Imperial Treasure

Chapter 1468: Chapter 858: Exotic Beasts!

But right now the Military Department’s stance is—this thing is useless against that thing.

A Lieutenant General from the Military Department sitting in the helicopter with a sniper cannon on his shoulder looked grim, a bit unwilling, but he couldn’t disobey orders. Just as he stowed the sniper cannon, he heard the Sound Catcher on the helicopter capture the voice of that ancient-costumed woman in white, standing on the tree roots inside the heart of the tree a few hundred meters ahead.

"From the way you talk, it sounds like you’ve lived many years and seen everything?"

Viper heard Sui Yi’s sparse words and gave a chilling laugh.

"Most Wizards are arrogant; the more orthodox they are, the more arrogant. They look down on all other Taoist Sects under heaven, always thinking only they carry the most ancient legacy in this world..."

"Ordinary people live out their fates in seventy years at most; the long-lived can reach a hundred, those who practice martial arts can reach two hundred, Void-Breaking Powerhouses five hundred!"

"Those so-called Imperial Guards, that so-called Central Plains Aristocratic Clan Alliance, they’ve not even existed for seven hundred years."

"Do you know...how many years I’ve lived?"

Viper’s contempt seemed to pass through the screen into the headquarters of all the major forces.

In today’s circle of Supernatural Power Users, age alone doesn’t necessarily make something terrifying.

But once you pass two hundred, the iron law basically holds— the stronger you are, the longer you live; the longer you live, the stronger you are.

As for Viper’s age, even within the Imperial Guards there was no clear concept. For instance, in the highest-level conference hall at the Imperial Guards’ headquarters, several white-haired, bearded elders all wore bitter expressions.

Until...

"All those types of people you mentioned, in my eyes they all fall into a single category."

"What category?"

"Mortals."

Mortals.

These two words were so cold and absolute they ought to have given off that "Long Aotian" protagonist feeling, yet when Sui Yi tossed them out so calmly and flatly, they instead carried a crushing weight.

Viper was stunned for a second, then sneered, laughter neither male nor female in tone. "Now I’m sure, you really are a truly orthodox Witch Emperor level Wizard. Mortals... even Void-breaking figures don’t dare bring that up lightly, but you..."

She hadn’t finished when Sui Yi lowered her eyes slightly, expression utterly indifferent.

"I only know that everyone in this world is mortal."

"Mortals have a thousand-year limit. No matter how powerful—mortal or Void-breaking, it doesn’t matter—you can’t break that thousand years. This is an absolute iron law, and also one of the conditions set on the rise of the Human Race."

"Even if you shed your skin once every ten years, replace your blood every hundred, and with each replacement use the Essence Blood of a thousand people to revitalize your veins, sacrifice it with Dragon Vein spiritual guidance... even if you used the Snake Grain Technique to drag your life out to nine hundred and ninety-nine years, this final year... you still won’t cross it."

Nine hundred and ninety-nine years, a thousand-year limit! The final year!

You won’t cross it!

Never mind how shocked everyone else was hearing this; at least Radiation’s face, upon hearing it, had his eyes narrow slightly, the folds of snakeskin on his body tightening and relaxing.

"You even know the Snake Grain Technique... you really can’t be taken lightly..."

In truth, Viper’s reaction was beyond many people’s expectations.

Whether it was the Snake Grain Technique, the thousand-year limit, or the fact that Sui Yi actually knew she had lived nine hundred and ninety-nine years—whether Sui Yi had heard it from someone else or learned it through other means—it all represented a massive threat to Radiation.

Threats ought to be eradicated!

Yet she didn’t; not only did she show no killing intent, she didn’t even display the slightest anger, instead maintaining a constant smile, snakeskin overlapping layer by layer.

But in the next instant, all the tree roots inside the hive turned into thick poisonous snakes, twisting their bodies as they lunged toward Sui Yi...

The hive, in the blink of an eye, turned into a round, spinning, wriggling snake pit.

Countless venomous snakes moved at incredible speed, their poison fangs bared...

Nie Wanqing could almost picture Sui Yi being swallowed up by venom...

Ye Zui and the others had already landed together; once on the ground, they ignored their mutual hostility and quickly retreated outward...

Up in the sky, Sui Yi brought her fingertips together; at the tip, the Beak of the Golden Crow flowed with Jin Guang, slicing once up and down.

Rip.

A golden slash appeared, tearing the snake pit open.

Sheets of poison spattered down with a crash, corroding huge swaths of ground.

And from the crack shot out a streak of white light...

Viper’s pupils contracted...

The snakes around her solidified back into tree roots, twisting together into a massive wooden shield.

Sui Yi clenched her fist.

That small fist slammed into the wooden shield.

Thud!!!

A deep, ringing boom, almost forming a Sound Attack!

Detonation!

The enormous impact compressed even the air....

The hive collapsed.

Seeing this, Viper immediately fled downward...

Below was the river!

This woman was planning to escape into the river...

Sui Yi’s figure flicked...

Her body shot down after her.

Far too fast.

Just as Viper was about to plunge into the water, Sui Yi had already caught up!

She raised her hand with the Beak of the Golden Crow... Jin Guang blazing.

Yet Viper turned her head and gave her a cold, eerie smile.

That smile... made everyone in the sky who happened to capture this scene break out in a bone-deep chill.

Beneath the river, above the water’s surface.

A massive shadow was forming....

Did anyone notice when those chunks of corpse on the water under the bridge had disappeared?

And now... that huge shadow kept expanding!

"Earlier, someone warned me, saying you were easy to handle... They didn’t understand that someone like me, who has lived this long... how could I not know what kind of being is the hardest to provoke..."

