Chapter 183: Enemies Everywhere, Joy Turns to Madness; Life Hangs by a Thread, Survival Seems Dim

Mist ripples over the water, waves reflecting dim light.

Heavy frost descends all around, silent and somber.

A cold sneer appears on the face of the Dapeng Bird, his eyes swirling with frost, while rage ignites around him, striking the extreme heavens and occasionally scorching out various gaps.

They transform into sparks and fall, rubbing against space, their tails a deep crimson.

A sudden chill strikes Long Xuan's heart; it is a bone-chilling cold.

It causes the speed of her wings to falter. Fortunately, she reacts quickly, burning her essence blood to flee at top speed, widening the distance from the Dapeng Bird once more.

The Dapeng Bird, who had been holding back significantly, pays no mind to her sudden increase in flight speed.

He merely stares coldly at her pair of iridescent wings and says, "I've decided, I shall use that pair of dragon wings of yours to make spicy chicken wings!"

His tone is grim, filled with baleful energy.

Long Xuan is, after all, a pampered Princess who has seen little of the world; she usually buries herself in cultivation and has never paid much attention to the secrets of Honghuang.

Otherwise, she would not have tried to use Yinglong Laozu to pressure the Dapeng Bird, pointlessly placing a Zhaofongguanghuan upon herself.

This Dapeng Bird is the son born of Feng Mu, a staunch member of the Phoenix Clan.

And Yinglong Laozu, for the sake of the status of Ancestor of All Things, forcibly used his Yinglongzhishhen to become the ancestor of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans.

In the eyes of the Dapeng Bird, this is naturally an absolute insult and desecration.

He is also a naturally unruly character who has long hated this to the bone.

It is only because his elder brother, Kong Xuan, is noncommittal about this, and he himself lacks the strength, or else he would have already stormed the Yinglong dojo.

Gazing at Long Xuan's Yinglongzhishhen, the Dapeng Bird feels a surge of anger and cannot help but vent his own demonic aura.

Like a halo or a wheel, condensed and unmoving, swirling with black and cyan, it rotates slowly, permeating an unruly, savage, and overbearing air.

Before it even reaches her, it causes Long Xuan, who is fleeing ahead, to feel a stinging pain all over her body.

It is as if she were exposed to a bleak winter, her spirit and bones turning icy cold.

She cannot help but push herself again, overexerting her movement technique to increase her speed.

"No rush—"

"Once I have squeezed dry the utility of this little Yinglong, I shall properly prepare her!"

The Dapeng Bird suppresses the rising anger in his heart.

He is a creature who descended into the world during the primordial era. Although, for certain reasons, his cultivation has not yet stepped into the Great Luo realm.

Yet his longevity far exceeds that of many powerful beings.

Long Xuan's recent change in direction naturally fell into his eyes, and with his rich experience, he guessed her intentions seven or eight times out of ten.

After all, before Kong Xuan had grown up, the Dapeng Bird had experienced countless escapes and brushes with Life and Death.

In this regard, he is a seasoned veteran.

Furthermore, although he cannot calculate the Heavenly Secrets regarding Fang Longye's future, he can still see a thing or two about Long Xuan's future.

Although her Heavenly Secrets are very blurry because they involve Fang Longye, she lacks a Golden Finger to shield her, so it is impossible for nothing to be revealed.

Moreover, precisely because of this, combining these factors makes the Dapeng Bird even more certain that Long Xuan will inevitably cross paths with Fang Longye next.

Naturally, the Dapeng Bird will not destroy such a "tracker" out of anger.

……

A chase unfolds on Long Xuan's side.

Meanwhile, Fang Longye follows his own intuition, fleeing all the way.

However, as he continues to flee, the sense of crisis swirling in his heart grows ever stronger.

Looking up at the Tribulation clouds above, they are black as ink and crimson as blood.

They have reached the moment of germination.

He decides to stop in his tracks.

He waits quietly for the true Tribulation to descend.

He tightens his grip on his gear and checks everything one by one. He then signals to Peng Mowang beside him to be prepared.

Afterward, he stands in place, fully equipped and ready.

Not long after.

