txolops Chapter 309 Two-Headed Fire Wolf
Chapter 309 Two-Headed Fire Wolf
The condensed yellow beam of light, upon contact with the purple lightning shuttle, was not dispersed or blocked by the shuttle. Instead, it flowed like water into a sponge, or like a ghost penetrating a solid object, and without any hindrance, it strangely and directly "merged" into the purple lightning shuttle!
"Clatter!"
A crisp sound, like the soft thud of an ordinary stone falling to the ground.
That purple lightning shuttle magic weapon, of excellent quality and capable of threatening a late-stage Core Formation cultivator, was completely shattered and disintegrated from the inside, like weathered rotten wood or brittle clods of earth, turning into a pile of grayish-white, unevenly sized, lifeless gravel powder that scattered onto the ground!
The entire process, from the beam of light striking the artifact to its shattering, took only a breath or two!
"Petrification? You beast, you've actually awakened the innate petrification ability?! No wonder... no wonder you barbarian are so confident today, daring to directly turn against me!"
Wan Tianming was both shocked and furious. The petrification ability was an extremely rare and unpredictable top-tier talent among earth-attribute demonic beasts! Those who were affected would experience partial petrification of their bodies and slowed movements; those who were affected by it would be like that purple lightning shuttle, whose energy and material structure were completely petrified and disintegrated.
Just as Wan Tianming was rapidly weighing his options and his expression was shifting, the bearded man was too lazy to waste any more words with him.
"Hmph! Good that you know how powerful you are! Die!" The bearded man roared, his body flashing with golden light once more. He took a step forward, and the altar ground beneath his feet shattered! He transformed into a golden meteor capable of shattering mountains and breaking peaks, charging headlong towards Wan Tianming! He was actually going to personally engage Wan Tianming in close combat!
Seeing that the bearded man was already engaged in combat with Wan Tianming, the Extreme Yin Ancestor's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he no longer hesitated. He gave a sinister sneer, his gaze locking onto Mu Tengzi, who was about to assist Wan Tianming, like a venomous snake, and said in a cold voice:
"Mu Tengzi! Last time, it was you, old codger, who meddled and stopped the Ancestor! Today, we'll settle both old and new scores! I'll show you the power of the Ancestor's Heavenly Capital Corpse Puppet!"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly flicked his sleeve again!
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!"
The fifteen Heavenly Capital Corpse Puppets, exuding a sinister death aura and with ghostly green flames flickering in their eye sockets, swarmed towards Mu Tengzi!
"Hmph! A mere trick!" Facing the overwhelming onslaught of corpse puppets, Mu Tengzi showed no fear, instead revealing a disdainful sneer. Unperturbed, he reached for his waist with his right hand, and in a flash of light, a three-foot-long, vibrant green willow twig, as if it had just been broken off, appeared in his hand!
Mu Tengzi held a bright green willow branch and casually waved it at the surging horde of corpse puppets.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh-!"
In an instant, centered on the wooden vine, countless thick, incredibly tough, and densely covered with barbs and pale gold runes of green vines burst forth from the ground and into the air around it, like giant pythons that had come to life, growing wildly out of thin air! The vines intertwined into a net, and like flexible whips, they actively met the oncoming corpse puppets with a whistling sound!
The Yin Ancestor and the Wood Vine Master, one wielding a sea of corpses and poisonous fire, both strange and insidious; the other controlling vines and life force, endlessly regenerating. The two clashed fiercely, black fire and green vines intertwining and colliding, corpse roars echoing, and for a time it was difficult to determine who was superior.
Luo Ming calmly observed these battlefields at the Nascent Soul level from a distance, especially the methods of the Extreme Yin Ancestor, and quickly calculated in his mind:
"That old ghost Ji Yin is indeed very powerful. With these fifteen Core Formation stage corpse puppets and that strange Heavenly Capital Corpse Fire, if I use all my trump cards, I might be able to hold my own against him for a while."
As he was pondering this, the sounds of the magical duel between Qingyi Jushi and Tianwuzi on the other side also clearly reached his ears.
That day, Wu Zi was driving the snow-white, thick-shelled Li Turtle to fight against a group of gray-blue, sharp-beaked, and clawed Qingji Birds released by Qingyi Jushi. The two sides were locked in a stalemate for a time.
Upon seeing this, Luo Ming's eyes lit up! He called out to Qingyi Jushi, "Senior Qingyi! This junior will help you restrain this Li Gui!"
Having said that, he quickly gave instructions to the black tortoise.
"Buzz—!"
An invisible and intangible force field suddenly spread out from the center of the Xuan Turtle, precisely enveloping the Li Turtle dozens of feet away!
The turtle, which had been moving nimbly, suddenly became several times slower and heavier under the influence of the magnetic field! It seemed to be stuck in an invisible quagmire, struggling to move! The trajectory of the cold air it exhaled also became scattered, and its power was greatly reduced!
