Chapter 69: To the Summit

The name Vertical Brush Peak is well-deserved, resembling a standing brush, straight towards the sky, extremely steep.

The path up the mountain is only a simple mountain trail. Standing at the foot of the mountain, everyone can easily imagine how difficult it was for the cultivators of Three Mountains City to carve out this path.

Especially when the mountains were full of ferocious beasts at that time.

Every step must have been taken with blood, and every level haunted by souls.

The flesh and blood of the dead formed the steps, and the souls of the deceased protected the living. The living persevered, finally stepping onto this mountain and clearing out the ferocious beasts.

Two years later, new ferocious beasts have wandered here, and new clearers have appeared here.

Jiang Wang is no stranger to ferocious beasts, but this is, after all, his first time in such a legendary nest of ferocious beasts.

Due to the generous rewards, many cultivators have come to Three Mountains City, but the vast majority choose to follow the main force of Three Mountains City to clear Jade Balance Peak.

Only a few teams have chosen Vertical Brush Peak.

And Li Jianqiu set off early in the morning with his men, so there were no companions on the road.

Led by Li Jianqiu, the group climbed towards the top of the mountain. The first half of the road was stable, with nothing but scattered animal bones.

The mountain path winds around the mountain peak, with cliffs on one side and precipices on the other. Occasionally, strange howls echo in the valley, giving people goosebumps.

"Careful!" Li Jianqiu suddenly reminded, but did not act.

A snake-like ferocious beast suddenly jumped out from the edge of the cliff. Although it is called a snake, it is covered with scales of the same color as the rocks. This layer of protection makes it difficult to detect when it is still.

Jiang Wang's long sword was the first to be unsheathed. The first killing move of the Purple Qi East Coming Sword Art happened to cut through the snake's tongue when the snake-like ferocious beast opened its giant mouth.

The other hand, which was forming a hand seal, was not idle either, and stuffed a flame bullet into the snake's mouth. As the body followed the sword, he floated back to the mountain path at the same time as the snake-like ferocious beast fell off the cliff.

This series of actions was clean and neat, without a trace of excess, giving the viewer a pleasing feeling.

After integrating Taoism into the combat system, Jiang Wang's combat power has more than doubled.

"This kind of ferocious beast is called a Rock Snake. Its scales and armor have extremely strong defense, and its mouth and abdomen are its weaknesses." Li Jianqiu explained as he walked forward, "Junior Brother Jiang dealt with it beautifully. If the ferocious beasts on Vertical Brush Peak are only of this strength and density, it seems we can reach the summit today."

"Senior Brother Li seems to be very familiar with this place?" Zhao Rucheng asked.

"I've been here before," came Li Jianqiu's response from the front.

He deliberately did not take action just now, just to observe the quality of the others. The result satisfied him.

Zhao Rucheng reacted extremely quickly and quickly adjusted his position. If Li Jianqiu did not see it wrong, his sword-drawing stance was exactly the same as Jiang Wang's, and it seemed that they had both cultivated the extraordinary sword canon that had been rumored everywhere – the one Jiang Wang relied on to win the first place in the Three Cities Dao Debate in his first year. It was hard not to be noticed.

Huang Azhan usually jokes around, but he also completed Taoist preparations in a very short time.

Of course, the biggest surprise for Li Jianqiu was still Jiang Wang. He knew that Jiang Wang's foundation establishment would definitely bring about a qualitative improvement, but he didn't expect the improvement to be so great. Jiang Wang's current strength is far better than it was during the Three Cities Dao Debate.

Such a team, not to say how powerful it is, but at least no one will hold him back.

Going forward, there was a turn, and as soon as Li Jianqiu's figure disappeared from sight, there were violent Dao Yuan fluctuations from that side.

Jiang Wang quickly took a few steps to turn around, and only saw the corpse of a centipede-like ferocious beast, cut into several sections and scattered there. And in Li Jianqiu's hands, two swords of flame were burning fiercely.

"Wind Centipede, it can fly," Li Jianqiu explained, and then said lightly, "If there are many of them, it will be difficult to deal with."

On this narrow mountain path, if they were attacked by flying ferocious beasts, it would indeed be difficult to deal with. Fortunately, only one Wind Centipede has appeared so far.

The continuous appearance of ferocious beasts shows that they have now entered the area where ferocious beasts are active, and everyone has become more vigilant.

