Chapter 500 - 222: Mist Beast Attack - Cracking the Traveling Palace (Part 3)
Chapter 500: Chapter 222: Mist Beast Attack - Cracking the Traveling Palace (Part 3)
"Good thing I remembered the general location."
As he spoke, he dragged out the Dog Demon’s body.
Then, reaching into the large hole torn in its stomach, he dug out a glittering golden Demon Pill.
Xiao Chen had actually wanted to carve it out right there in the mist, without dragging the Dog Demon back, but he couldn’t see a thing in the fog.
That’s why he ultimately chose to return to the path, to avoid accidentally dropping the Demon Pill on the ground and losing it.
"So it really is a Mutated Demon Pill, and an Earth Element one at that. No wonder it was so tough."
Sensing the active Earth Spiritual Power within, Xiao Chen instantly understood why the Dog Demon had been so incredibly tough.
’So that clears up the misunderstanding. I guess not all Demon Beasts have such strong defensive capabilities.’
"Golden Light Taoist, you went into the mist?"
Cao Mingjie’s expression was one of bewilderment, as if he were looking at a human-shaped Demon Beast.
"Yeah."
Xiao Chen nodded. "It’s mist, not a cloud of poison. Is there a reason I couldn’t go in?"
"Huh?"
Cao Mingjie was taken aback.
What Xiao Chen said made so much sense that he was left speechless.
"Golden Light Taoist, you just killed that Dog Demon?"
Ma Wenbo still found it hard to accept. "How did you do it?"
"Do these Demon Beasts have some kind of special weakness?"
After all, they were all at the Middle Stage of the Golden Core realm.
His Water-Pointing Sword Qi had no effect whatsoever on the Dog Demon, so how could Xiao Chen kill it instantly?
Therefore, Ma Wenbo’s first thought was that the issue must lie with the Demon Beast itself.
"I honestly have no idea."
Xiao Chen shook his head. "It might have something to do with me being a Body Cultivator."
’It did have a little to do with it. After all, Body Cultivators have high burst damage.’
Silence. The other four were all silent.
Yu Zhenyang, in particular, was dumbfounded, suspecting he might be a fake Body Cultivator.
Qiu Fanghui, however, had been quiet the entire time.
It wasn’t because he was good at hiding his emotions, but because his mind was a complete blank.
From the very beginning, he had paid no mind to Xiao Chen, his traveling companion.
After all, the man was so clueless. He didn’t even know enough to curry favor with a senior like himself—one with higher Cultivation and the potential to reach the Nascent Soul realm.
But now, Qiu Fanghui felt a mix of relief and regret.
He was relieved he hadn’t offended Xiao Chen, since the two of them had barely even spoken.
But that was also precisely what he regretted—failing to befriend such a powerful Body Cultivator.
"Golden Light Taoist, do you think we, ahem, we should go forward or retreat?"
Yu Zhenyang, being more worldly-wise, was the first to recover and hurriedly asked for guidance.
"What’s there to hesitate about?"
Xiao Chen answered decisively. "We’ve come all this way. Might as well go in and see what the Relic looks like."
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"Why are there so many Demon Beasts?"
"We’ve been tricked! We’ve all been tricked!"
"There’s no end in sight! We never should have chosen to press forward."
...
Despairing wails permeated the forward section of Celestial Star Island.
On all eighty-one narrow paths, battles erupted at nearly the same time.
Demon Beasts with Cultivation as high as the Late-stage Golden Core realm used the cover of the mist to wantonly hunt the Cultivators within.
The winding paths were longer than anyone had anticipated—much, much longer.
In the process, most Cultivators suffered heavy casualties. Only a few of the major powers were able to maintain a steady advance.
On the seventy-sixth narrow path, however, the situation was completely different.
Xiao Chen walked at the head of the group, annoyed that no Demon Beasts were coming after him.
"Something’s not right. Something is very wrong."
He looked back at Yu Zhenyang and the others. "Don’t you get the feeling that these Demon Beasts have a commander?"
"We haven’t encountered a single new Demon Beast for a full Quarter Hour."
"That’s clearly not right."
Hearing this, Qiu Fanghui was the first to agree. "Golden Light Taoist is right! I also think these Demon Beasts have a leader commanding them."
But his words couldn’t be taken as a reliable opinion.
Ever since half an hour ago, no matter what Xiao Chen said, he would be the first to jump in and agree.
His whole strategy was to make his allegiance clear, without injecting a single personal thought.
Yu Zhenyang opened his mouth, but he didn’t know what to say.
He had been silent for the past half-hour.
Ever since he witnessed Xiao Chen grab a Black-Spotted Colored Shell and punch a huge hole straight through its shell and flesh.
Yu Zhenyang felt like he had wasted the first half of his life’s cultivation.
The Magic Cultivators, like Cao Mingjie, would probably just marvel at the fact that raw physical strength could pierce a shell that was in no way weaker than a Spirit Shield.
What’s more, it had gone clean through.
But precisely because Yu Zhenyang was also a Body Cultivator, he understood much more clearly just how vast the gap between them was.
For the life of him, he couldn’t understand it. He was clearly cultivating a Celestial Level Body Forging inheritance that he’d obtained from a Relic.
So why was there a two-tier difference in their power?
The disparity was so great, it was as if Xiao Chen was cultivating a true Celestial Level Cultivation Technique, while Yu Zhenyang was only practicing a Profound Level one.
Ma Wenbo, for his part, gave a wry smile.
’He inwardly snarked, ’Weren’t they all just scared off by you?’’
To be fair, Golden Core Demon Beasts were sentient creatures, and some even possessed intelligence on par with humans.
And even if they weren’t intelligent, just a pack of wild beasts...
...seeing their companions torn apart in the blink of an eye and a full fourteen of them killed in just half an hour, they would have been terrified by now.
What kind of Demon Beast would knowingly march to its death? They don’t need a leader to tell them to run.
With no Demon Beasts emerging to interfere, Xiao Chen’s group made their way forward completely unimpeded.
After walking for nearly four hours, they finally reached the end of the narrow path.
The mist ahead vanished completely, revealing rows of side halls and Traveling Palaces, with Spirit Plants dotted in between them.