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Over the next few days, the three parties waited in the area. While they waited, the mist gradually grew increasingly sparse. Contrary to expectations, however, the thinner the mist became, the more dazzling the multi-color light it gave off.
As a result, other factions began to be drawn over one after another, only to be rather alarmed by the sight of the three waiting factions here.
However, they soon realized to their excitement that there must be some kind of treasure. If not, why would teams from the Sacred Palace, Cangxuan Sect and Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace be gathered in this location?
Hence, news of this stealthily spread as more and more attention was drawn to this place, while the various factions quietly appeared one after another.
Zhou Yuan, Fan Yao and Tang Xiaoyan were not surprised by the appearance of the other factions, and did not try to chase them away. These factions would become cannon fodder that would draw away some of the attention of the Genesis Beasts inside the ancient mountain forest.
Over the three days, more and more groups quietly arrived outside the ancient mountain forest.
When the sky began to brighten on the fourth day.
Zhou Yuan, Fan Yao, Tang Xiaoyan and the others abruptly opened their eyes and looked towards the forest, where the mist was gradually becoming fainter and fainter...
Their Spirit senses were finally regaining some function.
The trio’s gazes met for a moment. In the next instant, the members of their three parties rose amidst a whistle.
Swoosh! Swish!
Next, the three groups shot forth at the same time, like a flock of birds flying across the sky, and soon disappeared into the ancient mountain forest under the many secretly watching gazes.
Rumble!
The waiting factions were soon unable to restrain their impatience, and began to swarm out as they charged into the mountain forest.
In an instant, the peace that long reigned over ancient mountain forest was finally broken.
The struggle for the six color treasure location had finally begun.
Chapter 579 Six Color Lake
Swish! Swish!
Several hundred figures charged into the misty mountain forest.
Although the members from the three sects were currently gathered in one big group, they still maintained a certain distance between them, evidently still unable to fully trust each other.
“Go!”
With a low shout, the several hundred member strong group increased their speed, swiftly flying towards the depths of the forest on their Genesis Qi.
When they entered, the faint mist around them still somewhat obstructed their vision. However, their Spirit senses were able to scout a certain distance ahead.
Zhou Yuan was positioned at the very front of the group, the Spirit between his brows vibrating as invisible Spirit power spread to scan the surroundings.
“I sense some disturbances in the surrounding Genesis Qi. The Genesis Beast hidden inside the forest have likely been alerted to our presences. Be careful everyone.” Zhou Yuan’s voice was transmitted into the ears of every Cangxuan Sect disciple with the help of Genesis Qi.
The disciples' expressions shivered when they heard this as Genesis Qi began rising around their bodies. All sorts of Genesis weapons also appeared in their hands, as they vigilantly advanced.
Rumble!
Zhou Yuan’s words were soon verified. The land began to tremble faintly as countless hisses and howls echoed from the depths of the forest.
Roar!
Countless blood-red eyes appeared in the dark depths of the forest. In the next instant, innumerable ferocious Genesis Beasts emerged with thunderous roars, and charged towards the disciples from the three sects.
“Attack!”
The disciples from the three sects did not hesitate. Countless Genesis Qi attacks unfurled, ruthlessly smashing into the incoming beast tide.
Berserk Genesis Qi shockwaves swept outwards, tearing apart the surrounding land.
The stench of blood instantly filled the area.
Faint shrieks rang out from various directions. The other groups that had entered the mountain forest after them had likely encountered similar Genesis Beast attacks.
The disciples of the three sects were elites, and their attacks were naturally exceptionally fierce and deadly. The charging Genesis Beasts were blasted to pieces before they could even reach the hundred feet radius mark around the group.
As the Genesis Beasts were being bombarded to death, strands of Qi infused with different colors rose from their bodies. It was shockingly Mythic Genesis essence.
The Genesis Beast that lived here seemed to have absorbed some Mythic Genesis essence into their bodies.
“Send twenty disciples to collect the Mythic Genesis essence.” Instructed Zhou Yuan. Although this Mythic Genesis essence was beneath his attention, it was very alluring to the other disciples.
At his words, several disciples immediately split off from the group, and quickly collected the Mythic Genesis essence drifting from the corpses as the main group continued to advance.
In this methodological manner, the disciples of the three sects continuously cut through the surging beast tide, as they steadily approached the depths of the forest.
But as they ventured deeper, stronger and stronger Genesis Beasts appeared. As time passed, even the disciples from the three sects began to feel some pressure.
Some of the Genesis Beasts managed to break through the attacks of the disciples, charging at the group to engage in battle with the disciples at the very front.
As both sides clashed, the disciples from the three sects gradually began to sustain some injuries.
At the sight of this, Zhou Yuan prepared to take to the frontlines as well, but was almost immediately stopped by Gu Hongyi.
Gu Hongyi said in a low voice, “Don’t waste your Genesis Qi here, the real battle will be later on, and you need to keep yourself at peak condition. Look at the other two groups, their chief disciples clearly have no intentions of acting now.”
