Chapter 1469

The Wolf Lord and Li Da Xie held their breath, focused their minds, backs pressed together, their root seas active, maintaining peak condition every moment, vigilant against attacks from any direction, straining to detect every suspicious qi.

The heavens torn open remained unhealed for a long time, merely adding several intersecting "canyons," like a great scar, thereafter silent, windless and waveless, heaven and earth still, growing increasingly unsettling. A breeze stirred the treetops, the Wolf Lord's brow twitched, he suddenly looked up and shouted loudly: "The rift!"

The rift?

Li Da Xie grasped his divine power, gathering strength, waiting to unleash, then turned his head, his pupils contracting.

Above the Shahe River, through a vertical fissure with no thickness whatsoever, people could see a blood-red world, beholding the blood-red manjushage.

At this moment, the entire fissure shuddered violently, without any warning fading from before everyone's eyes, in merely half a breath, vanished without a trace! As if a leaf pasted on glazed tile were lifted, the osmanthus shaken from one's hair fell away.

The yin-yang rift has disappeared! It is gone.

"What situation. What's going on?" The secretly observing Old Dragon Lord's heart shuddered, he flicked his dragon tail, retreated another thousand li, observing from ultra-long distance.

"Great Master, the Corpse Demon Forest realm has been established!" Fei Taiyu bowed deeply.

The Lotus Master subdued the treacherous minister's son; the king exiled him to the Corpse Demon Forest. The Lotus Master, in various Corpse Demon Forests, taught myriad supreme dharmas to those with karmic affinity, human and non-human alike; for those without affinity and who held heterodox views of the Buddha-Dharma, he utterly subdued them in the form of wrathful vajras!

Wu Lingxu's emotions surged: "Having entered the Great Master's Corpse Demon Forest realm, that monkey-headed one cannot possibly escape! Within three years, he will surely turn into pus! Then I shall nourish my netherworld!"

Fei Taiyu recalled his previous might, slightly hesitant: "That yin wind may not necessarily be able to deal with this person."

"Enough!" Wu Lingxu clenched his five fingers, "Unable to harm him, yet disgusting him, trapping him for a hundred years is more than sufficient; by then, the primordial spirit will have awakened, the great trend already set! All thanks to the Great Master!"

Having spoken, Wu Lingxu turned his head, prostrated himself fully: "The foremost in transforming into a rainbow, the one who contributed the most, must be the Great Master; the Great Master holds the primary merit, myriad thanks to the Great Master!"

The elder of the Heaven Fire Sect followed Wu Lingxu, bowing down in turn: "Myriad thanks to the Great Master."

The Lotus Master joined his palms, his expression returned to calm, unmoved, silently reciting the sutra: "Om ah hum ban zha ge he bei ma se de hum————"

Emerald light shone universally.

Flesh and bone remnants flew out from the shattered earth, falling around him on the ground, sinking into the soil, turning into one blood pool after another.

Wu Lingxu understood in his heart, immediately took out the supreme blood treasure; shortly after, the blood pool rippled, plants burst forth and grew, a lotus-like treasure platform emerged, standing tall and elegant.

The lotus slowly unfurled, revealing the curled human form within the lotus throne, the human body's surface coated with placenta-like mucus, naked, he emerged from the blood pool, donning clothes.

Initially, the "relinquishment" character in Amitabha Buddha's heart projected onto Wu Jinda's lotus, enough for the great sea; within the lotus heart, an eight-year-old child was born.

The King of Wujin, Enzhabude, had no sons; due to his generosity and frequent offerings to the Three Jewels, the national treasury was empty, so he went to the sea to seek treasure. On the return journey, Minister Puminazha first saw the Lotus Master, then the King also saw him, developing immense faith, inviting him to the palace as crown prince, bestowing the name "Haisheng Jin Gang."

The recently worn-away Lotus Master Ai Hui, Bema Tuo Cuoza, Lotus King, and Riguang Lotus Master, four incarnations, have regrown "anew," eight figures appearing, unharmed!

The Lotus Master opened his eyes.

The blood river surged and contended, flowing no more, the wind blew the manjushage, revealing nothing, as if a thousand-li square plot of land had just been completely cut away.

The Corpse Demon Forest, a place for laying corpses, originally merely a boundary formation; after his awakening, inspired by the Dragon King's lair struck by the Dragon Lord, he fabricated this heaven-earth trap, using fragments of the Blood River Realm, to imprison enemies, exiling them to the intermediate layers.

