Chapter 558: Successfully Seized!

Inside the karst cave, blood light surged, the altar buzzed, and the fierce aura was like a volcano about to erupt, suppressed to the point of suffocation.

Chen Mu and Tan Lang were like two stone statues merged with the darkness, their auras near-nothingness, only their gazes locked onto the top of the altar, at the item wrapped in increasingly bright blood light, which seemed to pulse slowly with its own life and exude an ancient fierce power that made the heart tremble.

On the altar, the Beast God holding the giant hammer had the black thunder wrapped around his body become increasingly violent, continuously injecting it into the giant hammer, and the blood-colored runes in the altar groove under the hammer head wandered frantically as if they had come alive.

The dark green cloak Beast God’s hands pulled out cold blood-baleful energy, which had turned into tangible dark green chains, layer by layer winding toward the blood-light item, as if performing some kind of binding and guidance.

And the long-robed Beast God still stood quietly, the strange force field that swallowed everything around him also quietly expanded, faintly shrouding the center of the altar, seemingly preparing to pick this "fruit" that was about to ripen at the last moment.

The blood pool rolled more violently, and incomplete beast soul phantoms constantly struggled to float out of the pool, only to be screamed and drained by the altar’s power, turning into pure blood-baleful energy.

The seven Beast God guards at the peak of the Earth Altar realm were pale, with sweat on their foreheads, clearly the consumption of maintaining this huge ritual was huge for them, but their eyes were full of fanaticism and awe.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, a dull, desolate, yet containing boundless violent and destructive will roar erupted from the item wrapped in blood light.

The sound wave was like substance, one wave after another, shaking the entire karst cave rock wall, and setting off monstrous waves inside the blood pool.

The blood light wrapping the item collapsed inward at this moment, as if to reveal its true form.

The three Heaven Palace Beast Gods, as well as the seven guards, had their spirits instantly tightened to the limit.

Everyone’s attention, all their strength, all their divine thoughts, at this instant, could not help but focus fixedly on the collapsing blood-light core.

This was the most critical moment of the ritual, the moment that could not be lost.

The item inside was about to be completely manifested, its power was about to reach its peak, and it was also the moment they were preparing for the final control or collection.

It was at this moment that Chen Mu moved!

Without the slightest warning, without energy fluctuations, and even without the trajectory of figure flickering.

Chen Mu was like being directly erased from the spot, and in the next thousandth of a breath, he had appeared like a ghost directly above the altar, less than three zhang away from the collapsing blood-light item!

At the same time as he appeared, Chen Mu’s five fingers had already spread out, pressing empty in the void toward the blood light that was about to solidify below.

He did not use the Four Seasons Martial Domain, did not activate the "True Martial Demon-Sweeping Sword Technique," and did not even reveal the Trapping Dragon Sword.

At this moment, Chen Mu displayed the unique inheritance stunt of the Wu Qu Star Lord—

"Great Luo Heaven-Turning Hand!"

Rumble—

With Chen Mu’s palm pressing in the void as the center, the entire karst cave, no, this underground space, and even the large amount of heaven and earth power connected by the earth veins in the distance, seemed to be forcibly seized, compressed, and governed by an invisible giant hand.

It was no longer a single attribute energy, but all existing, flowing, stable, and violent forces between heaven and earth.

Metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, light, darkness, yin, yang, life, death, and even the omnipresent thick baleful energy, the blood-baleful energy surging in the blood pool, the evil energy exuding from the altar...

Everything was frantically gathering under the supreme martial dao will that seemed capable of stabilizing the universe and turning the heavens!

Behind Chen Mu, the void faintly manifested a towering god-man phantom that stood between heaven and earth, with a blurred face, but exuding the majesty of suppressing mountains and governing heavenly punishment.

The phantom also stretched out a giant hand covering the sky, synchronizing with Chen Mu’s right hand movement, pressing down.

With the cultivation of the Heaven Palace realm, the "Great Luo Heaven-Turning Hand" was activated with full strength.

First form, Suppress the Universe!

One palm pressed down, as if the sky collapsed, and ten thousand paths submitted.

The blood-light item that was about to completely solidify and manifest its fierce power, the violent energy around it, the sticky blood-baleful energy, the dark green chains, and even the evil force field exuded by the altar itself, all froze under the shroud of this palm, as if imprisoned and suppressed by invisible shackles!

Even the fierce roar that was about to erupt inside seemed to be forcibly pressed back, emitting a dull and unwilling whimper.

"It’s the damn Star God!"

"Do it!!"

Until Chen Mu’s palm phantom was about to touch the blood-light item, the three Heaven Palace Beast Gods on the altar woke up from the heaven and earth majesty that shook their minds, and issued roars of shock and anger that were unbelievable!

