Chapter 317
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Chapter 317: The Great Beast’s Oath
Boom!
Riding the mountain-steeding rhino, Wang Chen felt as if he had been struck by a heavy hammer.
An overwhelming force instantly shattered the defensive formations, sending him flying through the air.
The Spirit Light Shield surrounding Wang Chen suddenly collapsed, his protective robe ripped apart, and his five organs faced the most violent impact, causing him to spill hot blood from his mouth.
At that moment, Wang Chen felt incredibly small!
Below the Golden Core, everyone was as weak as ants.
Compared to Qi Training, the Purple Palace was merely a larger ant.
Confronting a higher level of power for the first time, he truly understood what Changchun had said to him before.
Wang Chen fell to the ground, coughing up blood.
At this time, his Qi and blood surged within his body, his head buzzing, and he felt that all the bones in his body had shattered.
He barely held on through sheer willpower, preventing himself from fainting.
In such a state, Wang Chen suddenly bit down on his tongue, using self-harm to force himself to stay awake.
Thud!
Just then, a blood-soaked cultivator fell beside him.
The other’s body and limbs were twisted beyond recognition, their chest caved in, and their eyes wide open, unable to close in death!
Wang Chen recognized this person, a second layer of the Purple Palace cultivator who had spoken to him just a few moments ago!
Now, they were beyond dead.
And around Wang Chen, the scene was filled with the cries of the afflicted!
The sudden earth dragon, while breaking the Rhino Formation, caused massive casualties in the mountain-crossing team.
Wang Chen’s gaze swept over the area, where cultivators lay on the ground, wailing in pain.
Some were reduced to mere remains!
Wang Chen even saw a few ferrymen seriously wounded and on the brink of death.
Only about one-tenth or one-twelfth of the whole team of surviving cultivators remained intact!
"Senior!"
One of the ferrymen shouted, "Do you want to violate the Yulong Oath?"
The Yulong Oath referred to the truce agreement reached between the three great beast kings residing in the Yulong Mountain and the Nascent Soul true immortals of the four sects. The core content stated that the great beasts and beast kings would not attack Qi Training and Purple Palace cultivators entering the mountains.
In return, Golden Core true masters and Nascent Soul true immortals would not hunt demons in the mountains.
This agreement ensured that the war between human cultivators and demons in the Yulong Mountain Range was confined to a lower level.
Below the Golden Core, everyone was as weak as ants, and no number of deaths below them could shake the foundation.
Yet the beings that had just attacked them were clearly Golden Core level entities; otherwise, they would never have broken through the Rhino Formation!
"I don’t know what you are talking about," Wang Chen replied.
A sharp voice pierced through the ears of everyone: "Let’s go!"
The last two words sounded incredibly ethereal, as if echoing from a distant realm.
The demon’s Golden Core had truly departed.
The ferrymen of the Mountain Crossing Society, though filled with grief and fury, were powerless to act.
Many great beasts possess great intelligence but lack any sense of virtue or morality, acting solely on their whims.
When faced with such great beasts, one could only count themselves unfortunate.
This world operates on the principle of survival of the fittest, and expecting a mere oath to bind all great beasts and beast kings is utterly unrealistic.
Even if the Nascent Soul true immortals of the four sects were aware, they would not step forward to uphold justice.
Instead, everyone had to be grateful that this great beast had no intention of annihilating them completely.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
In the next moment, the familiar sound of slicing air caused all the cultivators to pale.
The Three-Eyed Stone Ape had returned!
By now, the mountain-crossing team had completely lost the Rhino Formation, and their combat strength had been halved.
Facing the Ape Clan, they were at a complete disadvantage!
"Cross the Mountain!"
At this critical moment, the ferryman who had challenged the great beast bellowed in a deep voice, raising his palm to hurl a stone seal into the sky.
The spirit tool expanded rapidly in the wind, transforming into a small mountain in an instant, radiating a golden glow.
The stone balls that had just been hurled were immediately drawn to the spirit tool, their trajectories altered.
They plunged into the light and quickly disintegrated into dust, falling softly to the ground.
However, the number of Three-Eyed Stone Apes surrounding them continued to grow, and the barrage of stone balls intensified.
"Cross the Mountain!"
Several other ferrymen who still had strength to fight summoned similar spirit tools.
In the blink of an eye, four stone seals floated in the air at the four corners, blocking attacks from all directions.
But everyone knew that, faced with the endless onslaught of Three-Eyed Stone Apes, they could not hold out for long.
To survive, they had no choice but to fight!
While the other cultivators desperately defended and counterattacked, Wang Chen, who had mostly recovered from his injuries, summoned the Wind and Thunder Sword.
He had cultivated the Heavenly Dragon Vajra True Method to the peak of the fourth realm; if not for the need to solidify his foundation, he would have already broken through to the fifth realm.
Wang Chen’s physical strength far surpassed that of his peers.
Thus, he had not been severely injured earlier; after swallowing a second-grade Healing Pill, the medicinal effects quickly spread, calming the surging Qi and blood within his body.
Now, he was fully capable of continuing the fight.
His sword shot out like a rainbow, covering a distance of over a hundred steps in an instant, piercing through the throat of a Three-Eyed Stone Ape.
The magical beast had just gathered a clump of dirt, preparing to solidify it, when the spirit sword swiftly ended its life.
At that moment, a thunderous roar swept through the forest, shaking everyone’s eardrums.
[Virtue +105]
With the first strike successful, Wang Chen focused intently, manipulating the Wind and Thunder Sword as it darted through the Ape Clan, cutting down one Three-Eyed Stone Ape after another.
His Four Seasons sword technique was still in its early stages, but his Thunderbolt sword technique had reached perfect mastery, allowing him to control the sword effortlessly within a five-hundred-step radius, its speed truly terrifying.
Among the Ape Clan, there were second-grade spirit apes that attempted to intercept the Wind and Thunder Sword, but their claws barely reached out before the sword had already moved on to its next target.
In the mountain-crossing team, Wang Chen was not the only sword cultivator.
At this life-and-death juncture, no one dared to hold back; they unleashed their most powerful talismans and tools, hurling everything they had at the Three-Eyed Stone Apes.
Whether effective or not, they threw everything they could at the beasts.
In just a short time, more than ten cultivators had fallen, but the number of Three-Eyed Stone Apes slain was dozens of times greater!
A Purple Palace cultivator soared into the air, though he did not rise above the treetops.
His hair stood on end as he roared continuously, striking the ape horde with over a dozen palm strikes.
Each palm covered a three-zhang area, killing several or even dozens of Three-Eyed Stone Apes at once.
As time passed, the cultivators who had regained their footing grew more ferocious in their counterattacks.
Many of them harbored a burning rage, which they now unleashed upon these reckless monsters.
As casualties mounted and the ground became soaked with blood, the Three-Eyed Stone Apes finally could no longer endure, retreating with cries and vanishing without a trace.
Watching the last Three-Eyed Stone Ape disappear from sight, the surviving cultivators erupted into cheers!
Yet Wang Chen felt that their joy was premature.
After all, this journey was not yet halfway done!
