Chapter 255: Tiger In A Trap
A fierce battle was about to erupt. The Spirit Tiger defending the city had a body spanning a hundred zhang, and every attack carried a momentum that could destroy heaven and earth.
Yan Yin showed no quarter. The Mountain Felling Beast under his control had already manifested in the form of his True Intent: a dragon head with a feathered body, entirely blood-red, none other than the Jade Feather Dragon.
The two clashed in combat, truly creating a shocking spectacle.
In just a few short exchanges, they battered the City Wall into collapse. Hundreds of martial artists defending the city were shaken off the wall, crushed to death outright by the shockwaves.
The Mountain Guard disciples’ True Essence shook, but they were far stronger than the motley crew of martial artists atop the City Wall. Though many were gravely injured in the collisions.
But their casualties had yet to exceed a hundred.
“Kill their Dan Qiao disciples!”
A furious roar came from Bing Zhongxing’s mouth. Over a dozen Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists flew out from atop the City Wall.
They gathered their killing moves. In a single clash, they charged straight at Su Yan and the others, their Natal Spiritual Artifacts assaulting like a hail of ice, right in their faces.
“Such nerve!”
Chen Xuanmo snorted coldly. His True Intent emerged behind him, and the Giant Demon Boa appeared, its body merging with the Dragon Slaying Saber in his hand as he slashed at the incoming Dan Qiao True Person.
Clanging rang out. That Dan Qiao Realm True Person wore third-order Armor, and his Hardening cultivation was also rare, actually withstanding the attack.
Just ten zhang beside him, Yuan Yi was entangled by Hundredfoot Stronghold Old Ancestor Ma Chixuan.
This Ma Chixuan was also a formidable figure. Though only at Dan Qiao Realm First Heaven, his cultivation already showed signs of Great Accomplishment. With his Primordial Chaos Pouch, he actually swallowed Yuan Yi, turning him into bones and blood.
Yuan Yi’s cultivation was a step weaker. His Greedy Wolf Black Corrosion Sword attacked relentlessly, but he could only barely hold his ground.
With a furious roar, he activated his Greedy Wolf Body, transforming into a half-wolf form. His True Essence surged, and his Physical Body grew even stronger, finally forcing Ma Chixuan to rein in some of his arrogance.
In the same boat were Suo Yunyi, Lan Yunyue, Qi Yufei, Xia Wan’er, and several other newly advanced Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists.
Each had their own techniques, but their foundations were still too shallow.
Simply put, their Contracted Beasts probably had no chance of breaking through to third-order yet, making their responses truly stretched thin.
Lan Yunyue and Xia Wan’er were slightly better off, having used several Seed Aperture Pills, their True Essence abundant—merely a bit weaker than First Heaven Great Accomplishment.
Besides them, Zhao Mingcheng was likely the second most at ease. With his soul-seizing poison control techniques, aided by Poison Soul Beast and Hook Sickle Demon True Intents, he had forced the Lishan County Zhou Family Old Ancestor opposite him into quite a predicament.
The Mountain Guard commanders and veteran Dan Qiao Realm experts had also each found their opponents, with the battle situation varying in advantage.
As for Su Yan’s side, facing him was a voluptuous woman in pink robes with an alluring figure.
This woman was stunningly beautiful, yet her eyes held a baleful aura, like a venomous snake.
“What a handsome young man. Normally, I’d make you my pretty boy, but today you’re dead.”
She spoke with a giggling smile, her eyes flashing with cold light.
In the Yan Ying Sect, she had no real foundation and was a wanted fugitive, specializing in harvesting the Essence, Qi, and Blood from martial artists—especially genius disciples.
To reach her current First Heaven Peak cultivation, she had no idea how many she’d harvested.
Suddenly, her eyes shot out two soul-seizing beams of light, straight at Su Yan’s face.
The red sash at her waist twisted like a venomous snake, instantly slashing out waves of Blade Aura that encircled Su Yan’s neck.
