Chapter 3780: The Mantis Stalks the Cicada, Unaware of the Oriole Behind
Although Murong Tailai was a Zhutian, his cultivation realm was still at the Great Unbound Infinite level. Under the combined siege of three peak Great Unbound Infinite powerhouses, he gradually lost ground and began to sustain injuries.
A Fuya possessed a powerful ancestral soul. She repeatedly unfolded the three hundred and sixty formation flags. As long as she could envelop Murong Tailai within the Wind and Snow Continent Divine Formation, no matter how high his cultivation was, he would be unable to escape.
However, every time the formation flags were unfurled, Murong Tailai would scatter them, preventing the divine formation from exerting its full power.
Qingcheng Yun had been biding his time, but each time he broke the light-speed rules to launch a sneak attack, he managed to breach Murong Tailai's defenses and inflict wounds on his physical body.
Keluosa wielded the Way of Darkness with exquisite skill, sealing his vision, weakening his perception, severing Murong Tailai's connection to the outside world, and rendering his Profound Meaning ineffective, suppressing him completely.
Fighting on like this, Murong Tailai would be continuously drained, his injuries growing more severe. Once he made a mistake, he would fall into an abyss of eternal damnation.
"Boundless Light Mirror!"
Vast divine qi erupted from Murong Tailai's body. The Stainless Dust Whisk in his hand traced a silver circle, like a silver mirror, with light patterns radiating outward, forcing A Fuya, Keluosa, and Qingcheng Yun to retreat simultaneously.
"This Evil Emperor Underground Palace is yours! Another day, I will personally seek each of your advice on your superb skills."
Murong Tailai drew divine thunder and lightning into his body, transforming into a bolt of lightning, charging straight toward the sky.
In the sky, formation patterns were densely packed.
The world-protecting Zhou Tian Divine Formation of the Cha Realm was gradually taking shape, with destructive power coalescing in the atmosphere.
If he didn't leave now, he wouldn't be able to escape!
"Without leaving the Sundial behind, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave, sir."
A Fuya's divine soul covered the Cha Realm, even extending to the surrounding star regions.
"Hua!"
The blood-red sky suddenly turned silver, striking Murong Tailai as he was about to pierce through the clouds.
The silver clouds parted, revealing a forest of silver-white trees, suffused with Buddha light.
On the trunk of each silver tree grew a Buddha, in myriad postures, like ten thousand Buddhas descending.
During the battle at Buzhou Mountain, the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation had been damaged when it was broken by the Five-Eyed Golden Insect.
At that time, Zhang Ruochen had no time to retrieve it. It was A Fuya who had taken away the Xutuohan Silver Trees and repaired the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation.
Seeing Murong Tailai trapped within the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation, Qingcheng Yun and Keluosa both showed joy.
"The Ten Thousand Buddha Formation won't hold Murong Tailai for long. Take this opportunity to suppress and kill him within the formation."
A Fuya spread her wings, riding a magnificent and gorgeous cloud of fire, floating to the top of the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation.
Countless silver Sanskrit characters flew around her.
Within the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation below, Murong Tailai used the Stainless Dust Whisk to shatter patches of Xutuohan Silver Trees, leveling them to the ground.
A Fuya drew her Crystal Bow.
On the bowstring, densely packed light rules condensed into a blazing white arrow.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
...
She shot arrow after arrow.
The arrows entered the Buddha forest, each one piercing through the air with devastating force. Even with Murong Tailai's abilities, he dared not take them head-on and continuously dodged.
Qingcheng Yun looked at Keluosa and said, "This is the only chance to keep Murong Tailai here and seize the Sundial. If we continue to hide our strength like this, once he breaks out of the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation... it will be like drawing water with a bamboo basket."
Qingcheng Yun flew toward the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation suspended in the sky, slowly spreading his hands and lifting them upward.
Between his palms, countless cracks appeared in the space.
Within the cracks, a vermilion divine temple, exuding an aura no less than that of the Evil Emperor Underground Palace, gradually manifested.
Immediately, the celestial phenomena changed. Amidst the blood-red evil clouds and silver Buddha light, crimson rays appeared.
Chi Xingtian stood within the Divine Realm World, looking at the character "Shang" on the temple's plaque. Feeling the divine power fluctuations emanating from the temple, which pressed down on even him, a Great God, making it hard to breathe, he said, "He actually brought Shang Tian's divine temple here!"