"No, I should say, beings like you, who are not human, are the worst to provoke."

"So..."

The Viper crossed his hands and spun, his body twisting like a snake, slick and slithering as he landed on the bridge, pointing a finger at Sui Yi, who was charging down.

"The beast cages are already open... you can feed now."

"Go."

Splash~~

The water’s surface was torn open.

Eyes the size of bronze bells, cold and rigid gray-white skin, a bird-like head, sharp teeth...

It sprang out of the water, its two legs a full seven to eight meters long, dinosaur-like feet, thick and powerful. With a single cry...

Sound attack!

Within a three-hundred-meter radius, all the peach blossoms were pulverized into dust in an instant!

And Sui Yi, who was swooping down, also felt a sonic wave akin to vertigo slam into him with brutal force...

At the same time, beneath the heaving water surface, a massive surge of wild, ferocious auras rolled up.

The aura of beasts.

And this creature.....

"Gu Sculpture."

When Ye Zixu, far downstream of the river, heard this razor-sharp cry, he turned his head toward the beehive side... the huge hive was collapsing, and the situation was even more critical.

He only cast it a heavy glance before turning back to look at the massive pile of corpses stacked up and blocked by a rotten Peach Blossom Wood lying across the surface of the river downstream.

They were the bones of many cattle, sheep, and pigs. For what had they died in this river?

There was only one possibility.

—Food.

The amount of food wasn’t insanely huge, roughly enough to feed one Gu Sculpture.

This river had a Gu Sculpture being raised beneath it.

But there were absolutely no traces of their activity in the Peach Blossom Forest near the river, which meant they had always been confined under the river.

Again under the river, again a Gu Sculpture!

What did that mean?

He had to go into the water and take a look.

Ye Zixu made up his mind, and suddenly saw three figures appear in the Peach Blossom Forest.

It was Su Zimu and the other two. How had these three come over?

Gong Jiu pointed at the cloth map in Su Zimu’s hands, explaining their purpose first: "Array Mechanism Map, the point to break the formation is underwater... what are you doing, you’re going down?"

Ye Zixu nodded: "There’s a Gu Sculpture being raised under this water. I have to go down and take a look."

If the formation’s hub was also down there, he could check it together.

A bit of a coincidence.

"I’m afraid it’s not just a Gu Sculpture," Su Zimu had already seen that massive body of the Gu Sculpture blocking Sui Yi’s figure, while below, one black shadow after another of various sizes shot up.

Leaving aside what those individual beasts were like, just the faint aura they carried...

Even from this far away, she could smell a ferocity beyond the ordinary.

What kind of creature was a Gu Sculpture? It was an ancient species; any creature that could coexist with it naturally belonged to the same category.

In fact, this—

"How strong is this Gu Sculpture?" Gong Jiu asked.

And then she saw Sui Yi’s body instantly dodge the Gu Sculpture’s charge... the Gu Sculpture landed, its impact plus the aura of its body directly ripping up a whole layer of ground...

Uh...

"Looks very strong. The map in Zimu’s hands can’t go underwater, otherwise the ink on it will dissolve. She has to stay up here, and we need someone to protect her. Flower Fairy, you go down."

Flower Demon: Fuck!

So the dangerous job is mine, huh!

Ye Zixu already had both feet in the water: "They’ve already been controlled by that Viper to stay away from the surface. There shouldn’t be anything below now. I’ll go down. You wait here; if it gets dangerous, just leave...."

He had barely finished speaking when Gong Jiu had already flipped like a carp and plunged in.

Flower Fairy: "So brave, I’m so moved."

Ye Zixu and Su Zimu: Clearly you just... kicked her in.

Speechless, Ye Zixu hurriedly followed her down. With one to cover and one to work, it was indeed safer.

And Su Zimu and the other one didn’t bother checking how dangerous it was on Sui Yi’s side... deep down, they trusted Sui Yi. Rather than worrying in vain about whether he’d be killed by those ferocious Demon Beasts, it was better to handle what was in front of them...

Flower Demon stayed on guard around them, while Su Zimu picked up the walkie-talkie to communicate with Gong Jiu and the others. The underwater situation would be reported back to her, so she could compare it with the cloth map in her hands and give directions.

All four were fully focused, while on Sui Yi’s side....

Roooar~~

The Gu Sculpture turned back and roared angrily at Sui Yi in midair.

That roar cowed the whole field. Ye Zui reached out, two strands of mist winding around the Gu Sculpture’s horns, wrapping it up—intoxication!

The Gu Sculpture’s body swayed, but then it let out a low growl, a murky yellow murderous aura bursting from its body, largely dispersing the mist. Then it sprang toward Ye Zui... with a single leap of those two thick, powerful hind legs, it crossed a hundred meters....

It’s coming!

Ye Zui pressed down with his left hand, mist binding!

Yi Dao twisted his right hand, blade light cleaving the river!

The Gu Sculpture was hacked and flung seven to eight meters away, knocking down several peach trees, yet it still stood back up.

There was only a half-inch-deep gash on its skin... and it barely bled. What’s more... the wound was healing!

Terrifying! Just what kind of creature was this!

Its strength was at a 4S level, but its physical toughness far exceeded 4S!

Not only were Yi Dao and Ye Zui shocked, even the three in Black Robes plus the Scorpion Woman and the Electric Eel felt it was a headache.

Retreat!

The few of them began pulling back, yet instinctively looked toward the bridgehead...

With such a ferocious creature... if a few more of them appeared, that Sect Master...

While dodging the Gu Sculpture’s attacks, Sui Yi still soared into the air. The black shadows shooting up from beneath the water’s surface... were many!