Chapter 59: Taotie Root Bone, Chen Changsheng What Flavor Do You Want to Be Made Into
Chapter 59 Taotie Root Bone, Chen Changsheng What Flavor Do You Want to Be Made Into
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Seizing the moment Lei Yun was stunned, Chen Changsheng ruthlessly hammered the beast’s skull several times in a single breath.
Crack!
The supreme horn atop Lei Yun’s head was forcibly snapped by Chen Changsheng’s strikes, and the piercing agony violently snapped the beast back to reality.
However, instead of pressing the attack, Lei Yun immediately retreated, pulling a vast distance between itself and Chen Changsheng.
“That is a Taotie Root Bone. From what ancient grave did you unearth it?”
Hearing Lei Yun’s trembling words, Chen Changsheng cast a curious gaze upon the massive bone in his grip.
He had excavated this very bone from the burial soil of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
Had it not possessed a rather sturdy constitution, Chen Changsheng would have discarded it long ago.
Now, enlightened by Lei Yun’s dread, Chen Changsheng finally understood why the entire Thunder Beast lineage had frozen the moment he brandished it.
It was the absolute suppression of a primordial bloodline!
Comprehending the profound truth, Chen Changsheng did not utter a single word; he instantly dispelled the Law of Heaven and Earth and fled with everything he had.
Lei Yun: ???
Wait, why are you fleeing? You hold a Peerless divine weapon; how can you turn your back and run?
Swallowing its bewilderment at Chen Changsheng’s decisive cowardice, Lei Yun marshaled its Qi and gave chase with all its might.
Simultaneously, the seven or eight Thunder Beasts that had been observing from the heavens joined the encirclement.
The Thunder Clan had mobilized their entire lineage for two reasons: firstly, to harvest vengeance, and secondly, to temper their younger generation in the crucible of slaughter.
It was precisely because of this that the Soul Formation sovereigns of the Thunder Clan had withheld their strikes until now.
But the tides of fate had shifted. Chen Changsheng held a legendary relic yearned for by all beastly lineages; the Thunder Clan’s elites would no longer merely spectate.
The Taotie Root Bone indeed exerted a tyrannical suppression over beastly bloodlines, yet the collective might of the Thunder Beast clan was simply too profound.
Setting aside Lei Yun at the Void Refinement stage, there were seven or eight terrifying existences at Soul Formation Perfection alone.
Including those in the early and mid stages of Soul Formation, the number of supreme experts reached a terrifying twenty-eight.
Faced with such a heavenly net, even a single coordinated strike would grind Chen Changsheng’s mortal vessel into bloody paste.
Thus, what was meant to be a fatalistic duel to the death transformed into a desperate pursuit.
Although Chen Changsheng’s raw strength fell short of Lei Yun’s, his mastery over escape arts was not the least bit inferior.
One must understand, among the myriad Dao paths under the heavens, Chen Changsheng exclusively favored the arts of evasion.
Having recently Ascended his comprehension to master the Vertical Golden Light, a divine ability birthed from the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art,
the twenty-odd supreme powerhouses simply could not lay a claw upon a mere early-stage Soul Formation human.
……
A Cup of tea’s time later.
Lei Yun finally halted its immense frame, prompting Chen Changsheng to pause in the distance.
“Human, your path has reached a dead end. Surrender the Taotie Root Bone, and I shall spare your wretched lives.”
Hearing this decree, Chen Changsheng cast a detached gaze upon the battlefield below.
The Wu Clan fought without fear of the grave, but their mortal strength was fundamentally outmatched by the Thunder Clan.
Their forces of over thirty thousand had already been halved. Although they had paid in blood to sever the lives of a few Nascent Soul Thunder Beasts,
this loss barely scratched the profound foundation of the Thunder Clan.
“Hah!”
“The ledgers of life and death are not yet balanced!”
“You cannot shatter my grand Formation.”
Seeing Chen Changsheng’s stubborn refusal, Lei Yun coldly sneered, “I do not deny the viciousness of your killing array.”
“Yet, to your profound misfortune, you have willingly sealed yourself within it.”
“Trapped inside, hunted by my kin from all sides, you are entirely incapable of manipulating its profound mechanics.”
“Relying purely on the Formation’s autonomous cycle, it cannot harvest our lives anytime soon.”
“Within that span, I will bury every human present, including yourself.”
