Chapter 229: The Price of Intervention!
An enormous, bright moon hung high in the vault of heaven, like a colossal ancient mirror, illuminating one mountain of corpses after another in the night.
"Rumble—"
A tremendous explosion resounded throughout the entire night, spreading outwards. The terrifying energy ripples caused everyone's vision to distort in waves. At this moment, it seemed as if even the stars in the sky were tottering and on the verge of falling.
The stench of blood shrouded every place the eye could see. Every so often, a flash of blood-red light swept past. And wherever that blood-red light passed, it was invariably littered with corpses stretching across the wilderness and rivers of flowing blood.
This was a true catastrophe!
"Roar—"
"Brat, what's going on?! The power of heaven and earth you're controlling seems to have weakened considerably!"
"Jie Jie Jie! More and more territory is being seized by our clan. The Plane Spirit is also becoming stretched thin!"
"When the Plane Spirit can no longer attend to you at all, that will be your time to die!"
Across the sky, the Fire Evil Clan experts battling Xiao Yan all sneered and jeered.
Hearing the crowd's mocking laughter, Xiao Yan's expression remained calm. The Heavy Xuan Ruler in his hand swept out, wielding what seemed like an endless, inexhaustible power of heaven and earth. However, compared to before, the power of heaven and earth contained within this attack had already weakened considerably.
Yet, Xiao Yan continued regardless, ferociously and fiercely clashing with the numerous experts of the Fire Evil Clan.
The terrifying attacks instantly collided like meteorites. An earth-shattering, heaven-startling boom resounded. A visible shockwave swept forth like a tempest, suddenly spreading outwards.
The surrounding space was in a state of collapse at this moment. The earth below trembled.
Roar!
The ten-thousand-zhang demonic shadow let out a deafening roar. Its giant palm clenched, pulling out a blood-red giant staff, roughly a thousand zhang long, from the sea of fire. It fiercely swung it down. That blood-red giant staff directly brought up a ten-thousand-zhang blood light, howling towards Xiao Yan with a thunderous boom.
Clang!
Yet, a heavy ruler enveloped in seven-colored flames pierced through space and arrived. The sound of clashing metal rang out. Amidst the splashing sparks, it blasted the fiery-red giant staff back.
However, no sooner had the giant staff been repelled than, in the next second, a ferocious, malevolent great spear followed closely behind, bringing countless afterimages that thrust towards Xiao Yan overwhelmingly. Each and every spear shadow was world-destroying, their aura extraordinary.
Xiao Yan had no choice but to once again mobilize his power and entangle with the incoming spear shadows.
Such was the treatment he received at this moment. Ever since his ability to control the power of heaven and earth had been exposed, these Fire Evil Clan experts had attacked Xiao Yan as if gone mad—wave after wave, endless and unceasing.
Meanwhile, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and the other experts of the Dou Qi Continent were all tightly encircled by the Fire Evil Clan's experts, completely unable to spare any attention elsewhere.
Compared to the Dou Qi Continent, the Fire Evil Clan's experts were far too numerous. They could simply overwhelm them with sheer numbers.
"Hahaha! Gu Yuan, your situation doesn't seem too good!"
Just at that moment, from the distant direction of the Central Plains, a great burst of laughter transmitted over. Immediately following, layers of black mist suddenly surged forth in the sky. The black mist coiled and finally transformed into an enormous spatial passage. One after another, vast and sinister auras surged out violently.
As the black mist churned, and the Hun Clan—who seemed even more like an evil clan than the Extraterritorial Evil Clan itself—made their appearance, the temperature between heaven and earth plummeted. A chilling, gloomy aura spread outwards.
The black mist seethed, and Hun Tiandi's figure materialized out of thin air. He watched Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Xiao Yan, and the others locked in great battle below, a faint smile surfacing on his face.
"Hun Tiandi!"
Seeing the Hun Clan appear, the hearts of the numerous experts of the Dou Qi Continent immediately turned cold. Wolves ahead, tigers behind—were they truly doomed to perish here today?!
"Hun Tiandi, spare us your sarcastic remarks! If we are wiped out, your Hun Clan will follow in our footsteps in an instant! Right now, only by working together with one heart do we have a sliver of hope!" Gu Yuan responded to his opponent while simultaneously calling out to Hun Tiandi in the sky, hoping he wouldn't make an unwise decision.
"I can help you. However, I need a little... assistance from you!" Hun Tiandi looked at Gu Yuan, a strange, eerie smile appearing on his face.
For some reason, seeing Hun Tiandi's smile, Gu Yuan's heart instantly chilled. An ill foreboding surged within him.
"I never imagined this Lower Plane would have an expert like you!" At that moment, Leighton temporarily abandoned his attack on Zhu Kun, halted his form, and frowned as he looked at Hun Tiandi.
"You are the clan head of this race?" Hun Tiandi appraised Leighton with keen interest. The other's strength was very formidable. The him of before would absolutely not have been a match. But now...
Hun Tiandi had the confidence to defeat him.
