Chapter 1120: Four Great Ancient Primordial Beasts
A single sword strike injuring seven beast kings caused a shock greater than when Zhang Ruochen had fought nineteen beast kings alone. Back then, facing the attacks of nineteen beast kings, Zhang Ruochen could only retreat step by step, barely able to fight back.
In less than a month, Zhang Ruochen’s combat power had soared dramatically. He was no longer what he used to be.
“Puchi.”
Zhang Ruochen swung his sword downward, striking the Golden Armored Scorpion King. Not only did it tear its physical body apart, but it also shattered its sacred soul.
An ancient relic had fallen!
The blood flowing from the corpse emitted a golden radiance, containing immense energy, turning a large stretch of the mountain into gold.
“The Golden Armored Scorpion King, ranked fifty-sixth on the *Half-Saint Ranking*, couldn’t even withstand three strikes from Zhang Ruochen.”
At the foot of Dragon Summit Mountain, silence reigned.
Some felt excitement, others grew more uneasy, and a few radiated an even stronger killing intent.
Huang Yanchen, Murong Yue, Sun Dadi, and others charged down the mountain peaks, joining the fight to prevent the beast horde from reaching the summit.
White Li Princess had agreed to some of Zhang Ruochen’s conditions, so she also entered the battle.
Even if White Li Princess had lost most of her memories, even without that loss, aside from the White Li Cat Clan beasts, she had no emotional attachment to other beast clans.
In the desolate wild secret realm, beast clans were inherently hostile to one another, a living example of the law of the jungle.
At the mountain top, Xiao Hei was fully focused on repairing the altar, preparing to use a sacrificial ritual to help the sacred pill form.
Once the sacred pill was formed, everyone’s cultivation would increase significantly.
“Roar!”
The Kui Ox Beast King let out a furious roar, merging its spiritual power into sound waves. The sound waves surged outward like water, shattering rocks into pieces.
“Use the ancient wild force to kill Zhang Ruochen,” a beast king shouted.
“Earlier, we didn’t have time to use the ancient wild force, and he injured us. This time, we’ll make him pay back with interest.”
The seven beast kings all revealed their true forms, ranging from a dozens-of-zhang-tall Snow Leopard to a palm-sized Golden Fur Mouse.
Their bodies emitted immense beast king aura as they once again activated their ancestral artifacts.
“Whoosh—”
The seven ancestral artifacts all emitted dazzling light, floating above the heads of the seven beast kings. One by one, inscriptions emerged, forming seven ancient wild forces.
Nearby sixth-order beasts sensed the escalation of the battle and all retreated, fearing the residual power of the ancestral artifacts.
Zhang Ruochen stood beside the corpse of the Golden Armored Scorpion King, ignoring the Kui Ox Beast King’s sound wave attack. He withstood it with his powerful physical body, his eyes showing a disdainful expression. “Using the ancient wild force, and you think you can destroy me?”
“I’ll cut you down.”
Zhang Ruochen continuously infused sacred qi into the Abyssal Ancient Sword, causing the inscriptions within the sword body to emerge one after another.
When a thousand inscriptions appeared, the sword body emitted a powerful Thousand Ripple Annihilation Force.
When two thousand inscriptions appeared, the destructive force from the Abyssal Ancient Sword surged into the sky, forming a ten-thousand-zhang-tall sword pillar.
Even beings hundreds of miles away felt a suffocating pressure, with faint sword qi winds appearing around them.
“Boom.”
Three thousand inscriptions emerged on the sword body of the Abyssal Ancient Sword.
At that moment, dense sword qi enveloped the entire Dragon Summit Mountain. The power fluctuations from the Thousand Ripple Annihilation Force caused even beings hundreds of miles away to tremble involuntarily with fear.
“Not good.”
The Kui Ox Beast King was the first to sense the danger, immediately retracting its sound waves and fleeing down the mountain.
The other seven beast kings were also terrified by the destructive force of the Abyssal Ancient Sword, but they couldn’t retreat now; they had to endure.
If they retreated, they would only die faster.
“Fight him to the death!”
“Battle!”
“Roar, it’s either you or me!”
...
The seven beast kings recklessly poured sacred qi into their ancestral artifacts, simultaneously launching all seven artifacts to suppress Zhang Ruochen.
At the same time, the Abyssal Ancient Sword swung out.
“Bang, bang.”
A series of explosions.
With a single strike, the Abyssal Ancient Sword shattered all seven ancestral artifacts into pieces, scattering them in all directions.
The next moment, the screams of the seven beast kings rang out.
Six of the beast kings died on the spot, obliterated by the Thousand Ripple Annihilation Force. Only the Golden Fur Mouse King survived, severely injured and lying on the ground, barely breathing.
“Don’t... kill... me... Lord Demon Dragon... save... me...”
The Golden Fur Mouse King begged for mercy and called for help.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes were extremely cold. He walked over and stomped down, crushing the Golden Fur Mouse King’s body into a pulp.
In an instant, seven beast kings had fallen.
King blood dyed most of the mountain red, and the thick blood aura spread for a hundred miles without dissipating.
In this stretch of heaven and earth, all living beings held their breath, feeling their hearts convulse. No one was unafraid.
The sixth-order beast horde, terrified, scrambled to flee down the mountain. They had been scared out of their wits and dared not engage Zhang Ruochen.
“Keep killing.”
Zhang Ruochen charged downhill. He didn’t use the Abyssal Ancient Sword but instead employed the sword dao intent of “Man and Sword as One,” directly condensing his body into the form of a sword, turning into a beam of sword light as he slaughtered through the beast horde.
