Thirty-Six Martial Kings? I Don't Give a Damn About You!
Su Zhan waited.
Thirty breaths later.
[Shadow Thousand Silk Lock]: Route marked. You need to pass through the gaps between twelve layers of Formation nodes. The passable time window for each gap varies from twelve to fifteen breaths. You cannot stop in the middle. If you stop, it will explode.
Su Zhan took a deep breath.
Purple-gold lightning lit up beneath his feet.
"Let's go."
His figure vanished from the spot.
The moment Su Zhan's body crossed the dividing line, a thick cloud of Devil Qi rushed towards him.
He ignored it.
The protective barrier of the Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon automatically thickened, blocking all the Devil Qi three inches away from the body's surface.
The gap between the Floor 1 of Formation nodes appears at a position 15 degrees to the left of the front – the patrol light screen between the two seabed energy pillars has just turned the corner, leaving a gap about three zhang wide.
Su Zhan cut in from the side.
His shoulder brushed past the edge of the light screen, missing it by less than half a foot.
[Shadow Thousand Silk Lock]: Floor 1, passed. The next gap is 40 degrees to the right front, 300 feet away. Countdown 14 breaths.
Su Zhan's speed was at its maximum.
A short trail of Purple-Gold Lightning stretched behind him, but it was swallowed up in the thick blood mist in less than two breaths.
Second layer.
The third layer.
Fourth floor --
"Pfft!"
Something scratched Su Zhan's cuff. Looking down, he saw a thin tear in his sleeve, with dark red energy still visible at the edges.
[Shadow Thousand Silk Lock]: Sorry, the gap on the fourth layer is two inches narrower than expected. There is a slight deviation in the frequency of the patrol light curtain.
"It's okay. Continue."
The fifth floor.
The sixth floor.
Something went wrong on the seventh floor.
The time window for the gap was suddenly compressed—from the expected thirteen breaths to nine breaths.
As Su Zhan was traversing at full speed, the patrol light screen on his left turned around ahead of schedule.
That light barrier carried a detection wave of Martial King Rank. Once it swept over him, all thirty-six nodes would lock on simultaneously, and all the guardians would arrive within three breaths.
Nine breaths.
He was still eighty feet away from the exit of the gap.
The speed difference is two breaths compared to Ordinary Grade Thunder Escape speed.
"Accelerate!" Su Zhan shouted in his mind.
[Nine Heavens Divine Lightning]: Three-Dragon Rank - Limit Flash!
The three Thunder Dragon Head roared simultaneously. Su Zhan's body was completely enveloped in purple-gold lightning, and he transformed into a pure arc of electricity.
Smack!
The sound of air being torn apart came half a beat late.
Su Zhan's figure had already rushed out from the other side of the gap.
The patrol light screen closed behind him.
[Shadow Thousand Silk Lock]: Seventh level, passed. Error: 0.3 breaths.
Su Zhan's heart skipped a beat. Not out of fear, but out of excitement.
He enjoyed the feeling of dancing on the edge of a knife.
He ran more and more smoothly on the next five floors.
My body has found its rhythm.
The eighth level is a side slide, the ninth level is a flip, the tenth level is a zigzag change of direction, and the eleventh level is a straight-line sprint.
The twelfth floor.
The last gap.
This gap is the narrowest, only a little over ten feet wide, and the patrol light screens on both sides rotate the fastest, allowing passage for only seven breaths.
Su Zhan did not hesitate.
He stomped his feet hard in mid-air, and the Immovable Wisdom King Wall formed a catapult platform beneath his feet.
"Bang!"
His body was launched forward.
He flew close to the surface of the sea, splashing water that soaked his trouser legs.
Two patrol light screens simultaneously closed above his head and below his feet.
He felt the heat of the light screen brushing against the back of his head and the back of his heels at the same time.
Then he went out.
All twelve layers of Formation nodes were traversed.
No alarms were triggered.
Su Zhan landed on a rock and looked down at his shoes—the sole of his left shoe had been sheared off by the last beam of light.
It's broken.
[Blazing Dragon Venerate]: Enough nonsense. What does it matter to me if your shoes are ruined? How much further ahead is it?
Su Zhan looked up and gazed ahead.
The blood mist was even thicker here, almost pitch black. But his senses penetrated through this fog.
About two hundred miles ahead, a massive black building complex stands on the sea.
The buildings were not built on the island, but floated directly above the sea. Huge palaces, towers, and corridors intertwined and coiled in the air, with the tallest main hall piercing the clouds. The entire complex emitted a strong purplish-black light, blending into the surrounding Demon Sea.