279: Chapter 279 Dark Puppet, Snow Ape Rampage

The Ice Spirit Snow Ape's agonized screams echoed continuously through the deathly silent corridor.

The Emperor Realm Snow Ape, whose right leg had been severed by black flames, was currently rolling frantically on the cold, slimy ground in extreme pain. The stump was charred black, emitting a nauseating stench, and scalding beast blood gushed from the wound, staining the surrounding ground a dark red.

Su Xuanchen stood to the side, his brow slightly furrowed, a look of extreme impatience flashing across his face.

"Shut your trap. You're making my ears ring with all that noise."

Su Xuanchen snorted coldly and, without any hesitation, raised his right hand. The Chaos Immortal Bone within him hummed into action, and several beams of dazzling immortal light, containing immense vitality, instantly condensed at his fingertips.

With a flick of his finger, these beams of immortal light turned into shooting stars, accurately sinking into the wound of the Snow Ape's severed leg.

The moment the immortal light entered its body, the frantically gushing blood stopped abruptly. The residual fire poison that was eroding the Snow Ape's Meridians was also forcibly wiped out by this overbearing and peerless immortal light.

"Big guy, what are you standing there for?" Su Xuanchen turned his head and gave a casual glance to the anxious Ice Spirit Snow Ape King nearby. "Stuff an ice spirit jade fruit into its mouth. It won't die from a small injury like this."

The Snow Ape King snapped out of its daze, its massive body jolting. It hurriedly pulled a crystal-clear ice spirit jade fruit from its storage space, roughly pried open the injured Snow Ape's mouth, and stuffed it inside.

The ice spirit jade fruit melted the moment it entered the mouth.

A burst of pure, extreme cold spiritual energy, accompanied by the vitality of the immortal light Su Xuanchen had injected, exploded within the injured Snow Ape's body.

Under the incredibly disbelieving gazes of everyone, a miraculous scene occurred.

At the site of the Snow Ape's severed right leg, countless buds of flesh began to wriggle and intertwine frantically. Accompanied by the crisp popping sounds of bone growth, a brand-new, incredibly thick, snow-white right leg actually regenerated at a terrifying speed visible to the naked eye!

In just over a dozen breaths, the previously dying Emperor Realm Snow Ape stood up again. Aside from its Aura being slightly weak, there was no longer any trace of injury.

Gu Hongchen stood at the back, her beautiful eyes wide as she stared fixedly at that perfectly intact right leg.

"Flesh growing on bone, limb regeneration! How is this possible!" Waves of shock surged in Gu Hongchen's heart, and her breathing became extremely rapid.

She was a genuine True Immortal Realm Expert, so she naturally knew how difficult it was for a Great Emperor Realm expert's Physical Body to recover once it was damaged. It would require an immense amount of Origin power and might even take hundreds of years of secluded cultivation. Yet, Su Xuanchen had simply thrown out a few beams of spiritual light and used a spiritual fruit to complete the limb regeneration in the blink of an eye!

This heaven-defying method of creation completely overturned Gu Hongchen's understanding.

"Thank you, Great Immortal, for saving its life! Thank you, Great Immortal!"

The Ice Spirit Snow Ape King trembled with excitement. Its massive body thudded to the ground as its huge head kowtowed to Su Xuanchen, the impact shaking the entire corridor.

"Fine, stop kowtowing here. Save your strength to scout the path for me," Su Xuanchen said, waving his hand with a look of disdain.

After this incident, everyone's vigilance rose to its peak. Inside this Death Gate, there were killing intents at every step; a single mistake could result in the total destruction of one's Divine Soul.

Su Xuanchen's expression was solemn, no longer showing his previous laziness. He strode past everyone and took the lead at the very front of the group.

"Listen up, all of you. Step exactly where I step. If anyone takes a wrong step and dies, don't blame me for not warning you," Su Xuanchen commanded in a deep voice without looking back.

He activated the power of the Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Primordial Demon Body and the Chaos Immortal Bone simultaneously. Two deep beams of Immortal-Demon Aurora shot from his eyes, piercing through the thick darkness and mist in the corridor, allowing him to see every hidden trap and Formation in the Void Realm along the way.

Three zhang ahead, the Void Realm distorted slightly.

Su Xuanchen let out a cold laugh and casually stepped forward with his right foot.

Boom!

A void killing array hidden there, capable of instantly grinding a Great Emperor Realm expert into mincemeat, had just begun to emit a hint of destructive Aura before it was brutally crushed by Su Xuanchen's step.

Above them, several drops of foul-smelling black venom dripped down silently.

Su Xuanchen didn't even lift his head; he simply flicked his finger upward. An incredibly sharp Sword Qi shot into the air, instantly evaporating the venom—which was capable of corroding a True Immortal's Protective Aura—into nothingness.

Ji Luanxi followed closely behind Su Xuanchen, her beautiful face full of admiration.

"Husband is so amazing! These scary traps are completely powerless before him!" Ji Luanxi waved her fists excitedly.

Gu Hongchen, walking in the middle, had a layer of fine sweat on her forehead. She saw clearly that if she had to deal with the dangers Su Xuanchen had just casually neutralized, she would have lost a layer of skin even if she didn't die.

The group moved slowly through the silent, oppressive corridor. The surrounding darkness seemed alive, constantly pressing in on them.

Time passed minute by minute.

"How long is this Death Gate? Can we really make it out of this Formation?" Gu Hongchen gripped the biluo emperor sword tightly, her voice laced with obvious anxiety and unease.

