Chapter 430: Ghost Hits Wall (1/2)

The ten lords brooded and glowered. Though they’d been holding back for their own reasons, it was still humiliating for them to be thwarted by a silverback gorilla.

All ten of them were absolute geniuses who’d been polishing themselves, rather than blindly focusing on breaking through. Their cultivation had all reached the stage of great perfection. In comparison, the silverback gorilla’s cultivation was so flawed it hurt their eyes to even look at him. Although it’d reached the void realm, it didn’t understand the essence of the realm at all.

Nevertheless, Yuan Tong’s physical strength was incomparably great, and the iron rod it wielded was extremely heavy. Swinging with both hands, it was able to send a force of millions of kilograms descending upon its opponents—a power enough to rival any of the lords.

“This cannot be!” The golden lion’s golden eyes turned pale as it panted, shock the overriding expression on its face.

Bloodlines determined the strength of a monster spirit. The gold bloodline was more powerful than the silver bloodline, and the golden lion was the greatest of the gold bloodline tribes. Only the Silvermoon Wolfkings, who stood out from the other silver bloodline tribes, could rival it.

However, the silverback gorilla had beaten it and robbed it of its personal treasure, the evil-repelling Aureate Dawn Orb!

“It must be the ancient legacy buried here!” the Human Lord exclaimed. “The silverback gorilla must’ve gained part of it! It can’t be this powerful otherwise!”

Yuan Tong had been long abandoned by its kind. It’d been a nascent spirit realm cultivator for many years before it entered the Sovereign Meet, its potential long exhausted. The only explanation for its sudden change was an ancient legacy!

The Human Lord’s observation riled up the other cultivators.

“Kill it!” one of them called out. In an instant, sword energy flooded the small clearing.

“Shameless bastards!” Yuan Tong snarled and vanished into the small cavern behind it. The other cultivators hurriedly pulled back their attacks and chased after it.

“Oh?” They screeched to a confused stop as a clearing unusually similar to the one before greeted them. In fact, it was identical to the one they’d just charged out of.

It was a clearing of medium size with the same cavern at its end. Yuan Tong stood guard with a golden rod, staring at the ten lords and their followers with a half smile.

“What’s going on?” muttered the Human Lord, his expression tight. “Have we entered the tomb already?”

“We’ll know everything when we catch the gorilla!” growled the Thunder Lord, tamping down his nerves. “Don’t hold back!”

“Do it!” The ten lords worked in tandem again. Among their followers, some had been left in the tomb earlier, but most had followed them here.

Yuan Tong didn’t run, but faced the ten lords head on again. However, the lords used their strongest attacks this time, hurling the gorilla off its feet and injuring it to the point where it threw up a mouthful of blood speckled with silver radiance.

“Reversion of ancestry!” Silversnow’s face tightened at the sight of the blood. Though silverback gorillas were of the silver bloodline, they were far removed from its source. The sparkling flecks in Yuan Tong’s blood was proof that he had somehow, inconceivably, taken a step back toward their roots and the true power of their ancestors.

“Damn you pathetic cowards, ten against poor little me again!” grumbled Yuan Tong. It turned and dived into the cavern behind it.

“Go after it!” The ten lords had no choice but to give chase. Their stomachs dropped when they entered the cavern.

“What’s… going on here?!” They had returned to the same place again. The same clearing, the same cavern, and the same Yuan Tong!

“Is this all an illusion? Have we stumbled into a formation in the tomb?”