Roaring Beast

"Kill..." Yuanzi said calmly, waving a hand as he gave the order.

"Yes..." Dozens of Green Wood Humanoids answered in soft voices, brandishing their weapons as they rushed at the Toad Faced Toad.

How could Xiao Hua ever have seen such methods from Yuanzi before? This was truly turning every blade of grass and tree into a soldier!

Excellent, this was what true immortal methods looked like! Xiao Hua watched with immense satisfaction, his heart deeply shaken as well. Look at Yuanzi. Facing such a formidable Toad Faced Toad, he did not use a single immortal artifact. With a mere wave of his hand, he forced it into a dead end. Unlike Chu Yu, that Mortal Immortal, whose every move relied on methods from the mortal world, as though he could not wait to bring out every immortal artifact he possessed. As for Xiao Hua, though I have now entered the Immortal Realm, my methods are no different from Chu Yu's. How could I still have the nerve to call myself an immortal? Better watch how this old monster displays his skills. I can use it as a reference...

Poor Xiao Hua had entered the Immortal Realm for the first time in his Nascent Soul Body. How could he know that Yuanzi's technique was merely beginner-level? Among those immortals who had truly attained greatness, which one could not summon a million mighty soldiers with a wave of the hand and wield all manner of wondrous arts at will?

The Green Wood Humanoids were far more formidable than the puppet soldiers Xiao Hua had seen in the mortal world. The Toad Faced Toad's croaks rang out without pause, its flames never ceased, and its frog claws occasionally swept out as well. Although several Green Wood Humanoids were struck down, the Toad Faced Toad had already been wounded!

Yuanzi merely watched with his hands tucked in his sleeves, utterly carefree.

Seeing the Toad Faced Toad's eyes redden as though blood were about to drip from them, Xiao Hua thought to himself, Brother Toad is about to bring out his final move!

"Hee hee..." Suddenly, the mark beneath the Toad Faced Toad's jaw that resembled a woman's face floated into the air from nowhere. As it trembled, it let out laughter like that of a woman. That laugh was no small matter. The Soul Suppressing Bell at Xiao Hua's neck rang wildly, while Jing Sheng's Soul Suppressing Bell burst with a bang, turning to powder.

The previously imposing Green Wood Humanoids let out a chaotic series of puff puff puff sounds, all turning into smoke and dust. Within that smoke and dust, dozens of faint humanoid figures emerged as though drunk and entranced!

"Spirit Bodies??" Xiao Hua cried out in shock as his gaze swept over them. In an instant, he understood the origin of Yuanzi's strange immortal technique. If nothing unexpected had happened, Yuanzi must have captured and refined these Spirit Bodies, thereby gaining the wondrous art of scattering beans to turn them into soldiers!

"Not good!" The Toad Faced Toad's counterattack had come too suddenly. Caught off guard, Yuanzi saw the Spirit Bodies reveal their true forms and silently cursed. He casually flung out the Peachwood Sword in his hand!

The moment the Peachwood Sword left his hand, countless peach blossoms sprang up around the Toad Faced Toad with a whoosh, covering an area of a thousand zhang. "Wuu wuu..." Though the peach blossoms were as splendid as brocade, the Toad Faced Toad seemed to sense danger. It hurriedly spewed flames, while the mark resembling a woman's face shrieked madly with "hee hee" laughter. Xiao Hua did not feel much, but Jing Sheng fell from midair with a thud!

Just as Xiao Hua was about to fly over to assist him, the space within a thousand zhang trembled with a hum. Countless peach blossoms condensed into a hundred-zhang Sword Light, piercing bizarrely through the Toad Faced Toad's body!

"What... what Flying Sword technique is this?" Seeing the Sword Light suddenly appear, as though he had never seen the process of it piercing the Toad Faced Toad at all, Xiao Hua cried out in disbelief once more.

"Fortunately..." Yuanzi smiled faintly and raised a hand to point. The Peachwood Sword flying in midair returned, and the Peach Blossom Sword Light piercing the Toad Faced Toad abruptly vanished as well. "It did not damage the Toad Face Mark. This trip has not been in vain."

As he spoke, Yuanzi waved his hand again, sending out a grayish-white Immortal Talisman that landed precisely atop the Toad Faced Toad's head. Light flashed across the talisman, and the enormous corpse of the Toad Faced Toad rapidly shrank. In mere moments, it became fist-sized and fell into Yuanzi's hand.

Yuanzi put away the Immortal Talisman and looked somewhat regretfully at the dozens of listless Spirit Bodies around him. With a grasp of his hand, those Spirit Bodies turned into bean-sized specks and disappeared once more.

"Useless things!" Yuanzi lowered his head to look at Jing Sheng, who had fallen to the ground, then gently blew out a breath. Jing Sheng's body floated up like paper. Once he landed before Yuanzi, Yuanzi raised a finger and tapped him between the brows. Jing Sheng opened his eyes as though waking from a dream, looked around, and hurriedly bowed. "Thank you, Senior!"

Yuanzi ignored Jing Sheng. He merely looked eastward, where the horizon appeared cast from gold and a golden Guijing Sun had just poked its head out.

"The Guijing Sun has come out as well. This old man has wasted quite some time!" Yuanzi murmured desolately as he faced the Guijing Sun. Then he looked at Xiao Hua and Jing Sheng. "Come. Let us see what treasure the Toad Faced Toad was guarding!"

To Xiao Hua and the others' surprise, there was no treasure in the Toad Faced Toad's nest. There were only three beast eggs, each about a zhang in size. Two of the eggs were crystal-clear throughout and golden in color, delightful at a glance. The remaining one was covered in purple stripes, with warped cracks between them.

