The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 400 - 379: First Glimpse of Talent_1

Chapter 400: Chapter 379: First Glimpse of Talent_1

"Pang Jian!"

Liou Youyu, at a corner of the Brocade Cloud Fragment Land, stuck her head out of the Flying Fish Ship and stamped her foot in annoyance.

She had clearly sent a message with a wooden plaque, telling Pang Jian not to enter the Brocade Cloud Fragment Land, but Pang Jian simply turned a deaf ear, which filled her with grievances.

"Just like Pu Zhaotian, he won’t listen to good advice. He’s such a troublesome fellow."

She was forced to pilot the Flying Fish Ship closer.

Liou Youyu, who saw herself as a controller of the big picture, was hiding inconspicuously in a corner of the Fragment Land, waiting for level eight Ferocious Beasts and members of the Alien Tribes to reveal themselves.

She had a faint feeling that the rampaging Ferocious Beasts and Spirit Beasts in the Brocade Cloud Fragment Land were not yet at the limit of their combat strength.

She had not made a move, but once she did, she intended to make a decisive strike, to kill the level eight Ferocious Beasts and Alien Tribes and stabilize the chaotic situation of the Brocade Cloud Fragment Land in one fell swoop.

Bearing this in mind, when she entered the Brocade Cloud Fragment Land, she deliberately concealed her aura to prevent the Ferocious Beasts and Alien Tribes from sensing her formidable combat strength.

However, the arrival of the Sword Boat and Pang Jian’s reckless actions disrupted her original plan.

"Mr. Zhou!" Wu Xuanfeng yelled, "The Sword Boat is heading towards a mountain peak!"

He was busy dealing with the huge rocks hurled by two level six Golden-arm Apes using their Bloodline Power, and while taking a quick glance at the Sword Boat, he urgently added, "If the Sword Boat is destroyed, it will be difficult for us to leave the Brocade Cloud Fragment Land!"

Zhou Qingchen controlled the Long Blades to form a sea of light with crisscrossing blade auras, enveloping several level six Flame Sun Beasts, and said in a deep voice, "Once all the Ferocious Beasts in the Brocade Cloud Fragment Land are killed, we can leave at our leisure."

"That’s going to be a bit difficult!" Wu Xuanfeng shouted.

"Boom! Boom!"

The meteor-like giant rocks, leveraged by the Golden-arm Apes’ strength, shattered Wu Xuanfeng’s "Heavenly Mysterious Realm" and forced him to move closer to Zhou Qingchen for help.

"With Pang Jian here, it won’t be difficult."

Zhou Qingchen controlled a Long Blade with his Spiritual Soul.

He chopped the gigantic stone hurtling towards Wu Xuanfeng into pieces while dazzling silver light burst forth between the two Golden-arm Apes.

The level six Golden-arm Apes, blown into a state where their bones cracked and they fell to the ground.

Two ape heads, along with the Long Blades released by Zhou Qingchen, returned to his side and he quickly stored them in his storage ring.

"Pang Jian?"

Wu Xuanfeng looked incredulously at the Sword Boat growing distant.

...

Elsewhere.

Yu Huan of Sky Water Swamp controlled the "Blackwater Mysterious Pearl" with her Spiritual Soul, putting her all into handling a level seven Earth Drill Lizard.

She suddenly shouted, "There’s something wrong with the river water!"

Inside the Holy Artifact "Blackwater Mysterious Pearl," a dark green Spirit Snake Ghost surfaced, which, while extracting water Spiritual Power from the river, sensed numerous corpses at the turbid river bottom.

"This Earth Drill Lizard must have just broken through the limitations of its bloodline!"

Another Great Cultivator of the Soul Wandering Realm from Sky Water Swamp, looking at the more-than-ten-zhang long Earth Drill Lizard that moved underground like an Earth Dragon, and occasionally burst forth to hunt Cultivators from the Human Race, said, "It hasn’t fully mastered its Bloodline Power yet! The skin from when it was level six hasn’t even been shed, which indicates that its breakthrough happened no more than two or three days ago!"

"The river water!"

"A gravely injured Ferocious Beast will desperately swallow river water to enhance its strength!"

The disciples of Sky Water Swamp offered their views one after another.

