Chapter 2054: There Is No Escape

Inside the Sect of the Blood God, blood was dripping out of Zhang Ruochen’s and Han Xue’s mouths—they were seriously injured.

Mosheng had gone mad and propelled the Wheel of the Nether Sun with all his strength. The divine power released was so powerful and mixed with tons of other weird powers. If not for Zhang Ruochen and Han Xue’s strength and unique physique, the consequence would be unimaginable.

“Are you alright?” Mu Lingxi asked with concern.

Zhang Ruochen held up a hand to stop Mu Lingxi from touching him. “There is a strange energy invading my body. I need to refine it first.”

He was not alone. Some strange energies—the grayish white flame and the Power of Curse unique to the Nether clan—were attacking her from the inside.

Zhang Ruochen performed an Empyrean Emperor Ming’s Scripture. A Divine Purification Flame was going around inside his body to incinerate all the foreign energies that invaded his body.

Han Xue was performing a God’s Fall, a technique of using the characteristics of a thousand bones to force the foreign energies out of the body.

Immediately afterwards, the thousand bones inside her made a strange rhythm. A series of strange, mysterious patterns that glowing in sacred light appeared and covered her body.

Her injuries rapidly healed.

“With the same powerful self-healing ability as the Empress, the physique of a Thousand Bones is unique.” The image of Empress of Thousand Bones came to mind when Blackie saw the changes in Han Xue.

Thousand-Bone physique was known as the strongest physique of humans, almost equivalent to an immortal body. No matter how severe the injury was, it could quickly recover. And after it healed, the person could often become stronger.

So some people turned Thousand-Bone physique into the body of warriors, who were specially created for combat, and the tougher the battle was, the stronger they became.

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Led by Mosheng, many cultivators from Darkdemon Realm had come outside the Sect of the Blood God.

“You all think you will be safe by hiding in there? Zhang Ruochen, you will not escape death no matter how many magics you can pull.”

A strong demonic Qi gushed out of Mosheng’s body. It smelled of blood, as if it was extracted from the sea of blood and the dead.

Looking closely, one would find inside the dense demonic Qi was rays of dark-gold light.

The cultivators of Blackdemon Realm were comprehending the 36 Demonstone Engraving replicas. The most they could cultivate was only Demonic Blood Qi, no matter how talented they were.

Only by comprehending the real thing could they possibly cultivate the higher level of world-destroying Demonic Apocalyptic Qi.

Mosheng had gotten the Demonic Voracious Wolf Portrait and the Demonic Yin-Yang Portrait for a period, and had comprehended part of the essence from the original. His demonic Qi had undergone a fundamental transformation.

That dark-gold light was the Demonic Apocalyptic Qi.

It would not be long before the demonic Qi be converted. His combat strength would improve tremendously by then. He might even build the foundation for his attainment of immortality in the future.

The Wheel of the Nether Sun shone even brighter with this powerful demonic Qi. The surging divine power was making the loud whistling sound.

When the divine power was pushed to the extreme, the Wheel of the Nether Sun plunged at high speed like a shooting star toward the guardian array of the Sect of the Blood God.

Boom!

The three Ninth Stratum Arrays guarding the Sect of the Blood God shook violently. Countless mysterious formation inscriptions emerged to resist the divine-power bombardment from the Wheel of the Nether Sun.

The Wheel of the Nether Sun exhausted its divine power and stopped turning after a long while.

In contrast, the three Nine Stratum Arrays were still perfectly intact.

“The foundations of the three Nine Stratum Arrays are still there. It was I who repaired them. They will not break down so easily.” Blackie was standing on top of the mountain with a proud expression on his face.

The Sect of the Blood God, with its extraordinary heritage, was founded by immortals.

When the three Nine Stratum Arrays were laid out, they could withstand the attack of the most powerful Supreme Saints. The Sect of the Blood God would always be safe, as long as there was no attack from the immortals.

Blackie’s spiritual power had not fully recovered and his array attainments had just been elevated to the level of array masters. So he had only done some simple repairs on the three Nine Stratum Arrays, and not yet restored to their former glory.

Everyone in the Sect of the Blood God breathed a sigh of relief.

With Mosheng’s current might, it would be an existential disaster for the Sect of the Blood God if the guardian arrays failed to withstand Mosheng’s attack.

Mosheng’s expression became even icier when his strike did not work. “Work with me, push the Wheel of the Nether Sun to its full power until it breaks the arrays, and then we will slaughter the Sect of the Blood God.”

“Slaughter the Sect of the Blood God!” all the saints of Blackdemon Realm responded in unison.

This battle was particularly important for the Darkdemon Realm. If it failed to take down the Sect of the Blood God, it would inevitably become a laughingstock of the world. How could it still hold its head high in Celestial Court in the future?

All Blackdemon Realm saints performed a demonic technique and injected their power into the Wheel of the Nether Sun. A powerful divine light lit up and all-powerful energy spread across a radius of tens of thousands of miles.

Bang! Bang!

