Chapter 1589: Chapter 1589: Beast Tide

As the only mid-level Soul Severing Expert present, Spirit Serpent Venerable unleashed his full strength, instantly turning around the situation where the human Martial Artists were struggling to cope, allowing them to both attack and defend against the Golden Flood Dragon.

The Golden Flood Dragon was smarter than most human Martial Artists. It knew Spirit Serpent Venerable was the key figure on the human side, so the majority of its attacks were directed at him.

As a result, Sikong Changjian and the others found themselves with a bit more ease.

However, Sikong Changjian and the others were not in the least bit relieved, nor dared to be complacent, because they knew if Spirit Serpent Venerable went down, they would be doomed as well.

This way, the humans, who originally had different motives, instead became united in their efforts.

“You beast dare!”

Forced into a flurry by the Golden Flood Dragon’s attacks, Spirit Serpent Venerable was furious and his fierce disposition was roused.

His body suddenly rose several meters, and with continuous swipes of his hands in the void, a stream of black mist surged out, converging into a dark cloud dozens of meters wide, which enshrouded the Golden Flood Dragon opposite him.

The ink cloud formed by the black mist contained a deadly poison capable of corroding even refined steel and meteorite iron. Spirit Serpent Venerable believed that even with its strong physical defense, the Golden Flood Dragon could not withstand his potent toxin.

“Swish!”

The Golden Flood Dragon spewed out a large amount of mist, hoping to dispel the ink cloud, but the cloud expanded rapidly upon contact with the moisture, growing several times larger, instantly enveloping the massive body of the Golden Flood Dragon.

Under the soft “sizzling” sounds, the surface of the Golden Flood Dragon was corroded by the intense toxicity of the ink cloud, forming one black blister after another. Upon rupturing, black, inky blood gushed out.

The waves of pain from its body made the Golden Flood Dragon involuntarily roll in the air, and as it thrashed around, the ink cloud gradually dispersed.

Looking intently at this moment, it could be seen that the Golden Flood Dragon was entirely covered with oozing black poisonous blood, seemingly heavily injured. However, the powerful Self-Healing abilities in its blood caused its wounds to mend at a speed visible to the naked eye.

“Everyone, if not now, then when?”

Spirit Serpent Venerable’s cold voice rang out.

Spirit Serpent Venerable knew that the poison mist he released could only temporarily inflict wounds on the Golden Flood Dragon, far from taking its life. At this moment, when the Golden Flood Dragon was most hurt and its defense was weakest, a combined fierce attack from others might just inflict a greater injury on the beast.

Spirit Serpent Venerable even thought this might be their last chance to capture and kill the Golden Flood Dragon, as once it managed to dive into the water and lick its wounds at the lake’s bottom, no matter how great their skills, they could do nothing to it.

Sikong Changjian and the others seemed to understand this logic as well, hence nearly a hundred Spiritual Artifacts rose into the air, raining down upon the Golden Flood Dragon.

The Golden Flood Dragon spewed out beams of golden light, destroying one Spiritual Artifact after another that was attacking, but with nearly a hundred Spiritual Artifacts, it simply couldn’t destroy them all in a moment, leaving the majority to land on its body, rendering it a bloody mess instantly.

The number of human Martial Artists was overwhelming, and before the Golden Flood Dragon could catch its breath, the next wave of attacks had already arrived, causing dozens more wounds in an instant.

Although these wounds were not large, when combined together they appeared shocking.

The Golden Flood Dragon wanted to dive into the lake below to escape but was tightly entangled by nearly a hundred Martial Artists, leaving it no chance at all.

It seemed to realize its crisis, continuously raising its head to issue roaring dragon cries, expressing intense indignation and unrest.

Just then, howling sounds also emanated from the mountains on the north side of Dragon Lake.

This sudden howling made the human warriors engaged in the fierce battle above Dragon Lake vaguely feel something amiss.

However, the Golden Flood Dragon’s spirits were suddenly lifted.

From those howling sounds, the Golden Flood Dragon sensed a goodwill from a human expert, who even seemed intent on helping it.

The human experts, feeling something amiss after the howling started, formed incantations with their hands, desperately controlling their Spiritual Artifacts to intensify the attack.

The Golden Flood Dragon’s cries grew more urgent, the situation increasingly dire.

“Quick, look, what is that?”

Some experts who had been lurking around Dragon Lake and had not dispersed saw large swaths of “dark clouds” surging from the northern mountains.

“It’s Scorpion Tail Bees and Blood-Sucking Bats… My God, at least tens of thousands of them!”

Upon narrowing their eyes for a closer look, these experts discovered that the dark clouds were composed of tens of thousands of Scorpion Tail Bees and Blood-Sucking Bats.

A closer examination of those Scorpion Tail Bees and Blood-Sucking Bats revealed each one as large as a millstone, and based on the aura they emitted, the vast majority were comparable to human Golden Pill Experts, with a small fraction even akin to human Nascent Soul Realm Experts.

If only tens or hundreds of such Scorpion Tail Bees and Blood-Sucking Bats attacked, the experts present, including Spirit Serpent Venerable and several others in the Soul Severing Realm, could easily wipe them out with a snap of the fingers, unafraid of them at all.

However, with tens of thousands of Scorpion Tail Bees and Blood-Sucking Bats swarming in hordes like an enveloping sky, it was truly terrifying.

Ordinary Nascent Soul Experts were utterly powerless to resist when faced with such a massive horde of Scorpion Tail Bees and Blood-Sucking Bats, and even Eighteen Battle Generals, who had just advanced to the Nascent Soul Perfection realm, would find it headache-inducing and exhausting to cope.

Only Spirit Serpent Venerable and Sikong Changjian, the two Soul Severing realm experts, might remain unscathed under the onslaught of tens of thousands of Scorpion Tail Bees and Blood-Sucking Bats.

“Buzz!”

Tens of thousands of Spirit Beasts rapidly approached, their wings creating a buzzing sound that made the eardrums tremble.

“Ah!”

The dozen or so early Nascent Soul stage experts closest to the Spirit Beast horde failed to escape in time and became engulfed in the tide of Spirit Beasts, letting out despairing screams after resisting for a few breaths before being overwhelmed by the beasts.

A dozen breaths later, as the Spirit Beast horde howled past, the early Nascent Soul stage experts were reduced to skeletons, stripped of flesh, grotesque, and frightening.

A dozen early Nascent Soul stage experts faced with such a massive Spirit Beast horde showed not the slightest resistance, a sight that made the other experts gasp.

However, there was no longer any opportunity to flee, and the only remaining strategy was to fight desperately.

Thus, the vast majority of experts ceased attacking the Golden Flood Dragon, instead standing back to back, forming a defensive formation to resist the tidal wave of the Spirit Beast horde, thinking first to keep their own lives.

With this shift, the pressure on the Golden Flood Dragon was significantly reduced, allowing it to regain its vigor and start countering the few human Martial Artists still attacking it, quickly gaining the upper hand.

Recognizing the tide had turned against them, Spirit Serpent Venerable and Sikong Changjian gave a resigned sigh, preparing to break out and escape.

The two Soul Severing experts were formidable in their strength, and having decided to flee, they targeted the weakest defended spots in the Spirit Beast horde to launch attacks, attempting to cut a path of blood.

Large swathes of Scorpion Tail Bees and Blood-Sucking Bats suffered casualties under the overwhelming and aggressive assault from the two, falling into the lake, and it seemed they were about to break through.