Martial arts ascend to the gods

Chapter 298 Same

Shen Jun said, "Three died. Three demons and one dragon. They swallowed the dragon blood petals first, and the three demons died immediately. The dragon was unconscious and bleeding all over its body. It probably won't live much longer."

"How did he die?"

"It reminds me of powerful monsters that were nuked."

Zhou Leng seemed to be deep in thought, then asked, "What about the Wrath of the Deep Darkness?"

"He truly lives up to his Starry Sky Bloodline; he was completely unharmed and even marveled at the power of the Dragon Blood Petals."

"Are you alright?"

“Mm,” Zhou Leng nodded.

"That's great."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, then, as if remembering something, they carefully observed Zhou Leng.

Her skin had a faint rosy tint than before, and her aura seemed stronger.

"What does the Dark Wrath say about the dead?"

"He said that the Dragon Blood Flower was too powerful and ordinary demons were not worthy of taking it. He snatched the other five petals from those people and compensated them with some treasures."

Zhou Leng nodded and looked into the distance, where he saw some demons spying on him, their eyes darting away as they moved further and further away.

"Are they waiting for me to die?" Zhou Leng asked.

“That’s what the demons say,” said Snow Mountain Rock.

Zhou Leng's eyes lit up, and he said, "Who said you'd take me there?"

"Ah? Ah! Your subordinate obeys." Snow Mountain Rock led Zhou Leng and the others to the destination.

"The Ice and Snow Cult is not to be desecrated!"

Zhou Leng let out a low shout and rushed into a demon's magic hut.

Loud crashes and screams came from inside, and a moment later, Zhou Leng came out.

There truly is a way to have it all, to live up to both humanity and the demon spirit bag.

"next."

"Do you really want to continue?"

“Next,” Zhou Leng said.

After killing three demons in a row, Zhou Leng looked toward the fourth.

The demon took off the magic pouch, knelt down with a thud, and offered it with both hands.

"Please forgive my ignorance, Great Azure Dragon."

Zhou Leng stared at the demon.

The demon trembled with fear.

Zhou Leng snorted and said, "Take it."

Snow Mountain Rock walked over, took the Demon Spirit Bag, and handed it to Zhou Leng.

"Thank you, Lord Azure Dragon, thank you, Lord Azure Dragon." The demon hurriedly left.

The demon in the distance was completely baffled. Could it be that this Azure Dragon Lord was killing demons just to earn resources?
A dark shadow flew in from the horizon.

Before long, they were high in the air above the camp.

The massive body of Dark Wrath circled once above the camp before slowly descending towards Zhou Leng's location.

Zhou Leng looked at the Deep Dark Wrath, whose flesh and blood had completely healed, with only a few scales still growing.

The broken claws and damaged wings have also been repaired.

Deep Wrath was overjoyed to see that Zhou Leng was still alive, but on the surface he remained cold and aloof, maintaining the ruthless arrogance of the Spine-Headed Demon Dragon.

"Azure Dragon, you also ate the Dragon Blood Flower?"

"I ate one piece."

"You're definitely different from those weaklings. I told you you'd be fine after eating it. Hmm... it does hurt a little. How does it feel?"

"Not bad. As expected of a flower nourished by the blood of the Starry Sky Dragon, it has allowed my blood to grow significantly," Zhou Leng said.

The Dark Wrath is twenty meters long. Unlike ordinary dragons that are accustomed to walking on all fours, it prefers to stand on its hind legs.

This makes him stand over twelve meters tall, as tall as a four-story building.

He had to look down and bend his neck when he looked at the crowd.

He glanced at the people around Zhou Leng, flapped his wings, and a gust of wind rose up.

The others tactfully left, leaving only Zhou Leng at the scene.

The monsters in the distance watched curiously. The Dark Wrath never paid attention to demons; even the Blasphemous Bookboy wasn't worth his personal descent.