"The temple contains Shang Tian's full-power strike. Only a divine temple that Shang Tian has been cultivating in for a long time could condense such a powerful force."
Zhang Ruochen's voice reached Chi Xingtian's ears.
Chi Xingtian looked at Zhang Ruochen with suspicion and surprise, feeling that this monk was not simple, able to see through the reality and illusion of the Shang Tian Divine Temple.
Qingcheng Yun did not act immediately. Instead, he held the temple, waiting for the best moment to strike.
"I'll help you all!"
Keluosa appeared at another position of the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation, his ten fingers forming a strange seal. The whites of his eyes disappeared, turning pitch black like two abyssal pools, releasing wisps of extremely yin and evil dark mist.
"Behi's ultimate technique, Abyss Gaze! How can he perform the Abyss Gaze?"
Qingcheng Yun was puzzled.
Although Keluosa possessed Behi's remnant soul, to perform the Abyss Gaze, he would need Indestructible-level Dark Rule Divine Patterns, Indestructible Infinite-level eye strength to withstand it, and more than ten percent of the Dark Profound Meaning to support it.
"Could it be that thirty thousand years ago, before Keluosa left, he hid his pair of divine eyes and ten percent of the Dark Profound Meaning? Or... thirty thousand years ago, he never actually died."
Qingcheng Yun had no time to think further. Murong Tailai had already broken out of the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation, rushing out from the forest of Xutuohan Silver Trees.
The divine abilities Murong Tailai used were exquisite. He kept leaping through the void and had activated some forbidden technique, moving at an inconceivable speed.
Qingcheng Yun wanted to lock onto him and unleash Shang Tian's full-power strike from the temple, but he simply couldn't do it.
His divine thoughts, still hundreds of miles away from Murong Tailai, were scattered by the overwhelming divine power.
Just as Murong Tailai was about to escape the Cha Realm, his movement suddenly stalled. His eyes turned pitch black, and his body became unsteady.
"Why aren't you acting? The Abyss Gaze can only suppress his divine soul for one breath's time."
Keluosa said.
"Boom!"
The Shang Tian Divine Temple descended.
Inside the temple, it seemed to contain countless red clouds and mists, which burst out from the temple gate, materializing into a five-finger-shaped "Great Dao Heavenly Desolation Seal."
The darkness in Murong Tailai's eyes receded, and his battle intent returned. He immediately manifested his giant divine body, exerting all his strength to strike with the Stainless Dust Whisk, releasing tens of thousands of bolts of lightning from his body.
But how could his power compare to Shang Tian's?
A single realm difference was like the gap between heaven and earth.
"Pfft!"
Murong Tailai spat blood, and the bones inside his body exploded with a "crackling" sound, as if his divine soul had been shattered. His thousands-of-zhang-tall giant divine body collapsed limply downward.
The Sundial and the Stainless Dust Whisk fell from his body, flying in two different directions.
"Don't give him a chance to recover his combat power. Suppress him first, then retrieve the Sundial and the Stainless Dust Whisk."
After saying this, A Fuya immediately executed the Space Lock Seal secret technique to prevent Murong Tailai from recovering his divine soul and self-detonating his divine source.
She had long noticed that Murong Tailai's state was very abnormal.
Just now, when he was hit by the Great Dao Heavenly Desolation Seal, an explosion sounded from within Murong Tailai's body, and a mass of talisman light burst forth.
A Fuya guessed that Murong Tailai had been controlled by Murong Buhuo using a talisman. Qingcheng Yun's strike, guided by Shang Tian, although it seemed to severely wound him, actually helped him greatly by breaking the curse within his body.
A controlled Murong Tailai was easy to deal with.
But a Murong Tailai freed from control was a Zhutian, possessing the spiritual will of a Zhutian. That kind of wisdom, decisiveness, and experience was enough for A Fuya to treat him with utmost seriousness.
If Murong Tailai decisively self-detonated his divine source, none of the three of them would be able to escape today.
Qingcheng Yun and Keluosa were both extremely shrewd figures. They had also seen through Murong Tailai's situation. Therefore, they were not blinded by greed and benefits. They went all out, sending attack after attack onto Murong Tailai's body.
In an instant, the three of them had fought their way into the seabed, and the divine qi released from their bodies evaporated the seawater for hundreds of thousands of miles around.
