Chapter 1316: The Struggle for Divine Blood

A brilliant yellow light erupted from the Nascent Soul of Spirit Lord Huang Liang, and the small green sword in its hand suddenly flew out on its own.

With a flash of green light, the small sword transformed into a strange spirit beast with the head of an eagle, the body of a horse, and a pair of cyan feathered wings. It opened its mouth wide and viciously pounced toward the giant.

Following this, he pointed a finger solemnly at the large white seal that had been tumbling incessantly in the air.

After being struck by the seal, it trembled violently and stopped falling. Instead, it spun rapidly, transforming into a mass of hazy white phantom shadows.

Suddenly, countless threads of multicolored light appeared in the surrounding air, all gathering into the seal, causing its volume to expand at an astonishing speed. Within the span of a few breaths, the seal had grown several times its original size, covering a small portion of the sky beneath it with an exceptionally alarming momentum.

Cai Huan Hua Tianqi of the Cai Huan clan retracted his escape light, stopping his figure several dozen zhang away from the giant. He raised both hands, and two masses of gray electric light appeared simultaneously. As they merged, a rolling sound of muffled thunder echoed out.

A gray giant blade several zhang long emerged!

Although it appeared to be the same divine ability, the power of this blade was clearly not to be mentioned in the same breath as the previous long saber.

Cai Huan Hua Tianqi stared coldly at the giant with his semi-demonized pupils, then suddenly raised a hand and beckoned to the giant moth that had been hovering motionless in the air.

The moth immediately spread its wings, transforming into a streak of colorful light that shot downward, finally merging into the giant blade and vanishing.

Subsequently, the giant blade emitted a cold, chilling glow. He held the blade with both hands, aimed at the giant's waist, and slashed slowly.

A gorgeous thin line flashed and vanished, slashing out continuously.

Although the giant did not possess high intelligence, it felt the crisis under the solemn attacks of Spirit Lord Huang Liang and his companion.

It let out a long roar toward the sky, and a white light flashed in its single eye. A crystal-white sphere shot out, transforming into a mass of white light that blocked the pouncing eagle-headed, horse-bodied monster.

Next, a flash of blood-red light appeared, and a crystal light that seemed almost tangible shot out from its pupil, intersecting and colliding exactly with the gorgeous thin line slashing horizontally toward it.

A bizarre scene occurred!

After the two thin lines intersected straight on, strange lights intertwined and flickered, but the entire process remained completely silent, and for a moment, they reached a stalemate.

Facing the large white seal above its head, the giant spun its body. After the stone club conjured a mountain-like phantom, it carried a foul wind and was thrown directly at Spirit Lord Huang Liang.

Then, it clenched both hands into fists, and thick blood vessels like earthworms bulged beneath its skin, striking fiercely at the large seal in the air.

Relying solely on its divine strength, it actually intended to strike down the large seal above its head with its bare hands.

A loud sound like the heavens collapsing and the earth splitting rang out. As the seal trembled, it released a light like the scorching sun, causing Han Li, who was watching all this from the air, to narrow his eyes and close them.

Immediately, he felt a wave of air surging toward him, and after the surrounding air rippled for a moment, Han Li's entire body swayed, looking as if he were about to be swept away.

Han Li was startled. Without a second thought, he circulated the magic power in his body slightly, and his figure immediately stabilized.

When he opened his eyes again and looked downward, he was stunned.

Because he saw that a mass of hazy yellow earth clouds had risen from somewhere below, shrouding all three parties involved in the struggle.

Han Li hesitated for a moment, then slowly released his spiritual sense, probing into the yellow clouds.

From within, the roars of the single-eyed giant and the wild laughter of the Cai Huan clan demon cultivator could be heard, interspersed with bursts of explosive sounds. The yellow earth clouds also rolled incessantly, containing whistling sounds.

Spirit Lord Huang Liang, however, had not made a sound from beginning to end; it was unknown whether he was at a critical moment in his spellcasting and could not be distracted, or if he was already confident and disdained to say anything more.

Han Li's heart stirred, and he looked toward the black shadow that had also been lurking nearby, but his expression changed slightly.

That black shadow, suspected to be Xu Tian, had actually vanished at some unknown time.

Han Li's gaze flickered a few times as he glanced at the dim yellow clouds, a thoughtful expression appearing on his face.

A miserable cry that pierced the clouds rang out from the dim yellow clouds, followed by a "Boom—" as something fell heavily to the ground, causing the earth to tremble several times.

Following this, all sounds within ceased abruptly!

A strange light flashed in Han Li's eyes. He formed a hand seal, and his entire person sank silently toward the ground.

Almost at the same time, Cai Huan Hua Tianqi's triumphant laughter suddenly rang out from the yellow clouds:

"It's fortunate that this stupid creature didn't have high intelligence, otherwise we really wouldn't have been able to finish it off so quickly. The Spirit Race rebel must have been swallowed. I'll cut open its body to see what exactly that Spirit Race rebel brought that made it travel ten thousand miles to come here."

"Oh, then I'll have to trouble Brother Cai Huan. This piece of Luoyang Crystal has also been suppressed by me; I will hand it to you in a moment, Fellow Daoist." Spirit Lord Huang Liang's voice followed from within the clouds.

The yellow clouds finally dispersed gradually, revealing everything within.

The single-eyed giant lay in a pool of foul green blood, covered in wounds. One hand and one foot had fallen off beside its body, seemingly slashed off by force.

Its huge head had already been smashed to pieces, with only a small half remaining.

On the giant's chest, there was an astonishing hole a zhang wide, charred inside, as if it had been struck by some supreme yang treasure that had annihilated its heart in one blow.

