novelhk Chapter 573 Trapping a Great Luo Golden Immortal
Chapter 573 Trapping a Great Luo Golden Immortal
Chu Yang took a deep breath and spread his divine sense like a net, searching for the survivors' auras in the surging flood.
Soon, Chu Yang sensed a small group of humans gathered on a mountaintop not far away.
They stood back to back, at risk of being swallowed by the flood at any moment.
Chu Yang's heart tightened, and he immediately transformed into a golden light, flying towards the mountaintop.
On the mountaintop, a dozen or so ragged humans huddled together, shivering.
Most of them were the elderly, women, and children, their eyes filled with fear and despair.
An elderly man, trembling, raised his hands as if in prayer.
When they saw Chu Yang descend from the sky, everyone was stunned at first, and then a glimmer of hope ignited in their eyes.
"Immortals! Immortals have come to save us!" a young woman exclaimed excitedly.
Chu Yang didn't say much. With a flick of his sleeve, he took the group of humans into his sleeve.
This "Hidden Universe in a Sleeve" is essentially a small array space. Although rudimentary, it is sufficient to temporarily protect these humans.
After settling these people in, Chu Yang did not linger and continued searching in the floodwaters.
Next, Chu Yang rescued several more groups of humans, including a newborn baby.
Looking at these fragile lives, Chu Yang felt a mix of emotions.
He was not a saint, nor did he have the grand ambition to save all living beings; he simply did not want to see these human beings disappear silently in the flood.
Just as Chu Yang was about to continue his search, he suddenly sensed a powerful demonic aura. This aura was ferocious and domineering, carrying a nauseating, bloody stench. Chu Yang's heart tightened, and he immediately followed the demonic aura.
In a flood-stricken valley, Chu Yang saw a gigantic nine-headed serpent. This serpent was a hundred feet long, its body covered in jet-black scales, its nine heads ferocious and terrifying, spewing black poisonous mist from its mouth. It was indiscriminately devouring all living things around it; birds and beasts, as well as plant spirits, could not escape its clutches.
Seeing this, Chu Yang was filled with rage. This beast dared to harm living beings like this!
"You beast! You're courting death!" Chu Yang roared, summoning his magic weapon—the Qiankun Ruler.
The Qiankun Ruler flew out of his hand, growing larger in the wind until it transformed into a hundred-zhang-long giant ruler. With an aura of creating heaven and earth, it slashed fiercely down at the nine-headed serpent.
"boom!"
A deafening roar shook the valley, and floodwaters surged forth.
The hydra was unable to dodge in time and was struck on one of its heads by the Qiankun Ruler.
The snake's head instantly became a bloody mess, letting out a shrill scream.
Chu Yang thought this attack would be enough to severely injure the Hydra, but he did not expect the beast to be so tenacious.
Judging from his aura, he seemed to be in the realm of a true immortal.
Even a Golden Immortal wouldn't dare to take Chu Yang's attack head-on.
"He actually survived one of my attacks! Interesting." A cold smile appeared on Chu Yang's lips.
He activated the Qiankun Ruler once more, and beams of golden light shot towards the nine-headed serpent like sharp swords.
The other eight heads of the Hydra simultaneously spewed out poisonous mist in an attempt to block the attack of the Qiankun Ruler.
The poisonous fog and golden light collided, producing a sizzling sound.
Chu Yang held his breath and continued to activate the Qiankun Ruler.
The Qiankun Ruler shone brightly, dispelling the poisonous mist, and continued its attack on the Hydra.
The Hydra was overwhelmed and struggling to cope.
Its scales were split open by the Qiankun Ruler, and fresh blood flowed out continuously.
But it still resisted stubbornly and refused to give in.
"You beast, let's see how long you can last!" Chu Yang sneered.
He poured all his magical power into the Qiankun Ruler, which shone even brighter, like a golden lightning bolt, and struck towards the center of the hydra.
"roar!"
Hydra let out a desperate roar.
Its body was split in two by the Qiankun Ruler, and its blood stained the floodwaters red.
Chu Yang put away the Qiankun Ruler and watched the nine-headed serpent's corpse slowly fall. With a casual wave of his hand, he put the corpse away, but Chu Yang felt no joy at all.
Chu Yang waved his sleeve again, sweeping a small group of trembling humans into the space within his sleeve.
This was the seventeenth group of people he had saved in the past half hour. The space in his sleeve was not large to begin with, and now it was even more crowded with people.
"Immortal... I thank you for saving my life..." A gaunt old man knelt down and kowtowed, and the people around him followed suit.
"Get up, all of you!" Chu Yang used his magic to help them up, and they quieted down, looking at him with fear.
As more and more people were rescued, Chu Yang's pocket space was almost overflowing.
"We have to think of something; if things continue like this, we won't be able to save many people!"
Chu Yang suddenly raised his head, his gaze sharp.
"The Law of Water! The Law of Time!" Memories of Chu Yang, who devoured the world, flashed through his mind, and the power of the two laws surged within his body.
