Chapter 204 A Sigh (6800 words, two chapters combined, seeking monthly tickets~)

"So it's a peacock."

The peacock said a lot, and although Su Zhou understood English, he didn't understand Eagle language, so he didn't know what it was saying.

Of course, this old joke from over a decade ago wasn't actually funny. But he didn't need to understand to know that, in this situation and atmosphere, the other party was definitely saying something mocking.

In that case, he would click to block and no longer receive any sounds or messages from the other party.

At this time, the exploration team that entered the Kunlun Secret Realm was almost complete, and even the first team could vaguely sense the approaching aura.

As the leading commander, Su Zhou didn't waste any words. Ignoring the peacock inside the barrier, who seemed to still be saying something, he directly said to the crowd who were watching him: "This barrier is blocking our path to the central control of the Kunlun Mountain Secret Realm. If we can't get there, we can't open the spacetime gate that connects to Earth."

"And inside this barrier, there is a spacetime gate that connects to another world. Monsters claiming to be from the 'Beast God Realm' are pouring out from it—and their goal is most likely to seize the Kunlun Secret Realm and then seize the various divine beast bloodlines within."

Without Su Zhou needing to say more, everyone knew how terrifying a channel connecting to another world could be. Whether it was Bai Canglang or Xuan Lu, or other talented students who were brought in, all frowned, their expressions changed slightly, and they couldn't help but remain silent.

The hundreds of thousands of magical beasts that poured out from the spacetime channel in the Slovenian Mountains of the Europa Federation, the destruction they caused, and the million-level casualties, were the horrors that all humans subconsciously wanted to avoid. If so many vicious beasts really appeared in the Kunlun Secret Realm, and, led by high-level divine beasts with obvious intelligence, seized the Kunlun Secret Realm containing a large amount of divine beast inheritance, then the destruction they might cause in the future would definitely surpass that group of magical beasts in the Europa Federation.

After all, the population density of Zheng Guo (lit. 'Righteous Country', referring to China) is not comparable to that of the Europa Federation. Just thinking about it sends chills down one's spine.

"In a few tens of minutes, the authorities can teleport us out... Although the matter is of great importance, there is no need to take risks."

Speaking was Xuan Lu, the Xuan family elder who inherited the Black Tortoise bloodline. This was an old man with white hair, said to be nearly a hundred years old, and even the spiritual energy revival had not turned his white hair black.

Now, this old man leaned on his crutch, not even raising his eyelids, and said calmly: "The students retreat towards the edge of the Kunlun Secret Realm according to the content of their usual training. The other instructors stay where they are, and we will try with Professor Su to see if we can do something."

These were indeed words of wisdom, and the other leading professors, who were originally frowning slightly, relaxed their brows after hearing these words.

After all, they themselves were not afraid of fighting, but they were leading a group of new generation who could be called geniuses. If one of them died here, it would really be a great loss for the future of Zheng Guo.

Xuan Lu was the vice-leader under Su Zhou, like Bai Canglang. When Su Zhou and Bai Canglang did not object to his words, it was an official order. Several genius students whose strength was obviously not inferior to ordinary instructors looked at each other, seemingly wanting to open their mouths to express that they were not afraid and could stay, but they were all sternly ordered to retreat by their respective leading instructors, and could only retreat in standard formation as in their usual training.

As for why the professors themselves were not worried about their safety... the answer was also very simple.

First of all, the current situation was indeed very serious, and there was indeed a need to try to stop it, but the enemy was not so strong that they could only fight to the death—although Su Zhou himself might not feel anything, in the eyes of others, the aura of the peacock divine bird behind the barrier was terrifying, but his own aura was not inferior to the other party.

In fact, his arrogance was far greater.

Of course, the most important thing was that everyone could now see the blonde girl sitting listlessly beside Su Zhou, hugging her knees, seemingly having been beaten into self-doubt... Bai Canglang had secretly explained that it was the humanoid form of the 'Golden-Winged Garuda' that had been speculated before in the secret realm, and the strength of this Golden-Winged Garuda was also at the high-level of the Transcendent stage!

"Even the Golden-Winged Garuda was blown up by reverse restraint. It looks like Professor Su didn't spend much effort. This peacock divine bird is only at the same level. As long as Professor Su can hold back this divine bird, we can naturally hold back those vicious beasts that don't seem to have much intelligence."

