Chapter 3118: Deliberately Exposing a Weakness
Kui Liang Huang was certain that the Corpse Burying Man’s blood energy was declining and his lifespan was short. Therefore, his true body did not appear near White Cang Star.
Instead, using the Life-Extinction Lamp as the array eye, he refined the Life-Extinction Divine Array, enveloping the star domain where White Cang Star was located, and continuously attacked the Great Qi Ancestral Talisman Divine Array.
Doing this, naturally, was out of fear that the Corpse Burying Man, before dying, would use a mutual destruction method to take him out of this world.
At the same time, through the array, he was also consuming the Corpse Burying Man, causing his blood energy to further dry up.
The Corpse Burying Man could not leave White Cang Star; this was his greatest weakness.
"Boom, rumble!"
The array fluctuations were powerful, and the void outside White Cang Star was filled with destructive energy.
Bing Huang saw through Kui Liang Huang’s intention and was very worried about the Corpse Burying Man’s condition. He transmitted his voice to Zhang Ruochen, "We must end this quickly. As long as we kill or seal these enemies on White Cang Star, Kui Liang Huang will have no choice but to retreat."
"Perhaps there is another method," Zhang Ruochen said.
Bing Huang asked, "What do you plan to do?"
"Open an escape route from White Cang Star," Zhang Ruochen said.
Bing Huang thought for a moment and immediately understood Zhang Ruochen’s intent.
It was simply impossible to simultaneously kill or seal Shang Tian, Wu Bian, Dian Zhu, Qing Yun Que, and these people.
Once pushed to a dead end, they would definitely self-destruct their divine sources and perish together.
But if an opening was created, allowing them to escape White Cang Star and see a chance to live, they would naturally no longer have the resolve to self-destruct their divine sources.
Trapping them inside White Cang Star would make them unite and unleash unparalleled combat power.
Letting them out would scatter them like loose sand, each fleeing for their own life.
Moreover, fighting on White Cang Star, Zhang Ruochen and Bing Huang were too constrained, having to prioritize protecting White Cang Star and Chi Kong Le and the others.
There was a fourth point: Kui Liang Huang’s spiritual power was indeed terrifyingly high, and his array mastery could be considered second only to Yun Shen Dao Zhu. But the Life-Extinction Divine Array he refined was clearly far inferior to the Great Qi Ancestral Talisman Divine Array.
As long as there were no internal agents on White Cang Star and it remained in a stable state, it would be extremely difficult for him to break the Great Qi Ancestral Talisman Divine Array from the outside.
What Zhang Ruochen proposed was indeed an excellent strategy.
Bing Huang said, "The Corpse Burying Man cannot leave White Cang Star. Once we chase out, we will inevitably face Kui Liang Huang’s attack. Kui Liang Huang has already calculated all of this! Not good, Shang Tian’s demon corpse is heading toward the Great Qi Heavenly Emperor’s imperial tomb. It seems he has discovered the array source of the Great Qi Ancestral Talisman Divine Array."
"I will handle Kui Liang Huang! Open a gap for them to escape."
Leaving these words, Zhang Ruochen rode the Ten Thousand Buddha Array and chased after Shang Tian’s demon corpse.
At the same time, he controlled the Hong Cauldron among the five cauldrons, shooting a Truth Beam to attack Shang Tian’s demon corpse first.
The five cauldrons suppressed the five directions of White Cang Star, occupying five regions. With a thought from Zhang Ruochen, he could launch attacks anywhere.
Bing Huang, who was fighting Wu Bian, had a look of shock in his eyes. He found it hard to understand where Zhang Ruochen got the confidence to boast that he could contain Kui Liang Huang.
One was at the peak of Great Unbound Infinite, the other was at the level of Indestructible Infinite peak, a Tian Yuan Wu Que.
The gap between them was enormous!
Moreover, the Puppet Emperor primarily cultivated spiritual power.
Once he launched a spiritual power attack, no matter how high Zhang Ruochen’s attainments in time and space were, he would absolutely not escape.
But Bing Huang still chose to trust Zhang Ruochen.
Seeing Dian Zhu attack the Yu Cauldron, he did not intercept, deliberately exposing a weakness.
