Chapter 648: 606 Heaven and Earth Converge II
’What are you doing!? At a time like this, you’re not in the least bit urgent? You’re still leisurely building a Blood Pool here?’ Bai Lin couldn’t comprehend.
Zhang Rongfang ignored him and continued to let blood until the second Blood Pool was once again filled.
This Void Blood that he individually modified was much easier to create than the actual Ancestral Essence Blood.
But while letting blood was easy, recharging it was slow.
Zhang Rongfang commanded the Daoist to continuously pour basin after basin of nutrient liquid into the Pill Furnace.
The wriggling Pill Furnace quickly began to digest and absorb, replenishing the nutrients into the second Blood Pool.
Meanwhile, he waited by the side, practicing the Five Heart Qi Collection Skill. Simultaneously, his mind constantly shifted between numerous puppets.
The primary focus of his attention was the Jade Void Palace where the Black Daoist was located.
’Let me be clear, if you make a move against the Spirit Flying Church, we won’t be able to help you.’ Bai Lin preemptively started to remind him.
’I know.’ Zhang Rongfang hadn’t placed his hopes on them in the first place.
’However, if you kneel sincerely and earnestly beg me, maybe Lord Bai Lin might be inclined to put in a bit more effort to help you out a bit.’ Bai Lin continued.
’Heh. With your level of strength?’ Zhang Rongfang mocked. ’It would be good enough if you don’t drag me down. You better stay honestly in your Void.’
’Hehehe, are you trying to provoke me? I’m telling you, I, Bai Lin, have never fallen for provocation since I was a child!’ Bai Lin got angry too.
’If you’re incompetent, you’re incompetent, stop spouting so much nonsense!’ Zhang Rongfang retorted.
’You’re the one who’s incompetent, your whole family is incompetent!!’ Bai Lin was enraged.
’Other than running your mouth, what else can you do? Getting outraged?’ Zhang Rongfang replied.
’You you you!!! Just wait! I’ll let you see with your own eyes, what Spirit Flying Church’s dog barking church, I’ll let you witness the peak power of my prime!!’ Bai Lin screamed sharply, even letting out a hiss like a snake.
’Then I’ll wait. Little Vegetable God.’
Zhang Rongfang closed his eyes, no longer paying attention to the furious Bai Lin. He submerged his mind back into observing and monitoring the situation.
He had thought Bai Lin had gotten smarter, but now it seems he was still overly optimistic. Just a little provocation and he gets on track.
Images and sounds constantly delivered back from the positions of the numerous Human Immortal Temple Bloodline Daoists holding puppets.
Upon learning that the decisive battle would most likely take place at the Jade Void Palace, Zhang Rongfang dispatched almost all of the Bloodline experts from the temple.
A vast number of bloodline spread into the mountains and forests, encircling the Jade Void Palace, forming a dotted red coordinate network.
So far, around the Jade Void Palace, he had discovered Sensing Sect, Celestial Lock Teaching, Black Ten Sect, Zhenyi Sect, and other experts gathered here.
Yet, everyone refrained from coming too close, stopping at a slight distance from the Jade Void Palace and began setting up defenses.
Besides these, some hidden unknown forces in the distance were also watching from afar.
Around the Jade Void Palace, there were at least three manpower entities like his Human Immortal Temple.
Each was powerful and elite, any Bloodline they encountered instantly silenced.
’Two tigers fighting, with packs of wolves circling...’ A thought arose in Zhang Rongfang’s mind.
’What a pity... they think themselves wolves, when in fact, they aren’t even cannon fodder, just spectators.’
Zhang Rongfang swiftly switched perspectives, observing the Jade Void Palace from different directions.
Suddenly, his expression sharpened.
’They’re here!!’
Within one of the views, the key location of the Jade Void Palace, the Heavenly Gate.
Before the massive door, three figures suddenly appeared.
Leading them was none other than Yue Dewen dressed in purple robes with a golden belt.
