Spirit Realm Chapter 536-539

Chapter 536: Wave of Destruction!

The earth, metal, and water spirits, which had taken over Di Fei’s, Ka Deng’s, and A’Yue’s bodies, now possessed the corpses of ancient elites and made them stand once more.

The ancient giant, giant golden ape, and Merfolk woman radiated potent auras of earth, metal, and water. They glared at the blue sky above them and opened their mouths, soundlessly roaring.

“Boom boom boom…!”

The Land of Buried Gods resonated with a series of tremors. Fissures opened up in the ground as numerous rundown palaces collapsed or burst apart.

Sharp golden beams emanated from the giant ape’s body, shooting into the sky like a fiery beacon. These beams resembled giant golden swords that pierced into and nearly shattered the mystical fabric that made up the Graveyard of Gods, creating an enormous hole.

The sound of flowing water echoed from inside the body of the graceful Merfolk woman as she suddenly began to chant in a soft tone.

Extremely far from the Forbidden Land of Ice, countless streams of water shot from the sea of the Forbidden Land of Water several hundred kilometers into the air.

The earth, metal, and water spirits unleashed all of their amazing powers, seeking to turn the Land of Buried Gods upside down and tear the Graveyard of Gods apart.

Only the ice spirit possessing Jia Yue had yet to take action. No one knew where it was hiding.

This shocking commotion made the eastern barbarians, who had arrived beside the body of the Arrow God, and Gao Yu, who had arrived next to the Evil God’s body, stop what they were doing.

Off in the periphery of the desolate plain, Feng Yiyou, Yu Men, and Su Yan calmly watched the situation unfold.

All of them were looking at the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

“Swoosh swoosh swoosh…!”

Godly chains of light spread from the surface of the Demon Sealing Tombstone, stretching across tens of thousands of meters like strings of glittering crystals. They resembled a rainbow that connected the heavens to the earth.

The seven divine lights of the Demon Sealing Tombstone swept down from the heavens like a whip in the hands of an ancient god. They collectively released a shrill whistling noise and struck the ancient giant, giant ape, and the Merfolk woman.

“Prak prak prak!”

Sparks appeared on the bodies of the ancient elites possessed by the earth, metal, and water spirits. The overwhelming auras of the three bodies became significantly weaker upon being struck by the godly whip.

Everyone fearfully watched the situation develop. The destructive auras of the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the three ancient elites intimidated them, so no one dared to act recklessly.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh…!”

A wave of light rippled outward like a tide in the ocean as the Demon Sealing Tombstone fought the three spirits.

These were terrifying waves of tremendous, refined energy!

“Defend against it with everything you have!” Sen Ye roared.

Every eastern barbarian summoned their spirit energies at the same time. The shields of light that protected each of them instantly lit up, dazzling the battlefield.

All of them were able to live up to this point because their realms were strong and their spirit energies were refined.

When the shields of light brightly came to life, the eastern barbarians prepared to defend themselves with all of their might, their teeth clenched. It seemed as if they had transformed into a thick wall of light.

Their plan was to work together and create a single shield of light, one they would use to resist the residual shock wave hurtling toward them.

However, their resistance was like a praying mantis attempting to stop a wooden cart.

It couldn’t even withstand a single blow.

“Krak krak krak! Bang!”

The instant the shock wave of energy struck the eastern barbarians, one prismatic shield of light shattered after another. They were as fragile as chicken eggs.

Shields of light exploded, and the eastern barbarians hiding inside each of them broke like the yolk of an egg.

They were instantly reduced to pulp.

Aside from Sen Ye, Yan Min, Jiang Tianxing, and a few others who cultivated bizarre spirit arts or possessed extremely sturdy bodies, all of the other eastern barbarians died in droves.

“Uoooooo!”

Clusters of ghosts surrounded Gao Yu as the residual shock wave struck him. He seemed like a god commanding the vile souls of the underworld.

He unleashed dark, shrill howls, making the vile souls and ghosts around him go into a frenzy. The instant the energy waves struck him, he released an astounding amount of evil energy that pushed against them and nullified their terrifying force.

Gao Yu panted heavily, his face a pale white. He could be considered to have barely escaped death.

On the outer edge of the desolate plain, the ring-shaped shockwave spread outward to strike Su Yan, Feng Yiyou, and Yu Men.

Five out of the ten spatial rings that Celestial Artifact Sect’s Feng Yiyou wore on his fingers sparkled with strange lights. A spirit artifact flew out of each one: a shield of flame, a precious set of black-scaled armor, an icy blue flag with a phoenix embroidered into it, a thick signboard, and a cold emerald.

These five spirit artifacts were defensive in nature, moving to form a line in front of Feng Yiyou. They exploded one after another, ultimately preserving his life.

At the same time, Ten Thousand Beast Mountain’s Yu Men instantly took on the form of a beast. The necklace of teeth around his neck released a cold white bony light and condensed into a firm barrier. In this way, he also avoided danger.

The Su Family’s Su Yan, however, wasn’t as lucky as they were. She didn’t have as many spirit artifacts as Feng Yiyou, nor did she have a tough body like Yu Men.

Once the three Profound Grade spirit artifacts she did have exploded, her shield of light subsequently shattered like glass.

And her body followed suit, breaking apart as well.

