The violent explosions continued for a while before the Forbidden Zone slowly returned to normal. At last, the radiant sun shone down on the forbidden land that had been closed off for 500 years.
"Ah, light, this is the light of the sun!" The injured golden dragon looked up at the bright sun in the sky, feeling the warmth of the sun on his body and sighing with emotion.
Just as he thought with some emotion, the power he'd lost upon entering the forbidden area slowly began to fill his body again. His body had been plastered to the ground as it slowly began to rise again. The dragons' natural ability to fly had been restored.
"The power that trapped the entire area has disappeared. We've been saved!" The Cyclops' single eye looked straight into the sun as he collapsed on the ground from his injuries. Although he looked a little lazy, his green face was filled with joy at the thought of being alive.
On the other side, Gilbert shook his huge head, sending his tears from earlier flying through the air like spring rain. His huge body floated in the air and flew towards Han Shuo, muttering, "I knew it, I knew you wouldn't kill your most loyal servant!"
Han Shuo had broken his right arm, an arm as strong as iron, with his left hand. The meridians in his neck and arms had exploded and he lay in a growing pool of his own blood, panting heavily.
"Idiot, if I hadn't recovered quickly, you would have been dead by now!" Han Shuo shouted at Gilbert from his listless position. Bloody foam spewed from his mouth whenever he opened it, but he felt none of the associated pain. His eyes, now clear, showed a few traces of warmth and emotion.
As the strange force that had been holding the whole area back vanished, Gilbert felt a familiar force in his body and slowly began to transform as he approached Han Shuo. By the time he was standing in front of Han Shuo again, he had already transformed into a haggard and worn person, reflecting what he had just been through.
"Hehehe, recover your body first!" Gilbert stood with his back to Han Shuo and wiped the moisture from his face, then walked over and helped Han Shuo up from his collapsed position. Gilbert stood silently behind him in support.
Han Shuo chanted an incantation and a little skeleton with gleaming white bones and an honest and stupid earth elite zombie suddenly appeared in front of Han Shuo.
The two focused their attention on Han Shuo as they stood in front of him. When they saw his pitiful state and that he was dripping with blood, they rushed to either side of him, reaching out with their hands as if to take his blood and force it back into his body through his wounds.
Panic and fear filled the purple eyes of the little skeleton and the yellow eyes of the earth elite zombie. They waved their arms madly as they busied themselves, as if to say, "All right, all right. We're here now, He'll be fine now!" The two of them flailed around desperately to express themselves to Han Shuo. Although their actions of trying to force blood back into his body through his wounds were childish and comical, it warmed Han Shuo's heart.
Suddenly, the little skeleton took to the sky, sending his bone dagger and bone spurs swirling through the air. An evil, icy, and utterly inhuman killing intent emanated from his body as the seven bone spurs pierced the cyclops and golden dragon like seven streams of bloody light.
At the same time, the earth elite zombie next to Han Shuo sank into the ground as if it were stepping into water. Shaking and rumbling then came from the depths where the Cyclops and Golden Dragon were. Sharp mounds of earth began to shoot out of the ground. The Cyclops, standing on the ground, was the first to be affected, and he began to desperately dodge the attacks.
When the little skeleton and the earth elite zombie had appeared out of nowhere, the cyclops and the golden dragon had only glanced at them, not paying too much attention to these low level dark creatures. However, when the two finally made their moves, the destruction they brought shocked the two creatures to their senses. They could not believe what they were seeing.
The actions of the little skeleton and the earth elite zombie were as fast as lightning. By the time Han Shuo had time to react, their attacks had almost landed on the badly injured Cyclops and Golden Dragon.
"Hey, damned idiot dragon, are you just going to watch the show? We just helped you!" The golden dragon was terrified as he dodged the attacks and roared loudly.
Although the Cyclops and the Golden Dragon were now able to use their regained abilities, their bodies had long since lost all their strength from the previous round of events. In addition, although the little skeleton and the Earth Elite Zombie were small, the destruction they caused was truly terrifying, causing the two giant beings to scream in fear.
