Chapter 343

Black dragonflame breath.

Deadly poison, corrosive, wrapped in a dark power that devours everything.

The dragonflame was extremely overbearing, and it was almost a sneak attack; Wu Tie couldn't react in time and was struck in the chest by the dragonflame breath.

Large areas of flesh were charred and blistered, emitting a foul, pungent odor.

But that was all it did.

Wu Tie's body had been tempered by the essence of the Martial Star's power, having swallowed countless heavenly and earthly primordial energy, making him strong to a certain degree. Even the breath of a Dragon Person at the Embryonic Storage realm only damaged his skin, failing to cause significant harm to the muscles beneath.

In a low rumbling sound, the White Tiger Split struck heavily against the Dragon Person's chest.

Wu Tie did not use the White Tiger Split thrust, but instead swung the spear shaft down and smashed it.

Large patches of black scales on the Dragon Person's chest shattered, his ribs emitting a piercing crack; a mouthful of blood was sent flying by Wu Tie's spear shaft, knocking over two or three tribal chiefs behind him and dozens of sturdy Dragon Person warriors.

Everyone around narrowed their pupils at the same time.

These Dragon Persons with dragon heads and human bodies possessed ancient dragon bloodline, their flesh and bone solid, strength boundless, their whole body scale armor defense extremely formidable; without wearing battle armor they could still face off against body cultivators in heavy armor.

This Dragon Person chief, Ao Kuang (kuang), known to all, had been in the Embryonic Storage realm for hundreds of years, his cultivation extremely formidable, making him one of the top experts among the Dragon People, and with his innate divine strength he always charged wildly on the battlefield, rarely meeting an opponent.

Yet he suddenly launched a sneak attack on Wu Tie; even though the terrifying dark-attribute dragonflame breath did little harm to Wu Tie, he was nevertheless struck by Wu Tie's spear shaft and seriously injured!

Wu Tie is merely at the Life Pool realm!

Merely at the Life Pool realm!

Just how strong is this kid's strength?

A large group of Dragon Person warriors roared in unison, drawing their weapons and swarming toward Wu Tie.

No matter what ailment caused Ao Kuang to suddenly attack Wu Tie, the fact that Wu Tie counterattacked and seriously wounded him makes it Wu Tie's fault!

The Dragon People have never cared for reason.

Speaking of which, in the harsh environment of the underground world, which tribe that manages to thrive, occupy vast lands, and control massive resources would still be reasonable?

The Dragon Person warriors had just stepped forward a few paces when the Wu Clan youths, outnumbering them severalfold, shouted in unison and charged from the slant; amid the calls of several Wu Clan elders, the Wu Clan youths swung their fists and struck.

The Dragon Person warriors were caught off guard, dozens knocked flat on the spot by the Wu Clan youths, each bleeding from mouth and nose, in a sorry state.

Instantly the Dragon Person warriors and Wu Clan youths became entangled, hundreds fighting in chaotic melee amidst the city ruins littered with broken bricks and tiles. Both sides were possessed of boundless power and sturdy frames; their punches thundered against bodies with a deep, dull sound, far louder than the booming of a giant war drum.

Xingtian Eel shouted loudly: "Ao Kuang, is your brain broken?"

Ao Kuang's eyes turned completely red; he struggled to his feet, ignoring the bloody, mangled wound on his chest, and began to shout while stomping his feet: "Our Dragon People find it extremely hard to propagate; ordinary couples need ten years of marriage to conceive a single child… This time I led people to escort eight thousand pregnant women to the surface… and just now, it's all been destroyed!"

Ao Kuang howled: "Sun Gold Shuttle, precision strike… the Great Jin Evil Demons know our Dragon People's encampment, with no warning the Sun Gold Shuttle fell straight from the sky, blowing the entire encampment to pieces."

"The eight thousand strongest, most vital-blooded, purest-lineage pregnant women… all gone! Plus the twenty thousand elite of our tribe protecting them, besieged by three hundred thousand Demon-Suppressing Hall troops… they're all completely wiped out!"

Ao Kuang shouted while stomping his feet: "Our Dragon People's encampment… how did the Great Jin Evil Demons come to know of it?"

Ao Kuang was still shouting here when the leader of the human-bodied deer tribe suddenly shuddered, let out a loud cry, and pulled from his sleeve a palm-sized wooden tablet.

On the lush green wooden tablet light flickered, and an aged, urgent voice emanated from it.

Everyone turned their gaze to the elderly human-bodied deer person.

These human-bodied deer tribes are also famous in the underground world; they are innately attuned to the power of azure wood, possessing an incredible divine ability to spur plant growth, and their ancestral land is a vast, lush subterranean primeval forest.

They call themselves the Wood Spirit Clan and take 'Wood' as their surname; this old man is the renowned Elder Mu Sang of the Wood Spirit Clan. The Wood Spirit Clan's lifespan is extremely long, far exceeding that of ordinary peoples; Elder Mu Sang is said to be over ten thousand years old, still vigorous and leaping about outdoors, and whenever the Wood Spirit Clan undertakes a major action, he usually leads the party.

