The inner reaches of the Black Demon Mountain Range.
Following the route the Mystic Serpent had given him, Su Yu sped through the purple-black forest.
Green miasma that could rapidly paralyze the nerves drifted through the air. Ordinary Spirit Realm martial artists probably would not last even an incense stick's worth of time here.
The Prison-Suppressing Demon-Subduing Art circulated on its own.
An extremely faint layer of dark-golden light covered Su Yu's body.
When the poisonous miasma touched the light, it gave a faint sizzle and was instantly ground away.
Boom!
Just then, a violent clash of power suddenly erupted ahead.
The earth shook.
Su Yu pushed off with his toes and swept up into the crown of an ancient, towering tree.
Through the dense branches and leaves, a distant valley came into view.
The Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent, eighty feet long, was coiled tightly around a gigantic wild boar covered in black bone spikes.
Spirit Realm ninth level peak, an Earth-Splitting Demon Boar.
The two terrifying beasts, each practically at the threshold of the Mystic Realm, unleashed their power madly at the bottom of the valley.
Sand and stones thrown up by their collisions shot into the air.
Great sections of the cliffs on either side collapsed. The commotion was immense, keeping the boar thoroughly occupied.
Su Yu shifted his gaze, locking onto a jutting black cliff on the valley's right side.
A blood-red vine had taken root in a crack in the middle of the cliff, with dense Sha Qi twisting the surrounding air into spirals.
This Sha Qi was purer than that of any yin-aspected material he had consumed.
The Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent within his Qi and blood began to stir.
The Blood Baleful Intent Thorn!
He was still five hundred meters from that cliff, and the entire stretch was open, without any cover.
Two slightly smaller Earth-Splitting Demon Boars lay beneath the cliff.
Spirit Realm fifth level.
These were the guards the demon boar had left behind.
Su Yu swept his divine sense over them, his mind calculating rapidly.
Facing them head-on meant certain death.
Even if he unleashed the Vajra Star-Shattering Seal, there was absolutely no way he could forcibly kill two Spirit Realm fifth-level beasts at once.
Wandering Dragon Steps was only a Mortal Realm movement technique. Even at the subtlety level, it would be difficult to seize the Blood Baleful Intent Thorn by force under the watch of two Spirit Realm fifth-level boar demons.
Once he was held up, the ninth-level demon boar at the bottom of the valley would notice immediately.
"Add points. Put all my Slaughter Points into Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade!"
[Consumed 2,100 Slaughter Points. Beginning deduction of Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade (Spirit), supreme grade.] [Deduction complete: Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade (Spirit), supreme grade, major mastery.]
Boom!
Thunder seemed to explode inside his head as profound insights surged into Su Yu's mind like a tide.
With the black-gold saber in his hand, countless scenes of swinging it flashed through Su Yu's mind, as though he had practiced the saber for decades.
Right at that moment!
The nostrils of one of the guard boars below twitched violently as it detected something amiss.
Su Yu released the trunk and dropped straight down.
The instant he landed, his legs tensed and he pushed off explosively!
Bang!
Ultimate killing move, Dragon Concealment!
Surrounded by Sha Qi, he shot forward like a cannonball, skimming the ground.
The five-hundred-meter distance was forcibly compressed by his explosive burst of speed.
"Roar...!"
Both guard boars abruptly turned their heads, low warnings rumbling in their throats.
Whoosh!
His immense Spirit Realm fourth-level foundation in spirit refinement transformed into two invisible spikes.
Spirit Sense Piercing!
The spikes of divine sense savagely drove into the two boars' seas of consciousness, the stabbing pain leaving their movements completely frozen for an instant.
Half a breath.
Su Yu closed in on the cliff, his black-gold saber carving a blood-colored full moon through the air.
"Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade!"
The saber drained the air within three feet of him, and terrifying Sha Qi formed tangible shackles that locked firmly onto the nearest boar.
The blade swept past!
Splurt!
Most of the Spirit Realm fifth-level boar's neck was sliced open in an instant. All life left its massive body as it stood frozen in place.
