129: Chapter 129 The Death of a Foundation Establishment cultivator

Silence.

A deathly silence.

In this underground basin, the moment the Golden-Backed Gu King raised its hideous head, the air seemed to freeze.

There was no earth-shaking vortex of Spiritual Qi, nor any brilliant flashes of Spells.

There was only a pure, extreme, and ferocious pressure originating from the top of the ancient vicious insect food chain, slamming into everyone's hearts like an invisible heavy hammer.

The first to bear the brunt was Xu Yin, who was on the verge of a violent frenzy.

His blood-red eyes suddenly froze.

His forward-charging figure came to a dead stop in mid-air. The violent aura radiating from the Gu King caused the boiling Foundation Establishment essence blood in his body to instantly turn cold.

"Roar—!"

The Gu King did not open its mouth; instead, it emitted a dull, subwoofer-like hiss through the spiracles on its abdomen.

The sound waves transformed into physical ripples, sweeping across the bone plaza.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The mountainous piles of insect remains along the path were instantly turned into bone powder under the vibration of the sound waves.

Xu Yin bore the brunt and was hit head-on by the sound waves.

The blood-colored shield in front of him was like fragile glass; it let out a wail and shattered with a bang. He was sent sliding backward over a hundred feet as if struck by a giant boulder, his legs plowing two deep furrows into the hard ground.

"Foundation Establishment... Late Stage Great Perfection!"

Blood seeped from the corner of Xu Yin's mouth. His frenzied reason was finally forced awake by this terrifying gap in strength.

He stared fixedly at the mountain-like Gu King, a desperate chill rushing from his tailbone straight to the top of his skull.

He had lost an arm and was already heavily injured.

As for this ferocious creature before him, let alone his current state, even if a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Elder of the Blood Fiend Sect were to arrive in person, they would never dare claim they could easily take it down without a restraining Magic Treasure!

"Escape!"

Only this single thought remained in Xu Yin's mind.

He suddenly bit the tip of his tongue, and his remaining right hand quickly formed hand seals. His entire body erupted in blood-red light as he intended to perform the Blood Fiend Sect's top-tier Blood Escape technique to forcibly smash through the rock layers above and flee.

But he had moved with killing intent and released his blood qi.

In the Gu King's territory, this was no different from the most blatant provocation.

Boom!

The Gu King moved.

Its massive ten-meter-long body displayed a terrifying speed that was completely inconsistent with its size.

It did not use any mana.

The dozens of long legs beneath it, which were like steel spears, suddenly kicked off.

The bone plaza collapsed into a giant pit with a roar. The Gu King's massive body was like a dark gold cannonball fired from its barrel, instantly crossing a distance of dozens of feet and appearing directly above Xu Yin's head.

Fast! Too fast!

Gu Shen, hanging high in the ceiling crevice, had his pupils shrink to the size of needlepoints.

He could only catch a dark gold afterimage. This was the terrifying speed of a Physical Body purely breaking the sound barrier!

Xu Yin's escape technique was only halfway performed.

The sky above his head went completely dark.

Two forelimbs, over three meters long and lined with extremely sharp barbs, were like the scythes of the Grim Reaper, slashing down at Xu Yin in a cross!

"Blood Demon Shield! Block it!!!"

Xu Yin let out a desperate, shrill roar. He frantically drained the last trace of liquid mana in his body, and a thick, solid blood shield instantly formed above his head.

Squelch!

There was no resistance.

The Blood Demon Shield, which was strong enough to withstand dozens of strikes from a Cultivator of the same level, was sliced through as smoothly as a block of tofu under the Gu King's forelimbs.

"No—!"

Xu Yin's voice stopped abruptly.

Snap.

The two dark gold 'scythes' instantly snapped shut.

Xu Yin's body was cut cleanly in half from the chest down!

Blood shot into the sky like a fountain, and internal organs spilled all over the ground with a splash.

The Gu King's giant mouth, filled with countless fine, sharp teeth, suddenly opened, swallowing Xu Yin's lower half along with those internal organs in one gulp.

The sound of chewing was hair-raising.

An instant kill.

A high-and-mighty Blood Fiend Sect Foundation Establishment Prodigy with a boundless future had failed to last even a single breath before this Golden-Backed Gu King, becoming nothing more than insect feed.

Thud.

Xu Yin's remaining upper body fell into the mire.

Foundation Establishment Cultivators have extremely tenacious vitality; he had actually not completely died yet. He used his remaining right hand to scratch frantically in the mud, trying to crawl forward, his fish-like eyes filled with an extreme desire for life and deep terror.

