CHAPTER 719: CHAPTER 716: DRIVING OFF THE TIGER TO SWALLOW THE WOLF

The Nine Heavens Star Technique greatly taxed Li Chen. His True Yuan was almost saturated, and at most he could cast it twice. However, doing so would likely result in him fainting on the spot. To be safe, he assumed he could only use it once.

The Three Thousand Sword Spirit Formation, while also consuming a significant amount of Li Chen’s energy, did not deplete as much as using the Nine Heavens Star Technique. The main issue was the Dragon Soul was too weak; he estimated he could only cast it once at most.

The Nascent Soul Talisman was a one-time use life-saving Magical Treasure. Like US Dollars, once used, they must be discarded.

These were currently Li Chen’s three major trump cards.

No, that’s not right—he had one more assistant!

Li Chen looked up at the flame black panther, his eyes flickering with uncertain light.

These three Soul Beasts, despite all residing on the eighth floor of the Soul Tower, had clearly demarcated territories.

Moreover, the higher the Demon Beast’s rank, the stronger its sense of domain.

Setting a tiger to fight a wolf, and reaping the benefits when both are injured—he wished for them to inflict mutual destruction.

With these thoughts in mind, a proud smile curled up on the corner of Li Chen’s mouth.

"Roar, roar!"

Just then, the Three-eyed Thunder Ape violently beat its chest and charged over, tearing down mountains and overturning trees as it approached.

Its third eye blinked, shooting out lightning beams, sweeping them across at Li Chen.

However, Li Chen, adorned in the Unrivaled Immortal Shoes, had movement techniques far superior to it. Additionally, with the Insight Divine Power, he was able to predict the attack direction in advance and narrowly avoid danger.

Li Chen did not directly escape in the direction of the flame black panther but tried to enrage the Three-eyed Thunder Ape before him. Only by letting rage completely cloud its judgment could his strategy of pitting the tiger and wolf against each other possibly succeed.

"Swish!"

Li Chen stepped in a triangular refractive movement, narrowly evading the Thunder Ape’s bombardment.

Immediately afterwards, he soared into the air, furiously brandishing the Dragon Abyss Sword, its tip gleaming coldly as he aimed a stab directly at the ape’s eyes.

For both humans and Demon Beasts alike, the eyes were the most vulnerable parts!

Li Chen’s movements were extremely fast, and now enhanced by the additional 50% speed increase from the Unrivaled Immortal Shoes, he was engaging in close-quarters combat with the Three-eyed Thunder Ape.

Thus, this thrust came with no time for the opponent to react!

"Crack!"

Li Chen’s sword pierced through the left eye of the Three-eyed Thunder Ape, the eye and fresh blood mixing together like an exploding firework, splattering violently.

Seeing its eye viciously blinded by Li Chen, the Thunder Ape, in a fury, extended its sharp claws and viciously plucked out its own bleeding eyeball, chewing it in its mouth.

Perhaps because the taste of its own eyeball was not very good, the creature immediately fell into a fit of rage, issuing an abnormally sharp roar skyward.

At this instant, the entire Soul Tower trembled!

The flame black panther pacing in the distance stopped its walking back and forth, slightly bowed its body, its sanguine beast eyes seemingly burning with raging flames.

This was the reaction of facing a formidable enemy!

For it saw the Three-eyed Thunder Ape chasing a tiny human, charging straight towards its own territory.

Li Chen fiercely gathered his True Yuan, maximizing his speed. His figure shot out like a freshly unleashed sharp sword.

The Three-eyed Thunder Ape followed closely behind, limbs working together like a deadly hurricane, vehemently pursuing Li Chen.

"Woo woo, woo woo!"

Upon seeing the Three-eyed Thunder Ape invade its territory, the flame black panther immediately roared in warning.

Nevertheless, the Three-eyed Thunder Ape, completely enraged, paid no heed to the black panther’s warning. Its blood-red beast eyes were fixed dead on Li Chen, who was leaping and dodging in front of it.

Li Chen, noticing half of his plan to set the tiger against the wolf had been achieved, silently rejoiced in his heart.

He quickly took out a Spirit Talisman and crushed it, his figure turning into a streak of light as he disappeared into the vast white fog.

The Three-eyed Thunder Ape, losing track of Li Chen, erupted in a thunderous rage, roaring skyward. It even bore the intention of venting its fury on the territory’s owner, the flame black panther.

The flame black panther, a Fourth-level Late Stage Demon Beast, held its pride. Seeing the Three-eyed Thunder Ape completely disregarding its presence, it too was quickly overcome with anger.

"Roar!"

