190: Chapter 190 You really are a dog!

His voice grew sharper and hoarser, like a rusty knife scraping against an iron plate, setting one's teeth on edge.

"Do you think you can be free just by killing these people? What is the use of freedom!"

"What is the point of freedom if you lose your life! I have lived for so many years and have seen so many fools like you! One by one, they all died! All of them died! Only I am alive! Only I have lived until now!"

Wu Li looked at him askance, a cold sneer hanging on the corners of his mouth.

He did not speak. With a pinch of his fingers to form a spell, the Blood Fiend Primal Wheel shuddered violently, and its rotation speed increased by another thirty percent.

Gray-red Evil Qi surged out from the Primal Wheel like a bursting flood, pressing down upon Mountain Lord Taiyue in an overwhelming tide.

Mountain Lord Taiyue's cursing came to an abrupt end, and he was pressed back into his original form.

His hunched body grew shorter under the pressure of the Evil Qi, his gray-white robes clinging to his body. His face twisted, his cheekbones retracted, his chin sharpened, his nose bridge collapsed, and his eye sockets became shallower.

His ears moved upward, elongated, sharpened, and drooped down. Behind him, a tail extended from under the gray-white robes—furry, curled, and tucked between his legs.

After a few breaths, Mountain Lord Taiyue was gone.

Lying on the spot was an old yellow dog.

Its fur was grayish-yellow, mixed with white, and it was so thin it was skin and bones, with its ribs protruding one by one.

Wu Li looked down at the old yellow dog, froze for a moment, and then began to laugh.

"Ah hahaha!!"

Wu Li laughed until he swayed back and forth, his wings trembling, and he nearly lost his grip on the fire halberd.

"I truly didn't expect this."

Wu Li wiped the tears of laughter from the corners of his eyes, his voice still filled with mirth. "You really are a dog."

The old yellow dog raised its head, its murky old eyes filled with anger and humiliation.

As time passed.

The Three Thousand Flower Realms slowly converged, and everything began to settle.

Meanwhile.

In the distance.

Outside Taiyue Mountain, Supreme Elder Xiao Wancheng stopped in his tracks.

He had already led the Xiao Family members more than a hundred miles away from Taiyue Mountain and was heading toward the direction of Shanhe Prefecture City.

Supreme Elder Xiao Wancheng walked at the very front, his gray-white robes fluttering in the wind. His face was gaunt, his cheekbones slightly high, and his eye sockets deeply sunken.

He did not walk fast, but each step spanned dozens of zhang, and the Xiao Family Disciples behind him had to jog to keep up.

Just as time passed.

He stopped.

With a pause in his stride, Supreme Elder Xiao Wancheng turned his head and looked toward the direction of Taiyue Mountain, a flash of gravity appearing in his murky old eyes.

He had sensed it.

Fourteen Golden Core auras had vanished at the same instant.

Supreme Elder Xiao Wancheng remained silent for a long time.

Behind him, Xiao Wanshan stepped forward, cupping his fists and bowing his head: "Grand Elder, has something unusual occurred?"

Supreme Elder Xiao Wancheng did not answer. His gaze remained fixed on the direction of Taiyue Mountain, his gray-white eyebrows slightly furrowed.

Xiao Wanshan dared not ask again and stood where he was, waiting.

The members of the Xiao Family behind them looked at each other, no one daring to speak.

"It is becoming more and more interesting."

...

The flower petals fell, and the floral fragrance dissipated.

Lady Hua stood in the center of the clearing, her pale green dress stained with debris and blood. Her long hair hung behind her shoulders, and her complexion was as white as paper.

She looked down at the fourteen shriveled corpses on the ground and remained silent for a long time.

Then she raised her head, looked up at the gray-white sky, and closed her eyes.

Her aura climbed steadily from within her body.

A pale green spiritual light formed a pillar that shot into the sky around her, piercing the clouds and tearing a huge gap in the gray-white mist, revealing the long-lost blue sky.

