Chapter 274: Hope

The battle between the two blood tides was like two infants with no sense of right and wrong, slaughtering each other.

They don’t understand what it means to “drive a tiger to devour a wolf,” nor do they understand what it means for “the snipe and clam to fight, while the fisherman benefits.”

They only know to devour all the spiritual energy they can in front of them, and then use this spiritual energy to split their own power, expand, and turn the entire world into their territory.

And now, there is an unprecedented amount of spiritual energy in front of them.

“If you don’t eat it, you’re a fool.”

Whether they can win or not is not within their considerations…

As for Su Xun at this time, he has long been ignored by them.

There are more delicious things waiting for them.

Su Xun just sat cross-legged quietly within the sea of blood, watching the two blood tides tearing and devouring each other above. The power acting on him was only a tiny fraction…

More than enough to protect himself.

Then there’s no need to rush.

Su Xun slowly closed his eyes, ensuring that all the blood tides in the main plane had entered the small world.

Then, his Nascent Soul quickly disappeared.

In the real world…

Su Xun opened his eyes.

What he saw was a pair of clear eyes full of worry.

“Su Xun, you’re awake. Are you alright?”

Zhou Qingyun asked worriedly.

She seemed to want to come over and support Su Xun, but was afraid of accidentally touching something. She stood there, at a loss, with not even a trace of the Empress’s demeanor.

Su Xun hesitated for a moment…

Before he finally remembered who the girl in front of him was.

He smiled and said, “I’m fine.”

Zhou Qingyun asked with concern, “Has the blood tide been resolved?”

“Not yet, I still need some time.”

Su Xun said, “You isolate everyone, and don’t allow anyone to enter here. The blood tide was just sent by me to another place. It will take some time to completely eliminate them.”

“Don’t worry, everyone around has been isolated by me.”

Zhou Qingyun said, “I have not only set up sentries within a radius of a hundred miles, but also set up a spirit gathering array, so that all the spiritual energy gathers here. You can do whatever you want.”

“Well done.”

Su Xun took out a few spirit stones.

He said, “I must pay attention to the movements of the blood tide at all times, so next, don’t let anyone touch me!”

“I understand, I won’t touch you.”

“Okay.”

Su Xun only stayed in the main plane for a short time. After ensuring the number of spirit stones in his hand, he returned to the sea of blood again.

The fighting in the sea of blood did not involve casualties. The consumption was entirely due to their own exhaustion…

The time required for this was obviously an extremely long and slow process.

And considering that the time in between was too long… Su Xun had to supervise in the middle at all times.

Or rather, add fuel to the fire?

After arranging things in the main plane, Su Xun appeared in the small world again.

Lingering below the sea of blood.

Using his Great Vehicle Realm cultivation to protect himself.

He stirred up the external blood tide, helping it to launch an assist against the small world’s blood tide.

If he were to fight the small world head-on, Zhou Xiaofan had persisted for about three years. And Su Xun’s current cultivation is actually better than Zhou Xiaofan’s at that time. He believes that persisting for at least five years would not be a problem.

But that was a head-on attack against the blood tide.

And now, Su Xun is just playing on the sidelines, fighting guerrilla warfare, and wandering between the two blood tides.

Constantly monitoring the movements of these two blood tides…

If he was tired, he would rest slowly below the blood tide. Anyway, although this blood tide was like a vast ocean, it was just a substance formed by the condensation of pure spiritual energy, and there was no danger of difficulty breathing.

In the blink of an eye, three or four years had passed.

The mutual devouring between the blood tides still showed no sign of stopping.

Even more, while the blood tides rolled and devoured each other, the naked eye could gradually begin to see slight signs of weakening.

Obviously, it was working.

“Dao Ancestor’s method is indeed effective.”

In the distance, Han Lin looked excitedly at the blood tides devouring each other in the distance, and said excitedly, “I don’t know where Dao Ancestor got this new blood tide from. It’s not weaker than this blood tide at all. I really hope they can both be defeated and perish together!”

Behind him, another Great Vehicle Realm cultivator, Luo Feng, asked, “Where is Dao Ancestor?”

“He is in the sea of blood. What we need to do now is to seize the last bit of time to cultivate. When the time is right, wait for Dao Ancestor to give us a signal, and then we will purify the remaining blood tide together!”

Han Lin looked at the several figures behind him.

These people were all cultivators who had reached the Ascension Realm… In order to be prepared for any eventuality, they also came here.

And now, they obviously had extra time.

