Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2349: 184: Ambush
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“Hmm? Is that a Realm Embryo?”
The monk in grey robes paused in shock, his surprise evident.
This Realm Embryo loomed massively, nearly spanning an entire Domain, pulsing gently while drawing in the nearby Chaos Origin Substance like some vital being.
However, the green glow swept right by the huge Realm Embryo without pausing.
Deep inside, the grey-robed monk grew even more astonished:
“Why isn’t it going for the Realm Embryo?”
A moment of doubt crossed his mind:
“Maybe there’s an ambush waiting inside or around this Realm Embryo?”
“But no, that ploy was already tried once before.”
The grey light in pursuit trailed close, ready to zip past when a flash of insight hit him:
“Wait, True Man Taiyi could have read my mind, so there might truly be an ambush hidden in the Realm Embryo!”
“If that’s the case…”
Suddenly, from the grey light burst a beam that slammed into the Realm Embryo!
A fissure tore across the Realm Embryo’s surface at once, accompanied by a low, muffled rumble from deep inside!
The grey-robed monk, who had halted abruptly after the near miss, now flared with Protective Treasure Light shielding his form. From his grasp, a chain of Buddha Beads launched forward, swiftly morphing into a gleaming golden web that trapped the Realm Embryo, his eyes locked on the clearly shifting mass beneath, a smirk of chill satisfaction on his lips:
“Just as I thought, you figured I’d see through your plan, but repeating the same scheme won’t fool me.”
“I respect your boldness for trying to ambush me again, but I’ve sealed this area tight, and even I can’t break free easily, so stop fighting it. Show yourself!”
From the split in the Realm Embryo below, a wave of sinister energy began to seep out gradually.
Under the grey-robed monk’s gaze of shock and gravity, a sleek claw gleaming with dark sheen eased out from the warped gash in the Realm Embryo, then came lithe, elegant legs, fur as lustrous as polished obsidian, a pointed snout carrying a touch of charm, fine whiskers, and pointed ears… Without doubt, it was a colossal Black Fox!
Next, a thick, bushy black tail slid free from the Realm Embryo, then another, and another… up to the eighth one…
They rose high behind the Black Fox, whipping about fiercely like dark infernos!
At the root of those eight tails, a barely noticeable stub of a ninth tail flickered into view, tiny and faint.
The Black Fox lifted its head a bit, fixing its blood-red eyes—glowing with a perilous glint—on the grey-robed monk overhead.
Right then, the grey-robed monk’s expression turned to profound seriousness and wariness!
“An Eight-tailed Heavenly Fox right on the edge of sprouting its ninth tail!”
“Curse it! Caught in the trap once more!”
In that split second, he grasped that the foe had perfectly predicted all his moves, and he had walked straight into the enemy’s snare!
Still, to prevent True Man Taiyi from slipping away, he had thrown up barriers all around, determined to pin down his target, leaving no quick escape even for himself.
With no chance to dwell on it, his body soon got swallowed by the sweeping black tails…
At the same instant.
The green light streaked onward at full speed, eventually halting before a swirling boundary sea whirlpool, where Wang Ba’s form materialized.
His Spiritual Sense swept across the scene of the Northern Great Bodhisattva clashing with the Realm Embryo beast, leaving him stunned, though his features betrayed scant delight.
The Realm Embryo beast wielded overwhelming power, yet it only held parity with the Northern Great Bodhisattva, and their fight wouldn’t drag on forever.
Gazing down at the boundary sea whirlpool underneath, Wang Ba promptly drew forth a Compass.
This treasure came from True Man Ba as a present, called the ‘Heavenly Square Compass,’ designed to help cultivators rapidly tweak the rules governing a boundary sea whirlpool.
Using Spiritual Sense to probe, he matched the rules of these boundary sea whirlpools against those he recalled from the Sea of Chaos Realm, quickly spotting the nearest fit, then dove down to fine-tune it via the Heavenly Square Compass.
After just a handful of breaths.
The boundary sea whirlpool beneath started to turn slowly, its rules evidently altered.
Wang Ba didn’t hesitate, tucked the Compass away, and plunged straight into it.
Moments later, the rules around this boundary sea whirlpool snapped back to normal.
A few breaths after that, a battered grey-robed monk surfaced from the adjacent Chaos Origin Substance.
His eyes scanned the boundary sea whirlpool down below, a flicker of doubt in them:
“Where did True Man Taiyi vanish to?”
“The causal rules… they’ve completely broken down!”
“Is he possibly dead?”
Fury boiled within him, but soon he picked up on the Eight-tailed Heavenly Fox’s pursuing presence at his back, spat a low oath, and refused to stay put. Transforming into grey light once more, the grey-robed monk sped off into the void.