Chapter 390

The great destructive storm on Bai Duan Mountain raged wildly, like an absolute forbidden land towering into the sky, inside it dense white electric patterns churned violently, merely hovering in the air made all observing cultivators tremble with fear.

All cultivators and powerhouses of the Alliance had long withdrawn from the Alliance's great tent, now all were tightly staring at the two blurred figures in the center of the violent destructive storm.

More and more cultivators rushed to Bai Duan Mountain upon hearing the news, even Huanyu powerhouses spoke with fierce expressions, the whole space gradually became noisy with voices.

Rumble.

The destructive echo spread in all directions, as if heaven and earth were groaning, Bai Duan Mountain beneath the destructive storm collapsed at a visible speed, turning into flying stone sand and gravel.

In the terrifying storm, two intertwined figures emerged.

The battle between the Golden Peng King and Yan Ling became even more intense, various strange runes fluttered about, they bathed in destructive power like war gods born, stirring heaven and earth, the fight had already reached white-hot intensity.

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner and the Yin Yang Sword collided, like a volcanic eruption shooting out various runes, mighty and mighty sweeping in all directions.

"Kill!"

Yan Ling's black hair flew wildly, his face turned extremely ferocious, pupils sharp, the yin-yang black-and-white light flickered faintly, he trod on the yin-yang thunder sea, his might shook heaven and earth.

He had already unleashed true fire, the sense of honor and invincible confidence in his heart were completely shattered by the Golden Peng King's words.

The longer the Golden Peng King remained entangled with him, the more his mind fell into great chaos.

Yan Ling rose like lightning into the void, the Yin Yang Sword brilliantly stabbed toward the Golden Peng King's brow, wind, thunder, and lightning buzzed and rang, clanging deafeningly.

"Boom!"

A golden scale armor appeared on the Golden Peng King's brow, the Yin Yang Sword striking it caused yin and yang qi to ripple, making it impossible to penetrate further.

The Golden Peng King's true form was that of a transformed Golden-Winged Great Peng, the golden scale armor on his brow was a protective scale he refined, engraved with coiling dragon patterns, radiating golden light, directly repelling the Yin Yang Sword.

Yan Ling felt numbness in his arm, incredulously staring at the Golden Peng King's brow, never expecting the Golden Peng King to possess such a protective treasure.

The Primordial Spirit Realm is extraordinarily special, allowing only spirit souls to enter, and the brow is the fundamental abode of the spirit soul.

His Yin Yang Sword in hand can destroy all things, yet the Golden Peng King's brow can repel the Yin Yang Sword, indicating the brow's treasure scale must be a supreme treasure.

"Dang dang dang"

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner's black sail surged like waves, boundless ghost qi surged, causing ghost puppets to tremble with demonic patterns filling the sky, countless cultivators showed expressions of shock.

After the Holy Infant Banner of the Sha Gui Sect was upgraded into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, many cultivators saw it for the first time, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner's ability surpassed the Holy Infant Banner by more than just one level.

Not only can it store ghost puppets, but it can also summon wandering souls and wild ghosts for use, especially for soul puppets with great resentment, it can use killing qi as a source to elevate the ghost puppets' power to the extreme, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner never perishes, ghost puppets never die.

They saw Yan Ling repeatedly break open ghost puppets with supreme divine abilities, yet as the Ten Thousand Souls Banner swayed, those ghost puppets frenziedly merged at visible speed, then swung ghost claws again, ferociously slaughtering toward the target.

"Boom "

The destructive storm ravaged heaven and earth, runes filled the sky, yin thunder rumbled in the void.

The Golden Peng King and Yan Ling fought with all their might, each wanting to slay the other, the Yin Yang Sword and Ten Thousand Souls Banner collided fiercely, holy runes and evil runes contended, in this life-and-death battle none wished to yield.

All cultivators present had their hearts and spirits stirred, countless low-realm cultivators were even more terrified.

Yan Ling is the candidate sect master of Lu Yan Valley, possessing a divine body and having received countless resources for cultivation, his strength shook heaven and earth, yet the Golden Peng King also possessed such terrifying power, making many cultivators tremble with fear.

