Chapter 231

After dealing with the Worldly Chaos Demon King, Mu Yi called Chu Yi to pull him back onto the ground.

When Mu Yi arrived beside Wu Jian, Wu Jian basically only had a breath left.

This was still the result of Qing Xia and the priest desperately maintaining it, before they broke through Transcendent, entered Legend, and achieved another level of life.

Unless someone like Mu Yi here possesses a special opportunity, other beings facing deathly qi with an instant-death effect can only watch helplessly as the deathly qi devours them.

The difficulty of the Worldly Chaos Demon King lies not entirely in its immortality.

To a large extent, it is the deathly and turbid qi on his body that is the key factor making it hard for Wu Jian and the others to deal with him.

"Life and death reincarnation!"

Mu Yi placed his hand on Wu Jian's chest; the deathly qi, like swallows returning to their nests, gathered completely into his hand, then transformed into vitality within the cycle of reincarnation, and was poured back entirely into Wu Jian's body.

"It's fine!" Wu Jian exclaimed in surprise as he climbed up from the ground; although still a bit weak, there was no doubt he had escaped danger.

"Fellow Daoist, you truly have a fine method!"

Qing Xia praised without end; such a godlike ability is rarely heard of even on Kunlun Mountain.

While praising, Qing Xia glanced at Chu Yi; for some reason, she always felt that Chu Yi possessed an inexplicable divinity that made her unable to resist the urge to bow down and worship.

If not for the fact that cultivators' minds are still somewhat steady, she would probably have lost her composure just now.

After quickly calming her mind through visualization, Qing Xia immediately made a decision.

"Let's go; we must press down the calamity before the last seal is broken."

"Do you know where we should go next?"

"I don't know, but the Mountain God definitely knows!" Qing Xia had already figured out the script of this dungeon.

The three forces correspond to the three seals; the Miao tribe and the Xiangxi tribe were destroyed one after another, and the remaining mountain spirits and wild beasts likely cannot escape disaster.

As long as we awaken the Mountain God and get there before the pangolin, we can definitely prevent the next seal from breaking.

From a behavioral logic standpoint, the Mountain God's treasure in the hands of the mountain spirits and wild beasts likely still retains power, enough to sustain for a period.

This is also why the pangolin struck first at the two major tribes.

Wanting to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, letting the Mountain God, Xiangliu, and the Worldly Chaos Demon King suffer mutual defeat while he reaps the benefits of the fisherman, his scheme is truly a clever calculation.

"No, I have a simpler method!"

Mu Yi patted Chu Yi's head; Chu Yi lowered his head to the ground and began listening to the earth's echo, and in just a moment he had already sensed the pangolin's movements.

The pangolin, possessing part of the Mountain God's power, within the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains is like a firefly in the night—visible at a glance.

Chu Yi took the lead and charged out.

"Found it, let's go!" Mu Yi followed without hesitation.

Qing Xia and the others stared for a moment, then still followed; as the strong one, Mu Yi naturally had the right to lead.

The Transcendent world is simple: the strong eat the weak, and it is only natural for the strong to enjoy privileges.

Just as the group followed Chu Yi on the road, the Zongwang Prompt refreshed on their retinas.

The soul of the Worldly Chaos Demon King, tormented in the Hell Path, directly chose to scatter soul and spirit, vanishing completely from heaven and earth.

Zongwang Prompt: You have slain the high-difficulty challenge leader—Worldly Chaos Demon King; you have completed the challenge event: Great Calamity Impends and its side high-difficulty challenge.

Zongwang Prompt: Your challenge chest gains an extra one, quality upgraded to Legendary (the highest quality in this dungeon), the challenge chest limited special affix 1, affix limit 1, and a basic reward from the special reward pool is added.

Zongwang Prompt: Your legend degree in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains is 1; based on your related derived concepts, in worlds where the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains exist, there is a small chance to obtain related legendary deeds of your derived concepts.

Zongwang Prompt: Your deeds are known to Flower Fruit Mountain; encountering Flower Fruit Mountain will trigger a fortuitous encounter!

Mu Yi saw the prompt and froze for a moment; this Worldly Chaos Demon King, could it actually be the Flower Fruit Mountain's Worldly Chaos Demon King?

Does the concept of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains also include Flower Fruit Mountain?

How does this Hundred Thousand Great Mountains feel a bit off? Even though "hundred thousand" is itself a fictitious number, this is still too strange.

