The Blade-Wielding Legend

Chapter 1590 - 808: A Strange Figure in the Wilderness

"Is something there?"

Li Yan frowned and listened, somewhat surprised, "I didn’t hear anything, can you tell what it is?"

His main divine skill is the smell superpower, and he also awakened the second divine skill, ear divine power, which allows him to understand the language of ghost gods.

This is a special ability, much like Lv San can understand the language of birds and beasts.

But after all, being the second divine skill, its range is much less than Lv San’s hearing.

"It sounds like a person, yet also like some kind of wild beast..."

After listening again, Lv San said with some uncertainty.

Upon hearing this, Li Yan mused, "Tianmu Mountain is a Cave Heaven Blessed Land, with a dense aura of Astra Bane Qi. It’s normal for some things to gain a foothold. We’re idle anyway, it wouldn’t hurt to have a look and find out what it is."

Without a moment’s hesitation, the three immediately focused and held their breath, exploring in the direction the sound came from.

The mountain wind passed through the bamboo sea, causing a rustling whisper; besides this, it was just the feeble chirping of dying insects in the late autumn.

However, in Lv San’s ears, he could hear beneath this quiet night a faint, intermittent roar, like a muffled sound wrapped in thick cloth, stubbornly coming through.

"Over there!"

After walking about several miles, Lv San suddenly pointed to a deeper mountain hollow in the northwest.

There, the mist was so thick it couldn’t be penetrated, a vast white, as if solidified milk, swallowing the entire bamboo forest.

"It sounds like the mournful cry of a trapped beast, mixed with a dog’s bark, but more fierce... deeper, there’s also the sound of water!"

"Water sound? The source of the Sao River?"

Kong Shangzhao’s eyes lit up, musing with excitement, "According to the ’South Mountain Scripture,’ the Floating Jade Mountain, the Sao River originates from here and flows north into Juqu Marsh! Given the terrain, this should be Tianmu Mountain. Could this place truly be the Ancient Floating Jade?"

His voice carried a touch of exploration excitement.

Li Yan nodded, his expression serious, "Whether it’s the Ancient Floating Jade Mountain or not, this noise is unusual. Let’s go, have a look, be careful."

The three tethered their horses in a hidden spot and performed light body technique, stealthily moving like lynxes towards the fog-shrouded hollow.

The closer they got, the clearer the roaring became, and Li Yan and Kong Shangzhao also faintly began to hear.

As Lv San had said, neither tiger nor dog, the muffled friction feeling like tearing fabric.

The sound was filled with agitation and ferocity, causing the nearby bamboo leaves to tremble as if raining.

The dense fog was cold and clammy, wet against their faces, and the path below was quickly overrun by wild grass and twisted bamboo roots.

The surrounding environment became unfamiliar, making it hard to distinguish direction.

"Such a powerful illusion array!"

Kong Shangzhao whispered, trying to discern direction, only to find the compass needle spinning chaotically in the fog, completely ineffective.

"The fog is strange, containing Earth Vein Evil Qi, distorting the five senses. Relying purely on foot, one might get trapped inside."

"Follow me closely!" Li Yan turned and instructed softly.

"Nuogao! Six Jia Nine Chapters, Heavenly Circle and Earthly Square. Four Seasons and Five Elements, Sun and Moon Light. Yu Step Opening, Chiyou Avoiding Soldiers..."

He closed his eyes, reciting the incantation, as his aura suddenly shifted, becoming elusive.

This is the North Emperor Divine Travel Technique, with its power increasing as his Dao level improved.

This technique, fused with the Innate Eight Diagrams, enables one to run faster, and when combined with the Armored Horse, it allows crossing water and mountains without any terrain hindrance, but that’s just its basic function, similar to other Magic Veins.

Its real strength lies in breaking through illusion arrays and perilous Evil Lands.

After all, at its peak level, only Immortal Gods can achieve such feats.

Li Yan, now having begun his journey, could lead the other two through this illusion array with no problem.

Whoosh~

The thick fog howled around them, bamboo shadows swayed.

Lv San and Kong Shangzhao, pulled along, rushed unknowingly into the illusion array.

"Wait!"

Lv San suddenly stopped, his nostrils flaring, "The water reeks of iron and... the stench of corpses."

Before he finished speaking, a roar tore through the silence.

"Roar—woof!"

Neither tiger nor dog, rather like the dying howl of a vicious dog having its throat gripped.

The shockwave caused the bamboo leaves to tremble like rain, several old bamboo nearby broke open with the sound, revealing nearly rotten roots beneath.

The three immediately crouched low.

Through the vines, they saw in a clearing with thin mist ahead, shockingly, a ferocious beast trapped in the middle of the chaotic area.

Its form was mighty like a rhinoceros, covered with iron-rust-colored short hair, muscles knotted and rolling under its skin.

A tiger’s head, cruel features, fangs like daggers, with saliva mixed with blood froth dripping, corroding the ground into sizzling white smoke.

Most bizarre was its tail, thick like a cow’s, fiercely striking the ground, each lash creating a ripple of air.

A circle of silvery-green moss clung tightly to the ground at the clearing’s edge, with waterwave-like patterns silently flowing inside, forming an invisible barrier, trapping it within, allowing it to slam around yet unable to leave.

Strange!

Li Yan’s eyes narrowed, instantly raising his alertness.

"Demon" refers to those with Dao, while "strange" distinguishes mutants from ordinary creatures.

Whether remnants of Ancient bloodlines or these mutated things, if they break into villages, they can cause heavy losses among the people.

In the Divine State, demon hunters are a branch of Mystical Sect practitioners, roaming everywhere, specializing in hunting such creatures.

He had encountered quite a few such things.

On Azure Dragon Mountain, the mutated giant lizard that ate the Dinosaur Egg Spiritual Treasure...

In Shennongjia, the ancient Mountain God exotic beast "Zouyu"...

None of these were easy to deal with.

"It’s the ’Zhi’!"

Next to him, Kong Shangzhao’s throat tightened instantly.

His face was tense, but more so filled with a sort of excitement, speaking in a low voice, "Indeed, here lies the Ancient Floating Jade Mountain! ’The South Mountain Scripture’ records that the ’Floating Jade Mountain has a beast, its form like a tiger but with a cow’s tail, sounds like a dog’s bark, it eats people.’"