"Uh... my honoured master, those two guys really did help us just now. I think they mean us no harm now!" Gilbert thought back to when the three of them were defending themselves against Han Shuo and couldn't help but say to Han Shuo.
"I see. Then come back, you two!" Han Shuo nodded distantly and called to the little skeleton and the Earth Elite zombie.
The two brash dark creatures immediately withdrew their attacks when they heard Han Shuo's command. The seven bloody-red bone spurs spun in a circle and reattached themselves to the little skeleton's spine in an extremely short time. The various hills all collapsed in an astonishing manner, and the earth regained its smoothness. The earth elite zombie that had disappeared from sight floated up again, slowly rising from the earth and standing to Han Shuo's left as if it hadn't moved.
When the little skeleton and the earth elite zombie discovered that Han Shuo was seriously injured, they naturally excluded Gilbert from the race of beings that could have harmed their master. Therefore, the two huge beings that had obviously survived a huge battle became the natural culprits. It was understandable that they hadn't waited for Han Shuo's order before attacking.
To be honest, Han Shuo had only a vague idea of what had happened after he'd lost his ability to reason. However, his presence had still been useful in allowing the two beings to escape the forbidden area when he'd attacked. Now that the restraints around the forbidden area had been lifted, he didn't know if the two of them would act maliciously towards him. He'd only summoned them as a precaution.
The sudden attack of the little skeleton and the earth elite zombie was not what he had expected, but then he thought that the two fellows might be able to intimidate the two giant beings after a show of strength, thus preventing them from making any moves against him. Therefore, he only stopped the little skeleton and the Earth Elite zombie after Gilbert had explained what had happened. This also served as a warning to the two giant beings that they weren't the rulers of this place just because the restraining power in the forbidden area had been dispelled.
When he had faced the bone spurs of the little skeleton, the golden dragon had desperately tried to shrink to avoid the attacks. Wiping the cold sweat from his brow, he smiled at Han Shuo from afar, "Nice to meet you, strong human! I think you have nothing to do with me now, so goodbye!"
After speaking, the golden dragon had already changed back to his human form and swooped outwards as if fleeing the scene. After a few jumps, he landed in a patch of boulders and disappeared from sight.
The Cyclops also rumbled anxiously after the golden dragon had gone, "Ahaha, I'm also very pleased to make your acquaintance. However, I still have a few things to do at home, so I won't be chatting with you any longer. I hope we can meet again!"
The rumble of his voice still hung in the sky as the Cyclops twisted his injured body into motion. He stumbled as he made his way into the distance, praying that he would never run into this madman again. He was just too frightening when he lost his mind!
In the blink of an eye, the two severely wounded giant beings had fled their location with panicked expressions on their faces. Han Shuo and Gilbert looked at each other, finding this extremely ridiculous.
Whether it was the Cyclops or the Golden Dragon, both were incredibly terrifying levels of existence when at their peak. If they hadn't encountered something like the Lord of Flames, a level four creature, they would definitely be the Lords of the Dark Forest. Something like the Manticore, a level one magical creature, would dodge out of the way as if it'd seen a ghost if it ever met a Cyclops or a Golden Dragon.
However, such a strong level of existence had left in front of them, as if they were fleeing from some horror. This filled Han Shuo and Gilbert's hearts with strange emotions!
Clearing his mind of stray thoughts, Han Shuo sat down cross-legged and said to Gilbert, the little skeleton and the Earth Elite Zombie. "I'm going to recover from my wounds now, you guys keep watch!"
The murderous aura around him formed a cocoon of black and red light, completely enveloping his body. Streaks of black and red lightning swirled around the cocoon, completely sealing Han Shuo's presence, not allowing a single bit of it to escape.
The Specters that had been present in the forbidden area were strange existences formed from the souls of the powerful beings who had died, but had been unable to disperse into the world, instead absorbing all sorts of random powers.
No one knew what had happened five hundred years ago, but there were quite a few souls that had been affected by the strange power of the forbidden land and had been unable to disperse for five hundred years.
