Chapter 390: So Speechless, Where Have I Ended Up Again?

Pull out the nails?

Is it that simple?

’Poisonous Snake was still hesitating, weighing the pros and cons. The nails looked ominous. What if there was a backlash while pulling them out?’

But Giant Rock couldn’t wait any longer.

Fortune favors the bold!

’If I let that old schemer Poisonous Snake get to it first, this Emperor Realm Divine Beast will belong to someone else!’

"Senior! I’ll do it!"

Giant Rock roared, giving Poisonous Snake no chance to react. He leaped directly into the air and slowly descended toward the bottom of the pit.

"Giant Rock! Are you insane?!"

Poisonous Snake tried to stop him, but it was too late.

At the bottom of the pit.

The moment Giant Rock landed, the Holy Beast suddenly moved, raising its foreclaw!

Giant Rock flinched instinctively, scrambling backward in a frenzy, but the claw had already touched the spot between his eyebrows.

The Attack he expected never came.

Instead, an immense and exceptionally pure stream of Energy surged from the claw’s tip into Giant Rock’s body.

BOOM!

Giant Rock felt a tremor run through him. His depleted Qi Blood was instantly replenished, and his cultivation realm even began to break through!

In just a single moment, he had actually reached the Peak of King Realm, only a single step away from the Emperor Realm!

"This..."

Giant Rock felt the explosive power coursing through his body. He was completely stunned, but that quickly turned into elation!

It’s real!

This is all real!

’This Holy Beast can really increase my power!’

"Don’t be nervous, little one."

The "Holy Beast’s" voice grew even gentler, like that of a kind elder:

"This is just a small reward from me to you, and also to give you the strength to pull out the nails."

"You may begin now."

With that, the last trace of doubt in Giant Rock’s heart vanished into thin air.

’This senior is so considerate! Paying me before I even do the work!’

’Could this possibly be a bad guy?’

"Yes! Rest assured, Senior! I’ll pull them out right now!"

Without further hesitation, Giant Rock gripped the long black nail embedded between the Holy Beast’s eyebrows with both hands.

"Up!"

He roared, unleashing the full power of the Peak of King Realm.

The Holy Beast let out a suppressed groan, seemingly in extreme pain. Yet its eyes were fixed on the nail that was slowly loosening, its gaze overflowing with greed and ecstasy.

’Almost there!’

’It’s almost out~’

However, at that very moment.

A bone-chilling voice, like the shattering of celestial ice, suddenly echoed from above the deep pit:

"Stop."

The voice wasn’t loud, yet it carried an undeniable authority:

Giant Rock’s hands froze.

The ecstasy in the Holy Beast’s eyes faltered, and it jerked its head up to look.

Above the deep pit.

A graceful figure in white stood, hovering in mid-air.

It was Gu Yuexi.

She looked down upon the scene at the bottom of the pit, her deep eyes betraying no ripple of emotion—only endless coldness and scorn.

"What a ’Holy Beast.’"

A cold smirk played on Gu Yuexi’s lips, her gaze as sharp as a sword, piercing straight through the perfectly disguised Fierce Beast:

"An Outer Realm Fiend that’s been suppressed for ten thousand years dares to call itself a Holy Beast?"

"Wearing that skin, don’t you find it disgusting yourself?"

The moment these words were spoken, the atmosphere at the bottom of the pit froze.

Giant Rock was stunned. He looked up at Gu Yuexi, then back at the incomparably holy "Holy Beast" before him.

’Outer Realm Fiend?’

"Insolence!"

A flash of panic flickered in the Holy Beast’s eyes, but it quickly turned to rage:

"Where did this ignorant junior come from! How dare you slander me!"

"Little one, don’t listen to her nonsense! She wants to steal your opportunity! Pull it out, quickly!"

It was getting anxious.

It could sense that this woman who had suddenly appeared possessed an aura that it found utterly repulsive, even terrifying.

Gu Yuexi couldn’t be bothered to waste words.

’Explaining things to an idiot whose intelligence has been consumed by greed is a complete waste of time.’

With a flick of her wrist, the sheathed Divine Sword appeared in her hand once more.

