Chapter 424: Killing the Level Six Yak
"XiaoYue, can your illusions affect it?"
Hearing that, Jiang Yue fell silent.
His soul power was at the peak of the fifth level and was only half a step away from the sixth level.
However, the yak was in the sixth level.
Although Jiang Yue was confident in his illusions, he didn’t know if he could affect the yak.
"I don’t think so." He said after thinking about it.
"However, I can trap it in a fifth-level killing formation." He continued.
"A fifth-level killing formation should be able to trap it for at least a cup of tea." Xuan Ke agreed.
"In that case, let’s use the formation to trap it. In the meantime, all of us will take a few moments to replenish our strength." Yu Nianzhen decided.
At the same time, he transmitted the decision to his master and Yang Xu nodded in agreement.
Ten breaths later, Jiang Yue activated a fifth level ten thousand swords formation and threw it at the yak.
Before it could react, the yak was trapped in the formation and everyone heaved a sigh of relief.
"Recover as much as you can." Yang Xu said and everyone sat cross-legged.
A few breaths short of a cup of tea, the yak broke out of the ten thousand swords formation.
Although it was not fatally injured, its body was covered in sword wounds and blood was sipping to the ground.
"Don’t give it a chance to recover." Yu Nianzhen shouted and everyone reacted.
In the blink of an eye, two flaming palms appeared in the sky above the yak.
One of the palms; the larger and fiercer, belonged to Yang Xu while the smaller and less aggressive belonged to Chen Qing.
At the same time, two swords attacked the yak’s eyes.
One of the swords was covered in ice while the other exuded an extremely dangerous sword intent.
Looking at the two swords, Xuan Ke smiled.
"I can’t be left behind." He said and his staff, covered with purple lightning fell on the yak’s back.
"Everyone is so energetic." Li Futian said and looked at Jiang Yue.
"Brother Li, let’s attack too."
In this way, the group attacked incessantly.
None cared about preserving their qi or following a strategy.
All they cared about was making sure they didn’t give the yak a chance to recover.
However, the yak wasn’t completely helpless.
When it was attacked so madly, it also grew angry.
In less than an hour, both sides were visibly injured.
"XiaoYue, use another formation disk." Yu Nianzhen said.
"Good." Jiang Yue answered and without delay, he activated another killing formation disk.
"Try to recover as fast as you can." Yang Xu said and everyone began to meditate.
Fortunately, their efforts were not without results.
Because the yak was injured by the previous attacks, it took half an hour to break out of the killing formation.
Although this time was not enough to fully recover, it still allowed the group to catch their breath before they had to fight again.
"Brother Jiang, how many formation disks do you have?" Li Futian suddenly asked.
"I have two more." Jiang Yue said and sighed.
The four killing formation disks were the result of years of accumulation.
No matter what, he was a little sad to lose them all at once.
"Two don’t seem enough to deal with the yak." Chen Qing said and frowned.
"They are not enough." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
"Ayue, how long does it take to engrave a level five formation disk?" Yang Xu inquired.
"It used to take an hour. I haven’t tried after enlightening in the Sea of Enlightenment."
"We killed nine level-five yaks. Brother Jiang, why don’t you engrave more disks while we deal with the yak?" Xuan Ke asked.
"I have another idea." Jiang Yue said.
If it came to it, he didn’t mind engraving more formation disks.
However, he wanted to participate in the battle until the end.
"What idea?" Bing Lan asked.
"We have accumulated many low-level weapons and equipment. We can try to explode them." Jiang Yue said.
"This idea is good but it will attract a lot of attention. It’s okay if all we attract are other cultivators but it will be troublesome if we attract another level six beast." Yang Xu opined.
"If another level six demonic beast is attracted, we can only escape." Bing Lan nodded and said.
"I will put it in my sword domain." Yu Nianzhen said.
"No." Jiang Yue immediately refused.
Although an explosion within the sword world would not attract attention, Yu Nianzhen would be injured.
