C1158 The Ants Shaking a Big Tree
The Dragon Slaying Stage radiated a brilliant divine light as Yu Yuan channeled all his might into it. This artifact, a creation of the Voidweaver and meticulously refined by a dragon slayer from Boulderdawn, began to voraciously draw upon Yu Yuan's Soul Power and vitality. Determined to break free from this realm and the Root of the Solar Meridian, he was prepared to do whatever it took.
Once Yu Yuan discovered the secrets hidden within the Primal Blood Continent, he realized that as long as they remained, there was no chance of achieving any further victories. Staying meant certain death.
In that moment, the Dragon Slaying Stage transformed into a colossal beast, greedily consuming the Star River with a bloodthirsty fervor. Yu Yuan's spirit became hazy from the draining of his vitality and remnant soul, nearly causing him to faint. With no other option, he retrieved several pills from his Cosmos Ring and swallowed them all at once.
The stage expanded exponentially, resembling a towering, jagged mountain range enveloped by layers of Spacetime Walls. It unleashed a tremendous force capable of piercing the heavens and shredding the Star River.
"Shatter!" Yu Yuan commanded.
With a hiss, a series of radiant space rifts tore open in the void before the Dragon Slaying Stage, each emitting an aura of desolation, silence, and eternal nothingness.
Yu Yuan's roar was like a command to cleave the heavens and shatter all barriers and seals of the world. The dark red sky, impacted by the raw power of the Dragon Slaying Stage, suddenly revealed dense patterns of blood. These patterns converged, shining with a mesmerizing light, as if chronicling the profound mysteries of life's origins and the awakening of bloodlines.
From the dark red wall emerged an indifferent supreme will, regarding the universe's living beings with the detachment one would reserve for inanimate objects. The will of the Root of the Solar Meridian, deeply buried within the Primal Blood Continent, seemed to surge from the earth's core to the wall that sealed this world in a single breath.
It watched, with a cold indifference, as Yu Yuan, in his hubris, wielded the Dragon Slaying Stage to puncture the sky. Amidst the dark red wall, a splendid array of stars burst forth, accompanied by blazing suns and crescents bathed in an emerald glow.
The sun and moon both glowed with a blood-red hue, resembling immense, scarlet eyeballs that sent shivers down the spine.
The stars above sparkled with a kaleidoscope of colors, dazzling and wondrous.
A spectacular sight unfolded in the heavens!
Boom!
The Dragon Slaying Stage tore through the void, striking the dark red barrier. Multicolored stars burst into oblivion, and the blood-red suns and moons seemed to be pierced and shattered by the Dragon Slaying Stage.
A shower of light cascaded down, causing space to quiver and the Primal Blood Continent to thunder.
Yet, in the next instant, new suns and moons took their place, with fresh stars reemerging across the sky!
The space rifts, once split open, were permeated by the force of the laws hidden within the Primal Blood Continent, sealing swiftly.
Yu Yuan, having ascended, stood at the rear of the colossal Dragon Slaying Stage, his figure drenched in blood, his visage ghastly. It seemed that a single blow had dealt him a severe lesson.
His mighty strike, unstoppable as it was, dissipated without a trace, leaving barely a mark on the barrier.
Despite his efforts, even with the renewed Dragon Slaying Stage in hand, he was like a mayfly shaking a mighty tree—insignificant.
Yu Zhu, Yu Yiyi, and the Songbird Queen, who had ascended alongside him, were also struck with terror.
The three women formed a protective triangle around him, each employing their mystiques and arcane arts to conjure a multitude of light shields, barriers, and ice walls.
This was to guard against any powerful Blood Fiend members who might seize the opportunity to invade.
"Hehe."
Perched upon a towering peak, Munch, who had lived for tens of thousands of years, stood with his hands clasped behind him, eyes slightly squinted as he gazed up at Yu Yuan, who had failed to breach the barrier and sustained heavy injuries. "I said it before, our Blood Fiend's holy land isn't a place just anyone can enter on a whim. For millennia, the primordial spirits and Dark Deities of the Everlands, when passing by, have mostly chosen to steer clear."
"They didn't dare to tread lightly or barge in. What makes you think you can?"
"The Dark Realm of the Shura is off-limits to all beings of the Star River. Isn't the Primal Blood Continent of my people just as sacrosanct?"
