Immortality from Taming Elephant

The seven powerhouses and more than twenty second-nirvana experts could no longer concern themselves with alliances or command.

Their eyes contained only the Dragon Pearl, imbued with the essence of True Dragon and enough to move even those in the Saint Realm, and the nine golden red "Dragon Essences" quietly floating like mini Dragon Pearls around the Dragon Monarch!

"Ah Wei, let’s go!" Xu Guang immediately decided, calling out to General Wei.

He wasn’t very interested in that Dragon Pearl, the target of everyone’s envy. With his current power, even if he somehow obtained it, he absolutely couldn’t keep it, and would instead become a target for everyone.

His aim was the nine slightly lesser but still invaluable "Dragon Essences"!

Xu Guang’s figure moved like electricity, activating the intangible magic garment, blending his presence with the magical thoughts of the surroundings, minimizing his sense of existence as he streaked like a shadow toward a golden red Dragon Essence nearest to him, drifting towards the battlefield’s edge.

This Dragon Essence, with some contest, shouldn’t be too stressful to seize.

However, just as he was about to reach that Dragon Essence, three fierce attacks simultaneously struck from different directions!

"Kid from the Northern Six Institutes, how dare you covet the Dragon Essence? Leave it behind!"

A burly man wearing crimson scale armor, wielding a flaming long halberd, roared in attack, brandishing the halberd which turned into a vicious fire flood dragon lunging at Xu Guang’s head.

This man was from the Eastern Domain’s Yan State "Burning Sky Valley," named Chi Liao, at the mid-second-nirvana cultivation stage, with a fiery temperament. He had been eyeing a Dragon Essence in the melee and struck as soon as he saw Xu Guang trying to take it.

Simultaneously, from the left, a shadowy green whip, as silent as a venomous snake, coiled toward Xu Guang’s ankle. The whip’s body was covered with barbs, glowing with a ghostly blue light, evidently laced with potent toxin.

The strike came from a sallow-faced, tall and thin man in a green robe from the Southern Domain’s "Poison Sect," known as the Poison Elder, adept at using poisons and ambushing.

On the right, a dense flurry of coin darts came enveloping, each dart with razor edges, spinning and slicing through the air with an ear-piercing screech.

The attacker was a short, chubby old man with rat-like whiskers and shrewd eyes from the Central Domain’s "Treasure Pavilion," known as "Old Coin." Despite being a merchant by origin, his mastery of hidden weapons was extraordinary, and his cultivation had reached the early second-nirvana stage.

The three had evidently reached an understanding beforehand. Seeing Xu Guang alone, with the lowest cultivation, they simultaneously made their move to eliminate him as a competitor before vying for that Dragon Essence.

Even though Xu Guang had previously easily defeated Jiao Kuang, the common understanding was that top-tier experts were supremely confident in themselves.

They were unaware of whether Jiao Kuang had held back against Xu Guang, but confidently believed that if they themselves challenged Jiao Kuang, they too could easily emerge victorious.

"Courting death!" Xu Guang’s eyes flashed with cold light.

Facing the tri-sided attack, he moved forward instead of retreating, spreading his left hand’s five fingers open and lightly pressing toward Chi Liao’s flame flood dragon halberd ahead.

"Human Furnace - Great Practice!"

Buzz!

Chi Liao only felt the surrounding space slightly stagnate, as if caught in an invisible furnace. His connection with the flame flood dragon halberd unexpectedly experienced a momentary delay.

The vicious flame flood dragon shadow seemed to be pinched by invisible large hands, its form distorting, and its power sharply reducing.

Seizing the opportunity, Xu Guang drew his right hand’s bronze long sword, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire entwining the sword body, thrusting in a simple and straightforward stab towards the flame flood dragon shadow’s weakest point.

Sizzle!

The fire flood dragon wailed, pierced by the sword’s edge, and collapsed with a thunderous crash.

Chi Liao’s long halberd trembled violently, as a beam of sword qi imbued with scorching yet eerily corrosive power transmitted through the halberd shaft, numbing his arm and shaking his blood and qi, forcing him back in alarm.

Meanwhile, Xu Guang’s footwork eerily shifted, his figure drifting like dandelion fluff, narrowly evading the Poison Elder’s sinister poison whip entwine. The poison whip brushed past his calf, sending up a foul wind that made his skin slightly tingle.

In the face of Old Coin’s overwhelming rain of coin darts from the right, Xu Guang didn’t even turn back. In his mind’s sea, the magic thoughts swayed like coral, and a condensed dark purple magic thought emanated from his body, forming a transparent, dragon-scale-patterned magic thought shield behind him.

Clang clang clang——!

Countless coin darts clattered against the magic thought shield, emitting a dense sound like raindrops beating on banana leaves, yet unable to penetrate at all, instead being corroded by the Heaven-abandoned magic thought on the shield, quickly dimming in spiritual light, and falling one by one.

"What?!"

Old Coin’s rat whiskers quivered, his eyes revealing incredulity.

Though his coin darts weren’t atop-tier Divine Weapon, they excelled in quantity, speed, and penetration power, capable of piercing ordinary second-nirvana protective Gang Qi. Yet, they were so effortlessly blocked?

Xu Guang broke through the tri-side interception, moving fluidly without pause, catching the golden red Dragon Essence in his hand!

Dragon Essence in hand, it was smooth yet mountainous in weight, containing a vast and pure dragon force and life essence internally, merely holding it invigorated his blood and qi.

"Put down the Dragon Essence!" Chi Liao roared, stabilizing his form and charging once more, his long halberd transforming into a sky full of halberd shadows, enveloping Xu Guang’s vital points.

The Poison Elder’s gaze grew colder, his green robe swelling as dozens of tiny emerald insects flew out of his sleeve, buzzing as they attacked Xu Guang from different angles. These insects were not only poisonous but could also devour Source Qi shields.

Old Coin, meanwhile, slapped his waist storage pouch, releasing three fist-sized, red spheres engraved with exploding runes, shooting in a triangular formation at Xu Guang, the fearsome "Blazing Sun Thunderfire Orbs"!

The three, having witnessed Xu Guang’s skills just now, dared no longer underestimate him. At this moment, they all exhibited their master skills, collaborating to surround and kill!

Xu Guang’s face remained stern as he swiftly stored the Dragon Essence into the white jade gourd, thoughts racing in his mind.