Chapter 224: Being the Old Ancestor's Dog is the Only Way Out for a Cultivator!

"Nanhuang is finished!"

"Now, only by begging for mercy from the True God can we survive!"

"Such a simple thing, why is it that you fellows just don't understand?"

On a black Flying Boat, an old evil cultivator opened his mouth and shouted in a frenzied voice.

This voice drifted over the territory of the Ten Directions Sect.

Vaguely, in the process of echoing continuously, it formed several thousand-meter-long flood dragons composed of Evil Qi.

"Roar!"

Facing these flood dragons of Evil Qi, Ao Li suddenly soared into the air above the Immortal Boat Fleet and roared, unleashing a dragon roar.

As the Dragon Blood in her body boiled and surged, a trace of Dragon Might radiated from Ao Li.

Including the flood dragons of Evil Qi, those masses of Evil Qi driven by the evil cultivators were shaken away under this Dragon Might.

This gave the Immortal Boat Fleet a rare patch of Jingtu free from Evil Qi!

"The might of a True Dragon!"

"This beast actually obtained the fortune of a True Dragon!"

The evil cultivators of the former Ten Directions Sect on the black Flying Boat all changed color.

They could not be more familiar with this flood dragon raised within the sect.

When Ao Li was transformed into an Evil Spirit, they had contributed their fair share.

Now, discovering that the masterpiece they had created had truly become someone else's property, and possessed such great fortune.

A certain former Elder of the Ten Directions Sect felt a flash of regret.

However, this trace of regret was quickly covered by frenzy.

While the Dragon Might blocked the invasion of the surrounding Evil Qi, it also stimulated these evil cultivators.

That former Elder of the Ten Directions Sect sighed.

He flew into the high sky, and his Golden Core Dharma Image emerged behind him.

It was a giant spirit god with Three Heads and Six Arms, dressed solemnly like a Vajra Heavenly King.

Su Ping discovered at the first moment that this Dharma Image was also shrouded in dense Incense Divine Power.

As this Divine Power absorbed the power of the Dharma Images released by the other evil cultivators.

Its size grew from over one thousand meters to over three thousand meters tall in just a short time.

Before such a giant spirit god, even the Immortal Boat Fleet looked like ants in its eyes.

"Is this the true way the Ten Directions Sect uses Incense Divine Power, using one's own Dharma Image as a tool to refine Incense Divine Power?"

"And finally using one's own Dharma Image as an Avatar of a god?"

"However... just like the Incense Boy, this is only slightly less dangerous than bearing the incense with one's physical body, right?"

Su Ping thought of how the requirements of the Ten Directions Sect and the North Star Divine Art were the same, both placing great importance on a Special Constitution.

Su Ping understood in his heart that to absorb Incense Divine Power with a Dharma Image and refine it into an Avatar of a god.

One of the prerequisites is likely needing a Special Constitution like the Ten Directions Annihilation Body!

Su Ping also summoned his Blood God Avatar, stretched out a blood-colored giant hand in the air, and blocked the gray aura spat out by the opponent's giant spirit god.

The Blood God Avatar had the strength of the Nascent Soul Realm, yet upon contact with the opponent, it instead felt suppressed.

This was the first time Su Ping had encountered this since obtaining the Blood God Avatar.

After several exchanges, Su Ping discovered the black Flying Boats hiding within the body of the giant spirit god.

The light of several Evil Spirit Treasures was faintly flickering.

It was also with the help of these Spirit Treasures that could be used in an environment of Evil Qi.

The Golden Core aura of this giant spirit god was forcibly raised to the Nascent Soul Realm, and every move it made carried a certain terrifying fluctuation.

On the side of the Immortal Boat Fleet, Ao Li, having received the order, once again unleashed Dragon Might to shake the space, while simultaneously sweeping up the Immortal Boat Fleet and teleporting dozens of miles away.

On the deck of the Immortal Boat, while thanking Ao Li for saving them and avoiding being caught in the aftermath of the battle.

These Great Cultivators watched the great battle in the distance, which they had never seen before.

While gasping in shock, they looked at the Blood God Avatar, which also had a very villainous style, yet hoped as never before that this villain could continue to win.

"Those evil cultivators are buying time."

"Look, they have occupied the advantage several times but retreated again."

"Inside that Ten Directions Sect headquarters, there must still be an Evil Spirit ritual in operation!"

"Old Ancestor Blood God's divine art is peerless; that opponent's Dharma Image is so strange, it definitely cannot last long!"

"However, if the ritual succeeds and the Evil God Avatar descends..."

The worried words of the cultivators on the deck were transmitted to Su Ping's ears through Ao Li.

Su Ping naturally also discovered that these evil cultivators were prioritizing defense.

Several times, in order to avoid destroying the Ten Directions Sect headquarters, he had deliberately feigned weakness and retreated, yet it did not provoke the opponent to pursue.

