In the starry sky, various force fluctuations had not yet dissipated, colliding with each other.
The thunderous roar was clear, yet the gods of the southern heavens felt only silence in the world, hearing nothing, stunned speechless by the scene before them.
How profound was the cultivation of the Breaking Army War God? Over hundreds of thousands of years, he had endured countless battles, forging an unparalleled reputation. Who would have thought he would face such a calamity?
Moreover, the attacker was not a divine venerable, but the Blood Absolute War God, who had cultivated for only a hundred thousand years.
“It is not real, it cannot be real. How could the Breaking Army War God have his divine sea shattered? His divine origin exploded?” muttered one divine general.
The divine sea was a domain sustained by the divine soul and mental will. Even if a god’s physical body was utterly destroyed, the divine sea could remain intact.
The divine origin was one of the hardest substances in existence.
Without a divine venerable, who could shatter the divine sea of a Great God in the Void Realm? Who could crush the divine origin of a Great God in the Void Realm?
A Main God!
Only a Main God could achieve it.
By wielding the power of axioms, by harnessing the power of heavenly rules, forcing destruction upon it.
The Six Great Lords reacted swiftly. Mental force avatars appeared instantly in the Light Yin Death God Grand Array, pulling half of Lan Pojun’s divine body out.
Half a divine body, left only with legs and waist.
A god’s divine soul was already fused throughout the body, in every drop of blood, every inch of bone.
Lan Pojun’s divine soul was not extinguished, his vitality not severed.
Vast blue blood qi surged from the severed waist, spreading upward, forming blood vessels, tendons, bones, and skin, condensing into a complete body.
Though Lan Pojun’s body had recovered, his aura had greatly diminished. His entire form was pale blue, no longer carrying the midday sun might of a war god. Instead, he resembled a translucent figure.
“Blood Absolute, you have ruined fifty thousand years of my hard cultivation. When I…”
Lan Pojun had meant to say, “When my cultivation recovers, I will avenge this blood debt.” But realising his divine origin was shattered, he was now a crippled god. Vengeance was hopeless. In future, he would face mockery from gods across the realms and humiliation from past enemies.
At this thought, rage surged to his heart, mingled with despair and sorrow.
“Puff!”
Lan Pojun spat a mouthful of divine blood and fell backward to the ground.
The Blood Absolute War God stood in the void, his feet on the Fifth Heaven, looking down with a cold snort. “If your mental will were not firm enough, if your divine soul were not strong enough, how could I have breached your divine sea? You claim the title of war god, yet you fall far short. You possess only cultivation and divine power, nothing more.”
The Six Great Lords ordered two divine generals to carry Lan Pojun back to the Life and Death Ruins. His heart burned with fury as he declared, “Blood Absolute, even if you are a Palm Dao Main God, I do not believe your cultivation and divine soul strength alone could summon such immense power. I dare say the Palm Dao axioms have backlashed against you. The heavenly rules of Palm Dao that shattered the Breaking Army War God’s divine sea have also wounded you.”
The Six Great Lords made this judgement because Blood Absolute War God was truly too young. His divine soul’s strength could not compare to those Great Gods who had cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years.
Wielding Palm Dao axioms to summon the heavenly rules of Palm Dao required a powerful divine soul as support.
The more heavenly rules of Palm Dao summoned, the stronger the divine soul needed.
Otherwise, the influx of heavenly rules of Palm Dao, not belonging to Blood Absolute War God, would harm him.
It was like a warrior who could only swing a hundred jin war hammer insisting on wielding a two hundred jin one. Each swing might hit harder, but exceeding the body’s limits would surely injure oneself.
Blood Absolute War God laughed loudly, halberd in one hand, seal formed in the other. “If that is so, then enter the array and battle me for three hundred rounds. No, thirty rounds will suffice!”
The Six Great Lords’ gaze turned icy. “Do you know that by crippling the Breaking Army War God’s cultivation, you have sealed your own death today.”
“If you lack the courage to fight, just say so. Why all this nonsense? I dared to slaughter my way to the southern heavens. Do I need you to remind me of the consequences?”
