Chapter 139: Cruel Golden Eyes
Chaos reigned within the Spirit Void.
Even the spectators watching the live broadcast outside the Spirit Void were in a state of chaos.
"Is... this really still the classic formula of the Spirit Void Expedition?"
"Why does it feel like the so-called team format has completely fallen apart? It's chaos, total chaos."
"Everyone is forming their own little cliques now. Well, at least this way, the casualty numbers won't be quite as high."
"This Xiang Nan might not have a very high cultivation level, but his cohesion is something else! He's actually managed to form a mini Eagle Alliance right inside the Spirit Void!"
"Do you guys think he'll actually find the Spirit Suppression Stone in the end and win the championship of this Spirit Void Expedition?"
"Heh, do you really take Jin Tong, the genius martial artist from the Supreme Spirit Martial Academy, as a mere decoration? He hasn't even unleashed his true power yet."
Inside the Spirit Void, within the gloomy forest.
Jin Tong, leading Ma Dalong and a few other team members, was engaged in a bloody battle with a pack of Gale Demonic Wolves.
Among them, the wolf king had reached the fourth tier of cultivation. Its formidable physical body had actually grown eight wolf paws and three wolf heads.
Within a single breath, it could completely tear apart a human with a second-tier cultivation level.
The greatest advantage of the Gale Demonic Wolves was their speed, and the speed of this wolf king made teleportation seem like a modest understatement.
Often, before an opponent could even see clearly and before their pupils could constrict, they had already become food in its jaws.
Even Ma Dalong, who had always been courageous, felt a chill in his heart upon seeing this wolf king.
However, Jin Tong was not afraid.
Jin Tong represented the pinnacle of strength at the Supreme Spirit Void Academy. It was said that he had entered the fourth tier long ago, which was an absolute rarity among students.
Even with the prestigious status of the Kyoto Spirit Martial Academy, none of its currently enrolled students had ever reached the fourth tier.
It was just that the students from Kyoto Spirit Martial built a very solid foundation, and many of them experienced explosive growth in their cultivation after graduation.
Yet Jin Tong, still a student, had already surpassed the fourth tier.
Therefore, he paid no attention whatsoever to fourth-tier fierce beasts, which were creatures of low intelligence.
The wolf king was no pushover either. At a single glance, it recognized that Jin Tong was its true opponent. It locked its fierce, unblinking eyes onto Jin Tong, brimming with murderous intent.
The reason Jin Tong was named Jin Tong (Golden Pupil) was because he possessed a pair of golden eyes that were naturally golden from birth.
Unlike Su Yao's cat eyes, his golden pupils not only possessed basic functions such as night vision and farsightedness, but they could also launch laser-like energy attacks against enemies.
Simply put, his intense gaze could overwhelm people!
In addition to his golden eyes, his ancestry traced back to an ancient python. Combined with his fourth-tier cultivation, he could freely transform between human and python forms, possessing the innate supernatural abilities of a python.
When combined with his piercing gaze, he was simply invincible.
In the dense forest, the wolf king paced with composure, its wolf eyes vigilantly glaring at Jin Tong.
Jin Tong, however, curved the corner of his lips into a confident smirk.
His contemptuous expression quickly infuriated the proud wolf king.
"Awoo!!"
The wolf king let out a roar, all eight paws scraping the ground simultaneously, and suddenly sprang into the air, lunging straight at Jin Tong.
Its speed was so fast that the naked eye could only catch a flash of brown, resembling lightning.
Suddenly, Jin Tong shifted his form. His body, which had been leaning against a tree trunk, vanished. When one looked again, coiled around the branches of the tree was a massive golden python, yet the head of this python still retained the appearance of Jin Tong.
This was simply faster than Bai Suzhen's transformation, and completely devoid of any immortal aura.
And the head remained precisely the appearance of Jin Tong.
A human head on a serpent's body!
The Gale Demonic Wolf King pounced on empty air. While it was feeling agitated, a crimson snake tongue suddenly dangled down from mid-air.
