Seeing the unusual behavior of Yingying the little fox and the two little ones, Deng Tianyu frowned.
With their exceptionally sharp senses, they had clearly recognized this Imperial Sovereign Realm expert.
And judging by Hongxue and Moxue’s furious reactions, they were obviously trying to express something.
Imperial Sovereign Realm?
Black-Robed person?
A spark of realization flashed through Deng Tianyu’s mind, and he immediately asked, “Are you saying that this Black-Robed figure is the same one who appeared at West Rime Lake last time, trying to steal the Stone Gate?”
The Imperial Sovereign Realm experts that Yingying the little fox and the two little ones had encountered were extremely few.
Coupled with the latter two’s angry expressions, it instantly made him think of the mysterious Imperial Sovereign Realm expert who had clashed with Li Xun that day.
“Ying~ Ying!” The little fox nodded hurriedly.
“Ji~ Ji!” Hongxue and Moxue did the same.
“That Black-Robed figure from back then clearly had a combat strength far beyond this. Was it because he was injured?” Deng Tianyu felt a twinge of confusion.
But if he was injured, why was this opponent so confident in being able to contend against so many factions present here?
One had to realize that, besides the Six Sects, other invited forces were gathered here as well.
There were dozens of King Realm experts alone!
Was he simply relying on this Five Elements Blood-Refining Grand Array?
Or did he have some other trump card?
As his thoughts raced, Deng Tianyu immediately made a decision. He retrieved the scale that Xi Lingxue had given him earlier and channeled his True Essence into it.
Moments later, a few words shimmered onto the scale’s surface: [Have you decided on your request?]
I can actually contact her!
And the Five Elements Blood-Refining Grand Array isn’t interfering with it?
Deng Tianyu channeled his True Essence, inscribing words onto the scale: [I’ve found that Black-Robed figure who tried to steal your clan’s Stone Gate that day. Senior, can you make it here?]
The moment Li Shishi told him transmission jade slips were unusable, his first thought had been of this scale.
The former was rendered ineffective by the Five Elements Blood-Refining Grand Array, but what about the latter?
The latter originated from the Spirit Cod King herself. As long as True Essence was channeled into it, it could resonate with her. Perhaps it could circumvent the grand array’s effects.
He hadn’t expected that when he tried, it actually worked!
Just then, new text appeared on the scale: [Where are you located?]
[At the Cosmos Sect, upstream of the Hidden Mist River. How long would it take Senior to arrive?]
[At least half a shichen.]
[Half a shichen is too long. Does Senior have a faster method?]
The sense of danger in Deng Tianyu’s heart was steadily intensifying. The Black-Robed person definitely had a backup plan prepared.
If that backup plan was activated, the various factions gathered here likely wouldn’t be able to hold out.
When that happened, everyone would face a one-sided slaughter at the hands of an Imperial Sovereign Realm cultivator.
[This King previously gave you two scales. When those two scales are brought together, they can form a special teleportation array pattern unique to my clan.]
[In that way, This King can instantly teleport over using a secret art!]
After receiving this answer, Deng Tianyu turned to Li Shishi and earnestly instructed, “Shishi, protect our sect’s junior sisters.”
“I’m going to find a way to break this crisis before us!”
As his voice fell, he stomped his feet. Sword Intent condensed into a sword curtain that encased his body, and he transformed into a streak of light, hurtling towards the Spirit Treasure Pavilion’s viewing platform.
“Senior Brother!”
Li Shishi had wanted to follow him, but she forced herself to stop.
At a time like this, she understood what was truly important. Moreover, following him might not necessarily help. It was better to stay behind and protect the other junior sisters of the sect.
The distance between the Purple Cloud Sect’s viewing platform and the Spirit Treasure Pavilion’s platform wasn’t far.
However, the entire Cosmos Sect was now saturated with churning blood mist, making it impossible to see anything clearly.
But this blood mist was incredibly bizarre; neither martial arts nor divine abilities could dispel it.
Suddenly, within the blood mist, one after another, terrifyingly ferocious blood-colored human faces materialized, lunging straight for Deng Tianyu.
“Ring!”
In response, a snowy-white, three-foot sword rainbow shimmered into existence in his hand. With a fierce swing—
Instantly, an icy, bone-chilling cold swept outward, freezing all those blood-colored faces solid, whereupon they exploded on the spot, scattering snowflakes in all directions.
