Chapter 1171: Chapter 732: Celestial Mandate
The lightning radiance formed from the Blood River Celestial Killing Divine Thunder pierced through the Void, shooting straight at Gao Xuan.
Gao Xuan’s Ninth Consciousness told him that as long as he was within the Blood Evil Thunder Dragon Grand Array, he would not be able to dodge this bolt of lightning.
Moreover, the Blood River Celestial Killing Qi was filthy and domineering, incomparably terrifying.
Ao Dongcheng also stared fixedly at Gao Xuan; he wanted to see how Gao Xuan would take this move.
The most overbearing aspect of the Blood River Celestial Killing Divine Thunder lay in its Celestial Slayer Qi; even a Human Immortal, if stained by just a trace of Blood River Celestial Killing Qi, would have both body and Divine Soul transformed into Blood River Celestial Killing.
This included all kinds of Divine Artifact Spiritual Objects—once tainted by the Blood River Celestial Killing, they would be polluted and assimilated, losing all Power.
Ao Dongcheng’s fiercest feat lay in using the Grand Array to slaughter several hundred thousand Cultivators; the more intense their emotions at the moment of death, the stronger the Blood River Celestial Slayer Power they were converted into.
He toyed with the Daoist Sect Cultivators partly to vent the rage in his heart, and partly to inflame these Cultivators’ emotions to the extreme.
If he had time, he could have made more arrangements to completely draw out the emotions of these several hundred thousand Cultivators.
The main issue was that Gao Xuan was too strong. Though he had made preparations, his fleshly body was still cut down by Gao Xuan.
He had no choice but to fuse his Divine Soul with the Blood Evil Thunder Dragon. All his subsequent methods could no longer be executed in time.
Even so, the Blood River Celestial Killing Divine Thunder condensed from the several hundred thousand elite Cultivators of the Cyan Celestial Realm had reached an incomparably terrifying level of might.
Gao Xuan held in his hand an Unparalleled Divine Sword, very likely of Earth Artifact grade. Yet such a Divine Artifact feared the Blood River Celestial Killing Qi the most.
In ancient times, when a Celestial Demon wreaked havoc, it threw several pieces of Innate Treasure into the Blood River. Under the tempering of the Blood River Celestial Killing Qi, those few Innate Treasures were all ruined.
From this, one could imagine how formidable the Blood River Celestial Killing Qi was.
By using the Blood Evil Thunder Dragon Grand Array to gather the Blood River Celestial Killing, it at least possessed one or two parts of the Innate Blood River’s might.
If Gao Xuan used the Sword Artifact in his hand to resist the Blood Evil Celestial River Divine Thunder, that would actually be a wonderful thing.
Ao Dongcheng steeled his heart: as long as he crippled this Sword Artifact, he would at least abolish half of Gao Xuan’s Cultivation.
What took Ao Dongcheng by surprise was that Gao Xuan did not draw his sword at all; instead, he raised his left hand and forcibly blocked the blood-colored lightning with his bare left hand.
Although Ao Dongcheng had lost his fleshly body, with the Blood Evil Thunder Dragon as his body, his Yinglong Eye Divine Techniques had instead become even stronger.
He clearly saw Gao Xuan’s left hand instantly turn into a Dark Gold Claw Blade; it was obviously a very powerful Magical Artifact.
Ao Dongcheng sneered inwardly. The most formidable aspect of the Blood River Celestial Killing Divine Thunder lay in that it contained both Blood River Celestial Killing and Divine Thunder, yin and yang in opposition, complementing each other.
The Blood River Celestial Killing could corrode all Spiritual nature and Primordial Qi, while the Divine Thunder was utterly yang and utterly firm, able to break through all filth.
Some utterly filthy, utterly yin Magical Artifacts could barely absorb the Blood River Celestial Killing, but such Magical Artifacts could not block the Divine Thunder.
