Chapter 3466: Each Has Their Own Arrangements, All Hidden Pieces Revealed
The Divine City, as the center of a clan where gods gather, was a place that Rakshasa Clan sacred realm cultivators would go to great lengths to permanently reside in, as its cultivation environment far surpassed other locations.
Had it not been for the outbreak of the Starry Sky Battlefield, a single city could gather over thirty percent of the entire Rakshasa Clan's sacred realm powerhouses.
Even now, the Rakshasa Clan sacred realm cultivators attacking the city domain where the Divine Prison was located were vast and countless in number. There were over a hundred gods alone!
Above the Divine City, a thousand Divine Throne Planets flickered, casting down a thousand bright beams of light.
Even with the profound cultivation of Gu Xin and Master Shi Zhi, facing the power of a Divine City, they still struggled to hold their ground.
Under the Great Luo Divine Seal, formation flags burned one after another, and the silhouette of the Punishment Heavenly Venerable shattered with a loud crash.
Blood continuously flowed from Master Shi Zhi's mouth; he had already been injured.
It was easy to imagine that once the Wind-Thunder God Execution Formation was completely destroyed, he would certainly be unable to withstand the Great Luo Divine Seal and the attacks of countless Rakshasa, risking death.
Gu Xin, merged with the Demon God Stone Pillar, withstood a massive number of divine seals and the bombardment of countless sacred artifacts.
However, tens of millions of strands of spiritual power surged from the clouds of Evil Fiend Qi, attacking his divine soul.
Having to block both the Great Luo Divine Seal and the soul attacks was no easy task.
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The Evil Fiend Qi clouds were thick, with Qi Lin hiding within them.
She said, "This is the wrath of an entire city? It seems Shi Zhi and Gu Xin can't hold out."
The Vertical Eye God Venerable snorted coldly, "The might of the Rakshasa Divine City is far more than this. That brat Zhang Ruochen simply doesn't know how to use the Great Luo Divine Seal properly. Otherwise, by borrowing the city's energy and the power of all Rakshasa cultivators in the city, even if Gu Xin and Shi Zhi haven't recovered their cultivation, even Patriarch Ding would be suppressed. Right now, the Rakshasa cultivators in the city, without the command of the Eight War Gods, are nothing but a scattered mess."
As the former ruler of the Di Shang Divine Kingdom, the Vertical Eye God Venerable had always held reverence and longing for the Rakshasa Divine City. In his youth, he too had been arrogant, dreaming of entering and ruling it.
Qi Lin said, "It's time for us to act. Since things have come to this, secretly controlling the Rakshasa Clan is no longer possible. We have no choice but to go on a killing spree, using the Rakshasa in the city as blood food to boost our cultivation and strive to break through to Great Unbound Infinite as soon as possible. You're not having second thoughts, are you?"
Qi Lin and the Vertical Eye God Venerable—one was an Undying Blood Clan member, the other a Rakshasa.
Devouring flesh and blood could rapidly increase their cultivation.
The Vertical Eye God Venerable sneered, "If breaking through to Great Unbound Infinite is possible, what does it matter if I devour all the Rakshasa in the city? Each person is a blood pill!"
Qi Lin and the Vertical Eye God Venerable's divine bodies rapidly expanded, reaching a hundred meters, a thousand meters, ten thousand meters, a hundred thousand meters, a million meters...
Finally.
Their divine bodies exceeded ten thousand miles in height.
They directly opened their mouths, and streams of air surged out, sweeping toward the Rakshasa Clan sacred realm cultivators in the Evil Fiend Qi clouds.
Like a whale swallowing a school of fish!
But the moment the air currents surged out, they were blocked by an invisible wall, unable to reach the Rakshasa Clan sacred realm cultivators.
Qi Lin and the Vertical Eye God Venerable sensed this strange phenomenon and immediately became alert.
"Ssshh!"
Behind the Vertical Eye God Venerable, a purple-red divine sun emerged, releasing entropy divine power, dispersing the Evil Fiend clouds and erasing all illusions.
Only then did they realize they had been pulled into a formation world.
The formation world was a white desert, with a cloudless sky and stars shining down on the land. The stars were arranged in a strange pattern, clearly the Star Soul Divine Throne of some god.