“I met Star Axe on the way, and we made an appointment for him to help me reach the highest peak. Before I even came in, I had already discussed with Gray Steel Wind how to conquer the highest mountain together.”

"I really want to know just how strong the highest mountain that even Li Shenkong couldn't get through is."

"Hmph, in the future, I will definitely surpass Li Shenkong."

Zhou Leng asked, "Have you met Li Shenkong?"

"I've seen him, and I've been defeated. But I didn't defeat him; I defeated the Star-Slaying Sword in his hand. He's really lucky to have a weapon from the stars. I used all my strength, but I still couldn't beat him. Sigh..."

Deep Darkness's Fury let out a long sigh.

Zhou Leng looked at the Deep Dark Wrath, puzzled. This demonic dragon was different from the one in the legends.

According to the legends of the monsters, the Dark Wrath is capricious, loves to kill indiscriminately, is taciturn, and only issues orders through his blasphemous page.

After interacting with him for the past few days, I've found that Dark Wrath does indeed enjoy killing, but he seems to possess an innate arrogance and disdains associating with ordinary monsters.

"Your strength is close to that of Li Shenkong last year when he didn't use the Star-Slaying Sword. Of course, it's only close."

"So, I'm very curious about who you really are."

"Ding Linglong? She's a woman."

"Kang Lanhe? Something doesn't feel right."

"Miller of the Eagle Alliance? Doesn't seem like it either."

“Zhang Xinglie is close, but something still feels off.” “I suspect that you’re not even on the youth list, or that you’re not even human.”

"Hmm... don't tell me, let me guess..."

Deep Dark Wrath muttered to himself as he continued to argue.

Deep Wrath stared at the list of young talents for a long time, then shook his head and said, "Forget it, just tell me."

"can not say."

"Hmm?" Deep Wrath's dark eyes were filled with disbelief, with a kind of clarity that had not been beaten down by society.

"Keep it a secret," Zhou Leng said.

"I am Dark Wrath, and I will definitely keep your secret." Dark Wrath was a little confused. He was the noblest dragon in the world, trustworthy and powerful. No demon would refuse him. Why did this human need to keep a secret?

"I can't say," Zhou Leng said.

"You don't trust me. I kindly shared some of the monstrous snake meat with you..." Dark Wrath lowered his head slightly, a little frustrated.

In the world of the Spine-Headed Dragon, those who have shared meat together are considered good friends.

"It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that my identity is highly confidential and cannot be revealed," Zhou Leng began to lie.

“Oh, right, you humans do a better job in this regard.” Dark Wrath raised his head, no longer feeling defeated.

The Dark Wrath subsided, and he said, "Are you interested in uniting with other races to charge the highest mountain together?"

"Hmm? Isn't the purpose of this mission to eliminate the Humanoid Alliance and mainly slaughter all the human trial participants?" Zhou Leng asked.

"That's their goal, what does it have to do with me, Dark Wrath? I only want to reach the top of the highest mountain and defeat Li Shenkong." Dark Wrath's tone was calm, without any of his previous arrogance.

Zhou Lengnao didn't understand what Deep Dark Wrath was thinking, and said, "We've been slaughtering humans all this time, so it's hard for them to cooperate."

“Slaughter is slaughter, cooperation is cooperation. If we kill all the weaklings, all that’s left are human strongmen. Isn’t that perfect for cooperation?” Dark Wrath said matter-of-factly.

Zhou Leng thought about the ecosystem of the Demon Prison and realized that from the demon's perspective, this logic was indeed correct.

What happens after the cooperation?

"Of course it's a great battle, where the winner lives and the loser dies. Otherwise, what's the point of having a youth tournament?"

Zhou Lengdao said, "Humans don't quite understand this kind of logic. Most humans hope for either long-term cooperation or long-term conflict. This kind of practice of cooperating when you need to and fighting when you need to is called being a hypocrite."

