Chapter 928: A Three-Way Battle
As Lu Zhou flew in the forest, he wondered what could attract a Birth Chart Beast.
Soon enough, he arrived in the air above the mountain range and looked down.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The sound of explosions and the ground quaking rang from the other side of the mountain range at this moment.
Lu Zhou followed the sounds of the commotion and flew up before he came to the top of one of the peaks that overlooked the west side of the Eastern Forest Mountain. When he looked down, he saw a group of cultivators fighting three huge beasts.
Two of the beasts had a similar appearance. They were dozens of meters tall and resembled boars with their huge tusks.
On the other hand, the third beast resembled an ox. It stomped the ground with four of its hooves, causing the ground and the mountains to shake.
“Three Birth Chart Beasts?” This greatly exceeded Lu Zhou’s expectations. It was likely that even Si Wuya did not expect this. This meant that there was probably someone here who was trying to sprout the tenth leaf as well.
Well, there was nothing strange in the world; all kinds of things could happen.
Numerous cultivators circled the three Birth Chart Battles as they used their energy swords and energy sabers to attack. Their expressions were rather unsightly at this moment.
“This is bad. Why did Birth Chart Beasts suddenly appear?” An old man standing in the lead looked at the three rampaging giant beasts on the ground in disbelief.
“I don’t know either. Should we retreat?!”
“No! It wasn’t easy to set up a trap; we have to take down at least one Birth Chart Beast. It’s been 2,000 years; we can’t afford to wait any longer…” the old man said.
Bang!
An eight-leaf cultivator could not dodge in time and was sent flying back by the boar-like giant beast. He threw up a mouthful of blood as he slid on the ground.
At this moment, someone shouted, “Retreat!”
In just a blink of an eye, someone carried the injured cultivators as hundreds of cultivators began to retreat.
The old cultivator stared at the three Birth Chart Beasts that kept advancing. In the beasts’ eyes, they were the most delicious food in the world.
“Team One, Team Two, keep the two Shan Gaos occupied. The rest of you, follow me to kill the Xi Qu.”
“The formation is too small; it can only hold one giant beast. We can’t kill them. Sect Master, we don’t we give up?!” someone suggested.
“Shut up!” the old cultivator roared, “Follow the plan!”
The two teams flew to the two flying Shan Gaos that resembled boars and were dozens of meters. They shot to the left and to the right, trying to distract the beasts.
Meanwhile, the Xi Qu on the ground that was similar to an ox did not pay attention to anything else. It pawed the ground before it charged toward the old cultivator in a frenzy.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
An avatar appeared.
At the same time, a round Eight Trigrams Seal successfully blocked the Xi Qu’s tusk with a loud clang. Nevertheless, its strength was too great. It continued to charge wildly toward the Ten-leaf expert.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Xi Qu hooves slammed on the ground thunderously, causing the birds in the forest to take flight. Even rocks begin to roll down the mountain due to the violent tremors.
The old man roared!
Bang!
The round Eight Trigrams Seal stopped the Xi Qu again.
The old man flipped in the air before coming to a stop in front of the Xi Qu. He spread his arms, and energy swords filled the air, shooting toward the Xi Qu’s forehead.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The Xi Qu cried out in a strangely childlike voice. It stomped its hooves again and leaped up like a fish leaping over the dragon’s gate in the sky.
The old man was clearly very experienced. He immediately unleashed his grand technique and flashed behind the Xi Qu.
“Maintain the rhythm! Don’t panic. I’ll lure him into the formation!”
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At this point, Lu Zhou already had a basic understanding of what was going on.
The two boar-like giant beasts were called Shan Gao while the ox-like giant beast attacking the old man was called Xi Qu.
Lu Zhou did not know which sect these people were from, but it should be a coincidence that they were here. He suddenly wondered where the people from the black lotus domain were?
Based on Si Wuya’s plan, they could avoid detection from the formation. However, if this sect’s people were unaware, would it not be a disaster?
Bang!
At this moment, one of the Shan Gaos pierced an Eight-leaf cultivator’s chest with its tusks. Its face was ferocious as it crushed and devoured the man.
Upon seeing this, Lu Zhou shook his head, but there was no pity in his heart. The cultivation world had always operated by the law of the jungle. The strong preyed on the weak, and the fittest survived. In that Shan Gao’s eyes, the Eight-leaf cultivator was probably like a slightly more powerful ant. If an ant tried to bite a human, the human would quash it.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The earth continued to quake.
Lu Zhou did not choose to attack but waited for the black lotus cultivators to appear.
In reality, it should be easy for a few Ten-leaf cultivators and Nine-leaf cultivators to deal with a Birth Chart Beast even with a basic foundation. For example, even if Lu Zhou did not make a move on the Yong on Cloud Mountain, Nie Qingyun, Yu Shangrong, and Yu Zhenghai could still kill the Yong with their combined strength. The tactic adopted by his eighth disciple, who was far away in the yellow lotus domain, was even more exaggerated. He used a sea of people to kill the giant beast! Although the casualties were slightly higher, it was still a way to take down the Birth Chart Beast.
However, there were three Birth Chart Beasts now; how were this group of people going to deal with them?
