Chapter 999

The lava giant gods were wailing in shrill cries.

The spark-fire slowly incinerated the foreign divine power within him, refining bit by bit the purest divine origin of his massive body.

The lava giant gods are the darlings of the earth, the spirits of fire; their ancestral home is a boiling lava planet, and since birth they have lived in scorching magma, subsisting on various molten metal liquids as **.

Blood-red gems jumped about with a 'ding-ding-dang-dang' sound, and the gazes of the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan present were all off.

The blood-colored gems condensed from the divine origins of slain lava giant gods are called 'Life Gems' within the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan; what outsiders don't know is that these Life Gems can fetch a high price inside the clan.

Even the most ancient monsters of the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan rely on devouring Life Gems to increase their vitality and extend their lifespans.

Where do Life Gems come from?

Only those lava giant gods whose bodies are filled with the endless essence of earth and fire, who have devoured inexhaustible earthly essence, can condense their divine origins into Life Gems worth a fortune.

The Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan uses various colored crystals as food.

What crystal could be more precious than the Life Gems condensed within the bodies of lava giant gods?

So the high-level members of the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan all know this deep down, but never speak it aloud— the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan actually regards the lava giant god clan as food!

However, the lava giant god clan is also extremely domineering, especially their mastery of fire power, which likewise poses a great restraint on the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan whose bodies are condensed from crystals; thus the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan has secretly schemed for countless years, yet never dared to act against the lava giant god clan.

But here, at the forward outpost, on Mu Dalu, while everyone is trapped by a grand formation laid by hidden enemies……

"Your Highness Yanhuang, don't be afraid, I'll think of a way to save you right away." The Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan member controlling the huge crystal ball glanced at his own clansmen; several high-ranking commanders of divine-king lineage, who had enough status to know the origins of the 'Life Gem,' simultaneously blinked.

"Your Highness Guanguan, we're here to help you." Several Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan members, tall and glowing with seven-colored divine light all over, walked to Guanguan's side beside the crystal ball controller; divine light sprayed from their eye sockets and hearts, linking with the huge crystal ball.

"Then everyone, be careful; to ensure Your Highness Yanhuang's safety, we must break the grand formation as quickly as possible, so… there may be some risk, everyone must pay attention." Guanguan solemnly instructed Sheng Rong and the others.

His body surrounded by spark-fire, his stature already smelted down to only a few tens of zhang tall, Yanhuang screamed hysterically: "Guanguan, quickly break this damned grand formation… ah, this fire perfectly counters us, perfectly counters us."

"I will remember your kindness, I will repay you!" Yanhuang roared loudly: "Your Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan needs precious gems; my domain happens to have several volcanic planets producing high-quality energy crystals… I can give you a vein, I can…"

Guanguan let out a satisfied roar: "Then everyone, be careful… this is the Grand Dao Crystal Ball, a divination divine artifact used by our ancestors in the first Primordial Descent War. It is a natural bane of all formations, but our strength finds it somewhat difficult to move it."

Strands of viscous, glittering light welled up from the pitch-black crystal ball.

Within these streams of light wound countless Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan-specific Grand Dao patterns; sharp, angular Dao patterns linked together, with a 'ding-ding' sound, outlining chain after chain resembling poisonous dragons—the Grand Dao chains.

Under the joint urging of over a dozen high-ranking Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan members, these Grand Dao chains howled as they were hurled in all directions.

The Grand Dao chains invaded the cyan-white cloud layers above and below; urgent thunder rumbled within the formation, the whole formation shook violently, and wherever the chains entered, the cyan-white clouds turned into gorgeous seven-colored crystal hues.

Wu Tie's body also swayed slightly.

The backlash of the Grand Dao Crystal Ball was outrageously strong, and moreover there were strands of viscous yet extremely fluid, highly spiritual, eerie power eroding the formation Wu Tie had laid. This power was very uncanny and crafty, following the minutest linked gaps in the formation's diagram, it frenziedly invaded the entire formation.

"Lend me your strength." Wu Tie barked in a low voice.

Wu Tie brought with him a full hundred Venerable-level experts of the Wu tribe, who let out a low roar in unison, stepped forward together, and formed a Wu formation behind him.

Three white bone banners, each a hundred zhang tall, hovered before the Wu formation; the hundred Venerable-level Wu tribe experts simultaneously released their power and surged into the three white bone banners.

The banners swayed, and circles upon circles of vast Wu power turned into clusters of hazy light, once again encircling the entire formation Wu Tie had laid.

The efficiency of that evil power eroding Wu Tie's formation suddenly dropped.

