Late at night.
In the ancient battlefield, beasts roared and birds shrieked. All sorts of sounds filled the world one after another.
A towering mountain peak was lush with ancient trees and many powerful ferocious beasts lived on it.
Strangely, the entire mountain peak was completely silent!
In the dense forest of leaves, pairs of green eyes of beasts appeared. They were looking at the peak of the mountain with fear in their eyes.
Two figures stood on the mountain peak.
One of them was tall. Although he looked like a human, he was not wearing any clothes and his body and cheeks were covered in long hair. His arms were extremely long and drooped down naturally, reaching his knees!
It was clearly a demon beast!
The long-haired demon beast had a dark expression as it stood on the mountain peak, looking at a majestic ancient city in the distance. A hint of blood flashed in the depths of its eyes.
The other figure looked extremely muscular with bulging flesh that was filled with black and yellow patterns, as though it was molten steel. It shook its tiger head with a ferocious glint in its eyes.
The tiger-headed demon beast turned around and whispered to the long-haired demon beast beside it, "Boss, this ancient city has not fallen since ancient times and is guarded by many cultivators. I'm afraid it'll be difficult to take it down."
"You're afraid?"
The long-haired demon beast asked with a blood glint in its eyes.
"N-No!"
The tiger-headed demon shuddered and shook its head hurriedly.
After a while, the tiger-headed demon asked again, "Boss, when are we attacking?"
"We'll have to wait. He's not here yet," The long-haired demon beast shook its head.
"What if he doesn't come?"
"He'll definitely come!"
With that said, the long-haired demon beast turned around and opened its mouth, letting out a deafening roar towards the forest at the foot of the mountain!
The ancient trees swayed and the demons dispersed gradually.
…
Morning.
Su Zimo rode the Golden Lion and arrived at the entrance of the cave ahead.
The Golden Lion was listless and its eyes were listless, even more listless than yesterday.
It was scared half to death by Su Zimo the previous night and was on tenterhooks the entire night, not daring to sleep. Now that it woke up early in the morning, it was no longer energetic.
Of course, the greatest blow to it was still mental.
In its opinion, unless this scholar was willing to be merciful and let it go.
Otherwise, it could only be this scholar's mount for the rest of its life.
The eyes of everyone from the Southern Duel Sect were all red as they felt drowsy.
Although this cave was extremely well hidden, everyone did not dare to sleep when they heard all kinds of noises coming from outside. They stayed awake all night with their eyes wide open.
Only Su Zimo was full of energy and seemed to have rested well.
He cultivated the Mystic Classic of the Twelve Demon Kings of the Great Wilderness. Even when he was sleeping, he was cultivating while breathing and was not affected at all.
Zhu Yue glanced at Su Zimo without saying a word.
Tang Shiyun smiled at Su Zimo and nodded in acknowledgment.
Everyone reorganized themselves and headed towards the nearest ancient city under Tang Shiyun's lead.
Along the way, Tang Shiyun seemed to be extremely curious about Su Zimo as she walked beside him and asked, "Fellow Daoist Su, which major region are you from?"
"The North Region."
"Oh, our Southern Duel Sect is from the South Region. The North and South regions are billions of miles apart. If not for this ancient battlefield, we might not have met in this lifetime. This is also a rare fate."
Zhu Yue did not say anything and followed behind the two of them with a dark expression.
Tang Shiyun said, "Ah, right, Glass Palace is from the North Region as well. Fellow Daoist Su, you should have heard of it, right?"
"Yes, I've had some dealings with them," Su Zimo replied.
When he heard that, Zhu Yue could not help but stifle a laugh. "Fellow Daoist Su, don't brag and bite your tongue! Glass Palace is one of the immortal sects. Since you don't belong to any sect, how are you qualified to come into contact with them?! "
"That might not be the case,"
Tang Shiyun was afraid that the two of them would get into a conflict again and added hurriedly.
Su Zimo smiled without saying anything.
Along the way, they saw many human skeletons in the wilderness. Some of them still had flesh and blood that hadn't completely dried up. It was a ghastly sight.
Almost all of those humans died last night.
If they could not find a place to hide or a city before nightfall, most of the Cultivators would not be able to escape from death!
While cultivators slaughtered demons, demons would eat humans as well.
That was the cruelty of the ancient battlefield where ferocious beasts roamed!
In the evening, a row of ancient, pitch-black city walls finally appeared on the horizon ahead.
A majestic and ancient city gradually entered their vision.
When they got closer, they could see a circle of cultivators standing on the city walls with cold expressions and sharp gazes. All of them wore the same Dao robes and were clearly from the same sect.
On the city wall right above the city gate, there was a triangular flag with two big words written on it — Liuli!
More than ten Glass Palace cultivators stood on both sides of the city gates.
By the time Su Zimo and the others arrived, the city gates were about to close. The Glass Palace cultivators urged loudly with impatient expressions.
A city gate guard glanced at everyone from Southern Duel Sect and extended his palm, saying expressionlessly, "20 Soul Nourishing Blood Ginsengs per person!"
"What?!"
"Wasn't it supposed to be 10?"
"Why did the price double?"
Everyone from Southern Duel Sect could not help but clamor.
Tang Shiyun frowned slightly as well and whispered to Su Zimo, "Normally speaking, everyone has to collect 10 Soul Nourishing Blood Ginsengs to enter the city. For some reason, the price doubled all of a sudden."
"What's the fuss about?"
A city gate guard said indifferently with a cold expression, "The city gates are about to close. If you don't have any, you guys can wait outside!"
When they heard that, everyone from Southern Duel Sect felt their hearts sink.
If they were to leave everyone outside at this moment, it would be equivalent to sending them to their deaths!
Zhu Yue tidied his robes and walked forward, saying in a deep voice, "I'm Zhu Yue of Southern Duel Sect. I wonder if you guys can make an exception?"
"Southern Duel Sect, one of the 108 Upper Sects?"
"Zhu Yue, someone on the previous Jin Dan Phenomenon Ranking?"
The two city gate guards asked with a frown.
"That's right!"
Zhu Yue replied proudly.
The two Glass Palace cultivators exchanged glances and nodded. "In that case, you'll have to hand over 10 Soul Nourishing Blood Ginsengs. The rest of you will have to hand over 20 more!"
Cultivators who could make it onto the Jin Dan Phenomenon Ranking were true paragons and they had to give them some face.
When Zhu Yue saw that the two of them were resolute, he could not force them and nodded.
Everyone from Southern Duel Sect was helpless and could only hand over the Soul Nourishing Blood Ginsengs that they had risked multiple dangers to retrieve over the past few days.
Su Zimo did not have any Soul Nourishing Blood Ginsengs.
Tang Shiyun took the initiative to hand over 20 for him.
Su Zimo thanked her and said in a seemingly casual manner, "I'll return it to you tenfold in the future."
Everyone entered the city one after another.
Zhu Yue did not say much along the way.
Now that he finally regained some dignity, he looked at Su Zimo provocatively and mocked, "Su Zimo, didn't you say that you've fought with Glass Palace before? Why didn't you greet them earlier on? "
"Fufu, why aren't you arrogant in front of Glass Palace?"
Su Zimo did not say anything.
He could not be bothered with Zhu Yue at all.
Because from the moment he entered the city, he felt a strand of faintly discernible killing intent!
He didn't know how many pairs of eyes hidden in the dark glanced at him.
One after another, spirit cranes disappeared into the darkness.
"The fish has taken the bait!"
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