Chapter 3812: Changing the Battle Situation
Wubian did not make a move, standing to the side to observe the battle. Suddenly, he sensed something and let out a sharp shout: "Who dares to spy on me from the shadows?"
"Whoosh!"
The Heavenly God Chain in his hand lashed out, like a black steel dragon, arcing halfway around to strike behind him.
Behind him, the ten Zhutian Knights were arranged in a mysterious formation, standing at ten nodes of an invisible array. Their auras merged into one, their divine soul thoughts intermingling.
Just as the Heavenly God Chain was unleashed, Zhang Ruochen materialized from invisibility into tangible form, appearing a few zhang away from the ten Zhutian Knights.
"Your alertness is not bad."
As Zhang Ruochen spoke these words, he had already struck out with a palm.
Dragon roars and elephant trumpets echoed, shaking heaven and earth.
The fierce and vigorous palm force caused the invisible formation to manifest, countless formation inscription patterns flowing and shuttling between the ten Zhutian Knights and Wubian, as solid as gold and indistinguishable from one another.
It was precisely because Zhang Ruochen recognized the power of this combined attack formation that he had launched a sneak attack first, intending to break it.
With this formation and the support of the ten Zhutian Knights, Wubian, who was originally at the second level of the Great Unbound Infinite peak, had erupted with Indestructible-level combat power, striking Ice King severely with a single blow.
How could he not break it?
However, given Wubian's cultivation level, his divine soul thoughts were omnipresent like tentacles. Being able to reach so close to him silently was already the limit.
The current situation was within Zhang Ruochen's expectations.
"Boom!"
The unexpected strike caught the ten Zhutian Knights off guard, grinding away countless formation inscription patterns.
Three dragon-shaped strange beasts roared and staggered, falling to the ground along with three Zhutian Knights, knocked over by the palm force.
Ignoring the incoming Heavenly God Chain, Zhang Ruochen struck out a second palm, continuing to target the formation.
The palm wind was like a blade, with the force to uproot mountains and rivers.
Amidst the rumbling sounds, the formation completely shattered, and all ten Zhutian Knights were sent tumbling, men and dragons alike.
With the formation broken, the divine might erupting from Wubian's body deflated like a punctured ball, rapidly declining back to the second level of the Great Unbound Infinite peak.
The power of the Heavenly God Chain sharply decreased, colliding eighteen zhang away from Zhang Ruochen, blocked by an invisible spatial barrier.
It could not even breach Zhang Ruochen's eighteen-zhang domain!
Zhang Ruochen strode forward, reaching out to grab the Heavenly God Chain eighteen zhang away. His divine power shifted from rigid strength to soft, yin-like force.
"Zhang Ruochen!"
Wubian's face suddenly changed color in shock. He fully unleashed his divine power, causing densely packed dark marks to appear on the Heavenly God Chain, with corrosive power spreading outward.
Zhang Ruochen was unafraid of the dark corrosive force. He grabbed the Heavenly God Chain and, with a sudden burst of strength, pulled Wubian flying toward him.
As the master of a hall, Wubian was naturally extremely formidable. In this critical moment, he did not think of retreating.
He knew well that Zhang Ruochen controlled time and space. No matter how fast he retreated, Zhang Ruochen would catch up.
At that point, he would only lose faster and more miserably.
"Nether Soul Death Curse!"
Of the eight volumes of the Nether Book, four were in the Darkness Temple.
What Wubian was now executing was the strongest forbidden technique from the "Nether Soul Volume."
He was burning his own nether soul to cast a curse.
Wubian knew that Zhang Ruochen had cultivated an Indestructible Dharma Body. In close combat with his physical body, even burning divine matter would offer no chance of victory.
But compared to his physical body, Zhang Ruochen's divine soul was inevitably a weakness.
