"Don't hold back! Transmit your spiritual power together with me!"
Li Dalong roared, the Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi in his body boiling as it was transmitted to the roots and stems reaching out from the Primordial Blood Tree. Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi was being continuously consumed, including his own strength!
The power within the bodies of all the Li clan descendants erupted!
And also all the subjects of Merit City.
The tattooed character 'Li' on their bodies flared. Accompanied by Li Dalong's roar, they all raised their heads to the sky, grabbing the roots extending from the Primordial Blood Tree without the slightest hesitation, ungrudgingly pouring out the power within their bodies.
For over a hundred years, every person who joined Merit City and pledged loyalty to the Li family had the character 'Li' tattooed on their body. The foundation built over more than a hundred years was never about pills or spirit artifacts, but rather the Ancestral Spirit Formation Diagram!
Every one of them knew that this tattoo not only allowed them to receive the Li family's protection when they were away from home, but such a tattoo was also the Li family's true trump card in times of life and death. And tonight, under the blood night, they finally understood the true significance of this tattoo!
The roots and stems of the Primordial Blood Tree extracted the power of all the people of Merit City.
Their bodies felt drained, their strength disappearing, yet every single person in Merit City looked towards the sky, their eyes filled with excitement.
Perhaps they were still very weak, but every one of them had participated in tonight's battle, at least contributing their strength!
...
"That... What is that?!?!"
"Hahaha! The Li family still has a trump card! How dare the Wu Clan bully our Azure Cloud region for having no Divinity Transformation experts?"
"Kill, kill, kill!"
That night, everyone in the Azure Cloud region border region watched this strange scene in shock.
High above, the Primordial Blood Tree transformed into its 30-mile-tall form. Its roots suddenly extended through the sky, densely reaching onto the bodies of every person from Merit City, like a bridge. This bridge absorbed the power of everyone!
In the blood-red night, every person whose power was being drawn by the roots emitted a dazzling, bewitching red light.
Before the Primordial Blood Tree, the Li family's ancestral spirit tablet magnified immensely, and the black mist figure appeared upon the Yin-Yang fish diagram. As strand after strand of the Primordial Blood Tree's roots pierced into the ancestral spirit tablet, the strength of the appearing black mist figure continuously increased!
Then...
came that strand of cold light from the spear tip!
That night, beneath the red moon, it seemed as if all other colors vanished between heaven and earth, leaving only that stunning spear thrust, aimed straight at Moon God Bai Yue.
As the spear thrust forward, only white light remained in the sky. The Moon God retreated frantically!
Ice walls continuously materialized before her, but the spear pressed forward relentlessly. One ice wall after another shattered, the pulverized ice crystals becoming the most beautiful scenery beneath the red moon. And still, the ice walls continued to shatter, the speed of their destruction increasing, as if the peerless spear thrust was carving a gigantic rift across the night sky!
.....
"What a terrifying spear thrust!"
Even Wang Jinhu's scalp tingled for a moment at the appearance of the Li family's Ancestral Spirit Formation and the strange scene of the Primordial Blood Tree's roots spreading. However, with the appearance of the black mist, his heart, which had been anxious about Bai Yue attacking the Li family, relaxed.
No one knew how complex his feelings were during those brief few finger-snaps of time. But now, he was shocked by the black mist figure's spear strike!
The black mist figure's power continuously increased.
From the early Nascent Soul stage, to the mid Nascent Soul stage, and then to the peak. What was truly terrifying was the special quality of that spear strike which could break through all techniques, as well as the powers gathered upon the spear tip: the conflicting forces of the world's Five Elements, the power of the world's Four Seasons, the power of mountains, rivers, and lakes. The most terrifying of all was the chaotic power of Yin and Yang colliding yet mutually generating each other. That profound power seemed to contain all the contradictions of the world, capable of destroying everything, yet also the beginning of all creation!
"If I were to face this sudden spear strike..."
Wang Jinhu gasped, but then suddenly looked up sharply. He sensed the chaos in Luo Xing's aura. At that moment, Luo Xing was also watching the Moon God, who was continuously retreating under that heaven-destroying, earth-exterminating spear strike, trying to survive. Furthermore, Luo Xing was attempting to retract the diagram arrays trapping him and go to her rescue!
Golden light flashed brilliantly from Wang Jinhu's body. His twin hammers collided with a deafening roar. Above his head, streams of golden light descended, radiating the world's most solid laws, forming golden walls one after another to block the path Luo Xing wanted to take to provide support. He grinned savagely at Luo Xing, who had been calm moments before but whose eyes now finally flashed with anxiety.
"Just now, you wanted to block me. Now, you punk, don't even think of going anywhere!!!"
...
At this time.
The Soul Duke, the old man who had been taciturn the whole time, was unexpectedly floating beneath the red moon, hovering opposite Daoist Shanchen, whose appearance was concealed by his hood. The two were less than a hundred meters apart. These two experts, having reached the Divinity Transformation stage, were unexpectedly motionless, their eyes locked on each other.
The auras of the two of them were restrained, like those of ordinary people.
But in reality, their Spirits were already engaged in a great battle within a world of nothingness!
This was a shattered world, and also the domain of the Soul Duke. He could pull the Spirit of any opponent into this world, where he could utilize the Heaven and Earth laws that he controlled. Throughout the entire Azure Dynasty, and even the Demon Clan, extremely few experts knew of the Soul Duke, because the humans and demons who had seen him had all perished, body and soul extinguished, within his Spirit Realm!
Now, within this Spirit Realm, mountain after mountain was spinning madly. Within this shattered world, these mountains were resisting the power of the world's Five Elements, lava, thunderbolts, and countless souls.
Daoist Shanchen, who had been concealing his figure the whole time, also revealed his face.
The face of this legendary Daoist Shanchen was actually that of a young man. At this moment, he had likely suffered quite a bit within the Soul Duke's domain. Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, he gazed intently at the Soul Duke, who looked somewhat anxious and wanted to withdraw the Spirit Realm. He snorted somewhat stubbornly, "Who would have thought I'd run into an expert like you? I almost fell for your crooked ways!"
"Now, don't get distracted! Use your abilities properly and fight me! Don't even think about getting out!"
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