Chapter 3395: Bloodstained Confucian Robe
The two Angel Clan Great Saints, clad in Glazed Radiant Armor with snow-white wings on their backs, exuded an imposing aura.
They had delivered a coffin and were now outside the Divine Residence.
Luo Xu and Xuanji Sword God could remain calm, but the Saint realm cultivators of the Kunlun Realm surged with agitation, rushing out of the Divine Residence. Each released their Saint Qi, and their rules interwove into clouds.
Zhang Ruochen found it hard to believe that the Paradise Realm would actually dare to provoke them.
But why had only two Great Saints been sent?
Chi Xingtian came to Zhang Ruochen's side and transmitted his voice, "Something's not right!"
Zhang Ruochen nodded. "That coffin is no ordinary thing. Even with my divine thoughts, I can't probe inside. There might really be something good in there."
This was said in a joking tone, and Chi Xingtian could tell.
What good thing could be inside a coffin?
"These two are called 'Great Saint Nate' and 'Great Saint Lance.' They're not core figures in the Angel Clan's secular world," Han Qiu said.
Great Saint Nate and Great Saint Lance were only at the Great Saint Immortal Realm, clearly unqualified to represent the Paradise Realm in a provocation.
Chi Xingtian quietly moved forward, ready for any accident. He released his divine thoughts, searching for any hidden God realm experts.
Luo Xu and Xuanji Sword God also sensed something amiss. They exchanged a glance, and silently, rule divine patterns surged from their bodies, invisible and formless, like a heaven-encompassing net, enveloping the space.
...
Xue Wuye, Master Lidi, and Beigong Lan represented the Kunlun Realm's secular world as they stepped forward to meet the two Angel Clan Great Saints.
"Amitabha! Today is the Ascension Banquet of the Void God. The Kunlun Realm does not wish for unpleasant incidents. Please take your gift and leave."
Master Lidi unsheathed the Great Buddha-Slaying Blade and slammed the two-meter-long blade heavily onto the ground.
"Boom!"
Waves of Saint Qi rippled out from the blade's tip.
Xue Wuye, jade-like in his heroic bearing, clasped his hands behind his back and smiled. "Even if the Paradise Realm wants to provoke, they should send someone more impressive. The two of you coming here is nothing but self-inflicted humiliation."
"The person delivering the gift doesn't matter, as long as the gift itself is valuable enough," Great Saint Nate said.
"This gift will surely surprise you. You'd better accept it," Great Saint Lance said, his voice hoarse, his expression wooden, devoid of any emotional fluctuation.
"Swish!"
Xue Wuye's figure blurred. He crossed space in a single step and appeared above the coffin, thrusting a sacred sword in his hand.
He sensed the coffin was strange and wanted to investigate.
Xue Wuye's cultivation had long reached the peak of the Half-God realm. He had been accumulating power, not rushing to undergo the Divine Tribulation. The speed he unleashed now was definitely beyond the perception of an Immortal Realm Great Saint.
A bizarre thing happened...
"Roar!"
The two Angel Clan Great Saints let out beast-like howls. The blood vessels on their jade-like faces became visible, turning into dense black patterns.
Their teeth grew sharp.
Their tongues shot out, three feet long.
An inexplicably powerful divine force erupted from within them. The two shot into the sky, forming hand seals, and struck at Xue Wuye.
Their speed and power both surpassed Xue Wuye's.
Xue Wuye immediately withdrew his sword to defend. Dense, bright talisman lights lit up on his body, blocking the two's palm strikes. But he was still sent flying back, blood trickling from his mouth.
The bizarre transformation of the two Angel Clan Great Saints shocked everyone.
"They're not cultivators of the Paradise Realm; they're Corpse Clan!" Xue Wuye said.
"Everyone, retreat into the Divine Residence."
Luo Xu's divine shadow manifested, towering a thousand zhang. He condensed a divine light hand dozens of zhang long and pressed it toward the transformed Angel Clan Great Saints.
The two Angel Clan Great Saints let out dry, hoarse laughs that sent chills down spines.
Before Luo Xu's hand seal could land, their bodies suddenly blazed with bright radiance and exploded.
"Boom! Boom!"
Two earth-shaking sounds erupted, releasing a cataclysmic destructive force.
