Chapter 195 Breaking the Formation 5400

As he said this, Garuda had already used his powerful strength to control the other ferocious beasts around him. Even if the will on the other side of the black giant cave urged them, those unintelligent beasts did not react at all—and those with intelligence were even less likely to go against Garuda's words in the current situation, seeking their own death.

"...So, you want to play the waiting game, see which side offers bigger chips, and then you'll submit to whoever that is?"

After a moment of silence, the voice from beyond the black giant cave said with some regret, "You're still too naive, misunderstanding the nature of humans and those immortals. This kind of behavior is even more repulsive to them than outright hostility. Moreover, now that you control the authority of the Kunlun Secret Realm and have closed the passage, they will definitely kill you and take back the authority."

Now that things had come to this, it understood that it had underestimated this young divine bird, so it said bluntly, "Join our Beast God Realm. With your bloodline, it won't be difficult to compete for the title of King of the Feathered Races among the Ying Lin Mao Yu Kun in the future. Under the watch of the Life Master, there's still a semblance of fairness. As for the remnants of the Immortal Realm, at most they'll just treat you as a mount."

"They all have cultivators with Dragon King blood, who seem to be leaders. Why can't they accept me?" Garuda smiled slightly, "I'm actually very clear that my behavior is that of a turncoat and is indeed unwelcome. But as long as I don't create major harm and have value, why can't they accept me?"

"Moreover, you've misunderstood one thing, and that is my true purpose. My goal isn't simply to 'survive'. What I want to know is, which side do I truly belong to."

"Am I a natural divine bird, or a descendant of the human race's demon gods? I must figure this out, so that my life has direction and meaning."

A divine bird born out of thin air from the deceased Dapeng demon god's aura.

With no parents to teach, and no enemies to oppress, a lonely life cannot find the direction it wants to go.

In this silent Kunlun Secret Realm, what troubles it most is not the crisis of life and death, but the belonging of its own existence. With wisdom and the inheritance of many bloodline memories, born with knowledge, it does not want to be like a beast, living a muddled life, simply living for the sake of living.

The meaning of birth, the meaning of death, the meaning of life itself...it wants to understand this.

Therefore, it wants to understand more before making a choice.

"Don't worry, if the Immortal Realm remnants are really as greedy, terrifying, and ruthless as you say, I will naturally turn to you."

Saying this, Garuda turned its head and led a group of ferocious beasts out of the palace, "But it will never be under your guidance that I submit to you—my future is decided by me."

At the same time, Pingdingshan.

"I'm going to check out what's happening where the anomaly occurred."

Su Zhou said this, already carrying his long spear on his back, organizing the spirit energy bullets for his large-caliber demon beast pistol, and with a modern elephant hunting longbow and quiver hanging at his waist.

The Zheng Nation government, according to all of Su Zhou's requirements, had prepared all his weapons except for the exoskeleton armor. The reason for not using the exoskeleton armor was that the power of most active-duty exoskeleton armor was still less than Su Zhou's own. Using it would actually limit his strength.

Unless a custom-designed special suit was designed specifically for Su Zhou, it would have no practical use.

Su Zhou's tone was serious: "They're obviously plotting something over there. Be careful and assess the situation. I'll try to attract the enemy's attention as much as possible. You guys find a chance to contact the outside world—or you can follow me, but when I fight, I can't guarantee your safety."

"Tang Yuan, you stay here, gather the squad that will be meeting up later, and hand over command to the old Mr. Xuan Lu. Although he's old, he's still a Xuanwu bloodline, and he's not so old that his thinking is dull."

Bai Canglang turned to face the pale young man, saying, "I'll go with Professor Su to check out the situation."

"Alright." Without saying anything else, Tang Yuan nodded, and Su Zhou didn't say anything more either. He directly and Bai Canglang flew rapidly towards the Kunlun Five Mountains in the distance, an area that revealed an eerie atmosphere.

At this time, it was the afternoon in the Kunlun Secret Realm, approaching evening. The bright light orb was gradually setting, and the stars of the Zhou Tian were appearing one by one.

If someone familiar with astrology looked up at the sky, they would immediately know that most of the stars that should be listed as the Twenty-Eight Mansions were missing. Only a rough framework could be seen. Not only that, but the moonlight that should have been hanging high in the center of the sky had also disappeared long ago.

