Yao Mun's Playground - 287
As Guang Fu continuously cultivated, 5 years passed. Yuo had just come and left when Guang Fu sensed something.
He opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the teleportation array that he had never used.
Not long after, a figure appeared in it. A giant bearded dragon, 10 feet big and 50 feet long. Guang Fu's face turned solemn in an instant. He got up and ran to the battle zone in order to defend.
As he ran, he analyzed his opponent.
'A bearded dragon. Not quite a dragon, but a relative of the species. Any bearded dragon is powerful, but for the beast world to send this one, he must be above and beyond normal bearded dragons.' Guang Fu thought.
Dragons were considered the number 1 supreme beasts. This was not only in the heaven world and the beast world, but also the Zhou Galaxy.
Bearded dragons were one of the beast species closest related to the dragon, along with earth dragons and flood dragons.
Earth dragons, flood dragons, and bearded dragons were one step away from being supreme beasts.
Supreme beasts were usually much more talented than beasts. Therefore, the bearded dragons, earth dragons, and flood dragons were the most noble beasts in both worlds.
While the numbers of the beasts made up for the talent gap between them and supreme beasts, the three sub-dragon races were still considered very important.
Guang Fu's opponent, a bearded dragon at the 6th level of the nascent soul realm, was as worrying to him as a fully healthy beast at the 9th level of the nascent soul realm.
He had trouble with the crane due to the trap it had set. In Guang Fu's mind, there was a high chance of victory against the bearded dragon even without the emblem.
With the emblem, victory could be considered guaranteed.
Guang Fu had only worried instinctually. By the time he arrived at the combat zone, he was confident as could be.
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At the same time that Guang Fu was sizing up the bearded dragon, Yao Mun was taking care of a fortress deep in a mountain range.
In a small hallway made completely of stone blocks, he ran forward unhindered by the hundreds of men in front of him.
His black hair had grown long and spiked down to his waist. Due to the hallway's size, two men at most could come at once.
Yao Mun ran down the hallway, cutting everybody in his path down. Blood covered his armored body, his face, and his hair.
He ran on the ground, the walls, and the ceiling, instilling terror into the once courageous men in front of him.
The blood covering face and his demonic eye helped in that aspect. After cutting around 40 men down, the first one finally cracked.
He turned around and scrambled away while shouting. "Somebody stop this demon! He'll kill us all!"
After scrambling past ten men, the retreating warrior's face was grabbed by a large hand.
In an instant, the hand squeezed and his face turned into mush.
"Any cowards who retreat will be killed on the spot." A man said, his voice resounding through the hallway.
His words gave the men courage as they rushed forward.
Yao Mun looked at the man who had spoken.
'One of the three leaders of this fort. The second strongest of them, reaching the 2nd level of the soul formation realm.' Yao Mun thought.
In theory, the man had the right to maintain a courageous look in front of the 4th level nascent soul realm Yao Mun.
Unfortunately, reality was not always the same as theorized.
As Yao Mun cut down 20 more men, he was met face to face with the courageous leader.
Without sparing a second glance, Yao Mun's left arm disappeared and his sword flickered.
In the next second, the courageous leader was cut in half and an explosion destroyed the stone hallway's wall.
The remaining men, seeing one of their three leaders cut down in a single slash, lost their courage immediately and ran.
Yao Mun did not stop his actions, catching up to them and killing ten more before the stone hallway ended.
Outside of the hallways exit was a large grassland. Yao Mun had just left one of the exits of the fortress.
Waiting on the grassland was a gigantic army 10,000 people large. Floating above the standing army were the remaining two leaders of the fortress.
They had set an ambush to put an end to Yao Mun. Yao Mun finally stopped moving as he looked over the army.
Over the past few years, Yao Mun had finally shown signs of maturation. He was no less insane or crazy, but he was temporarily able to stop and assess a situation before charging in.
After a moment, he made a decision.
'I can take them. It will take a while to recover in the worst case, but there is no chance of failure.' He thought to himself.
"Demon. Surrender now and —-" Before he was able to finish, Yao Mun took a deep breath in and exhaled a sea of flames.
It was based off of the dragon's breath, but was far less powerful. In addition to the technique, Yao Mun used his lesser increase ability to make it stronger by a single level.
It was now cooling down, but he didn't plan on using it for the rest of the battle.
Yao Mun launched forward as the flames engulfed a large portion of the battlefield. He ran through the flames, stepping on heads and bodies before coming out of the flames and being greeted by the remaining 5,000 soldiers.
They came forward like a tidal wave, but Yao Mun needed to only wave his sword a single time to kill ten, and use a single darkness technique to blind a hundred.
He ran through the army unchecked and unstoppable. As the army was reduced by another 500, the two flying above finally realized that nobody but them would be able to do a single thing.
As Yao Mun sent out a ring of flames and turned the soldiers near him to ash, both of the remaining leaders fell to the ground, causing the ground to shake.