That destructive power locked in battle, if an ordinary cultivator touched it they would instantly explode, slight carelessness would cause severe injury, where did the Qing Chong Sect obtain such a terrifying heaven's pride, even as Lu Yan Valley's candidate sect master, one of the orthodox powers of Huanyu, could battle to such a terrifying extent.

Rumble rumble.

The destructive sound between heaven and earth roared, the Yin Yang Sword erupted with boundless divine might, yin-yang power absorbed wind, fire, thunder, and lightning, carrying supreme divine might.

Yan Ling like a flood dragon leaping, in the flash of lightning and fire he unleashed a thousand swords, even the void was left with scorched marks, killing move revealed emptiness, destructive power extremely dangerous, slight carelessness would cause immediate death.

The Golden Peng King's body radiated golden light, he held the Ten Thousand Souls Banner radiating supreme evil power, now it was the great confrontation between an Earth Golden Core cultivator and a Huanyu Earth Origin Realm heaven's pride, it was the confrontation between the Contemplation Method created by Earth demon masters and Huanyu's ancient inheritance of life-and-death struggle.

"Boom"

When the ghost puppet and Yin Yang Sword just collided, the destructive storm shot toward all directions.

Demonic clouds rolled, yin thunder rumbled, endless runes with killing intent surged, whatever they touched instantly vanished into smoke, observing cultivators seeing this again changed expression greatly and hastily retreated from the battlefield.

"Dong dong dong"

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner danced in the wind, black light and evil qi obscured the sky and covered the sun, among countless newly fallen cultivators' spirit souls, their souls were pulled out by chains and floated toward the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, then transformed into pure ghost power poured into the ghost puppet, striking the Yin Yang Sword produced crackling sounds..

"One banner in hand, the world is mine!"

The Golden Peng King coldly said, glanced sideways at the eight major sect powerhouses waiting in formation, his mind rapidly pondering.

His purpose in battling the Huanyu Eight Great Sects here was to be able to at any time cover the battlefield with the cultivators of the newly entered Sha Gui Sect Huanyu headquarters, calculating time, the reinforcements from the Sha Gui Sect Huanyu headquarters should have arrived!

Golden light blazed in the Golden Peng King's eyes, like a demon god bathed in hell's evil light, he erupted with unparalleled power, looking down on all cultivators present.

He descended with heaven-shaking divine might, in the Alliance Eight Great Sects' camp he slaughtered in all directions, countless cultivators instantly torn apart, this scene directly made all observing Alliance cultivators' hearts and spirits change greatly, frightened they scattered and fled.

"Boom!"

Seeing Yan Ling battling the ghost puppet in the sky, he soared down and suddenly raised his sword to chop forward at the advancing Golden Peng King, a hundred-zhang sword gang like a heavenly descending guillotine tearing Huanyu, if struck he would absolutely be split in two.

After dodging, the Golden Peng King suddenly ordered the void beast bones.

"Yin Yang Sword Technique, Slay Without Mercy!"

Yan Ling roared loudly, his Yin Yang Sword in hand and the black-white yin-yang fish behind him merged as one, then he spat out a mouthful of essence blood onto the Yin Yang Sword, runes filled the sky, densely covering heaven and earth, the black-white sword gang again slaughtered toward the Golden Peng King.

Seeing this, the Golden Peng King's mouth corner revealed a cold smile.

Earlier he had charged into the Alliance cultivators and slaughtered in all directions, causing the powerhouses of each sect to finally stop focusing all attention on Yan Ling, at this moment those Eight Great Sect powerhouses seeing the Golden Peng King's cold sweep over them, all became like facing a great enemy, guarding the Alliance cultivators.

The Golden Peng King transmitted orders via divine sense to the void beast bones, holding the Ten Thousand Souls Banner he controlled the ten-thousand-zhang ghost puppet, surging full force to collide with the Yin Yang Sword gang, the entire heaven and earth instantly filled with rolling killing qi.

"Heaven gloomy and earth yin, I beseech the Netherworld Emperor's decree;

The Four Yin Marshals, Ten Halls of Yama, the Four Direction Ghost Emperors descend edicts;

Command all yin soldiers and yin generals, yin evil ghost kings and resentful spirits to come quickly;

Yin soldiers and yin generals, ten thousand fires urgent, as swift as law and order."

