Chapter 3856: Slaughtering into the Sword God Temple
Yan Renhuan and Yan Jun, like two meteors in the darkness, flew one after the other through the Void World.
Every time they intersected, it created a collision that shattered heaven and earth, annihilating all things and reducing stars to dust.
Although Yan Jun's cultivation had not fully recovered, the four demon banners he wielded contained the blood qi of cultivators from four clans. Under full activation, they condensed four seas of blood and countless light shadows.
After unleashing the final foundational power of the four demon banners, four strange phenomena appeared above the blood sea: the Ancestor God Statue, the Heavenly Dragon Nebula, the Divine Phoenix Rosy Cloud, and the Ghost Emperor Ancient City.
The fluctuations of these phenomena spread across the starry sky.
In that instant, Yan Jun forcibly elevated his cultivation to the peak of Indestructible Infinite.
"Boom!"
"Boom, rumble!"
...
After dozens of clashes in a row, the four blood seas were pierced through, turning into blood rain that scattered into the Void World.
The gods within the Sword God Temple all felt heavy-hearted, seeing that even with all his effort, Yan Jun was no match for Yan Renhuan.
Moreover, Yan Renhuan had brought the Yama Heavenly Dao Esoterica with him, so Yan Jun could not even sustain a prolonged battle and would surely be defeated quickly.
Wan Qi said, "Yan Renhuan is cursed and won't live long. Ignore him. First, suppress Zhang Ruochen!"
Without Yan Jun, using soul attacks against Zhang Ruochen was no longer possible.
After all, it had come to a direct confrontation.
Wan Qi released hundreds of millions of spiritual power avatars from his body, using the Sword God Temple as a formation platform to inscribe a combined attack divine formation.
Given their cultivation levels, leaving the Sword God Temple to face Zhang Ruochen alone would be suicide. Only by using a divine formation to combine everyone's power could they fight Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen was not about to sit idly by and had already made his move.
Fei Ma Wang did not possess strength like Yan Jun's; after charging into the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation, she could not escape.
Even though she was at the Indestructible Infinite level.
Within the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation, a sea of Time Imprints first appeared. Then, Zhang Ruochen, wielding the Eternal Spear, closed in to strike Fei Ma Wang.
Fei Ma Wang's body contained blood suspected to be that of an "Immortal." Back then, her divine source and soul were preserved within this blood, allowing her to conceal heavenly secrets and survive into this era.
Facing the suppression of the formation, she had no choice but to burn the precious blood within her body.
Instantly, her cultivation and battle power surged, reaching a level close to that of Shang Tian's corpse. This enhancement came at a great cost and could not be sustained for long.
After three consecutive clashes—
"Pfft!"
The Eternal Spear pierced through the flames around her body and struck her heart.
From the wound, a blinding blood light burst forth, unleashing an overwhelming surge of demonic qi.
This demonic qi definitely did not belong to her; its power was comparable to the Ancestor Divine Qi left behind by the Immovable Bright King Great Venerable.
Zhang Ruochen used the Emperor Talisman's talisman patterns to protect himself and retreated.
"Is this the power of Gu Yanluo?" Zhang Ruochen asked.
Fei Ma Wang's heart was a bloody hole, blood continuously dripping, yet her figure remained upright. "That's right! This is the Ancestral Secret Force condensed by the Great Demon God, using Yama bones as the foundation and absorbing the qi of heaven and earth."
"Zhang Ruochen, release me from the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation and leave quickly. You cannot kill me. If you don't leave now, once those in the Sword God Temple finish their preparations, you will never be able to escape."
"Your urging me to leave actually reveals the fear in your heart."
Zhang Ruochen raised his spear and strode forward.
At the same time, the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation was activated, and towering silver Buddhas rose up, one after another, striking with Demon-Subduing Seals.
Fei Ma Wang dodged left and right, searching for a way out of the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation, unleashing one divine ability after another to clash with the Demon-Subduing Seals.
The Hong Cauldron appeared above her head, and from the eyes on the cauldron's body, a condensed Truth Beam shot out.
The demonic flames on Fei Ma Wang's body were scattered, her snow-white skin instantly turning charred black, her flesh withering.
"Bang!"
Zhang Ruochen swung the Eternal Spear, striking Fei Ma Wang's head.