The terrifying energy shock wave caused by the clash between the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the three spirits spread in every direction and slaughtered more than half of the people that had rushed into the Land of Buried Gods.

Qin Lie’s group looked down at the desolate plain once more and discovered that only a dozen or so people remained.

Most of the eastern barbarians had instantly shattered to pieces in the face of the shock wave.

The wave of energy that rampaged through the Land of Buried Gods killed swathes of eastern barbarians, as well as Su Yan, and passed over the countless remains of ancient elites.

However, no new marks could be seen on the remains of those elites. The shock wave hadn’t even so much as moved them.

“They truly are the bodies of ancient elites!” Du Xiangyang cried out in praise. “Even after being dead for tens of thousands of years, enduring the ravages of time, they still weren’t affected by the residual shock wave caused by the clash between the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the three spirits!”

He and the rest of Qin Lie’s group still stood at the edge of the frozen lake. They hadn’t dared to recklessly enter the Land of Buried Gods, which was why the shock wave that swept through the desolate plain below hadn’t affected them at all.

“I think it would be better for us to keep watching,” Song Tingyu said bitterly.

The shocking turn of events down in the Land of Buried Gods made them even less likely to be rash.

“Sen Ye and Gao Yu are trying to take the bodies of the Arrow God and the Evil God!” Xie Jingxuan exclaimed softly.

The energy shock wave had just rampaged across the desolate plain of the Land of Buried Gods. The Demon Sealing Tombstone and the three spirits had yet to create another shock wave with a new round of combat.

This was the best and probably only opportunity for those who had survived the shock wave.

No one dared to hesitate.

Sen Ye was the first to act!

The black barbarian climbed up to the ruined palace where the Arrow God’s body was, arriving alone at the round altar where the body sat. He fell to his knees and shuffled over to the altar. Then he kowtowed with incredible devotion, using his soul to unleash his reverence and respect.

He even muttered words under his breath.

“Eastern Barbarian Disciple Sen Ye hereby kowtows and invites our progenitor to return to his homeland!”

Sen Ye held an enormous arrow with scarlet feather fletching in his arms, kowtowing every time he moved forward with his knees. Mysterious patterns shaped like a golden three-legged bird were engraved into that arrow. It radiated fiery light and exuded an ancient, mysterious feeling.

As he held the scarlet feather arrow and moved forward on his knees, Sen Ye kept a close eye on the bow that lay on the round altar. Every time he kowtowed then got back up, he stared at it.

The bow that lay there was the Sun Killing Bow!

Sen Ye expressed his devotion by kowtowing, worshipping with his very soul. Using the scarlet feather arrow, an ancient eastern barbarian treasure, as a medium for his reverence, he slowly made his way to the Arrow God.

“Whoosh!”

All of a sudden, the Sun Killing Bow sensed the aura of the scarlet feather arrow, slowly floating into the air and arriving before Sen Ye like a spirit bird.

Sen Ye was overcome with joy. Eyes aglow with the light of passion, he hastily bit his finger and dripped blood onto the Sun Killing Bow.

“Zzt!”

The moment his blood splashed against the Sun Killing Bow, it burst into scarlet flames.

A wondrous ripple of energy connected Sen Ye to the Sun Killing Bow and the Arrow God’s body. An instant later, both the bow and the body flew into the fiery ring on Sen Ye’s finger at the same time.

Frenzied glee gushed from Sen Ye’s eyes. He immediately leaped from the round altar and yelled, “We will retreat from the Land of Buried Gods for now!”

He had already achieved his goal.

In the meantime, Gao Yu also took action.

Clusters of souls floated around him, his ring radiating eerie, evil energy as he walked toward the Evil God’s giant body.

When he arrived at the Evil God’s body, a myriad of ancient Nether Realm runes flew from Gao Yu’s eyes amidst noises that resembled the cries of wronged souls. The runes transformed into sinister, ghastly faces and streamed into the Evil God’s chest where its heart would be.

“Ba-dump!”

Shockingly enough, a powerful heartbeat resounded from the Evil God’s heart.

“Whoosh!”

A pitch black ray of light shot from the ebon heart of the Evil God, descending upon Gao Yu’s head.

Then the hundred-meter-tall body of the Evil God actually travelled along that ray of light, gradually shrinking as it moved toward Gao Yu.

A dozen or so seconds later, the Evil God had entirely vanished into Gao Yu’s body.

Chapter 537: Terrible Scourge

Sen Ye had welcomed the Sun Killing Bow and the Arrow God’s body into his possession, whereas Gao Yu had drawn the Evil God’s body into himself. Upon achieving their goals, both men started evacuating from the Land of Buried Gods as fast as they could.

“Go!” Sen Ye shouted. “Return to the edge of the frozen lake first!”

At his command, the dozen or so eastern barbarians that had been lucky enough to survive the shock wave from earlier immediately turned around and ran back the way they came.

Having taken the Evil God’s body into his own, Gao Yu didn’t hesitate to promptly leave the Land of Buried Gods as well.

Jiang Tianxing was the only one who remained.

In the periphery of the desolate plain that made up the Land of Buried Gods, since Celestial Artifact Sect’s Feng Yiyou and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain’s Yu Men managed to survive the shock wave, they now had the chance to obtain the remains of an ancient elite.

