Chapter 306: Chapter 250: Ash Fusion (4k words!)_2
Earlier, the many Star Beasts that came in had already gone to find places to cultivate.
Su Yuan restrained his aura, spread out his senses, and after sensing for a moment, continued deeper in the direction with a higher concentration of ash.
Along the way, Su Yuan detected that many Star Beasts had already chosen their spots, using the ash energy to begin their cultivation on the spot.
Of course, Su Yuan didn’t approach these Star Beasts. He directly bypassed each of them, heading deeper into the cave.
As Su Yuan delved deeper into the cave, the concentration of black ash became denser. The Star Power within him seemed as if it was about to ignite. In such circumstances, even Gold-level beings cultivating here might risk self-immolation!
Su Yuan couldn’t help but turn to look at Ruan Ruan. A faint layer of black light quietly flowed around the other’s body, swallowing the dense black ash as if nothing had happened, and was constantly growing…
“What an appetite…”
Su Yuan shook his head. After walking for a while, he suddenly found the area ahead had become clear. The ash energy that filled the entire Burning Ridge suddenly disappeared from this point onwards!
“What’s going on? Could I have made a mistake?”
Su Yuan’s eyes showed a thoughtful look. What he wanted to see was a place filled with a higher concentration of ash energy that might be the habitat of the Undead Evil Fire.
Without ash energy, the result was different from what he expected, implying a possible error in direction.
However, considering the lack of ash energy only starting here when there was plenty everywhere else, something unusual must be happening ahead.
Soon, Su Yuan understood why the ash energy had disappeared here.
He hadn’t walked far when he heard the faint sound of a raging torrent ahead, as if something was rapidly approaching.
“Wind or water?”
Su Yuan’s eyes lit up with silver light, and he immediately used his far-sighted ability to look ahead.
Over a thousand meters away, an immensely dark wave of ash was surging towards him!
Su Yuan’s lips curved into a smile. “Oh, so the reason there’s no ash here is that it has gathered into a concentrated amalgamation?”
“Swoosh!”
The howling grew louder, and within moments, a tide of black ash surged around the corner ahead!
Su Yuan opened his right hand. “Broken Space!”
As Star Power burst out, a massive spatial barrier capable of blocking anything stood before Su Yuan.
“Boom! Clatter…”
The wave of ash crashed against the Broken Space Wall, followed by the pounding sound of torrential rain on plantains.
The Broken Space Wall trembled slightly, but despite the violent impact, it stood firm.
No matter how many times the ash tide surged and crashed against the wall, it could not break through. After a while, it gathered back into a single mass.
In a short moment, a Gold-level Star Beast with pitch-black metal wings appeared before Su Yuan.
“Oh?” A hint of surprise flashed in Su Yuan’s eyes.
It wasn’t because the ash tide could manifest into a Star Beast but because this manifested Star Beast was the Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger that he had encountered during the special exam in Demon Capital at the Soul Comforting Mysterious Burial Tablet.
However, this time it was an energy body formed from ash energy, entirely pitch black, and its strength had reached the Gold Early Stage, far surpassing the Bronze Middle Stage Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger he had faced before.
After the Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger manifested, it let out a low roar. The metallic wings tainted by ash energy immediately emitted a sharp black light, ready to unleash the Iron-cutting Silver Gang!
Su Yuan’s eyes flashed with silver light. He struck first, teleporting behind the Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger and slashing down with a saber.
The Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger was startled and hurriedly used its metal wings to face the Phoenix Perch Saber.
However, with the void-slicing power covering the Phoenix Perch Saber, the clash lasted only a moment before one of the metal wings was cut off.
The Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger, formed by ash energy, seemed to feel no pain and became even more furious. The remaining wing’s black light intensified, and the pitch-black Iron-cutting Silver Gang slashed towards Su Yuan at close range!
Su Yuan teleported back in a flash, instantly returning to his original spot.