Helpless, Su Ping had no choice but to give up the idea of taking the Ten Directions Sect headquarters intact.

"To obtain it is my luck, to lose it is my fate!"

"Forget it!"

"I can only use my ultimate move!"

Su Ping raised his right hand and snapped his fingers lightly!

The blood light behind him became increasingly dense, even to the point of being blinding.

Under the vortex of blood light, the head and arms of the Blood God Avatar emerged completely from the vortex.

And as the Blood God Avatar's head fully emerged from the sky, it looked down at the scene below.

The headquarters of the Ten Directions Sect was filled with blood-colored light in every direction, and one could even vaguely feel a Blood Sea covering the area, obscuring the entire sky above.

"Do not panic!"

The former Elder of the Ten Directions Sect roared, and the six arms of his Dharma Image expanded simultaneously, transforming into a massive shield that completely blocked the sky above the Ten Directions Sect headquarters.

"We have the True God's gift to ensure our Divine Power is inexhaustible; as long as we maintain our Shenchong as Undying, we can absolutely hold out until the ritual is complete!"

"Once the True God descends, these ants will undoubtedly die!"

Su Ping's heart stirred, and the Blood Sea hanging high in the sky fell like a waterfall from all directions, crashing down toward the defensive Dharma Image.

At the same time, the Blood God's massive mouth, surrounded by the Blood Sea, transformed into a size capable of swallowing the entire headquarters in one gulp and bit down!

Boom!

The opponent's defense was indeed tough enough.

The earth shook, the surrounding mountains and rivers collapsed, and in an instant, the landscape was transformed.

Yet, the Dharma Image above the Ten Directions Sect headquarters remained unmoved.

However!

Before those evil cultivators could even hang expressions of joy on their faces.

Su Ping threw the Zhumo Changqiang, which, accelerated by the swing of the Blood God's massive hand, had already pierced through.

The Zhumo Changqiang struck the surface of the opponent's body, looking like a mere splinter hanging off a three-meter-tall stone statue.

Yet, as the Zhumo Changqiang sprayed out the purification potion.

The evil cultivator Elder who had released the main body of the Dharma Image immediately had his expression change drastically, revealing an extremely painful look.

Once the Elder who summoned the Dharma Image ran into trouble, under the intense pressure, the various arrangements of these evil cultivators instantly disintegrated.

Then, the Blood Sea poured into the Ten Directions Sect headquarters.

Turning everything into blood-colored light.

The few evil cultivators maintaining the Evil God descent ritual in the Earth Palace didn't even have time to ask what was happening before the Blood Sea surged in, sinking them into the depths of the boundless Blood Sea, where they fell silent.

Also sinking into the Blood Sea was the Evil God Altar, which served as the main body of the Altar and was also the gift the evil cultivators spoke of.

It was a pale... little finger, about a meter long.

Now, this little finger suddenly moved within the Blood Sea.

Then, a single eye emitting a pale light appeared on the first knuckle of the finger.

"How could a world already destined to become food possess power capable of purging our Divine Power?"

"Is this... Dragon Might?"

"No, it is not the might of a True Dragon; is it merely some kind of dragon species with the potential to evolve into a True Dragon?"

"Interesting, does this world actually contain such a strange species?"

"Such a strange species must not be let go!"

The single eye on the pale finger released an imperceptible information fluctuation.

Then, beyond the false starry sky of Nanhuang, a certain existence, just like Evil God Neil, cast its gaze over.

After easily piercing through the thin membrane of space above Nanhuang.

This Evil God saw Ao Li, the black dragon.

And then, tracing the source, it attempted to find the origin of the drop of Dragon Blood within Ao Li's body.

The next instant, it immediately stopped this impulse to trace the source and not only quickly withdrew its gaze.

It even forcibly severed all connections with its avatar on the Altar.

The pale finger on the Altar immediately sensed this anomaly.

Then, its entire body twisted and transformed into a piece of Mysterious Remains.

Soon, Su Ping found this piece of Mysterious Remains.

This was also the largest piece of Mysterious Remains Su Ping had ever seen.

Other large Mysterious Remains were just small piles of ash.

This piece of Mysterious Remains, however, retained the state of a small section of a skeletal finger.

It was hard for Su Ping not to notice it immediately.

As the Blood God's main body digested a portion of the evil cultivators' Divine Soul, it read various memory fragments.

Su Ping learned that the great upheaval of the Ten Directions Sect was related to a little finger of an Evil God.

It was an item that the Sect Leader of the Ten Directions Sect had brought out from an Ancient Relic over a hundred years ago.

The Ten Directions Sect was arrogant and bold, and did not hand this Evil God finger over to Immortal Sects like the Great Golden Light Temple that specialized in dealing with Evil Gods.

