Chapter 127: The Undying Blood Slave
Chapter 127: The Undying Blood Slave
So difficult!
There were… too many Monster Beasts!
They simply couldn’t hold them off.
Lu Hangzhi’s forehead veins bulged!
Holding the Tianji Umbrella in one hand and a gourd in the other, he continuously drank Spirit Honey, all while exhausting his efforts to control two Sword Formations fending off the overwhelming onslaught of the Beast Tide. He was mentally and physically drained, feeling as if he stood on the brink of an erupting volcano; the slightest misstep could lead to an irreversible outcome.
Though he initially used the Matrix Tower to block the fierce assault of three Soul-Concentrating Demon Beasts, narrowly avoiding disaster and killing nearly two hundred Monster Beasts, the Beast Tide surged relentlessly…
The bodies of two hundred Epiphany Stage Monster Beasts failed to hinder the Beast Tide in the slightest; they were ruthlessly trampled and crushed by the oncoming horde, which pressed forward with even more ferocity toward the Matrix Tower.
“Hangzhi!”
Elder Lu noticed the anomaly among the beast horde in this area and urgently shouted:
“Buming! Go help quickly!”
“Oh, right!”
Buming also noticed the sudden surge of pressure on Lu Hangzhi’s side. He promptly retracted the Diamond Subduing Demon Scroll, clasped his hands together, eyes blazing with intensity, adopting a wrathful Vajra expression, and uttered a mantra:
“Ma!”
He spat out a golden relic…
The entire space trembled slightly, waves of sound rolling out!
Countless Monster Beasts seemed to be violently pressed in place, experiencing an extremely brief moment of paralysis.
The Beast Tide faltered slightly.
Lu Hangzhi’s eyes lit up!
The Flying Sword swept back around, seizing the opportunity to cut through and eliminate another group of Epiphany Stage Monster Beasts. Simultaneously, he swiftly moved into the second level of the Matrix Tower, slapping his palm onto the formation core.
Hum!!!
A Defensive Barrier rapidly spread over the surface of the Matrix Tower.
“Clever!”
Not far away, Elder Lu, Buming, and the others collectively breathed a sigh of relief.
They all could tell:
Although Lu Hangzhi possessed formidable offensive capabilities with his Sword Formations, his defensive abilities were pitifully weak, especially against Late Concentration Stage and Concentrated Spirit Peak Stage Monster Beasts—he definitely wouldn’t last more than a few moves.
By controlling the Sword Formation from inside the Matrix Tower, even a Concentrated Spirit Peak Stage Monster Beast would need multiple attacks to harm him—ensuring his safety wasn’t a concern for the immediate future.
Once inside the second level of the Matrix Tower, Lu Hangzhi immediately erected a Barrier to block Spiritual Sense detection, tossing the large gourd out with a swift motion:
“Xiao Hui, it’s up to you now.”
“Meow!”
Now at the Early Spirit Concentration Stage, the Mirror Spirit Cat nimbly caught the large gourd mid-air, batted the lid open with one paw, pupils slitting vertically. Instantly, a golden, fragrant stream of Spirit Honey stretched out, arcing through the air and into Lu Hangzhi’s mouth.
Bad master, forcing me to do such humiliating, lowly work.
The Mirror Spirit Cat was exasperated.
Ignoring the Mirror Spirit Cat’s resentful and angry gaze, Lu Hangzhi placed his freed hand on the formation core…
At that moment.
Spiritual Sense amplification!
Everything within a three-mile radius was encompassed by his Spiritual Sense. The intense clarity gave him an illusory feeling of advancing from Early Spirit Concentration Stage to Concentrated Spirit Peak Stage, as if mastering everything.
But Lu Hangzhi had no time to savor this sensation.
Gripping the formation core, he rapidly channeled Magic Power, frantically absorbing the various formation data within the Matrix Tower!
He had no time to fully comprehend the miscellaneous formation information either.
Lu Hangzhi directly pinpointed the “Frigid Ice Energy” Formation he needed and unhesitatingly infused a third of his Magic Power…
Hum!!!
An astonishing surge of Heaven and Earth Power erupted from the Matrix Tower.
Elder Lu and the others were startled, exclaiming aloud:
“This kid.”
“He’s too reckless!”
“With his cultivation level, sustaining two Sword Formations is already a severe overload. How can he possibly activate this Art Techniques Formation that voraciously consumes Magic Power?”
Even within their War Zone, this Matrix Tower’s formation had been sidelined by Elder Lu and the others due to its excessive Magic Power consumption.