They were shocked and angry, not expecting that in this core place where they had heavy arrangements and three Heaven Palace experts sitting in town, someone could sneak in silently to such a close distance, and one move was such a terrifying, such a barbaric, direct killing move that mobilized a large area of heaven and earth power to suppress!

The Beast God holding the giant hammer reacted the fastest, his blood-red eyes instantly filled with blood-colored thunder, roared wildly, no longer caring about maintaining the altar core, and pulled out the thunder giant hammer inserted into the groove.

He swung it back, and a black thunder dragon, as thick as a water bucket and wrapped in destructive aura, tore through the air, carrying a deafening thunder, and fiercely slammed toward Chen Mu in mid-air.

He wanted to use offense as defense, forcing back this sudden attacker!

The dark green cloak Beast God also hissed, his hands suddenly closed, and the dark green chains that were originally winding toward the blood-light item suddenly changed direction, like countless poisonous pythons, carrying terrifying cold and erosive power, winding toward Chen Mu’s body and the palm phantom that pressed down!

And the long-robed Beast God was the calmest.

He did not attack Chen Mu directly like the other two, but his figure moved slightly, as if to merge into the void, directly grabbing toward the blood-light item temporarily suppressed by the "Great Luo Heaven-Turning Hand"!

His goal was clear—seize the item first!

As for this daring attacker, he would deal with him slowly later.

However, just as the long-robed Beast God’s figure was about to move—

A blade light, dark red as blood, condensed to the extreme, and full of killing and destructive aura, erupted from the shadows in the direction of the karst cave entrance without warning!

The blade light was silent, but it was fast to the speed of surpassing thought, arriving later but reaching first, accurately slashing toward the white and slender palm of the long-robed Beast God that was reaching for the blood-light item!

Where the blade light passed, the space left faint black cracks, as if even light and vitality were slashed out by this blade.

Tan Lang!

At the same time Chen Mu launched the sneak attack, he also moved!

The fatal blow that had been brewing for a long time did not attack the other two Beast Gods, but pointed directly at the long-robed Beast God.

"Huh?!"

The long-robed Beast God’s golden pupils shrank abruptly, and the palm he reached out had to stop and retract abruptly. At the same time, the other hand joined fingers like a sword, and a deep, dark black light that seemed capable of swallowing everything lit up at the fingertip, accurately pointing at the weakest point of that dark red blade light!

Clang—

A crisp to the extreme, yet containing a terrifying impact sound of metal clashing resounded through the karst cave.

Tan Lang’s dark red blade light, which had been brewing for a long time, was shattered inch by inch by that point of black light.

But the long-robed Beast God’s figure was also blocked by this blade light containing Tan Lang’s full-strength blow, and the black light at his fingertip dimmed slightly, failing to grab the blood-light item at the first moment.

It was in this flash of lightning, the gap of less than one-tenth of a breath won by Tan Lang!

Chen Mu’s "Great Luo Heaven-Turning Hand" phantom had already pressed down completely, holding the blood-light item that was temporarily suppressed, along with the small space around it, firmly in his palm like picking a ripe fruit.

The imprisonment and seal formed by the rolling heaven and earth power instantly forcibly suppressed and locked the fierce power that the item was about to erupt.

"Collect!"

Chen Mu’s heart moved, and the blood-light item held by the "Great Luo Heaven-Turning Hand" phantom, along with the small space forcibly stripped around it, instantly disappeared from the spot and was directly included in the storage space of his "Star Token."

The whole process was fast enough to make people dizzy.

"Damn it!!"

The Beast God holding the giant hammer was furious, watching the item that was about to be obtained, containing infinite power and secrets, being snatched away right under his nose!

In his wild rage, the power of the black thunder dragon he blasted out increased by another 30%, and it fiercely hit the aftermath of the "Great Luo Heaven-Turning Hand" phantom that Chen Mu pressed down.

Boom!!

A heaven-collapsing and earth-shattering loud noise lingered in the karst cave, surging endlessly.

The black thunder dragon and the remaining heaven and earth power of the "Great Luo Heaven-Turning Hand" fiercely collided, erupting into a destructive energy tide.

The entire karst cave shook violently, the rock walls collapsed, and gravel fell like rain.

The blood pool was impacted to set off blood waves several zhang high, and the seven Earth Altar realm guards vomited blood and flew backward together.

Chen Mu groaned, his figure borrowing the counter-shock force of the collision, shooting backward like a meteor.

Hard-shaking the angry blow of a middle-stage Heaven Palace Beast God, even with the heaven and earth power mobilized by the "Great Luo Heaven-Turning Hand" offsetting most of it, the aftermath still made his blood boil.

