Chapter 420: Plotting to Kill Tang San
Shortly after, north of Jialing Pass.
A Spirit Empire transport army was rushing through the night.
They were escorting grain, medicine, and spare spirit tools, preparing to send them to the Heaven Dou front line.
The officer in the unit looked exhausted but was not flustered.
The front line was winning battle after battle.
Angel God Qian Renxue was personally presiding over the situation.
In their view, this war had no suspense left.
But suddenly, the ground began to tremble.
A soldier frowned and said, "What is that sound?"
The next moment, from deep within the night, came a dull ringing of a hammer.
Boom—
Immediately after, a second sound.
A third.
It was like thunder rolling across the ground.
On the road ahead of the transport army, six tall figures slowly walked out of the black mist. They held gray-black Clear Sky Hammers, were wrapped in Rakshasa Death Qi, their eyes hollow, and their expressions stiff.
The person in the lead had the heaviest Aura.
It was the Undead Tang Xiao.
The Spirit Empire officer's expression changed abruptly.
"Clear Sky Hammer?"
"No... they are not living people!"
He wanted to order a defense.
But the Undead Tang Xiao had already raised his Clear Sky Hammer.
The next instant, the giant hammer fell.
Boom—!
The entire mountain road collapsed directly.
Dozens of grain carts were smashed into fragments by a single hammer strike.
Screams erupted.
The five Undead Clear Sky Sect Elders followed closely, charging into the military formation.
The Clear Sky Hammer was originally the number one Tool Spirit under heaven, but now, contaminated by Rakshasa Death Qi, it lacked a bit of its fierce righteousness, yet gained a bit more sinister poison and destruction.
Every time the hammer fell, it brought up large swaths of purple-black Death Qi. The soldiers were not only smashed away, but their Souls would also be forcibly extracted by the Death Qi, flying toward the rakshasa altar in the black mist in the distance.
In just a short moment, this transport army completely collapsed.
The grain was destroyed.
The medicine was burned.
The escorted spirit tools were all smashed to pieces.
And the Souls of those dead soldiers became nourishment for Tang San to restore his undead Origin.
On a distant mountain peak.
Tang San watched this scene quietly.
The Dragon God Claw scar on his chest faded a bit more under the replenishment of a large number of Souls.
A hint of satisfaction appeared in his eyes.
"Very good."
"The Clear Sky Hammer is indeed useful."
"Tang Xiao, Uncle."
"When you were alive, you could not protect the Clear Sky Sect."
"After death, just destroy the Spirit Empire for me."
The Undead Tang Xiao stood in the firelight.
The gray-black Clear Sky Hammer hung at his side.
His hollow eyes had no fluctuations at all.
Tang San looked toward the direction of Heaven Dou City in the distance.
There, Qian Renxue should still be forcing Heaven Dou to surrender.
He smiled slowly.
"Qian Renxue."
"The faster you fight, the faster I kill."
"When you look back, you will discover."
"The cities behind you have long since all turned into my death grounds."
The black mist churned again, and Tang San disappeared into the night with his undead army. Meanwhile, in the rear that the Spirit Empire had just conquered, an unexpected Rakshasa disaster fire had already begun to burn.
Star Dou Great Forest, Great Fierce Land.
This was the most core and mysterious area of the entire Star Dou Great Forest.
Ancient giant trees blocked the sky and sun, and thick tree roots coiled on the earth like horned dragons. The air was filled with an extremely rich Aura of life, but at this moment, mixed within this life Aura was a pungent smell of decay.
That was the Death Qi left behind by the Rakshasa divine force.
Although Tang San had already retreated, the pollution he brought had not completely disappeared.
Large swaths of land remained black, many ancient trees had cracked bark, and their leaves were withered and yellow. The ground still held the bloodstains of ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts, as well as hollow corpses left behind after having their Souls extracted by the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe.
