approached Bai in the grassland, he still leisurely continued eating, making one feel that though it was cute, it seemed rather slow-witted.Finally, when the Tibetan mastiff's patience reached its lim...Chapter 246: How Dare You Enter the Temple Prematurely
The white lion, with its claws on fire, circled around in the sky before flying sullenly back to Hao Ren.
"You damned dog! How dare you hide this from me!" Hao Ren reached out and hit Xiao Bai's head hard.
He really couldn't look at it as a lion anymore. Perhaps because of its shamelessness, the Snow Lions collectively expelled it. During the time in Tian Mountain Snow Lotus Cave, it was definitely not an easygoing creature! Lazy and troublesome, with a voracious appetite!
"After consuming so many Qi replenishment pills, it would be strange if it didn't advance." Su Han said indifferently before pushing Hao Ren off his long sword.
Hao Ren lost balance and quickly grabbed Xiao Bai, holding him under his thigh.
Xiao Bai's butt sank a bit in mid-air but finally managed to support Hao Ren's weight.
"However, for Spirit Beasts to advance, they need to consume more spirit energy. That means the medicinal pills it needs must be higher-grade, and its appetite will also increase," Su Han continued.
"Uh..." Hao Ren hesitated for a few seconds before asking hurriedly, "Can it revert back"
"No." Su Han coldly replied to Hao Ren.
Hao Ren was speechless. Although riding the flying Xiao Bai was impressive, maintaining its livelihood would be extremely troublesome! The medicinal pills and immortal herbs that could last for a month were now barely enough for half a month!
And if the nearby cultivators knew such a Spirit Beast needed so many medium-grade spirit stones in just half a month, they would probably be stunned with their eyes bulging out!
"Get lost!" Suddenly, an arrogant voice sounded from nearby.
Xihai Prince Zeng Yitao was sitting on a giant golden shuttle! The one making the outrageous remarks was him.
Standing calmly at the rear of the golden shuttle was Qin Shaoyang!
"Who are you, boy" As the surrounding cultivators were about to confront Zeng Yitao, suddenly Qin Shaoyang also revealed his lower-grade Yuan level power!
The core formation monsters! The cultivators from cultivation sects paled with shock and quickly retreated several hundred meters. Even if they had backing from their cultivation sects, they wouldn't dare provoke a core formation-level opponent!
Within a thousand-meter radius, Su Han, Hao Ren, Qin Shaoyang, and Zeng Yitao formed two opposing sides!
"Young Master Qin, weren’t you exiled to the harsh northwest region What brings you here" Su Han said sarcastically as he looked at Qin Shaoyang.
"Hmph. You’re no different. As an inspector, daring to enter the Nine Dragons Palace," Qin Shaoyang replied.
Su Han didn't intend to engage in further verbal sparring with him and just stared coldly back. Qin Shaoyang's allegiance towards Xihai was very clear. As long as he didn’t provoke her, she would let him be.
Zeng Yitao on the golden shuttle extended an arm toward Hao Ren, "Give me my stuff back!"
"If you have the guts, come and get it from me later." Hao Ren was too lazy to deal with this arrogant brat.
"You'll regret this!" Zeng Yitao glared at Hao Ren and said fiercely. However, Hao Ren didn't plan on arguing with a kid like him. He grabbed Xiaobai's neck and turned it around to look at the surrounding situation.
This time, Donghai also dispatched a team composed of senior elders. It was believed that Xihai, Beihai, and Nanhai would have their own teams as well. However, since the Nine Dragons Palace descended upon the airspace over Donghai City, Donghai Dragon Palace could dispatch more forces than the others, who would certainly not send large-scale teams out of consideration for Donghai's territory.
However, no official squads from the Four Seas Dragon Palaces were seen here; they should be distributed in other directions around the Nine Dragons Palace. The range of this Nine Dragons Palace was as vast as an entire city. There must have been a unique way for formal inspectors to sense each other, and Qin Shaoyang must have sensed Su Han’s direction due to this connection, which is why he came over here.
In addition to the Four Seas Dragon Palaces, some rivers, lakes, and more powerful dragon palaces would also dispatch corresponding squads.
At present, numerous forces were secretly waiting for an opportune moment to break through Nine Dragons Palace's defense array when it was weakest in order to enter.
No one would waste their energy on fighting outside the Nine Dragons Palace; if they wanted to fight, then after entering the Nine Dragons Palace!
"Su Han, those cultivation sects seem to be sending out people of low level," Hao Ren asked Su Han cautiously as he observed the surroundings.
"Yes, everyone here is below Core Formation Realm." Su Han replied.
Seeing that Su Han did not intend to say more, Hao Ren had no choice but to ask again, "Why don't they send higher-level experts"
"Humph! Below the Fifth Firmament Realm, openly appearing with a Nascent Soul Realm human cultivator is a signal for war! Currently, only large-scale Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators and some Core Formation Realms are present. And their goal is the Nine Dragons Palace. As long as they don't descend to ground level, we'll temporarily tolerate it," Su Han said.
Hao Ren nodded in understanding; Dragon cultivators and human cultivators did not interfere with each other below the Fifth Firmament Realm. Although there were many Foundation Establishment and Core Formation Realms present, their numbers didn’t pose a threat, but if Nascent Soul Realm cultivators appeared below the Fifth Firmament Realm—especially close to land—they would be seen as an entirely different matter.
"It's time," Su Han’s expression suddenly turned solemn as he spoke.
They could see that each human cultivator around them was beginning to gather light.
The originally chaotic colorful barriers gradually formed regular large patterns.
The Five Elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth! The energies they emitted had different attributes!