“This scene is oddly familiar…” Su Yuan couldn’t help but recall the past when he first mastered instant teleportation to dodge the Iron-cutting Silver Gang’s attack.
“Oh? It seems slightly different…”
Su Yuan focused his attention. The severed metal wing of the Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger suddenly turned into surging ash energy, reattaching to the Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger’s back.
In just a short moment, the wings of the Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger had completely recovered, showing no signs of damage!
“This is the advantage of being an energy body: regeneration is easier than with flesh and blood.” Su Yuan gazed thoughtfully at the Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger, which had fully recovered within moments. “But, to repair the damage without any weakening of its aura, that’s impressive.”
Even though it was generally easier for energy bodies to repair themselves, it usually required consuming energy to repair the damage.
Typically, there should be at least some decline in their aura.
“In that case… it does resemble the nature of the Undead Evil Fire!”
Su Yuan’s eyes lit up. He mused that he had indeed not gone in the wrong direction. The Undead Evil Fire was very likely in this cave and related to the ash tide’s energy body!
At this moment, the fully recovered Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger didn’t use Iron-cutting Silver Gang again. Instead, it flapped its wings, transforming into a black shadow and charged at Su Yuan, seemingly trying to tear him apart.
“Do you think you can be confident because you believe you can infinitely repair yourself?”
Su Yuan’s expression remained calm. He raised his hand and released a Boundary Breaking Line slash!
As the Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger leaped into the air, several silver chains shot out from all directions, locking it in place!
The Boundary Breaking Line swiftly cut below the Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger, severing all four black hooves, which fell to the ground.
The Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger’s body, losing its support, collapsed to the ground. Ash energy surged from the hooves, attempting to reattach at the severed points.
But a giant silver hand suddenly slammed down from the sky!
“Boom!”
With a loud crash, the powerful force caused the ground to tremble as the Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger’s body exploded into ash energy, continuously surging as it tried to reassemble.
Su Yuan’s face remained expressionless. He raised his hand again, pressing down, and the Splitting Monument Hand on the Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger applied more pressure. The formidable spatial shockwaves continuously erupted, shattering all the black ash attempting to reassemble into fragments, dispersing them, and nearly eradicating all the ash energy!
“Plook!” Suddenly, Ruan Ruan on his shoulder made a sound.
Su Yuan asked, “Hmm? You want to eat it?”
“Pluck!”
The previous gray energy had been digestible for Ruan Ruan. Now, this Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger, formed from higher concentration ash energy, should have even greater nutritional value… oh no, energy.
“Then go ahead,” Su Yuan nodded, “be careful. If you can’t swallow it, come back.”
“Pluck (okay)~”
Ruan Ruan confidently patted its chest with its tiny hand, then jumped down, bouncing over to the ash tide being suppressed by the Splitting Monument Hand.
Shaking its body, Ruan Ruan quickly transformed from a baby slime into a giant slime with a diameter of four or five meters!
Its body rippling, Ruan Ruan formed a huge “mouth” and began absorbing the massive amounts of ash formed by the broken Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger.
The black light of devouring constantly rippled around its body, and Ruan Ruan closed its eyes. Within minutes, it had shrunk back to its usual size, having almost completely absorbed the ash energy.
“Pluck!”
Ruan Ruan opened its eyes excitedly. The Star Power fluctuations on its body were much more intense!
The energy within that ash tide amalgamation was extremely high, even higher than that of ordinary Gold-level Star Cores.
Su Yuan nodded slightly. The black ash was useless to him, but Ruan Ruan could utilize it, which was a good thing.
Perhaps, Ruan Ruan might directly break through to the Gold Level here…
“Undead Evil Fire…” Su Yuan thought again about the self-repairing scene of the Golden-eyed Silver-winged Tiger, then refocused on Ruan Ruan. “Let’s go, continue forward.”
“Pluck pluck!”
A man and a sphere continued deeper into the cave…