Kongya City was originally an ancient holy city in the Thousand Star Civilization Great World with a long history. But as the two Great Saints exploded, the formation inscriptions on the streets couldn't withstand it. All buildings were destroyed like withered grass.
The impact on the Void God Residence was naturally even more terrifying. Countless Saint realm cultivators of the Kunlun Realm felt the breath of death, as if the sky were collapsing and the earth sinking, the apocalypse descending.
"Whoosh!"
Xuanji Sword God extended his arm, which turned into wood. Thousands of divine wood branches grew out, leaves emerald green, divine light shimmering, wrapping the entire Divine Residence.
"Not good, it's the Three Fiend Corpse Poison!" Luo Xu exclaimed in alarm.
After the two Paradise Realm Great Saints self-destructed, a massive amount of terrifying corpse poison was released from their bodies, in three colors.
The ground was instantly corroded black, sacred trees withered.
The Divine Residence's gate became rusted and mottled, as if abandoned for a hundred thousand years.
Xuanji Sword God's face changed drastically. The Three Fiend Corpse Poison was bred from the body of one of the Hell Realm's Heavenly Lords, "Three Fiend Emperor." Even a Great God, if contaminated by even a trace, could turn into a corpse and fall.
In the Divine Residence, countless cultivators turned pale with fear, clearly having heard of the Three Fiend Corpse Poison.
"This is corpse poison bred from a Heavenly Lord's body. If we get contaminated, we'll instantly turn into pus and blood," Wan Canglan said to Wan Huayu beside him, his expression heavy. Against such power, resistance was useless.
Even two True Gods stationed here couldn't block it.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
...
The earth shook, demonic qi churned.
Thirty-six Heavenly Demon Stone Inscription Divine Stele descended from the void, fixing themselves in thirty-six positions, protecting the Divine Residence.
On the stone steles, images and texts emerged, forming strange and magnificent scenes. Eighteen Heavenly Demon phantom figures appeared, some wielding Overlord Spears, some holding demon blades, some gripping blood axes...
Additionally, there were eighteen demonic path anomalies—a divine tiger roaring, a demon dragon soaring, a divine demon suppressing the underworld...
All thirty-six illustrations manifested, as if transporting everyone to that chaotic ancient era of demons dancing wildly.
"It's the Xingtian Great God! The Xingtian Great God has used the thirty-six Heavenly Demon Stone Inscriptions to form a Demon God Array, blocking the Three Fiend Corpse Poison."
"Great, the Xingtian Great God is here too. That was too dangerous just now."
...
The cultivators of the Kunlun Realm collectively breathed a sigh of relief, stepping out from the shadow of death. They bowed to the figure in armor standing outside the Divine Residence's gate.
The Great God's true body was here, and with the Heavenly Demon Stone Inscriptions' enhancement, it was enough to handle the two streams of Three Fiend Corpse Poison.
Beigong Jingting was shocked to discover that the Xingtian Great God was actually Zhang Hongtian.
A peerless Great God had disguised himself as a Saint King?
Then who was Zhang Hongke, who had come with the Xingtian Great God?
Beigong Jingting looked at Qingxiao and finally realized something. Her mind went blank, unable to think further.
Zhang Ruochen had wanted to act to protect the entire Kongya City, to prevent other Saint realm cultivators in the city from being harmed. But it was too late. The Three Fiend Corpse Poison swept out, and Saint realm cultivators in the city fell in droves, all turning into rotting corpses and pus.
The two Angel Clan Great Saints had clearly been controlled by some formidable figure. Otherwise, with Luo Xu's cultivation, how could he have failed to stop their self-destruction?
Just as all the cultivators in the Divine Residence were relaxing, Zhang Ruochen and Chi Xingtian's faces suddenly changed. They stared at the coffin on the ground.
A faint sound came from within...
"Thump! Thump! Thump..."
It was as if something was trapped inside, knocking incessantly.
With each knock, the complex talisman patterns on the coffin lid lit up in a ring.
Chi Xingtian sensed danger and transmitted to Zhang Ruochen, "I'll protect the people in the Void God Residence. Your cultivation is stronger; go see what's in that coffin."