Beside him were the former Alliance Leader of the Great Brightness Religious Alliance, Cosimo, and the Sect Leader of Zhenyi Sect, Daoist Qingyi.
As if sensing being gazed at from afar.
Yue Dewen paused abruptly, then flung his right hand backward.
Whoosh!
In an instant, a circle of invisible airflow swept around, completely engulfing the three figures.
The airflow distorted the light, ravaging for several seconds before dispersing.
And the trio had already vanished, their whereabouts unknown.
Disconnecting the view, Zhang Rongfang glanced at the blood in the second Blood Pool.
The blood was still supplementing and absorbing nutrients.
However, he didn’t have much time to wait. He immediately stepped forward, immersing his whole body in the blood.
The long-lost warmth quickly surged through him.
Zhang Rongfang knew he had to complete the full transformation before the decisive battle between Yue Shi and the Spirit Flying Church. Otherwise, relying solely on his current strength, rescuing anyone, let alone intervening in the core of the battle, might be out of the question.
After all, the final Great Descent of the Divine from the Western Sect’s Yuan Shi left a deep impression on him.
In truth, he was well aware he had done everything possible to speed up the process. At this stage, it was the utmost limit of enhancement.
Originally, he intended to progress step by step, but unfortunately.....
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Inside the Heavenly Gate.
The three figures landed softly, completely unobstructed by the majestic block of the Heavenly Gate.
Within the Jade Void Palace, on the cliff, traces of a brawl were everywhere.
Bloodstains, broken weapons, and the cold, stiff corpses indicated an internal conflict had taken place here not long ago.
’Something’s wrong!’ Yue Dewen’s gaze turned cold, instantly looking towards the Lingxiao Hall in the core area.
’The presence of the Spirit Flying Church’s Celestial Blood is here.’ Daoist Qingyi pinched his beard, speaking deeply. ’Let’s check on Jin Yuyan.’
With flashes of their figures, the three swiftly headed towards the Lingxiao Hall along the enormous chain sky-line.
Once again landing softly.
In the scene before them, the once grand Daoist Palace was already full of cracks and fissures.
The wide avenue in front of the Daoist Palace was riddled with pit holes of varying sizes.
Yue Dewen’s expression turned graver, swiftly crossing the avenue to the grand hall’s entrance.
Bam!
The grand hall door moved slightly and fell to one side as he passed by, propelled by the airflow he created.
As Yue Dewen looked inside, the first sight he caught was Jin Yuyan’s motionless, gray statue standing in the center.
’There are traces of the array being activated here.’ Cosimo followed in, also seeing the petrified Jin Yuyan. His expression tensed as he quickly approached, grabbing a strand of Jin Yuyan’s hair, gently pulling until a strand snapped off.
He picked up the strand, examining its core closely.
’It’s the Spirit Flying Church’s Sacred Dance. Her Celestial Blood ability is complete petrification!’
Yue Dewen moved beside Jin Yuyan, silently standing there for a moment.
Suddenly, a palm was struck out.
Boom!
The Jin Yuyan stone statue instantly floated lightly into the air, propelled by a gentle force, and flew out of Lingxiao Hall, landing right in front of the large incense burner at the center of the venue.
"Find the All Living Beings Pillar!" he said sparingly.
Cosimo and Qingyi nodded simultaneously, starting to search the hall for possible hidden mechanisms and secret passages.
Having experienced it twice before, this time, they quickly stopped at a position about a third of the way from the main door of the hall.
"About fifteen zhang below here." Qingyi held a compass, finishing his calculations.
"I’ll do it." Cosimo stepped forward a few steps, and one of his arms swiftly turned into pure silver.
Coming to the calculated position, he suddenly swung his arm downward, punching the ground.
Instantly, a circle of white light ripples flowed down from his shoulder, through his arm, into his forearm, and fiercely smashed onto the ground with his fist.
Boom!!
The entire hall floor shattered, cracked, and bulged.
Spiritual Lines followed the force, continuously penetrating the ground from Cosimo’s fists.