Perhaps due to their plant nature, the Wood Spirit Clan generally have good tempers, are gentle, and rarely become angry with others.

Yet everyone watched as Elder Mu Sang's eyes, like Ao Kuang's, suddenly turned bloodshot red; his head of long hair stood up straight strand by strand, and the dense three-foot beard on his face instantly became a ghastly green.

Immense azure wood power filled his body; Elder Mu Sang silently raised his wooden staff and pointed it at Wu Tie.

Azure wood transforms into wind; wind and clouds churn, giving birth to thunder.

In the void, spiritual light flickered; hundreds of thunderbolts the size of human heads—innate Taiyi Azure Wood Divine Thunder—suddenly appeared, silently hurtling toward Wu Tie. This is an extremely powerful wood-attribute thunder method, exceedingly fast, launched without sound, and it is Elder Mu Sang's signature technique that made him famous.

It is said that Elder Mu Sang has lived over ten thousand years, yet at this age he certainly hasn't ended up in a dog's body.

He is undoubtedly among the top cultivators of the Embryonic Storage realm; not only has he mastered the Azure Wood Dao, he has also pushed the wind- and thunder-related Dao principles to the extreme, making him definitely one of the strongest three to five Embryonic Storage cultivators present.

Wu Tie had no time to react.

A tremendous sense of danger suddenly welled up in his heart.

This sense of danger was several times stronger than when Mr. Wood ambushed Wu Tie; Wu Tie let out a low roar, and the Reincarnation Tower instantly dropped a black divine light that enveloped his whole body. However, the speed of the Azure Wood Divine Thunder surpassed imagination; before the tower could fully shield him, seven bolts of Azure Wood Divine Thunder had already slammed into Wu Tie's chest.

"Boom boom boom."

A clear, ringing thunderclap sounded, and a large expanse of blue electricity exploded at his chest.

Although Wu Tie's sturdy body had only suffered skin damage from Ao Kuang's dragonflame breath, the seven Azure Wood Divine Thunderbolts blasted his flesh and blood apart, exposing the dark ribs beneath.

The terrifying thunderous force seeped through the gaps between his ribs into his chest cavity, erupting inside his vital organs.

Large clouds of blood mist sprayed; Wu Tie was hurled backward hundreds of zhang by the seven Azure Wood Divine Thunderbolts, spitting out mouthfuls of blood as his vision darkened in waves, on the verge of passing out.

The remaining hundreds of Azure Wood Divine Thunderbolts struck the black divine light emitted by the Reincarnation Tower, detonating in dense succession; the black light curtain shuddered violently, sending ripples across its surface.

Wu Tie lost his footing, continuously rolling backward from the blast; countless warriors from various units fled in panic along the way, none daring to withstand the residual aftershock of Elder Mu Sang's divine thunder, not even a trace of its thunderous force.

From the densest part of the crowd, Wu Tie was blasted by a wave of divine thunder, flying backward over a hundred li before slamming headfirst into a tilted, broken great pillar, where his motion finally ceased abruptly.

The stone pillar, several zhang thick, snapped with a boom, and Wu Tie fell heavily to the ground along with the broken column.

Elder Mu Sang emanated a terrifying aura from his whole body.

Beside the Profound Darkness Butterfly, Kuafu Heng, whose strength likewise reached the pinnacle of the Embryonic Storage realm, grasped a wooden staff and suddenly darted forward to block in front of Elder Mu Sang.

His skin was deep yellow, rough like stone beneath, with large crimson patterns faintly visible; Kuafu Heng's eyes spat threads of firelight as he gritted his teeth and roared: "Old Mu Sang, bullying my child—what kind of hero is that?"

Want to fight? I, Kuafu Heng, will play with you! Hey, hey, hey, eight hundred years ago, to contend for that Spirit Axis Purple Ganoderma fruit, I pressed you to the ground and beat you for half an hour… want to go again?

Kuafu Heng stomped heavily; from his seven orifices and every pore of his body, threads of scorching, violent red flame continually spewed out.

The Wu Clan, the Kuafu Clan—legend says the ancestors of the Kuafu once madly chased the sun… the Kuafu Clan's speed and endurance are easy to imagine. Yet what is most terrifying about the Wu Clan's Kuafu lineage today is the mysterious firepower inherent in their blood.

It is an extremely violent, destruction-filled fire power that specifically targets bloodlines, most capable of destroying an enemy's essential quintessence; once struck, this terrifying firepower clings like a bone‑eating maggot, lingering in the body unwilling to depart, so that even a peerless talent, from a slight wound, will slowly be boiled down into a useless wreck.

Especially, this firepower is the strongest counter to azure wood power.

Especially the Wu Clan's people, each one possesses inhumanly strong bones and tendons, their brute strength is outrageously great, and in battle they hold an even greater advantage.

Kuafu Heng's cultivation is slightly inferior to that of Musang Elder by a small margin, but in terms of combat power, Kuafu Heng can absolutely suppress Musang Elder.

