# Chapter 1053: Beast King
Wan Huayu possessed a very powerful protective treasure on her body. Even after directly receiving a strike from the Fire Golden Crow Beast King, she was not too severely injured.
She swallowed a healing sacred pill and quickly recovered.
The Fire Golden Crow Beast King's pair of golden eyes, like refined amber, stared deeply at the purple-robed old man and said, "Finally, a true strong one has appeared."
"Princess, you should leave this place first. This old man will deal with it."
The purple-robed old man's expression was extremely serious, every wrinkle pulled taut, treating the Fire Golden Crow as a great enemy.
"Whoosh——"
The purple-robed old man's arms shook simultaneously. From his sleeves, two masses of purple gaseous mist surged out.
Within the purple qi, streaks of bright lightning rapidly darted back and forth, making a "crackling" sound, completely incinerating a large area of surrounding savage beasts into ashes.
"Quite interesting."
The light threads were as fine as a needle tip, yet possessed terrifying penetrating power.
Wan Huayu wanted to assist the purple-robed old man, so she took out a shield of the Hundred-Pattern Sacred Artifact level and struck it outward.
However, the shield forged from Mysterious Ice Meteorite Iron was like tofu—in an instant, it was pierced through and torn into fragments.
"Princess, you are no match for it. Retreat far away, at least a hundred zhang."
The purple-robed old man's hair and beard flew upward. His cultivation was quite extraordinary. From his right wrist, a jade ring flew out.
The jade ring became as large as a millstone, slowly rotating, blocking that thread of flame light.
"Crash."
The Fire Golden Crow Beast King's ten fingers simultaneously released light threads, completely enveloping an area of a hundred zhang. Any creature that had not reached the peak of Ninth-Step Half-Saint would surely die if they intruded.
Zhang Ruochen pulled Huang Yanchen and immediately retreated far away, not wanting to get involved in the battle between the Fire Golden Crow Beast King and the purple-robed old man, lest they encounter misfortune.
The savage beasts and human cultivators in the northern city district were completely in a stalemate.
The breach at the city wall was not very large, with only a small number of savage beasts breaking through.
In terms of numbers, the human cultivators held the advantage, suppressing the savage beasts in the northern part of the city, unable to break into the other three districts.
Besides the Fire Golden Crow Beast King, there were five other beast kings that had broken into Yingsha City, each from a different savage beast clan.
Among them, the Golden Armored Scorpion King was the most powerful.
Its body was like a golden mountain. With every step it took, the earth shook.
It was not clumsy; on the contrary, it was extremely fast and reacted very nimbly, having already killed at least a thousand elite human cultivators.
The Golden Armored Scorpion King's defense was also terrifying. Zhang Ruochen activated the Life and Death Mirror and shot out a beam of light, striking its body, but it did not even penetrate the outermost golden armor.
The Golden Armored Scorpion King noticed Zhang Ruochen, recognizing him as a strong one among the human cultivators. So it spat out a cloud of black poisonous mist like ink, surging toward him.
"Sizzle sizzle."
Everything on the ground, including the soil, was corroded into black.
As for the human cultivators, they turned into pools of pus and blood, not even a single bone remaining.
Zhang Ruochen wore the Ten Saints Blood Armor and was not afraid of toxins. He retreated to a distance and immediately contacted Grand Minister of Works and Second Minister of Works to confirm their positions, then used his movement technique to rush over.
Everyone was gathered together. The weaker cultivators, such as Han Qiu and Murong Yue, stood in the central position. The stronger cultivators, such as Sun Dadi and the six high-ranking half-saints of the Murong family, stood on the periphery.
They had already killed several hundred savage beasts, with corpses littering the ground—a remarkable result.
After Zhang Ruochen returned, he immediately entered the center of the battle circle and issued an order: "Staying trapped in Yingsha City will yield nothing. Now is a good opportunity; we must break out in the chaos. Only by entering the Azure Dragon Ruins Realm can we find countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures, allowing all of us to transform into true strong ones."
Sun Dadi swung his staff, smashing a diving Fire Golden Crow into bloody splatters, and laughed loudly: "Exactly what I was thinking. I've long wanted to break out. Now, I'll lead the way."
Sun Dadi took the lead, charging to the very front of the formation. His iron staff swept in all directions, and any savage beast that touched it was immediately torn apart.
"Bang bang."
In an instant, dozens of massive savage beasts fell beneath the iron staff.
Xiao Hei climbed to the top of Second Minister of Works' head, standing at the highest point, directing everyone: "All Sixth-Rank savage beast corpses, drag them into the center of the formation and store them in space rings."
"The blood and beast souls of Sixth-Rank savage beasts can be used to refine a sacred pill that enhances physical constitution. Once refined, everyone gets a share."
A moment later, Xiao Hei added another sentence: "Refining Sacred Origin Pills also requires the blood and beast souls of Sixth-Rank savage beasts as pill catalysts."
Xiao Hei had extremely high attainments in alchemy and formations, so no one doubted his words.
Under normal circumstances, finding a Sixth-Rank savage beast was not an easy task.
But now it was different. Sixth-Rank savage beasts could be seen everywhere, and there were quite a few Sixth-Rank Half-Saint corpses on the ground. Not collecting them now would be a waste.
While killing savage beasts, everyone also quickly dragged the Sixth-Rank savage beast corpses into the center of the formation.
Zhang Ruochen said, "Living Sixth-Rank savage beasts can be captured alive and handed over to Zhao Shiqi for him to control and refine into war beasts."
To prevent other human cultivators from discovering the secret of the space rings, Han Qiu mobilized the rules of darkness, wrapping the entire formation in a black hole dozens of zhang in diameter.
In this way, no cultivator could probe into their secrets.
From a distance, all that could be seen was a black hole slowly moving toward the city gates, with no sign of Zhang Ruochen, Huang Yanchen, or the others within the dark region.
Even savage beasts that intruded into the dark region would immediately lose their sight.
The Way of Darkness, being one of the Nine Eternal Paths, was naturally extraordinary and could be compared to the Way of Time and the Way of Space.
However, Han Qiu's cultivation was still very low, unable to unleash the true power of the Way of Darkness.
They were moving completely against the tide of the savage beast army, encountering more and more beasts. It was like a small boat sailing upstream against a rolling torrent.
Even with Sun Dadi's formidable combat power, they could only advance slowly.
"I'll lead the way too."
Zhang Ruochen's figure flickered, and he immediately rushed to the front of the formation, standing together with Sun Dadi, launching fierce attacks against the savage beasts.
The two worked together, charging forward, finally increasing their speed again. (To be continued.)