Chapter 1281: Chapter 615: Pu Shanlie, Crimson Blaze Toad

After so long, Chang Yuntao still couldn’t forget the lost Ice Attribute Blood Crystal.

He would never forget how, after painstakingly refining the Heart Core and coming out, he saw that every Blood Crystal in the heart chamber had been completely stolen!

Those Blood Crystal fragments all over the ground were like a loud slap, ruthlessly thrown across his face.

So toward the one who dug out the Blood Crystals from his Floating Island, he absolutely hated them to the bone.

Back when he had just regained control of Mist City, the first thing he did was investigate this matter, hunting down everywhere the people involved in that day’s chaos.

In the end, all the clues converged on a man named Liang Yuan.

This man led the Captains from outside the island to attack the island’s interior, defeated the three major Mercenary Corps, and coerced those people into participating in the riot, throwing Mist City into utter turmoil.

And after the chaos, this man vanished without a trace, and vanished together with him were those Blood Crystals.

Chang Yuntao was basically already certain that, eight or nine times out of ten, this was Liang Yuan’s doing.

Later, when he was in the middle of investigating intel on Liang Yuan, Leng Yuehua brought a few people from the Queen over to defect, and presented intel on Liang Yuan as her token of allegiance.

Chang Yuntao was overjoyed on the spot. After taking in Leng Yuehua’s people, he was just about to lead men to Yangshan to capture Liang Yuan.

However, right at that moment, the Parasite Species inside Leng Yuehua suddenly erupted.

That terrifying Parasite Species almost cost Leng Yuehua her life.

Chang Yuntao acted at once, directly freezing Leng Yuehua’s head, only then halting the growth trend of the Parasite Species in her brain.

After that, he used Ice Attribute Ability to compress the frozen area to the limit, freezing only the Parasite Species in Leng Yuehua’s Sea of Consciousness, and only then did Leng Yuehua and the others manage to survive.

Only from then on, Leng Yuehua and the others were left with sequelae.

Their emotional functions were lost; their whole persons were in a constantly calm state, without any emotional fluctuation.

It seemed to be caused by the Parasite Species sealed in their Sea of Consciousness.

After Leng Yuehua learned of this, her hatred toward Liang Yuan naturally reached the extreme.

She had originally thought that after Lin Ya and the others secretly let them go, she and her people had successfully escaped with their lives.

She hadn’t expected that Liang Yuan had long since left a backhand in their bodies.

If it weren’t for the fact that, in order to take revenge on Liang Yuan, she had proactively submitted herself to Chang Yuntao, the Master of Fog City, at this moment her head would probably already have become nutrients for the Parasite Species to blossom and bear fruit.

And because of this Parasite Species, Chang Yuntao also developed extreme wariness toward Liang Yuan.

Because up to now, even he could only freeze this Parasite Species, but couldn’t completely eradicate it.

This made him somewhat wary of Liang Yuan’s strength, so he didn’t rashly head to Yangshan, but instead sent people everywhere to scout out the situation at Yangshan.

Later, Yangshan went to war with the Three Great Sects, and all kinds of information were compiled and sent to him.

From Liang Yuan single-handedly repelling the Three Great Sects, to later Liang Yuan refining the Floating Island of the Abyssal Mouth.

Then afterward, Liang Yuan, by his own strength alone, beat the upper echelon of the Three Great Sects into fleeing in a panic.

And he also learned of some of the battle details in between.

Not only had Liang Yuan, like him, refined a Floating Island, he had actually already stepped into the level of gene recombination!

And even after his gene recombination, he actually had an Ice Attribute Genetic Map creature as well!

This made him even more wary of Liang Yuan; even he, at this moment, did not have absolute confidence in defeating Liang Yuan.

Therefore, not only did he not make a move against Yangshan, he instead directly took Mist City’s Floating Island and drifted all the way over to Baoshan City on the opposite bank of Linjiang.

Not only that, he even took action directly and seized the second-largest island in Baoshan City, Beichen Island!

He subdued all the bandits on Beichen Island, expanding his own territory and strength.

His thinking was very simple: if he didn’t have a sure-kill method, he absolutely would not take the initiative to face Liang Yuan.

Just like back then when he boarded Mist City, the first thing he did was choose to hide Mist City, calm himself down, and refine the Heart Core and Brain Core.

Rather than developing some power or gathering some population.

