# Chapter 2871: Fourth Generation Devouring God Insects
Just as he stepped into the Star Gate Subduing Kun Grand Formation, the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor immediately felt the world spinning, with the pressure of space force pressing in from all directions, compressing his Divine Realm World inward continuously.
"Old thing, do you think you can scheme against me with just a space formation? I'll cut you down first!"
The Four-Armored Blood Ancestor released surging Divine Qi, stabilizing his form. The palm pressed against Zhang Ruochen's shoulder flowed with blood patterns, erupting with powerful force capable of tearing space apart.
"Boom!"
Zhang Ruochen's shoulder shattered, blood gushing forth as one arm was forcibly torn off by the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor.
The Four-Armored Blood Ancestor held the bloody arm, then looked at Zhang Ruochen, who had taken a single step and fled into the distance. His eyes flickered with slight surprise. Who would have thought that a Spiritual Power God could react so quickly?
One must understand that in that situation just now, Zhang Ruochen should have been in a death trap.
Sharp pain came from the shoulder, but Zhang Ruochen seemed completely unconcerned. He raised his right hand above his head, releasing Spiritual Power to activate the Star Gate Subduing Kun Grand Formation.
Within this space divine formation, countless formation inscription patterns emerged, forming a brilliant starry sky above.
"Star Gate" meant "guard and suppress."
"Kun" was one of the eight trigrams.
Qian represented heaven, Kun represented earth.
Subduing Kun meant suppressing the earth.
As the Star Gate Subduing Kun Grand Formation activated, the space force's pressure on the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor grew even stronger. More terrifyingly, in the starry sky above, countless stars converged to form a Star Gate.
Even before the Star Gate descended, the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor already felt a suffocating pressure.
"Space divine formation, Yin Dun Nine Formations, Subduing Kun Gate."
The Four-Armored Blood Ancestor gritted his teeth, resisting the space compression as he slowly raised his blood blade.
Hundreds of millions of Rule Divine Patterns burst forth from within his body.
With nearly a hundred thousand years of cultivation accumulated, the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor's number of internal Rule Divine Patterns and depth of Divine Qi far surpassed Wuma Jiuxing by countless times. Even if Wuma Jiuxing possessed Sword Dao Essence, it would be difficult to make up for the gap in cultivation.
"Whoosh!"
The blood blade sliced through space, severing formation inscription patterns.
Even the Heavenly and Earthly Rules were completely cut through, turning the space around the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor into a forbidden Dao zone.
This so-called forbidden Dao meant no Heavenly and Earthly Rules, no formation inscription patterns, no external forces of any kind.
Only himself remained.
"Roar!"
The Four-Armored Blood Ancestor let out an angry roar, the divine sound shattering Zhang Ruochen's eardrums.
His already burly body grew wildly within the Blood Sea Divine Realm World beneath his feet, quickly transforming into a six-hundred-zhang-tall blood-haired demon god giant.
When exhaling, blood Qi turned into a long blood river.
When inhaling, heaven and earth trembled, and the space divine formation seemed on the verge of shattering.
"Old fellow, watch me cut you down with one strike. Blood Battle Nine Heavens!"
The Four-Armored Blood Ancestor's mountain-like divine body radiated divine light brighter than the sun. On his skin, blood vessels like flood dragons slithered throughout his entire body.
He struck upward with his blade!
The blade's momentum was so fierce, the divine power so profound, it surpassed even the forbidden Dao strike from before.
Zhang Ruochen remained unfazed, uttering two words: "Suppress it."
The Star Gate took shape, descending from the heavens, ten thousand li tall, formed from countless stars.
The blood blade Qi that the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor had struck out was instantly crushed by the Star Gate. His six-hundred-zhang-tall divine body was suppressed, sinking into the depths of the space formation.
"Break for me!"
"Fight!"
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Trapped beneath the Star Gate, the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor's roars continued without end as he unleashed various trump card techniques, but he could not shake the Star Gate.
Zhang Ruochen flew down atop the Star Gate, found his torn-off left arm, and reattached it, saying: "Although the formation inscription patterns of this Star Gate Subduing Kun Grand Formation have dimmed considerably, suppressing you is still no difficult task."
"You can't kill me! Yan God, Jia Linnan, and Kailan Feili must have already sensed something wrong. They will soon break through here, and then it will be your death." The Four-Armored Blood Ancestor's resentful voice came from beneath the Star Gate.
"You think I can't kill you?" Zhang Ruochen said.
