Chapter 268 Peak of Mid-rank Battle General! (3k)
In the depths of the gorge, a sturdy, earth-yellow figure stood suspended in the air, smiling as he gazed at the birds below. It was Huang Ling, the patriarch of the Huang family, who had just been fighting. His fists were adorned with massive yellow meteors embedded in gauntlets, from which faint earth-colored particles swirled.
“Heh heh, instead of fighting me, the three of you might as well…” Huang Ling chuckled faintly and descended from the sky, finally standing within a frost wall opposite three dark-robed shadows. He looked at the warring clans below, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes. After a pause, he made a grasping gesture and said, “Not only the light from beneath the river, but even the birds down here are treasures.”
“Patriarch Huang, even if they are treasures, they belong to us. You, an initial stage Battle King, have offended my Ancient God Sect… Heh heh, when our leader arrives later, you’ll be beheaded.”
The leading shadow’s face was cold and stern. He spoke faintly, his words filled with anger. They were on a mission, but this person had inexplicably disrupted their plans. They had almost suffered internal bleeding, and he still wanted them to join forces? It was a dream!
“Your leader and our former patriarch are both absent… We shouldn’t make more enemies. Let’s observe the situation and act accordingly.”
At this moment, the Elder in Blue behind him placed a hand on his shoulder and whispered a few words. Then, their eyes flickered, and they all nodded gently.
“Tsk, and Dragon Hunters too… They look quite good. I’ll take this little one later.”
Afterward, as if in silent agreement, they stopped fighting. The shadow who had spoken earlier glanced at Senior Du, who was hiding in a corner, gave a sinister chuckle, and then shifted his gaze back to the two groups of birds, seemingly curious about their next move…
The leader of the blue bird flock was a similarly large Blue Giant Bird. Its tail feathers were quite long, and its body was shaped like a swallow or sparrow. Tiny ice crystals seemed to float around it. Its gaze was exceptionally sharp as it looked at the Crimson Flame Behemoth from before, as if awaiting its response.
The red-feathered monster bird looked anxiously at the river below, but its gaze also swept over the Huang family patriarch and his group who were surrounding them. It then exhaled a puff of smoke and said gravely, “The person inside has nothing to do with me. She’s doing something inside now, and my connection with the King is weakening. I can feel the King’s residual power diminishing.”
“Heh heh, I fear your Crimson Flame clan destroyed the skeleton of our King below? And you dare call them outsiders? With that natural spatial barrier formed by strange feathers, even the Battle King in black clothes before couldn’t detect it. If you hadn’t spoken, who would have known?” Upon hearing this, the Blue Giant Bird’s expression turned significantly colder. The feathers on its wings rustled loudly, and a dense killing intent surged out from within it.
An aura of Battle King level, accompanied by killing intent, pressed down on the Crimson Flame Behemoth. The Crimson Flame Behemoth hurriedly contained its powerful aura and formed a crimson flame barrier around its flock. It was clear that its strength was considerably greater than the Crimson Flame Behemoth’s.
After deflecting the Blue Giant Bird’s attack, the Crimson Flame Behemoth looked at the light pillar that was slowly fading, a look of anxiety on its face. It shouted, “There are outsiders now. Why don’t we unite against them first? Don’t you feel the aura of my Crimson Flame clan’s King within that light pillar?”
The Blue Giant Bird also glanced at the two formidable forces, the Huang family patriarch and the shadows, who were watching intently. It looked down at the river below with half belief and half doubt. Looking calmly, it indeed felt the aura of the other party’s King within the pillar. Its heart sank.
“Alliance is impossible! As long as those humans don’t make a move, I won’t…”
After a slight pause, its gaze fell upon the Huang family patriarch and the others. The oppressive aura directed at the Crimson Flame Behemoth dissipated. For a moment, it began to grow wary of these external human invaders, and the atmosphere became tense.
It was clear that the two clans had a common agreement. In the Blue Giant Bird’s previous opinion, the Crimson Flame Behemoth might have been lying to stir up trouble, but sensing the weakening aura of the other party’s King, it decided to give up dealing with it for now.
Meanwhile, in the corner, Senior Du tried her best to make herself inconspicuous and moved towards the icy riverbed at the edge of the corner. Otherwise, with her own strength, she wouldn’t be able to survive alone in such a place…
“Heh heh…”
But she didn’t notice a pair of malicious eyes already fixed on her.
…
At this moment, Su Jiu seemed as if she were dead, breathing very faintly. It was almost impossible to sense her heartbeat. Her entire body drifted with the river water like a corpse. The Crow Feather attire on her surged with black feathers, protecting her like a cradle.
Beside her, a divine silver dragon, dozens of meters long, coiled and circled. It had two horns and five claws, with white mist swirling around it. Its gaze was filled with concern as it looked at Su Jiu. The maiden’s voice came from the silver dragon’s mouth:
“Mama…”
At this moment, two feathers on Su Jiu’s chest, like a pair of wings, slowly melted into her chest along with the blood. On the skin beneath her white undergarments, a small red and blue wing slowly formed.