Therefore, he directly attacked Zhang Ruochen's divine soul with a curse. Moreover, the "Nether Soul Death Curse" was a mutual destruction tactic. Once it took hold, Wubian would burn all his nether soul. As long as Zhang Ruochen's cultivation had not reached Indestructible Infinite, he could take him down.
Wubian was betting that Zhang Ruochen would not trade one for one with him.
"What a Wubian. No wonder you can be the master of the Darkness Temple."
Zhang Ruochen gave Wubian high praise, but he did not retreat just because Wubian had cast the Nether Soul Death Curse.
"Mind like a bright mirror, immune to all curses."
Zhang Ruochen's body erupted with ten thousand zhang of Buddha light, ignoring the curse rushing toward him. He grabbed Wubian by the neck and slammed him heavily to the ground, causing the earth to cave in.
The divine force erupting from his body sent the ten Zhutian Knights attacking him staggering backward, unable to get close.
Wubian's head was severed from his body, blood splattering ten steps away.
"Your life will be taken by Ice King himself."
Zhang Ruochen tore off Wubian's head and hurled it like a stone, colliding with a flying arrow.
"Bang!"
Wubian's head exploded, shattering into a mist of blood.
His divine sea and divine source were not inside the head.
Zhang Ruochen had no time to break Wubian's path and find his divine sea or divine source. Instead, he swung the Heavenly God Chain, sending a Zhutian Knight who had attacked close flying away.
The black robe on that Zhutian Knight burst open, revealing a remnant soul body.
Before he could land, Zhang Ruochen appeared before him and shattered his soul body with a single punch.
These Zhutian Knights indeed had very strong souls, with combat power comparable to Boundless.
But their vitality was far inferior to that of contemporary divine kings and venerables, and they had no divine source.
Struck by a punch, their consciousness was directly obliterated.
The remaining soul thoughts turned into soul mist, drifting through the void.
"Swish!"
Qingyunque shot three arrows in succession. Each arrow seemed capable of piercing time and space, arriving instantly before Zhang Ruochen, leaving him no time to dodge.
But once these three arrows entered Zhang Ruochen's eighteen-zhang domain, their speed sharply decreased, growing slower and slower.
It was time.
The power of time affected the speed of the three arrows.
With a thought from Zhang Ruochen, the arrow path divine power contained in the three arrows was erased, and he collected them into his hand.
Qingyunque's expression turned grave. Knowing that Zhang Ruochen's combat power at the same realm was heaven-defying and that he was no match, he spread his eighteen pairs of silver wings, turned around, and flew into the Longevous Blood Tree forest, charging toward the positions of Xue Tu, Chi Kongle, and the others.
In fact, by the time Wubian's head was torn off, two Zhutian Knights had already rushed into the Longevous Blood Tree forest.
Otherwise, Zhang Ruochen would not have given up the opportunity to break Wubian's divine path.
He simply did not have the time!
None of the cultivators present were fools. They all knew what the most correct strategy was.
Zhang Ruochen remained calm in the face of change. He drew a circle with both hands, and the Taiji Four Symbols Diagram Seal manifested, encompassing the entire Baicang Star.
"Zhang Ruochen, you little brat, do you think this can block my path, the ancestor?"
Qingyunque sneered, already catching up to the two Zhutian Knights, getting closer and closer to Xue Tu, Chi Kongle, and the other four.
Of course, Xue Tu and the others were also fleeing, trying to widen the distance.
"Boom!"
Ripples appeared in space.
The Yu Cauldron flew out from the center of the ripples, crashing heavily into Qingyunque. It smashed his divine body into a bloody mess, sending him flying hundreds of miles away, crashing heavily into the Longevous Blood Tree forest.
Xue Tu stood on the back of Mo, looking back and wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, laughing: "Daring to be an enemy of senior brother, seeking death! Wanting to catch us, with senior brother here, who can touch a single hair on us?"
The other four cauldrons appeared in four different regions of Baicang Star.
The power released by the five cauldrons stabilized the spatial structure of Baicang Star by a hundredfold.
