Chapter 373: The Wind Stops
On the mortal realm, in Jiaozhou, amidst the mountains.
Ye Long’s tiger eyes filled with tears, his strong body trembled slightly as he knelt towards a dissipating figure in the sky.
“Master!”
That figure was the old man Gu Jian.
He had already exploded under the sword of the Nascent Soul puppet, his body and spirit destroyed, completely fallen.
His gratified voice drifted in the wind: “Disciple, your master passed away long ago. What appears now is just a lingering obsession. There’s no need to be too sad. To find an inheritor like you is my fortune, haha…”
The gentle breeze dispersed, and his voice dissipated with it.
The monsters in the ancient battlefield were indeed people who had been lost in it for countless years.
Legend had it that there was an opportunity for immortality within, so many Grandmasters would venture into it to seek their fortune. However, that battlefield was too strange, causing countless people to become lost, and under the erosion of various forces, they slowly turned into monsters.
Their consciousness had decayed, and as Gu Jian had said, only a wisp of obsession remained.
Even if awakened, they could not last long.
Before long, they would once again sink into chaos, becoming mindless monsters, and perhaps they could never be awakened again.
To fall in this glorious battle was their best ending!
“Boom…”
They blocked with their lives, like moths to a flame, dissipating one by one into the world, buying more time for Chu Liang.
Above the sky, Liang Changsheng’s expression was solemn. He took out a third jade pendant and crushed it forcefully.
“Demon Seed, appear!”
The moment the jade pendant shattered, the capital city of the mortal realm suddenly shook.
With a bang, the imperial mausoleum of the Great Liang Dynasty exploded.
A blood-colored figure soared into the sky!
Blood light filled the air, demonic energy surged, and a terrifying sea of blood reappeared in the world!
“Is that the Blood Demon?” someone exclaimed, recalling the tragedy of the Blood Demon’s chaos a hundred years ago.
“No, it’s not the Blood Demon, the aura is different,” a decrepit old Grandmaster shook his head. He had seen the Blood Demon from afar when he was young, and although he was afraid and did not dare to attack, he remembered its aura.
“If it’s not the Blood Demon, why is there such a strong demonic energy?”
Many people were puzzled.
Only Liang Changsheng knew that the blood-colored figure that broke out of the imperial mausoleum was the Celestial Demon Seed left behind by the previous dynasty.
Before the Great Liang, every dynasty had a Celestial Demon descend.
After the previous dynasty exterminated the demon, they did not completely eliminate the Demon Seed. Instead, they kept it, trying to obtain the secret of immortality from it. But they ultimately failed and could only seal it deep within the treasury.
Later, the dynasty was overthrown, and the previous dynasty was destroyed.
The Great Liang opened the previous dynasty’s treasury and obtained this Demon Seed.
Liang Changsheng secretly nurtured it, using the corpses, death energy, and blood energy of the entire mortal realm to cultivate the Demon Seed, allowing it to grow slowly. Now, it had grown to the peak of the Golden Core realm.
This demon could also transform into a sea of blood, its body almost indestructible, extremely difficult to deal with. Even against a Nascent Soul Elder, it could hold its own for a while.
It was Liang Changsheng’s third trump card!
“Roar–!”
It roared. After many monsters had fallen, it charged forward with boundless blood energy.
An endless sea of blood appeared, with countless skeletons floating within. Blood energy surged, and blood waves soared into the sky, far stronger than the Blood Demon’s sea of blood from a hundred years ago. It trapped the two Nascent Souls within.
“Break for me!”
They used all their techniques, charging in all directions, trying to break through the sea of blood.
But the sea of blood seemed endless. No matter which direction they went, they could not break through. Instead, they were swept back by the sea of blood again and again.
Strands of blood energy seeped into the puppet giant’s body through the damaged parts, greatly reducing its combat power.
Although the other person was strong, he was ultimately not a true Nascent Soul. For a moment, he was actually trapped by the sea of blood!
This Celestial Demon’s power was truly formidable.
Above the sky, Fan Xiefeng angrily said, “Wu Luoyue, how can there be a remaining Celestial Demon Seed in this realm?”
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Wu Luoyue’s face changed: “This…”
The Yin Soul Sect often used Celestial Demon Seeds to deal with mortal dynasties. Whenever a mortal dynasty was about to prosper, they would drop a Celestial Demon Seed to wreak havoc on the entire mortal realm.
This was the Demon Calamity.
In addition, various locust plagues, droughts, floods, and so on, all had the shadow of the Yin Soul Sect behind them.
Any kind of disaster could weaken a dynasty that was in its prime.
Liu Kui angrily transmitted his voice: “Wu Luoyue, don’t you send people to investigate after every Demon Calamity?”
“This… this matter…”
Wu Luoyue’s face became even uglier. This was indeed the Yin Soul Sect’s mistake, and he had no way to defend it.
They had ultimately underestimated the dynasty of this lower realm.
When they used the demon to deal with the lower realm in the past, they never thought that one day they would be dealt with using the same method.
Fan Xiefeng angrily said, “Forget it, time is short, now is not the time to argue!”
He immediately transmitted his voice to the Golden Core Elder trapped in the sea of blood, ordering him to use a forbidden technique and break through the sea of blood at all costs.
“Elder Hu, as long as we succeed today, I promise you that your descendants will receive the best care from the sect for generations to come. I will select the most talented among your descendants and take them as my disciple, cultivating them into a Golden Core cultivator!” Fan Xiefeng promised.
“Good, with Sect Leader’s words, I will risk my life today!”
Elder Hu gritted his teeth, made hand seals, and began to use a forbidden technique that drained his own lifespan.
In the blink of an eye, his hair turned gray, and his skin showed signs of decay, but his aura became extremely powerful.
“Break! Break! Break!”
He roared repeatedly, Nascent Soul power shaking the heavens and the earth, his whole body radiating boundless immortal light.
At this moment, the entire sea of blood began to burn in that immortal light!
The demon roared, stirring up the remaining sea of blood, trying to drown him, but its power was ultimately too weak.
After just over ten breaths, the sea of blood withered by half, the blood water slowly burned away, no longer able to block the two Nascent Souls.
The Nascent Soul puppet unleashed terrifying sword qi one after another, forcibly cutting a path through the weakened sea of blood, and was the first to break through.
After a while longer, the sea of blood was almost dried up.
“Die!”
Elder Hu’s eyes shone with divine light, he found the demon’s true body, and struck down with his palm, the palm filled with surging immortal light.
With a bang, the demon shattered, turning into countless strands of blood energy that dissipated.
It roared in unwillingness, absorbing the remaining sea of blood, trying to reform its body, but before it could succeed, it was scattered again.
After several more attempts, it completely disappeared into the world.
The demon was dead!
Thus, Liang Changsheng’s three trump cards were all destroyed!
He did not crush any more jade pendants. His trump cards seemed to have been exhausted.
In this world, no one could stop the two Nascent Souls anymore.
“Hahaha, a mere lower realm, the power of ants, dares to block us, the True Immortals of the Upper Realm?”
“Who else?”
The many surviving cultivators of the two sects laughed heartily, wanton and arrogantly, as if they had already won the final victory.
At this moment, everything between heaven and earth suddenly became still.
The wind stopped.
Atop the high mountain, Chu Liang opened his eyes and slowly stood up, Nascent Soul power spreading out.
