Chapter 3164: The Shattered Blood Absolute Family
"Qianqian!" Zhuang Tai'a said.
The woman on the green lotus nodded gently. "I can rest easy with Qianqian handling things. With her covert assistance, even if Ming Jianshen and the others fail, they will have a chance to escape back to the Heavenly Court."
"They will not fail! Behind this assassination, there are both the Undying Blood Clan's war faction and the Tiannan presence, but they are hiding deep, only providing convenience. Among them, there is one person you would absolutely never guess!" Zhuang Tai'a said.
The woman on the green lotus asked, "Who?"
"Blood Yao Divine Lord! When I received Qianqian's message, even I was shocked. I could not believe he would betray Xue Jue." Zhuang Tai'a said.
The woman on the green lotus was lost in thought for a moment. "Blood Yao Divine Lord's betrayal... this truly gives Ming Jianshen and the others a chance to succeed! But that is not right, how is this possible? There must be a huge hidden truth behind this. Investigate, investigate thoroughly! Blood Yao Divine Lord's ancestors for ten generations, along with every experience since his birth, must all be compiled and analyzed one by one."
"Yes!"
Zhuang Tai'a withdrew, stepping out of the golden chariot.
The woman on the green lotus spoke again, "Yu Sheng, what movements has Xuan Yi made?"
"He has been stationed at the Starry Sky Defense Line the entire time, never leaving." The woman holding the oil-paper umbrella was none other than Qing Yu Sheng of the Red Cloud Flying Immortal Valley.
"This is abnormal! For an assassin, behaving so quietly often means they are about to kill. If he kills gods of the Hell Realm, I do not care. But for now, there are some people he cannot touch."
The woman on the green lotus said, "Here is what I want you to do: help me send a message to the Western Buddha Realm, requesting the Five Great Divine Monks to come out of seclusion!"
...
Night fell, and the sky was a riot of colors, with bright, massive stars and resplendent nebulae visible.
Zhang Ruochen gazed at the starry sky and saw that Xue Li's Star Soul Divine Throne had dimmed.
Clearly, Yu Ling Shen had succeeded, completely refining and killing him.
Chi Yao approached like a goddess walking on ripples, saying, "I am sorry."
"Why say those three words all of a sudden?" Zhang Ruochen unfolded his Buddha Realm World, enveloping her slender figure.
Chi Yao said, "Perhaps it is the fear of loss. Someone has to admit defeat first."
Zhang Ruochen knew that Chi Yao did not truly believe she was wrong; she only came to apologize because she did not want to lose him.
"After our argument, I have already let it go. You are right, I should face my own heart. Since I suspect Luo Sha, the next time I see her, I will ask her clearly. The Quantity Organization is too dangerous; it is always a sword hanging over our heads." Zhang Ruochen said.
Chi Yao said, "The Heavenly Beginning Civilization has already been moved to the Sword Realm! By the way, I have never asked you, with the current situation so unfavorable for Xinghuantian and the Hundred Clans Royal City, why have you not moved them to the Sword Realm?"
"It is not yet time."
Zhang Ruochen said, "The Hundred Clans Royal City is a mix of fish and dragons. Behind each clan, there are more or less some forces from the Heavenly Court and Hell Realm. Moving them to the Sword Realm now would leave many hidden dangers."
"The current situation actually has its benefits. It is enough to force out all the unreliable cultivators. It will wipe out those small clans with weak wills, one by one."
"Only those small clans that have withstood the test of life and death are trustworthy and qualified to enter the Sword Realm."
"As for Xinghuantian, leaving it there is to lull the gods of the Heavenly Court and Hell Realm into thinking that I have not found the Sword Realm, that I have no other retreat. With Xinghuantian's defenses, plus the Goddess Twelve Pavilions' absolute control over it, breaking into that realm is as difficult as reaching the heavens for the Hell Realm."
Chi Yao asked, "When will you go to the Western Buddha Realm?"
"Once news from the Hell Realm arrives, I will set out!" Zhang Ruochen turned his gaze toward the Yellow Spring Star River, looking at the location of the Undying Blood Clan's ten wing worlds.
