Free Web NovelChapter 360: Chapter 287: Astonishing Strength
Inside Iron Tiger Manor, not long after killing the late-stage Foundation Establishment Demon, the Grand Array activated.
’As I expected, it wouldn’t be so simple.’
Fang Yun wasn’t particularly surprised to see the Grand Array activate.
After he’d performed so many infiltrations, the Demons had gained experience and developed more ways to counter him.
When he had attacked Vortex Cave, they hadn’t even had a chance to activate their Grand Array. The late-stage Foundation Establishment Demon he had just killed was clearly not the one in control of the Grand Array’s Core Array Plate.
He was unfazed by the Demons’ response.
He would just kill the Demons as he always did.
His offensive methods were powerful, but his defenses weren’t weak either—he just rarely had an opportunity to use them.
This time, he would undoubtedly have to.
Facing the assault of a Second Tier Grand Array, even he couldn’t afford to be careless.
His protection had to be flawless.
He would proceed with eliminating his targets in order.
"Where is he...?"
A mid-stage Foundation Establishment Demon had just emerged. Before he could react, a pale red long sword flew out, instantly dispatching him at extreme speed.
To the current Fang Yun, killing these Foundation Establishment Demons, with their formidable physiques, was no different from slicing tofu. They shattered on contact.
He had struck in less than half a breath’s time.
Under the enhancement of his Combat Talent, his battle instincts told Fang Yun something.
He had been locked onto.
Locked onto by Iron Tiger Manor’s Grand Array.
Crimson pillars of light manifested into enormous Flame Tigers, which lunged toward his position.
On Fang Yun’s side, the Profound Crystal Shield had already been summoned, and it now circled around him.
Since he had already been locked onto,
there was no longer any need to wear the Half-Hidden Spirit Boots.
It was time to switch to the Light Silk Boots.
These weren’t the same pair of Light Silk Boots from before—the Lower Grade Spiritual Artifact with two Spirit Patterns. This pair was an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact with nine Spirit Patterns.
Two years ago, after gathering all the Spiritual Materials, he had completed their refining.
Unlike the Earth Yellow Sword and the Profound Crystal Shield, the Spiritual Materials for refining the Light Silk Boots were of lower quality. Although he managed to refine them into Light Silk Boots with nine Spirit Patterns...
...according to the score evaluated by his Talent Points, they were only of a lower-middle tier among nine-pattern Upper Grade Spiritual Artifacts.
He had been able to gather the Spiritual Materials for the Light Silk Boots two years ago, all thanks to Huang Mengyang.
The Huang Mengyang of today was already the best Beast Tamer in the Celestial Cloud Sect.
Even the Wind-Traveling Silkworms that belonged to his master, Han Fenglin, had now been entrusted to him to raise.
Huang Mengyang had prepared a plentiful supply of the Wind-Traveling Silkworm silk needed to refine the Light Silk Boots.
Under his care, the amount of silk produced by the Wind-Traveling Silkworms increased every year.
After switching to the Light Silk Boots,
Fang Yun erupted with an astonishing speed.
Before the enormous Flame Tigers could even pounce on him, he killed another early-stage Foundation Establishment Demon.
In the eyes of this early-stage Foundation Establishment Demon from Iron Tiger Manor, all he could see were massive Flame Tigers chasing a lone figure.
When that figure appeared before him,
his life faded away.
In the last moment of his life, he finally saw the figure clearly: a Spirit Refiner in a black robe and a black mask, with a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation.
’Is he the mysterious Spirit Refiner?’
This was his final question before death. According to the intel passed down from the Celestial Demon Sect, the mysterious Spirit Refiner was at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.
If his life had ebbed away a little more slowly, he might have been able to figure it out. The man was indeed the mysterious Spirit Refiner. The intel about him being at mid-stage Foundation Establishment was over twenty years old. It was only natural for the mysterious Spirit Refiner to have broken through to the late stage by now.
As Fang Yun killed the third Foundation Establishment Demon,
he paused for a fraction of a second, and several enormous Flame Tigers officially lunged at him.
The Profound Crystal Shield circling him provided a flawless defense. Despite the immense power of the Flame Tigers’ pounce, they couldn’t harm him in the slightest.
Boosted by his six-star shield-type Combat Talent, the defensive power of the nine-pattern Profound Crystal Shield was staggering.
Unless Iron Tiger Manor’s Second Tier Grand Array, the Water and Fire Double Demon Array, was powerful enough to injure a Core Formation Stage cultivator, it would have no chance of harming him.
"How is this possible?!"
Shen Yaozi couldn’t believe his eyes.
Was this really the strength a late-stage Foundation Establishment Spirit Refiner could possess?
His stealth and offensive abilities were one thing, but even his defenses were ridiculously strong.
He was already controlling the Grand Array with all his might. Furthermore, the Water and Fire Double Demon Array wasn’t diverting any power to defense; everything was focused on offense.
Even so, under the array’s locked-on attacks, this mysterious Spirit Refiner remained completely unharmed while maintaining an incredibly astonishing movement speed.
It wasn’t unreasonable for a late-stage Foundation Establishment Spirit Refiner to display such speed, but unleashing it usually came at a great cost.
When late-stage Foundation Establishment Spirit Refiners unleashed such speed, it was almost always to save their lives and escape.
’He’s coming for me!’
Shen Yaozi realized that the mysterious Spirit Refiner’s next target was him.
’Faced with such speed, do I even have a chance to escape?’
"You’re the one controlling the grand array."
Shen Yaozi hadn’t finished his thought, nor did he hear the full sentence.
He barely registered the first few words before his consciousness faded. The last thing he saw was the back of his own body.
A headless body.
The fourth Foundation Establishment Demon of Iron Tiger Manor was dead.
Without pausing, Fang Yun moved on to eliminate the remaining two targets: the early-stage Foundation Establishment Demons.
「A short time earlier.」
When the highest-level alarm sounded, all the Qi Refining Stage Demons in Iron Tiger Manor reacted.
"What’s happening?"
"What else could it be? When something like this happens, it’s most likely that mysterious Spirit Refiner."
"The Grand Array is active. We should be safe now, right?"