Seeing her assault, Su Yan smirked coldly. The Insect Consciousness Seed unleashed a torrent of Spiritual Power, crushing down.
Instantly, the soul-seizing Divine Light extinguished. Hu Yuzhi’s mind reeled, her body staggering as she nearly fell victim.
Her expression turned to shock. She saw her own Spirit Tool, the Spirit-Cutting Sash, gripped in Su Yan’s hand.
The sharp Blade Aura grated against Su Yan’s golden hand, emitting a harsh screech like nails on glass.
Such a strong Physical Body!
Hu Yuzhi’s heart filled with terror as Su Yan’s large hand grabbed at her. Strands of golden True Essence converged into a Star Picking Hand like the arm of the Ming King.
With a single grasp, Hu Yuzhi was clutched in his palm. Her bones cracked audibly, blood pouring from her mouth and nose—her Internal Organs likely damaged.
Su Yan smashed out with the Myriad Insect Prison Suppressing Tower, directly drawing her inside, grinding her flesh and blood cultivation into pure nutrients.
The bloodstained Spirit Tool ribbon was clutched in his hand. In the next moment, the Troop Devouring Ghost Moth appeared, devouring the ribbon into its belly with great bites.
With Hu Yuzhi dead, Su Yan freed up a hand and simply summoned the Blood Bone Centipede King as well.
With these two Fierce Insects emerging, their ferocious auras instantly swept the surroundings.
“Kill.”
Su Yan merely issued a kill command in his mind. The two Fierce Insects pounced out, straight at the nearest Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists.
The Blood Bone Centipede King flashed forward, heading straight for the old woman in front of Xia Wan’er.
The old woman swung her Staff, transforming it into a hundred-meter giant to block.
The Blood Bone Centipede King spewed bloody mist from its mouth, corroding the Staff by half in a single clash.
The old woman spat blood, and the Blood Bone Centipede King was already upon her.
She grinned ferociously, summoning her True Intent Beast Spirit and merging with it, desperately striking at the Blood Bone Centipede King’s head.
A heavy blow, enough for Mountain Splitting.
But the Blood Bone Centipede King’s blood bone Carapace remained unmoved, like an indestructible wall.
The old woman’s eyes bulged. In the next moment, the Blood Bone Centipede King swallowed her entire body.
Their clash happened in the blink of an eye. By the time Xia Wan’er reacted, the Blood Bone Centipede King had already pounced on another Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artist.
She stared in stunned shock: “So strong—even the Contracted Beast has such cultivation. Could it be that Seed Aperture Pills were given to the Contracted Beast too?”
Unless those precious Pills were given to the Contracted Beast, Xia Wan’er couldn’t think of any Method for a Contracted Beast to breakthrough so quickly.
More than just Xia Wan’er was shocked like this.
Qi Yufei was forced into pure defense by Windshadow Fortress Lord Ye Qinghan. His Sword Moves had yet to Metamorphosis to the Dan Qiao level, while Ye Qinghan opposite was already a seasoned sword user.
Every move and stance suppressed him, Sword Marks accumulating on his body. If not for his solid foundation and constant learning of the opponent’s Sword Moves, Qi Yufei would likely be dead by now.
“No good—I need reinforcements. This old bastard’s Sword Moves are formidable; probably need Second Heaven to deal with him.”
Qi Yufei wasn’t stupid. Knowing he couldn’t win, he was now preparing to call for help.
At that moment, sharp Sword Qi suddenly rose behind him.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh
The sound of Sword Break piercing the air came, with thousands of Flying Sword phantoms raining down continuously, enveloping Ye Qinghan.
Clang
Ye Qinghan reacted swiftly, his Spirit Tool Long Sword weaving a dense sword net to block all the sword phantoms.
Sword Light crisscrossed, sword phantoms extinguishing one by one in clashes with the Sword Light.
Qi Yufei was overjoyed, knowing aid had arrived. He shouted loudly: “His sword net has gaps and can’t last—attack his left side.”
Clang
Sword Qi Dragon Roar—another hundred-plus sword phantoms assaulted from the left.