But in the next breath, the blood-colored faces condensed once more and lunged again.
Deng Tianyu frowned, muttering to himself, “They can reform?”
These strange, blood-colored faces reminded him of a particular type of entity—Blood Miasma!
And his method for dealing with miasma was very simple—refine it directly…
At the same moment Deng Tianyu was hurtling out of the Purple Cloud Mist Array,
A sudden, violent tremor ripped through the Cosmos Sect’s very own Sect-Protecting Grand Array, which was supposed to be trapping the Black-Robed figure.
Then, shockingly, it reversed its pressure, slamming down towards the Grand Elders of the five sects and the other King Realm experts from various factions!
“Pfft… Pfft… Pfft!”
In that instant, every King Realm powerhouse present turned deathly pale, spewing a mouthful of fresh blood as their auras plummeted into complete frailty.
The five Grand Elders of the other sects glared coldly at the figure in the sky, their voices weak but accusatory: “Zhai Yun, what is the meaning of this?!”
Zhai Yun was the controller of the Cosmos Sect’s Sect-Protecting Grand Array. The five of them and the other faction experts merely assisted from the side, bolstering its power.
Now that the grand array had suddenly turned against them, it was clearly his doing!
“The meaning?”
“It is very simple. This Seat intends for all of you to be buried here.”
“From this day forward, the Six Sects will exist no more!”
Zhai Yun swept his gaze over the five, his voice cold as ice.
He then turned to the Black-Robed figure in the sky, revealing a smile. “Senior Brother, the time has come!”
“Senior Brother?”
“You are Qian Yuan?!”
Hearing those words, the five cultivators couldn’t believe their ears. Their eyes went wide with utter disbelief.
Under their collective gaze, the Black-Robed figure threw back his hood, revealing a pallid face.
He was unmistakably the Cosmos Sect Leader—Qian Yuan.
“Becoming ingredients for the Blood Pill is your fortune!”
Qian Yuan offered no further explanation. With a single, overbearing press of his hand—
Instantly, the pitch-black greater hand seal swelled explosively and slammed fiercely against the protective grand arrays formed by the six sects.
“Bang!”
Without a moment’s resistance, the arrays the six sects had raised to withstand the blood mist shattered. Numerous experts from the six sects coughed up blood and crashed heavily to the ground.
Within the Cosmos Sect’s ranks, an elder’s face was a mask of utter disbelief. “Sect Leader, how could you…”
He simply could not comprehend why his own sect leader would attack them.
“This Seat has given so much for the sect. Now it is time for the sect to sacrifice a little for This Seat!”
Qian Yuan’s expression was frigid. He raised his hand again, and another True Essence Greater Hand Seal came crashing down with brutal force.
Watching the terrifying onslaught bearing down on them, Li Shishi gritted her teeth where the Purple Cloud Sect stood. A red lotus petal mark shimmered on her forehead.
She had promised her Senior Brother she would protect her sect’s junior sisters. She would keep that promise, no matter what.
Beside her, Yingying the little fox, who had been baring her teeth, also began to glow with a snowy-white radiance from her tiny body, as if a powerful aura was stirring within her, awakening.
At the critical juncture, a colossal figure spanning several hundred zhang, beating its colorful Spirit Wings, hurtled over at extreme speed and slammed brutally into that descending large hand seal.
A deafening explosion shook heaven and earth, followed by a raging True Essence storm.
Everyone stared in utter shock towards the sky.
There, a graceful, beautifully curved creature—a Spirit Cod hundreds of zhang in size—hovered.
Her body shone with six distinct colors, each bathed in dazzling brilliance. The colorful Spirit Wings at her sides beat gently, stirring ripples of spiritual energy into the air.
“Isn’t that… the Spirit Cod King of West Rime Lake?”
“How is she here?”
As the true form of this entity came into view, many cultivators stood frozen in astonishment.
They had all heard the rumors about the Spirit Cod King that had appeared in West Rime Lake.
It was said she was a mighty being comparable to an Imperial Sovereign Realm Perfection expert. The moment she had appeared, with terrifying and overwhelming power, she had obliterated an Imperial Sovereign powerhouse coveting the Stone Gate.
Now that this very Spirit Cod King had appeared in the Cosmos Sect… was she friend, or was she foe?
