The Lion King's Defeat

The Amethyst Winged Lion King roared repeatedly under Zhang Tian's attacks, yet it was firmly suppressed. One of the mighty, enormous wings on its back had been broken by the Dragon Yin Halberd, blood streaming from the wound, and even one of the eyes on its massive lion head had been blinded.

Since they were fighting, Zhang Tian naturally showed no mercy. Every move targeted the Lion King's vital points. However, the Amethyst Winged Lion King truly was an extraordinarily formidable sixth-tier Magical Beast. Relying on its powerful body, it would sometimes rather suffer an injury than miss a chance to strike back at Zhang Tian.

Unlike when he had fought Yun Yun and held back, Zhang Tian now brought out the Dragon Yin Halberd's full power. His strength as a Three-Star Dou Huang was displayed without the slightest concealment.

The battle continued until the afternoon. Xiao Yan, who had originally intended to break into the Lion King Cave, stopped as well and decided to watch for a while.

"Brat, why aren't you getting in there already?" Yao Lao suddenly drifted out and appeared beside Xiao Yan, scolding him.

"Teacher." Xiao Yan was startled upon seeing Yao Lao, before delight surged through his heart.

"Right, Teacher, over there..." Xiao Yan suddenly became worried about Zhang Tian's situation.

Yao Lao returned to Xiao Yan's black storage ring. He had no habit of floating around everywhere; staying inside the ring was more comfortable.

"There's no problem on Zhang boy's side. He has tied down the Amethyst Winged Lion King and even has the upper hand. Since I couldn't be of much help, I came to find you."

Xiao Yan nodded, filled with admiration. He had originally thought that Zhang Tian had merely used his Dou Huang strength to lure the Lion King away. He had not expected Zhang Tian, who had only just broken through, to be able to fight the long-renowned Amethyst Winged Lion King—and seemingly hold the advantage.

"I never expected Teacher to be this strong." Xiao Yan's face was filled with excitement. There probably weren't many experts in the entire Gama Empire capable of subduing the Amethyst Winged Lion King. Didn't that mean he could strut sideways through the imperial capital?

"Enough, get in there." Yao Lao smacked Xiao Yan on the head before entering the ring again.

"Wait." Yao Lao, who had just been about to return to the ring, froze. His figure paused slightly as he looked toward the direction the Amethyst Winged Lion King had gone.

"Teacher, did something happen?"

"No, the battle over there is about to end." Yao Lao shook his head, then entered the Lion King Cave first. Xiao Yan hurriedly followed.

"Human, you deserve to die!" The Amethyst Winged Lion King was incomparably furious. Its massive claws struck wildly at Zhang Tian without any pattern, the fierce gusts throwing Zhang Tian's hair into disarray.

Raising the Dragon Yin Halberd, Zhang Tian firmly blocked the giant claw. His breath sank, and he found it somewhat difficult to breathe.

Blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, while bloodstains spread across the white robe tailored by the Yun Lan Sect over his chest—the spot where the Lion King had struck him moments ago.

Although he had knocked aside the Lion King's giant claw with the Wave Splitting Seal, the sharp amethyst spikes had still grazed Zhang Tian. The powerful gusts had also made it feel as though his chest had been struck by an invisible sledgehammer.

But the price was that the Lion King's body had been pierced through by the Dragon Yin Halberd, torn open by a massive wound that ran straight through it.

The Lion King's body was covered in injuries. Its remaining intact wing was likewise riddled with wounds, while the purple crystal plates all over its body shattered and fell away. One of its claws had broken and hung limply.

"Amethyst Seal!" The Lion King roared as violent energy gathered above its head, forming a profound formation. A purple pillar of light carrying terrifying might blasted forth.

As the purple beam condensed and fired, the entire mountain range slowly trembled, and countless fragments of rock flew into the air.

The purple beam was unbelievably fast. Like teleportation, it reached Zhang Tian after only a few flickers.

Because it had been cast in such haste, the Amethyst Seal had not reached its greatest power after charging. The Lion King's eyes were blood-red as the essence blood and vitality within its body burned fiercely. A dazzling dark-purple radiance shone from its body, dyeing even heaven and earth purple.