BOOM!

The instant she grasped the hilt.

The "Holy Beast," which had been so imposing just a moment ago, felt its pupils shrink to the size of a pinprick.

’It actually sensed a hint... of death!’

’How is this possible!’

It shrieked, its voice cracking, devoid of any of its previous holy majesty.

"Quick! Pull it out!!!"

It dropped all pretenses. A foreclaw shot out, clamping around Giant Rock’s waist like an iron pincer.

The sharp tips of its claws pierced Giant Rock’s skin, drawing blood.

"If you don’t pull it out now, I’ll eat you!!!"

Its once-divine face instantly became hideous, its fangs bared.

Giant Rock was completely dumbfounded.

The intense pain and terror made his mind go blank, but under the threat of death, he had no choice.

"AHH!!!"

Giant Rock screamed, mustering the greatest strength of his life, and yanked upward!

PFFT!

The first long black nail was brutally ripped out!

CLANG!

The long nail hit the ground with a crisp clang.

RUMBLE—!!!

In that instant.

The entire Celestial Trace Abyss began to shake violently.

A terrifying black miasma erupted from the wound between the Fierce Beast’s eyebrows, shooting straight into the sky!

"HAHAHAHAHA! Yes! This feels amazing!"

The Fierce Beast threw its head back and laughed maniacally. Its voice became hoarse and savage as the holy golden light around its body shattered, revealing its drab and hideous true form beneath.

"The second one! Pull out the second one, quickly!!"

It gripped Giant Rock, its sharp claws digging deep into his body as it roared madly.

Meanwhile.

Above.

SHIIING—!!!

The clear ring of a sword echoed between heaven and earth.

Gu Yuexi began to draw her sword.

After breaking through to the Seventh-Grade, her control over this sword had risen to a new level.

One centimeter... two centimeters... five centimeters!

In the blink of an eye, five centimeters of the blade were unsheathed.

This had been her previous limit.

But this time, she didn’t stop.

Six centimeters!

Seven centimeters!

With every additional millimeter she drew, the Sword Intent surged exponentially.

Even the terrifying million-fold Law of gravity was beginning to destabilize!

At this moment, the Fierce Beast below grew even more terrified.

’It could feel that if that sword was fully drawn, it could truly kill it!’

"Faster! You useless piece of trash! Faster!"

It urged Giant Rock on frantically.

PFFT!

The second nail was pulled from its chest and fell to the ground!

BOOM!!!

The tremors this time were even more violent. The rock walls around the deep pit began to crumble, sending countless boulders tumbling down.

The Fierce Beast’s aura surged once more. Its pressure, originally at the Peak of King Realm, instantly broke through the Emperor Realm and continued to soar even higher!

"The third one, quickly!!"

A crazed light glinted in the Fierce Beast’s eyes as it slammed Giant Rock onto its back:

"PULL!!!"

Giant Rock screamed. He was completely out of control now, able only to endure the immense pain and grip the final nail.

As the third nail was pulled out just a little, the Fierce Beast’s aura skyrocketed.

However, Gu Yuexi remained completely unaffected.

’At this moment, her entire focus was on the sword!’

’No matter what happens, all she needs to do is cut it down with a single strike!’

Ten centimeters!

As these ten centimeters of the blade were revealed, an ancient and mysterious character on the sword’s body finally became half-visible.

BOOM!

A stream of Sword Qi powerful enough to destroy the heavens and earth coalesced in her hand.

But it wasn’t enough.

...

The end of the Celestial Trace Abyss.

The scene at this moment resembled a race.

Would Gu Yuexi unsheathe more of her sword first, or would the Outer Realm Fierce Beast break free first?

However, during such a tense and thrilling moment...

And where was our dear Chu Sheng in all this?

At this very moment.

Chu Sheng would say, ’I have no fucking clue where I am either...’

He hadn’t seen the scene unfolding at the end of the abyss.

Before his eyes was a miserable world, the ground littered with gruesome corpses.

Chu Sheng: ???

’Weren’t I just on top of the stone stele?’

’Where the hell did it send me this time...’