Chapter 74 - Battle of the Aces (1/2)

Zhong Yue looked at the pearl that seemed like it had ascended from the underground. Although the pearl seemed like it was very close to them, when he used his psyche to scan through the pearl, he could feel that the pearl was in fact very far away from them.

Yet they could sense the seemingly unlimited energy effusing from the pearl which made it seem exactly like a treasure that contained power beyond imagination!

This bright moon looked exactly like it had ascended from the underground, no wonder they did not think that it could be the moon. Besides, the power contained in the moon is so powerful and it looked like a pearl, it was natural for no one to be able to discover anything.

Zhong Yue felt a little bit weird and he thought, The monsters probably thought that no one would set up such a complicated and magnificent array formation just to protect a teleportation portal that was even limited to one person. Because no one would be so ludicrous….

"Maybe after another few ten thousand years, the nine layers of array formations I left behind would all been neutralized…." In Zhong Yue's psyche ocean, Xin Huo bemoaned.

"Everyone!"

Suddenly, Gu Hongzi stood up and said, "I've gone through the ancient books and discovered something interesting; whenever this pearl appears, the power of the array formations set up here would enter the nadir of its power, which made them most vulnerable to neutralization. Since we are all here today, would the aces from the Swords Gate have the guts to decide your fates and our monsters' aces fates here in the slaughtering arrays?"

Jun Sixie's face changed slightly and when she looked down, she discovered that as the pearl ascended higher, the surrounding totem carvings and their powers slowly weakened as Gu Hongzi had said.

However, even if the totem carvings' power decreased, the seals could still be able to wipe off their existence in an instant!

Feng Wuji and Lei Hong's face also changed slightly as Gu Hongzi's suggestion had caught them off guard. Under such circumstances, the last man standing may not be the strongest one as it would depend greatly on their luck!

Fang Jiange however, was indifferent and said, "We will just kill them in this one fight and no one will be able to stop us from killing the Lords of Sulphur Island and Jin Xiu Island."

"Such arrogance, you little brat!"

On the third cliff, a shout could be heard and Zhong Yue looked towards that direction. He then saw the Lord of Sulphur Island and Jin Xiu Island, Yan Yunsheng and Xiu Tiancheng, both sitting there surrounded by sentinels of monster Qi Practitioners.

The two magnates of the monsters were incensed by the words of Fang Jiange.

The two of them had yet to recover from the heavy injuries they suffered in the Beast God Ridge and were even hunted on their way back by Fang Jiange and the others whereupon they were inflicted with even more injuries. With that, the two lofty figures of the monster race had almost lost their lives to the four young aces of Swords Gate!

It was merely a few thousand miles on the road between the Great Wilderness and Gu Xia City, but their escape back into the safety of Gu Xia City took over two months. All of this was taken as the greatest humiliation they have ever been through.

Gu Hongzi walked down the cliff and entered straight into the arrays left behind by Xin Huo while saying, "Senior Martial Brother Fang is right. If the four of you killed us all, then there will be no one in the Gu Xia City who will be able to stop you guys anymore."

As Gu Hongzi walked into the arrays, the air suddenly turned scorching hot and while the countless arrays were triggered, blazing fire shot out from the ground and turned into a huge totem carvings array. Dragon roars were the first to break the silence whereupon a flurry of fiery dragons flew out from the gigantic totem carvings array and pounced towards Gu Hongzi.

These fiery dragons may have been affected by the coldness emitted by the moon, causing their power to be weakened. However, if Gu Hongzi failed to exercise extreme caution, he would still end up being dismembered!

Gu Hongzi moved quickly and as his position flickered about the place, he managed to evade the pursuit of the blazing dragons.

His movement speed was very fast as with just a few steps, he had reached an incredibly far distance as he continued to evade the dragons, "Which senior martial brother from Swords Gate would gladly teach me something?"

"I will!"

Fang Jiange starting advancing and he entered the arrays, heading straight towards the sixth cliff. In mid-air, more and more fiery dragons appeared while slithering in the air before charging towards Fang Jiange as he walked deeper into the arrays.

As he continued his advancement, roars could be heard before the fiery dragons slammed into each other, clasping their claws together and formed a huge fire cage, trapping him inside.

Nine huge dragons were also formed and they each had huge bodies that were a few miles long and they could breathe scorching fire from their mouths. They looked just like an ancient gigantic fiery dragon from afar and whenever they breathed fire, it felt as if they wanted to melt down whatever was inside the cage!

The scene struck terror into the hearts of the onlookers and the faces of those monsters spectating the battle quickly changed as they knew that if they were in there, they would be melted within seconds!

And all of this was even after the weakening of the arrays; if the arrays were at their peak condition, perhaps not even those exceptionally strong ones would survive against such raw killing potential!

A bright Sword Qi suddenly appeared and pierced through the overlay of fiery dragons on top of Fang Jiange as Sword Qi could also be seen ravaging the insides of the blazing mesh surrounding him; the onslaught of the fiery dragons was disrupted and Fang Jiange showed signs of breaking free from the encirclement of the nine dragons.

Then, Gu Hongzi laughed and charged towards Fang Jiange with a speed beyond imagination while forming all sorts of totem carvings around him. He also formed a monster god with four pairs of wings and the head of a bird behind his back while he charged towards Fang Jiange!

At that moment, shock waves could be seen emitting from the nine dragons overlay and after a moment of dragon roaring and snake hissing, a huge golden divinity appeared behind the back of Fang Jiange. The golden god, with snakes dangling down his ears and two ferocious dragons under his feet, ascended in while he was shrouded with bright light and clashed with the monster god behind Gu Hongzi!

Fire blazed in mid-air and the air itself felt as if it were going to burn!

As the dragons under the feet of the golden god and the snakes dangling down at the ears of the golden gods changed their stances, they opened their mouths wide and bit at the monster god.