parentshiftbook Chapter 161 Ghost Cloud Mountain
Chapter 161 Ghost Cloud Mountain
The power of his attack just now was clearly enough to kill the Black Tiger King, but at the last moment, a mysterious force within the tiger king's body protected its life. If Zhang Ping wasn't mistaken, this must be a contingency plan left by the Demon Lord within the Black Tiger King's body.
The black hole that appeared later, which rescued the Black Tiger King, also confirmed this.
However, this makes it extremely difficult for the Great Wei human race to kill a demon king like the Black Tiger King!
If he were closer, he might have been able to make a move before the Black Tiger King was pulled away by the black hole. It's hard to say whether the Demon Extermination Bureau has such an expert.
Zhang Ping sighed, his mind becoming even more wary of the Demon Lord's methods.
"How exactly was that black hole created? How could it cross space to rescue the Black Tiger King?"
This wasn't the first time he'd been disgusted by such tactics. In both Black Tiger City and Ghost Sky Mountain Range, whenever he was about to kill a demon king, the Demon Lord would always interfere, yet he couldn't find a way to counter it, which was truly infuriating.
Perhaps I should go back to the Demon Extermination Bureau headquarters and ask if there's a way to counter him. After all, if Wang Tian is indeed the Demon Lord, the older generation of Marrow-Entry Realm martial artists in the Demon Extermination Bureau should know more about him and maybe even find his weaknesses.
Having made up his mind, Zhang Ping stopped thinking about it.
Just now, when I watched Hua Zhu fight the Black Tiger King from afar, the dark blue aura on her body seemed somewhat similar to the aura of Dao Xiao on my body, yet there were subtle differences. However, I could confirm that they came from the same lineage.
Zhang Ping made a guess about Hua Zhu's unusual reaction that day: "It seems that the two mantises beside Hua Zhu recognized the power of the Blade Demon on my body."
He chuckled lightly, then quickly forgot about it; it was nothing.
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A red light streaked across the sky as Zhang Ping moved with incredible speed. After crossing the border between Taiwu Prefecture and Lanjiang Prefecture, he inquired along the way and headed towards Giant Stone City.
He already knew that Giant Stone City had been breached, and Wen Gaoyang and the Black Abyss Army were responsible for covering the rear, their fate unknown.
"I'm a little late." Hanging above the city of Giant Stone, Zhang Ping looked down at the ruins of the city and sighed.
The demons did not occupy the Great Stone City; they have already retreated. Their siege of the Great Stone City seems to be solely for the purpose of preying on human warriors.
After the demon army left, only a few lesser demons roamed the area. One could vaguely see daring human warriors wandering through the ruins, searching for any remaining valuable materials, and occasionally ambushing and killing some of the lesser demons as revenge.
Zhang Ping shook his head, roughly identifying the direction of the breakout based on the battle marks on the ground, and then activated his beast pattern to search for Wen Gaoyang's aura.
More than half a month had passed since the battle, and the surrounding atmosphere was extremely mixed due to the influence of demonic energy. Zhang Ping could not pinpoint the exact location of the energy for the time being, but could find the general direction in which Wen Gaoyang had left.
"South?" Sensing the direction of the aura, Zhang Ping was slightly taken aback. Could Wen Gaoyang have been captured by demons?
If that's the case, there's nothing he can do.
Although he is now very strong, he is still a little afraid to go to the demon stronghold alone and fight all the demons.
After thinking for a while, Zhang Ping tried to find a path forward, until he crossed the Ghost Sky Mountain Range, when Wen Gaoyang's breath suddenly stopped.
"That's it?" Zhang Ping frowned. Fortunately, the atmosphere in this area was relatively unmixed. He carefully activated his beast runes, stood still for a dozen breaths, then suddenly his expression changed, and he sped off in one direction.
His figure swept through the forest and arrived at the foot of a dark mountain. Zhang Ping looked at the mountain before him and suddenly felt a sense of familiarity:
"This is... Ghost Cloud Mountain?"
He had picked up a ghost stone on Ghost Cloud Mountain the first time he crossed the Ghost Heaven River. It was also on that trip that he accidentally obtained the Heart of the Mountain Marsh. Although he crossed the Ghost Heaven River again later, he never went back to Ghost Cloud Mountain.
I never expected Wen Gaoyang to be in these mountains.
Without hesitation, Zhang Ping flew directly into Ghost Cloud Mountain.
The mountains that were once fraught with danger for him can now be traversed freely without him noticing. On Ghost Cloud Mountain, the land remains pitch black, covered with low black shrubs and pebbles. The merging of the two banks of the Ghost Sky River seems to have had no effect on this area.
Following the scent, Zhang Ping arrived at a large rock. He stood there for a moment, then suddenly felt something was wrong.
He jumped down, carefully examined the large black rock in front of him, and then poked it with his finger.
With a soft "plop," his finger, brimming with blood and energy, poked a hole in the large rock. As he probed inside, Zhang Ping felt a fleshy sensation.
The large rock, which had been lying on the ground like a dead object, suddenly let out a strange howl and stood up with a bang, turning into a stone man!
Zhang Ping opened his mouth, then shouted, "So it was you, little stone!"
He remembered being bullied by a thug named Stone Man when he last went up the mountain, and he never expected to run into him again this time!
The stone man, with a hole pierced in its back, howled in pain. Startled by Zhang Ping's loud shout, its thick, short legs buckled, and it knelt on the ground, begging for mercy:
"Grandpa, spare me! Grandpa, spare me! Little Stone has never harmed anyone here, nor has he ever seen any other humans. Grandpa, you must have mistaken him for someone else!"
As he spoke, the stone man began to kowtow, mimicking humans, wailing and begging for mercy as he did so, doing it quite convincingly.
Zhang Ping chuckled at the sight, his desire for revenge largely dissipating. He kicked the stone golem over, sat on it, and asked, "Have you seen any humans here recently?"
Upon hearing Zhang Ping's question, the stone man quickly replied, "No, no! Little Stone has been sleeping here the whole time and hasn't seen anyone come!"
"Hmph! All you do is sleep all day, you good-for-nothing! I think I'd rather send you to the underworld to sleep to your heart's content!" Zhang Ping's face darkened, and he made a move to kick him out again.
The stone man clung tightly to the ground in fright, hurriedly changing his words: "Grandpa, spare me! Grandpa, spare me... Little Stone heard that there's someone near that ghost tree inside. I wonder if it's the one you're looking for, Grandpa?"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Ping stopped in his tracks: "Where is the Ghost Tree?"
"The Ghost Tree is about three miles from here, around a bend in the road," the stone man quickly replied.
Zhang Ping glanced in the direction it indicated, sniffed, and discovered that there was indeed a human scent in the air there.
He then let the stone man go, leaving him with the words, "Next time, find a better place to sleep, don't block your grandpa's way!"
Watching Zhang Ping's departing figure, Shi Tou finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It looked miserably at the hole pierced in its back and muttered, "Just trying to get a good night's sleep, and I had to run into this monster... I need to move, I need to move right now..."
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Zhang Ping walked three miles in that direction and, sure enough, saw a human figure at a bend in the mountain.
However, there was no ghost tree there, only a large pit.
A large pit left after a tree root was uprooted.