The dark red earth stretched beneath his feet, with searing waves of heat rising from its cracks from time to time.
Mu Yunzhou was making his way carefully across it.
"Roar!"
Suddenly, an enormous creature lunged out from behind a massive rock to his side.
It had thick, dark red bone armor, and foul-smelling saliva dripped from its mouth. It was a Poison Rock Lizard King.
Judging by its aura, it was roughly equivalent to the fifth layer of the Profound Martial Realm. It spat a cloud of poisonous mist at Mu Yunzhou.
As the foul-smelling mist swept toward him, Mu Yunzhou's expression remained unchanged. He swung his saber, and crimson flames instantly surged up, condensing into a blazing blade aura that cleaved out with ferocious force.
"Crimson Flame Slash!"
Boom!
The flaming blade energy collided with the poisonous mist amid violent hissing. The mist, potent enough to corrode metal, evaporated completely in an instant before those flames!
Then, its momentum undiminished, the blade energy slammed into the Poison Rock Lizard King's raised head.
Crack!
The sound of shattering bone armor rang out clearly.
The Poison Rock Lizard King did not even have time to scream before the slash killed it. Its enormous body crashed to the ground, twitched a few times, then fell still.
After defeating Zhao Tong and refining the Essence-Congealing Golden Pattern Fruit, Mu Yunzhou had broken through to the Black Tortoise Ninth Layer.
Faced with a fifth-layer demonic beast now, he naturally slew it with a single slash.
As soon as the Poison Rock Lizard King died, a stream of vital essence drifted from its body and entered Mu Yunzhou. His cultivation actually increased a little.
"At this rate, I won't be far from breaking through to the Profound Martial Tenth Layer."
Mu Yunzhou murmured to