Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension Chapter 1516 - 820: Heavenly Rift Valley Lizard Hunt (2)

Master Ming Yue wiped the blood from his face with effortless calm, showing no sign of disturbance.

Upon witnessing this, the onlookers held back their questions and pressed on with their talks about wiping out the Flying Giant Lizard species.

...

After two months, the intense snowfall began to taper off, as six enormous silver ships soared across vast distances, reaching their goal at last — Heavenly Rift Valley.

A vast white carpet of snow stretched endlessly over the ground, but right then, a huge chasm tore it apart down the middle.

Running from south to north, the valley reached the land's very brink; it narrowed to just two or three miles in spots, but widened out to as much as a hundred and eighty miles elsewhere.

Gazing into the depths of the gorge, it looked like an endless void. Icy gusts howled up from below, carrying sounds like the bellows of massive fiends.

The silver ships hovered over the chasm, then a quiet gateway shimmered open underneath them. Bursts of piercing light shot forth, plunging fast into the valley and vanishing completely.

Two days passed, and in one stretch of the valley, a thick shroud of mist suddenly formed out of nowhere.

The mist spread quickly in all directions, soon blanketing an area close to a hundred miles wide.

This misty zone marked the rift's deepest section, a place locked in eternal gloom, packed with solid ice that never thawed, and barren of all living things.

Still, the Zhao, He, and Wei families decided to set up camp right here, drawn by a special cluster of Three Yin Evil Acupoints.

Deep inside the heavy fog, a grand luminous shield covered over ten miles, pushing back the shadows and holding off the mist.

Inside that shield, robust towers built from Golden Gang Stones thrust up from the earth in a row,

Each hefty stone structure encircled a seemingly infinite hole, and at the top of every tower hung a massive "Flame Pearl" that poured out radiant glow.

As he paced around the pit, Zhao Yongxian chanted spells under his breath and flung handful-sized jade array flags into the soil.

The moment they touched down, the flags lit up and burrowed into the ground, disappearing from view.

At the same time, Zhao Sheng stepped beyond the barrier's edge. He crept along its border at a steady pace, sending his Divine Sense probing more than a dozen meters below the surface.

Wherever his scan reached, he mapped out the routes of earth veins and spirit veins clearly in his mind.

Occasionally, Zhao Sheng would flick a Thunder Pearl into the dirt, aiming it right at a spirit vein junction.

He took a full hour to circle the barrier, planting a total of thirty-six Thunder Pearls.

These Thunder Pearls drew on spirit veins for their array foundation, blending Five Elements Yin Yang in a hidden way to create a Positive and Negative Five Elements Thunder Array.

If anyone broke through the barrier, the instant they stepped across, the thunder array would trigger, guaranteeing doom for anyone under Nascent Soul stage.

In truth, Zhao Sheng had thrown this array together without much effort. The real devastating trap demanded careful, time-consuming setup.

Once in place, it would doom even hordes of Divinity Transformation True Monarchs.

...

Half a month went by.

In a different area of Heavenly Rift Valley, almost a hundred miles down from the top, endless night ruled, with cold so bitter it turned water to ice in a heartbeat.

A colossal lizard, sixty meters long and clad in tough scale armor, unfurled its huge wings and glided silently through the black.

All at once, a wildly tempting smell wafted up from far below.

The giant lizard's eyes snapped wide with excitement and fixed downward, cutting through the gloom to see a thick, decapitated Jiao Python dangling from a cliff wall some dozen miles down.

The serpent lay drenched in blood, giving off a scent that was utterly irresistible, the top delicacy for the Two-winged Giant Lizard — Dark River Demon Python.

This third-tier behemoth, driven by fierce hunger, tucked in its wings and dove like a bolt of lightning.

It covered those dozen miles in no time, closing in on the python's remains, its eyes burning a fierce red as it readied to devour.

But suddenly, a tight web of "golden light" sprang up out of nowhere right over the python's body.

The golden light was as fine as a strand of cow hair yet razor-sharp beyond endurance, and the unsuspecting Two-winged Giant Lizard hurtled straight into the "golden light" snare, pushing forward a bit more.

Then, in an instant, its monstrous form exploded into a thousand shards, blood spraying like a waterfall, while chunks of its corpse tumbled into the depths.