Lu Zhou was also worried about these people’s outcomes.
The world had always turned for the sake of profits. How could the fight for a Birth Chart Beast be so easy?
Lu Zhou was calmly watching the battle when a huge flying chariot flew over from the west.
The flying carriage was surrounded by thousands of cultivators.
“The True Kunlun Sect and the Void Sect?” Lu Zhou saw the two flags on the left and the right bearing the name of the sects. Did the two sects merge?
The flying chariot finally came to a stop in the western sky of the mountain range in the Eastern Forest Mountain.
Many cultivators flocked out and formed a square formation, surrounding the area.
Xuan Chengzi, the Daoist cultivator from the Void Sect, flew out of the flying chariot and looked down from the sky. He laughed and said, “Old Man Zeng, your Seeking Heaven Sect is really unlucky! Three Birth Chart Beasts? Do you need help?”
The old man fighting the Xi Qu was the Sect Master of the Seeking Heaven Sect, Zeng Yan.
Zeng Yan said, “Xuan Chengzi, if you have good intentions, join hands with my Seeking Heaven Sect and take down these three Birth Chart Beasts. Don’t try to profit off this situation!”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Several energy swords landed on the body of the Xi Qu.
Xuan Chengzi replied with a smile on his face, “I agree. In this regard, the Seeking Heaven Sect is lucky. There are three Birth Chart Beasts; one for each of us. What do you think?”
At this moment, Mo Xinglu from the True Kunlun Sect flew out of the flying chariot and landed next to Xua Chengzi. She said, “Don’t be hasty. Don’t you feel like something’s amiss?”
“How so?”
“Think about it. How’s it possible for the Seeking Heaven Sect to attract three Birth Chart Beasts?” Mo Xinglu asked.
Zeng Yan dodged the attack of the Xi Qu and flashed up into the sky. He appeared in front of the duo and said, “To tell you the truth, I don’t know why there are three Birth Chart Beasts here. In any case, this is a good opportunity for us to work together. If we don’t take them down, once the Sky Martial Court finds out about them, none of us will stand a chance!”
Mo Xinglu sneered before she said, “How long has it been since you left your cave? Yu Chenshu had died long ago. The person in control of Great Tang now is a Thousand Realms Whirling expert. That expert has already activated his Birth Charts and probably has no interest in these low-level beasts.”
Zeng Yan shook his head and said, “If the Thousand Realms Whirling expert wants to cultivate his own force, will he really have no interest in these Birth Chart Beasts?”
Mo Xinglu and Xuan Chengzi were taken back by these words and exchanged a glance.
Following that, Xuan Chengzi said decisively, “Members of the Void Sect, listen up! Deal with that Shan Gao on the left!”
“Understood.”
Mo Xinglu also did not hesitate before she said, “Members of the True Kunlun Sect, deal with the Shan Gao on the right!”
“Understood.”
Numerous cultivators swarmed toward the Birth Chart Beasts like locusts.
With this, the Seeking Heaven Sect’s Zeng Yan felt the pressure on him decrease greatly. Then, he hurriedly ordered his sect members to gather near the Xi Qu.
In just a moment, the entire eastern side of the mountain range in the Eastern Forest Mountain turned into a battlefield between humans and Birth Chart Beasts.
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Meanwhile, Lu Zhou’s expression remained the same as he continued to watch.
The mountains and rivers within a radius of a few miles were razed to the ground by the three sects and the Birth Chart Beasts.
The sky was filled with energy swords, energy sabers, talisman seals, and palm seals.
As time pa.s.sed, the Birth Chart Beasts began to sustain injuries as well. However, many cultivators from the three sects had also fallen. Some of their avatars were torn apart and some of them were directly crushed by the beasts.
However, fierce beasts were still beasts, after all. They could not withstand the relentless attacks from the sea of people and the restriction from the formation.
After an hour pa.s.sed, the three Birth Chart Beast’s strengths were slowly being exhausted by the sea of cultivators.
“Everyone! Put in more effort… The Birth Chart Beasts are about to die!”
Xuan Chengzi and Mo Xinglu suddenly flew up.
“There’s someone over there!”
Zeng Yan from the Seeking Heaven Sect followed suit. “Who’s it?”
Xuan Chengzi and Mo Xinglu looked at the old man perched on one of the mountain peaks in the distance.
Lu Zhou knew that he had been discovered. He was not surprised at all. After all, he was standing in such an obvious place. The Purple Glazed Ceramic could only hide his aura, not turn him invisible. He flew off the peak and came to a stop in front of three people.
Xuan Chengzi asked, “May I ask who you are?”
“It doesn’t matter who I am. What’s important is that I want the life hearts of the two Shan Gaos,” Lu Zhou bluntly said.
Zeng Yan was taken aback by Lu Zhou’s bluntness.
“Old sir, I’m afraid that’s inappropriate…”
Xuan Chengzi was about to speak when Mo Xinglu interjected with a smile, “Old senior, you must be joking.”
During the battle at the Sky Wheel Mountain Range, Lu Zhou had used the Disguise Card. Therefore, it was expected that they did not recognize him. Moreover, he had also grown younger.
“Joking?” Lu Zhou stroked his beard and looked down at the ground.