Chapter 1404 - Snatch

Chapter 1404 - Snatch

“If we obtain the Blood Primeval Fruit, our cultivation will soar by leaps and bounds in no time. Reaching the seventh stage would be no problem. Then, no matter how crafty Chen Fan is, he won’t escape our grasp. The Immortal Breakthrough Pill, and everything he has, will become ours. Hahahaha, you tell me, isn’t this the heavens looking at us favorably?” Black Fiend exclaimed with excitement, as though he could already see himself one day stepping into the immortal realm, the world firmly in his hands.

You wish!

Chen Fan narrowed his eyes. Laughably, these brothers were still scheming against him, never realizing he stood right behind them.

The Black Wind Dual Fiends had been pursuing him for a whole month. Their enmity was already irreconcilable. If Chen Fan found even the slightest chance, he would eliminate these two threats.

While Chen Fan planned his next moves, the frenzied battle reached a brief lull. In just a short period, hundreds of ancient beasts had already tragically died. If piled up, their corpses could form a mountain. Nearly two-thirds of the horde was already lying dead.

These ancient beasts were huge, each filled with boundless blood essences. With their tragic deaths, fresh blood flowed like streams, merging into a crimson river; within moments, the earth hungrily absorbed it all, as though every drop had seeped into its depths.

The Blood Primeval Fruit grew even more vibrant, its scarlet hue carrying a devilish allure, nurtured by blood itself.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

As the fruit absorbed large amounts of blood essence, its final metamorphosis began.

It unleashed resplendent crimson light continuously, weaving visions of wonder. It seemed as if consuming the Blood Primeval Fruit could grant one enlightenment and the right to ascend to immortality.

“

Roar, roar, roar

!”

The chaotic roars of the beasts resounded in the area.

Meanwhile, the ancient beasts seemed to have gone crazy. Their collective gaze was cemented on the Blood Primeval Fruit as they all charged toward it.

The two ancient beast leaders led the charge, flying towards the Blood Primeval Fruit; even as they advanced, they lashed out at one another, refusing to relent.

Suddenly, Chen Fan heard shouts from the Black Wind Dual Fiends.

“Do it! Snatch the Blood Primeval Fruit!”

Just as those ancient beasts were about to reach the fruit—especially the ancient ape that was a step faster and was reaching out to grab it—a terrifying attack descended from the sky. A torrent of energy crashed down like a heavenly waterfall, halting the ape in its tracks.

Next, two figures darted toward the Blood Primeval Fruit as fast as lightning.

“

Roar

!” The ancient ape flew into a rage. The fruit could help it advance to the ninth stage. Then, every beast in the realm would bow in reverence. Yet now, at the most critical moment, its chance was stolen.

Rage consumed it. Its bloodshot eyes fixed upon the intruders, a tyrannical aura bursting forth that nearly suffocated the Black Wind Dual Fiends.

Although the two ancient beast leaders had suffered heavy wounds in their clash, their strength was still terrifying. Each still possessed combat strength at the seventh stage, capable of easily crushing the brothers.

“Leave these ancient beasts to me. You go pick the Blood Primeval Fruit, hurry!”

Black Fiend’s face turned incomparably savage. He knew full well they were walking a tightrope; one misstep, and their lives would be forfeit. Yet fortune favored the bold; wealth and power came only to those willing to risk everything.

The Blood Primeval Fruit was worth it.

Simultaneously, the Black Fiend flipped his palm. A yellow talisman appeared in his hand, its surface glowing faintly with immortal might. He had obtained this quasi-immortal talisman in a ruin within the ancient realm.

The talisman was once a genuine immortal talisman. When activated, its attack would be comparable to an attack from an Immortal Platform expert. However, due to the passing of time, more than half of the power within the immortal talisman was lost, and its grade fell.

However, that was enough to severely injure a sixth or seventh-stage half-immortal. Without such a trump card, the brothers would never have dared to covet the Blood Primeval Fruit.

“Go!”

Without hesitation, Black Fiend hurled the talisman.

The immortal talisman exploded, turning into a torrent of lightning and thunder that swallowed the group of ancient beasts like a flood.

The ancient beasts below the sixth stage were instantly obliterated by the torrent of lightning. Only ancient beasts at or above the sixth stage survived, but not without heavy injuries.

Already wounded from the earlier battle, the sixth and seventh-stage beasts were devastated. Though still alive, they were in terrible shape, having lost all combat strength. Some, torn apart by injuries too severe to withstand, let out pitiful, indignant roars before collapsing into death.

As for the two ancient beast leaders, they were also very miserable. They were drenched in blood, with large chunks of flesh torn off them, looking very terrifying.

Yet they were apex creatures, close to the ninth stage. Even after such heavy injuries, even with their strength drastically reduced, they still held power equivalent to a fifth-stage half-immortal, making them far more dangerous than the rest.

“

Roar

!”

“

Roar

!”

The two beast leaders saw red and went berserk.

These two human intruders were trying to steal their Blood Primeval Fruit and had also left them in such miserable states. Rage consumed the beast leaders; in an instant, their focus locked on the brothers.

“Hahahaha, you beasts, we’re not afraid of you now!” Black Fiend roared with laughter as a saber appeared in his grasp. Then, he charged toward the two ancient beast leaders.

Rumble!

The collision shook the sky, deafening booms erupting as torrents of energy clashed and collapsed a pocket of air itself.

Though the beasts were grievously injured, their foundations remained unshaken; together, they struck Black Fiend down, sending him hurtling back and coughing blood as he flew.

“Big Brother!”

“Don’t mind me, I’m fine!” Black Fiend shouted. Then, he hurled himself back into battle, forcing the two beast leaders to stay engaged and buying Wind Fiend the chance to seize their prize.

Chen Fan’s eyes also flickered continuously. The sheer destructive might of that quasi-immortal talisman had shaken even him.

“I didn’t expect them to have such a hidden card up their sleeves. If I had rushed in seeking revenge, the result could have been disastrous... a single strike might have cost me half my life, or ended it outright.”

He had planned to get rid of the Black Wind Dual Fiends when his cultivation level increased. Yet now, seeing the talisman’s terrifying power, he knew recklessness would be suicide.

Thinking of this, Chen Fan felt a sense of relief.

“

Hmph, hmph

, very well, it’s best now that you’ve used your trump card. Fight, keep fighting, you’re just preparing a gift for me in the end!” Chen Fan smiled coldly.