Swallowed Star: Lord of the Wolf

"Hmm." Mo Chen nodded slightly, his eyes sweeping over the vines hanging at the cave entrance. "This place is not safe to stay for long. The Crimson Scale Earth Dragon has been killed, and the eternal beasts near the Black Swamp have also sensed it, becoming unusually restless. Once we have rested, we should leave the Western Tian Domain as soon as possible and send the collected materials back to our tribe."

“That makes sense. Right now, the most important thing for our tribe is the tribe itself…”

"Shh! Don't say it, even in the wilderness." Mo Chen interrupted Shi Kui and shook his head. "Let's go, we've already achieved our purpose for coming here."

"Fine, whatever."

The two stood up at the same time, their movements swift and clean.

With a wave of his hand, Mo Chen extinguished the campfire instantly, and even the ashes were frozen, pulverized, and disappeared by a chilling aura.

Shi Kui then pulled out his giant axe, and a faint light shone from both of them. The secret treasure that could perfectly conceal their aura was activated again, enveloping them and moving with their every step.

Wow~~~
Like two ghosts disappearing into the shadows, they silently emerged from the cave and sped along the bottom of the ravine towards the edge of the Black Swamp.

The route they chose would just happen to intersect with that of Xu Yang, who was circling around the Black Swamp ahead, and the Poisonous Toad, who was quietly tracking them from behind, at a certain point...
Xu Yang was currently moving at a constant speed along the rugged mountainside at the edge of the Black Swamp, paying close attention to his surroundings with his mind and eyes, like the most sophisticated radar scanning his surroundings. At the same time, he was constantly adjusting his aura to blend into the mountains, rocks, and vegetation.

He vaguely sensed a chilling feeling of being watched, like a bone-deep infection, but when he examined it closely, it vanished without a trace, as if it were just an illusion brought about by the omnipresent danger of the wilderness.

"Is it just my imagination?" He frowned slightly, but his steps did not falter at all.

His intuition told him that any unease was something to be wary of.

Behind them, the enormous miasma shadow of the poisonous toad had closed a considerable distance.

Its turbid vertical pupils were fixed on the target in front of it, which was becoming clearer and clearer in its perception and was emitting an alluring "mixed fragrance". Thick venomous saliva dripped uncontrollably from the corner of its mouth, causing the black water below to sizzle and corrode.

"Almost there...almost there..." A cruel excitement spread through its ancient consciousness.

From the side and rear, Mo Chen and Shi Kui moved with incredible speed, like two silent bolts of lightning, already approaching the flank of Xu Yang's area.

A hint of doubt flashed across Shi Kui's rugged face. He sniffed sharply and transmitted his voice to Mo Chen, "Old Mo, something's not right! Ahead... there seems to be a mixed smell of strange beast blood, and it's very fresh... and there's also... the aura of an Eternal True God? Very subtle!"

Mo Chen's icy gaze instantly sharpened like a sword. He and Shi Kui complemented each other's abilities. He was stronger in overall combat, while Shi Kui was superior in wilderness survival skills.

The two figures, who had been rushing along, seemed to have been paused, instantly stopping in the shadow of a huge black rock, their auras completely concealed.

“More than one…” Mo Chen’s pupils automatically shrank to the size of pinpoints, but his eyesight increased more than a hundredfold, demonstrating a very powerful pupil technique. “It’s an Eternal True God, circling the edge of the Black Swamp… Behind him… something is following him! Very strong!”

Shi Kui also saw Xu Yang through the video forwarded by Mo Chen, and immediately sneered in a low voice: "This guy actually walks on the edge of the Black Swamp without any disguise? Isn't he courting death?"

The so-called "not concealing" does not mean not restraining divine power or hiding one's aura... but rather that they did not use the secret treasures they carried that could perfectly confuse their auras!
You must understand that Xu Yang is a perfect life form. If he really wanted to completely conceal his aura... unless it was visible to the naked eye, it would be impossible for him to be detected by divine power fluctuations.

Mo Chen did not answer, but his cold eyes flickered with doubt.

I wonder if that unfamiliar Eternal True God truly possesses the power to disregard Kurosawa, or if he's just a novice unaware of Kurosawa's terrifying power.
The mantis is in front, unaware of the oriole behind.

As two tigers passing by, they had already smelled the blood and quietly lay in wait nearby.

……

A cold wind blew gently, and dark light shimmered.

On the riverbank, in the mountains.

Xu Yang, who was walking calmly, suddenly stopped without warning!
The lingering chill suddenly transformed into a bone-chilling killing intent!
Boom! ! !

The entire cliff beneath Xu Yang's feet, along with the swampy area below covered in a thin layer of black water, exploded violently without warning.

Accompanied by countless viscous, foul-smelling, and eerily green miasma, it erupted like volcanic lava!

These miasmas seemed to possess life, instantly transforming into countless viscous, venomous pythons, their piercing, corrosive shrieks echoing as they frantically devoured and coiled around Xu Yang from all directions, above and below! A massive net of miasma, covering tens of thousands of miles in radius, appeared out of thin air, bearing down with terrifying power that could seal space and erode divine bodies!

