The Lord of Origin Heaven saw Feng Qi and the Nine-Tailed Heart Fox hesitating to advance, and burst into wild laughter. “Feng Qi, with your cultivation, if you dare to come forward, you will surely perish utterly.”
“This seat has long desired to subdue a phoenix as a mount.”
The Lord of Crimson Soul released the divine might of a supreme god at the great perfection stage.
Feng Qi’s expression shifted repeatedly, yet he remained defiant. “You lot must not be arrogant!”
He did not charge forward, still keeping a safe distance for escape, and spat out phoenix divine flames from his mouth.
A sky full of fiery rain fell into the ranks of the death clan army.
At the same time, the Nine-Tailed Heart Fox took out a golden silk pouch. The opening of the pouch expanded to hundreds of metres wide, and from within rushed out hundreds of thousands of colourful flying insects.
These were the Illusion Sound Demonic Insects.
After the hundreds of thousands of Illusion Sound Demonic Insects flew out, their wings vibrated, emitting hallucinatory demonic sounds. The sound waves quickly spread into the death clan army.
The soldiers of the death clan were affected one after another. Some laughed maniacally without reason, some suffered splitting headaches, some wailed in madness…
“Petty tricks!”
The Lord of Origin Heaven struck out with the bronze bead. Ancient scripture texts appeared once more, exploding the hundreds of thousands of Illusion Sound Demonic Insects into clouds of blood mist.
The divine soul of the Nine-Tailed Heart Fox suffered injury. Her face turned pale in an instant, her delicate body swaying unsteadily. She finally realised the terrifying gap in cultivation realm between a lower god and a supreme god. Her full bosom heaved continuously, and thoughts of retreat arose.
Earlier, Feng Qi had also clashed once with the Lord of Origin Heaven in a confrontation of divine souls, but he had suffered a hidden loss.
Though both were at the peak of supreme god level, he was far weaker than the Lord of Origin Heaven by a wide margin.
“A supreme god peak refined by the primordial calamity is indeed far more powerful. Only a supreme god at great perfection can suppress him,” Feng Qi thought to himself.
The Heavenly God Sacrificer spoke indifferently. “Ignore them. Continue building the altars… Hmm…”
The Heavenly God Sacrificer used his mental power to probe into the seawater, but he did not detect Luo Jinshu.
Previously, Luo Jinshu’s divine body had been severed into two sections by the Lord of Origin Heaven and fallen into the sea. The sudden appearance of Feng Qi and the Nine-Tailed Heart Fox had distracted the Heavenly God Sacrificer.
In that moment of distraction, the two sections of Luo Jinshu’s divine body had mysteriously vanished.
The Heavenly God Sacrificer did not think much of it, merely assuming that the gods of the Tianchu Civilisation had arranged concealment methods in the seawater, thus aiding Luo Jinshu’s escape.
Yet he grew more vigilant in his heart.
Thousands of miles away, on a reef island dozens of zhang in size, Zhang Ruochen spoke to himself. “Such powerful mental power. I was nearly discovered by him!”
Beside him, the two sections of Luo Jinshu’s divine body recombined.
But because the death qi from the Lord of Origin Heaven had invaded his body, a blood line remained at his waist. The pain was secondary. The main issue was that his divine qi could not circulate normally, greatly reducing his combat strength.
Luo Jinshu endured the pain in his body and bowed deeply to Zhang Ruochen. “Many thanks to this dao friend for saving me…”
“No! Absolutely not! Dao friend Luo must not perform such a grand courtesy. We are both gods of the Heavenly Court at the same time. It is my duty to act,” Zhang Ruochen said righteously and sternly.
He dared not accept this bow from Luo Jinshu, lest Luo Ji learn of it in the future and make explanations difficult.
After all, this was Luo Ji’s father!
Luo Jinshu only thought that the daoist before him was a highly virtuous hidden cultivator of the dao sect. Admiration arose in his heart. “If Luo survives today, he will surely repay dao friend’s grace of rescue in the future.”
