Ancient Wild Heavenly Dao's Tremor

Chapter 38: Ancient Wild Heavenly Dao's Tremor

Rumble!

The two Giant Beasts fought without pause, locked in a life-and-death struggle. Xuanji could tell their strength was evenly matched. As they battled, each suffered roughly the same amount of damage. Feeling their two terrifying auras gradually weaken, Xuanji couldn't help but feel delighted. If they both ended up badly wounded, he might be able to reap the benefits. Giant Beasts had plenty of valuable parts: claws, fangs, hide... and perhaps even inner cores or beast crystals.

Clang! Clang! Clang!...

Sword-like spikes, densely packed like a sudden downpour, crashed against each other. Fragments snapped off and flew in every direction for hundreds of miles. Hidden beneath a massive boulder, Xuanji could hear the heavy impacts coming one after another. The boulder trembled slightly, and he could even faintly hear cracks forming above him.

Awooo!

Roar!

The wolf's howl shook the heavens, and the leopard's roar shook the earth. The two Earth Immortal early-stage auras collided like solid objects. An invisible shock wave spread at incredible speed in an instant, engulfing everything within a hundred thousand miles. Giant trees, Demon Flowers, Demon Grass, rocks, waterfalls... all vanished, utterly annihilated. The earth within a hundred thousand miles was shaved down by three feet, and everything on it was reduced to dust. Beneath the boulder, Xuanji felt his blood and qi seethe under the shock wave, and even the flow of his magical power fell into utter disarray. Fortunately, his consciousness had fused with the Ancient Wild World, and he was bolstered by his Primordial Avatar. Otherwise, both his consciousness and body would have been annihilated.

"So this is the might of an Earth Immortal early-stage expert? It's terrifying—nothing like a Loose Immortal!" Xuanji was deeply shaken. His Primordial Avatar had reached the peak of the Loose Immortal late stage, only a single step away from the Earth Immortal realm. He had thought the gap wouldn't be too great, but judging from their auras, an Earth Immortal early-stage expert was at least ten times stronger than someone at the peak of the Loose Immortal late stage.

Rumble!...

The world shook amid the thunderous booms. The clash between the two Giant Beasts' powers was simply terrifying.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!...

Streams of black blood sprayed out like fountains, filling the air with a stench foul enough to make anyone retch.

Bang!

A stream of blood slammed into the ground not far in front of Xuanji. The rocks shattered, leaving a semicircular pit a foot deep, its edges webbed with cracks that stretched dozens of meters.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Bang! Bang!

Amid two gusts of wind, the two Giant Beasts plummeted from the sky and crashed hard into the earth, burrowing deep beneath the surface. For a time, neither beast could be seen, but Xuanji knew they weren't badly hurt. Two terrifying auras rose from the two deep pits—the auras of the Giant Beasts, which couldn't restrain their presence. They could be sensed from far away.

"Their auras have weakened by half. If they keep fighting a little longer, I'll be able to make my move." Feeling the two Giant Beasts' auras, Xuanji secretly rejoiced.

Bang! Bang!

Rocks exploded as two massive black shapes shot into the air. The hundred-zhang-tall beasts faced off, their enormous blood-red eyes fixed fiercely on each other. Savagery, killing intent, cruelty... all filled their eyes. Clearly, the two Giant Beasts harbored a deep hatred for one another.

Awooo!

Amid a wolf's howl, the Giant Wolf Beast threw back its head and roared. Its steel-like scales bristled, and wisps of black smoke began to rise from its enormous claws. Just looking at the smoke made Xuanji feel as if it would draw in and devour his soul. At the same time, his twenty-four Inner Mansion Primordial Spirits trembled, as though they were about to leave his body and plunge into the smoke. Horrified, Xuanji hurriedly withdrew all twenty-four Inner Mansion Primordial Spirits into the Ancient Wild World. Only then did the effect stop.

