Chapter 777 - 345: Land of the Refining Pattern Master’s Legacy (2)
Boom!
The bull’s head grazed past Xu Guang’s side and smashed into the rock wall behind.
The entire rock wall trembled violently, countless stones rolled down, and a deep pit with a diameter of over three meters appeared at the point of impact, with the pit walls crystallized into a glazed texture.
However, the crisis was not yet resolved.
Just as Xu Guang fully dealt with the bull’s head charge, in the gap of the serpent’s surprise attack, the boar’s head on its chest, which had remained silent, silently opened its huge mouth.
No sound, no light.
But Xu Guang suddenly felt a tightness around him!
Centered on him, the space within ten meters seemed to instantly turn into an invisible quagmire.
It’s not that gravity increased, nor that space solidified, but... the blood energy, Source Qi, and even the Rule Power triggered by the Five Emperors Technique and the Holy Domain prototype were being crazily extracted and devoured by a terrifying suction force!
The originally stable chaotic halo of the Holy Domain prototype began to fluctuate and distort violently, like a silk cloth gripped by an invisible hand, its light rapidly dimming.
The phantom of the Five Emperors Technique also became fuzzy and erratic, the power maintaining the compass sharply decayed.
"Devouring Power... it can even devour rules?!"
Xu Guang’s heart was shocked. This boar head’s ability was so bizarre and overbearing, perfectly countering his domain and Magic Image!
The serpent’s head moved again! Seizing the moment when Xu Guangyi’s Holy Domain was unstable, and the Magic Image dispersed, it turned into a black lightning bolt and stabbed straight at Xu Guang’s heart!
This time, its speed seemed even faster and its angle even more cunning.
The bull’s head also pulled its horns from the rock wall, turning its huge body, dark red eyes locked onto Xu Guang, hooves stomping the ground, launching a second charge.
The ground roared, like the pounding of war drums.
A three-pronged attack!
The perfection of this monster exceeded Xu Guang’s imagination.
The serpent’s head was swift and deadly, the bull’s head powerful and heavy, the boar’s head disruptive with its devouring!
Any one of the heads, in terms of strength alone, was enough to rival an ordinary Peak of the Second Nirvana. The three heads working together far surpassed a regular Semi-Saint.
Xu Guang’s expression was grim; the Five Emperors Technique and Holy Domain prototype was completely restrained in front of this three-headed centaur!
It seemed the only way was to...
A surge of red light flickered in front of him.
"Killing Tower, manifest!"
Xu Guang let out a low cry, and from his Dantian, the blood-red small tower, three inches high, covered in cracks, suddenly shook!
Buzz——!
A terrifying aura, ancient, desolate, and containing endless slaughter and suppression intent, burst out from Xu Guang’s body to the sky!
The dark red blood light exploded centered on Xu Guang, dyeing his surroundings in a layer of mournful color. This blood light was not merely a beam but was composed of countless extremely fine blood-colored talismans, each like a miniature sharp sword, radiating a terrifying Dao rhythm of cutting off vitality and suppressing all creatures.
The might of the Holy Artifact began to reveal itself!
The first thing to bear the brunt was the serpent’s head attacking the heart.
Under the illumination of the blood light, the serpent’s head’s fierce charge abruptly halted, as if it hit an invisible, yet indestructible wall. In its pale eyes, for the first time, a hint of "fear" appeared, emitting a hiss, wanting to retract.
"Suppress!"
Xu Guang formed a hand seal, pointing at the serpent’s head from afar.
The Killing Tower flew out from his Dantian, hovering above his head, its body slightly shaking.
The first floor door of the tower opened with a boom!
A condensed, substantive blood beam shot out from the tower gate, instantly crossing the space, enveloping the serpent’s head!
"Hiss——!!!"
The serpent’s head emitted an extremely shrill screech, struggling and twisting frantically.
But the blood beam seemed to possess infinite weight and binding force; no matter how it struggled, it couldn’t escape the beam’s range. Even more terrifying, within the beam, those blood-colored talismans climbed onto the serpent’s head like living creatures, beginning to madly erode and suppress its essence.
The black scales on the surface of the serpent’s head quickly lost their luster, turning ashen, its wriggle amplitude getting smaller and smaller, the pale light in its eyes dimming fast.
In just three breaths, this serpent’s head, which was as swift as lightning and posed the greatest threat to Xu Guang, completely stiffened, firmly fixed in mid-air by the blood beam, like an insect in amber.
Suppressing the serpent’s head was just the beginning.
The bull’s head’s second charge was already upon him!