Boom!
The Golden Elephant God, towering a thousand feet tall, watched as the three blood bound slaves he had refined were struck down. They first demolished a mountain upon impact, then were buried under an avalanche of rocks.
It was only due to Tan Junshan's timely intervention that the Golden Elephant God merely crashed to the earth instead of plunging into the seething blood lake where the King of Wraiths had met his end.
"The demonform of the King of Wraiths has been dissolved and absorbed. The exceptional dark adept from Tan Xiaotian's ranks will never grace this world again," Munch cackled wildly. "In the Primal Blood Continent, even a dark adept of the Unbound realm meets such a fate. After the King of Wraiths, you're next, old elephant!"
The three colossal blood bound slaves soared into the blood-red rivers, seemingly drawing in vital energy, amassing power for their assault on the Golden Elephant God.
"The King of Wraiths has perished?" Yu Zhu gasped in shock.
Yu Yiyi, clad in dark armor and quietly marshaling a host of Bane, gave a slight nod. "I can no longer detect his soul's presence. As soon as he plummeted into that boiling lake, his Lunar Spirit, Solar Spirit, and dominant soul began to fade, vanishing swiftly."
"The King of Wraiths is indeed dead," Chen Qinghuang confirmed with cool certainty.
She gracefully removed her crown, unveiling a face of unrivaled beauty that had become known across the Primal Blood Continent.
The woman, whose fame had surged in recent years within the Everlands, called forth a nest wreathed in an endless death aura from deep within her acupoint.
Standing within the nest, she gestured for Yu Yiyi and Yu Zhu to bring Yu Yuan inside.
After a brief hesitation, the two women supported the nearly spent Yu Yuan into the grim nest, now thick with the scent of death.
A crescent moon ascended from the ravine where the Golden Elephant God had fallen.
Atop the moon stood Tan Junshan, a recluse of the Moon Sect, his expression dark as he peered down at the Golden Elephant God, now entombed in rubble. With a furrowed brow, he declared, "Grec is regaining his memories."
"Memories?" Yu Yiyi called out.
Tan Junshan hummed affirmatively, glancing toward the turbulent lake where the King of Wraiths had sunk. "Grec of Ionodios should have been vanquished by the triad of God-Kings from Boulderdawn. Yet it seems his memories and the sophisticated blood magic he mastered in his later years have been seized by an unseen force, thrust into the reborn Grec's body from afar."
"How can Cao Yi possibly defeat him?" Yu Yiyi's face was etched with bitterness. "Now I see why Cao Yi, initially in control, suddenly found himself on the back foot, humiliated by the youthful Grec."
This was because Grec, shortly after his rebirth, had already assimilated another self. The Grec who had perished at the pinnacle of the Ionodios Realm had silently transferred his vast wisdom, memories, and knowledge across the boundless Star River to the Grec now before us.
Thus, Grec had achieved a true resurrection!
His bloodline level and combat prowess might not have fully returned, but this Grec was the same patriarch of the Blood Fiend who had lived for millennia and had rarely tasted defeat across the vast Star River.
No matter how exceptional Cao Yi was, he had not ascended to the rank of supreme primordial spirit, nor had he become the mightiest being in the Everlands.
Not having reached his ultimate potential, he was clearly no match for the fully revived Grec.
"Hehe."
At the feet of the Titan, the once youthful Grec was now beaming with joy as he extracted a twisted blood shadow from deep within his brow.
This distorted blood shadow was none other than Cao Yi, the prodigy of the Ebon Star.
The blood shadow underwent continuous transformations, with intricate unknown patterns and blood runes surfacing, as if to reshape and refine Cao Yi.
In a short time, the blood shadow contracted sharply and Cao Yi reemerged.
His dark red pupils, ablaze with crimson flames, Cao Yi stood silently behind Grec, now a sentinel like Knox and Quealy, effectively Grec's guardian.
He had been transformed into a blood bound slave.
Grec's features, meanwhile, were rapidly shifting. Coarse stubble sprouted at his temples and around his mouth as he transitioned from a boy to a young man.
The brightness and integrity that once adorned him were now supplanted by a sterner and more rugged demeanor. A commanding presence, unique to a figure of his stature, began to emerge and intensify.
"Yu Yuan, we meet again."
