Chapter 3456: Defeating Zongmu
As the divine chains were undone, the divine energy that had been sealed within Luo Sheng Tian began to circulate through his body.
Flesh and blood were nourished, meridians extended.
At his eye sockets, the scabs fell away, and a pair of new eyes grew out.
Like new sprouts from a tree stump, but these were no longer the innate divine eyes he once possessed.
Innate divine eyes inherently contain the mysteries of heaven and earth, much like innate divine strength or innate intelligence—they are manifestations of one's natural talent and bring immense benefits to cultivation.
Seeing that Xue Tu, who had once been far inferior to him, had now reached the Great God level, Luo Sheng Tian could not help but feel a sense of loss, lamenting how things had changed and the vicissitudes of the world.
In terms of talent, Luo Sheng Tian was indeed above Xue Tu.
But in terms of boldness, luck, and decisive action at critical moments, Xue Tu surpassed Luo Sheng Tian. He had achieved his current status by risking his life time and again, gambling again and again.
He had also seized two major opportunities: the Origin Divine Temple and the Abyss of Darkness.
Life is like this—seize one opportunity, and you can rise to prominence. Seize two, and it is enough to make up for the shortcomings of birth, surpassing those born into privilege.
The Sword Bone Doppelganger asked, "Who took your eyes?"
"No need. They were just a pair of eyes that failed to see people clearly. Losing them is no great loss."
Having experienced the greatest setback of his life, Luo Sheng Tian's state of mind had improved significantly. Shedding his former glory, he had gained new insights into honor, disgrace, gain, and loss. When he looked at Ling Quan Great God, the aura of defeat dissipated from him, and his sharp momentum returned.
He condensed a long blade from divine energy, swung it horizontally, and struck Ling Quan Great God's eyes.
"Pfft!"
Ling Quan Great God's divine power was sealed, rendering him unable to move. His eyes burst open, blood splattering everywhere.
Blood streamed from Ling Quan Great God's eye sockets, but he did not cry out in pain. Instead, he laughed wildly: "If you have the guts, kill me now! You won't be able to leave Rakshasa Divine City. Breaking into the Divine Prison is trampling on the order of the Rakshasa Clan. Killing a Rakshasa clan god is declaring war on the entire Rakshasa Clan. Lord Hui and Divine King Nie will make sure you die without a burial place!"
"Kill me! Kill me, and you'll all be buried with me!"
Within the Sword Bone Doppelganger, a sword light as bright as daylight flew out.
It was the Sword Soul!
The Sword Soul slashed straight at Ling Quan Great God's divine soul, annihilating countless divine soul thoughts.
"Shua!"
The divine sword thrust out straight, piercing through Ling Quan Great God's brow, breaking through his divine sea, and picking out a divine source.
The Sword Bone Doppelganger grabbed the divine source, refined it, and then tossed it to Shang Yue.
The divine source of a Tai Xu peak Great God was a priceless treasure for a Lower-level God, capable of rapidly enhancing cultivation and knowledge insights. Shang Yue was naturally delighted and immediately stored the divine source away.
Beyond the value of the divine source itself, what was more important was that the divine source still contained remnants of Ling Quan Great God's divine soul.
Shang Yue had been subjected to a soul search by Ling Quan Great God, which was a tremendous humiliation. Her spirit had been traumatized, and a inner demon had already formed.
Only by personally slaying Ling Quan Great God and severing the past of the soul search could she heal the spiritual damage from the depths of her heart.
The Sword Bone Doppelganger looked at Luo Sheng Tian and said, "Ling Quan Great God is yours to deal with!"
Ling Quan Great God's divine sea was broken, his divine source lost, and countless divine soul thoughts annihilated. His cultivation was completely wasted, plunging him from the peak of life into the abyss.
This was a fate more tragic than death!
"No, Zhang Ruochen, kill me! I want to die by your hand!" Ling Quan Great God roared like a madman, unable to accept such a bleak destiny.
Xue Tu could not help but speak up: "Senior Brother, as agreed, his divine blood belongs to me."
"Sort it out among yourselves."
The Sword Bone Doppelganger sensed a change occurring in Rakshasa Divine City, so he led Luo Sha, Quan Zhong Sheng, and Shang Yue to the surface first.