The peacock divine bird on the inner side of the barrier, seeing those young humans, most of whom possessed bloodlines, retreat, couldn't help but frown: "If they escape, it will be troublesome to catch them again later. Why do these humans have to resist? Wouldn't it be better to surrender obediently?"

Although it was a pity, it would not rashly go out. Although the peacock believed that Su Zhou was not its opponent, it was, after all, the king of a clan and understood the necessity of stability and caution. The important thing now was to stabilize the spacetime channel and wait until the Beast God Realm army could enter stably. Then these Xianjie (lit. immortal realm) remnants outside, who had lost the protection of the old Xianjie gods, were nothing more than prey.

"However, why aren't these older humans leaving?"

With such doubts in mind, it saw that the dragonborn who had defeated the Golden-Winged Garuda said a few words to a pale-faced youth in the team, and then the entire team was in an uproar. Many people seemed to want to dissuade him, but the dragonborn was unusually persistent and rejected everyone's suggestions.

Then the two began to approach the barrier.

"What are they going to do?" Standing among the beasts, the peacock couldn't understand human language, and it could only think with suspicion: "Didn't they try it before? Even the dragonborn's full power couldn't break through the protective formation... Could it be that they have a joint formation?"

"But this pale human's strength is only at the low-level Beast Soldier stage."

Although it didn't understand what the other party wanted to do, the barrier generated by the Boundary Breaking Formation was invincible to the Transcendent stage, and the peacock wasn't worried about whether the other party could destroy the barrier.

More than this, its energy was more focused on the spacetime channel behind it: "This time, my 'feathered race' has taken the lead and found the entrance to the old Xianjie first. Now that the immortals and gods have left, the current Xianjie is just pieces of fat!"

"Maybe my kind of Beast Gods can also be the masters of the Xianjie once. And I, with this battle, have hope for the position of 'Birth Master', which is above the Great Saint and supremely high!"

However, just as the peacock divine bird was imagining the future, Su Zhou and Tang Yuan had arrived at the edge of the barrier, and Tang Yuan, who looked serious, was also holding Su Zhou's hand and activating his ability 'Spirit Transformation'.

Unlike ordinary divine powers that can only spiritualize oneself, Tang Yuan's spiritualization divine power is more advanced and can also spiritualize the people and things he comes into contact with, achieving various abilities such as passing through walls and flying, and this limit is one cubic meter.

Even if Su Zhou's body was Transcendent, it had not expanded to the point where its body volume was greater than one cubic meter, so it naturally belonged to the category that could be spiritualized.

Now, as Tang Yuan used his divine power, the two entered a state of spiritualization at the same time!

"Well, this feeling is a bit wonderful."

Feeling the strange spiritual power fluctuations pouring from Tang Yuan's hand, Su Zhou, whose whole body suddenly became a translucent spirit body, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and seriously feel this feeling: "It's not completely losing mass, but everything that touches me will 'just right' pass through me... Every part of my body has become vague, I don't know whether it exists or not, superimposed on the two-phase state of the spirit world and the real world."

"Tang Yuan's divine power is indeed much more advanced than ordinary spiritualization."

If he wanted to study it, there would naturally be plenty of time to study it in the future. What was most important now was to try whether this state could pass through the barrier.

Su Zhou nodded to Tang Yuan, and then directly reached out and was the first to pass through that layer of black and red life spiritual energy barrier.

It hurt.

This was the only feeling.

The black and red life barrier, which repelled most of the spiritual power and was the most inert and stable, was like a layer of solid spiritual iron. Although it had no substance, it stubbornly blocked everything from entering.

Even after spiritualization, this sense of obstruction was greatly reduced, but wanting to pass through it still felt like every inch of flesh inside and outside the body had been rubbed by sandpaper, and it was extremely painful. Ordinary people simply couldn't bear it, and just touching it would probably cause them to subconsciously shrink back as if they had been electrocuted.

Fortunately, Su Zhou was not an ordinary person. This kind of pain was comparable to when the national teacher blasted his eyes to pieces with a thunder spell, crushed his spine, and the Demon Emperor scraped the flesh and blood of his arm little by little. Of course, he also returned the same blow to the other party, so he didn't feel wronged when recalling these pains, but rather felt a little emotional.

Soon, Su Zhou naturally passed through this layer of barrier, and only clicked his tongue the whole time: "Ah, I feel a little bit like I'm remembering the feeling of fighting back then."

