Because Gu Chen had a certain understanding of the living habits and sensing methods of most demonic beasts, although he encountered many demonic beasts along the way, very few were able to detect him, and the Tiger-Faced Bear was the strongest among them.
Gu Chen looked up at Dragon Spine Mountain and found that there were no mountain paths or flat roads. This mountain, which was nearly three or four thousand meters high, seemed to be climbable only by himself. The mountain was steep, and the countless barbs that cut across it were terrifying to look at. After thinking for a moment, Gu Chen decided to climb it anyway.
Grabbing some protruding rocks with both hands, Gu Chen leaped up, his feet barely touching the ground, climbing more than twenty meters in an instant. Then, taking advantage of the moment when his body lost its strength and began to fall, Gu Chen grabbed the mountain wall again and jumped!
Using this method, Gu Chen saved a lot of energy. Like a flea, he leaped and tumbled along the edge of the mountain wall, and in just five minutes, he had already climbed several hundred meters.
Looking back down, it seemed as if it were just my imagination, but the forest below appeared hazy and indistinct. Despite the sunlight streaming in, it had a dreamlike, misty quality.
"Buzzing--"
Just then, Gu Chen Divine Sense something, raised his head, and his face immediately darkened.
A swarm of tiny flying insects swooped in from a cave in the mountainside. Their wings were golden, their heads black and outstretched, buzzing and vibrating. In less than three breaths, over a hundred had gathered! The quality and species of these insects were unknown; even Gu Chen had never seen them before, let alone whether they were unique to this place!
But what made Gu Chen's heart tremble was that these flying insects swarmed in like locusts, rushing towards Gu Chen as he climbed the mountain!
"Damn it!" Gu Chen had already climbed more than a thousand meters, nearly halfway up Dragon Spine Mountain, but now these flying insects were attacking, forcing him to stop and use his hands to deal with them.
Just then, another monster appeared beside him, a gibbon, about a hundred meters away from Gu Chen. It was clinging to branches sticking out of the mountain wall, hanging down as it came, its dark, eerie green eyes flashing with a fierce light, its fangs bared, clearly seeing Gu Chen as its prey.
This was truly a situation where they were attacked from both sides, and Gu Chen's expression turned extremely ugly.
This gibbon is a mid-level demonic beast. Although its strength may not be stronger than that of the Tiger-Faced Bear, Gu Chen has no center of gravity in this place, so fighting it will probably be more difficult than on the ground.
But at that moment, the flying insects suddenly changed their target and rushed towards the gibbon!
"Hiss hiss hiss--"
These flying insects surrounded the gibbon in an instant, and then devoured it amidst its continuous screams. The gibbon, a mid-level demonic beast, didn't even have time to struggle or scream before it turned into a pool of blood in an instant!
Blood splattered as it slid down the mountainside.
The whole process took only a few seconds!
Gu Chen stared in disbelief, his heart filled with horror. What was the origin of this flying insect? How could it be so terrifying?!
A mid-level demonic beast, a gibbon that was stronger than any Late Grandmaster Realm in the Land of Heaven and Earth, was reduced to pus and evaporated into nothingness by the scorching sun in the sky!
Before he could react, the flying insects, buzzing, had already devoured the gibbon and then locked onto Gu Chen again!
A dense, overwhelming surge swept in once more!
The terror of these flying insects terrified Gu Chen. He had no intention of fighting these locusts. His body suddenly burst forth with tremendous speed, and his True Qi surged forth, flowing through his limbs and bones, rapidly circulating in his meridians.
His body shot up as if he were on a spring, leaping more than twenty meters in an instant!
"No, these flying insects aren't territorial. They seem to be predators, or perhaps guardians of this Dragon Spine Mountain Range." Gu Chen had already darted several hundred meters away. He glanced back, and the flying insects were still relentlessly pursuing him.
Under such depletion, Gu Chen's internal True Qi was rapidly depleting. In a short time, 30-40% of his dantian was used up. If this cycle continued, he would probably be exhausted before he even reached the summit of Dragon Spine Mountain or before the flying insects caught up with him.
Gu Chen knew he could no longer escape. His only chance of survival was to drive the swarm of insects away or slow them down. Using a sword? These insects were so tiny, like mosquitoes, they probably couldn't harm him at all.
"The Three-Flame Fan?" Gu Chen's heart stirred, and he took out the Three-Flame Fan. A red light ignited on the surface of the fan, and blazing flames rose into the air. With a wave of Gu Chen's hand, they spread out like waves of fire.
Boom!
Waves of fire surged one after another, unleashing a muffled roar in the void, instantly engulfing the flying insects.
Before Gu Chen could relax, he witnessed an unbelievable scene.
The flames had absolutely no effect on the flying insects. The more than one hundred insects emerged from the flames unharmed, without even a scratch on their wings!
"Bang bang bang--"
Gu Chen refused to believe it and, during a break in his climb, used his Three-Flame Fan to unleash several waves of fire, but the situation remained the same! These flying insects were completely unafraid of flames!
"Damn it, my Three-Flame Fan is just an ordinary magic weapon. If I could summon the Samadhi True Fire, these flying insects would be dead for sure. But unfortunately, it's just ordinary flames." Gu Chen realized that these golden insects all had the ability to resist magic. At least Gu Chen's low-level spells and the low-level magic weapon, the Three-Flame Fan, were useless against them.
Now, there is only one way left.
Gu Chen focused his energy in his dantian, and his True Qi surged like boiling water. A chaotic hurricane swirled around Gu Chen, and the immense spiritual energy raged outwards from him! He slowly stretched out his hands, each arm shrouded in milky white light, as if dragons and beasts were coiled in his hands!
Taking advantage of the moment his legs pushed off, Gu Chen's body flipped in the air, facing the relentless swarm of flying insects from above. Then, he roared and spurred his hands on the attack!
The Emperor's Ultimate Strike!
Gu Chen's Emperor's Ultimate Strike Attack started as a small burst, but it quickly created several ripples in the air, like a stone thrown into water, creating huge ripples. Before the ripples disappeared, another, even larger stone was thrown down!
A series of ripples emerged from Gu Chen's hands, layer upon layer. With just a push, he unleashed sixteen Emperor's Ultimate Strike Ripples at a speed invisible to the naked eye!
Bang bang bang!
The dozen or so leading flying insects were all struck by Gu Chen's Emperor's Ultimate Strike. Their faces were contorted as if they had been subjected to a powerful impact. Their wings were pressed against their bodies and they were suspended in the air for a moment. Then, they were sent flying backward at a speed even faster than their initial momentum!
This is the power of the Emperor's Ultimate Strike, its power coming one after another!