From the midst of the gory mess, a band of pale-faced, armor-clad figures stepped out of the shadows.

They advanced at once, scooping up every bit of the corpse fragments into storage bags, even scraping clean the spots stained with demon blood.

A third-rank demon beast held endless value; its demon blood had countless uses, from nourishing specific spirit beasts to, above all, refining corpses.

In a blink, Zhao Yongxian materialized in the air above, watching the frantic activity below and breaking into a grin as he commended: "What a Void Golden Saber Array! With its hundred times gravity and the piercing edge of Gold Element, not even a thick-hided third-rank giant lizard could last a single breath. Brother Shaoling’s talents in arrays run deep, leaving this old fellow in the dust!"

Zhao Sheng emerged gradually close by, replying in a steady voice: "Elder brother flatters me too much. I lack prowess in direct fights, managing only to ’wait for the prey,’ nowhere near as effective as others in hunting demons."

Zhao Yongxian chuckled: "Waiting for the prey might be a patient game, but it's reliable. As long as you're guarding, our young ones stay safe! Now I can head off without the other two families mocking me for slacking."

"Go ahead, elder brother. I'll make sure no family junior comes to harm."

Zhao Yongxian gave a pleased nod, offered a respectful bow, and then turned into a streak of light, melting away into the dark.

In another spot, a storm of fiery rain hammered down onto a pack of Two-winged Giant Lizards, swallowing them up in flames without mercy.

The He Family Ancestor perched atop a blazing crimson sword wheel, with a towering volcano rising in his wake, erupting rivers of scorching lava.

The lava morphed into vast curtains of fire rain, blanketing scores of miles in the air and rapidly incinerating the lizards all around.

A hundred miles off, Zhao Zhuanggong floated in the emptiness, his Divine Thought unfurling like a delicate web, spanning hundreds of miles outward.

Whenever a Two-winged Giant Lizard tried to breach, a burst of Sword Light would slice the darkness, lopping off its head.

Within mere half an hour, seven or eight Golden Core stage giant lizards met their end by that Sword Light.

As the pair of Nascent Soul ancestors displayed their power, Master Ming Yue, He Chong, and Wei Shu kept drawing the lizards their way, only for them to perish at the hands of the two Nascent Souls.

However, with the killing spree growing, some bigger threats were bound to show up.

When two massive lizards, each over thirty meters long, appeared, the Nascent Souls of Zhao and He picked up on them right away.

Eager to gauge their power, they quietly urged the rest to pull back, then joined together to face off against the monsters.

Before long, a fierce clash unlike any other broke out in the valley's depths, its booming impacts ringing out over hundreds of miles, sending swarms of valley beasts scattering in panic to hide.

...

Three days afterward, Zhao Zhuanggong and the He Family Ancestor made their way back to base, one right after the other.

Zhao Zhuanggong bore no wounds, but the He Family Ancestor’s energy flickered a touch unevenly, suggesting light injuries.

Boom! Boom!

A pair of mountain-sized giant lizard corpses slammed into the ground, sending tremors ripping through the earth.

The sight of those colossal demon bodies filled the juniors from all three families with delight, and without waiting for the Ancestors' orders, they pulled out all sorts of Spiritual Artifacts to break down the carcasses at top speed.

At the same time, enormous coffins of Dark Wood surged up from the heart of the Three Yin Evil Acupoints.

The coffins shook without stop, their exteriors flashing with harsh bloody radiance.

Right then, seven or eight Foundation Establishment members from the Zhao Family hauled piles of bloody chunks and hovered over the coffins.

As the lids cracked open a sliver, they dumped the meat inside and sprayed their Heart Blood onto the demon corpse coffins all at once.

While the Zhao clansmen worked on refining corpses, those from He and Wei cut up slabs of demon lizard flesh and gulped them down.

They dropped into cross-legged seats, channeling their Mysterious Skill to the fullest, processing the meat from Nascent Soul level demon beasts.

The meat from Nascent Soul level demon beasts brimmed with dense Spiritual Energy, making it a tough ordeal for Foundation Establishment juniors to refine.

Even so, each chunk they absorbed toughened their bodies greatly, and their cultivation levels climbed steadily higher.