Chapter 232: Jing Tian Tower Appears
Lan Miaotong and Zhao Zhihu’s pupils contracted, staring intently at Su Yan within the Tiger Subduing Bright King True Intent.
That handsome appearance, not even twenty-something years old, was truly excessively young.
The two controlled their True Intent, their figures turning into phantoms, charging over at extreme speed, teeth clenched, striking with full force.
They were both outstanding figures of their sect; how could they not even break the opponent’s True Intent.
The two charged fiercely, both giving their all, continuously attacking Su Yan, True Intent surging like a ferocious tide.
Su Yan’s gaze was indifferent, revealing a bit of disdain. The two were not bad, but compared to Lan Yunyue and Yuan Yi, they were still a bit lacking. To pose a threat to him, they were still short on skill.
He lightly patted the Six-Winged Blood Centipede’s head, and immediately the Six-Winged Blood Centipede rushed out, wrapped in red light like a meteor, directly charging to the two.
Its hard and ferocious head rammed, directly smashing their attacks apart, the attacks collapsing, merely leaving a mark on the crimson carapace.
The two’s expressions darkened, their figures darting like kites, dodging the Six-Winged Blood Centipede’s attacks, while controlling their True Intent to continuously counterattack.
The two joined hands, especially using Lan Miaotong’s Spirit Ring as the main method, temporarily managing to wear some wounds on the Six-Winged Blood Centipede’s carapace.
But that was merely it. After obtaining Blood Flood Dragon Essence Blood and Spirit, the Six-Winged Blood Centipede’s strength continuously metamorphosed, its cultivation already no less than a Second-order Perfected Feral Beast.
And in terms of foundation, it was originally even stronger, the power it could erupt with clearly superior.
Its massive body continuously rammed, like a rampaging giant dragon, smashing Zhao Zhihu flying out, immediately causing his Qi and Blood to stagnate, spitting out blood.
Lan Miaotong resisted fiercely, throwing out her Spirit Ring, but unexpectedly the Six-Winged Blood Centipede opened its blood basin mouth, spewing rolling poison, instantly submerging the Spirit Ring.
The powerful corrosiveness exceeded Lan Miaotong’s imagination; in just a moment, the True Essence on the Spirit Ring rapidly dissipated, the surface directly contacting the Spirit Ring instantly dimming, losing some luster.
She was greatly shocked and immediately recalled the Spirit Ring, but the poison was like a vicious beast, continuously surging, under the Six-Winged Blood Centipede’s control, closely pursuing.
She immediately dodged, and under reluctant teleport, was still hit on the shoulder, instantly her fair skin corroded by the poison, letting out a pained groan.
Lan Miaotong decisively bit her silver teeth, her left hand’s long sword slashing, a large piece of flesh and blood falling to the ground, barely stopping the toxin.
The two’s hearts sank to the bottom; even just the Six-Winged Blood Centipede was already so difficult for them to handle, if Su Yan made a move…
The thought just arose in their minds when suddenly countless black silk threads appeared around them, flying out from the shadows, landing on the two.
Not good!
The two immediately realized something was wrong, wanting to sever the shadow silk with their weapons.
But it was already too late.
Before they could act, the shadow silk wrapped around their hands and feet like it had life.
Tough and cold, strands of chilling power invaded their bodies through the shadow silk, sealing their circulating True Essence.
Countless shadow silks emerged, a massive black spider monster appearing before them, like a shadow, its figure ghostly, hard to detect.
“You actually have another contracted beast?!”
Lan Miaotong and Zhao Zhihu looked shocked at the man before them.
Even though in another battle, their fellow disciples had already been defeated by the Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust and eliminated from the Blood Flood Dragon Secret Realm, they could no longer care.
How old was Su Yan? Twenty, or possibly even less than twenty.
But his cultivation was already ridiculously strong, and yet that wasn’t all; he actually had three such powerful contracted beasts.
Whether the blood-colored mother worm controlling the bee insects, or the Shadow Horn Spider and blood-colored centipede before them, every contracted beast had the strength to suppress True Intent Realm Perfected, or even Half-step Dan Qiao Martial Artists.
How could Su Yan possibly raise so many such powerful contracted beasts.
Even though they had cultivated for many years, their mental fortitude far surpassing ordinary people, they still couldn’t quite accept this reality now.
“Your strength is actually not bad.”
Su Yan slowly walked up, nodding slightly.
Although defeated, Lan Miaotong and Zhao Zhihu still had some strength.
Lan Miaotong’s face was deathly pale; earlier her True Essence had been excessively consumed, and now she had sliced off a large piece of flesh from her shoulder. Even with pills to suppress the injury, she would likely need to rest for a period afterward.
“Su Yan, we are inferior in skill, we willingly concede.”
Lan Miaotong spoke extremely quickly, raising her head to look at Su Yan: “But we’ve only been in the Blood Flood Dragon Secret Realm for less than a day, and can stay for two more days. The Blood Flood Dragon Essence Blood and Spirit here are extremely useful for cultivation. We are willing to trade with Origin Stones and Spirit Herbs for one chance, to only hunt Blood Flood Dragon Evil Beasts, not participate in fighting each other, and absolutely not trouble Beast King Sect disciples.”
