Reaching the meeting points close to the Mountain Range, a total of 3 different group of practitioners could be seen within the gathering area.
Flame Conqueror Capitals.
Blazing Brigade.
And the Spirit Beast Clan.
"This time seems to be pretty serious."
Said one Senior Disciple of Spirit Beast Clan, and through his uniform, it clearly indicates that he is one of the Inner Disciples.
"We have assistance from the Armament Pavilion last time, but this time, the Pavilion members aren't appearing at all, does that means that the peoples from the Pavilion won't be participate in this hunt ?"
Another Inner Disciple speaks, but before the first disciple could reply, a representative started to speak towards the crowd.
"I am Elder Boulder from the Flame Conqueror Capitals, and this time, I will be leading the team of 3 power to hunt and destroy the Broodling Tree within the Profound Volcanic Mountain Range."
"Together, I hope we can place aside our hunger for revenge, or competing among sect and clans, but assist each other in making this hunt a success."
"This time, through some rough inspection, the Volcanic Mountain Range is reported to be spewing around 9 Broodling Trees, which means, a total of at least 900,000 Demonic Imps is expected."
"Remember, the Demonic Imps threat level varies from the sizes of their horn above their ears."
"If you met with one that has horn less than a size of a palm, you are free to confront it and eliminate it, but if you met any of them with Spiral Horn, leave immediately and inform the Elders scattered around the mountain range!"
"Listen to me, DO NOT CONFRONT THE SPIRAL HORNED DEMONIC IMPS!"
"If all of you are ready for your deployment, you may start now!"
The elder finish his words, and next, the illusion gate is opened by the gate keeper of the mountain outskirts, and thousands of practitioner storm through the gate, wielding their weapons and treasures to be activated immediately.
"Brother Wu Chung, do you know why we are not supposed to confront the Spiral Horned Demonic Imp ?"
Altima recently located within the continent, so he has no knowledge regarding the demonic Imp yet.
"Brother Altima, the Spiral Horned Demonic Imp strength varied between 5th Stage of Emperor Zen Stage to 5th Stage of Warrior Kun Stage. They are the most tricky and ruthless when we are in our hunting season."
Wu Chung explained. Although their moving speed is neither fast or slow, but very quickly, they started to separate into bigger distance within the forest at the bottom of the Volcanic Mountain Range, and soon, an army of Demonic Imps started to appear from the bushes, and started to get aggressive with fellow disciples beside them.
"The Demonic Imps is appearing, everyone In your battle stance now!"
Shouted one disciple from the Blazing Brigade.
In that instant, swarms of Demonic Imp leap out from the low bushes and reveal their sheer amount to pressure all the cultivators around Altima's side.
"Quickly retaliate, and do not allow all of them to surround us!"
"Younger generation disciple, do not use any Yang Flame technique on the Demonic Imps, the will grow stronger with more external flame energy."
With the seniors advise, the whole group of cultivator started the assault, and quickly destroy the single wave of offensive attack.
"Disperse!"
With a word from the senior disciple, the group of cultivators quickly disperse and goes accordingly to their own way, killing and destroying the Demonic Imps along their way.
(Yin Essence Bone Corroding Claw!)
Altima applies extremely strong Yin Essence Energy on both of his palms, and with a clawing form, he quickly slays the Demonic Imps within his path. Unknowingly to him, with each Demonic Imps he slays, a dim light slowly enter the Disciple Medallion and increase the total points within the medallion secretly.
"Skree!!!"
A much more colossal Demonic Imp appeared in front of Altima out of sudden and started to attack Altima.
"Spirit Moon of Yin Technique!"
Altima retaliates, throwing the claw strike from the Demonic Imp towards the ground before he continued with a Wu Di Long Fist.
As he turns his body around, Altima prepares a Small Wheel of Tai Ji, and prepare to turn it aggressively to create a rounded sawblade, and tried to chop the head of the Demonic Imp without any chances for it to retaliate.
But unexpectedly for Altima, the Demonic Imp quickly retreat from its initial position, before it stands up tall and starting to spew Flaming Lava from its mouth towards Altima.
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Forced to retreat, Altima place both hand together to create a double layered Medium Wheel of Tai Ji, and defend the incoming Lava strike, before he retreated slowly without any injuries.
"My Lord!"
Mo Yue's voice came out within Altima's head out of sudden.
"My lord, that’s a Demonic Imp! You can't fight with it barehanded!"
"Why ?"
"The Demonic Imps is born from the Broodling Tree, which is thick and enveloped by Yang Ashes Poison!"
"Once you are infected, your flow of Yang Essence will be disrupted and stuck, causing the Yang Essence to burn and corroding the body of the practitioner as he tried to utilize the Yang Essence within his body."
Hearing the advice from Mo Yue, Altima immediately retreat from confronting the Demonic Imp but toss a few Water Dragon Cannon to lock the Imp from moving around.
Turning his facing, Altima noticed that few of his fellow human companion is affected by the Yang Ashes Poison, and starting to crawl on the ground from pain due to the corroding effect from the poison.
"Guys! Stop channeling your Yang Essence and quickly meditate yourself!"
Altima quickly advise the others to stop utilizing their Yang Essence, but unfortunately its too late, three among seven of them had already started to lose their breath, and very quickly, their whole body is out of control and slowly turning into Magma rocks, and started to leak numerous amount of Yang Essence around their veins.
As the dead cultivators started to deform into a shape of magma rocks, the Demonic Imps started to get cheerful and crazy, as they storm towards the body and started to consume the remains. Few another disciple manages to stop activating their Yang Essence, thus manage to preserve their life for a short period.
