Chapter 66 : Chapter 66
Chapter 66: A Great Demon with the Heavenly Serpent Bloodline; It Can Be Taken In as a “Snake General”!
At the bottom of the giant pit beneath Sword-Forging Mountain, Fan Xiu stared wide-eyed at the stone wall before him, cold sweat trickling down his forehead.
Even through the thick layer of rock, he could still feel the terrifying aura on the other side pressing down on him until he could barely breathe.
Ever since stepping into the Upper Three Ranks, he had never been this afraid.
Every enemy he had faced had either been weaker than him, or someone he could flee from.
But today, there was nowhere to run.
Two figures—one young, one old—were watching him from behind.
“Lord Cheng, is it possible not to smash it?”
Cheng Yu’s indifferent voice drifted over. “What do you think?”
Caught between a wolf in front and a tiger behind!
Fan Xiu swallowed hard. Left with no choice, he gathered an immense mass of black mist into his hands and slammed it viciously into the stone wall.
At the same time, he furiously cursed Cheng Yu in his heart.
Once he returned to the Emperor’s side, he would absolutely make it clear just how often this man had shown gross disrespect.
As his attack landed, stones began to fall away madly.
Thunderous booms rang out.
The entire pit shook violently.
Watching Fan Xiu finally get to work, Cheng Yu folded his arms and nodded in satisfaction.
Ai Peng sighed with feeling. “Sword-Forging Manor built this pit well. Even under force like this, the tunnel still won’t collapse.”
“After all, their sect is right above it. If it collapsed, that would be no small matter,” Cheng Yu said calmly.
Back then, no matter what, Sword-Forging Manor could never have imagined
that after five years of painstaking effort, everything would end up benefiting someone else.
And the one who had caused all this had been nothing more than a tiny Jinyiwei Banner Captain just one month ago.
Grinding his teeth, Fan Xiu dug with increasing ferocity, growing faster and faster.
The tunnel rapidly pushed forward.
When the others heard the sound of digging becoming increasingly hollow and clear, their eyes lit up at once.
That meant there was a vast empty space behind it. There was definitely something inside!
A lucky opportunity!
The path of martial cultivation was long and bitter, and the chance to soar to the heavens in a single leap was right before their eyes!
Just as everyone was growing wildly excited, a sudden change erupted.
A surge of dragon-might far stronger than before burst forth, and the entire tunnel shook violently.
Cheng Yu felt his heart jolt, as though someone had seized him by the throat.
“ROAR!!!”
A world-shaking roar rang out from within the mountain, and all the martial artists froze in terror.
There was something in there!
“It’s a Great Demon!”
Jian A shouted. In his search for a breakthrough in the Sword Dao, he had once wandered the world and encountered a Great Demon of terrifying strength in a great marsh.
The thing inside the mountain gave off no less pressure than that demon, whose power had rivaled that of a Grandmaster!
In the next moment, a series of rumbling crashes thundered out.
BOOM!
The rock wall Fan Xiu had been digging at suddenly exploded inward, sending him coughing up a mouthful of blood as he was blasted backward and crashed to the ground.
But no one had the mind to care about how miserable he looked.
Their attention had been completely seized by something else.
The wall had broken through!
On the other side lay an enormous space.
It was shrouded in darkness. Nothing could be seen within it except for a pair of gigantic blood-red eyes.
Terrifying and majestic dragon-might rolled toward them.
Everyone’s mouths fell open.
This was a demon?!
“Get out first!”
Cheng Yu shouted, ordering the stunned Jinyiwei inside the tunnel to flee.
They were too weak.
They had to leave immediately.
Ai Peng hauled Fan Xiu up from the ground and looked toward Jian A.
Even this supreme expert, whose strength was absolutely enough to rank near the very top of the Earth Ranking, had an expression of extreme fear on his face.
“This thing cannot be fought head-on!”
Jian A spoke with utmost gravity.
Naturally, everyone immediately turned and withdrew, no longer lingering over thoughts of opportunity or treasure.
An opportunity might be wonderful, but only if one had the life to receive it.
They wanted to leave, but the gigantic thing within the mountain did not seem willing to let them go so easily.
“ROAR!!!”
That overwhelming roar came with a foul, bloody stench, and the two crimson eyes rapidly grew larger.
It was approaching!
Its massive body scraped against the stone walls with thunderous rumbling. The entire tunnel shook.
The group felt a terrifying pressure pressing down upon them.
An intense heat blazed from behind, and they hurriedly sped up their escape.
Cheng Yu no longer conserved any Internal Energy, using his movement art to rush away at full speed.
Thanks to the refinement his Internal Energy had undergone, and the many insights into movement arts he had accumulated over countless house raids, his speed was not the least bit inferior to the three Upper Three Rank martial artists.
Fan Xiu, on the other hand, had been closest to the Great Demon while digging through the wall and had taken a direct heavy blow.
