Chapter 114: Gathered Together, Snatch!

The human cultivators and Demonic Cultivators took their own positions on either side, prepared to snatch the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal within the lava at any time.

The feminine Demonic Cultivator looked at the Sword Sovereigns of the Ten Distinguished Clans coldly, exuding a murderous aura, “This Glacial Mountain Range is the territory of us, Demonic Cultivators. It is already unforgivable that you all have intruded without permission, now to think you even want to compete for the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal. You are truly indulging in the wildest fantasies.”

“HAHA…” A barefooted, tall human Sword Sovereign laughed aloud, and looked at them with ridicule, saying: “With just you two Initial-Phase Transformation Stage Demonic Beasts and you dare to spout such nonsense, it truly is laughable.”

“This Old Man just so happens to lack a high-level mount, so I’ll capture you both later, then let’s see how tough your mouth is.” The Ancestor of the Xue Clan sneered, his murky eyes revealing a sharp glint.

Hearing his words, the face of the burly man beside the feminine man grew grim. He raised his hand and pointed. A powerful whirlwind erupted from his fingertips, shooting directly towards the Xue Clan’s Ancestor, “Seeking death.”

The Xue Clan’s Ancestor snorted and with a casual release of his hand, a palm-sized emerald qi’lin1 flew out from his hand. When it landed in mid-air, it suddenly grew bigger and emitted a faint green light.

The powerful whirlwind was instantly blocked by the emerald qi’lin, dissipating in mid-air, then the qi’lin also returned to the size of a palm and landed in the hands of the Xue Clan’s Ancestor.

The one human and one Demon was simply sounding each other out. The burly man laughed aloud, “Your Magic Tool is just so-so, come and see This King’s.”

The burly man’s claws grabbed, and two cyan lights suddenly flew out from the depths of the cave. Then two sledgehammers filled with cyan qi’lin patterns landed in his hands.

He flew up and slammed down a few times from mid-air, down at the Xue Clan’s Ancestor.

From the sledgehammer flew out hammer prints condensed from Demonic Energy, falling straight down onto the head of the Xue Clan’s Ancestor.

Demonic Cultivators didn’t only rely on their powerful bodies and innate talents and skills to fight. They could also control human’s Magic Tools, and many high-level Transformation Stage Demonic Cultivators would also infiltrate among the humans and pay a certain high price to request high-level Smiths to refine Magic Tools suitable for them.

This Cyan Lin Hammer held by this burly man was made by a Grade 3 Smith in the Eastern Region, extremely powerful.

The Xue Clan’s Ancestor narrowed his eyes and exhaled a breath of essence. The emerald qi’lin in his hand radiated a brighter dazzling green light, automatically flew out of his palm, and fell on his head to form a green barrier.

[BOOM BOOM!!] The hammer prints all fell on and hit the emerald qi’lin, releasing a few loud noises.

Then the hammer prints slowly faded away and a crack appeared on the emerald qi’lin.

The Xue Clan’s Ancestor furrowed his brows as he retracted his Magic Tool, staring deeply at the two giant hammers in mid-air with the burly man, “The Magic Tool refined by Great Master Ning is indeed extraordinary.”

Great Master Ning was very famous in the Eastern Region. Although he was only a Grade 3 Smith, but every Magic Tool he produced was all of the finest quality. They could even match the Magic Tools refined by a Grade 4 Smith in terms of perfect attributes.

Except he had a weird personality as he rarely made Magic Tools for human cultivators, and instead, cooperated with Demonic Cultivators more often.

“HAHA, Great Master Ning is better than your group of greedy and hypocritical humans.” Speaking of Great Master Ning, the burly Demonic Cultivator man revealed some respect in his eyes.

Lou Mu Yan looked at the two giant hammers with great interest. This pair of Spirit Treasures was indeed extraordinary. Not only was there excellent heat control during refining, but several materials suitable for Demonic Cultivators were also added, allowing it to be even more powerful. Compared to Huo Xiao, he was indeed much stronger.

When she had the chance, she sure wanted to visit Great Master Ning.

“So you are all prepared to battle then?”  The previous barefooted human Sword Sovereign’s face was full of battle intent.

The large Demonic Cultivator man held the giant hammers in his hand and said arrogantly: “It was just a warm-up just now, why in such a hurry? Wouldn’t it be even more interesting when the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal’s born?”