He held the Primordial Calamity Thunder Wood Staff, intending to charge once more toward the sea region shrouded in death qi.
Zhang Ruochen quickly stopped him. “Dao friend is already injured. Why seek death needlessly?”
Fearlessness shone in Luo Jinshu’s eyes as he laughed loudly. “Who would choose death if they could live? But Luo has sworn to coexist and perish with the Tianchu Civilisation. The Divine Chun Tree is in grave peril. How can there be reason not to fight to the death? Dao friend is not a cultivator of the Tianchu Civilisation. Coming to the Tianchu Civilisation to join the battle is already great righteousness. In today’s battle, dao friend must not go!”
Zhang Ruochen saw that Luo Jinshu had resolved to detonate his divine source and perish together with the hell realm gods. He could not let him leave. “It would not be too late for this poor daoist to help you dispel the death qi in your body first.”
Luo Jinshu hesitated briefly, then nodded in agreement.
He realised that the Heavenly God Sacrificer’s mental power was extremely strong. If injured, even charging over, he could not detonate his divine source. Achieving mutual destruction would be impossible.
Zhang Ruochen formed a dao finger and pointed at Luo Jinshu’s waist and abdomen.
“Whoosh!”
A circle of light appeared, rotating around the two, drawing out the death qi from Luo Jinshu’s body strand by strand.
A strange gleam appeared in Luo Jinshu’s eyes. “Is this Taiji?”
Zhang Ruochen knew he could not conceal it from him. “The Tianchu Civilisation truly lives up to being the origin of the dao sect. This poor daoist’s minor skills cannot fool dao friend Luo.”
Luo Jinshu gazed at the thick death qi clouds in the distance and sighed. “Dao friend’s attainment in dao arts is profound. This Taiji circle holds great mystery. If there were no war, Luo would truly wish to drink wine with dao friend while discussing the dao. That would be a great joy in life.”
“Naturally so,” Zhang Ruochen replied.
While healing Luo Jinshu, Zhang Ruochen pondered ways to turn the situation around.
Luo Jinshu asked, “Can dao friend discern what the altar beside that Heavenly God Sacrificer from the Death God Hall is?”
Zhang Ruochen had already investigated earlier. “That altar should be related to space.”
Luo Jinshu, who was undergoing healing, suddenly shone with brilliant golden light in his eyes. He cried out “Not good!” and broke free from the Taiji circle, rushing toward the Divine Chun Tree at maximum speed.
But it was too late!
The two altars had already been successfully constructed.
On the Suppression Inscription Altar stood thirty-six death clan array mages. They chanted sounds that could not be clearly heard, their staffs pointing straight at the sky.
The ten great lords flew over together. Divine qi from their bodies turned into ten torrents, surging into the altar.
The entire sea region trembled.
The divine inscriptions and array inscriptions protecting the Divine Chun Tree were frozen, rapidly dimming.
However, relying solely on one Suppression Inscription Altar to erase the divine inscriptions and array inscriptions left by generations of gods in the Tianchu Civilisation was clearly impossible.
The Heavenly God Sacrificer stood on the other altar. Mental power from his body surged out through his staff, illuminating the spatial patterns on the altar.
“Crack!”
Behind the altar, the spatial rift restricted by divine inscriptions emitted tearing sounds and gradually expanded.
From within the spatial rift came a godly roar that made all cultivators present tremble.
“Invite the War God Qingkong to descend upon the Tianchu Civilisation and destroy all ignorant beings in this great world,” the Heavenly God Sacrificer chanted loudly.
“Whoosh!”
A cyan divine blade over ten li long flew out from the spatial rift, severing the divine inscriptions on the sea surface and flying straight toward the Divine Chun Tree.
This was a strike from a peerless war god, slashing across space.
Without the Suppression Inscription Altar, the array inscriptions and divine inscriptions protecting the Divine Chun Tree might still have held. But now, the cyan divine blade slashed forth unstoppable, shattering arrays one after another.