She was a smart woman, knowing that no one could be killed in the Blood Flood Dragon Secret Realm; elimination wasn’t the real key—resources were.
Zhao Zhihu reacted, immediately saying: “In my storage ring, there are Third-order Pills, Qi Condensation Pills, which can assist in condensing the Dantian Golden Core and forming Dan Qiao.”
Third-order Pills were undoubtedly treasures.
This was originally the pill he prepared to lay his foundation and breakthrough after absorbing enough Blood Flood Dragon Essence Blood and Spirit.
But now, without enough of the most important Blood Flood Dragon Essence Blood and Spirit collected, the pill’s effect was greatly diminished.
Even though it pained him greatly, he could only grit his teeth to exchange.
“What a pity.”
Su Yan merely lifted his gaze slightly, and Zhao Zhihu and Lan Miaotong’s bodies trembled, actually seeing a trace of indifferent regret in his eyes.
As if… regretting not being able to kill them…
If it were on a true battlefield, forget benefits; as long as he could kill the two of them, all benefits would be his.
Now, however, he could only make a choice.
“You two, let me give you a dignified exit.”
Su Yan reached out with his big hand, the Tiger Subduing Bright King True Intent’s giant hand pressing down like the sky, the powerful attack directly activating the Jing Tian Token, instantly eliminating the two from the Jing Tian Tower.
Su Yan gradually withdrew his True Intent into his body, but did not withdraw the three contracted beasts.
In the secret realm, what was contested was not only resources, but also kill rankings. Su Yan couldn’t let them go hunt other Blood Flood Dragon Evil Beasts, or it would be aiding the enemy.
Boom
Su Yan had just sent the two away when suddenly the ground shook violently, the entire secret realm like it was further activated.
A heaven-piercing red light lit up about fifty miles from him, shooting straight into the clouds, dazzling like the sun in the secret realm.
“Node?!”
Su Yan’s eyes brightened; he could clearly sense the entire secret realm’s malevolent energy flowing toward that position.
Such a place could only be the Blood Flood Dragon Secret Realm node that Lan Yunyue and the others had told him about before.
Malevolent energy, True Essence, Blood Flood Dragon power continuously gathering, forming even stronger evil beasts, which gathered large numbers of evil beasts and proactively attacked humans.
Precisely because of this, there were only more, not fewer, Blood Flood Dragon Evil Beasts in that direction.
Encountering this situation, Su Yan was delighted in his heart, directly ordering the Six-Winged Blood Centipede to carry him flying toward the blood light.
——
The red light dispersed the rain curtain, driving back much of the dark clouds in the sky.
In a mountain valley, a hundred-meter tall tower now stood like a mountain range, situated within.
The tower body was pitch-black and ancient, with “Jing Tian Tower” inscribed powerfully on it. Powerful force spread from the Jing Tian Tower body, suppressing the entire mountain valley so it couldn’t lift its head.
Massive spiritual energy gathered here, turning into mist, continuously accumulating, like an immortal misty valley.
But outside the mountain valley, beast roars rose and fell endlessly; at a glance, countless Blood Flood Dragon Evil Beasts, at least thousands.
Leading Three Beasts, especially powerful: one horned blood-colored Alligator Dragon, the second a half-dragonized blood python over a hundred meters long, the third a Flood Dragon Scale Leopard covered entirely in Flood Dragon scales, with four claws, fierce in appearance.
The three Blood Flood Dragon Evil Beasts had strength approaching Half-step Dan Qiao, with extraordinarily ferocious aura.
“Find a way to shake off the evil beasts and charge into the valley.”
Yuan Yi transformed into Greedy Wolf form, his figure burly, half-human half-wolf, aura solid and real, fully attacking the three evil beasts.
Beside him, Zhao Mingcheng summoned his contracted beast for cover, continuously attacking the Flood Dragon Scale Leopard, while wielding the Spirit Severing Blade in hand, saber light dozens of feet long slicing waist-level through evil beasts before him in one move.
Behind the two were Lan Yunyue and Suo Yunyi; the four joining hands temporarily not forced back by these evil beasts.
Lan Yunyue’s Moon-Gazing Sword continuously drew sword light, killing one evil beast after another; Suo Yunyi’s spear like a dragon, continuously piercing evil beasts.
“Push back the evil beasts, I’ll try entering the valley. Someone is already challenging that Jing Tian Tower; it must be General Qin’s descendant among the Monster Suppressing Guard.”
Suo Yunyi decisively acted; he was closest to the mountain valley, making him the most suitable to probe now.
“Good”
Lan Yunyue and Zhao Mingcheng took his position, immediately providing cover.
The four originally only wanted to kill evil beasts at the node position to earn more Blood Flood Dragon Essence Blood and Spirit, but unexpectedly stumbled upon the Jing Tian Tower appearing.
