owlsbooks Chapter 39 Harvest
Chapter 39 Harvest
In the blink of an eye, Wang Tianlong found himself in an unprecedented perilous situation!
Ahead, the lingering power of the ancient demon Hei Ming's insidious claws swept across the area, while the ferocious charge of the crimson-armored rhinoceros created a chaotic mix of demonic and malevolent energy, sealing off a large swath of space. Behind, scorching, towering demonic flames, powerful enough to incinerate metal, cut off any escape route. To the side, the fiery sword beams of the Tiannan cultivators aimed at Hei Ming were not specifically targeted at him, but the terrifying fluctuations in spiritual energy were enough to engulf him!
The furious attack from three mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators (Black Nether was at the peak of the mid-stage) was something even a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator wouldn't dare to take head-on!
At the critical moment of life and death, Wang Tianlong's eyes showed not panic, but rather a cold calm. A thousand years of cultivation and countless life-and-death battles had long since tempered his will to be as firm as a rock!
He gave a low shout in his heart, and the "Wind-Treading Technique" within his body was activated to its limit. His body was bursting with spiritual light, and in an instant, he became blurred, as if he had transformed into a wisp of tangible but intangible wind! This was one of the most profound life-saving escape techniques in the "Wind-Treading Technique," which could greatly weaken physical attacks and energy impacts in a short period of time, and assimilate himself with the wind spiritual power between heaven and earth!
At the same time, he crushed the small teleportation talisman that he had been holding in his hand without hesitation!
"Buzz!"
The spatial energy fluctuated, and his figure twisted in place!
"Boom—!"
The lingering power of the demonic claws, the charge of the crimson-armored rhinoceros, the raging demonic flames, and the aftershocks of the sword light all struck his original location almost simultaneously! A terrifying energy storm erupted instantly, completely annihilating that area. A bottomless crater was blasted into the ground, and the walls of the side hall shook violently, with debris flying everywhere!
However, Wang Tianlong's figure vanished into thin air just before the destructive energy converged!
The next moment, a hundred feet away, in the shadows near the entrance of another corridor, a ripple appeared in the space, and Wang Tianlong staggered out, his face as pale as paper, a trickle of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. Although he had narrowly avoided the fatal combined attack by relying on "Wind God Formless" and "Minor Teleportation Talisman," the aftershocks of the attack from the three mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators still shook his internal organs, causing him considerable internal injuries.
But he still held the purple-gold jade box tightly in his hand!
"A teleportation spell?!"
"Where do you think you're going!"
Hei Ming, Tian Nan cultivator, and the Crimson Armor Rhinoceros noticed almost simultaneously, both shocked and furious! They never expected that this person would possess such a mysterious escape technique and life-saving talisman!
Hei Ming reacted the fastest. He had already forcibly seized the ice-attribute Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Treasure Short Sword (the short sword trembled violently, and the illusory ice phoenix roared, clearly extremely difficult to tame). However, seeing that Wang Tianlong was about to escape with another treasure, a flash of demonic light appeared in his eyes. Ignoring the backlash from the short sword, he grabbed at the air with his left hand, and another condensed giant palm of demonic energy, hundreds of feet away, grabbed down towards Wang Tianlong's head! The speed was even faster than before!
The Tiannan cultivators and the Crimson Armored Rhinoceros temporarily set aside their hostility towards Heiming (one treasure had already been taken, and they couldn't afford to lose the other one as well), and at the same time, they turned their attention to Wang Tianlong, unleashing their blazing sword light and demonic fire once again!
Wang Tianlong had just exhausted his old strength and had not yet generated new strength. He was also suffering from internal injuries and was about to be overwhelmed by the second combined attack of the three masters!
At this critical moment—
"Buzz—!"
The entire side hall, and even the entire Void Heaven Palace complex, suddenly trembled violently! An indescribable, vast, and boundless pressure erupted from the deepest part of the palace complex, sweeping in all directions!
Immediately afterwards, the ancient runes on the ground beneath everyone's feet and on the walls simultaneously lit up with dazzling light! Powerful protective light barriers appeared out of thin air, crisscrossing and dividing the entire side hall area!
"Oh no! The protective barriers have been triggered on a large scale!"
Hei Ming's expression changed. His giant demonic palm, which was reaching for Wang Tianlong, was blocked by a golden light barrier that suddenly rose up. It made a muffled sound and disappeared without a trace.
