Chapter 229: Interception

Chapter 229: Interception

When Zhang Yuhe and the others arrived at the Heavenly Palace Main Hall…

They saw that the main hall was already crowded with figures.

Two figures with auras as deep as an abyss were quietly standing at the head of the main hall.

Zhang Yuhe had seen one of them before.

It was precisely the Old Ancestor of the Nangong Immortal Clan, Nangong Tianming.

As for the other person, whose aura was on par with Nangong Tianming…

He had never seen him before.

As far as he knew, the Nangong Immortal Clan should not have this person.

This person was perhaps from Wanxian Gate.

After a while longer, once all the personnel had arrived…

Nangong Tianming said faintly,

"The Chaos Beast of Niulan Mountain continuously breached two immortal cities and captured a large number of Cultivators."

"According to reliable news, the Chaos Beast is escorting the captured Cultivators back in separate groups."

"One of the Chaos Beast groups happens to pass by near Heavenly Palace City."

"You will set out with me to intercept the Chaos Beast and rescue the abducted Fellow Daoist."

"Yes."

The crowd responded in unison.

Nangong Tianming waved his right hand.

A massive immortal ship then hovered in mid-air.

He said loudly,

"Board the ship, let's set out."

Everyone successively rose into the air and quickly leaped onto the immortal ship.

Nangong Tianming hand-sealed a spell, and the immortal ship turned into a streak of light, quickly disappearing into the distance.

In order to assist Cheng Yuanshan in rescuing the captured Wanxian Gate Disciple…

Nangong Tianming gathered a total of five hundred Golden Immortal Cultivators.

As for True Immortal Disciple, not a single one was brought.

Their operation this time emphasized getting in and out quickly.

Regardless of whether they could save people or not, they would definitely just launch a surprise attack and leave.

It was impossible to engage in prolonged entanglement with the Chaos Beast.

In case it dragged on for too long and provoked the King Beast out, it would be complete doom.

The immortal ship cut through the Void Realm, flying rapidly toward the established target.

…

In the wilderness hundreds of millions of miles away from Heavenly Palace City…

A large, densely packed group of Chaos Beasts was rapidly running forward.

On the bodies of some Chaos Beasts, Cultivators were bound with a special kind of iron chain.

It was unknown what these iron chains were made of.

They could actually bind Cultivators so that they had no power to resist at all.

Countless Cultivators were bound to the backs of the Chaos Beasts, their faces all revealing looks of despair.

Everyone knew.

What kind of result awaited them next.

In the eyes of the Chaos Beast, Cultivators…

were merely a special kind of resource.

A kind of sacrifice used to worship the Supreme True God.

Between Cultivators and Chaos Beasts, there was never any talk of surrender.

It wasn't to say that everyone wasn't afraid of death.

In fact, there were those afraid of death.

But alas, the other party would not accept surrender.

The Chaos Beast would only treat Cultivators as a precious sacrifice.

"Would you accept the surrender of a sacrifice?"

Obviously, that was impossible.

Similarly, Cultivators would not accept a Chaos Beast's surrender.

Rumor has it that in ancient times…

there were once mighty Cultivators who wanted to raise and domesticate Chaos Beasts for their own use.

What a pity, in the end, they suffered a backlash.

Not only were they killed by the Chaos Beast themselves…

even the Sect where they resided…

was also destroyed by the Chaos Beast.

Ever since then…

all Cultivators developed a consensus.

That was, the Chaos Beast has a tyrannical nature.

They can only be beaten to death, not domesticated.

These captured Cultivators only hated why they didn't have the courage to self-detonate back then.

Now, unless a miracle appeared…

otherwise, upon reaching the Niulan Mountain Tribe…

they would become the sacrifice in the eyes of the Chaos Beast.

Used to worship the Supreme True God.

Becoming the nourishment for the evolution of the Chaos Beast.

…

The massive Chaos Beast troop galloped all the way toward the direction of Niulan Mountain.