But Chen Mu’s eyes were calm, and he flew away rapidly while flying backward.

"Leave it for me!"

The dark green cloak Beast God hissed, the dark green chains that were shaken away by Chen Mu instantly reorganized, like maggots on tarsal bones, winding toward Chen Mu’s feet, the tip of the chains, cold death energy condensed, stabbing straight at the vital points!

Chen Mu gave a low shout, not entangled with the chains at all, his figure flying backward suddenly became blurred, and in the next moment, he had disappeared from the spot out of thin air, leaving only a residual shadow that slowly dissipated and was pierced by the dark green chains.

"Want to leave?!"

The long-robed Beast God was completely furious at this time, killing intent surging in his eyes, and he abandoned the short confrontation with Tan Lang.

Tan Lang had already turned into a dark shadow and merged into the surrounding baleful energy after one blow, disappearing without a trace.

The long-robed Beast God’s hands suddenly formed a strange seal in front of his chest!

"Swallow the sky and devour the earth, imprison the ten directions!"

Buzz—

An invisible and intangible, yet real and terrifying swallowing force field erupted with the long-robed Beast God as the center, instantly shrouding the entire karst cave and spreading rapidly toward the surrounding tunnels!

Where the force field passed, the light twisted and dimmed, the sound was swallowed, and even the violent energy turbulence and scattered baleful energy were forcibly absorbed and swallowed like a hundred rivers returning to the sea!

There was also an imprisonment power aimed at space and existence itself, attempting to lock and solidify all spatial fluctuations in this area, cutting off any possibility of escape!

Chen Mu had just moved and appeared at the entrance of another tunnel a hundred zhang away, when he felt his whole body sink, as if falling into an invisible quagmire, and even the transmission starlight of the "Star Token" was obviously interfered with and delayed.

That swallowing force field could actually affect the spatial shuttle of exotic treasures like the "Star Token"!

Chen Mu’s heart tightened, but he was well prepared.

Facing the rapidly spreading swallowing imprisonment force field, he did not retreat, but stabilized his figure, took a deep breath, the "Great Luo Martial Classic" in his body operated frantically, and the Four Seasons Martial Domain and the "Great Luo Heaven-Turning Hand" martial dao true meaning resonated and merged forcibly at this moment!

No longer holding back, facing the siege of three furious Heaven Palace Beast Gods, he had to use all his strength to win a glimmer of survival.

The "Great Luo Heaven-Turning Hand" operated at full strength again, mobilizing all the heaven and earth power within a radius of several miles, and performed the second form, Split the Firmament!

Chen Mu’s hands suddenly closed in front of his chest, and then, he split them fiercely toward the direction of the swallowing force field’s core, which was also where the long-robed Beast God was.

Rip—

A sharp, teeth-aching sound as if cloth was forcibly torn resounded through heaven and earth.

It was not sound, but the wailing of space being forcibly torn.

Starting from where Chen Mu’s hands split, a tiny, yet condensed to the extreme, dark golden crack that seemed capable of cutting open the world barrier suddenly extended and expanded forward.

This "crack" was not a physical object, but was transformed by the rules of "destruction," "separation," and "severing" governed by the "Great Luo Heaven-Turning Hand" mystery!

Where it passed, the weird force field that swallowed everything was actually like meeting a nemesis, forcibly "torn" open a huge, unhealable gap!

Along with the spatial rules that were interfered with by the force field and appeared slightly stagnant, they also appeared clear and stable for a moment after this "crack" passed.

"That’s it!"

Chen Mu seized this short gap created by the second form of the "Great Luo Heaven-Turning Hand," "Split the Firmament," and urged the "Star Token" to the limit!

Starlight shone brightly all over his body, resonating strongly with the gap in the torn force field and the temporarily stable spatial nodes.

Swish!

Before the second, more violent thunder dragon blasted by the Beast God holding the giant hammer, the sky-filling ice spears condensed by the dark green cloak Beast God, and the swallowing force field that the long-robed Beast God was closing again could completely drown him, Chen Mu’s figure, along with the brilliant starlight, disappeared into the tunnel, leaving no trace or spatial ripples.

Only the gap in the swallowing force field that was torn by the "Great Luo Heaven-Turning Hand" and could not be completely closed for a long time, and the three furious Heaven Palace Beast Gods in the karst cave, proved that the thrilling treasure snatching and breakout just now was not a hallucination.

"Chase! He can’t escape far! Block all entrances and exits of the ancient battlefield! Launch the 'Ten Thousand Beast Blood Curse,' search the heavens and the earth for me, and dig out those two thieves! Retrieve the holy object!!"

The Beast God holding the giant hammer roared violently, accompanied by heaven-shaking thunder, echoing frantically in the collapsed karst cave and tunnels.