Thinking that his lover would be injured, Jiang Yue was very reluctant.
"Azhen, fighting the yak is not a matter of life and death. You don’t have to incur unnecessary injuries." Jiang Yue said in a solemn voice.
"Ayue is right. If we can’t defeat the yak, we can escape. There is no need to get seriously injured." Yang Xu also refused.
"I will engrave a few more formation disks." Jiang Yue said and handed two formation disks to Yu Nianzhen.
"Enter the ancient palace." Yu Nianzhen suggested.
"Good."
After that, Jiang Yue entered the ancient palace while the others continued attacking the yak.
In this way, two formation disks were quickly used up and both sides sustained serious injuries.
Fortunately, Jiang Yue didn’t disappoint.
When he started engraving the formation disks, he realised it had become easier than before.
The formation disk that previously took an hour to engrave could now be completed within a quarter of an hour.
By the time he came out of the ancient palace, Jiang Yue had already prepared seven killing formation disks.
"Just in time." Xuan Ke said excitedly.
"The new formation disks are more powerful than the previous. Seven should be enough to deal with the yak." Jiang Yue said proudly.
"My XiaoYue is the best." Yu Nianzhen said and a slight smile curled his lips.
"Don’t start." Xuan Ke said and glared at the two.
"Brother Xuan, I heard you got along well with senior Murong Feng." Jiang Yue said with a cheeky smile in his eyes.
"Who did you hear from?" Xuan Ke asked angrily while glaring at Li Futian.
In the years they were in the first layer of the sealed battlefield, Xuan Ke encountered Murong Feng.
For more than thirty years, they explored together and got along well.
However, Xuan Ke always felt a little strange around the man.
Now that Jiang Yue mentioned him, Xuan Ke couldn’t help but overreact.
"Murong Feng?" Yang Xu muttered and subconsciously clenched his hands.
Seeing this, Li Futian sighed.
’Some fate cannot be forced or avoided. Soon, everything will return to how it should be.’ He thought with a little sadness in his heart.
A lot of people envied the diviners for their ability to see the future.
However, the ability was both a gift and a curse.
At times, Li Futian was happy at the things he foresaw but at others, he was sad and helpless.
This time, Li Futian was helpless.
He couldn’t change what was to come and even if he could, he didn’t think it was the right thing to do.
’Brother Xuan, I hope you won’t hate me for not warning you. After all, this is the path you have to walk before you get what you deserve.’ Li Futian thought and sighed again.
"Brother Li, is something wrong?" Jiang Yue suddenly asked.
For some reason, he felt Li Futian was acting strangely.
However, he couldn’t tell what was strange so he directly asked.
"There is nothing wrong." Li Futian answered with a smile on his lips.
Seeing the smile, Jiang Yue didn’t continue asking but he kept the doubts at the back of his mind.
"This is not the time for gossip." Bing Lan reminded everyone.
Soon after, the group began to attack the yak that had just broken out of the killing formation.
Five days passed in this way and the six finally managed to kill the yak.
"That was too difficult." Jiang Yue couldn’t help but complain.
"I hope there aren’t many level six demonic beasts in this Treasure Island." Yang Xu couldn’t help but worry.
With the strength of six, it took more than five days to kill an early-stage sixth-level demonic beast.
If others encountered the same kind of beast, Yang Xu worried the Cangxing world would lose more cultivators.
"There shouldn’t be too many." Li Futian said and everyone felt relieved.
"Let’s find a place to recuperate before we go on." Yang Xu suggested and everyone agreed.
A while later, Jiang Yue released their ancient palace and everyone entered.
"Brother Li, do you know how long we will be in the Treasure Island?" Xuan Ke suddenly asked.
Hearing the question, Li Futian frowned and then sighed.
"We will be in the Treasure Island for another four hundred years." He said.
"Four hundred years is enough time to find many opportunities. We should be able to reach the peak of the nascent soul realm within four hundred years." Jiang Yue said.