The saber drew out a mass of blood essence, carrying it upon its edge.
Without the slightest hesitation, the blood-red blade abruptly changed direction and immediately cleaved viciously toward the other boar.
This strike was even more powerful than the last. A blood-red blade gleam flashed past, and the enormous boar's head rolled onto the ground.
[Killed two Spirit Realm fifth-level boar demons. Gained 1,100 Slaughter Points.]
After dispatching the boar demons, Su Yu did not hesitate. His left arm darted out, and all five fingers clamped tightly around the root of the Blood Baleful Intent Thorn.
The instant he touched it.
Violent, extremely cold Sha Qi shot through his palm straight toward his heart meridians.
His Prison-Suppressing Qi and Blood launched a full counterattack, forcibly suppressing the invading Sha Qi back beneath his palm.
Bang!
The Blood Baleful Intent Thorn was torn out by the roots.
Su Yu stamped hard against the cliff with his toes, using it to propel himself backward in retreat.
The instant the Blood Baleful Intent Thorn left the crack.
At the bottom of the valley.
The ninth-level demon boar, locked in a frenzy of biting with the Mystic Serpent, suddenly raised its head and unleashed a savage howl that shook through the valley.
Its ninth-level peak presence instantly locked onto Su Yu in midair.
"You stinking snake! You dared play me!"
The enraged Earth-Splitting Demon Boar roared and kicked forward hard with a thick forehoof.
Bang!
A boulder several meters tall went flying.
Wrapped in pitch-black demonic power, the boulder tore through the air with a piercing sonic boom, hurtling precisely toward Su Yu's back.
Sensing it, Su Yu forcibly twisted at the waist in midair and compressed all his dark-golden Qi and blood into his right finger.
Vajra Star-Shattering Seal!
The light at his fingertip struck hard against the center of the black boulder.
Boom!
A blast of air mixed with shattered rock erupted in midair, then fell to the ground and kicked up a cloud of dust.
The recoil hurled Su Yu into the dense purple-black canopy.
His black robes blended into the shadows.
The Earth-Splitting Demon Boar did not continue its pursuit.
Before the dust from the shattered boulder had fully dispersed, the distinctive Sha Qi fluctuations belonging to the Blood Baleful Intent Thorn had already vanished completely.
It turned its enormous body.
The pressure shattered the loose rocks at the bottom of the valley in waves.
The Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent coiled before the collapsed cliff, flicking its scarlet forked tongue.
"Stupid pig."
The Mystic Serpent's mental transmission exploded through the valley.
Every black bone spike on the Earth-Splitting Demon Boar's back stood erect.
Violent Yao Qi formed a tangible black whirlwind, uprooting all vegetation within a hundred-meter radius.
It had been played.
The stinking snake before it had been keeping it occupied from the very beginning.
All so that utterly inconspicuous human worm could raid its home.
"Roar!"
The Earth-Splitting Demon Boar abandoned all defensive postures and drove its four thick hooves hard against the ground.
Great stretches of granite at the bottom of the valley shattered.
The black mountain of flesh became a destructive cannonball, charging straight at the Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent.
The Mystic Serpent's scales rapidly flared and closed. There was nowhere left to retreat.
Its enormous tail scraped through the air, raising a ring of white air as it met the charge head-on.
Boom!
The two Spirit Realm ninth-level peak demons slammed into each other without holding anything back.
Their Qi and blood clashed.
The air within several hundred meters was forcibly drained away, creating a brief vacuum.
Immediately afterward, violent currents of air erupted in every direction.
A boulder more than ten meters tall was lifted by the blast and completely disintegrated in midair.
On a distant treetop.
Su Yu stood on a swaying branch.
The powerful shock wave swept across his cheek, shearing off a few small leaves.
The two monsters had plunged into an all-out fight to the death.
Su Yu did not linger. Dark-golden Spiritual Qi erupted beneath his feet as he unleashed Wandering Dragon Steps to its fullest.
His figure became a concealed black line, threading deeper into the inner reaches of the Black Demon Mountain Range.