Chapter 246: The Mighty Power of the Three‑Headed Dark Gold Bat King

The Three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King is the name of this massive bat; in the original work, when Tang San and Hu Liena traversed the Hell Road, this creature also brought them great danger.

If the earlier blood bats gave Gu Xuan no pressure at all, then the appearance of this three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King before them also makes Gu Xuan feel some danger.

The three heads of the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King, with six eyes in total, stare fixedly at Gu Xuan and Du Gu Yan, flashing a cold, chilling light.

The three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King makes no extra movements, not even a test; its central head lets out a cry, spreads its terrifying wings, and suddenly lunges straight at Gu Xuan.

Its massive body has not yet reached them, yet an unparalleled, overwhelming momentum already slams into them; the dreadful gust is even more terrifying than the combined force of all the previous blood‑red bats.

With such might, Gu Xuan immediately judges that the strength of this Dark Gold three‑headed bat is certainly above that of ordinary ten‑thousand‑year soul beasts.

Under normal circumstances, this three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King might not threaten Gu Xuan and Du Gu Yan.

But now, facing such a huge, flying creature on this terrain, it is clearly extremely disadvantageous.

Facing the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King's assault, Du Gu Yan coils her serpentine tail around Gu Xuan, her jade hands trembling quickly, and a series of poison needles fly toward the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King.

The three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King charges straight forward without any pause; its dark‑gold glossy flesh‑wings beat and instantly knock Du Gu Yan's poison needles away. The razor‑sharp needles leave no wound on her, only a faint white mark, unable even to breach her defense.

Du Gu Yan's poison needles are launched by technique, but with the force she now wields, even a Soul King using a soul skill might not be able to defend; the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King relies only on its flesh‑wings for defense, which already shows its defensive capability.

However, the Dark Gold three‑headed bat's strong defense is only evident when compared to Du Gu Yan's poison‑needle attack.

When Du Gu Yan's poison needles fly out, the eight dragon swords forming Gu Xuan's sword array also shift; two of the dragon swords break away from the array and fire toward the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King.

The dragon swords pierce the surface of the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King, yet they do not wound the creature.

It is at this moment that Gu Xuan notices a faint golden soul‑power aura shielding the surface of the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King, and because of this its defense is so terrifying.

Although Gu Xuan has read the original work, he naturally cannot recall every detail, so this first attack had no effect.

But that does not mean Gu Xuan cannot deal with this three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King.

Moreover, Gu Xuan can clearly see that the golden aura on the bat's surface dims slightly after being struck.

This means its defense is not invincible; it consumes some power to repel external attacks.

With attacks ineffective, the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King's speed becomes even swifter.

When the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King is only twenty meters from the two, its middle head spits out a dark‑gold ripple toward Gu Xuan and Du Gu Yan.

Du Gu Yan quickly wraps both arms around Gu Xuan's neck to prevent anything from hindering his power.

The reason Du Gu Yan stays with Gu Xuan is that the surrounding blood bats still watch hungrily; if she leaves him, she could be besieged by the blood bats.

If that happened, Gu Xuan would likely be distracted.

Of course, it's not that Du Gu Yan lacks the ability to deal with the blood bats herself; rather, by acting this way they can maximize soul‑power savings, so that when Gu Xuan is unable, Du Gu Yan can quickly take over.

At this moment, facing such an attack, the two dragon swords still circle the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King, swiftly cutting and draining its defensive shield.

Meanwhile, from his surface sword array, two more dragon swords fly out, radiating endless sword intent, ready to slice the incoming dark‑gold ripple.

At the same time, his right‑hand bone claw has turned dark‑gold, becoming five razor‑sharp claws each a meter long, and alongside the dragon swords five dark‑gold energy blades also fly out.

With the aid of soul power, Gu Xuan activates the Dark Gold Terror Claw soul‑bone skill—Sky‑Tearing Claw.

However, this Sky‑Tearing Claw is not aimed at the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King, but targets its head.

Both powerful attacks are launched, but Gu Xuan did not expect that his two weapons would fail to cut the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King as intended; the attack passes straight through the dark‑gold ripple.

Nevertheless, Gu Xuan's reaction is not slow; after a few leaps he has already retreated ten meters.

Before fully understanding the opponent's abilities, Gu Xuan will not choose to meet force with force.

Although Gu Xuan evaded the attack, under the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King's all‑dark‑red ripple attack, the narrow path where they had been standing—about three meters long—was completely shattered, and countless stones fell into the abyss.

He does not know how the narrow path formed, but now understands that there is no retreat after arriving here; if this road is overly destroyed, he and Du Gu Yan may never be able to leave.

Yet as the narrow path beneath them is partially destroyed, Gu Xuan's Sky‑Tearing Claw accurately strikes the large central head of the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King.

What is the power of Sky‑Tearing Claw? It is the innate soul skill of the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, and not to mention that Gu Xuan's Dark Gold Terror Claw has now evolved to the ten‑thousand‑year level; the unleashed power is obviously immense.

Although the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King's body is extremely tough, in the face of that terrifying destructive force, its central head is sliced into several pieces.

Amid the wailing of the other two heads, the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King flaps its wings and flies back upside down.

Not only is the middle head injured, its surface aura is also nearly depleted, because from the start, two of Gu Xuan's dragon swords have been rapidly draining its shield.

The Sword Dragon Eight Wings, an External Soul Bone over ninety thousand years old, is certainly no joke in terms of power.

"Xiao Xuan, it wants to destroy our path," Du Gu Yan reminds at this moment.

Hearing Du Gu Yan's words, Gu Xuan decides on the spot and instantly surges forward again.

At that moment, Du Gu Yan is horrified to discover that after the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King flew back into the ranks of the little minions, it opened its mouth and devoured dozens of them, and its middle head has grown out again.

Du Gu Yan exclaims, "This thing can actually regenerate?"

At this time, Gu Xuan has already leapt high, heading toward the narrow path three meters across on the opposite side.

Only by reaching the opposite side can they continue forward, and the previous destruction will naturally subside.

However, this three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King is not unintelligent; one of its heads opens its huge mouth, releasing another ring of dark‑red ripple, this time stronger than before.

Moreover, this is not an attack on Gu Xuan, but a direct blast at the spot where he is about to land.

The three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King's intelligence is clearly far higher than that of the blood bats, and although its strength far exceeds the blood bats, it knows it is not a match for the person before it, so its original purpose was simply to destroy the road segment and block Gu Xuan's advance.

In this critical moment, Gu Xuan remains calm; maintaining composure at all times is a quality he has long possessed.

The two dragon swords that just blocked the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King have quietly moved to Gu Xuan; he steps on them, leaps high again, directly vaults over the Bat King's attack range, and lands smoothly.

These two dragon swords also fire toward the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King.

At this moment, Gu Xuan still has four dragon swords on his surface maintaining the sword array, while the other four dragon swords also attack the three‑headed Dark Gold Bat King.

Seeing him land smoothly, Du Gu Yan, a bit anxious, says, "If this creature can recover by devouring its minions, what is its weakness?"

Gu Xuan calmly replies, "It has three heads; it can't possibly have three hearts, can it?"

(End of chapter)