The Yu Cauldron hovered above the Longevity Blood Tree Forest, beside a mother tree. The ancient shamanic patterns it derived connected with the spatial veins of White Cang Star, making the spatial structure here extremely stable, difficult for even the Twenty Heavens to break.
"Boom!"
A divine artifact-level war spear pierced through the sky full of shamanic patterns, heavily striking the cauldron’s body.
The Yu Cauldron shook violently, and all the spatial veins on White Cang Star became unstable.
The next moment, Dian Zhu appeared beside the Yu Cauldron, grabbing the war spear. The nineteen pairs of blood wings behind him emitted divine light that reddened the heavens and earth, dense blood-colored lightning flowing over his body.
Divine power, at this moment, was pushed to its limit.
Clearly, Dian Zhu understood the current situation very well.
Bing Huang and Zhang Ruochen would not let him go. He could only choose to join Kui Liang Huang and Shang Tian’s camp.
Now was the time for him to offer his pledge of allegiance!
To break White Cang Star’s defenses, he first had to break the five cauldrons’ protection of White Cang Star, and the space cauldron, the Yu Cauldron, was the most critical link.
A Fu Ya had apparently already communicated with Zhang Ruochen and did not intercept Dian Zhu, instead focusing her attention on Qing Yun Que and the Heavenly Realm Knights, creating the illusion that she had no time for him.
"Boom!"
The Yu Cauldron was struck by Dian Zhu and fell to the ground, leveling thousands of miles of land.
In this area, all the Longevity Blood Trees turned to ash.
Subsequently, the interconnected spatial veins on White Cang Star immediately scattered.
In another direction, Shang Tian’s demon corpse blocked the Truth Beam. Before Zhang Ruochen could arrive, he swung the Demon God Stone Pillar, breaking the trunk of a Longevity Blood Tree mother tree growing on the Great Qi Heavenly Emperor’s imperial tomb.
As the mother tree fell, the Ancestral Talisman seals in the sky flickered rapidly, their light growing increasingly faint.
"All Beings Equal!"
Zhang Ruochen’s divine voice drifted toward Shang Tian’s demon corpse.
Shang Tian’s demon corpse, who had just succeeded, had no time to be happy before his heart was filled with shock.
Could the Ten Thousand Buddha Array, fused with the Blissful World, unleash the power of "All Beings Equal"?
Shang Tian’s demon corpse was not sure if this was true, but once trapped in the array and restricted by the power of "All Beings Equal" to the same realm as Zhang Ruochen, the consequences would be disastrous.
Earlier, Wu Bian and Qing Yun Que, who were at the same realm as Zhang Ruochen, had been easily crushed.
"All Beings Equal? So what? All Beings Equal cannot suppress an Indestructible Infinite!"
Despite saying this, Shang Tian’s demon corpse ultimately did not dare to gamble. He immediately left the Great Qi Heavenly Emperor’s imperial tomb and fled into the distance.
He inwardly lamented the missed opportunity.
If Zhang Ruochen had come a little later, giving him more time, he could have completely destroyed the Great Qi Heavenly Emperor’s imperial tomb, severely damaging the Great Qi Ancestral Talisman Divine Array.
Now, he could only wait for another chance.
Seeing that even a figure like Shang Tian had to flee from Zhang Ruochen, who controlled the Ten Thousand Buddha Array, and with A Fu Ya having already cleared out the Heavenly Realm Knights one by one, Dian Zhu abandoned his previous plan and decided to escape White Cang Star first.
After all, he had already made a huge gain by taking the Yu Cauldron.
The Great Qi Ancestral Talisman Divine Array was fiercely contending with the external Life-Extinction Divine Array.
"Break!"
Dian Zhu seized the moment when the Ancestral Talisman seals in the blood clouds dimmed, tore a hole in the divine array, and fled out.
"Presumptuous! You think you can leave?"
The Corpse Burying Man’s furious roar came from the blood clouds.
Then, a talisman seal flew out of the blood clouds, growing larger and larger, pressing down behind Dian Zhu, who had already fled a million miles away, scaring him nearly out of his wits.
"Swoosh!"
A Gate of Fate manifested out of thin air, blocking the talisman seal.
The two collided and shattered together, turning into billions of talisman patterns and fate beams.
Kui Liang Huang’s divine voice sounded from the depths of the darkness: "Dian Zhu is the pillar of the Undying Blood Clan. Master Qi should not be so harsh on his own clansman."