His maternal grandfather had taken the initiative to set up the trap, and with the home-field advantage of the clan, there should naturally be no danger.
But what if an accident occurred?
...
The Blood Absolute Family's territory was vast, occupying a mountain range a million miles long within the Blood Heaven Tribe's wing world. Countless sacred veins ran beneath the ground, and even divine veins flowed through it.
From the outside looking in, the mountain range appeared calm and peaceful.
But standing beside a patch of molten lava, Huang Tian could only see boundless war flames and an endless stretch of ruins and broken walls. The entire mountain range had been split in two by a single sword strike, and the ground was covered in horrifying fissures.
A divine talisman hovered in the sky, covering a million miles of land.
It turned this region of heaven and earth a dark red, with talisman rune imprints filling the space.
But the divine talisman was already cracked, on the verge of exhausting its power.
On the ground lay countless corpses, all broken and mangled. This was only a small portion; most cultivators had been reduced to ashes the moment they were struck by divine power.
Huang Tian knew that Xue Jue had miscalculated this time.
He had only intended to lure the snake out and kill it outside the core territory of the Blood Absolute Family, never expecting that the brother he trusted most by his side would betray him.
Huang Tian's body was covered in sword marks, dozens of them, each one deep enough to reveal bone, causing his flesh-and-blood body to show signs of petrification.
He was on the verge of being beaten back to his original form!
Although Ming Jianshen's sword dao will was powerful and his sword qi pure, the sword wounds on Huang Tian's body were still healing at a visible rate.
Ming Jianshen stared at Huang Tian in disbelief. His own cultivation and combat power far surpassed Huang Tian's, yet after fighting for so long, not only had he failed to severely wound him to the point of losing combat effectiveness, but he himself was showing signs of exhaustion.
How was he supposed to keep fighting?
Earlier, when Huang Tian was struck by the power of the Blade Venerable, Ming Jianshen had thought he would surely fall today.
"Is this the number one sword in the world? Truly undeserving of the title!" Huang Tian's wounds had completely healed. Holding his stone axe, he strode toward Ming Jianshen, his battle might growing stronger and stronger.
Ming Jianshen said, "If I had not lost the Mingjun Sword and the Sword Dao Essence, you would already be dead!"
"What is there to boast about?"
Huang Tian leaped into the air, his body radiating black and white light, one representing life and the other death, fierce and sharp.
The stone axe came crashing down, as if to split heaven and earth.
Ming Jianshen formed a sword finger with his hand and swung his arm.
"Whoosh!"
A ten-thousand-meter-long light sword slashed out, colliding with the stone axe.
With a thunderous roar, a large area of ground beneath Ming Jianshen's feet sank, and a ring-shaped mountain range formed around him.
The next moment, Ming Jianshen transformed into a sword, shooting into the sky at an incredible speed, piercing through Huang Tian's chest. A pillar of blood gushed from Huang Tian's body.
But Huang Tian ignored his injury, channeling the rules of death, and swung his axe a second time as he turned around.
Caught off guard, Ming Jianshen could only use his physical body as a sword to clash with the stone axe.
"Boom!"
With one exchange, Ming Jianshen and Huang Tian each retreated a thousand miles.
Blood dripped from Ming Jianshen's hands; this was the first time he had been injured in his fight with Huang Tian. But Huang Tian's wounds had already healed, and he charged at him again.
Ming Jianshen looked up and saw that the divine talisman was about to shatter. At the same time, in the heart of the Blood Absolute Family's territory, five Heavenly Court great gods lay dead.
Each corpse was as massive as a mountain. Some were not completely dead but could not get up.
With Huang Tian holding him back, Blood Xue Jue War God was practically unstoppable.
"Who in the world would know that at Blood Xue Jue War God's most critical moment, it would be you, Huang Tian, who came to his rescue."
"Let's go!"
Ming Jianshen sent a message to the Heavenly Court gods and was the first to step out of the area covered by the divine talisman.