The Vertical Eye God Venerable's eyes were deep and dark, knowing who had come. He said, "Su, since you're here, why not show yourself?"
"Boom!"
In the distance, a large area of the desert exploded.
Su War God, one of the Rakshasa Clan's Eight War Gods, walked out from the dust. He was one zhang and two chi tall, with a bald head as large as a water vat, covered in red battle armor, with bronze-like muscles exposed outside the armor.
He held a large blade with a white bone handle, the handle about two meters long.
"Vertical Eye, we were once the best of friends. Even though you are a Quantity Venerable of the Quantity Organization, I never thought of killing you, believing we each had our own path. But you have disappointed me too much. You could actually bring yourself to kill your own race. From today onward, our bond is severed!" Su War God said.
The Vertical Eye God Venerable and Qi Lin both returned to normal body size, floating in mid-air, surrounded by layers of divine light.
In close-quarters combat, manifesting a giant divine body was not an advantage but a disadvantage.
"Qianxi, aren't you going to show yourself?"
Beneath Qi Lin, a sea of blood surged, and nine faint threads floated around her. Under the illumination of the Divine Throne Planets above, they occasionally emitted white light.
A bronze formation tower rose from the depths of the desert, several hundred meters high.
Qianxi Goddess Lord, dressed in a green robe and phoenix robe, with a green silk ribbon covering her eyes, stood atop the bronze formation tower. A circular formation disk slowly rotated beneath her feet, and she held a three-foot-long jade brush with a green silk tassel.
She was the ruler of one of the Rakshasa Clan's seven divine kingdoms, the Qianxi Divine Kingdom, and the only female divine lord. She did not cultivate martial arts but instead cultivated spiritual power. She had once received guidance from Heavenly Mother, considered half a disciple of Heavenly Mother.
Since Luo Yan Great Emperor wanted to lure the Quantity Organization out, how could he act alone?
Su War God and Qianxi Goddess Lord were cultivators he could fully trust and had already secretly deployed to the Divine City.
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"The aura has disappeared... It's a formation!"
Zhang Ruochen sensed the changes in the Evil Fiend Qi clouds and immediately understood. He realized that Luo Yan Great Emperor must have a backup plan, which relieved him of his worries.
At that moment, a new change occurred.
Above the Divine Prison, the formation inscriptions of the City-Protecting Divine Formation rapidly gathered, forming a purple-green light sphere. Destructive power was brewing within the sphere.
"Whoosh!"
A bolt of lightning dozens of meters thick fell straight from the City-Protecting Divine Formation, striking the Great Luo Divine Seal.
The power of the Great Luo Divine Seal surged, crushing all the formation flags of the Wind-Thunder God Execution Formation, even causing the Demon God Stone Pillar to topple with a loud crash.
Master Shi Zhi's divine body turned into bloody mud, and countless bones were shattered.
Gu Xin was struck by the lightning, separated from the Demon God Stone Pillar, half his body shattered, black smoke rising from him, heavily injured.
Luo Yan Great Emperor's figure manifested in the sky, reflected on the City-Protecting Divine Formation. He said, "Rakshasa cultivators in the Divine City, hear my command: kill Lei Clan's Master Shi Zhi and Demon God Gu Xin. Luo Ding is a traitor to the Rakshasa Clan and is no longer the master of the Divine City."
Seeing Luo Yan Great Emperor's silhouette, the Rakshasa cultivators erupted in excitement, their hearts now fully assured.
"The Great Emperor is indeed not dead!"
"Why wait for the Great Emperor's orders? Today, we cultivators will slay gods and demons."
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Earlier, many had been uncertain, unsure whether to trust Zhang Ruochen, acting only out of reverence for Heavenly Mother and obedience to the Great Luo Divine Seal.
Now that the Great Emperor had arrived and taken control of the City-Protecting Divine Formation, their courage and battle intent reached their peak.
"We obey the Great Emperor's command!"
"Kill the foreign enemies, punish the traitors."
Gods who had previously hesitated, unable to gauge the situation, now drove their divine halls and led their subordinates to the Divine Prison to assist.
