novelraw Chapter 214 : Just a Deep Longing
Chapter 214 : Just a Deep Longing
Hearing this, everyone felt a bit speechless internally. Indeed, appearances can be deceiving. Some people might look like refined gentlemen on the surface but harbor dark thoughts of playing tricks on their Junior Brothers and sisters.
However, at least they had a path to follow now. They didn't complain and started climbing the transparent stairs step by step, holding their breath and being extremely cautious with each step, fearing that something might suddenly rush down at them.
Everyone's earlier guess wasn't wrong. The white mist was indeed created by the birds and beasts of Wind Valley. Its purpose was to obscure their vision while concealing the creatures' forms. Thousands of birds and beasts were hiding in the dense white mist, waiting for them to foolishly fly over on their swords like cultivators from previous years, becoming their prey. They didn't expect this group to not fall for the trap!
Seeing that they were about to cross this cliff, those intelligent beast demons couldn't stand by any longer. Naturally, they wouldn't allow their food to sneak away, so they launched an active attack.
This situation was similar to when they were attacked by vines on the bridge last time, with their lives hanging by a thread. The only difference was that this time, the number of beast demons attacking from all directions was even greater, and the attacks were more intense. At least those plants didn't have legs to run; they could directly attack the roots. But this time, they couldn't pinpoint the direction to attack, making it extremely dangerous and troublesome!
Lin Qi rushed to the front. His broad sword in hand suddenly enlarged several times, becoming like a shield to block the beast demons' attacks. Shang Ziling, well-protected by him, threw herself even more wholeheartedly into the battle. No longer needing to worry about the frenzied beast demons around, her long sword moved like a swimming dragon, knocking down all those beast demons.
One focused on defense, the other on offense. Their coordination was extremely skilled, almost seamless. It was clear this came from years of tacit training, leaving others in awe.
It was well-known that sword cultivators had strong offensive power, but this was the first time Chu Sang had seen a sword like Lin Qi's, which had little offensive power but was mainly defensive. Could it be the legendary... shield sword?
In the eyes of most sword cultivators, shield swords were neither here nor there, not domineering enough. But they had to admit that at certain critical moments, having a capable shield sword cultivator for rear defense was more useful than a team full of offensive sword cultivators.
"Surprising, kid. You've been secretly cultivating the shield sword without telling us? It's pretty impressive!" Tantai Ming stepped forward and patted his shoulder. No wonder, he had been thinking how a super sword cultivation sect like the Ten Thousand Swords Sect would accept such a useless sword cultivator as a personal disciple. He seemed incompetent at everything, couldn't even kill a beast demon of the same level, often hiding behind his big senior sister like a quail. It turned out this so-called Junior Brother was actually the team's trump card!
Lin Qi scratched his head and chuckled twice, a hint of shyness and pride showing on his young, handsome face. "Of course! Every time the Senior Brothers and Sisters go down the mountain for training, they always drag me along. When we encounter danger, I'm their most solid protective shield!"
The pampered Junior Brother was confirmed.
Tantai Ming was so envious. Why was he the bullied Junior Brother instead?
Fortunately, they didn't directly fly on their swords. The sky was the battlefield of birds and beasts. If they had flown on swords, they would have undoubtedly died, destined to become human feed for those birds and beasts to feast on. In the low-altitude plane, those birds and beasts didn't have much advantage in fighting. Their side quickly gained the upper hand in the battle. Those beast demons realized they were tough nuts to crack and gradually reduced their attacks. Some left, while a small portion lingered nearby, observing and planning sneak attacks. But the pressure was much less than before.
Everyone hurried to cross to the other side. Suddenly, a gust of wind came out of nowhere from the bottomless abyss below. Fortunately, Chu Sang had distributed some talismans to them in advance, preventing disciples with lower cultivation levels from falling.
Even so, that sudden gust of fierce wind still blew them sprawling. Liu Yuanqing's foot slipped, and he almost fell down. Luckily, a disciple beside him grabbed his hand, saving him from the tragedy of meeting the ancestors. His face turned pale, and he said in terror, "Damn, what was that?"
"There should be another beast demon below, and its level... is stronger than the beast demons we've encountered," Chu Sang said slowly, shrugging her shoulders. "Don't worry, at worst we'll all die together. At least we'll have company on the road to the underworld. I still have a back door in the ghost realm to rely on."
"Damn, can you stop with the sarcasm? We don't want to die and become those creepy things!"
Everyone's expressions immediately soured. The disciples in front desperately tried to push forward, wanting to quickly cross over while they had time. However, before they could reach the other side, they were blocked by a wall of wind.
The wind wall was silent and invisible, yet it was like an indestructible great wall, impossible for them to budge even slightly.
Forcibly passing through would only result in injury from the wind blades of the wall!
They watched with their own eyes as a bird demon tried to forcibly fly through the wind wall, only to be instantly torn apart.
That was a Nascent Soul stage bird demon!
There were only about a dozen Nascent Soul stage cultivators in their team, with the vast majority being Golden Core stage. Trying to pass through would only result in an even more miserable tearing apart!
So the disciples at the front immediately turned pale, cold sweat seeping from their foreheads. They retreated a few steps, not daring to try again rashly.
"Wh-what do we do? Are we really going to die here today? Ah! I don't want to die! I haven't contributed to the sect yet, I haven't made contributions to the cultivation world, burning my life like a candle!"
"...Don't rush to burn. It'll be over soon anyway."
As if to confirm the girl's earlier words, the fierce wind from the abyss suddenly intensified. That force almost turned the whole world upside down, and a behemoth flew out.
Not a bird, but rather... a fish?
An extremely large fish, almost blocking out the sky, its body flowing with colorful light. It was different from ordinary fish demons or sea beasts. Its pair of fins were like bird wings, and most crucially, it could actually fly!
A flying fish?!
"Can't you people have some knowledge? This! This is the legendary Kun Peng beast demon!!!"
"Legend has it that the Kun Peng was a divine beast that only existed in ancient times. It had two forms and an enormous body, its form several thousand li long. It could transform into a kun fish and a peng bird, truly able to soar between heaven and earth, swim freely in the sea and sky and land. It was a divine beast that could truly connect to the heavens with divine power!" someone said. "However, pure-blooded ancient divine Kun Peng only exist in legends. Like most other ancient divine beasts, they disappeared in the great war ten thousand years ago."
"In the records of the past thousand years, there have been no more than ten beast demons with Kun Peng blood, extremely rare and precious! But even if their bodies only contain a trace of Kun Peng bloodline, it makes them much more powerful than ordinary beast demons. Even if encountered by cultivators, no one can subdue them..."
"But as far as I know, the records state that beast demons with Kun Peng bloodline are completely golden. Why do the scales on this Kun Peng's fins shimmer with faint rainbow colors?"