It was estimated that this blow was the fatal one that killed the giant.

Cai Huan Hua Tianqi had already dispelled his semi-demonization, returning to his human appearance. Apart from his pale complexion, he did not appear to have suffered any injuries.

He was currently directing a pale white flying knife to cut open the giant's incredibly large abdomen.

At the other end of the corpse, Spirit Lord Huang Liang was playing with a hazy white crystal sphere in one hand, a faint smile on his face.

The crystal sphere was indeed the Luoyang Crystal of considerable size from before, only now, it was unknown what spell Spirit Lord Huang Liang had cast upon it to make it so small and delicate.

"Back then, in the Savage World, we also killed another two-faced giant. That one seemed much more troublesome than this one. Speaking of which, if one can avoid provoking these ancient giants, it's best not to. Unlike those ancient beasts and heaven-and-earth spirit beasts, they have such huge bodies but absolutely nothing that can be utilized. Spending so much effort to kill one is just a waste of energy." Cai Huan Hua Tianqi sighed, speaking while manipulating the flying knife in a nonchalant manner.

"That is natural. In the Savage Ancient World, under normal circumstances, we give such giants a wide berth when we see them. However, saying that there is no benefit at all on such giants is not necessarily true. I remember that the Tiankui Wolf King among the Seven Great Demon Kings once killed a seven-headed giant in the Savage World, and as a result, found a small piece of Wanxi Filth Earth within its body, which gave him the opportunity to refine the Wanxi Demon Tower on the Chaos Ranking, becoming a generation of Demon King of the Wolf Race." Spirit Lord Huang Liang shook his head.

"That is also true. Ancient giants like to swallow everything. If there is some opportunity, sometimes you can indeed find some good things inside. But the probability is just too small. Who would fight a giant to the death in the Savage World for such a vague benefit? Especially since ancient giants are generally fierce creatures that live in groups. Have you forgotten that after we killed that two-faced giant back then, we were chased by three other giants until we almost jumped into the sea?" Cai Huan Hua Tianqi couldn't help but smile bitterly upon hearing this.

Spirit Lord Huang Liang couldn't help but chuckle when recalling the events of the past, and he didn't interject anything further.

With a "Pfft—" sound, after Cai Huan Hua Tianqi's flying knife sliced open a certain part of the giant, a pile of things fell out from the middle.

The other items were already dim and lusterless, with only a pale blue jade bowl and a crystal-clear, bright red small bottle still emitting faint spiritual light.

The jade bowl formed a layer of faint blue light, appearing to just happen to shroud the small bottle within it.

"It should be this."

Cai Huan Hua Tianqi swept his gaze over it, and after a moment, recognized that the blue jade bowl was the physical object of the Spirit Tool Race. But the spirituality on this jade bowl was completely lost, clearly indicating that this Spirit Race member had perished.

Even if they had perished themselves, the thing they were desperately trying to protect was ten-to-nine the object they were looking for.

Just as Cai Huan Hua Tianqi reached for the small bottle with a joyful expression, Spirit Lord Huang Liang in the distance suddenly changed his expression and shouted loudly:

"Careful!"

What kind of existence was Cai Huan Hua Tianqi? Almost at the same time as Spirit Lord Huang Liang's warning, his spiritual sense had already sensed a wisp of cold light attacking him from behind, hidden to the extreme.

In shock and anger, without thinking, he stomped his foot fiercely on the ground, and his entire person sprang into the air like a crossbow bolt.

A streak of blood-red light flashed past, almost grazing his feet.

Following this, a figure about a zhang tall suddenly flashed nearby, swayed, and pounced toward the small bottle.

"You dare!" Spirit Lord Huang Liang shouted angrily, his ten fingers flicking continuously toward the figure.

The sound of air being torn apart erupted, and more than ten yellow sword qi swept over. But it was clearly a step too late.

After the figure let out a triumphant laugh, it sucked the small bottle into its hand, then swayed, transformed into a mass of blood clouds, and fled into the air.

"Xu Tian, so it was you? Where do you think you're going?" Cai Huan Hua Tianqi, who had barely dodged the waist-slashing strike, circled in the low altitude and saw clearly the person who had ambushed him, immediately becoming furious.

Urging his spiritual sense, a giant moth a zhang wide suddenly emerged in the space above the blood clouds. Its emerald demon eyes flashed, and without a word, it flapped its wings toward the area below.

A mass of seven-colored mist shrouded the blood clouds directly.

The blood clouds were exceptionally fearful of this gorgeous mist and didn't dare to take it head-on. After pausing, they circled around, intending to escape from the side.

But because of this slight delay, under Spirit Lord Huang Liang's urging, more than ten yellow sword qi had already shot toward them aggressively. He himself also transformed into a yellow rainbow and shot directly toward this location.

Xu Tian, within the blood clouds, couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Just at this moment, a familiar voice suddenly reached his ears:

"Lord Xu Tian, quickly give the Divine Blood to me. I will use the Concealment Escape Technique to send this treasure away first."

Upon hearing this voice, Xu Tian was stunned for a moment, then immediately overjoyed.

The person lurking on the side was indeed Shi Yan.

Although Xu Tian had previously seen through a trace of this clansman due to a certain innate divine ability, he had only been suspicious in his heart and hadn't been entirely certain.

Now, upon hearing this familiar voice, this Xuan Spirit no longer had any doubts.

One hand spread its five fingers to block the sword qi, while the other hand flashed with spiritual light, and the small bottle appeared bizarrely.

He then flicked his wrist, and the blood-red small bottle shot directly toward the void where the voice had originated.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1317 =====