Chapter 222: Divine Might Covers the World!

"Xueshen Laozu, your divine might covers the world!"

"Xueshen Laozu, save us from suffering and hardship!"

In Nanhuang, such an Immortal Boat Fleet with a rather mismatched style suddenly appeared.

They were led by an Old Ancestor capable of summoning a giant blood god.

They swept through one after another of the various large and small sects and Market strongholds in Nanhuang.

As more and more Nanhuang Cultivators became willing to serve the Old Ancestor as dogs and horses.

Many places still held by Nanhuang Cultivators, upon seeing such an Immortal Boat fleet approaching, had long since lost any intention to resist; thinking only of fleeing, they learned of the good fortune of being able to follow and act as dogs.

One after another, they first expressed their loyalty with the Fierce Tiger Landing Style, then offered up all their inherited knowledge.

When the number of Immortal Boats reached double digits.

The fleet arrived at the sphere of influence of Heaven Sword City.

Cultivators with sufficiently high perception.

Could already frown and sense the uncomfortable Evil Qi in the direction of Heaven Sword City.

"The central area has already turned into an Evil Domain."

"Under this concentration of Evil Qi, most Cultivators below Foundation Establishment are at risk of being turned into Evil Spirits before long."

"Stop for now."

Su Ping was still very considerate of these followers, and he had no morbid interest in watching cannon fodder make meaningless sacrifices.

"Old Ancestor is mighty!"

Seeing that the Old Ancestor did not let them continue forward, but instead carried a monstrous red light and rushed over himself, many Great Cultivators on the deck felt a stir in their hearts and sincerely followed the other Cultivators in shouting aloud.

Su Ping entered the sky above Heaven Sword City.

The Evil-Warding Blessing continuously took effect, shattering the clumps of Evil Qi emerging in the air.

The Heaven Sword City area, including most of the mountain range, was covered by fog.

This fog was highly viscous and could greatly hinder the intrusion of perception and Divine Sense.

Su Ping could hear human voices coming from the fog from time to time.

It was just that these human voices did not come from survivors, but were emitted by Evil Spirits of all sizes.

Su Ping did not enter the fog on the ground.

Instead, he summoned two Memory Illusions: Fire Knight Alwin and Valkyrie Kong.

The Fire Knight possessed Indomitable Will and could resist the contamination of Evil Qi.

Valkyrie Kong possessed Space Talent, and using spatial shielding could also block the Evil Qi.

After they entered the fog, they saw the ruins of Heaven Sword City.

They immediately discovered that it was not quite the same as other places; the building complexes of Heaven Sword City were generally still intact.

This made Su Ping feel a joy in his heart, and he hurriedly let the Memory Illusions take action.

Valkyrie Kong instantly dodged a large, meat-ball-like Evil Spirit rolling around on the street.

She appeared at a place that looked like a Wanbao Pavilion.

The original inhabitants who had stayed here had already turned into translucent, thin, long ghost shadows.

Valkyrie Kong waved her hand and sent them away, allowing them to rest in peace.

Afterward, she checked the storehouse of this building.

Valkyrie Kong discovered that all the Spirit Objects, Spirit Herbs, or Dharma Artifacts in these storehouses had lost their spiritual light and turned into mundane objects.

Startled, Su Ping let Valkyrie Kong feel the space under the fog again.

He immediately realized that not a single trace of Spirit Qi could be sensed in this Heaven Sword City.

This environment... was not even any better than Water Blue Star in a non-spiritual environment.

"Heaven Sword City was also located on a Third-Grade Low-Tier Spiritual Vein; to think there would be no Spirit Qi."

"Could it be!"

After Su Ping learned of this anomaly, he took out the Abyss Challenge Scroll.

Utilizing the characteristics of this item, he allowed himself to enter the earth vein interface of the Cultivation World once again.

Immediately, Su Ping, who had a very good memory, compared the two interfaces.

He discovered that the earth veins in this region of Nanhuang were not just simply polluted.

Rather, about one-third of the area had directly disappeared!

The earth vein near the Heavenly Sword Sect was one of the areas that had disappeared.

"If the earth vein disappears, will the Spirit Vein also wither and disappear along with it?"

"Even the Spirit Qi on those Spirit Objects will be snatched away and turned into Evil Qi."

Knowing that there were no bargains to be picked up regarding Spirit Herbs and Spirit Tools.

Su Ping's goal was then placed on the libraries of the various great families in the city and the City Lord Mansion.

Regardless of what knowledge was inside, Su Ping swallowed it whole, taking away what could be taken and recording what could be recorded.

The City Lord Mansion of Heaven Sword City.

Fire Knight Alwin unleashed a flat slash, directly striking the gate of the Array that had lost its Dharma Power and effect.

He arrived at the City Lord's Underground Basement.

