Swallowing the Stars: Heart of the Martial God

Chapter 3 Ancient War Spirit

The three continued to cautiously venture deeper.

Not far away, the detector in Ling Xuan's hand suddenly sounded an urgent alarm, and a conspicuous red dot appeared on the screen. Moreover, the signal strength indicated that it was a planetary-level third-tier monster!
The three exchanged a glance, a hint of excitement and nervousness flashing in their eyes.

In the coming-of-age ceremony trials of the ancient barbarian tribe, the ultimate goal was to kill a third-tier planetary-level demonic beast, and now this goal had actually appeared before them.

"Chase!" Ling Yue said without hesitation.

The three quickly chased after the monster. Along the way, the slime trail left by the monster became more and more obvious, and the stench of decay became stronger and stronger.

After passing through a stone forest, they saw two planetary-level third-tier demonic beasts.

These two monsters were enormous, each as tall as a three-story building. Their huge heads were like small mountains, and their thick limbs were like stone pillars. When they stepped on the ground, the ground trembled.

They were tearing at their prey on the ground, blood splattering everywhere, a very bloody scene.

"How can there be two?" Ling Yue felt something was amiss and stopped Ling Xue, who was about to step forward. "The detector clearly showed only one monster just now."

However, when Ling Xue looked down at her detector, it clearly displayed the life characteristics of two planetary-level third-tier demonic beasts.

"It must be because we were in such a hurry to chase this beast that we didn't pay attention," Ling Xue said.

Ling Yue secretly breathed a sigh of relief, realizing she had been too suspicious.

"You and I will each take one head. Third Brother will cover us first. We'll find the last one later, and Second Brother and I will help you keep an eye on it," Ling Yue commanded.

The trial can only be completed by fighting alone. Teammates can only watch the other monsters from the sidelines and cannot help them. Otherwise, the results will be invalidated and the test will have to be repeated.

Ling Xue and Ling Xuan naturally had nothing to say about this.

The two women, each wielding a weapon, charged towards the monster that was feeding ahead.

The monster sensed the attack, roared angrily, and swung its huge claws at Ling Yue.

Ling Yue dodged the monster's attack with a swift movement and continued to look for an opportunity to strike.

Ling Xue also rushed towards the demonic beast on the right, wielding her spear with great force, the tip of the spear flashing with cold light, aiming straight for the demonic beast's vitals.

The monster was instantly enraged and lunged forward, trying to swallow Ling Xue whole.

Ling Xue nimbly jumped aside, using the trunk of a large tree nearby for leverage, and charged towards the monster again.

Ling Xuan watched the battlefield warily from the side, ready to support his sisters at any time.

Just then, the detector began to sound a loud alarm. Immediately afterward, a noise came from behind him. Ling Xuan turned around and saw a third planetary-level third-tier demonic beast rushing down the hillside at great speed, reaching him in an instant.

Ling Xuan was startled and quickly stepped forward to defend himself.

The monster's claws slammed down on the blade, the immense force sending Ling Xuan staggering back several steps.

The fierce battle raged on when roars of beasts echoed around them once more.

The alarms from the three people's detectors sounded in unison, and more and more red dots appeared on the screen. The fourth, fifth, and even fifth-level planetary-level monsters appeared one after another, surrounding them.

Faced with such a crisis, the three had no choice but to stand back to back to defend against attacks from all sides.

"What's going on? The detector only went off when the monsters were right next to us. Is there some kind of malfunction?" Ling Yue looked at her detector in disbelief.

These three detectors were all issued uniformly within the clan, and they were carefully checked before departure to ensure there were no problems. Unexpectedly, such an accident occurred here.

After a fierce battle, Ling Xue's left arm was scratched by the demonic beast, blood gushing out and staining her sleeve red; Ling Yue's right leg was also swept by the demonic beast's tail, turning bruised and purple, making it increasingly difficult for her to move. But even so, the two sisters gritted their teeth and persevered, wielding their weapons with impenetrable force, desperately protecting Ling Xuan in the middle.

Ling Xuan also tried his best to protect his two older sisters' flanks, but unfortunately his marksmanship was poor, and the three of them continued to suffer additional injuries.

