Chapter 289: Suppressing Dan Qiao Like Subduing Tiger
Su Yan stepped forward step by step, each step like ascending to heaven.
The Poison Dragon True Intent from above, like a Giant Spirit, continuously pressured down, causing the entire Poison Dragon Peak to operate a special mountain formation, suppressing the True Essence of the martial artists climbing the mountain.
One-third up Poison Dragon Peak was a huge watershed, and one-third further up was where the Poison Dragon True Intent hung its head, also the location of Poison Dragon Peak’s dragon head.
The True Intent pressure was far stronger than before by several times, with almost visible golden patterns wandering in the air, each pattern’s source coming from the Poison Dragon True Intent in mid-air and the Dragon Pearl inside it.
The pass was the watershed, but this place was blocked by Peng Xu, Pu Chengshi, and Lan Menggu from the Hundred Caves Witch Sect, along with Chi Tong and Zhang Acheng from the Three Flames Divine Palace.
They glared covetously, their gazes falling on Su Yan, filled with unrelenting malice.
Su Yan’s climbing speed was too fast; the higher he went, the stronger his resonance with Poison Dragon Peak became, and that momentum made them wary.
If he reached the peak, this guy from the Beast King Sect would likely seize the Poison Dragon True Person’s Inheritance.
Su Yan arrived a hundred meters before the four, facing them from afar, as all four released their True Intents.
Chi Tong’s Greed, Anger, Ignorance Three Beasts coiled around his side, while he stood atop the Greedy Beast, his entire aura converging, locking onto Su Yan.
Behind Peng Xu, Pu Chengshi, and Lan Menggu, their True Intents manifested as poisonous beasts from the mountains: a Green Giant Scorpion, a Poison Phosphor Sand-Tooth Beast, and a Dream-Eating Demon.
“If you dare go further up, leave your life here.”
Seeing Su Yan arrive, Peng Xu immediately attacked, the Green Giant Scorpion spewing poisonous mist that blanketed the sky, rushing straight toward Su Yan.
Not just him; Pu Chengshi, Lan Menggu, and Chi Tong all attacked directly, their True Intents assaulting like vicious beasts, glaring covetously as if to completely devour Su Yan.
All three were Triple Heaven Martial Artists, and now attacking together, this assault was truly as terrifying as a storm of dense clouds and thunder.
Facing their attacks, Su Yan’s eyes remained extremely calm.
He raised one hand and struck straight at Chi Tong’s Greed, Anger, Ignorance Three Beasts, the Tiger Subduing Bright King True Intent transforming into a Golden Body, delivering a earth-shattering punch.
With a rumbling sound, the three beasts’ True Intents were directly shaken, their True Essence-formed bodies now somewhat scattered.
Looking at Su Yan again, he took a step forward, his fist like propping up a mountain, smashing toward Chi Tong.
Chi Tong Zhang Acheng’s expression changed drastically, deploying countless blood threads to block in front of him.
The blood threads were sharp as knives, enough to easily bisect a person.
Even a Martial Arts expert would find it impossible to block these sharp blood threads with their physical body.
But Chi Tong had clearly miscalculated.
Su Yan’s attack was not only not forced back half a step by the blood net formed from the extremely sharp blood threads, but instead broke through it even more ferociously.
The sharp blood threads stretched taut on his arm like steel wires, green scales emerging, Golden Body flowing, leaving only a thin white mark.
With the resonance of Poison Dragon Peak’s True Intent and countless toxins tempering his body, Su Yan’s physical body had long advanced further.
Chi Tong wanted to block this punch, but under his intercepting hands, a surging force surged, his chest bones instantly caving in.
At this moment, the attacks from Peng Xu, Pu Chengshi, and Lan Menggu from the Hundred Caves Witch Sect had already surrounded Su Yan completely, about to land on him.
Blood Bone Centipede King, Troop Devouring Ghost Moth, and Dragon-Eating Worm charged out, meeting their attacks respectively.
Poisonous mist rolled, corroding the ground into pits, the sizzling sounds especially ear-piercing.
However, this sky-filling poisonous mist was swallowed entirely by the Blood Bone Centipede King as it reared up and opened its mouth, like a dragon taking water.
It shot out blood bone nails from its mouth, straight at Peng Xu.
Peng Xu sacrificed a skull-like Spirit Artifact to block, but just as he moved, a black light had already struck the Witch Bone Artifact.
In an instant, the True Essence dissipated, and the Witch Bone Artifact dimmed.
The Troop Devouring Ghost Moth flew in, countless sword shadows, blade marks… directly landing on Peng Xu. It bit and shattered the Witch Bone Artifact, while Peng Xu, under its Nether Domain, continuously dodged attacks from weapon phantoms.
In just a few breaths, he was covered in wounds, utterly wretched.
Lan Menggu and Pu Chengshi wanted to turn and rescue, but as soon as they moved, they were swept by waves of blood.
The Dragon-Eating Worm transformed into a Blood Flood Dragon, with the momentum of blood flooding Golden Mountain, viciously suppressing the two Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists’ attacks.