But the Gu King didn't even spare him another glance.

A remnant of a corpse was no longer worthy of its interest.

The Gu King slowly turned its massive body, its dark gold compound eyes coldly locking onto the stone pillar at the other end of the bone plaza.

Standing there was Wei Lingfeng.

Wei Lingfeng's hand holding the sword was, for once, seeping with cold sweat.

Xu Yin's death happened too fast and too tragically. It was so tragic that even he, a descendant of the Qianji Pavilion who had always been calculating against others, felt a heartfelt chill.

But he did not retreat.

Because he knew very well that in front of a top predator like the Gu King, showing one's back would only lead to a death more miserable than Xu Yin's.

"Master, the energy source of that single-armed damaged target is rapidly failing; life signs are about to reach zero."

From the black iron buckle at Gu Shen's collar came Crab's highly suppressed electronic voice.

"Now, that high-energy sword-wielding target is completely locked on by the super heat source."

Gu Shen lay on the cold rock like a stone statue.

He had witnessed the entire process of Xu Yin being cut in half.

His state of mind remained as calm as still water.

In this Cultivation World, whether you were a Prodigy or a true disciple, if you took one wrong step, your end would be no different from this rotten meat in the mud.

"Wei Lingfeng, what will you use to block it?"

Gu Shen stared down.

In front of the stone pillar.

Wei Lingfeng took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the fear churning in his chest.

Being able to use the blood marrow lotus to Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment was already a Heaven-Defying change of fate. However, his current Realm was not yet completely stable; wanting to head-on resist this Foundation Establishment Late Stage vicious creature was nothing but a pipe dream.

But since he dared to come, he must have a life-saving trump card.

"Vile beast. You want to eat me? Be careful not to shatter your teeth!"

Wei Lingfeng shouted angrily, his left hand suddenly slapping his Storage Pouch.

Dozens of extremely dazzling spiritual lights shot into the sky.

There were exactly thirty-six bronze Formation Flags, their entire lengths inscribed with complex Formation patterns!

The Formation Flags expanded in the wind, becoming ten feet tall. Like extremely precise nails, they slammed into the bone ground around Wei Lingfeng.

"Qianji Spirit-Lock! Formation, rise!"

Buzz—!

The thirty-six Formation Flags simultaneously erupted with blinding green light. Countless spiritual energy chains, as thick as an adult's arm, shot out from the flags, weaving into an extremely massive, airtight green net in mid-air, firmly protecting Wei Lingfeng in the center.

Almost at the same moment the Formation was completed.

The Gu King moved.

Its massive body once again turned into a dark gold afterimage.

Boom!

The Gu King's forelimb slammed heavily onto the green net.

The earth trembled. The thirty-six bronze Formation Flags emitted an extremely piercing grinding sound, and countless fine cracks instantly split across their surfaces.

But, it held!

This green net was like extremely tough taffy; although it was pressed into an extreme depression, it managed to block the Gu King's physical cutting. The sharp barbs were firmly caught by the spiritual energy chains.

"Roar!"

Failing in its strike, the Gu King was completely enraged.

The spiracles on its abdomen suddenly expanded, and a stream of extremely thick green poisonous mist sprayed out toward the green net like a high-pressure water gun!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

A pungent burnt smell filled the air.

The chains condensed from pure spiritual energy, upon contact with the poisonous mist, actually began to melt and vaporize frantically like ice cubes splashed with strong acid!

Inside the Formation, Wei Lingfeng's expression changed drastically.

"It can even corrode Spiritual Qi! What kind of poison is this?!"

He didn't dare hold anything back. The liquid mana newly condensed in his Dantian was like a river bursting its banks, frantically pouring into the surrounding Formation Flags, trying to repair the chains corroded by the poisonous mist.

A war of attrition.

An extremely tragic, life-and-death struggle of attrition.

The Gu King spat venom, constantly compressing the Formation space. Wei Lingfeng gritted his teeth and held on, even starting to burn the medicinal power of the blood marrow lotus that he hadn't fully refined yet to maintain the operation of the Formation.

And high above them.

Gu Shen was like an extremely patient vulture, quietly lurking in the darkness.

He calmly watched the cracks on the Formation Flags below that were constantly expanding.

"This Formation won't last long."

Gu Shen muttered in his heart.

"Wei Lingfeng, reveal all your trump cards."

"Once your trump cards are exhausted, I will come and take everything you want."

In the dark crevice, Gu Shen's right hand slowly tightened around the hilt of the thunder pattern gold-slaying blade.

The Soul-Pulling Threads moved silently between his knuckles.