It was larger than any one Lin Feng had seen when entering the valley. It stood nearly ten feet tall and resembled a bear, but the ends of its four legs were huge claws. The tips of each claw were translucent crimson, like agate soaked in flames. There was a ring of manes on its back. The manes were not hair, but living. Each one was twisting slowly, exuding crimson energy fluctuations.
Mid God Emperor Stage.
This is the guardian beast of Fallen God Valley. It usually sleeps and is not easily disturbed when it opens every ten years. But today, something happened and it woke up.
There were a few disciples scattered on the ground around them. Some were trying to stand up, some could no longer stand up and could only crawl. A few used spiritual power to protect their vitals, but their condition was obviously not good.
A disciple of the Divine General Realm ran to Qi Yuchen and reported in a breathy voice:
"Senior Brother, I sent a contact token, but there was no response from the dean. A message came from the college -" he gritted his teeth, "The dean went out to deal with foreign affairs today, and he won't be back until two hours at the earliest."
Qi Yuchen's light shield was slapped head-on by the monster's claws, and his whole body was pushed back three steps by the impact. He stabilized and looked back at the injured disciple behind him, his expression was grave but not panicked:
"Send the order, everyone gather to my side, prepare to evacuate, exit from the south side--"
"We can't evacuate," the Divine General Realm disciple interrupted him, "just now the demonic beast released its blocking aura when it woke up. Fallen God Valley's entrance and exit were blocked by its instinct. It cannot evacuate. We have to wait for it to release it on its own initiative or--"
Or beat it to death.
The second half of the sentence was not spoken, but everyone understood it.
To kill a Mid God Emperor Stage monster, there is only one possibility in this team -
No possibility.
The demonic beast took another step forward, its weight pressed down on the ground, and the whole valley trembled. It stared at the light shield of Qi Yuchen, with emotionless and purely instinctive hostility in its crimson eyes. Its claws were raised, ready to take another shot.
Boom.
From the north, from a certain direction, there was a burst of wind.
The speed was extremely fast, to be precise, it was extremely fast. When it passed through the fluorescent vegetation area in the north, the air flow brought down the entire row of vegetation on both sides, and a shallow indentation appeared on the ground.
The monster's claws were frozen.
It sensed it, turned its head, and looked to the north. Its instinct told it that the thing that just passed through the vegetation had an aura that made it extremely uncomfortable.
But it was fully awake, and its rationality suppressed its instinct. Its instinct gave the option of lying down, but its rationality told it that it didn't need to, so it was stuck between the two signals for half a second.
Just this half second--
"Bang--!!!"
Lin Feng flew out from the front, and hit the monster beast directly in the center of the forehead with his right fist.
There's nothing fancy about this punch, it's just a punch, straight forward.
But the power is a punch of Mid God King Stage and Pangu Force Field in a micro-activated state, hitting the monster Mid God Emperor Stage on the forehead. The effect is roughly equivalent to hitting a freshly cooked egg with a hammer.
The monster's entire head, at the moment the punch touched it, sank back, and the neck was over-compressed. Then the force was transmitted to the trunk through the cervical vertebrae, and the entire monster was completely pressed into the ground from front to back, and settled two feet deep, bringing up a circle of gravel that exploded outward.
Then, it was quiet.
The whole Fallen God Valley is dead silent.
Lin Feng landed on the edge of the large pit left by the monster beast's settlement. He lowered his head and glanced in, confirmed it, swept a little dust on the back of his hand, then raised his head and looked at the stunned disciples around him, with a hint of Lin Feng's unique and faint disgust in his tone:
"Why are you making such a fuss? Didn't you notice that I'm doing archeology?"
He paused and added:
"Someone is injured. Activate the token and teleport it out to deal with it first."
Then he turned his head and looked at Qi Yuchen.
The senior brother put away the light shield and stood there, looking at the pit for a long time.
Then he came back to his senses and bent deeply towards Lin Feng.
Not a ceremonial one, but a real one that shocked me from the inside out.
"Teacher," he straightened up and his voice was steady, but there was a real weight in it, "Thank you very much."
"Go back," Lin Feng said, "Let's go out of the valley today and let the dean send someone to deal with the aftermath of the monster's awakening, and then come back in tomorrow."
He took two steps south, stopped, and turned back:
" There is an important discovery deep in the north side of Fallen God Valley. I need the dean's cooperation and ask him to find me when he comes back."
After saying that, he continued walking.
The twenty disciples followed him unevenly, and no one spoke. A few of them secretly looked at the big pit with the corner of their eyes, and then at Lin Feng's back. Then they put the two things together in their hearts, compared them, lowered their heads again, and continued walking.
The young disciple who said "Teacher has Conqueror's Haki" walked silently at the end of the line, going through what happened today in his head from beginning to end, and then came to a revised conclusion, speaking in a very small voice only to himself:
"... The teacher doesn't have Conqueror's Haki, the teacher is the overlord."
What Yun Chengwang went out to deal with, and what Lin Feng heard about the next day, were put together to form a complete picture.
A caravan discovered abnormal formation traces outside the college and reported it to the college. Yun Chengwang went to check it himself. Halfway through, he found that the traces were broken, as if someone had deliberately removed them. He wandered around for a long time without finding the source, and came back with doubts.
But those formation traces, Lin Feng felt something was wrong.
He asked for a description, and the caravan said it was red and black traces of spiritual power, with a turbid aura and a sense of corruption.
He has seen this characteristic in some places - Blood Demon Sect's formation, which is driven by blood and magic energy, and has a fixed color of spiritual power traces. It is the unique symbol of the Blood Demon Sect series.
Blood Demon Sect is a rather powerful underworld force in Wild Domain. It practices the Blood Demon technique. The monks in the sect are famous for their blood sacrifice methods and are the opposite of all the orthodox cultivation forces.
Why do people from the Blood Demon Sect set up formations outside the Heavenly Dao Academy?
What kind of formation was set up?
Lin Feng put these two questions in his mind. While in class, he obtained the college's database license and pulled up the formation map of the mountain guarding formation in the back mountain and looked at it.
The Mountain Guard Formation is the most important defense system of the academy. It has been maintained for four thousand years and is extremely complex. There are dozens of volumes of formation diagrams. Lin Feng stopped when he saw the ninth volume.
In the ninth volume, there is a section of sub-array formation patterns that are inconsistent with the style of the overall array diagram - the style of the main formation is inherited from the academy, the brushwork is delicate, and the interface between the sub-arrays is smooth. However, in one section of the ninth volume, there is a sign of deliberate fusion in the interface. The original style was deliberately imitated, and the imitation is not bad, but imitation is imitation. If you compare it long enough, you will see the difference.
As for the function of that sub-array, the label on the array diagram says "energy balance", but if you extract its array pattern separately and deduce it according to the real operation logic--
It's not energy balance.
It's energy accumulation.