Chapter 66: Fourth-Order Golden Ape King

  Taihang Mountains are the paradise of demons, but the edge of Taihang Mountains is the paradise of many warriors! Demons swallow and spit out spiritual energy, tempering their demonic bodies. Their demonic bodies contain a large amount of energy, which is a good medicine for warriors to cultivate!

  Here, many warriors and demons die every day, the trees in this mountain forest grow more luxuriant under the irrigation of blood!

  Somewhere on the edge of the Taihang Mountains! A more than three-zhang-tall green wolf fell to the ground, twitched a few times and then stopped moving.

  By the side of Qing Lang, two people rushed forward quickly. The blood in Qing Lang's body suddenly seemed to be controlled by a magic spell and gathered into a line of blood in mid-air, finally entering the body of the strange young man wearing a crimson long gown!

  In an instant, the wolf's body became even more withered, while the young man's face revealed a smile of utmost comfort!

  "You're done for, young master!"

  A strange young man appeared beside the youth in green robes, who came to the cyan wolf's side. He placed his hands on the already withered fur of the cyan wolf, and soon the cyan wolf withered away quickly!

  "How terrifying! This power is even more overbearing than my 'Blood God's Pulse'!" The strange youth exclaimed, gazing at the white bones that remained of the Cyan Wolf.

  "It's different, my 'Life-Draining Technique' can only have an auxiliary effect, and when fighting strong opponents, it doesn't have much of an impact. After all, the stronger a warrior is, the harder it is to extract their life energy. Your 'Blood God Scripture' is far superior to mine in this regard." The man in green robes shook his head and said.

  "Even so, this is a first-rate auxiliary technique, its effect is absolutely against the heavens. Even in the ancient times when the Blood Saint was rampant on the Tianxuan Continent, no one had ever heard of such a technique!"

  The man in the blue robe smiled faintly and said, "Alright, Luo Cheng, there's no need to discuss this further. The subtlety of a technique is important, but it's absolutely not the most important thing. A strong person is strong precisely because they won't rely solely on one technique!"

  The strange young man nodded in agreement. "Young master, let's go find our next prey!"

  "This green wolf is already very strong among the three-stage demon beasts, but in our hands, it didn't even have a chance to make a move. I wonder if we can kill a four-stage demon beast." Xu Hua's eyes shone with eager color.

  "Gongzi, the gap between three-stage and four-stage demon beasts is too great. Now, we can only escape immediately when facing a slightly stronger four-stage demon beast!" Luo Cheng said solemnly, then he explained: "Like that Wu Huang strongman, to become a four-stage demon beast, one needs to go through the Thunder Tribulation. The strongest part of a demon beast is originally its demonic body. When going through the Thunder Tribulation, they will use their demonic body to withstand the tribulation. Although the Thunder Tribulation has very strong destructive power, it can also temper their demonic body, so every four-stage demon beast that successfully goes through the tribulation becomes several times stronger than before."

  Xu Hua's "Devouring Life Technique" had not stopped rotating, and the grass and trees around him withered quickly. Now he could control a range of fifty feet in diameter. Within this range, all life energy would be absorbed by him, forming a death zone.

  "What's the Tribulation of Thunder? Isn't it an opportunity for us cultivators to break and then establish ourselves anew?! Xu Hua's eyes shone with a sharp light, his physical body was far stronger than that of his peers who were born with divine power, he could be called a human-shaped demonic beast. If this Tribulation of Thunder had the effect of refining the body for demonic beasts, then it would have the same effect on him."

  "Prince, how much muscle have you tempered? Why do I feel that your physical strength is even stronger than mine!" Luo Cheng was extremely puzzled. He was a Blood God Body, and although he hadn't reached the Great Completion stage yet, his physical strength should be far superior to that of ordinary people!

  "Fifty-eight dollars."

  "How is this possible? I inexplicably succeeded in tempering a hundred pieces of muscle in the Blood Cauldron, and my physical strength was already stronger than that of ordinary people to begin with... yet now it's only around 7,000 jin?" Luo Cheng found it hard to believe.

  Xu Hua furrowed his brow and said, "Actually, I've discovered this problem a long time ago, but I just couldn't find the answer. However, it didn't seem to have any adverse effects, so I didn't bother with it. But if there's another difference, then it would be that the Tian Di Xuan Guan is even more difficult for ordinary people to break through. At this moment, I've condensed nine drops of True Liquid in my body, but when I tried to break through the Tian Di Xuan Guan, not a single thread moved!"

  "Is that so?" Luo Cheng nodded, and immediately showed a smile: "This is actually a good thing, the more difficult it is to open the Tian Di Xuan Guan, the stronger the growth! It just needs to use more resources..."

