# Chapter 3029: Bone Ancestor Divine Art
Unexpectedly, the Heaven-Collapsing Divine Array actually blocked the destructive energy produced by the True God's self-destruction, suppressing all the energy tightly within the array, unable to escape outward.
The Ancestral Realm Realm Venerable laughed: "No need to panic, Ruochen Realm Venerable. If the divine array that our Yaksha Clan spent years arranging couldn't even block the energy of a self-detonating Divine Source, how could it suppress and kill a Great God?"
"The Great God of the Darkness Temple clearly also misjudged the defensive power of the Heaven-Collapsing Divine Array. Just now, it should have been a Heaven-Repairing Realm deity self-detonating their Divine Source. This power has been suppressed within a million miles. At such a close distance, with such powerful destructive force, even a Town-Heaven Rank Supreme Sacred Artifact couldn't withstand it. The Great God of the Darkness Temple must have already been severely injured by the backlash."
Zhang Ruochen stared intently at the interior of the Heaven-Collapsing Divine Array, his expression growing increasingly grave. "Realm Venerable, I fear you have underestimated the opponent. With the Clan Leader's powerful spiritual power suppressing them, how could a True God of the Darkness Temple still self-detonate their Divine Source? Rain Master's spiritual power is likely far stronger than we estimated."
Within the Heaven-Collapsing Divine Array, Zhang Ruochen sensed the auras of the Darkness Temple deities.
The True God's self-detonation earlier hadn't broken through the Heaven-Collapsing Divine Array, but Zhang Ruochen faintly sensed that space had been torn apart. The deities of the Darkness Temple had likely taken this opportunity to escape into the Void World.
The Yaksha Clan Clan Leader standing in the sea of divine energy had clearly noticed this as well. Green flames burned in his pupils as he warily scanned the surroundings.
From the vast darkness, a woman's voice rang out: "Zhang Ruochen, your perception is correct. My spiritual power has already broken through to the middle stage of the seventy-eighth rank."
Li Xiao Great God's shattered bone body, along with a crystalline pearl, tore through space, descending from the Void World into the Real World.
Pieces of broken bones coalesced into Li Xiao Great God's hundred-zhang-tall divine body.
He held a pearl the size of a human head in his hands. Space trembled around the pearl, and from within it emerged one deity after another of the Darkness Temple—both True Gods and False Gods.
None of the Darkness Temple's deities had died from the powerful destructive force of the True God's self-detonation.
The Ancestral Realm Realm Venerable's face turned ashen as he muttered: "Du'e Divine Dragon Pearl!"
Li Xiao Great God's voice was cold and deep: "You Yaksha Clan actually dared to join hands with Zhang Ruochen to oppose the Darkness Temple. What audacity! Did you think a Great God is so easy to kill? Naive!"
Zhang Ruochen carefully sensed his surroundings. Rain Master had still not appeared, clearly hiding in the shadows.
Zhang Ruochen deliberately complained: "Realm Venerable, this trap of yours was indeed set up too hastily. It only cost the enemy a single True God. Let's go. First, enter the Heaven-Collapsing Divine Array and join the Clan Leader, lest the Darkness Temple picks us off one by one."
The Ancestral Realm Realm Venerable was also helpless. The Heaven-Collapsing Divine Array was indeed not yet perfected—it had only reinforced space to the point where a Great God couldn't tear it apart. But it couldn't block the destructive power of a True God self-detonating their Divine Source.
"Want to leave? Do you think you can?"
Li Xiao Great God condensed a seventy-seven-zhang-long Dark Light Sword and swung it in one stroke, cutting off Zhang Ruochen, the Ancestral Realm Realm Venerable, and Xiao Hei's path of retreat.
At the same time, two True Gods and twelve False Gods of the Darkness Temple simultaneously unleashed divine abilities, forming Dark Lightning, Qilin shadows, Death Demon Mountains... pressing down overwhelmingly.
