Chapter 1014: Life's Revolving Lantern (3rd Update)

The Feng Wang in the air didn't slow down at all, even tearing out afterimages, and rushed at Fang Yue at extreme speed.

A large hand spread open, five fingers directly enlarging, transforming into a black cage, covering down toward Fang Yue!

Sensing the danger, Fang Yue turned and slashed with one sword.

The black line directly sliced open the cage, cutting the Feng Wang's palm in half.

The black wings on his back flapped once, his speed surged, and he took the chance to press close and pounce into the Feng Wang's embrace, slashing with one sword!

Sizzle—

Fresh blood splattered. The Feng Wang, struck in the chest, didn't retreat but advanced instead, turning his hand to spread open a large palm, grabbing Fang Yue in an embrace and locking him tightly.

And the splashed fresh blood, in mid-air, transformed into a blood-colored curtain, forming a blood-colored square, enclosing the two within it.

Fang Yue's body was restrained, so he delivered a headbutt, slamming it directly into the Feng Wang's head.

Bang!!

A heavy sound rang out. The Feng Wang's forehead was smashed, fresh blood spurting, a small pit caving in, yet he revealed a mouth full of bloody teeth, grinning ferociously.

"【Ink Immortal Formation】 must succeed. Master's formation, I will definitely complete it. I absolutely won't be stopped at the last step by a thing like you!"

The blood-colored cube — the surrounding blood color immediately grew dense at extreme speed, cutting off outsiders' prying eyes. At the same time, the internal temperature skyrocketed. The blood-colored liquid gushed in like floodwaters bursting a dam, and in no time submerged the two.

Submerged by the blood water, Fang Yue immediately felt a suffocating sensation, and he struggled violently.

Crack, crack, crack.

One could hear the sound of the Feng Wang's arm bones being crushed and snapped, but the Feng Wang was still gripping Fang Yue tightly.

The suffocating feeling grew increasingly intense, making it almost impossible to exert strength, and the sense of connection with the power within his body also grew gradually faint, as if he had returned to a mortal body.

"This Immortal-Trapping Blood Formation was originally prepared to deal with that old fellow, His Majesty the current Saint. I've researched it. Even facing that guy, I have a thirty percent chance of trapping him, dragging things out until the Ink Immortal Formation takes shape! To complete the Ink Immortal Formation, even if it costs my life, I absolutely will not allow any mistakes!"

The Feng Wang's ferocious grin grew more pronounced, carrying a vicious edge.

Fang Yue's breathing, meanwhile, grew increasingly faint, as if about to lose consciousness at any moment.

Victory and defeat were decided!

The Feng Wang secretly thought himself lucky.

Fang Yue's danger far exceeded his imagination.

If not for the fact that the current Fang Yue had no rationality at all, fighting purely on instinct, he probably really wouldn't have been able to subdue this one.

"Ye Ge!!"

"Captain Ye!!"

Tail and Captain Wu saw Fang Yue trapped inside the blood-colored square and hadn't come out for a long time, and were so anxious they wanted to go help, but were blocked by Ox Seat.

When the two glared over angrily, Ox Seat instead revealed an excited expression.

"He's finally used this move! You two don't need to move around here. I'll break his fatal weakness!"

He pressed both hands firmly on their shoulders, borrowing the force to leap up.

The Yinxu Sword in Ox Seat's hand emitted a dazzling light.

After researching day and night, probing from the sides, carefully pondering and investigating the Feng Wang and Huang Hou all along, he had finally learned this secret ultimate move of the Feng Wang's.

To research a sure-kill for this move, Ox Seat didn't know how many experiments he had secretly carried out.

Finally, he had waited for this very moment!

The Immortal-Trapping Blood Formation — the internal structure was so strong it was almost breathtaking to him, and even if the caster died inside, the blood formation wouldn't stop operating. It belonged to the category of powerful sealing formations.

