Chapter 2378: This Is White Pale Blood Soil
“Severely injured Bone Clan Great Saints, withdraw from the battlefield immediately.”
“Those who can still fight, scatter quickly, or gather beside me and Scarlet Red Great Saint. Do not engage the formation’s attack power alone under any circumstances.”
Yan Huangtu issued two mental transmissions at the first moment.
He was also injured.
This offensive grand formation was laid out by Yu Huang leading the entire Undying Blood Clan’s formation masters, spending a great deal of time and effort. With a Supreme Sacred Artifact as the formation’s eye, its power was naturally terrifying beyond compare.
“I withdraw from the Heaven Hunting Battlefield.”
“I… I want to withdraw from the battlefield.”
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Voices rang out one after another, and they were immediately teleported away one by one by the Myriad Realm Divine Eye.
At this critical juncture, they felt no shame. Preserving their lives was the top priority.
Within the attack formation, including Yan Huangtu, Pink Skeleton, and Sang Qi, there were a total of forty-seven Bone Clan Great Saints remaining, all top-tier Hundred Shackles Realm powerhouses.
The formation continued to operate, sending out dragon-shaped lightning bolts one after another. However, it could no longer pose a lethal threat to the Bone Clan Great Saints within.
Their cultivation was formidable, their speed extremely fast, allowing them to evade the dragon-shaped lightning or even contend with a single bolt.
Three whole breaths passed, and only two Bone Clan Hundred Shackles Realm Great Saints were forced to withdraw from the battlefield.
Forty-five remained.
Yan Huangtu’s face was dark and cold to the extreme. He stared fixedly at Yu Huang and roared, “Where is Zhang Ruochen? Why hasn’t he shown himself yet?”
Although Yu Huang’s formation was powerful, on this clan star, what Yan Huangtu feared most was still Zhang Ruochen.
Yu Huang manipulated the formation as she spoke, “Zhang Ruochen is right in the formation. Can’t you find him?”
The Bone Clan Great Saints were greatly alarmed and looked around.
Yan Huangtu snorted lightly, “Zhang Ruochen is not on this clan star at all.”
Just now, after the formation launched its first wave of attacks, all the cultivators were thrown into chaos and all were injured. If Zhang Ruochen were on the clan star, that would have been his best opportunity to strike.
Using the Purple Gold Gourd, he could have captured them all in one fell swoop.
But Zhang Ruochen did not act.
Then there was only one explanation: Zhang Ruochen was not on the clan star at all.
Yu Huang knew Yan Huangtu was likely trying to bluff her, so she kept silent, concentrated on mobilizing the formation’s power, condensed hundreds of dragon-shaped lightning bolts, and attacked Yan Huangtu.
The world grew dim.
Violent forces surged everywhere, easily tearing apart a Great Saint’s undying sacred body.
Yu Huang was still not good at acting.
Seeing her like this, Yan Huangtu immediately confirmed his suspicion. Thus, without any further hesitation, he mobilized Yan Luo Qi, continuously pouring it into the Supreme Sacred Artifact “Heaven-Passing Ruyi.”
Beside him, thirteen other Bone Clan Hundred Shackles Realm Great Saints also channeled their power into it.
The might of the Supreme Sacred Artifact erupted, causing the attack formation to tremble violently. The massive clan star also shook, and dense spatial cracks appeared in the air.
“Use the Supreme Sacred Artifact to kill that bitch Xia Yu, tear her into pieces!”
“Go all out! Avenge the fallen Bone Clan Great Saints!”
“Kill! Slay all the Undying Blood Clan cultivators!”
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All the Bone Clan Great Saints were filled with deathly aura and murderous intent.
They had come with laughter and ease, intending to trample the Undying Blood Clan into the dust, but upon arrival, they suffered an unprecedented heavy blow.
How disappointed would the Bone Clan gods be seeing this scene?
The entire Hell Realm was probably mocking the Bone Clan.
Fight!
Retrieve the lost face.