But without the ability to recover, very easily, three more of the disciple end up being the feast by the Demonic Imp raw and "Uncooked".
And finally, the last disciple tried to retaliate while looking on a way to escape, but before he manages to move even one more step, a Sturdy built Demonic Imp appeared behind and grab on his leg, pulling him upside down before opening its jaw and devour half of the body of the disciple.
"Shit, it’s a Spiral Horned Demonic Imp!"
Without bothering about looking further, Altima immediately escapes from the location without keeping any hidden trump cards within.
But, Unfortunately, the Spiral Horned Demonic Imp noticed Altima's escape, and make a chase towards his escape route as well!
"This is bad luck, I would never imagine that although I manage to escape from being infected by the Poison, I end up meeting up with a Spiral Horned Demonic Imp. Does this means that the Broodling Tree is just nearby this area ?"
Altima charges his Spiritual Stage strength to the limit and withdrawing two pieces of Water Dragon Cannon, Altima tosses a piece of the weapon towards the charging Spiral Horn Demonic Imp, while another piece of the weapon towards the entrance he recently came from.
"My lord, take this weapon, we finally completed it!"
Mo Yue and Gunther quickly speak within his head, and with some reaction within the private cultivation farm, Altima withdraws the weapon within the Cultivation Farm.
The weapon came into his hand, and from a look at its first appearance, Altima is full of questions.
"Why the hell is my spear look like a coffin box ?"
"Gunther, Mo Yue, explain a little to me why is this weapon is so weird ?"
Altima stunned for a while before he seriously looks at the weapon. Within the whole piece of weapon, Altima notice a total of 8 pieces of plates covering the whole body, making the weapon seems like a seal with many crude looking marks lined along, and thoroughly wrap the weapon altogether.
"My lord, you need to channel your energy into the weapon to unlock the seal, and uncover the potential within this weapon to fully claim ownership of the weapon."
"This is a Five-time Refined Weapon with a Tool Soul Crystal-infused within."
"My Lord, activate it, and let us see the full strength in this Five-time Refined weapon."
Gunther and Mo Yue urge Altima to quickly activate it, and from the side where the water dragon cannon recently exploded, a fiery shadow slowly emerge within the smokes, and moving slowly from the clump of smokes.
"Argh! Let's do it!"
Holding the weapon with both hands, Altima pushes his strength to his limit, allowing all his Zen Essence energy to be infused into the weapon, allowing the weapon to emit a special glow throughout the body.
Soon, the seal started to have a slight reaction, where a total of 108 different words started to arranged into a circle of profound seal, and unlock the inner part of the weapon,
Next, the Zen Essence energy quickly wrapped along the spear tip, the spear's body and the spears rear pommel, and thoroughly refine it, allowing the spear to shine with a violet hue all over.
Finally, the Zen energy refine the whole weapon, making the Tool Soul within activated, and finally willing to remove all its shells and reveal its true appearance!
"Zwinng!"
Four pieces of the platings that covering the frontal section of the spear blasted out towards the Spiral Horned Demonic Imp, thoroughly injured and pushed the beast backward like a loose arrow.
Another 4 more piece of platings is blasted out towards another side, very quickly, a quadruple explosion could be heard from the impact between the ground and the plating.
The shining violet light finally dimmed, only flashing in the middle of the spear, two words are etched on the middle of the spear, written as "Meng Jiang Qiang".
Ferocious General "Meng Jiang" Protector Spear - Early Zen Tier Treasure
Description: Created by a combination of Goblin and Human Blacksmith Elder, A transcendence weapon that bears an appearance of 6 Feet and 6 inches long, Crystal refined Violet Tip and a sturdier than any Mace and Hammer's Pommel, and a total of 5 pieces of Spatial formed beads on the middle of the spear.
Meng Jiang Spear came with 5 Special features and required to be blood bond to fully unleash its capability. The spear not only able to store various special weapon, medicine, and important treasure within, it could even absorb and amplify the Zen, Yin and Yang essence into more condensed and pure energy for usage.
The spear could even reach the form of Energized, which release the limitation border and further enhance the capability of the owner and weapon, and lastly, the Tool Soul Release, but the form after released is still unknown yet.
Special Note: All Zen Tier Treasure could be upgraded.(Early - Low - Middle - High - Peak - Earth - Heaven - Mortal - Immortal)
"How strong would this spear be ?"
Altima questioned himself, as the 3 elder team finally show up and quickly charge over to subdue the Spiral Horned Demonic Imp.
"Child! Don’t daydream over there! Quickly come and help us clear the smaller Demonic Imps around so we could charge over the Spiral Horned Demonic Imp immediately."
One of the elders shouted, bringing Altima back to his sense.
Without waiting for his next instruction, Altima channel a surge of Yin energy into Meng Jiang Qiang, and move as fast as he could towards the crowd of Demonic Imps gathered before the elders.
"Yuan Wu Spear of Rain Bursting Halls!"
Altima charge past the few elders, taking an initiative to slay all the Demonic Imps and open a path for the elders.
But unknowingly to him, this cause everyone to have a speechless reaction towards his attack.
Instead of raining arrows, Altima causes a rain of spears, utterly defeating all Demonic Imps surrounding them, including injuring the Spiral Horned Demonic Imp into a sorry condition that it would be begging to be killed instead.
"That's an Early Zen Tier Treasure!"
Said an elder, who finally noticed the weapon Altima is holding.