NOVGO.NET Chapter 332: Campaign Against Lingluo Mountain
A massive vessel traversed vast stretches of forested mountains before finally landing at the base of Mount Lingluo.
The hunting team members disembarked in an orderly fashion.
At the foot of Mount Lingluo stood an outpost.
The captain guarding the outpost immediately came forward to greet them.
“Elder Su, I am the squad captain of the Mount Lingluo sentry post!”
“Has there been any unusual activity at Mount Lingluo?” Su Yuan asked.
“None, everything remains as usual!” the squad captain replied.
However, his answer did not satisfy Su Yuan.
“No unusual activity? That’s precisely what’s abnormal!”
Su Yuan gazed at the areas surrounding Mount Lingluo, faintly sensing a restless atmosphere, while Mount Lingluo itself appeared far too tranquil.
The outpost squad captain suddenly understood upon hearing this.
Sometimes, people truly become accustomed to the ordinary, and under habitual thinking, they completely fail to notice anything unusual about Mount Lingluo.
Whereas Su Yuan, despite his limited experience, could detect subtle anomalies about Mount Lingluo.
Indeed, Su Yuan couldn’t pinpoint the exact source of the abnormality either, but having this feeling alone was sufficient.
A powerful expert’s intuition could serve as valid judgment criteria.
“Then Elder, shall we still ascend the mountain?”
Jin Liuyan asked.
Su Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly and said softly, “Continue!”
He waved his hand.
The ten-thousand strong hunting team instantly divided into one hundred squads, advancing along mountain paths into Mount Lingluo’s interior.
Su Yuan stood in mid-air, advancing as leisurely as someone strolling through a garden while coordinating the overall situation.
Soon, one squad was the first to encounter Lingluo Beasts.
The Lingluo Beasts had highly abstract appearances, possessing dozens of slender tentacles resembling willow branches, like mobile trees, though their lower bodies still walked on two legs.
Their extended tentacles could also sense external changes with extreme sensitivity.
After discovering a group of about thirty Lingluo Beasts, the squad didn’t act recklessly but called upon surrounding teams to jointly encircle and suppress them.
However, the Lingluo Beasts had already detected them and actively launched attacks.
The Lingluo Beasts strode forward, their bodies advancing rapidly while numerous tentacles hooked onto rocks, branches, and the ground, providing extreme stability while maintaining incredible speed.
Mount Lingluo’s rugged terrain posed no restriction to the Lingluo Beasts, instead becoming an advantage for them.
“Be careful!”
Captain Yan Ou shouted.
Everyone nodded in unison, already prepared and not panicking.
Yan Ou locked onto the strongest Tai Chi Realm peak Lingluo Beast and, with a single saber flourish, drew it aside.
The remaining Lingluo Beasts targeted the hunting team members, their countless tentacles interweaving to form a Lingluo Heavenly Net that trapped everyone except Yan Ou within it.
This was precisely what made Lingluo Beasts troublesome—they possessed powerful binding capabilities.
Yan Ou couldn’t attend to his teammates as he was already engaged in combat with the Tai Chi Realm peak Lingluo Beast.
A tentacle attacked from an exquisitely precise angle.
Yan Ou swung his saber to strike, the Five Elements Rule power cycling through generation and restriction phases, forming an indestructible five-colored saber radiance that struck the tentacle.
The seemingly slender and fragile willow-like tentacle developed a layer of golden armor, precisely the Lingluo Beast’s unique ability—Lingluo Shield!
The saber radiance struck the Lingluo Shield, rapidly eroding it.
But before the shield could be broken, the tentacle had already attacked Yan Ou’s body, dealing him damage.
Just as the Lingluo Shield was about to disappear, this tentacle quickly retracted, replaced by another tentacle attacking.
The attack angle proved bizarrely unpredictable once more, with astonishing speed—this was another of the Lingluo Beast’s special abilities, Lingluo Steps.
This Lingluo Beast had mastered this ability to perfection, directly integrating it into its tentacle attacks.
The surface of this tentacle again displayed a complete Lingluo Shield.
This time Yan Ou increased his attack speed, breaking through the Lingluo Shield faster, but the Lingluo Beast also retracted this tentacle more quickly, switching to other tentacles for attacks.
Yan Ou found himself completely overwhelmed by the continuous tentacle assaults.
So he directly bypassed the opponent’s tentacles and attacked the Lingluo Beast’s main body.
The Lingluo Beast’s footwork immediately became profoundly mysterious, using Lingluo Heavenly Rules to manifest a unique Tai Chi Rule Domain belonging solely to Lingluo Beasts. Within such a domain, the Lingluo Beast’s Lingluo Steps became the world’s fastest footwork.
Yan Ou unleashed his trump card, instantly closing in on the Lingluo Beast.
The Lingluo Beast’s tentacles interwove with each other, forming a Heaven-Earth Net that instantly bound Yan Ou in place, while it easily escaped, then continued using tentacles for sequential attacks.
Yan Ou said with an unpleasant expression, “How did this Lingluo Beast become so intelligent!”
He could confirm that the Lingluo Beast’s strength hadn’t changed, but its intelligence seemed to have improved significantly, resulting in substantially enhanced combat effectiveness—completely different from previous intelligence reports.
Consequently, he had to check on his team members’ situation.
As expected, his team members were being suppressed by these Lingluo Beasts—ninety-nine against thirty-three, yet they couldn’t prevail!
Yan Ou could sense Su Yuan’s gaze directed toward them from the distant sky.
If he requested the elder’s assistance now, they could easily resolve the situation, but his dignity would be completely lost before the elder.
Yan Ou hesitated no longer, employing the Primordial Limit inheritance he had comprehended within the tribe—the Dust Transformation technique from the Sixth Elder!
An inexplicable Dao essence spread across the saber blade.
Yan Ou swung his saber, the same saber radiance striking the Lingluo Shield.
The Lingluo Shield instantly turned to dust-like particles, easily shattered by Yan Ou’s single saber strike!
Yan Ou’s attack continued onto the tentacle itself, and a vine-like tentacle snapped accordingly.
The severed portion also crumbled like dust, becoming part of the Chaos Continent’s surface, adding a trace of nourishment to the land.
Su Yuan observed this scene with complete clarity.
Originally Yan Ou couldn’t defeat that Lingluo Beast, but after using the Sixth Elder’s Primordial Limit inheritance, he actually reversed the situation, transforming from disadvantage to advantage!
That dust transformation effect gave Su Yuan a sensation similar to tag abilities—specifically, the Dao techniques inheritance that Su Yuan provided to Immortal-Demon Realm Sea cultivators.
Extremely similar.
Su Yuan became thoughtful;
he hadn’t yet visited the tribe’s Scripture Pavilion to examine the so-called Primordial Limit inheritance.
But if all Primordial Limit inheritance resembled this type, he had already independently researched one hundred twenty-eight varieties himself, all simplified Dao techniques derived from his tag abilities!
Cultivated to perfection, they could achieve partial effects of the tags.
Meanwhile, Yan Ou immediately turned his disadvantage into superiority, beginning to pressure the Lingluo Beast in combat, though achieving victory still wouldn’t be accomplished quickly.
The Lingluo Beast’s severed tentacles could regenerate within mere moments, so its actual combat power wasn’t significantly affected.
Yan Ou had only transformed from disadvantage into slight advantage.
As the Lingluo Beast gradually familiarized itself with Yan Ou’s methods, the situation slowly shifted back again, maintaining a stalemate.