Chapter 2082: Demon Mirror Suppresses the World
On the desolate hill shrouded by illusion, Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden and the six elders all had strange lights flickering in their eyes.
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s lips curled slightly upward as she said, “With Zhang Ruochen’s level of vigilance, plotting against him is truly not an easy task.”
“But Zhang Ruochen’s move is not wise. The Blazing Sun Civilization has gathered over a thousand Saint King realm experts, and the Golden Sun Twin Kings are personally overseeing it. If he chooses to start a war, the outcome might not be good,” one elder shook his head.
The other five elders all showed agreement in their eyes. Zhang Ruochen’s side only had four people. No matter how strong they were, how could they possibly defeat over a thousand experts from the Blazing Sun Civilization?
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden, however, disagreed, saying, “You don’t understand Zhang Ruochen well enough. Since he dares to strike, he must have confidence. Even if he can’t win, he can retreat safely.”
In fact, Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden was also very curious to see what trump card Zhang Ruochen had to fight head-on against the Blazing Sun Civilization. It seemed that the upcoming battle would be quite exciting.
Inside the Jungle Small World, Five Elements Saint King’s body trembled slightly, not from fear, but from anger. That owl sacred beast kept saying it wanted to eat her, even acting like it was drooling. It was truly infuriating.
“Owl, I will not only drain your blood but also extract your sacred soul and burn it with divine fire for a hundred years, a thousand years, making you wish you were dead,” Five Elements Saint King said through gritted teeth.
Over the years, anyone who had tried to take advantage of her had become her nourishment.
Xiao Hei showed no fear in his eyes, instead laughing loudly, “What a personality! But I still have a way to make you obedient. Zhang Ruochen, I’ll take control of the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror. You go pick the flower.”
Hearing this, Zhang Ruochen couldn’t help but roll his eyes. The way it sounded was really awkward.
Nevertheless, Zhang Ruochen still handed the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror over to Xiao Hei to control, letting Xiao Hei fully suppress the Jungle Small World, while he had other things to do.
Great Sun King raised his eyebrows and shouted, “Attack! Don’t let anyone escape.”
As he spoke, Great Sun King and Little Sun King joined forces, using powerful sacred qi to activate the Golden Crow Ancient Cauldron, unleashing waves of terrifying supreme power, directly striking at Zhang Ruochen.
Their goal was clear: to kill Zhang Ruochen as quickly as possible. As for the others, they didn’t care much.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes were like lightning. Yang energy surged within his body, and a golden sun flew out from between his eyebrows, directly colliding with the Golden Crow Ancient Cauldron of the Golden Sun Twin Kings.
“You’ve already mastered the Destruction Golden Sun,” Great Sun King’s gaze sharpened.
The Destruction Golden Sun contained extremely yang and domineering power, not something that could be easily controlled.
Great Sun King thought that although Zhang Ruochen had taken the Destruction Golden Sun, he should have only temporarily suppressed it. He never expected Zhang Ruochen to master it so quickly and use it freely.
What surprised Great Sun King even more was that the aura Zhang Ruochen emitted when activating the Destruction Golden Sun was far stronger than that of Blazing Sun Heavenly Son.
What he didn’t know was that because Zhang Ruochen cultivated the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Palm, he possessed yang energy hundreds of thousands of times greater than ordinary people. Moreover, in Zhang Ruochen’s Divine Light Qi Sea, there was also the divine sun transformed from the Seven-Star Divine Ling’s Sun Leaf, both of which were important conditions for mastering the Destruction Golden Sun.
Of course, the most important thing was that Zhang Ruochen had refined that ancient Golden Crow sacred soul and a drop of ancient Golden Crow essence blood, allowing him to perfectly resonate with the Destruction Golden Sun.
The Destruction Golden Sun was a supreme sacred artifact that hadn’t been forged long ago and hadn’t undergone an Eon Calamity. Its artifact spirit’s power was relatively weak and couldn’t resist Zhang Ruochen at all. Thus, Zhang Ruochen didn’t expend much effort to tame it smoothly, imprinting his sacred soul mark on the Destruction Golden Sun.
The Golden Crow Ancient Cauldron and the Destruction Golden Sun both bloomed with dazzling golden light, like twin suns soaring into the sky. The brilliant radiance almost made it impossible to open one’s eyes.
“Boom.”
The space outside the Jungle Small World directly shattered, revealing pitch-black void space and unleashing terrifying space storms.
For a moment, the Jungle Small World shook violently, and ripples spread across the world membrane like water waves.
The Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror also shook, and the demonic qi-condensed mountain shadows shattered one after another.
