Chapter 1316: Black Sacred Marks
Watching the experts of Heavenly Terrace vanish before their eyes, the experts of Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress understood that things were not as simple as they had imagined. Heavenly Terrace had held a card in reserve. Perhaps they had already anticipated that the traitor within Heavenly Terrace was not only Wang Xiao.
"Hou Qinglin!" Looking up, the experts of Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress fixed their gaze on Hou Qinglin, who had already stepped into the Sovereign Lord realm, their eyes gleaming with cold light.
"Annihilated? Ridiculous. Even if Heavenly Terrace was prepared, what can they do?" A Sovereign Lord of Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress spoke with an icy tone, his gaze brimming with strong confidence. His body soared into the air, and a surging aura spread through the void. In an instant, the entire sky and space seemed to be overtaken by a wild and extreme demonic aura—violent, restless, and savage.
"Fight our way out!" A voice rang out as the experts of Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress charged into the void. Hou Qinglin's Azure Forest Reincarnation Sword was already in motion, the essence of reincarnation blooming forth. The sky above the canyon caved inward, and the crowd seemed to see the light of reincarnation—layer upon layer of light screens sinking deeper into the void, extending into a bottomless abyss, as if leading to another space, the space of reincarnation.
"Reincarnation... Hou Qinglin's Reincarnation Abyss is growing more terrifying!" The experts of Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress felt a tremor in their hearts. Then, the leading expert shouted, "Smash through the mountain range! Break out from the side!"
This was the arrogance of the strong. At their level, how could a canyon surrounded by mountain ranges trap them? If peaks blocked their retreat, they would simply blast them apart!
"Break! Break for me!" Domineering voices echoed against the cliff walls as wild and brutal attacks slammed into them, attempting to shatter the mountain range. But the moment the terrifying attacks touched the cliffs, the entire cliff face suddenly lit up—dazzling, brilliant—as if it were not a mountain range but a massive ancient formation. Intricate patterns interwove, shocking the hearts of Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress's experts.
"Sacred Marks!"
And they were black Sacred Mark patterns. Not just one cliff face—all four sides under attack lit up at once. The crowd felt as if a terrifying dark flame energy was about to burst forth.
"Ah..." A scream rang out. One man's arm, which had struck the Sacred Marks, was covered in dark flames. The terrifying fire spread along his arm, and in an instant, his entire body was engulfed in flames. His miserable howls echoed through the canyon, piercingly sharp.
"Fall back! Everyone fall back!" The roar was like a thunderclap, tinged with panic. The group standing in the middle of the canyon watched as the Sacred Mark patterns expanded outward, carrying with them terrifying black flames.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" In that moment, the black Sacred Mark patterns erupted like a mountain flood, surging from the cliffs. In the blink of an eye, the figures near the cliffs were engulfed, burning in the dark flames.
"Annihilated!"
Those two words seemed to appear once more in the minds of Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress's experts. Annihilated—not only by Hou Qinglin's Reincarnation Realm, but also by this all-destroying Sacred Mark power.
"Heavenly Terrace... no one should be able to set up such powerful Sacred Marks, right? Not even Hou Qinglin!" The leading Sovereign Lord of Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress narrowed his eyes sharply, looking up into the void. Who had laid down this annihilation-level Sacred Mark power?
"Turning the tables. Heavenly Terrace deliberately hid in this canyon, and with Tian Chi's words, their goal was only to eliminate the Yang Clan and execute the traitor Wang Xiao. All of this was to lure Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress here. Of course, without these terrifying Sacred Marks, any scheme would be useless—nothing would change. But because of these Sacred Marks, everything is different!"
The leading Sovereign Lord sighed inwardly, watching the crowd erased in an instant by the Sacred Marks. Pain gnawed at his heart. These were all elite experts of Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress.
"Everyone, get behind me!" The leading Sovereign Lord roared. With a thought, a dragon scepter appeared in his hand, exuding waves of surging dragon qi, as if a wild demon dragon were coiled within.
"Imperial Artifact!" Seeing the scepter, the crowd frantically flashed behind him. This was the Imperial Artifact of the Heavenly Dragon Emperor—the Heavenly Dragon Scepter.
This made the experts of the Yang Clan and the Xuanyuan Clan understand. No wonder Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress was so confident. They had dispatched a hundred elites, combined forces with the Yang and Xuanyuan Clans, and brought the Imperial Artifact, the Heavenly Dragon Scepter. With such a terrifying lineup, how could they fail to destroy Heavenly Terrace? But this destructive Sacred Mark power had clearly caught them off guard.
"Follow me and blast our way out!" The expert swept his gaze over the Sacred Mark flames on the cliffs. They were violent and relentless, still surging toward the center, as if trying to annihilate the entire space. Combined with Hou Qinglin's Reincarnation Abyss trapping them here, it was as if Heavenly Terrace wanted to leave them with no way to heaven and no door to earth—they wanted total annihilation!