As a middle-aged man, he was no longer the kind of young man who becomes arrogant the moment he succeeds.

He could develop steadily, lie low and slowly grow.

Now, hearing Leng Yuehua mention Liang Yuan of Yangshan again, he remained expressionless, nodded slightly, and said, "So that’s how it is. To be able to escape from Liang Yuan’s hands, this person has some strength."

Seeing this, Leng Yuehua couldn’t help but say, "Your Majesty, that Liang fellow stole your Blood Crystals; we have a blood feud with him. Now he has refined the Dark Abyss Mouth and even defeated the Three Great Sects. If we don’t find a way to stop him, his power will only keep growing."

Chang Yuntao gave her a glance and said coolly, "Yue Hua, don’t be impatient when doing things. When Heaven is about to destroy a man, it first drives him mad."

"Now that this person has gained such a large territory and so many resources, invisibly, he has already made enemies of many people."

"We’re in no rush. Let’s take our time and wait. He will make mistakes sooner or later. That will be when we make our move."

Hearing this, Leng Yuehua clenched her fists, somewhat unwilling, yet completely helpless.

Although she had, by relying on Chang Yuntao, condensed a Genetic Species, up to now her Main Attribute was only 92 points.

If she relied on herself to go seek out Liang Yuan and settle the score, it was naturally impossible.

She had to borrow Chang Yuntao’s hand to deal with Liang Yuan.

However, Chang Yuntao was clearly not going to be swayed by her.

While the two were talking here, over on Yang Baoshan, several figures were besieging Xu Haoyang.

Qiu Gongrong swung a hammer straight at his head, smashing down viciously.

Xu Haoyang blasted out a punch, light flaring.

He didn’t directly touch the Bone Hammer, using Fist Force to block it instead.

A roar exploded out; Fist Force and Bone Hammer collided, sending shockwaves of air ripples dozens of meters out.

A figure in Cicada Armor flashed past in an instant. Right after, they saw the wings on Fang Liang’s back transform into Sharp Cicada Blades, spiraling in as they shredded toward him.

Xu Haoyang fled at high Speed to dodge, but before he had flown far, a ray of light suddenly shot over.

Bang!

Xu Haoyang’s expression changed as his body tumbled away, his gaze locked tightly on that ray of light.

"Light Attribute!"

The newcomer was none other than Yang Zicong, the leader of the Celestial King Mercenary Corps!

He turned out to be a Light Attribute Superpower User!

Xu Haoyang’s face was grim. Besieged by three experts whose Main Attributes all exceeded 90 points, even though his Main Attribute had already reached 100 points, he was feeling the pressure right now.

Yes, in the few months since he had parted ways with the Floating Island of the Abyssal Mouth, Xu Haoyang’s Main Attribute had finally reached 100 points.

However, after reaching 100 points, he had stalled.

To attempt gene recombination was simply too risky.

There were too many miscellaneous genes in his body; even he had no confidence, and had been hesitating all this time, never attempting gene recombination.

If one didn’t enter the gene recombination stage, one couldn’t crush enemies whose Main Attribute was within 5 points of one’s own.

Each of these Mercenary Corps leaders before him had probably already reached at least 95 points.

They likely weren’t far off from 100 points either.

In a one-on-one fight, Xu Haoyang felt he wouldn’t lose to anyone.

But against three people at once, he really couldn’t hold them back.

"Go together!"

Fang Liang shouted harshly, launching the first attack.

Swish! Swish swish!

His cicada wings vibrated, and his figure vanished in an instant.

His Speed was pushed to the extreme; not only that, as those wings trembled, they actually generated a terrifying low, buzzing Wind Blade.

With a howling gust, he was already behind Xu Haoyang.

Xu Haoyang’s face changed slightly, and without another word, his body suddenly lit up with a ball of White light.

The next moment, he directly activated his Superpower, using Elementalization to escape.

Right at this moment, a furious roar came.

"Roar—"

The sound waves boomed, carrying a terrifying Spirit Power attack within!

Qiu Gongrong had made his move!

Elementalization could dodge Physical Attacks, but Spirit Class attacks could not be avoided.

At the same time, Yang Zicong, also a Light Attribute Superpower User, directly turned into an elemental state and rammed his head fiercely toward Xu Haoyang.

Boom!

With the violent collision, light exploded, and the two of them almost simultaneously fell out of Elementalization and back into human form.

