Chapter 734: Mountain Range of Beasts
"boom!"
A sword fell.
The sky was filled with starlight and blood rain.
The huge body of the rare species flew back into the encirclement, with many sword feathers falling off its right wing and a section of its left wing cut off, revealing broken bones.
With just one sword strike, Si Shaonan actually severely injured the rare species.
Qin Ziling, who was hiding in a secret place far away and watching the battle, suddenly had his pupils shrink.
"Such a powerful and surging immortal power!"
"What a wonderful swordsmanship!"
"That's a Xuan-level Dao treasure!"
Some people in the crowd watching the fight from afar exclaimed, their eyes filled with fear and awe.
After Si Shaonan severely injured the rare species with a single sword strike, he looked around with his hands behind his back, with an air of arrogance and dominance that looked down upon the world.
The rare species had already been injured, and now suffered another serious blow. Ultimately, it was unable to break out of the siege of the twelve eighth-grade true immortals and was eventually killed.
Qin Ziling had a solemn expression as he watched the people from the Seven Stars Palace collect the corpses of the rare species and escort Si Shaonan westward.
This Si Shaonan's strength is even stronger than he imagined. Therefore, the other top-ranked geniuses are likely to be even stronger than he imagined.
"I was still sitting in a well and looking at the world from afar! I was so successful in the Jiuxuan Mountain area that I got carried away. I didn't think about how big this world is. There must be many amazing geniuses! If these geniuses were born with a silver spoon in their mouths, it would be even more amazing!"
Feeling emotional, Qin Ziling walked out from his hiding place.
After coming out of his hiding place, Qin Ziling did not stay any longer, but quickly left the territory of the rare species.
Because once the rare species were killed, the crisis was resolved. After the people from the Seven Stars Palace left, many people flocked into this mountain range, looking for bargains.
Qin Ziling didn't want to get into conflict with anyone for no reason, and he had already swept this mountain range. Even the most precious Tianwen grass had been transplanted into the Qiankun Cave Heaven by him, so there was no value in continuing the search.
Not long after leaving the territory of the rare species alone, Qin Ziling sensed that Lan Ran had woken up from her meditation in the Qiankun Cave, so he moved her out of the cave.
"Congratulations, Master Lan Feng!" Qin Ziling smiled and bowed to Lan Ran.
"Call me by my name." Lan Ran smoothed her hair that was blown by the wind and said with her red lips slightly opened. Her eyes were not looking at Qin Ziling, but looking far ahead.
"Okay, Lan Ran." Qin Ziling was slightly stunned, then nodded.
Hearing the name "Lan Ran" coming out of Qin Ziling's mouth, Lan Ran's eyes, looking far ahead, rippled slightly.
"What are your plans next?" Lan Ran asked.
"According to the old plan, we will continue to head west, looking for opportunities along the way. But we need to slow down the pace. I just saw Si Shaonan take action . His strength is amazing, and he has a Xuan-level Taoist treasure in his hand. I am no match for him now.
His twelve subordinates are also very powerful. If they can find the Fenghuo Shengdao Fruit, several of them will be able to successfully break through and become ninth-grade true immortals." Qin Ziling replied in a deep voice.
"So powerful?" Lan Ran took a deep breath when he heard that.
"It can only be more powerful! Because the Seven Stars Palace is a super power in the Great Barbarian South China Sea, and Si Shaonan is the young palace master of the Seven Stars Palace. He must have powerful life-saving items on hand, maybe a complete bone jade Taoist talisman." Qin Ziling said in a deep voice.
"If that's the case, we really need to slow down the pace and try our best to avoid encounters and conflicts with the talented children of those superpowers." Lan Ran nodded.
Not only did she achieve a breakthrough this time, but she also took a lot of supplements after the breakthrough, which was equivalent to having practiced hard in the eighth-grade True Immortal realm for two or three hundred years. She was no less capable than the murdered Shentu Kun. With the Taoist treasure in her hand, she was naturally in high spirits and wanted to do something big.
As a result, Qin Ziling's words were like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, and he calmed down instantly.
She now knows a lot about Qin Ziling's strength. Even he said so, so you can imagine how powerful Si Shaonan is!
…
In the following days, Qin Ziling and others continued to advance towards the Mountains of Beasts.
However, they covered a larger area horizontally during the search and were not in a hurry to reach the Mountain Range of Beasts.
Three years passed in the blink of an eye.