The two supreme sacred artifacts continued to erupt with supreme power, never ceasing their collision.
At the same time, the over a thousand Saint King experts gathered in the Jungle Small World also made their moves, unleashing over a thousand high-grade Ten-Thousand Pattern Sacred Artifacts, forming a torrent that swept out with tremendous momentum.
Even if many stars stood in the way, they would probably be shattered one by one.
The experts of the Blazing Sun Civilization undoubtedly made full use of their numerical advantage, intending to crush Xiao Hei, Death Meditation Ancestor, and Heaven Mandate Corpse Emperor with absolute power, not letting any escape.
Xiao Hei reacted the fastest, instantly offering dozens of formation flags to construct a mysterious ninth-rank formation, combining it with the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror to envelop the Jungle Small World.
The purpose of doing this was simple: to prevent the experts of the Blazing Sun Civilization from leaving the Jungle Small World, firmly holding the initiative.
“Owl, die!”
Five Elements Saint King specifically targeted Xiao Hei, offering a five-colored precious wheel.
It was all because Xiao Hei’s mouth was too vicious, thoroughly angering Five Elements Saint King, making her hate him even more than Death Meditation Ancestor.
“Hah! Eon Sacred Medicine, watch me suppress you!”
Xiao Hei shouted loudly, opening his mouth to spit out a precious seal.
This precious seal was a Monarch Battle Artifact, obtained earlier in that hidden space after killing a Bone Clan Venerable.
The seal instantly became as large as a small mountain, emitting dense dark qi as it met the five-colored precious wheel.
“Dare to scheme against me? Today, let me show you the Buddhist meaning contained in the words ‘Death Meditation.’ My Buddha wishes to save all beings. In life, they are my followers; in death, they are also my followers.”
Death Meditation Ancestor chanted a Buddha’s name, his appearance solemn and dignified. Sacred Buddha light radiated from him, making him look like a sacred Buddha.
The Ten Thousand Treasures Kasaya bloomed with brilliant Buddha light, and powerful battle corpses flew out from it, arranged in a special formation.
The number of battle corpses was extremely large, exceeding eight hundred, with various forms, including humans, barbarian beasts, and creatures from the Hell Realm. Without exception, the auras they emitted were extremely strong, at the Saint King level.
Finally, five tall figures appeared in front of this group of battle corpses, led by the Divine Battle Corpse, with the other four being Great Saint-level battle corpses.
Seeing these battle corpses, Xiao Hei’s eyes widened, saying, “Bald donkey, impressive! Did you specifically go to the Merit Battlefield to pick up corpses?”
Since the Kunlun Realm became a Merit Battlefield, countless battles had erupted, and many experts from both the Heavenly Court Realm and the Hell Realm had fallen.
With the mysterious and unpredictable Death Meditation Buddhist Dharma created by Death Meditation Ancestor, it was indeed very suitable for collecting corpses on the Merit Battlefield.
Otherwise, it would have been impossible to refine so many powerful battle corpses.
As for the four Great Saint-level battle corpses, Death Meditation Ancestor had obtained them by excavating various ancient sites in the Kunlun Realm.
Now that the Kunlun Realm was in trouble, instead of letting these former emperors and overlords continue to sleep underground, it was better to let them reappear in the world and play some role.
Xiao Hei had studied Death Meditation Buddhist Dharma and had achieved some success in cultivation. He deeply knew that controlling battle corpses was actually very difficult. Death Meditation Ancestor could control so many powerful battle corpses, including a Divine Battle Corpse and four Great Saint-level battle corpses. His methods were truly profound and unfathomable.
Under Death Meditation Ancestor’s control, over eight hundred battle corpses gathered their power together, unleashing a vast sea of terrifying corpse qi to meet the thousand Ten-Thousand Pattern Sacred Artifacts.
A flash of surprise passed through Heaven Mandate Corpse Emperor’s eyes. He waved his hand, unleashing the Heaven Mandate Talisman, activating the powerful Great Saint power contained within it, and injecting it into the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror.
He could see that Xiao Hei had to both resist Five Elements Saint King and control the ninth-rank formation and the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror. No matter how strong he was, it would be difficult to manage everything.
Since Death Meditation Ancestor was using the battle corpse formation to block the attacks of the Blazing Sun Civilization experts, Heaven Mandate Corpse Emperor could free his hands to help Xiao Hei control the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror.
This matter was very important, directly affecting the direction of this battle.
Seeing Death Meditation Ancestor instantly summon a large number of powerful battle corpses, the Golden Sun Twin Kings’ gazes both sharpened. This also caught them off guard.