The sound of bones breaking rang out.
Fei Ma Wang flew sideways, and a palm-sized piece of her skull was shattered, separating from her head and falling into the Ten Thousand Buddha Forest.
Zhang Ruochen grabbed the leg of the Hong Cauldron as it fell from above and smashed it down heavily.
At the critical moment, the Ten Thousand Buddha Forest shook violently.
It turned out that dozens of Space Divine Palaces within the Sword God Temple had unleashed dozens of divine abilities that struck the Ten Thousand Buddha Forest.
Taking this opportunity, Fei Ma Wang teleported away, avoiding the killing blow from the Hong Cauldron.
"Pfft!"
The Demon Ancestor Ziwu Halberd flew out from Zhang Ruochen's Divine Realm World, spinning rapidly, and slashed across Fei Ma Wang's waist, cutting her in two.
Demon blood flowed, dyeing the silver-white Ten Thousand Buddha Forest blood-red.
Zhang Ruochen's figure flickered, pressing his five fingers onto Fei Ma Wang's face, lifting her upper body and slamming it heavily against the Hong Cauldron.
With a "bang," her head completely exploded, turning into blood mist and bone fragments.
Her divine sea had already been relocated and was not in her head.
Fei Ma Wang's voice rang out from within the blood mist: "Zhang Ruochen, let's each take a step back! Release me from the Ten Thousand Buddha Forest, and I will immediately leave this place and never oppose you again. If we continue fighting, only two outcomes are possible."
"Either I self-detonate my divine source and take you with me."
"Or the gods in the Sword God Temple will charge out, join forces with me, and work from within and without to suppress and capture you. Your time is running out."
Zhang Ruochen said coldly, "Do you know how the Five-Eyed Golden Insect was suppressed? Do you think you can self-detonate your divine source in front of me?"
"Bang!"
Zhang Ruochen stomped his foot, and the Taiji Four Symbols Diagram Seal appeared beneath it, crushing Fei Ma Wang's upper body into a pulp before suppressing it into the Hong Cauldron.
"Suppressing multiple gods on your person will surely bring backlash," Fei Ma Wang said.
"Once I destroy the Sword God Temple, I will refine and kill you all one by one."
Zhang Ruochen released his Divine Realm World, and the earth churned, burying Fei Ma Wang's lower body as it tried to escape.
"Boom!"
The Ten Thousand Buddha Formation shook violently again, then flew backward, with many cracks appearing on the ground.
If not for the stability of the Bliss World, the formation body might have shattered.
Zhang Ruochen steadied himself and looked up.
He saw that the Sword God Temple had heavily collided with the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation.
At this moment, a divine formation ten thousand zhang in diameter floated within the Sword God Temple. Dozens of Space Divine Palace hall masters stood inside the divine formation, simultaneously releasing their divine souls.
"Whoosh, whoosh!"
They acted in unison, and spatial divine chains flew out from the divine formation, extending toward the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation.
Unfazed, Zhang Ruochen flew to the center of the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation, where the Gui Ruler stood, releasing his ninety-rank spiritual power. Formation disks rose from the ground, spinning rapidly.
"I am a Heaven Round No Gap; do you think you can stop me?"
Zhang Ruochen directly drove the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation to ram into the Sword God Temple.
"Boom!"
All the spatial divine chains were shattered.
At the moment of the collision between the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation and the Sword God Temple, Zhang Ruochen charged out of the divine formation, turning into a bright beam of light heading straight for the Sword God Temple's gate.
Zhang Ruochen was well aware that fighting against a combined attack formation of dozens of Boundless cultivators would not benefit him.
Only by charging into the Sword God Temple, breaking into the combined attack formation, and becoming a lion among wolves was his only chance of victory.
Wan Qi's expression changed drastically. "Stop him!"
The gods within the combined attack formation each unleashed an ancient war weapon, converging into a river of weapons that flew out of the temple gate to attack the onrushing Zhang Ruochen.
The Taiji Four Symbols Diagram Seal appeared in front of Zhang Ruochen, acting like a shield.
Those war weapons struck the Taiji Four Symbols Diagram like stones thrown into a lake, only stirring up ripples.
