Chapter 212: Chapter 192: A Divine Being Descends, Then Slay Even the God
In the Blood Sacrifice Workshop in the back courtyard of the County Magistrate’s Office.
In the center of the Blood Pool, Li Wei’s expression was incredibly grim.
The dense, bloody aura that had once filled the workshop had now grown thin.
The red light of the "Holy Infant" crystal on his chest had dimmed, and it now emitted a sharp hum like a baby’s wail.
It was not a cry of joy.
It was the furious chastisement of extreme starvation.
Wisps of black gas seeped from the crystal and burrowed into Li Wei’s orifices.
His Divine Soul was being frantically devoured by the crystal.
"How is this possible... How is this possible?!"
Li Wei stared intently at the blood-red Water Mirror before him.
In the mirror, Han Feng was an insatiable black hole.
The Blood Sea army he had summoned at great cost had become nothing more than an energy supplement for his opponent.
The three Tier Two Late Stage giants he had painstakingly fused together had been cut down in the blink of an eye, turned into fodder for his opponent’s Foundation Establishment!
In the mirror, the burly man with the Large Axe and the bald one were even roaring and competing to see who could eat more at the "all-you-can-eat buffet"!
"He... He’s devouring my power!"
"He’s taking the very essence of the Blood Sea, which I obtained by sacrificing tens of thousands of Demon Beasts... and using it to feed his damn teammates!"
Li Wei’s voice trembled violently with rage and fear.
He had thought himself the master puppeteer, the God of this world.
But now, he was nothing more than a casino owner on a losing streak.
He could only watch as that gambler, Han Feng, treated his casino like a personal ATM in the most savage way imaginable!
If this went on, he himself would have his Divine Soul drained by the greedy "Holy Infant" and be reduced to a walking corpse long before Han Feng died!
"Since you want to feast..."
Li Wei slowly raised his head, a grotesque smile—more pained than any cry—twisting his lips.
It was the madness of a man cornered, deciding to drag the entire world down with him to his grave.
"Then I’ll let you eat your fill!"
"Let’s see... if your appetite is bigger than this Blood Sea... is deep!!"
He shot up from the Blood Pool.
He ripped open the flesh of his chest, exposing the dark purple "Holy Infant" crystal to the air.
His hands formed an incredibly bizarre and complex hand seal.
He was no longer just overdrawing his Life Force, but burning his very Divine Soul Origin!
"With my flesh and blood, I offer sacrifice to the Nether Abyss!"
His voice grew hoarse and hollow, as if it came from another world.
"I beseech you... let your true form descend!"
CRACK—
The crisp sound of shattering did not come from the crystal.
It came from the sky above Ping’an County.
The dark-red canopy of the sky completely collapsed and disintegrated in an instant!
Beyond the shattered void, there was not endless darkness.
There was an eye.
A blood-red eye, so enormous it defied description and filled with endless chaos and malevolent Will, slowly opened from within the void.
It had no pupil, only a swirling chaos of blood-red.
Its mere existence caused the very laws of reality in Ping’an County to begin to crumble!
On the streets below, the celebrating members of the Sharp Sword Society suddenly froze.
The eye’s "gaze" hadn’t even fallen upon them.
The mere fact of it "being observed" was enough to bring about an unimaginable catastrophe.
In that instant, the air seemed to turn into a solid block of lead.
The Gravity increased out of nowhere, multiplying by more than tenfold!
THUD!
Wang Meng, who had just been roaring and waving his Giant Axe, fell stiffly to the ground without so much as a grunt, the light in his eyes instantly extinguished.
The physical form he had struggled so hard to solidify began to flicker violently, rapidly fading back into a translucent, spectral state.
And it wasn’t just him.
Zhang Hao, Lei Qianjun, Su Yue...
One by one, every team member who relied on Han Feng’s Energy to construct their bodies collapsed like a machine that had been abruptly unplugged, their consciousness plunging back into boundless chaos.
’This time... I’ve really screwed up.’
Han Feng dropped to one knee.
The Black Tungsten Gold Longsword in his hand was stabbed deep into the stone pavers, the blade bent into a terrifying arc, groaning as if on the verge of snapping.
It took all his strength to keep from being completely crushed to the ground by that invisible, immense power.
The cold sweat on his brow evaporated instantly, and his bones creaked and groaned, threatening to shatter at any moment.
If not for his *Heart Clarity and Nature Seeing* having reached the Middle Level, coupled with a Spiritual Strength of over seven hundred that had constructed a final line of defense in his Sea of Consciousness, his mind would have been crushed long ago, just like Wang Meng’s.
"Still conscious?"
A slightly surprised voice, laced with a lofty indifference, came from above.
Li Wei floated in midair, looking down on the struggling Han Feng.
His appearance had changed drastically. Countless vein-like tendrils extended from the "Holy Infant" crystal on his chest, burrowing deep into his neck and cheeks and making him look like a half-human, half-crystal monster.
But the fear and rage in his eyes were gone, replaced by a Divine indifference to mortal life.
"I have to admit, Han Feng, you truly are a freak of nature."
Li Wei slowly descended, as if admiring a masterpiece on the verge of shattering.