No heaven, no earth, no life, no death.

Compared to the Blood River Realm, a thousand-li square plot of land is insignificant, like trimming a fingernail, plucking a whisker; yet this method of cutting fragments, does not assess the source proportion by land size, but constitutes severe damage.

The two recent openings of the void, swallowing two attacks, have also harmed the world.

However, after some probing, confirming no disturbance to the sect master, to subdue a yang-realm expert inevitably entails mutual destruction; exile is thus the perfect strategy.

Simultaneously, he compressed the world's filth, loss, and destruction, all into the Corpse Demon Forest, exiling them together, accomplishing the removal of dross and retention of essence, scraping away decay to heal wounds, aiding the sect master's awakening.

In terms of gain and loss, this is better than mutual destruction.

With no further yin-yang rifts existing, no possibility for yang-realm beings to sneak through, seizing the obtained yang-realm opening's chaotic source, likewise exiled, before the sect master awakens, sufficient to stand invincible!

"Plop!"

The Lotus Master turned his head.

The recently revived Bema Tuo Cuoza and Lotus King knelt in the blood pool, faces pallid.

The Lotus Master slightly puzzled, his thoughts communicated, his expression moved.

"Fallen from grace? How come!?"

Bema Tuo Cuoza and Lotus King, faces pallid, kept trying; originally thirteenth-level great adepts, they suddenly plummeted to eleventh level! All their innate creative arts in unison dropped two levels! Strength plummeted.

The Lotus Master immediately recalled what had happened in between, quickly unraveled the thread.

The four incarnations fell; these two were killed by Liang Qu!

Heaven and earth blood-red, the blood river cycles endlessly.

"What kind of hooked arm technique is this?" Liang Qu vexed and galloped, he most detests contrived divine powers!

Meteors rushed forth, flying past from the horizon, again and again returning to the origin, Liang Qu felt he had entered a Möbius ring, no matter how many times he went, he could never reach the true endpoint.

"An illusion? Not an illusion, why so real?" Zhang Longxiang gripped his sword hilt.

"Huai Wang, what's going on?" Shen Da Xie asked.

Liang Qu halted his gallop, brows tightly knotted, unable to discern any clue. He ceased shuttling, landed on the ground, hopped forward, measuring dimensions with his legs, observing the surroundings.

The scenery changed.

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A thousand li, a thousand li, still a thousand li.

Their range of movement is only a thousand-li diameter, two thousand across; exceeding the distance, they return to the straight-line diagonal.

Executing the Flood Dragon Slash would come from the opposite diagonal, causing no harm whatsoever.

Liang Qu finally confirmed a fact.

"Bad news, trapped inside the Jade Purity Vase!"

He doesn't even have three lifesaving hairs!

"Jade Purity Vase? What is that?" Ge Zu asked.

"A treasure from a folk tale of the Yixing tradition————"

Liang Qu briefly introduced the function and purpose of the Jade Purity Vase.

Ya Long understood naturally, not lacking, immediately enlightened.

"What then?" The Lion King's brows knotted into a ball, "How are we to get out?"

In a moment, will we turn into pus? Ge Zu stayed alert, ready to activate his authority at any moment, leading the way to death.

Don't be afraid, there's no omnipotent trick in the world—I have at least nine methods to try breaking through, nine!

The leader must give confidence and reassurance. Liang Qu flipped through the Pot King's skill list, pulled out the Yin-Yang Five Elements Plate, and casually checked on the fat fish in Chuan State, then looked at Chuan State's water storage capacity to see if it could directly burst forth. Moreover, the State Preceptor gave no warning, so we should be temporarily safe—just trapped by this peculiar technique.

State Preceptor?

Ah, the old toad followed along too, and everyone relaxed slightly.

But as the words fell, a vague ominous premonition shrouded their hearts. Liang Qu and Ge Zu stared at each other.

In this small world, there was no wind, almost everything was still. The only moving thing was half a blood river—no water vapor circulation, no material exchange. This river strangely displayed a unique physical motion.

A moment.

"Below!" Liang Qu shouted fiercely.

The pit exploded, six streams of meteors shot straight up into the sky. In the next instant, steam rose from the earth—"mist"—turning into thick blood-red. Threads of blood color separated from the red, clear and writhing, like parasitic worms swimming in a blood sea!

"What is that?" Ge Zu felt his scalp tingle.

"Don't know—avoid it first!"