"Kill!" From the Heavenly Dragon Scepter, golden light bloomed alongside blood-red radiance. Countless demon dragon phantoms roared out, as if they were real dragons, claws bared and fangs showing. Each demon dragon stretched for thousands of meters, terrifying and boundless. Moreover, the expert himself seemed to transform into a demon dragon, a terrifying dragon phantom covering his body. Everyone hid within that dragon phantom, charging upward—the only exit above.
"Roar!" One massive demon dragon after another opened its terrifying claws, reaching for the Reincarnation Abyss. Those claws seemed capable of tearing the sky apart and breaking through the underworld.
"Rumble!" The Reincarnation Abyss trembled. But above, Hou Qinglin's Azure Forest Reincarnation Sword continued to dance, the abyss growing more terrifying, swallowing the foremost demon dragon directly. The dragon phantom fell into the endless Reincarnation Abyss, unable to tear it apart.
But from the Heavenly Dragon Scepter, an endless stream of demon dragon phantoms seemed to be released, as if to fill the abyss completely. Even if it were reincarnation or the underworld, they would bury it all.
"Attack the Reincarnation Abyss with me!" The leading expert spoke. With a thought, his body merged strangely with the dragon phantom. Even the Heavenly Dragon Scepter transformed into a demon dragon, fusing into his form.
"Roar! Roar! Roar!" Dragon cries shook the nine heavens. At this moment, the Sovereign Lord was no longer human but a true dragon. The Reincarnation Abyss shook violently. At the same time, all the surviving experts behind him unleashed their terrifying attacks, bombarding the unstable abyss.
"Abyss, break!" With a furious roar, the demon dragon stretched a thousand zhang. The entire sky was filled with nothing but the dragon's shadow, enveloping and covering the terrifying abyss. Its claws and tail slammed into the Reincarnation Abyss, and a cracking sound rolled out. The abyss shattered and split open. The experts of Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress charged out directly, once again seeing the azure sky—feeling that it was even bluer.
"Huff..." The Sovereign Lord of Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress, still in dragon form, exhaled dragon breath. His enormous eyes locked onto Hou Qinglin. The Azure Forest Reincarnation Sword had already made Hou Qinglin a terrifying prodigy in the Eight Wastelands Realm. Among the Ten Great Prodigies of the Eight Wastelands, Hou Qinglin had left many behind. Now, having stepped into the Sovereign Lord realm, he was even more fearsome. The terrifying Reincarnation Abyss swallowed everything. Even using an Imperial Artifact, the Sovereign Lord had to expend great effort to break it.
If Hou Qinglin were to reach the Eighth or Ninth Layer of the Sovereign Martial Realm, he would become another Mu Chen—renowned as an Invincible Sovereign Lord, meaning: almost invincible beneath the Martial Emperor realm.
In the entire Eight Wastelands, only a few held the title of Invincible Sovereign Lord.
The experts of Heavenly Terrace stepped forward one by one, lining up beside Hou Qinglin. But there were only ten of them. Bringing the others was merely to lure Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress. In a battle of this level, they could not participate.
"Even so, they didn't die!" Tian Chi seemed somewhat frustrated. He clasped his hands together, a faint Buddhist light emanating from his body. Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress had lured them here to kill, and indeed, they had enough confidence—they had even brought an Imperial Artifact.
"Xuan Ting, Lin Xiao, come here!" The Sovereign Lord, still in dragon form, called out to the two traitors within Heavenly Terrace. Their bodies stiffened slightly, then they came before the Sovereign Lord, not daring to speak.
"With such terrifying Sacred Mark formations in the canyon, why didn't you know?" The Sovereign Lord's dragon eyes stared at the two, making their hearts tremble. "We were together, all on that peak ahead. Only Tian Chi, Lin Feng, and Mo Qingtian left. Later, Tian Chi had us come here. We had no idea anyone had set up Sacred Marks in advance!"
"Tian Chi the monk couldn't set up such Sacred Marks. Mo Qingtian and Lin Feng, even less so!" The Sovereign Lord's eyes were ice-cold. "A single 'I didn't know' can't make up for the massive losses of Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress. They died because of your mistake!"
Xuan Ting and Lin Xiao broke out in a cold sweat at these words. But the Sovereign Lord continued coldly, "You were planted as moles, yet you ended up harming our own people. What use are you?"
A terrifying killing intent burst forth. The two men's hearts trembled violently. They flashed, trying to escape, but their cultivation was too low. How could they get away? The dragon's claws shot out, and their bodies were caught in the massive claws beneath the dragon's belly.
"No..."
"Crack!" A crisp sound rang out, accompanied by crimson blood. The two were crushed to death instantly!
"This is the fate of traitors!" The people of Heavenly Terrace sneered coldly. Moles planted by Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress within Heavenly Terrace, only to be used against them, and finally killed by Heavenly Dragon Divine Fortress themselves. What a dramatic ending. They probably died with their eyes open!
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