#1201 - Chapter 1201 The Thirteenth Elder

Before he could ponder the sudden connection between the two secret chambers, Ye Kong had already walked over amidst the expectant voices. What entered his sight were the fallen fellow disciples of the Tai Chu Institute to one side, countless severed limbs and broken bones on the ground, and the twelve high-ranking elders focusing on recuperating. Directly above, the Taotie was roaring furiously at everyone!

The Taotie was indeed as described in the books: eight feet tall, with a tiger's body and a human face. Although Ye Kong had never seen Lei Zhentian, the Taotie before him was full of anger, displaying an imposing aura that overlooked the world. He could roughly guess what Lei Zhentian looked like many years ago.

When the Taotie saw Ye Kong appear, it roared at him. Ye Kong smelled the damp, decaying odor of a thousand years, mixed with the putrid stench of a bloated corpse, and a strange wave of nausea surged into his throat.

"Ugh," Ye Kong couldn't help but vomit.

Fortunately, he hadn't eaten much these days, only some sour liquid. But when Ye Kong vomited, everyone around him unconsciously took a big step back.

"Ew," someone clicked their tongue in disgust.

Ye Kong immediately steadied himself and went over to greet Elder Wang and the others.

What's the situation? He's still greeting people! The people from the other sects were anxious and on pins and needles.

Before the awkward moment could linger, the neglected Taotie continued to howl in dissatisfaction. Suddenly, it pounced forward with lightning speed, appearing before Ye Kong in the blink of an eye, its gigantic, jagged claws outstretched.

Ye Kong directly dodged and, on the way, picked up a child who was standing there in a daze.

Who brings a child to such a serious event?

Ye Kong put the child in a safe place and said, "Don't run around in the future." He directly flew up, raised his right leg, and delivered a Golden Right Foot of immense power to the Taotie's eyes.

The Taotie reacted even faster. It turned its back the instant Ye Kong kicked, and Ye Kong's kick landed on the Taotie's giant, hard back of the head. It felt like kicking cotton, soft and springy, leaving Ye Kong with no way to exert his strength.

Ye Kong quickly changed his approach, attacking with both hands and feet, but was blocked by the combination of softness and hardness.

"Can Ye Kong really do it?" Someone below had already begun to question Ye Kong.

"The twelve elders of the Tai Chu Institute couldn't do it. How can Ye Kong, a newly emerged disciple, deal with the Taotie, which is formed from Lei Zhentian's resentment?" Someone pointed out the problem.

Sima Shizun looked at Ye Kong with some concern.

Flames filled the sky, and the Taotie's wails and screams came from within. Everyone watched all this, standing up and applauding Ye Kong.

Ye Kong's face showed no joy.

The Taotie struggled and wailed incessantly, running wildly in the cave, setting off large patches of fire wherever it went. The Taotie kept colliding its head, and the mountain cave behind collapsed.

"Get out!" someone shouted, running. Soon they reached the entrance but stopped again.

Everything here had been sealed by the planner, making escape impossible.

At this moment, Sima Shizun, who was still sitting to the side, immediately got up and used the Art of Teleportation to safely transport everyone in the cave to outside the back mountain.

"Wait, wasn't Sima Shizun sealed…?"

Before Ye Kong could think, everything went black and he was sent out. When everyone opened their eyes, they were already outside the back mountain, watching as the mountain cave behind them collapsed and disintegrated bit by bit, until the last pile of earth was pressed down.

The ground was flat, and no sound could be heard. The Taotie should be finished.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The Taotie, a scourge that lives for a thousand years, had been burned and buried in the mountain cave, completely entombed in the back mountain of the Tai Chu Institute, along with the secret truth, pressed into the earth.

But was it really that simple?

At this moment, a loud noise came from underground, and everyone took a few steps back. They saw a huge object about to break out of the buried earth.

Could it be…

The strange cracking sounds made everyone look serious, shifting uneasily.

At this moment, the giant object rose into the air, stirring up a huge cloud of dust. It jumped up, and a dark, tattered monster screamed as it attacked the crowd.

Ye Kong immediately fought back, but found that the monster became stronger and stronger as they fought. The power of the True Fire had been absorbed, actually turning his whole body into an impregnable copper wall.

That's bad.

Ye Kong had done a bad deed out of good intentions.

Now only the combined efforts of all the elders could help.

However, after the fierce battle just now, the spiritual power of the twelve elders had dissipated by more than half, and they were now adjusting and resting. Ye Kong could only resist first, but he couldn't say he had a hundred percent certainty of success.

Ye Kong could only go first.

The monster had been enraged, unleashing two hundred percent of its combat power.

Only now did Ye Kong realize the enormous destructive power of Lei Zhentian back then. Under its giant palms, there were no opponents.

The monster stepped over step by step, its mouth opening to spew out huge flames. Ye Kong first cast a spell to resist, and then took the brunt of the heavy blow with his physical body.

"Wind come…"

Ye Kong chanted a spell, summoning wind and rain to extinguish the flames, and then directed it towards the monster, trying to blow it to pieces. The monster rooted itself in the ground, uprooting the surrounding trees and slamming them at Ye Kong.

Ye Kong cast a spell, using golden spiritual power to protect himself, and then sent a shockwave to heavily strike the monster.

The monster released black poison towards Ye Kong.

The golden and black collided, right in the middle.

While Ye Kong and the monster were in a stalemate, the twelve white-robed elders were also quickly recovering.

Afterwards, the twelve elders leaped up and attacked the monster. The monster withdrew the black poison, and Ye Kong took the opportunity to strike hard, causing the monster to take a step back, and another mountain peak behind it collapsed with a roar.

The twelve elders formed a giant monster sealing array, and then borrowed their respective spiritual powers to attack the monster one after another.

At the time of the decisive battle, Sima Shizun temporarily added the earth elder's token to Ye Kong. The twelve elders simultaneously threw up their tokens to make a final strengthening of the sealing array, and Ye Kong also threw up the earth elder's token.

Thirteen elders united!

The Taotie's eyes showed obvious fear, dread, as if returning to many years ago. During the great battle, all the elders used an enhanced version of the seal, officially sealing the Taotie under the eighteenth level of the Tai Chu Institute.

No matter how many years, it could never break the seal again.

As time turned into dust little by little.

Ye Kong followed the twelve elders down, standing behind the elders, his light shining brightly, his edge fully revealed.

Sure enough, Ye Kong was the most capable person among these people to be the thirteenth elder.