The sword light of the Tiannan cultivator and the demonic fire of the Crimson Armored Rhinoceros were also intercepted and absorbed by the separately rising barrier light screen.
In an instant, the front courtyard of the side hall was divided into several independent areas, each separated by a powerful barrier. Wang Tianlong, Hei Ming, the Tiannan cultivator, and the Crimson Armor Rhinoceros were placed in different areas!
"Damn it!"
The cultivator from Tiannan cursed angrily and swung his sword to slash at the light barrier in front of him, but only managed to create a ripple.
The red-armored rhinoceros violently rammed into the light barrier, making loud thuds, but the light barrier remained completely still.
Hei Ming glanced darkly at Wang Tianlong, who was separated by the barrier on the other side and taking the opportunity to swallow pills to regulate his breathing. He then looked at the ice sword still struggling in his hand, snorted coldly, and knew that things were hopeless. Continuing to entangle them would only attract more people or trigger stronger barriers, which would be a greater loss than gain. With a surge of demonic energy around him, he transformed into a wisp of black smoke and instantly fled along a corridor that was not completely blocked by the barrier.
Wang Tianlong suppressed his surging blood and qi, took a deep look in the direction where Hei Ming had disappeared, and firmly memorized the appearance and aura of the ancient demon. He dared not linger for a moment. Taking advantage of the gap in the barrier and the temporary inability of the other two to pursue him, his figure transformed into a wisp of barely perceptible green smoke, and he fled rapidly towards a corridor opposite to Hei Ming's!
Within a few breaths, only the Tiannan cultivators and the red-armored rhinoceros, trapped by the restrictions and roaring incessantly, remained in the front courtyard of the side hall.
Despite his injuries, Wang Tianlong sped through the maze-like corridors, his heart filled with lingering fear. He had truly narrowly escaped death! If the restrictions of the Void Heaven Palace hadn't been triggered at that exact moment, he probably would have perished there.
"Ancient Demon... an ice-attribute Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Treasure... and this jade box..."
He glanced at the heavy jade box in his hand, his expression complex. The price was indeed high. But regardless, he had finally obtained a treasure. He needed to find a safe place to heal his wounds as soon as possible and examine the contents of the jade box.
Just as Wang Tianlong narrowly escaped death in the side hall and seized the mysterious jade box, the top cultivators who had gone ahead in other areas of the Void Heaven Palace also had their own adventures.
Ling Yunchen, the Palace Master of the Star Palace, relying on his formidable strength and keen sensitivity to the power of the stars, broke through several powerful restrictions and was the first to enter a star-gazing pavilion near the core area of the Void Heaven Palace. The pavilion was sparsely furnished, containing only a floating star chart. On the star chart rested a strange jade pendant, neither gold nor jade, shaped like a crescent moon, with illusory images of the celestial stars flowing across its surface. The pendant emanated a vast power of stellar laws, clearly a heaven-reaching spiritual treasure related to the Dao of the Stars! Ling Yunchen spent several hours using his refined Star Palace secret techniques to communicate with and refine it, finally acquiring the "Star Moon Pendant" in its initial stages. This treasure combined offense and defense, and could also draw upon the power of the celestial stars, greatly enhancing his strength.
Xuan Qingzi, one of the three elders of Kunwu, after shaking off Wang Tianlong's pursuit, relied on his profound array formation cultivation to choose a seemingly dangerous corridor that actually concealed a path to survival. He eventually arrived at a secret chamber filled with ancient array patterns. The chamber contained no physical treasures, only a massive jade disc of array formations, on which were recorded the complete inheritance and deductions of several long-lost ancient arrays, powerful enough to trap and kill even late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators and even involving spatial power! To Xuan Qingzi, this was even more valuable than a Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Treasure! He was overjoyed to have found such a treasure and immediately immersed himself in its study, carefully making copies of all the inherited knowledge.
The patriarch of the Five Dragon Sea Flood Dragon Clan, relying on the dragons' natural affinity for aquatic treasures and their own aura, stumbled into a side hall resembling a cold, dragon-palace-like pool. Within the hall lay a jade pool of icy marrow, in which submerged a perfectly preserved ancient flood dragon's remains! Though lifeless, the remains still exuded dragon might. What delighted the patriarch even more was that beneath the reverse scale of the remains lay a dragon scale containing the secret techniques of ancient dragons! This was of immense significance to his bloodline purification, cultivation advancement, and even to the entire flood dragon clan! He painstakingly and carefully collected the remains, the dragon pearl, and the dragon scale together.