Chapter 2354: Unstoppable

“Why aren’t we leaving yet?” Salamay asked impatiently.

Her subordinates had already activated all of the surrounding parts of the formation. Bright blue lines formed patterns, shining with high-level formation radiance. But the most important part of the formation was still within Donaire’s hands. If he didn’t do anything, the formation wouldn’t fully activate.

“Wait a bit longer,” Zu An said as he looked in the palace’s direction. He looked a bit nervous.

“What are we waiting for?” Salamay was really unhappy. This guy really wasn’t being very obedient today. If it wasn’t because she still needed his help, she likely would have long since turned hostile.

“Waiting for people!” Zu An calmly replied.

Salamay’s expression changed. She was about to ask more questions when spatial distortions suddenly appeared, causing the air to ripple like water. Her subordinates clenched their weapons and felt their fine hairs stand on end. What they were most worried about were the palace emissaries catching up, or even the Monster Lord himself arriving.

A second later, however, Pei Mianman and the others walked out of the spatial ripples. Jiang Luofu watched them nervously one by one; when she saw Ji Xiaoxi walk out too, she finally sighed in relief. Pei Mianman’s group was a bit surprised to see that Salamay had that many subordinates, but when they saw Zu An, they immediately felt at ease. When they arrived at Zu An’s side, they all looked at Zu An with expressions that said ‘fortunately, we lived up to the task’.

Zu An stood protectively in front of the women, then said to Salamay with a smile, “Since we’re going to a new world, I just couldn’t feel at ease keeping them inside the palace.”

Salamay gestured for her subordinates to put away their weapons. She was now truly shocked, asking, “Just how did you do it?”

After all, there were countless experts in the palace. Even though the Monster Lord had left, it was still a tiger’s den. Just how were these weak women able to escape from deep within the palace?

“Just played around with a few spatial formations.” Zu An didn’t explain in too much detail. He simply took out a formation disc and started to operate the large formation.

Salamay immediately felt relieved.

That’s right, this guy can even make a great formation that travels across worlds, so why wouldn’t he be able to make a transport formation covering such a small distance?

But there are also many formation masters in the palace, as well as many restrictions. An ordinary formation definitely wouldn’t work.

Yet he accomplished this!

This proves that his skills might even be higher than those chief formation masters in the palace, and by quite a bit.

Even though she knew that Donaire was good at formations before, she never expected him to be this good.

Could this be the result of the Secrets of Spatial Distortion I gave him?

This was a text that she found from her father’s hidden treasury. She thought that it was some extremely formidable manual.

But even after her own formation masters studied it for a long time, they couldn’t understand it at all. They all thought that it was just deliberately mystifying everything and talking a lot of rubbish.

She was worried that it was her own subordinates who were too lacking in skill, so she captured some court formation masters. They couldn’t figure it out either.

This was the last nail in the coffin, and she decided that it was just some fake book. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have given it to Donaire so easily.

But now, it seemed like the other party really did comprehend its secrets!

Donaire was known as a formation genius to begin with, and he could even comprehend this such a mysterious and profound manual. He really is a genius among geniuses!

It seems like I’ve assessed his value incorrectly.

Killing him just like that after getting what we want would be too much of a waste. If he really does help my father, then making him the emperor’s son-in-law isn’t that out of the question…

Pei Mianman gave her a look of surprise.

There’s something wrong with the way this woman is looking at Ah Zu!

It wasn’t just her. When had the way Xie Daoyun, Xiaoxi, and Suolun Shi looked at Zu An even been proper?

After not seeing her for just a day, she even felt like the way Jiang Luofu was looking at Ah Zu was a bit strange.

But it was only a single night. The development between the two of them can’t be that fast, right?

There’s no way, there’s no way. Ah Zu and Jiang Luofu were busy building the transport formation. How would they have time?

And Jiang Luofu is Xiaoxi’s little aunt. Ah Zu wouldn’t be that much of a brute.

