Volcano Trap, Solitary Island

Two months later.

Deep in the Pacific Ocean.

An unnamed active volcanic island, completely unmarked on any map.

The area was perpetually shrouded in thick volcanic ash and sulfurous gases, the air filled with a pungent, acidic stench. Even the most resilient seabirds refused to linger here.

At the core of the island.

Was a massive volcanic crater.

Boiling magma churned and bubbled at the bottom, emitting an incredibly muffled roar, as if it could erupt at any moment.

On the cliff at the edge of the crater.

Stood five people.

The Anti-Shen Alliance.

Over the course of two months, the Heavenly Dao's favoritism toward them had been displayed to the fullest.

Chen Tie's physique was even more burly than before, resembling an iron tower. Not only were his injuries completely healed, but he had also bizarrely broken through the bottleneck of a Martial Arts Grandmaster on this isolated island.

Fang Ziyuan's face was no longer pale, his eyes gleaming with an incredibly sinister light. He toyed with a dark green jade bottle in his hand, which contained a peerless poison he had extracted from the extremely rare toxic creatures on the island.

Zero sat in front of a military computer, his ten fingers turning into a blur on the keyboard. Surrounding him were highly complex signal transmitters, forming an electromagnetic black hole that covered a radius of fifty kilometers.

Pei Shaotian held his newly forged Tang sword, his aura completely concealed, like a peerless, ominous weapon about to be drawn.

And in the middle of the four of them.

Was Li Miaoyuan.

He had changed into a tight black combat suit salvaged from a sunken ship.

His body, previously suffering from the backlash of the Soul-Severing Talisman and nearly drained of spiritual energy, now exuded an absolutely terrifying spiritual pressure.

The peak of the Foundation Establishment stage!

Not only had he fully recovered, but he had even faintly touched the threshold of the Golden Core stage.

For the past two months, he had been frantically absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from an extremely rare underground spirit vein on this island. More importantly, under the forceful intervention of the Heavenly Dao, the luck of the other four was very slowly converging onto him.

He was the core of this alliance.

And the blade of revenge.

"How are the preparations?"

Li Miaoyuan turned his head and looked at Chen Tie.

His voice was incredibly cold, devoid of any emotional fluctuation. The two months of running and settling down had completely worn away the last trace of a cultivator's ethereal aura on him, leaving behind only a pure desire to kill.

"Everything is set."

Chen Tie patted a red detonator in his hand, his smile ferocious.

"I've buried a full ten tons of high explosives at all the natural magma channel nodes beneath the crater. As long as I press this button, the entire island's underground structure will instantly collapse."

"In less than five minutes, this active volcano will experience a terrifyingly massive eruption."

Chen Tie pointed to the cliff beneath his feet.

"The magma will completely submerge everything on this island."

Fang Ziyuan pushed up his glasses and added, "I've mixed the Lethal Powder into all the water sources and soil on the island. This poison is colorless and odorless. If a Grandmaster inhales a single breath, their internal organs will turn into bloody water within three seconds."

Zero hit the enter key one last time.

"Within a fifty-kilometer radius, no electronic signals can be transmitted out. Longyuan's satellite radar is completely blind here."

Pei Shaotian said nothing, merely drawing his Tang sword halfway at an incredibly slow pace.

The red glow of the churning crater reflected on the blade.

"The Soul-Trapping Array has been set. As soon as he steps onto the island, his martial arts true qi will be severely suppressed."

After listening to the reports of the four.

Li Miaoyuan nodded in satisfaction.

The Soldier King's explosives, the Divine Doctor's deadly poison, the Hacker's electromagnetic black hole, and the Ancient Martial Arts Inheritor's Soul-Trapping Array.

Coupled with the immortal cultivation killing array he had laid out on the edge of the crater using the earth vein's fire, the Nine Nether Hellfire Array, which, although damaged, was still operational.

These five extremely lethal, interlocking death traps.

Were a grand funeral presented to that demon king by this group of Children of Destiny who had been pushed to the brink.

"Send the coordinates."

Li Miaoyuan looked toward the distant east.

An incredibly maddened hatred flickered in his eyes.

"We've waited in this wretched place for far too long."

"If he doesn't come, we'll return to the capital tomorrow."

Li Miaoyuan's tone was extremely cruel.

"We'll kill the women around him. The one named Su Qingxue, the one named Lin Ruobing. We'll kill them one by one until he shows himself."

...

At the same time.

Shen Family Courtyard, Second Ring Road, Capital City.

In the study.

Shen Fei sat at his rosewood desk.

Quietly reading a top-secret briefing in his hand.

Suddenly.

The screen of the specially encrypted phone resting on the corner of the desk lit up.

An incredibly brief anonymous text message had bypassed all of the Shen family's network firewalls and was sent directly to his phone.

There was no text.

Only a latitude and longitude coordinate, precise down to the decimal point.

Attached was a highly blurry satellite image, a volcanic island billowing black smoke deep in the Pacific Ocean.

Shen Fei looked at the coordinate.

There was not a single ripple of emotion in his deep eyes.

It had been two months.

These rats were finally willing to crawl out of the sewer.

The Heavenly Dao had concealed their heavenly secrets for two months, giving them ample time to prepare traps and upgrade their equipment.

Now, they felt they were capable again.

They felt that the inescapable net they had cast was enough to kill a villain at the half-step Golden Core stage who cultivated Heavenly Demon spiritual energy.

Shen Fei tossed the phone onto the desk.

He stood up.

And pushed open the study door.

Ling Shuang and Ling Xue stood guard outside like two statues.

"Young Master," Ling Shuang immediately dropped to one knee.

"Book a flight to Hawaii. Then arrange for a seaplane."

Shen Fei's voice was exceedingly flat.

