Forty millenniums of cul.., p.38
Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 38
He did not want to fail at the critical juncture, to capsize at a sure moment, to “die” at the hands of a Demon beast.
In addition… A torrential storm shower was coming.
Li Yao lifted his head and looked far into the distance. The hazy yellow sky had turned jet-black before he knew it. Purple snakes could be faintly seen struggling in the rolling black clouds, exploding out with muffled thunder.
Soon, bean-sized droplets of water hacked down in a skull-cleaving manner.
The weather above the sea changed in a flash. The clear and boundless sky had already changed to a stormy world with torrential downpours in just the blink of an eye. Black clouds rolled across the entirety of Devil Flood Dragon Island, like a myriad of black horses galloping onward. Boundless strikes of lightning tore through heaven and earth, shrieking with demonic wails. Together, they wreaked havoc with the ocean wind, appearing like a great number of swords ferociously pounding into Devil Flood Dragon Island.
Even though the sky-towering trees obstructed the weather, Devil Flood Dragon Island still experienced dark winds and angry howls. The torrential rain came down like a waterfall, beating down on people, causing them to be unable to lift their heads and open their eyes. Even the large thick trees were pulled from their roots. They blew chaotically towards the distance, sweeping away everything in their paths.
In the face of the powerful majestic might of nature, the Demon Beasts who had been baring their fangs and brandishing their claws turned tranquil. One by one, they searched for caves and slits in cliffs to hide from the weather.
“A violent storm just happened to pass through the skies of Devil Flood Dragon Island. I reckon this torrential rainstorm will last the entire night!”
The torrential storm caused the Distant Expanse to faintly rock and sway in the air. A cultivator levitated at the rear of the ship. He squinted his eyes and observed the skies, reaching a conclusion.
A bolt of lightning cleaved towards his skull. The bolt of lightning was stopped by an invisible wall an inch away from the cultivator and was transformed into 4~5 lightning serpents that coiled around his body, illuminating a rather handsome face.
The sky patrolling cultivators were having a hard time covering every nook and corner of Devil Flood Dragon Island under such berserk weather.
Additionally, the Puji Critters assigned to each competitor relied on connections between their crystal chips and the Distance Expanse. The telepathic link became unstable, and it was no longer guaranteed that each competitor’s situation was promptly monitored and that the protective gel would be spouted in fatal crisis.
The danger of the competition had increased greatly!
“Do we need to suspend the competition?”
As soon as this cultivator opened his mouth, the electric currents coiling around his body were consumed with a single bite. He licked his mouth as if wishing for more and returned at lightning speeds to the Distant Expanse towards the numerous cultivators to ask.
In the monitoring center, cultivators were whispering in each others’ ears for a moment before making a decision. The competition will continue as usual. The torrential rain would not affect the competition.
“In an actual battlefield, it is highly improbable for Demon Beasts to call an armistice with humanity over bad weather!”
A great officer dressed in black with a skull emblem on his shoulders had spoken icily with a face of steel.
“Correct. If they can’t withstand such a small torrential storm, how could they still want to be cultivators? Simply laughable!” a cultivator with a cross scar on his face sneered coldly.
While they were talking, twisted ripples and snowflake patterns formed on the giant hologram in front of their eyes.
This was the interference from the rainstorm affecting the connection between the Puji Critters and the monitoring center.
“Bang! Bang!”
A dozen or so holograms directly turned black. It was clear that the telepathic link had been severed.
This meant that a dozen or so competitors were no longer being monitored and were no longer protected.
“Dispatch twenty more cultivators to Devil Flood Dragon Island. Patrol in rounds. Ensure the safety of the competitors. Give them status equal to deceased Federal Army soldiers should any accidents occur and give their families reparations!”
The cultivators and officers negotiated for a while. Soon the made a decision…. This was inline with previous Challenge Competitions.
