Repugnant Gateway 1

by Zhi Bai

  The entire mountain could not help but shake and rocks fell from the surrounding mountains one after another. Huge cracks began to appear on the surrounding mountains, as if countless demons were opening their bloody mouths. Then, a hundred acres of medicinal field suddenly rose up from the canyon and slowly rose into the sky. Such a huge piece of land that was about to fly out, the scene shocked even An Zheng was stupefied.

  An Zheng rubbed his eyes as he watched, because the herb field that was flying in the air fell to the ground …

  Immediately after, a golden light flashed, and the medicinal field rapidly shrank, transforming into a stream of light that flew into An Zheng's Blood Pearl Bracelet. The purple light on the bracelet flickered for a moment, then the string returned to its previous tranquility. It seemed like this bead bracelet was not a high-grade Purple-Rank treasure at all, and was no different from an ordinary accessory.

  This old dried corpse had such a generous hand, who knew what kind of great figure it once was. There were not many people in the world who would casually gift two Purple-Rank treasures to him. However, the thing that made An Zheng the happiest was the medicinal field. With these hundred mu of medicinal field, the people of the Heavenly Rite Martial Academy would no longer have to worry about getting hurt and would no longer have any medicine to treat them.

  At this time, a huge crater appeared in front of An Zheng, and from the marks left by the medicinal field after rising up into the air, streams of water came out from the deep hole at a very fast speed. An Zheng watched for a while. He was certain that if he did not leave soon, he might be submerged in water. He chose to leave through the other side of the ravine. There was a Qilin Eagle to the south that had yet to leave, so An Zheng did not dare to take the risk.

  The current An Zheng was like a three year old who had just stepped out of a house. There was a large golden chain around his neck and a large golden bracelet on his wrist. A half a child who had yet to reach the pure realm was carrying two pieces of equipment from the Purple-Rank. The first was Hong Luanzan gifted to him by Xu Meidai, with her current strength, she could only use it as a dagger. The other is Blood Pearl Bracelet, it can be used as a drawer … As An Zheng walked, she thought that this reckless use of heaven's treasures could only be described as him.

  An Zheng did not know how far he would travel, but he could only head towards the north.

  He had been curious all along the way to find out what kind of story had happened in this place. Why would such a powerful old man die here? Furthermore, he had guarded this place for five hundred years. It should have been because he was extremely bored that he ended up growing this medicinal field. And who were those seven guards for the crystal coffin? Were they the old man's followers? Who built the trestle on the stone wall? What story did those murals describe?

  All of these, An Zheng could no longer find an answer.

  He squeezed his way out through the cracks on the north side of the cliff, and when he came across a place that was too small to go through, he used Hong Luanzan to poke at it. He jabbed his way through, and when the sky turned dark, he finally squeezed out of the mountain. An Zheng thought that his luck was really good. The mountain had collapsed so badly that if the mountain he tried to drill through was slightly tilted, he would be crushed into a meat patty.

  When he came out from the north side of the mountain, the moon was bright and sparse in the sky. An Zheng stood at the top of the forest and looked around. It was as if the forest that was shrouded in darkness was filled with danger. An Zheng already had no idea what exactly this place was. He could only follow his own judgement and began to walk around this mountain towards the southeast.

  Walking until the middle of the night, An Zheng felt that the dangerous aura around him was getting thicker and thicker, so he took out the Qilin Eagle's feces and smeared it on his body. When he applied the medicine on the cat good old man, An Zheng could tell from its expression that it refused.

  Fortunately, in a radius of a thousand miles, other than An Zheng, no one else dared to approach the Qilin Eagle's feces.

  An Zheng slept for a while to recover his strength and spirit. More than two hours had passed. He sat cross-legged on a large tree, preparing to cultivate for a while and wait for daybreak before leaving. It was too dangerous to sleep well. Just as he sat down cross-legged, he heard a cry coming from afar.

  The Qilin Eagle had arrived.

