Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension Chapter 1516 - 820: Heavenly Rift Valley Lizard Hunt (2)

Master Ming Yue effortlessly brushed the blood from his face, showing no sign of distress whatsoever.

Observing his calm demeanor, the onlookers held back their questions and pressed on with their talks about wiping out the entire Flying Giant Lizard race.

...

After two full months, the relentless snowfall finally tapered off, just as six enormous silver ships soared across vast expanses, reaching their target at last—the Heavenly Rift Valley.

The vast landscape lay shrouded in white, stretching endlessly in all directions, but right then, a colossal chasm tore it apart right down the middle.

This chasm ran from south to north, reaching all the way to the world's end; in spots it narrowed to just two or three miles across, while wider sections stretched as far as a hundred and eighty miles.

Gazing into the abyss beneath, the valley looked infinitely deep. Icy gusts howled through it, sending back sounds like the bellows of monstrous fiends.

The silver ships hovered over the chasm, then a quiet gateway parted below them. Several beams of piercing light shot forth, plunging rapidly into the depths and vanishing completely.

Two days on, within one stretch of the valley, a thick shroud of mist sprang up out of nowhere.

The mist swelled swiftly in every direction, soon blanketing an area close to a hundred miles wide.

This mist-shrouded zone marked the valley's deepest core, a place locked in endless gloom, packed with solid, unchanging ice, and barren of all living things.

Still, the Zhao, He, and Wei clans picked this spot to set up camp, drawn by a unique cluster of Three Yin Evil Acupoints.

Deep inside the heavy fog, a vast, radiant shield spanned over ten miles, pushing back the shadows and holding the mist at bay.

Inside that shield, robust spires forged from Golden Gang Stones thrust upward from the soil, one by one.

Every weighty, unyielding stone spire encircled a seemingly endless hole, and atop each one hung a massive "Flame Pearl" that poured out dazzling illumination.

As he paced around the pit, Zhao Yongxian chanted spells under his breath and flung handful-sized jade array flags into the dirt.

The moment they touched down, the flags lit up and burrowed into the ground, disappearing from view.

At the same time, Zhao Sheng stepped beyond the barrier's edge. He crept along its perimeter, stretching his Divine Sense more than a dozen meters below the surface.

Wherever his scan reached, he mapped out the routes of earth veins and spirit veins clearly in his mind.

Occasionally, Zhao Sheng would fling a Thunder Pearl into the earth, aiming it right at a spirit vein junction.

He took a full hour to loop around the barrier, planting a total of thirty-six Thunder Pearls.

With spirit veins serving as the formation's foundation, these Thunder Pearls wove together Five Elements Yin Yang in a hidden Positive and Negative Five Elements Thunder Array.

If the barrier fell, the instant a foe stepped across, the thunder formation would trigger, guaranteeing doom for anyone short of Nascent Soul stage.

In truth, Zhao Sheng had thrown this setup together without much effort. The real devastating trap demanded careful, time-consuming placement.

Once ready, it promised to obliterate even hordes of Divinity Transformation True Monarchs without fail.

...

Half a month passed.

In a distant corner of Heavenly Rift Valley, almost a hundred miles down from the surface, unending blackness ruled, with chill so fierce it turned water to ice in a heartbeat.

A colossal lizard, sixty meters long and clad in armored scales, unfurled its huge wings and soared silently through the void.

All at once, a wildly tempting fragrance wafted up from the depths far below.

The giant lizard's eyes flashed with sudden hunger as it stared down, its sight cutting through the gloom to lock on a mangled, fleshy Jiao Python dangling from a cliff some dozen miles underneath.

The serpent lay drenched in blood, giving off a scent that drove it wild—the prime delicacy for the Two-winged Giant Lizard, known as the Dark River Demon Python.

This third-tier behemoth, gripped by fierce starvation, tucked in its wings and dove like a bolt of lightning.

It covered those dozen miles in a blink, closing in on the python's remains, its eyes burning a fierce crimson as it geared up to devour.

Yet in that instant, a tight web of "golden light" materialized out of thin air over the python's body.

Fine as a strand of cow hair yet razor-sharp beyond endurance, the golden light snared the unsuspecting Two-winged Giant Lizard as it hurtled straight into the snare, plowing ahead a bit further.