The Star Glory Federation was capable of occupying the most fertile land of the Heaven’s Origin Sector. This land was created from a slaying a myriad of Demon Beasts into mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Every inch of the Federation’s territory was dyed red with the blood of Federal Army soldiers and Cultivators!
Cultivators were the blades of human civilization. Those that wish to become cultivators must have a dying will and an utterly fearless sacrificial conscious!
Those who fear death won’t become cultivators!
Chapter 65: Ghost Dragon-7 |
The torrential rain came down harder and harder. It was as if all the rain in the entirety of the Heaven’s Origin Sector had concentrated overhead of Devil Flood Dragon Island, trying to smash this island of Demon Beasts completely into the ocean depths.
In the midst of the raging storm and torrential rain, a strange darkness began to flourish.
“*Pant *Pant. *Pant *Pant!”
A Blue Team competitor stumbled as he rushed into a narrow cave. He was kneeling on the ground, no longer capable of supporting himself. Then, he fell flat on his face. His face was deathly pale, lacking even an ounce of blood. His entire body was shuddering as if he was cramping.
An hour ago, he was being chased by three Red Team competitors. Fortunately, the torrential rain obscured the vision of these enemies, so he was luckily able to escape their encirclement.
However, the Red Team competitors were increasing in number. He didn’t know how much longer he would be able to last.
“DAMN! We were clearly about to win! How can things change so suddenly!?”
The pain of this Blue Team Competitor caused him to smash against the rock wall. He was extremely depressed. A dark glow began to congeal in the depths of his eyes.
He observed his surroundings from within the cavern. Squinting his eyes, he looked up towards the sky.
His Puji Critter was like a headless fly, orbiting chaotically around a large tree. It let out “Tszz Tszz” sounds as if it were out of control.
“The torrential rain and thunder both will interfere with the control crystal chip of the Puji Critter. Right now, my Puji Critter and the Distant Expanse have already lost connection. Things have sunk into a chaotic and crazy state. The monitoring center won’t be able to see anything I do!”
The darkness in the eyes of this Blue Team competitor turned denser and denser.
The sounds of the Red Team competitors pierced faintly from all directions. Their encirclement was gradually shrinking. Soon, they would arrive at his hiding cave.
The darkness in the Blue Team competitor’s eyes turned malevolent.
He reached out his hand and bit through the skin of his fingertip. He used his fresh blood to draw an Arcane Glyph on the inside of his right leg.
A physical laceration of pain pierced from the inside of his right leg. It was like something wanted to tear through his bloody flesh and escape out of his body!
“Ughh…”
The Blue Team competitor gritted tenaciously. Immediately, the Arcane Glyph trembled slightly. A monstrous strength tore through the muscles of his inner thigh and a fluorescent blue drug floated from within the glyph array!
“I had only wanted to use this as my last resort. I did not want to cheat, but I’m already at an impasse. It was y’all who forced me to do this!”
“When injected into the bloodstream, this Ghost Dragon-7 Doping Drug will strengthen my body, increase my strength to a berserker level, and even strengthen my mental faculties in an instant. It will allow me to unleash one great powerful mental attack that will be enough to completely annihilate these damned hunters. I’ll be able to rush into the top 50 of the rankings!”
The Blue Team competitor had a nasty grin on his face. His expression was incomparably crazed.
Obviously, using Ghost Dragon-7 Doping Drug would have extremely heavy consequences, but when faced with the allure of special enrollment to a university, he was already prepared to ignore them!
He had used his body to block the line of sight of his Puji Critter and produced the synthesis glyph array for the Ghost Dragon-7 Doping Drug. Now, he was about to consume the drug into his body.
A bizarre laughter came from within the depths of the cave. Then, a strong malevolent wind came blowing over!
The Blue Team competitor’s vision turned into complete darkness before he could respond. He was no longer aware of anything!
His Puji Critter finally responded to his strange behavior, immediately spouting out gel. But what it enveloped was just a headless corpse.