“Aah—”

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The body of the living beings in this area exploded one after another. After that, they all turned into plumes of blood Qi and disappeared into the Wheel of the Nether Sun.

“No. I don’t want to die!”

Screams of reluctance rose, but no one could change the outcome.

Of course, there were powerhouses that resisted the strange power of the Wheel of the Nether Sun, protecting themselves and the many cultivators around them.

After drawing on the blood Qi of living beings and the Power of Heaven and Earth, the Wheel of the Nether Sun had expanded to over ten thousand yards in diameter, and the energy it put out sent those Nine-Step Saint Kings shivering in fear.

Blackie looked grave and sounded desperate. “Give me the Zangshan Demonic Mirror, Zhang Ruochen.”

“Here you go.”

Zhang Ruochen was healing his injuries while casting out the Zangshan Demonic Mirror.

Blackie immediately cast out the Zangshan Demonic Mirror as soon as he got it.

Mysterious formation inscriptions appeared in mid-air before the Zangshan Demonic Mirror vanished. Only Blackie knew that the Zangshan Demonic Mirror had entered the heart of the three Nine Stratum Arrays.

Using the Zangshan Demonic Mirror as the formation eye of the Nine Stratum Array was enough to elevate the power of the array to the next level.

Immediately afterwards, Blackie’s body flickered as he had also entered the heart of the formation.

“All fall back to Yingzhu Peak.” Zhang Ruochen ordered.

Yingzhu Peak had the divine inscriptions left by the Blood God. Blackie had partially restored. It was now the safest place of the Sect of the Blood God.

Boom!

The Wheel of the Nether Sun now carried a much more divine power than before as it descended from the sky. The air of death was everywhere, as if a nether world was coming to bring destruction to the world.

The phantom of an immortal, at tens of thousands of yards tall, appeared and exuded a supreme authority. It looked like the lord of death that controlled the life and death of all living beings in the world.

It was apparent that the tall phantom of an immortal was Nether Lord Lingyang.

The Wheel of the Nether Sun was the most powerful weapon ever forged by Nether Lord Lingyang. He had used it in battles for years. There was no surprise that his immortal shadow was imprinted on this weapon.

The divine shadow of Nether Lord Lingyang reached out a hand and a dim divine power gathered, compressed, and formed into a light ball.

The light ball that had gathered an enormous amount of divine power shot out at once. The dimension collapsed, and the world seemed to break apart as it flew past.

Boom!

The light ball exploded upon coming into contact with the three Nine Stratum Arrays, unleashing a terrifying Power of Obliteration over the entire Sect of the Blood God.

The ancient snow mountain on which the Sect of the Blood God was backed collapsed and was razed to the ground in an instant. Countless savage beasts on the mountain died a tragic death.

The blast had changed the terrain around the Sect of the Blood God tremendously. The land where the sect sat sank tens of yards, separated from the surrounding area to become an island.

“It’s over. I am afraid that the Sect of the Blood God is doomed this time. No way Zhang Ruochen could turn the tide now,” said a Saint King cultivator watching the battle with a trembling voice.

If he was within the blast zone of the Power of Obliteration, he could have been obliterated in an instant.

The other cultivators also watching the battle gasped in shock.

“What a terrifying sacred artifact. It is much more powerful than many Supreme Artifacts. This is Mosheng’s actual trump card.”

As calm as Fairy Huofeng was, she could not help but look on in shock.

Not that she had never seen the ancient sacred artifacts before. But those she had seen in the past were not in the same league as the Wheel of the Nether Sun.

Judging by the energy unleashed just now, the Wheel of the Nether Sun should be the most powerful weapon among all the ancient sacred artifacts.

Mosheng was hovering in the air, controlling the Wheel of the Nether Sun as he looked on with frosty eyes as the Power of Obliteration swept over the Sect of the Blood God.

With 800 Darkdemon Realm Saint Kings pooling their strength together, the power of the Wheel of the Nether Sun could destroy the world. He did not think that the three guardian formations of the Sect of the Blood God could still stand.

The divine shadow of Nether Lord Lingyang was still there at this moment.

The Wheel of the Nether Sun rotating slowly, releasing an even more gloomy gray light, death, curse, and decay. All the strange forces were intertwined.

Now even Darkdemon Realm Saint Kings were horrified, for fear of getting hit by the backlash of these forces.

It took a long while before the Power of Obliteration covering the Sect of the Blood God dissipated.

“Huh?”

Mosheng frowned.

The result was not what he expected. The three Nine Stratum Arrays guarding the Sect of the Blood God remained intact after the terrifying strike.

He had noticed something—a mirror. “I can’t believe that Zhang Ruochen is using that Supreme Artifact as a formation eye. He is really resourceful.”

“What should we do now, Mosheng? The three Nine Stratum Arrays are tough enough when they are linked. Now that they are using a Supreme Artifact as the formation eye, it is even more difficult to take them down.” Zhuo Gu came up beside Mosheng with a frown.

