Chapter 73 - The Gods Treasures (1/2)
"We broke through the seventh array formation recently, thanks to the Lord of Xian Kong City."
The seneschal led Zhong Yue and the others into the seventh array formation in the volcano and he showed his admiration to the lord of Xian Kong City while he said, "The current generation Lord of Xian Kong City is the strongest among all the previous lords of Xian Kong City. He is incredibly smart and powerful! Unfortunately, he too suffered heavy injuries as he broke through the seventh array formation and had to seclude himself to recover his injuries. If he hadn't suffered any injuries, both the Lords of Sulphur Island and Jin Xiu Island wouldn't suffer heavy injuries and get hunted by the four young masters of the Swords Gate."
Zhong Yue's heart became heavy and asked, "The Lord of Xian Kong City neutralized the seventh array formation single-handedly?"
"Not really, many died at this seventh array formation as well."
The seneschal replied, "The fact of the Xian Kong City Lord managed to neutralize the array formation was in large part due to the efforts of his predecessors in greatly weakening its power. For your information, previously, even if someone had managed to neutralize the array formations, they would not be able to pull it off unscathed. Any headway they would have made would have undoubtedly come at a great cost or even death. Just by being able to retreat alive was already a huge achievement by the Xiang Kong City Lord! The crucial part is that the Xian Kong City Lord is still at the prime of his life, and his strength is still constantly improving, I would not be surprised if he breaks through to become a monster god in the future!"
Zhong Yue's expression became a little bit serious as soon as he heard what the seneschal said. The current Swords Gate headmaster was already at the twilight of his life whereas the Lord of Xian Kong City is still in his prime age. The situation appeared to be very dire to the future of Swords Gate and the whole of Great Wilderness.
We Swords Gate are facing a great threat from the outside while we still have great problems among ourselves, making the situation even worse now. The four young aces of Swords Gate have not reached the extent where they could support the entire Swords Gate and some in the Swords Gate have even colluded with the Tian Myriad Mother to topple the peace we worked so hard to maintain. Now, with the addition of this incredible Xian Kong City Lord, do the heavens really want to annihilate the humans in the Great Wilderness?
"The eighth array formation has yet to be neutralized and the battlefield with the four young aces of Swords Gate will also be held here!" The seneschal led Zhong Yue and the others into the eighth layer of array formation and Zhong Yue could feel a myriad of immense auras emitted by many different strong individuals. There were actually hundreds of strong monsters in the eighth array formation!
The eighth layer of the array formation was incredibly spacious, which made it an ideal stage for a duel. The strengths of the four young aces of Swords Gate or the young aces of the monster's race were all incredible, the Gu Xia City would suffer heavy losses if they had a duel outside of the volcano.
However, if they fought here, whatever damage they caused would only be inflicted on the array formation, thus, further weakening the power of the array formation at the same time. This would not only bring no harm to the monsters, but it would also hasten their process of neutralizing the eighth layer of array formation!
Gu Hongzi, the Lord of Gu Xia City, was really smart in his machinations. He may be still young but he has already shown signs that he would become an ambitious and ruthless figure in the future.
Zhong Yue quickly understood the plans of this Gu Hongzi and thought in his mind, He must be plotting something more when he invited the four young aces of Swords Gate to have a duel here. It seems like he not only wants to wipe off their existence, he was also planning to test the full power of the eighth layer of array formation by using them.
Although he yet to meet Gu Hongzi, the man's formidability was already indelibly imprinted onto his mind. If this man continued to improve, he would definitely become a formidable foe in the future.
Moreover, as to what Hu Wensheng, Bai Xiushi, and the others had said, this Gu Hongzi was already a bona fide genius even during his youth. His position in the heart of the Xian Kong City Lord could be seen when he was bequeathed the title of Lord of Gu Xia City!
Zhong Yue frowned again and thought, So why did Fang Jiange, Feng Wuji, and the others still show up when they knew this was a trap?
He did not know much about the others but he had had a glimpse of the strength of Fang Jiange during the time in the Demon Ruins. His strength had reached heights of which Zhong Yue had never seen.
Being able to enter the Demon Ruins alone and cut down the Tian Myriad Mother with one strike while her spirit had yet to fully recover. From the point of view of Zhong Yue, Fang Jiange was a man of strength and wisdom, not quite like the likes of reckless fools.
Could it be that they are certain that they could retreat unharmed? Zhong Yue thought.
The airspace in the eighth layer of the array formation was even bigger than the previous layers, Below the mushroom-shaped cliffs were volcanic stone columns. When Zhong Yue and the others arrived at this point, they saw fire sparks randomly appearing as well as blazing fires raging in the air. Together, these flames formed huge and alluring totem carvings that appeared to contain an indescribable intricacy at the same time.
These carvings were god-level carvings, complicated and advanced. Once they were formed, fiery dragons could be seen among the totem carvings fleetingly before disappearing.
Each of the dragons emanated immense auras like real dragons. The draconic auras were so powerful that such auras could only be felt on the unrealistically strong individuals!
When these dragons slithered in the air, their presences were so great that the monsters' Qi Practitioner were so tiny as compared to the dragons.
Hu——
A fiery dragon suddenly appeared on the cliff where Zhong Yue and the others were standing. The huge body of this fiery dragon slowly slithered on the cliff and created fire sparks so hot that it could melt the rocks into lava when its scales rubbed on the ground.
Zhong Yue, Hu Wensheng, the seneschal and the others stood on the cliff and looked at the fiery dragons. Each and every single scale of this dragon was even bigger than all of them and were as smooth as a mirror.
Bai Xiushi and the others were already sitting on the ground from the pressure exerted by the aura of the dragons. As monsters, the draconic aura and the draconic bloodlines naturally had an overwhelmingly dominating power over them.
Zhong Yue however, did not bother much about the draconic aura and he was looking at the environment. He saw the cliffs were connected through ropeways and all of these may be a result of the Xian Kong City Lord's attempt to neutralize the array formation here. Among the 108 slaughtering arrays and mushroom-shaped cliffs, there were five of them that were connected with ropeways, indicating that he had neutralized about five slaughtering arrays.
On the fourth cliff, was a huge tortoise whose size occupied the entire cliff. That tortoise was Fang Jiange's ride, while atop the other three cliffs stood the monsters who were there to spectate the battle.
On the fifth cliff, Zhong Yue saw the four aces of Swords Gate and the remarkable young individuals of the monsters.
Out of their expectation, there wasn't any fierce battle or bloodshed, instead, Fang Jiange and the others were conversing happily with the remarkable young monsters disciples.
On top of the fifth cliff, there were also bright rays and colorful lights. When looked at from a distance, the top of the fifth cliff looked like the venue of a festival instead of a battle. Amidst the bright rays and colorful lights, there were a few young remarkable individuals of the human and monster race who sat or stood under the cumuliform gazebo.
Among them, Zhong Yue was most familiar with Fang Jiange, who wore his sword at his waist and looking very calm.