On the gradually dimming earth, there were two spiritual lights moving rapidly, running towards the center of the world.

Between Pingdingshan and the Central Five Mountains were dense forests and all kinds of strange mountain terrains. Su Zhou could feel strange auras between these mountains, but he couldn't distinguish what they were. The more Bai Canglang passed through these mountains, the more frightened he became, "Just now, Pingdingshan was Xuanwu, and the aura of Tiger Head Mountain was Lu Wu. I even sensed the aura of Qingniao and Ying Zhao not far away... Heavens, these mountains, every single mountain, is all the skeletal remains of at least a demon god level immortal?!"

After discovering this, he surveyed the hundreds of mountains that stretched as far as the eye could see, and couldn't help but shudder, "How many demon gods died here in the past? What price did the ancient immortals pay to go to the new world?"

Only then did he vaguely feel the pain and choices that the immortals had made when facing the sudden changes in the world thousands of years ago, when they had no choice but to leave their homeland.

But Su Zhou wasn't thinking about anything at this time—in his mind, there was only the thought of 'faster, faster'.

"Hoo."

Taking a deep breath, Su Zhou adjusted the circulation of spiritual power in his body through breathing. He leaped up, and the power of wind assistance was applied, counteracting the force of descent while also eliminating part of the air resistance, allowing him to move and glide through the air like a true sky dragon, with a speed that even exceeded one hundred meters per second.

At this time, it was already difficult for Bai Canglang to catch up with him, but Su Zhou left a very obvious aura that could be tracked, so he wouldn't really get lost.

At this time, Su Zhou had already arrived at the foot of a dragon-shaped mountain range, in a vast dense forest.

In order to make it easier to borrow strength and accelerate, he didn't leave the ground too high, but occasionally landed, exerted force to accelerate, and maintained his full speed.

But just as he passed through a particularly dense part of the forest, his spirit vision could see that the surrounding spiritual power suddenly began to move unnaturally... and the trajectory of this movement was very similar to how it was when he fought the Demon Emperor in the Divine Wood World!

Boom! In the next instant, accompanied by a rumbling sound of vibrating wood energy, dense vine tentacles intertwined to form the appearance of a dragon claw, and then with the momentum of a Cordyceps sinensis capturing prey and the mighty wood-attribute spiritual energy surging like a tide, it pressed directly towards Su Zhou!

"A familiar feeling."

With a light laugh, although it was different from the Divine Wood World in the past, Su Zhou didn't have divine weapons like the Blade of Annihilation in his hand at this time, but times had changed, and he was no longer the Grandmaster realm martial artist of the past, but a transcendent expert comparable to a Martial Saint!

Therefore, today, there was a dragon-like spear light, under the blessing of the gale force erupted by one Aranya Seed after another, going against the momentum of the vine dragon claw, directly thrusting upwards from bottom to top!

A cold light flashed, the dragon horn spear cut through the atmosphere, and dozens of Aranya Seeds exploded at the same time. More than fifty tons of violent brute force was attached to it, easily smashing the dragon claw beast to pieces, turning it into wood chips all over the sky!

But as one vine dragon claw shattered, there were more than a dozen more growing out of the earth. It could be seen that the entire surrounding dense forest was twisting and transforming. Deep Yimu energy formed a huge array, which was operating, emitting the whistling of spiritual power, intending to work together to strangle Su Zhou with the power of the entire spirit forest!

And Su Zhou chose to use his power to suppress the entire forest.

Dong! A heavy heartbeat sounded, and dazzling lightning enveloped Su Zhou's body. He silently raised his long spear, and then swung it with inhuman strength, setting off a series of white semi-circular vacuum waves like blades in the air!

One of the three universal skills, Yu Qi Po Kong! It had already been perfectly integrated into Su Zhou's martial arts, turning him into a huge whirlwind lawnmower, directly cutting apart all the incoming vine wood claws!

The sharp storm composed of spiritual power, mixed with violent thunder, tore and burned all the wood claws that intended to block Su Zhou's footsteps. The sharp roar of the vacuum even briefly drowned out the sound of thunder—but in the next instant, because Su Zhou sensed the core of the entire array, the real thunder rumbled, and in a flash of intense light, cyan lightning struck the center of this strange dense forest, following the will of the Thunder Lord. After bringing up a violent explosion, it ignited a raging fire.

