Chapter 434: Immortal King Talisman, Shifting Trouble to Others

The ground began to tremble.

Lin Tian was in the middle of a killing spree when he suddenly felt a terrifying pressure lock onto him.

He looked up.

He saw three mountain-sized giant apes, waving massive clubs and drooling as they charged toward him.

“What the hell? True Immortal Realm Tenth Layer?”

The smile on Lin Tian's face instantly froze.

Is this the kind of monster that's supposed to be on the first floor?

Lin Tian's smile stiffened on his face.

The three giant apes of the True Immortal Realm Tenth Layer were each a hundred feet tall, their muscles knotted and bulging, radiating a violent aura.

Their eyes were blood-red, staring fixedly at Lin Tian, their saliva dripping onto the ground and corroding deep pits into it.

“Senior Brother Lin, watch out!”

The Disciples following behind Lin Tian fled in all directions, terrified.

Lin Tian's face turned ashen as the longsword in his hand erupted with terrifying sword light.

“Beasts! You're looking for death!”

Lin Tian slashed out with his sword, sending Sword Qi sweeping across hundreds of feet directly at the leading giant ape.

Boom!

The giant ape raised its thick arm and casually blocked the strike.

The Sword Qi left only a shallow white mark on its skin.

“What?” Lin Tian's pupils contracted.

This strike was enough to kill a Fifth Layer of True Immortal Realm Yao Beast, yet it couldn't even break this beast's skin?

Roar!

The three giant apes roared simultaneously, swinging their massive fists to smash Lin Tian.

The wind from their punches whistled, compressing the air into a physical force that let out a piercing boom.

“Damn it!”

Lin Tian's figure retreated violently as he shouted, “Why haven't you acted yet?!”

As soon as he spoke, four figures flashed out from the shadows.

They were the four True Immortal Realm Tenth Layer death soldiers sent by the Lin family.

Without a word, they lunged directly at the three giant apes.

For a moment, the entire forest shook violently.

Trees collapsed in swathes, and the earth split open.

The aftershocks of the True Immortal Realm Tenth Layer battle turned everything within dozens of miles into ruins.

Zhou Chen stood on a distant hilltop, chewing on a spirit fruit he had taken from the System space, watching the chaotic battle with great interest.

“Tsk tsk, it's quite a lively fight.”

He raised a finger and pointed.

An invisible strand of Sword Qi shot out, accurately hitting the back of one of the death soldiers' hearts.

That death soldier was focusing all his strength on fighting the giant ape and was completely unguarded.

Pfft!

The Sword Qi pierced through his heart.

The death soldier's body stiffened, and his aura instantly withered.

The giant ape seized the Opportunity and smashed a fist into his head.

Bang!

Brains splattered.

The death soldier's headless corpse crashed heavily to the ground.

“Old Third!”

The other three death soldiers' eyes nearly burst with rage.

Lin Tian was also stunned.

What happened?

Old Third clearly had the upper hand; how did he suddenly die?

He didn't have time to think, because with the loss of one combatant, the balance of the situation instantly collapsed.

The three giant apes grew more ferocious as they fought, and one of them fixed its gaze directly on Lin Tian.

“Get lost!”

Lin Tian gritted his teeth, the Immortal Spiritual Power within his body burning frantically.

Dense runes appeared on his sword blade, radiating an aura of destruction.

“Heaven-Breaking Sword!”

This was his strongest attack.

The sword light soared into the sky, transforming into a hundred-foot-long phantom of a giant sword that slashed down fiercely at the giant ape.

Rumble!

A wound deep enough to see the bone was slashed into the giant ape's chest, and blood gushed out like a waterfall.

Roar!

The giant ape cried out in pain, becoming even more berserk.

Ignoring its injury, it grabbed Lin Tian's sword blade and gave it a violent tug.

Crack!

The longsword snapped.

Lin Tian spat out a mouthful of blood and was sent flying backward, crashing heavily into a large tree.

“Young Lord!”

The remaining three death soldiers tried to come to his rescue but were pinned down by the other two giant apes.

