Chapter 452: The Red Dragon Realm, Hero Su

Relying on the Golden Body Buddha Statues, the battlefield initially maintained a balance.

But the good times did not last long, as spiderweb-like blood-colored patterns appeared on the surface of the spherical Shadow of the Abyss that acted as the Chaos Great World.

In the very center of the spiderweb, a single eye appeared.

The moment that single eye opened.

The Golden Body Buddha Statues, which had been charging into the enemy ranks as if invincible, were instantly frozen on the spot as if struck by a binding spell.

Following that, dense cracks appeared on the shells of these Golden Body Buddha cultivators, and wisps of waste Qi began to emerge.

The Buddha cultivators in the rear of the Fomen coalition were also struck by the backlash; in that instant, a million monks visibly withered away and turned into dried corpses.

The remaining monks were all severely wounded, and even the best among them saw their cultivation regress by an entire major realm.

And even this result was only achieved because the Abbot presiding over the grand formation realized there was no way to avoid it and used a personal suffering divine ability to bear the brunt of the backlash.

It was only by sacrificing twelve of his own important Avatars that he prevented the Fomen disciples in the rear from being completely wiped out.

After the single eye of the Chaos Great World opened, it closed immediately, and most of the blood-colored patterns dissipated.

However, the power of that one glance was enough to break the balance on the battlefield.

Without the Golden Body Buddha Statues, the Fomen side could only retreat steadily.

And what was even more desperate was that in just half an incense stick of time, the blood-colored patterns had completely covered the surface of the spherical Shadow of the Abyss once again.

Then, the terrifying single eye would open again.

Each time it opened, it would cause a large chunk of a Fomen defensive line to be devoured in one go.

It would leave the Abbot responsible for that area severely wounded.

Even Fomen, which excelled in defense, could not withstand such blows.

After holding on for a while longer, dozens of Abbots in the rear joined forces to activate the ten thousand Buddha Pagodas and Buddha Statues they had brought with them.

They caused these Buddha Pagodas and Buddha Statues, which had received offerings from Fomen for tens of thousands of years, to transform into a Great Sun Tathagata Dharma Image that exceeded a million meters in size, effectively the size of a Small World.

Then, accompanied by the Great Sun Tathagata Dharma Spell that resounded across the battlefield.

This Great Sun Tathagata Dharma Image reached out a large hand, and the palm struck out.

In an instant, the palm print grew continuously, until in the end, it was indistinguishable in size from that Chaos Great World!

Seemingly sensing the danger, the blood-colored patterns on the surface of the Chaos Great World suddenly replenished themselves, allowing the eyeball to open once again.

Even so, as the palm print collided with the vanguard.

Countless Chaos Demons and Chaos Giant Beasts wailed and vanished into ashes.

Several Chaos Moshen Huashen had their entire bodies explode as a result, their primordial spirits fleeing back into the Chaos Great World in a panic to recuperate.

After the Great Sun Tathagata Dharma Image struck this palm, its entire body became illusory and blurred.

And by the time the Chaos Demons recovered from that palm and continued their offensive.

They discovered that the Fomen side had already retreated while the Great Sun Tathagata Dharma Image was manifested.

The projection ended here.

Tian Rulai looked at Su Ping and said:

"Fomen has already established a defensive line in another location."

"However, with that Chaos Great World in existence, it won't be able to hold for long."

Su Ping nodded upon hearing this, then asked:

"That eyeball, it doesn't look like an Avatar?"

"Indeed."

Speaking of that eyeball, Tian Rulai also wore a grave expression, pressing his six hands together as he said:

"Several old Abbots of the Buddha Realm invoked an Innate Sacred Object to perform divination, and they calculated the origin of that eyeball."

"It is actually the eyeball of a Chaos Demon Venerable's true body from the Chaos World."

"In a sense, that eyeball can already be considered an Innate Supreme Treasure within the Chaos World."

"Those Chaos Demon Venerables seem unable to come in person, so they have chosen this alternative approach."

"Daoist, Fomen asked me to inquire if you have any way to deal with this Chaos eyeball?"

After Tian Rulai finished asking, Su Ping also fell silent.

To be honest, after seeing the Chaos Great World, Su Ping realized he could stop wreaking havoc on the Demon Alliance.

The quality of the Great Worlds he could find and infiltrate within the Demon Alliance was just so-so.

At most, they could only summon seventh to eighth-rank Abyss Lords.

During this time, Su Ping had found a Great World of the Tiger Demon Clan.

That Tiger Demon Clan was greedy and cruel, and they were notorious even within the Demon Clan.

After the great war, they did not forget to plunder the Small Worlds and refugee fleets along their path while retreating.

Su Ping's teleportation point had thus arrived at the Tiger Demon Clan's Great World lair, which had been maintaining a state of rapid movement within the Space-Time Torrent.

That Abyss Challenge did not feature the Abyss Seven Lords.

Instead, it was an Abyss Lord with a sheep's head and human body, wielding a scythe.