The Dragon-Eating Worm had deep foundations; the Blood Flood Dragon it formed contained the power of a Half-Saint Feral Beast from before, and now unleashing its might, it was truly terrifying.
Although Lan Menggu and Pu Chengshi were both Triple Heaven Martial Artists, how could Su Yan’s fierce insects be simple.
Not to mention, the Blood Bone Centipede King burrowed into the Blood Sea, like a flood dragon stirring the river, its scarlet poison mixing into the Blood Sea, diffusing scarlet mist.
“How are his poisonous insects so powerful? All rare species hard to find in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains?!”
Lan Menggu and Pu Chengshi’s faces were already extremely grim, looking at the fierce insects before them with gritted teeth.
Such fierce insects were variants no less than Wind Thunder Insect or Soul Spirit True Silkworm; with the right cultivation method, even one could reach the Dan Qiao Realm.
But Su Yan alone had three such fierce insects, each with power comparable to Triple Heaven Martial Artists—this was too enviable.
“Hiss hiss”
The two, shocked and angry, sacrificed their Natal Spiritual Artifacts, wanting to break the Blood Sea controlled by the Dragon-Eating Worm.
But the Blood Bone Centipede King charged straight over, its carapace blocking the attacks, biting off Pu Chengshi’s arm in one go.
Lan Menggu hurriedly attacked to help, but merely forced the Blood Bone Centipede King back into the rolling blood waters.
Pu Chengshi was gravely injured, Lan Menggu trapped, and even Peng Xu not far away was in dire straits, relentlessly pursued by the Troop Devouring Ghost Moth, trapped in a weapon formation by blood banner phantoms.
Su Yan merely glanced coldly at the three, then looked at Chi Tong before him, whose Greed, Anger, Ignorance Three Beasts had merged into his body, eyes scarlet like a demon—this desperate state was somewhat insightful.
“I want you dead!”
The Greed, Anger, Ignorance Three Beasts were formed from extreme vicious mental thoughts; though powerful, they shared similarities with the three corpses.
Controlled properly, they were aids, but if lost control, they became as ferocious as Chi Tong.
He clawed out blood claw marks, rushing straight at Su Yan’s heart.
But Su Yan raised his hand and grabbed, the Star Picking Hand slapping him to the ground like swatting a fly, creating a deep pit with a boom.
Behind Su Yan, double Dan Qiao phantoms circulated, Star Apertures surrounding, True Essence surging, in no way inferior to a Triple Heaven Martial Artist.
His body like a Ming King, he stepped to the pit’s edge, punching down; rumbling like thunder in clear sky, punch after punch, the pit cracked endlessly. At the pit’s bottom, Chi Tong was truly miserable.
True Intent completely shattered, muscles and bones severed, blood and bone splinters all mixed together; the man had completely lost breath.
Su Yan’s gaze swept to Peng Xu, his figure instantly before him.
Not good!
Peng Xu’s expression changed drastically; Su Yan raised his hand, summoning a sword shadow—the Third-order Spirit Artifact strikingly resembling Qing Yunqian’s Azure Lion Sword.
With a resounding dragon roar, the sword extended a hundred zhang, directly engulfing Peng Xu in sword light.
Peng Xu, dead.
With two Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists dead in succession, Lan Menggu and Pu Chengshi’s minds were completely disordered.
At this moment, they were under siege; this disorder was fatal—the Blood Bone Centipede King directly extended its massive body, biting off Pu Chengshi’s head in one bite.
Lan Menggu retreated explosively; the Dragon-Eating Worm swooped down, its blood basin mouth opening, blood light like a pillar, piercing straight through both eyes.
With the four dead, Ke Zixian and Mu Ziliang watching from afar were jaw-dropped, unable to recover for a long time.
Too terrifying.
One person had almost effortlessly suppressed and killed four Triple Heaven Dan Qiao Martial Artists.
Even among peak same-realm Martial Artists, probably none could achieve this level.
And Su Yan had done it.
Su Yan naturally didn’t know that Ke Zixian and Mu Ziliang had decided to avoid him in the future, not wanting to provoke enmity.
He simply ordered the Blood Bone Centipede King to devour the four broken corpses, then headed straight upward.
The area near the summit was truly bustling to the extreme.
The Poison Toad King lived up to being a Third-order Perfection Feral Beast, having lived who knows how many years under this Poison Dragon Peak; its physical body was strong, and its poison resistance unmatched by ordinary people.
Even with Nangong Yu, Yu Lingbo, Lou Baishan, and Gu Yunshang—four All Stars Heaven experts—chasing, they could hardly keep up with its speed.
Its body a hundred zhang long, covered in pitch-black lumps, its ferocious appearance unmistakable.
It merely leaped forward, crossing the final ten zhang, crashing headfirst into the Poison Dragon True Intent’s body.
The Poison Dragon True Intent constantly shifted, the Dragon Pearl emitting brilliant light, actually falling out from within the Poison Dragon True Intent.
“Wretched beast, you dare!”