Dai Xue Queen, along with the two Rakshasa clan gods who had already submitted to Zhang Ruochen, "Zhao Ge" and "Mu Wan," stood on the tower of the first prison gate, overseeing the formation.
Their expressions were all grave.
"God Venerable, something is wrong. It seems the Rakshasa Clan has a Sealed King and Honored Venerable staying in the city," Dai Xue Queen said.
Zhang Ruochen ascended the tower and looked through layers of formation light curtains.
Outside, the evil energy was thick, appearing dark red, like layers of clouds and mist, swallowing countless city districts and surging toward the Divine Prison.
"Hua!"
"Hua!"
...
Wherever the dark red evil energy passed, the formations on the streets were activated one after another, forming bright beams of light that shot into the sky.
The imprisoned Xin He Great Priest, now only a mass of spiritual power cloud, let out a sharp laugh: "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Zhang Ruochen, by forcefully breaking into the Divine Prison, rescuing members of the Quantity Organization, and killing Ling Quan Great God, you have now become the public enemy of the Rakshasa Clan. They are coming! They now have an absolutely sufficient reason to kill you, no longer needing to fear Heavenly Mother. Haha! Even if you are stunningly talented and have stepped into the Infinite Realm in a few thousand years, in the end, you will still end in tragedy."
In the starry sky, Ling Quan Great God's Divine Throne Planet had gone dark!
In the city, countless Rakshasa clan cultivators were panicked and uneasy.
A Tai Xu Great God had fallen, falling right in the divine city.
For the Rakshasa Clan, this was not just the loss of a powerful figure but also a trampling of face, a dismantling of order, and a disgrace to the entire clan.
Outside the first prison gate, Divine King Nie's divine body had recondensed, and he was refining the sword intent that had invaded his body.
The black-robed priests and the gods of Ding Zu's lineage surrounding him were all uneasy.
They feared Zhang Ruochen in the Divine Prison and dreaded the overwhelming evil energy sweeping in.
Divine King Nie turned back to look at the Sword Bone Doppelganger standing atop the first prison gate, his expression now calm. "Today, I have witnessed the power of Heavenly Mother's Divine Envoy. Truly, the new replaces the old. This murky water of the divine city, I will not wade into any longer."
Divine King Nie led the group of black-robed priests and flew onto the divine ship.
The Sword Bone Doppelganger said, "Divine King, I'm afraid leaving won't be so easy."
Divine King Nie's brow furrowed as he looked up.
He saw that the starry sky above the divine city had vanished, replaced by thick black clouds.
The black clouds were like a black cloth covering the universe, devouring all light, giving an endless sense of depth.
The spatial structure of the city instantly strengthened by more than a hundred times, the rules of heaven and earth solidified, and many Saint realm cultivators who were not strong enough were crushed as if they had become mortals, struggling just to maintain a standing posture.
After a hundred thousand years, the ultimate city-protecting divine formation of Rakshasa Divine City had been activated once more.
Once this formation was activated, no cultivator could leave the divine city again.
Yue Gu Jun, Shi Zhi God Venerable, Xue Hai Tai Zi, and the gods of the Xue Hai Divine Kingdom lineage emerged from the thick evil energy, surrounding the Divine Prison.
Xue Hai Tai Zi looked puzzled toward the direction of the clan mansion and said, "Lord Hui actually fully activated the city-protecting divine formation at this moment."
"The city-protecting divine formation suppresses everything. Lord Hui activating it at this time has already made his stance clear—he is on our side. Neither Zhang Ruochen nor Luo Sha will escape!" Shi Zhi God Venerable said with a smile.
For the city-protecting divine formation to unleash its full power, the clan mansion, the Great Luo Divine Palace, and the City Lord's Mansion must all activate it simultaneously.
If only one side activates it, the power is only thirty percent.
At this moment, the city-protecting divine formation had only exerted thirty percent of its power. However, the one activating the formation was not Lord Hui in the clan mansion but the Quantity Organization in Ding Zu Mountain.
Heavenly Sound Divine Mother displayed spiritual power far beyond what the world knew, above the eightieth rank.