Zhou Yuan’s gaze swept towards the other two teams. Sure enough, both Fan Yao and Tang Xiaoyan were commanding the other disciples from the center of the group, and had no intentions of participating in the battles.
It was exactly as Gu Hongyi had said. They were doing all they could to preserve as much Genesis Qi as possible for the sake of contesting for the final reward.
“Since I can’t use Genesis Qi, I’ll aid everyone with Genesis Runes.” Zhou Yuan fell into thought for a brief moment as he composed himself. Although he could not use Genesis Qi, it did not mean that he would not be able to help out.
Gu Hongyi worriedly said, “Expending your Spirit is not good either.”
“It won’t be a problem, my battle tactics mostly lean towards the usage of Genesis Qi.” Zhou Yuan shook his head. He was different from Jin Zhang after all. Although the latter was also proficient in Genesis Runes, his Genesis Qi cultivation was rather ordinary. As such, Jin Zhang would not dare to casually use his Spirit, while Zhou Yuan did not share such concerns.
These Cangxuan Sect disciples were courageously fighting at his instructions, and were even willing to put their lives on the line. Though they may feel that there was nothing wrong with this, Zhou Yuan wished to put his heart at ease.
With a grasp of his hand, the Heavenly Yuan Brush appeared. The brush tip danced across the air as rune after rune quickly began to take shape.
Swish! Swish!
The Genesis Runes flew forward and landed on the bravely fighting Cangxuan Sect disciples at the very front. Upon contact, the runes rapidly began to extend, amplifying their defensive abilities like a glowing armor. A layer of mysterious light also surged onto their Genesis weapons, giving an extra edge to their attacks.
Zhou Yuan’s actions greatly boosted the morale of the Cangxuan Sect disciples. With the support of these Genesis Runes, they would sustain less damage.
The Can
gxuan Sect disciples cast grateful gazes towards Zhou Yuan, before turning back to the tear through the Genesis beast tide, increasing their pace as they pushed towards the central region of the ancient mountain forest.
The other two teams naturally sensed the sudden increase in vigour of the Cangxuan Sect disciples. Their gazes swept towards the latter, immediately seeing the Genesis Runes on the Cangxuan Sect disciples, before turning towards Zhou Yuan, who was positioned at the center of the group.
Envy flowed out in the eyes of the Sacred Palace and Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace disciples. Having someone support them with Genesis Runes at such a time would undoubtedly boost their fighting power.
Unfortunately, although there were some individuals who were also proficient in Genesis Runes on their side, they were far from being as skillful as Zhou Yuan.
In addition, they also understood that their chief disciples were currently preserving their strength, and would not easily use any Genesis Qi. Though Zhou Yuan was using Genesis Runes, it would still somewhat tire his Spirit.
“Humph, trying to put up an act!” A sneer flitted across Fan Yao’s eyes when he saw this. “Are you trying to buy the hearts of the people even at such a time? Unfortunately, you will realize how laughable your actions are when you lose later on.”
On the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace side, Tang Xiaoyan’s eyes flickered faintly as she said, “Zhou Yuan is quite clever.”
Zhao Ru frowned slightly. “He can’t even recognize what’s important. Every bit of energy he uses now is less energy available when we vie for the six color lake later on. If he fails later on, everyone will only blame him even more.”
Tang Xiaoyan said, “What if he doesn’t mind using up some power here because he has absolute confidence in himself?”
Zhao Ru was stunned, but soon burst out into laughter as disdain flitted across her eyes.
“You think way too highly of him.”
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The sound of battle filled every corner of the sprawling mountain forest, an endless stream of Genesis Beasts pouring out to stop the invaders. Several powerful Genesis Beasts also began to appear, but fortunately for the three sects, the factions continued to enter from behind, drawing away the attention of the Genesis Beasts.
The disciples of the three sects took this opportunity to push forward even harder. After another incense stick of fighting, Zhou Yuan, Fan Yao and Tang Xiaoyan suddenly lifted their heads at the same time.
Their gazes looked towards a certain spot in excitement, where six color light was flowing in the depths of the forest, as the surrounding Genesis Qi suddenly became lighter and purer.
Gurgle.
The faint sound of travelling water was heard, washing away the tiredness from the fighting disciples.
The three teams increased their pace, and cut through the forest. A split second larger, the view before their eyes abruptly widened, as they found themselves standing on the high ground. To their front was a giant hole that seemed to have been smashed open by a meteor.
The giant hole formed an enormous lake that gave off a six-color glow. Sunlight reflected off its waters, giving off a gorgeous and mysterious gleam.
Everyone’s eyes filled with burning desire as they stared at the six color lake. In fact, they even felt as if the surrounding temperature was beginning to rise.
The six color treasure location was now right before their eyes!
Chapter 580 Three-headed Spirit Ghost Python
The disciples from the three sects held their breaths in silence, as they looked down from above at the seemingly endless six color lake with unconcealable excitement and desire in their eyes.
A six color treasure location was an extremely rare encounter for ordinary disciples like themselves. Normally speaking, a treasure location like this would only appear in the deeper areas of the Mythic Utopia, where only the numerous Chosens and chief disciples would dare to show their faces, while those with mediocre strength such as themselves naturally did not possess the qualifications.