Liang Qu gave the order, leading the charge himself, first activating the Dragon Tiger Golden Body, causing all evil to retreat!

Where the golden light fell, the blood-red threads, as if meeting a natural enemy, snapped with a crack—just like crushing maggots underfoot.

"Is it aimed at us?" Su Wang murmured.

"Looks not strong—what use is it?" Shi Wang lowered his head.

"No!" Zhang Longxiang pointed, "It treats the symptoms, not the root—no harm to the foundation."

Everyone focused their gaze. The dead red threads didn't break apart but sank down, absorbed by the earth, then rose again in mist, growing denser, faintly about to become waves!

"Material circulation?" Liang Qu suddenly understood, his heart heavy.

The state of heaven and earth seemed fixed—all matter surged in this unchanging pool. These blood-red things were merely ripples on the pool's surface. Break the waves, and the water in the pool doesn't diminish in the slightest.

If this is truly a special technique aimed at them, even if their strength is inferior, day after day of assault would be enough for them to drink a pot!

Xin Da Xian manifested true Gang, reached out and grabbed—the earth cracked, blood threads shattered, wave crests were pressed down. But before joy could rise, the hand manifested by true Gang turned blood-red, with fine red threads drilling into the Gang energy, staining it red, continuously climbing upward.

Xin Da Xian's scalp tingled—he was about to dispel the true Gang, but Zhang Longxiang moved faster, a flash of blade light, and directly severed half of the Gang energy arm.

Losing support, the big hand fell into the blood-red waves, dissipated at the same time, and was bitten apart by blood worms.

"Can't use techniques that continue the main body!" Ge Zu reminded.

Qi and blood surged, slight backlash—Xin Da's eyes soon calmed: "What exactly is this thing?"

No one could answer.

The blood-thread worms grew more and more, the waves surged. Gradually, they began to tangle, to combine—from threads to ropes, from ropes to cables—

Liang Qu and the others felt no deadly danger, only nausea.

Finally, the writhing blood-red ropes covering the ground grew into a blood-colored giant three thousand zhang tall, standing between heaven and earth!

"Roar!"

The giant seized the only living spirit between heaven and earth, roared to the sky—its body crimson, its surface covered with countless writhing blood-red lines. At a glance, it looked like a blurry mosaic had been laid over it, and a hard-to-describe sense of filth surged into their hearts.

In that roar, for some reason, everyone's mind stirred with waves—some distant memories surged up, interrupting thought, like stirring free soup in a cafeteria with a spoon—the sunken kelp and egg flower rose to the surface.

Ge Zu felt inexplicably familiar.

Boom!

Black-gold light blazed down, intertwining—the blood-colored giant split in two, yellow urine splashing like Bai Xue, residual heat continuously eroding, and soon the entire giant reverted to writhing blood threads.

Liang Qu loaded all the enhancement divine abilities from above, fully activated the Dragon Tiger Golden Body, gripped the Yin-Yang Five Elements Plate with his right hand, and struck hard.

Space rippled with waves, but no matter how he tried, he couldn't find that sinking nodal point.

Can't open it!

The first method quietly failed.

Liang Qu didn't lose heart—he loaded all enhancement divine abilities within Chuan State.

"It's memory!" Ge Zu suddenly said.

Everyone turned their heads.

"When I was asleep, I saw this kind of blood thread—useless memories and part of the dark, turbid blood qi get mixed together, then turn into this kind of blood-colored dirty worm! You can't touch it—if you do, your emotions will surge, and you might even gain extra memories, easily losing yourself!"

As soon as he said this, the six people unconsciously rose a little higher.

"Ah, so that's it—"

Liang Qu straightened his expression, looked again at the earth—the blood-thread worms once again separated from the blood sea. He gripped Dragon Dragon Fubo tightly, his eyes blazing.

The world faded, the chaotic blood-red lines turned into simple black lines.

Fourth-Rank Slay the Flood Dragon—Liang Qu could feel a qualitative change had occurred. He closed his eyes, the Dragon Tiger Golden Body combined with Slay the Flood Dragon, and nearly two thousand four hundred times the root sea surged violently—but it wasn't enough.

"State Preceptor!"

The fat fish leapt out, the old toad cast with both webbed feet: "Toad toad, ma ha ma ha! Hula hula, state excellent! Change!"

Blessing reached the heart—after eating a mouthful of large mint, Liang Qu's state broke through limits, reaching an unprecedented state of harmony.