Unfortunately for them, they didn’t seem to be able to retrieve any.

Seeing that even Sen Ye and Gao Yu didn’t dare to be greedy, retreating as soon as they obtained the bodies of the Arrow God and the Evil God instead of trying to obtain more remains, Feng Yiyou and Yu Men forcefully suppressed their own greed. After a brief moment of hesitation, they turned and retreated as well.

They had no choice but to retreat because the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the three spirits had clashed once again, creating a second massive shock wave that was about to spread in their direction.

As a result, Jiang Tianxing was the only one left standing in the Land of Buried Gods.

Jiang Tianxing refused to accept this outcome!

Not many people knew about it, but he and his father were the first ones to learn of the location and mysteries of the Graveyard of Gods.

Both had meticulously planned for the Graveyard of Gods, as well as the remains of the Blood Progenitor and many other ancient elites.

Unfortunately, the most crucial part of their plans, the Demon Sealing Tombstone, had accidentally been taken by Qin Lie.

Without it, the greatest flaw in Jiang Tianxing and Jiang Zhuzhe’s plan to dominate the Graveyard of Gods lay exposed.

The strength of the earth, metal, and water spirits, as well as the ice spirit’s cunning, had greatly exceeded his expectations. They made some of his contingency plans feel hollow and useless.

Both Sen Ye and Gao Yu had managed to achieve their goals.

He, however, was still empty-handed.

How could Jiang Tianxing possibly accept this?

“Haaaaagh… haaagh…!

Jiang Tianxing heaved harsh, nasal gasps, as if a wild demon that had been imprisoned within him for so long… had finally been released.

Rays of intimidating bloody light shot from his eyes, making him appear utterly terrifying.

All of the eastern barbarians that had exploded and died as a result of the previous shock wave, leaving bloody pulp on the ground, were currently flowing toward Jiang Tianxing in an eerie fashion.

From a high vantage point, the blood flowing across the ground looked like numerous bloody snakes. They writhed and squirmed, forming a bizarre, bloody pattern.

“Using the True Soul as the medium… and blood as the fount of power…” Shock filled Xue Moyan’s voice as these words escaped her mouth. “He’s… he’s forming a blood demon!”

A serious expression surfaced on Qin Lie’s face. The Blood Demon Art Jiang Tianxing had executed was slightly different from the one he knew of.

The Blood Demon Art recorded inside of the Blood Codex allowed a martial practitioner to use the power of their own soul to gather the blood from a fresh corpse and bestow it with blood energy, giving it strength. This would make a blood demon rise from the gathered pool of blood, one that the user of the spirit art would then be able to control.

When Jiang Tianxing had executed the “Blood Demon Art,” his hands hung at his sides, blood continuously flowing from the tips of his fingers.

“Drip… drip… drip…!”

Jiang Tianxing’s blood exuded a pungent, iron stench as it dripped into the pool at his feet.

The blood of that pool looked as if it fueled intense flames that instantly became violent and crazy.

The snake-like streams of blood in the surroundings slithered over, also going crazy. They quickly gathered in the pool at Jiang Tianxing’s feet and underwent a grotesque change.

Soon enough, a fiendish blood demon that was around ten meters tall rose from the pool of blood. It unleashed a bloodthirsty roar, emanating an insane aura similar to Jiang Tianxing’s.

On the other hand, Jiang Tianxing’s face was pale as his condition rapidly worsened.

Yet his eyes continued to shine with excitement and madness.

The same kind of light that shone from the eyes of the blood demon.

“Whoosh!”

The blood demon opened its sanguine maw and swallowed Jiang Tianxing in a single gulp. Hi instantly vanished into the blood demon’s body.

The light in the eyes of the blood demon became creepier and more frightening every moment after it swallowed Jiang Tianxing. Its entire body radiated a terrifying aura that struck fear into people’s hearts.

“The Blood Demon Art gathers the blood of the dead and mingles it with soul fragments in their bodies that have yet to completely dissipate. Although blood demons created this way don’t exist very long, they possess terrifying amounts of strength that can temporarily be used to achieve its controller’s goals,” Xue Moyan said, her words tinged with shock.”The blood demon Jiang Tianxing created isn’t quite like the ones that I know of. He… seems to have formed a close connection between his soul and the blood demon in order to unleash the power of his soul and blood.”

She took a deep breath.

“It looks like he’s temporarily merged with the blood demon. If that is truly the case, then Jiang Tianxing has become the blood demon… and the blood demon has become Jiang Tianxing! This way, he’ll be able to keep the blood demon around longer. However, once the spirit art runs its course, he’ll be reduced to a weakened state for an extremely long period of time as well. The blood demon may even devour him instead! Such an outcome is a huge flaw in this altered Blood Demon Art where the blood demon continues to exist after the user’s body has perished!”

“Awooooooo!”

The blood demon looked into the sky and howled angrily.

New shock waves of energy spread from the battle between the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the three spirits. However, when they reached the blood demon, its immense murderous blood aura pushed them aside.

By forming this blood demon using unconventional methods, Jiang Tianxing actually managed to forcefully stay in the Land of Buried Gods instead of retreating at the sight of the shock waves like Sen Yu and his barbarians, Gao Yu, Feng Yiyou, and Yu Men.

