysm in Awakening Lion Valley had wide-reaching effects. Xu Qingxuan guessed that in the aftermath of this turmoil, at least a thousand of the cultivators adventuring within the valley must have died.
He had been one of those caught in the encirclement, but he had a rudimentary grasp of some Earth Element Escape Techniques and was faster than the others. That was how he avoided being killed at the very beginning. However...
