Chapter 233 - 210: Collision
"This is really..."
Tao Yu was seeing a Titan from the north for the first time on the road; the smarty ones before were all transformed from humans.
He didn’t expect that the first one he’d see would be an Aberrant. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
"However, it’s to be expected. Aberrants are fast, and in terms of both survival ability and threat, they are not something ordinary Titans can compare with. Given that the grassland army is up ahead, there really is no need to be so flustered over one or two ordinary Titans..."
Seeing that those horses were about to continue charging into the crowd, Tao Yu spurred his horse, leaped into the air, and with a trail of afterimages, drifted towards the front.
Following the successive flicks of a few pebbles from Tao Yu’s hand, those several grassland cavalrymen fell to the ground!
The prey in front of the Aberrant Titan suddenly collapsed, and it seemed to freeze for a moment.
But it still stretched out its hand and picked up the person closest to it, opening its mouth as if wanting to stuff the person inside.
However, the next moment, a soaring Dragon’s Chant was already filling the ears of everyone nearby.
A tens-of-feet long Blood Dragon soared into the sky!
The Blood Dragon, with bared fangs and brandished claws, fiercely majestic, bore down on the Titan, greatly diminutive in size yet not the least bit intimidated as it confronted the giant head-on!
Accompanied by a roar of rage, it struck the Titan’s head directly.
Bang~
The Titan’s head, hit by the blood-colored dragon, burst open like a watermelon, with its neck exploding in tandem, and then it collapsed on the ground.
After piercing through the Titan’s head, the long dragon had diminished greatly in size, but a shadowy afterimage still lingered.
In the air, as if controlled, the dragon twisted and turned before charging back towards Tao Yu and finally merged into a mist of blood around him and was retracted back into his body.
"Phew~ the consumption for that special effect is a bit high, but then it has a lot to do with the Titan’s thick skin and flesh. If I were fighting humans, the consumption would definitely not be this much," Tao Yu slowly exhaled.
The flashy palm strike he had executed was the first test in actual combat of the Blood Gang infused with a unification of body, energy, and spirit, combined with the effects of the Dragon’s Chant. Stay connected through empire
After converting his True Qi into True Yuan, even though his cultivation of ’qi’ was the last to be developed, the qualitative change brought about by the second Deification of the million-unit Yuan Force still allowed his Blood Gang dominated by True Yuan to be incredibly outstanding.
And it was truly exceptional!
Moreover, due to the Dragon’s Chant being Deified, the energy was inexhaustible, and after hitting the target, he continued to control and rotate it, retrieving the excess Gang Qi so as not to waste.
He had become strong enough to smash a Titan from afar with brute force!
Unfortunately, he was ultimately more adept in fighting human phantoms since dealing with large creatures like Titans relied entirely on overwhelming strength, but when it came to expense and cost-effectiveness, it was far from being as efficient as fighting humans.
Tao Yu leapt over and arrived in front of the evaporating Titan corpse, sensing the Yuan Force converging towards a segment of the spine. Although it was only a small section, given the Titan’s size, it seemed quite substantial when Tao Yu extracted it.
"Such heavy contamination."
Tao Yu raised an eyebrow. However, he himself didn’t mind such things, and given that ordinary Titan’s substance was unlikely to sell for much, he absorbed it himself, seeking to understand the situation.
[Pure Titan]: This allows oneself to transform into a Pure Titan for an extended period. Before devouring a smarty Titan, one cannot regain sanity. One’s lifelong drive is to devour smarty Titans, which may cause conflicts of lineage.
It was almost a complete skill, but Tao Yu, after grasping its details, used his Mental Immunity to discard this information immediately.
Indeed, it was a skill with side effects. The Yuan Force was over a hundred, which, if one were to consider the absorption of Yuan Force alone, was quite high among the conventional Yuan Force creatures.
Meanwhile, the refugees nearby went crazy at the sight of Tao Yu’s spectacular attack, especially when the special effect was a Blood Dragon.
Seeing the fallen Titan, they immediately fell to their knees and kept kowtowing without cease.
"We beseech the immortal to save us."
"Please have mercy, immortal."
"Immortal, oh immortal!"
"..."
Seeing these people, Tao Yu could not help but sigh and, glancing at the horses left behind by the fallen grassland soldiers, as well as their current situation of having one person with two mounts, casually said,
"You folks can take those horses. I’m no immortal, just an ordinary martial artist."
Having said that, he paid them no more attention and, utilizing the Light Body Technique, gracefully returned to his mount.
"Master Tao is truly exceptional with his Divine Skill. This... is this what Yuan Force is?"
