20demayo Chapter 1979 Burning the Eight Desolations
Chapter 1979 Burning the Eight Desolations
Chapter 1979 Burning the Eight Desolations
"Humph!"
Just as the eerie, demonic sound was about to once again erode everyone's minds, a deep, yet thunderous, cold snort suddenly erupted from the very front of the Tianhai Pass Legion.
The voice was not loud, but it contained a pure, upright, and domineering willpower, like an invisible heavy hammer, centered on Kuang Yezhou, and smashed fiercely in all directions.
"Oh!"
A muffled boom, seemingly originating from the depths of the void.
The bewitching, pervasive sound that filled the air was instantly melted and dissipated like ice and snow under the sun, vanishing into nothingness under this cold snort.
The restlessness and violent anger that had gripped the hearts of hundreds of thousands of cultivators also receded rapidly like a tide.
Among the Xuan Yu Realm's group, many early-stage fifteenth-level cultivators couldn't help but breathe slightly, their faces a little pale. They exchanged glances, a lingering fear still visible in their eyes.
Although they were not injured, their souls were indeed affected for a fleeting moment. And this was despite them being on full alert and using their powers to defend themselves.
"Is this the method of demonic cultivators on the primordial continent...?"
A Xuan Yu Realm Sovereign muttered to himself, his voice filled with undisguised shock: "Just a few demonic sounds, and targeting the entire legion at that, yet the aftershocks of the attack are so terrifying!"
Only now did they truly realize how insignificant and fragile they were, cultivators from the lower realms, on the border battlefield of this primordial continent; a single misstep could lead to utter annihilation.
In the crowd, Chen Fei's expression, like that of the other mid-stage fifteenth-level cultivators around him, showed a subtle fluctuation after his soul was impacted.
Chen Fei frowned slightly, a hint of discomfort showing in his eyes, and he even deliberately made his aura slightly disordered.
In reality, the supreme foundation within Chen Fei's body, forged from the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation, remained completely unmoved.
When that eerie demonic sound touched the invisible barrier formed naturally by his Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation and powerful divine sense surrounding his soul, it was like a gentle breeze brushing across a mountain, failing to stir up the slightest ripple.
Chen Fei was not affected in any substantial way, but he chose to pretend.
Why?
Why not show off your skills to gain the attention of Tianhai Pass, exchange them for massive resources, and make your cultivation advance by leaps and bounds?
This thought had never even crossed Chen Fei's mind.
Just as Chen Fei had previously concealed, the fact that all living beings in the Xuan Yu Realm appeared at Tianhai Pass only because they relied on his Origin Point.
Human nature is unpredictable; the strong prey on the weak!
How can you be sure that displaying amazing talent will be met with attention and nurturing, rather than with greedy and malicious stares?
Leaving aside the Yan Yang Immortal Dynasty, the factional struggles and resource competition within the Tianhai Pass alone, a force as vast as Tianhai Pass, must have been incredibly fierce.
What difference is there between a "genius" from the lower realm with no background and a fat lamb to the slaughter in the eyes of the real strong?
They didn't need to worry about anything because Chen Fei had no powerful backers.
Without any background that could pose a challenge to them, once someone develops greed towards them, that greed will almost certainly translate into action, and all sorts of dangers will follow.
Perhaps they forcibly subjugate them into slavery? Or perhaps they extract their souls to study their secrets?
It might even be used as a special medicinal ingredient or a sacrificial offering!
In this cruel world, any possibility could be enough to bring Chen Fei to his doom.
Therefore, one should conceal one's strengths until one has sufficient power to protect oneself!
Just as Chen Fei's mind raced, figures exuding powerful auras gradually became clear from the churning demonic energy ahead.
The leader was none other than Liao Ruiheng, who had just emitted the demonic sound.
He was dressed in a wide, bright red robe, as vivid as blood, embroidered with countless twisted, writhing dark gold demonic patterns.
His face was extremely handsome, and his skin was so white it was almost translucent, but strangely, there was an indescribable sense of evil about this handsomeness.
Liao Ruiheng's eyes, in particular, seemed to be smiling yet not smiling. His gaze shifted between a charming woman and a cold, venomous snake, making it impossible to tell whether he was male or female.
Kuang Yezhou's gaze was like lightning as he coldly stared at Liao Ruiheng, his voice filled with undisguised disgust and killing intent: "Liao Ruiheng, you've been practicing this Yin-Yang imbalance technique for so long, you probably don't even remember whether you're male or female anymore, do you?"