Ye Qinghan’s face changed drastically. He hurriedly blocked, but was a step too slow.
The sword net broke. Suddenly, a pitch-black Black Sword pounced, instantly severing his Spirit Tool Long Sword and decapitating him.
So strong!
Qi Yufei praised endlessly, but the next moment he saw the Black Sword transform into a pitch-black monstrous insect, utterly ferocious, its Spirit sweeping over his side.
His body jolted, and he abruptly looked toward distant Su Yan.
Su Yan had just crushed a nearby Dan Qiao Martial Artist’s Spine with one hand, while nodding slightly at him.
Qi Yufei was stunned—this was truly Su Yan’s Fierce Insect.
The sudden change on the Battlefield made Bing Zhongxing’s face change abruptly.
The others were manageable, but what exactly was this Su Yan?
His face darkened, his gaze repeatedly sweeping toward Su Yan’s side.
Yan Yin, however, smirked at the corner of his mouth, controlling the Mountain Felling Beast to attack Bing Zhongxing, interrupting his thoughts.
In just a few short exchanges, Su Yan had consecutively slain four Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists. Even if they were all First Heaven cultivation, it was enough to turn the tide of battle.
Bing Zhongxing’s side had more Dan Qiao Realm experts, but not several times more than the Beast King Sect’s Dan Qiao Realm True Persons.
If Su Yan kept killing like this, they probably truly wouldn’t escape.
“Do it!”
The Spirit Tiger Mountain Guard Array suddenly changed dramatically. The sky instantly darkened.
Several streaks of dark red streams of light suddenly flew out from In the City, and wherever the overpowering objects were, they all mutated. If anyone looked now, they would see that these key Formation Eyes had turned into blood pools.
The twenty Dan Qiao Realm experts locked in combat on the field had no idea of this change. As the red light entered their bodies, their True Essence surged violently.
But as their True Essence surged, their eyes turned crimson, and even their own True Intent Beast Spirits turned blood-colored, utterly ferocious.
In an instant, twenty powerful Dan Qiao auras rose. First Heaven became Second Heaven, Second Heaven became Third Heaven—their Strength surging a level.
Atop the City Wall, the martial artists integrated into the great Formation also turned berserk.
The sudden change startled Yan Yin. He knew Bing Zhongxing had a backup plan, but hadn’t expected it to be this ruthless.
He controlled the Mountain Felling Beast to sweep horizontally, blocking the frenzied Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists to one side.
This time, he avoided the scenario where his fellow Junior Brothers and Junior Sisters were ambushed by the mad Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists, resulting in heavy casualties.
But precisely this delay allowed the Spirit Tiger Mountain Guard Array to suddenly turn into a trapping Formation, confining everyone within.
The massive Spirit Tiger split into several blood shadows, landing on Bing Zhongxing, Jia Wen, and seven veteran Dan Qiao Realm experts, carrying them away in flight. In a flash, they were out of Lishan County City.
“Kill!”
The berserk Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists had no mind for betrayal. Their lives and Minds were fully fused with the great Formation before them, as were the ten thousand-plus martial artists behind them.
Yan Yin controlled the Mountain Felling Beast to scatter their combined assault, his face icy cold. In the end, he’d been outmaneuvered by Bing Zhongxing.
Even if they fought on like this, exterminating the opponent’s Dan Qiao Realm would minimize losses, but with the strongest ones escaped, how could he feel good about it?
“Slaughter the martial artists, break this Formation—don’t let that old demon Bing Zhongxing get far.”
Yan Yin’s voice transmitted. His Contracted Beast had already flown out, landing beneath his feet: shockingly, a third-order Late Stage Moon Crown Alligator Dragon.
“Two against one—everyone be careful.”
Wan Ruicheng spoke to remind. Su Yan slightly raised his eyes and suddenly asked: “Slaughtering those martial artists on the City Wall will break the Formation?”
Everyone was stunned. Liu Dongzhu subconsciously said: “Junior Brother has a Method?”