However, in order to remain in the Land of Buried Gods, Jiang Tianxing forfeited his rationality and fell into a frenzied state. He was no longer sane enough to think about taking the remains of the ancient elites.

Qin Lie suddenly trembled in realization.

“Absorbing blood is instinct to a blood demon!” he yelled. “Jiang Tianxing created the blood demon in a way that it would instinctively drink as much blood as it wanted! It’ll start sucking the remaining blood from the nearest body of an ancient elite!”

The moment he said this, everyone’s faces filled with shock and terror.

“It’s going to drink the remaining blood inside the bodies of the ancient elites?” Pan Qianqian’s eyes opened wide with fear. “All of these ancient elites were existences that once dominated the world. If any blood remains in their bodies… it would definitely contain tremendous amounts of energy!”

“Here, at the bottom of the frozen lake, the Land of Buried Gods has kept these bodies from decaying.” Understanding flashed across Du Xiangyang’s face. “Their strength, and even their refined energy, may have been completely preserved. This could also mean that every single body of every single elite may still have blood inside of them!”

“What will happen if the blood demon that Jiang Tianxing created drinks all of that blood?” Luo Chen asked.

“Only god knows the answer to that question!” Xue Moyan exclaimed, a worried look in her eyes. “If that happened, Jiang Tianxing may never awaken, and an extremely ravenous blood demon seeking to drain the blood from every living thing could be born into this world!”

“Such a blood demon would ultimately tear its wear out of the Graveyard of Gods and charge into the Land of Chaos!” Qin Lie said grimly.

“That could spell the end of the Land of Chaos.” Xue Moyan smiled bitterly.

In that moment, everyone realized that, if they allowed the demonified Jiang Tianxing to continuously absorb the blood of the ancient elite corpses in the Land of Buried Gods, it could grow into a never-ending evil capable of bathing the world sanguine. Not only would it entirely consume Jiang Tianxing, it might even flood the nine great Silver rank forces and any other living thing in the Land of Chaos with a sea of blood.

“Qin Lie.” an indifferent voice suddenly rang out. “Can you help me find Jia Yue?”

Gao Yu appeared out of nowhere like a lone ghost, standing twenty meters away from Qin Lie. He didn’t take a single step closer.

“The ice spirit corrupted Jia Yue and dominated her soul. I hope that you will be able to help me expel the ice spirit from her body and get her back… if possible.”

Gao Yu didn’t say anything more. He just watched Qin Lie silently.

“I currently don’t have any idea how to go about doing that,” Qin Lie said. After a moment of thought, he asked, “How much do you know about the Land of Buried Gods?”

“The Jiang father and son pair brought news of the Graveyard of Gods to the eastern barbarians,” Gao Yu answered nonchalantly. “According to my knowledge, when Blood Fiend Sect perished thousands of years ago and those who cultivated using human blood were being hunted down, Jiang Zhuzhe and a group of trusted aides escaped to the eastern barbarians. Jiang Tianxing was born of his father’s union with a scarlet barbarian woman. Since the blood of the Scarlet Barbarian Tribe flows through him, the scarlet barbarians consider him half scarlet barbarian.

“When the hunt for Blood Fiend Sect in the Land of Chaos died down and was no longer carried out with such fervor, Jiang Zhuzhe took Jiang Tianxing back westward and they hid amongst Celestial Artifact Sect.

“Both of them know the secrets of the Graveyard of Gods and the Land of Buried Gods better than anyone. Jiang Zhuzhe was the one who told the eastern barbarians to get Thunderblitz wood in preparation for dealing with the thunder spirit. He also told them about the Pure Soul Springs hidden inside of the thunder lagoon.

“He also revealed the fact that both the ancestor and the ultimate treasure of the eastern barbarians, the Arrow God and the Sun Killing Bow, were in the Land of Buried Gods.

“For this information alone, the eastern barbarians could not reject Jiang Zhuzhe’s proposal. Not to mention the fact that the Jiang father-son duo had even told them about the Trial and how elites of the nine great Silver rank forces would be dispatched to the Graveyard of Gods as a result.

“In order for the them to obtain their ultimate treasure and the remains of their ancestor… to eliminate future leaders of the Land of Chaos… to obtain the Pure Soul Springs and the remains of ancient elites… the eastern barbarians gathered hundreds of tribesmen in the Netherpassage Realm and had them enter the Graveyard of Gods through different spatial passageways.

“Jiang Tianxing knew more about the Graveyard of Gods than anyone else in here. Every step he took probably corresponded with a plan that was already in place.”

One piece of information after another, Gao Yu explained everything about Jiang Tianxing that Jia Yue had told him.

This information shocked Qin Lie and the others beyond belief. They never would have imagined that the first ones to solve the mysteries of the Graveyard of Gods would be the Jiang father-son pair.

They hadn’t expected them to be the driving force behind the entrance of the eastern barbarians.

It seemed as though Jiang Zhuzhe, the culprit of the catastrophe that turned the Land of Chaos upside down a thousand years ago, driving Blood Fiend Sect to its destruction, was the terrible scourge behind everything in the Graveyard of Gods.