The Golden Peng King stepped on the Seven Stars Pace, hand seals joined together, behind him the Ten Thousand Souls Banner clattered, black light radiated, endless runes flowed into the void, ten thousand wandering souls and wild ghosts floated out from within.

In an instant heaven mourned and earth suffered, sun and moon lost light, heaven and earth lost color.

"Boom!"

The ghost puppet exploded in the void, destructive power spread in all directions, causing Yan Ling to also be flung backward. The Golden Peng King seized the moment, pointed a finger at the Alliance army, causing the ten thousand wandering souls and wild ghosts to ferociously charge toward the Alliance cultivators.

Roar.

The void beast's bone shattered the void and appeared behind Yanling in the blink of an eye, biting his waist and pulling him into the void.

Seeing his scheme succeed, the Golden Peng King controlled the ten thousand souls banner to make the hundred thousand wandering souls and wild ghosts explode one by one in the air; the black ghostly killing intent turned into black smoke, filling the entire heaven and earth, so even probing the surroundings with divine sense would become extremely blurred.

The Golden Peng King's mouth curled with a cold smile as he sensed the position of the void beast's bone, seizing the opportunity to fly into a hidden vortex and vanished from the battlefield in an instant.

Bang bang bang.

The allied army of the Eight Great Sects scrambled to dispel the killing intent in the air; when the battlefield finally calmed, all the sects' powerhouses stared in stunned disbelief.

The entire battlefield, aside from the ruined Bai Duan Mountain, was empty—Yanling himself had vanished.

"Damn it, we've all been tricked.

The Golden Peng King deliberately attacked the allied cultivators during his battle with Yanling to divert our attention from Yanling to the allied cultivators.

He ordered the void beast's bone to have already captured Yanling and taken him back to the Shangqing Sect."

Luyan Valley's Situ Fang watched the slowly spreading black killing intent, his voice icy cold, his face twisted with ferocity—he never expected the Golden Peng King and Yanling's life-and-death battle to have reached the point of life or death, yet the Golden Peng King still had such a scheme, seizing the opportunity to abduct one of Luyan Valley's sect master candidates.

If it were merely the Golden Peng King, he wouldn't have this capability, but for some unknown reason, one of Luyan Valley's greatest foundations—the void beast's bone—was utterly dependent on the Golden Peng King.

Luyan Valley's sect honor was utterly swept away in this great battle.

The Huanyu Sect's headquarters, in seeking to retrieve the Tianlun Shuttle, had the sect master's direct disciple Yanling enter the Primordial Lingyu to subdue the Tianlun Shuttle, yet the void beast's bone followed the Golden Peng King in fleeing, and now even one of Luyan Valley's sect master candidates, Yanling, has been captured.

"Everyone, the Golden Peng King's capture of Yanling must be to seize the cultivators of the evil Luyan Valley.

This shows the Shangqing Sect fears the Eight Great Sects Alliance.

Seize the opportunity to strike them unawares and rescue Yanling."

The Taiyin Shengdi's Xiguang stared coldly, his voice echoing across the entire sky.

The cultivators of the Bai Duan Mountain Alliance heard his words, their gazes turning icy cold, as the powerhouses of all sects swiftly flew toward the direction where the Shangqing Sect resides.

Countless Huanyu cultivators who came to watch the spectacle felt dazed, having thought the Golden Peng King and Yanling's battle had already reached white-hot intensity, perhaps even a life-or-death struggle, never expecting the final outcome to be like this.

Luyan Valley's void beast's bone actually seized one of Luyan Valley's sect master candidates, Yanling—this is simply too dramatic; even now, their hearts still struggle to believe it.

Among the Huanyu scattered cultivators, some cultivators smirked coldly, their waist-mounted peng yujian buzzing with vibration, displaying a message from the high-level of the Muyin Alliance ordering all alliance cultivators to swiftly gather near the Shangqing Sect.

They all possess anti-spying garments; once they attack alliance cultivators, all their techniques will be altered, and each killing of an Eight Great Sects alliance cultivator yields a substantial amount of heavenly essence—this is far more profitable than risking life in the Tian Yuan, and moreover, completely safe.

The high-level of the Muyin Alliance has also already given advice.

