Swallowing the Stars: The Supreme Being of All Heavens

Chapter 356 Puti's Underhanded Operations

Chapter 356 Puti's Underhanded Operations

Suddenly appearing high above, a metal mechanical puppet, like a colossal ancient monster emerging from the sandstorm, let out a chilling roar that shook the very fabric of space before vanishing without a trace.

next moment.

Strikes of light flashed like lightning, piercing through the sandstorm and causing the surrounding space to ripple and distort, as they teleported toward Suk and the others.

Those were enormous, metallic, python-like tentacles, each extending for thousands of kilometers.

As the tentacles attacked, they released strange spatial fluctuations, distorting the space where Suk was located. An invisible and terrifying binding force surged from all directions, pressing down like a mountain, making him feel as if his body was trapped in a swamp and severely restricted.

"The guardian of this forbidden area is extremely powerful and may possess unknown abilities. Master, please be extremely careful!" King Wine Fern shouted urgently. His figure flickered and instantly transformed back into his original form. Then, with a whoosh, his figure blurred and turned into streams of light that flowed towards the oncoming tentacle demonic shadow.

The eight thick tentacles of the Forbidden Zone Guardian swept across like eight dancing giant pythons, but the Wine Fern King was no ordinary life form. It transformed into a soft, muddy liquid, and streams of water coiled around the tentacles of the Forbidden Zone Guardian. When they coiled around, they were shaken and showed signs of breaking apart, but more water threads formed and coiled around them. They were incredibly resilient. From a distance, those threads looked like a dense spider web, tightly clinging to the limbs of the giant metal octopus.

The formidable guards of the forbidden area were actually stopped, slowing their progress by at least 30%.

This is the powerful move of the Wine Fern King. Even if you reach the limit of the King level, it is difficult to escape once you are entangled by it.

"Master, this forbidden area guardian doesn't understand any laws. Although its pure attack is slightly stronger than that of a typical peak-level King, I can stop it," King Wine Fern excitedly transmitted.

"Just to stop it?" Suk watched as the giant metal octopus roared and frantically swung its tentacles to attack the Water Flow Divine Body of the Wine Fern King, but it was like a normal person trying to tear glue, it felt futile.

This form of the Wine Fern King also has a very strong defense; the metal octopus cannot harm its divine body in the slightest.

However, even the attack from the Wine Fern King couldn't damage the metal octopus's body; its defenses were too strong.

According to the message, only a powerful attack can penetrate the outer shell and enter the inner energy core that destroys the forbidden area's guardian.

The two sides seemed to be deadlocked.

Just then, the tip of one of the metal octopus's tentacles suddenly hardened, like a sharp spear, and thrust straight at its prey.

Wherever it passed, space was forcibly cleaved open like seawater, forming a separated waterline.

Meanwhile, the other metal tentacles were not idle either, flashing with eerie blue lightning. The lightning leaped and spread along the tentacles, suddenly bursting out with a crackling sound, and a strong current blasted towards the prey.

The wine fern king, which was right next to it, was immediately covered in dazzling electric light. The water that its body had transformed into trembled and involuntarily detached from the metal octopus.

Some of the lightning bolts also split off and flew towards Suk.

Suk had Eloi stand behind him, a glint in his eyes, and rushed forward, wielding his ancient battle sword. The sword light whistled out, carrying the subtle charm of the passage of time and the changing of the years, as if all things were being annihilated.

"Boom!" The blade light and the incoming blue lightning collided head-on, and a dazzling light exploded, with an incredibly powerful shockwave spreading in all directions.

"This attack has the power of a peak-level King." Suk stood motionless, sword in hand, watching the metal octopus not far away. The dense bolts of lightning resembled dragons swimming across the surface, faintly exuding an aura of world-destroying power. If every bolt possessed this power, it would be terrifying. "This forbidden area guardian cannot be judged by ordinary standards. Its combat style is similar to that of a mechanical life form. Fortunately, it cannot burn divine power, otherwise even a peak-level King would be completely unable to match it."

"Oh no, Master, I can't hold it back anymore." The numerous streams of water returned, transforming into the exquisite, beautiful, androgynous human form of the Wine Fern King, its eyes filled with alarm. "That electric current is extremely strange. Once directly struck, even my divine body began to become paralyzed, making it impossible to restrain it anymore."

Just then, with a "whoosh," the blue lightning that had been moving across the metal octopus suddenly began to converge, forming a lightning sphere with a diameter of a thousand kilometers. Just when Suk and the others thought it was about to attack, it had already condensed into a small point in the blink of an eye.