"The greatness of my clan is beyond your imagination! I am merely a single commander. Above me, there are even stronger experts—Demon Emperors—in command. If they were to descend upon this continent, they could annihilate you all in an instant," Leighton, hearing this, spoke with an arrogant tone as he looked at Hun Tiandi.
"Oh~~~" Hun Tiandi, upon hearing this, revealed an expression of curiosity. "Demon Emperor? Could that be the equivalent of a Dou Di expert?"
"No matter. Allow me to test your mettle first!" Without waiting for Leighton to answer, Hun Tiandi shook his head with an indifferent expression and spoke in a relaxed tone.
"Blood Demon Heart-Eroding Thunder!"
In the next second, Hun Tiandi's eyes abruptly turned blood-red. His finger suddenly pointed towards the blood-red clouds in the sky. As his finger pointed out, the blood clouds immediately began to writhe violently, like a giant organ. Then, they fiercely contracted inward!
"Boom, boom, boom!"
As the boundless, endless blood clouds contracted, the sky also collapsed downwards. Pitch-black spatial rifts spread across the sky at a terrifying speed. In the next instant, the blood clouds abruptly expanded. Countless blood-red thunderbolts, each the size of a mountain, directly shot madly towards Leighton below in a torrential downpour.
The power contained within each and every one of those blood-red thunderbolts was enough to make anyone turn pale with horror.
"You've merely taken half a step! How dare you act so arrogantly before me!"
Leighton gazed coldly at the descending blood-red thunderbolts and sneered. With a flick of his hand, a great banner appeared in his grasp. The moment it began to wave, the entire world seemed to be shaken and begin tilting.
"Rumble!"
Across the sky, the blood-red thunderbolts madly blasted towards Leighton. Yet, as he brandished the great banner, the space around him seemed to begin distorting, forming an absolute spatial domain. No matter how berserk the blood-red thunderbolts were, they were unable to break through to reach him.
"This is..." The scene before them thoroughly broadened the horizons of the people of the Dou Qi Continent. They had never imagined that a single weapon could possess such tremendous power.
"This is a Divine Artifact. It seems your Lower Plane has no inheritance regarding artifact refiners. In that case, allow me to broaden your horizons next!" Leighton watched the crowd's reaction. He was briefly taken aback, then instantly understood. No wonder the people of the Dou Qi Continent had rarely used weapons up until now during the battle. Even when they did, they were merely ordinary objects forged from some strange metals.
So it turned out they lacked the inheritance of artifact refiners!
This was not surprising to them. Compared to the Great Thousand World, the inheritances of Lower Planes were indeed limited. Some Lower Planes had inherited the art of alchemy; some Lower Planes were proficient in the path of arrays; others were skilled in artifact refining...
Some had nothing at all, possessing only the path of cultivation. It was rare for a Lower Plane to possess all sorts of inheritances, letting a hundred flowers bloom. This, too, was a form of suppression by world hierarchy.
"Seems I underestimated you. But don't underestimate the methods of my Hun Clan either!" Hun Tiandi stared fixedly at the great banner in Leighton's hand and spoke in a deep voice.
"Form the array!"
As Hun Tiandi's commanding shout fell, the Hun Clan's experts swiftly arranged themselves in formation. Black mist surged forth violently like a flood, finally rapidly transforming into an enormous black seal, tens of thousands of zhang in size. The black seal hung suspended in the sky. Its colossal shadow seemed as if it wanted to completely shroud the entire vault of heaven!
"Seal of Annihilation!"
"Jie Jie Jie..."
Watching the black seal descending from the sky, Leighton let out a strange, eerie laugh. He vigorously brandished the banner in his hand. Dense, thick blood-red mist surged from within the banner, transforming into an incomparably giant hand that grabbed directly towards the Seal of Annihilation.
"Bang!"
As the two collided, a tremendous boom resounded beside everyone's ears. This very heaven and earth seemed to erupt with overwhelmed, overburdened groans and creaks.
"Ptooey!"
As the two attacks collapsed, Leighton merely swayed slightly, nothing more. In contrast, the Hun Clan's great army all vomited mouthfuls of fresh blood, emitting numerous blood-curdling, miserable howls and wails.
"Kill—"
Leighton watched this scene with dark, sinister eyes. With a long roar, he brandished the battle banner in his palm. As the battle banner fluttered and waved with a hua-la-la sound, it emitted a strange, peculiar power that made the morale of the Fire Evil Clan members soar. Unstoppably, they pushed the battle lines towards the Central Plains.
"I wonder... if devouring you lot could allow me to advance even further?"
On the battlefield, Nihility Devouring Flame turned his gaze towards the Fire Evil Clan members pushing towards the Central Plains. An ancient, hoarse voice slowly transmitted out.
As Nihility Devouring Flame's hoarse voice gradually faded, terrifying black flames suddenly spread around his entire body. In the mere blink of an eye, the black flames filled the entire vault of heaven.