  Chapter 34 - Big Fish in the Air

  It was deep into the night, and the cries of the Qilin Eagle could be heard for hundreds of miles. An Zheng instantly opened his eyes wide, thinking that this ghost was indeed lingering. He suddenly realized that the reason the Qilin Eagle could catch up to him so quickly was due to the stench on his body. He only thought that the Qilin Eagle's feces could help the other wild beasts avoid it, but forgetting it could also attract the Qilin Eagle.

  But thinking about it, An Zheng felt more at ease.

  The reason the Qilin Eagle did not travel at night was because its eyes were not used to the night. High up in the sky in the morning, the Qilin Eagle moved a thousand miles in a single glance. At night, however, its eyes lost most of their function, and it could barely see anything. If it wasn't for the stench, it wouldn't have come looking for him. Before An Zheng climbed up the tree, he saw a mountain stream not far away, so he immediately made his decision.

  He first wiped some feces on the branches of the tree, then jumped down and quickly rushed into the mountain stream. A man and a cat quickly took a bath in the stream. The kitten was sleeping soundly when it suddenly emitted a meow as it was shocked by the cold water. An Zheng said that good old man, you shut up. Otherwise, the big birds will come and eat your little bugs.

  good old man shut his mouth decisively, although he didn't know what An Zheng meant by that at all. An Zheng carried the cat and rolled in the stream for a while, but his body must still have a stench. He simply took off all his clothes and ran around the forest with the cat in his arms.

  After a while, the Qilin Eagle arrived. It swept across the area with a hurricane and uprooted all the trees within a few hundred meters. The Qilin Eagle was floating in the air, its wings were trembling, and the Feather of Vajra was falling down like a torrential rain. Each of the Feathers was more than a meter long, and as sharp as a knife. This thing fell down in a dense mass. It was as brutal as a natural disaster.

  An Zheng ran along the stream, stumbling and stumbling. The stream could mask a person's scent, and he only hoped it would work. In less than a minute, not a single blade of grass could be seen within a thousand meters. Not to mention the fact that not a single tree was left, even the ground was turned upside down. The Qilin Eagle could not see the result, it only felt that the stench had dissipated quite a bit, and immediately after, it landed and looked carefully.

  Taking this chance, An Zheng ran and swam a few hundred meters away.

  A water python that was a meter thick, swam quickly along the stream because it was frightened by the Qilin Eagle. If it was in a normal situation, with An Zheng's body, it would just swallow him in one gulp. But now, it was even more afraid than An Zheng. The water python's round body passing by startled An Zheng. He saw that the water python was swimming faster than him, so he climbed onto the water python's back with a flip and hugged the water python's waist.

  The water python's scales were very thick, and it might not feel An Zheng's presence anymore. Even if it felt like it didn't have time to bother with him, escaping was still more important.

  The Qilin Eagle lowered its head and searched the ground like an old friend who had lost his glasses. After about ten minutes, it gained nothing, causing it to become even more furious. The Qilin Eagle that was flying up into the sky started to randomly shoot out Diamond Feather. The meter long Diamond Feather rampaged through the forest. Many towering trees were sliced in half at the waist, and even boulders were split apart.

  The more the water python was afraid, the faster it swam.
At this moment, An Zheng suddenly felt a kind of vibration behind him. That vibration came from the ground, and it was definitely not caused by the Qilin Eagle's Diamond Feather hitting something. He looked back and his expression immediately changed.

  A curtain of water!

  That was the water that came out of the deep hole after An Zheng took the medicinal field away. The water filled up the pit and began to flow out. The crevice was very small, so the water slowly filled up the valley. When the water was full, some unknown force opened up the canyon, and the water screen appeared. A wave that was at least a thousand meters high. If he were to be hit by it, he would definitely die.

  The Qilin Eagle also felt the danger and immediately flew towards the distance. However, the speed at which the water waves advanced was extremely fast, and their destructive power was even greater than the Qilin Eagle's. Wherever the torrent went, trees would be uprooted and huge boulders would roll along with the waves. An Zheng could clearly feel that the mountain stream was getting wider and wider, and the water python was so scared that it did not dare to show its face, directly diving into the water and swimming downwards.