“Jiang Zhuzhe is extremely terrifying,” Gao Yu added. “According to Jia Yue, many elders of the eastern barbarian tribes respect him and trust him quite a bit. The eastern barbarians believe he may be the key to invading and sweeping through the Land of Chaos.”

“This man vanished for more than a thousand years and has probably been cultivating with human blood in secret. His strength has probably reached the pinnacle of strength in the Land of Chaos,” Qin Lie said, a serious expression on his face. “If he manages to obtain the Blood Progenitor’s body, seize the Bloodthirsty Dragon, and plunder all of the remains of these ancient elites, he may turn the Land of Chaos on its head once more.”

In his eyes, Xue Li’s junior brother, Jiang Zhuzhe, had just become the Land of Chaos’s most terrifying enemy.

Chapter 538: Blood Energy That Reached The Sky

While Gao Yu had been speaking, the demonified Jiang Tianxing began moving toward the nearest body of an ancient elite.

It was the body of a person of the Wood Race.

This person was about two and a half meters tall. This person’s body resembled the trunk of a tree, had skin as brown as wood and as wrinkled as bark. His long, dark green hair looked like the foliage of a willow tree.

This Wood Race clansman had been dead for years. Its body didn’t bear any traces of a soul aura.

It did, however, resemble the branches of an ancient tree that contained abundant life energy.

—An extremely refined life energy, at that!

Up above, at the edge of the frozen lake, Xie Jingxuan and Xue Moyan were watching Jiang Tianxing closely. When they saw him approach that particular body, light flashed through their eyes at the same time.

Both of them were especially interested in the body of this Wood Race clansman. They were both aware of the fact that it held tremendous amounts of life energy, which was extremely beneficial to them.

Xue Jingxuan could use its life energy to enhance her own strength and bring the inheritance she received from the Wood Race to even greater heights.

Xue Moyan, on the other hand, could extract the life energy from this Wood Race clansman’s body and use it to help her mother awaken and recover.

“In order to obtain the remains of these ancient elites, one must first obtain their acknowledgement.” Gao Yu spoke up once more. “You can’t just grab them recklessly.

“Every time an elite perishes, their juniors, relative, and comrades would bring them here. They would then apply a unique mark to these bodies to keep other people from abusing them and prevent any accidents.

“Sen Ye was able to collect the body of the Arrow God and the Sun Killing Bow because he brought an ancient eastern barbarian treasure with him. That scarlet feather arrow was a part of the Sun Killing Bow to begin with, and it contained an aura that the mark on the Arrow God’s body acknowledged. That’s the reason why Sen Ye succeeded.

“As for me, I already obtained the acknowledgement of a soul fragment of the Evil God at the Demon God Mountain Range prior to entering the Graveyard of the Gods.”

Gao Yu looked at Xie Jingxuan, then indifferently said, “Your aura is slightly similar to that of the body of the Wood Race elite down there. You may be able to acquire it.”

He looked at Xue Moyan and shook his head. “You would probably fail.”

“How about him?” Xie Jingxuan and Xue Moyan asked in unison.

They were referring to Jiang Tianxing.

Right now, the demonified Jiang Tianxing had already arrived beside the body of that Wood Race elite. Since blood demons were created from blood, their appearances were normally indistinct and blurry.

This blood demon, however, was different.

It bore a great resemblance to Jiang Tianxing.

It suddenly looked at the body of the Wood Race elite with its bright red eyes.

“Him? He knows more about the Graveyard of Gods than anyone here,” Gao Yu answered.

The blood demon opened its mouth and took a deep, lengthy breath.

“Swooooooooosh…!”

As a result of the blood demon’s actions, the rich life energy within the Wood Race clansman’s body transformed into multiple streams of emerald liquid. These streams flew from the body, mixed with blood energy and refined spirit energy, and actually shot right into the demon’s bloody maw.

“Bang!”

The body of the Wood Race clansmen, which had been brimming with life energy, rotted as all of its essences were extracted from it.

When a gust of frigid wind blew across it a few moments later, the rotted corpse crumbled to dust and spread into the air.

Without the protection of the refined spirit energy, it turned to dust as if thousands of years had gone by in an instant.

On the other hand, the body of the demonified Jiang Tianxing, which already surged with tremendous blood energy, emanated and even greater life force than before. It seemed as if its strength had skyrocketed, becoming several times stronger.

The residual shock waves of energy created by the clashes between the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the three spirit were no longer able to affect him.

“Isn’t that Jiang Tianxing a member of your Celestial Artifact Sect?” Yu Men yelled in a grave tone.

He and Feng Yiyou currently stood at the edge of the frozen lake. They were looking down at the Land of Buried Gods, which looked so vast that it resembled an abyss.

The expression on Feng Yiyou’s face became increasingly grim as he stared at every single one of Jiang Tianxing’s movements.

“Don’t you know that he and Jiang Zhuzhe are evil remnants of Blood Fiend Sect?” Yu Men asked, snorting coldly.

Feng Yiyou wore a dark expression, a complicated look in his eyes. He had yet to answer Yu Men’s questions.

“Celestial Artifact Sect exposed the secrets behind the Graveyard of Gods, the eight god corpses, and the spatial passageway we used to enter this place.” Yu Men’s brow was deeply furrowed. “So why does Jiang Tianxing know even more than you do?”