Then, the Fire Knight saw that this still-spacious Underground Basement had actually turned into an altar for an evil cultivator's sacrifice.

So the City Lord of Heaven Sword City was an evil cultivator.

No wonder the Evil Spirit outbreak was so sudden.

However... the situation seemed to be slightly different.

The Fire Knight emitted a fiery glow, illuminating the Underground Basement.

Aside from seeing the Evil patterns all around, there were also the disgusting and foul-smelling offerings on the circular Altar.

A tall skeleton wearing armor and draped in a red robe sat on a chair behind the Altar.

He saw the newcomer and even shook his body, trying to struggle.

It was just that a long spear piercing through his chest prevented his movements.

The Fire Knight looked at the long spear in the skeleton monster's chest.

His eyes lit up immediately.

Under the circumstances where so many Spirit Objects had lost their spiritual light.

This long spear actually contained spiritual light, continuing to exert a restraining effect.

The Fire Knight leaped over immediately and grabbed the long spear with his large hand.

Suddenly!

A surge of consciousness poured from the long spear into the Fire Knight's mind.

It was the phantom of an old man, withered as a twig, looking more like a monster than a human, issuing a warning to the Fire Knight:

He was a Protector Elder of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

After sensing something amiss at the City Lord Mansion, he rushed over at the first opportunity and brought out the divine weapon, the God-Slaying Spear.

At the very moment the Evil God Avatar was about to descend, he struck the City Lord, interrupting the ritual.

Thereby limiting the scope of this Evil Spirit disaster, which had sacrificed the entire city, to just Heaven Sword City itself.

It was just that the Protector Elder was also exhausted to his limit and had to reside within the divine weapon.

"Leave quickly, young one."

"I can feel that you are gifted, but with only Foundation Establishment cultivation, you must absolutely not pull out the God-Slaying Spear."

"Although this Evil Cultivator had his ritual interrupted by me and the Evil God Avatar did not descend, he still completed his own transformation into an Evil Spirit."

"It originally had Golden Core Initial Stage cultivation, and now that it has transformed into an Evil Spirit, it is even more troublesome..."

"You must leave quickly, inform the outside world of this matter, and request some Old Ancestor to come..."

"The Earth Vein of Nanhuang has been lost; I fear the Old Ancestors of other sects will not come."

Hearing this, the Fire Knight suddenly spoke, revealing the truth he had just seen.

This also caused the Divine Soul of the Protector Elder inside the long spear to shake violently, his aura fading significantly:

"The Earth Vein is gone?"

"Hahaha, Nanhuang is finished, the thousand-year foundation of my Heavenly Sword Sect..."

Watching the Divine Soul sink into agony, the Fire Knight no longer hesitated.

He grabbed the long spear and leaped violently toward the sky.

He carried the City Lord, who had transformed into an Evil Spirit skeleton, out of the mist and arrived high above Heaven Sword City.

Blood light fell, and the long spear and the skeleton City Lord shook simultaneously.

Immediately, there was no playing around with pulling out the long spear to let the City Lord skeleton gain freedom only to be suppressed by Su Ping amidst loud laughter.

Su Ping directly summoned a giant Blood God hand and grabbed both objects into the Blood God Secret Realm.

Then, Su Ping only intended to slowly resolve these two objects after entering the Pot Heaven, where he had the home-field advantage.

This also avoided causing mutations in the fragile spatial environment of the Cultivation World or Nanhuang, which could lead to the descent of the Evil God Avatar.

That would be a loss that outweighs the gain!

The Fire Knight returned to the mist once more to explore the city within the mist together with Valkyrie Kong.

Thanks to the Heavenly Sword Sect migrating to the Central Region, there were not many dangerous areas in the city.

Most of the Evil Spirits were around the Qi Refining stage.

Evil Spirits at the Foundation Establishment stage were also extremely rare.

The biggest trouble of Evil Qi invasion for other Cultivators was precisely countered by the Memory Illusion.

They scavenged quite rapidly.

After a lot of items were added to the Storage Spirit Tool.

After Su Ping transformed into a streak of blood light and returned to the VIP room of the large Immortal Boat.

The Immortal Boat Fleet moved again, bypassing the mist area of Heaven Sword City and flying toward the next destination.

As the reputation spread, there were even Cultivators who drove their own Immortal Boats to come and seek refuge during this period.

It was just that the Cultivators on these incoming Immortal Boats were either Evil Cultivators or had people of the Demonic Path with ill intentions among them.

Every time the Immortal Boat Fleet grew, it also added some snacks to the Blood God Secret Realm.

Su Ping had also received a lot of new knowledge about the Incense Fire God Sect during this time.

The samples of Incense Fire Gods in the Blood God Secret Realm also gradually broke into the double digits.

The more bountiful the harvest, the heavier Su Ping's heart felt.