At this point, the Formation’s power source had shifted from True Essence to the Qi and Blood and Spirit of the opponent’s martial artists within the Formation. Only by crushing these sources could they break the enemy faster.
This was Bing Zhongxing’s cunning scheme: forcing them to waste time and energy grinding down these martial artists.
Su Yan nodded slightly and said: “I do have some means. Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters, help me hold off these Dan Qiao Martial Artists.”
“Good.”
Before anyone could question or ask, main array commander Yan Yin agreed. The Mountain Felling Beast launched its attack.
A single Mountain Splitting strike directly forced apart the berserk Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists blocking the City Wall, clearing a path.
“Move!”
Chen Xuanmo, Liu Dongzhu, and Wan Ruicheng led the charge forward. Yuan Yi, Xia Wan’er, and Lan Yunyue followed closely, intercepting the Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists.
Su Yan was freed up. He immediately flew forward, straight atop the City Wall.
Atop the City Wall, martial artists kept hurling Short Spears and Arrows to shoot him down.
His figure didn’t retreat at all. Arrows and Short Spears couldn’t harm him in the slightest.
For an ordinary person, killing these ten thousand-plus would take considerable effort, but Su Yan didn’t need that.
Blood Bone Centipede King and Troop Devouring Ghost Moth gathered before him, and the Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust was also summoned.
Su Yan’s eyes were calm as he silently intoned a single word in his mind: kill.
The three Fierce Insects dove down. Bloody Poisonous Mist spewed from the Blood Bone Centipede King’s mouth, sweeping along the City Wall. No martial artist could resist wherever it passed.
The Troop Devouring Ghost Moth summoned thousands of Weapon phantoms, which rained down like Arrows with a wave, smashing onto the City Wall.
The most ferocious was the Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust, summoning tens of thousands of Fiend Bees and Blood Bees to envelop them, like a dense blood-red fog.
The slaughter began in an instant. Under the blood mist shroud, screams rose one after another.
The shrill cries even made people like Liu Dongzhu and Chen Xuanmo’s faces change slightly.
They couldn’t see what happened in the blood mist, but such horrific screams were something even they had never heard.
Someone couldn’t help glancing at Su Yan’s expression—calm as if he were eating or drinking.
An instant chill ran through them—this Junior Brother was the real ruthless one.
Everyone could feel the Formation’s power steadily weakening as martial artists were continuously broken.
But precisely because of this, they grew even more curious about what was happening in the blood mist.
Under Su Yan’s Divine Sense perception, the blood mist blocked no vision at all.
Martial artists, after being poisoned, were directly burst open by Blood Bees and Fiend Bees, their flesh and blood endlessly devoured until only Bones remained in moments.
The Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust weaved along the City Wall. All sated Blood Bees flew back as its Rations, gradually converting into its own Demonic Essence.
The Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust was Bloodthirsty—Essence Blood was no less than Pills to it.
And this feast of over ten thousand martial artists before it was precisely its revelry.
Even with Su Yan’s capabilities, unless he acted like an old demon, where else could he gather ten thousand martial artists for it to devour?
Soon, as the devouring continued, the Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust’s growth progress changed rapidly, quickly reaching its limit.
【Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust: Metamorphosis Stage】
【Molting Material: Myriad Fiend Crystal, Soul Spirit True Silkworm, Blood Dripping Profound Crystal, Sky Abyss Ore】
The great Formation teetered on collapse. Su Yan slightly raised his eyes, instantly dispersing the blood mist.
Boom
Yan Yin seized the chance, shattering the great Formation. The twenty Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists perished on the spot.
Looking again at the City Wall, White Bones lay everywhere, blood staining the entire wall red. The remaining martial artists were less than four in ten.
“Such ruthless methods.”
Everyone was shocked inwardly, but none dared speak on the surface, fearing to offend him.
Yan Yin flew down at this time: “Those seven can’t have fled far. Everyone, split up with me to capture them.”
“Yes.”