Han Lin said sternly, “You few seize the time to cultivate, and strive to break through your cultivation to the Great Vehicle Realm. In this way, maybe you can still help a little bit at that time!”

“Sect Leader, rest assured.”

“I will cultivate now. With the blood tide no longer attacking, I have enough time and space to cultivate.”

“Regardless of whether we break through to the Great Vehicle Realm or not, when the time comes for us to take action, we will definitely take action. Purifying the blood tide is everyone’s responsibility, and I will never retreat!”

Everyone immediately sat down cross-legged to cultivate.

And the remaining cultivators led their disciples to the distance, continuing the evacuation of the people.

The fighting of the blood tide was becoming more and more turbulent. The people had to be moved another thousand miles away.

“Next, we just need to wait for Dao Ancestor’s message.”

Han Lin stayed here, muttering as he looked at the surging and fighting blood tide in front of him.

The blood tide was chaotic. While fighting, the energy lost was quickly replenished.

And Su Xun, just stayed within the blood tide like that…

He had discovered that even if he did nothing, the blood tides would still fight each other.

But even so, he did not dare to leave and return to the small world easily…

Once he left, even if he used the lowest-grade spirit stone to accelerate, a month would pass in an instant.

A month in an instant. By then, even if something unexpected happened, it would probably be too late to remedy it.

Because of this, he had to stay in the small world at all times, monitoring these blood tides.

And this monitoring.

Lasted for a full thousand years.

A thousand years.

Within the small world, the vast sea of blood had already shrunk by more than two-thirds.

Previously, the two blood tides almost covered half of the world, but now, they were only surging in the central area of the world.

The number of Great Vehicle Realm cultivators had increased from the previous thirty-two to fifty-three.

And seven Great Vehicle Realm cultivators could no longer hold on…

In the end, they chose their homeland without hesitation over ascension.

They chose to rush into the blood tide and then attract the Heavenly Tribulation.

The majestic righteous thunder descended, evaporating a large amount of the blood tide…

This was also the main reason why the blood tide had been depleted so much over the past thousand years.

And for a thousand years, Su Xun had been in the sea of blood, without leaving for a moment… In fact, over the past thousand years, the two blood tides had also become tired of each other several times, wanting to leave separately.

It was only under Su Xun’s guidance that they were completely prevented from separating. In this way, Su Xun dared not leave even more!

After all, after waiting bitterly for a thousand years, the two sides were now about to decide the winner.

The blood tide of the small world was relatively weak, but it had a huge blood infant. This blood infant had the most basic common sense…

It was roughly the difference between being mentally challenged and being brain-dead.

The mentally challenged were always slightly stronger than the brain-dead. This laid the foundation for the victory of the small world’s blood tide.

And after a thousand years of bloody battles.

This slight chance of victory became greater and greater. In the end, it finally turned into an almost crushing advantage. Although the blood tide could infinitely split itself, it needed to devour other spiritual energy as energy.

And when the last trace of blood qi was swallowed by the blood infant, it had nothing to devour.

It could only dissipate completely into the blood infant’s mouth with the last unwilling surge…

And after a thousand years of bloody battles, the blood infant’s size was already like a mountain. All the blood tides of the small world had poured into its body.

It kept making “yiyi yaya” sounds, and just by listening to its cries, some disciples with lower cultivation levels could not help but have red lights appear in their eyes.

But the blood tide had indeed become unprecedentedly weak…

Why didn’t the blood tide all pour into this blood infant’s body during the previous two thousand five hundred years?

To put it bluntly, wasn’t it because the amount of blood tide was too large, and the blood infant simply couldn’t contain it?

But now…

It could be contained. This was the best proof of weakening.

And at this moment.

Han Lin’s eyebrows twitched, and his eyes suddenly flashed with a bright light. He roared, “The time has come, charge in!”

More than forty Great Vehicle Realm cultivators simultaneously gathered their own cultivation, and then charged with all their strength towards the blood tide infant that was climbing towards the human world.

“Yaya…”

The blood infant cried out twice, and its eyes also suddenly lit up as it looked at them. Without a doubt, the true essence in these people’s bodies was too abundant, and it made its greedy nature instantly heat up.

As for the enemy that had entangled it for a thousand years, and looked almost identical to it, it had long forgotten… It was just instinctive devouring. How could it remember anything else?

It reached out to grab these cultivators.

But Han Lin’s sword fell, directly cutting off this arm…

The blood infant cried out twice. A new palm had already extended from the arm.

And the others had already taken this opportunity to rush into the blood tide.