Then, out of nowhere, its demonic form exploded into myriad chunks, blood spraying like a torrent, with chunks of its carcass tumbling into the endless drop.

From the gore-strewn chaos, a band of ashen-faced figures in heavy armor stepped into view from the shadows.

They advanced at once, scooping up every fragment of the corpse into storage pouches, even scraping clean the spots stained with demon blood.

A third-rank demon beast held endless value; its blood had countless uses, from nourishing select spirit beasts to, above all, fueling corpse refinement.

In a heartbeat, Zhao Yongxian materialized in the air overhead, watching the frantic crew below and breaking into a grin as he commended: "What a Void Golden Saber Array! The hundredfold gravity and Gold Element sharpness, even a tough-skinned third-rank giant lizard couldn’t withstand for one breath. Brother Shaoling’s array skills are truly profound, putting this old man to shame!"

Zhao Sheng emerged gradually from nearby, replying steadily: "Elder brother praises too highly. I’m not skilled in dueling techniques, only managing to 'guard the rabbit,' far less than others at slaying demons."

Zhao Yongxian chuckled: "Though guarding the rabbit is slow, it’s safe. With you here, the family juniors are secure! I can take my leave and avoid the ridicule from the other two families for being lazy."

"Feel free to leave, elder brother. With me here, not a single family junior will fall."

Zhao Yongxian gave a pleased nod, offered a respectful bow, then turned into a streak of light and faded into the dark.

In another spot, a storm of fiery rain hammered down upon a pack of Two-winged Giant Lizards, swallowing them up in flames without mercy.

The He Family Ancestor perched atop a blazing crimson sword wheel, a towering volcano erupting behind him, belching forth scorching lava.

The lava morphed into vast curtains of fire rain, blanketing scores of miles in the void and rapidly incinerating the lizards all around.

A hundred miles off, Zhao Zhuanggong floated in the emptiness, his Divine Thought unfurling like a delicate web, spanning hundreds of miles outward.

Whenever a Two-winged Giant Lizard breached the perimeter, a burst of Sword Light would slice through the shadows, lopping off its head clean.

Within mere half an hour, seven or eight Golden Core stage giant lizards met their end beneath the Sword Light.

As the pair of Nascent Soul ancestors displayed their full power, Master Ming Yue, He Chong, and Wei Shu kept drawing the lizards their way, only for them to perish at the hands of those two Nascent Souls.

However, as the killing spree grew, a handful of bigger monsters were bound to show up.

When two massive lizards, each exceeding thirty meters, lumbered in, the Nascent Souls of Zhao and He sensed them right away.

Eager to gauge their power, they quietly urged the rest to pull back, then joined forces to face the creatures head-on.

Before long, a fierce clash unlike any other broke out in the valley's depths, its booming impacts resounding over hundreds of miles, sending swarms of valley beasts scattering in panic to hide.

...

Three days afterward, Zhao Zhuanggong and the He Family Ancestor made their way back to base, one right after the other.

Zhao Zhuanggong bore no wounds, but the He Family Ancestor's aura flickered unsteadily, suggesting light injuries.

Boom! Boom!

Two colossal lizard bodies, huge as peaks, slammed into the ground, jolting the earth with savage force.

At the sight of those gigantic demon remains, the young ones from all three clans lit up with excitement, grabbing their Spiritual Artifacts without waiting for orders from the Ancestors and rushing to break down the carcasses.

At the same time, enormous coffins hewn from Dark Wood burst upward from the heart of the Three Yin Evil Acupoints.

The coffins shook without cease, their exteriors flaring with intense bloody glows.

Right then, seven or eight Foundation Establishment members from the Zhao clan hauled piles of bloody chunks and hovered over the coffins.

With the lids cracked open just a sliver, they dumped the meat inside and sprayed their Heart Blood onto the demon corpse coffins all at once.

As the Zhao clansmen worked on refining the corpses, those from He and Wei clans carved off slabs of demon lizard flesh and gulped them down.

They dropped into cross-legged meditation next, channeling their Mysterious Skill to the fullest and processing the Nascent Soul stage demon beast meat.

The meat from Nascent Soul stage demon beasts brimmed with overwhelming Spiritual Energy, making it a tough ordeal for the Foundation Establishment youths to refine.

Nevertheless, each bit they absorbed toughened their bodies immensely, driving their cultivation levels steadily higher.