Musang Elder's eyes turned blood-red as he roared at Kuafu Heng: "Come on, old man today…… I'll kill this bunch of bastard scum of the Wu Clan…… My Wood Spirit Clan's garrison was likewise swept clean by the Sun Golden Shuttle; only three or five youths from the clan managed to escape, and those young girls…… were all killed as well……"

Musang Elder's entire body was enveloped by violent azure lightning, and continuous muffled thunderclaps echoed from the void.

"Come on, let's fight to the death!" Musang Elder bellowed hoarsely.

The warriors of the Wood Spirit Clan behind Musang Elder all went mad, just like the Dragon People Clan; the pregnant women they had escorted to the mortal world were all dead as well?

Whether wind, thunder, or both wind and thunder, the Wood Spirit Clan's warriors all rose into the air and formed neat ranks behind Musang Elder.

Suddenly, hundreds of tribal chiefs cried out in unison.

They each took out their clan's specially crafted communication treasures and connected with their peoples' messages.

Roars and curses kept coming; their secretly prepared camps were all swept clean by the Sun Golden Shuttle, and the Fetus Storage Realm Elders stationed there, in order to protect the clan's pregnant women, stubbornly blocked the Sun Golden Shuttle's bombardments and all perished.

Then the allied forces of the Suppressing Demon Hall and the Expelling Demon Hall suddenly burst forth, slaughtering all the pregnant women in their secret camp; only a handful of heavily injured young and middle-aged clan members managed to escape, and they immediately relayed the bad news.

Without any warning, not even the scouts of the Suppressing Demon Hall and the Expelling Demon Hall noticed, the Great Jin Divine Nation suddenly launched a blanket Sun Golden Shuttle attack on the secret camps of so many tribes.

Without a doubt, their base coordinates have been leaked!

The eyes of hundreds of tribal chiefs stared fixedly at the jade tablet in Xi Qi's hand.

"Wu Tie…… and the Wu Clan, they leaked our clan's garrison location…… so many clansmen, so many clansmen……" A giant ten zhang tall, with dark-gold skin all over, beneath which faint dark-silver patterns flickered, and with only a single huge eye in the center of its forehead, let out a hoarse roar.

"It's you who sold out our camp's location." Dark-gold flames burst from the one-eyed giant's body, and his stature rapidly grew, swelling to three or four hundred zhang in the snap of a finger.

Xing Tian E gave a low rebuke, his body swayed, and as the one-eyed giant grew, his own body likewise swelled.

Their bodies rapidly expanded to about a thousand zhang, and the one-eyed giant threw a punch at Xing Tian E.

Xing Tian E likewise kicked out, his leg longer than his arm, striking the one-eyed giant's abdomen and sending it staggering back dozens of steps.

"Wu Kui…… you idiot, how could my Wu Clan possibly betray your One-Eyed Giant Clan?" Xing Tian E shouted: "You've forgotten the relationship between your One-Eyed Giant Clan and my Wu Clan?"

The One-Eyed Giant Chief Wu Kui stared blankly, a flash of firelight flickered in his pupils, and he stood there with his fists clenched.

But the other hundreds of tribal chiefs roared in unison, issuing orders as hundreds of tribes' warriors chaotically took to the air, surrounding the thirty thousand Wu Clan youths from all sides.

Xuanming Die likewise let out a long, sharp whistle; the Drought Demon Altar emitted blinding red light, which showered down and enveloped the Wu Clan youths present.

"Lords, lords, even if the Wu Clan were foolish, we would not betray so many tribes…… and moreover, we could not do such a thing……" Xuanming Die said sternly: "Don't act rashly, don't cause chaos, we……"

Xi Qi smiled faintly and said slowly: "The evidence is solid…… you Wu Clan are truly reckless, having betrayed so many tribes…… you truly deserve to die! This Drought Demon Altar, I, the commander, will gladly accept!"

Xi Qi's eyes flashed with strange light as he laughed loudly: "The primordial power of the Drought Demon Altar ultimately stems from primordial fire elemental energy, which is perfectly suited for my use…… my exalted position notwithstanding, I truly lack a few handy life-bound treasures."

Xi Qi laughed as he waved his right hand; his five fingertips sprayed five-colored divine light corresponding to the Five Elements, and he lunged with a palm to seize the Drought Demon Altar.

With a tremendous boom, the thick firelight enveloping the Drought Demon Altar violently trembled.

Xi Qi's palm actually broke through the Drought Demon Altar by force, seizing Xuanming Die's neck in one grip.

Xuanming Die's pupils suddenly contracted; he produced a black bone needle over a foot long in his hand and, without a sound, stabbed it into Xi Qi's palm.

Xi Qi likewise narrowed his eyes; a shout of mingled shock and rage rang out, his entire palm rapidly turned black as ink, as if bitten by a venomous snake, and he hastily withdrew his hand in utter disarray.

Luo Lin suddenly shouted from the side: "The Wu Clan's sins are monstrous; everyone, join forces and take them down!"