Chapter 169: The Canon’s Warning
Chapter 169: The Canon’s Warning
Inside the Sky Passage, countless Blood Fiends and Elite Blood Fiends were regenerating their bodies and organizing powerful attacks again. However, Lu Hangzhi was not alarmed but pleased instead.
After such a long time, he had gathered quite a bit of Life Essence from the Blood Fiends. Yet, the Canon of Time had remained silent. It was probably because the Life Essence left in the Blood Fiend remains was very limited, failing to meet the condition for triggering Life Essence feedback.
Now!
As the Blood Fiends and Elite Blood Fiends regenerated their bodies in the Crimson River, most of them returned to their peak strength, their Life Essence becoming incredibly abundant…
“Come at me!”
Lu Hangzhi advanced instead of retreating. With a loud shout, forty-nine streaks of Arcane Light Sword Aura, infused with the Law of Years, swarmed through the Sky Passage.
Deliberately avoiding the fully awakened and alert Blood Fiends, the sword auras swept over the Blood Fiends and Elite Blood Fiends that had just finished regenerating their bodies.
Thump!
Thump, thump!
Shoulders, necks, thighs…
Dozens of Blood Fiends and Elite Blood Fiends had just completed their body regeneration when the Arcane Light Sword Aura swept over their vital parts, leaving deep gashes that reached the bone.
The wounds rapidly festered at a visible rate!
Many Blood Fiends let out terrified screams, watching helplessly as their wounds festered in the Crimson River, spreading and burning fiercely from the flesh and blood to the bones.
Many sword auras were blocked.
The Elite Blood Fiends reacted extremely quickly. Sensing danger, they agilely flipped and grabbed nearby Blood Fiends to use as shields.
Lu Hangzhi remained indifferent to this. He let these Elite Blood Fiends go and continued to pursue the others.
The Elite Blood Fiends rushed out of the Sky Passage with fierce cries…
But!
Before they could accomplish anything, Situ, who was guarding nearby, trapped them with Sound Wave Law. With ghost-like swiftness, he sliced open the head of one Elite Blood Fiend, then instantly moved behind the next.
Throughout it all, Lu Hangzhi did not move from his spot, maintaining the most efficient slaughtering motion as the forty-nine Arcane Light Sword Auras wove through the Blood Demon Legion.
In no time…
At least two hundred Blood Fiends were killed by the Arcane Light Sword Aura.
Yet, the Canon of Time remained inactive!
Lu Hangzhi frowned deeply, his brow creasing like the character for “river.”
“What are you waiting for?”
The Great Fiend King was getting closer.
He could almost feel the cold breath from the giant ghost face condensed by the Great Fiend King. That overwhelming, world-destroying aura was like a moving volcano, standing right before him, ready at any moment to spew deadly poison from the Sky Passage toward the Barbarian Continent and the Two Realms Mountain.
“Hangzhi!”
“Be careful to preserve your strength.”
“The first battle should be left to us old folks.”
The voice of Immortal Lord Yuding sounded from below.
He, along with Master Bitter Sea, Immortal Lord Jiuzao, and fifteen renowned Immortal Lord Xuan Guangs from the Seven Great Sects, stepped on the void and ascended to the Sky’s Eye, arriving near the Sky Passage by his side.
“I…”
Just as Lu Hangzhi was about to speak, the Canon of Time suddenly trembled. A beam of light shot into his brow, making him swallow the words he was about to say.
The scene was horrifying:
A blood-red light engulfed the entire Two Realms Mountain.
Hundreds of Matrix Towers shattered simultaneously.
A sea of blood instantly covered the entire Two Realms Mountain.
Seven Demonic Fiends wreathed in black flames emerged cruelly and coldly from the towering sea of blood. Behind them, thousands of Human Cultivators screamed in agony amidst the blood and black flames.
The Two Realms Mountain formation was destroyed in an instant.
The Flight Prohibition Array was broken.
Countless Blood Fiends and Elite Blood Fiends flapped their wings and charged out, facing the eighteen Immortal Lord Xuan Guangs…
The Two Realms Mountain defense line was breached.
Situ Chuyun’s hair was disheveled, and her face was pale under the relentless attacks of the endless Blood Demon Legion.
Bang!
His consciousness was jerked back.
Lu Hangzhi was drenched in cold sweat, his face as pale as a ghost.
He finally understood why the Canon of Time had delayed helping him breakthrough and face the Heavenly Tribulation…
Because it had seen the future.
It saw the Two Realms Mountain defense line suffer a devastating blow the moment the Great Fiend King attacked, with tens of thousands of cultivators turning to dust.
Terrifying!
So terrifying!
The Creation Realm Great Fiend King was not only unbelievably powerful, capable of overturning heaven and earth with a wave of its hand, but its cunning was also no less than that of humans.
The ghost face in the Sky Passage, which gathered the attention of countless cultivators, was actually a decoy…
Even the Great Fiend King traveling deep within the Sky Passage was a decoy!
Its real goal was to deceive everyone and cover the descent of its seven Clones to the Two Realms Mountain.
Because he and Situ were completely focused on the Great Fiend King’s true form, and Yuding and the others were watching the ghost face and the Blood Demon Legion, the Great Fiend King’s seven Clones easily gained a foothold at the Two Realms Mountain and destroyed humanity’s greatest barrier—the Two Realms Mountain formation.
At that moment, Immortal Lord Yuding had already begun attacking the Blood Fiends in the Sky Passage with the others. Various Law Powers interwove into a colorful, deadly net, instantly burying dozens of Blood Fiends…
Situ was watching from the sidelines, her bright eyes fixed intently on the giant ghost face in the Sky Passage that was constantly condensing and thickening, filled with caution and gravity.
“Situ!”