Even more deadly, a terrifyingly toxic will, so thick it was almost tangible, pierced Xu Yang's soul like billions of poisonous needles, disregarding spatial distance!
The poisonous toad has made its move!
Their move was an inescapable trap.

It finally got this good opportunity.

Its long-awaited, devastating attacks—the Explosion of Ten Thousand Poisonous Mist and the Soul-Devouring Poison Needles—are its most powerful explosive methods. Caught completely off guard, even an Eternal Beast of the same level would be severely injured or killed, let alone a cultivator with a 'weak' body…

The terrifying power of the late-stage Eternal True God, combined with the advantageous terrain of Kurosawa, was fully revealed at this moment!
However, Xu Yang remained calm and composed in his response.

"Oh it's you!"

Faced with this deadly attack capable of instantly killing an eternal true god, Xu Yang's divine power instantly boiled over!
hum!hum!hum!hum!
Four heavy, ancient-sounding hums erupted from his body.

In an instant, four enormous, dark yellow, strange metal mountain peaks, engraved with countless ancient mountain runes, appeared out of thin air!

These four illusory mountain peaks are not physical entities, yet they exude a terrifying gravity that suppresses eternity and crushes time and space!
They spun rapidly around Xu Yang, forming an indestructible ring barrier!

These are the four defensive mountains obtained from the mechanical treasure [Dusk Mountain] of Kuyanju!

boom!
Click!
Countless venomous pythons crashed violently into the illusory image of the Xuanhuang Mountain, creating a deafening roar! The highly toxic miasma, capable of corroding an eternal divine body, collided and annihilated with the Xuanhuang gravitational field.

The venomous python crumbled inch by inch, turning into a stench of poison that splashed everywhere, yet it could not shake the mountain barrier in the slightest.

The invisible soul-devouring poison needle pierced Xu Yang's sea of ​​consciousness, but it was like a mud ox entering the sea, easily crushed by a more vast and condensed chaotic will.

"What?!" For the first time, horror appeared in the murky vertical pupils of the poisonous toad!

Its deadly sneak attack was blocked so easily?

What kind of treasure are those four strange, phantom-like mountain peaks surrounding the prey?
It's so incredibly durable!
However, before it could figure it out, Xu Yang's counterattack had already begun!
"Suppress!" he uttered in a low voice, forming a hand seal with one hand.

hum!hum!hum!hum!
Four more illusory, dim mountains materialized before him!

But these four have an even more fierce and sharp aura!
As soon as they appeared, they brought with them a terrifying gravity capable of crushing stars, ignoring spatial distance, and instantly appeared around the massive body of the Poisonous Toad!
Boom! ! !

The four illusory mountain peaks, like four ancient stars falling from the sky, crashed down on the toad!

The space itself was groaning and twisted by this terrifying gravity, rippling out like waves on water!

The viscous miasma "cloak" on the toad's body was instantly crushed, revealing the bumpy, grayish-black hard skin underneath!

"Croak—!!!" The poisonous toad let out a heart-wrenching scream of pain!
The massive body was slammed into the swamp by the sudden, terrifying gravity, its four thick legs sinking deep into the mud, the hard skin cracking under the strain.

It felt as if its divine body was about to be completely crushed by this force!

It desperately mobilized the power of the swamp, and countless streams of sewage turned into giant waves in an attempt to lift up the phantom of the mountain. The scarlet giant tongue in its mouth danced wildly like a poisonous dragon, carrying the power to tear the air and corrode everything, and fiercely lashed at one of the phantom mountain images!
Bang! ! !
The giant tongue struck the illusory mountain, producing a dull, resounding thud!
The dark yellow runes flickered violently, and the mountain phantom trembled slightly, as if a gap had been created! But countless barbs on the giant tongue were also broken off, and viscous poisonous blood splattered.

"This gloomy mountain is very strong, but the level of my understanding of the secret patterns is still too low, otherwise it wouldn't have been breached." Xu Yang muttered to himself as he hovered in the air.

All things considered—one year in the Cosmic Sea, half a year in the Reincarnation Channel, and one day on the Origin Continent (one era in the Cosmic Sea)—it has only been a little over ten thousand years since he broke through to become an Eternal True God.

If it weren't for a strong initial foundation, even with this super mechanical treasure worth over five million cosmic sands, they wouldn't have been able to suppress the Poison Saliva Toad.

"What a hard turtle shell!" Shi Kui, who was lying in ambush, stared in disbelief and couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice.

Mo Chen stared intently at the battlefield: "That mountain phantom is a mechanical treasure! At least at the top level of the Eternal Realm! A set of eight pieces... This person's strength far exceeds our expectations! That toad has kicked a hornet's nest!"

On the battlefield, Xu Yang remained expressionless.

Although the attack from the gloomy mountain was fierce, it was not enough to completely suppress a late-stage Eternal Beast that had the advantage of terrain and was thick-skinned!

He had a thought in his mind.

The four defensive mountain phantoms surrounding him suddenly shone brightly, and the Xuanhuang gravity field expanded violently, forcibly pushing away and annihilating the rampant poisonous miasma!
His true form vanished from the spot like a ghost.