…

Meanwhile, the Monster Lord, who was repairing the great formation by the dome, sensed the spatial distortions. He roared in fury and couldn’t be bothered with the repairs anymore. He flew toward the True Demon territory.

When she heard the Monster Lord’s roar, Salamay’s face paled. She quickly urged Zu An, “Hurry!”

Even though every one of them was a powerful figure in the Monster World, they were just too far from the Monster Lord. There was no way they could defeat the Monster Lord even if all of them worked together. Their only hope was for the Lord of Slaughter to fight the Monster Lord after they rescued him.

Many people were even starting to have doubts. The Lord of Slaughter had been suppressed for so many years already, so his cultivation speed definitely couldn’t compete with that of the Monster Lord, who had abundant resources. As time went on, would he really be able to win against the Monster Lord?

Zu An’s expression was stern the entire time, and he didn’t get distracted at all. His fingers quickly moved across the formation disc. Translucent formation flags flew out from the disc toward the various nodes of the great formation. Whenever the formation flags entered a node, the surroundings shone brilliantly and rings of clear light rippled out.

The great formation wrapped around them in countless concentric layers with Zu An at the center. As he continued to operate the disc, the rings of formations lit up one by one. It was clear that only when the centermost formation lit up would the great transport formation completely activate.

Salamay knew that Zu An was already acting at incredible speed. She had never seen a formation master who worked this quickly. But when she saw how fast the Monster Lord was approaching, she realized that there wasn’t enough time. With the Monster Lord’s speed, he would already arrive before the final ring lit up. Everything would be over then.

Salamay gritted her teeth. She raised her hand and released a bright signal. Some figures quickly rushed into the sky from a distant valley, heading directly for the Monster Lord.

Zu An couldn’t help but give them a look. They were all powerful cultivators! Even though they were a bit weaker than the Bloodthirst Crocodile, they weren’t that much weaker.

This Salamay does have quite the resources under her disposal! She actually still has so many powerful individuals under her.

“You’re courting death!” The Monster Lord let out a cold snort.

He didn’t even do anything personally, though. His mount swiped its claws, and the two figures that were at the very front were slashed into a blast of bloody mist. Then, the head on the left fired a blast of green energy. One figure couldn’t move out of the way in time and was surrounded by the energy. It screamed miserably and was turned into white bones in an instant. The head on the right then fired a blast of black energy that wrapped around another expert who had rushed out to stop him. That individual’s bitter scream came to a grunting halt, and his body turned into a pool of blood.

The subordinates who remained were completely crushed. Even though they had already been prepared for death when they carried out this order, they hadn’t expected such miserable deaths from the very first encounter. What was the point of even fighting?! A mysterious sense of fear filled their bodies. They could no longer muster the slightest intention to fight, and all turned tail to run.

The strange bird’s middle head suddenly opened its mouth, which grew to an immense size. It released a terrifyingly powerful suction force from within The fleeing experts discovered that despite flying at full strength, they actually couldn’t move forward from their original locations at all; not only that, they were even moving backward! They screamed in horror, “No!”

They were unable to maintain control and were sucked into the mouth of the middle head. The bird’s mouth snapped shut with a bone-chilling crunch. Then, it tilted its head up and swallowed all the flesh within.

…

The faces of everyone watching from the distance paled. They had known the Monster Lord was powerful, but they hadn’t expected it to have reached this extent. The Monster Lord didn’t even have to interfere personally to stop those powerful cultivators. All of them together hadn’t even been able to do anything to his mount.

Many of them wondered if it was too late to change sides right now. Going against the Monster Lord was absolutely a one-way ticket to death!

Salamay’s entire body shook as she was filled with both fear and anger. Those were all loyal subordinates who had followed her for many years! Apart from the few at her side right now, they were the last of her father’s forces, the Lord of Slaughter’s elite troops. She hadn’t expected the Monster Lord to kill them like slaughtering chickens, and in such tragic ways.

No, even slaughtering chickens would be a bit harder…