Chapter 410: Steed (1/2)
“The pressure of this Path of Ingress isn’t unbeatable. I just need some time to adjust. I think I’ll be used to it in a day or so.” Lu Yun continued muttering to himself, seemingly oblivious of the staff coming down on his head. “If I don’t want to fall behind during this time, using a musclehead like you as transportation is the best solution.”
Clang!
An intervening fist slammed into the swinging staff—Lu Yun’s hand.
The impact shattered the foot-wide metal pole, leaving the part left in the silverback gorilla’s hand shivering alongside its wielder. Walking up to the gorilla, Lu Yun stomped firmly on its guts. The gorilla gritted its teeth in pain, but nevertheless acquiesced by putting all its limbs on the ground.
The young man walked onto its back.
“You will be my steed, or my dinner.” His ruthless whisper at the gorilla’s ear elicited another round of violent trembling. Lu Yun exuded chillingly visceral killing intent, and its survival instincts screamed for it to obey. It tossed aside its staff as quick as it could, then pounded its limbs forward against the ground for dear life.
The nearby human cultivators were speechless, but also rather inspired by what they had just seen. The monster spirit cultivators around them seemed quite... tempting, in their original forms.
No one knew who threw the first punch, but it didn’t take long for a small brawl to break out between man and monster near the starting line.
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“Bastard! How dare that Qing Yu’s Sidekick bully one of our boys like that!” A monster spirit powerhouse flared up with anger at what he was watching.
“One of your boys? He’s a gorilla, isn’t he?” snickered a human immortal. “Using the wrong pronoun there, aren’t you?”
“You!” The monster spirit glared at the offending commenter, who returned the look with twofold intensity.
“What’re you looking at? You’re just a bunch of animals, so use pronouns appropriate for your species! Bring it on if you don’t agree with that!”
Several monster experts lunged angrily at the human immortal. They had had enough.
“All of you, stop!” The strongest experts seated in the air above everyone else released their auras in unison, forcing the monster spirit immortals back.
“Anyone who causes trouble during the course of the Sovereign Ranking will die!” the Destiny city lord’s voice sounded once more as origin dao power coursed freely through the air.
Innumerable immortals felt their hearts tremble a little. Just as they’d thought, the city lord was in the origin dao realm!
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The chaotic brawl at the start of the path raged onward. Cultivators fought messily among themselves, both to acquire a mount and to thin out the competition. They’d noticed the same thing Lu Yun had: the pressure of the path wasn’t absolute. It would only take some time for them to get used to the weight.
Thankfully, the limitation also prevented them from doing serious harm to each other. Very few had the absurd strength of a silverback gorilla, after all, and the truly strong had already left.
Many of them had a strange hunch: those who reached the other end of the Path of Ingress first would receive unexpected prizes.
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