The Law of Space—So close yet so far!
The next instant, his figure appeared directly above the flat, enormous head of the venomous toad, which was being suppressed by the gravitational field and whose movements were slowed down!
With his right hand's five fingers spread wide, an endless chill gathered!
It is not ice simulated by divine power, but an icy attack originating from the very source of the laws.

A gigantic, icy hand, formed from pure laws and crystal clear yet exuding an aura of freezing time and space, carrying Xu Yang's immense eternal divine power, slammed down fiercely onto the toad's huge, murky, dark yellow vertical pupil.

"die!"

boom! ! !
The icy giant hand struck the vertical pupil with perfect precision.

The extreme cold collided with the highly toxic mucus in the toad's eyeballs, producing a piercing sound as ice crystals shattered and venom corroded.

"Caw—!!!"

A piercing, distorted scream shattered the surrounding silence.

The toad's enormous eyeball was instantly frozen, cracked, and then shattered with a terrifying force! A viscous, dark yellow liquid mixed with ice crystal fragments flew everywhere!

Seriously injured!

The poisonous toad suffered its heaviest blow since the start of the war.

The intense pain and the shadow of death drove it completely mad, and its remaining single eye instantly turned blood red! Its massive body struggled violently with all its might, its four giant legs churning up towering waves of filthy water, bearing the immense pressure of the four attacking mountains, and then plunged its head into the black water below!

Pfft!
Like a mountain sinking into the sea.

The enormous, mountain-like body of the poisonous toad sank into the depths of the dark, viscous swamp at an incredible speed!
It wants to escape!
Taking advantage of the terrain of the Black Swamp, we slipped into the depths of its lair, which it had cultivated for countless years! There lay numerous poisonous miasma traps, guarded by countless venomous insects and strange beasts.

If it returns there, it can escape and rebuild its strength.

"Oh no! It's trying to escape back into the depths of the Black Swamp!" Mo Chen's pupils contracted, instantly discerning the toad's intentions.

A severely wounded late-stage Eternal Beast escaped back to its lair, making it virtually impossible to kill again! Moreover, the materials on its body, especially its giant tongue containing the essence of terrifying poison, are priceless.

"Attack! Stop it!" Even though he didn't know Xu Yang, Mo Chen, being a fellow cultivator, didn't hesitate to speak up.

"Haha! I couldn't wait any longer, you beast, where do you think you're going!" Shi Kui let out a thunderous laugh, his suppressed fighting spirit exploding outwards!

His massive figure shot out of the shadows like a cannonball, his dark red heavy armor bursting with a scorching light like magma!

"Burning Heaven - Sky-Piercing Strike!"

Shi Kui gripped the massive, crimson axe, which was as big as a door panel, with both hands, and began to spin around like a burning flaming top.

The giant axe, carrying terrifyingly high temperatures capable of incinerating everything and immense power capable of splitting mountains, tore through the air and fiercely cleaved at the base of the thick, bony tail of the poisonous toad that had just sunk into the black water!

At the same time, Mo Chen's figure moved even faster!

He appeared above the sinking point of the toad as if by teleportation, silently extending the azure ice crystal longsword in his hand.

"Ice Prison - Lock!"

Where the sword tip pointed, an extreme chill, freezing the depths of the soul, erupted!

Centered on the point where the toad sank, the pitch-black water surface within a radius of tens of thousands of miles instantly froze into a massive, solid block of ice that shimmered with a chilling blue light! The ice layer was tens of thousands of feet thick, and the cold air was bone-chilling, even freezing the surging, highly toxic mud below! Inside the ice layer, countless sharp ice ridges grew inward like cages, fiercely piercing the toad's hard skin as it was diving.

A pincer attack of ice and fire!

Shi Kui's ferocious and scorching axe blade slammed into the base of the toad's tail. Even with the hard skin and mud blocking it, the scorching axe blade and terrifying power tore open a huge wound, and scalding beast blood gushed out, which was instantly frozen into blood crystals by Mo Chen's cold aura.

The hard ice and the icicles growing inside, while unable to completely imprison the toad in the late Eternal Realm, greatly hindered its descent speed, preventing it from instantly disappearing into the unfathomable core of the swamp!

"Quaa——!!!"

The poisonous toad let out a desperate and furious roar! Its massive body twisted and struggled wildly in the frozen swamp, trying to break through the ice and escape! Its single eye was filled with deep-seated resentment as it stared intently at Mo Chen and Shi Kui who appeared above.

It hates!

I hate those two bastards who suddenly showed up and caused trouble!
"Thank you!"

"Beast, die!"

How could Xu Yang miss such a golden opportunity? The four illusory mountain peaks once again shone brightly, carrying terrifying gravity, like four real ancient divine mountains, and slammed down hard on the toad's head struggling in the ice!

boom! boom! boom! boom!
The four superimposed, devastating blows landed with perfect precision on the toad's enormous head, which already had one eye shattered.

Snap! Puff!
Amidst the sickening cracking of bones and the splattering of flesh, the venomous toad's incredibly hard head was smashed open and shattered. Red, yellow, and green liquids mingled with the broken shell and brain matter, splattering everywhere! (End of Chapter)