The earth exploded, a giant net covering the sky, enveloping countless Blood Clan experts. The net mouth tightened rapidly, and those Blood Clan experts were like fish caught in a net—trying to break through, but with no way out.
"Earth Net Ultimate Strike!"
Liu Ruyan shouted coldly. Suddenly, the net tightened sharply, shrinking from a radius of ten thousand li in an instant to just a hundred li.
In that instant, the voices of the blood clan experts struggling and shouting inside the net seemed to be cut by a sharp blade, silent and invisible.
Inside the sphere within a hundred-mile radius, the blood clan experts had been crushed into flesh, with countless streams of blood squeezed out. The immense force caused blood to spurt out, covering most of the battlefield—a truly terrifying scene.
"What a ruthless move." Long Chen was startled. He had never seen Liu Ruyan's move before; clearly, this must be the deadly technique she had just mastered.
In the past, Liu Ruyan always used willow branches to attack and never used tree roots. She never expected that her roots were far more powerful than willow branches.
"Ruyan's root is her most powerful killer move. Her roots and branches can evolve yin and yang, self-sufficiency, forming a cycle.
Ruyan said that if it weren't for the help of the Yin-Yang Immortal Herb, it would take her at least several hundred years to comprehend this power.
Yin and yang cycle, heaven and earth evolving the Dao—in this state, she will be immortal and indestructible, with infinite power, the power of heaven and earth never drying up, like smoke never exhausted. Chu Yao said, her tone full of admiration. Liu Ruyan's strength exceeded everyone's expectations. The Undying Nether Willow clan was a terrifying race.
With one move, Liu Ruyan wiped out countless Blood Clan experts before her. A large swath of them was cleared out, giving her a chance to catch her breath. The tree roots sank into the earth, and the endless willow branches continued to kill those Blood Clan experts.
"Hmm?" Suddenly, Xia Chen's expression darkened as he looked back.
"What?" Long Chen asked.
"Boss, someone actually secretly extracted the blood mist from the air and drained part of the essence blood." Xia Chen said softly.
Xia Chen controlled the entire grand formation. Although it hadn't been activated on the surface, the underground had already begun operating.
Xia Chen used the grand formation to draw the blood essence from the battlefield, fusing it together, and then collecting it all together after the battle ended.
Xia Chen had been monitoring the entire battlefield. Everything had been running normally just moments ago, but after Liu Ruyan killed so many blood clan experts in one blow, Xia Chen felt a force secretly drawing out the essence blood from the air.
Although this extraction power was extremely concealed—even Long Chen's keen spiritual senses were clouded—he was caught red-handed in front of Xia Chen's grand formation.
"Is it that Divine Clan relative?" Long Chen asked.
Xia Chen nodded, "Boss, what should we do?" Should we show them some color? "
Don't be so stingy. If you're going to give, give more." Long Chen said with a smile.
Xia Chen also smiled and secretly formed a hand seal with one hand.
Within the faction of the Divine Clan's imperial relatives, there was an elder holding a furnace no bigger than a palm.
The furnace was covered in bloodstains, and with formations running inside, blood mist began to rise. The mist slowly gathered, forming drops after drops of essence blood.
Beside the old man, hundreds of elders blocked with their bodies, and those outside couldn't see their little movements at all.
"Too slow. Can you speed up? This amount of essence blood is nowhere near enough." An elder relative of the Divine Clan urged with some dissatisfaction.
"We can't go too fast. If we get caught, that would be bad." The old man holding the furnace spoke cautiously.
"What are you afraid of? They're just a bunch of rookies who've never participated in a vampire war before, with no experience at all. If we don't take the chance to cash in, we'll be fools. Speed up the pace, or how much can each of us get a share? The old man said somewhat dissatisfied, clearly feeling that the man was being too cautious.
"Alright!"
The old man holding the furnace hesitated for a moment, seemingly convinced that the old man made sense. The furnace in his hand slightly enlarged, from the size of a fist to about a foot.
As the furnace grew larger, the mist inside grew even denser. Drops of essence blood containing endless spiritual energy slowly gathered and dripped down to the bottom of the furnace.
"Grow bigger, it's fine. We'll use our magic to shield you, and no one will notice."
Seeing so much essence blood gathering, the old man was both surprised and delighted, but still not satisfied. Looking at Long Chen and the others, he found that there was nothing unusual about them, and his courage grew even stronger.
"Buzz!"
The furnace trembled slightly, suddenly swelling to over a person's height. Light flickered above the furnace, and more and more essence blood invisibly gathered toward him.
"That's enough, about enough, don't unleash your divine might... Watching the furnace keep growing, even releasing divine might, the old man hurriedly said. Divine might is too conspicuous.
"Stop, stop, or someone will see us..." someone growled in a low voice. The furnace grew larger and the aura grew stronger. This was too blatant. They noticed people nearby and began to look in their direction.
"Stop right now, are you out of your mind?" Seeing that the elder still refused to stop, the elder who had been urging him earlier couldn't help but curse.
"I ... I ..."
The elder controlling the furnace was now pale, his face full of fear: "I can't control it anymore..."