Normally speaking, formations cannot be cast instantaneously. To achieve instant casting, one must perform an inscription.

But the human body simply doesn't have that high a strength to undergo inscription, so the Feng Wang chose modification. He had long ago transformed his own body into one that could adapt to the Immortal-Trapping Blood Formation — he had long since stopped counting as a person.

And precisely because of this, the Immortal-Trapping Blood Formation had a weakness, and that was... the external structure was unstable!

Things that were very hard to break from inside weren't that difficult from outside, which was why the Feng Wang needed the partner Huang Hou and the backing of the Phoenix Organization to coordinate from outside.

In the Feng Wang's imagined enemies, presumably Huang Hou and the Phoenix Organization were meant to resist the attacks of the four tribe elders — Green Division, Blue Shan, Red Department, Purple Palace — and drag things out until the 【Ink Immortal Formation】 took shape.

It's just a pity plans can't keep up with changes. Huang Hou is already dead, the Phoenix Organization completely wiped out. A mere Immortal-Trapping Blood Formation alone isn't that terrifying now. Even Ox Seat had a way to break it, and moreover...

"This position is the weak point!!"

Ox Seat, who had shot up into the sky, roared and thrust the Yinxu Sword into the exact center position of the blood-colored cube!

The instant the sword pierced in, the blood-colored cube was like softened jelly — the part pierced by the Yinxu Sword was pressed and caved inward.

"Give me... death!!"

Ox Seat roared and pushed the sword forward!

This face of the blood-colored cube, like a tent being squeezed inward by external force, caved in. The speed of the caving and deformation was very fast, as if carrying Ox Seat's final strike filled with fury, and in the blink of an eye it had already reached the center of the cube, and one sword pierced into something, only then coming to a halt.

"Feng Wang, this is your fatal weakness! Inside the Immortal-Trapping Blood Formation, your position cannot shift — it must be at the absolute exact center, otherwise the formation's structure will become unstable! This is the price for killing Huang Er!!"

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The instant Ox Seat's voice fell, starting from the face of the blood-colored cube where his Yinxu Sword had pierced in, a large number of cracks appeared across the entire blood-colored cube, and accompanied by a rumbling explosion, it transformed into a skyful of blood-colored fragments.

Crash, crash, crash.

Under the blood rain, the three figures in the air remained motionless.

Ox Seat's Yinxu Sword had pierced not only through the Feng Wang, but also through Fang Yue, whom the phoenix was embracing.

The three hung like a skewer of candied hawthorns, pausing for about half a second.

Then...

At the same moment.

Smack!!

The Feng Wang turned his hand and slapped Ox Seat, who was in an excited state, shattering his head. Ox Seat's head was smashed on the spot, but the headless corpse still gripped the Yinxu Sword tightly, not loosening its hold even half a bit.

And Fang Yue — the eyes that had been tightly shut from the very beginning actually slowly opened. At the same time, the Taiji Grinding Disc Shadow and Flower Bud Shadow manifested behind him, and a terrifying aura erupted wildly from his body, soaring skyward, suppressing everything!

"Ox Seat...? Feng Wang?"

In that instant of stunned blankness, when Feng Wang turned his head and saw Fang Yue open his eyes, his heart gave a sudden lurch, and an emotion both familiar and unfamiliar welled up inside him.

It was a long-absent emotion—one he had only ever felt before becoming a martial artist—called fear!

Then, Feng Wang saw the lines.

Dense, countless black lines filled his entire field of vision.

The fine, dense black lines sliced his body in an instant into countless chunks of flesh and blood; before he could even react, he dropped dead on the spot.

If it had been an ordinary martial artist cutting him down to this extent, he could still rely on his research into the bizarre, the imitation and transplantation of abilities, to reforge his flesh and blood and be reborn.

But… before Fang Yue's black slash, that strange and terrifying power severed his connection to his strength entirely, leaving him no chance of turning the tables.

The experiences of his life flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern.

(End of chapter)