Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension Chapter 1517 - 821: Heavenly Rift Valley Changes Hands, Immortal Bone

Eerie, grating cries of 'Wow, wow...' reverberated through the shadows.

Deep in the Heavenly Rift Valley, the barrier's brilliant glow chased away the darkness for a ten-mile radius all around. But farther out, the gloom thickened into something far more menacing and profound. Two-winged Giant Lizards would sometimes dart across the divide between light and shadow, eager to flaunt their horrifying presence, their intent to terrify plain as day.

Yet the entire pack of Two-winged Giant Lizards kept circling in the nearby blackness, never bold enough to storm the Bright Barrier ten miles off.

Right then, inside the barrier, Zhao Yongxian jabbed a finger at the skulking Demon Lizards and let out a hearty laugh: "Haha, this bunch of beasts finally knows fear!"

Zhao Sheng lingered close by, nodding along with a grin.

Near the pair, a bunch of Foundation Establishment juniors, ignoring their wounds, gleefully sliced into the Giant Lizard remains. They pulled out Demon Cores, flesh, Scale Armor, and the like, stowing them all in Storage Bags. The guts and bones, worthless for the moment, got hauled within the barrier and dumped in a haphazard heap to create a towering Skeleton Mountain, set aside for later use.

Not long after, a majestic and commanding voice rang out across the whole stronghold: "Quickly return to inside the barrier, the Giant Lizard group is about to launch an attack!"

The instant they caught the alert, Zhao Sheng, Zhao Yongxian, and the Foundation Establishment juniors all halted their work and hurried back into the barrier.

No sooner had the group pulled out than seven or eight Two-winged Giant Lizards erupted from the dark, howling as they barreled straight for the Bright Barrier.

Boom, boom!

Huge rocks, each tens of thousands of pounds heavy, dropped from the heavens out of nowhere, smashing down onto the barrier with brutal impact. Waves rippled across it at once, making the shield shimmer wildly as its light swiftly dulled.

Wow wow!

Two-winged Giant Lizards closed in to within a hundred feet of the barrier, then snapped their wings shut and yawned their jaws wide to belch out massive clouds of dull gray poisonous vapor.

The poison cloud hit the barrier's face and started eating away at it right away, with the shield hissing and, incredibly, visibly dissolving—the venom's power was all too obvious.

The three Foundation Establishment juniors watching over the array's heart went pale with shock, yanking out the drained Top-grade Spirit Stone from the Magic Platform at once and swapping in a brand-new Top-grade Spirit Stone.

In the same moment, Flame Pearls perched atop countless towers flashed as one, blasting out leg-thick streams of fire that lanced up into the murky heights.

Crackle!

A handful of Giant Lizard bodies tumbled suddenly from the skies overhead, pounding into the barrier before slithering off its surface.

Meanwhile, Zhao Sheng, Zhao Yongxian, He Chong, and Wei Shu—the four Golden Core Masters—stood watch over the southeast and northwest flanks, each spot backed by a dozen or so Foundation Establishment juniors primed to join the fray.

As the Giant Lizard horde laid siege, the three clans' cultivators struck back even as they held their ground, whittling down the attackers' ranks bit by bit via layers of restrictions and the array's protective field.

As the art of war teaches, surround with ten times the force, assault with five, and split when doubled.

From time immemorial, defense has always proven simpler than offense!

Thus, the three clans had planned ahead to first waylay the Giant Lizard pack, riling up these dominant locals before sealing off the Yin Sha Mysterious Array to draw the beasts into a charge.

Events showed that these Two-winged Giant Lizards, lording over the Heavenly Rift Valley for ages, had grown dim-witted over time, relying solely on raw power without a shred of cunning.

The most basic ploy of baiting the foe was enough to make this swarm of creatures throw everything they had into the onslaught.

In the barrier's southern sector, Zhao Sheng floated in the air, eyeing the Two-winged Giant Lizards that kept swooping down without cease. His Divine Sense split into hundreds of threads, slipping past the barrier to quietly set off the hidden traps laid earlier.

Crackle!

In a flash, endless arcs of electricity erupted from the earth, tearing through the air and weaving into a thick Thunder Net that trapped three or four Giant Lizards inside a hundred-foot span.

Bolts of lightning hammered the Giant Lizards relentlessly, knocking them out cold in moments; they plummeted to the ground like rocks, their doom unclear.

With another mental command, the soil exploded with a flood of electric flashes once more, blanketing the nearby area in a hundred feet without delay.

Third-tier, Fourth-tier... even Sixth Rank Demon Lizards boasting battle prowess like a flawless Golden Core, all fell senseless to the Thunder Net's grasp, ripe for the killing.

The northeast and west sides faced stiffer pressure than the south, but guided by three Golden Core Masters, swarms of Golden Armored Corpses rose from below, charging fearlessly at the onrushing Giant Lizards.

Though the Golden Armored Corpses kept getting used up, the Giant Lizards failed to breach the Bright Barrier.

While the Giant Lizards rampaged against the stronghold in a fury, Zhao Zhuanggong and the He Family Ancestors teamed up to battle the mightiest Two-winged Giant Lizard.

This Giant Lizard leader stretched over a hundred feet long, its frame massive as a peak, with eyes morphed into Dragon Eyes and a coiled horn more than eight feet jutting from its forehead—clearly in a partial dragon shift.

Should it complete the full dragon change, the creature would surely rise to Great Demon King status, its might rivaling a Divinity Transformation True Monarch.

As it was, this half-dragon Two-winged Giant Lizard proved staggeringly powerful, on the verge of Half-step Divinity Transformation.

The two Nascent Soul Ancestors poured out every ounce of their power and, wielding their clan's Spiritual Treasures, just managed to stand firm together against it.

The Two-winged Giant Lizards' ways of fighting stayed brutally straightforward: chomping, slashing with wings, spitting venom, and hurling stuff from the air.

Paired with their tough hides by nature, it left this herd of Two-winged Giant Lizards with hardly any predators in the Heavenly Rift Valley.

That is, until they clashed with the clever Human Clan Cultivators.

As time dragged on, the Two-winged Giant Lizards' numbers shrank dramatically.

The deeper into the fight they went, the feebler the Giant Lizards' assaults grew, barely endangering the stronghold anymore.

After two months, the Zhao and He Nascent Souls coaxed the Giant Lizard Commander close to the stronghold, then abruptly triggered the Yin Sha Mist Array to snare the half-dragon Demon Lizard inside it.

Seeing this unfold, Zhao Sheng realized the moment was ripe, so he set off the Positive and Negative Five Elements Thunder Array.