Chapter 247: Thunderous Giant Palm, Ruthlessly Striking

Yang Xianlin's Changhong Sword Qi, filling the sky and covering the earth, carried heaven-startling, rolling murderous intent; it cleaved through the air and broke the waves, whipping up a violent, thunderous whistling sound like a tsunami, striking straight toward the giant Blood Corpse Dharma Body, shattering the omnipresent intent of resentment and despair, accompanied by heavenly winds and surging thunder, ruthless and annihilating.

At the same time, Wei Bufan and the other three True Monarchs sensed Yang Xianlin's intent to kill with all his might, and they all struck simultaneously!

Then, with a long roar from Wei Bufan, golden light flashed on the halberd in his hand; amidst a clanging, metallic sound that pierced the heavens, a giant Golden Qilin roared out from the void, traversing the sky.

As the Qilin appeared, a ferocious aura from the top of the food chain swept across the sky; meanwhile, in two other directions, the other two Nascent Soul True Monarchs struck at the same time—a Bronze Tripod and a Purple Pearl flickering with noble purple radiance appeared amidst the rolling thunder and lightning, carrying a tyrannical will that seemed capable of shattering Heaven and Earth, charging out like a comet striking the moon.

Sword light, Qilin, Bronze Tripod, and Purple Pearl—wherever they passed, the Spiritual Machine was annihilated, their might unparalleled; at this moment, under Yang Xianlin's fierce shout, the four True Monarchs held nothing back, instantly erupting with their strongest offensive means.

"Those who block me, die!"

Yet, facing the siege of the four True Monarchs, the King Blood Heavenly Corpse's giant Dharma Body actually let out a garbled roar, shaking the void like rolling thunder; the countless resentful spirits in the river of blood around its body let out shrill whistles, like thousands of ghosts wailing in unison.

Under the agitation of countless baleful, death, and blood energies, a giant Blood Seal instantly appeared in the hands of the sky-supporting Blood Corpse Dharma Body; it crashed through layers of void like a mountain-toppling force, stirring up air vibrations like thunder, and swept out toward its surroundings.

At this moment, like a golden mountain collapsing and a jade pillar falling, the great seal smashed through the air, stirring up a massive sound in the air like the howling of a tsunami. Countless hollow shrieks accompanied the rumbling, sweeping giant seal, all emitting the wails of ghosts and howls of wolves.

This gloomy, bloody seal seemed to be gathered from thousands of resentful ghosts and fierce spirits; as it circled, ripples like waves stirred in the void above it, struggling and roaring, with various phantoms changing like a revolving lantern, the momentum so vast it was almost suffocating!

Boom—!

Under the heaven-startling collision, the King Blood Heavenly Corpse's giant Dharma Body shook violently; amidst the heaven-startling and earth-shaking impact, multicolored radiance swept across the sky, and countless thunderous roars, explosive firelight, and surging airwaves danced like gods and demons, filling the space within a hundred zhang; everywhere one looked, everything became bizarre and kaleidoscopic.

And in the midst of this scene,

The heaven-startling sword qi, shattered.

The golden light Qilin, shattered.

The Bronze Tripod and the purple star, sent flying back!

After all, it was an existence comparable to the Nascent Soul Late Stage; even with the four of them besieging it, Yang Xianlin, Wei Bufan, and the others did not gain any obvious advantage, all letting out a muffled groan and retreating rapidly through the void, seemingly having suffered a minor loss.

On several Flying Boats more than twenty miles away, the many Golden Core Cultivators who were watching this heaven-startling battle with their divine sense were all shocked:

"This Heavenly Corpse can actually speak human language and even wield Dharma Artifacts?"

"A rare sight makes for a strange monster; Corpse Demons transformed from cultivators all possess decent intelligence once they reach the Heavenly Corpse level—are you only just realizing this?"

"Once they reach the Heavenly Corpse level, any Corpse Demon transformed from a human will not only wield the Dharma Artifacts from their lifetime but even refine them themselves, causing them to transform into formidable Life-Bound Corpse Soldiers!"

"Just this King Blood Heavenly Corpse here has a true combat strength almost no different from a Nascent Soul Late Stage great cultivator!"

As the cultivators around him exclaimed repeatedly, Lu Yuan on the Flying Boat frowned slightly, thinking to himself:

"A corpse possessing intelligence and even refining its own Dharma Artifacts... how does this feel like a dead body evolving into another species?"

In the flicker of these brief thoughts, the great battle continued.

The four True Monarchs continued to launch massive sieges around the King Blood Heavenly Corpse; by comparison, although the King Blood Heavenly Corpse was alone, its ferocious might was heaven-topping, and its methods were strange and numerous—not only could it wield Dharma Artifacts, but its giant blood-colored Dharma Body also continuously split off dozens or hundreds of blood shadows, pouncing toward the four True Monarchs with ghostly speed.