Lu Hangzhi silently transmitted his voice.
Her Spiritual Sense swept over:
“What is it?”
“Were you a scout in the Human Race army on the Green Maple Continent?”
“Yes, why? What’s wrong with you?”
Situ noticed the unusual tone and expression in Lu Hangzhi’s voice.
Lu Hangzhi took a deep breath and pressed with a heavier tone, “Then, can you detect the location of the Creation Realm Great Fiend King’s Clones within the Blood Demon Legion in the Sky Passage?”
“Clones?”
Situ’s voice trembled. “I never thought of that. Hangzhi, are you saying… you saw something again?”
“Yes.”
Lu Hangzhi briefly recounted the vision fed back by the Canon of Time. Situ became tense immediately.
“What you saw could very well become reality. On the Green Maple Continent, the Great Fiend King rarely takes the lead, putting itself in danger. It always sends Blood Fiends and Elite Blood Fiends first to open the way before it acts… That’s why, although our human cultivator armies can kill countless Blood Fiends, the number of Great Fiend Kings we’ve slain is very few. This is also what makes the Great Fiend King so troublesome and formidable.”
“Now that we’ve uncovered the Great Fiend King’s plan, we absolutely cannot let what the Canon of Time showed us happen again.”
Lu Hangzhi declared firmly!
Situ nodded.
“What are you planning to do?”
Lu Hangzhi turned his head and glanced at the Mirror Spirit Cat.
The latter seemed to sense something and shrank its body.
“You’ve eaten so many Blood Demon Crystal Cores, it’s time to put in some effort.”
Lu Hangzhi grabbed it and pulled it down, saying, “If you do well this time, I’ll get you a whole box of Elite Blood Fiend cores so you can eat your fill.”
The Mirror Spirit Cat’s eyes lit up, but then it quickly looked at the giant ghost face in the Sky Passage with awe and shook its head frantically.
“No answer means you agree.”
Lu Hangzhi forcefully made the decision for the Mirror Spirit Cat, completely ignoring its desperate head shaking.
Then he turned to Situ and said,
“The task of scouting for the Great Fiend King’s Clone is something only you can handle. The Human Race of the Barbarian Continent is counting on you.”
“Alright!”
Situ resolutely agreed, murmuring,
“Although the Great Fiend King is a demonic fiend of the Creation Realm, the Sound Wave Law I master is the strongest scouting type law on the Green Maple Continent. If we didn’t know it had a Clone nearby, it might have slipped through, but if we scout and guard with full effort, it won’t be able to sneak past me into the Two Realms Mountain.”
This extremely confident declaration made Lu Hangzhi feel much more at ease.
Then he saw invisible ripples spreading outwards from Situ, layer after layer, sweeping in all directions, growing fainter and fainter until they entered the Sky Passage and vanished without a trace, causing no unusual phenomena.
…
“From all four directions and ten sides, the Buddha’s light appears for the first time!”
Hum!!!
From the direction of the Sky Passage, as the Blood Demon Legion’s assault intensified and Situ left the team, the pressure on Immortal Lord Yuding and the others greatly increased. In the emergency, Master Bitter Sea still threw out his Magical Artifact Buddha Statue.
The Buddha Statue swelled with a hum to the size of a small hill, its hundreds of feet tall body directly blocking the exit of the Sky Passage. Four faces arranged like an array—joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness—were displayed before the Blood Demon Legion, radiating dazzling golden Buddha light…
Boom!
Hundreds of Blood Fiends immediately burst into flames within the Crimson River;
The Elite Blood Fiends, however, were unaffected and continuously rushed out of the Sky Passage. Their attacks landed one after another on the Buddha Statue, forcing the Four-Faced Eighteen-Armed Buddha Statue to retreat repeatedly, its golden body showing cracks.
“Amitabha!”
“Buddha’s Power Shakes the World!”
With a roar from Bitter Sea, the golden body of the Buddha Statue suddenly opened all its eyes.
Boom!
Dozens of Elite Blood Fiends were stunned on the spot, and the cracks covering the golden body instantly healed as if new.
Divine power was vast, and the sound of Buddhist chants continued unabated.
From behind the Four Directions Ten Faces Putuo Divine Statue, a thousand huge golden hands suddenly extended, crashing down like a tidal wave onto the Elite Blood Fiends stunned in the void.
Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
One by one, the Elite Blood Fiends staggered in the air, vomiting blood incessantly, their auras greatly weakened.
“Master Bitter Sea’s Diamond Law is becoming more and more masterful. Yuding admires it.”
“Unfortunately, I couldn’t even kill the Elite Blood Fiends. I’ve made a fool of myself in front of fellow cultivators!” Master Bitter Sea clasped his hands and said, “I’ll leave the rest to you all.”
“The strength of the Diamond Law lies in its defense. To withstand the attacks of dozens of Elite Blood Fiends for so long and still stand firm, Master Bitter Sea is already the top defender among us. Moreover, you’ve cultivated such powerful attacking force, which is truly remarkable,” Yuding said with a smile.
After speaking, he gave a strange look to Situ not far away…
The Law Power continuously emerging from Situ was very obvious, but he did not rejoin the attack sequence, which was somewhat unexpected.
Lu Hangzhi’s actions were also very strange.
Not only did he not rest as before, but he seemed to have other arrangements. He actually positioned his two Divine Thought Clones on the left and right peaks of the Two Realms Mountain, forming a square position with Situ.
What was even more incomprehensible to him was that Lu Hangzhi’s spirit pet, the “Mirror Spirit Cat,” had actually mastered the art of flight, standing on the void and floating in the air. Its little face was wrinkled and it looked unhappy, which was both funny and puzzling.
But…
This spirit pet’s cultivation level…
Was quite high.