302: Chapter 300: It seems the new formula is working quite well.

Outside the tree hollow, the dark silver metallic forest resembled a deathly silent steel tomb.

Su Lin was the first to bend down and crawl out of the hollow.

His feet stepped onto the grayish-black metallic fallen leaves, which had edges as sharp as knife blades, producing a crisp cracking sound.

The sound echoed through the empty forest, sounding exceptionally piercing.

Chu Weiwei followed closely behind Su Lin and emerged as well.

As soon as she left the relatively enclosed space of the tree hollow, the terrifying gravity and viscous Immortal Qi of the high-dimensional world pressed down on her shoulders like an invisible mountain.

"Ugh..."

She let out a soft cry, her legs going weak as she nearly knelt on the ground. Fortunately, Su Lin was quick and caught her by the elbow.

"Breathe slowly. Don't try to fight the gravity of this world; let your Half-Immortal Body adapt to it," Su Lin's voice was low and steady, carrying a reassuring power.

Chu Weiwei used Su Lin's strength to steady herself, a small smile appearing on her somewhat pale face. "Weiwei understands. As long as Revered Master is holding me, Weiwei isn't afraid of any weight."

She took the opportunity to clasp Su Lin's large hand, their fingers intertwining.

The purple-gold blood line of the Life-and-Death Fate-Binding Gu at her wrist flickered slightly, synchronizing the frequency of their blood and Qi, which greatly relieved the pressure on Chu Weiwei.

Su Lin did not pull his hand away. In this peril-filled unknown Immortal domain, connecting their Auras indeed increased their chances of survival.

He looked up and surveyed the surroundings.

The trees here towered into the clouds, their trunks displaying a cold, dark-gold luster, with surfaces covered in natural textures resembling Formation circuits.

The sky was obscured by a thick layer of grayish-white haze; there were no sun, moon, or stars, only a pale, omnipresent glimmer.

"The Laws here are too rigid."

Su Lin tried to project his Divine Sense outward, only to find that while it could easily cover ten thousand miles in the Lower Realm, it could barely extend a hundred feet here!

Once it exceeded that distance, his Divine Sense felt as if it were stuck in thick glue, unable to move an inch, and even sending back bursts of tearing, stinging pain.

Not only that, but the circulation of spiritual power within his body had also become extremely sluggish.

Accustomed to the combat style of the Lower Realm, where he could summon wind and rain or move mountains with a wave of his hand, he now felt like a Mortal martial artist shackled by heavy chains.

"Revered Master, the plants here... they don't have that vibrant feeling of the Lower Realm at all. Instead, they give off a bloodthirsty vibe."

As the Medicine Immortal, Chu Weiwei had the keenest perception of plants.

She crouched down and used a metallic withered branch she picked up from the ground to lightly poke a nearby dark-red shrub with serrated leaves.

Swish!

The previously still shrub suddenly contracted like a living creature, its serrated leaves snapping like a mouth full of sharp teeth, instantly biting the metallic branch into two!

A few drops of corrosive sap, emitting green smoke, even dripped from the cut.

Chu Weiwei was startled and quickly pulled her hand back. "What a ferocious plant! If that bit a person, even their bones would dissolve!"

"In this world, anything could be fatal." Su Lin pulled Chu Weiwei behind him. "Set aside your common sense from the Lower Realm. Here, we are the bottom-tier prey."

The two of them moved cautiously through the metallic forest.

They had walked for about the time it takes for a stick of incense to burn.

Su Lin's footsteps suddenly came to a halt.

He didn't speak, but simply tightened his grip on Chu Weiwei's hand and pressed his other hand to his brow. The Chaos Immortal Qi provided by the world tree seedling in his body instantly formed a thin, nearly invisible concealment film around them.

"Revered Master... what's wrong?" Chu Weiwei lowered her voice, sending a telepathic message through the blood line of the Fate-Binding Gu.

"There's a smell of blood."

Su Lin's gaze was fixed on an open area ahead entangled with metallic vines. "And it's not from that giant beast."

The surroundings were too quiet.

The deathly silence, where even the sound of wind rustling through leaves had completely vanished, was like the final oppression before a storm.

Shh... shhh...

Extremely faint friction sounds rose from all directions simultaneously.

It sounded as if countless rusty iron files were being slowly dragged across the hard metallic ground.

Chu Weiwei's pupils suddenly constricted. Her purple eyes saw a hair-raising scene in the gloom.

On the metallic trunks, behind rocks, and in piles of withered leaves about thirty feet around them... at some unknown point, pairs of crimson, narrow beast pupils emitting a cruel, cold light had lit up!

One, two, three... there were over a dozen pairs!