"Everyone, be careful! These are Blood God Children; if you are pounced upon, not only will your essence blood be devoured and taken away, but your physical body and Dharma Power will also be polluted by evil blood!"

After this cold warning, the Flying Sword wielded by Yang Xianlin erupted with incomparably brilliant radiance. It transformed into an incomparably vast, stern, and cruel white light, like the most vicious light in heaven and earth, strangling all the filthy blood shadows pouncing from the void and stabbing toward the heart of the King Blood Heavenly Corpse.

This King Blood Heavenly Corpse looked giant, but the exterior was merely its manifested Dharma Body; to completely annihilate it, one naturally had to attack the main body hidden within the Dharma Body.

"You... die."

Yet, the King Blood Heavenly Corpse only let out a strange roar, completely ignoring the sword light wielded by Yang Xianlin; the giant palms of its Dharma Body extended and lengthened at high speed, sweeping toward the four like a whip.

Boom—!

The four True Monarchs had just applied their methods to sever these two giant Dharma arms, but the giant arms instantly exploded, as if ten thousand explosive talismans had been detonated at the same time; amidst the boundless blood-colored eruption, the entire heaven and earth trembled and collapsed, the earth cracked, the pillars of heaven snapped, and under the surging blood, the sky fell and the earth split, twisted and shattered!

Whoosh!

At the same time, amidst the blood-colored torrent, the expressions of Yang Xianlin, Wei Bufan, and the others changed slightly; protective spiritual light of various colors bloomed on their bodies as they retreated rapidly.

As for the King Blood Heavenly Corpse that had forced them back by self-destructing its Dharma arms, it let out thousands of eerie, wild laughs; then, blood light flared brightly on its incomplete Dharma Body, and as if it had suddenly received some replenishment, the incomplete arms grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The blood light spread and surged rapidly; within just a few breaths, all the damage to the arms and body surface of the massive Blood Emperor Dharma Body had been completely repaired, restored to its original state.

Of course, its size had also shrunk slightly; clearly, it was not without consumption.

In the vibrating air currents, Yang Xianlin's aura fluctuated, his face livid:

"What a rampant beast! Does it think we can do nothing to it!"

"Everyone, we must bring out our trump cards to execute this fiend!" As his voice fell, he took a deep breath.

The Life-Bound Dharma Sword in the void before him chimed repeatedly; the various destructive Sword Intents of earth, water, wind, and fire surged and flowed, quickly converging into a vast, gray, misty expanse of great slaughter and great destruction, as if it could erase and annihilate all things!

The sword light then shot out, an indescribable, terrifying sense of annihilation filling the space between heaven and earth; all things began to wither and perish irresistibly.

Wei Bufan swung his halberd, and a torrent of sharp energy that could break seas, collapse mountains, cut winds, and split clouds rolled in, exploding with infinite, gloomy, fierce light, illuminating the world in a vast expanse.

The other two True Monarchs also struck with all their might; for a moment, a fire phoenix soared and circled, its burning wings sweeping across the sky, instantly lighting up billions of stars as bright as the galaxy; the giant tripod shook the void, and wherever it passed, the void could not bear it, appearing twisted and cracked.

The four True Monarchs were clearly using their trump cards now; at this moment, the King Blood Heavenly Corpse also clearly felt a huge threat, and amidst its roar, the blood-colored seal it wielded bloomed with unprecedentedly condensed blood light, transforming into a blood-colored mountain to block its front.

Boom—!

It was like a sun falling to the earth and exploding; amidst the wild shaking of the void, the universe was overturned and the sun and moon lost their light; the intense light, enough to burn the retinas of anyone looking directly at it, turned into flowing flames, burning the entire sky a fiery red. In the sky directly facing the massive explosion, clouds of unknown thickness had been completely vaporized and annihilated, and pitch-black cracks in the void flashed like lightning, as if the firmament were collapsing!

And in such a scene.

The King Blood Heavenly Corpse let out a shrill roar, its blood-mountain-like seal flew away, and its body began to crack and collapse on a large scale under the powerful offensive of the four Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

But at the same time, its collapsing body also met the Dharma Artifacts attacking from the four True Monarchs head-on, and then exploded once more!

Amidst the rumbling giant explosion, the blood-colored tide covered the sky and blocked the sun; the vast, surging death energy, baleful energy, and evil energy filled the space between heaven and earth; Yang Xianlin and the other three Nascent Soul True Monarchs let out a muffled groan, all of them turning deathly pale with blood spilling from their mouths and noses.

They had all used their own Life-Bound Dharma Artifacts to launch their trump card offensives; with the King Blood Heavenly Corpse self-destructing its Dharma Body, all their Life-Bound Dharma Artifacts suffered heavy damage, or were even polluted!

The result of this heaven-startling battle was, shockingly, a mutual defeat.

No, it should not be called a mutual defeat, because although the King Blood Heavenly Corpse's giant Dharma Body had exploded, its main body only suffered huge consumption of its source and had not received any fatal injury.