These Incense Divine Path practitioners in Nanhuang were one worse than the other!

The self-consciousness of the Incense Fire Gods they created were all chaotic; it would not be an exaggeration to call them Evil Gods.

Browsing through the memories on them, one could see many terrible scenes during the refining process.

Fortunately, these guys of the Incense Divine Path, except for those who evacuated Nanhuang early.

Basically all ran into trouble and were wiped out in this wave of Evil Qi Tide.

In fact, this was also within expectations; this group of Incense Cultivators, who achieved quick success without the foundation of the Demonic Path, were simply the best cake for Evil Cultivators to infiltrate and devour in the current environment.

The loss of control of the Incense Fire Gods was even more expected.

In order to find the Holy Son, the Blood God Sect proactively ran to the Central Region before the situation deteriorated to the critical point.

Speaking of which, it can be considered escaping the great catastrophe here in Nanhuang.

On the deck, seeing Heaven Sword City again, Luo felt quite emotional.

Thinking back to when he was young, the first time he set sail following the head Shopkeeper was from Heaven Sword City.

Although Nanhuang was quite Chaos back then, Heaven Sword City was recognized by everyone as a magnificent sight in the human world.

Who knows how many Cultivators worked hard their whole lives just so their descendants could move into Heaven Sword City and obtain that small place.

"Fortune plays tricks on people!"

"If I didn't know that Nanhuang was no longer suitable for long-term residence, perhaps my accumulation of over a hundred years would have been spent buying property here in Heaven Sword City."

Not long after Luo sighed, he was suddenly approached by an attendant who whispered to him.

After saying "Oh," he heard it was a matter concerning the Incense God.

This Luo did not dare to be negligent and hurriedly had a pair of grandfather and grandson who knew the situation brought over.

After a detailed questioning.

Luo learned that this pair of grandfather and grandson were followers of the Ten Directions Sect.

Their ancestors were counted as one of the high-level members of the Ten Directions Sect, and because of this, they were able to participate in some sacrificial activities as believers.

The problem also lay in this sacrifice.

According to what this pair of grandfather and grandson said, the sacrifices of the Ten Directions Sect suddenly stopped half a year ago.

They even conducted multiple tests on believers like them, and even then, they were not at ease, simply moving them to the outer areas to live.

The previous waves of migration by the Ten Directions Sect did not take these believers away, leaving them with a feeling of being forgotten and abandoned.

The family to which this pair of grandfather and grandson belonged felt something was wrong and began to scatter their clansmen to go out and seek survival.

The grandfather and grandson also followed some clansmen and ran out during this stage.

After encountering natural and man-made disasters, only the two of them remained, and then they encountered the Immortal Boat Fleet...

In the VIP room, Su Ping listened to Luo's report and summoned the two for questioning.

He secretly guessed in his heart that the Incense God worshipped by the Ten Directions Sect had likely also run into trouble.

However, the Ten Directions Sect had a deep foundation after all; they should have resisted the backlash and even resealed that Incense God.

It was just that the Ten Directions Sect had therefore made up their mind to start moving out of Nanhuang.

Looking at it this way, perhaps the Ten Directions Sect side could have a powerful Incense God waiting for him.

Furthermore, the Ten Directions Sect, which left in a hurry, should have left behind a little something useful, right?

Considering that there might be a fierce battle ahead.

After Su Ping dismissed everyone, he let the fleet rest and perform maintenance while he entered the Pot Heaven.

Returning to the Pot Heaven, breathing in the fresh Spirit Qi.

Su Ping felt the warmth of home.

After a short rest and recovering to full status, Su Ping summoned the Blood God Seal and then entered the Blood God Secret Realm.

In the Blood God Secret Realm, the Blood God main body, which had long been eyeing the skeleton City Lord of Heaven Sword City, received permission and immediately operated the blood light from its abdomen to brush over.

Suddenly, the Zhumo Changqiang shook due to this external force and detached from the skeleton City Lord's chest.

After losing the suppression, this skeleton City Lord immediately recovered a trace of Divine Sense.

But soon, he felt that he was inside the body of a terrifying existence.

Realizing something was wrong, it was about to beg for mercy, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into a pool of blood and merged into the Blood God main body.

Only the armor and outer robe remained and flew out in front of Su Ping.

Glancing at the armor and outer robe whose spiritual light had vanished, Su Ping shook his head slightly and waved his hand to cast them into the Blood Sea.

Afterward, the Zhumo Changqiang flew over and was firmly grasped by Su Ping.

The Divine Soul of the Protector Elder inside the Zhumo Changqiang was already less than one-tenth of its original state.

The last remaining thought was only to let the Zhumo Changqiang return to the Sky Sword Sect.

Su Ping's heart stirred, and he took out the Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon.

Under the influence of the Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon's aura, the trace of the Protector Elder's will inside the Zhumo Changqiang naturally let go of its resistance.