Each Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator became a small chess piece, moving positions in the air. Based on their elemental attributes, these large formations looked like gigantic arrays!
The proficiency with which these formations were executed was evident; Core Formation Realms flying higher up directed these hundreds or even thousands of Foundation Establishment Realms from above.
Unable to place spirit stones and compasses in the air, they could only mobilize these Foundation Establishments to form aerial arrays!
The other direction saw scattered cultivators around the Nine Dragons Palace also forming large formations!
Each array represented a cultivation sect; counting them up showed there were at least fifty-six sects.
These radiant arrays resembled floating patterns surrounding the Nine Dragons Palace, extremely magnificent!
Some minor sects, in order to obtain an opportunity to enter the Nine Dragons Palace, sent out all of their Foundation Establishment Realms!
"Su Han, aren’t we going to do anything" Hao Ren asked anxiously when he saw many cultivation sects activating large-scale magical arrays.
"No need to rush," Su Han replied calmly.
Bang!
Finally, one of the cultivation sects initiated their array formation first!
Hundreds of foundation establishment stage cultivators simultaneously joined hands.
The column of colorful light shot towards the Nine Dragon Palace's periphery— it was like a huge cannon in the realm of cultivation practitioners!
Bam! The black smoke around the Nine Dragon Palace was instantly pushed aside!
The attack formed by hundreds of foundation establishment stage cultivators could rival that of an elixir formation stage cultivator's all-out strike. Even so, it only managed to push back a thin layer of smoke surrounding the Nine Dragon Palace.
Done!
At the same time, other cultivation sects’ magical arrays also activated one after another!
Bang! Bang! Repeated powerful attacks powered by abundant mana slammed into the periphery of the Nine Dragon Palace. Yet even so, the palace remained unmoved—only some smoke around it dissipated slightly.
Since elixir formation stage elders from cultivation sects were unable to openly assist in the first layer of heaven, each sect turned to this solution: using a large number of foundation establishment stage cultivators to simulate the attack power of elixir formation stage cultivators!
The repeated radiant attacks hitting the periphery of the Nine Dragon Palace finally caused it to tremble slightly.
"This time, they deployed so many cultivators, which actually makes things easier for us," Su Han coldly observed their coordinated strikes and said. Then she slowly turned around to face Hao Ren, "The defensive magical array of the Nine Dragon Palace is unstable; there will be a small gap. At that time, I’ll take you in—don’t get lost!"
Hao Ren sat on Little White’s broad back and nodded at her.
Human cultivators collectively bombarded the Nine Dragon Palace, while dragon cultivators took advantage of the opportunity to enter. Otherwise, dragon cultivators wouldn’t allow them entry into the first layer of heaven!
To get in, it would definitely be dragon cultivators of elixir formation stage who would advance first!
Bang! Bang!
Nearly twenty thousand foundation establishment stage cultivators simultaneously bombarded the Nine Dragon Palace! It was equivalent to dozens of elixir formation stage cultivators persistently attacking, attempting to shake a gap open!
The Nine Dragon Palace itself was an ultra-large芥子空間 (jì zǐ kōng jiān, quanternary spatial pocket), and as long as its magical array slightly destabilized, a crack would appear.
Finally, beams of white light leaked from the bottom of the Nine Dragon Palace.
"Let's go," Su Han pulled Hao Ren towards that gap! Little White followed closely behind, also flying at full speed!
Zeng Yitao and Qin Shaoyang didn't waste any time either; they shot towards the nearest crack at top speed!
The Foundation Establishment and Core Formation cultivators on the periphery continued to bombard twice more. Led by a Core Formation cultivator, the densely packed Foundation Establishment cultivators followed closely behind, flying towards the cracks closest to them!
Entering the Nine Dragons Palace was happening right at this moment!
"Forgot to tell you: within the Nine Dragons Palace, demonic beasts run rampant, and survival is uncertain!" Su Han dragged Hao Ren along and turned his head suddenly to say.
"Damn it! Why didn't you mention it earlier," Hao Ren shouted loudly.
He knew that he had been tricked by Su Han again!
"The weakest demonic beasts inside are at the 9th tier. After entering, follow me closely!" Su Han said once more.
Hao Ren didn't have a concept of a 9th-tier demonic beast, but he could imagine how powerful they must be from seeing something like Little White who was just an unrated one!
Now that he was being dragged by Su Han, there was no way to retreat even if he wanted to.
A few meters ahead of them lay a crack emitting white light.
An intense primordial aura surged towards them. The roars from the demonic beasts inside were deafeningly loud!
Just as Hao Ren and Su Han's half-bodies had already entered through the crack emitting white light, suddenly, an overpowering roar that drowned out all others resounded within the Nine Dragons Palace, accompanied by a strong oppressive aura.
"Which fool disturbed my sleep!"
Instantly, all the demonic beasts inside the Nine Dragons Palace fell silent. After merely two seconds, another furious shout echoed, "All of you get out!"
An incredibly powerful oppressive aura spread towards every crack in the Nine Dragons Palace.
The originally somewhat calm white light instantly turned into bizarre black beams; tens of thousands of cultivators who had approached the palace were all forcefully repelled!
Su Han realized that things weren't going well and protected Hao Ren, but similarly, he, Hao Ren, and Little White were all swept away by this gale towards several kilometers away.
"Nine Dragons Palace is sealed for five hundred years! I am the Qiu Niu."
The Nine Dragons Palace, an area as large as a whole city, was completely covered in black light and disappeared from view after flashing twice!
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(To be continued)e's nothing else. It's getting late, so I should head back." Hao Ren looked at her and smiled before speaking.“Hm.” Su Han nodded slightly, with a faint smile. Unlike the cold determination she had ea...