Faced with the Rolling Earth Dragon charging at them in fury, the Fury Arrow Crossbow atop the Giant Haze opened fire at full force. Countless giant arrows and powerful bolts shot toward the Rolling Earth Dragon.
"Careful—"
Nangong Renshe sprang into action, sweeping aside many of the giant arrows and powerful bolts.
Enraged, the Rolling Earth Dragon abandoned Liu Chengfeng and charged toward the Giant Haze, even more furious than before.
"Wretched beast—"
The Young Master Ye atop the Giant Haze was also consumed by rage. He let out a roar.
He formed a seal and slammed it down. The phantoms of a Fire Ox and a Flame Pig appeared, crashing toward the Rolling Earth Dragon.
A Treasure Beast with a lifespan of four thousand years was so powerful that even Nangong Renshe and the others could barely kill it.
With the Corpse Jackal and Rolling Earth Dragon joining the battle, the scene descended into chaos. Screams rang out without end, and many disciples of the Ascending Wu Clan died.
Liu Chengfeng couldn't care less about any of that. He turned and went after Zhao Jinnian, intent on killing him.
"Retreat—"
Ascending Wu Rong couldn't hold on any longer. Fighting as he fell back against the Corpse Jackal, he fled aboard the flying vessel.
Liu Chengfeng pursued them, but the Second Elder had already grabbed Zhao Jinnian and rushed aboard. They turned and fled.
"A miscalculation. We should have destroyed the flying vessel first."
Watching the Ascending Wu Clan escape with Zhao Jinnian, Liu Chengfeng couldn't help cursing.
He turned around at the sound of a roar. The Ascending Wu Clan had fled, and now the Corpse Jackal was coming to kill him.
"Look out—"
Nangong Renshe immediately drew his bow. His golden arrow shot toward the Corpse Jackal like a bolt of thunder.
At the same time, gale-force winds surged. With a roar, a massive wild boar descended from the sky. Ah Yuan had arrived.
"Any later, and I'd have lost my life."
Liu Chengfeng glared at Ah Yuan and immediately retreated, leaving the battlefield to him.
Ah Yuan roared. His body was like a mountain, his claws like swords, as he pounced on the Corpse Jackal.
"Kill—"
Seizing the opportunity, Nangong Renshe unleashed a storm of golden arrows at the Corpse Jackal.
The Corpse Jackal roared, its mouth full of corpse poison, and lunged to bite Ah Yuan.
The two beasts fought, sending sand and stones flying. They crushed trees and smashed rocks to pieces.
The Corpse Jackal, Fire Ox, and Rolling Earth Dragon had joined forces to defeat Ah Yuan before.
But now it was alone, with Nangong Renshe lending a hand. How could it possibly hold out?
In a short time, it had been struck by dozens of arrows, blood pouring from its wounds. Ah Yuan's tusks had also pierced into its body.
With a scream, Ah Yuan bit the Corpse Jackal's head off.
After killing the Corpse Jackal, Ah Yuan immediately charged at the Rolling Earth Dragon.
The Rolling Earth Dragon had been fighting the Grandmaster Mansion. The Grandmaster Mansion had suffered heavy losses and lost many powerful fighters before managing to hold back its attack.
This showed just how formidable the Grandmaster Mansion was.
With Ah Yuan joining the battle, the tide turned. In just a few blows, Ah Yuan tore through the Rolling Earth Dragon's hard armor, leaving it drenched in blood.
The Rolling Earth Dragon turned and fled, not daring to fight anymore. Nangong Renshe's arrows flashed like lightning, blocking its escape.
The Rolling Earth Dragon was both shocked and enraged. It wanted to pounce on Nangong Renshe.
Ah Yuan leaped at it. The two crashed to the ground and grappled, snapping one towering tree after another.
At last, with a scream, the Rolling Earth Dragon's head was crushed between Ah Yuan's jaws.
All three Treasure Beasts had been killed in one fell swoop. Ah Yuan had avenged his great grudge.
"Sect Master Nangong—"
The Grandmaster Mansion had already sounded the retreat and was regrouping.
They had lost many powerful fighters to the Rolling Earth Dragon, and, furious, they turned to Cloud Rising Sect to demand an explanation.
"I'm going to kill a wicked servant. Even the gods can't stop me, let alone you."
Liu Chengfeng sneered at the Grandmaster Mansion, who had come to demand an explanation.
The people of the Grandmaster Mansion flew into a rage.
By now, Ah Yuan stood beside Liu Chengfeng, baring his teeth as his beastly aura surged like a tide.