Although not one of the Seven Lords, this Abyss Lord had descended with his true body.

Although his strength was suppressed due to the challenge rules.

He still turned the Tiger Demon Clan upside down.

He even managed to kill a Heavenly Demon of the Tiger Demon Clan while being a major realm lower.

The number of Tiger Demons above the Dao Integration realm who died by his hand and became snacks in his mouth was countless.

In the end, it was only after the Tiger Demon Clan invited several Heavenly Demons from their allies, combined with the foundation of the Great World itself.

That they were able to destroy this Abyss Lord through a war of attrition.

After letting it leave behind a harsh remark, the challenge ended, and Su Ping received his reward.

Even if it was just seeing a projection.

Su Ping could also tell that the grade of the Chaos Great World should be a notch higher than those of the Demon Clan.

If one were to use the Abyss Challenge there, it would be very likely to summon a Ninth Stage or even higher-level Abyss powerhouse.

A powerhouse of this caliber in the Abyss should be enough to cause trouble for the Chaos Demon Army, right?

However, it was also because of this.

After pondering for a while, Su Ping said solemnly:

"You know."

"There are indeed many Great Abilities behind this master who have the ability to deal with this eyeball."

"But, just like on the other side, there are various unspeakable restrictions on taking action."

"This master can only say that he will do his best."

Upon hearing the words "do his best," Tian Rulai was already satisfied.

It inexplicably had a certain mysterious confidence in Su Ping.

It believed that this mysterious Daoist before it would never let it feel disappointed.

Meanwhile, Su Ping was contemplating how to get close to the Great World surrounded by the Chaos Demon Army.

For this reason, Su Ping did not stand on ceremony and went directly to the Three Great Alliances, asking them to provide all known intelligence.

Even the Demon Alliance, which had the lowest favorability toward the Three Great Alliances, was happy to see the Salvation Lineage willing to deal with the Chaos Demon side.

Therefore, in terms of providing intelligence, they did not deliberately obstruct him.

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One week later.

In a Spirit Mist region near the Chaos Demon's line of advance.

A Small World stood alone in this Spirit Mist region, emitting a faint glow.

This was a Small World that had long been discovered by the Dao Alliance, but had been deliberately isolated from the world due to favorable timing and location.

It was named the Red Dragon Realm.

In this Small World, due to a fortuitous coincidence, the Core Earth Vein of the Small World had fused with an Innate Supreme Treasure, the Red Dragon Seal.

This allowed the power of the Incense Divine Path within this Small World to be transformed by the human dynasty into streaks of Divine Red Dragon.

These Divine Red Dragon were considered by the natives of this isolated Small World to be symbols of destiny and the heavens' recognition of the monarch.

In the Dao Alliance, however, they were sustainable leeks that could be harvested every few hundred years.

Whether used to refine magic treasures or added to other Spirit Herb to refine Spirit Pill, the Divine Red Dragon had many wonderful uses.

It was precisely because of this that this region could always be guaranteed to be free from harassment by those who stumbled in.

And now.

In the Red Dragon Realm, in a remote small town near a desert.

Following a streak of light, it submerged into the town.

In a certain residence, the main hall, which had been filled with the sound of weeping, was suddenly startled by a series of thumping sounds.

The men, women, old, and young in the main hall all trembled and stared wide-eyed at the coffin placed in the hall.

Accompanied by the thumping sound that rang out again.

"Old... Old Master has come back to life!"

Someone could not help but exclaim.

Then came a burst of panic.

Under the intentional control of the high-level figures of the Dao Sect, the cultivation lineage of the Red Dragon Realm had been severed, leaving only the martial arts heritage.

Even if there were geniuses who started from scratch and figured out a way to absorb Spirit Qi to strengthen their souls.

They would be taken away and have their traces erased when the high-level figures of the Dao Sect came to harvest the Divine Red Dragon.

This made it so that in the Red Dragon Realm, the vast majority of natives had never seen magic.

The very few who knew of magic, because the practitioners often had no master and relied entirely on groping, called it magic, but it was more like a juggling Trick.

Therefore, when the coffin lid of the deceased could no longer be kept shut.

What they thought of was not the possession and rebirth of the Cultivation World, but the "corpse coming back to life" from storybooks.

Thump!

Su Ping recovered a bit of strength, so he shattered the coffin lid with a palm.

After slowly climbing up, Su Ping discovered that his hard-working Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree branch Avatar.

Every time he came to possess someone, it seemed he could only possess middle-to-lower-class Commoner.

"Hmm... although it is an old man, fortunately, there are no missing limbs, and the body is sturdy; he should have practiced martial arts."

Su Ping complained internally, and quickly accepted his new image in the Red Dragon Realm.

There was no other way; without borrowing the foundation of a native's body, he could not deceive the detection of the Chaos Demon side.

And then be favored by the Chaos Demon side, sent to the Chaos Great World to become a candidate for transformation into a jinchuriki.

This was the most likely successful plan that this master had derived after obtaining a large amount of intelligence.