The ground trembled, gravel danced, and the floral fragrance in the air had dissipated, replaced by a deeper, heavier pressure that made it difficult to breathe.

Fourth Rank!

Yao King Realm.

Lady Hua had transformed from the Third Rank, skipping the Undergoing Tribulation in one step and entering the Yao King realm directly.

The entire spiritual power of the fourteen Golden Cores had been refined and absorbed by her alone. That power was too immense; it stretched her Meridians until they nearly ruptured. The Yao core in her Dantian cracked and healed, healed and cracked, repeating countless times, until it finally stabilized on the verge of shattering.

The Yao core was no longer a Golden Core but a pale green, fist-sized bead, suspended in the center of her Dantian, slowly rotating like a star shrunk countless times, emitting a warm and heavy radiance.

Yet after the Breakthrough,

She did not smile.

There was no joy, no sense of relief, no emotion that one should have after a Breakthrough.

She stood there, her pale green pupils reflecting the fourteen corpses on the ground, her face devoid of any expression, like a stone statue.

"Hmm?"

Regarding Lady Hua's Breakthrough, the confusion in Wu Li's eyes deepened.

Such a watershed from the Third Rank to the Fourth Rank, yet there was not the slightest obstacle, not even a tribulation...

This...

Is not normal.

Seeming to see Wu Li's confusion, Tie Shan in the back rose tremblingly at this moment and came over.

"The heavens are fair. Among the Yao Race, it is more difficult for plants and vegetation to Cultivate than for normal beasts and birds, so they do not have tribulations when they Breakthrough in cultivation."

"But for the Human Race, or beasts and birds, they will all experience Lightning Tribulation when breaking through to the Fourth Rank."

After Tie Shan finished speaking, Wu Li also understood the situation at hand.

"This is a great joy. We now have a Fourth Rank Yao King on our side, and as for the Human Race..."

Before Wu Li could finish his sentence, Tie Shan had already shaken his head.

Afterward.

Before Tie Shan could say anything, Wu Li felt it too.

While the aura of Madam Hua's Breakthrough had not yet dissipated.

An aura surged from outside Taiyue Mountain, tearing through the sky and pressing down so hard that the entire Taiyue Mountain trembled.

Wu Li's Blood Pupil contracted violently.

He recognized that aura.

Three years ago, at the Longcheng Immortal Market.

When Fang Zhen, Master of Longcheng Fairy Market, was no match for him, he took out a token from his bosom and crushed it.

A phantom emerged from the shattered token; it was a middle-aged man with a blurred face whose features could not be seen, but Wu Li remembered those eyes—cold, aloof, like eyes looking at an ant.

The phantom extended a finger and pointed at him.

Just once.

Wu Li had to exhaust all his means, even damaging the Yin and Yang Dharma Ring, to barely survive.

Regarding this.

The voice of that figure in the distance also followed.

"I truly didn't expect this."

"This small Taiyue Mountain could actually produce a flower Yao like you."

"I vaguely remember that thirty years ago, a bamboo Yao nearly broke through to the Fourth Rank, but it was stifled in the cradle by me. I didn't expect that your Yao Race would have such great Luck."

Hearing this person's voice,

Lady Hua's body began to tremble.

Her fingers were trembling, her lips were trembling, and her whole body was trembling.

Her pupils reflected the direction outside Taiyue Mountain, reflecting that aura which was getting closer, denser, and heavier.

The murderous intent in the corners of her eyes had completely overflowed.

"In a moment, I will hold him off; you all should leave."

Lady Hua's words were very light, but the expressions of Tie Shan and Jin Kui changed at the same time.

They looked at her, their eyes filled with complexity—unwillingness, anger, reluctance, and something indescribable, like a bubble that had been held for too long finally floating to the surface and popping with a snap.

"Madam Hua..."

Jin Kui spoke, his voice hoarse, but he did not know what to say.