# 946
Chapter 947: Black Sun Rite
Osaka.
Above the ruined city, Lin Qiye slowly sheathed the White Slash, letting out a long breath as exhaustion flickered in his eyes.
He looked down at the city beneath him—deep black sword marks crisscrossed to form a circle roughly two kilometers in radius, the intricate patterns within the circle dazzling to the eye.
This was the first time Lin Qiye had ever drawn such a large-scale magic formation, and also the first time he had truly used a "Forbidden Spell." Among Merlins Forbidden Spell Codex, this was one of the few forbidden spells Lin Qiye could currently invoke.
"Nearly there…"
Lin Qiye murmured to himself.
At the same time, Hei Ying and the other two attendants dragged the corpses of two corpse beasts back to Lin Qiye's side. Following his instructions, they placed them—along with the two corpse beasts just slain by Yuzuri Takishiro—at the very center of the forbidden spell.
Although these corpse beasts were formed from Red Moon corruption, they contained vast reserves of divine power remnants, making them perfect fuel for this forbidden spell. As for the residual Red Moon energy within them, it wouldn't cause significant negative effects as long as they weren't used for dimensional summoning.
Lin Qiye returned to the McLaren, reaching out to pat its body. The pixel-constructed chassis quickly disassembled, and a thick silver square stele crashed down from under the chassis with a dull thud.
The stele was only about one meter wide and long, but its weight was immense—impossible to fathom what material composed it. Its surface was carved with countless mysterious symbols, like celestial script.
So this is the Heart of Purification…
Lin Qiye pressed his palm against the stele's surface, channeling his spiritual energy into it. The mysterious text on the stele's surface instantly glowed.
A sacred and pure aura immediately radiated from the stele's surface, spreading outward like invisible ripples across the ruins at a startling speed, rapidly extending toward the entire Human Enclosure.
In that instant, the corpse beasts scattered across the Human Enclosure seemed to sense something, abruptly turning to look toward where the Heart of Purification was located. Their crimson-red eyes burst with loathing light.
They opened their mouths, letting out furious roars, then abandoned the city that had already become ruins and the people desperately fleeing, racing toward Osaka at maximum speed!
Successive roars echoed from the distance. Standing at the very center of Osaka, Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes slightly.
At the end of the horizon, three corpse beasts were approaching from different directions, trampling through the shattered city like rampaging beasts.
The corpse beasts were distributed across different locations, their distances from Osaka varied. The moment the Heart of Purification activated, endless waves of corpse beasts would surge toward this location one after another.
Watching the three corpse beasts rapidly approach, Lin Qiye took a deep breath. His eyes were tinged with magical radiance.
He opened his mouth, and a guttural, low chant emerged from his throat, echoing across the ruins.
As the chanting rose, the massive magic formation in the city center began to illuminate along the outer black traces. Wisps of deep crimson magical light converged toward the center, sketching out a colossal sphere suspended above the city.
As the magical radiance poured in, the massive sphere grew increasingly solid, eventually evolving into a black sun hundreds of meters tall, hanging beneath the dim heavens.
A terrifying aura suddenly descended!
Forbidden Spell: Black Sun Rite.
"What is that?!"
"The sun! A black sun!!"
"My god, what has happened to this world? First monsters, now a black sun…"
"Hahahaha! Destroy it all! Let everything be destroyed!"
"Look! That black sun—"
The appearance of this massive black orb immediately attracted the attention of everyone within Osaka's borders. Even some distant cities nearby could see the light radiating from this miniature sun in the distance, their eyes filled with fear and worry.
Lin Qiye's chanting grew increasingly urgent. The magic formation carved into the ruins blazed with unparalleled brilliance.
In the next moment, the surface of the black sun suspended high in the sky suddenly contracted, and a ferocious deep crimson vertical eye opened, radiating an eerie red glow!
Lin Qiye concluded his chant, his face somewhat pale. He calmly extended his hand, pointing toward the three corpse beasts rapidly closing in from the distance.
"Annihilate."
BOOM—!!
A terrifying beam of deep crimson light erupted from the vertical eye, instantly piercing through the void and striking before the three corpse beasts. A catastrophic explosion burst forth, the red light dyeing the distant sky blood-red.
The light faded, dust settled—the three corpse beasts' bodies had been blown to bits, vanishing without a trace.
One attack, instant kill of three "Unlimited" realm corpse beasts.
Before the onlookers who witnessed this could even gasp in shock, Lin Qiye turned his head to regard the two corpse beasts charging from the west, speaking calmly:
"Annihilate."
The vertical eye on the black sun's surface rapidly turned toward the corpse beasts, the deep crimson beam firing forth once more, instantly killing two more corpse beasts drawn by the Heart of Purification.
"Annihilate."
"Annihilate."
"…"
As Lin Qiye's calm voice rang out one after another, the black sun suspended above him functioned like an tireless artillery of destruction, frantically firing deep crimson beams that mowed down waves of corpse beasts approaching from all directions.
Killing "Unlimited" realm corpse beasts required only one strike; only the occasional "Klein" realm corpse beast that appeared suddenly needed three to four strikes.
Each time a corpse beast was slain, Hei Ying and the other two attendants would swiftly dash out to recover the beast's remains, piling them back at the formation's center to be recycled as forbidden spell fuel, sustaining the Black Sun Rite.
Although Lin Qiye's own cultivation realm was only "Unlimited," by virtue of this pre-arranged forbidden spell formation combined with corpse beast bodies containing vast energy as fuel, the number of corpse beasts falling to his hand was rapidly climbing!
As Merlin had said, what magicians excelled at most was positional warfare.
The combination of the Heart of Purification and the Black Sun Rite had transformed downtown Osaka into a grinding death wheel for the corpse beasts.
But Lin Qiye knew well in his heart that this seemingly advantageous situation would not last.
As long as the Red Moon's corruption continued eroding the Yata Mirror, corpse beasts would descend endlessly, and the speed at which the Black Sun Rite could slay them was far outpaced by their rate of descent. As time passed, the number of corpse beasts围攻 at any given moment would increase exponentially.
Once that number exceeded the Black Sun Rite's capacity, the location being breached by the corpse beasts would only be a matter of time.