Stars danced before Xu Haoyang’s eyes—that was from Qiu Gongrong’s sound wave laced with Spiritual Power.

He couldn’t care about anything else now and immediately fled downward at top Speed.

However, just then, Fang Liang, who had already undergone Cicada Transformation, had long been lying in wait; the Cicada Blade howled as it swept over.

Puchi!

Xu Haoyang let out a muffled groan as two bloody gashes were torn open across his chest.

Muscles ripped, and fresh blood sprayed out.

His face went pale, and he hurriedly reached out, grabbed a Green Talisman Stone, and crushed it.

A flash of Green light, and his wounds actually stopped bleeding rapidly, then began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At this moment, Yang Baoshan’s mountain mass shook, and a booming sound came from within.

Immediately, everyone stopped fighting and instinctively looked toward Yang Baoshan.

Xu Haoyang also snapped his head back, surprise and delight appearing on his face.

"The leader has come out of seclusion!"

"Hahaha, our leader’s out, you’re all dead!"

"Bastards, you’re finished!"

The people of Yang Baoshan cried out in joy and excitement.

On the Mist City side, everyone frowned one after another, their expressions turning wary and grave.

On the Frost Throne, Chang Yuntao’s eyes flickered slightly as he looked toward Yang Baoshan’s lightning and said, "Pu Shanlie!"

Pu Shanlie was precisely the leader on Yangshan, the number one man of all Yang Baoshan.

Half a month ago, Chang Yuntao bought off an important figure in Yang Baoshan and launched Beichen Island’s assault on Yang Baoshan.

In the process, the person he had bought suddenly struck, launching a sneak attack on Pu Shanlie.

Pu Shanlie was injured because of this, yet he still relied on his overwhelming strength to suppress the rebellion, kill the traitor, and drive Beichen Island’s people away.

Seeing this, Chang Yuntao immediately launched a second fierce offensive. Over the next half month, he not only seized most of Yang Baoshan’s outer bases, but now had personally come to Yang Baoshan, intending to completely take this number one mountain of Baoshan City.

What he hadn’t expected was that this leader of Yang Baoshan still had the strength to fight again at this moment.

Looks like that day’s sneak attack hadn’t left him heavily wounded after all.

Chang Yuntao narrowed his eyes, and saw a crimson light shoot up into the sky from Yang Baoshan.

Scorching heat burned heaven and earth; the blizzard in the air hadn’t even fallen yet before it turned into countless raindrops.

This Pu Shanlie was a Fire Attribute Superpower User!

"Gu-gua—"

A dull, thunder-like sound came from the mountainside.

Right after, a figure suddenly leapt out; amidst crisscrossing flames, everyone saw only a gigantic, roughly twenty-meter-tall scarlet toad Exotic Beast appear in the sky.

The Exotic Beast’s eyes glowed red, as if sparks were splashing within. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

It lowered its head to look at the Ice Dragon wall holding back the avalanche, then suddenly opened its mouth wide.

Whoosh!

A streak of fire, like a smelting beam, blasted straight downward!

Rumble!

The Ice Dragon and Fire Dragon collided and exploded instantly; under the burning high temperature, the Ice Wall melted and the snowfield boiled!

In a split second, terrifying scalding water surged down toward the people of Mist City below.

Their faces changed dramatically, and they cried out in panic as they scattered in retreat.

Seeing this, Chang Yuntao’s face sank, and he abruptly rose to his feet.

"How bold!"

His figure flashed as he stepped out into the air.

By the time he had taken several steps, he had already completed gene recombination.

A massive Frost Giant Bear appeared in midair!

This Frost Giant Bear stood roughly twenty meters tall, about the same size as Liang Yuan’s Ice Bear.

The difference was, although the Frost Giant Bear was also entirely snow White, there was no Ice Armor covering its body.

Instead, a layer of cold air shrouded it, like a sheath of White mist wrapping around it.

"Pu Shanlie, I didn’t expect you to still have the strength to fight."

"Then let me see how far your recombination progress has reached now!"

On the opposite mountainside, the Red Flame Toad raised its head, a hint of hatred flickering in its eyes.

"Gua!"

Without another sound, it suddenly kicked off with both legs!

Rumble!

The Red Flame Toad turned directly into a blurred afterimage, like a meteorite piercing the atmosphere, hurling itself at him at extreme Speed.