In the blink of an eye, the numerical advantage of their Blazing Sun Civilization was almost completely nullified.
“Such a strange Death Meditation Buddhist Dharma, able to control so many powerful battle corpses at once. I underestimated this Death Meditation Ancestor,” Great Sun King’s heart sank.
“This monk alone can match a thousand troops. His value is greater than those powerful Great Saints. What kind of Buddhist Dharma does he cultivate?”
In the end, Death Meditation Ancestor turned out to be the most troublesome one.
The attack of a thousand Ten-Thousand Pattern Sacred Artifacts was indeed terrifying, but it was still blocked by Death Meditation Ancestor’s battle corpse formation.
For a moment, the battle situation fell into a stalemate.
Void Sky Saint King’s eyes flashed with cold light. He secretly activated the Jungle Small World, trying to break free from the suppression of the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror and the ninth-rank formation. After all, being trapped inside the small world was very passive.
Fortunately, the essence of his small world was extremely powerful. It had been painstakingly nurtured by a top-tier Great Saint among space cultivators, consuming great effort. It was comparable to a lower-level ruin realm, extremely heavy. Otherwise, it might have already been sucked away by the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror.
“This ninth-rank formation is really troublesome. Its binding power is too strong. It seems we have to deal with Zhang Ruochen and the others first,” Void Sky Saint King thought secretly.
Immediately, Void Sky Saint King mobilized his own space rules, combining them with the power of the small world, releasing an invisible space force that extended toward Zhang Ruochen.
Although Zhang Ruochen was confronting the Golden Sun Twin Kings, he did not let his guard down. In an instant, he detected Void Sky Saint King’s small move.
Zhang Ruochen pointed his finger, releasing a space force.
“Crack.”
The two space forces collided, instantly tearing the space apart, forming a huge space rift.
Void Sky Saint King’s eyes were sinister as he muttered, “Quite alert. Then let me openly crush you with space techniques.”
As he spoke, Void Sky Saint King quickly formed strange hand seals, executing the space ultimate arts he had learned in the Space Divine Temple.
As a top-tier space cultivator from the Space Divine Temple, no matter how powerful Zhang Ruochen was rumored to be, Void Sky Saint King had full confidence in his own space attainments.
A large area of space shattered, and violent space force surged, condensing into a terrifying space storm that seemed capable of destroying everything.
The space storm was a very advanced space technique. Among Saint Kings who could master it, there were very few.
In Void Sky Saint King’s view, with just this one move, he could crush Zhang Ruochen.
After all, how long had Zhang Ruochen been cultivating? He had never entered the Space Divine Temple. Even if he was a Space Controller, it would be extremely difficult for him to reach Void Sky Saint King’s level.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes were indifferent. He raised his hand and also executed a space storm, with obviously greater power.
“Boom.”
In an instant, the space within several hundred zhang completely shattered, revealing a pitch-black void area. The scene was extremely terrifying.
“Bang.”
Void Sky Saint King’s technique was broken. A powerful space force swept out, causing the Jungle Small World to shake violently.
In this tide-like space force, a strand of silver light was particularly special. It instantly broke through the world membrane and appeared beside Void Sky Saint King.
“What is that?”
Void Sky Saint King immediately became alert and instantly shifted sideways.
But his speed was still a bit slow. The strand of silver light flashed and entered his shoulder.
“Pfft.”
Void Sky Saint King’s arm was severed at the root, and a large amount of blood gushed out.
“Ah!”
Void Sky Saint King let out a miserable scream, covering the broken arm with his other hand as he retreated repeatedly.
One could see extreme shock in Void Sky Saint King’s eyes. “Space-Time Power! You can actually fuse time power and space power together? How is that possible?”
Among the Nine Eternal Paths, each power was transcendent. Mastering just one was already very difficult.
And fusing the powers of two Eternal Paths together was considered by most cultivators to be an impossible task.
But there were always exceptions. Some Eternal Paths had very close connections, such as time and space. There was a very small probability that they could be successfully fused.
Of course, being able to do such a thing was extremely rare, not just at the Saint King realm, but even at the Great Saint realm, it was one in ten thousand.
Void Sky Saint King could clearly feel that the strand of silver light that had severed his arm contained both sharp space power and ethereal time power. Under one strike, not only had he lost an arm, but his lifespan had also been cut by over a hundred years.
If the silver light had struck his head, his sacred soul would have been severely damaged.