Bai Canglang, who was behind, only felt a very strong force and thunder suddenly erupt in front of him. Su Zhou's aura, which was rapidly advancing, stagnated in its position for a while, seemingly fighting with something, and then continued to accelerate, running towards the front.

"What happened?"

Harboring doubts, after a while, Bai Canglang arrived at the place where Su Zhou had previously erupted his aura.

This place was a dense forest, overflowing with a thick Yimu aura, but this dense forest had been completely ignited by lightning strikes, and many trees had turned into charcoal, burning fiercely.

But even so, Bai Canglang could still see that this dense forest was somewhat abnormal compared to ordinary forests. Their tree trunks were twisted, covered with sharp serrations and barbs, and before being burned, they seemed to want to turn into wriggling dragon claw giant hands, grabbing at something in the sky.

"It's a Qinglong formation of the Yimu attribute!" Bai Canglang's family had a long history, so he could easily recognize the original form of this dense forest, which was one of the great formations hidden in the Kunlun Mountains. Its complete form should be able to transform an entire dense forest into a wooden azure dragon comparable to a great demon demon king realm to fight the enemy.

But now, thousands of years had passed, the formation was incomplete, and coupled with the fact that the spiritual energy had not recovered for long, it could not exert its full power. Before it could even fully manifest, it was detected by the keen Su Zhou and destroyed with thunder magic.

"This power, to be able to be promoted to professor as the number one genius of Zheng Nation at just under twenty years old, is truly well deserved!"

Praising in his heart, Bai Canglang continued on his way, but soon, Su Zhou erupted a second wave of power fluctuations in front of him.

And when Bai Canglang hurriedly arrived, what appeared before him was a large river that had been evaporated by high temperature to the point of being misty, even forming a small patch of fog, and he was immediately shocked again: "This is a Weak Water Formation! The air above is distorted, forming a vacuum vortex, preventing people from floating across. There is also poisonous gas in it, and weak water cannot even float a feather, and one must sink upon entering!"

Although this formation was not in its complete form either, its complete form should be a huge formation capable of distorting space: facing this river, no matter how one tried to advance, they would be distorted and sunk into the poisonous weak water to be drowned alive—no matter how much the entrant struggled to move forward, they would be pulled into the riverbed, and the distorted space itself was the greatest malice.

But obviously, Su Zhou directly erupted his wind and thunder power, using brute force and gale to blow open the air vortex that was obstructing him. Even the Weak Water Formation was dispersed by the overflowing thunder light.

"My heavens, even the Weak Water Formation didn't stop him for more than a few seconds? Then wouldn't I be someone who could be dealt with in one move in front of him?"

Swallowing his saliva, Bai Canglang carefully put on a gas mask, and then crossed this river that no longer had any miraculous power.

Soon, in the distance, the third explosion rang out, and this time Su Zhou seemed to be familiar with the road and didn't stay for too long because of it.

And Bai Canglang seemed to be used to it by this time. Before long, he saw the fragmented remains of rock golems that had been directly blasted apart with brute force, with clear fist marks even remaining on the crystallized, solid bodies.

There was nothing to explain about this. It was a very ordinary earth-elemental Taoist soldier technique, condensing into huge rock giants as guards to block the way, but Su Zhou directly ran over them... He seemed to be very good at dealing with this kind of trap, and didn't need anyone else's help?

"Damn, what am I following him for?"

Subconsciously saying a sentence out loud, Bai Canglang suddenly felt a little lost: "To witness Professor Su's rampage all the way? Speaking of which, this rampage is too powerful. Is his Dragon King essence a crab?"

"No, I have to remind him not to destroy things so casually—many formations have lost their diagrams in modern times and are precious intangible cultural heritage!"

Switching his confused thoughts, Bai Canglang found a reason to continue acting. He hurriedly set off again, chasing forward.

But the next time, what he saw were not fragments of formations, but corpses of ferocious beasts with shattered heads and holes punched through their hearts.

At least a dozen corpses of awakened-level giant ferocious beasts were lying on the side of the road like piles of meat, and stinky purple blood was flowing from the wounds, emitting bursts of heat.

The expressions of the ferocious beast corpses were just as confused as Bai Canglang's. They obviously didn't know when they had already died, while Bai Canglang didn't even feel Su Zhou's aura of action—this meant that Su Zhou didn't spend much effort to solve these ferocious beasts that didn't look weak, and just solved them casually.