These words were extremely harsh, directly pointing to the strangeness of Liao Ruiheng's martial arts technique.
However, upon hearing this, Liao Ruiheng not only did not become angry, but instead reached out an excessively pale hand, gently brushed aside a strand of hair that had fallen across his forehead, and let out a soft "giggle" laugh. His voice remained neither male nor female, carrying a sticky, alluring quality.
"Hehehe, Kuang Yezhou, what you said really hurt my feelings..."
Does it really matter whether someone is male or female?
"If you're really curious..."
A strange glint flashed in Liao Ruiheng's eyes as he winked at Kuang Yezhou: "Why don't you come and verify my identity yourself? Hehehe..."
As Liao Ruiheng spoke, that disturbing, irritating sound once again spread like an invisible tide.
However, this time, the cultivators of Tianhai Pass were already prepared. The light of the legion's formation flickered slightly, blocking most of the demonic sounds outside.
However, a few people with weaker cultivation levels turned slightly pale, as Liao Ruiheng's demonic arts were too strange and difficult to defend against.
"Array up!"
Kuang Yezhou was too lazy to argue with this demon anymore. He suddenly issued a deep command, and his voice resounded throughout the army like thunder.
"Boom!"
In the next instant, the entire Tianhai Guan Army moved.
Suddenly, dazzling array light erupted from the hundreds of thousands of cultivators, and countless beams of light of different colors but of the same origin shot into the sky, reaching straight into the clouds.
These beams of light intertwined and linked rapidly in the air with an incredibly mysterious trajectory, forming an unimaginably massive battle formation in the blink of an eye.
The moment the battle formation is completed.
"Wow!"
A vast sound of water, seemingly from the heavens above, suddenly arose, like an endless celestial river rushing and roaring across the void.
A vast and magnificent aura, carrying pure yang energy that cleanses all filth, erupted from the battle formation like a tsunami, transforming into a visible milky-white torrent that pressed fiercely towards the Black Fiend City demonic cultivator legion on the opposite side.
This is the signature battle formation of Tianhai Pass, the Tianhai Formation!
"Hey... what's the rush!"
Faced with this overwhelming pressure, Liao Ruiheng calmly covered his mouth and chuckled, then gently waved his fair hand.
"Buzz!"
On the Black Fiend City side, a soaring jet of dark demonic light also erupted, and countless ferocious demonic patterns gathered in the air, instantly condensing into a huge demonic array that exuded an overwhelming aura of ferocity—the Black Fiend Array.
"Roar!"
Within the demonic array, it seemed as if billions of demons were roaring. A cold, violent, and destructive dark red aura, like a bursting sea of blood, surged towards the pure yang torrent of the Heavenly Sea Array.
"boom!"
Two terrifying auras collided violently in mid-air, causing the entire world to tremble violently.
The clouds in the sky were instantly torn apart, and countless bottomless cracks silently appeared on the earth below. The primordial energy of heaven and earth went completely berserk, turning into terrifying energy turbulence that raged in all directions.
A somber, oppressive, and suffocating atmosphere enveloped every inch of the space.
"Leave Blackwind Gorge!"
Kuang Yezhou took a step forward, and his figure instantly appeared at the forefront of the Heavenly Sea Formation.
His gaze was fixed on Liao Ruiheng: "This is the territory of my Yanyang Immortal Dynasty, not a place where you demons can set foot!"
As he spoke, Kuang Yezhou slowly raised his right hand.
"Buzz!"
A dazzling crimson light appeared out of thin air from his palm. The light was initially only the size of a grain of rice, but in the blink of an eye it stretched into a thin line of fire.
This flame was no ordinary flame; it seemed to contain endless pure Yang laws and a terrifying will that could burn away the entire world.
The fire lines twisted and swirled, eventually coalescing in Kuang Yezhou's hand into a fiery spear, its entire body crimson and its shaft adorned with countless mysterious runes.
The moment the spear took shape, Kuang Yezhou's aura suddenly surged to a terrifying peak.
The surrounding space seemed unable to withstand this power, and began to ripple with clearly visible spatial ripples. These ripples, like waves, pushed unstoppably towards the Black Fiend City Legion on the opposite side.
"Oh dear...this won't do!"
Faced with the terrifying spatial ripples, Liao Ruiheng chuckled softly, showing no sign of tension. He stretched out his fair hand and gently formed a delicate orchid finger gesture.