Mu Yi's reason told him not to continue investigating this; otherwise he might get dragged into a more troublesome vortex. He is a person with clear goals; arbitrarily jumping into a vortex will invite trouble.

Jiuzhou itself is a great vortex; the closer you get, the more likely you are to be smashed to pieces.

Mu Yi said nothing; seeing this, the others also had nothing to say.

After all, they are all people clinging to Mu Yi's thigh; what to do, Mu Yi knows better than they do.

"Woof!"

Chu Yi let out a roar, slamming his paws on the ground; the pangolin that had been burrowing through the earth was instantly thrust up by the rocks.

Wu Jian rushed over and grabbed the pangolin in one grasp.

"What exactly are you?"

Looking into the pangolin's eyes, Wu Jian asked.

"I am the Mountain God's messenger... you... what do you want to do!"

Feeling Wu Jian's strength gradually increasing, the pangolin's body trembled; it realized its deeds had been exposed, yet it stubbornly said:

"What a Mountain God's messenger!"

Wu Jian revealed a ferocious smile; having walked through the Gates of Ghosts, he certainly wasn't in a good mood.

"Let me do it!"

Mu Yi reached out to demand the pangolin; truly letting Wu Jian pinch it to death would make the doubt hard to resolve.

Wu Jian paused, then handed the pangolin to Mu Yi.

"Do you know what this is?" Mu Yi released a bit of flame stained with Xiangliu's impurity from the Hell Path and threw it onto the pangolin's body.

In an instant, the pangolin spat white foam, nearly fainting.

Wu Jian and the others also immediately retreated several meters, instinctively raising a protective barrier.

Mu Yi sighed, but his killing intent almost overflowed; each time he recalled the scene of him and Xiangliu exchanging blows with blood, he wanted to destroy the whole world.

"If you don't speak, I'll throw you in there and let you be surrounded by this!" Mu Yi said in a remarkably calm voice, describing a fact that made the pangolin tremble with fear.

Just a moment of release caused the pangolin to resist from the depths of its soul.

The huge pressure made the pangolin tremble incessantly; after stammering for a while, it finally screamed and said everything.

"I am a subordinate of the Snake Demon King; I obeyed the Snake Demon King's order to lure you into releasing the other sealed monsters, so that they and the Mountain God would suffer mutual destruction!"

"Snake demon?" Qingxia was stunned for a moment.

"Wasn't it already slain by the Mountain God?" Qingxia still remembered vividly the prequel events she personally experienced.

"The one killed was the elder sister of the Snake Demon King, the Azure Snake Demon King; the Snake Demon King came from outside the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, seized the Mountain King's Mountain God's treasure, and released the Azure Snake Demon King!"

"The Mountain God's power on my body was bestowed by the Snake Demon King!" The pangolin spilled everything like spilling beans, making it clear.

"I've said everything, don't kill me, don't kill me!" The pangolin screamed and wailed.

"Pangolin, it looks like you've betrayed the Mountain King!" A monstrous face covered in scales, resembling a crocodile, emerged from the ground.

"The Mountain King went to the trouble of having us come specially to pick you up!"

And behind the crocodile demon, there was also a centipede demon and a toad demon wielding blades and spears, moving to surround them.

Behind them, countless mountain sprites and wild monsters burst from the ground—bat demons, mouse demons... hundreds of kinds of namable and unnamable spirits all appeared before everyone.

Everyone picked up their weapons and furrowed their brows; the appearance of these monsters was strange—no one noticed their emergence.

Although they noticed them the moment they appeared, before that they had sensed nothing at all.

Markexi used his tactical scope to scan the monsters, finding that they were basically elite monsters and high-grade grunts.

However, after being backstabbed several times, Markexi no longer believed in his shoddy tactical scope, nervously staring at the monsters opposite, fearing they might suddenly transform into monsters.

Mu Yi oddly glanced at Chu Yi; these monsters must have achieved the effect of emitting no aura whatsoever underground via the Mountain God's treasure.

But these monsters shouldn't be able to burst from the earth controlled by Chu Yi; even if that whatever King also mastered the Mountain God's treasure, it'd be the same.

But when he turned around, he discovered Chu Yi had vanished; relying on their connection, he could sense that Chu Yi seemed to have hidden within the earth.

"Finished explaining?" Mu Yi looked at the pangolin struggling beneath his feet, ignoring a mountain sprite/wild monster that was closing in.

"I've said everything, I haven't hidden anything!"

Mu Yi could tell the pangolin was speaking the truth; it didn't look like it was hiding anything at all.

