Chapter 214 - 189 Battle Against The Kings_1

The crimson Giant Ape, with a fist roughly the size of a water jar, swung it down. Even before the fist arrived, the hurricane created by the compressed fist was already bearing down on Lu Yan.

Both the Fiery Gold Body and the Vajra Indestructible Skill were activated at the same time, enhancing each other. Lu Yan also threw out a punch in response.

Boom!

The large and the small fists collided, creating shock waves. Leaves and soil were swept in all directions from the center. The ground was scraped off a thick layer by the internal energy.

After a deadlock for a moment, Lu Yan slightly swayed, while the six-meter-tall Giant Ape was sent flying backward like a ball, smashing into the ground, sliding back another dozen meters.

Above his head, a storm was brewing.

It was the Giant Blood-colored Eagle seizing an opportunity, diving in for a killer swoop.

Lu Yan waved his knife in his right hand and cut it down, with a clang, the Giant Blood-colored Eagle was cut and sent flying. He then continued his sprint outside of Kunwu Mountain.

But he did not get far before he was caught up by the Giant Blood-colored Eagle again. It launched ten feathers to obstruct him, followed by another aerial assault.

Caught up by the Giant Blood-colored Eagle, the Giant Ape was charging at him again.

"What a nuisance."

The Monster King’s strength was clearly enhanced within the Kunwu Mountain. He found it difficult to kill one within a short time.

He could only defend while retreating.

In a short time, he had sprinted ten miles away.

Roar!

A tiger’s roar echoed through the forest, and a White Tiger was rushing towards Lu Yan.

Lu Yan leaped over sixty meters high, avoiding the White Tiger’s attack, swinging his sword towards the Giant Eagle.

First, he needed to incapacitate the Giant Eagle in order to escape.

The Giant Eagle flapped its wings towards Lu Yan.

With a hiss, the Red Blood Blade slashed at the Giant Eagle’s wing, drawing bloody gashes, and feathers scattered in the air.

The force of the blow sent Lu Yan hurtling down at a rapid speed.

Below, the Giant Ape leaped and punched upward towards Lu Yan.

Lu Yan employed his Cloud Walk skill, stepping on the Giant Ape’s fist a couple of times. The Unity of Man and Martial Arts technique in his Cloud Walk skill allowed Lu Yan to skillfully dissipate the Giant Ape’s fist strength. He then, once again, flew into the air using the Ape’s fist as leverage, charging towards the Giant Blood-colored Eagle at an incredibly fast speed.

The Giant Blood-colored Eagle dared not flap its wings to attack and was instead persistently clawing down with its talons, trying to grab Lu Yan.

Lu Yan grabbed one of the Giant Eagle’s toes with his left hand, pulled it downwards, used it as a boost to rush upwards, and delivered a cut to the root of the Giant Eagle’s wing.

The feathers covering it were sliced off, a deep wound appeared at the root of the Giant Blood-colored Eagle’s wing, and blood flowed profusely.

The Giant Blood-colored Eagle screeched in pain, explosive sprouts of its Qi blood charged toward Lu Yan like a storm.

Meanwhile, dozens of feathers were launched from the Giant Eagle’s body, swarming towards Lu Yan.

The distance was too close, there was no way to avoid them, Lu Yan could only swing his sword to protect himself.

Clang, clang, clang...

After blocking more than dozen feathers, his body began to rapidly descend.

The Blood-colored Giant Eagle flapped several times but, due to the pain from the wound, only flew a few meters before falling back to the ground, screeching in resentment.

The White Tiger and Giant Ape, leaped simultaneously from below, pouncing at Lu Yan.

Lu Yan twisted his waist, rotated his body, and swung two cuts instantaneously.

With two clangs, Lu Yan fended off the attacks from the two Monster Kings, used the momentum to leap backward and landed safely.

Boom!

Just as Lu Yan landed, a Giant Bear, standing a total of eight meters tall, rushed out. The giant paw, like a small mountain, was coming down on Lu Yan.

Even before it hit, the highly compressed energy of the palm strike left Lu Yan breathless.

