Under the command of the ghost path divine abilities, they charged frantically towards the five-colored lightning. Relying on a grinding tactic, they pushed this section of the passage to be even more solid and further.
With a movement of the bone whip in the middle-aged demon's hand, it swelled as it was swung, becoming as large as a mountain. Simultaneously, he unleashed corpse path divine abilities. The bone whip erupted with powerful corpse aura, its might truly terrifying, capable of splitting mountains and shattering rocks.
Though the power of the four magical treasures was astonishing, compared to the Great Chaos Thunder Extinguishing World Array, which had been significantly weakened, it was still an immensely strenuous fight.
Every step of advancement along this passage took a considerable amount of time. Before long, faint beads of sweat began to appear on the foreheads of the four elders.
After a fierce battle for five to six hours, the four elders were drenched in sweat. However, the four magical treasures they controlled finally gained the upper hand. On the surging sea of lightning, they forcefully carved out a stable circular passage about ten feet high.
The passage was pitch-black, and nothing could be seen clearly.
"Hurry inside, we can't hold on much longer!" Elder Sun shouted first. Among the four, his cultivation was the lowest, his spiritual power the most shallow, and he was the first to approach his limit…
Upon hearing this, the outer disciples of the Taiyi Immortal Sect and the Heavenly Demon Sect dared not slacken in the slightest. They orderly interspersed and, batch after batch, flew into the passage.
At this moment, everyone was silent, their expressions grim. Everyone knew that once they entered the secret realm, they would immediately become mortal enemies.
Even close fellow disciples would become untrustworthy due to immense benefits.
Moreover, the two sects were one righteous and one demonic, not only completely at odds with each other but also with many years of accumulated blood feuds between them.
Within the secret realm, the only one you could trust was yourself!
The passage was not long, only about thirty zhang in distance, and they passed through it in a flash. As soon as Wu Tao flew out of the 'exit', before he could even clearly see his surroundings, he felt a wave of dizziness, his vision blurred, and he vanished from the exit without a trace.
The prohibition formation within the Huangji Taiyi Secret Realm would randomly teleport all those who entered to various locations within the realm.
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As for Wu Tao's luck this time, it could be described as neither too bad nor too good.
After all, while he wasn't directly teleported to the secret realm's spiritual fields or treasure lands where spiritual herbs and grasses were abundant for him to pick, he also wasn't directly teleported to a gathering place of demonic beasts, where he might have been torn apart by a pack of them in the unluckiest scenario.
However, Wu Tao's current predicament was definitely not a good one.
The moment he stood firm and looked up, Wu Tao's expression changed drastically.
What greeted his eyes was a vast, clear, deep lake. It was originally calm and beautiful.
However, ever since Wu Tao appeared, a massive "vortex" suddenly appeared on the surface of the great lake. The vortex churned incessantly, as if a pot of boiling water, churning violently.
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Following that, a giant beast with fierce features and a ferocious face, its head like that of a male lion, with a circle of coffee-colored fur around its neck, leaped out of the deep lake and stood before Wu Tao.
The giant beast's head alone was nearly twice the size of Wu Tao himself.
The sudden emergence of the giant beast stirred up almost the entire deep lake, causing the water to overflow onto the land.
The giant beast was at least ten zhang in size. Two long tentacles grew beside its nose, and its entire body was covered in rough, calloused skin, displaying its formidable defensive capabilities.
This giant beast was a peak Qi Condensation realm demonic beast, named the "Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast."
The Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast let out a colossal roar, and the ground and the lake surface began to shake almost simultaneously…
The underground rivers beneath the deep lake churned, and the waves surged, as if countless unseen aquatic demonic beasts were fleeing for their lives…
This fellow was clearly the king of this deep lake area.
The giant Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast's feet had severely atrophied, becoming like duck feet, and its tail was over ten meters long, broad and flat, resembling a fish's tail. Clearly, these feet and tail were more suited for survival in water.
The Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast's two enormous feet moved very slowly on the ground, emitting a dull thudding sound.
Its pitch-black keratinous skin was arranged like giant thorns around the beast's body.
Wu Tao even saw many tiny creatures crawling between the keratinous layers and the skin.
Wu Tao gasped, estimating that regardless of other factors, its defense alone made it an invincible existence here.
The spatial tolerance of the Huangji Taiyi Secret Realm was extremely weak. Cultivation above the Foundation Establishment stage would cause spatial rifts to appear. This restriction applied equally to human cultivators, demonic beasts, and all other races.
The difference was that the strength of low-level demonic beasts was generally ninety percent in their physical bodies, not in their spiritual power levels.