During these three years, Qin Ziling never found any precious elixir like Tianwen grass, but he did harvest a lot of other elixirs.
For example, the hard-to-find ten thousand year old dragon blood ganoderma, white tiger blood ganoderma, ten thousand year old dragon flame ginseng, Lingdao fruit and other elixirs and fruits outside, but here, in just three years, the Wuji sect disciples found quite a few of them.
Because Dark Emperor Heaven was once the place where many Taoist immortals died in blood, including Taoist immortals from powerful ancient races such as the ancient true dragon and white tiger.
When their blood stains the soil, dragon blood ganoderma and white tiger blood ganoderma will grow. When their original power is absorbed by some fruit trees, spiritual fruits will grow.
As for the relic species of divine beasts, a lot of them have been hunted in the past three years. However, they are basically below the eighth grade. The number of relic species at the eighth grade is still very rare, and the ninth grade is almost unseen. It is estimated that they all live in the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range.
The incident three years ago should be considered an extremely isolated incident.
In addition to various elixirs and relics of mythical beasts, Wujimen also found some ancient broken Taoist treasures and top-grade immortal artifacts.
Over a three-year period, many bloody battles occurred in the mountains to the west.
Because most people have the same goal and are moving in the same direction, they will always meet in the mountains. Some people even have the vicious intention of killing and robbing, and they lie in ambush on some roads leading to the west like hunters, and when someone weaker than them passes by, they suddenly jump out like a poisonous snake.
Qin Ziling didn't want to cause trouble, nor did he want to kill people for no reason, so he usually tried to avoid it as much as possible.
But there will always be a time when the two sides cannot avoid each other and they can only start killing and wipe out the other side.
This situation happened four times in three years. Wujimen made a considerable fortune and also obtained two yellow-grade Taoist treasures, one of which happened to be of the fire element. Qin Ziling gave it to Lai Yinuan, finally making things fair.
Three years is naturally a very short time for a human immortal who has reached the realm of True Immortal or Cave Heaven. Sometimes, three years may pass in the blink of an eye, but the cultivation level remains the same, and one has not made any progress.
But in the Dark Emperor Heaven where opportunities are everywhere, three years is not a short time.
People with good luck, if they can obtain the Wind and Fire Ascension Fruit, can directly break through from the seventh level to the eighth level, or even from the eighth level to the ninth level. However, in the outside world, most people have endured this level for thousands of years, but in the end, they still end up with nothing and die.
Qin Ziling has a powerful soul to help him. His searching ability is comparable to that of thirteen ninth-grade immortals. He can also take care of everyone's safety with his soul. Under his leadership, the Wuji Sect's disciples will naturally have good luck.
As long as they could absorb and refine it, they would eat the meat of the ancient species and drink meat soup and precious medicine soup with big mouthfuls every day. All kinds of after-meal snacks were earth spirit fruits and other fairy fruits that were rarely seen in the outside world.
Therefore, within three years, all the disciples of Wuji Sect achieved breakthroughs.
Many disciples broke through to the sixth-grade True Immortal and sixth-grade Cave Heaven realms. Zhu Run and Bi Rong, with their powerful ancestral bloodlines and amazing potential, got opportunities one after another in the Dark Emperor Heaven. In the third year after entering the Dark Emperor Heaven, they finally broke through to the seventh-grade realm first.
With the successive breakthroughs made by Wuji Sect's disciples and their rapid increase in cultivation, Qin Ziling can naturally send more people out to explore the mountains and look for opportunities.
The more troops you send out, the greater the harvest will be.
So in three years, Wujimen's gains and strength grew like a snowball, getting bigger and faster.
Among the various forces that entered the Dark Emperor Heaven, none of them knew that an unknown small sect was rapidly growing into a behemoth.
All those who knew about it have been wiped out by Wujimen!
Qin Ziling's strength has improved by leaps and bounds in the past three years, but his foundation is too strong, and he is still some distance away from reaching the limit of the sixth level and overcoming the wind and fire tribulation.
However, Xiao Qing, Xia Yan, Zuo Cong and others are almost there.
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This day.
The mountains that were once very far away and could only be vaguely seen, now seemed to be towering and majestic like pillars supporting the sky, and were like sacred mountains, are finally no longer out of reach.
The huge mountain stood at the horizon, lifting the hazy veil. Now it could be roughly seen. It was indeed as majestic and vast as the legendary sacred mountain.