An extremely powerful aura emanated from it, giving people an incredibly dangerous feeling.

"What?" Suk's expression changed. Without thinking, he instinctively pulled Eloi back quickly, while releasing the Death Star Vine.

Seeing that the situation seemed to be going wrong, Eloi, who was standing next to him, also released the "Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grass" from her body.

boom!!!

One after another, towering vines appeared in the forbidden space, piercing the sky and stretching for at least a million kilometers.

Two incredibly powerful plant life forms appeared, blocking the way for the guards of the forbidden area.

"Roar!" The Forbidden Zone Guardian seemed to have not expected this situation to occur. It could no longer find the enemy from before and could only let out a huge roar in despair. Then, without hesitation, it unleashed the power of the point formed by the lightning ball.

Wow!

An extremely dazzling beam of light shot out from that point, so bright that it could pierce through even a star.

The beam of light landed directly on the vines in front of them and began to rotate as controlled by the guardian of the forbidden area.

Hissing sounds filled the air as the vines were bombarded by beams of light, causing them to tremble incessantly.

The surface of the Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grass will be corroded and damaged when bombarded by beams of light, but the Death Star Vine only shows slight cracks.

Suk and the others behind them were paying attention.

"The beam of light cannot penetrate the barrier of plant life." The Wine Fern King said in surprise, "Master, your plant life is too powerful. This defense is simply..." The Wine Fern King did not know how to describe it.

Suk had expected this situation. The characteristics of the Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grass made its toughness and sharpness no less than that of a King-level expert!

The Death Star Vine is a level stronger than the Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grass!

The Forbidden Zone Guardian's ultimate move can even withstand the Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grass, let alone the Death Star Vine.

"The attack from this forbidden area guard is comparable to the ultimate strike of a King-level expert," said King Wine Fern, his tone much more relaxed.

The situation has now changed again. After summoning the Death Star Vine and the Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grass, the two terrifying plant life forms will not stand still and take the beating. Countless vines and grasses surge towards the forbidden area like waves.

In terms of size, the Forbidden Zone Guardian is only a thousand kilometers long, while the two major plant life forms are much larger than it, like a giant and an ant.

When the vines surged in from all directions, there was no way to avoid them. In an instant, the metal octopus was entangled by countless vines and could not move. It did not understand any laws or mysteries, and its attack methods were fixed. Once it encountered this situation, it was quickly suppressed.

However, it was still struggling. Although both plant life forms were trying their best to shrink and strangle each other, the defense of the forbidden area was too tough. Even the invincible King could not forcibly tear their bodies apart, so the two plant life forms naturally could not do so either.

"Bombard it." Suk's command caused the plant life to switch to a different attack method.

While tightly binding the metal octopus, several vines transformed into afterimages, lashing the octopus with terrifying power.

Boom... The tendrils of the Death Star Vine transformed into swift, afterimage-like gusts, relentlessly lashing at various parts of the octopus's body, causing violent tremors.

In the blink of an eye, he had been whipped and attacked hundreds or thousands of times.

Each attack, with power reaching the limit of the King-level, impacted the octopus's body.

Finally, the struggling octopus suddenly stopped moving, its eight tentacles drooping down, motionless, as if it were dead.

"Solved?" Suk felt a sense of relief. This forbidden area guardian was indeed troublesome. If he didn't have plant life, it would have been very difficult to deal with it. Soul attacks were ineffective against it, and its defense was ridiculously strong. Only powerful attacks could hope to destroy its internal energy core.

Just as Suk was about to approach and study this forbidden area guardian he was seeing for the first time, a slight strange sound suddenly came from the metal octopus, and something fell off from somewhere.

Then, a ripple appeared in the space, and a powerful force forcibly rolled up the metal octopus and made it disappear. Neither the Death Star Vine nor the Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grass could stop it at all, and all the vines grabbed nothing.

"This..." Suk was stunned.

The Wine Fern King beside him immediately said, "Master, this Forbidden Zone Guardian is unique to the Forbidden Zone. Even if it is destroyed, it cannot be captured and taken away. Instead, it will be recycled by the Forbidden Zone. No one has been able to take it out of the Star Tower for so many years. Otherwise, even if the Forbidden Zone Guardian cannot be researched and repaired, its materials would be very valuable spoils of war."

Suk nodded to indicate that he understood, and then turned his attention to the things that the forbidden area guards had dropped.

It was a rhomboid stone tablet about the size of a human palm, on which a strange four-winged, six-legged monster was crouching and roaring.