Countless divine halls, altars, and formations unleashed various powers, once again overwhelming Master Shi Zhi and Gu Xin.
Blood Butcher's voice came from the silver-white divine robe: "Senior Brother, have we now gained the upper hand? Is victory certain? I want to come out and do what I can."
Zhang Ruochen looked at Gu Xin and Master Shi Zhi, who had been severely injured by the City-Protecting Divine Formation and were now being ganged up on, and relaxed his tense nerves a little.
Without a doubt, Luo Yan Great Emperor, wielding the God-Defying Stele, had broken the Six Harmonies Formation and seized control of the City-Protecting Divine Formation from Er Daren at Patriarch Ding Mountain.
But Patriarch Ding Mountain was only one hub of the City-Protecting Divine Formation.
It was far too early to declare victory.
"Don't be so eager to come out and clean up the battlefield. There are over ten Boundless cultivators in the city right now. Anyone who gets greedy at this moment is asking for death," Zhang Ruochen said.
"Haha! Luo Yan, what right do you have to strip me of my city lord position?"
Patriarch Ding looked up at the sky, exerting force with both arms, and struck the Yin-Yang Dual Fork toward the heavens.
A beam of yin-yang light shot from the fork's tip, shattering Luo Yan Great Emperor's image on the City-Protecting Divine Formation.
Patriarch Ding was surprised. It was that easy to break?
Then he understood. Luo Yan had not completely overpowered Er Daren. Clearly, the battle of techniques was still ongoing at Patriarch Ding Mountain.
As long as Er Daren could keep Luo Yan occupied, preventing him from freely controlling the City-Protecting Divine Formation, Patriarch Ding had nothing to fear. His gaze turned to Zhang Ruochen, murderous intent sharp.
To control Luo Yan, he first had to capture his children.
What Patriarch Ding could see, Zhang Ruochen could also see. But now, the battle situation was chaotic, with pieces from the Quantity Organization and Luo Yan Great Emperor appearing one after another, battling in key locations.
Who would win or lose was still hard to say.
"Boom!"
A massive change occurred at the clan mansion. The ground shook, and a powerful divine force pierced the defensive formation.
At the clan mansion, a section of the towering wall, several hundred meters long, collapsed. Clearly, a fierce battle was erupting inside.
A black ghost cloud drifted out from a gap in the defensive formation, floating in mid-air, dark and heavy, carrying strands of Great Unbound Infinite-level divine rule patterns.
Zhang Ruochen's expression changed drastically. He guessed who the Quantity Organization's piece at the clan mansion was. With Wen Zun's cultivation, he was definitely no match.
Patriarch Ding stepped forward, his killing intent rising step by step. "Shen Tu Ghost Emperor has already made his move. The City-Protecting Divine Formation in the clan mansion will soon fall into our hands. If you offer half your divine soul now and submit to me, it's not too late!"
Zhang Ruochen glanced at the nearby Great Luo Divine Palace and said, "In that case, there's no other choice. I'll have to go with the princess to the royal clan's ancestral land."
"Whoosh!"
Zhang Ruochen turned into a streak of light, charging forward. As he swung his arm, he recalled the Great Luo Divine Seal into his hand.
"Royal clan's ancestral land? You probably want to take control of the City-Protecting Divine Formation in the Great Luo Divine Palace, don't you?"
Patriarch Ding ignored Gu Xin and Master Shi Zhi, who were being suppressed by the City-Protecting Divine Formation and besieged, and immediately gave chase.
In an instant, Zhang Ruochen arrived before the towering vermilion palace gate and punched out.
The gate deformed, caved inward, and flew away.
"Let me out!" Luo Sha transmitted her voice.
After Luo Sha flew out from the sword bone silver-white divine robe, she immediately cut her wrist, spilling divine blood onto the ground.
Immediately, the defensive divine formation of the Great Luo Divine Palace slowly activated, revealing a light gate.
The Yin-Yang Dual Fork flew from behind, carrying infinite divine power.
"Bang!"
Zhang Ruochen swung the Great Luo Divine Seal, turning it into a shield-sized seal. Half of it sank into the ground, colliding with the Yin-Yang Dual Fork, plowing a hundred-meter-long deep trench in front of the palace gate.