Chapter 2966: Suppressed with a Smile
The Three-Armor Blood Ancestor, burning his divine blood, greatly increased his power. The blood blade in his hand slashed out river-like sword strikes as he charged left and right, but he could not break through the formation and escape.
Formation inscriptions, like mysterious silk and iron chains, densely filled the space.
In the starry sky, a piercing cry of a Golden Crow echoed.
The supreme sacred artifact, the "Golden Crow Ancient Cauldron," descended like a dazzling sun, carrying the power of the formation, rolling down with overwhelming might, shaking the world, and causing countless blood feathers to fall from the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor's back.
Before the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor could catch his breath, the second supreme sacred artifact, the "Titan Ghost Axe," with a blade edge a thousand zhang long, cold and sinister, fell like a cleaver splitting heaven and earth.
"Bang!"
The blood blade swung out, clashing with the ghost axe.
Sparks flew everywhere!
The Ten-Thousand Refining Tower descended spinning from the Three Bounds Twenty-Eight Mansions Grand Formation, trapping the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor inside. On the tower's body, dense supreme inscription runes emerged, dazzling and brilliant.
From within the tower came the roars of the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor.
Blood-red divine qi continuously seeped out from the tower's gate.
Xiao Hei chuckled darkly, releasing his divine qi endlessly to control the Ten-Thousand Refining Tower through the formation, using the tower to refine the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor. The so-called "ten-thousand refinements" meant refining everything in the world.
Shuo Qianhai gazed into the starry sky at the cat-head phantom, massive as a mountain, and was secretly shocked. "No wonder he is the son of the Ice King. Although he is only at the initial stage of Upper Deity, his spiritual power and formation mastery have reached a very high level. Even if I were to face him, I probably wouldn't come out ahead. The Sundial is truly extraordinary; in just a few decades, it allowed a new god to catch up."
Zhang Ruochen's eyes narrowed sharply. "This is bad!"
Inside the Three Bounds Twenty-Eight Mansions Grand Formation, the Ten-Thousand Refining Tower was being stretched larger and larger, its height growing from three thousand zhang to thirty thousand zhang, then three hundred thousand zhang...
"Crack, crack!"
Cracking sounds rang out.
Blood-red light marks appeared on the Ten-Thousand Refining Tower.
"Boom!"
The tower's body exploded, fragments flying everywhere.
An unparalleled blade qi surged out from within, colliding with the divine qi wave, slamming into the formation Xiao Hei had set up.
The Ten-Thousand Refining Tower was a crucial component of the Three Bounds Twenty-Eight Mansions Grand Formation. With its destruction, the divine formation was severely damaged, its power greatly diminished, unable to withstand the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor in his divine-blood-burning state.
Formation inscriptions shattered in large patches, and Xiao Hei's divine shadow was torn apart by the blade light.
Xiao Hei's true body was forced to appear.
His heart ached terribly as he fled, saying, "Zhang Ruochen, this is all your fault! I told you to give me three supreme sacred artifacts, but you had to pull out a defective piece to make up the numbers. Now look—not only was the tower destroyed, but the divine formation I painstakingly refined is also ruined."
The Ten-Thousand Refining Tower consisted of seven towers in total; only all seven together formed a complete supreme sacred artifact. Relying on just one tower to suppress an Upper Deity like the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor was clearly a fool's errand.
Zhang Ruochen said, "In that case, give me back the Golden Crow Ancient Cauldron and the Titan Ghost Axe. It's all my fault for giving you supreme sacred artifacts."
Shuo Qianhai was extremely tense. The Three-Armor Blood Ancestor, burning his divine blood, had broken out of the formation, murderous and imposing. Yet these two still had the leisure to bicker.
"Three-Armor Blood Ancestor, take my pillar!"
Shuo Qianhai took a step forward, crossing one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred li, appearing before the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor and swinging his White Bone Divine Pillar.
"Boom!"
With one clash,
Shuo Qianhai quickly retreated, blood flowing profusely from his wounds, injured by the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor's blade light.
A look of wariness appeared in Shuo Qianhai's eyes. "Realm Lord Ruochen, the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor is now in a frenzied, desperate state, with formidable combat power. It's best we avoid a direct confrontation and just hold him off. The Great God of the Falling Star Divine Temple should arrive soon."
Wait for the Great God of the Falling Star Divine Temple?
If a Great God came, where would Zhang Ruochen get any benefits?
The Three-Armor Blood Ancestor, a peak Upper Deity, was a treasure trove. In his severely injured state, this was a perfect opportunity—how could he let it slip away?
Zhang Ruochen shook his head. "This place is not far from the Blazing Sun Civilization. By the time the Great God of the Falling Star Divine Temple arrives, the Heavenly Court's Great God will probably be here too. By then, how could we still kill the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor?"
Seeing that Zhang Ruochen had murderous intent, Shuo Qianhai's expression changed. "Realm Lord, please think twice. Given the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor's current state, even with the three of us combined, we might not be his match. Even if we win by luck, if he is forced to self-destruct his divine source, wouldn't we be throwing away our lives for nothing?"
Zhang Ruochen smiled faintly. A seven-colored radiance appeared on his body, sliding off and flying toward the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor, who was chasing Xiao Hei.
The seven-colored radiance unfolded, turning into a sky-covering, earth-shrouding colorful garment.
Shuo Qianhai exclaimed, "The Seven-Source Colorful Garment!"
