Chapter 2379: Five-Colored Radiance Illuminates Heaven and Earth
The moment the attack formation shattered, Yu Huang was sent flying backward, her skin cracking open and sacred blood scattering through the air.
She clenched her snow-white teeth, forcibly stabilizing her body, and transmitted her voice with spiritual power: "All formation masters, withdraw from the Heaven Hunting Battlefield immediately."
"But there are still two star-protecting grand formations that need our protection."
"No, we can still fight."
"Ten more hours, and the Heaven Hunt will end. We can delay them as long as we can."
None of the dozens of formation masters from the Undying Blood Clan left. Some entered the two star-protecting grand formations, while others entered the illusion formations on the ground to continue fighting.
The top position among the ten clans was within reach. On this critical final day, they had to hold on no matter what.
Every moment they held out was a moment less for the Yama Clan and Bone Clan to hunt down Undying Blood Clan members.
Every moment they held out, there was a chance Zhang Ruochen might return and stabilize the situation.
For the cultivators of the Undying Blood Clan, there had never been a moment they longed to see Zhang Ruochen more than now. This included not only the cultivators on their clan star but also the Undying Blood Clan beings across the entire Hell Realm watching the myriad realm projections.
Yu Huang was well aware that the attack formation had been destroyed. With the Yama Clan and Bone Clan cultivators working together from within and without, the two star-protecting grand formations would soon be breached.
Rather than continuing to resist and having their cultivation crippled, it would be better to withdraw from the battlefield immediately.
But she could barely protect herself now, so naturally, she couldn't command others.
A golden light shot straight toward her.
It was Yan Huangtu.
"Kill!"
Yan Huangtu didn't use any sacred art—just a straightforward punch.
Yu Huang barely managed to raise the Seven-Star Ghost Lotus to block the fist.
"Boom!"
She was sent flying, even more blood spilling from her body.
Yan Huangtu's punch was like a divine mountain pressing down, its power endless, shaking her entire skeleton with crackling sounds, nearly shattering it.
She blocked it?
Yan Huangtu was slightly surprised. He pursued and threw another punch.
Yu Huang's face was icy cold as she blocked again, her slender body flying like a scarecrow, the flesh on both arms turning to mud, revealing jade-like bones.
A third punch came.
Yu Huang crashed heavily to the ground, her entire body a bloody mess.
"Boom!"
Yan Huangtu landed on the ground, cracking it with dense fissures. Nine Dragon Divine Patterns circled his body as he walked toward the fallen Yu Huang. "To cause me such trouble with formations and withstand three of my punches without dying—you're quite remarkable. You've truly stood out in this Heaven Hunt. You'll surely receive focused nurturing from the Undying Blood Clan gods. I don't want to kill you. Hand over the Seven-Star Ghost Lotus and the Undying Blood Clan members, and withdraw from the battlefield yourself."
Yu Huang extended a hand that was half flesh, half bone, supporting herself as she slowly rose. Her pupils blazed with flames, her expression resolute and unyielding. She said in a deep voice, "For this emperor to surrender to an enemy—that's impossible. I'd rather die than retreat."
Every word was squeezed through clenched teeth.
"Ssss—"
She activated a forbidden art, and her blood-soaked body burst into flames.
"Heaven and Earth devour blood, the Nine Nether devours souls."
Flames in the form of blood snakes traveled through her skin, flesh, and bones, immense pain spreading through her entire body, forcing a long, agonized scream from her lips.
Great Saint blood and lifespan were rapidly consumed, transformed into powerful energy, causing the aura emanating from Yu Huang to grow stronger and stronger.
Above her head, the Seven-Star Ghost Lotus manifested dense Supreme Inscription Runes, releasing energy that was both yin-cold and dark, instantly covering the thousands-of-miles-long continent beneath them with a thick layer of black ice.
Tens of thousands of yin souls flew out from the ghost lotus, howling in the sky.
Yan Huangtu's face turned completely cold. "Since you've rejected my goodwill, from now on, life and death are on your own head."
Yu Huang was already a top-ten powerhouse on the Hundred Shackles Great Perfection Ranking. After burning her sacred blood and lifespan, her combat power surged dramatically. Coupled with her control of a Supreme Sacred Artifact, her strength could now pose a certain threat to Yan Huangtu.
Naturally, Yan Huangtu had to go all out and could no longer show mercy.
If even Yan Huangtu had to go all out, it showed just how powerful Yu Huang had become.
"Rustle—"
Yan Huangtu assumed a bow stance and swung the Tongtian Ruyi.
The Tongtian Ruyi radiated brilliant light, and wherever it shone, the black ice instantly melted.
Finally, the two Supreme Sacred Artifact forces clashed, causing the continent beneath them to collapse over a large area.
All the illusion formation patterns shattered completely.
The cultivators on the continent were all sent flying, many severely injured and forced to leave the battlefield.