It evokes a special feeling in people at first sight.

"This is..." Suk's heart stirred, and the power of the world extended out to envelop the stone tablet, with a wisp of it drilling into the stone tablet.

Elo and the Wine Fern King were also watching from the side.

"Suk, this seems to be..." Eloi stared at the stone tablet, a hint of doubt in her eyes.

Having received the message from the stone tablet, Suk's face showed a strange expression. He nodded and said in an odd tone, "That's right, this is the Beast God Inheritance Token, and it's the Light-Time Beast God Inheritance Token."

Aloy asked in astonishment, "Why did the Beast God's Inheritance Token fall from the guard of the forbidden area?"

Suk looked at the Wine Fern King, who immediately understood and said, "Master, I have never heard of the Forbidden Zone Guardians dropping items after being defeated. Of course, it is possible that such a thing has happened before, but it is very rare, and similar news has not been circulated."

Suk fell into deep thought.

The Beast God Inheritance Token is absolutely comparable in value to a set of precious treasures, after all, it represents the opportunity for the highest inheritance of the Ancestral God Sect.

But they have absolutely nothing to do with the guards of the Star Tower Forbidden Area, right?

"Could it be a coincidence? Perhaps a powerful figure came to the Star Tower in the outer battlefield with the Inheritance Token, only to perish unexpectedly, leaving the Token here, which was then swallowed by the forbidden area's guards?" Suk speculated on various possibilities.

"Moreover, King Wine Fern has never encountered such troublesome forbidden area guards in all these years. This is my first time here, and the second forbidden area I've entered, and I've already encountered this kind of trouble." Suk frowned in thought. He wondered if there were any signs of someone deliberately setting this up, or of course, it could just be a coincidence.

"This Star Tower is indeed destined for its master. The master received such a treasure as soon as he arrived." King Wine Fern praised. In the mind of the soul servant, the master is naturally the most important person in the world, and all good things should belong to the master.

Eloi laughed and said, "Suke, now that you and I both have the Beast God Inheritance Token, we can go to the Ancestral God Cult together."

Suk looked at the Beast God Inheritance Token in his hand, slightly helpless: "I haven't even cultivated the Path of the Beast God yet."

"It's a treasure after all," Eloi laughed.

Suk had to agree; indeed, it was worth at least a set of precious treasures.

For example, King Zhenyan has been stuck at the fourth threshold of the Path of the Beast God for so many years, and he can't even get another Beast God Inheritance Token.

Soon after, they discovered a passage to leave, and the three of them left directly through the exit, quickly entering another world filled with flames.

But to their astonishment, they discovered that there was also a forbidden area guarded here, a towering fire giant hundreds of kilometers tall.

"We've run into each other again?" Suk felt his suspicions were confirmed.

"Why are there more forbidden zone guards again?" King Wine Fern couldn't understand. This was the first time it had encountered two forbidden zones with forbidden zone guards in a row.

The first forbidden space went smoothly, but starting from the second forbidden space, one after another, they began to encounter the forbidden space guards, and their fighting styles, methods, and levels of danger were all different.

"There's a problem, definitely a problem, Master." King Wine Fern looked at Suk, his face showing a hint of solemnity and excitement. "As far as I know, this situation of encountering the forbidden area guards one after another is most likely because another sealed star has been born in the Star Tower, which is why the forbidden area guards are appearing so frequently."

"Hmm." Suk nodded, having already anticipated this. However, he was also puzzled as to why he had just arrived and encountered a forbidden area guard carrying the Beast God's Inheritance Token. Moreover, the Zhenfeng Star, which only appears once every long period of time, was also beginning to emerge. He had not cultivated the Nine Tribulations. Was he really that lucky?

While Suk was still pondering the key point, he suddenly received a call request from the virtual universe. He immediately sent a wisp of his consciousness into the virtual universe to accept the call request.

"disaster."

"White Bat King." Suk greeted the other party. White Bat King was a good friend he met when he first entered Hongmeng City. They had kept in touch ever since and had a very good relationship.

"I was adventuring with a group of friends in the Star Tower when I happened to find your coordinates nearby through the military's internal system, so I contacted you immediately," the White Bat King chuckled. "Here's the thing, I just contacted several friends because we were suddenly attacked by the guards of the forbidden area, causing quite a bit of trouble. This is very rare. I asked around and found that several others have experienced the same thing. What about you?"

"That's right." Suk nodded, unsurprised. "I was also attacked by the forbidden area guards."