It fixed its glare on the Three-eyed Thunder Ape, furiously opening its bloody maw and emitting a blazing flame, attempting to repel it with this fierce display.

However, the Three-eyed Thunder Ape had now completely lost its rage.

Whoever dared to obstruct it from tearing Li Chen to shreds would be torn to shreds by it first.

So, when it saw the Flame Black Panther daring to block its path and even utter threats, it immediately let out an exceptionally furious roar, and with a violent motion, raised its gigantic paw and ferociously swatted towards it.

The Flame Black Panther seemed to have been prepared for this, bending its body like a full-drawn bow, suddenly shooting out explosively.

"Boom!"

The two high-level Soul Beasts clashed together, engaging in a literal fist-to-flesh life-and-death struggle.

Lightning and fire collided in mid-air, crackling and thundering, creating an exceptionally shocking scene.

The shock wasn’t felt just by Li Chen, but also by the onlooking crowd outside the Soul Condensing Tower.

At this time, all the Heaven’s Chosen Sons and Holy Daughters who had entered the Soul Condensing Tower had come out.

Jiang Tianxing, Sunx Tiantian, and a few others had rather unsightly expressions on their faces.

After all, this was thanks to Li Chen!

These elites, who ranked highly, had exerted tremendous effort just to reach the fifth level.

But to their surprise, they discovered it was completely empty!

The sixth level was the same!

On the seventh level, there was a strong defensive barrier, which they couldn’t pass, so they had no choice but to leave dejectedly.

At the beginning, they were puzzled and didn’t understand why.

Now, witnessing the anomaly on the eighth floor of the Soul Condensing Tower, they finally came to a realization.

Above the seventh level of the Soul Condensing Tower, the spiritual power was extremely abundant and the number of Soul Beasts was very low, so they would never engage in fierce fights for "food".

But now they were fighting to the death, which indicated that there must be someone else inside.

Now, all the notable Heaven’s Chosen Sons and Holy Daughters had already left the Soul Condensing Tower.

Only "Chen Li" was still inside!

Old Man Jiang squinted his eyes, looking up at the sparks of lightning on the eighth floor of the Soul Condensing Tower.

"In these hundred years, the person who reached the highest level of the Soul Condensing Tower should be you, brother Ning Que, right? If I remember correctly, it was the seventh level?"

The Prefectural Governor Ning Que nodded and said, "Correct, the seventh level. There were five fourth-level middle stage Soul Beasts there. I managed to kill one with great difficulty, but when I faced the second one, I ran out of True Yuan and had to exit the tower. It’s said that the eighth level contains three fourth-level late stage Soul Beasts; no wonder he’s the Heaven’s Chosen Son of the Cloud Sea Sect, we are not at all his match!"

This Soul Condensing Tower had Barrier Restrictions – only disciples below the Golden Core Stage could enter. And a fourth-level middle stage Soul Beast, when having the home ground advantage, had a combat power that could parallel that of a Golden Core early stage strong person.

With this honor, Ning Que became the number one on the Ningling County’s Heavenly Pride List that year.

But compared to "Chen Li", he was just insignificant, hardly worth mentioning.

Fourth-level late stage peak Demon Beasts were comparable to Golden Core late stage strong people. If three of them attacked together, they could even battle Nascent Soul Strong People!

Under the radiant brilliance of "Chen Li", the Heaven’s Chosen Sons and Holy Daughters of Ningling County, who considered themselves so, all faded in comparison.

This was the true outstanding figure, the true genius!

While they were at best, just cultivators with slightly better talent.

Jiang Tianxing, Sunx Tiantian, and others, while feeling envy and jealousy, were also secretly relieved.

After all, both of them had already formed a good connection with their senior brother "Chen Li". In the future within the sect, they would also have a backer.

Based on the monstrous talent that "Chen Li" has now revealed, if he does not fall within a hundred years, he will surely have a place among the thirteen peaks of the Cloud Sea Sect.

Thinking of this, both of their hearts were slightly stirred. Especially Sunx Tiantian, who was already thinking about how to throw herself into the arms of this senior brother with a promising future and firmly grasp his coattails.

At this moment, Ning Yu nearly turned green with regret.

Her so-called Prince Charming, Wang Rong, had already been slapped into a life-and-death unknown state by this "Chen Li" back at the Heavenly Pride Tower.

If she hadn’t been so willful, the one sent to "Chen Li"’s room that night wouldn’t have been that little girl Zhang Lingshui, but her, Ning Yu.

Unfortunately, she had squandered her direct opportunity for ascension, gifting it to someone else.

Ning Yu now wished she could simply smash her head against the Soul Tower and die.

Hate, regret, annoyance!