The Great Wild God - Chapter 138

Chapter 138 Anomaly
Chen Xun emerged from the cold pond, and his intuition was that the surroundings were quiet. Only a full moon floated in the night sky, illuminating the cold pond’s mountains and fields.

Not to mention the three to five rogue cultivators who had been fighting against the peculiar toad in the vicinity a few days ago, even the aura of the peculiar toad couldn’t be sensed at all?

Could it be that the three to four hundred strange toads that escaped into the forest were all killed by those rogue cultivators?

This possibility was obviously very slim. After these strange toads scattered all over the place, they would not be able to fight against rogue cultivators. However, it would be extremely difficult to escape into the dense forest and mountains and rivers to kill them all. It should be because of some other unforeseen change in the surroundings.

Chen Xun took out the Soul Pursuing Seal and discovered that after he reached the peak of the True Yang Realm, his Spiritual Sense would also increase slightly. However, before he could sense the aura further away from the Soul Pursuing Seal, he heard several wolf howls coming from extremely far away.

The distance between the Frost Lake and the Jade Pillar Peak was more than four hundred miles. He had dived into the Frost Lake to cultivate. It was unknown how many days had passed. He did not expect that when he left the Frost Lake again, the situation had already changed to this point. There was already a Green Wolf counterattacking near the Frost Lake.

Chen Xun restrained his aura and followed the wolf’s howl as he dived into the distant mountains.

Chen Xun had always adhered to the principle of being bold and meticulous. He did not go straight to the stone ridge where the wolf’s howl came from. Instead, he crawled out from a dense forest not far away and looked at the several giant wolves standing at the top of the stone ridge in the distance.

Chen Xun had once walked past that stone ridge, and he knew how high the cliff stones at the summit of the stone ridge were.

Compared to the cliff stones, those giant wolves were actually over four meters tall. Each of them was several points taller than the giant wolf that the black python had worked together to kill back then, and their fur was light golden under the moon.

The giant golden wolf standing on the cliff was even bigger, its fur shining like flowing gold in the moonlight, and its eyes like two gemstones embedded in the night sky.

The giant golden wolf was howling towards the full moon in the night sky, forming a faint green halo around the giant wolf.

If it weren’t for his extraordinary spiritual sense, he wouldn’t have been able to sense the gathering of Lunar Profound Qi from such a distance.

Chen Xun wasn’t surprised that the divine wolf was able to absorb the essence of the sun and moon. The golden giant wolf in front of him was clearly a level lower than the divine wolf and was actually able to absorb the lunar profound energy within the moonlight. Chen Xun was truly surprised.

These giant wolves dived near the Frost Lake?

Chen Xun was puzzled in his heart. He dived towards another mountain peak and climbed onto a high cliff. He then looked at the stone cliff where the giant golden wolf was standing. In the mountain depression below the cliff, the dense stubble was filled with the black shadow of the giant green wolf.

These green wolves were nearly twice as large as the ones that could be seen. Their numbers weren’t much. There were almost 200 of them under the potential cliff with dense stubbles.

Seeing this, Chen Xun’s scalp almost exploded.

The disciples of the two sects hunted Blue Wolves like beasts. Few would have thought that Blue Wolves’ intelligence was actually not inferior to humans, right?

Under the leadership of the giant golden wolf, this pack of green wolves dived near the Frost Lake Swamp. It was clear that they were hunting loose cultivators in turn.

Chen Xun entered the Eighth Marrow Cleansing Layer. His blood vitality was several times more majestic than before, but he knew that in front of this pack of green wolves, he wasn’t even considered a dish of vegetables. He immediately restrained his aura and sneaked into the distance.

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Bypassing the periphery of Jade Pillar Peak, Chen Xun returned to the Academy camp and saw hundreds of giant vicious birds circling above the graystone mountain forest, pecking at the wolf corpses everywhere.

Scaled Vultures, Green Scaled Condors, and other fierce birds had so many wolf corpses that they could peck at them at will. On the contrary, they allowed Chen Xun to easily enter the Graystone Ridge. The camp had long since turned into ruins, and the dense forest near the Graystone Ridge was a mess. No one knew how many green wolves had corpsed across the mountain fields, and the loose cultivators and disciples of the Academy who had gathered there in the past were nowhere to be found.

Chen Xun sneaked into the Academy’s camp. The fence wall had long since collapsed, and the stone palace, wooden house, and more than ten copper chariots had been abandoned there.