An exquisitely beautiful lotus flower, its entire body a deep purple, appeared out of thin air before him.
The lotus flower slowly rotated, its leaves swaying gently and emitting soft, dark purple halos. These halos appeared weak, but when they came into contact with the terrifying spatial ripples emitted by Kuang Yezhou…
"puff!"
With a sound like a bubble bursting, the spatial ripples that could have torn apart mountains and rivers and the soft dark purple halo vanished silently at the same time, turning into the most primordial energy of heaven and earth.
Effortless and carefree!
Liao Ruiheng so easily defused Kuang Yezhou's probing.
"Ok?"
Kuang Yezhou's eyes narrowed slightly, a fierce and extremely serious glint flashing in his pupils.
Although it was just a seemingly casual test, Kuang Yezhou gleaned many insights from Liao Ruiheng's nonchalant way of defusing the situation.
"This demon's cultivation is even more profound than when we last fought!" Kuang Yezhou thought to himself.
He had sparred with Liao Ruiheng more than once and was quite familiar with his opponent's methods.
In the past, although Liao Ruiheng was difficult to deal with, it would have been impossible for him to neutralize the aftershocks of Liao Ruiheng's power so easily.
"Liao Ruiheng!"
Kuang Yezhou took a deep breath, suppressing the distracting thoughts in his mind, and his voice became as powerful and resonant as the clash of metal and stone: "If you want to fight, then fight!"
As his words fell.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The hundreds of generals behind him, all at the Tai Cang Realm level, simultaneously unleashed a soaring, murderous aura. Countless sharp gazes, like swords, locked onto the Black Fiend City demon cultivators opposite them.
A major battle seemed imminent.
"Oh dear, I already told you not to be in such a hurry!"
Liao Ruiheng, however, remained unhurried, even giving Kuang Yezhou a slightly reproachful glance: "If a fight really breaks out, my beautiful robe will get wrinkled again..."
"This was something they carefully selected over a long period of time!"
As he spoke, Liao Ruiheng gently waved his right hand.
The dark purple lotus flower that was floating in front of him instantly transformed into a stream of light that shot into the sky, reaching the heavens.
As it ascended, the lotus flower swelled in the wind, expanding to the point of covering the sky in the blink of an eye.
Even more astonishingly, the lotus petals began to turn transparent, as if transforming into a real barrier to the world. Within that barrier, the phantom images of mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, and even the sun, moon, and stars were clearly visible.
This was actually a vast world that had been refined, and of an extremely high grade at that.
"Hee hee hee……"
Liao Ruiheng pointed to the vast lotus world in the sky and said with a smile, "How about the usual rules?"
"As before, we will each select some juniors of the fourteenth and fifteenth ranks to enter this 'Thousand-Petaled Demon Lotus Realm' to compete for the primordial lotus seeds that are naturally generated within."
"The side that gets the most lotus seeds at the end wins."
"As for the number of people..."
Liao Ruiheng's eyes flickered as he looked at Kuang Yezhou: "How about you decide?"
Before Kuang Yezhou could answer, Liao Ruiheng seemed to remember something, and gently clapped his hands. A stream of light emitting strange fluctuations shot out from his sleeve and hovered in the air between the two of them.
It was a strange, illusory flower enveloped in chaotic energy. The flower bloomed and withered repeatedly, emanating a mysterious aura that seemed capable of breaking through the void and piercing through all laws.
"Oh, right……"
Liao Ruiheng smiled broadly: "A few days ago, I happened to win a few matches at the All-Heavens Martial Arts Arena and exchanged for this little trinket..."
"It's called the Void-Breaking Heavenly Flower, which is quite rare..."
"If your juniors from Tianhai Pass win this time, this Void-Breaking Heavenly Flower will be yours as a prize, how about that? Hehehe..."
Breaking through the void with Heavenly Flowers!
Upon hearing this name, even Kuang Yezhou's eyes flickered slightly.
This is a top-tier spiritual material that can assist in the cultivation of the Tai Cang Realm, and it is quite attractive to him as well.
Kuang Yezhou gave Liao Ruiheng a deep look, remained silent for a moment, and then flipped his left hand.
A sharp, golden light, seemingly capable of tearing everything apart, condensed in his palm, eventually transforming into a palm-sized, thin as a cicada's wing, yet exuding a terrifyingly sharp aura—a dark golden feather.