Voluntarily walking into the trap.

Puff puff puff…

Several sounds of splashing water were heard.

These Great Vehicle Realm cultivators had all rushed into the deepest part of the blood tide.

Then… they joined Su Xun, who was sitting cross-legged in the center of the blood tide.

“Time is limited. Now is the time when the blood tide is the weakest. It is the right time to destroy the blood tide.”

Su Xun said.

“Understood!”

Everyone simultaneously imitated Su Xun, sitting cross-legged in the blood tide, and then fully operating the cultivation techniques within their bodies.

A large amount of blood tide immediately swarmed into their bodies.

And at the same time…

Overhead.

The originally clear sky instantly became gloomy. Within the thick clouds, silver arcs flickered, accompanied by muffled rumbling sounds.

The Heavenly Tribulation descended.

Like Han Lin and others, their cultivation had already reached the peak of the Great Vehicle Realm.

They had not cultivated for many years. Now that they suddenly cultivated, their deeply rooted cultivation instantly broke through the barriers and reached the limit of transcending this world.

By using the power of the Heavenly Thunder to bombard the blood tide, most of the blood tide could also be evaporated.

“Uh~~~~”

The blood infant outside let out a painful wail. Its limbs instantly broke off, and it fell powerlessly to the ground, unable to get up.

Especially when the Heavenly Thunder fell, it was blasted until its whole body was charred black, and blood mist was constantly evaporating.

If it were just one Great Vehicle Realm cultivator, it probably wouldn’t have paid any attention to it, but now, more than forty Great Vehicle Realm cultivators were acting as purifiers together.

Especially when it was at its weakest.

Plus, the Heavenly Tribulations in the sky descended together…

Every bolt of lightning struck the blood infant hard.

The blood infant wailed incessantly.

If a hundred or so Heavenly Tribulations were to come, this blood infant would be directly struck to death, with no chance of survival.

But gradually…

The Heavenly Tribulation in the sky only struck down more than ten times, and the thick clouds gradually dissipated.

There was no way. The Great Vehicle Realm cultivators were purifying the blood tide with their own cultivation, and their own cultivation would also be consumed.

Just like Han Lin, he was still at the peak of the Great Vehicle Realm just now, but in such a short time, he had already fallen to the mid-stage of the Great Vehicle Realm.

The cultivation of the others had also decreased to varying degrees.

Including Su Xun, his cultivation was actually much stronger than Han Lin’s. The reason why he had not ascended until now was entirely because he was within the blood tide, and the Heavenly Thunder could not strike him at all.

But now, he was purifying with all his strength.

While the blood tide was rapidly shrinking, his cultivation was also rapidly declining.

Mid-stage of the Great Vehicle Realm, early-stage of the Great Vehicle Realm…

Falling was fine.

If he really ascended, who knew where he would ascend to?

Another thousand years had passed, but Su Xun had never forgotten the warmth in his arms…

He had not yet experienced enough of family happiness. How could he bear to abandon them and ascend?

Let his cultivation drop then.

Su Xun shouted, “Purify the blood tide with all your strength! Success is today!”

As he said this, the speed of absorbing the blood tide became even faster.

With Dao Ancestor taking the lead, the other Great Vehicle Realm cultivators followed suit…

Cultivation falling?

Falling was fine. They had been running around for the blood tide all these years, and had not yet had the chance to calmly enjoy the beauty of this world.

If they eliminated this blood tide and then immediately ascended… they would probably have some regrets instead.

If their cultivation fell, they could just cultivate it back.

Even if they couldn’t cultivate it back, being able to die in their own hometown was also a rare kind of happiness.

Everyone had already made their decision when they came here.

Even if they knew that what they were burning at this moment was their own future, even if ascension was close at hand, this retreat meant that there would be no more opportunities to break through the heavens.

But with thousands of years of obsession, they were also willing to sacrifice for their world.

“Uh~~~~”

Outside, the blood infant’s screams became even more miserable.

Most of its entire body had already melted, and it was even difficult to maintain its human form.

It didn’t care about one Great Vehicle Realm cultivator, but more than forty Great Vehicle Realm cultivators were attacking at the same time…

Especially since Su Xun had even devised an array. Everyone formed an array, absorbing the blood tide into the middle of everyone, and using the power of everyone to purify it.

It was even more effective.

Using their own cultivation to resist the blood tide head-on was almost a lose-lose situation.

But the results achieved…

Finally allowed everyone to see the hope of eliminating the blood tide!

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