Although the Primordial Era and the Swallowed Star are two different worlds, their laws have something in common.
Perhaps... we can give it a try!
Chu Yang took a deep breath and slowly raised his hands, palms facing upwards.
The surging magical power burst forth like a tide, weaving into a giant tai chi symbol in the air.
The Tai Chi symbol slowly rotated, the Yin and Yang energies circulated, and a mysterious power spread out.
The originally raging floodwaters strangely slowed down within a hundred miles of Chu Yang, like a scene from a slow-motion movie. The water became viscous, flowing slowly like honey, and the humans who had been swept away by the flood were now able to stand up in the water with difficulty.
"This is..." An old man stared wide-eyed at what he saw in disbelief.
The raging floodwaters seemed to have stopped flowing, as if they had stopped flowing in his eyes.
A glint of light flashed in Chu Yang's eyes. Success!
He controlled the laws of time, slowing the floodwaters to their limit, and at the same time mobilized the laws of water, transforming the surrounding floodwaters into towering walls of water that trapped the human race within, forming temporary shelters.
After doing all this, Chu Yang was pale and his forehead was covered in fine beads of sweat.
The power of these two laws is extremely taxing, and even with his True Immortal power, he is somewhat overwhelmed.
Chu Yang sat cross-legged in the surging floodwaters, like a drifting leaf, about to be swallowed up at any moment.
He had previously forced the activation of the laws of time and water, which had almost exhausted his magical power.
"Damn it, these ancestral witches have nothing better to do than take their anger out on Mount Buzhou when their own people are fighting!"
Chu Yang was well aware of the reason for the collapse of Buzhou Mountain. It was said that Gonggong and Zhurong were born at odds and would fight for no reason. Now that the Wu tribe was developing rapidly in the prehistoric land, some small things could easily ignite their anger.
He cursed inwardly while circulating his cultivation technique to absorb the sparse spiritual energy around him.
The spiritual energy in this celestial flood is chaotic and difficult to absorb, but it's still better than waiting to die.
After an unknown amount of time, Chu Yang felt that his internal magical power had recovered somewhat. Just as he was about to continue cultivating, he suddenly felt a violent tremor in the earth, as if some enormous creature was approaching.
"What's going on?" Chu Yang was startled and quickly opened his eyes.
In the distance, where the water meets the sky, a huge black shadow slowly emerges, like a demon crawling out of the depths of hell, carrying a suffocatingly terrifying pressure.
The dark shadow blotted out the sky, obscuring its exact appearance, but the demonic aura it emitted was several times stronger than that of the previous hydra.
It was seen continuously collecting the souls and spirits of humans after their deaths, while holding a sword-shaped treasure in its hand.
The souls of humans were continuously drawn away by this sword-shaped treasure, becoming its nourishment!
"This...this is...the Witch-Slaying Sword?" Chu Yang's pupils shrank suddenly, and a chill ran from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
"hiss……"
A deafening roar rang out, and the dark figure finally revealed its true form.
It was a gigantic black serpent, several times larger than the previous hydra, its body covered in jet-black scales that reflected a cold luster. It had nine ferocious and terrifying heads, each flicking a scarlet tongue and its eyes gleaming with bloodlust.
"A demonic beast at the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm!" Chu Yang's heart sank, and his expression grew even more grim. Although he had reached an extremely high realm in the Devouring Star World, he was now merely a True Immortal in this prehistoric world, and had almost no chance of winning against a demonic beast at the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
After all, there are two major realms in between: Golden Immortal and Taiyi Golden Immortal.
"roar!"
The giant black python roared, and its nine heads simultaneously spewed out black poisonous mist, sweeping towards Chu Yang.
The poisonous fog was incredibly foul-smelling, and it polluted even the floodwaters of the Milky Way wherever it passed.
Chu Yang dared not be careless and quickly summoned the Qiankun Ruler, which transformed into a golden light to protect himself.
"Clang clang clang!"
The poisonous mist struck the Qiankun Ruler, producing a piercing metallic clang.
Although the Qiankun Ruler is an innate spiritual treasure, it is somewhat powerless against the attack of a Great Luo Golden Immortal. Its light flickers constantly, as if it may shatter at any moment.
At this point, it was too late to set up the Lesser Universe Array. As Chu Yang's only means of resisting a Grand Luo Golden Immortal, he could not use it due to time constraints.
However, at that moment, three powerful auras soared into the sky from among the humans in the distance.
"Nine-Headed Demon, stop right there!"
Three figures broke through the air, their imposing aura like three towering mountains, blocking Chu Yang's path.
The leader, with red hair and beard like a burning flame, was none other than Suiren, an elder of the human race.
Beside him were two men, one dressed in animal skins, rugged and bold, who was Youchao Shi.
The other one, dressed in hemp clothing and with a gaunt face, was Ziyi.
"You fiend! Cease your arrogance!"
With a roar, Suirenshi swung his flint and steel, and flames shot into the sky, turning into a sea of fire that burned away the poisonous mist spewed out by Jiuying.