Even though Qin Ziling was standing very far away at the moment, he could still feel a sense of oppression coming towards him. Under this feeling of oppression, people would feel extremely small, like a grain of sand.
There were horrifying auras rising into the sky from the depths of the mountains. The shadows of divine beasts appeared in the sky above the depths of the mountains, emitting infinite majesty and ferocity, which made people afraid and terrified and dared not approach at all.
Suddenly, a golden light shot up into the sky from the depths of the mountains and flew towards the periphery.
As the distance got closer, the golden light became brighter and brighter, like a golden sun, so bright that it made it impossible to open one's eyes.
A vortex was spinning between Qin Ziling's eyebrows, as if he had opened a third eye. He focused his attention and was able to see through and explore places far away.
As he watched this intently, Qin Ziling couldn't help but take a deep breath.
The thing that flew by like a golden sun was actually a huge bird with a pair of huge golden wings. It was shining with golden light all over, as if it was made of gold.
“Boom!”
The giant bird flew across the sky, and its huge golden wings swept across the two mountains on the left and right that were blocking it. The mountains were directly cut off, and the tops of the mountains rolled to the ground with a rumble, causing the earth to shake and dust to fly.
Suddenly, the big bird swooped down and then soared into the sky.
As the big bird soared into the sky, a golden dragon was held in its huge beak.
The golden dragon continued to struggle in the air.
“Crack!”
The huge bird's beak bit the golden dragon into two pieces directly, just like an ordinary bird bites off a bug.
Blood gushed out and spilled into the sky.
The big bird swallowed a piece of the golden dragon directly into its stomach, and still held the other piece in its mouth, with blood continuing to drip down.
"Evil beast!" An angry roar rang out.
Then, a man wearing golden armor, with long golden hair flying, more than ten feet tall, with a wide mouth, short nose, and a face full of whiskers stepped out of the jungle.
With a wave of his hand, a huge golden hexagonal hammer as big as a mountain was swung out by him. It rumbled through the void and smashed towards the big bird in the air that was about to eat the other half of the golden dragon.
"Tai Shi Ba!" Qin Ziling exclaimed in a low voice when he saw this, then seemed to remember something, his eyes fell on the half of the golden dragon in the big bird's mouth, his face suddenly changed, and a hint of horror appeared in his eyes.
When the big bird saw the mountain-like golden hammer coming towards it, it did not dodge. Instead, it spread its golden wings and flapped them hard with a "whoosh".
"boom!"
There was a loud bang.
Like waves crashing against the shore.
The mountain-like golden hexagonal hammer was knocked down and caught in Tai Shi Ba's hand.
"Bang!" Tai Shi Ba fell down and stepped on a mountain top. The mountain top collapsed instantly and huge rocks rolled down.
The big bird knocked the golden six-sided hammer down with one blow and swallowed the remaining piece of the golden dragon in its mouth. Then it roared angrily, its eyes shone with golden light, and its wings flapped. The golden light was dazzling and bright, and it exuded an extremely terrifying aura, and swooped down towards Tai Shi Ba.
"kill!"
When Tai Shi Ba saw that the big bird had completely devoured his men, his eyes turned red and he roared loudly. His golden hair flew up into the sky and the golden six-sided hammer flew out of his hand again and smashed towards the big bird. At the same time, he twisted his body and balls of golden light burst out, and he actually changed into a golden dragon hundreds of feet long.
The golden dragon scales sparkled in the sun, and its huge body exuded a terrifying and powerful aura of power.
The golden dragon soared into the sky, and its sharp golden five-fingered dragon claws swooped down towards the big bird.
Almost at the same time, six magic weapons and six golden dragons rose into the sky.
Tai Shi Ba and his remaining six men simultaneously cast their magic weapons, transforming into golden dragon forms and engaging in a fight with the giant bird.
The big bird was extremely ferocious. It spread its wings and golden sword feathers flew out of its body, directly blocking the magic weapons of Taishi Ba's six subordinates and their golden dragon bodies. The big bird itself used its wings and claws that could break gold and stone to fight with Taishi Ba's Xuan-level Taoist treasure and golden dragon body.
The battle was extremely fierce.
Mountains collapsed, the earth cracked, and magma gushed out.
An hour later, Tai Shi Ba and his six men fled the scene of fierce fighting in panic and were chased by the giant bird for tens of thousands of miles.
Qin Ziling, who was far away from the scene of fierce fighting, was shaken and shocked.
