Chapter 3412: The True Body of the Supreme Four Pillars
The cyan wings radiated dazzling divine light, and the flames flowing on the feathers burned at a temperature far hotter than the surface of a star.
“Hiss hiss!”
Space was scorched and twisted, and a vast expanse of heaven and earth was illuminated in cyan.
Azure Venerable was indeed severely injured, and he also knew that Desolate Heaven had cultivated two types of Second-Rank Divine Paths simultaneously, not comparable to ordinary God Venerables.
But no matter how remarkable Desolate Heaven was, he had only just entered the early stage of Qiankun Infinite, with insufficient foundation and unstable cultivation.
As for him, he was at the middle stage of Qiankun Infinite, having been enfeoffed as a Venerable for two hundred thousand years.
Although it seemed like only one realm higher, in the Infinite Realm, two hundred thousand years of cultivation was enough to create an unimaginable gap. Just like Taiqing Ancestor and Yuqing Ancestor before their breakthrough, they could completely chase down a Qiankun Infinite early-stage powerhouse like Feixue God King all over the heavens.
“Desolate Heaven, you brat, where do you think you’re running?”
Azure Venerable’s speed surpassed Desolate Heaven’s, and he quickly caught up within one Divine Spirit Step, spitting out a mouthful of divine light.
Within the divine light was wrapped a divine artifact in the form of a flying blade.
This divine artifact was called the God-Slaying Blade!
The God-Slaying Blade was only half a foot long, forged from an extremely rare dark substance. As it flew, it continuously spewed threads of deathly light.
Azure Venerable had once used this blade to cross several star domains and slay a true god.
Within one Divine Spirit Step, the speed and power of the God-Slaying Blade could be perfectly displayed. Once it broke through a divine body, the deathly qi contained in the blade could quickly corrode a god’s flesh and blood.
“Bang bang!”
The God-Slaying Blade pierced through layer after layer of light shields behind Desolate Heaven, seemingly about to bore through his body.
“Great Yan Qiankun!”
Desolate Heaven silently chanted, suddenly turning around and drawing a circle with both hands.
Before him, a black-and-white Taiji Yin-Yang Diagram appeared, a hundred zhang in diameter, spinning rapidly.
“Boom!”
The God-Slaying Blade crashed into the Taiji Yin-Yang Diagram, and the tip of the blade immediately changed direction.
It spun once within the diagram and flew back in reverse.
Desolate Heaven’s body shook violently, shooting backward several hundred li, then, using this impact, he continued to flee into the distance.
Azure Venerable watched the God-Slaying Blade fly back, momentarily stunned, and said, “He also cultivates the Wuji Divine Dao? No, it’s Great Yan Qiankun, a Taiji Yin-Yang Diagram derived from Qiankun.”
Azure Venerable transformed into a patch of cyan cloud and chased after Desolate Heaven.
“It seems Azure Venerable is injured more heavily than we thought. The God-Slaying Blade was struck out, yet it was sent back by a junior who just broke through. I’ll go lend him a hand!”
Elephant Venerable activated his movement divine ability and charged out.
Elephant Venerable didn’t believe at all that Desolate Heaven could send back Azure Venerable’s God-Slaying Blade.
He thought this was Azure Venerable’s strategy to avoid battle—deliberately pretending to be too injured to let Desolate Heaven go, thus avoiding a clash with Dragon Lord and Ice Emperor.
From the earlier exchange, Elephant Venerable could see that Dragon Lord and Ice Emperor were far from ordinary Great Unbound Infinite cultivators. After another eon of cultivation, they might both be able to seal the heavens.
Without an absolute advantage, engaging such figures in battle carried the risk of falling.
Ice Emperor’s emergence had shattered their absolute advantage.
Leave!
Leaving was the best policy!
Seeing Azure Venerable and Elephant Venerable chase after Desolate Heaven, the other four Qiankun Infinite powerhouses from Hell Realm also wavered in their resolve.
There was no help for it—Ice Emperor and Dragon Lord were too strong, completely suppressing City Lord of the Divine City and War God Ming Venerable. At this moment, the divine power fluctuations from their battle were enough to overturn Lihentian itself, and only Great Unbound Infinite cultivators could intervene.
If not for Second Master still being here, they would have left Lihentian immediately.