Saying this, his momentum not only did not decrease, but became even more active, as if he really was getting into the state.

However, Tang Yuan's situation was a bit difficult.

His spiritualization must be effective through contact. Su Zhou passing through meant that he also had to pass through. As for letting go halfway, it would mean canceling the spiritualization. His arm would be swallowed by the entire barrier, or at least cut off.

So, he also had to pass through—and such intense pain was extremely difficult for ordinary people to endure.

It could be seen that Tang Yuan, who passed through with Su Zhou, was already close to unconsciousness at this time and fell to the ground. He was covered in cold sweat, and even his clothes were soaked. It seemed that he was about to dehydrate.

Su Zhou had already stated the danger before, but seemingly thinking of the huge threat that the beast tide might cause, and the reason why he agreed to become an agent of the Security Bureau, Tang Yuan still agreed to this extremely risky action—although he looked like just an ordinary ability user, in fact, this courage was extremely rare and precious, and Su Zhou also praised it.

"Thank you for your hard work, Tang Yuan."

Su Zhou, who had already passed through the black and red barrier, ignored the beast tide that had become clearly visible and was rising and falling in front of him. He didn't care about the peacock divine bird's exclamation of shock that could be heard in front of him, and just smiled as he took out a bottle of holy water he carried with him (cumin blessed version) from his chest, then bit open his finger and poured a little blood into it: "Just stay next to the barrier and pay attention to your safety with spiritualization."

Saying this, he forcibly opened Tang Yuan's half-unconscious mouth, and then poured this bottle of holy water into his mouth, choking him awake.

It must be said that holy water with Su Zhou's blood added to it was truly a holy medicine for healing—it was rumored that a Luohan (arhat) was reincarnated and turned into a high monk, and eating his flesh could make people live forever, and although Su Zhou's flesh and blood was not comparable to that level for the time being, it would definitely be at this level, or even exceed it, in the future.

After being poured like this by Su Zhou, even Tang Yuan, who was in shock, immediately regained his senses. Even the remnants of the previous pain were swept away by the immense vitality and sacred aura in the holy water, making him feel clear-headed and warm and light all over: "Su... Professor Su? Did we pass through?"

"Yes, be careful."

Seeing that the other party had woken up, Su Zhou didn't say much. He whispered to the other party to spiritualize and pay attention to avoiding the aftermath of the battle, then turned around and looked at the peacock divine bird that had been silent for a long time.

As for those vicious beasts who were full of momentum when they first roared, facing Su Zhou, who was calm at this time, their voices gradually lowered, and even closed their mouths and shrunk back a little.

Even without wisdom, the modified vicious beasts could feel the danger called 'death' that was coming from the front.

"Interesting, human, I didn't expect you to be able to pass through the defense of the Boundary Breaking Formation. The divine power of the human next to you is very interesting."

In the world of the mind, soul messages that transcend language were intertwined in the spirit world. The peacock divine bird, which was now taking Su Zhou and his party seriously, laughed meaningfully: "Moreover, in the face of my beast tide army, you actually don't have the slightest fear, and even waste your precious dragon blood to treat others?"

The peacock wasn't in a hurry to attack. Although it didn't know what kind of confidence Su Zhou had that he dared to face it and the entire beast tide army alone, it just needed to buy time. No matter what conspiracies and tricks the enemy had, it was better to sit tight and buy time by chatting.

The most important thing was not to annihilate the enemy, but to achieve its own goals. The Beast God Realm was not a peaceful place, and it knew this very well.

But it didn't know that whether it was playing games or fighting in reality, Su Zhou always blocked the enemy's communication before starting to fight—unless he wanted to talk to the other party, so it didn't notice its long series of words.

So, Su Zhou indifferently took out another piece of translucent jade marrow from his chest that faintly revealed a cyan light.

This was a piece of jade marrow that he had taken back from the side of the Yaochi pond after defeating the Garuda.

The jade marrow was solid, and the feeling it gave him was even more solid than ordinary refined steel. Even cutting it with a water knife would probably be very difficult, and its degree of flexibility was not bad, but it was just a little brittle compared to transcendent materials of the same level.

"What is he going to do?" Whether it was the peacock or Bai Canglang and Garuda who were watching him nervously behind him, they were stunned for a moment by Su Zhou's actions: "Isn't that the jade marrow on the Yaochi? It is indeed a very rare transcendent material. Could it be that Professor Su is going to set up a formation on the spot?"