Together with three spiritual power gods wearing Quantity Envoy divine robes, she controlled the formation spirit.
The red leaf forest outside the City Lord's Mansion had been leveled to the ground.
Zhang Ruochen was suppressed by the divine patterns of Ding Zu Mountain, and Zongmu God Venerable was similarly affected.
The two, one using fists and the other wielding a blade, both unleashed the power of divine artifacts, fighting with heaven and earth splitting apart. Countless divine patterns left by Rakshasa clan gods throughout the ages were also worn away.
Zongmu God Venerable, as the master of a divine kingdom, was no mediocrity. His cultivation had reached the peak of Qiankun Infinite.
Zhang Ruochen, having first refined the divine pill and then received teachings from Kong Cheng Zi, had significantly improved his cultivation. He was far from being a newly broken-through God Venerable and was only a step away from the middle stage of Qiankun Infinite.
The more Zongmu God Venerable fought, the more shocked he became, realizing that this young God Venerable before him was truly the number one figure through the ages, capable of crossing two realms even in the Infinite Realm.
Qi Lin, the former Great Clan Chief of the Qi Tian Tribe, had been watching the battle, standing between the battlefield of the two and the City Lord's Mansion.
She said, "The younger generation is formidable! Zongmu, if you don't show your true skills, you might lose to him!"
Zongmu God Venerable suddenly leaped a hundred zhang into the air, gripping the hilt of his blade with both hands. Behind him, a divine sun manifested.
The divine sun was purplish-red, its flames blazing.
The temperature it emitted, elsewhere, could burn through space.
That divine sun was the legendary "Entropy," the foundation of the Di Entropy Divine Kingdom. Only each generation's divine kingdom ruler could absorb the power of Entropy.
"Di Entropy Without Dao!"
Zongmu God Venerable delivered his strongest slash.
The entire purplish-red divine sun merged into the blade, striking straight down with a domineering momentum, as if it could split heaven and earth.
"If you had delivered this slash at the peak of your momentum, I might not have dared to receive it. But your momentum has long since waned; now you are merely strong on the outside but hollow within."
Zhang Ruochen raised his left arm, and the Earth Cauldron appeared in his palm.
On the cauldron's body, all the shamanic inscriptions manifested, and the shadow of a primordial world emerged, meeting Zongmu God Venerable's peerless slash.
The primordial world was cut open by the blade's edge, and the blade directly collided with the Earth Cauldron.
"Be careful!"
Qi Lin sensed something was wrong, and behind her, a brilliant Gate of Destiny manifested, shining toward Zhang Ruochen to suppress his power.
"Boom!"
The divine blade struck the Earth Cauldron, and the cauldron's body immediately erupted with a dazzling, brilliant source light, shaking the blade violently.
From within the cauldron, a blinding white pillar of light shot up, striking Zongmu God Venerable.
Zongmu God Venerable's divine body was pierced by the white source light pillar, his flesh and blood continuously turning into particles.
Qi Lin stepped with a profound footwork technique, moving like a ghost, passing through the source light region formed by the Earth Cauldron. She struck out with the Undying Seal, slapping the cauldron's body with one palm, sending Zhang Ruochen and the cauldron flying backward, crashing into the mountain wall of a Heavenly Pillar Peak.
The entire Heavenly Pillar Peak shook, countless formation inscriptions flickering.
"Boom!"
Zhang Ruochen, holding the Earth Cauldron, flew out from the mud and stone, landing heavily on the ground. "Great Clan Chief Qi Lin's cultivation is truly profound. It seems fighting two at once is still too difficult!"
"Though you borrowed the power of the Earth Cauldron, forcing me to intervene is already enough to make you proud. At the initial stage of Qiankun Infinite, even the current Heavenly Venerable cannot match you."
Qi Lin gave Zhang Ruochen a very high evaluation, but the killing intent in her eyes only grew stronger.
Zongmu God Venerable had landed on the ground, a transparent hole the size of a washbasin in his chest, but his momentum showed no sign of weakening. Instead, his battle intent grew fiercer.
"When the Nine Cauldrons appear, who can compete? I am no longer his match now. Let's attack together!"