Chapter 184: Chapter 184: Ergence
*Roar!*
The sound was a deafening, guttural vibration that shook the very foundation of the cave, echoing off the jagged stalactites and sending tremors through the earth.
The dozens of tiger-type demonic beasts, their fur bristling with elental energy and their eyes glowing with a feral, murderous light, lunged forward with reckless abandon.
"Damn beasts!"
The Nascent Soul Shadow Hall experts gritted their teeth as they fought back against the tigers who were trying to tear them apart.
One expert, clad in the standard obsidian-colored cloak of the Shadow Hall, swung a heavy iron staff, attempting to shatter the skull of a crimson-furred tiger.
But the beast didn’t flinch. It just took the blow to its shoulder, bone popping audibly, and it used the montum to bury its fangs deep into the man’s thigh.
He scread, a high-pitched sound of agony that was quickly drowned out by the collective cacophony of the lee.
Another cultivator unleashed a flurry of poison needles, but the tigers moved with an uncanny, coordinated grace, weaving through the projectiles as if directed by a single mind.
The air in the cave grew thick with the tallic scent of blood and the scorched ozone sll of clashing spiritual energies.
Shadows danced wildly against the walls as fireballs and ice shards erupted from the fingertips of the Nascent Soul experts, only to be t by the raw, physical brutality of the feline guardians.
But just then, one of them actually broke through the Tigers’ onslaught and rushed towards Zhu Ziyan.
He was a lean man with a face like a hatchet, his eyes filled with a sadistic glee as he saw the opening in the defensive line.
One tiger, sensing the breach, roared and tried to pivot its massive body to intercept him, its claws outspread.
However, the beast was stopped by another enemy who laughed, throwing a heavy chain that wrapped around the tiger’s neck, yanking it backward.
"Your opponent is , kitty!" the chain-wielder mocked.
The lean expert, seizing the mont, closed the distance to Zhu Ziyan in a blur of motion, and she barely had ti to raise her arms in a defensive posture before he was upon her.
"You bitch..." He cursed before he slapped her, causing to slam to the wall of the cave.
The force of the blow was imnse, infused with the concentrated power of a Nascent Soul cultivation that Ziyan’s head snapped back, hitting the stone with a sickening thud, and the world spun in a dizzying haze of gray and red.
"Your fucking beast bit ! I, Hei Yi, will never tolerate this!" He held up his left hand, showing a jagged, bleeding wound where a tiger had managed to graze him during his charge.
To a man of his pride and rank, being wounded by a re beast, and a Golden Core level one at that, was an unforgivable insult.
Ziyan gritted her teeth, her vision slowly clearing even as blood began to trickle down her forehead.
She looked up at Hei Yi, her breath coming in ragged, painful gasps. Although her beasts were all at the peak of Golden Core Realm, she herself was just at the 6th stage of Golden Core realm.
The gap between them was not just vast, it was a bottomless canyon!
One should know that the difference between the Golden Core and the Nascent Soul realm was the difference between an adult and a toddler.
She was no match for a Nascent Soul realm expert!
But... she was no longer the girl who waited to be saved.
"Nether Tiger Claw!" she roared, pushing every ounce of her remaining spiritual energy into her fingertips.
A purple, ethereal glow erupted around her hands as claws made of solid, vibrating qi covered her arms.
Her cat ears twitched with heightened sensory input as the air around her grew cold, the "Nether" attribute of her technique drawing heat from the surroundings.
"Shadow Cat Steps!"
In an explosion of dark smoke, she disappeared from the spot.
Hei Yi blinked, surprised by the sudden burst of speed from a girl he deed a "weakling
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