"Young Master Ye, I'm afraid this matter has nothing to do with the Grandmaster Mansion."
Nangong Renshe unhesitatingly took Liu Chengfeng's side.
That left the Grandmaster Mansion in an awkward position. They had been pushed around by a junior. How could they not be furious?
But with a Treasure Beast that had lived for more than four thousand years beside Liu Chengfeng, and Cloud Rising Sect backing him, the advantage lay with Liu Chengfeng.
For a time, the two sides were locked in a standoff.
Suddenly, beastly energy surged, and the roars of strange beasts echoed across Little Meng Mountain.
In the next moment, hundreds and thousands of strange beasts appeared on the mountain peaks.
Some were Treasure Beasts with three or four thousand years of life; some were giant eagles flying through the sky, while others were venomous pythons coiled around mountain peaks, or ferocious apes as tall as a wall...
So many powerful strange beasts had suddenly appeared on Little Meng Mountain. Both Cloud Rising Sect and the Grandmaster Mansion turned pale.
If so many strange beasts charged at them, they would be trapped in a beast tide.
"Let's go—"
The Grandmaster Mansion couldn't afford to settle accounts with Liu Chengfeng. The Giant Warship powered up, and they immediately retreated.
The Grandmaster Mansion was powerful, and the Giant Warship's firepower was fierce, but even they couldn't withstand such an enormous beast tide.
"We're retreating too."
Nangong Renshe led the Cloud Rising Sect experts away. Riding Ah Yuan, Liu Chengfeng also rushed out of the beast tide at once.
So many strange beasts had suddenly appeared, covering the mountains and plains. Liu Chengfeng knew things were looking bad.
When they reached a safe place, they couldn't help breathing a sigh of relief. If they had been a moment slower, the beast tide might have surrounded them.
"How do you want to divide it?"
Once they were safe, Nangong Renshe took out three portions of True Blood.
They had killed three strange beasts—the Corpse Jackal, Rolling Earth Dragon, and Fire Ox—and obtained three portions of True Blood from beasts with lifespans close to four thousand years.
Just looking at the three portions of True Blood stirred the hearts of the other powerful fighters, even the three elders.
As elders of Cloud Rising Sect, they had never possessed such powerful True Blood.
By merit, Liu Chengfeng and Nangong Renshe had certainly contributed the most.
Although Liu Chengfeng hadn't killed the strange beasts himself, Ah Yuan had done the fighting.
As Sect Master, Nangong Renshe already possessed Treasure Beast True Blood from a beast with a lifespan of six thousand years, so he didn't need any.
"Let the Fourth Elder have the Fire Ox's True Blood. The two elders can split the Corpse Jackal's between them."
Liu Chengfeng took the Rolling Earth Dragon's True Blood and handed the remaining two portions to Nangong Renshe.
"Good, good, good. I'll remember this kindness, Nephew. From now on, whatever concerns you concerns me."
The Fourth Elder was overjoyed and deeply grateful.
He had come for the Fire Ox's True Blood in the first place, but by merit, he couldn't claim the entire portion for himself.
If Liu Chengfeng hadn't kept the Fire Ox in check, they wouldn't have been able to kill it.
In the end, Nangong Renshe decided to give the Corpse Jackal's True Blood to the Fifth Elder, who would compensate the other elder.
That way, everyone was happy.
The three elders felt much more warmly toward Liu Chengfeng and were deeply grateful. They all liked this young guest elder, who had only just joined the sect.
True Blood from a four-thousand-year Treasure Beast was worth tens of millions of spirit stones.
Liu Chengfeng had taken only one portion and given them two. That was more than enough to show his generosity.
They had just finished dividing the True Blood when rumbling booms shook the earth. Everyone was startled.
"It's coming—"
In Liu Chengfeng's mind, Little Meng Mountain said this to him.
"What's coming?"
Little Meng Mountain didn't answer.
Just then, one ray of divine light after another rose across Little Meng Mountain, and green energy shot up into the sky.
Immediately afterward, a medicinal fragrance filled the air. The scent left everyone feeling refreshed and clear-headed.
"Has a Medicine King appeared?"
At the fragrance, the Fourth Elder and the others cried out.
"I'm afraid it's not that simple. Perhaps some God Treasury has appeared. There must be a reason for this strange-beast upheaval. Little Meng Mountain is hiding a secret."
Nangong Renshe had entered Little Meng Mountain earlier than the others. Though he couldn't make out what was happening, he could tell there was something unusual about the place.
Is the God Tomb about to open?
Liu Chengfeng silently calculated the timing. It was the night of the full moon.
The time for him to make his offering had come.