"It's a wolf pack..." Chu Weiwei gasped.

As these creatures slowly stepped out from the shadows, Su Lin finally saw their true forms.

They couldn't really be called wolves.

They were the size of water buffaloes, without a single hair on their bodies, covered instead in layers of dark silver scales that looked as if they were cast from hardened steel.

Their limbs were grotesquely thick, and their claws were like sharp daggers, carving deep gouges into the metallic ground.

Most terrifying were their heads—gaping maws that split all the way back to their ears, filled with three rows of interlocking, barb-like fangs. Saliva dripped from their chins, instantly corroding pits into the hard metallic leaves.

This was a type of scavenger Yao Beast that lived at the lowest level of the Taihuang Immortal Domain, surviving by devouring the remains of Immortals and high-dimensional metals. Their Physical Bodies were outrageously powerful.

"Revered Master, they've surrounded us."

Though Chu Weiwei's voice was trembling, her hands had already skillfully pulled out the few remaining jade bottles from her sleeves.

In those amethyst-like eyes, the heart shapes surfaced once more; replacing her fear was a morbid excitement.

"This is great. Weiwei just happens to be short on some live Upper Realm testing Materials for my medicine~"

"Don't be careless."

Su Lin's right hand gripped the air, and the [destiny] ancient sword appeared in his palm with a flash of dark-gold light.

"The Spells and poisons of the Lower Realm will be infinitely weakened here."

Their scales can resist most Law-based attacks. Remember, do not release spiritual power over a large area; that will only waste your immortal essence for nothing.

Compress your power into a single point and attack their eyes and flexible joints!"

"Awooo!!!"

Accompanied by a shrill howl from the alpha, over a dozen Blade-Armored Corpse Wolves turned into dark silver streaks of lightning, pouncing toward the two in the center with a nauseating, bloody wind!

"You're looking for death!"

Su Lin's gaze sharpened, and he advanced instead of retreating!

He didn't swing a ten-thousand-foot Sword Qi like he would in the Lower Realm, because he knew that such flashy attacks would dissipate on their own within three feet under the high-pressure Laws of the Immortal Realm.

He took the Half-Immortal Essence he had just converted and compressed it frantically, pouring it all into the single line of the [destiny] ancient sword's edge.

Clang!!!

Su Lin swung his sword upward in a diagonal slash, striking with pinpoint accuracy at the jaw of a pouncing corpse wolf.

Sparks flew!

This full-strength blow, which would have been enough to split a mountain in the Lower Realm, actually produced a deafening sound of metal clashing on metal!

Su Lin felt a numbness in his palm, and the [destiny] ancient sword nearly flew from his hand.

On the jaw scales of that Blade-Armor Corpse Wolf, only a half-inch deep white mark had been carved; not even a drop of blood had been spilled!

"What a hard turtle shell!"

Su Lin felt a slight chill in his heart.

These were just the lowest-tier Yao Beasts of the Immortal Realm, yet their physical defense was already no less than those Mahayana Stage Body Cultivators who specialized in physical cultivation in the Lower Realm!

The repelled corpse wolf let out a furious roar. Although not seriously injured, the massive counter-force caused it to lose its balance mid-air and slam heavily onto the ground.

But the crisis was far from over. Three other corpse wolves had already formed a triangular Formation, opening their maws to bite at Su Lin's throat, waist, and calf!

"Revered Master, be careful!"

Chu Weiwei shouted. She did not hide behind Su Lin for protection like an ordinary female cultivator.

She was the Medicine Immortal who made countless demonic cultivators tremble with fear.

Facing the wolves pouncing at her and Su Lin, Chu Weiwei didn't retreat. Instead, she actively charged toward the strongest corpse wolf on the left.

She didn't use any weapon. Instead, she directly extended her fair, delicate left arm—which looked as if it would break at a touch—and placed it right in front of the corpse wolf's massive maw.

Crunch!

The corpse wolf's fang-filled mouth unceremoniously bit down on Chu Weiwei's forearm.

"Weiwei!" Su Lin was alarmed. Just as he was about to turn back to rescue her, he saw a scene that made his skin crawl.

Chu Weiwei didn't scream.

On her pure and beautiful face, there was even a sweet, extreme yandere smile.

"Bad doggy. Biting people deserves a punishment~"

In the eyes of the corpse wolf biting her arm, a flash of extreme bewilderment and terror suddenly appeared.

The bite force it took pride in hadn't actually snapped this seemingly weak arm!

With her Myriad Toxins Dao Body, reshaped through inhuman torture, and the enhancement of her Half-Immortal Essence, her bone hardness was even more terrifying than the corpse wolf's fangs!