These Huanyu cultivators who alter their forms need only strike covertly from afar; as soon as they see a lone or severely wounded Eight Great Sects alliance cultivator, they will devise a way to strike and kill them, then enter the Muyin Alliance to claim heavenly essence.

At this moment.

The Muyin Alliance's onlookers among the Huanyu cultivators, seeing the cultivators of the Huanyu Eight Great Sects Alliance depart one by one, also began to vanish from the scene.

Within the Shangqing Sect, Qingwei Daozhang watched the message sent back by the Golden Peng King on the peng yujian, his face showing excitement.

Li Shixiong had recently sent back news that the cultivators of the Chagui Sect's Huanyu headquarters would soon arrive to garrison the entire Shangqing Sect; the Golden Peng King drawing enemies into the sect at this time is precisely the right moment.

Those newly arrived cultivators of the Chagui Sect's Huanyu headquarters, upon entering this place and discovering the sect's great battle, will directly join the fight; once the Huanyu Eight Great Sects cultivators have weakened the Chagui Sect's Huanyu headquarters cultivators, they will then seize the opportunity to battle the Huanyu Eight Great Sects cultivators.

"Prepare quickly.

Launch the attack when the Huanyu Eight Great Sects cultivators are fifty li from Yindu City."

Qingwei Daozhang's words rang out in the air.

"We have already received the First Emperor's command.

This time, the two elders Guilì and Guixiao will lead the Chagui Sect's Huanyu headquarters cultivators here.

Soon, the two will seize the opportunity to first lead the Chagui Sect's headquarters cultivators into the battlefield."

The Tiger King's mouth curled with a cold smile.

Guixiao and Guilì have already been enlightened by the abbot of Xiguangsi; each holds a ten thousand souls banner, cultivating ghostly power and killing essence to nourish their fleshly bodies, and the problem of depleted life source has already been alleviated.

Guixiao and Guilì especially, after learning the cultivator cloning technique, know that earth cultivators have already used their true essence and blood to create fleshly bodies for them; as long as they this time cooperate with earth cultivators inside and out to trap and kill the Chagui Sect's Huanyu headquarters cultivators, they can use new fleshly bodies to live another life.

Guixiao and Guilì, for the sake of survival, have wholeheartedly devoted themselves to the command of earth cultivators.

Earth cultivators gave them too many shocks; to solve the problem of rapidly dwindling lifespan, they were forced to enter the Primordial Realm to encounter opportunity; as lifespan dwindles and approaches, divine soul power weakens, so although the fleshly body has realm and cultivation level, it cannot exert full strength, otherwise it consumes life source and dies even faster.

The earth cultivators' cultivator cloning technique has solved the problem of lifespan depletion that Huanyu cultivators have needed to resolve since ancient times; Guixiao and Guilì were deeply shocked by the earth cultivators' methods.

Rumble rumble rumble.

On Yindu City rose the sound of wind, thunder, and lightning; rolling thunderclouds filled the sky, and countless warboats pierced through the clouds, revealing their prows, above which mighty and mighty killing intent surged and echoed throughout the entire heaven and earth.

The powerhouses of the Huanyu Eight Great Sects revealed forest-like killing intent, about to speak, when suddenly they saw a vortex appear in the space ahead; the Golden Peng King and the void beast's bone emerged from the void, carrying Yanling.

"Truly, you've kept this seat waiting well!"

The Golden Peng King, hands clasped behind his back, spoke with a tone of mockery, causing the powerhouses of all Huanyu sects to hear and their eyes to nearly burst.

"Leave not a single piece of armor."

Xiguang's words rang out in the air, causing Situ Fang, the overseer of Luyan Valley, to tremble beside him.

"Dao friend, no—Yanling is the direct disciple of the Luyan Valley sect master; he must not be lost." The Luyan Valley sect master spoke with a voice full of pleading.

Xiguang gave Situ Fang no chance to retort, directly waving his hand to command the alliance cultivators to charge toward Yindu City.

Bang bang bang.

At this moment, the entire heaven and earth trembled inexplicably.

Countless shuttle-shaped objects trailed long white light as they shot into the sky, yet suddenly turned, drawing a perfect arc, then reversed course to attack the tens of thousands of alliance cultivators charging toward Yindu City.