“Boom!”
A pair of iron fists shattered the void, slamming hard into the Land Whale King’s back.
The blow was heavy and sudden, fiercest of all. Even as strong as the Land Whale King was, he let out a muffled grunt from the impact, his body tilting forward.
Chu Yun seized the opportunity, his form darting forward like lightning. He raised the Drunken Snow Saber high and cleaved down, creating a five-zhang-long slash of brilliant snow-white light. At the same time, his Ice River Sword swept out, its blade light like a white rainbow.
The saber light and sword aura intertwined, their power immediately more than doubling!
The Land Whale King, first struck from behind and stumbling forward, then suddenly found his vision flooded with light, sword and saber slashes filling his eyes. Yet, he was still a King-level expert, his combat experience terrifyingly profound. Even in such a crisis, he remained calm, raising his forearm to form an arm shield and blocking forward.
“Boom!”
Amidst a violent explosion, the Land Whale King used the resulting surge of air to retreat rapidly, escaping the pincer attack.
He stood in the void, a thousand paces from Chu Yun. As soon as he stabilized himself, he shot a look of disbelief at his attacker. “Nine-Nine Supreme Mad Strength Gauntlets?”
His gaze fixed on the fiery red gauntlets on the attacker’s hands, his emotions quickly calmed. He snorted coldly and ground out, “So that’s how it is. You are Chu Bawang’s son, and have now inherited his legacy. Insolence! When Chu Bawang was alive, I would have retreated three leagues and fled to the deep sea. But he is dead now. These gauntlets may be renowned, but it depends on who wears them.”
“Is that so?” Erlang Tian Jun’s lips curved slightly, and he stood beside Chu Yun.
He was the one who had launched the sneak attack. Ever since agreeing to repay Chu Yun’s life-saving grace, Erlang Tian Jun had been secretly residing in Huode City after returning from the Academy gathering.
He had seen Chu Yun’s sky-shattering shout and challenge to the Land Whale King from afar but had not acted rashly.
His combat experience was becoming increasingly rich, and he knew the principle that “an open spear is easy to dodge, but a hidden arrow is hard to guard against.” As expected, his surprise attack had immediately yielded fruitful results, forcing the Land Whale King into a desperate situation.
“Two Marquis-level brats dare to challenge me, the Land Whale King? Daydreaming! Zhu Yan!” The Land Whale King, having suffered this loss, was enraged and truly furious.
He roared and opened his Immortal Pouch, releasing an ancient Demonic Beast, Zhu Yan. At the same time, he stomped his foot, his burly body like a bronze wall, and charged forward with extreme arrogance.
Concurrently, the beast Chaos, with its eight million years of cultivation, opened its massive maw and spewed out a torrent of chaos, washing towards Chu Yun and Erlang Tian Jun.
In an instant, the two were caught in a pincer attack from three sides.
Infinite pressure descended upon them like a vast expanse, enveloping their entire minds and bodies. Worse still, the Land Whale King intensely mobilized the Spirit within him. The spiritual pressure of a King-level expert also filled the heavens and earth.
Under such spiritual pressure, the Spirits within Chu Yun and Erlang Tian Jun were violently suppressed, their light dimming significantly.
“Heavenly Eye (True Intuition), activate!” In their moment of peril, Chu Yun and Erlang Tian Jun roared in unison. The Spirit Snake transformed into a bridge, connecting their Spirits.
Suddenly, their Spirits broke free from their dim state, shining brightly. Withstanding the intense pressure of the King-level spiritual pressure, they could be controlled freely.
With their Spirits under their free control, Chu Yun and Erlang Tian Jun immediately felt the pressure greatly reduce.
“Hmm?” The Land Whale King’s momentum faltered, surprised by the potent effect of their combined efforts.
Chu Yun and Erlang Tian Jun retreated in unison. With the Spirit Snake connecting their Spirits and linking their minds, they could act as one without needing verbal communication.
This Battle Formation Space was divided into two parts.