“They’re delaying time.” Mo Yan’s voice resounded in Lou Mu Yan’s Sea of Consciousness.

Lou Mu Yan also noticed that although the Demonic Cultivators on the opposite side acted, they didn’t have much battle intent, “Do they have some sort of trump card? Or are they waiting for reinforcements.”

A faint light of unidentifiable emotions lit in Mo Yan’s indifferent eyes, “The Transformation Stage Demonic Cultivators in the centre ring is probably coming over here right now. These two Demonic Cultivators probably wanted to take it all for themselves before, but now that they’re facing eight Sword Sovereign human powerhouses, they had no choice but to spread the news of the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal.”

Lou Mu Yan nodded. This time, aside from the Ling Clan and the nineth-ranked Wu Clan, the other eight Clans of the Ten Distinguished Clans had all sent Sword Sovereigns to hold their grounds.

“The Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal’s about to take shape.” Lou Mu Yan’s solemn gaze swept towards the liquid that had already become dark golden in the centre of the lava.

Mo Yan’s gaze on the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal also revealed some fiery desire. This thing, for humans, was only one of the best materials for refining Magic Tools, but to them, Demonic Beasts, it was the best Spiritual Item of Heaven and earth for shaping and tempering their yao’fu, as well as tempering their body.

As long as the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal was refined and absorbed into their demonic bone and demonic marrow, the strength and toughness of the Demonic Beast’s body would rise a level. More importantly, it was an invincible existence for when one wanted to break through their bottleneck.

In other words, as long as the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal was left to refine when they were breaking through, then regardless of what bottleneck it was, it would be a useless bottleneck.

Unfortunately a Demonic Beast could only use the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal twice—once could be used to forge and temper their yao’fu and support it to rise in level to Heavenly Quality, and another time could be used beneath Tier 9 to break through the bottleneck and successfully advance.

“Humph, you want to delay time to wait for the Demonic Cultivators of the centre ring to come support you? Too late.” The barefooted large man and the other Sword Sovereigns had all lived for almost a hundred years, so their scheming was naturally not lacking—they could also see through the two Demonic Cultivator’s intentions.

The feminine Demonic Cultivator was about to speak, then suddenly, his gaze fixed on the dark golden liquid in the lava pool.

Suddenly, the liquid in the lava pool emitted a dazzling golden light and leapt from the lava with a dash, carrying an aura that made one feel fearful.

The barefooted Sword Sovereign gave the Xue Clan Ancestor and Xin Bo Jian a look, then uttered a word: “Snatch!”

[DASH!!] Then nine figures flew in the direction of that golden light—precisely the seven human Sword Sovereigns and the two Demonic Cultivators.

The Sword Monarchs and Sword Kings below immediately greeted the more than a dozen Tier 6 Demonic Beasts that rushed over, and in that moment, the humans and Demonic Beasts battled in chaos.

Lou Mu Yan cast her gaze on Ye Zhan who was still standing on the side of a rock, unmoving, as well as Lan Si who looked as if he was enjoying a good show. As expected, only these two knew the secret behind the birth of the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal.

No. When she used her Spiritual Sense to sweep towards a dark corner in the depths of the cave, her lips rose into an arc—Ming Xiu, that guy, also knew.

[RUMBLE!] Sound after sound of the rapid running of Demonic Beasts landed.

Then more than thirty Tier 5 Demonic Beasts rushed out from the hillside, rushing towards the human cultivators.

Lou Mu Yan and the others from the Trial were also separated by the group of Demonic Beasts and the entire cave was in chaos. From time to time, swords glistened, and the roars of Demonic Beasts reverberated ceaselessly in the cave.

Lou Mu Yan saw Lou Mu Bai and the others greet the crazed Demonic Beasts without much danger, so she utilised her Flash Steps to dodge the attacking Demonic Beasts one by one, heading towards the lava pool.

When she was approaching the edge of the lava, she felt a chill behind her.

Her eyes grew cold, and she tapped her toes, shifting her position several times to avoid a sword aura sneak attack from the rear.

The moment she turned around, Lou Mu Yan saw Le Xiang look at her with full killing intent, then fly towards her, waving her sword to attack without hesitation.

1qi’lin, a mythical creature of ancient China thought to be wise and fair and powerful. Often depicted with one horn and translated as ‘unicorn’, but unicorn is translated differently in China.