Further away, Bi Ji was healing the injured Soul Beasts. A blue-green light constantly spread from its body, like a gentle spring rain, falling upon the scarred forest.
Xiong Jun stood to the side, his chest still bearing several wounds deep enough to see bone.
The dark gold fur on his body had been corroded by a large amount of Rakshasa Death Qi, and some places were already charred and cracked. But he still stood tall there, his eyes full of suppressed rage.
Chi Wang's three heads panted low, and there were quite a few wounds on his body.
The edges of Zi Ji's dragon wings were split with several gashes, and the Aura of the Hell Dragon was obviously somewhat unstable. Ten Thousand Demon King was rooted in the earth, controlling vines to slowly absorb and clear the Rakshasa Death Qi in the ground.
In this battle, although the Star Dou Great Forest forced Tang San to retreat, the cost was not small.
Just at this moment, a stream of light interwoven with cyan-gold and blue-gold suddenly lit up in the distant sky.
The stream of light was extremely fast, and wherever it passed, the vegetation that had been polluted by the Rakshasa divine force actually trembled slightly, as if it had sensed some kind of extremely intimate Aura.
Bi Ji looked up first.
A hint of joy appeared in its eyes.
"He is here."
Xiong Jun also turned to look, snorting a puff of hot air from his nostrils.
"Hmph, this kid did not arrive too late."
Chi Wang said in a deep voice:
"I hope he can really deal with that madman."
The next instant, the stream of light landed in the Great Fierce Land.
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
Nor was there any overbearing Divine Might pressure.
Tang Chuan held the Sea God Trident and landed slowly on the edge of the Lake of Life. The blue-gold Seagod's Light flowed on the trident, while the cyan-gold life Aura slowly spread from his body.
As soon as he landed, the vegetation around him that had been polluted by Rakshasa Death Qi began to recover its vitality bit by bit, as if experiencing sweet rain after a long drought.
The blackened grass leaves turned green again, and under the withered and cracked bark, new tender buds emerged.
The smell of decay in the air was also diluted a lot by the power of life.
Tang Chuan looked around, his gaze sweeping over the corpses of the Soul Beasts, the dead ancient trees, and the injured Ferocious beasts one by one. His expression sank bit by bit as he asked:
"Tang San has been here."
Di Tian stood in front of the Lake of Life. He did not fully reveal his true form, but instead transformed into a man in black. His golden eyes were deep and majestic, and his body faintly radiated the ancient Aura of the Black Dragon King. Seeing Tang Chuan arrive, Di Tian spoke slowly:
"You are one step too late."
Tang Chuan walked forward and looked at Di Tian.
"How is the situation?"
Di Tian did not answer immediately, but instead glanced at the surrounding Ferocious beasts.
Bi Ji gently flapped its wings, continuing to treat the wounded.
Xiong Jun snorted coldly but did not interrupt.
Di Tian then said: "Tang San brought a group of Undead Titled Douluo and broke into the Star Dou Great Forest. He first slaughtered ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts in the outer and middle areas, extracting beast Souls and the Origin of life."
"There are no fewer than hundreds of dead Soul Beasts, among which the loss of Soul Beasts over ten thousand years is the heaviest."
Tang Chuan's eyes turned cold.
Di Tian continued:
"He is not simply killing."
"He is forcing us to show ourselves."
"Xiong Jun made the first move, and Bi Ji also left the core area to treat the severely injured Soul Beasts."
"Tang San had already calculated this point."
"His true targets were Xiong Jun and Bi Ji."
Tang Chuan looked at Xiong Jun and Bi Ji.
Xiong Jun grinned, revealing his cold fangs, and said:
"That human is very sinister."
"He used ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts as bait to lure me out, and then used severely injured Soul Beasts to force Bi Ji to appear."
"If it were not for Di Tian's final move, Bi Ji might have really been severely injured by him."
Bi Ji sighed softly:
"Tang San's Rakshasa Demonic Scythe is very dangerous."