The bronze chariot forged by the Azure Water College was made from ordinary bronze and iron materials that seeped into a large amount of scarlet copper essence. The chariot seat was also engraved with profound talismans and secret seals. It could draw spiritual energy from heaven and earth, and was exceptionally sturdy. It could be said to be a moving fortress.

However, all of the bronze chariots left in the ruins of the camp were torn apart by their claws. They were torn into pieces, severely deformed, and had no choice but to abandon them here.

If these bronze chariots were torn apart by the claws of the giant wolf, Chen Xun couldn’t even imagine how sharp and divine the claws of the giant wolf were.

More than a dozen extraordinarily handsome scaled horses had their flesh eaten up, and enormous bones scattered everywhere.

The scaled horse’s bones were even harder than the Divine Painting Cold Iron, and could not be eaten by a green wolf. However, there were traces of gnawing on these bones, causing one’s heart to tremble when they saw them.

A large number of wolf corpses, abandoned bronze chariots, and so many scaled horses that had their teeth gritted could be seen how fierce the battle at the Academy’s camp was.

Apart from that, Chen Xun didn’t see any other remains.

However, this was not to say that there were no casualties among the disciples and rogue cultivators of the Academy. It was possible that the Academy had taken away the corpses of these people when they retreated from Graystone Ridge. It was even more likely that the bones of these people had been swallowed into the stomach of the Green Wolf.

Su Fanglong, Su Lingyin, and the other elders of the Academy were in charge of the camp.

Even if the disciples of the Academy did not retreat from the direction of Jade Pillar Peak in time, The deacons, guests, Jiang Bingyun, Louli, and the others who stayed in the camp, twenty to thirty experts who had advanced to the Reincarnation Realm, as well as the loose cultivators who had returned to rest or exchange for rewards, and the soldiers of the Commandant Su Wu’s Manor, who were always at the size of one or two thousand, could be so easily destroyed by a pack of wolves?

Chen Xun was puzzled.

That divine wolf was capable of controlling all wolves. Its strength was strong, but it was not that strong.

Could it be that the ferocious beast in the Lonely Cliff Stone Pillar had escaped?

It is possible, but it may not be high.

If that ferocious beast was able to escape from the Lonely Cliff Stone Pillar so easily, it wouldn’t have been trapped there for so long.

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Apart from the gathering of ferocious beasts that pecked at the corpses of wolves, there were no other dangers nearby.

Chen Xun scanned the beaded horse tracks near Greystone Ridge and confirmed that only a small portion of them had left in the direction of Tianma Lake. A large number of green wolves appeared from Graystone Ridge to the south, but there was no sign of them continuing to advance towards Tianma Lake. Instead, they began to retreat towards Jade Pillar Peak.

Chen Xun didn’t know how the green wolves exchanged messages, but it was clear that the golden giant wolves that commanded the pack of wolves all possessed the intelligence of ordinary humans.

Since the large group of green wolves began to shrink towards Jade Pillar Peak again, Chen Xun had reason to believe that there should still be a large number of disciples trapped in the vicinity of Jade Pillar Peak and resisting stubbornly.

Gu Jianfeng, Zong Ya, and the others were either buried in the wilderness, or they were trapped somewhere on Jade Pillar Peak after meeting up with the disciples of the Academy. The chances of them returning to Tianma Lake were extremely low.

The wolf pack’s area of activity expanded to a thousand kilometers around Jade Pillar Peak. In comparison, the gap between the wolf packs became enormous, which facilitated Chen Xun’s infiltration into Jade Pillar Peak.

Three days later, Chen Xun saw the towering mountain of Jade Pillar Peak standing under the crescent moon.

At the western foot of Jade Pillar Peak, there were tens of thousands of green wolves gathered outside a canyon. Chen Xun was extremely far away, and he could see spiritual light flashing in the deep gorge. If the disciples of the Academy were trapped, they would most likely gather in the deep gorge.

The divine wolf was small and could not be found in the stubble of wolves, but there were several exceptionally large exotic beasts in the wolves pack that were so eye-catching.

Chen Xun knew why the people of the Academy were unable to withstand a single blow in front of the Blue Wolf.

Not only did the divine wolf control the hundreds of thousands of green wolves near Jade Pillar Peak, but the last eight strongest wild beasts on Jade Pillar Peak also listened to the divine wolf’s orders. This was simply a nightmare.

It was normal for the Academy to be caught off guard.

Chen Xun was unable to cross the pack of wolves and directly enter the deep gorge to meet up with the disciples of the Academy.