Dian Zhu immediately bowed toward the darkness: "The Undying Blood Clan has been unkind. Please take me in, Kui Liang Huang. From now on, I will be a cultivator under the Quantity Organization."
Seeing Dian Zhu successfully escape, Wu Bian and Qing Yun Que immediately unleashed great divine abilities, attacking Bing Huang and A Fu Ya.
Because the Yu Cauldron had been taken away, facing the attacks of Wu Bian and Qing Yun Que, Bing Huang and A Fu Ya had to use defensive measures, watching helplessly as the two fled White Cang Star.
Zhang Ruochen did not know what Kui Liang Huang was feeling at this moment, but he guessed it was not good.
Dian Zhu had torn a hole in the Great Qi Ancestral Talisman Divine Array and escaped, which should have made him happy, as it could be used to strike at the Corpse Burying Man.
But Wu Bian and Qing Yun Que escaping White Cang Star completely disrupted his plan.
Why escape?
If they had held off Bing Huang and A Fu Ya for a little longer, Kui Liang Huang would have had full confidence to break the Great Qi Ancestral Talisman Divine Array.
Their escape forced Shang Tian’s demon corpse to flee as well!
Sure enough, moments later, Shang Tian’s demon corpse turned into a black streak of light and rushed out of White Cang Star.
A sigh from Kui Liang Huang echoed in the darkness.
Today, breaking White Cang Star was already a fantasy.
From the beginning, Kui Liang Huang had been scheming against the Corpse Burying Man, because he was certain that the Corpse Burying Man would let Shang Tian’s demon corpse and Wu Bian and the others into White Cang Star.
This was the key to breaking White Cang Star’s defenses!
But he had not anticipated that Zhang Ruochen and A Fu Ya would be so strong that even Shang Tian’s demon corpse could not defeat them.
Nor had he expected that Wu Bian, Qing Yun Que, and Dian Zhu would be so useless, squandering such a favorable situation.
Just as Kui Liang Huang decided to cut his losses and retreat immediately, he saw Zhang Ruochen, A Fu Ya, and Bing Huang rush out of White Cang Star one after another, chasing Shang Tian’s demon corpse, Wu Bian, and Qing Yun Que.
"Come back, don’t chase!"
The Corpse Burying Man’s urgent voice came from White Cang Star.
"Swoosh!"
Zhang Ruochen had already used Great Space Teleportation, crossing a star domain, and intercepted Shang Tian’s demon corpse, Wu Bian, and Qing Yun Que ahead.
Wu Bian and Qing Yun Que had not expected Zhang Ruochen to act so impulsively. They exchanged glances, smiles appearing in their eyes.
Clearly, they saw this as an unexpected blessing.
"You two can still smile?"
Zhang Ruochen’s figure flickered and disappeared.
"Pfft!"
The Eternal Spear cut through time rules, striking Wu Bian’s chest and sending him flying.
Wu Bian’s chest continuously bled, his ribs almost entirely shattered, and his body rapidly aged. But his face still carried a manic smile: "Zhang Ruochen, today is your death day! Please, Kui Liang Huang, take action and suppress this child."
"Boom!"
Zhang Ruochen’s foot landed on Wu Bian.
Space power erupted, kicking him toward Bing Huang.
Zhang Ruochen’s other hand tightly gripped the Imperial Talisman, ready to activate it at any moment to counter Kui Liang Huang’s attack.
He was confident that with his current cultivation and the various means at his disposal, he might not be Kui Liang Huang’s match, but he could definitely protect himself.
Kui Liang Huang naturally would not miss this perfect opportunity to turn the tables.
Zhang Ruochen clearly felt fate rules gathering around him, rapidly rotating, as if turning into a storm vortex.
Moments later, these storm vortices condensed into twelve Gates of Fate, trapping Zhang Ruochen at the center, continuously suppressing and weakening his cultivation.
Kui Liang Huang’s true body finally emerged from the darkness, dressed in plain cloth, staring at the distant twelve Gates of Fate, and said, "Ruochen, I don’t know what your trump card is, nor why you are using this strategy, but this time, you are definitely wrong. You have underestimated the means of a cultivator at the ninety-second level of spiritual power."
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