"Eh?" Yuanzi pointed with a finger, and the beast egg with purple stripes floated before him. He examined it carefully and said in surprise, "Why does this beast egg resemble the egg of a Roaring Beast?"

"Roaring Beast?" Xiao Hua did not understand, but he did not ask.

"Reporting to Senior..." Jing Sheng said with a smile, "This junior remembers that Roaring Beast eggs are long and narrow. This beast egg is clearly oval."

"I was talking about the patterns on this beast egg!" Yuanzi glared at Jing Sheng irritably. "A Roaring Beast's body is covered in these patterns. The deeper the patterns, the more powerful the spatial explosions they can trigger."

"Then this beast egg?" Jing Sheng's eyes lit up. He looked greedily at the egg and asked tentatively.

"You want it?" Yuanzi smiled faintly and handed the beast egg to Jing Sheng. "There are three beast eggs. The three of us shall take one each. This old man had originally been troubled over whom to give this dead egg to..."

"No, no..." Jing Sheng was stunned. Once he came to his senses, he hurriedly waved his hands. "This junior was merely curious. This junior previously spoke with Senior Hu, and he promised that if there were extra beast eggs in the Toad Faced Toad's nest, he would let this junior choose one."

"Fellow Immortal Jing..." Xiao Hua could not help arguing, "When Chu brought Mie Die Blood in earlier, you had agreed..."

Before Xiao Hua could finish, Jing Sheng interrupted him. "The question is, did you take it at the time?"

"I..." Xiao Hua was momentarily speechless. At that time, he had been fleeing for his life. How could he possibly have slipped back into the cave?

"Besides!" Jing Sheng exposed Xiao Hua's identity. "Fellow Immortal, all the arrangements here were agreed upon by Jing and Fellow Immortal Chu. You came here in Fellow Immortal Chu's place, and it is already good enough that you have gained an advantage. Jing and Fellow Immortal Chu were not bound by a friendship forged in life and death. Whatever happened between the two of you, neither Jing nor Senior Yuanzi will involve ourselves in it."

"Oh?" Yuanzi responded with interest and looked at Xiao Hua once again, but said nothing further.

"Fine!" Xiao Hua thought for a moment before saying, "I want this dead egg!"

Naturally, Yuanzi and Jing Sheng were both overjoyed. Xiao Hua took the dead egg, displeased, and silently flew out of the cave first. Yuanzi did not pay him any mind. After all, once they left the cave, they would each go their separate ways. Yet when Yuanzi flew out of the cave, he said in puzzlement to Jing Sheng, who was following closely behind him, "This old man feels something is not right. The Toad Faced Toad does not remain anywhere without treasure. Since it stayed here, there must surely be some treasure nearby!"

"Well..." Jing Sheng said with an ingratiating smile, "That is true, but this cave only has one passage..."

Before Jing Sheng could finish, Yuanzi suddenly turned around. Looking at a stone wall, he cried out, "I... I understand!"

Xiao Hua and Jing Sheng were both startled and stopped separately. At that moment, a strange beast nearly a hundred zhang in size slowly stepped out from the stone wall Yuanzi was watching! Purple stripes covered its body, and it had a pair of fleshy wings. Its nearly triangular head bore a pair of golden eyes that stared fixedly at the three of them. An aura close to destruction instantly enveloped the entire cave.

"Roaring Beast?" Jing Sheng cried out in shock and turned to flee.

Unfortunately, the moment the Roaring Beast stepped out, the space throughout the cave became tumultuous as though boiling. Countless purple spheres, large and small, emerged.

Even as Jing Sheng cried out, the entire cave flashed with purple light amid a series of booms. All the purple spheres exploded.

"The power of space??" Xiao Hua truly felt like dying. In the mortal world, one had to reach the Great Ascension Tribulation to grasp the power of space, yet an immortal beast in the Immortal Realm could wield it.

"Wretch..." Yuanzi slapped his forehead, and silver light abruptly appeared around him. The immensely powerful spatial explosions from the purple spheres merely made the silver light around him sway.

Yuanzi could withstand it, but Jing Sheng fared far worse. He had just activated his movement technique when a spatial explosion appeared before him, frightening him into hurriedly dodging. Yet just after he flew several zhang, several purple flashes exploded beneath his feet with boom boom sounds, blasting both of Jing Sheng's legs apart.

With blood and flesh splattering everywhere, Jing Sheng gritted his teeth and reached into his Hundred-Gathering Bag for a protective treasure.

A continuous series of booms erupted, some on his left, some on his right, and several even formed inside his body. In one instant, Jing Sheng's fleshly body was blown to pieces.

"Screech..." A solid Nascent Soul flew out from within Jing Sheng's body and was about to flee far away when several purple lights flashed nearby with boom boom sounds. The Nascent Soul had already turned to smoke and dust.

Jing Sheng's Nascent Soul naturally could not compare to Xiao Hua's. Xiao Hua had fled early and reacted quickly. The instant he sensed danger, he escaped at once. The Roaring Beast was far from Xiao Hua, and the spatial bubbles sealing him in were sparse. If Xiao Hua had possessed a fleshly body, he might not have feared these spatial explosions. Unfortunately, he was no longer what he had once been. Not only was his Nascent Soul Body somewhat fragile, even his escape technique did not serve him well. Though he fled with all his might, the spatial explosions still injured him. Not only was his Infant Body wounded, even the black robe covering him had been torn apart.

At this moment, how could Xiao Hua care about any of that? He fled desperately, but just as he flew out of the cave entrance, another terrifying aura suddenly arose...