"It does not just attack the Physical Body; it can directly tear apart the Origin of life and the Soul."
"If I were struck in a vital spot by him, my Origin of life would likely be forcibly stripped away."
Tang Chuan gripped the Sea God Trident tightly.
"He has already begun collecting the Origin for the Rakshasa Ninth Trial."
Di Tian nodded and said indifferently:
"Correct. He admitted it himself: the Rakshasa Ninth Trial requires devouring the Origin of life of Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beasts to condense the Rakshasa Divine Set."
"The stronger the target and the deeper the resentment, the more complete the Divine Set. Xiong Jun, Bi Ji, Chi Wang, Zi Ji, Ten Thousand Demon King, and even I, are all on his hunting list."
Tang Chuan was silent for a moment, then asked:
"What about the undead?"
Hearing these two words, the expressions of all the Ferocious beasts became ugly.
Zi Ji said coldly:
"Very troublesome. Those undead around Tang San have no sense of pain, no fear, and even if broken, they are reassembled by the Rakshasa divine force."
Xiong Jun took over, his voice full of anger:
"I tore them apart several times."
"But those things are like mud; they can crawl back up after being broken."
"If it were not for Di Tian's Dragon God Claw being able to destroy their Origin, we really would have been worn to death by them."
Tang Chuan looked at Di Tian.
"You used the Dragon God Claw?"
Di Tian nodded.
"I did."
"The Dragon God Claw can destroy their undead Origin."
"With one claw, I smashed all eleven undead. At the same time, through the connection between them and Tang San, I injured Tang San's true body."
Tang Chuan's eyes flickered.
"Is the injury severe?"
Di Tian said indifferently:
"Not light."
"The Dragon God Claw left a wound on his chest."
"In a short time, he cannot fully recover. But the problem is, those undead have not truly disappeared."
Tang Chuan frowned slightly.
Di Tian continued:
"Tang San bound the core imprints of those undead to the rakshasa altar."
"After I destroyed their undead bodies, they were resurrected by the rakshasa altar again."
"Although their Auras are a bit weaker than before, they can still fight. As long as the rakshasa altar is not destroyed, those undead are difficult to truly clear."
A cold light flashed in Tang Chuan's eyes.
"That is to say, we must destroy the altar core inside Tang San or in the Rakshasa Space."
Di Tian said:
"Correct. Simply killing the undead is meaningless. Kill them once, and they resurrect once. Tang San can even replenish their power again as long as he continues to swallow Souls."
Tang Chuan nodded slowly.
He finally understood the truly troublesome part of Tang San now.
It is not just the Rakshasa divine force, not just the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe, but that he has already established a cycle centered on the Souls of slaughtered cities, Soul Beast Origins, and undead Puppets.
Kill people and swallow Souls to repair the undead.
The undead fight and continue to kill.
Collect more Souls to advance the Rakshasa Ninth Trial.
As long as this cycle is not interrupted, Tang San's power will become stronger and stronger.
Di Tian looked at Tang Chuan, his golden eyes flickering slightly.
"Tang Chuan, your Aura has changed."
"You pulled out the Sea God Trident?"
Tang Chuan did not hide it, raising the Divine Artifact in his hand.
"The Sea God's Eighth Trial has passed."
"The Sea God affinity has also reached its peak. But the final Legacy has not yet been completed."
Di Tian's gaze fell on the Sea God Trident, and after a moment of silence, he said: "No wonder. I felt the divine force of the ocean from you, and also felt a stronger Origin of life."
Xiong Jun snorted.
"Still a bit away from becoming a god?"
Tang Chuan nodded.
"Still a few final steps away."
Xiong Jun frowned:
"Then can you kill Tang San now?"
Tang Chuan did not answer immediately.
He looked into the depths of the Great Fierce Land, and then at the Soul Beasts being treated by Bi Ji.
