Chapter 177: Chapter 138: Life-and-Death Battle (Part 1)

The Celestial Shuttle Spirit Ship sped through the air, traversing numerous mountain ranges.

Inside the ship, Li Mu multitasked, carving Puppet Cores using the Soul Wood Heart while his Divine Sense monitored the situation outside the ship.

After entering the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range, the number of High-tier Demon Beasts increased significantly.

“Crack!”

A silver lightning snake suddenly sliced through the sky with destructive power.

Li Mu hurriedly halted the Celestial Shuttle Spirit Ship, stopping the carving of Puppet Cores and concentrating part of his Divine Sense on the thunderclouds gathering in the sky.

The dense black cloud rapidly gathered, resembling a funnel vortex, brewing boundless Thunder Power.

He maneuvered the Celestial Shuttle Spirit Ship to slowly descend onto the peak of a thousand-foot-high mountain. Li Mu flew out and casually stored the Celestial Shuttle Spirit Ship in his Storage Bracelet, looking toward the sky where a High-tier Demon Beast was Crossing the Thunder Tribulation.

In the direction of Celestial Wind Mountain, a Demon King was undergoing a tribulation. The force of the Tribulation Thunder was immense, affecting an area of two to three hundred miles. To avoid unexpected incidents, Li Mu stopped moving forward.

Simultaneously, Li Mu was curious about which Demon Beast was undergoing tribulation and whether it could successfully cross it. He had never witnessed a Demon Beast or Cultivator undergoing a tribulation; when promoting from Golden Core to Nascent Soul, it also seemed necessary to undergo a tribulation. Now, he could gain some experience.

Thunder roared incessantly, with dense lightning striking repeatedly, illuminating the entire world.

Li Mu clearly saw the Demon Beast struck by countless bolts of lightning; it was a Tier Five Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion, covered in bright blue scale armor, with a lion head, horse body, and double horns on its head, over two yards tall, strong and majestic.

This was, by far, the most beautiful Demon Beast Li Mu had ever seen. Its giant lion head, horse-like body, and azure flame-like mane, coupled with the blue and white interlaced scale armor on its body and belly, made it exceedingly extravagant and enchanting.

However, under the relentless bombardment of lightning, its massive body and dazzling blue mane were splattered with blood, while the blue scale armor shattered and scattered.

The thunderous rumble was unceasing, and robust lightning bolts followed one after another as if aiming to completely destroy it.

“Boom!”

A lightning snake as thick as a barrel struck fiercely, hitting the Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion, knocking it from the sky. Immediately, bolts of lightning rained down, targeting its vulnerable state!

The merciless Celestial Tribulation seemed tired of the Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion’s defiance, determined to end this tribulation promptly without giving it any respite.

Li Mu noticed several High-tier Demon Beasts gathering outside the range of the lightning tribulation, observing the Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion’s ordeal from afar.

Once the tribulation ended, whether it failed to pass or successfully crossed but suffered severe injuries, a feast would unfold.

Li Mu furrowed his brow, hesitating on whether to intervene.

There were too many High-tier Demon Beasts. If discovered by them, it would definitely be troublesome.

Among the spectators were a Tier Five Green-eyed Golden Tiger, a Tier Five Blood Crowned Demon Snake, a Tier Five Three-headed Demon Wolf, a Tier Five White Feathered Demoness, a Tier Five Golden-Winged Demon Roc surveying Tianji, …, five Tier Five, and seven or eight Tier Four Demon Beasts lurking around, observing Tianji.

Once the lightning tribulation ended, a fierce battle for contention would surely erupt.

The lightning tribulation continued, with lightning bolts striking repeatedly. The Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion’s life force was exceedingly tenacious, struggling to withstand the lightning strikes, attempting to stand up from the ground, seemingly able to endure the tribulation.

The High-tier Demon Beasts observing from afar grew restless, converging from all directions, waiting in anticipation at the perimeter of the lightning tribulation.

If the Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion were to survive the tribulation, it would become a Tier Six Demon Beast. With its severely injured body, facing the attacks from numerous Tier Five and Tier Four Demon Beasts, there might be an opportunity for mutual defeat.

Intervening in this situation, regardless of the victorious side, would yield numerous High-tier Demon Beast corpses.

Upon considering this, Li Mu hesitantly chose to intervene, preparing to reap the spoils opportunistically.

After Xiaojin and Xiaowa reached Tier Four Peak, their growth had stagnated.

Firstly, each hunt had been combat with Demon Beasts one or two tiers lower, lacking experience in fighting High-tier Demon Beasts and the desire to promote tiers. Secondly, without High-Tier Demon Beast Meat resources, only in such places like the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range could they encounter so many High-tier Demon Beasts at once.

Now, the opportunity had arrived!

Li Mu flew forward, finding a location to set up an Illusion Array and Demon Trapping Array while constantly observing the lightning tribulation and the situation of the Demon Beasts.

“Roar!”

Suddenly, the Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion let out a loud roar toward the sky, its exhausted voice tinged with a note of joy as the tribulation cloud was slowly dissipating; it had successfully crossed this Thunder Tribulation, and its severely injured body was rapidly recovering.

This roar ignited the greed of the surrounding Tier Five Demon Beasts; a shadow suddenly darted out—a massive Cyan-eyed Golden Tiger emerged from behind the Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion, fiercely biting towards its neck and back.

The Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion sensed this early on, unleashing thunder flames all over its body, and agilely leapt away, its massive body trailing illusions, dissipating from the original spot.

The Green-eyed Golden Tiger’s attack missed completely, its limbs clawed onto the ground, vigilantly staring at the Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion, preparing to strike again.

The Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion had just landed when a robust black snake emerged from the shadows, opening its mouth wide to bite the Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion’s abdomen, its sharp fangs gleaming transparently, evidently venomous.

The Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion reacted with incredible speed, swiftly condensing a bolt of thunder on its body, fiercely striking at the attacking black entity.

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