Chapter 29: Lin Dong Devises a Plan, Nearly Facing Total Annihilation!

[Xiao Yan: Holy crap, Brother Zhu, you're finally online!]

[Uzumaki Naruto: Big Brother Zhu Chen!]

[Lin Dong: Brother Zhu Chen, do you have time? Please come and help us...]

Xiao Yan and the others grew excited upon seeing Zhu Chen come online.

[Xiao Yan: Brother Zhu, don't misunderstand. Although Brother Lin Dong and Brother Naruto are both helping me on my end, the three of us aren't in the same location, which is why we're using the chat group to communicate. Honestly, using this chat group like a walkie-talkie is quite convenient.]

Zhu Chen glanced at the message from Xiao Yan, then quickly scrolled through the previous chat history of the three, quickly grasping the general situation.

It turned out the cause of the trouble was that Xiao Yan didn't want to go against his conscience by getting involved with Yun Yun, so he planned to head ahead to steal the companion Amethyst Source and Purple Spirit Crystal from the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

Unexpectedly, the Amethyst Winged Lion King's vigilance was too high and its strength was too great; despite all the methods he and Yao Lao tried, they had failed.

In the end, Xiao Yan could only post a plea for help in the group.

At that time, Lin Dong and Uzumaki Naruto happened to be free, so the two of them volunteered to head to the Doupo World to help.

However, none of the three had developed their strength sufficiently yet; even in a 3v1, they were no match for the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

Ultimately, it was the "educated" Lin Dong who thought of a "Lure the Lion Away from the Mountain" tactic.

He suggested that Xiao Yan find a way to lure the Amethyst Winged Lion King away, while he would rush into the cave to steal the Amethyst Source and Purple Spirit Crystal, with Uzumaki Naruto keeping watch outside.

Uzumaki Naruto thought Lin Dong's plan was excellent and praised him highly.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao had originally wanted to deliberate further.

But seeing that Lin Dong and Naruto, who had come to assist, both wanted to try that method, they could only bite the bullet and agree; primarily, they had no better options at the time.

Subsequently, the three waited for the right moment to execute Lin Dong's "Lure the Lion" plan.

Who would have thought that after being harassed by the three of them several times, the Amethyst Winged Lion King had already seen through their trick.

Just as Xiao Yan found a way to lure it out of the cave, before Lin Dong even had time to run in and steal the items, it immediately doubled back.

Seeing the situation turn bad, Xiao Yan immediately told Lin Dong to retreat in the chat, but Lin Dong felt certain he could grab the items before the lion returned.

Instead of retreating, he actually accelerated his pace toward the depths of the cave.

However, when he reached the Amethyst Winged Lion King's lair, he was shocked to find that a lion cub was actually guarding the nest.

Lin Dong nearly had a breakdown at that moment.

Unsurprisingly, their operation ended in failure once again.

Moreover, this time, due to Xiao Yan's negligence and Lin Dong's recklessness, they had almost met their end in the lion's lair.

In the end, if Naruto hadn't had a sudden flash of inspiration and used a targeted "Harem Jutsu" on the Amethyst Winged Lion King to successfully daze it for a few seconds, the consequences would have been unthinkable.

Seeing this, Zhu Chen almost burst out laughing.

Xiao Yan and the others were quite thick-skinned; Lin Dong could barely read, treating five-character words as three, yet they actually let him come up with strategies. They truly weren't afraid of falling into traps!

[Xiao Yan: Brother Zhu, my teacher just exhausted his entire soul power to help me. Lin Dong's "Lord Mink" cannot possess him, so he has no combat effectiveness. I can only rely on you now.]

Xiao Yan sent another plea for help.

[Zhu Chen: Alright, I'm coming right now.]

Helping each other among group members was only right, so Zhu Chen did not refuse.

He turned back to glance at Huo Ling'er, who was currently comprehending the Suanni Sacred Technique, then opened the cross-world function and vanished from the room in a flash.

However, at the exact moment he departed through the cross-world function...

At the central altar of Stone Village, atop that charred wooden stake, a woman clad in flowing willow-silk garments—her figure graceful yet illusory and invisible—slowly opened her eyes at the same time.

Deep within her eyes, it seemed as though an infinite universe was being nurtured, with galaxies and stars shimmering within; faint golden Dao patterns emerged in her irises, emitting ripples of Great Dao aura.

