"Truly formidable?" Jiuyao Shenzhen's face was as cold as frost. "It seems I underestimated you all."
Yue Che let out a cold snort. "To dare come alone, perhaps you are far too presumptuous."
Jiuyao Shenzhen sneered, offering no comment, yet the nine shadow dragons circling his body began to emit bursts of increasingly dazzling and strange light.
And that scorching, violent killing intent grew more potent, more fierce!
Everyone's heart trembled! Clearly, Jiuyao Shenzhen was holding nothing back now; at the very least, the energy intensity of those nine dragon shadows had begun to grow stronger.
If these dragon shadows were unleashed again, it was unimaginable; perhaps truly no one would leave this place alive.
"Don't be afraid, everyone!" Yue Che said in a deep voice. "He's merely putting on a bluff."
"A bluff! Jiuyao Shenzhen coldly laughed. "This King will show you the true might of the Dragon Shadows."
The coiling dragon shadows spun faster and faster, until finally forming a massive, multicolored vortex.
At this moment, Jiuyao Shenzhen finally commenced that tragic and frenzied Dance of Death!
No one dared believe what they were witnessing!
With bursts of indistinct, sharp howling!
From within that colored vortex, countless blurry streaks of colored light shot out, like swarms of stars falling from the night sky! In an instant, they blanketed an area spanning a hundred square meters!
"Ah!" Moluo Yinfeng and the others’ faces changed drastically. "What is this?"
These were all top-tier masters; it was not difficult for them to discern that the dragon shadows surrounding Jiuyao Shenzhen were spiraling at an astonishing speed!
And the trajectory of this coiling spin precisely encompassed the effective supply range of the Dragon Shadows!
This meant that within this area, everyone would suffer the Dragon Shadows' strongest indiscriminate attack!
And Feng Fei, whose eyesight was extraordinary, even noticed that these nine dragon shadows seemed to follow some inherent pattern! They launched their attacks in a manner that was both staggered and orderly, and furthermore, they completely sealed off any opening or blind spot in the defense aimed at Jiuyao Shenzhen and the Mammoth Beast King!
Now, forget attacking Jiuyao Shenzhen; even approaching him would inevitably incur the most violent impact from the Dragon Shadows!
"All of you, die."
From the dazzling colored vortex, a thunderous roar suddenly erupted!
This immense, colossal colored vortex shot forth like lightning, plunging into the phalanx previously formed by twenty thousand tribal warriors!
In the blink of an eye, dozens of tribal warriors were caught and shredded into fragments by the swirling, dancing dragon shadows!
"Not good," Ao Fei exclaimed. "Retreat quickly."
With the strength of those tribal masters, they possessed absolutely no power to fight back against this massive Dragon Shadow Vortex!
However, Ao Fei's warning came too late!
At this moment, Jiuyao Shenzhen had finally begun his most tragic and insane Dance of Death!
The Dragon Shadows darted about wildly with terrifying speed, and every flash brought with it patches of indistinct snow-like dance!
The Ironclad Phalanx, already thrown into disarray by the initial impact, collapsed in even greater numbers!
Tearing screams and desperate wails coalesced into the bloodiest, most horrifying scene of carnage—a blood-soaked purgatory!
"He's not human."
"A demon."
Even the tribal warriors, long renowned for their bravery and fearlessness, were frozen stiff by the terrifying sight!
And many who reacted swiftly fled in haste.
But could their speed possibly outmatch the peerless Mammoth Beast King!
The terrain here was a high peak, with only two paths north and south: one led south, toward the direction from which Jiuyao Shenzhen had arrived, and the other led to the bridge cable to the north!
Consequently, everyone had no choice but to desperately cram themselves onto the northern suspension bridge!
However, how could a narrow suspension bridge accommodate so many people?
Many were even pushed off the bridge by the panicked crowd, falling into the surging White River below!
Yet even so, Jiuyao Shenzhen was not done with them!