Yu Huang retreated dozens of miles, more than seventy percent of her flesh stripped away by the storm of Supreme Sacred Artifact power. Even with the forbidden art, she still couldn't match Yan Huangtu.
"Fight! I will never admit defeat, never retreat."
Yu Huang's personality was strong and stubborn. She never bowed to any cultivator, not even Zhang Ruochen. Though he had defeated her, she had never conceded to him.
Her battles with Zhang Ruochen were merely sparring.
But Yan Huangtu was now an enemy threatening the entire Undying Blood Clan, so naturally, she was even less likely to yield.
"Boom!"
"Boom, boom!"
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The Supreme Sacred Artifacts clashed fiercely, splitting the continent beneath them into dozens of islands.
On the blood-red ocean, monstrous waves surged.
The powerful energy storm triggered continuous hurricanes across the planet, plunging heaven and earth into extreme darkness.
"I cannot lose. This emperor absolutely cannot lose. I boasted to Zhang Ruochen that no one could breach our clan star. Even if I fight to the last drop of blood, I must hold on."
Ninety percent of Yu Huang's flesh had been blasted away by Yan Huangtu, her internal organs tattered, resembling a skeleton. Yet she still held up the Seven-Star Ghost Lotus, clashing fiercely with Yan Huangtu.
Blood Demon defeated the Bone Clan's Hundred Shackles Great Perfection Great Saint, Sang Qi. Spreading his ten black fleshy wings, he hovered in midair, gazing at the sea where Yu Huang and Yan Huangtu were clashing. He paused for a moment and said, "This woman looks delicate and cold, but she's incredibly stubborn, going head-to-head with Yan Huangtu, who has the Innate Imperial Dao Supreme Divine Bone. With her physical body, how long can she sustain activating a Supreme Sacred Artifact?"
Blood Demon, unlike Yu Huang, was far more clever. He dove straight into the ground.
"Better find that kid Zhang Ruochen first. If he doesn't show up, no one can stop Yan Huangtu."
Though he had defeated Sang Qi earlier, Blood Demon was also severely injured, his chest pierced through by his opponent.
Fortunately, the self-healing ability of the Heavenly Witch Great Demon Body was extremely strong, so it didn't affect his continued fighting. Otherwise, he would have already withdrawn from the battlefield. Stubbornly holding on was meaningless.
The gods of the Blood Heaven Tribe all gathered in Blood Absolute War God's divine realm world.
Blood Queen nodded in satisfaction. "Xia Yu has a firm will and has fused a third-rank sacred intent. She can already glimpse the signs of godhood. If she can survive this trial, she might soar in the future, becoming another god of the Blood Heaven Tribe who grasps profound meaning. Chen'er has a good eye for people."
Gods who could grasp profound meaning were rare in the entire Blood Heaven Tribe, each one capable of holding up the sky.
The gods present all sighed.
They knew well that Xia Yu would definitely align with the Blood Absolute Clan. It was too late to win her over now.
Hadn't they seen that a Supreme Sacred Artifact had already been given to her?
Hadn't they heard Blood Queen's tone, as if she were appraising her future daughter-in-law?
Perhaps after the Heaven Hunt ended, Xia Yu would marry into the Blood Absolute Clan, becoming a core member and dashing the hopes of other gods.
The Qianche Divine Temple had long been hostile to the Xia Clan, annexing large swaths of their territory.
The temple master of Qianche Divine Temple was only a false god, seated at the lowest rank among the gods. Now he pondered whether to voluntarily return those territories to the Xia Clan. After all, with the support of the Blood Absolute Clan, Xia Yu had a high chance of becoming a god in the future.
Moreover, even if she didn't become a god, if she married Zhang Ruochen—this earth-shattering, unparalleled prodigy—how could he, a false god, afford to provoke him?
Blood Queen only had Zhang Ruochen as her offspring.
Besides, everyone could see that Blood Absolute War God had placed great hopes in Zhang Ruochen, treating him as the family's future heir.
"No, wait a little longer. What if she dies at Yan Huangtu's hands?"
The Qianche Divine Temple master closed his eyes again, waiting for the outcome.
The gods of the Blood Heaven Tribe all wished Yu Huang would voluntarily concede and withdraw from the battlefield immediately. After all, fighting Yan Huangtu to this extent was already remarkable.
Continuing to hold on risked death.
The most frustrated, however, was Yan Huangtu.
This was just the Heaven Hunt—there was no mortal enmity between the two sides. Why did she have to fight so desperately?
Back then, Xu had self-destructed his sacred source because he was the Ghost Clan's leader. With his clan star destroyed, he bore primary responsibility. Even if he escaped the battlefield, Ghost Lord would punish him cruelly.
Ghost Lord's methods were too ruthless; he would likely die anyway.
Since death was certain, he chose self-destruction, dying more gloriously.
