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Chapter 334: The Hidden Powerhouse
Deep within Mount Lingluo.
A tall Lingluo Beast was crouching before a cultivator.
The cultivator's body bore several gruesome wounds, mixed with extremely insidious Rule Dao implications.
This cultivator was doing his utmost to repair the wounds.
The Lingluo Beast suddenly trembled, twisting several vines to sense toward the direction of Mount Lingluo's foothills.
The cultivator frowned with closed eyes.
"What's happening?"
"Master, many people have come to the mountains to hunt my kin!"
The cultivator performed a finger calculation and sighed, "Causality pulls them here. It's the nearby tribe coming to clear the surrounding forests before the beast tide. But I cannot move recklessly now, and I need the Lingluo Beast's innate abilities to obscure heavenly secrets. If they break into the valley, we must eliminate them."
He opened his eyes, his gaze sharp as he looked toward the foothills.The Wuji Realm Lingluo Beast had numerous tentacles that formed a Lingluo Heaven and Earth, isolating connections between inside and outside, preventing tracking and detection.
This was the cultivator's lifeline. Those who trespassed would face life-or-death consequences! Letting them go was impossible—if news leaked, he wouldn't be able to escape pursuit either.
"Eternal Nation... just you wait for this deity!"
Between his eyebrows, twelve Ancient Deity marks were present, with eleven already shattered and slowly recovering. Only the final one remained intact, proving how terrible his condition was. Yet even in this state, he could subdue a Wuji Realm Lingluo Beast!
He was the remnant of the Ancient God Kingdom, the renowned Ancient Deity Bafeite!
On the other mountainside of Mount Lingluo.
Two figures were concealed within a patch of shadow.
Their auras were restrained to the limit, almost undetectable by anything.
The two figures were secretly conversing with each other.
"This time is an excellent opportunity to seize the Gaoyu mineral veins. There are many Wuji Realm Chaos Beasts in the beast tide—they can't hold them off!"
"Sigh, if the Gaoyu Tribe hadn't suddenly gained three Wuji Realm elders last time, we would have taken the Gaoyu Tribe already! Now another reserve elder has appeared—the Gaoyu Tribe truly has luck!"
"Hmph, luck eventually runs out. This beast tide is the backlash of their fortune!"
The two conversing figures quietly emerged from the shadows, revealing themselves as two elders from the Gaoyu Tribe's neighbors, the Mingzhou Tribe.
Logically, with the beast tide approaching, tribes should help each other. But here, "neighboring" on the Chaos Continent means extremely distant, so the beast tide only affects the Gaoyu Tribe, while the Mingzhou Tribe remains largely unaffected.
Thus, they came out to plot against the Gaoyu Tribe's mineral vein resources.
"Can you see through this reserve elder's true strength?" asked the elder who resembled a divine dragon. He was Yin Kui, the Fifth Elder of the Mingzhou Tribe.
"He doesn't seem very strong—he lacks that ancient, time-honored aura!" replied the other elder who took the form of a Silver Moon Fierce Wolf. He was Ao Ying, the Sixth Elder of the Mingzhou Tribe.
They had hidden in Mount Lingluo long ago, anticipating that the Gaoyu Tribe would send a Wuji Realm elder to clear Mount Lingluo. As long as it wasn't Great Elder Jing Hunzi, they were confident they could defeat them.
But after waiting so long, they only got a reserve elder, which disappointed them. Still, reducing the Gaoyu Tribe's fighting strength was profitable, as he was at least elder-level.
"Hmm?"
Su Yuan seemed to sense something, subtly glancing toward the mountainside and mountaintop positions.
His expression remained calm as he continued leading the team, systematically hunting Lingluo Beasts.
One after another, Lingluo Beasts were surrounded and attacked, transforming into Chaos Beast Crystal Cores.
The harvest was indeed substantial, but this amounted to draining the pond to catch all fish. Mount Lingluo would likely have no more Lingluo Beasts afterward, possibly remaining barren for many years.
At that moment, Jin Liuyan hurried over.
"Elder, news from the front—the Lingluo Beasts on Mount Lingluo have gathered together for some reason and are all coming toward us!"
A drop of sweat formed on Jin Liuyan's forehead. "Originally we could use our numerical advantage to slowly eliminate them, but now the Lingluo Beasts hold the numerical advantage!"
Su Yuan didn't need Jin Liuyan's report—he had already witnessed this change.
Across the vast Mount Lingluo, all Lingluo Beasts seemed to have received the message, quickly gathering at several locations with a tendency to converge further.
The numbers kept increasing, already approaching the hundred thousand mark!
Jin Liuyan also turned to look where Su Yuan was watching, his face instantly turning pale.
"What's happening? The Lingluo Beasts have actually triggered a medium-sized beast tide ahead of schedule because of our hunting!" Jin Liuyan was stunned.
"Everyone return!"
Su Yuan's voice reached all teams.
Many team members engaged in battle disengaged from their fights and quickly retreated.
The Lingluo Beasts didn't pursue either, instead converging toward the gathering points.
When everyone gathered around Su Yuan.
The hunting team had unexpectedly lost thirty members. Fortunately, twenty-nine hadn't had their origins shattered and had already revived in the tribe. Only one unlucky individual had their origin will completely shattered, with all their clones simultaneously perishing.
Su Yuan hadn't failed to see those people in danger, and he could have intervened. However, tribal rules stated that elders shouldn't act lightly. Otherwise, hunting team members knowing someone would bail them out would make life-and-death training practically useless.
Even death itself was actually a "resource"—a resource that allowed the living to comprehend "death"!
As long as elders could ensure it wasn't a situation of realm suppression-level danger, they were considered competent. Combat deaths were very normal occurrences.
Everyone watched grimly as the hundred thousand Lingluo Beast army approached them—the exact number reached 150,000!
This was almost approaching the tribe's population count!
Every hunting team member was facing this scenario for the first time. Even during the tribe's beast tide defense battles, with the tribe's defensive structures in place, the pressure then wasn't as great as facing such a massive Chaos Beast army directly!
"Elder, what should we do?" Jin Liuyan asked, steeling himself.
Su Yuan looked calmly at everyone. "This is a tough battle. Death is inevitable. I won't intervene—the fighting depends entirely on you!"
He paused.
This made everyone's expressions turn grave, their gazes firm one by one, with few showing any signs of retreat.
Every hunting team member was actually a true Great Power, each possessing extremely noble status. Their faith in the Great Dao was very firm—otherwise, they could have just stayed in their original comfortable nests instead of venturing out.
After pausing briefly, Su Yuan continued, "I will teach you nine Dao arts. In battle, those who can kill ten same-realm opponents or achieve one cross-realm kill will have their contribution requirements for the ten Dao arts waived. If you can achieve ten times that number, I'll grant eligibility to exchange for more Dao arts, and personally forge a most suitable exclusive treasure."
As he spoke, Su Yuan cast massive amounts of spiritual light toward everyone. Before each person floated nine spiritual lights, representing nine Dao arts.