Yet…
Under the group’s utterly shocked and incredulous gazes, the Matrix Tower’s Art Techniques Formation was activated perfectly. A shocking frigid aura enveloped the entire edge of the War Zone…
Powerful Frigid Ice Energy abruptly descended upon the beast horde that had broken into the War Zone. The Heaven and Earth Power’s chilling force directly froze the Qi and Blood surrounding most Seventh Grade and Eighth Grade Monster Beasts.
The Monster Beasts panicked as they realized they couldn’t withstand this cold current!
The chill invaded their bodies;
From the outside in, the Monster Beasts successively froze stiff;
Their Qi and Blood solidified like ice, not only slowing their movements but also causing their bodies to crack;
One Monster Beast, carried by momentum, accidentally bumped into another ahead, and both shattered instantly.
Seventh Grade and Eighth Grade Monster Beasts had their Qi, Blood, and flesh frozen, dying on the spot;
Ninth Grade Demon Beasts could barely preserve their lives, fearfully maintaining Qi and Blood expenditure to resist the increasingly lethal cold invasion.
Not only these Epiphany Stage Monster Beasts…
Even the Spirit Condensation Stage Monster Beasts within the Beast Tide suffered, their movements significantly slowed by the Formation’s persistent Frigid Ice Energy.
“Ne!”
Buming again uttered a mantra.
Raging sound waves swept through the Beast Tide once more…
An astonishing scene unfolded.
Hundreds of Monster Beasts were swept by the sound waves, their bodies exploding one after another:
Bang!
Bang, bang! Bang, bang, bang, bang…
The sounds of disintegrating bodies echoed incessantly, creating a spectacular scene that left everyone dumbfounded.
“So powerful!”
“Whoa! That’s ridiculously strong, isn’t it?!”
With the imminent crisis once again resolved, the group’s mood lifted. Several people couldn’t resist high-fiving each other, celebrating the extension of their lives a little longer.
Lu Hangzhi had originally planned to immediately use the Sword Formation to eliminate these Monster Beasts once the Magic Formation activated, never expecting Buming’s single mantra to effortlessly shatter hundreds of Monster Beasts.
But upon reflection, it made sense.
Buming was already at the Mid Soul-Concentrating Stage; his mantra covered a wide area. Though not overwhelmingly powerful, it stunned the mind…
The Ninth Grade Demon Beasts, already struggling to maintain Qi and Blood output, had their concentration broken by this mantra shout. With the cold energy invading them, they naturally met the same fate as the Seventh Grade and Eighth Grade Monster Beasts.
But this was not bad, as it just saved him a lot of effort and saved much Magic Power and time.
“Well done, Brother Buming.”
Lu Hangzhi did not hesitate to praise him.
“Haha! Really? I’m really glad I could help.” Buming clearly did not expect that his true words would create such a powerful and intimidating killing effect, and being praised by Lu Hangzhi made him scratch the back of his head in embarrassment and laugh foolishly.
The following events became simple…
With the Frigid Ice Energy blocking the path, most of the Monster Beasts at the Epiphany Stage showed fear and stopped moving forward. Only a few Soul-Concentrating Demon Beasts remained in the Beast Tide, acting slowly and rushing over alone. Buming, who was inexplicably invigorated, easily restrained them with the Diamond Subduing Demon Scroll.
Kill!
Lu Hangzhi was quick with his eyes and hands.
Dozens of Sword Qi howled out, easily killing two Late Concentration Stage Monster Beasts and one Mid Soul-Concentrating Stage Monster Beast that had lost their ability to resist.
As more and more Monster Beast blood flowed into the bodies of the Monster Beast corpses around the Evil Cultivator, the fourth and fifth huge Blood Slaves at the Concentrated Spirit Peak Stage were revived.
A blood-red cloud of blood hung over Evil Cultivator Luo Sen, continuously pouring into the remaining Monster Beast skeletons…
The smile on Luo Sen’s face grew wider:
“Haha…”
“My Blood Slaves! My Blood Slaves, come out… all come out!”
“Damn Monster Beasts, soon you will taste the power of my Blood Slaves.”
As the three directions of the battlefront were firmly held, the number of Blood Slaves at the Concentrated Spirit Peak Stage gradually increased, and the situation in Combat Zone 619 was gradually stabilized.
However, from other directions in the Core Battle Zone, several destructive waves of Magic Power rose…
A few more War Zones fell.