The Ancestral Realm Realm Venerable roared: "Li Xiao, your bone body has already been shattered once, your combat power greatly reduced, yet you still dare to act arrogantly before this Realm Venerable?"
"This is a world of darkness. My combat power is far stronger here than outside. Meanwhile, your combat power, affected by the darkness, will only drop significantly. With this shift in balance, even though you are at the middle stage of Taiyi Realm, what do I have to fear from you?"
Li Xiao Great God clashed with the Ancestral Realm Realm Venerable at close range. The collision of the two Great Gods sent Xiao Hei, who was at the Upper Deity realm, flying away.
Zhang Ruochen sensed Rain Master's faint aura rapidly approaching him.
"Xiao Hei!"
Zhang Ruochen pretended to rush toward Xiao Hei, as if going to rescue him.
Would Rain Master let this opportunity slip?
Suddenly, a withered wooden staff emerged from the invisible void, striking toward Zhang Ruochen like lightning.
"You finally made your move!"
Zhang Ruochen was prepared. His figure rapidly shifted and dodged, avoiding the withered staff. Turning around, he immediately launched the six Divine Swords. At the same time, countless swords flew out from his sleeves.
"Shua shua!"
The six Divine Swords pierced through space, forcing Rain Master, who was hiding in the shadows, to reveal herself.
Rain Master let out an unwilling snort and raised her withered staff. Instantly, all the swords flying toward her froze in the void. Even the six Divine Swords could not break through her spiritual power field.
She said: "Zhang Ruochen, your spiritual power is far inferior to mine. How could you accurately perceive the time and position of my attack?"
Xiao Hei laughed: "Don't you know? Zhang Ruochen's nickname is the Romantic Sword God. Any woman can't escape his perception... Ah..."
Xiao Hei cried out in pain, clutching his cat head as he fled far away.
Just now, he had been too close to Rain Master and suffered a spiritual power attack. Fortunately, his own spiritual power was also strong enough to block it. Otherwise, he would have suffered mental derangement and his consciousness would have dissipated.
Rain Master stared at Zhang Ruochen: "Your spiritual power has actually reached the peak of the seventy-sixth rank. So you've been hiding your strength. But with your spiritual power controlling swords, how could you possibly break through my defensive field? Since your martial path is already crippled, having the six Divine Swords in your hands is a complete waste. Why not..."
Rain Master suffered a powerful spiritual power attack, her body trembling slightly, unable to continue speaking.
The six Divine Swords frozen in the void slowly moved toward her.
The Yaksha Clan Clan Leader, with green flames burning atop his head, had already crossed a million miles and arrived nearby, declaring loudly: "Middle stage of the seventy-eighth rank, so what? Let this Clan Leader break your defensive field."
Rain Master bit her finger and smeared blood on her withered wooden staff.
"Hua!"
Powerful energy erupted from the withered staff, sending the six Divine Swords flying away. As for the other Sacred Swords, Spirit Swords, and ordinary swords, they all exploded, turning into over a hundred million metal fragments.
Zhang Ruochen, merely a seventy-sixth-rank spiritual power deity, was naturally also sent flying, appearing as if his divine soul had suffered no light injury.
"Clan Leader, I'll leave Rain Master to you. This junior will first go assist the Realm Venerable in killing Li Xiao Great God. Then, with the three of us joining forces, we can kill Rain Master together."
Leaving these words behind, Zhang Ruochen immediately went after Li Xiao Great God and the Ancestral Realm Realm Venerable, who had moved their battle elsewhere.
Rain Master's spiritual power attack was indeed powerful, but Zhang Ruochen had the Buddha Emperor Relic protecting his body, so he wouldn't be so easily injured.
The reason he fled was both to avoid revealing his true strength and as a tactical consideration.
Why should he, a seventy-sixth-rank spiritual power deity, meddle in a battle between seventy-eighth-rank spiritual power deities?
First, kill Li Xiao Great God. Then, they could join forces against Rain Master, making it much easier.