Although the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor was suppressed by the Star Gate, his Blood Sea Divine Realm World remained intact, wrapping around him like a huge blood cocoon. The Supreme Sacred Artifact blood blade erupted with Supreme power, forming a winding several-hundred-li blade river that protected the blood cocoon.
The Four-Armored Blood Ancestor's fearless sneer came from within the blood cocoon.
It was no wonder the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor showed no fear. One must understand that when Zhang Ruochen used the stone cauldron to refine and kill Wuma Jiuxing, it had taken quite some time.
And now, Yan God, Jia Linnan, and Kailan Feili could break in at any moment, destroying the Star Gate Subduing Kun Grand Formation.
"Boom!"
Space shook.
Sword light like a river of stars pierced through the space formation, entering this space and flying past above Zhang Ruochen's head.
The Four-Armored Blood Ancestor's laughter grew louder: "They've already begun attacking. With this Star Gate Subduing Kun Grand Formation, whose power has already been greatly diminished, you want to both suppress me and block them? That's nothing but wishful thinking. Old thing, hand over the Heavenly Venerable Gauze, and I'll give you a quick death when the time comes."
"I originally wanted to give you a quick death, but it seems the situation won't allow it."
Zhang Ruochen sighed like this, then took out a bronze coffin.
The bronze coffin opened, and a black cloud of insects flew out, charging toward the blood cocoon beneath the Star Gate.
The blood cocoon was gnawed by the insect cloud, shrinking continuously.
Even though the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor continuously manipulated the Supreme Sacred Artifact blood blade to strike, he could not stop them. Their defensive power was formidable, unaffected by blade Qi impact, and only a direct hit from the Supreme Sacred Artifact could kill them.
"No! What are these things..."
The Four-Armored Blood Ancestor could no longer laugh, his voice filled with terror.
He did not recognize them as Devouring God Insects.
This was because, after absorbing the divine blood from the Dark Blood River of the Ancient Desolate Ruins City, the Devouring God Insects had evolved to the fourth generation.
The fourth-generation Devouring God Insects contained the unique Dark Strange Qi of the Ancient Desolate Ruins City. Their heads were covered in dense scales, somewhat resembling dragon heads, and their teeth were sharper than before.
They looked like insect-clan dragon-type strange beasts.
The insect swarm was too numerous to block, gnawing through the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor's Divine Realm World until it was riddled with holes and tattered.
Feeling the threat to his life, the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor quickly compromised, saying: "The elder's methods are truly brilliant. Please forgive my earlier offense. Since you are a friend of the Heavenly Realm Faction, quickly withdraw your divine power, and we can all sit down and talk properly."
"Too late. Next time."
Zhang Ruochen no longer paid attention to the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor below, his gaze fixed outside the formation, his expression becoming much more serious.
"Next time... you..."
The Four-Armored Blood Ancestor was nearly driven mad with rage, his eyes fierce, saying: "Then let's die together!"
Dying together was the final resort for gods, and also the most deterrent method.
After all, with a god like the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor, a mid-rank god, self-detonating his Divine Source at such close range, even a high-rank god would most likely die.
But what made the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor's mentality collapse was that the old fellow, upon hearing this, still did not look at him directly, completely disregarding his threat.
Devouring God Insects had already pounced onto the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor's divine body.
"Rip!"
The divine body's powerful defense was useless.
Flesh was torn off piece by piece, swallowed into the insects' bellies.
"Too much!"
The Four-Armored Blood Ancestor's eyes were blood-red as he circulated Divine Qi, surging it toward his Divine Source.
"Buzz!"
"Buzz!"
...
The Devouring God Insects from all directions emitted strange sound waves containing Spiritual Power, forcibly suppressing the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor's spiritual will to self-detonate his Divine Source.
The self-detonation failed!
The third-generation Devouring God Insects already possessed the power to launch Spiritual Power interference.
Having evolved to the fourth generation, the Spiritual Power sound waves they unleashed were already extremely terrifying, something the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor could not resist.
Amid screams and curses, the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor was torn apart and devoured by the insect swarm.
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Divine Maiden Tower, Under Heaven.
Shang Hong sat opposite a charming and sinister man with petal marks on his face. Beside them, a maidservant played music, strumming a phoenix-tail long zither.
The charming and sinister man was a high-rank god from the third-ranked great realm of the Western Universe, "Cha Realm," named Lan Jun. He was also a god-level powerhouse born in this eon.