Helpless in the face of Yu Men’s interrogation, Feng Yiyou finally told him the truth.

“The information on the Graveyard of Gods that Ten Thousand Beast Mountain received did, indeed, originate from Celestial Artifact Sect. However, we got that information… from Jiang Zhuzhe and his son, Jiang Tianxing,” he explained. “The two of them came to Celestial Artifact Sect a hundred years ago, claiming that they knew of a great secret that would influence the future of the Land of Chaos. Jiang Zhuzhe wanted to borrow our strength to force the god corpses to emerge from the bottom of the sea and find the spatial passageway into the Graveyard of Gods…”

“Everything that Celestial Artifact Sect knew about the Graveyard of Gods… you learned it from Jiang Zhuzhe?” Yu Men asked in startled disbelief.

“Correct.” Feng Yiyou smiled bitterly.

“Why has Jiang Tianxing colluded with the eastern barbarians?” Yu Men asked.

Feng Yiyou shook his head. “I don’t know.”

At this point, both Yu Men and Feng Yiyou figured out that the Jiang father-son pair had only sought out Celestial Artifact Sect to use them.

The areas in which the first god corpses surfaced were close to Celestial Artifact Sect. With the assistance of the sect’s elders, Jiang Zhuzhe used Celestial Artifact Sect’s strength to extract those first few god corpses from the bottom of the sea.

This also meant that, without Celestial Artifact Sect’s assistance, the god corpses wouldn’t have appeared one after another, and the spatial passageway into the Graveyard of Gods never would’ve been found.

The Jiang father-son pair had used Celestial Artifact Sect to open the entrance to the Graveyard of Gods. They obviously had their own plan.

The fact that they encouraged the eastern barbarians to send the elites of the three great tribes into the Graveyard of the Gods clearly meant that their plan differed from that of the nine great Silver rank forces.

From the moment that Jiang Tianxing transformed into a blood demon and began sucking the refined blood from the bodies of ancient elites, both Feng Yiyou and the eastern barbarians understood that the father-son pair harbored sinister intentions.

At this time, the Demon Sealing Tombstone hovered above the Land of Buried Gods, continuously discharging dazzling godly lights to suppress the ancient giant, ape, and Merfolk woman that the three spirits had possessed.

Both sides were engaged in fierce battle.

The only thing the Demon Sealing Tombstone cared about was sealing the seven spirits. Regardless of how much trouble the demonified Jiang Tianxing caused, it just didn’t see him as a target.

Therefore, as soon as Jiang Tianxing became able to ignore the residual shock waves that swept across the Land of Buried Gods, it meant that he could stay there and suck the blood from the body of one ancient elite after another.

The blood demon would continuing growing more and more terrifying.

“Someone needs to stop the Jiang Tianxing in his blood demon form!” Du Xiangyang exclaimed. “Otherwise, the remains of those ancient elites will be destroyed and he will just get stronger and stronger. Once that happens, no one will be able to stop him.”

Qin Lie’s group were the only ones who thought this.

Everyone else present, Sen Ye and his eastern barbarians, Feng Yiyou, and Yu Men, had noticed the enormous threat that Jiang Tianxing posed.

Feng Yiyou and Yu Men wanted to attack him, but they didn’t dare to venture into the Land of Buried Gods. Therefore, they could only watch from the periphery.

Sen Ye was hesitating.

After obtaining the Sun Killing Bow, he now had the ability to kill Jiang Tianxing from a distance. However, the eastern barbarians had an agreement with the Jiang father-son pair. The elders of the three great tribes trusted Jiang Zhuzhe trusted and planned to use him to raze the Land of Chaos.

Jiang Tianxing’s attention was currently focused on the remains of the ancient elites, not the eastern barbarians. This was why Sen Ye couldn’t come to a decision.

“If we don’t kill Jiang Tianxing now, all of us will soon die!” Harsh light shone from Luo Chen’s eyes.

He was the first to take action.

“Seven Moon Slash!”

Seven sword beams shaped like crescent moons suddenly shot into the air high above the Land of Buried Gods.

Each crescent sword beam radiated a harsh, sharp aura. They shot toward Jiang Tianxing at the bottom of the frozen lake, each prismatic sword beam growing even more dazzling than before.

At a glance, the seven crescent shaped sword beams actually made it seem as if the a cold midnight moon had come crashing toward the ground.

This was one of Luo Chen’s greatest sword arts.

“Graaaaaaaaaaugh!”

The blood demon roared at the sky, terrifying bloody light erupting from its eyes. Bloody screens of light appeared as it charged toward the incoming attack.

Bloody screens flooded over the seven cold crescents made of bright light, corrupting them with the thick fiendish aura of blood.

The sword beams went dim, their light instantly disappearing.

“Pwack!”

Luo Chen spat out a mouthful of blood as the harshness in his eyes suddenly softened.

This signified that his sword will had dissipated.

“Jiang Tianxing’s blood aura is too powerful. I can’t kill him, and he’ll only grow stronger with each passing second!”

After making this declaration, Luo Chen sat down and focused on treating his injuries.

Qin Lie and the others weren’t the only ones that had been watching Luo Chen attack. The eastern barbarians, Yu men, and Feng Yiyou had been watching as well.