At the same time, he did not know how many disciples of the Academy were spared, nor did he know that Su Lingyin, Su Qingfeng, Su Fanglong, and the others were not trapped in the deep gorge. It was also unclear whether Gu Jianfeng, Zong Ya, Tie Xintong, and the others had met up with the disciples of the Academy.

If Su Lingyin, Su Qingfeng, and the others died unfortunately, and only Su Fuchen, Su Quan, Lou Li, and the others were left in charge of the deep gorge, wouldn’t he be courting death by barging in?

Chen Xun bypassed the pack of wolves and the battlefield of the Xilu Gorge and walked two to three hundred li further. He circled the southern foot of Jade Pillar Peak and found a gap. He passed through the pack of wolves and entered Jade Pillar Peak.

The Jade Pillar Peak was four to five kilometers taller than Zhou Ling’s stone ridge, but the mountain was extremely elegant. It was like a giant cone piercing straight into Yun Xiao. The foot of the peak was less than a hundred kilometers long in a week.

Early in the morning, Chen Xun quietly climbed to the halfway point of Jade Pillar Peak, and he could see the fierce battle in the Xilu Gorge from the front.

There were several huge Spiritual Light shrouds sealing the entrance of the gorge, protecting the disciples of the Academy who were hiding in the deep gorge.

The clothes of the disciples of the Academy were unified, and they were extremely easy to identify. There were almost three hundred disciples in green.

In addition, there were four to five hundred people dressed in mixed colors. They were either rogue cultivators, deacons, guest ministers, or soldiers of the various mansions.

Chen Xun wasn’t very clear about the situation in Mystical Frost Sect to the north of Jade Pillar Peak, but two or three months ago, there were 3,000 rogue cultivators pouring into the Jade Pillar Peak area through Tianma Lake.

Even if a portion of them escaped to Tianma Lake in time, at this moment, only three to four hundred rogue cultivators and disciples of the Academy had escaped to the deep gorge. Wasn’t the casualties too tragic?

Man feeds on desolate beasts, treating their flesh and blood as a great tonic. Blue Wolf cannibalism. Why wasn’t the flesh and blood of these rogue cultivators a great tonic to Blue Wolf?

Despite the previous fierce battle, tens of thousands of green wolves had been killed.

If two to three thousand rogue cultivators died tragically in the Wilderness, the strength of the pack of wolves would only increase, not weaken.

Looking at the Spiritual Light Shield at the entrance of the gorge, Chen Xun also knew that there must be an Elder-level figure in the deep gorge who would be in charge of the defensive array to block the attack of the wolves and prevent hundreds of disciples and rogue cultivators from being torn into pieces by the tens of thousands of green wolves that rushed in.

On the front of the canyon entrance, thousands of green wolves desperately used their flesh and blood bodies and iron claws to attack the spiritual light shield released by the Bite Protection Formation.

The Heaven and Earth Profound Breath at the western foot of Jade Pillar Peak was not sufficient. It could not maintain the defensive formation by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. It could only rely on the Spiritual Energy and medicinal pills cultivated by the Elders of the Learning Palace to continuously provide the defensive formation with the necessary magical energy.

This was a bitter war of attrition.

Rogue cultivators mainly relied on martial arts because of their limited resources.

At this time, the weaknesses of rogue cultivators were also exposed.

A martial artist’s attack range was limited, and profound weapons were unable to attack the green wolves outside the canyon entrance through the defensive spirit shield. They could only arrange their two wings in preparation for the attack.

The disciples of the Academy, who were good at using talismans, concentrated on the front of the canyon entrance. They took out various talismans, releasing countless ice blades, frost, fire snakes, and attacked the green wolves in the canyon entrance, preventing them from attacking the defensive formation with all their might.

Ordinary Azure Wolves could only rely on numbers to win against defensive formations. Layers after layers of defensive spiritual light were dimmed. The attacks on the disciples of the Academy hidden within the defensive array were also slightly weak, leaving behind dozens of wolf corpses and hundreds of wolf corpses.

In comparison, the giant golden wolf mixed with an ordinary green wolf posed a serious threat to the defensive array.

Even if there was a peak late Reincarnation Realm elder in charge, the defensive array would be able to defend the gap of seven to eight hundred meters in front of the canyon entrance, and the defensive power of each area would become limited after being diluted.

Under the combined attack of several giant golden wolves, the defensive array’s spiritual light shield would often shake endlessly, as if it could break at any moment.