Suddenly!

The level seven Earth Drill Lizard, hidden in the surrounding earth, leaped out furiously, charging towards a light boat swiftly approaching from behind.

"The Sword Boat!"

"Pang Jian!"

Amidst the exclamations of Yu Huan and the others, a grayish-green iron ball flew towards the level seven Earth Drill Lizard.

The fist-sized iron ball, as if being inflated, swelled dramatically right under their eyelids, enlarging a hundredfold in a few breaths!

"Shriek!"

There were also Thunderous Lightning bolts continually spitting out from the iron ball.

The iron ball, like a massive mountain carrying an overwhelming momentum capable of crushing all things, smashed into the Earth Drill Lizard’s ten-zhang-long body covered in green scales, reducing it to a rain of blood and flesh in mid-air.

As the Earth Drill Lizard crashed to the ground with a thunderous impact, the iron ball also smashed down, carving a giant hole in the ground.

The level seven Earth Drill Lizard, at the very bottom of the great pit, turned into a pool of mush.

Even the lizard’s head became part of the mushy mass.

"Phew!"

The terrifying iron ball suddenly contracted, returning to its original size in a flash, and chased after the distant Sword Boat.

Disciples of Sky Water Swamp, led by Yu Huan, stared dumbly at the Sword Boat disappearing into the imposing mountains, and could not react for a moment.

After a while.

"Was that Pang Jian?"

"There’s only him on the Sword Boat, who else could it be?"

"Didn’t they say he’s just entered the Soul Wandering Realm and hasn’t adapted to the mysteries of this realm yet?"

"A level seven Earth Drill Lizard, equivalent to our Soul Wandering Realm, was crushed by him into mush with a giant ball in a blink of an eye. Does that look to you like someone who doesn’t understand how to control objects with their Spiritual Soul?"

"..."

People of Sky Water Swamp engaged in fervent discussion.

"Whoosh!"

A dull gray iron sphere again shot out from the Sword Boat, small as a pellet and faster than lightning.

One by one, the Six-Level Ghost Shadow Eagles plummeted from the sky, pierced through by the pellet-like iron sphere.

In an instant, a group of Ghost Shadow Eagles lay dead, with not a single living creature on the ground.

"This..."

Yu Huan pursed her lips and hesitated for a moment before suddenly saying, "Follow that Sword Boat!"

The disciples of Sky Water Swamp were stunned for a moment, then quickly severed the heads of the ferocious beasts lying nearby and rushed towards the Sword Boat.

A few moments later.

"A Six-Level Ghost Shadow Eagle is worth a hundred Contribution Value each! That guy didn’t even glance at them, no wonder he’s not ranked on the merit list."

The disciple from Sky Water Swamp, using a sharp blade to cut off the head of a Ghost Shadow Roc, joyfully collected it.

Once back at the Auspicious Light Fragment Land, as long as they could establish a connection with the exchange point in Heavenly Eye and Qian Tian Continent, these Six-Level Ghost Shadow Roc heads could be converted into corresponding Contribution Value.

...

"Eh, he’s familiar with the Hunyuan Ball so quickly? It seems not as weak as those people said; did I underestimate him?"

Liou Youyu squinted her eyes and gazed into the distance from the swiftly passing Flying Fish Ship.

She noticed the Hunyuan Ball, sometimes as large as a mountain, sometimes small as a pellet, was hunting bloodthirsty beasts along the way.

A Seventh-Level bloodthirsty ferocious beast, like the Earth Drill Lizard, was blasted into mincemeat by the Hunyuan Ball expanded a hundredfold.

The Sixth-Level ones were penetrated through the brain and died instantly.

"Auntie, I’ve always been worried that Pu Zhaotian’s apprentice was not up to par, but it seems I worried too much."

Liou Youyu’s mood immediately became much lighter.

Her eyes curved into crescents as she murmured softly, "That chubby guy has good taste indeed; Chen Weihuang, Hu, the previous two were no problems. This guy, looking at him now, seems... not to have any big problems either."

...

Below the majestic mountains, the gigantic ship from the Zhu family of Bright Heaven Divine Kingdom was hanging still and quiet.