“Roar!”
A dragon’s roar shook the heavens, tearing spatial cracks.
Blood Absolute War God thrust his Blood Dragon War Halberd, striking toward the Six Great Lords’ position.
“Boom.”
In the void, dense array inscriptions emerged, some personally drawn by the Ancestor Holder. These array inscriptions transformed into dark red death forces, forcing Blood Absolute War God to retreat.
The death forces shuttled like lightning, ripping through the Fifth Sea, reaching Blood Absolute War God’s feet before being shattered by the Blood Dragon War Halberd.
Yet, holes appeared in Blood Absolute War God’s armour, over ten blood cavities.
The gods of the southern heavens saw the array’s power repel and wound Blood Absolute War God, and only then did they breathe a secret sigh of relief.
Blood Absolute War God’s combat prowess was truly terrifying, filling them with fear.
The Six Great Lords stood beneath the Light Yin Death God Tree, giving a cold smile. “This is the heart of the southern heavens, the Light Yin Death God Tree. Not even a divine venerable could force their way in, let alone you, Blood Absolute.”
Blood Absolute War God had no doubt about the Light Yin Death God Tree’s defences. If it could not withstand a divine venerable’s assault, how could it be the forbidden ground of the Death Clan? The Life and Death Ruins would have long been reduced to ruins.
Like the Kunlun Realm of old, with its incomparable defences. The surrounding starry skies were filled with divine patterns, heavenly patterns, and grand arrays. Countless gods from the Hell Realms had died outside Kunlun.
Countless Hell Realm powerhouses had attacked together, yet returned empty-handed.
Seeing Blood Absolute War God fall silent, the Six Great Lords continued, “The Light Shadow Death God Grand Array is now active. This array has inscriptions personally drawn by the Ancestor Holder, no different from heavenly patterns. With your cultivation, you will only be refined to death by the array. You have one path to survival. Do you wish to know it?”
Blood Absolute War God snorted coldly, saying nothing.
The Six Great Lords said, “Your slaughter of the southern heavens is an unforgivable crime. Killing you would be justified. But the Breaking Army War God is crippled by you, and the southern heavens have suffered heavy losses. If you pledge allegiance to the southern heavens, serve the Ancestor Holder as master, and take the war god position in his place, then today, you may live.”
Blood Absolute War God’s gaze was scornful. “Do you think I am unaware of the southern heavens’ might? Do you think I do not know the Light Yin Death God Tree’s array can slay gods? Do you think I am blinded by hatred to come here and unleash slaughter?”
“No, it is only because this breath in my chest is stifled. If it remains so, I can never live freely in this life. A person lives on one breath, a Buddha contends for one stick of incense. In this life, I, Blood Absolute, will never bow my head!”
“Today, I will kill my way into the Life and Death Ruins. I will ask the Ancestor Holder face to face, what is right and wrong, what is justice in these heavens and earth?”
The Six Great Lords knew the Light Shadow Death God Grand Array’s might. Seeing the blood holes in Blood Absolute War God’s body, a trace of contempt arose in his heart. “Where is there justice in the world? Mighty strength is justice. The southern heavens are justice.”
“Good! I have waited for those words. Then, crippling Lan Potian and killing you is also justice! Because mighty strength is justice.”
Blood Absolute War God let out a long howl, some sound waves piercing through the layered array inscriptions, landing on the ten divine beast generals presiding over the array. It shattered their eardrums, dizzied their minds, and nearly ejected their divine souls from their bodies.
The Six Great Lords’ mental force instantly enveloped the ten divine beast generals, shielding them from Blood Absolute War God’s sonic assault.
“Blood Absolute has already overextended the Palm Dao axioms, wounding himself. In this short time, he cannot summon large-scale heavenly rules of Palm Dao. Seize this chance to refine and kill him.” Murderous intent gleamed in the Six Great Lords’ eyes.
If Blood Absolute War God was not slain today, where would the southern heavens’ dignity stand?