Nine-Headed Serpent God King, with his nine snake heads, said, “Ice Emperor has ruined our plans. The Undying Blood Clan must give us an explanation.”
“The peerless divine battle on the Starry Sky Defense Line should have already begun. There will be countless opportunities there, and slaughter is underway. Heavenly Court and Hell Realm will decide the battle today. How can we be absent?” Another Qiankun Infinite peak God King spoke up.
A pale-skinned, white-haired, white-pupiled female God Venerable from the Death Clan said, “Today’s battle is already untenable. It’s better to return to the Real World. Since the Heavenly Court’s All Heavens didn’t take the bait, the battle in the Real World is more important.”
Second Master saw through their thoughts and said, “This divine battle in the Real World, in terms of scale and bloodshed, will definitely surpass the most intense period of a hundred thousand years ago. Though there are countless opportunities, God Kings and God Venerables will inevitably fall, and there may even be a calamity among the All Heavens.”
Then, Second Master added, “The battle here is equally important. Zhang Ruochen, Desolate Heaven, and Huaying Qingchan must be killed. Otherwise, even if Hell Realm wins in the Real World today, they will lose to them in the future.”
The four Infinite Realm powerhouses were indeed decisive.
Nine-Headed Serpent God King raised all nine heads, his eyes gleaming with ferocity, and said, “In that case, let’s make our move! Let’s see if the formation laid by Yunshen Daozhu with his remnant soul and broken body can truly stop us.”
The four Infinite Realm powerhouses each employed their means—some activated divine artifacts, some set up suppression inscription altars, some released ghost soldiers, and some took out Ancestor Divine Blood.
All kinds of world-destroying forces descended upon the Chessboard Divine Formation.
Second Master watched coldly from the sidelines for a moment, then said to himself, “As expected of the Formation Tai Shang. Even a casually laid divine formation possesses such power.”
He looked toward a certain direction in the void and said, “At this point, aren’t you going to make a move, sir?”
From the void came a vast and eerie laugh.
From the east, south, west, north, above, and below, thick demon clouds rose up, pitch-black, enveloping an immeasurably vast expanse of heaven and earth.
Even the battlefield of the four Great Unbound Infinite cultivators—Dragon Lord, Ice Emperor, City Lord of the Divine City, and War God Ming Venerable—was wrapped in the demon clouds.
In the northwest direction of the demon clouds, Desolate Heaven, Elephant Venerable, and Azure Venerable were all entangled by dense rule chains, hanging in the void.
They hadn’t managed to escape.
With their cultivation, they seemed utterly powerless to resist.
The four Hell Realm Infinite cultivators attacking the Chessboard Divine Formation were all shocked.
White Venerable gazed at the sky and said, “Supreme Four Pillars, Qiangshake! Second Master, has Tiannan secretly reached a cooperation with the Chaos Ancient Demon Gods?”
“Hell Realm must break the Starry Sky Defense Line, so they have to use the Chaos Ancient Demon Gods. They can tie down many of the Heavenly Court’s All Heavens,” Second Master transmitted.
The mysterious person who had gone to Tiannan to meet with Qingtian and the Nether Hall Hall Master was Qiangshake.
Of the Chaos Ancient Demon Gods, some were dead, some imprisoned, and fewer than ten remained free. Moreover, suppressed by the All Heavens of both Heavenly Court and Hell Realm, they could only hide in the shadows, not daring to show themselves.
To recover to their peak state, they needed to devour the blood qi and souls of countless living beings.
Thus, they could only cooperate with Hell Realm, first reaping the myriad realms of Heavenly Court.
Both sides had what they needed, so they reached an agreement.
High in the sky, a massive goat head condensed.
The goat head’s eyes blazed like fire, releasing two beams of Profound Yang Divine Force, causing the void to boil.
“Boom!”
The Profound Yang Divine Force struck the Chessboard Divine Formation, and the formation’s light curtain was instantly torn open with a crack.
Yuyue, who was sustaining the formation, felt as if struck by a heavy punch. A mouthful of blood sprayed from her lips, and her body swayed unsteadily.
Not far away, Chi Xingtian looked up at the goat head in the sky, feeling a soul-deep pressure. He let out a roar and hurled a blood axe.
