Chapter 279.1: The Second Monster Spirit King (1/2)

Embittered Bamboo!

Aoxue’s identification sent a ripple of surprise through the scene. As one of the ten great connate spirit roots of the world, it was a mythical thing that existed only in legends dating from the ancient times. It’d been introduced to the world at large after records of it were unearthed from ancient tombs.

Their reputation exceeded that of many connate-grade treasures, as all connate spirit roots possessed great power. It was said that whoever could obtain all ten would set foot on an accelerated path through the immortal dao! Even Feinie’s Formation Orb paled in comparison.

However, the spirit roots weren’t something that could be sought out intentionally. The world of immortals at large didn’t even know if the myths were true. Yet now, the seventh on the list—Embittered Bamboo—was in the public eye in the form of someone’s replica!

Donglin Shaohui, peerless immortal of House Donglin, blanched. He hadn’t expected his greatest secret to be seen through so easily. The woman hadn’t only spotted this body as a replica, but had also ascertained what it’d been refined from.

“Run!” Donglin Shaohui disengaged from his fight with Beigong Yu and burst into emerald light. A tremendous bamboo shadow flashed through and took him out of the city, knocking away Beigong Yu at the same time.

“You’re not going anywhere!” roared Beigong Yu. His body made a sudden transformation into an enormous bird with a wingspan of three thousand meters that blotted out the sun. This was one of the forms of a true kunpeng!

A kunpeng had two forms—one as a fish, and the other, a bird. As the only kunpeng in the world of immortals, Beigong Yu had only ever displayed his fish form to outsiders, saving his bird form as a secret weapon. Not even the North Sea monster king knew about it.

Now that he’d died and been resurrected as Lu Yun’s Infernum, he was at liberty to reveal himself as a divine bird and unleash tremendous power. Watery ripples violently undulated from him and doused all of Tidewatcher City like a giant pond, shunting all of the local immortals away from the city.

Water Kingdom!

It was a combat art that kunpengs were born with, and it wrapped around Donglin Shaohui before he could escape the city.

“What kind of divine beast is this?!” he yelled with shock at the giant black bird. The horrifying domain of the Water Kingdom had suppressed his embittered bamboo body and was close to forcing its true form to manifest.

“Die!” growled Beigong Yu. The ripples enveloping the city converged and transformed into a giant hand, grabbing Donglin Shaohui’s replica.

“Gahhhhh—break!!” Donglin Shaohui roared. An enormous bamboo shadow emerged above him, its tremendous power smashing the hand of water so he could totter out of the Water Kingdom.

“Don’t let him get away!” shrieked Aoxue. Throwing caution out the window, she manifested a crimson halberd, unleashing her battle strength as a blood dragon and slashing at Donglin Shaohui.

The embittered bamboo was so great a treasure that Aoxue had to acquire it for Lu Yun, even if she exposed herself as a blood dragon in the process.

“What the hell is that?!” Donglin Shaohui barely had the time to breathe before a blinding crescent of crimson light slammed into him. Panic flooded his face when the light almost ground the nascent spirit he’d attached to the embittered bamboo to paste. Nevertheless, he was still an elite immortal of House Donglin who’d been so fortuitous as to encounter an embittered bamboo. That alone put him above average immortals.

“Break!” Donglin Shaohui decisively bit the tip of his tongue and spat out dark-green blood. A pleasant fragrance immediately filled the air as millions of shadowy bamboos manifested.

Bam!

A crimson halberd slammed into the bamboo with terrifying radiance and slowed like it’d been mired in mud, but then Beigong Yu’s Water Kingdom arrived and trapped Donglin Shaohui again.

“The great peng rides the wind and soars forty-five thousand kilometers into the sky!” Beigong Yu howled. An enormous kun fish leapt from his Water Kingdom and twisted in the air, turning into a giant peng bird.

Peng of Kun!