The Six Great Lords extended an index finger, pointing to the firmament. A brilliant beam surged from his fingertip.
“Splash!”
The beam split into over ten thousand light threads, surging into the Light Yin Death God Grand Array.
The grand array fully activated. In this starry sea, countless stars rotated together, like a massive millstone in the cosmos.
From the moment his body was pierced with over ten blood holes, Blood Absolute War God had not stemmed the flow of divine blood. The ten-plus holes cascaded like blood waterfalls, all spilling into his divine realm world, dyeing the somewhat ruined world blood red.
On Blood Absolute War God’s back, fourteen pairs of golden wings were enormous, like twenty-eight golden worlds, each line like a mountain range.
Now, on the golden wings, vast blood-red ancient patterns emerged, emanating a mysterious charm.
A mental force god from the southern heavens’ Life and Death Ruins gazed intently. “This is… Ancestral patterns…”
Given Blood Absolute War God’s talent, awakening ancestral patterns was no surprise. The key was, why was Blood Absolute War God using his vast divine blood to blood sacrifice the ancestral patterns?
“An-cestor!”
Blood Absolute War God seemed to expend all his strength, shouting these two words.
At once, in his divine realm world, blood qi dispersed, revealing a figure far taller than Blood Absolute War God himself.
It was the divine body of the Blood Absolute Ancestor, with twenty-four pairs of golden wings on his back.
Though the Blood Absolute Ancestor had fallen endless ages ago, his divine body did not decay. It sat eternally in the Blood Absolute Clan’s ancestral land, nourished by the blood qi of the longevity blood tree’s mother tree, the clan’s greatest foundation.
The ancestral divine body appeared in this starry sky, erupting with incomparable might. The array inscriptions in the Light Yin Death God Grand Array shattered continuously, and stars on the Light Yin Death God Tree turned to fireballs and fell.
The Six Great Lords was awed by the Blood Absolute Ancestor’s might and cursed, “This madman Blood Absolute has actually brought the Blood Absolute Clan’s ancestral divine remains to the southern heavens.”
“How many years has the Blood Absolute Ancestor been dead, yet he still holds such powerful aura? Why do I feel like a Heavenly Venerable is about to revive!” a mental force god said, voice trembling.
The Six Great Lords fumed, “Can you not see that Blood Absolute War God is nourishing the ancestor with his own divine blood, awakening the power within the ancestral body via the ancestral patterns? And in the Blood Absolute Ancestor’s remains, there is a terrifying divine origin. That power…”
The Six Great Lords’ words halted.
Only to see, on the Blood Absolute Ancestor’s massive divine body, dense ancient patterns emerged, coming alive. One foot stamped down, and in the Light Shadow Death God Grand Array, countless planets plummeted.
The ten divine beast generals who had been controlling the array all shrieked in agony, reduced to blood paste.
Blood Absolute War God stood before the Blood Absolute Ancestor, gaze haughty, might unmatched for the moment. “If you can rouse all the array, divine patterns, and heavenly patterns of the Light Shadow Death God Tree to full revival, then in today’s battle, I, Blood Absolute, will accept death. But relying on a single grand array to refine me to death? You are far too ignorant of the heights of heaven and depths of earth.”
Rebuked by a god far younger than himself, the Six Great Lords burned with rage, but reason overcame emotion. He immediately rushed toward the Life and Death Gate, intent on fleeing back to the Life and Death Ruins.
With Blood Absolute War God bringing the ancestor, even the Light Yin Death God Grand Array could not suppress it. How could he dare remain?
“You still wish to flee?”
The ancestor reached out, fingers clenching, capturing the Six Great Lords in his palm and crushing his body into a mist of qi.
“Did you not say the southern heavens are justice? Then I shall seize you and ask the Ancestor Holder personally what the southern heavens’ justice truly is.”
Blood Absolute War God and the Blood Absolute Ancestor, carrying the Six Great Lords who wailed shrilly as a mist of qi, strode resolutely through the Life and Death Gate. They left behind two mental force gods paralysed on the ground, legs unresponsive, unable to stand.