Fang Longye senses something and looks at the Tribulation clouds above him; they shrink and expand, as if they have accumulated too much and can no longer bear it, shifting incessantly.

In the end, they suddenly burst open.

The true Tribulation finally erupts! Fang Longye hurriedly scans his surroundings; at first, everything is normal and quiet.

Before long, he sees lightning flashing and thunder rolling in the extreme heavens in the distance, with strange cries echoing.

At first, they are barely audible.

A moment later, they gradually grow louder, higher-pitched than the cry of a crane, more shrill than the howl of an ape, and more overbearing than the roar of a dragon or tiger, containing a wild and heavy aura from the distant past of Honghuang.

The sound grows louder and louder, making one's scalp tingle as it falls upon the ears.

Looking closely, he sees the aforementioned Long Xuan, revealing her true form, fleeing toward him; her thousand-foot Yinglong body is crystalline and delicate, and with every breath, the scales on her body shine with Generating Light.

Yet, she is not turning back to seek revenge on him; instead, her dragon eyes are filled with panic and fear.

Sensing his gaze from afar, Long Xuan immediately says with joy: "Brother Daoist, you have been hard to find! Let us join forces and kill this wicked Demon behind me!"

Upon hearing this, Fang Longye is stunned for a moment, and then his anger burns!

Does she think he cannot see through such a ploy of shifting the disaster onto someone else? Truly, the heart of a woman is the most Poisonous!

Fang Longye's gaze is icy, and he laughs in his extreme rage.

He has already decided that if he has the chance to capture her, he will not kill her easily.

That would be letting her off too lightly.

He must properly prepare her and teach her what it means to wish for death!

However, he soon lost the heart to bicker with her over this.

Only to see, behind Long Xuan, a colossal entity following closely in her wake.

Its drooping wings were like clouds, it had the head of a golden-winged eagle, eyes like stars, and a leopard's gaze; as its twin wings unfurled, clouds and water followed, and its long tail feathers rose into mid-air, shrouding the entire surroundings.

It was none other than a Golden-Winged Great Peng!

It seemed similar to the Peng Mowang beside him, but in reality, the ancient Aura radiating from its entire body already confirmed its extraordinary nature.

Fang Longye looked at the Peng Mowang beside him, then gazed at Long Xuan who had already approached him.

He finally understood why, upon encountering Peng Mowang, his Tribulation had not decreased but instead increased.

Damn it!

Added to Long Xuan, who was diverting disaster onto him, he had essentially activated two Zhaofongguanghuan!

If he hadn't guessed wrong, the one behind Long Xuan was that great Demon who had shone brilliantly on the Journey to the West, subdued Sun Wukong in a few moves, and only surrendered after Rulai personally arrived.

The younger brother of the big boss Kong Xuan, the second son born to Feng Mu—the Golden-Winged Great Peng!

Unlike Long Xuan, who was inexperienced in the world and knew nothing of the various secrets.

Fang Longye had, back in the Demon Master Mansion, thoroughly studied the past of the Golden-Winged Great Peng among that pile of books.

Nothing else, after all, this figure, who was so familiar to him in his past life, would naturally pique his curiosity.

Therefore, he was relatively well-informed about the grudges involving this unruly character.

However, although he knew this Dapeng Bird was definitely not someone he could handle right now.

If they were to truly face off head-on, let alone nine deaths and one life.

Even ten deaths and one life would not be an exaggeration.

But facing such a life-and-death juncture, Fang Longye's restless heart, which had been agitated, instead calmed down.

All fear stems from the unknown.

Having understood the Outer Tribulation that formed the Calamity, with everything clear, he felt inexplicably at ease.

No matter how difficult, as long as it was determined, it was a form of relaxation in terms of mindset.

The thought flashed by, and before his train of thought could settle, the two of them, one after the other, had already arrived before him.

"Dao brother!"

Long Xuan's Yinglongzhishhen flickered, transforming into human form, and she arrived at his side in a few steps, pretending to be very familiar.

Fang Longye glared at her fiercely.

Facing a life-and-death crisis, he had no heart to deal with her, only constantly fleeing in all directions with Peng Mowang, yet they could never escape the various obstructions and bindings of the Dapeng Bird.

