Chapter 461: Battle of the Celestial Palace!!!

"Filth of the Star God! How dare you..."

The beast-god warrior wearing the Mingshe mask shrieked with a piercing, venomous voice.

In his hand, a verdant long staff slammed violently into the ground; the emerald gem embedded at its tip erupted in eerie light.

In an instant, the heavenly and earthly forces within hundreds of zhang around him surged wildly.

When a Tiangong cultivator strikes, he commands the forces of heaven and earth.

Thick, potent wood-elemental qi, saturated with poison and corrosive properties, surged wildly together, forming a sky-covering veil of emerald toxic clouds.

Within the heavy clouds, countless slender, energy-formed spectral snakes coalesced, hissing shrilly, descending like a torrent upon the edge of the mine pit where the Po Jun Star Lord and Chen Mu stood!

Each spectral snake carried a vile power capable of eroding defensive qi barriers and corrupting the soul.

Wherever they passed, the air hissed, and even rocks turned strange green and rapidly softened, dissolved!

Meanwhile, the burly beast-god wearing the Zhu Jian mask roared, his voice shaking the four directions.

His thick arms bulged with muscle, his dark red beast-god robe billowed, and his hands clasped as if embracing mountains.

Hu hu~

He summoned terrifying earth-elemental heavenly forces; the ground trembled violently, and the mine walls on both sides groaned under unbearable strain.

Countless massive rocks tore free from the cliffs, as if guided by invisible hands, coalescing into two monstrous, hundred-zhang-long rock serpents, hideous and terrifying—one to the left, one to the right—crushing forward with overwhelming force toward the Po Jun Star Lord!

Before the serpents even reached him, their crushing pressure made the very space seem to freeze.

The short, squat beast-god wearing the Shan Sao mask let out a cackling laugh like a night owl, his form flickered, and he seemed to merge into the surrounding polluted blood qi generated by the ritual.

The next instant, he suddenly appeared in the shadows just behind and to the side of Chen Mu, his ten fingernails elongating into claws wreathed in crimson toxic flames, silently striking toward Chen Mu's back and neck!

The heavenly forces he summoned were not grand, but exceptionally sinister and concentrated at the claw tips, designed to pierce defensive qi barriers; the accompanying searing toxic flames could instantly ignite the blood and qi—exceedingly vile.

The three Tiangong beast-gods, enraged, struck with earth-shattering might.

The entire mine pit region seemed to become a boiling ocean of heavenly and earthly forces: toxic clouds blotted out the sky, rock serpents filled the air, and shadowy assassinations struck from darkness.

Facing this assault that would shatter the heart and courage of an ordinary Tiangong cultivator, the Po Jun Star Lord let out a long, battle-hungry roar.

"Come on!"

He raised his silver-white long spear; at its tip, a single brilliant star of silver light flared with supreme brilliance.

As if connecting with the Po Jun Killing Star high above the nine heavens!

Vaster, sharper, and imbued with an indomitable will to slaughter, stellar and metal-elemental heavenly forces surged wildly into his grasp.

"Get out of my way!"

The Po Jun Star Lord thrust his spear—not at any one of them—but straight upward into the overwhelming emerald toxic cloud above!

Boom!!!

The silver star at the spear tip exploded into a column of pure starlight and Po Jun killing intent, over ten zhang in diameter, surging upward and crashing into the toxic cloud.

Chi chi chi chi—

Like hot oil poured on snow, like the sun melting ice.

Where the silver column passed, the emerald toxic clouds dissolved and purified at visible speed.

The energy-formed spectral snakes that struck the column vanished instantly, like moths flying into flame.

In a single thrust, the sky-covering toxic cloud was ripped open by a massive hole.

Almost simultaneously with Po Jun's strike, three other equally mighty Tiangong auras erupted from the mine's perimeter and joined the battle.

"Star Network Array, Stabilize the Four Directions!"

The Tian Fu Star Lord's voice rang steady and calm.

His starlight compass spun rapidly; silver beams of starlight, imbued with stability and sealing power, spread like the warp and weft of a chessboard, instantly covering more than half the mine battlefield.

This starlight chessboard did not attack directly, but greatly stabilized the flow of heavenly and earthly qi in their zone, disrupting and slowing the enemy's control and condensation of heavenly forces—especially restraining the two colossal rock serpents, causing their movements to abruptly lag!

"All beast-gods deserve death."

The Tian Kui Star Lord growled, pressing both palms forward.

He summoned even heavier earth-elemental heavenly forces, not to attack, but to condense them into two immense, dark-gold shimmering shield-walls before the Po Jun Star Lord.

Upon the shields, mountain ranges and river veins were clearly visible, radiating ancient, unyielding stability and solidity, firmly blocking the charge of the two slowed rock serpents.

Bang! Bang!

Two thunderous, muffled crashes.

The rock serpents slammed into the dark-gold shields; the shields shook violently, their light flickering, cracks appearing on their surfaces—but they held, unbroken, against the terrifying impact.

The Tian Kui Star Lord swayed slightly, a flush of red rising on his face—he bore heavy pressure, yet took not a single step back.

"Die, beast-god!"

The Tian Kong Star Lord's form flickered like a ghost; the next instant, he appeared beside the Shan Sao, who was attempting to ambush Chen Mu.

His unremarkable short blade swept out lightly—no earth-shattering spectacle—but where the edge passed, faint, black fissures cleaved the air!

A cold, lifeless, nihilistic force spread outward, targeting the Shan Sao's flaming claws and the shadows he hid within.

The Shan Sao turned pale with shock—he had not expected their reinforcements to arrive so fast, and so strangely!

He shrieked, abandoning his attack on Chen Mu, and leapt backward violently, slashing both claws in rapid succession, weaving a net of crimson toxic flames to block the eerie void-blade.

Chi la~

The flame-net was silently sliced open; the void-blade clung like a parasite, following close behind, carving a deep, bone-exposing wound along the Shan Sao's arm, its edges turning a strange ashen gray.

The Shan Sao cried out in pain, fear flashing in his eyes—he dared not approach the Tian Kong Star Lord again.

The four Star Gods joined forces, instantly dismantling the three beast-gods' ferocious assault, and subtly turning the tide.

"Kill!"

The Po Jun Star Lord pressed his advantage, swinging his spear, his body following the weapon's motion, becoming a streak of silver lightning as he charged toward the Mingshe, whose aura had slightly waned after unleashing the toxic cloud.

His spear technique unfolded like a reversed galaxy; countless silver spear points rained like pear blossoms in a storm, sealing every inch of space around the Mingshe.

The Ming She, startled and furious, swung its emerald staff, summoning the lingering poison clouds and wood-elemental qi around it to form layered barriers of toxic miasma and twisted vines, trying to block the attack.

At the same time, it emitted a shrill hiss—a soul-attacking sonic secret art!

But the Spear Intent of the Po Jun Star Lord was as unyielding as iron, his killing resolve unshakable; the incoming sonic assault affected him barely at all.