Then, the sky-covering black flames suddenly and slowly drooped down, forming round objects resembling embryonic eggs. Black flames coiled around these round objects. Faint traces of blood-red light quietly seeped out from the black flames and finally shot into those embryonic eggs.
"Bang! Bang!"
As the blood-red light surged in, those densely packed black-flame embryonic eggs suddenly exploded open. Instantly, one blood-curdling, sharp, piercing scream after another resounded in the sky. Densely packed black-flame shadows poured down from the sky like a torrential rain, finally madly surging towards the battlefield below.
Watching the black-flame shadows sweeping down densely from the sky, the expressions of everyone in the mountain range changed drastically. They hurriedly circulated their Dou Qi and evil qi to defend. Although they didn't know what these things were, the sense of crisis they conveyed was not deceiving.
However, just as the forces of both sides had raised their energy defenses, a flash of black light flickered before their eyes. Immediately following, quite a few people felt a pain in their chests. Lowering their heads, they saw that a massive bloody hole had already appeared in their chests. Fresh blood and internal organs shot out...
"This is... the Devouring Spirit Clan!" Zhu Kun, bathed in blood, seized one of the black-flame shadows. After getting a clear look, he immediately spoke in a deep voice.
He then abruptly let out a long roar: "Ancient Dragon Clan! Defend against the enemy's sneak attacks with full force!"
"This is my clan's aura! The Devouring Spirit Clan! I never imagined you actually devoured the Devouring Spirit Clan! And furthermore, you seem to have even inherited its abilities?!" Over here, Leighton also grabbed a Devouring Spirit Clansman. Shock and surprise filled his eyes as he looked at Nihility Devouring Flame.
"Jie Jie Jie..." Seeing Leighton's reaction, Nihility Devouring Flame suddenly emitted a strange, eerie laugh. In the next instant, before he could even feel pleased, a massive fist appeared in his vision.
"Boom—"
In the sky, Nihility Devouring Flame's figure smashed towards the ground like a cannonball, directly splitting the earth open into a ten-thousand-zhang abyss.
"Heh—" In the sky, Leighton appeared where Nihility Devouring Flame had just been standing. He looked down at Nihility Devouring Flame below and sneered coldly, "A minor race that hasn't even produced a Heavenly Sovereign, relying on a bit of devouring ability to throw its weight around in a Lower Plane... who gave you the confidence to threaten my Fire Evil Clan?!"
"Ah—"
"Bastard—"
A furious, enraged roar came from deep within the earth. With an explosive bang, Nihility Devouring Flame flew out from the depths in a wretched state, his face dark and gloomy as he stared at Leighton. Feeling the contempt in the other's eyes, an even greater rage blazed in his heart.
"Nihility!"
Just as Nihility Devouring Flame was about to lose control, a low shout rang out beside his ear. Hun Tiandi, carrying the severed head of a Fire Evil Clan member, silently appeared at his side.
"Hun Tiandi—"
At that moment, another furious, low roar transmitted over. Hun Tiandi furrowed his brows slightly. A palm, pure and lustrous as white jade, reached out and collided precisely with the large hand that extended from the spatial rift ahead.
"Boom—"
Instantly, the two ferociously collided. A storm of destruction immediately swept outwards...
"Gu Yuan! Do you want to start an internal conflict first?!" Hun Tiandi stared with a dark, gloomy expression at Gu Yuan, who stepped out from the spatial rift.
Hearing this, Gu Yuan's stern shout, tinged with a trace of fury, also rang out in the sky: "It is you who has no intention of cooperating at all! You allow Nihility Devouring Flame to devour the experts of our three clans! If you keep playing these duplicitous games, even if I, Gu Yuan, must die, I will drag your Hun Clan down with me!"
Seeing this, Hun Tiandi first surveyed the situation around the battlefield. Finding that the time was ripe, a faint smile also appeared on his face. "Gu Yuan, do you remember what I said when I arrived?"
Gu Yuan barely maintained his calm, watching Hun Tiandi in bewilderment, waiting for the other to continue.
Over on this side, Zhu Kun, Zhu Ming, Zi Yan, and Medusa had already quietly drawn the Ancient Dragon Clan and were stealthily moving towards the battlefield on the Northwestern Continent.
Meeting Gu Yuan's puzzled gaze, Hun Tiandi looked towards the distant Leighton, the Fire Evil Clan, the Gu Clan, the Lei Clan, the Yao Clan, and the experts of the Central Plains. A wild, unrestrained, great laugh erupted from his face: "Hahaha— Everyone, what follows is the most magnificent funeral I have prepared for you all! Allow this Emperor to lead each and every one of you to tread upon that realm which no one has set foot on for ten thousand years!"
Hearing Hun Tiandi's words, as old acquaintances, the unease in the hearts of Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and the others grew even more intense.
Hun Tiandi was absolutely not one to make baseless claims. He definitely had some earth-shattering, heaven-shaking grand conspiracy.
"Boom—"
Without giving anyone time to react, suddenly, the entire Central Plains, the space surrounding the entire battlefield, all began to tremble violently at once.
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