"What pitiful little guys, how did they block Professor Su's path..." Clicking his tongue twice, Bai Canglang originally just glanced casually, wanting to see what kind of fierce beast would dare to provoke Su Zhou.

But as a result, he couldn't tell.

"That's not right, are there still any demon beasts in this world that I don't recognize?"

With a focused gaze, Bai Canglang, who was about to leave, immediately stopped and went forward to observe the corpses of these strange ferocious beasts.

Then, he put on gloves, took a little blood sample, and then turned over the other party's internal organs from the wound: "Strange, these creatures, some look like tigers, some look like bears, and they are very strong, but it's just that they look similar on the outside—their internal organs are completely different from ordinary creatures, their lung cavities are larger, and they all have more than two hearts! However, the brains of some ferocious beasts are obviously smaller, and it seems that they were deliberately cultivated to be like this without much intelligence."

"Special demon beasts native to the Kunlun Secret Realm? The beast soldiers of the demon gods in those years? A topic worthy of attention, but now is not the time to study."

Thinking this with a frown, Bai Canglang put the blood sample into his arms and set off again, closely following Su Zhou's steps.

At the same time, inside the Kunlun Palace.

Garuda stared blankly at the scene in the light curtain in front of him.

"Garuda, are you throwing the fight? Even if you want to defect to the Immortal Realm remnants, it's not like you can succeed by just showing goodwill!"

And the voice behind the black giant cave asked doubtfully: "Control the traps, block their progress—if you let the other party approach at this speed, they will soon be able to approach the Central Five Mountains."

Obviously, compared to Garuda's vigilance, it clearly hated the humans who were the remnants of the Immortal Realm more, and was unwilling to rashly contact the other party in the current restricted situation.

"I controlled them." But Garuda was also confused at this time. Different from the cleverness he showed when confronting the black giant cave before, he simply didn't understand what was going on: "But he broke them all—the speed was so fast that I didn't even see the details clearly... tsk, the precision of this light curtain is not enough, which affects my observation."

He subconsciously bit his thumbnail, and puzzled: "I also sent those ferocious beasts out to test and attack—a dozen awakened levels, even if I took action to kill them, I'm afraid it wouldn't be faster... Is that dragon descendant really that strong?"

"What, they all broke through?"

Even the voice behind the black giant cave was shocked: "Weak Water Formation, Yimu Formation, Rock Soldier Guard, Fire River Gate... The Four Symbols Five Elements Great Formation, he broke through them all?!"

"No, there are still some formations left unused, but I think it's coming soon."

Garuda scratched his golden long hair that he only had in his human form. He felt that the plan was a little out of control, and his expression was troubled: "I originally wanted to take the opportunity of their danger to actively stop attacking, and then appear to communicate—in this way, my words would have a certain weight and be able to express goodwill, which would facilitate subsequent communication."

"But now, let alone danger, this dragon descendant is about to enter the edge of the central area!"

——What is the origin of that guy, to be so strong?

Whether it was the existence in the Beast God Realm behind the black giant cave or Garuda, they were thinking about this question in their hearts. After a while, the voice of the Beast God Realm slowly spoke: "Garuda, aren't you a Garuda, the bloodline of eating five hundred dragons a day... Your bloodline intuition, what level of true dragon bloodline do you think this guy has?"

"Is it the blood of a demon king, a demon god, or the ancestor of the ancient demon realm, the 'Great Sage'?"

"Garudas eat Nagas, not dragons... But the origin is about the same." Garuda subconsciously retorted, and he held his breath and sensed it from afar, but he didn't gain anything, and his eyes were blank: "I can't feel anything... Am I a fake Garuda bloodline?"

But this confusion was only for a moment, and soon, he made a decision.

"Looking at dealing with this guy, what traps, formations and miscellaneous soldiers are useless..."

"It seems, I can only take action myself!"

At the same time, Su Zhou, who had just thrust out his spear, blasting a living Yimu treant that was more than ten meters tall directly through, blasting its core spiritual power center, raised his head as if he had sensed something: "Someone is spying on me."

But then, he shrugged, and looked up at the Central Five Mountains, which were not too far away. "Forget it, whoever it is."

"Anyway, as long as I work harder and don't stop, it will always appear."