Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Listening to the roars and screams coming from Lush Peach Mountain, Zhao Sheng spoke softly, "Luckily we didn't rush to make the first move."

"Indeed! Who would have thought these White Apes were so fierce," Zhao Keru also said with lingering fear.

However, Zhao Jijian said, "The outcome of this battle is not yet decided, the key lies in whether that family's Foundation Establishment Cultivator can subdue the Second-Order White Ape King. Look, the White Ape King has appeared."

Zhao Sheng and Zhao Keru both looked in the direction he indicated.

At this moment, a huge White Ape burst out from the stone cave.

It was fifteen feet tall, with bulging muscles like Jingang, and two exceptionally strong arms that looked like thick stone pillars.

Most notable was that the White Ape King was dragging a nine-foot long, thigh-thick club in its right hand, the surface of which was pockmarked and covered with thick coagulated blood and flesh, obscuring its original texture.

After emerging from the stone cave, the White Ape King raised its head and roared angrily, suddenly bending its body and leaping up seventy to eighty feet high. Swinging the giant club in its hand, it brought forth a pitiful howl and smashed it down towards a red-robed elder hanging midair.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

The red-robed elder was the Foundation Establishment Cultivator of the family, and at that moment, he was controlling a Spirit Fire Gourd, releasing a great expanse of scarlet rain of fire that scorched the White Ape group below, burning their fur and flesh as they scattered and fled.

The elder, caught off guard, only realized that a Second-Order White Ape was hidden among the group when the giant club was upon him.

In shock, he instinctively raised the Spirit Fire Gourd above his head.

Boom!

A loud thunderous noise erupted, and instantly, fiery sparks flew in all directions. The elder was knocked flying, smashed into the ground, and instantly created a shallow pit where he lay, continuously spitting blood from his mouth.

The red-robed elder felt terrible heartache, not for his injuries, but because his ancestral Spirit Fire Gourd had been smashed and several cracks appeared, with strands of scarlet Spiritual Fire leaking directly from the cracks.

"Be careful!"

"Ancestor, dodge!"

Just then, two cries of alarm suddenly reached the ears of the red-robed elder, who had no time to react before he sensed darkness before his eyes and a cold breeze sweeping over his head.

Filled with dread, he disregarded all else and instantly activated the talisman treasure in his embrace.

In an instant, a massive, dark turtle shell-like shield appeared above the elder's head, its surface displaying the phantom image of a one-horned giant turtle.

Bang!

The giant club smashed ruthlessly onto the shield, and in that instant, the White Ape King's ferocious Divine Power erupted violently.

Unexpectedly, the shield didn't budge; instead, the White Ape King staggered backward, stunned by its own strength.

Roar!

Having failed to land a blow, the furious White Ape King's eyes turned blood red. Clasping the club with both hands, it leaped up and began its berserk onslaught.

The club whipped around, creating numerous afterimages, like a storm pelting down on the Turtle Shell Shield, not giving the red-robed elder any chance to dodge.

These White Apes were exceptionally agile, and the White Ape King was the elite among them. Its movements were so fast and its strength so savage that, to the average person, it would all be a blur, only seeing multiples of the White Ape King's figure everywhere.

In just a couple of breaths, the Turtle Shell Shield, under countless frenzied strikes, visibly began to fade away.

At that moment, the red-robed elder behind the shield was shaken so hard that his face turned as red as blood, and his body was deeply smashed into the ground.

Seeing that the Magic Shield was about to break, the red-robed elder put his pride aside and shouted urgently upwards, "Quick... take action!"

Before his words fell, a tremendous Sword Intent suddenly erupted from the Cloud Boat.

The next moment, a massive golden Sword Light soared into the sky, with the phantom of a Red Gold Small Sword appearing within it.

Slash!

As a cold shout came from the Cloud Boat, the golden Sword Light suddenly cut across the sky, descending in a sweeping motion.

Below, sensing an unprecedented danger, the White Ape King suddenly looked up and howled, hastily blocking the club in front of itself.

In an instant, the golden Sword Light easily pierced through the White Ape King's body, and the residual energy of the Sword Light swept the ground behind it, creating a narrow sword mark over twenty feet long and three feet deep. The sword mark sheared through stone and wood, severing several dozen peach trees that could only be encircled by joined arms.

The might of a single sword, so terrifying!

At this moment, Zhao Sheng and his two companions, who were ten miles away, witnessed this earth-shattering sword strike and were utterly shocked.

"It must be a talisman treasure," Zhao Jijian blurted out.

"Indeed, as expected from a family from the ten dynasties in the Cultivation World, their heritage is indeed rich. Including that shield just now, they've already used two talisman treasures," Zhao Sheng nodded and lamented.

"Alas, with the death of the White Ape King, most of Lush Peach Mountain has fallen into others' hands. Shouldn't we make a move now?" Zhao Keru couldn't help but ask.

"No rush, let the bullets fly a little longer!"

Zhao Sheng had just said something inexplicable when he suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

Oh!

"It's not dead!" he said in amazement.

"Yes! It survived an attack equivalent to a full-force strike from a Golden Core Master. The staff in that White Ape King's hand is made of an extraordinary material!" Zhao Jijian also exclaimed with admiration.

While the two were expressing their feelings of surprise, at the top of Lush Peach Mountain, the White Ape King gasped for breath and planted its staff into the ground.

Although it did not die, it was seriously injured, with countless wounds of varying depths all over its body due to the impact of the Sword Qi,

the largest of which were more than half a foot long, deep enough to see bone, and blood gushed out from the wounds, quickly staining its fur red.

The man in the red robe, holding up his shield, carefully pulled himself out of the pit and, while retreating, greedily eyed the staff.

The seemingly unremarkable staff didn't even have a sword mark deeper than a couple of inches deep,

considering that it was struck by a Magical Treasure Level Flying Sword—ordinary Middle and Lower Grade Spirit Artifacts couldn't withstand such a hit, yet the staff had resisted it with its own material strength.

As someone from an Artifact Refining Family, the man in the red robe was acutely aware of what this meant.

But there was no time for him to think further.

The White Ape King, having suffered a significant loss just now, suddenly roared at his subordinates and then lifted the staff and charged once again.

The man in the red robe's expression greatly changed at the sight.

At this moment, the group of White Apes suddenly ceased their earlier disarray and assembled in groups of threes and fives like an army, jointly attacking a single Cultivator.

Because of this change, the humans immediately fell into disarray.

Just then, a middle-aged man in a red robe flew out of the Cloud Boat.

He was another Foundation Establishment Cultivator of the family, skilled in Artifact Refining rather than fighting, and had not participated in the battle from the start.

Now, seeing his family on the verge of defeat, he had no choice but to join the battle.

But as soon as he appeared, a ferocious roar suddenly rang in his ear.

Roar!

The next instant, before the middle-aged man could react, a fist-sized green stone flew like lightning and struck him instantly.

Pfft!

The middle-aged man in the red robe spewed blood violently and was sent flying four or five zhang, crashing through a peach tree before tumbling to the ground.

Only then did everyone discover with extreme horror that a giant White Ape with a large belly had appeared beside the stone cave at some point.

Seeing this scene, everyone's hearts turned cold, truly feeling the misery of inadequate information.

Regrettably, it was too late now to realize this!

"Run for your lives!"