Chapter 2326 - 2324: Something’s Not Right

On the Baiyu Platform, there are four Dao Pools; aside from Solar Flames and Moonless occupying one, the other three have already determined their outcomes, with only one group of cultivators occupying each Dao Pool. As for the other cultivators… either dead or fled.

One of the Dao Pools is occupied by the star beast combination.

Another pool is occupied by a group of Peak Dao Fusion that Lu Ye has never seen, but what's strange is that this team is a combination of the Blood Race and the Insect Race!

From the perspective of the Star Abyss, both the Blood Race and the Insect Race count as major factions because these two races have a large number of cultivators, and more talents emerge within their clans. Out of more than fifty thousand Dao Fusion practitioners, having these two chosen is not surprising.

The Blood Race and the Insect Race naturally have some affinity, and since they've met, they naturally wouldn't mind working together. Over the past half year, these two have had considerable gains.

The last Dao Pool is occupied by Lu Ye's old acquaintances, Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang.

That Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang could seize a Dao Pool was somewhat surprising to Lu Ye since Ning Gu damaged one body in the Cloud Ladder trap and their strength should have waned.

However, both of them ultimately are Peak Dao Fusion, and especially Junior Sister Shuang whose strength is formidable. With this perspective, it seems normal for them to seize a Dao Pool.

This situation was the reason Solar Flames suggested temporarily cooperating with Lu Ye, because the ownership of the Dao Pools has been determined. If action isn't taken quickly, the other teams will naturally have time to recover, making it more troublesome to deal with them later.

Right now is the best time; each team has just gone through a melee, consuming tremendously, compared to which Solar Flames and Moonless have consumed relatively less.

Lu Ye and Su Yan's side need not be mentioned either.

The place Solar Flames and Moonless charged towards was where Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang were located at the Dao Pool. Honestly, all four are Peak Dao Fusion, but in terms of strength, Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang are surely slightly inferior.

Regarding Moonless's strength, Lu Ye isn't very clear, but Solar Flames is definitely in a league of his own.

This battle poses a grim situation for Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang.

This doesn't concern Lu Ye though, his eyes swept over the remaining two Dao Pools and he looked towards the combination of star beasts.

The reason for choosing these two star beasts wasn't related to any "different tribe." Indeed, if judging by race, none of these cultivators present, except Lu Ye, are from the human race.

He simply felt these two star beasts would be easier to kill.

Two star beasts, one resembling a transparent jellyfish, with countless tentacles fluttering beneath its crown, the other appearing as a pile of sludge, with a visible ominous aura emanating from its body, seemingly capable of twisting space.

Under normal circumstances, star beasts don't possess much spiritual intelligence; regardless of how strong they are, they generally act like ordinary unrefined beasts, moving by instinct.

However, the star beasts chosen by the Will of the Star Abyss to participate in this competition, definitively aren't to be judged by conventional means.

Standing beside Su Yan, Lu Ye slightly raised his hand, placing the palm on her back, constructing the Twin Flying Phoenixes Dao Runes.

Su Yan said nothing, bent her bow and drew the string, and as golden light flickered, the sludge star beast focused on recovering within the Dao Pool suddenly burst apart like a lump of mud hit by great force, splattering clumps of ominous sludge all around...

This scene not only stunned Lu Ye but also left Su Yan somewhat dumbfounded.

Neither expected this seemingly domineering sludge star beast to be so effortlessly crushed.

But the two quickly realized something was off because the sludge star beast's corpse didn't vanish, nor were there any Star Abyss coins left.

This undoubtedly meant…

"It's not dead!" Lu Ye whispered in Su Yan's ear.

With the words barely out, the splattered clumps resembling sludge started undulating and in a blink transformed into numerous sludge star beasts.

Dozens at least... their size incomparable to the one before.

Suddenly attacked, these smaller sludge star beasts evidently grew angry, collectively charging at Lu Ye and Su Yan.

"This…" Su Yan was stupefied.

She totally didn't expect that the sludge star beast's body structure would be so peculiar, able to split like this, and such an enemy was undoubtedly her greatest counter.

With dozens of small sludge star beasts, she would need to shoot at least dozens of arrows to kill them, and who could guarantee these small sludge star beasts wouldn't split further upon being killed?

Soon, dozens turning into hundreds, then thousands.

No matter how much Dao force Lu Ye has, it wouldn't be enough to squander.

She tentatively shot an arrow at one of the small sludge star beasts, unsurprisingly, after killing the small sludge star beast, it split into even more smaller entities!

She decisively turned her attention to the jellyfish star beast.

If unable to kill the sludge star beast, they'd have to deal with this first; as for the sludge star beast, it could be handled later. Its splitting certainly had a limit, impossible to continue infinitely.

Yet what she didn't foresee was that as she shot an arrow, the jellyfish star beast suddenly burst into radiance, its entire form transforming into a lightning orb, arcs of lightning coursing along its surface, easily deflecting her fierce attack.

In such a brutal and bloody competition, those surviving till now aren't weaklings, even if they're just star beasts.

Su Yan fired three consecutive arrows, yet still to no avail.

Meanwhile, under the cover of numerous sludge star beasts, the jellyfish star beast rapidly approached.

