The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 251 - 236: Saving Dong Tianze from Peril_1

Chapter 251: Chapter 236: Saving Dong Tianze from Peril_1

Deep in the night, the stars and moon were dim, without luster.

In the deep desert of the Nameless Fragmented Land of the Third Realm.

Pang Jian, gritting his teeth, huddled in a massive cave and took out several pieces of Spirit Jade, enduring the pain to laboriously regulate his breath.

His dantian’s Spiritual Sea was actually still quite abundant with spiritual power.

But there was a new, bone-deep hole in the left side of his lower back, from which blood continued to flow.

After his Firm Cover shattered, his opponent’s blade had pierced through his waist. In haste, he had released Spirit Evil with Ghost Howling to entangle the enemy and took the chance to escape here.

He knew all too well that once that man dealt with the Spirit Evil, he would eventually come searching here.

Because just like him, there was a Heaven Phoenix Mark on the man’s forehead, and in this desert, they could sense each other’s presence.

"A mid-stage Hollow Profound Realm Divine Guard."

Pang Jian’s pale face showed a mix of ferocity and a hint of helplessness.

This time, he had really hit a wall.

Provoked by Pang Jian, he left the Xuan You Continent and started searching everywhere to kill Divine Guards, specifically choosing places where Heaven Phoenix Divine Bones had fallen.

His hunting was very successful in the beginning, as he consecutively found three Divine Guards whose realms were either weaker than his or equal to him.

——All three died by his hand.

He also reached the Great Perfection of the Innate Realm because of this, barely a step away from advancing to the Hollow Profound Realm.

However, in this desert where Heaven Phoenix Divine Bones had fallen, he encountered an Individual Cultivator who was a mid-stage Hollow Profound Realm.

In the first two battles, Pang Jian, relying on the many strange treasures bestowed by the Yin Spirit Temple, managed to hold his own initially.

But as those treasures got damaged and their power depleted, under the overwhelming difference in realms, he gradually got overwhelmed by the opponent.

The last battle left him heavily injured.

"The Ghost Commanded Token can only let me communicate with the Yin Spirit Temple, but even if they knew that I was severely wounded and pursued by another Divine Guard, it would be difficult for them to come to help in time."

"To heal this serious physical injury, I need pills that contain robust qi and blood, and the ones I had are now exhausted..."

Pang Jian frowned and pondered.

After a long time, he suddenly thought of the Ghost Altar. Desperate, he endured the pain of his injuries and set up the massive Ghost Altar.

He wanted to use the Spirit Jade he had to ask Pang Jian if there were any pills that could treat a grievous bodily injury.

Once the Ghost Altar was set up, a slip of paper instantly caught his eye.

He beckoned with his hand, and Pang Jian saw the four words written on the slip of paper: "How are you lately?"

His face twitched, and he quickly wrote two words underneath it and threw it back.

On the other end.

In a guest room, Pang Jian, who was witnessing the Alien Tribes’ audacious ascent to heaven through the eyes of the Dark Giant Python, saw a slight glow on the Ghost Altar, and a paper slip flew out violently.

"Not good..."

Pang Jian’s face looked strange.

He cut off the mental connection he had established with Rebel Kid, went to restore a few missing flagpoles, and placed them around the edge of the Ghost Altar, completing its bartering structure.

"Whoosh!"

Pang Jian, with his waist bleeding and face pale, indeed appeared in the center of the Ghost Altar.

"Pang Jian!"

"You killed Elder Lou of my sect, and..."

As soon as Pang Jian saw him, he forgot his purpose and started shouting angrily.

"Shh!"

Pang Jian put his finger to his lips, making a gesture for silence, and said in a hushed tone, "Keep your voice down. I’m in a guest room on a Cloud Sail; if you shout like that, others will notice."

Pang Jian clenched his teeth and hissed, "You dare to trade Spirit Jade with me using Elder Lou’s belongings? Pang Jian, you’re completely disregarding the Yin Spirit Temple. We’ll never let you go!"

Ignoring his quiet accusations, Pang Jian asked on his own, "Who injured you so badly?"

"An Individual Cultivator, a mid-stage Hollow Profound Realm Divine Guard." Pang Jian scoffed, "I haven’t entered the Hollow Profound yet, so I suffered a bit in the process of hunting him."

Pang Jian was surprised, "You’re quite bold."

"Not as bold as you, who dares to kill Jiuyuan and Liang Ying!"

Pang Jian replied coldly.

Part of the reason he hit a dead end was that he heard that Pang Jian, with his Hollow Profound Realm cultivation, had killed several Spirit Condensation Realm cultivators in Yuanmang.

——This inspiring news led him astray.

It made him believe that cultivators a realm higher weren’t too terrifying.

If Pang Jian could kill across realms and defeat Spirit Condensation Realm cultivators, then wouldn’t his late-Innate Realm self easily handle a mid-stage Hollow Profound Individual Cultivator?

The result...

Every time he thought about his current predicament, with Pang Jian being one of the reasons, Pang Jian’s stomach churned with anger and no matter how he looked at him, he couldn’t stand his sight.

But he had to suppress this anger and planned to ask Pang Jian if he had any pills that could quickly heal his wounds.

However, before he could speak, Pang Jian took the initiative and said, "How should I help you?"

"I have a lot of Spirit Jade, but I don’t have any pills for healing severe physical wounds. The Yin Spirit Temple focuses on the soul conditioning, advocating for rapid breakthroughs in realms. Unlike the Sect of the Blood Moon, which also values Body Refining, therefore..."