Pink Skeleton and seventeen other Bone Clan Hundred Shackles Realm Great Saints activated the Supreme Sacred Artifact from another direction, launching an attack at Yu Huang.
They were well aware that the Seven Star Ghost Lotus beneath Yu Huang’s feet was the eye of the attack formation.
As long as they killed Yu Huang and destroyed the formation’s eye, the attack formation would naturally be broken.
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Inside the stone coffin.
“Such dense earth attribute power.”
Zhang Ruochen pressed his palm against the stone coffin’s wall, and instantly, the earth dao rules within his body became extremely active. Following that, the rules of the five elements dao all boiled over.
His palm showed signs of petrification.
He quickly withdrew his hand, and the petrified part of his palm vanished, returning to its flesh and blood state.
At the same time, a powerful and pure earth attribute power merged into his body, spreading throughout.
“How can this be? Could it be…”
Zhang Ruochen’s heartbeat quickened, and a look of joy appeared on his face. He carefully examined the stone coffin wall.
His mental power could not penetrate it, blocked by a mysterious force.
However, using his Truth Eye, Zhang Ruochen could still see something extremely extraordinary. The structure of the stone coffin was incredibly dense; even just one wall contained more earth attribute power than an entire planet.
“Interesting, very interesting! No wonder Blood Shadow Divine Mother said White Pale Blood Soil was right before my eyes.” Zhang Ruochen couldn’t help but let out a long laugh.
Yan Zhexian also sensed the stone coffin’s extraordinary nature. “Could it be that this stone coffin is forged from White Pale Blood Soil? That’s unbelievable! How much White Pale Blood Soil must have been used?”
White Pale Blood Soil was considered the Undying Blood Clan’s number one sacred object, also known as Undying Soil, Rebirth Soil, and Resurrection Soil.
If an entire stone coffin were made from White Pale Blood Soil, one could imagine how precious it was.
Yan Zhexian said, “Hurry up and undo my seal.”
Zhang Ruochen ignored her and sat down cross-legged, preparing to refine and absorb the White Pale Blood Soil.
Since he couldn’t open the stone coffin, he would have to “eat” it.
Perhaps he could take this opportunity to fuse the Earth Dao Sacred Will in one go.
“Right now, I have three hundred million sacred dao rules for each of the five elements, far surpassing other sacred daos. The chances of success should still be high,” Zhang Ruochen thought to himself.
After a moment’s thought, to be safe, he took out a Quasi-Emperor Grade Sacred Intent Pill and held it in his hand, ready to swallow it at any time.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen ignore her, Yan Zhexian was so angry her cheeks puffed up. “So much White Pale Blood Soil, can you eat it all by yourself? Aren’t you afraid of choking to death?”
Zhang Ruochen glanced at her.
When fusing sacred intents, he could not be disturbed in any way. Even though Yan Zhexian’s cultivation was sealed, she was still a potential threat. So, Zhang Ruochen put her into the Purple Gold Gourd.
He patted the gourd and muttered to himself, “You already contain all of Blood Shadow Divine Mother’s divine power and essence, gaining immeasurable benefits. Don’t compete with me for the White Pale Blood Soil.”
The fetus in Yan Zhexian’s belly contained energy many times more powerful than a Divine Source.
Although she was the one nurturing the fetus, the fetus gave her even more benefits in return.
Yan Zhexian’s future path to godhood would be much easier than that of countless cultivators.
Moreover, her cultivation speed would be astonishingly fast, and even Yan Wushen and Yan Huangtu might not be able to catch up.
One could say that the opportunity on the Undying Blood Clan’s clan star had been taken by Yan Zhexian!
Time passed quickly. The earth dao rules within Zhang Ruochen increased more and more, and they continuously transformed into water dao rules, fire dao rules, metal dao rules, and wood dao rules.
In a short time, the five elements sacred dao rules grew from three hundred million each to four hundred million, then five hundred million…
When they reached eight hundred million each, the total number of five elements sacred dao rules within Zhang Ruochen had surpassed the sum of all other sacred dao rules, reaching a critical point.