However, their forward speed was not considered too fast.

There was no help for it.

The number of Chaos Beasts was simply a bit too much.

The number of Chaos Beasts in the entire team was at least three to four million or more.

Moreover, there was a large number of low-tier Chaos Beasts present, slowing down the team's forward speed.

Niulan Mountain could not possibly abandon these low-tier Chaos Beasts and ignore them.

At the very front of the team…

a humanoid Chaos Beast ran quickly while taking a glance toward the direction of Heavenly Palace City.

It said with some worry,

"I wonder if the Human Race Cultivators of Heavenly Palace City will come out to intercept?"

Hearing these words…

another humanoid Chaos Beast nearby responded with some disdain,

"There are only a few old fellows in Heavenly Palace City; we didn't go to beat them, which is already a blessing."

"How dare they come out and provoke our Niulan Mountain."

Although words were said like this…

but the leading humanoid Chaos Beast was still somewhat worried.

In its view…

whether the Cultivators of Heavenly Palace City were willing or not, this was not important.

The key was what Wanxian Gate would do.

As long as Wanxian Gate made up its mind…

would the Nangong Immortal Clan dare to disobey orders?

In order to avoid interception by Wanxian Gate…

they tried their best to stay away from the Cultivators' cities when choosing their route.

Because on the Chaos continent, all Cultivators' cities were deployed with Teleportation Arrays.

The Cultivators of Wanxian Gate could quickly reach the closest position to them through the Teleportation Array.

The further away from the cities, the safer they were.

For the Chaos Beast…

this worship ceremony had already ended.

The remaining question was what they should do to safely bring the sacrifice back to the tribe.

Now there was a bit of a feeling that the offensive and defensive situations had reversed.

Roar…

Just as this humanoid Chaos Beast was still struggling in its heart…

a beast roar suddenly came from afar.

Following closely, beast roars rose one after another, continuously spreading from afar to near.

This was a way for Chaos Beasts to contact each other.

The humanoid Chaos Beast immediately stopped its footsteps.

The surrounding Chaos Beasts also stopped along with it.

Because they already knew…

the Cultivators of Heavenly Palace City had truly slaughtered their way out of the city.

It just wasn't known how many people Wanxian Gate actually brought.

If it were just the Cultivators of Heavenly Palace City…

they naturally wouldn't fear them.

Although Niulan Mountain divided its forces into multiple routes to return…

every single one of their routes had powerful strength overseeing it.

Unless Wanxian Gate dispatched in a massive scale…

otherwise, they really weren't too afraid.

Coming with too few would only deliver nourishment to them.

However, they all knew…

although Cultivators liked to take risks…

at a time like this, daring to chase out still meant they definitely had some certainty.

A streak of light flashed across from afar, quickly catching up to the Chaos Beast troop.

Looking at the massive Chaos Beast force before his eyes, Nangong Tianming couldn't help feeling a bit of a headache.

He roughly swept a glance.

Just the Nine-Star Chaos Beast alone numbered two.

Other Grand Unity Realm Chaos Beasts above seven stars were at least over a hundred.

As for Chaos Beasts below six stars, they were countless, likely numbering in the millions.

Those captured Wanxian Gate Disciples were carried on the backs of the Chaos Beasts.

Mixed among the entire army.

Making it impossible for them to execute a focused surprise attack for rescue.

Now it seemed that wanting to rescue all the abducted Cultivators…

was somewhat impossible.

After all, it was impossible for them to slaughter all the Chaos Beasts.

Just him and Cheng Yuanshan, two people alone, did not have such great capability.

However, let's do our human best and leave the rest to fate.

As long as they had tried their best once, they would be worthy of Wanxian Gate.

Thinking of this…

Nangong Tianming said loudly,

"Everyone attack together, and rescue the abducted Fellow Daoist as much as possible."

"Yes."

Everyone agreed in unison.

Then they quickly leaped out from the flying boat and lunged toward the massive amount of Chaos Beasts.