The Mammoth Beast King raged, chasing relentlessly after the fleeing populace.
"Quick! Stop him!" Ao Fei, Feng Fei, and the others were stunned—this was sheer slaughter.
But neither Ao Fei nor Feng Fei nor Yue Che could intervene!
Yes, the Mammoth Beast King had already charged into the dense, chaotic crowd; if they attacked now, they might not harm Jiuyao Shenzhen but would likely injure their own tribal warriors instead!
The only thing they could do was watch helplessly as the Dragon Shadow Vortex, with terrifying speed, madly harvested the fleeing tribal warriors!
In the blink of an eye, the Mammoth Beast King tore through the dense crowd and sped onto the suspension bridge like lightning!
"Bad, he's crossing the bridge," Feng Fei finally realized something was wrong.
"Damn it, we've been tricked," Moluo Yinfeng roared out in exasperation. "Chase him! He can't hold that for long."
It was only now that Yue Che realized they had truly been played by Jiuyao Shenzhen!
At first glance, Jiuyao Shenzhen seemed incredibly mighty, but the power of the Dragon Shadows was simply too strong, making it impossible for them to even get close!
And even stranger was that Jiuyao Shenzhen had targeted the weaker tribal warriors from the start, then deliberately forced them to flee onto the bridge in desperation!
Yet even so, Jiuyao Shenzhen refused to spare them and pursued them madly!
For the Dragon Shadows to spin and dance with such astonishing intensity and speed, the amount of Dou Qi energy consumed must have been beyond human imagination!
It was evident that sustaining such terrifying offensive power for long was absolutely impossible.
No matter how strong Jiuyao Shenzhen's Dou Qi was, he could not maintain such a horrific Dragon Shadow Vortex for long!
And it was even more impossible for him to kill Ao Fei and the others with this ultimate move!
Therefore, the greatest purpose of this move was to maximize the slaughter of the tribal warriors present!
But those tribal warriors had already fled in utter panic!
Yet Jiuyao Shenzhen still pursued them relentlessly!
This entire situation seemed deeply bizarre!
It wasn't until the Mammoth Beast King, carrying Jiuyao Shenzhen, thundered onto the suspension bridge that Ao Fei and the others finally woke up!
"Damn it, this bastard is trying to cross the bridge," Ao Fei, realizing the truth, was so enraged he nearly spat blood!
"Stop him for me," Feng Fei ignored everything, firing a Dragon Roar Arrow in one breath toward the receding figures of Jiuyao Shenzhen and the Mammoth Beast King, who were speeding away like meteors!
But it was still blasted away a long distance by the high-speed coiling Dragon Shadows!
In just the time it took to blink!
That streak of white light vanished without a trace, like a fleeting meteor in the night sky!
"..........." The scene left everyone speechless!
"We've been duped again," Moluo Yinfeng managed a bitter smile.
In retrospect, while Jiuyao Shenzhen's strength was undeniably formidable, there was no way he could single-handedly take on twenty thousand tribal warriors, plus top masters like Feng Fei, Ao Fei, Yue Che, and Moluo Yinfeng!
It was just that everyone present had been stunned by Jiuyao Shenzhen's intimidating and overpowering demeanor initially!
And that terrifying slaughter had completely shattered the psychological defense of the twenty thousand tribal warriors, ultimately leading to an irrepressible rout!
And Jiuyao Shenzhen had simply used their panicked escape route to gain the advantage and rush across the suspension bridge!
Looking back now, Jiuyao Shenzhen hadn't been hunting down these routed warriors; he was merely using the opportunity to force his way across the bridge!
Behind the facade of invincible might, he must have been running on empty, at his very last limit!
However, looking at the ground littered with corpses, severed limbs, and a bloody mess left behind, everyone couldn't help but feel a bone-chilling tremor!
Faced with such a nightmarish massacre, who could maintain a clear head!
