Chapter 2307: Countdown
Chapter 2307: Countdown
When he heard that, Zu An didn’t hesitate. He took out a formation disc and quickly set up close to a hundred defensive formations around them. The many formations he'd set up to protect his body inside the Tomb of Ten Thousand Dragons had managed to hold off the Bloodthirst Crocodile and Shadowhorror Devil for several days, but now, he set up double the number, showing just how seriously he was treating this matter.
Xie Daoyun went over to help him when she saw that. She was a formation and talisman genius, after all; they didn’t need to say anything, yet she was able to coordinate with Zu An perfectly.
When they saw that, the others all took out their defensive treasures. None of them dared to hold back right now.
Crack!
Just then, with a loud noise, the hill suddenly broke apart from the inside. The top half of the hilltop flew into the air, and then was instantly ripped to pieces by the terrifying winds. Then, the lower half collapsed loudly, and what remained of the hill disappeared into the wind. The entire process happened too quickly; it didn’t happen bit by bit the way they'd been expecting. Instead, the whole hill was instantly destroyed once the erosion exceeded a certain point.
At the same time, a massive figure suddenly leaped out from the mountain ruins with a furious roar.
“What a scary aura!” Jiang Luofu felt her throat turn a bit dry when she saw that.
The figure belonged to a giant monster that was dozens of meters tall. The intense pressure it gave off made her soul shiver even though she was inside the fort. She had faced Zhao Han and seen the True Demon Emissary, but she had never felt such a sensation before.
Zu An knew this monster was far more powerful than any invading monsters they had encountered so far. After all, those monsters had been suppressed by the world barrier, while this world didn’t have such restrictions.
The creature had evidently been hiding in the depths of this mountain, perhaps cultivating or trying to hide from the cyclones. But regardless of why it was there, something that could hide in the depths of the tallest mountain was definitely extraordinary. It would have practically been absorbing the essence of the world itself. If not for the fact that the mountain was destroyed, its strength could have grown to an unimaginable level. At the very least, it wouldn’t have been weaker than the legendary Monster Lord.
And yet, even a monster this powerful could only roar in despair.
Streaks of light appeared around its body. They formed natural patterns that were already quite close to written characters; these were imprints of the great dao. Judging from that, it was easy to picture just how powerful the monster was. It fired a giant ball of light from its mouth to try to block the winds around it, but the powerful sphere only lasted for an instant before it was blown away by the winds of destruction. Then, endless wind crashed down on its body.
The monster roared again and again, and the patterns on its body became even brighter. Suddenly, protective armor manifested around it.
As the earth-shaking roars reached the fort, Suolun Shi’s face paled. “That monster really is terrifyingly powerful. Just its roar alone is enough to make souls tremble.” If not for the fact that they were inside the fort and also had all kinds of defensive formations around them, she could have died just from its roar.
“But I seem to hear fear inits voice,” Ji Xiaoxi said weakly, her large eyes full of sympathy.
Zu An gave her a look of surprise. Even though her cultivation was the lowest, she seemed to carry natural affinity with the living creatures of the world. Xiaoxi had keenly sensed its emotions. He said, “You’re right. This monster will be finished soon.”
As soon as he said that, the monster outside suddenly screamed miserably. The light around its waist suddenly dimmed. A streak of bloody light appeared, and a strand of red mist floated out. That seemed to only be the beginning, as more and more wounds opened up after that.
At first, they were fine blood threads; the monster's powerful body flickered with light as it tried to recover from its injuries. Such powerful beings almost all had a great deal of regenerative ability. Unfortunately, its rate of regeneration couldn't keep up with the rate at which the wounds were opening up at all.
Shortly after, not only did more wounds appear, the size of the injuries also became bigger and bigger. Blood eventually stopped coming out of the monster's wounds, because there was none left for it to shed. Soon, the special patterns on its body no longer flickered with light. Its head drooped, and its body fell from the sky.
The monster had died!
Its massive body didn’t fall to the ground, however. As it fell, endless winds that were even sharper than sword ki melted its flesh away. The only thing it left behind was a large skeleton that was entirely snow-white, shining with sparkling brilliance.
Everyone present was knowledgeable. They had seen similar bones in secret dungeons. These kinds of bones normally wouldn’t erode for tens of thousands of years, and often contained powerful energy. They were among the highest-quality materials for weapon refinement. These bones were even shinier than any they had seen before, which meant they were also higher-quality than anything they'd encountered.
And yet, these remains that would normally have lasted for an incredibly long time didn’t even land on the ground before they were crushed into dust.
The women were all within the fort, watching the power of the winds from a safe place, but once they saw that they all fell silent. Even though all this took a long time to describe, only a few breaths of time had passed from when the monster appeared to when it was crushed into dust. They knew that if they found themselbes in front of this wind, they would be obliterated in an instant.
Crack... Crack...
Terrifying sounds came from above them. They looked up and saw the entire fort was starting to crack apart. They suddenly realized that the True Demon Emissary had mentioned that this fort had only managed to last so long because the great mountain blocked a portion of the wind’s strength. Now that the mountain was gone, the fort was facing the cyclones alone.
Boom!
They didn’t have time to think about it any further, because the entire fort was instantly destroyed and the outermost formations also grew dim, losing their effects. Fortunately, Zu An and Xie Daoyun had previously prepared many formations. Otherwise, they would have been instantly erased from this world.
But they still couldn't bring themselves to feel happy, because they noticed that the powerful defensive formation Zu An had placed on the outermost layer, something none of them could possibly breach, had been destroyed in a single second by the terrifying winds.
Fortunately, Zu An had prepared a hundred formations. But at to this rate, all of them would be destroyed soon. The only thing awaiting them then would be death.
Zu An and Xie Daoyun’s fingers moved quickly enough to leave afterimages. They continued to create more formations. If not for the tremendous amount of ki stones that Zu An had with him, the formations’ costs alone would be too much. But even so, the speed at which they set up formations was far from matching the rate that the winds destroyed them.
All of this was just to stall for a bit more time. The women tried all sorts of different ways to stabilize the formations, but there was only despair in their eyes.
A drop of cold sweat appeared on Zu An’s brows. He'd thought that the True Demon Emissary would install the transport formation on this side close to the True Demon race's territory, or at least in a safe place. He'd never expected to already be facing this kind of life and death crisis as soon as they arrived in this world. Unfortunately, the True Demon Emissary had suddenly died because of the restriction set within him, so Zu An hadn’t been able to ask him too many details.
Pei Mianman supplied ki to the formations while asking nervously, “Ah Zu, what do we do now?”
Zu An handed the formation disc to Xie Daoyun. “You'll set up the formations from now on.”
“But I’m too slow by myself…” Even though that was what Xie Daoyun said, she still instinctively continued to arrange more formations.
Zu An stood at the very center and observed everything. He began to think about how to get out of this situation.
A while later, Jiang Luofu finally couldn't take it and reminded him, “At the current rate, we only have thirty seconds left before all of the formations are destroyed.”
Zu An’s mind moved extremely quickly. It was as if he didn’t hear what she said at all.
“Ten!”
“Nine!”
“Eight!”
…
Jiang Luofu’s countdown was getting closer and closer. The women were now in absolute despair.
Right, even if Ah Zu is amazing, what can he do in this kind of situation?
But being able to die together isn’t impossible to accept either…