This feeling was like Wu Tie had set up a tiny maze, with several nimble mice darting through it rapidly, trying to use their own power to solve the maze.

But someone barbarically hauled a small hill and, with a 'bang,' pressed it onto the maze.

That small hill was very heavy; the mice were pressed solidly under it, making it hard for them to move even a little, let alone continue solving the maze.

This is pure bullying with brute force, but Wu Tie now has enough confidence to do so.

Behind him stand a hundred Venerable-level brothers; that is Wu Tie's confidence.

At the southern border of Wuguo, beside the altar, nearly a thousand aristocratic elders have, through sacrifice, successfully condensed Dao seals, stepped over the Venerable threshold in one stride, and become formidable Venerable-level powerhouses.

Huang Lang, standing at the prow of the Wu vessel, gave a light shout; nearly a thousand newly ascended Venerable-level elders, whose mana hadn't even had time to be fully replenished, laughed in unison, clasped their hands in salute to Huang Lang, then all turned into streams of light and rushed toward Wu Tie's location on Tianfang Island.

In Wu Tie's sleeve, a message-transmitting jade talisman twitched lightly; Wu Tie knew his reinforcements were about to arrive.

Wu Tie laughed triumphantly.

"Gongsun Bai Ma, you may have a point; even if he is a demonic lord, he is still human, I shouldn't use such means… but I employ demonic methods to bring benefit to all under heaven."

"If it weren't for the multitude of Venerable-level powerhouses by my side, these over two hundred thousand descending spirits could easily slaughter Wuguo— is it using demonic means to survive, or adhering to the human way and dying?"

"Don't you see yet? When I exterminated those demons, heaven and earth bestowed merit upon me!"

"Heaven and earth have sent down the power of merit, proving I did nothing wrong. My actions may not conform to the humanity that Wa Island has always upheld, but they are in line with heaven and earth's will."

With both hands he lightly struck out one Dao seal after another; Wu Tie narrowed his eyes, seriously discerning all the mysterious changes within the formation.

The faces of over a dozen Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan members turned grim; a massive recoiling force surged in like a mountain pressing down, the Grand Dao Crystal Ball emitted an uneasy tremor, and streams of crystal light continually flashed out, the high-frequency flickering giving an extremely uneasy feeling.

Suddenly, a Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan member linked to the Grand Dao Crystal Ball shuddered; viscous hot blood spurted from his seven orifices, his upper torso cracked with a 'crack-crack' into over a dozen fissures, and his body staggered backward several steps.

"They have bolstered a formation… simple, brutal, savage, but its power is immense." The injured Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan member immediately analyzed the nature of that Wu formation: "Purely using brute force to overwhelm people… if they haven't employed any powerful divine artifact, then they must have at least a hundred thousand high-ranking divinities arranging the formation."

"Our Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan is not weak either. Brothers, come, let's break this damned grand formation together." Guanguan's eyes flashed with sharp light as he roared at the thirty thousand clansmen descending together.

Thirty thousand Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan members stepped forward two paces simultaneously; threads of divine light sprayed from their eye sockets and hearts, quickly linking with the Grand Dao Crystal Ball as one.

Yanhuang's stature had been smelted by spark-fire down to only under fifty zhang tall; beneath the cloud layer lay at least tens of thousands of Life Gems the size of human heads scattered haphazardly. His hoarse cries grew weak: "You all, who can think of a way to extinguish this damned fire?"

A few high-ranking Ice Spirit Divine Clan members exchanged glances, gloated with a laugh, then, bearing a savior's distinctive restrained smile, they wielded three-pronged spears radiating cold light and surrounded the fully blazing Yanhuang.

"Your Highness Yanhuang, we Ice Spirit Divine Clan are exactly the bane of all fire… we can save you, but we will certainly expend considerable strength… after all this fire looks tremendously powerful, very marvelous, we may have to pay an unbearable price."

Yanhuang bellowed in frustration: "In my domain, you may freely take any planet!"

The few Ice Spirit Divine Clan members smiled, then raised their three-pronged spears.

Merely extinguishing the fire is no difficulty for the Ice Spirit Divine Clan; as they said, they command the powers of ice, water, wind, and cold, and their divine power inherently counters all fire.

A trifle, yet being able to extort a planet, to extort billions of believers on a planet, this move's cost is not trivial.

When the Ice Spirit Divine Clan were about to act, Guanguan and a few of his fellow clansmen quickly exchanged glances.

Outside the formation, Wu Tie, who was driving the formation's changes, froze for a moment; he sensed the purpose of the strange power the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan had injected into the formation—they were rapidly attacking several nodes of the Life-and-Death Illusory Yin-Yang Killing Formation, seeking to alter the formation's spatial structure.