They had seen everything and noticed, immediately after he attacked Jiang Tianxing, Luo Chen spat out a mouthful of blood and sat down.

Although he had initially been hesitant about what to do, an expression of wariness appeared on Sen Ye’s face.

At the same time, shock filled Feng Yiyou’s and Yu Men’s faces.

Chapter 539: Watching From The Sidelines

The demonified Jiang Tianxing hadn’t been killed.

On the contrary, Luo Chen was actually the one to suffer severe injuries.

Qin Lie, who cultivated the Blood Spirit Art, could sense that multiple streams of fiendish blood energy had rushed into Luo Chen’s body. This blood energy was relentless. It continued to ravage Luo Chen’s nerves and internal organs even after his clash with the blood demon.

Luo Chen didn’t dare to waste anymore time talking, immediately sat down, and started the recovery process.

He went through his body eliminating these refined streams of fiendish blood energy, slashing each of them apart.

“Jiang Tianxing definitely wasn’t a match for Luo Chen before transforming into that blood demon!” Du Xiangyang exclaimed, his expression grim. “Yet… now his terrifying aura scares even me.”

“Sen Ye and Feng Yiyou don’t dare to do anything either.” Xue Moyan shared his worry. “They observed Luo Chen’s attack and noticed that Jiang Tianxing is difficult to deal with. They’re probably worried that he’ll attack them if they enrage him.”

“If no one kills him, Jiang Tianxing will just continue consuming the blood of those ancient elites and get stronger and stronger,” Song Tingyu said, feeling a headache coming on. “What are we going to do?”

For a time, no one had an idea what to do about Jiang Tianxing. They felt that they couldn’t actually do anythinghad the feeling that they could not do anything to Jiang Tianxing.

It seemed as if all they could do was just watch him like this.

And, as expected, Jiang Tianxing did continue to act!

This time, the blood form he had transformed into looked at the body of an ancient spirit turtle.

This spirit turtle lay on its back, taking up hundreds of acres within the Land of Buried Gods. It resembled an enormous, four-cornered table with curved sides. Strange patterns reminiscent of the earth’s mysterious pulse were engraved onto the belly of the spirit turtle’s shell, which was turned up toward the sky. A green glow emanated from it.

This potent green energy seemed to float around the spirit turtle like fine silk. It seemed capable of protecting the spirit turtle’s body for an eternity.

However, none of this was a problem for Jiang Tianxing, who had traded his rationality for madness and an instinctive thirst for blood.

The blood demon leaped straight at the body of the ancient spirit turtle!

“Prak prak prak!”

The dense bloody light surrounding the blood demon’s body fiercely clashed with the green energy around the spirit turtle’s body.

“Bang!”

Surprisingly enough, the blood demon that was over ten meters tall suddenly exploded as soon as it collided with the green energy.

It erupted in a huge shower of bloody rain, filling the entire area with a pungent stench.

Seeing this outcome, the eyes of everyone who stood at the edge of the frozen lake, including Sen Ye, Yu Men, Du Xiangyang, and Song Tingyu, lit up with approval.

“Well done!” Pan Qianqian exclaimed.

Qin Lie, however, wasn’t even smiling.

Xue Moyan’s brow was deeply furrowed as well.

Both of them were well aware of the miracles that Blood Fiend Sect’s spirit arts were capable of. They could tell from the way the blood demon erupted, as well as the shower of bloody rain, that it was in fact executing one of Blood Fiend Sect’s spirit arts, Blood Arts: Explode! This was a technique that used blood containing the user’s soul consciousness to corrupt a target’s heart and body.

Bloody rain scattered through the air, penetrating the barrier of green energy the instant it recoiled from the clash and splashing onto the body of the ancient spirit turtle.

The second each drop of blood splashed against the spirit turtle’s exposed belly, they melted into it like water soaking into a sponge.

“All of the blood droplets vanished into the spirit turtle’s body!” Pan Qianqian cried.

Everyone who had just attributed the blood demon’s sudden eruption to good fortune once again grew serious. They noticed that something was amiss.

“Blub… b-blub… blublub…!”

An odd, bubbling noise emanated from within the ancient spirit turtle’s belly, almost as if its blood were boiling.

Realization swept across Qin Lie’s face.

“The Blood Refinement Art!”

“Th-this…” Xue Moyan could barely contain her disbelief. “Even after transforming into a blood demon, Jiang Tianxing can still execute Blood Fiend Sect’s spirit arts…”

“The Jiang father-son pair may be even more difficult to deal with than we thought!” Qin Lie said, his expression so heavy that one could squeeze water from it.

According to the records of the Blood Codex, a blood demon created from the blood of a fresh corpse could only exist as a blood puppet for a short period of time. It would have no intelligence and would not be able to execute any spirit arts. It would only have an inherent desire to kill and an instinctive thirst for blood.

Back in the Nether Realm below the Scarlet Tide Continent, Xue Li had created a blood demon.

That blood demon had been a hundred times stronger than the one that Jiang Tianxing created. Its body had been tremendously large, and its fiendish blood energy overwhelmed both the heavens and the earth.

However, the blood demons that Xue Li were ultimately just puppets that couldn’t execute spirit arts, let alone carry out strategies in combat. They didn’t know how to feign exploding to bits, nor could they use Blood Arts: Explode to create a bloody rain capable of bypassing the defenses of the ancient spirit turtle’s body and directly corrupting its flesh.