That array master was nasty to deal with.

“The formation requires an immense amount of energy and even more importantly, a stable foundation to run. If I can cut off the power source, the formation will be destroyed, no matter how powerful it is,” said Mosheng with a low voice as an idea came to mind.

While speaking, millions of Precepts emerged from his body and spun towards the Wheel of the Nether Sun.

He derived these Precepts from comprehending death, decay, devouring, and destruction. They were most suitable for powering the Wheel of the Nether Sun.

The divine shadow of Nether Lord Lingyang became more substantial, as if he was crossing the long river of time and space, and coming to this place.

Bang!

He reached out and pressed his hand on the shield of the formation. A powerful burst of divine power crushed the formation shield at once.

This divine power enveloped the formation shield and even penetrated into the ground, trying to isolate the Sect of the Blood God from the outside world, so that no external forces could enter.

At the same time, the divine power was also doing its utmost to destroy the three Nine Stratum Arrays so that they would collapse on their own.

The dimension near the Wheel of the Nether Sun shattered with a loud boom. A massive black hole formed with a powerful nether energy oozing out of it.

Immediately afterwards, an enormous amount of dark power gushed out of the black hole and was absorbed by the Wheel of the Nether Sun.

“I can’t believe that this ancient sacred artifact has actually forced open an energy passage to draw dark energy from Infernal Court.”

The faces of many cultivators watching the battle from a distance changed as they saw the dimensional hole.

Fortunately, it was only an energy tunnel. If it were a substantial one, the cultivators from the Infernal Court would be able to cross over directly.

The divine power released by the Wheel of the Nether Sun was even more powerful after absorbing dark power from Infernal Court. It had completely suppressed the dimensional where the Sect of the Blood God was.

No one inside the Sect of the Blood God could escape. Not even Zhang Ruochen, the Scion of Time and Space.

How could he allow anyone to slip through the net since he said he wanted to wipe out the Sect of the Blood God?

The Sect of the Blood God was sinking, almost buried alive as the divine shadow of Nether Lord Lingyang crushed it down.

Blackie looked up as he was standing in the middle of the formation eye. “Perish the thought if you think you can destroy the formation base and cut off the power supply of the formation. The formation of the Sect of the Blood God is arranged by the top array master. The formation base is the most stable, and the energy required for the formation is drawn from the sacred veins within the Sect of the Blood God. I am curious to know what tricks you can pull now, Mosheng.”

Blackie was not worried with the Zangshan Demonic Mirror as the eye of the three Nine Stratum Arrays.

It was impossible to defeat the formation unless the Wheel of the Nether Sun could produce several times the power that it could now.

When the Sect of the Blood God was at five hundred yards underground, it stopped sinking further, no matter how hard Nether Lord Lingyang tried to press it.

“It looks like things are OK now. Those people from the Darkdemon Realm can’t come in, and they also can’t keep besieging us indefinitely. They will leave soon.” Bao Lie breathed a sigh of relief.

This might sound pathetic, but it would avoid mass casualty in the Sect of the Blood God at least. Revenge could wait.

“I’m afraid it’s not that simple. It is impossible for Mosheng to lose sight of the situation. He must be up to something since he insists on using the Wheel of the Nether Sun to besiege us,” said Zhang Ruochen with a frown.

Everyone could not help but have a grave look on their faces as they started to think.

People like Mosheng would not do something for no reason.

Since he had been reluctant to retreat, he must be guarded against.

“It seems that I am still not too late to the party.”

An extremely forceful voice spoke all of a sudden.

All the cultivators looked over in the voice’s direction in unison.

An extremely bright, sacred light greeted their eyes. It was so bright that they almost could not open their eyes.

A thought came to their minds as soon as they saw the sacred light, which was that it was the source of all light, one that could dispel darkness in the world.

That sacred light traveled across tens of thousands of miles in the blink of an eye and appeared outside the Sect of the Blood God.

The sacred light slowly dissipated, revealing an eight-foot-tall figure.

This figure was dressed in a white robe, spotlessly clean, and exuded an extremely sacred air, as if it would purify darkness and filth in the world.

The figure had blond hair and blue eyes. Every strand of hair was shiny, and the eyes were as if a pair of blue sapphires, which seemed to hide two vast expanses of ocean inside.

The most conspicuous thing was the huge exotic beast behind the figure. It was an azure dragon whose nostrils were tied with a silver-white rope. It looked obedient, as if it were livestock.

“I can’t believe that the leader of Heavenly Realm, Zhou Yu, has come! It seemed that he went into the wild to catch an azure dragon.” One cultivator could not help but exclaim in surprise.

Baroom!

There was a loud noise in heaven as soon as his voice trailed off.

A massive fireball flew across the sky and vanished. Everyone could clearly sense a terrifying energy, one that was no weaker than that of Zhou Yu.

Everyone stared in the direction where the fireball vanished. They all wondered if there was another powerful cultivator coming.

It seemed that there was no escape for the Sect of the Blood God.