"Or is he going to use it as a weapon? But this jade marrow hasn't been processed..."

"Maybe it's being used as a primer for thunder magic. I have heard of the saying 'green jade is like thunder'."

But they were all wrong.

Under the astonished gazes of everyone and the beasts, Su Zhou, without changing his expression, opened his mouth and bit into the jade marrow.

"Crack, crunch..." The sound of breaking resounded, followed by chewing.

Finally, swallowed.

"The taste is really good, it has a sweet taste of rock candy, and the spiritual energy it contains is indeed abundant. The consumption of my previous battle with the Garuda and the use of the thunder spear has actually been supplemented a little."

Thinking like this, Su Zhou chewed and swallowed the jade marrow in a few more bites, refining essence into Qi: "This piece of jade marrow the size of an ordinary person's palm contains at least seventy weeks' worth of spiritual power, which is about the level of ordinary early and mid-stage Transcendents—it's worthy of being the energy accumulated by the Kunlun Yaochi for thousands or even tens of thousands of years. If everyone could eat it, maybe it could infuse many Transcendent experts!"

Watching this scene and feeling the spiritual power in Su Zhou's body accelerating its recovery, even the peacock divine bird's expression became stiff, and it cried out in disbelief in its heart: "What a monster! How can he even digest jade marrow? Is he a glutton?!"

"But isn't he a dragonborn?! Don't even mention humans, even a true dragon would not be able to digest jade marrow easily!"

Garuda, who knew how hard the jade marrow was because he had eaten it out of curiosity when he was a child, and almost broke his mouth, trembled all over after seeing this scene: "Wuwuwu, I didn't expect what the Beast God Realm said to be true. Humans really eat everything and are even more ferocious and greedy monsters than gluttons... I was wrong, wuwuwu..."

However, shock was shock. It was just good teeth. The peacock divine bird didn't think that the other party would be able to explode in strength after eating the jade marrow.

However, noticing that the surrounding beasts seemed to be frightened by Su Zhou's aura and even dared not step forward, the peacock divine bird knew that it could no longer sit tight and had to take action. Otherwise, these unintelligent servant beasts would even lose their fighting spirit and collapse into true wild beasts: "I didn't expect this human to be proficient in the way of divine war and know how to seize the momentum before the battle. I underestimated the other party."

Thinking like this, it cried out loudly and took a step forward majestically—after this step was taken, violent colored spiritual power surged directly from around it, forming a magnificent and colorful spiritual tail that stretched for hundreds of meters behind it!

The violent spiritual power stirred the heavens, causing the surrounding spiritual energy to fall into various abnormal states, either active, restless, silent, or changing, or solid and motionless... This change rotated and shifted at all times, making it impossible to grasp the true state of the divine bird.

Even Su Zhou, seeing this, perked up and his whole body surged with thunder light, and the wind armor around him re-swelled to resist the huge spiritual pressure brought by the other party's display of full power.

Behind the peacock divine bird, in that huge spiritual power tail, the two colored feathers that rotated with the five-colored light of cyan, yellow, red, black, and white, shone brightly, enveloping its surroundings.

"Five-colored Divine Light... is the innate divine power of the divine bird, Five-colored Peacock."

At this time, in the distance, Li Hanshan explained jerkily under the strong demands of his teammates: "This divine power, in its initial stage, can specify several attributes before the battle, making itself completely immune to, and even banning, the enemy's right to use this type of spiritual energy."

"And the complete Five-colored Peacock's Five-colored Divine Light divine power can even achieve the point of 'Five Elements Rotation', making all things and transcendent attacks originating from the five elements ineffective against it, almost immune to all damage, and is one of the most powerful avian divine beast bloodlines second only to the phoenix."

"The aura of the Five-colored Divine Light over there is only at the Transcendent stage, and at most it can only specify two spiritual energy attributes, far from the complete form of the Five-colored Divine Light... but it is definitely terrifying."

At the same time, the peacock divine bird, facing Su Zhou who was wearing thunderous armor and lightning, smiled without pressure: "Dragonborn, I suppose you are the strongest of those Xianjie remnants? Being able to reverse the restraint and defeat the Golden-Winged Garuda of the same level is enough to be proud of. This is an achievement that many Tianlong (heavenly dragons) have never accomplished."

