“The Spirit Cod King!”
The moment he saw that hundred-zhang figure enveloped in a six-colored radiance, Qian Yuan’s expression became shockingly dark.
The Spirit Cod King’s realm was Imperial Sovereign Realm Perfection. Even at his peak, he wouldn’t be her match, let alone while injured.
He couldn’t understand why she would appear here, and at the most crucial moment of his plan.
At this moment, as the Spirit Cod King sensed Qian Yuan’s aura, the killing intent in her icy gaze had practically solidified into tangible substance.
Without a single word spoken, the colorful Spirit Wings on her back fluttered, and her enormous tail swept forward viciously. A raging spirit energy storm erupted as she delivered a devastating blow.
“This Seat will settle the score with you later!”
Facing this horrifying attack, Qian Yuan spoke in a frigid tone. He directly employed a greater divine ability of the Imperial Sovereign Realm, warping space itself, intending to use it to escape.
“Splash~ Splash~!”
But just at that moment, a watery curtain suddenly enveloped the entire Cosmos Sect, rendering everything exceptionally clear and limpid.
Within the space he had just begun to warp, a devastating water tornado spiraled forth, seeming capable of devouring everything.
“A Domain!”
Qian Yuan’s face drastically paled. He dodged aside in a flash.
Without a doubt, this world of water was the Spirit Cod King’s Domain.
An Imperial Sovereign is without boundaries, and within their Domain, they are the absolute master!
Qian Yuan dodged the attack in front of him, but the Spirit Cod King’s massive tail had already descended, slamming savagely into his body.
“Bang!”
A muffled boom echoed. His form plummeted like a meteor and smashed heavily into the ground, sending a cloud of dust erupting into the air.
As a cold wind blew past, visibility cleared.
Strangely, however, Qian Yuan’s figure was nowhere to be seen on the ground.
“Where did Qian Yuan go?”
“He clearly smashed into the ground just now! How could he vanish in the blink of an eye?”
All the factions present were filled with confusion.
By now, they had already pieced it together: the reason the Spirit Cod King appeared here was most likely Qian Yuan.
Connecting this to the previous battle over the Stone Gate at West Rime Lake, many now guessed that Qian Yuan was the one who had escaped that day.
That Stone Gate was the key for the Spirit Cod Clan’s metamorphosis into kings. If the Stone Gate was stolen, that would be equivalent to cutting off the Spirit Cod Clan’s path to evolution.
With such a monumental, sky-high grudge, how could the Spirit Cod King possibly let him go?
It was precisely because of this grudge that they, unexpectedly, had been spared this tribulation.
High up in the void, the Spirit Cod King withdrew her gaze from the ground and looked to another location.
There, a figure was slowly emerging into view.
“Senior Brother, you and I must join forces to break this Domain!”
“Otherwise, even with the Five Elements Blood-Refining Grand Array, we’ll die here.”
Zhai Yun stared at his Senior Brother beside him, who was now utterly disheveled and bleeding from the corner of his mouth, his expression extremely dark.
The moment the Spirit Cod King appeared in the Cosmos Sect, he knew their plan had failed.
The most critical thing now was to save their own lives and slowly plan things again in the future.
“We can’t get away!” Qian Yuan retrieved two pills from his Storage Ring and swallowed them. “The Spirit Cod King’s realm has already reached Imperial Sovereign Realm Perfection.”
“Even if we combine our strength, it’s impossible to break through her Domain!”
If he hadn’t activated his life-saving artifact just now against that tyrannically absolute killing blow, he would probably have perished on the spot.
Yet even so, that artifact was now completely shattered.
Feeling the Spirit Cod King’s aura locking onto him once more and sensing space twisting again, Zhai Yun’s expression became one of sheer panic. “Then are we going to be buried here?!”
He was at King Realm Perfection, yes!
But against the Spirit Cod King, who stood at Imperial Sovereign Realm Perfection, he was nothing more than an ant!
“This Seat is destined to step into the Sun-Moon Realm in the future. How can I possibly be buried here?!”
Watching the Spirit Cod King rapidly closing the distance with terrifying speed, a ferocious, ruthless light surged in Qian Yuan’s eyes. His True Essence erupted, and with a sudden, violent motion, he rammed it straight through Zhai Yun’s body.