His body was no longer in a flesh-and-blood state; it appeared multicolored, like a human-shaped five-colored divine stone.
The five types of rules converged into five rivers of different colors, shuttling through his body. Wherever they passed, like a river bursting its banks, they broke through the blocked shackles.
“Crack!”
“Crack!”
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One shackle after another broke.
Zhang Ruochen’s Five Elements Chaos Undying Sacred Body climbed another level. He let out a loud shout, “Sacred intents unite, five elements merge.”
The Earth Dao Sacred Will was released, charging toward the Yin-Yang Five Elements Sacred Will. The two collided forcefully.
“Bang, bang.”
The sacred intents clashed again and again.
But the repulsion was too strong. The Earth Dao Sacred Will was repeatedly bounced back, showing no signs of merging.
Zhang Ruochen did not immediately swallow the Quasi-Emperor Grade Sacred Intent Pill. He wanted to try on his own first. After all, this was fusing a sixth sacred intent, not a seventh.
If he could succeed without the pill, his chances of cultivating a First-Rank Sacred Intent would greatly increase.
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Yu Huang and the Undying Blood Clan’s formation masters held out for a quarter of an hour, forcing two more Bone Clan Hundred Shackles Realm Great Saints to withdraw from the battlefield.
However, the attack formation was also battered and torn by the two Supreme Sacred Artifacts, on the verge of collapse.
At the northwestern border of Demon Heaven Continent, over a hundred Undying Blood Clan cultivators looked up at the sky, where thunder and fire surged. They could clearly feel the world-destroying forces colliding.
Most of them were Nine-Step Saint Kings, trembling all over, their legs shaking uncontrollably.
“Three Supreme Sacred Artifacts clashing—this is a high-level confrontation even among Great Saint battles.”
“The formation is about to be broken. Who can stop Yan Huangtu and Scarlet Red Great Saint?”
“With my cultivation, a Hundred Shackles Realm Great Saint could crush me with just one finger.”
Blood Ningxiao watched the shocking clash in the sky, suppressing the fear in her heart. Following Blood Demon’s instructions, she condensed two thousand-meter-long blood qi hands and tore open a plain beneath her feet.
“Rumble.”
A rift several hundred zhang wide appeared.
Beneath the rift was a Space Teleportation Array.
Blood Ningxiao said, “Now, you are carrying a total of one hundred forty million clansmen. Divide them equally among yourselves immediately.”
The fourteen Undying Blood Clan Great Saints released the one hundred forty million clansmen from their sleeves, filling the wilderness with a sea of people stretching endlessly.
“Each cultivator take one million clansmen. I will teleport you away,” Blood Ningxiao said.
One of the Great Saints said, “I won’t leave. I want to continue guarding the clan star.”
Blood Ningxiao said, “Yan Huangtu and Scarlet Red Great Saint’s purpose in coming to the clan star is not to occupy this planet, but to kill all the Undying Blood Clan’s members. Protecting our clansmen is our most important task right now.”
“I’ll go first.”
A Nine-Step Saint King said nothing more. Using blood fiend qi, he wrapped around one million clansmen and stepped directly onto the teleportation array.
“Whoosh!”
The formation activated, teleporting him to a certain starry sky in the Heaven Hunting Battlefield.
Then, the formation’s light flashed continuously.
Soon, sixty-three Undying Blood Clan Nine-Step Saint Kings were teleported away, sent to sixty-three different locations in the starry sky, taking sixty-three million clansmen with them.
From the sky came a roar ten times louder than before.
The power of the Supreme Sacred Artifact turned into a visible shockwave, descending from the heavens, covering everything, surging toward the ground of the clan star.
“Pfft!”
In an instant, a Nine-Step Saint King spat blood and fell to one knee.
Even Blood Ningxiao, who had reached the Great Saint realm, had her eardrums ruptured, with two lines of blood flowing out.
Fortunately, the fourteen Great Saints on the scene immediately collected the remaining seventy-seven million clansmen.
“The attack formation has been broken. There’s no time to continue teleporting. Everyone, flee into the ground!”