After a moment, he said slowly:
"If it is just the current Tang San, I can kill him. But the premise is that he cannot escape into the Rakshasa Space."
Di Tian's eyes narrowed slightly.
"The Rakshasa Space is indeed troublesome. When he retreated, he used the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe to tear open space and escape. My second Dragon God Claw had not yet fully fallen, and he had already escaped into it."
Tang Chuan said:
"Therefore, to kill him, we must first seal the Rakshasa Space. Otherwise, even if we severely injure him, he can escape and go to slaughter cities and swallow Souls to recover."
Bi Ji said softly:
"But how to seal it? The Rakshasa divine force is inherently good at shadows, resentment, and spatial rifts, and Tang San also has the Divine Artifact, the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe."
Tang Chuan looked down at the Sea God Trident in his hand.
"The Sea God Trident can suppress space. My Blue Silver Emperor can cover the earth's life network. Di Tian's Dragon God Claw can destroy the undead Origin. If the three cooperate, it is not impossible to trap him."
A sharp light flashed in Di Tian's eyes.
"You mean, use the Blue Silver Grass as a net, use the Sea God's power to suppress space, and use the Dragon God Claw to cut the connection between the undead and the altar?"
Tang Chuan nodded.
"Correct. Tang San's biggest trump card right now is the rakshasa altar and the undead army. The undead cannot be killed because their core imprints are still in the altar. As long as the connection between the undead and the altar is cut during battle, your Dragon God Claw can truly destroy them."
"And I will use the Blue Silver Emperor Life Domain to purify the Rakshasa Death Qi in their bodies, weaken the altar's pull on them, and then use the Sea God Trident to suppress Tang San's Rakshasa Space. This way, he will not be able to escape so easily."
Di Tian pondered for a moment.
"But if Tang San notices something is wrong, he might not fight us head-on. He now prefers to slaughter cities, launch sneak attacks, and force people to divide their forces."
Tang Chuan's eyes turned cold.
"Therefore, we cannot be led by him. If he wants to swallow Souls, he must kill people. If he wants to complete the Ninth Trial, he must continue to search for the Origin of Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beasts. If he wants to recover from the injury caused by the Dragon God Claw, he will go to densely populated cities or continue to hunt high-level Soul Beasts. What we need to do is to make him have nowhere to kill."
Xiong Jun frowned:
"Nowhere to kill?"
Tang Chuan raised his hand.
In his palm, a Blue Silver Emperor appeared.
Cyan-gold light spread from the leaves.
Immediately after, all the Blue Silver Grass around the Great Fierce Land lit up.
Waves of weak but continuous life fluctuations spread along the earth toward the outside of the entire forest.
"On the Douluo Continent, Blue Silver Grass is everywhere. From now on, I will have all the Blue Silver Grass monitor the Rakshasa Death Qi. As long as Tang San appears, I will be able to sense it immediately. Here in the Star Dou Great Forest, we can also establish a life barrier through the resonance between the Lake of Life and the Blue Silver Grass. If he dares to enter the forest again, he will be exposed immediately."
Surprise appeared in Bi Ji's eyes.
"You can achieve this level?"
Tang Chuan nodded.
"I could not do it before. But after pulling out the Sea God Trident, my control over life and the ocean has improved a lot. The ocean connects to the edge of the continent, and the Blue Silver Grass covers the interior of the continent. As long as you give me some time, I can set up a life perception network that covers the entire continent."
Di Tian nodded slowly.
"This can indeed limit Tang San's actions."
Zi Ji spoke:
"But the Spirit Empire is at war with the two great Empires. Human cities are in chaos, with many deaths and injuries. Tang San is very likely to take advantage of the chaos to flank and continue to swallow Souls."
Tang Chuan's eyes sank, and he said:
"It is already happening."
Di Tian looked at him.
Tang Chuan closed his eyes and sensed for a moment.
Through the Blue Silver Grass, he had already faintly captured the Death Qi coming from afar.
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