"it is good!"
Kuang Yezhou said in a deep voice, "In that case, if you win, the gold in the feathers will be yours!"
Feather Gold, a top-grade gold-type spiritual material of equal value, is a treasure for forging offensive weapons.
"Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!"
Liao Ruiheng's eyes lit up when he saw the golden feather. He let out a cheerful laugh: "Hehehe, Kuang Yezhou, how did you know that someone just happened to be missing a piece of this golden feather?"
"It seems we really are on the same wavelength!"
Within the ranks of the Tianhai Pass Legion.
Chen Fei stood still, watching the seemingly intense confrontation and transaction in front of him, which was actually filled with a strange and tacit understanding.
Chen Fei's face was expressionless, but his heart was like a deep, ancient well, its waters calm and still, reflecting everything before him.
If it weren't for the fact that on the way here, I had already learned the cruel truth of the immeasurable calamity from Zheng Hongtao, and understood the suffocating root cause behind this seemingly endless war.
So at this moment, witnessing this scene, two powerful Tai Cang Realm experts, capable of destroying the heavens and the earth, led hundreds of thousands of troops and stood fiercely facing each other on the dangerous border. However, instead of an immediate bloody battle, they decided to make a bet!
Chen Fei would probably only find everything before him utterly absurd.
But now, I understand that behind all the absurdity lies consumption, a means to delay the immeasurable calamity hanging overhead.
With this understanding, looking at this betting contest again, although it still seems cruel and ridiculous, at least it becomes "reasonable".
A cold rationality that stands at a higher dimension, looking down on all living beings as mere pawns!
It's impossible for Tianhai Pass and Black Fiend City to fight with all their might every time they meet. Even if Tianhai Pass has tens of thousands of level 15 cultivators and more than a million level 14 cultivators, it will run out of manpower after only a few battles.
The Yan Yang Immortal Dynasty doesn't need Tianhai Pass to actually break through Black Fiend City. It only needs to steadily defend Tianhai Pass and weaken some of the demonic cultivators in Black Fiend City, and that will be enough.
This is a brutal strategy, a long and bloody protracted war waged at the cost of countless lives.
Chen Fei's gaze returned once more to the Thousand-Petaled Demon Lotus Realm that was about to open.
From this perspective, the two armies lining up and then engaging in such a duel becomes quite normal. The attrition is kept within a controllable range, and there will be no large-scale casualties.
Thinking of this, Chen Fei's lips involuntarily curled into an extremely subtle, mocking smile, a smile that carried an indescribable chill.
Of course, Chen Fei would never be so naive as to believe that the only conflict between Tianhai Pass and Black Fiend City was this kind of "mild" wager.
In the past, there must have been large-scale conflicts, encirclements or counter-encirclements between Tianhai Pass and Black Fiend City. If there were a chance to annihilate the other side on a large scale, neither Tianhai Pass nor Black Fiend City would hesitate.
However, such opportunities are obviously rare, and most of the time the two sides can only maintain this seemingly absurd tacit understanding.
Just as Chen Fei's thoughts were in turmoil, Kuang Yezhou ahead had already reached the final bet with Liao Ruiheng.
Kuang Yezhou slowly turned around, his gaze sweeping over the army of cultivators behind him. Every cultivator in his sight involuntarily straightened their bodies.
Then, Kuang Yezhou nodded slightly.
"Buzz!"
In an instant, the jade pendants hanging from the waists of tens of thousands of fourteenth-level cultivators and thousands of fifteenth-level cultivators in the legion suddenly became scorching hot and emitted a rapid and conspicuous crimson light.
The selection process has begun.
The chosen cultivators all tensed up, but none of them dared to hesitate or waver in the slightest.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Like arrows released from a bow, figures shot out from their respective formations without hesitation, quickly converging at the forefront of the confrontation between the two armies.
In the blink of an eye, a new force consisting of ten thousand level fourteen cultivators and one thousand level fifteen cultivators stood solemnly at the front of the formation. A tense and resolute atmosphere, mixed with a faint smell of blood, permeated the air.
Chen Fei held the jade pendant at his waist, which was radiating heat and a red glow, his expression calm as always.
Standing beside Chen Fei were seven other cultivators of the fifteenth rank from the Xuan Yu Realm, including Le Boyang and Shi Ruifeng. At a glance, the cultivators selected from the Xuan Yu Realm this time accounted for nearly one-tenth of the total number.