  "With the existence of 'Devouring Life', I don't have to worry at all." Xu Hua was full of confidence, and immediately said: "Let's find the next prey! The third-tier demon beasts around here are getting fewer and fewer, we can only continue deeper!"

  Two people quickly shuttled through the mountain forest, constantly moving towards the depths of the Taihang Mountains! Along the way, the surrounding trees became thicker and thicker. Whenever they encountered cliffs and broken roads, Luo Cheng would lead Xu Hua to fly with his aura, and on this journey, they also encountered some demon beasts, but most were second-level demon beasts, which were randomly killed by the two and then stored in Xu Hua's spatial ring.

  Roar...... Roar~!

  Xu Hua and Luo Cheng were walking in the forest when suddenly a thunderous howl came from ahead! The two of them felt a sharp pain in their ears! The ground was shaking, the branches were swaying violently, and a piece of leaves fell off!

  "Not good, run quickly! This should be a fourth-stage demonic beast! This must be its territory. We've killed a large number of demonic beasts in its territory and provoked its wrath. Hurry up and escape!" Luo Cheng said, and the two immediately turned around and ran.

  But a fourth-order demon beast is still a fourth-order demon beast, and its speed is fundamentally incomparable to that of a third-order demon beast. In just over a dozen breaths' time, the two saw the huge figure behind them, with a body as high as seven or eight zhang.

  That was a giant gorilla, covered in thick black fur, but still able to feel the powerful body beneath the black fur. It was roaring and rushing quickly, knocking down many large trees around it with its mighty strength. The bloodthirsty teeth made the two men's hearts chill!

  "This is the powerful Golden Giant Ape, which has met with bad luck this time. Even among the fourth-level demonic beasts, there are not many that dare to provoke such a beast!" After saying this, Luo Cheng immediately pulled Xu Hua and flew away with his aura!

  Flying was indeed much faster than running, and soon he had pulled away from the Golden Giant Ape once again. The ape could only roar in frustration as it fell behind. Although this Golden Giant Ape was already a fourth-stage existence, demonic beasts were different from human warriors - warriors could fly by controlling their breath after opening up the Heavenly Gate, but demonic beasts, except for flying demons, could only control their breath and fly after reaching the sixth stage of transformation!

  "Damn it, I'm still only in the late stage of Martial King, and I can't fly for a long time at all. My true energy will be exhausted in no time!" Luocheng's face looked somewhat unsightly as he constantly turned his head to look back at the Golden Giant Ape that was chasing closely behind him!

  Xu Hua heard this and immediately took out a jade bottle from his spatial ring and handed it to Luo Cheng, saying: "This should be the spiritual liquid made by diluting the milk of the ten-thousand-year-old clock stone. Drinking a few drops can replenish all your true energy, so don't worry!"

  "What a great thing!" Luo Cheng's eyes lit up, and he immediately took the jade bottle from Xu Hua's hand, saying: "This should be from the Jiuzhai Gou secret cave, I've seen this kind of thing in the Blood Saint's memory, the effect of the thousand-year-old stone milk is even better than ordinary spirit stones!"

  "Ling stone?" Xu Hua was somewhat perplexed! He had never heard of such a thing before.

  "Ling stone is a kind of stone that is completely composed of spiritual energy, containing a large amount of spiritual energy. Even the amount of spiritual energy in a low-grade ling stone is enough to compare with the true energy of a Martial King in his later years! And above that, there are mid-grade ling stones, high-grade ling stones, and extreme-grade ling stones!" Luo Cheng understood many things from the memories of Xue Sheng, but Xue Sheng's memories were too vast, and he couldn't fully comprehend them in a short time.

  Roar...... Roar~!

  Just then, King Kong suddenly let out a loud roar and quickly approached the two, the ground shook violently, as if it couldn't withstand King Kong's power and was about to collapse, rows of trees snapped, followed by a second jump...

  "This is bad, this giant ape seems to have gone berserk. At this rate, we won't be able to shake it off!" Luo Cheng became anxious again. Xu Hua asked: "How confident are we in dealing with it? Don't worry about getting hurt, I have the 'Life-Devouring Skill' to protect us. With a large amount of life energy present, we don't need to fear injury at all. I just don't believe we can't wear it out!"

  Luo Cheng thought for a moment and said seriously: "At most 30%, or even lower!"

  "Less than thirty percent?" Xu Hua fell silent, this probability was too low. After a moment of silence, a flash of golden light suddenly appeared in his eyes, and he said: "Luo Cheng, control it to maintain a distance of fifty zhang from it!"

  "Sir, do you plan to absorb the life energy within its body? However, a distance of fifty zhang is indeed too perilous; it only needs one leap to reach us." Luo Cheng pondered, but then a bloodthirsty glint flashed in his eyes: "Since sir insists, let's go wild for once!"