"What a clever trick to start a fire by rubbing sticks together! Too bad, it won't work on me!"
The nine serpent heads of the Nine-Headed Serpent roared simultaneously, their voices deafening. Its enormous body writhed in the floodwaters, creating towering waves in an attempt to extinguish the flames.
"Suppress!"
Upon seeing this, Youchao Shi formed a hand seal, and the surrounding boulders seemed to be drawn by some force, quickly condensing into mountains that crashed down on Jiuying.
"A mere trick! You humans are only fit to be our food and nourishment!"
Nine-Headed Serpent snorted disdainfully, and its nine snake heads simultaneously spewed out black venom, corroding the falling boulders and turning them into dust.
The three human elders were furious.
Over the years, the demon race has slaughtered quite a few human tribes. However, there are too few strong people among the human race. Although the three elders also have the strength of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, they are ultimately much weaker!
"You beast! Taste my divine whip!"
Seeing this, Ziyi Shi turned his divine whip into afterimages and lashed it fiercely at Jiuying.
Each lash contained powerful law force, leaving wounds on the Nine-Headed Serpent's hard scales.
"Hiss hiss hiss..." Jiuying roared in pain, its nine snake heads tearing at Ziyi Shi with madness.
Three human Grand Luo Golden Immortals were locked in a fierce battle with Jiuying, causing the sky to darken and the sun and moon to lose their light.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chu Yang quickly swallowed pills to restore his magical power, cursing inwardly, "That damned Jiuying, a demon god at the late stage of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, actually dares to run wild on human territory! Does it really think our human race is helpless? Once my magical power is restored, I'll teach it a lesson!"
As time passed, Chu Yang's magical power gradually recovered. A glint flashed in his eyes, and his hands quickly formed hand seals. Mysterious runes flew from his fingertips, weaving into a huge array in the air.
"Minor Universe Formation, activate!" Chu Yang shouted, and the formation was activated instantly, sealing off the surrounding space.
"Three elders, lure this beast into the formation!" Chu Yang shouted to the three who were engaged in fierce battle with the Nine-Headed Serpent.
Upon hearing this, Suirenshi, Youchaoshi, and Ziyishi immediately understood. The three of them joined forces and forced Jiuying towards the direction of the Lesser Universe Formation.
The Nine-Headed Serpent sensed something was wrong and tried to escape, only to find itself trapped in the formation. It roared angrily, its nine snake heads frantically attacking the formation, but it could not break through.
"Hahaha, you beast, you've fallen for my trap!" Chu Yang looked at Jiuying trapped in the formation and couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Human brat, you dare to trick me!" Jiuying roared, his eyes filled with killing intent.
Chu Yang sneered: "So what if I plotted against you? You slaughtered humans; you deserve to die!"
Having said that, Chu Yang changed his hand seals, and the Small Universe Formation was instantly filled with swirling winds and clouds. Countless sharp sword energies appeared out of thin air and rushed towards Jiuying to kill her...
The very first move was the killing formation of the Lesser Universe Array, which was enough to show how much killing intent Chu Yang had for this demonic beast!
Nine-Headed Serpent was struggling to stay afloat, its scales constantly being shaved off by the sword energy, and its blood stained the floodwaters red.
It let out a piercing scream, its nine snake heads twisting wildly, trying to break free from the sword energy's restraints, but to no avail.
Chu Yang's formation was so powerful that even Duo Bao found it difficult to withstand. Of course, that was because Duo Bao hadn't used any magic weapons. For Chu Yang, a true immortal, to set up a formation that could trap a Grand Luo Golden Immortal was already quite remarkable.
Sword energy surged forth, pouring down on Jiuying like a violent storm.
At first, Jiuying fought back fiercely, its nine snake heads spewing venom and flames in an attempt to devour the sword energy.
However, the sword energy seemed endless, wave after wave, giving him no chance to catch his breath.
Gradually, Jiuying's movements slowed down.
But then, to his surprise, he discovered that although these sword energies were sharp, they only injured his flesh and could not truly threaten his life.
This grand formation seems to be all show and no substance!
"Heh heh, human brat, you think you can trap me with this little skill?"
Jiuying sneered inwardly, ceasing her futile struggles, and began to observe the flaws in the formation.
Each of his nine snake heads was observing in a different direction, his snake eyes gleaming with cunning.
Chu Yang stood outside the formation, his brows furrowed. He had naturally noticed Jiu Ying's unusual behavior and knew something was wrong.
The biggest weakness of this Small Universe Formation is its controller. After all, his magical power is that of a true immortal. It might be enough to deal with ordinary Grand Luo Golden Immortals, but it probably won't last long against a ferocious beast like the Nine-Headed Serpent.
"Damn it, this old bastard is tough as nails, we really can't do anything to him for the time being!"
Chu Yang cursed inwardly, beads of sweat forming on his forehead.
He kept changing his incantations, trying to increase the power of the formation, but with little effect. (End of Chapter)