Chen Fei's gaze shifted slightly, and he saw three familiar figures not far away. They were Zheng Hongtao, who had taken the initiative to befriend him, and two other fifteenth-level cultivators from the Qingyan Realm.
At this moment, Zheng Hongtao's face no longer held the same hearty smile as before. His expression was so solemn it seemed as if water was about to drip from it, his brows were tightly furrowed, and his eyes were filled with an unyielding gloom and worry.
Seemingly sensing Chen Fei's gaze, Zheng Hongtao slowly turned his head.
He looked at Chen Fei, forced a stiff smile, and nodded, a nod that seemed to carry an immense burden.
Even a veteran like Zheng Hongtao felt deep apprehension and unease about entering the Thousand-Petaled Demon Lotus Realm, as it was an extremely dangerous place with a nine-out-of-ten chance of death.
"This quantity is just what I wanted!"
Ahead, Liao Ruiheng's voice, which had always been delicate and feminine, suddenly underwent a dramatic change.
His voice became rough and hoarse, filled with a harsh, metallic quality, as if he had instantly transformed from a charming woman into a weathered and ferocious man.
This abrupt change made many people feel uneasy, but no one dared to speak out.
"Then let's go in!" Liao Ruiheng's rough voice rang out again, carrying an unquestionable tone of command.
Kuang Yezhou gave Liao Ruiheng a deep look, and the spear in his hand suddenly burst out with an incomparably dazzling light. Then the spear soared into the sky, transforming into a crimson line of fire that tore through the sky.
The fire shot directly into the enormous Thousand-Petaled Demon Lotus Realm high in the sky at a speed too fast for the naked eye to perceive.
"boom!"
The moment the fire line entered the realm, it suddenly expanded, eventually transforming into an enormous, brilliant crimson sun, hanging high above the lotus world's sky.
The sun radiated endless light and heat, as well as a pure and vast yang energy, illuminating a large area of the eerie world below and dispelling some of the demonic energy that permeated it.
This was clearly a contingency plan that Kuang Yezhou had laid out in advance as a precaution, to monitor and, to some extent, suppress any actions Liao Ruiheng might take within the boundary.
"Tsk tsk tsk..."
Liao Ruiheng's gruff voice rang out again, tinged with obvious sarcasm and amusement: "Kuang Yezhou, you don't trust him, do you? You even went out of your way to get this thing in here!"
"What? Are you afraid I'll eat all your precious little things inside? Hehehe..."
The last laugh even had a hint of a female voice, making it incredibly eerie.
Kuang Yezhou remained indifferent, ignoring him completely, and simply stared calmly ahead.
"go!"
On the Black Fiend City side, a demonic cultivator general issued a hoarse command. The next moment, tens of thousands of jet-black streaks of light, exuding dense demonic energy, soared into the sky like a flock of crows passing by.
They shot towards the enormous lotus world suspended in the air, disappearing into the transparent barrier of that world.
"go!"
A deputy general from the Tianhai Pass, representing the Tai Cang Realm, also issued an order.
"careful!"
Before the battle, the chosen cultivators exchanged glances, their eyes flashing with determination, and then they no longer hesitated.
Tens of thousands of streaks of light of various colors rushed toward the lotus world like a meteor shower flowing against the current, and Chen Fei's figure was among them.
"Buzz!"
The moment he passed through that transparent barrier of the world, Chen Fei felt a slight tremor all over his body, as if he had passed through a cold and viscous curtain of water.
Immediately afterwards, a force of world rules completely different from the outside world enveloped his entire body like invisible shackles.
These rules are heavy and oppressive, carrying a wild and ancient aura, yet also filled with a demonic energy.
"Ok?"
Chen Fei raised an eyebrow slightly and immediately felt the Yuan energy circulating around his body suddenly stagnate, as if it had sunk into a quagmire, becoming extremely obscure and difficult to mobilize.
Immediately afterwards, an indescribable, immense gravitational force suddenly came from below, and Chen Fei's body instantly lost all ability to fly, plummeting downwards like a stone thrown by a catapult.
At a great height, it lost the ability to fly.
Below lies an unknown and perilous land, and lurking demonic cultivators.
The first welcoming ceremony in the Thousand-Petaled Demon Lotus Realm was so direct and cruel.
Chen Fei's body accelerated through the air, the wind howling past his ears.
(End of this chapter)