Chapter 166

Time passed, and a month passed.

In this month, the war between the Seven Blood Eyes and the Sea Corpse Clan had undergone many astonishing changes. First, the Sea Corpse Clan's several counterattacks could not take down the Mermaid Clan island.

They could only watch as the Seven Blood Eyes continuously reinforced on the Mermaid Clan island, while teleporting more magic treasures and all their allies.

This was too much of a threat to the Sea Corpse Clan.

However, the Sea Corpse Clan was not without victories. In their split-force attacks, the Pearl Island Group was finally torn down and occupied by them as a command post.

All the Forbidden Elixirs buried by the Seven Blood Eyes on it were taken out by the Sea Corpse Clan powerhouses, and the entire Pearl Island Group was searched strictly many times to ensure there was no problem, only then were they relieved.

For the Sea Corpse Clan, this could be considered a strategic victory. For the Seven Blood Eyes, it was equivalent to a flaw appearing in the nearby area.

And this kind of flaw was extremely fatal, making the Seven Blood Eyes very passive for more than half a month. Twice, under the situation of being attacked from both sides, they almost lost the Mermaid Clan island.

Even the Third Peak Peak Master was ambushed and sneak-attacked by multiple Sea Corpse Clan powerhouses during one attack, almost falling, and only escaped back seriously injured by using a strange substitute death.

There was also the Sixth Peak Peak Master, who was also ambushed and seriously injured.

As for the Golden Core Elders, there were also more than ten who were on the verge of death. This matter was a huge blow to the morale of the Seven Blood Eyes, and for a time, the number of people participating in the tasks also dropped sharply.

And this was actually the drawback of the Seven Blood Eyes rules. When the wind was smooth, they could be like wolves and tigers. Once they were at a disadvantage, the hearts of the people would easily collapse and be extremely difficult to recover.

And just as the Sea Corpse Clan increased their layout of the Pearl Island Group, the counterattack of the Seven Blood Eyes arrived.

That was a night half a month ago. With a heaven-shaking roar, Xu Qing, who had completed a small task and returned to Mi'e Island to rest, saw with his own eyes mountain peaks appearing on the sea.

These mountain peaks were connected together and gradually became a vast mountain range.

And with the rolling of the seawater, this mountain range also slowly emerged, as if turning into a back...

Xu Qing controlled the Forbidden Sea plesiosaur and saw in horror that a giant beast actually existed under the sea.

This giant beast, Xu Qing vaguely felt familiar, and soon recognized that it was... a sea lizard!

The mountain range that emerged was exactly the back of the sea lizard!

Vast and endless, the momentum was astonishing. Compared with its body, the Pearl Island Group was like an ant, insignificant.

This sea lizard just turned over slightly after arriving, and the Pearl Island Group collapsed and disintegrated.

After being torn apart, this sea lizard, which only revealed a small half of its back from beginning to end, left leisurely.

This time the sea lizard's attack shocked the entire Sea Corpse Clan to the extreme. It was really because this kind of existence... had already exceeded a certain level and was not something the Seven Blood Eyes could easily ask for assistance.

But it appeared, and the goal was very clear, which was the Pearl Island Group.

This matter also shocked Xu Qing. And the Seven Blood Eyes soon announced the answer in order to improve morale. Even in this answer, they did not hesitate to reveal part of the details of the Fourth Peak Peak Master.

The announcement informed all disciples that this time the sea lizard's attack was the credit of the Fourth Peak. The Fourth Peak Peak Master had a connection with this giant lizard in his early years, and this time he invited it to attack, destroying the Pearl Island Group.

At the same time, it informed the disciples that this matter had been agreed upon long ago. All the layouts of the Pearl Island Group before were cover-ups, and the purpose was to let the Sea Corpse Clan come to attack. The so-called Forbidden Elixirs on it were all illusions.

The entire Pearl Island Group was a huge trap prepared for the Sea Corpse Clan.

This matter made the morale of the Seven Blood Eyes high for a while, but the people of the Seven Blood Eyes were not fools. There were also deep-minded people in the Sea Corpse Clan. Looking at various analyses, the statement of the Seven Blood Eyes high-level members might be correct, but it was only partially correct.

If the Fourth Peak Peak Master could really ask the giant lizard for help, there was no need to put the goal on the Pearl Island Group. Whether it was the guard islands or the main island of the Sea Corpse Clan, they were clearly better choices.

So there were various guesses about the truth of this matter, and some people felt that this matter was related to the Seven Blood Eyes Ancestor.

But what the truth was, except for the Seven Blood Eyes high-level members, others could not know.

And the facts had already happened. The Pearl Island Group was no more, and the Sea Corpse Clan's losses were not small.

At the same time, the Seven Blood Eyes also took advantage of this mistake of the Sea Corpse Clan to launch a general attack, smashing the Sea Corpse Clan's encirclement of the Mermaid Clan to pieces, and also blew the horn of the first decisive battle.

The Sea Corpse Clan army shrank, resisted, and retreated under this heavy blow. And the Seven Blood Eyes also pursued and killed with all their might, breaking through layers of defense lines, and pushed the battlefield away from the vicinity of the Mermaid Clan island, pushing it to the edge of the Sea Corpse Clan's territory.

Separated from the Sea Corpse Clan's local island land by only seven guard islands, that was the last line of defense of the Sea Corpse Clan.

