novelzi Chapter 378: Berserk Beasts
Chapter 378: Berserk Beasts
Chapter 378: Berserk Beasts
"We're not going!" Pang Jian shouted as if responding to Liu Youyu's warning.
Then, turning the Sword Boat around, he departed.
Liu Youyu breathed a sigh of relief.
Huddled within her Flying Fish Boat, she stuck out her tongue and muttered softly, "Auntie kept reminding me to take special care of him.
"He—I just hope he doesn't act too recklessly." The young girl frowned.
Meanwhile, the abrupt departure of the Sword Boat had left Han Duping and the rogue cultivators aboard the Scarlet Dawn Boat looking bewildered.
Zhou Qingchen called out, "Old Han!"
"I understand!"
The Scarlet Dawn Boat quickly turned to follow suit.
While all the other luxurious flying vessels were heading toward Brocade Cloud, the Sword Boat and the Scarlet Dawn Boat did the opposite, retreating like turtles into their shells.
An officer of the Blazing Rainbow Army growled, "Your Highness, those Red Mountain Sect people are defying orders. In my opinion—"
Zhu Wenle shook his head. "It's not Zhou Qingchen speaking but Pang Jian from the Sword Pavilion. We can order around the Red Mountain Sect, but we have no control over the Sword Pavilion."
Ning Shuo from the Demon Sect and Yu Huan from the Celestial Lagoon Sect also murmured, "The Sword Pavilion indeed has that kind of clout."
The Sword Pavilion always had world-shaking figures backing them in times of chaos. This was simply an unchanging truth.
Although the Sword Pavilion had dropped from the First World to the Second World, many top factions still saw them as equals with the most powerful sects.
None of the three Divine Kingdoms from the Eastern Land had the authority to command the Sword Pavilion, nor did they view themselves as superior to them.
Countless Sword Gods had built up the Sword Pavilion's prestige, making outstanding contributions to the human race in the Abyss and earning universal respect.
"Forget about them. Let's work together to enter Brocade Cloud!" Zhu Wenle rallied.
Ning Shuo, Yu Huan, Qin Xiao, and the others shouted their agreement.
The flying vessels resumed their course, turning into streaks of light as they shot toward Brocade Cloud.
On the Sword Boat, Zhou Qingchen's expression was solemn. "Pang Jian, you think something's wrong too?"
"Before coming here, I heard that something was off with Brocade Cloud," Pang Jian said as he glanced at the dissatisfied rogue cultivators on the Scarlet Dawn Boat. "If any of you want to go back, you can still catch up."
"No, no." Wu Xuanfeng quickly shook his head, grimacing as he said, "Miss Liu from the Primeval Pillar Divine Kingdom already said that Brocade Cloud is dangerous—how could we dare to ignore that?
"It's just that we're rogue cultivators with no sect to back us. I'm afraid the Zhu Clan will hold a grudge and make things difficult for us later."
The other rogue cultivators chimed in, "Yeah, The Zhu Clan of the Boundless Sky Divine Kingdom has a True God overseeing them. I'm worried this will come back to bite us."
Pang Jian narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "They may not even survive."
The rogue cultivators were dumbfounded.
Whoosh!
The Flying Fish Boat circled Brocade Cloud and quietly reappeared near the Sword Boat.
Liu Youyu finally revealed her petite figure, glaring at Pang Jian in frustration while shaking the wooden token in her hand.
"Liu Youyu!" the rogue cultivators and Zhou Qingchen exclaimed in surprise.
Han Duping grinned. "Little Brother Pang, you and her...do you know each other?"
"You could say that."
Pang Jian retrieved the wooden token from his spatial bracelet and held it in his hand.
Liu Youyu's gentle and ethereal voice rang out from the wooden token.
"The finer details of how to use the Primal Sphere—I've recalled some of them, so I'll share them with you now.
The Mountain Stream Spirit Boat crashed and was reduced to debris in the blink of an eye.
Ice Sculpture Beasts surrounded and attacked the cultivators from the Celestial Lagoon Sect and the affiliated noble families. Many met a gruesome fate, with the Ice Sculpture Beasts' razor-sharp claws tearing them apart.
"Good heavens!" Wu Xuanfeng exclaimed in horror at the sight.
Elsewhere, a colossal ten-zhang-tall Goldrock Beast smashed a Black Cloud Sail from the Black Valley Sect.
Its body gleamed with a metallic golden hue that protected it from the fierce attacks from the Black Valley Sect's cultivators. Although sparks were sent flying with each attack, Goldrock Beast's massive frame was hardly even scratched.
Blinding golden beams shot from its eyes, mouth, and palms, piercing through the air like golden spears, inflicting heavy casualties on the cultivators from the Black Valley Sect.
The Goldrock Beast's previously golden eyes had turned red as blood seeped into its pupils.
Boom!
One of its eyes burst.
The golden beams from its body turned a terrifying crimson, power surging dramatically.
"Retreat! Retreat now!"
Qin Xiao, the Soul Wandering Realm cultivator from the Black Valley Sect, unleashed a series of massive palm strikes that stretched across the sky, hoping to fend off the rampaging Goldrock Beast.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The palm strikes pressed down on the Goldrock Beast like distorted vortexes, but instead of subduing it, they only provoked it further.
With a roar, the Goldrock Beast unleashed an endless barrage of blood-tinged beams toward the massive palm strikes, shattering them into a shower of light.
The Goldrock Beast's bones fractured, and its heart burst, leaving a massive hole in its chest.
The lingering blood-tinged beams struck Qin Xiao, killing him instantly.
"Senior Brother Qin!"
"Qin Xiao is dead!"
"A single Goldrock Beast killed a cultivator in the mid-stage of the Soul Wandering Realm!"
Screams of despair echoed across the battlefields in Brocade Cloud.
On the Sword Boat, a female rogue cultivator in the mid-Spirit Condensation Realm felt a shiver run down her spine as she watched the brutal scenes unfold.
"This isn't like anything I've seen before! A Soul Wandering Realm cultivator—slain so easily? I've never seen such savage Vicious Beasts!" she cried.
This battle was truly unlike any they had faced before.
In the past, the human race had always hunted down the foreign races and Vicious Beasts, easily crushing their primitive flying vessels.
She never imagined cultivators like herself would one day become prey under the claws of the Vicious Beasts.
"Senior Brother Duan!"
"Junior Brother Wang!"
Cries of anguish echoed from every major sect and faction fighting in Brocade Cloud as cultivators mourned their fallen comrades.
"You guys shouldn't have come along." Zhou Qingchen sighed, summoning several long blades and leaping from the Sword Boat to join the fray.
"Little Brother Pang Jian, can we still go back?" the female rogue cultivator asked desperately.
"You can try, but I'm not turning the Sword Boat around."
The Sword Boat plummeted suddenly, dropping all the rogue cultivators on board near Zhou Qingchen.
When it stabilized again, only Pang Jian remained onboard.
He fixed his gaze on the tallest mountain in Brocade Cloud, where a stream flowed down from the snowy peak.
That's the source.
Ignoring the carnage below, he guided the Sword Boat higher into the air and cut straight toward the mountain.