They pierced through every obstacle, quickly wrapping around a gold wolf-pattern stag statue and hauling it upward.
With a clatter, a large patch of soil and stones was pulled out, scattering across the hall.
The originally luxurious, intricately carved patterned floor was completely ruined.
An identical statue reappeared before the three of them as before.
Immediately after, upon contact with air, the wolf-pattern stag statue began to emit a faint golden glow.
The golden light quickly transformed into golden flames, completely enveloping it.
The flames grew taller, instantly becoming a golden pillar of fire.
In the center, a golden vertical pupil emerged.
"All things have spirit...all spirits originate..."
Before the voice had faded, Yue Dewen’s figure flashed, appearing out of thin air right before the vertical pupil.
One palm.
His palm imprinted directly onto the shining golden vertical pupil.
A palm of ordinary size compared to the three-meter-long golden vertical pupil, from a distance, was not even on the same level.
Yet, it was this palm.
The All Living Beings Pillar began to tremble violently.
"It’s about to begin!" Qingyi exclaimed sharply. "This time, the pillar’s backlash requires the power to counteract for a short while. Watch the guardian, don’t let Old Yue be disturbed!"
"Leave it to me. The last pillar, I wonder if the guardian will let me meet a few old friends." Cosimo chuckled.
But contrary to their expectations, from the moment Yue Dewen acted to completely counter the pillar and dissolve all its backlash.
There was no interference from the guardian around.
Everyone knew that once this last pillar was destroyed, Spirit Flying Church would lose all its concealment and be exposed to the world.
But why....
No one came to stop it.
"Something’s wrong!!"
Suddenly, Daoist Qingyi’s face changed dramatically, and the compass in his hand spun rapidly, the characters and patterns on it glowing faintly blue, quickly reassembling into new array patterns like scrambled code.
"Below!!" He leapt out of the hall, standing at the edge of Lingxiao Hall’s stone pillar, looking down.
Beneath the stone forest.
The originally lush, dark green sea of trees.
Was now trembling slightly.
Not just one or two trees, but the entire sea of trees was shaking and quaking.
A fragment of stone cracked beneath Daoist Qingyi’s foot, falling.
Over the air, crashing into the trembling forest floor below.
Crack...
The ground began to crack. One after another, the cracks expanded, deepening.
The stone fragment fell into one of the cracks.
It rolled, colliding with the earth wall several times, continuing to fall to the deepest part.
Boom.
Finally, the stone fragment crashed heavily into a massive arched underground cavity, shattering into many pieces and scattering everywhere.
This was a vast and empty underground cave.
At the center of the cave, stood a copper-colored high platform resembling a pyramid.
Blue glow circulated around the high platform.
From below to the top of the high platform, every step had countless flowing blue character patterns, appearing and disappearing.
What was most astonishing.
Was the large circle of cave floor surrounding the high platform.
Standing there were countless humanoid stone statues.
They encircled the high platform at the center, all bowing their heads, some even kneeling and kowtowing, as if in worship.
"It’s finally begun."
At this moment, atop the high platform, a tall woman wearing a white mask, with eyes glowing blue, was climbing the steps, stepping onto the peak platform.
She looked up, as if she could see through the thick ground and witness everything happening at Lingxiao Hall.
"Then.... let my Sacred Dance begin the new cycle of heaven and earth convergence!"
She spread her arms, and her clothes naturally slipped off.
Her bare body did not have smooth, snow-white tender skin but was already filled with countless dark blue patterns.
She closed her eyes, began humming an enigmatic tune.
The song did not exert effort, yet it rippled out, spreading to every corner of the underground cave.
The chant seemed not to have specific words or language, merely fluctuating with the melody.
As the song hummed, the patterns on Sacred Dance’s body began to glow brighter.
At the same time.
Around the high platform, thousands of humanoid stone statues began shedding dust, their eyes, like Sacred Dance’s, gradually glowing faint blue.
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