Seeing the situation becoming increasingly critical, and noticing the increasing injuries on her younger siblings, Ling Yue disregarded the honor of fighting to the death and gritted her teeth to send a distress signal through the virtual universe network: "We are being attacked by a horde of beasts, requesting reinforcements!"

They quickly received a cold reply: "Monsters are rampaging in all areas. Reinforcements cannot arrive in time. Hold on!"

In the dense forest, the three of them were not the only ones in danger; all the young members of the ancient barbarian tribe who entered the forest encountered unprecedented difficulties.

The number of monsters far exceeded expectations, and their levels were quite high. There were even hidden domain lord-level monsters that entangled the elders who were guarding the group.

Moreover, it wasn't just their Mangu tribe that came to the Candle Dragon Secret Realm; other Candle Dragon tribes also came at this time to hold their coming-of-age ceremonies.

This is a grand gathering of the Zhulong clan!
Similar animal uprisings occurred in other tribes, and they simply couldn't spare the manpower to provide support.

The planets of each branch are extremely far away from here, requiring at least several days to reach unless teleported by an immortal clan's ancient divine kingdom.

During this period, they can only rely on themselves to hold on until the Domain Lord-level elders kill their opponents before they can help them.

However, the young men of the Zhulong tribe were all passionate and valiant. When they learned that their elders could not provide support, not one of them backed down. The fighting spirit of their ancestors in ancient times, who slayed monsters and carved out territories on every inhabited planet, resonated in their hearts.

At the very beginning of this primordial cosmic era, humanity was an extremely weak race due to its physical limitations.

However, this race, like another powerful race, the demon race, is distributed across every planet or secret realm in the universe.

Faced with the overwhelming power of the demon race, these weak human ancestors did not flinch. They fought relentlessly, producing many heroes who successfully occupied one star after another.

Then they contacted human groups scattered throughout the universe to form an alliance, and eventually grew into a supreme race that surpasses billions of races in the universe.

The Candle Dragon Ancestor is a living fossil who survived from that era.

His descendants will naturally never forget the glory of their ancestor.

The sounds of fighting, roars, and howls of monsters mingled together, echoing throughout the dense forest.

In order to shield Ling Xuan from a fatal blow from a demonic beast, Ling Xue suffered three deep, bone-revealing wounds on her back, leaving her swaying precariously. Ling Yue's beast bone knife was knocked away by the demonic beast, and her arm was bitten, leaving it covered in blood.

At this moment, a powerful demonic beast resembling a giant abyss crocodile, its entire body covered in jet-black, iron-hard scales, its cold, vertical pupils radiating a bloodthirsty light, lunged fiercely at Ling Xuan with its gaping maw wide open.

Those serrated fangs were as thick as a forearm, each one gleaming with a chilling light, as if they could easily tear apart everything in the world.

Ling Xuan wanted to dodge, but his two older sisters were right behind him. If he dodged, his two older sisters would be the ones attacked.

No! We can't hide!
"dong dong dong~"

A sudden, muffled, rapid heartbeat arose, like the sounding of ancient war drums, about to awaken an ancient war god.

In an instant, the world seemed to be paused by an invisible hand.

The giant crocodile's jaws, which had been about to bite Ling Xuan, suddenly stopped. Its foul-smelling saliva hung in mid-air, and a drop landed on Ling Xuan's shoulder, emitting a nauseating odor.

The sharp teeth were only millimeters away from his throat; if they had gone any further, Ling Xuan would have been torn to shreds in an instant.

Ling Xuan turned around in horror and saw Ling Yue still in the posture of rushing to the rescue, her hair disheveled in the wind, her eyes filled with fear and despair, as if witnessing an irreversible disaster; Ling Xue was kneeling on the ground, her outstretched hand stopped in mid-air, her fingertips trembling, her face full of pain and resentment, as if she regretted not being able to save her brother in time.

In the distance, the fighting tribesmen and the frenzied monsters all froze in that instant, and the entire magnificent world turned into black and white in a flash.

(End of this chapter)