"Hmm? Is there a problem? Succubi like to act like prostitutes while pretending to be virtuous. They're very adept at playing the game, but my dad is strict and won't let me touch succubi. He's already killed hundreds of succubi who tried to seduce me."

Looking at the towering dragon that stood over ten meters tall, Zhou Leng felt a slight shock to his fixed human mindset.

"Humans and demons are still different," Zhou Leng said helplessly.

"People of the Eagle Alliance, people of the Demonic Cult, people of the Gull Alliance, aren't many of you humans the same? Even those powerful clans in your Dragon Kingdom often do the same thing, don't they? I often read the news from the Ten Realms, and I don't see any difference between humans and demons."

Zhou Leng thought for a while, but couldn't figure out how to refute it.

They could only say, "Some of us don't like this, because humans aren't as resilient as you demons."

“That’s true. Many of the weaker demon races have been wiped out, and some of them are quite delicious.” Dark Wrath agreed with Zhou Leng’s point of view this time.

Zhou Leng blinked; this thought process was indeed quite peculiar.

Dark Wrath said, "How about this, you try to unite with humans or other humanoid alliance experts and see if you can cooperate to reach the summit. I just went up the mountain and took a look; the few of us alone probably can't take it down. It can't hurt to try; maybe they trust me, Dark Wrath, and are willing to cooperate."

"I... I'll give it a try."

"Then I'm going back to my quarters. I want to eat a second dragon blood petal..."

Dark Fury flew back to the dragon's lair, its tail tip swaying leisurely, looking quite pleased.

Seeing the man and the dragon chatting happily, some monsters in the distance gave up and abandoned their plan to target Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng walked towards the group of Ice and Snow Cult members, scanned the demons, and discovered that one of the red dragons was missing—the one who had raised objections at the top of the Strange Serpent Mountain.

"Where did that red dragon I asked you to keep an eye on go?" Zhou Leng asked.

Snow Mountain Rock pointed in one direction and said, "He went in that direction early this morning, probably to kill other trial participants and look for treasures along the way."

“I have also grown and been tempered by my experiences. If the Dark Wrath comes looking for me, I will tell them I will be back in a few days.”

"Yes."

Zhou Leng ran straight in the direction the red dragon had left.

The demons stared at Zhou Leng's retreating figure.

"Can you kill that red dragon, sir?"

"If we can find it, we can kill it."

"Guess which one of the young talents Lord Guan Canglong is on the list?"

"Keep guessing if you want to die."

Everyone remained silent, but each of them looked towards the highest mountain, searching for human martial artists among the top 100 on the youth ranking list, comparing them in their minds.

Zhou Leng searched around but couldn't find the Red Dragon.

He opened the map, glanced at it, and rushed towards the human camp, removing the performer's mask along the way.

In a safe place, I looked up at the highest mountain and glanced briefly at the list of young talents.

When they came in, there were more than 5,000 people; now, there are only more than 4,000 left.

Zhang Xinglie and Song Lao's rankings skyrocketed, both breaking into the top 100.

Seven disciples of the Ancient River Sect broke into the top two hundred.

The top four remain unchanged: first, Dark Fury; second, Gray Steel Wind; third, Mountain Armor; and fourth, Wild Star Axe.

Zhou Leng chose a medicinal fruit from Hundred Peaks Valley and ate it, running while circulating his qi to digest the medicinal effects.

Upon arriving at the human camp again, Zhou Leng glanced around. The number of people hadn't increased, but a new batch of unfamiliar faces had appeared.

Upon entering the campsite and connecting to the network of friends in the group, some shared information immediately appeared.

Li Yuanhe is still here.

"Third Brother, aren't you going to search for treasure?"

Li Yuanhe said, "I've considered it. Although my strength is not bad, my ranking is only around 1,000, so going out won't be very profitable. It's better to stay here, firstly to cultivate basic skills, secondly to teach martial arts to my fellow disciples, and thirdly to act as an information relay station."

Zhou Leng nodded.

(End of this chapter)