One part was the Land Whale King’s domain, and the other was the Eight Trigrams Battle Formation, set up by eight Demonic Beasts including the Violent Ape, Cloudwing Tiger, and Wrathful Ming King.
Within the space of the Eight Trigrams Battle Formation, Chu Yun’s various abilities were amplified. Erlang Tian Jun, due to the spiritual connection, also felt at home, able to exert himself fully.
Previously, Chu Yun had been treading on the River of Saber and Sword, roaming within the Land Whale King’s battle formation. Now, with the River of Saber and Sword having been consumed by Chaos, he had lost that support and faced the Land Whale King’s powerful counterattack, forcing him and Erlang Tian Jun to retreat to their own territory.
The torrent of chaos followed, crashing towards them. But upon entering the Eight Trigrams Battle Formation, its speed immediately slowed drastically. The Violent Ape, a Tribulation Demon with tens of thousands of years of cultivation, couldn’t hold back. It roared, surging its demonic energy, and threw a punch.
A massive fist shadow of black and gold, with the might to overturn seas and collapse mountains, instantly shattered the torrent of chaos.
Covered by this, Chu Yun and Erlang Tian Jun stabilized their position.
Seeing the Violent Ape’s might, a hint of surprise flashed in the Land Whale King’s eyes. He pointed a finger, and the Zhu Yan Demonic Beast he had released immediately received his command. With a roar, it charged directly at the Violent Ape.
The Zhu Yan’s body was also extremely massive, similar to Chaos and the Violent Ape. An adult standing at its feet would be like a mouse next to an elephant. Its fur was as red as molten copper, with only its head covered in snow-white fur. Its physique closely resembled an ape, but its reputation far surpassed that of any ape-like Demonic Beast.
“This is bad! Zhu Yan possesses the greatest strength in the world. At equivalent cultivation levels, no Demonic creature’s strength can match it. If the Land Whale King wants to kill me, he must first break through the Eight Trigrams Battle Formation. The Violent Ape is the most powerful entity at the heart of the Eight Trigrams Formation. He is attacking this point directly, intending to crush me with unparalleled might,” Chu Yun, receiving the shared vision of True Intuition, found his intelligence reaching a near King-level. He immediately understood the Land Whale King’s intentions.
“Roar! Roar!”
The Violent Ape and Zhu Yan clashed and wrestled.
Zhu Yan only had millions of years of cultivation, while the Violent Ape had thousands, yet they fought to a standstill. The power that the Violent Ape had always prided itself on could only match Zhu Yan’s.
“Sky Fox!” Chu Yun naturally couldn’t stand by and watch. The Violent Ape was the core of their formation, while Zhu Yan was not integrated into the Land Whale King’s battle formation.
Although they were evenly matched, Chu Yun’s risk was much greater than the Land Whale King’s.
The Sky Fox appeared. Though small compared to Zhu Yan and the Violent Ape, it was clearly delicate.
Its cultivation had also been pushed by Chu Yun to six million years. Now, with its nine tails swaying, it unleashed the elements of water, gold, fire, thunder, wood, light, and darkness, the nine forces simultaneously. Thousands of Dao techniques bloomed like flowers.
“Boom! Boom! Boom…”
The nine elemental Dao techniques rained down from the sky, enveloping the battle between Zhu Yan and the Violent Ape. Countless Dao techniques struck the Violent Ape’s body and dissipated automatically. Zhu Yan, however, let out a long cry of pain, struck by the bombardment and unable to lift its head.
The Violent Ape excitedly beat its chest, pummeling the fallen foe. It punched out, caving in Zhu Yan’s chest. Then, it leaped onto Zhu Yan’s back and opened its gaping maw to bite down.
“Roar!”
Zhu Yan let out a mournful cry to the heavens. A large chunk of flesh was torn from its shoulder by the Violent Ape. The subsequent onslaught of Dao techniques further exacerbated its suffering.
The Land Whale King’s face turned ashen. All this had happened in an instant. By the time he released a White Bone Octopus to replace Zhu Yan, it was already heavily wounded and unable to continue fighting.