With a quick glance, Lu Ye released Su Yan, placed his hand on the Boulder Mountain Saber, and spoke through audio transmission: "Stay back!"

In the current situation, Su Yan's arrow skills are greatly restrained, less efficient than him taking action to kill the enemy. Since that is the case, he has no choice but to do it himself.

Su Yan naturally understood, almost simultaneously as Lu Ye's words fell, the space around her rippled, and then her figure vanished.

Lu Ye's figure flickered, similarly disappearing from where he stood.

When they reappeared, they had reached a spot not far from that jellyfish star beast. Boulder Mountain Saber was unsheathed, and a flash of blade light struck directly at one of the jellyfish star beast's flailing tentacles.

Lu Ye's body shook violently, immediately sensing the power of this jellyfish star beast.

The creature was undoubtedly at Peak Dao Fusion!

It definitely had its own Dao soldier, though Lu Ye wasn't clear on what a star beast's Dao soldier entailed; he guessed it had cultivated part of its body into a Dao soldier, for it to possess such strength.

Moreover, its tentacles carried exceptionally powerful electrical energy, which transmitted through Boulder Mountain Saber.

Lu Ye only felt his hand grow numb...

Dao force surged wildly, dissipating the discomfort from his body. Amidst rapid movements, just before more tentacles could strike, he dashed atop the jellyfish star beast's head.

He shifted from single-handed to double-handed grip, akin to a deity descending from the heavens, fiercely slashing down with the long blade. The moment it touched the opponent's transparent canopy, Boulder Mountain Saber vibrated intensely.

Vibrating Saber!

A burst of a thousand forces exploded instantly, even the Peak Dao Fusion jellyfish star beast couldn't withstand it. The brilliance of this strike split the jellyfish star beast in half.

Yet Lu Ye frowned.

Something felt slightly off!

Admittedly, the Vibrating Saber's damage was extremely terrifying. This secret technique effectively allowed Lu Ye to slash repeatedly four to five times in a short period, with each slash carrying the explosive force of two hundred and forty Dao forces.

Even if the power level of Peak Dao Fusion slightly exceeded his own, it couldn't resist.

But in the end, the jellyfish star beast was indeed a Peak Dao Fusion; could it truly be slain so easily?

The split corpse swiftly vanished, leaving a Star Abyss coin behind, and Lu Ye's expression grew peculiar.

With the death of this jellyfish star beast, numerous small sludge star beasts that had been charging toward them seemed startled and fled in a different direction.

Lu Ye hesitated only briefly, then pursued them, signaling Su Yan who was staging the formation from afar.

A moment later, after slaughtering numerous sludge star beasts, Lu Ye and Su Yan hid on a piece of floating land. The sludge star beast wasn't killed, for it had split into too many pieces, making complete annihilation impossible.

And now even Lu Ye didn't know where it had managed to hide.

"Senior Brother Lu, what's the matter?" Su Yan asked as she sensed Lu Ye seemed to have something to discuss; otherwise, he wouldn't have hidden here.

"Something's off," Lu Ye began.

Su Yan's expression grew serious: "In what way?"

"That jellyfish star beast... isn't dead!"

Su Yan was puzzled: "Didn't you already kill it? It even left a Star Abyss coin behind."

Lu Ye shook his head slowly: "Leaving behind a Star Abyss coin is simple; it just needs to hide one inside its body in advance. After I slay it, it naturally leaves one. As for why I'm saying it's not dead... think back to how I used to kill enemies."

Su Yan quickly recollected and reacted immediately: "Star Abyss Blessing!"

Lu Ye nodded: "Exactly, there was no Star Abyss Blessing this time!"

Because there was no Star Abyss Blessing after killing the jellyfish star beast, Lu Ye could be sure it wasn't dead. What he killed might only have been a doppelganger or something similar.

That made things interesting. A star beast that typically only acts on instinct suddenly using cleverness and strategy in such a setting, one could say that any cultivator witnessing this scene, except for Lu Ye and Su Yan, wouldn't suspect that jellyfish star beast is still alive.

Moreover, the sludge star beasts were chased so miserably when pursuing earlier, this pair probably appears to observers to have already withdrawn from the competition.

But actually, they must be lurking in the shadows, quietly waiting to astonish everyone.

"But Senior Brother, it's not guaranteed that a Star Abyss Blessing will descend after killing enemies." Su Yan stated.

"Indeed, it's not guaranteed to descend, but I, with Beginner physique, am able to cut down Peak Dao Fusion; it's impossible there would be no Star Abyss Blessing!"

Su Yan fell silent.

Although she had previously asked about Lu Ye's cultivation state issues, only now did she finally confirm from Lu Ye's own words that he truly was merely a Beginner physique!

For a beginner to cut down Dao Fusion, such a feat is already enough to shock the world, let alone the fact that the Dao Fusion Lu Ye had been slaying lately were not simply newly ascended ones; many were above the 7th Order Dao Fusion.

A person like this, unless seen with one's own eyes, Su Yan wouldn't dare believe could exist.

And such a person, if becoming the Star Abyss Heir, what consequences...

He can now, as a beginner, cut Dao Fusion, but what if he reaches Dao Harmony? After achieving Dao Harmony?