Gao Xuan wanting to rely on a Magical Artifact to block the Blood River Celestial Killing Divine Thunder was simply daydreaming.
Ao Dongcheng waited a moment, only to discover that Gao Xuan’s left hand was perfectly fine, and his entire aura remained calm and unfathomably deep, without the slightest fluctuation.
That Blood River Celestial Killing Divine Thunder had simply vanished—like a stone sinking into the great sea, without even stirring up the slightest ripple.
Ao Dongcheng had a very bad feeling. If the Magical Artifact on Gao Xuan’s left hand could restrain the Blood River Celestial Killing Divine Thunder, then the threat of this Grand Array would be reduced by eighty percent.
He feared, he feared that he truly would be unable to kill Gao Xuan. He might even have his Grand Array broken by Gao Xuan.
Ao Dongcheng’s gigantic dragon eyes turned toward the many Cultivators on Celestial Dragon Island; among those still alive, there remained over seventy Human Immortals.
If he killed these Human Immortals and drew out their Divine Soul Essence Blood, it would be enough to elevate the Blood Evil Thunder Dragon Grand Array to an even higher level.
Even if Gao Xuan possessed a Magical Artifact that restrained the Blood River Celestial Killing Divine Thunder, he could not withstand the sheer Power of the Array itself.
Ao Dongcheng might not be able to do anything to Gao Xuan for the moment, but killing this group of Cultivators would not be difficult at all.
He let out a furious roar and once again drove forth a bolt of Blood River Celestial Killing Divine Thunder to bombard Gao Xuan.
At the same time, Ao Dongcheng maneuvered the Blood Evil Thunder Dragon’s two enormous dragon claws to swipe down toward the many remaining Cultivators.
The Blood Evil Thunder Dragon’s two claws closed together and descended, completely covering the Dharma Platform.
In the sky, hundreds of millions of Blood Evil Laws were like sheets of scarlet silk, wrapping the entire Celestial Dragon Island.
The Daoist Sect’s Jiang Yumei and the others had indeed been prepared beforehand, yet just the pressure from the two dragon claws alone was enough to leave them gasping for breath.
Because of Ao Dongcheng’s small stratagem, the Daoist Sect had been split off from the majority of its Power. The Daoist Sect Cultivators who remained to sustain the Tai Chi Xuan Du Array found its might immediately and greatly diminished.
Facing the two dragon claws as vast as mountain ranges, the Tai Chi Xuan Du Array drove the Profound City Divine Palace, which rocked and shuddered, on the verge of being crushed to dust by the claws.
On the other side, within the Buddhist Sect’s Five Hundred Arhat Array, one Golden Body Arhat after another was being crushed and shattered beneath the dragon claws.
The Buddhist Sect’s Profound Words, Profound Mirror and the other Golden Body Arhats all wore bitter expressions; at this rate, they definitely would not be able to hold out.
Once the Array collapsed, the many Golden Body Arhats and Secret Divine Artifacts could still support themselves, but the other disciples would all be slain on the spot.
Those qualified to participate in the Celestial Dragon Dharma Assembly were all geniuses and elites of their respective Sects. Any one of them was the hope of their Sect.
Now, this group of disciples was about to die here.
Profound Words and the others all felt miserable, yet they could not think of any solution. At this point they could only hope that Gao Xuan would quickly kill Ao Dongcheng, or at least quickly break the Array.
But judging from Gao Xuan’s situation, he also seemed unable to do anything to the Dragon King in a short time.
The Daoist Sect’s Jiang Yumei and Bai Yunsheng were even more helpless; compared to the Buddhist Sect, they were weaker.
Withered Wood True Monarch glanced at Jiang Yumei and said, "This poor Daoist is old and decrepit, my life is nearing its end. Today I shall use this worn-out body to do something for the Daoist Sect. You all should find an opportunity to flee for your lives."
Jiang Yumei and Bai Yunsheng were both very surprised. Jiang Yumei hurriedly said, "True Monarch—"