"To where?" Ling Shuang was momentarily stunned.

"To attend an incredibly boring appointment."

Shen Fei adjusted the collar of his black shirt.

"How many people will you take?"

Ling Xue asked with supreme efficiency. She knew that this tone from the Young Master usually meant an incredibly bloody massacre. The Shen family's one thousand Black Armor Death Sworn could be deployed at any moment, and they could even mobilize Longyuan's overseas armed forces once again.

With just one word from the Young Master.

The island at those coordinates could be leveled into a flatland by missiles in a matter of minutes.

"Just me."

Shen Fei answered very casually.

Ling Shuang and Ling Xue were both shocked simultaneously.

"Young Master! That's too dangerous! It's a blatant trap!" Ling Shuang urgently tried to stop him.

"Since it's a setup the enemy has carefully prepared for two months, it must be filled with all sorts of deadly ambushes!"

Shen Fei looked at Ling Shuang.

There was no blame in his eyes.

Only an incredibly cold, lofty, and absolute confidence.

"A trap?"

Shen Fei stepped past Ling Shuang, striding toward the courtyard.

"Can a hole dug by a bunch of small fry even be called a trap?"

"Prepare the plane."

Without any hesitation.

Without any highly complex pre-battle deployment or troop mobilization.

Shen Fei acted as casually as if he were just going to the next block for breakfast.

Alone.

He embarked on the journey to the isolated island in the Pacific Ocean.

...

Thirty hours later.

Deep in the Pacific Ocean.

A very small seaplane landed with great difficulty on the ocean surface two kilometers away from the unnamed volcanic island.

The waves here were incredibly ferocious.

The air was thick with the pungent stench of sulfur.

The pilot stared pale-faced at the dead island shrouded in black smoke ahead, his voice trembling.

"Sir, the magnetic field ahead is extremely chaotic, and the instrument panel has completely failed. I can't fly any further. This place is hell!"

Shen Fei sat in the passenger seat.

He looked at the island ahead.

His Eye of Destiny opened incredibly slowly.

Under the gloomy sky.

He could clearly see five dazzling pillars of destiny light, faintly tinged with a bloody hue, entrenched at the edge of the crater.

They shot into the sky with unparalleled arrogance.

"This is close enough."

Shen Fei pushed open the cabin door.

Fierce winds mixed with acid rain instantly flooded into the cabin.

He wore no protective suit, nor did he carry any weapons.

He was clad only in a thin black shirt.

Under the pilot's utterly horrified gaze.

Shen Fei jumped straight out of the cabin.

He didn't fall into the sea.

Instead.

He walked on thin air!

With his half-step Golden Core cultivation, coupled with the support of his Heavenly Demon Spirit Power.

Shen Fei's body seemed completely unaffected by Earth's gravity. With every step he took, the air beneath his feet let out a deep, muffled boom.

He walked across the surface of the sea as if treading on flat ground, making his way step by step toward the volcanic island.

His gait was incredibly steady.

Utterly calm.

A few minutes later.

Shen Fei's feet landed on the beach at the island's edge, which was covered in black volcanic rock.

The moment he stepped onto the island.

Buzz—

A highly obscure fluctuation spread from the rocks beneath his feet.

The Soul-Trapping Array laid down by Pei Shaotian was instantly triggered!

The surrounding air seemed to instantly turn into a viscous swamp, attempting to brutally suppress the flow of true qi within Shen Fei's body.

At the same time.

Mixed into the sulfurous air was an almost imperceptible hint of a sickly sweet scent.

Fang Ziyuan's Lethal Powder, carried by the sea breeze, seeped insidiously into Shen Fei's breath.

Shen Fei stopped in his tracks.

He didn't bother to break the array, nor did he hold his breath.

He merely cracked his neck in an extremely casual manner.

Inside his body.

The dark gold Heavenly Demon Spirit Power, like an ancient ferocious beast that had just been provoked, circulated through a grand cycle with explosive fury!

Crack.

The black reef rock beneath his feet, which served as the core of the Soul-Trapping Array, along with the incredibly complex ancient martial runes carved into it, was instantly shattered into powder by the Heavenly Demon Spirit Power!

The array was broken.

As for the highly toxic Lethal Powder that had entered his lungs with his breath.

Before it could even take effect, the moment it made contact with the Heavenly Demon Spirit Power, it was domineeringly devoured and broken down, turning into a minuscule amount of energy nourishment.

Invulnerable to all poisons, unbreakable by all arts.

This was the terrifying attribute of the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art after its advancement.

Shen Fei raised his head.

He looked at the rugged mountain path ahead leading up to the crater.

The route was densely packed with highly concealed explosive fuses and incredibly deadly nodes of a cultivation killing array.

He didn't pause for even a second.

He took great strides forward.

Step, step, step.

His exceptionally steady footsteps echoed across the silent volcanic island.

At the edge of the crater.

Zero looked at the highly complex military computer screen in front of him. Suddenly, a glaring red dot appeared on the screen.

It was approaching their location at a constant speed in a perfectly straight line.

"He's here," Zero's voice was incredibly dry.

"And... he didn't bring anyone with him."

"He's alone."

Standing by the cliff's edge, Chen Tie, Fang Ziyuan, and Pei Shaotian all gasped at the same time.

Li Miaoyuan clenched his fists.

A flash of intense shock crossed his eyes, but it was immediately replaced by a maddeningly frantic killing intent.

"Coming here alone to throw his life away."

Li Miaoyuan stared at the mountain path below.

"Today will be his death anniversary!"

He abruptly turned his head to look at Chen Tie.

"Wait until he walks into the core of the killing array."

"Detonate it immediately!"

Chen Tie grinned savagely, his thumb pressing down heavily on the red detonation button.

"Let's send this demon king to hell!"