224: Star Challenge

"So strong, even stronger than me!"

Prince Kang looked at the battle in the distance, clicking his tongue in wonder.

Xiao Sheng was holding a large pork hock, dipping it in garlic paste and smacking his lips, casually chiming in.

"I don't think their cultivation is beneath mine either."

Zhou Yan, still in the form of a golden tree-man, sat on a nearby rooftop, rubbing Yuan Chenling in his hand, and said with a speechless expression.

"Can you two tell me something I don't already know?"

Zhou Yan and Prince Kang were lucky. Not long after fleeing, they encountered Li Wenbo and Chen Wei, who were quietly approaching the Imperial Palace.

With the help of the two Nascent Soul Cultivators, Prince Kang's injuries quickly recovered. As soon as the treatment ended, Chen Wei hoisted two sacks and charged towards the meatball.

Meanwhile, under Li Wenbo's supervision, Prince Kang carried out his plan, and the little emperor was quickly out of danger, and the so-called Dragon Transformation Ritual was interrupted.

Seeing the Dragon Transformation Ritual interrupted, Li Wenbo seized the opportunity to rush forward and join the battle.

Seeing that Song Yan's condition was gradually recovering, merely sleeping, Prince Kang and Zhou Yan exchanged glances and then continued to flee.

Not long after running, they ran into Shi Suiyan and Yuan Chenling, who were looking for them. Later, while resting in a safer place in the outer city, they coincidentally met Xiao Sheng, who was watching the commotion from a rooftop.

Thus, a temporary 'eating melon' (bystander) squad was formed.

Zhou Yan looked at the battlefield in the sky, where the fighting was intense.

The scene of a group of people ganging up on a boss was indeed exhilarating, but it had nothing to do with him.

He always felt like a passerby in episode 10 of a TV series, accidentally stumbling into the final battle of episode 99, only able to watch the spectacle and post a few bullet comments.

"Senior Brother, why is that leopard you released so powerful? What kind of Spell is this, exactly?"

Shi Suiyan, sitting next to Zhou Yan, moved closer to him again, making Yuan Chenling roll his eyes.

This casual question, however, attracted everyone's attention. Prince Kang, Xiao Sheng, and Yuan Chenling all looked at Zhou Yan, waiting for his explanation.

After all, this move was indeed powerful, allowing a leopard released by a Core Formation Stage Cultivator to participate in a battle of the Soul Transformation level.

However, seeing everyone's gaze focused on him, Shi Suiyan frowned and then added.

"If it's Senior Brother's secret, you don't have to tell me."

"After all, I'm not one to pry into others' trump cards."

Zhou Yan saw the group of people around him, who had stopped watching the battle and were all staring at him with wide eyes, yet also looking somewhat at a loss due to Shi Suiyan's recent words.

He then patted off the dust from Yuan Chenling that had gotten on his hands.

"There's nothing that can't be said. This is related to one of my abilities."

He raised one hand and fiercely grabbed his forearm with the other. Everyone held their breath, carefully watching his movements.

"This is a Seal my parents placed on my arm since childhood, which allows me to summon the Seven Great Demons from Hell!"

"And this is my power! The Seal of Ancient Dark Sky, Void Silence, Seven Hells, Ten Thousand Filth, Soul Devourer, World Destroyer, Ruin Swallower, Demon Suppressor, Bone Restrainer!"

“...”

Silence suddenly fell.

Then Prince Kang quickly changed the subject, resuming his commentary on the battle in the sky. Xiao Sheng continued gnawing on his hock, and Yuan Chenling lay back in Zhou Yan's arms to rest.

Only Shi Suiyan still looked at Zhou Yan with shining eyes, saying affectionately.

"Senior Brother, I believe you!"

Zhou Yan slapped his face and put a hand up in front of her.

"Those words hurt the most... I just wanted to liven up the atmosphere, but you guys have made my heart cold."

These words actually eased everyone's mood a bit, and they all showed wry smiles.

They weren't really here just to watch the show; it was just that with the great formation sealed, these low-cultivation ants like them couldn't escape at all.

To put it plainly, everyone's lives depended on the outcome of that battle in the sky. Besides finding joy in their misery and waiting for it to end, they could do nothing.

However, Zhou Yan could still do something.

He continued to look towards the horizon, at the She Tail Tiger Constellation Beast battling Kun Gou.

[Constellation Challenge]

Current World Boss: [She Tail Tiger Constellation Beast]

[Remaining hp: 59.42%]

[Contribution Ranking]

No.1 Zhou Yan Contribution: 0

This guy is really fierce.