"That old man must have a deep connection with the Divine Master of the Goddess Twelve Pavilions. Why would Bai Qinger tell you about his hiding place? Could there be a trap?" Lan Jun said.
Shang Hong's expression was leisurely, saying: "I've already sent a message to ask my father, and I know the identity of that Divine Master. Although she is connected to the Goddess Twelve Pavilions, she is not one of them."
"Bai Qinger is skilled in strategy and wisdom, but these are all things I've played with before and then discarded. The higher one's cultivation, the more one understands that no schemes and intrigues can compare to powerful cultivation."
Shang Hong continued: "As for the temple Bai Qinger mentioned, I've actually already looked up the information and understand it in detail. Legend has it that in the distant past, it was the dojo of Star Huan Heavenly Venerable's second disciple. Have you heard the story of the Four Disciples Dismemberment?"
Lan Jun said: "The Four Disciples Dismemberment refers to after Star Huan Heavenly Venerable's death, his four god-venerable disciples dismembered his body, turning it into four treasures: the Heavenly Venerable Gauze, the Heavenly Venerable Divine Source, the Heavenly Venerable World, and the Heavenly Venerable Heavenly Body."
Shang Hong said: "Star Huan Heavenly Venerable's second disciple was the one who took the Heavenly Venerable Divine Source. It is said that obtaining this Divine Source allows one to cultivate into a powerhouse surpassing the upper three ranks of false gods, with combat power that can even rival god-venerables. Most importantly, refining the Heavenly Venerable Divine Source grants one a long lifespan."
Even someone like Lan Jun showed a burning, greedy look in his eyes, saying: "So, that old man whose lifespan is about to run out might indeed have gone to the temple to find the Heavenly Venerable Divine Source to extend his life. Bai Qiner leaking this secret to you—has she truly made her choice to join the Shang Clan's camp?"
Shang Hong smiled faintly: "No matter what she's thinking, or whether that old man is actually hiding in the temple, I'll still send Yan God, the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor, and the others to investigate. If the Heavenly Venerable Divine Source really is there, the Shang Clan can quickly create another top-tier powerhouse."
"So, in your eyes, whether this is Bai Qinger's trap or not doesn't really matter," Lan Jun said.
Shang Hong said: "So what if it's a trap? Any one of the four gods has a chance to defeat that old man. Four gods going together... Huh..."
Shang Hong sensed something, suddenly standing up, staring straight into the starry sky. He saw that the Four-Armored Blood Ancestor's Star Soul Divine Throne's light had dimmed, then disappeared.
Another true god from the Heavenly Realm Faction had fallen!
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Some readers come to tell me that Yan God's combat power is inferior to Xue Hou and Underworld King and such. Actually, everyone can go back and read those two chapters carefully.
What was written was clearly that at the time, Yan God had been cut off a small part of his body by Moon God, and his injuries had not recovered.
Second, at the time, Yan God's psychological activity was written, describing that he knew the Heavenly Court's gods were about to arrive, and with his injuries, there was no need to fight to the death with the Hell Realm's true gods.
Third, Yan God cultivates the Three Corpses Dao, possessing three equally powerful divine bodies. When fighting Xue Hou and Underworld King, he only used one divine body.
Actually, there are many details, just like many readers tell me that the Truth Hall Master isn't strong enough and can't kill Desolate Heaven. Bian Zhuang isn't strong enough, needing to use a divine artifact to kill a three-star god. Wouldn't one use a divine artifact if they had one?
Moreover, it was never written that the Truth Hall Master couldn't kill Desolate Heaven. What was written was the Truth Hall Master's own psychological activity—that completely erasing Desolate Heaven was already an extremely difficult matter.
Actually, for characters far more powerful than the protagonist, the combat power levels can't be written too clearly, just like the specific divisions of the Infinite Realm haven't been written yet.
Because writing too clearly limits everyone's imagination.
Actually, when reading xianxia, what everyone imagines in their minds is far more brilliant than what the author writes. So, for the author, besides telling a good story, it's more important to find ways to leave appropriate blank spaces, to blur some things, and to let readers fill in the gaps themselves. But every reader is an independent individual with their own thoughts, leading to different understandings, which inevitably creates controversy.
Now, to respond to such controversies, I deliberately explain a lot when writing every battle. Actually, this affects more readers' reading experience. I don't want to explain too much from now on. I'll just write according to my own rhythm!
Regarding these matters, it's hard to answer them one by one. Maybe in a few days, I'll open a livestream, and everyone can chat together.