The Zhiyang Bird also let out a clear cry at the right time, circling high in the sky. Seizing the opportunity, it opened its mouth and spat out a series of fist-sized, extremely hot, and incredibly condensed crimson-gold fireballs. Like precise cannonballs, they slammed into the relatively weak parts of the Li Gui, such as its head and limbs, which had become less flexible due to the interference of the Yuan magnetic field!
Under the combined attack and harassment of the three parties, the originally strong and powerful Li Gui suddenly found itself in a precarious situation, only able to passively take hits! Its huge body struggled to defend itself, roaring repeatedly, but it was unable to organize an effective counterattack.
"Good!" Upon seeing this, Qingyi Jushi's eyes flashed with a shrewd light, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face as he nodded slightly to Luo Ming.
"You...!" Tian Wuzi's expression turned somewhat ugly. He had originally planned to restrain Qingyi Jushi, using spirit beasts to fight against each other, while he would conserve his strength and focus his main energy on monitoring the Void Heaven Cauldron and Blood Jade Spider in the center of the altar, waiting for the best opportunity to seize or destroy them.
Unexpectedly, Luo Ming, this seemingly insignificant Core Formation junior, intervened and used his seemingly clumsy Xuan Turtle's strange force field to firmly restrain his Li Turtle! In addition, the Qingyi Hermit's flock of Qingji Birds and Luo Ming's firebirds harassed him, putting his Li Turtle on the defensive!
This tortoise wasn't his spirit beast; it was lent to him by his senior brother, Tian Yuanzi, as a crucial fighting force for this treasure hunt! If anything happened to it here, or if it was seriously injured, he wouldn't be able to explain it when he returned!
"You brat! How dare you!" A cold glint flashed in Tian Wuzi's eyes. He finally couldn't hold back any longer and decided to take action himself to rescue Li Gui!
With a flicker of light, his right hand reached into his sleeve and grasped a peculiar ruler, about a foot long, crystal clear, neither gold nor jade, with fine silver markings on its surface and exuding a heavy aura!
The long ruler suddenly burst forth with dazzling white light, its body growing longer in the wind, instantly transforming into dozens of enormous ruler shadows, alternating between real and illusory, layered upon each other, each tens of feet long, as heavy as a mountain, with sharp edges! They crashed down towards the area where Luo Ming's Xuan Turtle and Zhiyang Bird were located!
However, at this critical moment—
"Buzz—!"
A soft yet incredibly resilient azure halo, like a barrier appearing out of thin air, silently stretched between the layers of ruler shadows and the Xuan Turtle and the Fat Sun Bird!
Upon closer inspection, the source of the azure aura was a huge jade scroll, slowly unfurling. It was about ten feet long, carved entirely from some kind of warm and lustrous azure jade, and its surface was densely engraved with countless ancient and mysterious runes and restriction patterns!
"Pfft pfft pfft..."
Dozens of enormous, incredibly powerful white ruler-shaped shadows slammed into the light screen of the unfolded cyan jade slip! The expected earth-shattering explosion did not occur; the ruler-shaped shadows disappeared without a trace, merely causing ripples on the surface of the jade slip's light screen!
"Qingyi! What do you mean?" Tianwuzi's face darkened, and he turned his head sharply to look at the composed and smiling Qingyi Jushi, questioning him angrily.
"Hehe, Fellow Daoist Tianwuzi, why get angry?" Qingyi Jushi stroked his beard leisurely, his face showing a hint of "surprise" and "confusion," and said slowly.
"Just now, didn't we agree that the two of us would only use our spirit beasts to entangle and restrain each other? Fellow Daoist, you are a dignified Nascent Soul cultivator, so why did you suddenly intervene personally, and even use such heavy force against the spirit beast of a junior Core Formation cultivator? This... seems a bit against the rules, doesn't it?"
His tone was gentle, but the sarcasm and protectiveness in his words were undisguised.
"Not in accordance with the rules?" Tian Wuzi's face turned ashen with rage. He pointed at the Xuan Turtle and the Zhiyang Bird protected behind the cyan jade slip, then at the flock of Qingji Birds still besieging the Li Turtle in the distance, and roared, "Qing Yi! Open your eyes and look! So many spirit beasts over there are besieging my Li Turtle! Is that in accordance with the rules?"
"Ah, fellow Daoist, you are mistaken." Qingyi Jushi still smiled and shook his head, saying, "The number of spirit beasts depends on each person's ability to raise and command them. I have a flock of blue thornbirds, which is due to my good fortune and skill. If you feel it's unfair, you can release a few more spirit beasts yourself! No one is stopping you. Why get angry and personally attack the spirit beasts of a junior? It would be beneath your dignity."
"You...!" Tianwuzi was so angry at Qingyi Jushi's "righteous" fallacy that he was speechless for a moment.