After all, the main cultivation art of the Sky Sword Sect came from the Heavenly Sword.

The aura of the Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon was about the same as the aura of the Sect Master and the Supreme Elder.

Moreover, within the Pot Heaven, neither Evil Spirits nor the Sky Sword Sect could hope to establish a mysterious connection with it.

The Zhumo Changqiang also calmed down, and then felt that the new master's physique seemed much better than the original master's.

It then obediently accepted Su Ping's Mark of Divine Sense.

"This divine weapon seems to be of a lower grade than the Heavenly Sword, but that's correct, this is only a divine weapon forged acquiredly,"

"However, this spear has a certain sealing ability against the power of Evil Spirits; it should be one of the weapons specially forged by the Great Cultivators of the Cultivation World who still had strength back then to deal with Evil Spirits."

"In addition, the spearhead of this Zhumo Changqiang contains a small space, which can store poison or Talismans to launch surprise attacks on enemies!"

Su Ping played with the Zhumo Changqiang; with his Divine Sense connected, any trick could be easily performed.

Su Ping thought for a moment, exchanged for a bottle of Purification Potion, and placed it in the small space of the Zhumo Changqiang for storage.

Only then did Su Ping return to the Cultivation World and let the fleet set sail again.

They had not yet reached the sphere of influence of the Ten Directions Sect.

The Great Cultivators on the deck already felt that something was wrong.

The sky and the earth had turned gray-white, and the cold wind was biting, blowing the Immortal Boat's shield into ripples.

Just as they were about to cross a mountain range and enter the Ten Directions Sect area.

Luo, who was operating the remote observation Dharma Artifact, suddenly saw several black shadows flying out from the boundless horizon.

Leading them were a few black-robed Cultivators, who were fleeing in panic while sitting on a black Flying Boat.

Behind them, a black flood dragon covered in pustules roared as it gave chase.

"That is the Black Flood Dragon rumored to be cultivating in the forbidden zones of Nanhuang... How did it come here!"

"And those Cultivators on the Flying Boat, they must be Demonic Path Cultivators!"

Those few Demonic Path Cultivators also saw the Immortal Boat; their initial joy instantly turned into panic.

They all recalled that beneath the reputation of Xueshen Laozu lay the countless blood and bones of evil cultivators and the Demonic Path!

They could not fathom, no matter how hard they thought, why an Old Ancestor capable of controlling such a powerful incense god had such an incongruous style!

"Old Ancestor, save us! We have a great secret concerning Nanhuang that we need to report to the Old Ancestor!"

The fleeing Demonic Path Cultivators gritted their teeth and continued to charge toward the Immortal Boat Fleet, shouting loudly.

They attempted to make that Xueshen Laozu hesitate, thereby causing the Evil Spirit-corrupted flood dragon behind them to clash with the other party at a critical moment.

These Demonic Path Cultivators were merely striving for this moment of Chaos.

So that they could seize the opportunity to escape...

"Not good!"

The idea was good, but unfortunately, as soon as Su Ping heard about some "great secret," he chose to act immediately!

A blood-colored giant hand suddenly appeared in front of these few Demonic Path Cultivators.

In one motion, it grabbed them all in its palm.

Then, this giant hand formed a fist and smashed fiercely toward the black flood dragon following closely behind.

That black flood dragon was huge, at least over a thousand meters long.

Yet, facing the giant hand swung by the true form of Xueshen Laozu.

This flood dragon was nothing more than a little snake.

With a single punch, this black flood dragon was sent flying backward, soaring directly ten thousand meters away and smashing a small basin into the ground.

Sharp-eyed Cultivators noticed that after the flood dragon landed and touched the gray-white ground.

Wisps of black Qi emerged from the gray-white soil and entered the body of this black flood dragon.

Very quickly, all the various wounds caused by that punch on this black flood dragon were recovered.

Following that, this black flood dragon soared into the air once more and charged toward Su Ping's direction.

Su Ping stared at every move of this black flood dragon.

He knew in his heart that if this Evil Spirit monster encountered other Great Cultivators, it would likely be their nightmare.

Not only was it thick-skinned and fleshy with the power of Evil Qi infestation, but after being injured with great difficulty, it could also absorb Evil Qi clusters to recover rapidly.

"Old Ancestor!"

Deacon Luo looked at the figure shrouded in blood-colored light in the sky with some worry:

"This flood dragon relies on the terrain to recover quickly; wouldn't it be better if we withdrew from this area to see if we can suppress the opponent's recovery ability?"

The other Great Cultivators also nodded slightly, all feeling that doing so would be more prudent.

Su Ping smiled faintly, and a resonant voice descended:

"No matter, it is merely a little flood dragon infected by Evil Qi; what does it matter if it has the advantage of time and terrain!"