Injured as he was, he was far slower than usual and fell behind the others.
The burning heat behind him grew stronger and stronger. Fan Xiu felt as though his heart had risen straight into his throat.
He could practically feel the Great Demon’s breath on his back.
“Save me!”
A miserable cry rang out, and the terrifying dragon-might crushed Fan Xiu to the ground. He made no further sound.
Cheng Yu knew Fan Xiu was dead, and the chill in his heart deepened another degree.
Fortunately, after killing the chief culprit who had disturbed its peace, the Great Demon did not seem inclined to keep pursuing them.
The group soon escaped out of the tunnel.
Looking at the others, all of them still shaken and pale, Cheng Yu gave a severe order.
“This place cannot be stayed in any longer. You all take these laborers and leave first!”
“Yes!”
The Jinyiwei acknowledged the order and began leading the laborers away.
Ai Peng was already pale from Fan Xiu’s death, but he quickly realized there was something wrong in Cheng Yu’s order.
Should they leave first?
Then what about Cheng Yu?
“Lord Cheng, you intend to...?”
Cheng Yu’s expression was cold and resolute.
“There is still something I need to do.”
Ai Peng naturally understood what Cheng Yu meant and immediately widened his eyes. “You’re still going back in? That’s far too dangerous!”
Lord Zhao had given him strict orders to protect Cheng Yu at all costs.
There was no way he could stand by and watch Cheng Yu walk back in to die.
That Great Demon was far too terrifying. Even Fan Xiu, an Eighth Rank martial artist, had been utterly unable to resist it.
If Cheng Yu went back, it would absolutely be a death sentence!
“You cannot go!” Ai Peng urged through clenched teeth.
A heaven-defying genius like Cheng Yu absolutely could not throw his life away on something so reckless!
“Master!”
Jian A was equally worried.
He knew Cheng Yu’s attainment in the Sword Dao was vast enough to reach heaven and earth, but his actual strength was still limited.
Going any closer to that demon was no good choice.
Cheng Yu shook his head.
He was not someone who failed to understand the difference between life and death. The reason he had chosen to stay behind and explore the pit again
was because he had just heard the system’s voice ring at his ear.
【A Great Demon with the Heavenly Serpent Bloodline has been detected. Using the True Martial Aura, it can be taken under the host’s command as a “Snake General”!】
Cheng Yu had just caught a fleeting glimpse of the Great Demon’s form.
Though it radiated dragon-might from head to tail, it was shockingly an enormous white python!
The system’s prompt also made him think of the Turtle and Snake Generals commanded by the True Martial Emperor.
And he himself had accepted the Demon-Slaying Dao Canon and obtained the True Martial Inheritance!
If there was truly a chance to subdue this great serpent, then his strength would gain an unparalleled boost.
He had to gamble on this!
If he won, then he would have the confidence to stand at the summit of Great Qian’s martial world and ride down the jianghu beneath his horse’s hooves!
Cheng Yu looked at Ai Peng and Jian A.
“In this life, every road before me has been carved out through blood and battle!”
With that, he walked back into the tunnel.
The two of them stared helplessly at Cheng Yu’s gradually receding figure, utterly at a loss.
They knew Cheng Yu had once met the Dragon Abyss Sword head-on, but even so, they could not imagine how he could face a Great Demon.
Cheng Yu was truly ruthless!
Were all geniuses this merciless toward themselves?
Inside the tunnel, Cheng Yu went deeper and deeper, only to find that the giant serpent seemed to have retreated back into the mountain.
He did not use too much Internal Energy while traveling and thus did not provoke the serpent into another frenzy.
As the pressure grew heavier and heavier, Cheng Yu once again arrived at the place where the giant serpent had smashed through the rock wall earlier.
Before him stretched an extremely vast space.
Only now could he see clearly that all across the ground lay all sorts of miraculous objects.
At the center of it all, a terrifyingly enormous mass rose and fell with every breath it exhaled.
The giant serpent seemed to sense someone spying on it.
Its two huge blood-red eyes locked onto Cheng Yu.
A forked tongue as large as a tree flicked out, as though it wanted to see
what this tiny ant intended to do.
Cheng Yu’s expression remained cold as he began circulating the Demon-Slaying Dao Canon.
A mysterious power utterly alien to this world slowly emerged, majestic beyond compare.
The giant serpent suddenly grew agitated.
It sensed danger!
With a violent lunge, it slammed toward Cheng Yu, sending stones tumbling and dust billowing everywhere.
It meant to crush this tiny ant who had disturbed its slumber!
But in the very next moment, the giant serpent realized in shock that it had not crushed that ant at all!
How was that possible?!
As the dust cleared, a towering figure suddenly appeared, forcibly catching the giant serpent’s charging body head-on.
It was only a phantom!
Cheng Yu stood within that phantom, arms folded.
【Ding!】
【Subduing “Snake General” in progress. Host, please wait......】