Chapter 1867: The Situation Is Critical
“Your Highness, be careful.”
Eunuch Que exclaimed in alarm, stepping in front of Crown Prince Dizu. One of his four arms was raised, his palm radiating brilliant light as five ancient symbols emerged.
Five war implements, refined into his palm, merged with the five symbols, emitting five different colors: purple, blue, white, yellow, and green.
“Five Dharma Heaven and Earth.”
He struck out with his palm, producing a rumbling sound of wind and thunder, colliding with the heavy sword swung by Blood Bee Shura King.
Five Dharma Heaven and Earth was a mid-rank sacred art of the Profound Mystery level.
The five war implements were treasures imbued with Great Saint power, and when fused with the sacred art, their combined force was exquisitely profound and unparalleled.
Eunuch Que, indeed the foremost expert by Crown Prince Dizu’s side, managed to block Blood Bee Shura King’s attack for an instant, buying time for the crown prince to retreat.
“Heavenly Defeat Seal.”
From Yue Gongming’s brow, over a hundred thousand sacred dao rules flew out, forming a seal technique brighter than the sun, striking upward toward Blood Bee Shura King’s abdomen.
At the same time, Heavenly Beginning Fairy and the four elders of Heavenly Beginning Civilization controlled the *Red Sun Divine River Diagram*, pressing down from above Blood Bee Shura King’s head.
The Fourteenth Prince, Bai Shang, and Nie Qingli continuously channeled their sacred qi into the White Jade Ancient Ship. The inscriptions on the ship converged at the cloud sail, transforming into over a dozen lightning dragons, baring fangs and claws as they attacked Blood Bee Shura King.
Facing attacks from multiple experts, even the formidable Blood Bee Shura King was suppressed.
Yet he did not fall. Wielding his war sword, he slashed repeatedly, forming a spherical sword-qi domain that blocked all the cultivators’ power.
True Wonder Little Daoist said, “Monstrous, utterly monstrous! One person holding off over a dozen Nine-Step Saint Kings. And most of those Nine-Step Saint Kings are as strong as Dao Domain realm cultivators.”
“Everyone, give it your all. Whether we can suppress and kill Blood Bee Shura King depends on this one move.”
“Kill Blood Bee Shura King, and we’ll all become famous across the world.”
“Blood Bee Shura King’s head can be exchanged for a huge amount of merit points. We’ll split them evenly and trade for plenty of merit treasures, enough to break through our cultivation realms.”
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All the cultivators were excited. If they could slay Blood Bee Shura King, they would reap enormous benefits.
From the distant blood mist, a deep, somber flute sound drifted.
“Hoo… hiss…”
Eerie noises echoed through heaven and earth.
From the blood mist, a large number of ghost fiends surged out.
Many of them had condensed solid bodies, having passed through ghost tribulations to become Ghost Kings. Some rode corpse king war beasts, others had wings on their backs, and still others wielded strange ghost artifacts.
“Rumble.”
The sacred realm cultivators present all changed expression.
At that moment, they were fully focused on suppressing Blood Bee Shura King, but behind them, so many ghost clan enemies had appeared. The situation had reversed in an instant, and they were now caught between two fronts.
Zhang Ruochen had seen earlier how those Ghost Kings had killed Yun Gongming in just a few breaths, and he knew their danger well.
But with the current situation, he could no longer stand by.
“Let’s go, block those Ghost Kings.”
Zhang Ruochen’s arms blazed with two clouds of Purifying Divine Flame. He struck out two palm prints from a distance, aimed at the two Ghost King knights charging at the front.
Those two Ghost King knights sensed the attack and thrust their war halberds.
From the halberds, icy, bone-chilling ghost mist surged out, clashing with the Purifying Divine Flame.
The two forces eroded each other and finally dissipated together.
“No wonder over a dozen Ghost King knights could kill Yun Gongming. These Ghost King knights are all formidable.” Zhang Ruochen was secretly astonished.
Four of the Ghost King knights, leading over a dozen Ghost Kings, broke away from the group and advanced toward Zhang Ruochen’s direction.
As the flute sound rose, from the depths of the Divine Blood Lake, dozens of Corpse Kings emerged.
One of the Corpse Kings possessed an undying sacred body and had been a Great Saint in life. Moreover, his body was perfectly preserved without any signs of decay, though the golden scale soft armor on him was corroded to black in many places.
This Great Saint Corpse King emitted an aura far more powerful than the one Zhang Ruochen had killed earlier.
On its body, corpse qi and Great Saint qi coexisted. Just one breath it exhaled produced a deafening wind-thunder sound, causing the air to tremble violently.
The Great Saint Corpse King crawled out not far from Old Deer, less than ten zhang away.
Old Deer, who was controlling the eighth-rank formation to suppress the Blood Emperor Bee, turned pale instantly.
Standing beside Old Deer, Lion Qing Divine Son and others reacted swiftly, unleashing various attacks like a dense rain, striking the Great Saint Corpse King.
But the Great Saint Corpse King was protected by Great Saint qi, and their sacred artifacts and sacred arts couldn’t even land on its body.
The Great Saint Corpse King took steady steps toward Old Deer.
Qu Shan Old Mother said to Black Phoenix and White Vermilion Bird, “Today’s situation is more dangerous than I imagined. I shouldn’t have brought you here for training. Don’t run off now; go follow Cripple.”
“Whoosh…”
With that, Qu Shan Old Mother spread her wings and flew into the blood mist, heading toward the source of the flute sound.
Black Phoenix and White Vermilion Bird realized how perilous this place was. Even Dao Domain realm experts could fall, let alone them.
