Immortal Martial Emperor

"I’ll take the left!"

Feng Xue Xin roared and charged forward.

A Mystical Illusion of the Seven Star Mysteries materialized behind him, resembling a Star Constellation True Monarch, exuding an immense power.

It carried with it the strange and vast Power of the Starry Sky.

The power converged on his silver long spear. With a mighty thrust, he struck a rampaging Desolate Beast ahead, causing it to explode in a shower of flesh and blood.

Feng Xue Xin’s eyes lit up. He shot forward in an Arrow Step and snatched a piece of translucent meat out of the air.

It was thigh meat from the Desolate Beast, brimming with endless essence.

It was also the most delicious cut.

Feng Xue Xin wiped away some drool. "This will be absolutely delicious stir-fried with green peppers."

"Whoa, this bamboo pit viper can be made into a soup! It’ll be so tasty, I have to get it!"

The brute charged forward, drooling, and began to battle the Tier Five Desolate Beast, the bamboo pit viper.

On the other side, Young Master Yeban chose to attack the Desolate Beast group on the right.

This money-grubber was even more shameless than Feng Xue Xin.

"Audacious Razor-Horned Bull! How dare you trample the flowers and grass while running wild in the mountains! That’s inhuman, worse than an animal! Now, lie down and die!"

The Floating Light Round Shield surged to life beside Yeban.

A blue light pulsed outward.

SWOOSH! SWOOSH!

The Floating Light Round Shield, wrapped in a faint blue glow, split apart, forming nine blue discs.

The discs spun in the air.

In an instant, they underwent an Illusion Transformation into blue stars, streaking across the sky like nine meteors, leaving long tails in their wake.

The power contained within each ray of blue light was terrifying.

Driven by Yeban’s formidable Spiritual Power and guided with subtle control, their movements were profoundly mystical. Even an Unparalleled True Dragon would have trouble fending them off, let alone a mere Razor-Horned Bull Desolate Beast.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The nine rays of light attacked from all sides, piercing the bull’s thick defenses and burrowing inside, where they wreaked havoc within its body.

"MOO!"

The enormous bull let out a pained cry, blood streaming from all seven of its facial orifices as it collapsed.

Strangely, the massive bull’s body shriveled up, instantly spilling its blood, organs, and minced flesh onto the ground, leaving behind an almost perfectly intact hide.

SWOOSH!

Young Master Yeban waved his hand.

His Storage Ring flashed with black light, and he sucked the hide into it.

Young Master Yeban nodded in satisfaction. "Not bad, not bad. A complete Razor-Horned Bull hide like this should fetch a good price. Hahaha, my children, your Grandpa Yeban is here!"

With that, Young Master Yeban plunged into the Desolate Beast group.

He continued to harvest the most valuable parts from the Desolate Beasts, and his points skyrocketed.

’These two oddballs...’

Hong Yu covered his face in frustration. Were these two guys even here to hunt for points?

One was looking for ingredients, a total foodie!

The other was scraping together Desolate Beast materials to sell, a complete money-grubber!

Taking a deep breath, Hong Yu’s expression turned grim. ’We’re getting closer and closer to the core area of Demon Island. I have to speed up and hunt Desolate Beasts to rack up points. Otherwise, if we run into Zhao Wushuang and his group, it’ll be a tough fight that will slow down my point gathering.’

Hong Yu glanced down at the Points Token in his hand.

On the leaderboard, his rank was now somewhere past one hundred.

But the gap between him and the top twenty was still huge.

Xiahuang Ba, in particular, was far ahead, having already reached 2,300 points.

Hong Yu glanced at the rampaging Desolate Beast group ahead and muttered, ’If I can kill all these Desolate Beasts, I should be able to catch up to Xiahuang Ba!’

At that thought, he gripped the Godslaying Spear.

Hong Yu puffed out his chest and charged into the fray.

The Godslaying Spear in his hand pulsed with a faint golden light, brilliant and incomparably sharp.

As he gripped it with one hand and charged,

a golden dragon’s shadow roared out from the Godslaying Spear, surging with domineering power.

It swept across the battlefield!

Wherever it passed, it was like a hot knife through butter—unstoppable.

"ROAR!"

The golden dragon shadow was an incredibly sharp Spear Aura. In its wake, bodies were strewn about amidst flying flesh and blood.

It tore a path straight through the rampaging Desolate Beast group, leaving a trail of corpses on both sides. A full ten Desolate Beasts died from that single strike.

Hong Yu’s points jumped by another thirty-plus.

"Hey! You brute, don’t just obliterate them! At least leave a few pieces of meat!" Feng Xue Xin bellowed.

He was heartbroken over all that delicious Desolate Beast meat!

Young Master Yeban also cursed viciously, "You spendthrift! That’s all money! Can you leave some for me? Be frugal, be thrifty! It’s not easy to make money, you know?"

Hong Yu ignored the angry shouts of the two oddballs.

He actually felt this hunting pace was too slow.

"Flying Thunder Divine Skill, activate!"

He let out a low growl.

A blue light coiled around him. In his left eye, the stars reversed their course, and the Star River’s rotation accelerated.

More than ten thousand stars bloomed with blue brilliance.

"Pupil Technique: Heaven-Filling!"

A blue light swept out like a canopy covering the sky.

With Hong Yu’s current Mid-stage Primordial Spirit Realm Spiritual Power, he could use Pupil Technique: Heaven-Filling at full strength about five times without affecting his normal state.

Any more than five times, and he would begin to feel fatigued.

It would affect his ability to fight at his peak.