Instead, they hid it and studied it in secret.

And then... the high-level members of the Ten Directions Sect used this Evil God finger as a medium to hear the whispers of the Evil God from beyond the world.

Thereby learning the truth about the Cultivation World in advance.

Such a terrifying and desperate truth caused the high-level members of the Ten Directions Sect to gradually split into two factions.

One faction, led by the Sect Leader, chose to migrate out of Nanhuang and then cooperate fully with top Immortal Sects to find a way to save the world.

The other faction, led by the Elder who summoned the Dharma Image, sought to communicate with the Evil God as much as possible, hoping to find a path of coexistence and compromise.

This was also why the Ten Directions Sect headquarters could be preserved so perfectly, and why even many of the Arrays remained intact.

Su Ping secretly suspected in his heart.

The split in the Ten Directions Sect was actually a show put on for outsiders.

The purpose, naturally, was to hedge their bets, hoping that no matter which side won in the years to come.

The heritage of the Ten Directions Sect could still be preserved.

It was just that such an approach was actually completely meaningless.

Once the Cultivation World is destroyed.

All Evil Cultivators will be devoured by the Evil Gods, becoming a part of their bodies.

No matter how good a false self-will appears, it is ultimately false.

They may even transform into Evil Spirits and become cannon fodder to invade other worlds.

In such a state, where is there any heritage left to pass down?

Su Ping collected all the Mysterious Remains into the Pot Heaven to seal them.

The concentration of Evil Qi at the Ten Directions Sect headquarters suddenly weakened significantly.

Coupled with the Blood God Avatar exerting itself to release blood light, the Evil Qi was continuously dispelled.

Although the Ten Directions Sect headquarters was in tatters due to the aftermath of the great battle, it at least regained its former appearance.

Su Ping entered deep into the Ten Directions Sect headquarters.

After finding the heritage Cave Abode, Su Ping thought for a moment and then placed a High-grade Spirit Stone onto the Array.

Immediately!

A mural in a certain part of the Earth Palace deep within the Ten Directions Sect suddenly emitted light, revealing a passageway.

After Su Ping retracted the Blood God Avatar and gripped the Blood God Seal in his palm.

Su Ping stepped into the mural.

At the same time.

The cultivators on the deck of the Immortal Boat did not know what had just happened, or why the indestructible enemy had been destroyed by Xueshen Laozu so suddenly!

But it didn't matter if they didn't understand; they only needed to know that Xueshen Laozu's divine arts were peerless and invincible in the world!

Deacon Luo and the other cultivators had already secretly made up their minds in their hearts that they must be good dogs to Xueshen Laozu!

And they vaguely felt that this path might become an opportunity that countless big shots and Immortals in the future Cultivation World would crave but be unable to obtain!

At the same time.

In the land of the Western Desert.

On the vast Gobi desert filled with Golden Sand, on an Immortal Boat Fleet stretching over ten kilometers.

The Sect Leader of the Ten Directions Sect, who had just finished his cultivation, was suddenly stunned:

"An outsider has entered our sect's heritage holy land!"

"Not an Evil God Avatar, is it a powerhouse from Nanhuang or some other region?"

"It seems A Tu-ye and the others have failed."

The Sect Leader of the Ten Directions Sect's eyes flickered, and his Divine Sense passed through the fleet to look at an abandoned Market beneath the blowing Golden Sand.

That was a large Market, which in its prime could sell thousands of demonized slaves every day.

But now, the merchant guild that controlled that Market had already fallen apart.

And that Market... was afflicted by a certain terrifying curse; any living being that entered the Market would unknowingly turn into Golden Sand.

And this curse was not an Evil Spirit, but the effect of a Secret Treasure that the Immortal Sect guarding the Western Desert had to bring out to seal the Evil God Avatar beneath it.

It was just that no matter how powerful such an ancient legacy Secret Treasure was, it ultimately had its limits.

As the number of sealed Evil God Avatars increased.

Everyone knew that the bomb in the Western Desert was also growing larger.

Once the Secret Treasure lost control, perhaps there would be no need to wait for the earth veins to disappear and the darkness to arrive.

The Evil God Avatars breaking the Seal would be enough to destroy the entire Western Desert.

"Forget it, an outsider or whoever it may be."

"Let them learn as much as they can."

The Sect Leader of the Ten Directions Sect withdrew his Divine Sense; suddenly devoid of his former high spirits, he chose as Sect Leader to open the door of convenience for the outsider!

Inside the Ten Directions Sect mural.

Su Ping discovered that he had entered a small Secret Realm world.

This place was not large, covering no more than a large stadium.

The surroundings appeared to be a natural karst cave within some mountain.

The stone walls inside the cave emitted a faint white light, reflecting individual Golden Immortal Texts.

Just by looking at them for the first time, Su Ping felt that these Immortal Texts had an extraordinary origin.