A faint, lingering Aura was always surrounding them, making it impossible to break away.

They had no choice but to stop, preparing to seek another opportunity.

Looking forward again.

Above the extreme heavens.

Clouds billowed, and thunder struck down.

Starlight of varying lengths, fast and slow, hung down like a pearl curtain being rolled up, hung with jade hooks, illuminating the surroundings in clarity.

The Dapeng Bird shook his body and transformed into a heroic youth, wearing a Golden Crown and a golden Dharma robe; his face could not be seen clearly within the halo of light.

Only his gaze was extremely cold.

The wind blew his sleeves, echoing all around.

There was naturally an indescribable dominance about him.

Such dominance filled the space-time, covering the surroundings.

It was as towering as a high mountain and as deep as an abyss.

He stood still in the void, looked at the three of them, sensed the Aura of Peng Mowang, and immediately laughed out loud!

"Haha! Good fortune! Good fortune! I never thought that today I could capture the descendants of that old mongrel Kunpeng and that cheap maid Yinglong in one net."

The Dapeng Bird's eyes shone with brilliant radiance, his whole person was high-spirited, and he clapped his hands and laughed.

In his words, there was not the slightest respect for Kunpeng and Yinglong, these two giants of Honghuang.

Overbearing, fierce, and filled with baleful energy.

Unscrupulous, barbaric, and wild.

The entire world, amidst his laughter, saw the celestial phenomena change drastically; black clouds pressed down, and a violent storm arrived.

An unprecedented oppression rushed toward them, solid and solidified, omnipresent.

Hearing the Dapeng Bird's arrogant words, Peng Mowang's eyes were about to split, he was on the verge of madness, and he summoned various Spirit Treasure, ready to go up and fight for his life.

Seeing this, Fang Longye hurriedly pulled him back.

Good fellow! He really was courting death!

He didn't believe that great figures like Kunpeng and Yinglong, who illuminated the past and present, wouldn't hear his wild words? Why didn't they even make a sound?

It was just because they were wary that he had a good big brother.

If you really went up, you would probably die for nothing. You couldn't even bite a single hair off this guy.

"Why? You can't stand me insulting them like this? Don't say I'm just cursing behind their backs here; even if the two of them came in person, I would still curse them just the same!"

Seeing the anger in the eyes of Long Xuan and Peng Mowang, the Dapeng Bird sneered.

Especially upon sensing the Aura of that Kunpeng feather on Peng Mowang, he was even more furious, and red flames even appeared in his golden eyes.

Even, in that instant, the main target Fang Longye, whom he should have been looking for, and Long Xuan in her Yinglongzhishhen, were thrown to the back of his mind.

Unable to endure his anger, he acted without hesitation, turning his palm into a claw and reaching forward.

It suddenly elongated, like a comet striking down, the surrounding halo containing an ominous Aura, like a mountain collapsing, clouds like a tide, sweeping everything away, heading straight for Peng Mowang.

Rip—

A feather automatically manifested, blocking his attack. The overflowing sharp Aura even left a bloody, lacerated wound on his claw.

It made him shriek in rage, his previous composure completely gone.

It is no wonder; if one were to speak of the object this Dapeng Bird hated most in his life, even the Yinglong Laozu who profaned the Phoenix Clan could only rank second.

The first place belonged to none other than that Demon Master Kunpeng.

Simply because the enmity of obstructing one's Great Dao is irreconcilable.

One must know, he originally should have been the same as Kong Xuan, possessing the status of the first Dapeng in heaven and earth, enjoying this profound fortune.

Regrettably, while he was still gestating within a phoenix egg, the Kunpeng Ancestor of that time had already created a secret method for Post-Heaven Living Beings to Reverse Innate.

With the body of a Post-Heaven Kun fish, he reversed the innate, achieving the mysterious true body of both Kun and Peng.

He leaped up and became a top-tier Xiantian Shengsheng.

Kunpeng was riding high, but it ruined him; the heaven-ordained status of the first Dapeng was occupied by the Peng-form of the Kunpeng Ancestor.

One does not know if it was just bad luck, or if it was truly the lack of that profound fortune to support him.