As for the Abyssal Ancient Sword, it was refining the fragments of the seven ancestral artifacts, aiming to quickly condense four thousand inscriptions within the sword body.
“Puchi.”
“Puchi—”
...
What had started as a beast horde surrounding Zhang Ruochen had now reversed. Zhang Ruochen was slaughtering tens of thousands of sixth-order beasts, sending them fleeing in panic.
Huang Yanchen, Sun Dadi, and Murong Yue were also decisive killers. They pursued from three other directions downhill, leaving a trail of corpses.
By the time the beast horde reached the foot of the mountain, the entire body of Dragon Summit Mountain was almost completely covered with massive beast carcasses.
Zhang Ruochen and the others didn’t continue the pursuit. They stopped at the mountain base and retreated back.
Their goal wasn’t slaughter but to refine the sacred pill. There was no need to chase further; if someone took the opportunity to reach the mountain top, it would be a loss.
The Devouring Demon Dragon watched the battlefield below the clouds and let out a furious roar. “Since we’re all here to deal with human cultivators, why haven’t you made a move yet?”
Who was the Devouring Demon Dragon talking to?
Had it summoned some powerful reinforcements?
As everyone speculated, a massive shadow appeared in the sky. A red strange fish over ten thousand meters long flew out from the clouds.
On the back of the red strange fish grew a pair of wings that covered the sky. With a gentle flap, a hurricane swept across the heavens and earth.
The wind was exceptionally strong, blowing some half-saint-level beings away like ants.
“That’s... a Kun...”
“Has the Kun Clan Prince, ranked sixth on the *Half-Saint Ranking*, arrived?”
...
The Kun lived in the distant oceans outside the Kunlun Realm, one of the overlords of the sea.
Legend has it that in the ancient era, there was a Chaos Kun, whose body stretched nine thousand miles. It fed on dragons, fought gods, and was considered an ancient primordial beast.
Of course, as times changed, the bloodline of the Kun Clan descendants grew weaker, far from what it was in the ancient era.
But the Kun Clan Prince was different. He wasn’t a descendant but an ancient relic with the purest bloodline, potentially growing into a great beast of this era.
With the arrival of the Kun Clan Prince, the rain fell even more heavily, like a downpour.
Dark clouds gathered, lightning interwove, and the scene was like the ancient desolate land descending directly into the Azure Dragon Ruins Realm, leaving everyone in awe.
Large numbers of water beasts gathered from all directions, standing in the rain, roaring to shake the heavens, emitting terrifying waves of spiritual energy.
The Kun Clan Prince spoke in human language: “Devouring Demon Dragon, you can’t even handle a few humans, and you still want to drive out humans and dominate the Kunlun Realm? Your strength seems a bit lacking.”
The Devouring Demon Dragon didn’t argue with the Kun Clan Prince. It snorted coldly, “The rest of you, why haven’t you shown yourselves yet?”
“Rumble.”
The earth shook violently.
A massive black mountain came rushing from the horizon at great speed.
When it got close, everyone saw its true form.
It wasn’t a mountain.
It was a black giant tiger, as tall as Dragon Summit Mountain. On its forehead was a mark of the Underworld Gate, and the cold aura it emitted froze the entire area.
To be precise, it wasn’t exactly a tiger.
It looked very much like a tiger, but its true identity was a Bi’an beast.
Another ancient relic as powerful as the Devouring Demon Dragon and the Kun Clan Prince.
“Heavens! That’s the Bi’an Heavenly King, ranked eighth on the *Half-Saint Ranking*,” a human half-saint exclaimed in shock.
“Look, there’s a woman standing on the Bi’an Heavenly King’s head.”
Countless eyes in this stretch of heaven and earth all looked toward the top of the Bi’an Heavenly King’s head.
The Bi’an Heavenly King’s body was so massive that no one had noticed a human standing on its head earlier.
Indeed, it was a woman, shrouded in a ball of crimson flames. She had fiery hair, a body as crystalline as white divine jade, and red feathers floating around her.
Compared to the Bi’an Heavenly King’s body, she was tiny, like a red grain of rice from afar.
“She... could she be the Vermilion Bird Fairy, ranked fifth on the *Half-Saint Ranking*?” someone said tremblingly.
No one believed a human woman could stand on the Bi’an Heavenly King’s head. Only the Vermilion Bird Fairy seemed to fit her identity.
A luxurious carriage sped through the rain, slowing to a stop as it neared Dragon Summit Mountain.
Xue Wuye lifted the carriage curtain, revealing a handsome face. Surrounded by a group of beautiful women, he stepped out of the carriage.
He stood in the rain, with a stunning beauty beside him holding an umbrella.
Xue Wuye looked toward the top of the Bi’an Heavenly King’s head and said, “Indeed, it’s the Vermilion Bird Fairy. I met her not long ago.”
Xue Wuye confirmed the Vermilion Bird Fairy’s identity, causing this stretch of heaven and earth to become even more tumultuous.
The Devouring Demon Dragon, the Kun Clan Prince, the Bi’an Heavenly King, and the Vermilion Bird Fairy.
Four legendary ancient primordial beasts, gathered together in this era, was already a miracle. Add to that the once-in-a-millennium Heir of Time and Space, and today’s battle was enough to be recorded in history.
Perhaps the four great ancient primordial beasts would slay the Heir of Time and Space, once again writing an invincible myth.
Or perhaps the Heir of Time and Space would suppress the four great ancient primordial beasts, continuing the transcendent status of the time-space lineage. Either outcome would have a significant impact on future generations. (To be continued.)