"But facing me is your bad luck—the Golden-Winged Garuda only restrains dragons, but my Five-colored Peacock restrains all five elements in the world!"

At the moment when the voice fell, the divine bird's cry resounded, and two divine lights of five-colored rotation rotated around the huge peacock. The majestic spiritual power even caused all the vicious beasts within tens of meters around it to be blasted away, creating a huge, full of majestic spiritual light domain, in which the mysterious aura from before the ancient times was flowing, which was the strongest divine power from the ancient divine bird!

"Wind, Thunder, Seal!"

It took a long time to say, but it was actually just an instant. Along with the peacock's solemn tone, the two rotating divine lights immediately turned into layers of pervasive spiritual light mist, countless extremely subtle runes, and then, carrying the majestic spiritual light, escaped into the realm of spiritual power.

At the same time, the thunder light, the jumping arcs, and the violent whistling wind armor around Su Zhou all disappeared.

In fact, he also found that his body had become a lot heavier, which was clear proof that the wind was gone.

The Five-colored Divine Light could even seal such innate divine powers!

"Professor Su!"

For a time, all the exploration team members who were watching this scene couldn't help but raise their hearts—Zheng Guo had not left behind the relevant inheritance of the Five-colored Divine Light, and even the inheritance of the Chongming Bird was missing. They did not know what the effect of the Five-colored Divine Light was and did not expect that the other party could specify spiritual energy attributes to seal!

"This divine power is too strong, right? It specifies and seals the enemy's best attributes. Doesn't this mean that no matter who it fights, it can take advantage and restrain the other party?!"

This was an exclamation from an instructor, and beside him, the old Professor Xuan Lu murmured in a deep voice: "So, that is the divine bird that is born holy... and that is why our ancestors tried their best to learn and seize this power."

"Professor Su, don't fight it. Just let the spacetime gate go, buy time, and in half an hour, the authorities can teleport us out!"

Bai Canglang roared directly, regardless of whether Su Zhou in the distance could hear him: "Tang Yuan, take Professor Su out!"

Tang Yuan did plan to take Su Zhou out with spiritualization immediately and then retreat. Since the enemy had already displayed his divine power, if they couldn't beat him, they would just run away. Anyway, the Zheng Guo military would directly carpet bomb with heavy firepower, and then a group of Saint Seats would come and gang up on him. No matter how strong this divine bird peacock was, it couldn't be stronger than the human's good tricks. There was no need to fight at risk.

But Su Zhou's spiritual power pushed Tang Yuan away, preventing him from approaching.

"Professor Su, don't be willful. Your spiritual power has been... huh?"

Tang Yuan originally wanted to persuade Su Zhou that since his thunder power had been sealed, he should not try to fight bravely, but he stuttered halfway through his words: "Wait, Professor Su's spiritual power hasn't been sealed—why does he still have spiritual power?"

"I didn't expect that my thunder magic and wind assistance would actually disappear?"

At this moment, facing the Five-colored Peacock with an arrogant expression, Su Zhou, with a strange expression, smiled meaningfully.

He stretched out his hand and pressed it to his heart, then thought thoughtfully: "The Thunder Swamp Heart didn't react either. In that case, if the Five-colored Divine Light seals the thunder light during the advanced transformation, the safety index of shaping the Thunder Swamp Heart is even safer than falling into a state of suspended animation—after all, suspended animation may also turn into true death."

Of course, Su Zhou's actions, in the eyes of others, were clearly because the Thunder Swamp Heart had lost its thunder power, causing him to suffer backlash and be very painful.

The peacock divine bird seemed to have long been accustomed to similar scenes, often seeing them, and was proud of them. It laughed loudly: "That's right, Dragonborn, you have lost your greatest power—don't make me do it, just surrender obediently, maybe you can save your life!"

But it did not see Su Zhou, who seemed to be in great pain, bowing his head and surrendering obediently.

It only heard Su Zhou let out a sigh.

Su Zhou: "Sigh."

Then, a bone-chilling and scorching sense of danger came from that human.

There is a third update, seeking monthly tickets at the beginning of the month~

The Transcendent stage is equivalent to the silver stage in the previous book, and the performance is similar. It's just that the protagonist in the previous book reached the gold stage very quickly, so this level was not shown. This book starts from the beginning, so it is described in detail.

In fact, the strongest of the high-level silver stage can perform normal sonic speed attack and defense. This has been said before, there is no need to discuss it.