“How could this be? Zhang Ruochen has cultivated for such a short time and hasn’t entered the Time Divine Temple or the Space Divine Temple. How can he fuse time power and space power? Could he really have the hope of becoming the second Xumi Saint Monk?” Void Sky Saint King was horrified, even beginning to feel fear.
In the previous exchange, he had undoubtedly suffered a complete defeat. Zhang Ruochen had shattered all his pride with just a strand of space-time power.
Taking this opportunity, Zhang Ruochen fully utilized his space techniques. One space storm after another appeared, wreaking havoc outside the Jungle Small World, forcefully destroying everything around.
In a very short time, the connection between the Jungle Small World and the outside world was completely dismantled.
“Rumble.”
At this moment, Void Sky Saint King was injured, and his control over the Jungle Small World weakened. Pulled by the power of the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror, the Jungle Small World slowly rose from the ground.
Finally, the true face of the Jungle Small World was revealed. The hundred-li jungle exposed outside was only a very small part of this small world. Inside, there was vast space, with many mountains and rivers stretching across it, full of vitality.
“This is a small world that has evolved into a preliminary ecosystem. This thing is much more precious than a Space Exquisite Ball. Its area is comparable to a lower-level void realm. Good stuff, quickly suppress it!” Xiao Hei’s eyes sparkled.
The Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror was a supreme sacred artifact, containing the universe within. Not to mention one small world, even ten could be accommodated.
“Not good, Great Sun King! Zhang Ruochen wants to use the supreme sacred artifact to collect the entire small world,” Void Sky Saint King’s face changed drastically.
By now, he could clearly see Zhang Ruochen’s intention.
Great Sun King’s mind shook. He looked up at the enormous black mirror surface above and immediately ordered, “Full force! Break through the blockade!”
All the experts of the Blazing Sun Civilization immediately realized the seriousness of the problem and joined forces to attack the same direction.
“Leave it to this old monk.”
Death Meditation Ancestor put his palms together, a sharp light flashing in his eyes.
In an instant, the power of all the battle corpses quickly converged onto the Divine Battle Corpse.
“Roar!”
The Divine Battle Corpse let out a furious roar and struck out with a palm.
Before the palm arrived, a vast divine power like a galaxy surged out, seemingly about to drown the entire Jungle Small World.
“Cough.”
Death Meditation Ancestor coughed lightly, with some blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
Clearly, using such a technique placed a great burden on Death Meditation Ancestor.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen had already focused his mind, perfectly resonating with the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror, communicating with its artifact spirit, and unleashing its strongest power.
The mirror surface of the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror was as large as an ocean hanging upside down in the sky, ripples spreading across it.
“Galaxy Reversal, Universe Distortion, suck it all in!”
Xiao Hei quickly changed the formation, causing the ninth-rank formation to evolve into a huge energy vortex.
The small world covered with mountains and rivers, pulled by the supreme power and formation power, uncontrollably moved toward the mirror surface.
Soon, the small world collided with the ocean-like mirror surface.
“Whoosh——”
Inside the Jungle Small World, many cultivators of the Blazing Sun Civilization looked up at the sky. The supreme power pressed down on them, making it hard to breathe. The mirror surface water curtain in the sky was getting closer and closer, and it seemed the entire small world was about to sink into the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror.
The Golden Sun Twin Kings were both furious and anxious. If they were truly trapped inside a supreme sacred artifact, escaping would be very difficult.
“Pfft.”
The Golden Sun Twin Kings simultaneously spat out a mouthful of essence blood onto the Golden Crow Ancient Cauldron.
Instantly, the Golden Crow Ancient Cauldron bloomed with dazzling golden light, transforming entirely into a massive three-legged Golden Crow, emitting an overwhelming pressure.
“Boom.”
The three-legged Golden Crow erupted with terrifying power. Just before the small world completely sank into the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror, it forcefully blasted a huge crack and barely managed to break free.
But only the two of them escaped.
The other cultivators of the Blazing Sun Civilization were all taken away by Zhang Ruochen’s supreme sacred artifact.
Resisting the terrifying suction force released by the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror, the three-legged Golden Crow fled at extreme speed, reaching a hundred li away in the blink of an eye, reverting to the form of an ancient cauldron, while the Golden Sun Twin Kings also revealed themselves.
“Buzz.”
The Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror shook violently, its demonic light flickering uncertainly, as if it could barely suppress that small world.
Zhang Ruochen reached out, controlling the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror to slowly shrink. When it fell into his hand, it had completely calmed down.
One could see that many supreme inscription runes on the mirror surface interwove to form a powerful seal, completely isolating the world inside the mirror from the outside.
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