Seeing the Poison Toad King swallow the Dragon Pearl, Nangong Yu was furious beyond measure, punching out across a hundred zhang.
The rumbling fist momentum like a massive Iron Plow, flipping the earth along its path, leaving a terrifying rift.
Facing this surging fist momentum, the Poison Toad King opened its blood basin mouth, spitting black light; the next moment, the fist momentum was weakened by the black light, then slapped down by the Poison Toad King.
“Reckless thing, is the Dragon Pearl something you can take?!”
Nangong Yu finally blocked the Poison Toad King at the summit position, with Yu Lingbo and Lou Baishan close behind, and Gu Yunshang standing remotely, staring tightly at the Poison Toad King.
At this time, the Poison Toad King’s demonic essence surged uncontrollably around it; the Dragon Pearl within constantly drove its metamorphosis, its ferocious toad head faintly dragon-like, horns like a dragon’s, aura climbing steadily.
“Arrogant humans.”
A hoarse, grating voice actually came from the Poison Toad King’s mouth, its beast pupils full of disdain and hatred.
“Imprisoned for a century, toyed with by your human race; now I have transformed into dragon—today you all die!”
Third-order Feral Beasts could develop intelligence, though varying in degree.
Logically, such a poisonous creature, especially a feral beast in this enclosed Secret Realm, might not open its intelligence even at Third-order.
But the Poison Toad King before them was clearly one of the lucky ones.
“Act quickly; the Dragon Pearl isn’t digested yet, and the Poison Dragon True Intent hasn’t dispersed—there’s still a chance.”
Lou Baishan’s gaze sharp, knowing the situation was a dragon-tiger fight, perhaps even a trap set by Poison Dragon Peak.
“Kill this wretched beast first!”
Without hesitation, Nangong Yu charged, raising a ferocious fist, fist shadow like a small mountain, smashing onto the Poison Toad King.
The Poison Toad King’s body swelled like a large ball, demonic essence gathering in its mouth, spitting a beam-like attack straight at Nangong Yu.
Nangong Yu’s physical body cultivation fully activated, directly punching back at the attack.
One beast and one man fought with the mountain shaking.
The Poison Toad King lived up to being a monster nearing Fourth-order Feral Beast breakthrough; its physical body withstood Nangong Yu’s extremely fierce punches, continuously unleashing killing moves, forcing Nangong Yu to start dodging.
Seeing the Poison Toad King’s tenacity, Yu Lingbo and Lou Baishan looked grave; the two attacked from left and right, joining the melee.
Gu Yunshang also joined the assault, countless Ghost Face Butterflies surrounding the Poison Toad King like ghosts.
Four people and one beast fought in a tangle, the Poison Toad King relying on the Dragon Pearl within, attacking without any flaw.
Its massive demonic essence and slightly superior cultivation were its strongest backing.
In a short time, they had exchanged one or two hundred rounds.
Su Yan finally reached the summit, seeing the chaotic battle before him, his face showing shock.
‘Such a strong Poison Toad King, but too hard to control.’
A Third-order Poison Toad King—at least equivalent Dan Qiao Realm All Stars Heaven Martial Artists would be needed to subdue it.
Even with the Beast King Sect’s beast contracting methods, against such a fully accomplished Feral Beast, it would fall short.
At this point, as time passed, even the strongest Feral Beast would tire.
Under the four’s siege, though not fighting desperately, the attacks didn’t weaken at all.
Wounds accumulated on the Poison Toad King, now showing signs of struggling to continue.
“Pfft”
With a loud sound, after blocking Nangong Yu’s another strike, Yu Lingbo’s sword cold light turned into endless ripples, directly slicing open the Poison Toad King’s belly.
Bang
The Poison Toad King flew into rage, slapping its Natal Spiritual Artifact flying, sending Yu Lingbo along with it hurtling away.
At this moment, everyone saw a golden light exposed from the Poison Toad King’s abdomen.
“Whoosh”
Gu Yunshang’s figure rushed in, Ghost Face Butterflies pouncing directly onto the Dragon Pearl, grabbing it and flying straight into the sky.
“Gu Yunshang, that’s not fair—hand over the Dragon Pearl to me!”
Nangong Yu glared furiously, charging straight at the Ghost Face Butterflies, big hand grabbing, a black palm print about to crush the Ghost Face Butterflies.
Gu Yunshang was quick-eyed and handed, her attack reaching Nangong Yu first, straight for his eyes.
Nangong Yu had to retreat, blocking with his hand in front.
Lou Baishan slashed out with a sword, a white light brushing past, severing the Ghost Face Butterfly’s wings; the Dragon Pearl fell to the ground, and Lou Baishan pounced, grabbing the Dragon Pearl.
At that moment, a gray-robed figure assaulted, hands punching directly onto Lou Baishan.
Lou Baishan spat blood, flying backward, his white clothes stained with blood marks.
The Dragon Pearl changed hands; Bian Taian, hidden for so long, laughed and took the Dragon Pearl, swallowing it in one gulp.
His figure headed straight down the mountain, without any pause.