"That black smoke is terrifying! It's just like the evil art that lures in and devours souls. It seems that under the influence of the god-and-demon aura, the Giant Beasts have not only grown stronger but also gained some divine abilities and techniques." He pondered this to himself.

The Giant Leopard Beast looked equally grave. It seemed to know how dangerous the Giant Wolf Beast's black smoke was. It let out a mighty roar, then its enormous body trembled and its jaws gaped open. A gray orb of light appeared between its jaws. Invisible waves of energy poured from its body and infused the orb. Xuanji could sense the terrifying destructive power within it, and that power was still growing.

"Are they going all out?" Xuanji knew the two Giant Beasts were about to unleash their full strength. The resulting clash would be even more terrifying than their previous collision of auras. He immediately put as much distance between himself and them as he could. Otherwise, even if he survived their clash, he would likely be badly wounded.

Whoosh!

He flashed away, leaving behind a blur. The two Giant Beasts glanced at the figure racing into the distance. They hadn't expected there to be an onlooker nearby. But when they sensed the aura of Xuanji's mid-stage Primordial Spirit, contempt flashed in their eyes, and they paid him no further attention. Their divine abilities were already gathering, and they couldn't stop now.

Rumble! Rumble!

The Giant Wolf Beast swung down its massive claws. The black smoke above them formed a hundred-zhang-tall wolf and surged toward the Giant Leopard Beast. At the same time, the gray orb in the Giant Leopard Beast's mouth finished gathering power and shot toward the Giant Wolf Beast like a laser cannon. After that single strike, both beasts were weaker than ever, their auras dropping to the brink of the Loose Immortal early stage.

Boom! Sizzle!...

The Giant Wolf Beast's black smoke clashed with the gray beam. The smoke dispersed with a single blow, but it wrapped around the beam. Sounds of corrosion rang out as waves of gray energy spread through the air. The beam's power steadily weakened, but the black smoke also dwindled.

Wrapped in the black smoke, the gray beam slowed several times over. The Giant Wolf Beast easily dodged it, and the beam wrapped in smoke shot far into the distance, vanishing after a few breaths.

Their divine abilities had failed. The two Giant Beasts glared at each other, then began absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy to recover. But just then, a three-colored sword, forged from gold, azure, and black, came hurtling toward them. The sword was three feet and three inches long—smaller than a toothpick to the two Giant Beasts—but the aura it gave off was not to be underestimated. It was every bit as powerful as a peak Loose Immortal late-stage expert.

Awooo! Roar!

The two Giant Beasts were badly wounded from their clash, their strength reduced to the Loose Immortal early stage. How could they possibly withstand this sword? With a wolf's howl and a leopard's roar, they fled, terror filling their eyes.

The three-colored sword was the Xuanji Sword. With the combined power of Xuanji and his Primordial Avatar behind it, its strength had reached the peak of the Loose Immortal realm. It was more than enough to deal with the two badly wounded Giant Beasts.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!...

A gale sprang up. The Xuanji Sword turned into a streak of three-colored light and shot away like lightning. It pierced the Giant Wolf Beast between the brows in an instant, churned through its brain, and burst out. Then it flashed like lightning through the Giant Leopard Beast's brow as well. In the space of one or two breaths, both Giant Beasts were dead.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Boom! Boom!

The beasts' bodies slammed into the ground, shaking the earth. The Xuanji Sword flew back to Xuanji, carried him down, and brought him before the two Giant Beasts.

Looking at their corpses, each like a small mountain, Xuanji couldn't help but click his tongue. If he turned them into food, it might take a year or two to finish eating it all!

The black iron armor gleamed. Xuanji reached out and touched it, finding it cold as steel. When the Xuanji Sword had pierced the beasts between the brows, he had already felt how tremendous the resistance was. He was practically certain that the iron armor covering their bodies had a defensive strength no lower than that of a top-grade magic treasure. That delighted Xuanji. The beasts were over a hundred zhang tall, so if he removed all their armor, he would have an enormous amount of material.