Following that, Su Jiu’s slightly imbalanced two-colored core began to blend its colors. The red and blue colors slowly balanced out, with the red even slightly surpassing the blue. Dan patterns began to appear on the core, with two small wings engraved upon them.
Just as everything was developing for the better, the qi sea within her suddenly surged with qi liquid again, reversing its flow. That qi liquid was the excess energy from the feathers and the evolution liquid from Bai Zhi that she had drunk previously. The excess energy that could not be dissolved was once again transformed into qi sea condensation. Blue frost qi and red magma-like qi collided fiercely within Su Jiu’s qi sea, causing constant explosions.
“Too much energy… This Battle General level body of mine cannot withstand so much energy.”
Affected by the explosion in her qi sea, Su Jiu slowly opened her bloodshot eyes, groaning a few times. Blood began to ooze from her lips, and her consciousness became blurry…
She performed an internal scan of her qi sea and found it to be in ruins. The icy external qi and magma external qi were constantly colliding violently. Ice and fire were naturally incompatible, and they were colliding together.
“This is self-inflicted. Am I really going to die here?”
Immediately, a bitter smile appeared on her small face, which had a strange flame symbol on her forehead. The next moment, an unnatural blush spread across her face, and she groaned again, spitting out a mouthful of foul blood. Then, her small face tensed, and she looked at E Huo, who was protecting her, with a surge of emerald green in her hand. She muttered to herself:
“Damn it, I absolutely cannot die here. I still have to go and see Doubi Xi…”
As the Healing Arts were infused, Su Jiu’s damaged dantian began to show signs of life, slowly repairing itself. However, with this repair, the two streams of energy were like accumulated monstrous waves, about to collide violently again.
A larger explosion was expected to occur, severely injuring Su Jiu. At this moment, the shell hanging around her neck suddenly lit up, and a white light flashed. A phantom appeared, with green wings and a gentle smiling face. It lightly tapped Su Jiu’s dantian, and an indescribable vitality surged forth…
A blue ocean suddenly appeared in Su Jiu’s dantian. The blue ocean instantly enveloped both streams, slowly swallowing them. In the end, it formed a small blue core, much smaller than the two-colored core. This blue core quickly began to rotate around the two-colored core.
Su Jiu’s two-colored core had already become very strong upon completion, possessing the aura of a Peerless Battle General. Under this “twin-turbo rotation” operation, Su Jiu’s aura even reached the Half-King level. Even without activating “Elegy,” she could contend with some weaker Battle Kings.
After successfully completing the fusion and awakening, Su Jiu reached the peak of the Mid-rank Battle General. She was only a step away from engraving inscriptions to reach the High-Rank Battle General!
As Su Jiu’s condition improved, the shell around her neck suddenly turned to dust. The figure shook its wings and slowly dissipated into light particles. Before completely disappearing, the phantom looked at E Huo, who was staring blankly, and chuckled softly:
“I’ll trouble you with this child… E Huo.”
E Huo quickly reacted and nodded hurriedly. Its gaze followed the dissipating light, a look of reminiscence on its face, yet it couldn’t recall who this figure was. It murmured to itself, “Such a familiar feeling…”
After about ten minutes, Su Jiu’s heart began to beat slowly, more intensely than ever before. Even her awakening of the Blood Clan hadn’t been this intense. The white hair at the tail of the Ghost Car avatar’s tail also began to spread forward like wildfire.
“I’m still alive…”
Although not much time had passed, Su Jiu felt as if she had been asleep for a very, very long time. She slowly opened her eyes, looked at the white hair that now reached her shoulders, and felt an inexhaustible supply of strength within her body, giving rise to an inexplicable sense of invincibility.
She felt like a completely different person from who she was before!
The Ghost Car wings behind her had already dissipated. Su Jiu performed an internal scan of her dantian and found it to be as white as white jade. The small blue core gently revolved around the two-colored core, and a continuous stream of external qi surged around Su Jiu.
Moreover, the external qi flames seemed different from the previous black fire, tending towards crimson, but they were much hotter. Even the Battle God level skeleton next to her was slightly scorched black – it was clearly an extraordinary attribute of level one, and even more domineering than ordinary level one flames.
If these flames were used to burn the black malevolent entities in the Mo University Qi Refining Tower, it would likely be easy to extract items that improve attributes from them.
As she was examining her body, the light on the skeleton in front of her slowly disappeared. Suddenly, from the chest of the Flame Phoenix Sparrow, a crimson feather floated down to Su Jiu with the river current. Grabbing it, her gaze fell upon the feather.
“Could this be the feather of that Fire God Bird?” Su Jiu’s pupils widened slightly as she murmured. She could feel a mysterious healing aura emanating from the feather, very gentle, unlike the violent aura of the Flame Phoenix Sparrow. Moreover, there was a very strange feeling about it.
“Hahaha! As expected, there are treasures below. Two Battle God level skeletons, the most valuable feathers must still be here…”
Just as she was observing the feather, a deep voice emerged. It was Huang Ling, covered in an earth-yellow energy shield, who charged forward like a giant meteor. Dozens of bird shadows pursued him from behind, led by the Crimson Flame Behemoth.
