Chapter 332.1 (1/2)

Eighteen Drops of Blood

On Ning Fan’s side, out of the five blood wolves, almost all of them had already died. Even though the last one had ignited its blood, there was no way it could endure under the continuous barrage of attacks from the black dragon and the puppet. Gradually, the damage it took got more serious and was eventually defeated. That large wolf corpse was then brutally swallowed by the black puppet along with its skin and bones.

The remaining eight star wolves were eliminated one after one under the joint attacks from the women and the Honorable Demon Generals.

Ning Fan guarded the entrance of the snowy valley. Whenever a wolf approaches, he would wield his sword and slash them.

Piles of wolf carcasses were stacked beside his legs, yet none of them could get through his defense.

At the moment the eight star wolves all finally died, Ning Fan took a step forward and leaped onto the golden flame chariot, intending to go ahead of the others. When all the experts of his group had boarded the chariot, it rushed into the valley of snow, leaving Lu Jiefen and the others behind.

“It’s bad! The key is going to fall into Lu Bei’s hands!”

When Lu Jiefen, Qu Shun and the two old men saw Ning Fan had already made a move to rush into the snow valley first, their expressions immediately turned grim and they no longer reserved their strength.

Even though they were still surrounded by large groups of wolf demons, all the star wolves and blood wolves had already been killed, so they only left behind quite a number of Nascent Soul Realm and Divine Transformation Realm cultivators there to slaughter the wolves. Lu Jiefen and the other three experts no longer dawdled. At once, they turned into four light beams and trailed behind the golden flame chariot.

“Damn it…”

Lin Su’s eyes were filled with jealousy.

His strength was not strong enough for him to kill his way out of the enormous packs of wolves. What he could only do was to watch those Half-Step Void Refinement experts compete for the key of the Star Palace.

At first, the path of the snow valley was at least ten zhang* (1 zhang = 3.33m) wide. But as they reached the deepest part of the valley, it was only three zhang* (1 zhang = 3.33m) wide. That width was rather hard for the golden flame chariot to pass through.

Sometimes, the chariot would collide against the walls of the mountains, leaving some scratches on its body. That just showed how hard and solid those star mountains were.

After travelling for a few hours, the end of the valley of snow was only half a zhang* (1 zhang = 3.33m) wide. The surroundings were completely blocked by the star mountains, making their view of the sky became as thin as a line. Doubtlessly, the golden flame chariot was unable to pass through it. The width of the path only allowed a single person to enter one at a time.

After passing through that narrow path, their scope of vision widened. A huge ice basin which was covered in snow appeared. The surroundings suddenly became bright.

At the centre of the basin stood a silver iceberg. It was nearly ten thousand zhang* tall (1 zhang = 3.33m).

However, if one takes a closer look, they will find out that it isn’t a silver iceberg at all. but a ten thousand zhang* (1 zhang = 3.33m) large giant egg which was condensed from ice instead.

The shell of the egg was formed from frozen ice. Within the ice crystal, a huge body of a wolf demon which was at least five thousand zhang* (1 zhang = 3.33m) was sealed. Apparently, it seemed to be in the middle of sleeping. Even though it was separated from them by the iceberg, it emitted a steady but powerful breath.

“The iceberg must be the “Slumbering Demon Egg”! Perhaps that monster sealed inside it is the slumbering Wolf King?” Xi Ran exclaimed with her little mouth covered.

Even though she was a member of the demon race, she did not have much experience in life. In fact, it was her first time seeing the place where the experts of the demon race slumbered.

Moreover, Xi Ran got so excited that she even wanted to try flying to the top of the iceberg and take a good look at the posture of the sleeping Wolf King.

“Shhh! Silly little girl, lower down your voice…If we wake the Wolf King up, I’m afraid that you will immediately be eaten by him with his Void Refinement Realm cultivation!” Seeing Xi Ran who was curious, Wu Yan quickly held her back and stopped her with a smile.

Well, Xi Ran could not be blamed for being so excited. After all, the ‘Demon Egg of Slumber’ was the sealing technique which only the members of the ancient demon race knew. It was a technique to seal themselves. As long as the demon egg is sturdy enough, it was possible to enclose an expert inside the demon egg and allow him to slumber for billions of years without perishing.

Lu Wu, Lu Daochen and the others were all members of the ancient demon race. As a matter of fact, they had lived for over 150 million years without dying inside the demon egg.

The greatest advantage of slumbering inside a demon egg was that it could isolate one from the erosion of time and thus, let those ancient creatures survive to be part of future generations.

But the biggest drawback of it was that the slumbering cultivator would not be able to cultivate. Besides, it had no guarantee of safety and it was impossible for one to precisely control the time for them to wake up.

Tan Lang’s slumbering process was a little special. He was not completely in deep sleep. Thus, he could not isolate himself from the erosion of time. He only used the demon egg as a means to condense his demon power. Therefore, he would age. He would die. But he could also cultivate while slumbering inside the demon egg.

However, regardless of anything, Tan Lang was still sleeping. Without being woken up by those blood wolves outside, it would be extremely hard for him to wake up by himself!

“So this is, the ‘Demon Egg of Slumber’?!”

Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with surprise. It was also his first time seeing how a demon race expert slumbered, just like Xi Ran.

However, an egg was still just an egg after all.

When Ning Fan was a still mortal kid, he had heard a lot of myths and legends which were widely spread around in the mortal world.

For example, a giant who had slumbered inside an egg for several years eventually broke free from the shell of his egg, creating the heavens and earth and forming a chiliocosm.