Not long after he was born, the Dapeng Bird suffered a Calamity.

Relying on the Phoenix Clan's unique Nirpanmifa, he was able to be reborn.

As a result, looking back, the Yin and Yang Great Dao that best suited him had also been occupied by Taiqingdaodetianzun.

Afterwards, it was various Calamities accompanying him, until Kong Xuan achieved a Great Divine Ability, only then did they gradually diminish to nothing.

So much so that he has wasted his time until now.

He has not even been able to step across the threshold of the Daluo.

With such great enmity, how could he not hate him to the bone? In his view, Kunpeng's current achievements should have all been his—even, due to the long period of stagnation, especially in contrast to Kong Xuan's brilliance, it made him increasingly insane and his temperament increasingly twisted.

He even harbored hidden resentment toward his own elder brother, believing that Kong Xuan had stolen his own fortune.

Otherwise, they were born of the same mother.

How could their fates be so vastly different? Taking this opportunity, Fang Longye transmitted his voice to Peng Mowang and Long Xuan: "Do not hold back, attack with all your might."

Long Xuan did not deliberate much and could only agree.

She had no other thoughts, simply because facing such a predicament, they could only join forces.

Of course, after one strike, they naturally had to take the chance to slip away.

And Peng Mowang had even less to say; looking at the posture of this thieving bird, he was clearly determined to kill him.

He felt depressed in his heart; it was clearly Fang Longye's Calamity, so why did it feel like he had become the main target in the end?

Having unified their subsequent actions, the three did not hesitate and went all out, each unleashing their trump card techniques to attack.

"Kill!"

Peng Mowang spat a mouthful of essence blood toward the Kunpeng feather floating above his head, pouring all his essence, energy, and spirit into it.

He did his utmost to stimulate the power of this feather.

Only a shrill cry was heard.

A sharp Aura had already arisen from the void, magnificent and imposing, covering the firmament.

It then connected above and below, traversed inside and out, filling the space-time; everywhere, above and below, left and right, was permeated with the Aura of slaughter.

For a time, in heaven and on earth, inside and outside the Hunyuan, there was nothing but the sound of Divine Light tearing through the void and thunder roaring.

"What?"

"Wah, hateful!"

The Dapeng Bird was still immersed in his rage, but seeing this scene, he was struck with terror.

Raising his eyes to look, he saw that above the extreme sky, thousands of startling rainbows crisscrossed like dragons and snakes, with slanting black patterns rising like flames and light, coiling endlessly.

Just by looking at it, an Aura poured down, icy cold and extremely terrifying.

Before he could react.

A vast and mighty power came straight from the void above his head, continuously devouring the surroundings, and then gradually, from top to bottom, a vast scroll painting descended.

In the painting, Divine Light swirled, and one could faintly see vast mountains and rivers, boundless earth, suns and moons of unbelievable size, and dazzling stars filling the sky.

A universe wrapped him within it.

"Explode!"

Long Xuan gritted her teeth, relying on the imprint she had left in the Mountain and River Map, and forcibly mobilized a portion of the Spirit Treasure's origin to make it self-destruct.

Mountains and rivers overturned, stars fell, and heaven and earth were destroyed.

This was the inspiration she gained from the scene Fang Longye and Peng Mowang had experienced in the Mountain and River Map earlier.

Unfortunately, she did not have the ability to fully refine the Spirit Treasure, otherwise, it would not have been so troublesome; she could have created and destroyed worlds with a single thought.

There would have been no need to damage the Spirit Treasure's origin as the price to perform it.

Wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth, she did not hesitate and fled after the strike.

As for the Mountain and River Map, she abandoned it directly.

Although it had only damaged some of its origin and had not even lost its Restriction.

But with her life at stake, who cared about a precious treasure? Meanwhile, Fang Longye's attack finally arrived.

"Hmm?"

The Dapeng Bird was suppressing the various forces formed by the destruction of the surrounding world with one hand, while constantly unleashing various attacks with the other to wear down the attack brought by the Kunpeng feather.

He suddenly sensed something.

He turned his head and saw that everything before him was being twisted, and even the protective Divine Light he had emitted to his surroundings was being annihilated.