The massive body carried the thunderous roar of the earth, with two horns like giant siege spikes, fiercely crashing towards Xu Guang!
The devouring power of the pig head was once again strengthened, crazily pulling at Xu Guang’s qi, blood, and rules, attempting to interfere with the activation of the Killing Tower.
Xu Guang’s face was stern, and he didn’t even bother to wipe the blood oozing from the corner of his mouth.
His hand seals changed again, and the remaining qi, blood, and Source Qi within him flowed unreservedly into the Killing Tower.
After all, a Holy Artifact is a Holy Artifact, and he had not refined it for long, making the consumption even greater when used.
But at this moment, he had to persevere.
The light on the Killing Tower flickered uncertainly.
The doors on the second and third levels of the tower opened simultaneously!
Two thicker, more densely inscribed beams of blood-colored light shot out, one towards the charging bull head, and the other directly aimed at the chest-positioned pig head!
The bull head roared, its horns glowing with a dark light, trying to resist the blood-colored beam.
However, the power of a Holy Artifact is not something it can easily withstand!
At the moment of collision between the blood-colored beam and the horns, there was no loud sound, only a heart-palpitating sound of "dissolution".
The dark light on the bull head’s horns quickly dimmed and dissipated like ice and snow meeting sunlight. The blood-colored beam penetrated the dark light unobstructed, enveloping the entire bull head.
"Moo——!"
The bull head let out a painful and unwilling roar, suddenly halting its charge.
The massive body trembled violently in the blood-colored beam, its four hooves deeply embedded in the ground, trying to resist the suppressing power.
But like the snake head, dense blood-colored talismans started to appear on its body, its movements slowing down, with the ferocity in its eyes replaced by a rigid gray bleakness.
The pig head facing the blood-colored beam appeared even more bizarre.
It opened its huge mouth, attempting to swallow the blood-colored beam just as it had previously swallowed the prototype Holy Domain. However, the blood light from the Killing Tower was a manifestation of Saintly slaughter and suppression power, far surpassing the rules Xu Guang himself had gathered.
In the instant the pig head’s devouring power touched the blood-colored beam, it was as if it swallowed a scorching hot iron!
"Ow——!"
The pig head let out a sharp wail for the first time, its huge mouth snapping shut, its whole body trembling.
Yet the blood-colored beam invaded, countless runes burrowing into its open mouth, spreading inward along its throat. The pig head’s devouring power was forcibly interrupted, even backfiring on itself, with its chest starting to show abnormal swelling and distortion, as if something inside was about to explode.
Seeing this, Xu Guang bit through his tongue, and another mouthful of essence blood sprayed onto the Killing Tower.
The tower body burst with blood light, and the fourth level door suddenly opened!
The fourth blood-colored beam descended, not as an attack, but transforming into countless blood-colored chains that rustled as they wrapped and bound the massive body of the three-headed centaur from head to toe.
The struggles of the bull head and pig head rapidly weakened, eventually becoming completely rigid and motionless like the snake head.
The three pairs of pale eyes, their light extinguished completely, leaving only emptiness and deathly silence.
The massive pitch-black body was bound by blood-colored chains, standing in the thick fog like a bizarre sculpture.
Xu Guang slowly landed on the ground, staggering, and only stood firm by using the bronze long sword as support.
His face was pale as paper, his breath was utterly weak, and every rise and fall of his chest was accompanied by a burning pain.
Continuously activating the Killing Tower to suppress this three-headed centaur close to the Semi-Saint level had consumed him greatly.
His qi and blood were depleted, Source Qi exhausted, even his Divine Soul aching from the excessive use of the Holy Artifact.
"Cough, cough..." Xu Guang coughed out two mouthfuls of clotted blood, his eyes gravely fixed on the three-headed centaur suppressed by the blood chains.
The Killing Tower was suspended mid-air.
This monster has a special essence, almost one with the Fallen Saint Land, even the Killing Tower can only temporarily suppress it, not completely annihilate it.
He dared not delay much longer, taking out the bronze Compass to search for the location of the Refining Pattern Master’s inheritance.
The aftermath of the battle had dispersed much of the thick fog within a few hundred zhang in radius, leaving the ground a mess.
Xu Guang’s gaze finally settled on the place where the three-headed centaur first appeared.
There, at the base of the cliff, by the edge of the black lake, was a nondescript cave opening, half-covered with debris.
The entrance was roughly human height, with uneven edges.
Xu Guang’s heartbeat suddenly quickened, the Refining Pattern Master’s inheritance...
Found.