Lu Hangzhi had no time to care about the survival of other War Zones…
In fact,
as long as they held Combat Zone 619, guarded this seed in the Core Battle Zone, and attracted the firepower of many Monster Beasts, they could become an indestructible reef on Two Realms Mountain, creating a large safe area behind them and saving more War Zones.
…
“With Buming’s true words and the Diamond Subduing Demon seal technique cooperating, it reduced the frequency of controlling the Sword Formation to attack. There was no problem with Magic Power consumption. This time… I had much more confidence to last until Lady Honglian arrived.”
Lu Hangzhi took a moment to glance back at Evil Cultivator Luo Sen.
A full six Blood Slaves with the aura of the Concentrated Spirit Peak Stage stood in a row, and the seventh Blood Slave was also progressing very smoothly, reaching a critical moment.
Just when the situation seemed to be gradually improving…
it was shattered once again by a surge of Magic Power from the neighboring War Zone.
“Not good!”
“War Zone 620 has fallen too!”
“Damn it!”
“Beast Tide from three directions, what should we do?”
A group of Cultivators at the Epiphany Stage were panicked.
Lu Hangzhi frowned hard:
It really was like a leaky house meeting continuous rain…
Now, Elder Lu and Chen Xiangxiang controlled the front, he and Buming controlled the left side, and the other two Mind Focusing Cultivators guarded against the Monster Beasts from the air—they had no strength left to deal with a Beast Tide from one more direction.
Once the Monster Beasts launched attacks from three directions at the same time, the few people in Combat Zone 619 simply could not hold on.
“Is this the end?”
Lu Hangzhi smiled bitterly.
But he was not someone who gave up easily.
“Luo Sen!”
He turned his head and shouted, “It’s time for you to step up!”
Evil Cultivator Luo Sen had just finished shaping the seventh Blood Slave at that moment. Hearing this, he quickly formed hand seals, but his face turned pale as he embarrassingly realized he did not have enough Magic Power.
“Here!”
Lu Hangzhi immediately saw Luo Sen’s predicament and couldn’t help but roll his eyes, but his hands moved swiftly to grab a bottle of Spirit Honey and threw it out of the Matrix Tower.
When Magic Power was insufficient, forcibly driving a summoned creature with higher cultivation than oneself could easily cause backlash, especially since the Evil Cultivator’s Art Techniques were inherently disrespectful and exploitative. If these seven Blood Slaves rebelled, the War Zone would fall without a fight.
“Spirit Honey?”
Luo Sen caught the Spirit Honey and quickly recognized what it was. Overjoyed, he swallowed the entire bottle, instantly restoring his Magic Power to its peak state.
The seven Blood Slaves, which had been glowing fiercely and growing restless, quickly calmed down!
“Haha… my precious Blood Slaves, go! Kill all the Monster Beasts!”
Luo Sen waved his hand grandly, ordering the Blood Slaves to take the initiative and charge toward the Beast Tide that was gradually gathering in War Zone 620.
As soon as the seven Blood Slaves at the Concentrated Spirit Peak Stage appeared, their every move shook the earth. With one palm strike, a giant spirit pressed down, crushing dozens of Monster Beasts into pulp. As they ran wildly, they launched a counter-charge and trampling assault directly against the formidable Beast Tide, their fierce and brutal momentum stunning everyone on the battlefield!
Boom!
Boom! Boom!
Wherever the seven Blood Slaves passed, groups of Monster Beasts were crushed and swept into pulp!
Countless Monster Beasts at the Epiphany Stage trembled in fear;
among the Beast Tide, the Monster Beasts at the Early Spirit Concentration Stage were filled with terror;
in front of the Blood Slaves at the Concentrated Spirit Peak Stage, Art Techniques attacks only caused minor damage to the Blood Slaves. When the Blood Slaves grabbed back, they immediately crushed the attackers like little chicks;
the Blood Slaves grabbed the Monster Beast corpses and stuffed them into their mouths, chewing voraciously. The abundant Monster Beast blood quickly healed the wounds on the Blood Slaves’ bodies, restoring them to peak condition.
Seeing this scene, everyone including Lu Hangzhi felt a chill running down their spines:
The complete Blood Slaves were too terrifying!
They were clearly indestructible terminators!!
Seven complete Blood Slaves were even more fearsome than seven Monster Beasts at the Concentrated Spirit Peak Stage. They ignored pain, ignored death, and were simply machines born for killing. In the blink of an eye, War Zone 620 was cleared out completely.