Chapter 187 Beastlike Mindsets

The meeting hall was quiet for about a few seconds. Then, one of the three men in the dark corner stepped up and spoke with a hoarse voice, "How about we collaborate temporarily on this matter?"

When this man broke the silence, an elder to the side also piped up, "Collaborating? How are we supposed to do that?" That same elder stood up and flung his sleeves with a snort, "You want us to collaborate with the Jin Dynasty under the nose of the Luan Dynasty? Do you think we're tired of living or something?"

"Haha," a burst of boisterous laughter echoed from above the hall. Still, it also seemed like the sound was next to their ears, and the feeling was shared among everyone, "The insects from the Interstellar Supreme Court actually stretched their claws into the Luan Dynasty, you are truly bold…"

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Just a few seconds ago, the three High Divinities with Junior Brother finished cracking a tunnel in the natural formation with the help of Junior Brother's pure ether.

The moment the formation cracked, Junior Brother shot into the mountain range like a sharp sword, blasting the outer sect members at the entrance into minced meat before they could even react.

The three High Divinities each exploded with their powerful sword intent domains the moment they stepped into the sect's protective formation, with Zaylee and the Maiden following behind.

The former rushed with the High Divinities while Maiden 001 stayed behind with Leonardo who was calmly walking into the sect through the bloodied gates.

He also heard Junior Brother's laughter and comments, and the explosions of powerful auras thereafter. The sect immediately descended into pandemonium, everyone was screaming and running around in haste to activate the various formations.

​ However, they realized that a few formation-crippling talismans merged into the formations, disturbing the flow of energy and preventing them from activating the offensive capabilities.

When they realized this, darkness and sharp sword energy had already encompassed the outer sect, tens of mountains, and the pavilions stationed within exploding with a ferocious martial intent as mortal, saint, and divine cultivators swarmed Leonardo and company like a sea of ants.

Seeing all these people, Leonardo realized that using a bow and arrow in this chaotic battle would be akin to seeking death, let alone the fact that he doesn't have any weapons.

His bloodthirsty armament was currently crippled, his sword was confiscated by the Interstellar Supreme Court, and his archery technique wasn't practical to use at this moment.

Helpless, he could only take a step while shrouded in the concealment essence of nihility, disappearing the moment their group was drowned in the sea of people.

Leonardo's sudden disappearance shocked Maiden 001 greatly, let alone the outer sect members of the Beast Claw sect. However, they couldn't care less about it as the murderous maid revered her grip on the bow, black mist exploding from her body in thick torrents as heads began to fly into the sky.

Leonardo skillfully made his way through the chaos and blood to the skirt of an ordinary mountain.

There were hundreds of similar mountains, nothing special about it. The moment Leonardo appeared at the foot of this mountain, a startled cry rang out.

"What are you doing here?!"

Leonardo turned his head, a female cultivator just descended the spiral stairway leading up the mountain, her saint aura a bit unstable. Clearly, she just achieved sainthood on the mountain peak.

"Did you comprehend the ferocious martial intent up there?" Leonardo looked past the female cultivator and into the distant stairway. His eyes lit up.

He didn't care about the ferocious martial intent as he didn't believe it was that powerful, what he cared more about was the martial technique heritage.

It was a martial technique that didn't require any weapons whatsoever, something very suitable for the current battle situation.

The female cultivator who was startled suddenly came back to her senses, a ferocious light that didn't fear death, as though instinctual aggression that would rather break than bend filled her heart.

She didn't answer Leonardo. Instead, she rushed at him directly while lashing out with her hand as though to tear open the space in front of her.

A massive claw of worldly energy formed above Leonardo the moment her domain enveloped him. That claw seemed to materialize by sucking in the worldly energy within her domain, only to smash down on Leonardo's proportionally smaller body.

Leonardo barely spared the massive claw a glance before everything seemed to pause.

The female cultivator, her domain, the claw, even energy, and sound seemed to pause for the moment.

Her expression was as ferocious and fearless as before while Leonardo ignored the claw above his head and walked towards her. Of course, she was confined within Leonardo's domain, unable to move.

Within a few steps, Leonardo unhurriedly reached for the woman and grabbed her head. It almost seemed like he was patting a girl for doing a good job. Only, this wasn't a pat on the head as Leonardo's fingers clamped down on her cranium and pulled.

Blood splashed out as everything returned to normal. In fact, the only difference was that the female cultivator's head was plucked off by Leonardo, causing her body to wobble left and right before falling on the ground.

Leonardo looked into the dead yet ferocious eyes of this female cultivator with a frown.

They almost don't look human at all after her marital intent erupted, they looked more like a beast than humans as they tossed away all notions of rationality. This intent, no matter how one looked at it, wasn't something the human mind could tolerate.

A pulse of desolation rippled from Leonardo's palm and the head turned into rotten flesh that crumbled away like dust.

"The mental pressure from these claw marks can actually fracture one's mind to this extent?" Leonardo looked up at the mountainside riddled with deep gashes with a bit of interest.

His body leaned forward and rushed onto the stairway without hesitation as he wasn't bothered one bit by the mental pressure of the remnant martial intent in the outer regions of the sect.

The mountain range stretches for hundreds of kilometers and that was only the outer regions of the sect, let alone the inner and core regions. Although the fighting there must be intense and disciples must be rushing their way here, Leonardo knew that approaching that battlefield was nothing short of a death wish.

The outer sect members are mortals and newly ascended saints, they were nothing more than chicken to be slaughtered for the three High Divinities, Zaylee, and Maiden 001.

Thus, Leonardo decided to rush to the mountain peak and comprehend the basic claw technique while he still had the time.

No matter how many saints and mortals crowd the outer regions, it is a simple matter of exploding his desolation domain in full capacity and all of them would be killed in mere moments. Thus, he was in no rush to join the fight before finding a reliable martial technique.

With that in mind, Leonardo would bait every late disciple he met on his way to the peak into attacking him first to study their technique and martial intent, but what disappointed him was that they were all the same.

Fearless to the point of insanity.

It couldn't even be described as bravery anymore, they were foolishly throwing their lives away.