"An ordinary cultivator at the Meridian Passage Realm, even one at the Great Perfection stage, would have had their Divine Soul disintegrated into elementary particles long ago under the gaze of this ’Blood Sea Eye.’"
"And yet... you’ve managed to stay conscious."
Han Feng struggled to lift his head, the blood trickling from the corner of his mouth making his wide grin look especially ferocious.
"What can I say... I’m not a picky eater... This pressure... it’s a bit much, but I can still... chew it!"
"Still talking tough."
Li Wei snorted, gesturing to Wang Meng and the others lying on the ground, his eyes filled with ridicule.
"Do you see? This is the difference between a Mortal and a God."
"I admit you’re a capable fighter, and you did indeed ruin my arrangements."
"But so what?"
He spread his arms as if to embrace the giant eye behind him, his face contorting with a sick fanaticism.
"A great power has descended."
"Though it is but a sliver of its Will, it is more than enough to grind this false Illusion Realm, along with all of your souls, into dust."
"My original mission was to gently ’incubate’ the Holy Infant. It was you who forced me to resort to this crude method."
A cruel smile crept onto his face.
"This forced descent will cause the Holy Infant to lose all control, turning it into a monster that knows only how to devour."
"Congratulations. You and your companions will become its first fine meal upon awakening."
"And because of this, the entire Suspended Mountain Secret Realm will be turned into a true land of the dead."
"Aren’t you afraid... of getting yourself killed in the process?"
Han Feng stared at him, the Sword Essence within his body churning violently as he tried to break through the invisible restraints.
"Killed?"
Li Wei roared with laughter, as if he’d just heard the funniest joke in the world.
"Who do you think I am?"
"This body is merely the mortal shell of that fool, Li Wei."
"My true self is worlds away."
He pointed to his head.
"I am merely a wisp of Divine Thought that was attached to him."
"Even if this body is blasted to ash by the Holy Infant’s backlash, to me, it’s just the loss of a few years of Cultivation. I’ll recover it all after a decade or so of seclusion."
At this, his gaze turned bone-chillingly cold, his killing intent on full display.
"But all of you... you will all die."
Before the words had faded, Li Wei made a grasping motion in the air with one hand.
"Let’s start with this big one. His soul smells the sweetest."
An irresistible suction force materialized out of thin air.
Wang Meng’s spectral form floated uncontrollably up from the ground, drifting slowly toward the pulsating "Holy Infant" crystal on Li Wei’s chest.
"You dare!"
In an instant, Han Feng’s pupils contracted to dangerous pinpricks!
Without a moment’s hesitation!
He directly detonated a tenth of the Sword Essence in his body!
BOOM!
An immense, silver-white radiance erupted violently from his every pore.
It forcibly carved out a zone of absolute freedom around his body!
"Divine Sense, release!"
In that instant, Han Feng held nothing back, unleashing his Spiritual Power like a torrent from a broken dam.
The Range of his Divine Sense instantly expanded to its limit—ten meters!
But those ten meters were his personal kill zone!
"Three-Inch Heart Sword!"
An invisible ripple suddenly erupted from between Han Feng’s eyebrows.
It wasn’t a sword, but a blade of pure Will, forged from killing intent and Spiritual Power.
It ignored distance, bypassed the defense of the bloody aura, and stabbed directly at Li Wei’s Divine Soul!
"A cheap trick!"
Li Wei sneered instinctively as the bloody aura behind him surged, forming a thick Blood Shield in front of him.
But a second later, his smile froze.
The attack... went right through it!
It wasn’t a physical attack at all!
"AHHH—!!!"
A shrill, inhuman scream erupted from the depths of Li Wei’s throat.
He clutched his head and plummeted from the sky, black blood pouring from his orifices.
For the first time, his eyes, once filled with a Divine light, now showed terror and panic.
If his true self had been present, an attack of this level would have been nothing more than an itch.
But he was currently just a parasitic wisp of Divine Thought!
In order to summon the Will of the Blood Sea, he had already burned through most of this body’s blood essence, leaving his Divine Soul at its absolute weakest!
This strike had landed precisely on his one and only fatal weakness!
"I don’t just know how to use the Heart Sword..."
An utterly glacial voice exploded beside his ear.
"I also know how to make mincemeat!"
Body Technique: Spiral Charge!
Han Feng’s body was still wracked with agonizing pain from detonating his Sword Essence, but he ignored it completely.
Using the powerful recoil, he shot forward like a ground-hugging missile of death, instantly crossing into the ten-meter forbidden zone enveloped by his Divine Sense!
"Die!"
The silver Sword Aura on his Black Tungsten Gold Longsword erupted to a length of three feet.
There were no flashy techniques, only a frenzy of impossibly fast and ruthless slashes.
Eighteen strikes in a single second!
"Get away from me!"
Li Wei was both terrified and enraged.
The searing pain in his Divine Soul made it impossible for him to control his power precisely. He could only instinctively activate the "Holy Infant" crystal on his chest, unleashing wave after wave of purplish-red shockwaves.
At the same time, he manipulated the surrounding bloody aura into countless tentacles in an attempt to ensnare Han Feng.
But before Han Feng’s wrath-fueled blade, it was all utterly useless!