And it was too fast. The timing was just right, Lu Yan had no time to dodge, he could only swing his sword to the front to defend.

Clang!

The bear’s paw hit the blade of the sword. An overwhelming surge of energy hit him, and Lu Yan was sent flying backward like a cannonball, flying more than thirty meters away and knocking down several large trees.

"Such horrifying power! This is the second-rank Monster King."

Lu Yan was inwardly horrified.

Within Kunwu Mountain, the second-rank Monster King’s strength was truly astonishing.

Lu Yan felt a sour pain throughout his body. Fortunately, his defense was strong enough. He only suffered some superficial injuries and was not seriously harmed by the previous attack.

He got up and took off running.

Roar!

The Giant Bear roared and chased after Lu Yan with its short legs. However, it was not as fast as the Giant Ape and White Tiger.

The Giant Ape and White Tiger also pursued Lu Yan, flanking him from the side.

The Giant Blood-colored Eagle fluttered a few times, but its wings ached. It could not fly more than a few meters beyond its starting point, and it landed on the ground again, screeching in frustration.

At full speed, the Giant Ape and White Tiger could not catch up with Lu Yan.

The distance between the two parties became progressively larger.

As for the second-rank Giant Bear, all it could do was chase after them, eating their dust.

Soon, only a little over twenty miles remained until the edge of Kunwu Mountain.

"Almost there, almost there."

At this time, his Knife Technique had also reached the Transcendent level of 90%. The Unity of Man and Martial Arts was not far off.

Just then, Lu Yan’s eyes hardened.

On his right, an Alien Beast that looked like a black leopard was coming at him with frightening speed. Moreover, it had a pair of fleshy wings on either side of its body.

The wings were not large, they couldn’t help the black leopard to fly, but they could aid it to glide.

Every time the black leopard leaped, it would open its wings and glide for more than five hundred meters at a time.

It was incredibly fast. Just in terms of speed, it was significantly faster than Lu Yan.

After several glides, the black leopard was getting close to Lu Yan.

Lu Yan put away his Red Blood Blade and pulled out his Bullhorn Bow, shooting continuously at the black leopard.

Arrows whizzed through the air, on their path leaving behind black streaks.

The black leopard flung its claw, batting away all of Lu Yan’s arrows.

Lu Yan’s heart sank.

It had blocked his arrows so frivolously.

This black leopard was not at the First-level Master, but the Second-rank Master.

It is said that among the ten Beast Kings of Kunwu Mountain, one is at the Third-level Master, three are at the Second-rank Master, and six are at the First-level Master.

Now, half of them have arrived.

More than half, actually.

From the left side, the grass and trees were shaking, and Lu Yan saw a giant snake, dozens of meters long, slithering quickly towards him.

"It’s like a hornet’s nest, poke one, and a whole bunch come out."

Lu Yan was speechless. He could only shoot the black leopard with his bow and arrow while fleeing.

However, the black leopard was too fast and extremely agile. Dodging arrows, or knocking them mid-flight, the distance between it and Lu Yan rapidly closed.

When Lu Yan was fifteen miles away from Kunwu Mountain, the black leopard finally caught up with him, lunging at him with its sharp claws outstretched.

The opponents were too close for arrows to be effective. Lu Yan had already stored his bow and held a blade in his hand, swinging it with all his strength.

With a thud, Lu Yan fell back, his arm numb.

Despite giving his all, and releasing all eleven Bone strengths, adding to that the bonus of his Martial Body and Martial Arts, he was still no match.

"The power of a Second-rank Master is three times that of a First-level Master."

Lu Yan assessed in his mind.

This gap, no wonder it’s bigger than the difference at each Martial Marquis level.

Usually, this would be an insurmountable barrier for most people.

A First-level Master, in terms of strength alone, is equivalent to cultivating six to seven Martial Marquis Level Five Innate Martial Bodies.

So, a Second-rank Master would equate to cultivating eighteen to twenty-one Martial Marquis Level Five Innate Martial Bodies.

Lu Yan had only cultivated eleven, and even with the addition of his physical body and martial arts knowledge, he couldn’t make up for the gap.

Roar!

The black leopard lunged again.