After some groundwork, Pang Jian said, "I want to buy pills that replenish qi and blood from you. Jiuyuan, whom you killed, should have such pills."

"I’ll give them to you as a gift,"

Pang Jian said bluntly.

Under Pang Jian’s astonished and suspicious gaze, Pang Jian took out the Blood Essence Pill that bolstered qi and blood and infused a rich stream of Life Vitality into it.

He placed the pill, which changed from a dark red to a pale green, in front of him on a depression, and it immediately transferred over.

——Without waiting for Pang Jian to take out any Spirit Jade.

"This..."

A moment later, the pill appeared in Dong Tianze’s hand.

At this moment, a somewhat anemic Dong Tianze had a pallid complexion full of strangeness.

"Pang Jian, when you took it out, it was clearly dark red, so why has it suddenly turned green?"

"This pill, did you just poison it in the palm of your hand?"

Dong Tianze, gasping for breath, hissed with a venomous tone, "Damn you! I agreed to your trades time and again, and I haven’t even settled the score for those countless times you’ve toyed with me! And now, when I need help the most, you kick me when I’m down, trying to kill me with a poisoned pill!"

"Pang Jian! You won’t die a good death!"

Dong Tianze screamed furiously.

Pang Jian’s face turned cold, and he wished he could rush to another world and slap Dong Tianze several times.

It was like casting pearls before swine!

That Blood Essence Pill, having received a stream of rare life vitality, its capability to heal injuries could have been tremendously elevated.

This Dong Tianze, not only did he not understand gratitude, but he even wrongfully accused him of good intentions.

However.

Thinking of a future moment when the other party would serve as a strong pillar behind his sister, Pang Jian forcefully suppressed the raging anger in his chest.

So he said calmly, "The pill, after being stored in the medicine bottle for so long, turns like this when it’s taken out. Trust me, there’s no problem with the pill, swallow it and your injuries will almost completely heal."

"I trust you my ass!"

Dong Tianze crushed the pill with one squeeze, his face cold as he said, "You didn’t hike up the price or take the opportunity to demand a huge amount of Spirit Jade, which surely means this is undoubtedly a poisoned pill!"

"Pang Jian, others may not understand you, but do you think I don’t know your vile and greedy nature?"

"Given your usual conduct, there is no way you would give me a real healing pill for nothing!"

Full of malice toward Pang Jian, he got to his feet intending to dismantle the Ghost Altar, thinking that if he could survive this, he would find a way to eliminate Pang Jian throughout the Third Realm.

At his most desperate time, Pang Jian had even sent him a poison pill to harm him, which made the hatred seethe in his bones.

Pang Jian, tasting the flavor of being wronged, gnashing his teeth in secret, resisted the urge to tear the man apart, and spoke evenly, "Carefully sense the green alien power inside the pieces of the pill, it will..."

"Sense your mother!"

Dong Tianze ranted and raved.

He suddenly felt a surge of panic, thinking that the green alien power contained a terrifying poison, and now he regretted carelessly crushing the pill.

—He feared that even if the green alien power touched his skin, it could rot his flesh and blood.

Just when his eyes revealed a savage light, contemplating that if worse came to worst, he would chop off his fingers to prevent the poison from spreading through his body...

The life force from the pill shards had already penetrated beneath his skin and was rapidly flowing toward the injured area around his waist and abdomen.

Suddenly, he fell quiet and silently felt the effects for a while.

Afterward.

He swallowed the fragments that fell between his fingers and picked up the pieces that had fallen on the Ghost Altar, not caring if they had collected dust, and swallowed them all.

"I’ll give you another one."

Pang Jian handed another over.

"Why didn’t you say you had more!"

Dong Tianze spat out the grit from his mouth, took the new Blood Essence Pill that Pang Jian had refined, and this time swallowed it without hesitation.

"Pang..."

As his severe lower back injury slowly healed, his expressions became complicated.

"Pang..."

Dong Tianze wanted to apologize, but after struggling for a long time until his face turned red, he could only utter the word "Pang."

No more words followed.

"Alright, we don’t need to be courteous."

Pang Jian waved his hand generously, musing to himself: "One at the mid-stage of the Hollow Profound Realm, one at the Innate Realm, both are Heavenly Phoenix Guards, but Dong Tianze obviously has greater potential."

"Let me think, the secret skill of Yin Spirit Temple is good at controlling souls."

"So..."

"Wait for me a moment!"

After whispering, Pang Jian quietly disappeared.

Dong Tianze stood stunned on the Ghost Altar.

"We don’t need to be courteous? Since when did my relationship with him become so informal?"

Dong Tianze, suspicious and bewildered, silently sensed his injury and, upon realizing it was indeed healing quickly, felt even more perplexed.

He racked his brains but failed to understand, how could the usually venomous, greedy, cunning, and shameless Pang Jian suddenly change his nature and selflessly offer help to him?

"Cao Mang’s Black Iron Mountain harbors numerous powerful beast souls; I’ll lend it to you to defeat your opponent."

A pitch-black mountain peak was placed in front of the Ghost Altar by Pang Jian. Before Dong Tianze’s stunned gaze, a transmission array directly activated there.

"Boom!"

Cao’s powerful weapon abruptly appeared before Dong Tianze, set in the center of the vast Ghost Altar.

"Everything goes smoothly, kill that Hollow Profound Realm Divine Guard early and ascend to Hollow Profound for me."

After dropping this sentence, Pang Jian vanished.

"Pang Jian..."

Dong Tianze, sitting desolately in the center of the Ghost Altar, looked at the Black Iron Mountain peak belonging to Cao Mang. His gaze seemed vacant and dazed.

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