As such, this was a very lucky encounter.
Although the biggest spoils would surely end up with their leaders, having a small share of some soup was already more than satisfactory for the other disciples.
Of course… though they had now found the six color lake, there was still another struggle to determine how big of a share they would receive...
At this moment, the disciples of the three sects cast their expectant gazes towards the front, where the chief disciples of the three sects were stepping forward.
The disciples of the three sects had painstakingly cut open a path through the beast tide to reach this place, all for the sake of preserving the strength of their chief disciples.
They knew that the next battlefield belonged to these chief disciples.
It would be a fight to decide the rights to the six color lake.
Under the numerous expectant gazes, Zhou Yuan and Jin Zhang stared at the six color lake before them. They could feel an invisible repulsive force spread from within it.
However, the four-color Divine Establishing Treasures in their Qi Dwellings began to release undulations at this moment that slowly resisted the repulsive force.
“There’s an extremely powerful Genesis Qi ripple hidden in the depths of the lake.” Jin Zhang looked towards Zhou Yuan with a grave expression. “If my guess is correct, it should belong to the guardian beast of this treasure location.”
“The only thing yet to ascertain is its level and strength…”
“We’ll know soon.” Zhou Yuan finished Jin Zhang’s words as he looked towards the other two directions. Fan Yao, Tang Xiaoyan and the other two also looked back.
In the next moment, the three parties moved at the same time. Genesis Qi ferociously roared out, like giant sky pillars that mercilessly bombarded the six color lake.
Boom!
The surface of the lake exploded, creating giant waves.
Hss!
A sharp hiss suddenly sounded from the depths of the water at this moment. Next, everyone watched as an enormous shadow began to surface from the depths of the lake. It ultimately broke through the surface, and appeared before everyone’s sights.
The group gasped as they laid eyes on the enormous Genesis Beast, while alarm and fear appeared on their faces.
A giant black python had risen from the lake, its body a gloomy black, while its triangular eyes flickered with cruelty. The most shocking thing, however, were the two illusory black python figures beside the black python. These two python figures would occasionally fuse into the black python’s body, making it look akin to a three-headed python when it reared its enormous head.
An extremely savage and chilling Genesis Qi ripple swept out from its body like a storm, the mighty pressure causing the faces of the many disciples to pale.
Fan Yao stared at the strange black python with an ugly expression as he said with a clear pause between each word, “Three-headed Spirit Ghost Python!”
It was a rarely seen Genesis Beast that would originally start out as a Spirit Ghost Python. If an unborn Spirit Ghost Python gains awareness while still in its mother’s body, it would break out of its shell, devour and assimilate its siblings. When such a creature is eventually born, there would be two ghost python silhouettes or shadows accompanying it at all times, shadows that would grow along with the main body and gradually gain powers of their own.
Once it encountered danger, the two Spirit Ghost Python shadows would fuse with the main body, and greatly enhance its strength.
The Three-headed Spirit Ghost Python before them possessed extremely astonishing battle power, and even the Chosens from their three sects would be somewhat hard-pressed if they were here.
Although there were six chief disciples on their side, they would likely have to pay an exceedingly terrible price to slay this creature. In fact, it would be optimistic to estimate that only half of their forces would be killed by the snake.
In the air, Zho
u Yuan, Fan Yao, Tang Xiaoyan and the other three chief disciples were silent for several breaths, before suddenly shooting backwards at the same moment, withdrawing from the range of the six color lake.
In the lake, the Three-headed Spirit Ghost Snake’s cruel pupils closely followed them, but did not give chase. Instead, it slowly began to submerge into the water, clearly having no intentions of leaving the six color lake.
The disciples from the three sects felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over their heads when they saw this. Their previous excitement had completely faded away, clearly intimidated and shaken by the Three-headed Spirit Ghost Python.
In the face of such a terrible monster, even the chief disciples of the three sects did not dare to say they would be able to beat it.
The atmosphere turned rather cold and silent for a time.
Zhou Yuan, Fan Yao, Tang Xiaoyan and the other chief disciples gathered together in the air.
“I did not expect it to be a Three-headed Spirit Ghost Snake…” Tang Xiaoyan gently bit into her red lips, her kindly face turning rather ugly at this moment.
“What do we do?” Zhao Ru could not help but ask. The six color treasure location was just within reach, but they were being obstructed by the Three-headed Spirit Ghost Snake. This situation was rather hard to accept.
The others were silent. If they were to engage the beast in battle, they would be able to put up a fight, but it would certainly result in casualties.
It was obvious that no one would willingly become a casualty...
The silence lasted for a few more moments, before Zhou Yuan slowly said, “The Three-headed Spirit Ghost Snake’s battle power will rise drastically once it fuses, rendering even a Chosen powerless against it. To deal with it, we’ll have to first split its bodies.”
Fan Yao laughed mockingly, before he said, “The ghost snake shadows are always with the Spirit Ghost Snake. I’ve never heard of them separating before.”
Zhao Ru icily snorted, evidently feeling that Zhou Yuan was spouting nonsense.
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