The use of Pupil Technique: Heaven-Filling immediately caused the sixty or seventy Desolate Beasts ahead to look dazed, the frenzy and panic in their eyes fading significantly.

At the same time,

the Nine Feather Flying Knives orbiting Hong Yu shot out.

SWISH! SWISH!

The Flying Sabers tore through them, slaughtering all the Desolate Beasts that had been momentarily stunned.

Blood splattered, and bodies collapsed.

The numbers on Hong Yu’s Points Token jumped continuously.

These sixty or seventy Desolate Beasts were worth one to two hundred points!

"Hahaha, now this is what I call exhilarating! Let the slaughter begin!"

Hong Yu laughed heartily.

He charged even faster, his killing speed increasing once again.

Streaks of Spear Aura swept out, and layers of spear-shadows fell like a golden canopy, reaping the lives of the Desolate Beasts.

Part of this was due to Hong Yu’s extraordinary combat prowess.

But it was also because the Desolate Beasts were panicked and rampaging, more focused on fleeing than fighting him to the death. Furthermore, there were very few powerful Desolate Beasts of Tier Five or higher.

Otherwise, he never would have been able to cut down these Tier Three and Tier Four Desolate Beasts so easily.

BOOM!

He threw a punch, and another Desolate Beast died horribly.

Hong Yu’s points jumped again, reaching an astonishing one thousand. He had surged to 23rd place on the leaderboard.

「Meanwhile...」

Aboard the Yellow Heaven Battleship, the corners of Xiahuang Shang’s mouth lifted into a playful smirk as he looked at Bai Luoxue and Venerable Xiahuang. "My apologies, gentlemen. Hong Yu has already climbed to 23rd place."

Venerable Xiahuang said nothing.

His expression didn’t even flicker, making it impossible to know what he was thinking.

As for Bai Luoxue, his face was ashen. He clenched his jaw. "Damn it, how can he be so fast? Only half an hour has passed, and he’s jumped from around two hundred points to over a thousand? He must be cheating!"

Xiahuang Shang remained silent.

But the Golden Armor elder snorted coldly. "To think someone could cheat under my watch. Are you questioning my abilities?"

The elder’s words carried a powerful, oppressive aura.

Although Bai Luoxue was strong, he was still weak in the face of this elder from the Imperial Family.

Under the immense pressure, his teeth chattered, and his face turned pale.

Venerable Xiahuang stepped forward with a frown. "Luoxue misspoke and caused offense. Grandpa Huang, please forgive his transgression and don’t hold it against him."

"Fine. I’ll let it slide this once for your sake,"

the Golden Armor elder nodded, saying no more.

"Your Highness..."

Bai Luoxue gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with anger and resentment, but Venerable Xiahuang stopped him.

Venerable Xiahuang turned back to the Golden Armor elder and asked, "Grandpa Huang, your grandson has a question."

"You want to ask why Hong Yu’s points are rising so quickly, don’t you?"

A wise light flickered in the Golden Armor elder’s seemingly cloudy old eyes. Seeing Venerable Xiahuang nod, he gave him a deep look and said flatly, "He’s in the White Tiger Mountain range. He encountered a Desolate Beast stampede. Hundreds, even thousands of them are fleeing in a panic. He ran into them and naturally started a massacre."

"I see. Thank you, Grandpa Huang!"

Venerable Xiahuang stepped back.

He secretly sent a transmission to a trusted subordinate. The subordinate immediately withdrew and used a Communication Jade Order to inform Xiahuang Ba and the others of Hong Yu’s location.

"So he’s in the White Tiger Mountain range? That’s about a dozen minutes away from us. Full speed ahead!"

Somewhere on Demon Island, Xiahuang Ba received the message. With a wave of his hand, he led several hundred experts toward the location at top speed.

Time passed.

In the blink of an eye, another twenty-odd minutes went by.

The three of them finished off the last Desolate Beast at the same time and glanced back at the battlefield behind them.

It was a gory mess of mangled flesh and piled-up corpses, a river of blood flowing across the ground.

In nearly an hour of hunting, they had killed almost a thousand Desolate Beasts.

It was an absolutely staggering feat!

But they had actually done it.

「At that moment...」

Feng Xue Xin was immensely pleased, having collected a great deal of Desolate Beast meat. His points had also surpassed eight hundred.

Yeban was still on the battlefield, collecting his spoils.

Drool was still trickling from the corner of his mouth. In this battle, he had earned a full nine hundred points.

Of course, the one who had profited the most was Hong Yu.

His points had leaped from a few hundred to his current total of 1,400, placing him 19th on the leaderboard.

"We finally killed them all. I feel like I can never kill another Desolate Beast again!"

Feng Xue Xin muttered to himself.

Hong Yu chuckled and was about to speak when his spirit suddenly jolted. His sharp gaze shot toward the front of the mountain range, and his expression changed instantly. "An Evil-eyed White Tiger?"

"Huh?"

Feng Xue Xin and Yeban also tensed up.

The Evil-eyed White Tiger!

It was a Tier Six Middle Level Desolate Beast.

It was incredibly powerful and ferocious, like a Venerable of Ten Thousand Beasts, the King of Hundred Beasts!

A Desolate Beast like that was extremely powerful.

It was only slightly weaker than the Purple Thunder Winged Flood Dragon they had seen the other day.

"No wonder the Desolate Beasts stampeded. This Beast King was out hunting!"

"We’re done for! The Evil-eyed White Tiger holds a grudge. We killed all its prey; it’s going to come after us for revenge!"

"What’s there to be afraid of? If it wants revenge, we’ll just kill it!"

As the three of them bantered back and forth,

the Evil-eyed White Tiger had already launched its attack...