This was an arrangement Zhang Ruochen had made long ago, to prevent the divine battle from destroying Baicang Star.
"Leave this to me. I'll hold off Wubian and the hall master. You deal with Qingyunque!"
Ice King struck back, repelling the hall master, and then regained control of the twenty-four divine throne planets, pulling the headless Wubian inside.
"Alright!"
Zhang Ruochen's figure flickered, appearing in the Longevous Blood Tree forest, chasing after the two Zhutian Knights.
The two Zhutian Knights acted decisively, leaping off their dragon-shaped strange beasts.
At the same time, they used divine power to hurl the two dragon-shaped strange beasts at Zhang Ruochen.
"Whoosh!"
Zhang Ruochen crossed space, bypassing the two dragon-shaped strange beasts, and appeared above the head of one Zhutian Knight.
That Zhutian Knight let out an unwilling roar and swung his war halberd.
Zhang Ruochen stomped down, and divine power radiance condensed into a large footprint, crushing that Zhutian Knight into pieces, turning him into a cloud of unconscious soul mist.
At that moment, Zhang Ruochen's senses tingled, and he glanced toward a certain direction in the dense forest.
A man with thick beard stood under a mother tree of Longevous Blood Tree. His body was robust, like a mountain, with dark purple eyes containing demonic power within.
He muttered to himself: "Just one glance from him, and he sensed me. Such strong alertness? Not yet Indestructible, yet he can perceive me."
Zhang Ruochen found it unbelievable. It seemed that a formidable expert was hidden on Baicang Star.
Thinking about it, it was normal. With the cultivation of Wubian, Qingyunque, and the hall master, they could not have broken Baicang Star's defenses so quickly.
"Who is it?"
"Why hasn't he made a move yet? Is he waiting to ambush me?"
"Ice King should know, why hasn't he warned me?"
Just as Zhang Ruochen was puzzled, a divine arrow flew out from the dense forest, heading straight for the fleeing Mo beast.
Xue Tu, Xia Yu, Chi Kongle, and Yan Ying'er were all on Mo's back.
"We have become Father's burden," Chi Kongle said.
Yan Ying'er suggested: "How about we split up and flee?"
Xue Tu immediately stopped her, saying: "We absolutely cannot split up... If any one of us is captured, your father will be put in a passive position. We are not burdens. As long as we are not captured, this is the best training for us."
Xia Yu sneered, seeing through Xue Tu's intentions.
"Boom!"
A beam of light fell from afar, shaking the ground violently.
A patch of Longevous Blood Trees collapsed.
Zhang Ruochen pressed Qingyunque to the ground, binding him with the Heavenly God Chain. He tore off his silver wings one by one and threw them toward where Xue Tu and the others were.
"This is the method of killing by dismemberment. Senior brother needs my help. You wait here and protect yourselves."
Xue Tu's eyes lit up. He flew out, collecting the silver wings one by one and continuously sealing them.
In his excitement, he grabbed a silver wing and gulped down the blood flowing from it.
These divine bloods were all greatly nourishing.
In the distance, the bearded man under the mother tree of Longevous Blood Tree had been hesitating with some concern, but now he had to act.
If he did not act now, Qingyunque would be torn to pieces by Zhang Ruochen.
"Chi chi!"
He extended his left hand, and a dense mass of demonic qi emerged from his palm.
A Demon God Stone Pillar was grasped in his hand.
"Whoosh!"
The Demon God Stone Pillar was thrown like a javelin, demonic qi crushing a long path through the Longevous Blood Tree forest, stretching all the way to Zhang Ruochen.
After throwing the Demon God Stone Pillar, the bearded man immediately vanished from the spot.
"Finally made a move. So it's the Shangtian Demon Corpse."
Although Zhang Ruochen was pressing down on Qingyunque, his Truth Heart had been monitoring the depths of the dense forest, his spirit in a state of extreme concentration.
Facing an Indestructible Infinite, he dared not be careless in the slightest.
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