With the Jing Tian Tower appeared, the node’s Blood Flood Dragon aura surged several times; in just a turn of the eye, so many evil beasts gathered.
The three joined to block, as Suo Yunyi prepared to step into the mountain valley.
“Stop right there!”
A furious shout came, a surging fire snake passing over the evil beast horde, straight toward Suo Yunyi.
Suo Yunyi was greatly startled, his whole body jolting, fiercely dodging aside.
The scorching fire snake pierced the ground, leaving a charred patch; merely grazing past, Suo Yunyi’s arm was already red, clearly burned.
Everyone looked over; Xing Xi Yang strode into the evil beasts, Profound Fire Snake True Intent charging into the horde like an ice-cold python wandering among sheep, devouring with big bites, continuously killing Blood Flood Dragon Evil Beasts.
“Xing Xi Yang!”
Yuan Yi was enraged, flames seeming to burn in his gaze.
He struck to force back the Second-order Perfected evil beast before him, then Greedy Wolf Black Corrosion Sword slashed out a wolf shadow, straight toward Xing Xi Yang.
This sword light was like a living thing, like a fierce wolf running among sheep.
In a turn of the eye, the sword light neared the body; Xing Xi Yang didn’t dodge at all, slashing with one blade, fire snakes filling the sky, swallowing the wolf shadow.
The Profound Fire Snake stared at Yuan Yi, dragon horns already formed on its head.
Just one glance, and Yuan Yi realized his old rival was about to complete True Intent metamorphosis.
“Whoosh”
Amid their hostility, a massive heavy sword fell from the sky like a meteor, the booming sound directly severing over ten evil beasts at the waist.
Gu Nian leaped into form, landing in the battlefield, his burly body looking more like a wild beast in human skin.
Like a ferocious monster, he continuously shattered evil beasts with sweeping heavy sword momentum, his sword technique simple yet perfectly natural, integrated into every part of his body.
Blood Flood Dragon Evil Beasts pounced onto his body, clanging sounds ringing out like striking a golden bell.
Looking closely at Gu Nian’s burly body, muscles bulging, faint tiger stripes flashing, golden light flowing, like a fierce tiger of the human world—Vajra Sword Tiger.
“Junior Brother, hurry to challenge the tower and seek Senior Qin’s inheritance!”
Seven or eight Sword One Sect disciples followed closely, sword light surging to the heavens, continuously killing invading Blood Flood Dragon Evil Beasts.
They didn’t fight separately, instead neatly protecting Gu Nian as they charged toward the mountain valley.
Sword One Sect disciples were always united; now they especially wanted Gu Nian to take first place in the secret realm.
Yuan Yi and Xing Xi Yang, these two old rivals about to clash, had their expressions change slightly.
They both saw Sword One Sect’s intent; if they fought each other now, it would likely lead to the snipe and clam situation where the fisherman profits.
At this moment, nine more figures appeared behind the beast horde.
Leading was Gu Lingfeng, who upon seeing the Jing Tian Tower emerge, had a strange glint in his eyes.
“Roar”
Successive roars from Blood Flood Dragon Evil Beasts came, wanting to tear them apart outside the horde.
Unexpectedly, Gu Lingfeng coldly snorted, his long sword ringing like a dragon roar, slashing out one sword that turned into a hundred-zhang sword light, charging into the horde and cleaving open a path.
“Good sword!”
This sword startled the Sword One Sect crowd, especially Gu Nian’s charging figure pausing slightly, involuntarily turning to look, eyes shining, mouth full of praise.
Ping Xiujie tensed, hurriedly saying: “Junior Brother, if comparing swords, it can be outside the secret realm with a formal challenge. In the current situation, you two absolutely can’t fully focus on fighting.”
Gu Nian’s excitement then subsided, nodding heavily: “Senior Brother, I understand. First seize the inheritance, then defeat Gu Lingfeng!”
“Such big talk.”
Gu Lingfeng seemed to hear Gu Nian’s words, his gaze glancing over like an ice-cold long sword.
He casually swung a sword, like piercing clouds and cleaving waterfalls, precisely finding Gu Nian amid layers of Blood Flood Dragon Evil Beasts, straight toward his body.
Gu Nian slowly held his heavy sword horizontally before him, also thrusting one sword, sword edge gathering like dragon and tiger fighting, dissipating the attack.
Though just one sword, both their eyes flashed with heat; the other was a sword dao expert.
“Ren Fanzhi, clear the path; I’ll guard your second tower challenge!”
“Got it, boss.”
The youth called Ren Fanzhi rushed to the front of the crowd, roaring, his body transforming into cyan armor, True Intent emerging behind him into a cyan rock spirit rhinoceros.
True Intent united, like a war giant beast, directly scattering the blocking Blood Flood Dragon Evil Beasts before him like a war chariot.
The Monster Suppressing Guard crowd followed closely, arriving later but first, actually nearing the Jing Tian Tower more than Gu Nian and them.