"I can't expose my identity. I'll secretly protect the Void God Residence. You go investigate the coffin. What if it's the Three Fiend Emperor inside? Your vitality is strong; maybe you can withstand one blow and survive," Zhang Ruochen said.
Chi Xingtian glared at him, feeling Zhang Ruochen was sending him to his death.
What do you mean by "your vitality is strong"?
If they really encountered a Heavenly Lord, no amount of vitality would save them.
Just as Zhang Ruochen and Chi Xingtian were arguing, a thunderous "boom" rang out. The coffin lid was sent flying, space violently shook, and the entire Kongya City, hundreds of miles in radius, split apart. The city sank into the ground.
A god from the Thousand Star Civilization came to investigate, but was sent flying by the powerful shockwave while still a thousand miles from Kongya City.
"Careful!" Zhang Ruochen warned.
From the coffin, blood qi churned, as if a sea of blood was pouring out.
From within the blood qi, beams of black-and-white light shot out.
Their speed truly reached light speed, with terrifying penetrating power. If struck, the consequences were unimaginable.
Fortunately, Chi Xingtian was battle-hardened and prepared. The moment the coffin lid was thrown off, he had already offered up a wolf-hide battle flag.
From the flag's surface came a wolf howl that shook the nine heavens.
A demon wolf phantom, hundreds of zhang tall, manifested, lifelike, like a supreme Wolf Ancestor emerging, unleashing ancestral divine power, blocking the black-and-white beams.
This demon wolf phantom closely resembled the demon wolf from the "Heavenly Demon Greedy Wolf Diagram."
"Bang! Bang!"
The black-and-white beams struck the demon wolf phantom like stones hitting a lake, stirring countless ripples.
Countless black-and-white chess pieces slid off the demon wolf phantom's surface, falling to the ground, shattering the earth.
Fortunately, Zhang Ruochen acted in time, silently releasing the Lesser Yin Divine Sea, collecting these pieces.
Otherwise, they might have pierced through the Thousand Star Civilization Great World.
Zhang Ruochen pinched a black piece in his hand, his expression growing heavier. He then looked toward the distant coffin, shrouded in blood qi.
...
The successive eruptions of the Three Fiend Corpse Poison and ancestral divine power not only alarmed all the gods in the Thousand Star Civilization Great World but also stirred the King-Sealing and Venerable-Title level powerhouses across the entire Starry Sky Defense Line.
Immediately, a God King from the Thousand Star Civilization Great World arrived. She stood on a sea of stars, a golden halo above her head, illuminating the entire southern sky into a starry sea world.
Blocked by the Three Fiend Corpse Poison and dense blood qi, she didn't dare to force her way in immediately. She transmitted to Chi Xingtian, asking for details.
Chi Xingtian was greatly shaken. If not for the demon wolf battle flag left by the Heavenly Demon, he might have been riddled with holes by the chess pieces. "Don't come in. Quickly summon the Thousand Star Divine Ancestor."
Zhang Ruochen walked past Chi Xingtian, holding a chess piece, stepping out of the demon array formed by the thirty-six Heavenly Demon Stone Inscriptions, and approached the coffin.
"Are you crazy? Get back here!"
Chi Xingtian felt there was great terror in that coffin and that they needed to wait for the Dragon Lord and the Heavenly Lords to arrive.
Zhang Ruochen ignored him and continued forward. An invisible aura around him caused the dense blood qi to part automatically.
The coffin emerged from the blood qi. Seeing Zhang Ruochen approach step by step, Chi Xingtian's Adam's apple bobbed. He truly admired the kid's courage—even more reckless than himself.
Then, Zhang Ruochen picked out a bloodstained, torn Confucian robe from the coffin.
The corpse poison and blood qi on the robe were extremely overbearing, capable of corroding a Great God. Even some God Kings and God Venerables dared not touch it, but Zhang Ruochen picked it up with his bare hands.
"Just as I thought..."
Zhang Ruochen tightly squeezed the chess piece in his hand, sensing numerous terrifying, peering gazes sweeping over him. Clearly, major figures from the Heavenly Court were observing him and the coffin on the ground.
Since the Dragon Lord was on the Starry Sky Defense Line, Zhang Ruochen had some confidence. He spoke as if talking to the air, "Everyone, don't stare at me. The Three Fiend Emperor is very likely in the nearby star domain."