Just as Zhang Ruochen was about to make his move, he suddenly looked up at the sky, a look of surprise on his face. He thought to himself, "What a Netherworld Sect Leader. Today, you've truly made me see you in a new light!"
"Hua!"
"Hua!"
Two spatial rifts appeared, taking away the Sundial and the Stainless Dust Whisk.
Standing at the edge of the Red Tide Cliff, the Netherworld Sect Leader collected these two war artifacts and then calmly ordered the disciples of the Netherworld Evil Sect, "Suppress and kill all cultivators who have broken into the Cha Realm!"
The Netherworld Sect Leader triggered the Fire Dao Profound Meaning, displaying the power of a Fire Dao Lord God. Netherworld Evil Fire condensed on his palm, refining the seals that Murong Tailai had placed on the surface of the Sundial.
"Huala!"
Pillars of fire, as thick as mountain peaks, fell from the world-protecting divine formation in the sky, striking A Fuya, Qingcheng Yun, and Keluosa.
Murong Tailai's physical body had been shattered.
Divine blood dyed large areas of the sea red, and divine bones were broken into dozens of pieces.
Qingcheng Yun and Keluosa had no time to break his Dao and find his divine sea and divine source. They immediately used their movement techniques to dodge the attacks of the fire pillars.
This was the power of the formation gathering the entire Cha Realm's earth veins. Once hit, even they would absolutely not be able to withstand it!
"Qi Jingting, are you rebelling?"
Qingcheng Yun dodged into the Shang Tian Divine Temple.
The temple shrank to the size of a fist and flew rapidly toward the Red Tide Cliff.
Keluosa's body disappeared, transforming into a black hole the size of a head, flickering in the void as he moved to kill the Netherworld Sect Leader.
A Fuya remained very calm, using the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation and the Wind and Snow Continent Divine Formation to protect herself. She landed on top of the Evil Emperor Underground Palace, her demeanor peerless, her robes fluttering. From millions of miles away, she shot an arrow at the Netherworld Sect Leader.
In an instant, the Light Divine Arrow reached the Red Tide Cliff.
"Boom!"
Dozens of layers of formation light screens rose from the cliff face.
As the light screens shattered, they also dissipated the power of the Light Divine Arrow.
The Netherworld Sect Leader appeared very calm. "Young Master Qing, it's not that I, the Sect Leader, want to rebel, but that you forced my hand. Jia Hong, the Evil God, and the others died by your hands, didn't they?"
Qingcheng Yun responded with silence.
The Netherworld Sect Leader continued, "The First Queen also wants to seize the Fire Dao Profound Meaning in my hands, doesn't she?"
"Xi Tian cultivates the Way of Darkness. To quickly restore his cultivation, he will definitely need a large amount of cultivation resources. Seizing the resources of the Netherworld Evil Sect, or rather, seizing the resources of the entire Cha Realm, would be enough to satisfy your needs."
"After all, a great world as rich in resources as the Cha Realm, in the entire Heavenly Court Universe, there are fewer than ten."
"At that time, you will pin all of this on Murong Tailai, giving the various realms of the Heavenly Court an explanation. The various realms of the Heavenly Court already hate us evil cultivators to the bone. Who would offend the Paradise Realm for us and investigate the truth?"
"I've thought it over and over. Today, I have no way out. I might as well take the initiative to strike."
Keluosa did not refute at all. "Since you see it so clearly, you should have fled earlier. If you fled early, you might still have a chance to live."
The Netherworld Sect Leader laughed heartily. "The leader of the Immortal-Worshipping Cult failed in his scheme against Zhang Ruochen and instead fell in the Soul Realm. He died too pathetically. The Buddha Lord of Determination thought himself wise and fled first, but he will surely become a laughingstock. If I flee again, where will the face of the Cha Realm be? Wouldn't the reputation that the Evil Emperor fought for back then be destroyed in one fell swoop? Someone always has to stay behind to be the backbone of a realm, to guard its dignity. Only then will the cultivators of the Cha Realm, when they walk outside in the future, not be mocked by cultivators from the entire universe."
The Netherworld Sect Leader knew very well that with a wisp of his divine soul in Qingcheng Yun's hands, he was destined not to escape.
If he fled the Cha Realm, with his Great Unbound Infinite mid-stage cultivation, he would be no match for any of the three.
Staying in the Cha Realm, he still had a chance to fight.