They were very likely the authentic works left behind by the big shots before they ran off.

Unable to understand them, Su Ping's first thought was to move all these stone walls back into the Pot Heaven and wait until he became a peerless genius to understand them.

But as soon as he made a move, he felt a repulsive force from the stone walls.

Su Ping keenly realized that this was the Dongtian feeling that his talent was insufficient!

With his current physique, only the stone wall at the very bottom emitted white light, showing an intention to allow viewing.

Su Ping took one look at the Immortal Text on that stone wall and vaguely felt it should be the Ten Directions Sect's sect-protecting divine art, the Ten Directions Annihilation Technique!

After a moment of silence, Su Ping summoned Fire Knight Alwin and Valkyrie Kong.

As soon as these two appeared.

This Cave Heaven Secret Realm suddenly shone brilliantly.

All the stone wall Immortal Texts became active, seemingly competing to be seen by these two Memory Illusions of his.

"Tsk!"

"A rare rating is truly remarkable!"

Su Ping complained inwardly, but he also understood that according to their backgrounds, these two partners were existences with the potential to become True Gods.

Placed in the Cultivation World, that would be an Immortal Spirit Root above a Heavenly Spirit Root!

It wouldn't be wrong to say an Immortal has descended to the mortal world.

While Su Ping was complaining to himself.

The Sect Leader of the Ten Directions Sect suddenly widened his eyes and spat out all the hot tea he had just taken a sip of.

He was, after all, the Sect Leader of this generation of the Ten Directions Sect, even if each generation was worse than the last.

He could still sense, to some extent, the changes within his sect's Inheritance Secret Realm.

"Could it be that the outsider actually possesses the Ten Directions Annihilation Body!"

"The Saint Body our Divine Sect has been bitterly searching for for a thousand years, has it actually appeared at a time like this?"

A thought crossed the Sect Leader's mind: how absurd the fate of our great Divine Sect is.

Why, when the sect's foundation is less than one-tenth of what it once was, would a Ten Directions Annihilation Body appear!

However, this Sect Leader soon noticed something else was wrong.

The other party... did not just trigger a reaction from the Ten Directions Annihilation Technique!

They caused all those ancient inheritances within the stone walls to react!

This left the several Elders of the Ten Directions Sect, who had come to discuss where their future lay, wearing confused expressions.

"An anomaly has occurred in Nanhuang."

The Sect Leader of the Ten Directions Sect slowly set down his teacup and spoke without even wiping his mouth.

The other Elders did not find this surprising; after all, it was Nanhuang—if there weren't any anomalies, why would they be running away?

"An outsider has entered our sect's Inheritance Secret Realm."

"And furthermore..."

The Sect Leader paused, waved his hand to stop the other Elders from asking questions, took a deep breath, and said:

"That outsider has activated every single inheritance within our sect's Inheritance Secret Realm!"

"..."

In the cabin, the members of the Ten Directions Sect fell into a deathly silence.

After a long while, an Elder tentatively began to drink tea and quietly asked if the Sect Leader was joking, trying to liven up the atmosphere?

After witnessing the serious expression on the Sect Leader's face.

After confirming that everything the Sect Leader said was the truth.

They gave a hollow laugh, then immediately looked at the Sect Leader with burning eyes:

"The Ten Directions Annihilation Technique in the Inheritance Secret Realm is one thing; over the past few thousand years, there have still been a few gifted individuals who could gain the inheritance's approval."

"As for the other inheritances, according to our sect's records..."

"Ever since Evil Spirits appeared in the world, Evil Qi emerged, Spirit Qi declined, and Immortals vanished... no one has been able to obtain those inheritances, right?"

"Now that the inheritances have been activated once again..."

"It is either a heavenly being descending, or an Immortal returning!"

"We might still have another way out!"

The more the high-ranking members of the Ten Directions Sect delved into it, the brighter their eyes became.

It was as if they had seen a flickering ember of light in the darkness, seeing the hope of survival and the possibility of a future!

"Set sail!"

"Leave the Western Desert, go to the Central Region!"

Soon, the Sect Leader of the Ten Directions Sect made the final decision, ordering the Immortal Boat Fleet, which stretched for over ten kilometers, to begin turning.

As for why they were going to the Central Region.

It was because the earth veins of Nanhuang had been lost, and it was on the verge of being devoured.

In their view, that mysterious outsider who had gained the approval of the Ten Directions Sect's Inheritance Secret Realm.

After leaving the Ten Directions Sect headquarters, the best course of action would also be to leave Nanhuang as quickly as possible and head to the Central Region, the only place still connected to Nanhuang!

They even boldly speculated that the outsider was a special envoy sent by the Immortal World to recover valuable inheritances and artifacts.

Following the other party, or even assisting them, might be their only path to successfully leaving this Cultivation World!