Cheng Lixue’s voice trembled slightly as she spoke, her eyes swirling with emotion, but she maintained her poised demeanor in front of others.
The youngsters from the Training Corps behind her all had eyes shining bright.
"Can we become as powerful as what we’re learning someday?"
"This is just too strong, too cool!"
"Don’t space out, let’s go."
Tao Yu pulled on the reins and abruptly spurred his horse into a rapid gallop toward the front.
Cheng Lixue and the people of the Training Corps quickly followed behind him, and the refugees no longer cared whether Tao Yu was an immortal or not. They looked at the few well-trained horses that hadn’t left yet with a strange gaze, and slowly, some began to approach them...
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Zhongnan Mountain is located in the middle section of the Qinling Mountains and is not the name of a single peak.
As one of the two main Taoist schools, the Quanzhen Sect found a mutually beneficial relationship with Zhongnan Mountain.
However, compared to its heyday under the leadership of Wang Chongyang, the ’Number One Under Heaven,’ the current Quanzhen Sect showed signs of decline.
The Seven Masters of Quanzhen could stand up to the Five Greats with the Celestial Pole Big Dipper Formation, but that was about it.
A few months earlier, a group of riffraff had attacked Chongyang Palace; Hao Datong, one of the Seven Masters, had been embarrassingly defeated by Huo Du. This was quite a loss of face.
Fortunately, at that time, Guo Jing had just sent Yang Guo there, which had helped the Quanzhen Sect out of a tight spot. Otherwise, they truly would have been humiliated.
Thanks to the connection between Qiu Chuji and Genghis Khan, along with Zhongnan Mountain’s formidable terrain, Wang Chongyang had intended it as a strategic location for raising an army, as it was easy to defend but hard to attack.
Therefore, the Quanzhen Sect still had considerable influence in this region.
Nevertheless, at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, a vast expanse of steppe tents was now pitched, and nearly ten thousand steppe troops had encircled the necessary pass leading up the mountain, evidently intent on setting up a long-term encampment.
At this moment, the camp had clearly suffered some impacts, with exaggerated damage in some areas. Besides the bodies of a few pitiable steppe soldiers, there were also the bodies of three Titans, which were emitting steam as they melted!
Some steppe people, still with terror on their faces, were busy repairing the camp and dealing with the scene.
Sharp stakes made of huge logs had been erected high up, forming a kind of large cavalery blockade.
Moreover, in their equipment, there were some weapons that had been obviously hastily cobbled together to counter these suddenly-emerged demons.
"General Bo Yan, the rapid Titan has been successfully lured away. There are many refugees over there, enough to delay it," reported a scout inside the tent to the steppe general, who was sitting in the chief seat with a worried expression.
Although Huo Du was known as the ’Little Prince of the Steppe,’ the steppe was filled with countless tribes, and a little prince from a small tribe didn’t count for much in front of this military commander, General Bo Yan.
"Ah, this must be a punishment sent down by Eternal Heaven. Titans feed on humans but not other creatures, which is utterly inconceivable. What’s more, they don’t seem to digest what they eat. Why is that?"
Thinking about the reports detailed from below, the concern on General Bo Yan’s face deepened.
The warriors of Eternal Heaven were not afraid of combat, but they felt powerless against these irrational enemies.
Especially those rapid Titans, whose threat far exceeded that of the ordinary Titans. Except when trapped, they were practically impossible to deal with.
"How is your master doing now?"
When Bo Yan thought of King Golden Wheel, who could kill Titans with his bare hands, even he felt a tinge of fear.
Previously, he hadn’t found these martial artists to be anything special.
Faced with the endless hail of arrows, they always had a moment of exhaustion and actually played a limited role on the frontline of battle; their main function was to guard against assassination.
But against those Titans who were immune to arrows, they demonstrated unparalleled combat prowess.
Especially King Golden Wheel, who clearly stood in a class of his own among the top fighters.
Others like Xiao Xiang Zi and Yin Kexi made a lot of noise, but after realizing that the Titans were immune to poison, they fled in terror, not daring to confront them.
It was, on the contrary, King Golden Wheel who brought down Titans with just a few rotations of his weapon and finally severed the Titans’ heads with his Jin Lun.
However, he was momentarily careless and was slapped by a rapid Titan, sustaining some injuries.
"Just some superficial wounds, nothing serious,"
Huo Du replied, bowing.
But just then, a scout came in from outside
"General, there are about fifty riders approaching from the direction where the rapid Titan was lured away."
"What? They didn’t lure the Titan back here, did they?"
General Bo Yan’s expression changed to one of shock, and he rose abruptly, slamming his hand on the table.
"No sign of it yet..."