Immediately, a monstrous force ferociously tore through the gel jello and a white streak of light shot forth at an incomparable astonishing speed, leaping into the air! A pair of hands seized the Puji Critter and tore with force!
The Puji Critter immediately split in two. It was a bloody scene incomparable!
Within the torrential storm, one out of three Puji Critters lost connection with the monitoring center in succession. This Puji Critter was one of them.
And so, the monitoring center had not discovered this event in time.
Bolts of lightning streaked through the skies, illuminating the dark forest to a snowy white from time to time.
Under the illumination of lightning, an over three-meter tall white ape stood on top of the tree tops. Its face was extremely similar to a human’s face, except for the incomparably enormous yellow devilish eye that grew on its forehead. It seemed to take up approximately half the ape’s face, pushing the two ordinary eyes all the way to the sides.
It’s appearance looked like a mutated fetus; it appeared incomparably eerie and terrifying.
This was a large-eyed ape, a one-out-of-a-thousand mutated form of the three-eyed ape. Not only does it possess outstanding intelligence, the strength of its mental attacks are ten times stronger than that of ordinary three-eyed apes. It was a Demon Beast only released during the finals and was one of the most fearsome Demon Beasts on the entire Devil Flood Dragon Island.
“Ka Ka! Ka Ka!”
In this midst of rolling thunder, the large-eyed ape let out a monstrous laughter. The Ghost Dragon-7 it held in its hairy palms emitted a demonic blue glow.
The enormous yellow eye on the forehead of the large-eyed ape spun in circles. Soon, it figured out how to use the drug, and, without hesitation, it stabbed the Ghost Dragon-7 doping drug into its thick neck. The entirety of the drug was injected into his artery.
“*ROAR, *ROAR *ROAR *ROAR *ROAR!”
A short moment later, the large-eyed ape was unable to restrain himself and shook all over!
Its flesh twitched in a strange fashion and its skin splitted in layers of cracks. The muscles drenched in blood appeared to be growing berserkly at an alarming speed. Even muscle buds began to grown in between its strands of muscle fibers. They continued to entwine, expand, blend, be filled with blood… Causing its build to suddenly erupt to two times its original size. It had turned into an incomparably malevolent ominous beast!
The sole eye on its forehead seemed to have transformed into a frozen blood-red!
“There he is. I found him!”
Right at this moment, the excited cries of Red Team competitors rang from a close distance.
A malevolent smile emerged in the large-eyed ape’s cherub, demonic face under the flash of lightning. It faced towards the source of the cries, shooting off like electricity!
Immediately following came the hysterical shrieks and sounds of bones grinding and fleshing ripping from within the depths of the forest.
…...
Ten minutes later.
Li Yao sat cross-legged in a supply point. He was closing his eyes, resting. A chainsword laid on to the left of him and a Thunder Blade laid to the right of him. A Burning Sky Battleaxe was on his back. On his waist were his two black Progressive Daggers hanging in a cross. It could be said that he was fully armed. He could enter into battle mode at any time.
If an ignorant Blue Team competitor would enter this supply point, he would absolutely launch an attack without the slightest hesitation!
“There’s still one more day. It’s been some time since the torrential storm started and it shows no signs of stopping. I’m still first place in the point ranking. Nothing unexpected should occur.”
As Li Yao calculated in his mind, a relaxed smile emerged on his face.
Tremble Deep Sea University! For Li Yao, the Vulture, shall arrive!
Right at this time, his eyelids jolted up. An alarming sense of danger jumped in the depths of his mind.
“There’s something off. There’s the scent of blood in the air! What a dense bloody air!”
A well familiar figure leapt out from within the forest. As it howled like pig being slaughtered, it fled frantically over towards the supply point.
It was actually Zheng Dongming!
Li Yao was dumbstruck… Zheng Dongming was an exceptional expert of Phoenix Ridge Second. Rumor has it that his actual strength was on par with Helian Lie’s. He might even be a bit stronger than Helian Lie!