Of course, besides this plan, several other plans were also being carried out simultaneously.

Su Ping's Avatar rubbed his brow and scanned the main hall.

He found that after he shattered the coffin lid, there were only two old maids left in the main hall, paralyzed in the corner and looking at him in terror.

The rest of the people had all run out of the main hall.

With a twitch of his mouth, Su Ping's Avatar began to read the memories of this body.

This old man was named Su Juxia, which fit the names of the Red Dragon Realm quite well.

His life as a mortal was actually quite legendary; he had Heaven-Born Divine Strength, and at twelve years old, he held a sharp blade to fight off evildoers.

Later, after listening to a storyteller's tales of chivalrous heroes, he went off to become a wandering knight.

Relying on his Heaven-Born Divine Strength, this Su Juxia soon became a famous wandering knight within a hundred-mile radius.

Immediately after, because he upheld justice and helped the weak, he offended the local powerful clans and was framed as a bandit by those clans in collusion with the government.

This Su Juxia was not one to be trifled with; he burned down the powerful clans' manors directly, then took advantage of the night to go to the commandery and kill the entire families of the colluding officials.

This incident caused the entire commandery to tremble and also made Su Juxia's reputation soar.

Then came a life on the run, being hunted by experts from all walks of life.

After several years of this, a new emperor ascended the throne and granted a general amnesty.

Using this as a pretext, the local powerful clans and officials chose to compromise with Su Juxia.

There was no other way; over these past few years, they had lost quite a few experts, and the underlings who handled their affairs had suffered heavy casualties.

Su Juxia might not have had the opportunity to deal with them directly, but did he not have the opportunity to strike at those managing clerks?

These people were not important in the grand scheme, but if too many died, the operations simply could not continue.

This left the powerful clans and officials in a state of panic, and they had long since harbored the desire to compromise.

As Su Juxia grew older, he no longer possessed the pugnacious spirit of his youth.

With the distribution of large tracts of farmland and manors, he married and had children.

He transformed from a wandering knight into a powerful hero, and finally became a local squire with a good reputation.

His death this time was not a peaceful one.

It was because a descendant of his former enemies had actually become the new Commandery Governor!

Using the promise to protect the family's property and Bloodline for Su Juxia's descendants as an excuse, he demanded that he commit suicide.

Then, under the witness of the Commandery Governor and local prominent figures.

Su Juxia, who had long since lost his fighting spirit, chose to swallow gold and end his life.

"Someone just said that, and this guy actually believed it?"

"Not to mention that this looks more like a precautionary measure to guard against the old guy's deathbed struggle."

"Does he not know that without the old guy supporting the scene with his fierce reputation, could those unworthy descendants really protect this massive family fortune?"

"When it comes down to it, this Su Family is of commoner origin; they have no people to rely on and no connections."

"If he really wanted to continue his Bloodline, he should have taken advantage of the time he was still alive to have the juniors proactively sell off the family property at a low price and then flee far away; that would be the sensible path."

"However, given his background, one cannot demand too much from him due to his limited vision."

"Sigh, another mess of trouble."

"But it is also fine; it won't be so abrupt when it becomes known to the whole world later, and a greater reputation can also increase the probability of being noticed by a Moshen Huashen lurking from the Chaos Demons."

Yes, because of the Red Dragon, this lonely Small World in the Spirit Mist region had long been targeted by the Chaos Demons.

And traces of the Moshen invasion had been detected by high-level practitioners of the Daoist sects.

It was just that the other party clearly did not intend to destroy the timing and geographical advantages of this Small World.

They wanted to take over this place completely without letting the Daoist sects discover it and intervene.

They chose to remain hidden, waiting until the Chaos Demons had completely occupied this area before beginning the harvest.

Su Ping's Avatar climbed out of the coffin, and after seeing the offerings for him, he did not stand on ceremony and began to eat them in large mouthfuls.

The concentration of Spirit Qi in the Red Dragon Realm was higher than in many other Small Worlds.

In most normal areas, it was roughly equivalent to the concentration of a Second Tier high-grade Spirit Vein Market.

In some special areas, it could even reach the third or fourth tier.

If not for the severed Daoist lineage, this Small World would have had every opportunity to accumulate one or two Return to Void Great Ability practitioners.

Su Ping's Avatar closed his eyes and began to circulate the Innate Art provided by the Daoist sect.

This was the best Martial Dao Divine Skill in the Red Dragon Realm.

It was not that Su Ping did not have better ones, but if he really displayed something better, his cover would be blown.

Su Ping's Avatar finished the offerings and circulated the technique for a few cycles, relying on the active inhalation of Spirit Qi to restore himself to the peak level of this body.

Counting his innate extraordinary five senses and the vast amount of combat experience in his mind.

To call him the number one person in terms of martial arts mastery in the Red Dragon Realm was not a problem at all.

Then, without waiting for Su Ping to walk out of the main hall to find his unworthy descendants.

After a burst of crying and shouting came from the front courtyard.

The men and women who had just run out came running back in a panic!