The power they unleashed could not even break through the Taiji Four Symbols Diagram Seal, let alone the Emperor Talisman's talisman patterns, and could not stop Zhang Ruochen's advance.
Suddenly, within the Shaoyang Divine Mountain, the rules boiled, and the dark hand suppressed beneath the mountain stirred restlessly.
Zhang Ruochen stopped at the temple gate, gazing at those dark abyss-like evil eyes.
Standing in this position, those evil eyes were right before him, no longer like dark pools but two eerie and sinister seas of darkness.
These two eyes seemed to possess life, with the whispers of billions of living beings coming from within.
Darkness, like a black veil, fell silently from the dark abyss evil eyes, enveloping Zhang Ruochen, and a terrible crisis rapidly approached.
"Whoosh!"
Endless Yama Heavenly Dao rules converged from all over the universe, condensing above the Sword God Temple into a World Tree hundreds of millions of li tall.
The World Tree suppressed the dark abyss evil eyes, and countless roots, like resplendent divine rivers, hung down into the two black seas.
Vaguely, Zhang Ruochen saw Yan Renhuan's figure.
He was dragging Yan Jun, falling from Lihentian into the World Tree's light shadow, engaging in close combat.
Both had manifested giant divine bodies, thousands of zhang tall.
Yan Jun's body was pierced with over a dozen bloody holes by the divine spear, his face unrecognizable, severely wounded.
But the divine spear had also been broken.
A desperate Yan Jun was not to be underestimated, and Yan Renhuan, suffering from the Wei Blood Curse, was far from his peak strength.
Of course, this was also because the dark abyss evil eyes were continuously launching soul attacks, to some extent restraining Yan Renhuan.
"I must finish this quickly, defeat the gods in the Sword God Temple, and then help Renhuan Heavenly Venerable deal with Yan Jun and the dark abyss evil eyes."
Zhang Ruochen charged into the Sword God Temple and immediately felt the dense Sword Dao rules, a smile spreading across his face.
The next moment, sharp sword sounds rang out from within his body.
His sword soul, sword spirit, and sword intent were all released simultaneously, activating the Sword Dao rules throughout the entire Sword God Temple.
Including the Sword Dao rules within the combined attack divine formation.
These Sword Dao rules condensed into sword qi, directly attacking the dozens of Space Divine Palace hall masters within the formation, throwing them into disarray and forcing them to scramble to respond.
Zhang Ruochen, wielding the God-Defying Stele, struck the combined attack formation heavily.
The formation's light curtain shattered.
Wan Qi, standing at the forefront of the formation, was struck by the God-Defying Stele, his body shattering into pieces, blood splattering everywhere, with only wisps of spiritual power soul mist escaping.
"Collect them!"
The Dao Soul Platform flew out, hovering above Zhang Ruochen's head.
The Divine Illumination Lotus floated above the Dao Soul Platform, with Ji Fanxin, white as snow and hair like a waterfall, standing at the center of the lotus, playing the Heavenly Dao Flute.
The spiritual power soul mist was continuously absorbed by the Dao Soul Platform.
Even if a small amount escaped, it was trapped by the flute sound of the Heavenly Dao Flute and pulled back.
Zhang Ruochen, holding the Eternal Spear, moved like he was in an uninhabited land, quickly killing three ancient hall masters of the Space Divine Temple, all of whom were at the Boundless realm.
Some ancient hall masters unleashed divine abilities at Zhang Ruochen, but they could not even get within eighteen zhang of him before being neutralized by the Emperor Talisman's talisman light.
"Quick, retreat! He is not someone we can handle. Fall back to the Sword Soul Hollow."
An ancient hall master at the Great Unbound Infinite realm was the first to flee toward the Sword Soul Hollow.
Zhang Ruochen crossed space first, arriving at the entrance of the Sword Soul Hollow, blocking their escape route.
The Earth Cauldron, Hong Cauldron, and Heaven Cauldron flew out simultaneously, activated by three rivers of divine qi, unleashing terrifying power. Origin Divine Light, Fate Divine Light, and Truth Divine Light were released simultaneously, causing time and space to collapse and heaven and earth to fall into chaos.
The dozen or so ancient hall masters at the forefront all screamed in agony, their flesh exploding, leaving only skeletons, flying backward like scarecrows.