Pfft!
“Senior Brother… you…”
Blood splattered everywhere. Zhai Yun turned his head in utter, horrified disbelief.
He had never imagined his own Senior Brother would strike him down.
“Better one of us dies than both!”
Meeting his gaze, the now savage-faced Qian Yuan gave a ghastly, sinister grin. The flesh and blood essence of Zhai Yun, along with the previously slaughtered King Realm experts, was completely siphoned out, coalescing into an arcane, profound hand seal.
“Buzz!”
In an instant, the very heavens and earth changed color. The blood mist blanketing the entire Cosmos Sect went completely berserk, surging to gather and completely converge on Qian Yuan, forming an incomparably colossal blood-skeleton.
In everyone’s perception, Qian Yuan’s previously fallen realm not only fully recovered, but his aura also began skyrocketing at a horrifying pace.
Imperial Sovereign Realm Fifth Heaven!
Imperial Sovereign Realm Seventh Heaven!
Imperial Sovereign Realm Ninth Heaven!
“Boom!”
The Spirit Cod King’s lethal strike arrived. The massive blood-skeleton was shattered, but in the next instant, it reconstituted itself once more.
He looked at the Spirit Cod King and let out a cold laugh. “Did you truly think This Seat was afraid of you?”
As his words fell, the rich, dense Blood Miasma solidified into a gigantic crimson maw that snapped fiercely towards the Spirit Cod King, seeking to swallow her whole.
It was a ferocious, bloodstained face—an exact, twisted mirror of Qian Yuan himself—exuding a piercing, nauseating stench of blood, its aura intensely oppressive and brutal.
Qian Yuan had now gone all in, staking everything on a single throw.
He did not hesitate to burn his own foundations, using the flesh and blood essence of Zhai Yun at the King Realm Ninth Level as the initial catalyst, combined with the collected essence of all the previously slain King Realm experts, to bring the Five Elements Blood-Refining Grand Array to its fully awakened state.
This grand array’s method was something he had obtained alongside the Profound Baleful Nether Art.
As long as there was enough flesh and blood essence, the array’s power could be amplified indefinitely.
The moment Qian Yuan realized he couldn’t escape the Spirit Cod King’s Domain, a completely insane idea took root in his mind.
That was to devour every single cultivator present on the field, including the Spirit Cod King.
By doing so, not only could he replenish his depleted essence and blood, but his cultivation could even ascend to a higher level!
“Boom!”
A terrifyingly fierce battle erupted between the Spirit Cod King and the massive blood-skeleton.
Every exchange was so cataclysmic that the entire Cosmos Sect trembled uncontrollably. The surrounding space was warped to its very limits.
The pavilions on the ground, the flowers, the trees—absolutely everything—was pulverized into dust by the mere shockwaves.
The various factions present hurriedly joined forces, unleashing their True Essence together to form a giant protective light screen, just barely managing to withstand the aftershocks.
“Senior Brother, where is he? Why hasn’t he come back?”
Li Shishi urgently scanned the surroundings, her heart full of worry as she searched for that familiar figure.
Qu Qirong, her face also lined with deep concern, spoke. “He went to find the core of the Five Elements Blood-Refining Grand Array.”
Just moments before, Tianyu had managed to reach her. Using the power of the two scales, he had summoned the Spirit Cod King, barely averting the immediate crisis.
But who could have imagined that the Cosmos Sect Leader, Qian Yuan, would be driven to such madness, throwing all caution to the wind?
“The core of the Five Elements Blood-Refining Grand Array?”
“The grand array is filled with endless streams of that sinister blood mist. If the core is where he’s headed… wouldn’t that be even more dangerous?”
Hearing this, Li Shishi’s delicate hands clenched tightly, her pearly teeth biting her lip. The worry in her heart intensified.
Beside her, Xu Qing, along with several other Purple Cloud Sect elders and disciples, also revealed expressions of deep concern.
Qu Qirong took a deep breath and parted her red lips gently. “Knowing his character, he wouldn’t have gone unless he was certain.”
She believed in her Tianyu. No matter what happened, he would surely turn danger into safety.
Qing’er spoke softly, “Madam is right. The most important thing for us right now is to protect ourselves and not let Mr. Deng worry!”