Zhu Yan was a powerful close-combat Demonic Beast, precisely countered by a Dao technique-focused beast like the Sky Fox. The Land Whale King had known long ago that Chu Yun possessed a Sky Fox, but he had not expected its cultivation to have surged so dramatically, causing him to temporarily lose the combat power of Zhu Yan.
“I originally intended to play with you, but now you’ve succeeded in making me lose my patience. All of you come out and trample everything in front of you into meat paste!” The Land Whale King completely opened the mouth of his Immortal Pouch.
“Whoosh—…”
Nearly twenty streaks of light shot out from the Immortal Pouch, forming a dazzling meteor shower.
“Roar! Growl! Hoot! Caw…”
Each meteor exploded, unleashing eighteen Tribulation Demons in unison. Six Great Tribulation Demons with millions of years of cultivation, and twelve Minor Tribulation Demons with a hundred thousand years of cultivation. Each of them was a colossal, mountain-like Demonic creature, letting out various roars simultaneously, their immense demonic energy stretching for thousands of miles.
Chu Yun and Erlang Tian Jun’s expressions grew serious.
King-level experts could command Tribulation Demons of up to a million years at most.
The Land Whale King could not transcend this limit. But he was a veteran King of the older generation, and his thousands of years had not been in vain.
This upcoming army of Tribulation Demons was his profound foundation. Even if Chu Yun and Erlang Tian Jun joined forces, they would not be a match for him.
The Land Whale King had deployed his full strength, intending to end this quickly!
“Flower Arrow Elite Soldiers, Triple Shot!” Hua Ying, holding a demonic bow, stood among the elite soldiers and roared.
“Swish! Swish! Swish!”
Three crisp sounds of bowstrings being drawn reached the ears of those around them.
Thousands of arrows flew into the high sky, arcing gracefully before plunging downwards. A dense mass of arrow shafts struck the enemy positions with a clatter. In an instant, the East Sea Faction lost over a thousand soldiers.
After three waves of arrow rain, the area within a hundred paces was completely cleared. The ground was covered in arrows, piercing corpses and embedding into the earth, resembling a dense hemp field from afar.
Po Jun Hou, with bloodshot eyes, glared hatefully at the Flower Arrow Elite Soldier formation, wishing he could swallow them whole.
In the mere quarter of an hour since the Flower Arrow Elite Soldiers entered the battlefield, their fierce firepower had already achieved ten times the results of their side.
Po Jun Hou knew he couldn’t let them keep firing like this. He brandished the Qi Shi East Sea Banner in his hand, and immediately, a general in his ranks roared and led several thousand elite soldiers to charge towards the Flower Arrow Elite Soldiers.
However, before they could reach halfway, an army from the Shu Family’s side intercepted them, blocking the surprise attack force dispatched by Po Jun Hou.
“It’s like this again!” Po Jun Hou gritted his teeth so hard they creaked. Fire blazed in his eyes as he glared at the sea a thousand miles away. A fleet was anchored on the sea, with Huang Xiao standing at the prow of a ship, wielding the Wang Shi Zhongyuan Banner in one hand and the Ren Wei Nan Ye Banner in the other, commanding the entire Shu Family’s forces as if they were an extension of his own will.
“The Five Great Army Banners… He actually controls two of them himself!” Po Jun Hou was consumed by jealous hatred, his eyes turning blood red. However, he had to admit inwardly that in terms of command ability alone, he was indeed slightly inferior to Huang Xiao. Furthermore, Huang Xiao possessed one more battle banner than him. As a result, from the start of the battle until now, Po Jun Hou had been constantly suppressed by Huang Xiao.
P: Previously, some readers commented that Chaos’s cultivation of “twenty million years” was too high. This is indeed the case. It has now been revised to “eight million years.” Unless there are special circumstances, the cultivation of royal beasts does not exceed ten million years. Thank you to the meticulous readers for their reminders. Also, I lost the draft and am in a bad mood. This chapter was just written, and there is one more chapter to follow. (To be continued). If you like this work, you are welcome to vote with recommendation votes and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest motivation.
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