Chapter 603

Chapter 603

I Can See Through Everything

Lu Qing unleashed the Earth Vein Magnetism Domain to bind and restrain the nine Golden Core early-stage Guardian Beasts.

Then, bursting forth with overwhelming might, he punched one beast to death in a single blow, swiftly reaping their lives.

Such commotion naturally drew the attention of the experts hidden within the dense forest once more.

“Who’s breaking into the tower at night?”

“Could it be that one of the major factions has discovered the secret behind the Guardian Beasts and is planning to slay them again?”

“No, wait—it looks like that kid from earlier. He’s shown up again!”

At first, the experts assumed another faction was launching a tower raid and wondered who could be so foolish as to do so in the middle of the night.

But when they released their Divine Sense to investigate, they realized the intruder wasn’t some newcomer—it was the young man who had slain three Black Wolf Guardian Beasts in broad daylight.

“There’s definitely some secret hidden within these Guardian Beasts, otherwise that kid wouldn’t be hunting them even in the dead of night!”

That same fellow who had vanished earlier into the forest without a trace was now back, hunting beasts again under the cover of darkness.

With this, the experts lurking in the forest finally reached a clear consensus—these Guardian Beasts must contain some powerful secret.

Otherwise, this shadowy young man wouldn’t risk everything to return and kill them again and again.

Boom!

Lu Qing didn’t even need to think to know that the ruckus he was making had surely drawn the attention of all the powerful cultivators in the forest.

But he didn’t care. He continued his swift slaughter of the Guardian Beasts on the outer perimeter.

With another punch, he took down a massive wild boar Guardian Beast. And with that, all nine Golden Core early-stage Guardian Beasts in the outer zone had been slain by his hand.

This scene left the forest’s hidden experts stunned.

They all had firsthand experience with just how troublesome those Guardian Beasts around the ancient tower could be.

Even the nine on the outer edge—though merely Golden Core early-stage—possessed bodies of incredible toughness and tenacity, enough to give even late-stage Golden Core cultivators a serious headache.

In this strange Secret Realm, where spiritual energy was scarce and the peculiar space rules drastically weakened techniques and artifacts, even high-level cultivators couldn’t guarantee killing one with a single blow.

Yet in Lu Qing’s hands, those early-stage beasts were like blocks of tofu—obliterated one by one with effortless punches.

Only a handful in the entire Secret Realm could achieve such a feat.

Still, many of the observing experts saw through the reason behind Lu Qing’s ease in battle: his physical body was monstrously powerful.

In this eerie Secret Realm, where spiritual energy was lacking and spatial rules were strange, spells and magical artifacts lost much of their potency.

Only pure physical strength remained unaffected.

So in their eyes, Lu Qing’s strength wasn’t due to some unfathomable cultivation level far beyond their own, but rather that his robust fleshly body just happened to be perfectly suited to the Secret Realm’s environment—allowing him to display the full extent of his power.

Of course, regardless of the reason, Lu Qing’s current combat performance still made the experts pay close attention.

At the very least, within this Secret Realm, none of them could claim they could defeat this mysterious young man.

“He’s already slain the nine outer Guardian Beasts, but he’s not leaving. What’s he planning?”

Though shocked, the experts soon noticed that after finishing off the last Golden Core early-stage Guardian Beast, Lu Qing didn’t flee as he had before.

Instead, he moved deeper into the forest.

“He’s heading inward... Don’t tell me he plans to challenge the tower alone?”

The experts watching from the shadows were truly shaken by this.

Until now, no one had ever succeeded in raiding the tower solo.

All who tried had died.

Even the Dao Heirs and Holy Maidens from the most powerful factions didn’t dare claim they could take on the tower alone.

After all, the innermost three Guardian Beasts among the eighteen were each at the Golden Core late stage, and the aura they exuded was terrifying to the extreme.

Even outside the Secret Realm, with their full strength intact, few would dare say they could defeat those three monstrous beasts.

So the fact that Lu Qing dared to press on made them deeply shocked.

Naturally, Lu Qing was unaware of the thoughts of these hidden experts.

He stepped into the territory of one of the Golden Core mid-stage Guardian Beasts.

He had chosen a Golden Core mid-stage ape beast—the very one Chu Xiaojing had mentioned before as the one that had broken their formation.

The moment Lu Qing stepped into its territory, the ape beast stirred.

Its eyes snapped open, and its massive figure vanished from where it lay. In the blink of an eye, it appeared in front of Lu Qing, its eyes gleaming with savagery and its entire body radiating a fearsome aura. With a roar, it threw a punch at Lu Qing.

Not only was its speed shocking, the force behind its fist was equally terrifying—it bore the signs of a true martial arts grandmaster’s technique.

“Interesting.”

Sensing the power of the ape beast’s punch, Lu Qing’s expression turned intrigued.

He neither dodged nor activated the Earth Vein Magnetism Domain. Instead, he squared his shoulders and swung his own fist. Accompanied by a roar like a tiger’s and a dragon’s cry, his punch clashed directly with the ape’s.

To the experts hidden in the forest, this moment appeared utterly lopsided.

That ape beast stood over two zhang tall, with long, thick arms and fists like enormous black millstones.

Each swing stirred a storm of astral winds—any brush of that force could turn a Foundation Establishment cultivator to dust.

By comparison, Lu Qing’s fist seemed tiny, as if striking a boulder with an egg.

It looked like he’d be crushed into paste in the next second.

Yet when the fists collided, the eyes of every watching expert went wide.

Within the howling astral winds, the ground shook, and the massive ape figure was sent stumbling backward—each retreating step causing tremors in the earth.

It was the ape, two zhang tall, that had been forced back by Lu Qing’s punch, unable to hold its footing.

Even the ape’s fierce, murderous eyes now showed a look of disbelief.

It couldn’t comprehend how this little human had managed to knock it back with a single blow.

“Trying to run?”

Lu Qing’s gaze sharpened. With a stomp, he shot forward like lightning and closed the distance with the retreating ape.

His left hand spread open, and a flash of yellow light surged forth—the invisible power of Earth Vein Magnetism wrapped around the ape.

With a tug and a press, the ape beast instantly felt as though its body had become a hundred times heavier. Coupled with a powerful pulling force, the already unsteady beast toppled forward uncontrollably.

At that moment, Lu Qing unleashed another thunderous roar. His right hand shot out with another punch.

This time, he aimed directly at the ape’s head.

Having fought many of these Guardian Beasts, Lu Qing had long deduced that their greatest weakness was the head.

As long as he could crush their skulls, even their mighty vitality was useless.

One mistake had led to another. Now the ape beast could only watch helplessly as that white jade-like fist drew closer and closer to its forehead.

Boom!

A spray of blood mist exploded into the air.

The Golden Core mid-stage ape beast—dead!