And this change in spatial structure…

"Hehe, you still have the mood for internal strife? I'm curious—are your brains all pig brains? Anyway, I'll indulge you." Wu Tie laughed loudly; Dao seals appeared atop his head, he formed hand seals, and swiftly struck into the formation.

A tremendous Boom sound, under the efforts of the Heaven Crystal Divine Race, the great formation shook violently, the clouds in the high sky descended, the clouds on the ground rose, the originally uniform cloud layer unknowingly tore into countless tens of thousands of cloud clusters of various sizes.

Waves of powerful spacetime-reversing force surged forth; Sheng Rong and the others' bodies shook, and the surrounding images suddenly changed.

"Xuan Guang, what on earth is going on?" Sheng Rong shouted hoarsely.

"It's a normal phenomenon; we are deciphering the enemy's formation structure…… this is just a change in the normal operation of the formation." Xuan Guang's voice was full of confidence, echoing in the ears of all the divine spirits.

Sheng Rong and the others' hearts eased a little.

The surrounding space twisted and trembled, light flickered between bright and dark, and the high-frequency flashing made people's eyes ache intensely.

Only the eyes of the Light Divine Race could adapt to this high-frequency flashing; they widened their eyes, vigilantly watching the changes in the surrounding formation.

Wu Tou and Wu Tang shouted hoarsely in anger: "Xuan Guang, you dare to destroy our honorable duel; you will become the mortal enemy of the entire Barbarian Divine Race!"

Xuan Guang, who was controlling the Great Dao Crystal Ball, had divine light flash across his face for a moment; he let out a cold snort, placed both hands on the Great Dao Crystal Ball, and struck it hard.

The great formation shook violently; after a full span of time to finish a cup of tea, the shaking finally subsided.

Wu Tou, Wu Tang, and fifteen thousand Barbarian Gods appeared in a cubic space surrounded on all sides by bluish-gray clouds; this space was about a hundred li in length, width, and height, enough for them to fight wildly.

Wu Tou and Wu Tang, without saying a word, waved their blades and axes and continued to fight each other.

The Barbarian Gods waved their fists, regardless of what the outside had become, merely shouting and roaring hoarsely.

Sheng Rong and three thousand Light Divine Race members likewise appeared in a space surrounded on all sides by clouds, but this cubic space was only about one li in length, width, and height; the three thousand Light Divine Race crowded together here, making it cramped and uncomfortable.

Other Dark Soul Divine Race, Ice Spirit Divine Race, and even the divine races that had come along just to make up the numbers also appeared, each in their own cubic spaces, surrounded on all sides by clouds.

Only the thirty thousand Molten Rock Giants and thirty thousand Heaven Crystal Divine Race appeared together in a vast space three hundred li in length, width, and height.

"This will be a feast." Xuan Guang's voice rang through the clouds: "Moreover, this proves that we brothers joining forces can indeed strongly influence this great formation…… so…… let's begin!"

Yan Huang, at a loss, looked at the changes around him; he felt a strong malice surging toward him, and he shouted hoarsely: "Xuan Guang, what feast? What do you want to say?"

Strands of reddish-purple spark fire drifted down slowly from the clouds above like fine rain, falling onto the heads of the thirty thousand Molten Rock Giants.

Then, the spark fire quickly used the bodies of these Molten Rock Giants as fuel, spreading with a whoosh and rapidly enveloping them. The Molten Rock Giants simultaneously let out piercing howls; the thick molten rock armor on their surfaces was burned clean in just a few moments by the spark fire, which swiftly invaded their bodily cores and began a frenzied refining and scorching.

Xuan Guang laughed hahaha, and more than a dozen high-ranking members of the Heaven Crystal Divine Race who knew the origins of the Life Gem also laughed wildly.

The Life Gem formed from the thirty thousand Molten Rock Giants was enough to greatly boost the source functions of Xuan Guang and his companions by a major step—their realms and cultivation might not increase, but their physical strength and lifespan would receive a tremendous enhancement.

Especially the toughness of their bodies; after consuming the Life Gem formed from the thirty thousand Molten Rock Giants, their crystal bodies might truly reach the legendary "eternal and indestructible" realm once possessed only by the ancestor of the Heaven Crystal Divine Race.

"Brothers, kill them!" Xuan Guang growled lowly, drawing from his body a strangely shaped crystal stone spear.

"Kill them, and you will receive unimaginable benefits." More than a dozen high-ranking members of the Heaven Crystal Divine Race drew their crystal stone forged divine weapons.