On the other side, Xiao Hei was controlling a divine array, charging into the midst of the Darkness Temple deities. He was ferociously unstoppable, forcing the two True Gods and twelve False Gods to retreat step by step, clearly trying to harvest Divine Sources.
Before long, Zhang Ruochen saw Li Xiao Great God and the Ancestral Realm Realm Venerable locked in battle.
The Ancestral Realm Realm Venerable's cultivation realm was a level higher than Li Xiao Great God's. Even within the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain, he had his opponent firmly suppressed.
"Li Xiao, so what if you can mobilize the darkness rules for your own use? Are you a match for this Realm Venerable? The darkness esoterica you control is far too little!"
The Ancestral Realm Realm Venerable summoned the green flames above his head, transforming them into a divine flame dragon that crashed into Li Xiao Great God's divine realm world, causing cracks to appear.
Li Xiao Great God glanced at the approaching Zhang Ruochen and transmitted a message to all the Darkness Temple deities, including Rain Master: "Retreat! First, leave the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain and report this matter to the Darkness Temple."
The reason they hadn't fled immediately earlier was that they had pinned their hopes on Rain Master killing Zhang Ruochen in one strike and seizing the six Divine Swords before leaving.
Now that the situation was unfavorable, they could only flee.
"Want to leave just like that? Do you think it's that easy?"
Zhang Ruochen laughed and released the Nine Arrays of Yin Escape.
Nine space divine arrays, each ten thousand miles in diameter, were like nine connected heavenly millstones, pressing down toward Li Xiao Great God.
The Ancestral Realm Realm Venerable went all out, tying down Li Xiao Great God.
Li Xiao Great God knew well the power of the Nine Arrays of Yin Escape and felt the threat of life and death. He let out a long roar, his bone divine body igniting, and shouted: "Bone Ancestor Divine Art!"
The divine bones on his body expanded, instantly growing to a thousand zhang tall. With one sword strike, he sent the Ancestral Realm Realm Venerable flying.
This art was a forbidden technique of the Bone Clan. Once activated, it could unleash power far surpassing one's cultivation in a short time. But once the divine art's duration ended, one would be weakened for a long time.
The Ancestral Realm Realm Venerable was struck by his sword, his divine robe shattered, and a deep sword mark appeared on his chest.
The sword mark was black, corroding his divine body.
"Yaksha Clan, wait for the Darkness Temple's frenzied revenge!"
Li Xiao Great God did not linger in battle, fleeing rapidly.
"You won't escape!"
Zhang Ruochen shouted. One of the space divine arrays descended from the sky, enveloping Li Xiao Great God. Dense space inscription runes floated in the starry sky.
"How can this be? I could clearly escape... It's time, the power of time."
Li Xiao Great God looked at Zhang Ruochen standing at the center of the Nine Arrays of Yin Escape. Zhang Ruochen had the Sundial beneath his feet, and with it as the center, the time imprint light points of heaven and earth manifested, slowing the flow of time to an extremely sluggish pace.
It was the power of time that suppressed Li Xiao Great God's speed, causing him to fall into the Nine Arrays of Yin Escape.
Blood Butcher and Underworld King had been hiding in the shadows, standing on a phoenix feather. Seeing that the situation was settled...
"Slaughter Heaven Young Master needs this Emperor's help. I can't wait any longer!"
Blood Butcher excitedly rushed toward the battlefield where Xiao Hei and the Darkness Temple deities were fighting. "Slaughter Heaven Young Master, this Emperor has come to help you!"
Xiao Hei had just crushed a False God and collected a Divine Source when he heard Blood Butcher's voice. His cat face darkened. "This Emperor doesn't need help. Don't anyone come over!"
"No, Slaughter Heaven Young Master, you need help. Don't be stubborn. Fight! Deities of the Darkness Temple, if you have the guts, come at this Emperor! Don't bully the few!"
Blood Butcher charged into the group of False Gods, even more ferocious than Xiao Hei.