  An Zheng held his breath, but with his current weak strength, being able to hold his breath for six to seven minutes was already very good. After the water python swam forward for a while, An Zheng had no choice but to leave the water python and float up. The current flow of water was getting faster and faster, and the waves were getting closer and closer. At this moment, if he were to leave this mountain stream and run to both sides, he was afraid that within a few hundred meters, he would be swept up by the waves again. At that time, even an iron arm or a bronze head would not be able to block it.

  As a result, following the flow of the water would be safer.

  The Qilin Eagle was also silly, so An Zheng had no choice but to rush forward along with the water current. The waves were like a huge python, filling up the valley in an instant. When waves crashed down, even a mountain could be destroyed.

  An Zheng forced himself to calm down and think of a way. If this continued, he would be swept to death by the huge waves sooner or later.

  But just at this moment, the water python, who knew if it had been scared to death, floated out from the water blindly and bit towards An Zheng. An Zheng's expression changed, and subconsciously, he raised the Hong Luanzan that he was clutching, and in the instant he dodged the snake head, he stabbed Hong Luanzan in. The water python was in extreme pain as its body suddenly coiled up. An Zheng hugged the water python's body, but was actually not swept inside.

  Or perhaps it was because Hong Luanzan had appeared, that the Qilin Eagle in the air immediately cried out and then swooped down. It seemed that it saw Hong Luanzan as a treasure that it had to protect, and would rather take the risk of being smacked by the waves than come down to snatch it. The water python rolled around in the water. The Qilin Eagle clawed wildly in the water and immediately flew up into the air after grabbing onto the water python. The water python that was more than twenty meters long writhed violently, but was extremely weak under the claws of the Qilin Eagle.

  An Zheng released his hand and fell from the air back into the water. The water waves rolled him up as he rushed forward, continuously hitting him.

  The Qilin Eagle grabbed the water python and flew up, seemingly feeling the rage of the Qilin Eagle as it lost Hong Luanzan's presence. Its claws suddenly tightened, piercing through the water python's body. The sound produced by the water python was like tearing silk. Then, the Qilin Eagle released its claws, and the water python fell from the sky a few hundred meters away. Before it could even land on the ground, countless Feather of Vajra flew out from the Qilin Eagle's body, slicing the water python into countless pieces in midair.

  A Diamond Feather brushed past An Zheng's head and embedded into the cliff beside him with a bang. At this time, An Zheng was completely unable to control himself in the water, and could only follow the flow of the water and move forward.

  The Qilin Eagle believed that the person who stole Hong Luanzan was in the water, so it continued to shoot the Vajra Feather into the water.

  An Zheng drank a few mouthfuls of water, spitting it out as he cursed: "Aren't you afraid of shooting yourself in the head?"

  The sound of the waves were loud, so the Qilin Eagle could obviously not hear An Zheng's words. An Zheng followed along with the flow and could only try his best not to let himself die from the impact. Fortunately, he was still on it. No matter how he rolled, he was not slammed onto the rock.

  An Zheng's ears were also filled with the sound of the water waves. It was impossible to calculate how far they had been pushed, but the sound of the waves in front of them suddenly became louder.

  An Zheng used all of his strength to let himself breathe, and in that instant of struggle, his body suddenly felt heavy, and he fiercely fell down from that high place.

  The cliff!

  As a result, the water flow formed a huge waterfall and An Zheng was washed down by the waves. For a period of time in the air, An Zheng was able to escape the water flow. Therefore, when the Qilin Eagle sensed Hong Luanzan's aura, it swooped down and bit towards An Zheng with its mouth wide open.

  The current An Zheng was already exhausted, and basically could not resist. Even if he was not injured, and still had strength, he was definitely not a match for the mid-ranked Spirit Demon beast, the Qilin Eagle.

  An Zheng watched as the Qilin Eagle grew bigger and bigger, getting closer and closer. Behind the Qilin Eagle was the full moon, so the eagle pouncing towards them was like a big black cloud. At this moment, An Zheng once again felt the approach of death. Just like the last time in Mount Cang Man, when he was surrounded by so many experts.