"Two suits of armor this huge, each with the strength of a top-grade magic treasure. I can use them to forge a Daoist robe." Just as Xuanji was making plans, the Heavenly Dao he was cultivating within the Ancient Wild World suddenly trembled violently, startling him.

The Ancient Wild Heavenly Dao was trembling. This had never happened before!

Xuanji's main Primordial Spirit immediately reached out to communicate with the Heavenly Dao. With the Heart of the World, his main Primordial Spirit could peer into the Heavenly Dao, but forcing his way into it would damage the Heavenly Dao and hinder the development of the Ancient Wild World. So instead, he communicated with it.

"What? That's possible too?" Xuanji cried out in shock. The information from the Heavenly Dao astounded him. The Ancient Wild Heavenly Dao had trembled because of the two Giant Beasts' corpses, which could actually help the Ancient Wild World evolve. The Heavenly Dao was asking him to bring the corpses into the Ancient Wild World.

Now that he understood the corpses would help the Ancient Wild World evolve, Xuanji naturally had no reason to ignore the Heavenly Dao's request. But looking at the two enormous beasts, he couldn't help feeling troubled. The Ancient Wild World was only a little over six thousand meters across, while the two Giant Beasts together were at least three hundred zhang long. He would need a vast stretch of land to accommodate them. The biggest problem was that the land in the Ancient Wild World was already planted with countless ten-thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.

"Alas, looks like I'll have to rearrange things." His consciousness entered his main Primordial Spirit, which hovered in the sky as he looked down over the land. Then he pointed a finger and cried, "Rise!"

At the main Primordial Spirit's command, a small mountain in the Ancient Wild World rose from the earth and settled in an empty stretch of mountain range, clearing a patch of land. Fused with the Heart of the World and the ruler of this world, the main Primordial Spirit could move mountains, overturn seas, reshape heaven and earth, and turn rivers upside down with ease. He could even control time to a small degree, turning it back or speeding it up by a few days. He was practically a god, possessed of boundless power. Within the Ancient Wild World, no being that couldn't break free of the world's constraints could stand against the main Primordial Spirit. With a wave of his hand, he could kill anything.

After moving mountains and rearranging the land, the main Primordial Spirit cleared a flat area more than a thousand meters across. Then Xuanji's consciousness returned to his body.

The power of the world enveloped the two Giant Beasts' corpses. With a thought, Xuanji made them vanish, storing them inside the Ancient Wild World and placing them on the cleared land.

As soon as the Giant Beasts' corpses entered the Ancient Wild World, the Heavenly Dao trembled violently. The main Primordial Spirit could feel its excitement. The corpses could help the Ancient Wild World evolve, and as the world evolved, the power of the Heavenly Dao would also grow.

A ring of nine-colored light appeared: the Ancient Wild Heavenly Dao. Within it lay supreme mysteries, as though grasping even a fraction of them would bring immense fortune. Just like the Primordial Heavenly Dao, one need only comprehend a part of it to become a Sage on the spot, eternally undying within the Primordial World and viewing all living beings as mere ants—an agent of the Heavenly Dao, ruling and governing the Primordial World in its stead.

"Once the Ancient Wild World evolves and grows stronger, I'll preach the Dao three times too, and try conferring a few Sage seats!" he mused. Just imagining Ancient Wild Sages appearing in the Primordial World seemed like it would be quite interesting. But Xuanji also knew that if the Ancient Wild World didn't develop to the level of the Primordial World, its Sages would be no more than Quasi-Sages, Daluo Golden Immortals, Golden Immortals, or even beings below the Golden Immortal realm.

As he indulged in his daydreams, the Ancient Wild Heavenly Dao began to radiate nine-colored divine light. It shone across the entire Ancient Wild World, which lay completely under the Heavenly Dao's control—unless the main Primordial Spirit shielded it.