Every syllable from Lei Yun ruthlessly pierced Chen Changsheng’s fatal vulnerabilities.
The Heaven-Earth Life-Extinguishing Formation was undeniably terrifying, but Chen Changsheng suffered from a severe lack of array materials and had not yet reached Perfection in his mastery over it.
Consequently, merely restraining the entire Thunder Clan pushed the Formation to its absolute limit.
To enact a complete slaughter was the idle dream of a madman.
Weighing these truths, Chen Changsheng asked with a solemn, heavy expression, “If I offer you the Taotie Root Bone, will you truly allow us to walk away?”
Hearing his wavering tone, Lei Yun’s heart surged with savage joy, though it maintained a mask of absolute indifference.
“I never issue mortal guarantees. But if you withhold the Taotie Root Bone, I will butcher them all this instant.”
As the threat fell, a gargantuan sphere of catastrophic lightning condensed within the Formation’s bounds.
Though the Heaven-Earth Life-Extinguishing Formation severed the Thunder Beasts from the Heavenly Dao, Lei Yun’s inherent cultivation base had not vanished.
With its Void Refinement prowess, it possessed strength in surplus to annihilate Chen Changsheng and the Wu Clan three times over.
“Wait!”
Seeing Lei Yun prepare to unleash the apocalyptic strike, Chen Changsheng immediately displayed frantic desperation.
“If I hand over the Taotie Root Bone, will you truly spare our lives?”
Hearing Chen Changsheng capitulate, A’Li, bathed in the blood of his enemies below, desperately roared, “Mister, do not trust—”
Bang!
Before A’Li could finish his warning, a Soul Formation Thunder Beast viciously slammed him away.
This human’s mastery of evasion was anomalous. If he committed entirely to fleeing, the Thunder Clan was not guaranteed to capture him.
Thus, to claim the Taotie Root Bone, they needed him to willingly present the tribute.
“I shall state this one final time: I offer no guarantees.”
“You may keep it, but I will bury every last one of them.”
Faced with Lei Yun’s absolute decree, Chen Changsheng’s eyes swam with bitter unwillingness, yet his feet carried him, step by agonizing step, toward the beast.
Witnessing Chen Changsheng surrender his defiance, both the Thunder Clan and the Wu Clan halted their bloody butchery.
Every step Chen Changsheng took seemed impossibly heavy, and with each footfall, Lei Yun’s heart pounded with mounting greed.
The Taotie Root Bone—this was a relic of mythic proportions!
To claim it now without expending a drop of blood… Truly, the Heavens favored the Thunder Clan.
To cross the meager distance of six hundred feet, Chen Changsheng deliberately exhausted a full Cup of tea’s time.
Then, just as Chen Changsheng stood a mere hundred paces from Lei Yun, he abruptly raised his head.
“Will you answer one final question for me?”
“Satisfy this curiosity, and the Taotie Root Bone is yours.”
“Speak!”
Spitting out the single syllable, Lei Yun’s patience had nearly ground to dust.
“What flavor do you wish to be cooked into momentarily?”
Lei Yun: ???
Chen Changsheng’s absurd inquiry left Lei Yun completely bewildered, but then, a profoundly unexpected phenomenon erupted.
The myriad Thunder Beasts hovering in the void suddenly began to uncontrollably plummet from the heavens.
Golden Core, Nascent Soul, even the supreme Soul Formation experts—none were spared this fate.
Witnessing this cascading catastrophe, and coupling it with the sudden, insidious smile blooming on Chen Changsheng’s face, a terrible foreboding seized Lei Yun’s soul.
“I will slaughter you!”
Boom!
A tyrannical pillar of lightning blasted toward Chen Changsheng, yet its trajectory was horrifyingly skewed.
It merely brushed harmlessly past Chen Changsheng’s silhouette.
Swish!
Noting that Lei Yun had already lost control of its mortal vessel, Chen Changsheng immediately hurled a pitch-black mass toward it.
Confronted with such terrifyingly bizarre circumstances, Lei Yun naturally dared not block the projectile, instead forcing its body to evade.
Bang!
The hidden weapon detonated upon reaching Lei Yun’s flank. The concussive force was negligible, but a thick cloud of dust instantly enshrouded the sovereign beast.
Whoosh!
Lei Yun exhaled a gale-force wind to scatter the pervasive dust, yet simultaneously, its massive form slipped further into the abyss of paralysis.