Divine light appeared across Little Meng Mountain, and medicinal fragrance filled the air.
This alarmed the cultivators who had entered the mountain to hunt strange beasts. They all began to believe that a God Treasury had emerged.
The cultivators hadn't yet found any God Treasury, but more strange beasts appeared on Little Meng Mountain, unleashing a terrifying beast tide.
Not only did thousand-year Treasure Beasts appear; Treasure Beasts with lifespans of three to five thousand years emerged as well.
Tens of thousands of strange beasts appeared on Little Meng Mountain, trampling the earth and crushing trees beneath them. The beast tide was astonishing.
Roars filled Little Meng Mountain without end. The earth rumbled and trembled.
"Let's go. We're leaving Little Meng Mountain."
Seeing that things were turning bad, Nangong Renshe immediately led Cloud Rising Sect away.
The treasures of a God Treasury were tempting, but staying alive mattered more.
Against tens of thousands of beasts, they were no match. They would be ground into meat in only a few moments.
"You go ahead. I'm going to take a look."
Liu Chengfeng didn't leave. The night of the full moon had arrived, and he had to make his offering at the God Tomb.
"It's very dangerous—"
Neither Nangong Renshe nor the Fourth Elder and the others wanted Liu Chengfeng to take such a risk.
"I'm going too."
Ah Yuan followed Liu Chengfeng.
"A terrifying giant beast has appeared. It's summoning all the strange beasts. I don't know what's going on."
Ah Yuan explained it to Liu Chengfeng.
Liu Chengfeng leaped onto Ah Yuan's back, and Ah Yuan charged straight into Little Meng Mountain.
"This boy is bold and fierce. He has a bright future."
The Fourth Elder and the others exclaimed in admiration before leaving with Nangong Renshe.
Riding Ah Yuan into Little Meng Mountain, Liu Chengfeng saw that the beast tide was flowing in the same direction.
He didn't know how many strange beasts swept past them, ranging from those with lifespans of a few hundred years to those of several thousand.
All of Little Meng Mountain had become a world of strange beasts, their wild, primeval auras surging like a raging tide.
The strange beasts weren't fighting among themselves. Summoned as if to a pilgrimage, they were all streaming toward the same place on Little Meng Mountain.
Even with Liu Chengfeng riding on Ah Yuan's back, none of the beasts paid them any mind.
Little Meng Mountain had been overrun by strange beasts. The appearance of such powerful ones terrified many cultivators who had been hunting them, and they fled the mountain.
Yet even more powerful cultivators appeared. These cultivators could fly through the heavens and burrow through the earth.
Some strode through the air, some arrived on flying swords, and others came in flying vessels...
On the way, Liu Chengfeng saw a breathtaking young woman riding a Seven-Colored Flying Sword. He also saw a young man bearing the Flame Golden Feather on his back charge into Little Meng Mountain...
Divine light had appeared across Little Meng Mountain, and medicinal fragrance filled the air. Every cultivator guessed that a God Treasury had emerged.
It had drawn covetous gazes from powerful figures across the land, who had come to seize its treasures.
"What giant beast summoned all of you?"
Liu Chengfeng could also sense the arrival of an even more powerful strange beast. Its beastly aura seemed capable of enveloping all of Little Meng Mountain.
He didn't need the Sky Eye to know that this powerful giant beast was summoning every strange beast.
"A thing that could swallow me in one bite, and bring disaster to an entire nation."
Liu Chengfeng couldn't help feeling a chill. It seemed the beast really had come for the God Tomb.
Liu Chengfeng wasn't after any Medicine King. His target was the God Tomb.
When Liu Chengfeng arrived at the site of the God Tomb on Ah Yuan's back, the place was already packed with strange beasts.
Roars filled the air, and fierce battles shook the valley.
Many bodies already lay on the ground, both strange beasts and cultivators, as the stench of blood filled the air.
Wave after wave of divine light pulsed through the valley. The rich medicinal fragrance was wafting from there.
A Medicine King grew in the valley, only as big as a palm. Its stem was like a silkworm, it breathed out divine light, and its cries rang like a dragon's roar.
The valley was already a battleground. Some strange beasts wanted to devour the Medicine King, while powerful cultivators wanted to seize it.
They fought with their lives on the line. Weapons flashed into the sky, and the sounds of slaughter rang across the mountains.
Whether beast or cultivator, many had met a gruesome end in the valley.
Of them all, the breathtaking young woman riding a Seven-Colored Flying Sword and the young man bearing the Flame Golden Feather on his back were the most powerful. They killed one strange beast after another, and the other cultivators were no match for them either.
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