Just as the giant ape was about to crush Lin Tian with a punch…

A golden light flew out from Lin Tian's robes.

It was an ancient jade Talisman.

The jade Talisman shattered, transforming into a phantom figure.

The figure raised a hand and waved.

A terrifying Immortal King pressure instantly enveloped the entire area.

The three giant apes froze, the violence in their eyes replaced by terror.

The next second…

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The bodies of the three giant apes exploded simultaneously, turning into a mist of blood that filled the sky.

The phantom glanced at Lin Tian and said in a raspy voice, “Proceed with caution.”

With that, it dissipated into the air.

Lin Tian slumped on the ground, gasping for breath.

In that moment just now, he truly thought he was going to die.

“Damn it… who on earth is targeting me?”

A deep look of resentment flashed in his eyes.

Old Third's death was definitely not normal.

Someone must have acted from the shadows.

Zhou Chen saw this and gave a tsk.

“A life-saving Talisman left by an Immortal King? The Lin family is truly generous.”

But it didn't matter.

Anyway, such things are one-time consumables; Lin Tian likely wouldn't have a second one.

His figure flickered and he vanished from the spot.

Lin Tian rested for a while and took several healing Medicinal Pills before his complexion looked slightly better.

“Young Lord, what do we do next?”

A death soldier asked in a low voice.

Lin Tian stood up, a trace of ruthlessness flashing in his eyes.

“Keep moving forward.”

They gathered themselves and headed toward the depths of the forest.

And dozens of miles behind them…

Zhou Chen followed leisurely, strolling as if he were walking in his own back garden.

“Lin Tian, oh Lin Tian, you really do have many opportunities.”

He opened the System panel and looked at Lin Tian's updated Opportunity information.

[Recent Opportunity 1: In three days, at the Core Area of the second floor of the Secret Realm, obtain the Immortal Rank High Grade Spirit Medicine, Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Grass, and Breakthrough to the Third Layer of True Immortal Realm.]

[Recent Opportunity 2: In five days, at the Immortal King Inheritance Hall in the Core Area of the Secret Realm, obtain the Immortal Rank Top-Grade Cultivation Technique "Taixu Boundless Scripture," greatly increasing strength.]

“Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Grass… not bad at all.”

Zhou Chen nodded slightly.

This kind of Spirit Medicine can not only heal injuries but also strengthen the Divine Soul, which would be of significant help to his current Realm.

“Then I'll head to the second floor and wait for you.”

Zhou Chen's figure turned into a streak of light, bypassing Lin Tian and flying directly toward the teleportation array in the center of the forest.

The trials of the first floor held no difficulty for him.

Those True Immortal level Yao Beasts sensed the aura on him and all stayed far away, not daring to approach at all.

Half an hour later.

Zhou Chen arrived at the center of the forest.

There was an ancient altar here, and in the center of the altar was a rotating light gate.

The light gate emitted a soft white light; it was precisely the teleportation array leading to the second floor.

Zhou Chen did not hesitate and stepped directly into the light gate.

His vision blurred.

The scene changed once again.

This was a desolate Gobi Desert.

The sky was a murky gray, no sun in sight, only endless yellow sand dancing in the wind.

The air was filled with a deathly still aura.

“The second floor… a battle for resources?”

Zhou Chen's Divine Sense swept through and found that many Disciples were already fighting within a ten-thousand-mile radius.

The rules of this floor were very simple.

Kill and seize treasures.

Everyone carried an Identity Jade Token; killing an opponent allowed one to seize their token.

The more tokens one had, the more generous the final rewards would be.

Of course, one could also choose to search for Heaven And Earth Treasures scattered throughout the Gobi, which could also earn tokens.

But those treasures were often guarded by powerful Yao Beasts, and the danger was no less than that of killing people.

Zhou Chen gave a casual wave.

A strand of Sword Qi slashed out, cutting a Fifth Layer of True Immortal Realm Sand Scorpion in the distance in half.

He walked over and extracted a fist-sized Yao core from the Sand Scorpion's corpse.

“A Fifth Layer of True Immortal Realm Yao core, barely enough to fill a gap between teeth.”