Just as doubts began to grow in everyone's hearts...

Whoosh!

A foul-smelling gale suddenly lunged down from the depths of the darkness above without warning!

The black shadow's speed was at its limit, its target clear: the Emperor Realm Snow Ape at the very back of the group, which had just recovered and had the weakest Aura.

"Watch out!" Chang Xiyue let out a cold cry.

The Ice Spirit Snow Ape King reacted instantly. It had been holding back a belly full of rage, and seeing something dare to ambush its subordinate, its eyes turned blood-red as it let out a world-shaking roar.

"Get the hell away!"

The Snow Ape King's massive body leaped up, the muscles in its right arm bulging. The terrifying power of the Half-step True Immortal Rank gathered unreservedly on its fist as it slammed it toward the pouncing black shadow.

Bang!

A dull explosion rang out in the corridor.

The black shadow was knocked back by the Snow Ape King's violent punch, slamming hard against the corridor's stone wall with a shrill screech.

Only then did everyone see the attacker's true form by the faint immortal light.

It was a bizarre Vicious Beast as large as a small hill. Half of its head had completely rotted away, revealing white bone and wriggling black maggots. Its body was covered in disgusting, dark-red long fur that emitted a strong stench of death.

The moment Gu Hongchen saw the appearance of this Vicious Beast, her beautiful face turned pale as paper, and her pupils shook violently.

"This... this is the Aura of the Dark Immortal Great Realm!"

Gu Hongchen screamed, her voice completely distorted by extreme terror. She stared fixedly at the red-furred beast, her body trembling uncontrollably.

"How could such a monster, which only existed in the Ancient Era and represents absolute destruction and misfortune, appear in the ruins of the Ancient Heavenly Court!"

In the face of Gu Hongchen's terrified scream, Su Xuanchen didn't waste any words.

He looked at the foul-smelling, red-furred beast with extreme disgust, his eyes cold to the limit.

"Looking this repulsive and you still dare to get in my way."

Su Xuanchen shouted coldly, bringing his fingers together like a sword and swinging them forward decisively.

Swish!

A dazzling Immortal-Demon Sword Qi, containing endless intent of destruction, shot from his fingertips. The Sword Qi tore through the darkness of the corridor and, with an invincible momentum that could slay anything, instantly sliced through the red-furred beast's neck.

There was no room for resistance.

The red-furred beast's incredibly hard head flew into the air. Dark, foul blood gushed out like a fountain, and the massive headless corpse crashed to the ground, twitching twice before going completely still.

A one-hit kill.

Gu Hongchen's mouth hung open as she looked at the corpse of the beast on the ground in horror. She swallowed hard, once again deeply shaken by Su Xuanchen's overbearing strength.

But before everyone could recover from the brief shock...

In the endless darkness deep in the corridor, a crimson light suddenly lit up.

Then a second, a third, a hundredth, a ten-thousandth!

Densely packed crimson eyes, like stars in the night sky, lit up one after another in the darkness. Accompanied by low growls that made one's scalp tingle, the ground of the entire corridor began to vibrate violently.

"Heavens! So many monsters!" Ji Luanxi was pale with fright, clutching Su Xuanchen's sleeve tightly.

Gu Hongchen took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down. She stared at the approaching bizarre figures and explained to everyone in a heavy tone.

"These are all the dark immortal beasts that attacked the Ancient Heavenly Court back then! They died in that world-ending war long ago." Gu Hongchen gripped her sword. "The person who set up this peerless killing Formation used heaven-defying means to refine their corpses into Puppets to guard this Death Gate!"

Hearing this, Chang Xiyue's expression instantly became extremely solemn.

She immediately turned and warned everyone loudly: "Everyone, be extremely careful! The corpses of these dark immortal creatures carry a powerful corrosive curse. Do not let these bizarre things touch your body, or your Divine Soul will be completely polluted!"

Standing at the very front, the Ice Spirit Snow Ape King's eyes had now turned completely red, like two pools of burning blood.

It stared fixedly at the approaching dark Puppets, its heavy breathing echoing in the corridor like a bellows.

When the Ancient Heavenly Court fell, it was precisely these bastards from the Dark Immortal Great Realm who brought about the catastrophe. The Ice Spirit Snow Ape clan suffered heavy casualties; this irreconcilable blood feud was etched into the deepest part of its Soul!

"ROAR—!!!"

The Snow Ape King let out a violent roar, filled with endless grief, indignation, and hatred.

The Law of extreme cold at the Half-step True Immortal Rank within its body exploded frantically.

Crack, crack, crack!

A layer of incredibly thick, dazzling blue ice armor instantly encased its massive body.

The Snow Ape King didn't hesitate for a moment. It beat its broad chest with both fists and, with a violent Aura of charging forward even if it meant mutual destruction, it lunged directly into the dense swarm of beasts!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The Snow Ape King swung its fists frantically. Every punch that landed carried terrifying destructive power, smashing dozens of dark Puppets into pieces of flesh. It slaughtered wildly among the beasts, completely venting the fury it had suppressed for tens of thousands of years.

However, these beasts refined into Puppets knew no fear.

They had no sense of pain and no thought of retreating. Even as their companions in front were crushed, the Puppets behind continued to swarm forward fearlessly, frantically biting at the ice armor on the Snow Ape King's body.

The sheer numbers almost instantly submerged the Snow Ape King's massive body.