Immediately, a space formation dozens of feet in diameter appeared before him, transforming into a spatial passage connecting to an unknown space.
An old man holding a staff stood at the other end of the spatial passage.
Seven or eight Heavenly Court great gods, all wounded, fled frantically from the Blood Absolute Family and rushed into the spatial passage.
"Where do you think you're going?"
Blood Xue Jue War God, drenched in blood and radiating murderous intent, charged out with pairs of blood wings on his back.
At the same time, Huang Tian swung his battle axe from another direction, his divine qi layering upon itself, tearing apart both the earth and space.
"Mo Yi Divine Sword Art!"
Ming Jianshen formed hand seals and unleashed a divine ability of the heavens. Instantly, a hundred million swords flew in from across the Blood Heaven Tribe's wing world, turning into a sky full of sword rain, striking at the pursuing Blood Xue Jue War God and Huang Tian.
"Boom!"
Ming Jianshen spat out a mouthful of blood as the sword rain rebounded, sending him flying into the spatial passage.
Blood Xue Jue War God was pierced through the chest by a sword light, his blood wings riddled with holes, but his eyes were terrifyingly fierce. He chased into the spatial passage, unwilling to let the invaders escape.
The gods of the Blood Heaven Tribe flew over in droves, charging into the shattered space to give chase.
"Ming Jianshen truly lives up to his reputation. If he had not lost the Mingjun Sword and the Sword Dao Essence, Xue Jue might not have made it through this ordeal." Huang Tian did not pursue. This battle was no longer his concern.
However, witnessing Ming Jianshen's strength made Huang Tian calm down, realizing that seeking revenge against Xuan Yi with his current cultivation was indeed unwise.
Perhaps he should indeed use the Sundial to quickly raise his cultivation to the peak of the Grand Void realm.
By then...
About a quarter of an hour later, the space beside Huang Tian shattered. Blood Xue Jue War God, reeking of blood and murder, charged out of the Void World, holding his blood-dripping war halberd. His figure was like a mountain, and he glared fiercely at Huang Tian.
Huang Tian said coldly, "Spare me your words of gratitude! Judging by your appearance, you let them escape?"
"The spatial passage connected to the Santu River. Once they entered the Santu River, their aura vanished without a trace in an instant. There must be a powerful god from the Middle Three Clans waiting there to receive them."
Blood Xue Jue War God walked to face Huang Tian, divine blood dripping from his armor, and said, "Why did you come to the Blood Absolute Family?"
"If you, Xue Jue, had not lowered yourself to ask for my help, why would I care whether you live or die?" Huang Tian's eyes were full of disdain, but also held a hint of pride.
"Ask for your help?"
Blood Xue Jue War God wanted to mock him, but thinking of what had happened earlier, his gaze softened. "Ming Jianshen's first sword contained a strike from the Blade Venerable. It cut through even a million-mile mountain range. You took it for me. I am grateful. Are you badly injured? Would you fall if I gave you a gentle push?"
"It did not hit me directly. This injury is nothing." Huang Tian said.
"Keep pretending!"
Blood Xue Jue War God laughed loudly and walked into the Blood Absolute Family's territory. His laughter gradually faded, and his eyes turned cold, tinged with pain and hatred.
"Boom!"
The divine talisman that had covered a million miles of sky shattered, revealing the ruined wasteland below and the corpses littering the ground.
Stepping over the dead bodies and through the war flames, Blood Xue Jue War God arrived before Blood Yao Divine Lord, who was pinned under the foot of the Undying Blood God.
Blood Yao Divine Lord lay on the ground, his body battered, but his face was calm.
Blood Xue Jue War God waved his hand, signaling the Undying Blood God to step back. Then, he thrust his war halberd heavily into the ground, sat down on a broken tiger-head stone, and said, "Give me an answer!"
Kneeling to the side, Blood Butcher had not a trace of color on his face.
More and more Undying Blood Clan gods gathered from all directions, each with a bloodthirsty, fierce look in their eyes.
(Chapter End)