Chapter 345: Successfully Harvesting the Flesh |
As soon as Long Xuan arrived, he put on a look of urgency and quickly said, “The Black Giant Salamander has been lured here by me. Quickly, get ready!”
With those words, Long Xuan jumped into the formation to join the others.
Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up with excitement.
“Well done! Everyone, get ready!”
“Once the Black Giant Salamander enters the formation, we’ll attack together. Harvest its blood and flesh quickly, then leave immediately. Don’t linger in battle!”
Master Wei was overjoyed and quickly looked into the distance. However, he soon frowned.
He didn’t see any sign of the Black Giant Salamander. Was it possible that Master Song had led it so far away? He must have underestimated the creature’s speed.
It wasn’t long before he heard an enraged beast’s roar. Whatever Master Song had done must have truly infuriated the creature, as its roar was thunderous.
Since the roar was audible, the Black Giant Salamander couldn’t be far.
The creature looked at the group with disdain. This group was an entire major realm below it—how could it possibly fear them?
The Black Giant Salamander scanned the faces of the group and, upon seeing Master Wei’s detestable face, roared furiously and charged straight at him like a mad beast.
Seeing the Black Giant Salamander charging directly at him, Master Wei froze. What was going on? Wasn’t it supposed to chase Master Song? Why was it coming for him instead?
There was no time for him to think. In the blink of an eye, the Black Giant Salamander was already upon him.
Master Wei hastily raised his shield, attempting to block the creature's charge.
“Boom!”
The Black Giant Salamander swiped its claw down, leaving a deep gash on the spiritual shield.
The force sent Master Wei flying, rolling several times on the ground before he managed to stop.
“Pfft!”
After stabilizing himself, Master Wei spat out a mouthful of blood. He looked up to see the Black Giant Salamander charging at him again, its eyes filled with fury. His face turned pale with fear.
“This is bad!”
Master Wei had no idea why the Black Giant Salamander was targeting him instead of Master Song. This turn of events was completely unexpected.
As a mid-stage Spiritual Sea Gu cultivator, if he became the primary target of the Black Giant Salamander’s attacks, his chances of survival were slim.
His face turned ashen.
“What are you all waiting for? Help me!”
Master Wei shouted angrily, only to be sent flying again.
This time, he landed with a deep claw mark across his abdomen, blood quickly soaking his clothes.
The spiritual shield he had just raised was now completely shattered, lying like scrap metal in the distance.
Before he could even shout for help, the other Gu cultivators had already rushed to his rescue.
With the reward of a Breaking King Pill still on the table, how could they stand by and let Master Wei die to the Black Giant Salamander?
They all went all-out in their rescue effort, even using their trump cards. Ultimately, they managed to block the creature’s next strike as a group. If they hadn’t, Master Wei would undoubtedly have perished.
Long Xuan secretly sighed, disappointed. It was so close—just a little slower reaction from the others, and Master Wei would have been dead.
The Black Giant Salamander, a Grade-4 spiritual beast, had struck with fury. Master Wei, as a mid-stage Spiritual Sea cultivator, could barely withstand two attacks, let alone a third. Unfortunately, he had been saved in time.
At this point, all the Spiritual Sea Gu cultivators had launched a coordinated assault on the Black Giant Salamander.
The Five Ghosts of Plum Mountain each summoned a giant beetle. These beetles were clad in carapaces of different colors, which combined to form a large formation. The formation released a five-element barrier, and the five heavily armored beetles charged forward, holding back the Black Giant Salamander.
The others attacked from the sides.
However, the Black Giant Salamander, ignoring everything else, once again charged toward Master Wei, who was lying on the ground.
At this moment, Master Wei felt an urge to cough up blood. Had he exterminated its entire family, or what? Why was this creature so fixated on him?
Relying on its formidable regenerative abilities, the Black Giant Salamander completely disregarded any attacks. The other Spiritual Sea stage Gu practitioners found it extremely challenging to block its advance.
Seeing the Black Giant Salamander break through everyone's interception and charge at him once more, Master Wei gritted his teeth, enduring the intense pain in his body, and rolled to the side, exiting the Dragon Sealing Heaven and Earth Formation.
Having been struck and sent flying by the Black Giant Salamander twice in a row, it wasn’t entirely coincidental that Master Wei landed near the edge of the formation’s barrier, given its relatively small size.
Once outside the formation, the Black Giant Salamander slammed its massive claw against the barrier of the Dragon Sealing Heaven and Earth Formation, causing the barrier to flicker wildly with light.
The Dragon Sealing Heaven and Earth Formation, being a renowned array formation, ultimately withstood this fierce blow and did not shatter.
The barrier successfully blocked the Black Giant Salamander's attack, saving Master Wei's life once again.
Long Xuan sighed regretfully to himself.
He, too, was participating in the siege against the Black Giant Salamander, but he was holding back significantly, using less than a tenth of his usual strength.
The Black Giant Salamander roared madly, ignoring the attacks from behind. After striking the barrier a few more times and realizing it couldn’t break through, it finally turned around to attack the Gu practitioners besieging it, venting its fury on them.
In its rage, the spiritual beast’s combat power surged by an additional 30%.
If not for the Dragon Sealing Heaven and Earth Formation suppressing 90% of the spiritual beast’s power, the Spiritual Sea stage Gu practitioners within the formation would have been effortlessly slaughtered by the enraged Black Giant Salamander.
Even Master Wei wouldn’t have survived two direct hits earlier.
Under the frenzied attacks of the Black Giant Salamander, the group was relentlessly forced back. Before long, everyone was injured, clearly no match for the beast.
Not long after, an unremarkable Spiritual Sea peak-stage Gu practitioner was gruesomely killed by the Black Giant Salamander’s claws. Half of his head was crushed in a single strike, leaving no chance of survival.
The team finally began to suffer casualties.
If Master Wei, who had no intention of re-entering the formation, was included, their number had already dropped by two.
This left many people visibly shocked.
The Black Giant Salamander’s combat power far exceeded their expectations. If they continued fighting, it was uncertain how many more would die. At this point, many began to entertain thoughts of retreating.
“We can’t beat it! Retreat! We’ve already obtained its blood and flesh; there’s no need to fight to the death,” shouted Old Mei, retreating without any intention of continuing the battle.
Earlier, while the Black Giant Salamander was focused on desperately attacking Master Wei and ignoring all other assaults, many took the opportunity to carve off some of its flesh and blood.
In a way, Master Wei had indeed contributed to the group.
However, the injuries inflicted by the Spiritual Sea stage Gu cultivators were superficial at best, and the amount of blood and flesh obtained was quite limited. These minor wounds healed almost instantly due to the Black Giant Salamander’s regenerative abilities.
Still, even scraps were valuable. Given the creature’s overwhelming combat strength and its refusal to provide further opportunities to harm it, the Gu cultivators decided to quit while they were ahead and withdrew from the barrier.