The Seven-Source Colorful Garment was the number one treasure of the Yin-Yang Realm's Realm Lord, "Colorful Garment God." It was an extremely powerful Chaos-level supreme sacred artifact. Even as a defensive supreme sacred artifact, its offensive power far surpassed Heaven-Suppressing-level supreme sacred artifacts like the Golden Crow Ancient Cauldron, Titan Ghost Axe, Soul-Devouring Bell, and Ten-Thousand-Curse Heavenly Bead.
Of course, that was secondary.
The most important thing was that Colorful Garment God had poured countless efforts into the Seven-Source Colorful Garment, refining three protective divine formations into it alone.
There was source-stimulating lightning hidden in every thread, and vast amounts of Nirvana Heavenly Fire stored in the inner spaces of the two sleeves...
The Seven-Source Colorful Garment was refined from seven different divine forging materials, concealing seven different powers. Each power, when released, could pose varying degrees of threat to a Great God.
Back then, Colorful Garment God had been careless and overconfident, sending a doppelganger with the Seven-Source Colorful Garment to the Rain Chen Divine Temple. But he was caught off guard by Yu Longxian and was destroyed before he could unleash the garment's various means. No wonder, upon discovering his doppelganger was destroyed and the Seven-Source Colorful Garment lost, he became furious and lost his composure, rushing to the Rain Chen Divine Temple without regard. In the end, he was struck into the ground by Desolate Heaven, becoming food for the old corpse god.
It could be said that this Seven-Source Colorful Garment, in the hands of a Heaven-Mending Realm deity, was more useful than a divine artifact.
On Xinghuantian, Zhang Ruochen had already refined this treasure garment and could use it at will.
The Seven-Source Colorful Garment descended, directly enveloping the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor.
Every thread of the garment contained vast internal spaces, from which dense source-stimulating lightning surged, striking the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor.
These lightning bolts were condensed from Colorful Garment God's own divine power and stored within the garment—their power was unimaginable.
In moments, the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor had no more movement.
"Retrieve!"
Zhang Ruochen reached out and pulled back the Seven-Source Colorful Garment, which shrank to the size of a normal robe.
The garment was like a bag, bulging inside.
Zhang Ruochen held the two sleeves, collar, and hem, tightly wrapping the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor inside.
Confirming he had lost consciousness, Zhang Ruochen unfolded the garment and suppressed the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor, who had been refined into a mass of blood mist by the source-stimulating lightning, beneath the Bright Mirror Platform in the "Sixth Patriarch's Zen-Release Diagram."
Under the service of Mo Yin's jade-like hands, Zhang Ruochen put the Seven-Source Colorful Garment back on.
The colorful garment faded and disappeared.
Shuo Qianhai watched in stunned disbelief. Even though the Three-Armor Blood Ancestor was severely injured and his combat power greatly diminished, he was still a genuine peak Upper Deity.
How had Zhang Ruochen suppressed him so effortlessly?
In the end, Shuo Qianhai could only attribute it all to the power of the Seven-Source Colorful Garment and the immense reputation of Colorful Garment God.
But on the surface, he absolutely could not say that.
Shuo Qianhai clasped his hands in salute, looking utterly impressed, and said, "Today, this god has truly witnessed something extraordinary. The world believes that Realm Lord Ruochen relies on the power of Heavenly Mother to dominate the world. Who would know that even without his martial cultivation, the Realm Lord, relying solely on his spiritual power, can become the top expert of this eon?"
In front of Shuo Qianhai, Zhang Ruochen did not want to be modest. He smiled and waved his hand. "This is nothing. My six divine swords have long been thirsting for battle, but unfortunately, there is no place to use them."
Shuo Qianhai's whole body twitched upon hearing this. Talking to someone with such heaven-defying luck was truly disheartening.
Xiao Hei flew back. "Zhang Ruochen, would you say we are life-and-death brothers?"
Zhang Ruochen knew Xiao Hei too well and ignored him, immediately taking Chi Kongle and Mo Yin and flying into the wormhole.
"Is it necessary to be like this? I don't want the divine swords—just give me the Seven-Source Colorful Garment. Hey, wait for me!" Xiao Hei chased after him.
From the wormhole, Zhang Ruochen's voice drifted out: "Brother Qianhai, I'll leave this place to you. If the Hell Realm's Great God asks, please cover for me."
Hearing the words "Brother Qianhai," Shuo Qianhai immediately perked up.
Had their relationship suddenly become so close?
Whether it was the strength Zhang Ruochen had displayed or the backing of major figures like Heavenly Mother, Nine Heavens, and Xue Jue War God, Shuo Qianhai dared not oppose Zhang Ruochen.
On the contrary, befriending Zhang Ruochen would bring him endless benefits.
Thinking of this, Shuo Qianhai released his spiritual power to clear the residual auras of Xiao Hei and Zhang Ruochen from this starry space, then communicated with the spiritual deity guarding the Divine Eye Heavenly Realm.
...
Zhang Ruochen, with the Wine Ghost and Yunshen Daozhu concealing his heavenly secrets, passed through the space wormhole and arrived in the starry sky of the Heavenly Court's universe without alerting the deities in the nearby star regions. He headed straight for the Kunlun Realm.
Everything became easy from there.
Zhang Ruochen changed his appearance, mingling among cultivators from various Heavenly Court realms. Through repeated space teleportations, within a few days, he entered the Kunlun Realm.
After all, the most heavily guarded area was still the Starry Sky Defense Line. As long as those space teleportation arrays and wormholes were not guarded by God Kings or God Venerables, Zhang Ruochen was confident he could slip through undetected.