"Buzz" The
furnace rapidly expanded, instantly swelling by a hundred li. The powerful members of the Divine Clan were stunned.
"What are they doing?"
Originally, all the strong warriors' attention was focused on the Dragonblood Legion, but the sudden disturbance from the Divine Clan's relatives immediately drew everyone's attention. Seeing their flustered state, they were momentarily confused about what they were about to do.
"They're extracting essence blood."
As the furnace grew larger and the space roared, people could already see blood streaks merging into the air and merging into the furnace. Some couldn't help but cry out in surprise.
"That's just too despicable. Didn't we agree that during Long Chen's fierce battle, all the gains would belong to him?
The Dragonblood Legion is fighting fiercely at the front, and the Divine Clan's imperial relatives are stealing peaches here—how shameless! "People were stunned. The Divine Clan's imperial relatives are actually this shameless?
"Buzz!"
The furnace swelled rapidly, growing larger and larger, like a towering mountain. The bigger the furnace, the stronger its blood-gathering ability. Their intentions were now fully exposed.
Some righteous cultivators couldn't help but curse, "Divine clan relatives, can you at least show some shame?" Is there anyone as shameless as you guys? Hearing
the crowd's cursing and seeing all the powerful figures, their eyes filled with disbelief, the elders of the Divine Clan's maternal relatives wished they could crawl into a hole in the ground.
"It's a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding. Our Blood Gathering Furnace has been psychic, and when it encounters the essence blood of the Blood Clan, it actually activates automatically. We can't control it at all. Haven't you seen that we're trying hard to control it?" That elder relative of the Divine Clan, after all, was an old fox, and suddenly came up with a very good excuse.
Hearing the old man's explanation, onePeople were half skeptical; those elders were indeed struggling to control the furnace.
"That's a great excuse." Xia Chen smiled, then suddenly changed his hand seal, causing the ground beneath his feet to tremble slightly.
"Boom!"
The furnace suddenly exploded, and the terrifying force instantly pulverized all the elders controlling the furnace, leaving no bones behind.
Seeing this, everyone was stunned. The furnace was nothing more than a pseudo-divine artifact, not a combat artifact. How could it have such terrifying power when it burst open? Hundreds of Tongming Realm experts were wiped out in an instant?
"Well done." Gu Yang patted Xia Chen on the shoulder and gave a thumbs up. Killing without a trace—Xia Chen's move was just too cool.
"Hahaha..." Guo Ran laughed heartily, and everyone looked this way.
Guo Ran immediately sensed something was wrong, quickly stopped laughing, and apologized, "Sorry, I'm new here and don't really understand the rules. I want to ask, should I laugh directly, or should I line up to laugh?" "
Pfft..."
Guo Ran's deserving look made even Meng Qi, Chu Yao, and the others burst out laughing, while Gu Yang and the others laughed heartily without restraint.
Fewer than a thousand members of the Divine Clan came in total. The furnace exploded, killing hundreds in the rear. The elders in front were also so blown out of their breath that their souls nearly faded.
At this moment, seeing Long Chen and the others laughing heartily, Guo Ran laughed even more while slapping his thigh. One of the leading members of the Divine Clan's maternal relatives shouted sternly:
"Bastards, you caused the deaths of so many of our elders. Just wait, I'll go report to the Divine Clan ... right away."
"Hey, hey, are you an idiot? Blind or deaf? Didn't those old guys just now say that the furnace is spirit-connected, and if they want to absorb their own essence blood, they simply can't control it?
Because there was so much essence blood, the furnace ended up bursting itself and killing them. What does that have to do with us? Guo Ran pointed at the elderly relative of the Divine Clan and sneered.
"You..."
The elder relative of the Divine Clan was instantly at a loss for words. In fact, he already knew what was going on.
Those elders secretly extracted essence blood, but he was just turning a blind eye. Of course, if they succeeded, he would surely benefit a bit.
Now, seeing Long Chen and the others laughing heartily, with such sinister laughter, it was clearly their doing. But he couldn't confront them yet, because if it was proven that Long Chen was behind it, it would also prove that these people had indeed secretly extracted essence blood. Now, he could only suffer a silent loss.
"You are clearly gloating. Our divine clan warriors sacrificed themselves to stop the furnace, yet you laugh heartily. This is clearly disrespectful to the divine race." The old man really couldn't find a reason and took out the Divine Clan's sign.
"Forget it. Don't you know what dirty things you've done yourselves? And you still have the nerve to bring up the Divine Clan? You've completely embarrassed the Divine Clan's reputation.
Besides, what's wrong with us laughing? If your furnace can inexplicably go out of control, can't we laugh heartily at the heroic performance of the Dragonblood warriors? It's truly a ridiculous joke in the world. Guo Ran sneered mockingly.
Guo Ran's words were extremely sinister, almost making it clear: if you can be despicable and shameless, we can deal with you ruthlessly. If you have no shame, we don't care about our lives—who is really afraid of whom?
The onlookers fully understood the whole story. When they looked at the powerful relatives of the Divine Clan, they shook their heads, their eyes filled with disdain.