Since Old Mother told them to follow Cripple, it meant staying by his side gave them a better chance of survival.
Old Mother’s experience far surpassed theirs, so she must have seen something extraordinary in Cripple.
Black Phoenix and White Vermilion Bird immediately rushed toward Zhang Ruochen’s position.
Zhang Ruochen did not use the Azure Sky Floating Pagoda, worried that Divine Cliff Gentleman might be hiding nearby. He dared not reveal his identity easily. So, he and True Wonder Little Daoist activated the supreme power of the Purple Gold Eight Trigram Mirror to fend off the Ghost Kings surrounding them.
Although the Purple Gold Eight Trigram Mirror was damaged, its power was still formidable.
Each strike of supreme power shattered a Ghost King’s ghostly body.
Ordinary Ghost Kings, when their ghostly bodies were shattered by supreme power, immediately had their souls scattered. But the four Ghost King knights, even after having their ghostly bodies shattered, quickly reformed their bodies, as if they couldn’t be killed.
“They have Ghost Origin Pearls inside them. As long as the Ghost Origin Pearls are intact, they won’t die,” True Wonder Little Daoist said.
One of the Ghost King knights, a red-clad figure over two meters tall, sneered, “So you know about Ghost Origin Pearls. You’re quite knowledgeable.”
The red-clad Ghost King knight slanted his war halberd downward, forming a black light streak aimed at True Wonder Little Daoist.
Zhang Ruochen mobilized his True Wonder rules, unleashing a sevenfold attack power, and punched, sending the war halberd and the red-clad Ghost King knight flying backward. Cracks spread across the knight’s body.
Through the cracks, Zhang Ruochen saw a dark cyan glow at the knight’s heart.
If it truly had a Ghost Origin Pearl inside, it must be within that dark cyan glow.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “What exactly is a Ghost Origin Pearl?”
“Ghost Origin Pearls are made from the sacred sources of sacred dao cultivators, a secret method. Even among the ghost clan, not many ghost cultivators know this technique,” True Wonder Little Daoist said.
“Using a sacred dao cultivator’s sacred source to forge a Ghost Origin Pearl? A ghost cultivator with a Ghost Origin Pearl can’t be killed even by a supreme sacred artifact? How is that possible?” Zhang Ruochen said.
True Wonder Little Daoist said, “I don’t know much either. It seems the forging method of Ghost Origin Pearls is related to one of the nine eternal paths, the Path of Darkness.”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t press further. He lunged forward in a single step toward the red-clad Ghost King.
The red-clad Ghost King’s ghostly body hadn’t fully healed yet. Seeing Zhang Ruochen closing in, he quickly took out a talisman and threw it forward.
On the talisman, dark cyan ghost patterns emerged, forming a thick light barrier.
“Ghosts can forge talismans too?”
Zhang Ruochen activated the original power of the Flame God Armor, piercing through the light barrier with a palm strike. The force of the palm didn’t diminish, landing on the red-clad Ghost King’s heart.
“Crack.”
A shattering sound rang out.
Zhang Ruochen’s hand penetrated the red-clad Ghost King’s heart, grabbing a walnut-sized pearl.
“Give me back my Ghost Origin Pearl!”
The red-clad Ghost King let out a piercing shriek, swinging his war halberd fiercely at Zhang Ruochen’s head.
Zhang Ruochen’s figure flickered, appearing beside the red-clad Ghost King. He struck out a flaming palm print, suppressing the Ghost King and refining him into ghost mist.
“What a waste. I should have devoured him,” Yi Huang Bone Staff’s voice transmitted into Zhang Ruochen’s ears.
“Don’t come out for now. I feel like there might be other cultivators hiding in the shadows, possibly Divine Cliff Gentleman. If he knows I’m here, he’ll definitely strike at me first,” Zhang Ruochen said.
Black Phoenix and White Vermilion Bird arrived, joining True Wonder Little Daoist in activating the Purple Gold Eight Trigram Mirror.
The mirror’s power surged, shattering the ghostly bodies of the remaining three Ghost King knights. Zhang Ruochen used a ghostly movement technique, collecting all their Ghost Origin Pearls and suppressing them in the Azure Sky Floating Pagoda.
Before Zhang Ruochen and the others could celebrate, a scream rang out from the Divine Blood Lake shore.
The Great Saint Corpse King broke through the suppression of the eighth-rank formation, punching Old Deer into a mist of blood.
Forty-nine formation plates fell to the ground, and the eighth-rank formation collapsed.
With the formation gone, the Blood Emperor Bee regained its freedom and attacked the sacred dao cultivators on the shore. At the same time, dozens of Corpse Kings and a large number of Ghost Kings surrounded Lion Qing Divine Son, Crown Prince Dizu, Heavenly Beginning Fairy, and the others.
Caught between two fronts, they had no strength left to attack Blood Bee Shura King. They all resorted to self-defense measures.
“We have to leave now. We can’t stay here any longer.”
“Run. If we don’t, we’ll all be wiped out.”
Blood Bee Shura King transformed into a beam of sword qi, breaking through the suppression of the *Red Sun Divine River Diagram* and flying a dozen zhang into the air.
His long hair flew wildly, his battle intent surging. He swung his war sword straight down.
“Pfft.”
Beside Heavenly Beginning Fairy, an elder from Heavenly Beginning Civilization was split in two by his sword. Even the solid ground was torn open by the sword-qi, leaving a long gash.
The sacred blood splashing from the Heavenly Beginning Civilization elder stained Heavenly Beginning Fairy’s white robes red.
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(Yesterday, Sister Yu insisted I go with her to Jay Chou’s concert, wasting a whole day, so I couldn’t update. My apologies. There will be two updates today.
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