But you, Xia Yu, are only the fourth-ranking figure of the Undying Blood Clan. Why are you fighting him to the death? Losing to Yan Huangtu is an honor, not a disgrace.
For the Undying Blood Clan, blood was the most important thing.
Over ninety percent of Yu Huang's sacred blood had been lost. How could she still hold on?
Yan Huangtu looked closely and finally noticed that Yu Huang's bones and heart were inscribed with formation patterns, forming a ninth-rank grand formation. From her heart, a steady stream of blood energy surged, sustaining her continuous battle.
"How can a single heart contain so much blood energy? How did she do it?" Yan Huangtu found it hard to understand.
He naturally didn't know that Yu Huang had sealed her Sacred Blood Shadow inside her heart.
While Yan Huangtu was delayed by Yu Huang, the two star-protecting grand formations remained unbreached, with the Bone Clan and Yama Clan's large numbers of powerful experts still blocked outside the planet.
But the Undying Blood Clan's formation masters had been wiped out.
Some had voluntarily fled the battlefield.
Others had their sacred sources dug out and were exiled to the void space.
Some were accidentally killed by Bone Clan Great Saints, their souls scattered, their bodies turning to ash and scattering across the clan star.
This battle was too brutal.
For both the Bone Clan and the Undying Blood Clan.
In the Destiny Temple, the Undying Blood Clan gods all wore stern expressions. They weren't moved by the Undying Blood Clan's crushing defeat, as they had foreseen this outcome.
That the Undying Blood Clan cultivators had fought this far already satisfied them.
The only thing that angered and puzzled them was: where had Zhang Ruochen gone? If he were here, the battle wouldn't have reached this point.
Pink Skeleton stood at the edge of the shattered space teleportation array, with the Gate of Destiny appearing behind her.
One after another, fate rules flew out from the gate, like threads, pulling the shattered array back together, repairing it into a complete form.
The bone fire in her pupils flickered, as if she were smiling.
"Stop dawdling. Finish her off and kill all the Undying Blood Clan members—that's the real task." She transmitted her voice to Yan Huangtu.
"Alright, it's time to end this."
Yan Huangtu manipulated the Tongtian Ruyi, sending the Seven-Star Ghost Lotus flying away with a collision.
At the same time, he threw both fists, sending thousands of divine pattern dragon shadows flying with his punches, crashing into Yu Huang's body.
"Crack!"
Yu Huang was sent flying, the formations on her body shattering inch by inch.
Her crystalline Great Saint bones broke like glass, her eyes filled with unwillingness. In her heart, she was bitter: "Even after giving my all, I still can't change the outcome of defeat. Zhang Ruochen... Xia Yu has let you down... let you down..."
At this moment, she no longer wanted to call herself "this emperor."
It wasn't that her confidence was shattered, but that she felt she had no face to see Zhang Ruochen again. He had given her the Sacred Blood Shadow and the Supreme Sacred Artifact, and helped her cultivate a third-rank sacred intent. Yet she still suffered a crushing defeat, failing to protect the clan star.
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After Blood Shadow Divine Mother fell, the blood shadow ghost seeds underground all disappeared.
Blood Demon followed the blood river through the maze-like channels to the planet's core. There, he saw Zhang Ruochen sitting alone beneath a jade tree in the form of a young girl, perched on its roots, his entire body radiating five-colored light.
"This kid, still cultivating at a time like this. Didn't they say there was a stone coffin at the planet's core? Where is it?"
Blood Demon was also interested in the clan star's fortune.
Just as he stepped onto the stone stairs and was about to walk toward Zhang Ruochen, the five-colored light on Zhang Ruochen's body suddenly intensified ten thousand times. The five-colored tidal wave sent Blood Demon flying backward, his body crashing into the stone wall.
"Whoosh—"
The five-colored radiance surged along the channels, reversing the river's flow, spreading from the planet's core to the surface. Even the cultivators in the channels were swept away.
On the ground, beams of five-colored light shot up.
In that instant, the entire clan star lit up like a blood-red lightbulb, emitting dazzling five-colored brilliance from every part of the planet, resplendent and beautiful.
The planet seemed made of sand—soil, stones, mountains—all detached, revealing a crisscrossing network of jade-white, hard channels.
Blood Shadow Divine Mother's true body was completely stripped away, over ten thousand miles tall, in the form of a jade tree.
Every channel was a branch.
Even though Blood Shadow Divine Mother had already fallen, her divine power, essence, and soul fragments all entering Yan Zhexian's stomach, she still exuded an awe-inspiring aura.
Zhang Ruochen sat at the base of the tree's roots, the five-colored light radiating from his body illuminating the entire Heaven Hunting Battlefield, faintly visible billions of miles away.
Though it wasn't even one ten-thousandth as bright as starlight, it startled all the gods, who were even more dazzling than stars.
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