At this moment, nearly a hundred members of the Astonish Rainbow Army and cultivators of the Zhu family were locked in fierce battle with a group of frenzied bloodthirsty beasts.

Behind Zhu Wenle unfurled a giant fan, revealing a painting of mountains and rivers.

"Hoo!"

With a movement of his spiritual soul, a mountain resembling a real green mountain flew out, crushing a group of rhinos covered in ice armor.

He turned his gaze to another side where grand palaces flew out from the fan behind him, surrounding a Seventh-Level Red-eyed Demon Wolf.

"Heavenly Palace Divine Array!"

Zhu Wenle snorted coldly.

Nine magnificent palaces swiftly arranged into an array in the void, suppressing the Red-eyed Demon Wolf that was turning the surrounding area into a blazing inferno.

The Red-eyed Demon Wolf roared as its bones snapped and crunched, fearlessly expending all its life’s potential, turning into a volcano that spewed mad flames and blood within the nine palaces.

"Boom! Rumble!"

Inside the nine palaces, as if volcanoes were erupting one after another, yet not a single crimson flame or bloody water could escape.

Before long, the Seventh-Level Red-eyed Demon Wolf, within the Heavenly Palace Divine Array, melted into magma-like deep red blood.

"Seventh-Level, at least a thousand Contribution Value."

Zhu Wenle smiled in satisfaction, pulling out the wolf’s head that had lost flesh and was reduced to bone with a chain, saying, "The bloody battles of Brocade Cloud Fragment Land are indeed suitable for me to accumulate merit quickly."

He continued to scan from high above.

He saw practitioners from the Demon Palace, Black Valley, Sky Water Swamp, and some other sect forces clashing fiercely with the ferocious and frenzied bloodthirsty beasts, with people dying continuously.

He indifferently said, "Wars are meant to have casualties; it’s your weakness that leads to death."

"Compared to the armies we’ve built, these scattered and undisciplined sect disciples, ignorant of how to form arrays and cooperate in killing the enemy, are indeed unable to adapt to such a brutal battlefield," commented an officer from the Astonish Rainbow Army, shaking his head coldly, "We, the three great Divine Countries of the Eastland, train well-prepared practitioners to form deadly armies."

"And this is the heavy artillery on the battlefield!"

Centered around this ship, the soldiers from the Astonish Rainbow Army along with the Zhu family’s boys formed various arrays to kill the bloodthirsty beasts, cooperating seamlessly. Whenever the situation took a dire turn, Zhu Wenle was there to remedy it.

Fighting this way, the troop, mainly formed from the Astonish Rainbow Army, was invincible, cutting their way to the base of this majestic peak.

Zhu Wenle suddenly sneered towards the summit, "Come out!"

He had also discerned that the source of the numerous bloodthirsty beasts was the stream flowing down the mountain, piercing through the entire Fragment Land.

His target was the mastermind behind them, and he believed that by killing the leader, he could not only resolve the crisis of Brocade Cloud Fragment Land but also accrue more Contribution Value for himself.

"Hoo!"

It was at this moment that the Sword Boat came swooping in.

"Pang Jian, I asked you to come in before, but you refused. Now you’ve again entered into Brocade Cloud Fragment Land and even found this place—do you intend to compete with me for the merit?"

Zhu Wenle’s expression was displeased.

He frowned at the Sword Boat that had stopped, saying, "I am well equipped to handle the root of the problem. What you should do is continue piloting the Sword Boat to kill the Sixth and Seventh-Level bloodthirsty beasts and quickly accumulate your own Contribution Value."

He had already seen Pang Jian kill quite a few frenzied beasts with a dull gray iron sphere on his way here.

At the Sword Tower, he had witnessed Pang Jian making his move on the Swallowing Cloud Marquis and even taking a hit from him.

Afterward, Pang Jian received high praise from both the Swallowing Cloud Marquis and Astonish Rainbow Marquis.

Unlike others, Zhu Wenle was well aware of Pang Jian’s prowess and had never taken him lightly.

"Continue with your task, and let’s see if you can resolve the source of this turmoil," Pang Jian said calmly, his gaze lifted towards the direction of the mountain peak, "If you can’t handle it, I’ll step in."

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