Even the divine inscriptions left by the Old Heavenly Lord could not withstand it.
A full-power attack from a war god at the pinnacle among great gods was not something divine inscriptions alone from boundless realm gods could block.
“Boom!”
The cyan divine blade ultimately struck an array tower, splitting the upper half of the tower.
The large number of Tianchu Civilisation soldiers guarding below the tower were swept by the aftermath of the cyan divine blade and instantly turned to blood sand, not even a bone remaining.
The ten great lords of the death clan all gasped in shock.
Too powerful!
This was the power they should pursue. A single strike breaking all laws in the world.
This strike from the cyan divine blade opened a breach for the death clan army toward the Divine Chun Tree.
Led by the ten great lords, grey death qi surged like a tide rushing forward.
The complexion of Lord Yuetong guarding below the Divine Chun Tree changed drastically. Escape was impossible now. He could only repair the arrays with all his might, holding for as long as possible in case reinforcements arrived.
Feng Qi had long withdrawn his attacks and said cautiously, “The general trend is lost. A top great god from the death clan is about to descend. We must leave. We cannot stay here any longer, or soon we will not even be able to escape.”
“Luo Jinshu has gone to attack the Heavenly God Sacrificer!” the Nine-Tailed Heart Fox exclaimed in shock.
Feng Qi sighed. “He seeks to fight to the death, but that Heavenly God Sacrificer’s mental power is too profound. Even a great god of the Taiyi Realm might not be his match. Going there, he likely will not even have the chance to detonate his divine source!”
Seeing the cyan divine blade shatter the array tower, Luo Jinshu was filled with utter despair, knowing the Divine Chun Tree was in imminent peril.
The only chance now was to destroy the altar beneath the Heavenly God Sacrificer and prevent that death clan war god from descending upon the Tianchu Civilisation. Unfortunately, the Heavenly God Sacrificer’s mental power was unfathomably deep. With his cultivation, charging forward was like an egg striking a stone.
“Feng Qi, lend me your strength,” Luo Jinshu roared.
Feng Qi dared not advance and hesitated indecisively.
“Dao friend Luo, this poor daoist will assist you!”
Zhang Ruochen stepped on a light talisman the size of a door plank, catching up to Luo Jinshu in a flash of wind and lightning.
Deep gratitude appeared in Luo Jinshu’s eyes. He nodded fiercely at him. Then, divine blood and lifespan burned simultaneously within his body. His aura climbed continuously, soon reaching the peak of supreme god level.
The Heavenly God Sacrificer’s white hair flew wildly, his gaze cold. “There are still those unafraid of death.”
“Nine Heavens World-Shaking Thunder Art!”
Luo Jinshu held the Primordial Calamity Thunder Wood Staff with both hands and soared upward. Above his head appeared a massive thunder vortex.
Within the vortex, explosive sounds rang out incessantly, electric light shuttling.
The Primordial Calamity Thunder Wood Staff struck down directly toward the Heavenly God Sacrificer.
“Even if you give your all, your attack is merely at the peak of supreme god level. Yet this sacrificer is a seventy-sixth order mental power divine spirit!”
The Heavenly God Sacrificer raised his staff. Death念力 released, forming a grey hazy world illusion that dispersed all thunder and lightning, fiercely striking toward Luo Jinshu.
After sensing the opponent’s seventy-sixth order mental power intensity, Luo Jinshu was utterly resigned. His gaze became one of facing death calmly. All divine qi within his body surged toward his divine source.
“So what if it is seventy-sixth order? This poor daoist is also seventy-sixth order!”
“Behold this poor daoist’s Five Elements Divine Talisman!”
Zhang Ruochen appeared beside Luo Jinshu. A multicoloured great talisman a thousand zhang long rose from the sea surface like a multicoloured waterfall, colliding with the grey world illusion struck by the Heavenly God Sacrificer.