What could possibly scare Zheng Dongming into looking like he pissed his pants?
Chapter 66: Demonic Blood Cannon |
The Zheng Dongming at this time lacked the usual magnificent, elegant demeanor of a young master. He was just like a stray dog with a broken rear leg. He ran gasping for breath and even his tongue was out in the air. He looked to be a few running steps away from frothing at the mouth and going into a seizure!
The moment he saw Li Yao, a ray of hope emerged in his eyes, and he dashed over consumed by joy. His last few steps were like that of a tiger pouncing on a lamb, soaring directly into the supply point!
“What’s wrong? Where’s your Puji Critter?”
Li Yao asked in utter astonishment. Every competitor on Devil Dragon Island would carry a Puji Critter with them. The Puji Critter not only counts points but also provides the means of a final life-saving safeguard!
“It was eaten!”
Zheng Dongming spread out his limbs and was sprawled on his back. He was lying down, his body completely spent. “*Pant *Pant *Pant” he gasped for breath. He looked to be lucky to have a new lease at life.
“It was eaten!? What could possibly be so powerful and fierce!?”
Li Yao was frightened. How could such a vicious Demon Beast exist on Devil Flood Dragon Island? They wouldn’t be taking the lives of competitors seriously if that were the case?
Before Zheng Dongming could respond, an earthshaking roar sounded close by. The explosive noise caused Li Yao’s ears to ring.
Several large trees swayed from side to side following the roar. An old tree simply flew up!
A monster with a height of four meters and lack of skin all over its body, as if it was directly formed from muscles, leapt out. It stomped heavily on the old tree, causing the old tree to snap with a *crack! And the speed of this monster blazed to another level. It crashed recklessly into the supply point.
“What the hell is this!?” Li Yao stared flabbergasted.
Small Ji had introduced all Demon Beasts and Demon Plant Life on Devil Flood Dragon Island before the competition began. Li Yao did not recall there being such a tyrannical Demon Beast among them!
How could the organizers of the competition possibly release such a powerful Demon Beast? There's no way a high school student can withstand this kind of vicious beast!
“D-D-Damned if I know. Be careful. This monster’s already killed seven competitors!” Zheng Dongming let out some astonishing words.
As if confirming his words, the monster ferociously crashed into the surrounding Defensive Glyph Array of the supply point!
Several dozen transparent Attack Arcane Glyphs appeared in the air. They surged with over a hundred currents of electricity and formed into a tight-knit and dazzling electric net, causing the monster to howl and burn with white smoke.
But this monster resisted the currents of this powerful electric assault, pressing onwards step by step!
The Defensive Glyph Array’s radiance flickered indefinitely between brightness and darkness. The electric net could be torn to destruction at any given time! To be smashed into pieces!
“Even the Defensive Glyph Array can’t stop it? Young Master Zheng, what the hell did you do to provoke this monster? To make it want to hunt you until death?”
Li Yao’s scalp was tingling over and over. This monster was really too fearsome. It was something he was absolutely unable to deal with.
“I was just trying to help and stabbed a sword at his butt is all. I didn’t know I would stab into his asshole!” Zheng Dongming sighed as he spoke very helplessly.
Li Yao was speechless for a time. He observed attentively at the faint bloody flesh in between the monster’s buttocks. Indeed, half a chainsword was swaying endlessly there.
The other half of the chainsword had completely entered into the monster’s body. It was a total of a meter deep and that wasn’t enough to kill it. This monster’s vitality is really too strong! Too astonishing!
Li Yao spat out with difficulty as he subconsciously looked back.
“Don’t even think of running. This monster should be based off the large-eyed ape. It will be far faster than us in the forest. We won’t stand a chance! Damn! Where the hell are the cultivators!? It’s been so long and they still haven’t come over to help us. It’s killing us!”
Zheng Dongming half sat up with great effort. He spat a mouthful of fresh blood with a bitter smile on his face.