Such a close distance put greater pressure on the Sea Corpse Clan, and the war was also in a stalemate at this time, following the Sea Corpse Clan's tenacious counterattack.

As for the casualties, both sides had them, but relatively speaking, the Sea Corpse Clan had more.

But the casualties of the Seven Blood Eyes were still shocking, so there was the first batch of people applying to withdraw from the war. The Seven Blood Eyes did not refuse this, but as long as they met the conditions, they all agreed to withdraw from the war.

It's just that while agreeing to withdraw from the war, the Seven Blood Eyes gave more war rewards and also issued the first batch of Golden Core opportunity rewards.

In addition, they released two trump cards. The first was that the Seven Blood Eyes issued fifty magic treasure usage quotas.

The top fifty disciples in war points each had one qualification to borrow the projection of the sect's foundation magic treasure.

Magic treasures were legendary objects. The power of any one of them was heaven-shaking and far beyond imagination. The entire Seven Blood Eyes only had one.

So even if the projection arrived, the power would be heart-shaking.

This news immediately shocked all the participating disciples of the sect, and the second trump card was even more astonishing, that was... the Ancestor taking disciples!

This time, the Seven Blood Eyes Ancestor would take ten Foundation Establishment members as inner disciples and three Golden Core members as personal disciples to inherit his mantle after the war!

The selection of disciples was calculated according to the task completion degree and the killing of the Sea Corpse Clan.

Once this news came out, the Seven Blood Eyes disciples were mostly shocked, and even some who were originally going to withdraw from the war gave up withdrawing and stayed on the battlefield.

Because the Seven Blood Eyes Ancestor had not taken any disciples for many years, and this time, the Ancestor, whose cultivation had broken through, was taking disciples. One could imagine that once selected, whether it was status or interests, it would reach a very high degree.

If one could become an inner disciple, one would leap over the dragon gate, and one's status would only be one step away from the Peak Master, surpassing the Elders.

As for the personal disciples... just thinking about it could make people breathe rapidly and their eyes red.

Not to mention Foundation Establishment cultivators, even the Golden Cores of various peaks were moved one after another. Clearly, even they didn't know that the sect would release such temptation at this time.

From this, one could also see that this war, the Seven Blood Eyes was determined to win against the Sea Corpse Clan.

Xu Qing was also moved, but he quickly suppressed the thoughts in his heart. In his view, although this matter was extremely tempting, he knew that there were many strong people in the sect, and he was not the strongest in Foundation Establishment. Every peak had cultivators who had activated three life fires.

With these people around, it would be very difficult for him to fight for it even if he risked his life.

But he looked at his ranking for the fifty magic treasure quotas and felt that he could take it.

After all, this war point ranking was different from battle achievements. It was a comprehensive ranking that included tasks and killing, and also had very high requirements for the quality of tasks.

But because Xu Qing had crazily taken on tasks and brushed battle achievements before, his ranking was not low.

"Seventy-three..." Xu Qing muttered and continued to take on tasks.

Just like this, time passed, and another half month passed. Xu Qing's ranking also rose with the tasks he took and the killing, reaching fifty-ninth.

His dharma apertures also opened more and more in this slaughter of the Sea Corpse Clan, reaching forty-four.

The further he went, the more souls he needed.

And just as he was frequently taking on tasks, on this day, Xu Qing, who had just paid for a reinforcement task, suddenly had a summons order exclusive to him appear in the many tasks scrolling one by one in his identity token!

The appearance of this order clearly had extremely high authority, directly wiping out all the tasks on Xu Qing's identity token and becoming the only one.

Even the task he had just taken was given a completed label, allowing him to get the reward without any effort.

"Seventh Peak Foundation Establishment disciple Xu Qing, come to the command post tent of the Juying Island immediately, summoned by the Seventh Peak Vice Peak Master!"

Looking at this information, Xu Qing was stunned. After pondering for a long while, many guesses and thoughts appeared in his heart, but he had no clue. He didn't know this Vice Peak Master, and hadn't even heard of him before.

But the information on this identity token was certain and correct. Even when Xu Qing was pondering here, this information appeared many times, locking his identity token and making him unable to continue accepting tasks.

So after pondering, Xu Qing jumped up and headed straight for Juying Island.

With his speed, although he didn't activate the Profound Radiance State, he was still fast. Not long after, Xu Qing arrived at Juying Island and headed straight for the place where the huge eyeball in the center of Juying Island was located.

Here was the core of the Seven Blood Eyes front-line command post on the Mermaid Island.

Usually, disciples were not allowed to approach here without being summoned. It was a top-secret place.

At this moment, as Xu Qing approached, terrifying divine senses locked onto him one after another.

Even the huge eyeball swept its gaze over him instantly.

Xu Qing did not move forward anymore, took out his identity token, and spoke in a deep voice.

"Disciple Xu Qing, summoned by the Seventh Peak Vice Peak Master, come to pay a visit."

As he spoke, the identity token shone brightly, and the eyeball on the ground blinked three times rapidly. A teleportation force appeared around Xu Qing instantly. Before he could react, his figure had already disappeared.

Until Xu Qing was teleported away, the divine senses around faded away.

And at this moment, inside the eyeball, in front of a magnificent hall, Xu Qing's figure was moved over instantly.

When he appeared, he looked around rapidly, and the next moment, a woman's voice came from behind him indifferently.

"You, are Xu Qing?"