Jin Tong's head flicked its tongue greedily as it looked down at the beast, as though gazing at prey within arm's reach.
What the hell! Even as a wolf king, it felt a shiver run down its spine!
What kind of freakish beast was this?! It was utterly disgusting to a wolf!
Without a second thought, the wolf king lashed out with all eight of its paws toward Jin Tong's head, and its two wolf mouths gaped open wide, appearing ready to swallow the snake whole in a single bite.
However, in the next second, the wolf king missed again!
What the hell?! What was going on?
The wolf king was completely bewildered!
What kind of beast could possibly move faster than it did?
Before the wolf king could react, up on the tree branch, the ugly golden human head connected to the serpent's body lunged forward fiercely, its gaping jaws clamping down hard on the back of the wolf king's neck.
"Crack!"
The sound of snapping bones was exceptionally crisp and spine-chilling!
One of the wolf king's heads had just been bitten off by Jin Tong in this manner.
Due to the angle, the cervical vertebrae had snapped, leaving the head still dangling from the wolf king's neck, but the entire back half of its skull had already entered Jin Tong's serpent belly.
The team members who witnessed this scene felt a wave of nausea rise in their stomachs, yet no one dared to actually vomit.
Who on earth could afford to provoke Jin Tong's volatile temper?
If things went wrong, that bite might land on the back of their own necks with a crisp snap to end it all.
The members instinctively touched the back of their own necks, their hearts trembling slightly, before throwing themselves back into the fight against the remaining Gale Demonic Wolves.
Even the bald-headed alligator they had hired as external reinforcement showed a hint of disgust and cruelty in his eyes upon seeing this scene.
The bald-headed alligator's cultivation was no lower than Jin Tong's, but he neither liked to talk nor sought the spotlight. He usually just accompanied them in and out, rarely taking action himself.
As long as Jin Tong could handle the prey, he preferred not to get involved.
Although he did not know why the bald-headed alligator had sought him out on his own initiative and proposed joining their group as outside reinforcement, the two of them were men of few words who acted ruthlessly, so they managed to get along without friction.
On the other side.
Having lost one of its heads, blood streamed continuously from the wolf king's neck.
This completely enraged the wolf king. It roared like a madman, its eight claws frantically tearing at the nearby ancient trees.
An ancient tree that required three or four people to embrace was ripped to pieces by its claws in just a few strokes.
The ancient tree crashed heavily to the ground.
Meanwhile, on the branch of another ancient tree, Jin Tong was still playfully licking the blood from the corner of his lips in deliberate provocation.
Driven mad, the wolf king let out a howl and lunged at him.
The entire ancient tree was knocked over by the wolf king's charge, but Jin Tong had already slipped away, re-coiling himself around another ancient tree not far off.
His golden pupils flashed, and two beams of golden laser light shot out instantly, striking the wolf king's two front paws.
"Sizzle—"
The wolf king's two front paws were cleanly severed, and the jagged wounds continuously spewed black smoke.
The bald-headed alligator, watching from the sidelines, let out a cold chuckle, understanding the situation entirely.
Jin Tong's strength clearly surpassed that of the wolf king; he was deliberately torturing the poor beast.
Hmph! What a cruel fellow!
To kill the wolf king, yet he had to pull off all these flashy tricks!
Must admit, watching the mighty and violent wolf king being tortured to death bit by bit was oddly satisfying!
A tyrannical and perverted mindset was yet another trait they shared.
The wolf king emitted a painful wail, and the few Gale Demonic Wolves still locked in battle quickly understood the meaning behind its cries.
The message seemed to be ordering their subjects to flee for their lives.
Receiving the command, the remaining Gale Demonic Wolves stopped entangling with their opponents and instantly turned to dart toward the densest part of the forest.
However, how could the bloodthirsty Jin Tong let them escape?
"Sizzle— Sizzle—" came several strange sounds.
The Gale Demonic Wolves that were attempting to flee were all struck by Jin Tong's laser eyes, instantly freezing in place, unable to move a muscle!