Blood Ningxiao turned into a streak of light, flew into the air, and descended from the sky, stomping down on the Space Teleportation Array, intending to destroy it.
She had waited so long, but Blade Prison Emperor and the Undying Blood Clan’s Great Saint army had not returned. Keeping this teleportation array was pointless. At the very least, it must not be left for Yan Huangtu and Scarlet Red Great Saint.
“Don’t destroy the formation!”
Scarlet Red Great Saint’s voice came from the sky.
The voice contained powerful mental power. With just a casual sentence, it blurred Blood Ningxiao’s thoughts. She hovered in midair, unable to continue stomping down.
Scarlet Red Great Saint’s voice was like a command, making her mind unable to resist.
In her skeleton form, Scarlet Red Great Saint broke through the atmosphere and flew rapidly toward the teleportation array.
If she could preserve the Space Teleportation Array, she could use the Path of Fate to deduce the positions of the sixty-three Nine-Step Saint Kings who had just been teleported away.
Otherwise, with the Heaven Hunting Battlefield’s starry sky so vast, even if the Bone Clan and Yan Luo Clan had heaven-defying abilities, they could not find all sixty-three Nine-Step Saint Kings within a single day.
The Undying Blood Clan cultivators knew the teleportation array had to be destroyed.
“I’ll hold her off for a moment. You destroy the array immediately.”
The Great Saint who had earlier claimed he would “continue guarding the clan star” let out a long roar. His sacred blood burned, and he spread six blood wings, charging into the sky, directly colliding with Scarlet Red Great Saint.
“With trash like you, you think you can destroy the teleportation array? Dream on!”
Scarlet Red Great Saint fully released her mental power, covering a thousand li radius below, suppressing all the Undying Blood Clan cultivators.
At the same time, her bone hand slashed down, striking the head of the burning Undying Blood Clan Great Saint.
“Bang!”
His head exploded like a watermelon, and his body was split in two.
The gap in cultivation was too great. He couldn’t even hold off Scarlet Red Great Saint for a moment.
Scarlet Red Great Saint felt an indescribable satisfaction. Earlier, the Bone Clan had been severely wounded by the Undying Blood Clan, forging a death feud. Now, she could finally teach the Undying Blood Clan a harsh lesson.
She didn’t need to kill them; just forcing them all to drop in cultivation level would suffice.
After all, as an invader, killing an Undying Blood Clan cultivator would deduct five hundred thousand points.
Suddenly, Scarlet Red Great Saint sensed a dangerous aura. She looked up.
The Undying Blood Clan Great Saint she had split in two had recombined his body. It turned crimson red, emitting ten thousand zhang of blood light, releasing increasingly powerful destructive energy fluctuations.
“Not good, he’s self-destructing his sacred source! Is this Undying Blood Clan Great Saint insane? This is just a ranking competition, not a life-or-death battle.”
Scarlet Red Great Saint cursed inwardly and immediately mobilized all her power, pouring it into her Supreme Sacred Artifact-level ring, activating its defensive power.
Although the opponent was only an Immortal Realm Great Saint, self-destructing at such close range would still pose a great threat to her.
Taking this opportunity, Blood Ningxiao’s body became ethereal, escaping Scarlet Red Great Saint’s mental suppression. She stomped heavily on the Space Teleportation Array, shattering it into pieces.
Then, she became ethereal again, as if merging into the air, and plunged into the ground.
“Boom.”
The sacred source exploded. The powerful destructive force slammed into Scarlet Red Great Saint. Her bone body fell vertically, crashing into the plain, creating a pit hundreds of meters in diameter.
Rolling dust surged up.
Scarlet Red Great Saint climbed out from the bottom of the pit, almost uninjured. She released a vast deathly aura from her body, covering the entire planet, and shouted, “Bone Clan Great Saints, hear my command! Pursue the Undying Blood Clan cultivators who have fled underground with all your might! Don’t kill them—just shatter their undying sacred bodies or dig out their sacred sources. Crippling their cultivation is the true torment!”