It let out an extremely ferocious roar, then, completely ignoring the four Nascent Soul cultivators retreating wildly through the void, it instantly transformed into a blood rainbow, crazily pouncing toward the Flying Boat where Lu Yuan and the others were; as it opened its mouth, it split into hundreds of Blood God Children, seemingly wanting to feed!

"Not good!"

Seeing this scene, the four Nascent Souls shouted in anger, but because they had also suffered heavy injuries from the previous impact, they were unable to stop it for a moment.

As for the Golden Core Cultivators on the Flying Boat, they were even more terrified; they reacted immediately, but were still a beat too slow, and were instantly surrounded by the blood rainbow and the hundreds of Blood God Children.

The Flying Boat was equipped with a protective Dharma Array, but this level of protection was simply not enough to look at; in just the blink of an eye, the protective spiritual light on the Flying Boat began to sizzle and pop, as if it were about to be drilled through by the Blood God Children.

These Blood God Children could do nothing against a Nascent Soul True Monarch, but to Golden Core Cultivators, they were a fatal threat; all the Golden Core Cultivators on the Flying Boat were terrified, only Lu Yuan let out a silent sneer at this moment:

"I wasn't going to seek you out, yet you dare to come and provoke me?"

The next moment, a boiling, surging, terrifying aura swept in from above the firmament, like a monstrous wave, a vast ocean, filling and stuffing the entire horizon.

"What?"

Every cultivator present, and even the four True Monarchs who were rushing over, were all startled.

A powerful pressure swept in from all directions, like a surging ocean, like a roaring gale, like a ten-thousand-year glacier pressing down like Mount Tai, like a flaming meteor streaking across the sky!

The clouds shattered completely, turning into gloomy, rolling thunderclouds, with streaks of lightning snakes darting and blooming amidst the flashes and thunder; one could see countless lightning rays, existing between void and reality, shooting out in all directions, spreading across the sky and earth, crazily absorbing the Heaven and Earth Qi to rapidly grow and strengthen. Subsequently, countless lightning filaments intertwined, each combining according to human nerves, meridians, and blood vessels, suddenly converging into a giant palm forged of thunder!

The sky suddenly darkened, the hundred-zhang thunderous giant palm obscured the afterglow of the setting sun and blocked everyone's line of sight, emitting an extremely violent, destructive power, an aura that was majestic, vast, and boundless, sweeping across Heaven and Earth!

"This, what is this?"

At this moment, even True Monarchs like Yang Xianlin were shocked, unable to figure out who had made a move; the next moment, in everyone's sight, the giant palm covering the entire horizon saw a massive, surging airwave erupt instantly from its edges! Amidst the earth-shattering explosions and roaring sounds, the thunderous giant palm stirred up a fierce, wild wind and airwave that swept across the four poles and eight wildernesses, grabbing fiercely toward the King Blood Heavenly Corpse below!

Rumble—

The roaring sound was deafening.

In an instant, the moment the giant palm struck down, the void shattered directly, and it was as if countless cracks of unknown depth had opened in the atmosphere; high temperatures, distorted light, and electric sparks and flowing fire changed rapidly, stirring this piece of sky as if a volcano had just erupted, with magma gushing and all life extinguished!

The world was shaking violently everywhere, and the sound of cracking and shattering, crackle-crackle, was incessant, as if the entire world were splitting and collapsing.

Facing the terrifying, world-destroying might that had appeared abruptly above its head, the King Blood Heavenly Corpse was clearly startled, letting out a fearful roar, and then retreated in panic.

However, the thunderous giant palm was not a corpse, but composed of real thunder; in just an instant, it sealed off its retreat and pressed down!

Boom!

In its haste, the King Blood Heavenly Corpse manifested a much-shrunken Blood Body Dharma Image once again to resist the strike of the giant palm. Like a great collision of Heaven and Earth, the two collided fiercely with the force of a meteorite hitting the ground! A visible ripple of lightning light surged rapidly in all directions, sweeping out more than ten miles in an instant; air, dust, spiritual energy, everything that existed was completely annihilated!

Within a hundred zhang of the King Blood Heavenly Corpse's Blood Emperor Dharma Body, the entire ground continued to sink, and violent shattering sounds echoed throughout the space, as if it were not the ground suffering pressure, but the entire space caving in, with light drifting and distorting accordingly. The fully charged, terrifying power had already filled everything around it, including space itself, to the point of imminent collapse!

The King Blood Heavenly Corpse's Blood Emperor Dharma Body desperately held off this giant foot descending from the sky for only the duration of a breath, and then, with a crack!

The blood light split open and disintegrated.

The King Blood Heavenly Corpse let out a roar of unbearable agony, its Dharma Body exploding rapidly, like a domino effect spreading throughout its body; the blood light rippling around it shattered completely, first crumbling from the arms that were clashing, and then, amidst the earth-shattering sound of a mountain collapsing, its body suddenly burst open! A large amount of filthy blood and evil Qi sprayed everywhere!