The corpse wolf snapped two of its fangs. It wanted to let go and retreat, but it was already too late.

"Since you ate Weiwei's flesh, you have to pay with your life."

From where her skin had been bitten, no bright red blood flowed.

Instead, a stream of eerie purple-gold toxic blood, emitting a strange sweet fragrance, flowed from her arm and poured directly down the corpse wolf's throat!

This was the "Immortal Realm version" of lethal poison that Chu Weiwei had just refined within her body, using those two extremely cold and hot Immortal Plants mixed with her own Medicine Immortal Origin!

"Awooo... ugh..."

The strong Blade-Armor Corpse Wolf let out a shrill, distorted wail.

To the naked eye, its indestructible dark silver scales began to rapidly blacken and melt, starting from its head!

This poison ignored its external physical defense and acted directly on its internal organs and Divine Soul Origin.

The corpse wolf's body convulsed violently as a large amount of black, foul-smelling pus and blood sprayed from its mouth and nose. It rolled frantically on the ground, even using its sharp claws to scratch at its own throat in a desperate attempt to dig out the venom.

But it was all in vain.

In just three breaths' time, this terrifying, buffalo-sized beast was completely corroded from the inside out into a puddle of foul-smelling black water under the terrified gaze of its companions, leaving not even a single intact bone behind.

"Heehee, it seems the new formula's effect is quite good."

Chu Weiwei shook her left arm. A flash of purple-gold light appeared at the wound, and it instantly healed as if it had never been there.

She turned her head, her purple heart-shaped eyes looking at the remaining wolf pack like a greedy miser who had spotted a floor covered in gold coins.

This extremely cruel counter-kill not only intimidated the wolf pack but also allowed Su Lin to breathe a sigh of relief in the midst of the fierce battle.

"Good girl, as expected of a disciple taught by me."

Su Lin's gaze turned cold, and he no longer held anything back.

Now that he had figured out the monster's nature, he would no longer meet them head-on.

Su Lin shifted his footing, his silhouette turning into a bizarre zig-zagging line within the high-gravity space of the Immortal Realm.

He didn't use spiritual power to resist the gravity; instead, he conformed to the heavy nature of this world, converting the reaction force from each step into a sudden burst of extreme speed.

He was like a ghost hugging the ground, instantly passing beneath two corpse wolves that had pounced and missed.

The [destiny] ancient sword drew a cold and dazzling dark-gold thread in the air.

This time, Su Lin didn't try to cut their hard scales. The sword's edge moved at an extremely tricky angle, precisely slicing into a tiny gap between the scales where the jaw and neck of one of the corpse wolves met!

That was the only weak point on their entire bodies not covered by scales!

"Pfft!"

Dark-gold Sword Qi instantly poured into the corpse wolf's carotid artery, and Chaos Immortal Qi exploded violently inside its body.

A massive wolf head flew into the sky, and foul-smelling dark blood sprayed across the ground like a fountain.

An instant kill!

"Awooo!!!"

The leader of the pack, a Silver-backed Corpse Wolf a full size larger than the others with a single horn on its head, let out a roar of fury upon seeing two of its subordinates killed in an instant.

It ignored Chu Weiwei and locked its murderous gaze onto Su Lin, who had displayed such terrifying swordsmanship.

Boom!

The horned corpse wolf's limbs exerted massive force, allowing it to leap over ten feet high even in this high-gravity environment.

A ball of grayish-white deathly light condensed on its single horn. With a whistle that tore through the air, it smashed down toward Su Lin's head like a falling meteorite!

"Revered Master, watch out! That horn has a law-breaking effect!"

Chu Weiwei cried out in alarm, her hands waving repeatedly as dozens of water arrows condensed from poison shot into the air, attempting to block the horned corpse wolf's descent.

But with a sweep of the alpha wolf's horn, the grayish-white light instantly dissolved all the poison arrows into nothingness.

"Perfect!"

Su Lin didn't retreat. He took a deep breath, and the Half-Immortal Essence in his body surged into [destiny] like a vast river.

He didn't choose to dodge, because he knew that in this forest of completely unfamiliar Laws, once he showed cowardice and let these beasts suppress his momentum, what awaited them would be an endless pursuit.

To gain a foothold, he had to use the most violent means to break their backs!

Su Lin compressed the phantom of the [Myriad Heavens Star Chart] to the extreme. It was no longer a vast, sky-covering galaxy; instead, he condensed all the stellar gravity and space-cutting Laws onto the tip of the [destiny] sword.

At the sword's tip, a point of extreme white light, more dazzling than the sun, lit up.

Su Lin gripped the sword with both hands and thrust it upward with all his might toward the horned corpse wolf that was crashing down like a mountain!