The actions that Jiang Tianxing took today seemed impossible even for Xue Li.

Jiang Tianxing even surprised Qin Lie, who was familiar with the records of the Blood Codex. He knew that the Blood Demon Art recorded in the first half of the Blood Codex was nowhere near as eerie or bizarre as this one.

“Could it be that the Blood Spirit Art undergoes a qualitative change after a martial practitioner abandons themselves to evil ways, consumes human blood, and discards their rationality and conscience?” Qin Lie inwardly asked himself.

“Bang!”

The ancient spirit turtle’s body suddenly exploded. The green barrier that surrounded it dissipated since there was no longer any energy to maintain it.

Once the spirit turtle’s body burst apart, the essence within its flesh was quickly drained as well.

“Graaauuuuuugh!”

A roar resounded from the blood demon as it exited the spirit turtle’s remains and reformed itself.

The fiendish bloody aura that it exuded was so potent that it could actually compare to a vast sea of blood. Its aura was so overwhelming that even the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the three spirits noticed the threat that it now represented.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

An icy tornado appeared of nowhere and rushed toward the blood demon, imbued with a freezing frost concept that threatened to turn everything to ice.

A small figure could be seen at the center of this raging tornado, hovering amidst the frigid streams of howling wind.

It resembled a goddess of ice ruling over that icy tornado.

“Jia Yue!” Gao Yu yelled from his position at the edge of the frozen lake, his harsh eyes flashing with excitement.

With a frenzied roar, the blood demon charged toward the approaching ice spirit in its icy tornado, a shocking aura of blood surrounding its reformed body.

An instant later, it rushed into the tornado and clashed with Jia Yue, who was currently possessed by the ice spirit.

Rays of bloody light shot from the tornado and spread in every direction. Incredibly sharp blades of icy light slashed at the blood demon.

The power of absolute frost enveloped the blood demon with layer upon layer of ice like waves of water, seeking to reduce the blood demon to a bloody ice sculpture.

The blood demon howled angrily, madly struggling against the power of the ice spirit. A fiendish blood aura capable of destroying the world shone from its bloody eyes. The silhouettes of the spirit turtle and the Wood Race clansman appeared in the bloody screens of light around the blood demon, seemingly assisting it by empowering its aura and making it strong enough to resist the ice spirit’s sealing power.

“This…” Du Xiangyang was dumbstruck.

When everyone else could only watch Jiang Tianxing plunder one body of an ancient elite after another, the ice spirit actually came out of hiding.

The ice spirit wanted to stop the blood demon from destroying the Land of Buried Gods!

As the master of the Forbidden Land of Ice and the guardian spirit of the Land of Buried Gods, the ice spirit seemed intent on both leaving the Graveyard of Gods and protecting it at the same time. It wanted to use the Graveyard of Gods as a future source of power!

It would never allow the blood demon to continue devouring the bodies of the ancient elites resting in the Land of Buried Gods.

—The ice spirit always believed that these remains belonged to it, and it alone!

This turn of events stunned Qin Lie.

“It looks like we don’t need to do anything,” he said.

The ice spirit had actually appeared at a critical moment to seal the blood demon that Jiang Tianxing had transformed into. It would freeze it, preventing it from further damaging the remains of the ancient elites in the Land of Buried Gods.

This sudden development turned the situation in the desolate plain of the frozen lake into two battles: one in which the Demon Sealing Tombstone fought the earth, metal, and water spirits, and one in which the ice spirit fought the blood demon. All of these combatants were equally matched and completely focused on fighting.

It was as if they had all strangers that were unconcerned with one another.

“Let’s just observe,” Du Xiangyang said, his eyes narrowed. He sat down and took out a couple of spirits stones to recover his strength. “All we need to do right now is watch.”

The rest of the group exchanged glances, then followed his lead and sat down as well. Considering the battle taking place in the Land of Buried Gods, and bit of strength they managed to recover would better prepare them for any shocking changes that could occur in an instant.

Qin Lie also sat down as he watched the battles below with astonishment, waiting for something new to occur.

“Swoosh!”

In the next moment, a bloody light suddenly emerged from the space between Qin Lie’s eyebrows. The bloody bone dragon and the body of the Blood Progenitor, which had been sucked into the Soul Suppressing Orb, surprising flew out along with that light.

“Patak!”

The Bloodthirsty Dragon had become several times smaller than its original size and was now a concave object about half an arms length. It looked like a sanguine dragon bone and glittered with translucent, bloody light.

The Blood Progenitor’s body, on the other hand, was the same size as before, resembling a translucent, bloody ice sculpture.

Swoosh!”

The first half of the Blood Codex, which had been hidden within Qin Lie’s spatial ring, emerged without warning. With the appearance of a bloody bone fragment, it suddenly shot into the Blood Progenitor’s chest, vanishing in a flash of light.

“Whoosh!”

The moment the first half of the Blood Codex emerged the concave object that lay quietly on the ground, which was the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s newest shape, transformed into an armguard. It floated into the air, firmly attaching itself to the left arm of the Blood Progenitor.

In that instant, the Blood Progenitor’s body erupted with brilliant, bloody light.

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