"Although you're honest, you're still guilty!" Mu Yi calmly pronounced the pangolin's fate.

Although not the mastermind, he's also helping a tiger do harm; his guilt is inescapable.

"In your next life, be a good person!"

Mu Yi casually threw the pangolin into the Hell Path; the evil red light revealed on the holy sword's detection was already almost blinding, showing that this pangolin was not coerced but brought it upon itself.

For such a heinous villain, Mu Yi naturally would give it the harshest punishment.

"Kill these humans!" the crocodile demon drooled from the corner of its mouth, charging like a mad dog.

Markexi and his group immediately began to counterattack.

To Markexi's surprise, this time his tactical scope didn't let him down; the monsters before him were indeed a team of elite monsters and high-grade grunts.

The previously ineffective alchemical cannon and assault mecha finally displayed their divine might at this moment.

Each time the trigger was pulled, a large hole appeared on a monster's body, blood and flesh splattering onto the surrounding land, killing it instantly.

In just a few breaths, the charging monster grunts were instantly cleared by Markexi's artillery; the whole ground became extremely bloody, everywhere littered with broken bodies.

And the few elite monsters didn't fare better; the leading crocodile demon was directly hit by the witch's sword's 'Force Splitting Hua Shan' strike, being torn in half.

The centipede demon, under the bombardment of the Five Thunder Talisman, had no strength to retaliate at all; a single encounter turned it into charcoal.

And the toad monster, facing a cross‑sect priest holding a holy scripture in one hand and a flail in the other, had utterly no power to resist, being slain outright under the flail.

Although Wu Jian and them are a bit lacking when dealing with high-difficulty challenge bosses, these elite monsters and minions are as fragile as newborn babies before them.

Mu Yi didn't act, merely flung a few bolts of angry thunder, sending several clueless monsters to their deaths.

He ate meat, always wanting to give his teammates some soup; the rewards from these elite monsters and minions are better left to them.

Only when everyone is well is it truly good.

After the dust settled here, Chu Yi crawled out from the ground, and along the way brought out a corpse.

「Dungeon tip: Your follower killed the elite monster-Scorpion Spirit! Your dungeon reward slightly increased. 」

The flesh crushed into a bloody mess by the earth, Mu Yi could only barely discern from its huge tail that it was a scorpion tail containing deadly poison, with foul-smelling poison dripping from the tail.

Mu Yi pressed his brow; the Snake Spirit, Scorpion Spirit, Crocodile Spirit… this combination, why does it look more and more familiar to him?

The Mountain God of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains wouldn't be… Hulu Xiao Jingang, would it?

The Dungeon of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains couldn't really be just stitching together all mountain-related concepts and then fabricating a dungeon world, could it?

Roughly recalling, Hulu Wa transformed into a seven-colored mountain to suppress the elder Snake Spirit; then the younger Snake Spirit came to release her sister and fought Hulu Wa on the stage… it actually seems to match.

「Let's go, let's go see the final boss monster! 」

Clear your mind of distracting thoughts, whether or not it's Hulu Wa, the dungeon's plot has come to this point; it's also time to face the final trouble.

However, just as everyone agreed to prepare to advance, a golden light appeared in the sky.

Just like a venomous snake lurking for a long time leaping out from the shadows, in that fleeting opportunity, the Snake Spirit activated a magical treasure to attack.

No rule says the boss must stay in place, waiting for heroes to come and subdue it.

When are people most relaxed? It's when they have just finished one thing and are about to do the next; in that brief gap, the goal and the present are pulled apart, and people involuntarily become relaxed.

And just at that moment, the Snake Spirit, which perceives human hearts, burst from the earth like a vengeful spirit; even Chu Yi didn't notice, only because the Snake Spirit threw out a sacrificial Scorpion Spirit, causing Chu Yi to be deceived by the sight before him.

Although Chu Yi is formidable, after all he's just a baby, lacking careful thought, completely ensnared by the Snake Spirit's scheming.

The golden light that suddenly flashed into view made Mu Yi narrow his eyes; a small copper coin spun in the air, emitting a pleasant, clear sound.

As it spun, one became two, two became four… the copper coins increased geometrically, covering the entire sky, turning into a vast golden flood that rushed to engulf the few people.

And the golden flood wrapped the other few people within it; in an instant, they were unable to move.

And only in the next moment did the true killing intent reveal itself.

The dagger, extended several times its length, pierced Qingxia Daoist's chest, stabbing through her breast.

(End of chapter)