In this way, demonic beasts inherently had a significant advantage over human cultivators in the secret realm.
Demonic beasts with strong physical bodies like the Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast were indeed not easily dealt with by a single Qi Condensation realm expert in such an extremely peculiar environment as the secret realm.
As for why this troublesome Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast could detect Wu Tao in the first instance, it was perhaps because the commotion caused by the teleportation had woken it from the depths of the lake…
"Screech… screeched…"
Accompanied by the grating sound of scales rubbing against each other, a nauseating, fishy wind swept in, creating an intangible pressure.
With a "shred" sound, a sharp, hook-shaped tongue, three to four meters in size, shot out from the Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast's enormous mouth, aimed at Wu Tao's body, and whipped forward rapidly and fiercely.
"A tongue?" Wu Tao thought, and quickly patted his storage bag, releasing his mid-grade flying artifact, the "Li Ling Flying Sword," and then stepped onto it.
At the critical moment, Wu Tao stepped onto the Li Ling Flying Sword and ascended sharply. The sword's bottom grazed the hooked barbs of the tongue, and he narrowly evaded it.
Missing its target, the Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast's tongue slammed heavily onto the ground. The next second, it sprang back up like a whip, rising straight up, relentlessly pursuing Wu Tao.
Ascending, shifting sideways, evading, Wu Tao, piloting the Li Ling Flying Sword, again skillfully dodged. As he swept past, he flung out a handful of low-level talismans.
Wind blades, fireballs, ice darts, golden needles, falling rocks… countless five-element spells engulfed the mountain-like "Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast."
As the smoke cleared, the mountain-like body of the Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast still stood tall, only suffering some superficial, insignificant skin wounds and a bit of bleeding.
Although he had known that these low-level talismans wouldn't have much effect, seeing the Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast virtually unharmed, Wu Tao couldn't help but marvel at its defensive power.
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"Hiss hiss~~~"
The Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast flicked its tongue, its fierce, triangular eyes glanced towards Wu Tao, and then it suddenly roared. Its scales bristled all over its body, like sharp knives.
The Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast's colossal tail, over ten meters long, swept upwards in a straight line, as if to crush Wu Tao with a single swipe.
Knowing this, Wu Tao now had no way to evade.
"Alas, this Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast, I don't know what's gotten into it, but it's relentlessly chasing me. It seems I won't be able to finish this today unless I deal with it."
Wu Tao took a deep breath, took out the Golden Scale Bow from his storage bag, aimed at the Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast's enormous head, drew the bow, and shot.
He drew the bowstring, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth converged. An arrow as thick as an arm, golden yellow in color, appeared out of thin air on the string.
In an instant, the arrow shot out like lightning, accurately hitting the Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast's huge, triangular eye.
The golden arrow pierced through, inflicting immense damage on the beast's weakest point, its eye.
As the arrow left the string, Wu Tao narrowed his eyes and clearly saw bright red blood slowly trickling from one of the Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast's eyes.
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The Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast, its eye injured, became even more ferocious under the intense pain, its keratinous spikes standing on end.
"This is bad." Seeing this situation, the experienced Wu Tao, rather than feeling joy, was suddenly alarmed. He continuously drew and loosed his bow.
Wu Tao instantly expended over three-tenths of his spiritual power, all of which transformed into golden arrows, raining down upon the Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast like a dense shower.
Following that, Wu Tao stomped on the Li Ling Flying Sword beneath his feet, retreating to a sufficient distance from the Lion Savage Giant Demonic Beast. Then, he put the Golden Scale Bow back into his storage bag.
The next second, Wu Tao clenched his fists. His Magnetic Yuan Qi intertwined like dragons, and when unleashed, it was like a ferocious golden dragon. His entire aura at this moment resembled that of an emperor or a sovereign.
Wu Tao had just completed this series of ferocious movements…
That enormous tail whistled through the air, carrying immense wind pressure, sweeping away all the golden giant arrows in mid-air. Finally, it collided squarely with Wu Tao's fists.
The very next second, Wu Tao felt a tightness in his chest, his body vibrated, his bones ached, and a trace of blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth, indicating he had suffered no light internal injuries.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, he sensed something was wrong. He unleashed his Magnetic Yuan Qi to the fullest, erupting a dazzling golden screen, three to four zhang in size, blindingly bright.
Behind Wu Tao, a phantom image of a golden dragon, about five zhang long, materialized.
The moment it appeared, its dragon head raised to the sky and roared, breathing in the four directions. Then, its dragon body, dragon tail, and dragon claws tore through the light screen and emerged.
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