All the life forms that had accidentally entered the forbidden area had their powers restricted by the place. They could not use combat aura or magic to harm the Specters, and the Specters were unaffected by physical attacks. Therefore, death was the only way out for anything that stumbled into the area and faced the Specters .
Before these creatures died, all of their fear, despair, anger, reluctance and associated negative emotions were absorbed by the Specters, causing them to accumulate even more energy over the years, making the Specters ever more powerful.
Intruders who could only use their physical bodies to attack naturally couldn't deal with the Specters, but Han Shuo, who was already in the Bloodlust Realm, had a natural aura and the Demonslayer Edge, which was the opposite of the Specters. Therefore, when he knew that the beings present were Specters, he immediately used the Demon Infant and the Demonslayer Edge to form a vortex, constructing a mad devouring machine. All the Specters that had existed for five hundred years were sucked into the Demon Infant and the Demonslayer's Edge.
The image of the giant floating in the air behind Han Shuo was the result of the demon infant consuming too many Specters. This naturally formed image was also eventually absorbed into Han Shuo's body.
However, even though the Specters had great power, there were too many impure and random thoughts among them. All the negative emotions mixed together, and their characteristics were all different. Han Shuo's mentality in the Bloodlust Realm was already unstable to begin with, causing him to almost completely lose his mind and become a bloodthirsty demon.
He'd used his battle with the three giant creatures to release the random emotions that plagued him. The purest part of the Specters energy had been absorbed by the demon infant, and the majority of it had been too full of negative, violent emotions to be absorbed by the Demonslayer Edge inside.
The majority of the energy he had been unable to absorb had caused Han Shuo to lose his mind. He'd used his attacks on the three giant beings to wear it down, and then used the final blow from the Demonslayer Edge to attack the black mist void. The tremendous and deadly energy had actually destroyed the restraining power around the forbidden land, allowing the sunlight to stream in once more.
Han Shuo had been able to fight the three powerful beings before because the Demonslayer Edge had consumed the violent and scattered energy of the Specters. That kind of energy was pure destruction and not something he could control at all. That's why he had made it all disappear by letting it out as he had done.
That was why Han Shuo and the Demonslayer's Edge had displayed a power that wasn't theirs before. When the Demonslayer Edge broke through the restrictions of the forbidden land, all the destructive power had vanished, and Han Shuo and the Demonslayer Edge quickly returned to normal shortly after.
However, this time, the two of them gained great benefits. Even though Han Shuo was still in the bloodlust realm, the pure energy within the demon infant had once again greatly increased in strength.
After absorbing some power, with a little more refinement and a few random events, the Demonslayer's Edge would be able to truly emit a murderous aura. It would be a truly incomparable weapon
Wrapped in his red and black cocoon, Han Shuo did not emerge for eight days. His devastated right arm had returned to normal, and the blood vessels on his neck and arms had reformed, more resilient than before. His height had also increased by a few centimetres, and his naked body was even more stocky than before. His shoulders were broad, his waist narrow, and his muscles were more evenly distributed over his body, like finely chiselled granite. His eyes were clear and fierce, filled with the confidence of being in control.
"Honoured Master, you have finally appeared. Your poor servant has waited so long!" Gilbert had a look of dejection on his face as he stood pitifully next to Han Shuo, loudly praising his glory.
Looking at Gilbert in shock, Han Shuo asked in bewilderment, "What? What happened to you?"
Gilbert looked around pitifully, casting a glance at his surroundings, before finally speaking to Han Shuo as if he were ratting on someone. "Those two guys not only bullied me, they also dug up someone's grave. This is too evil!"
Han Shuo was shocked to hear these words, "What's going on here?"
"Look what they've done! They made me, the great dark dragon Gilbert, help them dig up another man's grave, and even threatened me with a knife when I wouldn't. This is so evil, so shameless, and this little skeleton is too evil! Gilbert was incredibly pitiful as he lifted Han Shuo into the air and let him see for himself.
As Han Shuo floated in the air and looked at Ayermika Cotton's tomb, he was stunned by what he saw. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry as he said, "Eh... those two are indeed a bit out of line!"