He truly had no more powerful spirit beasts left to use. The Cold Dragon was fighting the Three-Eyed Leopard at Wan Tianming's place, and besides the Li Turtle, he only had some low-level spirit beasts left for support or reconnaissance; releasing them would only be suicide.
His icy gaze swept over Luo Ming in the distance, his heart seething with hatred: "That little thief! Back in the Sea Abyss, I should have disregarded everything and captured him on the spot! I never imagined that in less than a hundred years, this kid would not only have his cultivation reached the peak of the mid-stage Core Formation realm, but he's also just one step away from the late-stage Core Formation realm! Even the Xuan Turtle beside him has quietly advanced to level six! Moreover, judging from its defensive divine abilities and that strange force field, its toughness and difficulty to deal with are in no way inferior to the Li Turtle!"
Tian Wuzi's heart surged with murderous intent, but with Qingyi Jushi clearly protecting him, he alone might not be able to quickly kill Luo Ming and his spirit beast under Qingyi Jushi's obstruction. Moreover, the Void Heaven Cauldron in the center of the altar was the key; he couldn't afford to lose sight of the bigger picture and get bogged down in this for too long.
"Hmph!" Tian Wuzi snorted coldly, no longer bothering with Qingyi Jushi's pointless verbal sparring. With a thought, he prepared to temporarily put the Li Gui, which was in a passive position and had consumed a lot of energy, back into his spirit beast pouch to conserve his strength.
However, just as Tian Wuzi was channeling his magical power and about to summon back the tortoise...
"boom--!!!"
In the center of the altar, within the enormous blue opening that is bottomless and spews forth eerie blue flames, another strange event occurs!
A deep, yet soul-shaking explosion came from the depths of the cave, followed by the violently churning blue aura that had been swirling within the cave suddenly exploding outwards!
A strange beam of light, only as thick as an infant's arm but extremely condensed, shot into the sky like a fierce spirit that had broken free from its millennia-long restraints!
The beam of light circled above the cave entrance and transformed into a two-headed giant wolf, over three zhang long and exuding an overwhelming ferocity, which hovered in mid-air!
The six Nascent Soul cultivators, who were engaged in fierce combat, sensed this sudden change almost simultaneously. Their expressions changed in unison, and they all stopped their attacks and defenses, looking at the two-headed giant wolf that had appeared out of nowhere in the center of the altar with surprise and uncertainty!
"A treasure for transformation?" The closest Qingyi Hermit exclaimed in surprise, his eyes flashing with an uncontrollable blazing light. He then conjured a large azure hand and grabbed directly at the two-headed fire wolf.
"This thing... must be obtained!" Upon seeing this, Wan Tianming shouted anxiously and transformed into a golden light, shooting towards the fire wolf.
"Let's do it!"
"Rob!"
Without any hesitation, the six Nascent Soul cultivators who had just been fighting to the death instantly turned their attention to the two-headed giant wolf. Like sharks smelling blood, they immediately set aside their grudges and confrontations and turned their attention to the newly appeared, seemingly confused, ice-flame giant wolf!
"Whoosh!" "Swoosh!" "Swoosh!"
Various magical artifacts, spiritual lights, and supernatural spells, like a storm, simultaneously enveloped, grabbed, and attacked the two-headed ice flame giant wolf in mid-air from all directions!
Luo Ming, watching the two-headed ice flame giant wolf suddenly appear from a distance, felt his heart leap, and his eyes burst with uncontrollable ecstasy!
In his view, the object possessed by the silver moon was the most valuable in the Void Heaven Palace, because it was related to his subsequent ascension to the Spirit Realm.
However, although Luo Ming was burning with desire and wished he could pounce on the giant ice flame wolf and grab it, his reason firmly suppressed this impulse.
"Don't rush... Absolutely don't rush!" Luo Ming warned himself silently, his eyes sharp as an eagle, calmly observing the situation on the field.
The wolf beast jade ruyi, now possessed by the silver moon, is at its peak. Even a Nascent Soul cultivator would find it difficult to capture. The best strategy is to wait until she has exhausted her stored mana to resist the siege of those Nascent Soul elders before seizing the opportunity to snatch it away.
If you rush forward now, you're likely to become the target of everyone's attacks and be easily killed by those Nascent Soul stage monsters!
At this moment, the fire wolf in the sky also realized the danger of these Nascent Soul stage monsters above. After dodging the attack of a giant golden fist, its body suddenly sank and headed towards the altar.
The Core Formation cultivators who were watching the show suddenly brightened up and began to use their own methods to capture the ancient treasure that seemed to be full of spirituality.
Seeing this, the barbarian and his companions in the distance, perhaps fearing that their attack would implicate the spirit beasts that were pulling the cauldron, suddenly turned their attacks around to block the three Nascent Soul cultivators from the righteous path nearby.
Luo Ming's eyes lit up when he saw this, knowing that his opportunity had come.