Huang Azhan carefully stacked statuses on himself, using Stone Skin Technique, Solidification, and a bunch of Taoist techniques. He not only added them to himself, but also added them to Jiang Wang and Zhao Rucheng.

Finally, Li Jianqiu looked at him helplessly: "Do you have enough Dao Yuan?"

Only then did he stop awkwardly.

Halfway up the mountain.

A woman's waist is graceful, and a man's waist is strong. The waist of Vertical Brush Peak... is treacherous.

The mountain road ends here. There is no road ahead, only rugged rocks and strange trees with branches sticking out.

And on those trees, between the rocks, crouching or lying, there are no less than twenty ferocious beasts. Wolf-like, snake-like, bird-like, all different, but all equally terrifying and grotesque in appearance.

Ferocious beasts have no intelligence, so this is certainly not an ambush. To be precise, Jiang Wang and others have broken into their resting place.

And they, of course, erupted in the first moment.

The four pieces of fresh flesh and blood nearby made them salivate madly.

Li Jianqiu held his dual flame swords upside down and crashed into the group of ferocious beasts. The flame swords flew, and flesh and blood were blurred.

Zhao Rucheng launched his sword, cutting to the side. He did not charge head-on like Li Jianqiu, but kept the number of ferocious beasts he faced at the same time below three. With a flick of his sword left and right, he always cut through the vital points.

Huang Azhan made hand seals like flying. When he was stacking statuses on himself, Jiang Wang noticed that he made hand seals extremely fast. At this time, only flame bullets were seen like a string of beads, almost howling and surging.

He operated a D-grade superior single-target Taoist technique to create the effect of a range Taoist technique.

Jiang Wang naturally refused to fall behind. He pulled the left hand that had completed the hand seals, and a vine wrapped around the wolf-like ferocious beast in front of him just right, and then a long sword slashed across, and the wolf's head left its body.

He kicked the wolf corpse away, knocking into another tiger-like ferocious beast.

And the person had already borrowed strength to go backwards. His whole person leaned back and fell down, forming a straight line parallel to the ground.

He was like a long sword, and the sword itself was the tip of the sword.

The power of the Purple Qi East Coming Sword Art vibrated the ordinary iron, causing this sword to cut through the snake-like ferocious beast as easily as a sharp blade cutting paper.

The snake corpse was split in half, and Jiang Wang passed through the splashing blood with both the man and the sword, barely avoiding getting a drop of snake blood.

An eagle-like ferocious beast pounced, about to hit the snake blood splashing in the air, and was corroded, letting out a sharp scream.

Jiang Wang turned around, and the long sword flew out quickly, piercing into the eagle beast's slender neck, beheading it with one sword.

This ordinary long sword could no longer bear this level of combat and exploded in mid-air.

Jiang Wang was prepared for this and had been making hand seals for a long time. With a shake of his hand, he had condensed a flame sword.

At this time, the snake blood fell to the ground, corroding the rocks into concave marks.

Jiang Wang diagonally raised the flame sword, took a step forward, and collided with the tiger-like ferocious beast that had been knocked away earlier.

The flame sword pierced through the heart, and Jiang Wang grabbed the tiger-like ferocious beast's neck with his left hand and threw it aside.

This series of battles was clever and smooth. If it weren't for the Yuan Control Art making him have such free control over his own Dao Yuan, he wouldn't have been able to do this.

At this moment, Li Jianqiu had already killed two rounds in the group of ferocious beasts. Of the nearly twenty ferocious beasts, only two were left alive. Two Wind Centipedes.

They did not seem to know fear, and of course, they had no concept of running away, still diving fiercely from the left and right.

Li Jianqiu rose from the ground, and the two flame swords crossed in the air. The two Wind Centipedes were broken into four sections and landed with him.

Zhao Rucheng had already sheathed his sword, and he didn't seem to be under any pressure.

Huang Azhan...

"Senior Brother Li is mighty!"

He can still actively flatter, so he should be in good condition as well.

Jiang Wang extinguished the flame sword, since he couldn't compare to Li Jianqiu's abundant Dao Yuan, he would save as much as he could.

Now his Star River Dao Vortex generates nine Dao Yuan every day, plus his own Chong Pulse cultivation, his Dao Yuan accumulation speed is very fast. But in this kind of high-intensity battle, it can't last too long.

Li Jianqiu stepped over the corpses of the ferocious beasts and walked forward.

Without those ferocious beasts blocking it, Jiang Wang noticed that there was a huge rock in front, with something engraved on the stone surface.