In his entire field of vision, only an arrow shot from an unknown source remained.

The arrow was engraved with mysterious and profound patterns, appearing black-green, and permeated with the Aura of death.

And on the arrowhead, dense, interwoven rules of extinction were intertwined, as if they were tangible.

"Sunset Arrow?"

"No, the Sunset Arrow is not this weak. This is a one-time killing weapon forged in imitation of the Sunset Arrow~"

Although, it was only an imitation.

But that sense of destruction, slaughter, and death—as the arrow flew across—made even his heart tremble.

"Hmph!"

"Let alone a mere imitation, even if it were the real Sunset Arrow, what would I have to fear?"

The Dapeng Bird narrowed his eyes, sneered, directly channeled his power, extended a claw, and met it head-on.

Needle against wheat awn, hard against hard.

Two overwhelming forces collided.

One was the Soul Extinguishing Arrow, a one-time great killing weapon forged in imitation of the Sunset Arrow that could shoot down the Golden Crow in those years; in the evaluation of Wanbao Tower, it was sufficient to pose a life-threatening danger to immortals and gods at the Taiyi Realm level.

The other was a great Demon who had existed since the Primordial era, the son of Feng Mu, the younger brother of Kong Xuan, and an existence almost in a class of his own within the Taiyi Realm.

As the two collided, the ripples formed star-wheels of varying sizes, spreading from the inside out in all directions, lingering for a long time, spectacular and intense.

……

After Fang Longye activated the Soul Extinguishing Arrow, he was also startled by its power, followed by great joy.

The stronger, the better; only then would there be extra time for him to escape.

That's right, he had never counted on a one-time great killing weapon to kill the Dapeng Bird.

Even if this Soul Extinguishing Arrow, according to the evaluation of Wanbao Tower, was sufficient to pose a threat to an existence at the Taiyi Realm.

But facing a character with such a deep background as the Dapeng Bird, it would be good enough just to break a bit of skin.

Without hesitation, with a flip of his palm, he took out a small cyan-gold shuttle and held it in his hand.

Then, with a flash, he pulled Peng Mowang over, activated the Duntian Shuttle, and directly tore through space to escape.

On the sea surface, billions of miles away from where he had just encountered the Dapeng Bird, space suddenly split open.

From within, brilliant light cascaded down, swaying and trembling, appearing frost-colored, like willow catkins or auspicious snow, swaying and connecting together.

In this cluster of light, two figures emerged; they were none other than Fang Longye and Peng Mowang.

Fang Longye let out a breath and looked around, only to see the sea surface surging with frost-light, deep, cold, and silent.

The scenery was not particularly beautiful, but in his eyes, it was exceptionally moving.

"Finally escaped death!"

This Duntian Shuttle could not only tear through space and escape a distance of billions of miles, but more importantly, it also came with a function to confuse Heavenly Secrets.

Added to the concealment he performed using his Golden Finger, it was basically foolproof.

Fang Longye calmed his mind and revealed a smile.

This Golden-Winged Great Peng was a figure in a class of his own among the Taiyi.

To be able to escape from his hands, no matter what means were used, was enough to be proud of.

However.

The next moment, his smile came to an abrupt halt.

Just because the cloud of Tribulation above his head still existed, only having diminished slightly.

The Calamity had not yet truly passed.

Thinking of this, a sense of unprecedented danger suddenly surged in Fang Longye's heart.

Following his intuition, he looked up and saw that across an unknown distance, time and space were collapsing, and a terrifying Peng claw emerged.

Above the firmament before his eyes, the clouds across the sky parted, and from the extreme heavens, a terrifying claw of a Peng bird descended.

Crimson-gold patterns were mottled upon it, with light halos flowing and circulating, endless and unceasing.

The Peng claw broke through the air, appearing slow but actually fast, rubbing against space, drawing out golden light in all directions and sparks flying.

It caused the sea surface to become a sheet of clear and bright color, slowly unfolding as if falling into a dream.

The posture that shook the heavens and earth rushed toward his brow.

For some reason, the Dapeng Bird was actually unaffected by the confusion of Heavenly Secrets and, across a distance of billions of miles, launched a fierce attack against him.

(End of this chapter)