As for the rest of the people, without Qin Ziling's magical powers, they could not see clearly what was happening over at the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range in the Sky. They could only vaguely see several balls of golden light colliding violently there, and finally seven golden lights escaped, with a big golden light chasing behind.
"No wonder the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range is known as one of the three forbidden areas. What kind of divine bird is that? It's so powerful that even Tai Shiba's team couldn't defeat it and had to flee!" After a long time, Qin Ziling came to his senses and was greatly amazed.
"What! Tai Shi Ba and others can't defeat a surviving species of divine bird!" Lan Ran and others' faces suddenly changed when they heard this.
"That is one of the most ferocious divine birds in ancient times, the Garuda. In the ancient times when various tribes were fighting and hunting each other, the Garuda liked to eat dragons!" The one-eyed fire dragon poked its head out from between Qin Ziling's eyebrows, looked into the distance, and said.
"Feeding dragons!" Qin Ziling's heart trembled when he heard the words and recalled the bloody and horrifying scene where the Garuda swooped down and directly grabbed one of Tai Shi Ba's men and ate him.
That’s an eighth-grade True Immortal, and a very powerful one at that!
"The Mountain Range of Beasts is more dangerous than I thought. It seems that I can only move around on its outskirts for now. It is not yet time to go deeper. I need to wait until I have passed the sixth wind and fire tribulation in both Qi and body training before I can try to go deeper." Qin Ziling said quickly with a serious look on his face.
"You must be careful. The strength of the Garuda just now can be considered a quasi-immortal. Even if you sacrifice me, you can only save your life at best. If a few more powerful descendants of divine beasts appear, you may even lose your life." The one-eyed fire dragon nodded.
"It's better to be safe than sorry, Ziling. Don't worry, don't worry. In fact, with the opportunity we have now, if we can find a place to stay for twenty years, we will already make a lot of money." Qin Jianmei, who still looks like a middle-aged Taoist nun, said.
Qin Jianmei is the ancestor of the Qin family. After entering the Dark Emperor Heaven, his cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds. Some time ago, he also stepped into the realm of sixth-grade true immortal. From time to time, he also comes out to do some things in the Dark Emperor Heaven to hone his skills.
"Great Aunt Gao is right. However, opportunities are rare. Now that we are here, we must seize a few great opportunities." Qin Ziling bowed slightly when he heard Qin Jianmei speak.
"You are the headmaster, so naturally you have the final say. But remember, as long as you have the green mountains, you will never lack firewood to burn. Just be careful in everything." Qin Jianmei said.
"Zi Ling understands!" Qin Zi Ling nodded, then he groaned for a moment and said, "The situation will definitely get more dangerous. Not only are there many powerful people gathering outside and inside the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range, but the remnants that appear will also become more and more powerful.
Even extremely ferocious species of divine birds like the Garuda would probably occasionally fly out of the depths of the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range and move around in the outskirts.
There are definitely more ancient formations and restrictions left in the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range than in other places. So for the next period of time, apart from the Underworld Immortal General, only Xiao Qing, Lan Ran, Zhu Run and Bi Rong will be with me outside .
The rest of the people will temporarily stay in Qiankun Cave Heaven to practice in peace and strive for a breakthrough. Only when they break through to become a seventh-grade true immortal or a seventh-grade cave heaven realm can they come out to take action. "
"We will follow the master's orders!" Everyone accepted the order solemnly.
Qin Ziling nodded to everyone, and then with a thought, he moved them all into the Qiankun Cave Heaven World one by one.
Soon, only the five Hades Immortal Generals including Sishou, Qin Ziling, Xiao Qing, Lan Ran, Zhu Run and Bi Rong were left outside.
Among these ten, except Lan Ran who is of the eighth rank, Qin Ziling and Xiao Qing who are of the sixth rank, the rest are of the seventh rank.
Such a combination looks very mediocre in the Mountain Range of Beasts where many powerful people gather.
This time, Qin Ziling no longer divided his men into more than ten teams with himself as the center as he did on the way here, but only divided them into two teams.
The four-headed and other five Hades Immortal Generals formed a small team and always maintained their positions in the "Five-Directions Prison-Suppressing Battle Formation" as they conducted the search.
With their current strength, as long as they can form a battle formation in time, they can hold out for a while even when facing that fierce and powerful Garuda.
Qin Ziling and five others formed another team.
The most powerful Qin Ziling was in the front, the second most powerful Lan Ran was in the back, and Xiao Qing, Zhu Run and Bi Rong were in the middle.
