Chapter 547: Endless Desert!
"Arriving early is not as good as arriving at the right time. Li Yun, let us charge as well."
Seeing this, Yue Cangshan let out a long whistle and rushed toward the Light Pillar Stairway. Behind him, Li Yun’s eyes flashed, and he immediately followed close behind.
A moment later, Li Yun’s figure disappeared into the Lost Ancient City through the Light Pillar Stairway.
Whoosh!
A wave of dizziness suddenly struck him.
For a brief instant, Li Yun’s entire consciousness seemed to fall into a temporary standstill. However, after only one breath, he regained his senses.
When he looked around, all he saw was endless yellow sand.
The vast desert stretched as far as the eye could see, and the sand shimmered with a faint golden luster beneath the light, dazzling enough to make one’s eyes ache.
Above him hung a scorching sun.
Its light was incomparably intense, far stronger than ordinary sunlight. Even Li Yun felt an unbearable heat pressing down on him.
Generally speaking, after reaching the Xiantian Realm, a cultivator would no longer be affected by the extreme cold or heat that ordinary mortals feared. Yet the light of this sun actually made Li Yun feel a thick wave of heat spreading across his body.
After staying there for only a few breaths, sweat continuously seeped from Li Yun’s forehead, face, and arms. His entire body felt sticky and uncomfortable.
"Golden Dragon Armor."
With a thought, Li Yun activated his bloodline ability. Golden scales began covering his body, and only then did the oppressive heat ease slightly, making him feel much better.
This place was none other than the first trial within the Lost Ancient City, the Lost Great Desert.
This great desert was unimaginably vast. No one knew exactly how wide it was. To walk out of this desert, even with excellent luck, one would still need at least a week.
A week did not sound long, but for an Earthly Core Realm cultivator, even ordinary traveling speed was extremely fast. A week of travel for them was equivalent to several years of movement for an ordinary mortal.
And that was only under the most ideal circumstances.
The more likely possibility was becoming lost in this vast and boundless desert. Once a person lost their direction here, if their luck was good, they might find a way out in a month. If their luck was poor, they might wander for several months, or perhaps never leave at all.
This was only the first trial.
Staring at nothing but endless desert while enduring the scorching sun for half a month, one month, or even longer was undoubtedly a tremendous psychological test for any cultivator.
Furthermore, this desert contained many dangers. The native creatures living here were extremely ferocious, and some could even kill peak Earthly Core Realm experts with ease.
In such a vast desert, among the tens of thousands of cultivators who entered, perhaps only a few thousand would be able to walk out alive.
Bang!
Just as these thoughts flashed through Li Yun’s mind, the desert beneath his feet suddenly caved in. Something grabbed his foot from below and tried to drag him into the sand.
"Not good."
Li Yun’s expression changed.
He exerted force instantly and activated Lightning Wings. After breaking through to the 6th level of Mortal Core Realm, his full speed had already reached nine times the speed of sound.
Shing!
Like a cannonball, Li Yun shot upward, avoiding the sneak attack from the unknown creature below. In the next instant, he landed dozens of meters away.
Squeak! Squeak!
A hair-raising sound rang out.
A large area of yellow sand collapsed, and a giant scorpion dozens of meters long and more than five meters tall burst out before Li Yun with a heavy rumble.
The giant scorpion was pitch black from head to tail. Its pair of pincers was seven or eight meters long, while the stinger on its tail was over ten meters long. That stinger shimmered with a terrifying cold luster, making one’s heart race just by looking at it.
This was a intermediate Rank Seven giant scorpion.
Squeak! Squeak!
The giant scorpion hissed sharply. Suddenly, its enormous pincers lunged toward Li Yun from the air. The pincers descended like a pair of giant shears, carrying terrifying force as they aimed to cut him apart.
"Die."
Facing this terrifying attack, Li Yun did not dare to be careless. He immediately used his sword art, and Sword Qi erupted, slashing toward the massive pincers like a bolt of lightning.
Chih!
With a loud impact, the Sword Qi collided with the pincers.
Despite the force of the strike, it did not leave any real damage on the pincers.
’As expected, in this place, the essence qi of every cultivator is suppressed.’
Li Yun’s expression turned grave.
His previous sword attack should have heavily injured an intermediate Rank Seven demonic beast even if it did not kill it. Yet against this giant scorpion, it had failed to cause any meaningful harm.
’But although my chaos qi is being suppressed, I can feel that this suppression will not last forever.’
Li Yun silently sensed the condition inside his body.
He could clearly feel the heavy suppression pressing down on his chaos qi, but at the same time, he could also feel his chaos qi resisting that force. It was rebelling against the restriction, and he felt that it was only a matter of time before it broke free from the suppression.
Until then, he had to endure.
Thinking this, Li Yun immediately changed from sword to fist and threw a punch. A powerful force comparable to the late-stage Earthly Core Realm erupted as a fierce fist print crashed toward the pair of pincers.
Bang! Bang!
The pincers that had remained unharmed by the Sword Qi suddenly shook under Li Yun’s punch. A crack split open across their surface, and black blood sprayed out.
Squeak! Squeak!
Stung by the pain, the giant scorpion flew into a rage.
Its ten-meter-long stinger rose high, and the tip shimmered with terrifying cold light. Then, with lightning-fast speed, it lunged straight toward Li Yun’s heart.
Without a doubt, if that stinger struck him, even with his Immortal Flesh, Li Yun would be pierced through and die on the spot.
Whew!
At the critical moment, Li Yun activated Lightning Wings and shifted sideways. With a movement close to his absolute limit, he avoided the stinger’s attack.
Then, moving as fast as lightning, he shot upward and appeared directly in front of the giant scorpion.
"Supreme Hegemony Fist!"
He let out a long whistle and threw a punch.
From his arm to his fist, his muscles and meridians vibrated rapidly, causing terrifying power to gather in an instant.
Boom!
A fist print carrying unstoppable momentum crashed into the giant scorpion.
Rumble!
With a thunderous explosion, a crack appeared on the giant scorpion’s back and spread across its entire body. One breath later, its huge body exploded into countless pieces.
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