Geng Jie retreated as fast as he could to Di Jiu’s side, who had already grabbed a handful of formation flags and started to set up a protective formation.
Having spent a long time in the Marsh Sea Forest, Di Jiu had set up various formations and was now extremely skilled at setting up formations. Dozens of formation flags went up and down, and a third level protective formation was successfully set up. Another dozens of formation flags went up and down, and a third level killing formation was added to the third level protective formation.
At this moment, the swarm of marsh lions was already surging over, and the trapped formation made a creaking sound, looking like it was about to be torn apart.
The huge axe in Geng Jie’s hand turned into an axe blade and struck out, each strike taking the lives of a dozen level one swamp lions.
Di Jiu, on the other hand, was constantly repairing the trapped formation before continuously setting up various killing formations.
More swamp lions were torn apart by the various blades in the killing formation and then fell in the killing formation. Compared to Geng Jie, who took away several or even a dozen swamp lions at a time, Di Jiu’s killing formations were being killed in batches.
Almost all of the ones that came were level one swamp lions, and several serial killing formations were finally solidified under Di Jiu’s control, and they kept increasing.
Di Jiu even started to try to integrate the blade arrows of his first and second slashes into the killing formation, when Geng Jiab was sent flying by a violent force crashing into him.
“Brother Jiu, it’s a third level Swamp Lion ……” Geng Jiab got up from the ground and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
Di Jiu threw all the formation flags in his hand to Shu Di, “You are responsible for helping me stabilize these killing formations, I’ll do it.”
The marsh lion that knocked Geng halberd away was indeed a Grade 3 demon beast, the intelligence of this demon beast was obviously not comparable to ordinary marsh lions, after it blasted Geng halberd away, it went to blast Di Jiu’s killing formations again. It could see that as long as it tore Di Jiu’s killing formation apart, the three of them would be a dish.
How could Di Jiu let the killing formation be torn apart by the swamp lion? He stepped out of the two killing formations inside and the long knife in his hand rolled up a swirling blade aura to slash at this Level 3 demon beast.
The Level 3 Swamp Lion was no less experienced in combat than Di Jiu, or perhaps sensing that Di Jiu’s realm was inferior to it, it didn’t even dodge, opening its mouth with a dozen fishy-smelling blade arrows. At the same time, it leapt up, its two front paws turning into a protective wall of surging Yuan Power.
“Pffff!” The swirling blade arrows blasted at the swamp lion’s body, pulling out a line of blood marks.
However, Di Jiu’s heart sank, don’t look at his swirling blade mane pulling out several lines of blood marks. To the swamp lion in front of him, the damage was just a scratch.
At this moment, Di Jiu was sure that this was not a swamp lion that had just crossed into the third level, this swamp lion was most likely in the late third level, and its body was still extremely strong. If there was only this one swamp lion, Di Jiu didn’t mind fighting it slowly. Now there were countless swamp lions here, if he fought this swamp lion slowly, the three of them would definitely suffer in the end.
With this decision Di Jiu didn’t even try to block the arrows that were blasting at him, he just dodged the two arrows that were shot at his head and then the long knife in his hand turned into a wave pattern and blasted at the swamp lion.
Seeing that Di Jiu actually dared to follow its example of not blocking his own blade arrow attack, the swamp lion even hissed and his front paws turned into five claw shadows, which formed five iron hooks in the void that were almost substantial in a square of ten feet and grabbed at Di Jiu.
Di Jiu immediately felt a sense of breathlessness and the space became sticky under the space of this swamp lion’s iron hooks.
“Pffffffff!” A dozen of blade arrows blasted at Di Jiu’s chest, exploding in Di Jiu’s chest and spilling Yuan Qi everywhere.
Even though he was wearing his spiritual inner armour, Di Jiu could not help but spurt out a mouthful of fresh blood.
Instead, Di Jiu’s heart became more and more calm, he was not much afraid. If it was before he had comprehended the Crest Gathering and the Wave Like Fury, perhaps he would have been a bit more scrupulous. At this moment, he knew very well that this move of the Swamp Lion was similar to those two punches of his, which could press the opponent’s space with the killing power of the strike.
When this grab came down, Di Jiu did not dare to take it as hard as he did before, and he did not hesitate to throw a punch, which was the peak range gathering that he rarely used to attack after he had comprehended it.
While Di Jiu was throwing his fist, the wave of blade patterns had already blasted at the swamp lion’s body, just as Di Jiu expected, the swamp lion still did not care, it looked like this demonic beast was very confident in its body refining roots and did not care about Di Jiu’s blade pattern attack.
Di Jiu sneered in his heart as the peaks gathered even more and rolled up a continuous fist mountain. When the first fist mountain was rolled up, Di Jiu’s surrounding body was relieved, and after the second and third fist mountains came down in succession, Di Jiu was completely free from the iron claw space of this swamp lion.
