191: Guardian of the Forbidden City - Slay Level 5 Polluted Beast

"Reinforcements!"

"So strong! Who are they?"

"Never mind that for now, quickly fend off these Pollution Beasts! We absolutely cannot let them in!"

The guards were greatly invigorated and continued to resist the Pollution Beasts with all their might.

Tang Ping faced the Level Five Contaminated Beast alone. To be honest, he felt a lot of pressure.

His Flame Blaze Talent had not yet been upgraded to S-Rank, and its current level was only 4. His Red Lotus Demonic Flame, due to a lack of experience stones, had not been upgraded and remained at Level 3. A Level Five Contaminated Beast with an A-Rank Talent was a huge challenge for him.

The long blade in his hand vibrated, emitting a long hum. The tiger-shaped Pollution Beast seemed to have noticed the threat Tang Ping posed. Its tail, split into tentacles, swayed, and its dark red eyes looked down.

A powerful oppressive force swept over. An ordinary Talent User would likely have their mind shattered and be unable to retaliate, let alone resist, under the gaze of those tiger eyes before even starting.

But Tang Ping had the experience of the future. Let alone a Level Five Contaminated Beast, he had seen level six Calamity Beasts in the ruined city of Jiangcheng and had even witnessed Heavenly Kings clashing. A mere pair of tiger eyes certainly couldn't scare him. What's more, his Talent was stronger!

His figure instantly turned into an afterimage, and the blade pierced into the tiger-shaped Pollution Beast's body. The blade in his hand was B-Rank, given to him by Gao Changfeng. A B-Rank transcendent weapon was enough to easily tear through a Level Five Contaminated Beast's defenses.

With the immense power boosting his speed, the golden-red flames at the blade's edge furiously drilled into the giant tiger's body along the wound.

The tiger-shaped Pollution Beast roared, and dozens of sharp tentacles, split from its strange tiger tail, stabbed towards Tang Ping. If he were hit, even thick alloy steel plates could be riddled like a sieve.

Tang Ping suddenly leaped into the air, landing on the tiger-shaped Pollution Beast. The tentacles swiftly turned in mid-air, following him, but before they could touch his clothes, a cross-shaped Flame Moon Slash repelled them.

Roar! Seemingly enraged, the tiger-shaped Pollution Beast's previous playful attacks vanished, suddenly becoming much more ferocious.

But Tang Ping's speed, accumulated from the attribute stones he had collected in Tianfu Base these past few days, had already surpassed 400. This terrifying speed of over 400, nearly forty times the limit of mortals, allowed Tang Ping to face this tiger-shaped Pollution Beast with ease.

He constantly entangled himself around the tiger-shaped Pollution Beast, like a maggot attached to bone. The sharp Tang blade, as his figure flickered, left behind grotesque wounds. The injuries and pain continuously weakened the tiger-shaped Pollution Beast's spirit. Its originally indestructible spirit gradually became tired and weak due to its body.

It felt as if just one more fire could completely defeat it!

But Tang Ping knew it wasn't enough.

The tiger-shaped Pollution Beast roared. At this moment, its massive size no longer seemed an advantage but a disadvantage, as it found it impossible to catch the tiny figure resembling a mouse or rabbit.

It could only let the scars on its body grow more and more numerous.

A deafening roar, like muffled thunder, exploded. The ground cracked, and nearby buildings were covered with dense fissures.

This was the tiger-shaped Pollution Beast's Talent, a powerful sonic ability. If it were a group attack, who knows how many people would be blasted into a bloody mist by this tiger's roar.

But at this moment, a sacred halo rose behind Tang Ping. Soft light shone down, actually locking the terrifying sound waves firmly within a hundred-meter radius of the tiger-shaped Pollution Beast!

After one strike, the tiger-shaped Pollution Beast's spirit plummeted, weakening to an extreme.

And Tang Ping, who had finally waited for the opportune moment, saw the Red Lotus blooming in his eyes.

Eerie and sacred, they skillfully merged into one on his body.

The Red Lotus Demonic Flame, which had been accumulating power in his eyes for a long time, fully bloomed.

The tentacles stabbing towards Tang Ping instantly paused, and in the tiger-shaped Pollution Beast's pupils, an eerie Red Lotus bloomed. At such close range, the Red Lotus's color was even more vibrant, burning more fiercely.

In the blink of an eye, from the inside out, from its spiritual sea, it swept through its internal organs! Finally, its entire body emitted black-red flames. The flames had no temperature, but other Pollution Beasts that were touched by them turned to dust in an instant.

The spiritual light in the eyes of the originally majestic tiger-shaped Pollution Beast gradually dimmed.

Boom! With a resounding crash, this powerful tiger-shaped Pollution Beast collapsed. The Red Lotus in Tang Ping's eyes also extinguished. However, the instantaneous burst of long-accumulated power made him feel as if his body had been drained. He quickly took out a pile of low-level experience stones. These low-level experience stones, of course, were not for gaining experience but for rapidly restoring his Exotic Energy.

experience stones can not only increase the experience of Talent Users but also quickly restore Exotic Energy. Moreover, when used to restore Exotic Energy, high-level Talent Users can also use low-level experience stones.

system experience stones can be used in an instant, and secret realm experience stones can also quickly restore one's Exotic Energy through meditation.

Now, in order to obtain the many rewards in the dungeon, Tang Ping naturally didn't care about saving them.

Fortunately, with Tianfu Base, he had taken away a lot of reserves before coming, so he could afford the consumption. It was just watching the stones, which could have cultivated many Level 2 and Level 3 Talent Users, now turn into powder and dissipate, which made him feel a little heartache.

And it was at this moment that three powerful auras swept out from the building that the guards had been fiercely defending!

Accompanying the auras were powerful attacks: hail, lightning and fire, and stone pillars!

The Pollution Beasts within a few hundred meters nearby were cleared out in just over ten seconds.

At the same time, a voice sounded in the minds of Tang Ping and the other two.

"Congratulations on completing Hidden Mission 3. You have successfully added three Level Five Experts to our side! Reward: 1000 experience points!"

"First completion of a hidden mission, reward doubled!"

Tang Ping unhesitatingly added the 2000 experience points to his Red Lotus Demonic Flame Talent. The reason he came here first was that the experience point reward for this mission had no Talent restrictions.

A panel appeared, and Tang Ping checked his own Talent information and other details. His four-dimensional attributes had also increased significantly these past few days in Tianfu Base.

"Player: Tang Ping

ID: 0000000003

Constitution: 520

Spirit: 705

Strength: 429

Speed: 433

Talent 1: Flame Blaze (A)

Talent Level: 4 (25670 / 100000)

Talent 2: Red Lotus Demonic Flame (SS)

Talent Level: 3 (7239 / 10000)"