Dragon Dragon Fubo came down with a chop—the trembling lines snapped apart!

"What's going on?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I don't know what happened—the fissure suddenly vanished, and after that, there was no movement at all."

The Holy Emperor glanced at the six people seated in meditation with their physical bodies.

"How long?"

"It's been an hour—"

The Holy Emperor closed his eyes.

He had two Yin-Yang Five Elements Plates in his hands—according to speculation, the entry point was quite random—

The tribal chieftains and khans were in a bad mood, the most anxious situation had arisen, life and death unknown!

Most of the time, life and death unknown —

Long Eying's face showed worry, the Third Prince grabbed her sleeve, and followed along, sharing both joy and sorrow.

The joy was that the fat one was gone, the sorrow was that the eldest was also missing —

"Beep beep, Third Prince, Third Prince! Can you hear me?"

", Eldest? Eldest, you came out?" The Third Prince was both startled and delighted, looked around, scratched his head, "Strange, where are the people?"

"Not yet, the situation is a bit special now."

"Wow, Eldest, you can even contact us from the underworld now?" The Third Prince exclaimed happily.

"Before it didn't work, now it's a bit strange, seems like it works again." Liang Qu was equally puzzled, before when he was in the underworld, the spiritual link could only send messages to beings also in the underworld, not to those in the mortal realm, now being imprisoned, instead he could make contact.

"Could it be due to the intermediate realm?" Liang Qu speculated.

The underworld is too far from the mortal realm, the intermediate realm isn't that far, so perhaps it received the signal?

"Don't ask so many, is Eying by your side?"

"Yes, yes, the Holy Emperor is also here, we are on the Yellow Shahe River, the original fissure is now gone.

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"What? Such a thing exists? Forget it, perfect, you go directly deliver the message to Your Majesty."

"Wow, can it be exposed? My and Eldest's contact secret." The Third Prince asked while flying.

"Just don't say so much, hurry and deliver the message."

"Understood! Wuhu, Your Majesty, I have good news here — "

A moment.

The Holy Emperor, the tribal chieftain, and the khan all rejoiced together: "Really no problem? What about the others? Any issues?"

The Blood River surged tumultuously.

Liang Qu confirmed the status with the others, replying: "For now, all are fine, only that Lotus Great Scholar used some unknown method to imprison us, in a small world, now we are together thinking of ways to get out."

"Roar!"

The blood-colored giant reassembled, continued roaring, then was instantly severed by a flying black-gold light, collapsing again.

Liang Qu looked up.

The heavens split open, the Slaying Jiao flew horizontally for thousands of miles, north-south circulation, again and again slaying the blood-colored giant, again and again flying beneath everyone's feet, each slaying reducing the upper limit of the blood-thread worms by one.

This small world cycles repeatedly, from south to north, from top to bottom, Liang Qu directly used this move, the blood giant fundamentally couldn't wear down this strike of the Golden Body Dragon-Tiger Slaying Demons and Destroying Evil, thus repeatedly being reduced in upper limit.

"Confident about getting out?" The Holy Emperor asked.

"We are still trying, the Yin-Yang Five Elements Plate is unusable, can't break it by force, possibly unable to exit in a short time." Liang Qu turned his head to look.

Ge Zu, Su Wang, Zhang Longxiang and others each sank into thought, suddenly, Ge Zu waved at Liang Qu.

"Wait a moment, Your Majesty, we here have made a discovery, first hang up."

"Then what? Why no sound?" The tribal chieftain urged.

"Ah, already hung up." The Third Prince scratched his head, "Eldest said there was a discovery."

"Hung up?"

The Holy Emperor did not understand.

The Third Prince flicked his tail: "Ah, just means ending the call!"

The Holy Emperor breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ge Zu, what did you discover?" Liang Qu ran to Ge Zu's side.

"Look at this!" Ge Zu's face was excited, rubbing his hands, he drew a cluster of red light from the sea of blood-thread worms, suspended in midair, "Dropped after slaying that giant! I ate this when I was asleep! Great stuff! Very filling!"

"Is this a blood treasure?" Liang Qu hesitated.

Ge Zu shook his head: "The blood treasure you mentioned should be the turbid qi in the clear and turbid qi, this is the essence of heaven and earth, dropped from that giant, suspected to be from the body of the Great Ancestor of Great Li!"

Liang Qu understood, sent via communication link: "Ah Fat! Release the National Preceptor!"

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