At this moment, Di Jiu could have dodged the swamp lion’s iron claws at any time, but Di Jiu had no intention of doing so, his fist did not retract, and his sword turned into a white trainer again and slashed out.
The veil swept up all the spatial killing forces, turning them into an ice-cold-to-the-bone sword intent with a determination that would not return until it was killed.
“Poof, poof, poof!” The twisted waves of sabre patterns blasted at the Swamp Lion’s body, and just as the Swamp Lion had predicted, only a few blood mists were splashed. Perhaps to the swamp lion, the blood spray from these knife patterns was not worth its attention at all, what was really worth noticing was the continuous mountain of fists blasted out by Di Jiu and the unrelenting knife intent that was cold to the bone.
“Boom, boom, boom!” Several more blood mists exploded on the Swamp Lion’s body, and the Swamp Lion erupted with a miserable scream.
Only at this point did the Swamp Lion understand that Di Jiu’s previous continuous blade streak was just a blade lead, the real killing move was the burst of killing energy after the blade streak struck its body. Just like a wave crashing on a rock, the blade streak hit its body and countless blade arrows rushed directly into his body before the blade qi burst inside its body.
“Boom! Boom! Boom!” The fist mountain shadow of the peak gathering finally collided with the swamp lion’s iron claws as well, if not for Di Jiu’s previous knife pattern exploding, the swamp lion thought it could have slapped Di Jiu’s peak gathering and then grabbed Di Jiu’s head up.
Now the countless blade patterns were bursting among its body, and if it didn’t retreat, it would die here today.
Once the intention to retreat was gone, the Swamp Lion no longer had the heart to fight.
Unfortunately, retreat was now out of its control, and as it prepared to retreat, its demise was already sealed. The blade intent of the Fourth Wind Xiao Blade followed the gathering of the peaks before slashing down on the Swamp Lion’s neck.
A blood arrow shot out, and the swamp lion’s huge head was split to the ground by Di Jiu’s slash.
A powerful confidence filled Di Jiu’s heart as the aura around him continued to gather over, this was not the first time Di Jiu had tried this situation, he knew that this was his way to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, or the fourth level of Foundation Establishment.
Every time he advanced in battle, it was far too much stronger than if he had advanced in seclusion.
After this late third level marsh lion was finished off by Di Jiu, the rest of the marsh lions hissed as if they knew that danger was coming and turned around to vanish into the endless marsh forest.
“Boom!” Di Jiu also broke through the shackles of the third level of Foundation Establishment at this moment, and crossed into the fourth level of Foundation Establishment. With a raise of the long sword in his hand, Di Jiu’s heart had a feeling of pride running through it.
After escaping from Ji Guo, he had never thought that one day he would be able to stand at such a height.
Foundation Establishment was the existence of a Martial King in Ji Kingdom, and now he was at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment. Before he crossed into the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, he had killed a late third level Swamp Lion one-on-one.
Although he killed the marsh lion with the help of a little killing formation, Di Jiu actually knew in his heart that the killing formation he had hastily set up was not really of much use to the third level marsh lion. What really killed the swamp lion was his fifth cracking blade and that fist of peak gathering.
The fourth wind-shafted blade that slashed off the head of the swamp lion was only the result of the fifth blade and the peak range gathering.
To be able to kill a late third level swamp lion, that meant that with his current strength at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, he should be able to deal with a normal Jindan cultivator.
“Brother Jiu, you’ve crossed into the middle stage of Foundation Establishment?” Geng Ji, who was still hovering at the third level of Foundation Establishment, said with excitement and delight.
The tree brother was even more ecstatic, the stronger Di Jiu was, the better it would be for it. Killing a third level Swamp Lion was a small matter, the real meaningful thing was that big brother could now deal with Jindan cultivators.
Being able to deal with a Jindan cultivator meant that they would have no problem getting out of the Swamp Sea Forest.
“That’s right, I should be able to deal with a normal Jindan cultivator. So now we don’t need to deliberately stay here to fight and kill, we can go to Swamp Sea Town and see if that Qi Family Merchant House has been built again.” Di Jiu said with a hearty laugh, very freely.
“Brother Jiu, are we still going to rob the Qi family merchant building?” Tree Brother’s eyes were glowing with gold, it was most fond of this kind of hook.
“If the Qi Family Merchant House doesn’t mess with me, then forget it and let’s leave the matter at that. If they still want to mess with me, we’ll take our cultivation resources directly from the Qi Family Merchant House in the future. When Num sea Town is over, we will go to another Qi Family Merchant House.” Di Jiu smiled heatedly, he didn’t think that the Qi Family Merchant House would stop.
He wouldn’t take the initiative to provoke the Qi Family Merchant House either that is, he tried his best to wear a disguise mask before he had a certain amount of strength.