The willow-clad woman slightly lifted her beautiful eyes, her profound gaze falling upon the wooden hut where Zhu Chen had been.

"His aura vanished mysteriously. He is not in the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm, nor in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. Could he have traveled to another world?"

...

Doupo World.

Deep within the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Zhu Chen arrived directly in front of Xiao Yan via the cross-world function.

"Holy crap, Brother Zhu, I didn't expect you to actually be a kid?"

It was the first time Xiao Yan had seen Zhu Chen's true appearance, and he couldn't help but exclaim.

"Didn't Naruto tell you already?"

Zhu Chen gave him a disgruntled look.

"Haha, I was just expressing my surprise, nothing more. Please don't take it personally."

Xiao Yan scratched the back of his head awkwardly.

Then, his tone shifted, and he suddenly became serious: "By the way, Brother Zhu, Brother Naruto said you showed incredibly powerful combat strength in their village last time. But I just saw that aside from those flashy ninjutsu, he doesn't seem to have any other impressive skills. I want to confirm—can you defeat that Amethyst Winged Lion King? My teacher said that big fellow's strength is comparable to a five or six-star Dou Huang expert."

"It's hard to say. According to the cultivation standards of your Doupo World, a Dou Huang expert already possesses city-level destructive power, and that lion king also has sealing techniques. It might be quite tricky to deal with," Zhu Chen said truthfully.

Many people might underestimate the strength of a Dou Huang.

But Zhu Chen remembered clearly that the combat power of a Dou Huang in this world was actually quite terrifying.

For example, the Ice Emperor Hai Bo Dong, who specialized in peak battles, could easily freeze an entire city!

That was definitely city-level destruction!

And currently, he had only opened two Grotto-heavens. Although his physical strength was enhanced by his Primordial Spirit clone, allowing him to fight across realms, whether he could defeat the Amethyst Winged Lion King was truly uncertain.

Unless he merged with his Primordial Spirit clone again to borrow the Law of Strength for an all-out battle.

But the problem was, his Primordial Spirit clone had only recently settled down and was currently continuously absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to temper its body and refine that half-drop of Pangu's essence blood.

If he merged with it too frequently, when would he ever finish refining the other half of the Pangu essence blood?

"Sigh~ It seems my cultivation is still too low. If my current cultivation had reached the Array Formation Realm or the Venerate Realm, I wouldn't have such worries. A mere Dou Huang could be destroyed with a flick of a finger..."

Zhu Chen sighed inwardly, his desire for power growing even stronger.

Seeing his troubled expression, Xiao Yan couldn't help but frown: "Brother Zhu, we're all friends here, you can tell me the truth. If you fought that Amethyst Winged Lion King with everything you've got, what would be your chances of winning?"

"In an all-out fight, I'd say about an eighty percent chance!"

"Eighty percent? Holy crap, that high?"

Xiao Yan was speechless.

He had seen Zhu Chen's troubled face and thought the other party only had a twenty or thirty percent chance, but it turned out to be eighty percent!

"Damn, if I had a twenty percent chance, I'd go for it. Brother Zhu, you have an eighty percent chance—if you don't do it, that would truly be an injustice to heaven!"

At that moment, another hearty voice suddenly rang out from the nearby dense forest.

Zhu Chen looked toward the sound.

A handsome, slender youth emerged from the forest, pushing aside the leaves.

The newcomer was Lin Dong.

He had originally been waiting on another mountain peak for Xiao Yan's instructions.

When he saw Zhu Chen arrive, he couldn't wait to rush over.

"Brother, you've come at the right time..."

Seeing Lin Dong approach, Xiao Yan was about to go greet him.

However, at that moment, a deafening lion's roar suddenly erupted from the distant mountain peak.

Immediately following that, the entire mountain range began to shake violently.

Intense booms and crashing sounds continuously exploded from the sky, startling all the low-level magical beasts around the forest into fleeing in all directions.

"Oh no, could it be that Brother Naruto is fighting that Amethyst Winged Lion King?"

Lin Dong's expression changed, and he blurted out.

Right then, Uzumaki Naruto's bullet chat appeared in the group.

[Uzumaki Naruto: @Xiao Yan, it's bad, Big Brother Xiao Yan! That female Dou Huang you mentioned last time is here...]

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Everyone, the protagonist is about to break through! The "More Children, More Blessings" cultivation speed-up mode has officially begun. Please keep reading, I beg you!

(End of Chapter)