The blood axe flew out of the Chessboard Divine Formation and immediately erupted with Ancestor Divine Power, clashing head-on with the two beams of Profound Yang Divine Force.
“Bang!”
The blood axe exploded, turning into metal fragments that melted into droplets in the void.
The goat head let out a roar, enraged: “Descendant of the Heavenly Demon, you deserve death!”
The light curtain of the Chessboard Divine Formation trembled violently from the divine sound.
A ten-thousand-zhang-long stone pillar flew out from the demon clouds, its divine force blasting the four Hell Realm Infinite cultivators back.
“Boom!”
The stone pillar struck the Chessboard Divine Formation, and cracking sounds rang out.
All the chess pieces within the formation shifted and fell to the ground.
Cracks appeared on the Floating Sky Island. Yuyue, sustaining the formation’s eye, had her skin burst open, turning into a bloodied figure. Only by leaning on the Red Flood Dragon Divine Staff could she barely remain standing.
Such terrifying attack power shocked every cultivator present.
Ice Emperor looked at Second Master and said, “You handed the demon pillar to him?”
Second Master smiled faintly: “How Tiannan conducts its affairs doesn’t require an explanation to you.”
“Tiannan is too arrogant. He is one of the Supreme Four Pillars. Once his cultivation fully recovers, can Qingtian suppress him? Qiangshake is not someone Tiannan can control!” Ice Emperor said.
Second Master still wore a smile, but a hint of gravity deepened in his eyes, because he saw Elephant Venerable and Azure Venerable bound in the demon clouds.
The stone pillar Qiangshake controlled was the one representing himself among the seventy-two Demon God Stone Pillars.
On the stone pillar, Qiangshake’s statue was lifelike, flowing with Ancestor Inscription Runes, affecting the heaven and earth rules of Lihentian.
The seventy-two Demon God Stone Pillars in the Abyss of Darkness were mere projected illusions.
The real stone pillars had appeared together with the seventy-two Chaos Ancient Demon Gods at the North Marsh Great Wall.
Some Tian Yuan Wu Que cultivators speculated that the Chaos Ancient Demon Gods’ ability to awaken at the North Marsh Great Wall after over ten million years might be related to these stone pillars.
They further speculated that the seventy-two Demon God Stone Pillars gathered together were a heavy artifact comparable to the Nine Cauldrons.
Thus, after breaking into the North Marsh Great Wall, the Infinite cultivators of Heavenly Court and Hell Realm had seized the seventy-two Demon God Stone Pillars first.
Qiangshake’s Demon God Stone Pillar had been taken by Qingtian and suppressed.
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The Chessboard Divine Formation around the Floating Sky Island was already battered and could not withstand a second strike from the Demon God Stone Pillar.
Dragon Lord propped up the thirty-six Heavenly Demon Stone Inscription Divine Stele and attacked Qiangshake’s true body.
The divine formation laid by Tai Shang, controlled by Yuyue, could unleash its strongest defensive power. Only by choosing to stay outside the formation and tie down the various powerhouses could Dragon Lord buy more time for Zhang Ruochen and Qiangu Nüdi to break through their realms.
“How dare you! A mere horned dragon dares to face the Supreme Four Pillars?”
Qiangshake’s true body still stood in the demon clouds. He waved his arm, controlling the stone pillar, which crashed down with overwhelming force, crushing the formation formed by the thirty-six Heavenly Demon Stone Inscription Divine Stele.
The stone pillar struck Dragon Lord.
Dragon Lord was already injured. Hit by the Demon God Stone Pillar, his body flew out like a cannonball.
From the wounds on his body, divine blood flowed endlessly, revealing golden bones.
“Whoosh!”
The Demon God Stone Pillar flew again, reaching light speed, unleashing a terrifying force capable of piercing through dozens of great worlds.
“I’ll fight you!”
A vast heavenly sound echoed through the cosmos, domineering and filled with boundless battle intent.
Before Dragon Lord, the Five Dragon Divine Emperor’s body shifted from blurry to solid, his eyes sharp. He struck out with a heavy palm, colliding with the flying Demon God Stone Pillar.
“Boom!”
At the point of impact between the palm and the stone pillar, ripples of space spread outward, briefly tearing apart the space of Lihentian, connecting the Void World and the Real World.
The current All Heavens and the Chaos Ancient Supreme Four Pillars had finally clashed!
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