  Just as the Qilin Eagle's mouth was about to make contact with An Zheng, an even larger shadow suddenly flew out from above the waterfall, and then, it bit down on the Qilin Eagle in midair. That thing was incomparably big. An Zheng only felt that it was as if half of a mountain had smashed down. The thing that was biting onto the Qilin Eagle fell down past An Zheng, and An Zheng saw a huge piece of scale armor in front of him, every scale armor was a few meters big.

  Under the full moon, the waterfall was halfway down.

  An incomparably huge carp rushed out from the waves, bit down on the Qilin Eagle in the air, and then fell into the deep pool below. When the giant carp fell into the water, the surging waves engulfed the surrounding jungle. An Zheng had never thought that, even if someone said so, he would still not believe that a carp could grow so big!

  After the carp swallowed the Qilin Eagle, the overlord within a thousand mile radius could already cry out before he died.

  With his free falling speed, An Zheng flew for at least a dozen seconds before falling. The moment he saw the carp clearly, a strange thought appeared in An Zheng's mind … The person who sees this carp must have good news within a week.

  Pui!

  He spat, thinking he must have been scared silly.

  Following the waves of the water, An Zheng finally lost consciousness.

  When he woke up, the sun's rays had already shone warmly on his body. He was lying at the waist of a mountain peak, on top of a large protruding rock. When the waves were at their highest, it was only a few thousand meters, so it was nothing to lie at this height. An Zheng massaged his head that was in incomparable pain, recalling something. He had fallen into the water a little later than the huge carp. When the carp fell into the water, the waves caused by the fall of the carp were just enough to send him into the air.

  The rock that was protruding out of the water was very big, but An Zheng stayed behind instead. It had to be said that his luck was heaven-defying.

  After An Zheng woke up, he immediately wanted to sit up and look at good old man, but when he moved, all his limbs and bones hurt extremely. Then, he saw good old man lying on his chest, looking at him with concern.

  "It's good that you're still here good old man. It's good that you're fine."
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br />   An Zheng incoherently spoke a few times before powerlessly lowering his hand. He discovered that he was still tightly grabbing onto Hong Luanzan.

  After lying like this for at least four hours, An Zheng finally had the slightest bit of strength to move. He moved back and propped himself up on the cliff, only to discover that his body was in a terrible condition. There was not a single undamaged area. There were wounds everywhere, and the areas without wounds were all blue and purple. He tried to move his arms and found that they were fine, but there were probably some broken bones and ribs.

  If there was no one to save him, he would not be able to survive for long on this protruding boulder halfway up the mountain. Fortunately An Zheng had brought the medicinal field with him, otherwise, he might have died even faster.

  "good old man, this is to say that you have survived a great disaster. I don't know if there's a blessing, I just know it's really fucking painful. "

  An Zheng said a few words to Mao'er, who was rubbing herself against his body, obviously very concerned about him.

  "It's fine, it's fine. Don't we have the medicine?"

  An Zheng struggled to open the beads on his bracelet, after which, a large medicinal field appeared in his mind. After he chose a few medicinal ingredients in his mind, they automatically flew out from the spatial space and landed beside An Zheng.

  An Zheng panted for a moment as he looked into the distance. He realized that countless large lakes had appeared within the mountains, and were halfway up the mountain. He didn't know where that giant carp had gone to. Perhaps it had already soared into the sky.

  An Zheng thought about how many people would have died if nothing happened to the Fantasy City. Du Shoushou and the others must be alright.

  Chapter 35 - Martial House

  For a very long time, An Zheng couldn't even lift his own arm, so it was basically impossible for him to heal his own injuries. Right now, An Zheng only had the good medicine by his side, but he could not move. He tried a few times, but to no avail. His two arms were extremely heavy, as if they were filled with lead. He even had to put in a lot of effort to lift them. He originally thought that he would be able to recover better after a period of recovery, but as his injuries became more severe, the speed at which his strength disappeared became faster and faster.