Who could see through the fact that Jiuyao Shenzhen at that moment was already strong in appearance but weak within!
Perhaps now he didn't even have the strength to move a finger!
But realizing it now was too late!
The Mammoth Beast King had already carried him off into the distance!
Even if they wanted to pursue, it was too late!
The Mammoth Beast King was swift across the world!
Who could catch him!
No one expected that such a meticulously crafted plan could be so easily undone by one of Jiuyao Shenzhen's feints!
"Worthy of the name Jiuyao Shenzhen," Moluo Yinfeng's face cycled through shades of green and white, his expression indescribably complex. "To be fooled by that."
"We should have known! This guy is full of schemes!" Yue Che gritted his teeth, yet he couldn't even muster a countermove. "But we still fell for his trap."
"Only two rounds into the confrontation," Ao Fei looked almost ready to laugh or cry. "We still don't know the depth of his capability; he truly is unfathomably profound."
"Is this what you call luck?" Feng Fei sighed.
"Sometimes, luck is part of strength," Moluo Yinfeng said with a wry smile. "Now that he's crossed the bridge, dealing with him will be exponentially harder."
"I'm starting to understand why you all fear him so much," Ao Fei said seriously. "He is truly a rare and worthy opponent."
"Though we can't gauge his full depth," Feng Fei continued, "his strength is definitely far above yours." Feng Fei then looked at Ao Fei with a peculiar expression. "It seems your title as the Continent's Foremost Master has finally been usurped."
"Not necessarily," Ao Fei countered. "He is indeed stronger than me, but only temporarily."
"I advise you against thinking of fighting him one-on-one," Yue Che cautioned in a deep voice. "His escape this time wasn't because he feared us; his objective was never to fight us to the death."
"Correct," Moluo Yinfeng confirmed. "With our combined strength, we might be superior to him! But the final result would only be mutual devastation. He counted on exactly that, which is why he chose to cross the bridge, aiming to reach the Celestial Sanctuary as quickly as possible. Once he obtains the Hero before us, he will secure victory."
"The Celestial Sanctuary," Yue Che said solemnly. "We absolutely cannot let him succeed."
"Our only course of action now is to pursue him into the Celestial Sanctuary as quickly as possible and find the Hero before him," Ao Fei stated.
"The Celestial Sanctuary is fraught with peril," Yue Che warned. "It's full of monstrous traps. Even if he is powerful, he is still just one person. Handling those monsters while searching for the location of the Hero will not be simple."
Ao Fei and Feng Fei nodded slightly.
Yet Moluo Yinfeng remained deeply grave!
Subconsciously, Moluo Yinfeng felt a startling shift in the balance of power!
The initiative had now been seized back by Jiuyao Shenzhen!
Once he entered the Celestial Sanctuary, he stood a good chance of finding the Hero!
Yes, for ordinary people, finding the true location of the Hero within the vast expanse of the Celestial Sanctuary would not be easy!
After all, no one had ever entered the final layer of the Celestial Sanctuary!
But legends passed down in the Snow Domain Continent since antiquity described it as an unimaginably vast and bizarre space!
To find the Hero within it, even with a detailed map in hand, would be akin to searching for a needle in a haystack!
Moreover, only Jiuyao Shenzhen had entered the Celestial Sanctuary this time!
What could he possibly accomplish!
Of course, these thoughts only applied to ordinary people!
Recalling that guy's seemingly magical, endless string of luck, Moluo Yinfeng kept feeling that once he managed to break through this time, everything might become irreversible!
However, in front of them, Moluo Yinfeng absolutely could not voice his inner speculation!
After all, their understanding of Jiuyao Shenzhen was still too superficial!
They could never truly imagine what kind of person that fellow was!
In Moluo Yinfeng's view, even a miracle with only a one percent chance of occurring would be entirely unsurprising if it happened to that man!
Now, the only thing they could do was race against time with Jiuyao Shenzhen!