Zhou Yan lamented in his heart that the boss's strength was indeed high.

Even though Kun Gou was weakened by various means and not his main body, he could still fight back and forth with this large group of people, which showed his true caliber.

And among those who could participate in the siege, the weakest was also a Soul Transformation Cultivator. Even so, this World Boss could still act as a main force, which indirectly showed that it was no pushover either.

This World Boss was released by Zhou Yan after he met Li Wenbo and before they fled.

It was also his first time knowing that this event's World Boss needed to be manually activated and released at a fixed location.

Zhou Yan didn't know these things, probably because he wasn't a combat player in his previous life.

During those few days of the event, he basically just logged on, earned enough points, and then left. He never, like those combat players, found several power-levelers to take turns camping and grinding all day to climb the ranks.

But precisely because the boss could be specifically placed, Zhou Yan was able to complete the operation just now.

After a World Boss appears, it will definitely target the tankiest target first. Otherwise, if it only targeted low-health players, those who spent less money would be even less inclined to play.

And the strongest among them was undoubtedly Kun Gou, which is why Zhou Yan thought of releasing a monster before fleeing.

Anyway, the boss would definitely only lock onto Kun Gou. Others, seeing it only attacking Kun Gou, naturally wouldn't actively draw aggro.

Kun Gou was already being ganged up on, and suddenly an extra enemy appeared, which he surely thought was an enemy reinforcement, so he would definitely fight even more fiercely, drawing aggro firmly.

And so, it became the current situation.

But how should he explain all this to them?

Should he say that he has a System, can release world bosses, and that the bosses automatically lock onto enemies and are not under his control?

That would be even worse than saying there's some "Seal of Ancient Dark Sky, Void Silence, Seven Hells, Ten Thousand Filth, Soul Devourer, World Destroyer, Ruin Swallower, Demon Suppressor, Bone Restrainer" on his arm.

Sigh, I just wonder what stage that guy Zhang Feng has reached now... Zhou Yan looked at the meatball for a while, then turned back to the boss's health bar.

He planned to sneak over and release another one after this one died.

"Where is Zhou Yan!"

Inside the meatball, Kun Gou was glaring at the meditating Zhang Feng.

Zhang Feng slightly opened his eyes and only replied.

"I made it into spicy rabbit head and ate it."

Kun Gou grew even angrier.

"You dare to trick me!"

Zhang Feng rarely curved his lips into a smile.

"You know I won't answer seriously, so why do you still ask me?"

"You've lived so long and your brain is still so poor, no wonder you can't defeat those Celestial Venerables and can only live like a rat in a gutter."

Before his words finished, Kun Gou appeared next to Zhang Feng as if by teleportation, unleashing a punch. That terrifying power instantly killed a low-health Soul Transformation Cultivator.

At that very moment, the skeleton began to glow. Kun Gou sensed something was wrong, grabbed Zhou Yan, who was only a torso, and quickly escaped the meatball.

Outside, the meatball, which had been slowly repairing itself, began to pulsate violently.

Kun Gou forcefully pushed away everyone around him and charged straight towards the meatball.

However.

A tiger pounced head-on. Kun Gou nimbly dodged, but his body suddenly paused, caught by a giant fox tail, and swung towards the tiger's mouth. The tiger opened its maw and spewed out raging flames.

"Tail Fire Tiger, Heart Moon Fox!"

Kun Gou shattered the flames, looking somewhat dishevelled.

He gritted his teeth, looking at these two suddenly appearing fellows, and the She Tail Tiger Constellation Beast, which was chasing him like a madman again from behind.

"Damn Meng Zhang!"

"Buzz—"

A buzzing sound rang out. The giant meatball suddenly expanded, then rapidly contracted, finally transforming into a crystal-clear, deep-red orb.

Then the orb shattered like a mirror, and a bizarre humanoid creature with three heads and six arms appeared in the sky.

The wack (Strange Person) was covered in scales, and all three of its heads had green faces and fangs.

The middle head resembled a consumptive youth, the left one was like a veteran general who had seen many battles, and the right one was like a well-read scholar. Six blood-red eyes slowly opened, all staring at Kun Gou.

Three fanged mouths roared a single word simultaneously.

"Kill!"

At this point, the Great Yu Imperial Dynasty had revealed all its trump cards.

The final battle had officially begun.

"Time to bail, time to bail."

At this moment, Zhou Yan, who was just an ordinary passerby, quietly slipped away from beneath the battlefield, deeply hiding his achievements and fame.