With the Amethyst Winged Lion King's undying hatred, its roar caused the purple light filling the sky to gather and compress continuously. Finally, it transformed into a massive beam a foot thick and shot out violently. As the purple radiance erupted in a wild bloom, the giant horn atop the Amethyst Winged Lion King's head exploded, bursting into fragments that filled the sky.

The two beams, one after the other, shot toward Zhang Tian under the Lion King's furious, hate-filled gaze.

Zhang Tian gripped the Dragon Yin Halberd, and the speed of the two purple beams seemed to slow countless times in his eyes. With his current mastery of the Quick Spear Technique, he could see them!

The trajectories of the purple light unfolded clearly before his eyes. At virtually the final instant, he twisted sideways and evaded both beams, one after the other.

The Amethyst Winged Lion King's huge beastly eyes filled with disbelief. The speed of the Amethyst Seal had actually been evaded by this human.

But it was not over yet. The Lion King had nearly lost its ability to fight. It could only force itself to remain upright, panting heavily as it watched for the final outcome.

The purple lights flashed again, unexpectedly turning back. They refracted continuously through the air, making their trajectories impossible to predict.

This was not a one-time attack, but a seal that locked onto its target!

"Can't evade it?" Zhang Tian flashed backward a hundred meters. His hands formed seals, and just as the purple light reached him, he barely managed to complete a hand sign.

As the vast Dou Qi within his body poured into it madly, the Flame Emperor Mantra revolved without pause. All the Dou Qi throughout his body took on a dense, violent fire attribute. A gigantic flaming seal rose with the wind, instantly expanding to a hundred meters in size before pushing toward the Lion King.

"Vast Sea Seal, Third Form, Ripple Calming Seal!"

Though it was a water-attributed Earth Rank Dou Technique, under the activation of the Emperor Rank Technique, the Flame Emperor Mantra, it erupted with devastating fire-attributed power.

The huge purple beam was instantly extinguished by the flaming seal. The moment it collided with the seal, it was like hydrogen meeting flame, burned away in an instant without leaving even the slightest mark.

The Amethyst Winged Lion King was startled. Ignoring the pain of its wounds, it flapped its remaining wing and barely shifted away a little. The fifth-tier Magical Beasts under its command also fled in panic.

The second beam the Lion King had sent out at the cost of its life arrived in an instant, desperately resisting the flaming seal. It barely held on, but ultimately lacked the strength to continue and shattered into nothingness.

The flaming seal merely became slightly dimmer, leaving behind a deep crater roughly a hundred meters wide in the Monster Mountain Range.

Several powerful Dou Wang-level Magical Beasts were reduced to ashes, while the Lion King lay at the edge of the crater, barely alive.

Empowered by Dou Qi, the Phoenix Cry Sword crossed the hundred-meter distance in several leaps. Like teleportation, it pierced through the Lion King's skull.

The Dragon Yin Halberd arrived a moment later, its dazzling condensed spear light piercing through the Lion King's heart and blasting a crater over ten meters wide behind it.

The ruler of the Monster Mountain Range, the sixth-tier Magical Beast Amethyst Winged Lion King, had ultimately fallen, at the cost of a light injury to the Yun Lan Sect's Second Elder.

Several precious Magic Cores that would make anyone green with envy lay scattered across the ground. They were all cores from powerful fifth-tier Magical Beasts, each worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

The dark-purple Magic Core extracted from the Lion King's skull contained violent power. A Dou Huang-level Magic Core was even more priceless than market value could measure.

"Hah." Zhang Tian glanced at the devastated Monster Mountain Range beside him. The mountain range, once filled with the roars of beasts and calls of birds, was now utterly silent. Nearly half of a mountain several hundred meters tall had been flattened. From the sky, one could see that amid the towering ancient trees of the Monster Mountain Range, which covered an area as large as an entire city, there was now a glaring bald mountaintop.

"The existence of powerful experts causes immense harm to this world. Perhaps that is also why Dou Di disappeared." Zhang Tian sighed softly. Under the burning of the flaming seal just now, who knew how many trees, living creatures, and how much earth had been destroyed.

It was possible for Dou Di-level experts to crack apart continents in battle, but land and continents were indeed extremely difficult to regenerate.