Lu Yan didn’t engage head-on. He shifted to the side and landed on a large tree. With a swift leap, he avoided the black leopard’s attack.

But the black leopard was quick to respond. After failing to land a hit, its two-meter long black tail whipped towards Lu Yan like a steel whip.

Lu Yan swung his blade to block, thudding backward for more than ten meters, his arm numb.

Behind him, the white tiger arrived before the Giant Ape. Its large claws reaching for Lu Yan, who in response, leaped up, stepped on the white tiger’s front claw, and somersaulted onto the tiger’s back.

Roar!

The white tiger roared in rage, trying to shake off Lu Yan.

But Lu Yan, brandishing his long blade, stabbed fiercely into the back of the white tiger.

The white tiger howled in pain, rolling on the ground trying to pin Lu Yan underneath. Lu Yan vaulted off while the black leopard and the red Giant Ape attacked simultaneously, attacking Lu Yan from both sides.

While Lu Yan managed to take the full brunt of the black leopard’s attack, he was sent flying tens of meters backwards by the punch of the Giant Ape.

Lu Yan’s Qi-blood churned inside him, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. He turned and ran.

Confronted with so many Beast Kings and the imminent arrival of the Giant Bear from behind, if he were to be surrounded, he would undoubtedly die.

Whoosh!

Ahead, a massive snake tail was whipped towards him.

Lu Yan swiftly sidestepped it, avoiding a giant boulder that was hit by the snake’s tail and sent flying hundreds of meters away.

Using a large tree for leverage, Lu Yan dashed towards the exit of Kunwu Mountain.

The black leopard sprung, catching up with Lu Yan. Its claws menacingly reached downward, an attack that would certainly rip Lu Yan to pieces if landed.

Lu Yan turned around, brandishing his blade to block the attack and violently retreated.

Bang!

The Giant Ape leaped several tens of meters, attacking from above, furiously pouncing down.

At the same time, from behind, the snake’s tail swept across like a giant rod.

On the other side, the white tiger and the Giant Bear were charging over.

Whoosh!

The Giant Bear swung a full-powered paw towards Lu Yan.

Suddenly, Lu Yan was trapped in a desperate situation.

At this critical moment, a light flickered around Lu Yan, and the Avatar of the Fiery Gold Body charged out, launching a punch at the Giant Bear.

Bang!

The Avatar of the Fiery Gold Body was sent flying hundreds of meters by a single swipe of the Giant Bear.

Yet, the Giant Bear’s attack was blocked in the process.

Lu Yan leaped backward, avoiding the stomp from the Giant Ape, his blade met with the snake’s tail, successfully parrying its attack.

Then, with a flick of his feet, Lu Yan leaped over the giant snake and dashed forward.

Screech!

From the sky, came a shrill scream. The blood-red Giant Eagle was swooping in pursuit.

The blood-red Giant Eagle, fueled by immense hatred for Lu Yan, somehow steadied its wounded wing by manipulating the Energy of Earth Blood, and without waiting, swooped in to strike.

From high above, the eagle dived, claws extended, aiming for Lu Yan.

Whoosh!

From behind, the black leopard lunged again. Upon landing, it sprang back towards Lu Yan.

Caught amidst relentless attacks, Lu Yan, despite his agility, was overwhelmed.

His body flickered, and another Avatar appeared.

This was the Chasing Star Arrow Avatar.

Apart from the Knife Technique Avatar, all four top-level Avatars that could move, had moved.

As soon as the Chasing Star Arrow Avatar appeared, it moved directly towards the black leopard, Giant Ape, and the giant snake, its body radiating a dazzling light.

Boom!

The next moment, the Chasing Star Arrow Avatar exploded, creating a powerful shockwave that flung all four Alien Beast Kings clear off the ground.

The black leopard fared slightly better, its body only slightly scratched.

The Giant Ape, giant snake, and the blood-red Giant Eagle were severely injured, their bodies riddled with wounds. Particularly the blood-red Giant Eagle, its wound at the base of the wing was torn open again, with blood gushing out.

Taking advantage of the situation, Lu Yan made a mad dash for escape.