Chapter 2950: Chapter 2950
The spectral wraiths surged forth at Darkstar’s command, charging toward Ye Liuyun at full speed. Though they sensed the aura of the Underworld’s ruler emanating from him, their momentum was too swift—by the time they registered his presence, they had already plunged into the depths of his consciousness.
Dealing with these wraiths, however, was effortless for the Divine Decree. A sweep of its golden light was all it took to scatter them into nothingness.
Meanwhile, the Bloodfiend Ancient Demon closed in on Ye Liuyun. While their bloodline powers were nearly matched, Ye Liuyun’s cultivation level was no rival for the fiend. To counter this, he summoned a few skeletal puppets, positioning them as shields to deny the Bloodfiend a direct strike. Unaffected by bloodline suppression, the skeletons effectively blocked the fiend’s advance.
The Bloodfiend was baffled. Even at such close range, it couldn’t suppress Ye Liuyun.
*"Impossible. How can this brat’s bloodline be so strong?"* It unleashed its full power of bloodline, intensifying the pressure on Ye Liuyun.
Bloodline force was something few treasures could resist, and Ye Liuyun wasn’t relying on the Divine Decree now—he was holding his ground purely with his own bloodline strength.
Darkstar, too, was stunned. Countless wraiths had flooded Ye Liuyun’s consciousness, yet they seemed to have no effect on him. By now, Darkstar had exhausted its arsenal of puppets and wraiths, all to no avail.
The puppets barely slowed the descent of the Demon-Suppressing Stele, unable to halt its relentless absorption of Darkstar’s power. The wraiths had been a wasted effort, achieving nothing.
Worse still, Darkstar’s own strength was waning rapidly. The Demon-Suppressing Stele was inescapable—wherever it moved, the stele followed. The demonic vines coiled around it were unbreakable, their resilience defying even Darkstar’s formidable might.
It also saw the Bloodfiend stalled by Ye Liuyun’s puppets, its bloodline pressure seemingly useless.
*"If this drags on, we’re finished!"*
With that realization, Darkstar made a desperate move. It hurled a clone of itself beyond the stele’s range, sending it straight for Ye Liuyun.
By the time the soldiers inside the massive orbs reacted, the clone was already upon Ye Liuyun. They dared not fire, fearing they might hit him instead.
Ye Liuyun acted swiftly, summoning Blackrock and Shade to intercept Darkstar’s clone.
Though the clone matched Darkstar’s cultivation at the fourth level of Guiyi, its power paled in comparison to the original. Blackrock and Shade not only held it at bay but quickly gained the upper hand.
"Damn it!" Wu Xing cursed under his breath and immediately sent a mental message to the Blood King, urging it to go all out.
On the other side, the Blood King was locked in a fierce battle with Ye Liuyun, determined to prove its superiority in power of bloodline. Its black barrier easily withstood the attacks from the puppets, so it had no worries there. With a furious roar, it once again surged its bloodline energy, ready to fight Ye Liuyun to the death.
Ye Liuyun’s golden eyes detected the strange fluctuations within the Blood King’s body.
"Huh? Can this ancient demon’s bloodline energy manifest externally?"
He realized that the ancient demon’s power of bloodline was rapidly seeping out of its body.
Soon, all of the Blood King’s blood had spilled out, forming a grotesque sight. The blood then coalesced into the shape of an ancient demon.
Immediately after, the Blood King’s soul rushed into the blood-formed figure. The moment it did, the blood construct’s power erupted violently, its overwhelming bloodline force finally overpowering Ye Liuyun’s defenses.
Inside Ye Liuyun’s body, his blood nearly froze solid—the circulation of his bloodline energy came to an abrupt halt. He hadn’t expected that even after the enhancements from the Blood Spirit Pool, his power of bloodline still couldn’t withstand the Blood King’s assault.
Worse still, he had no counter for this kind of bloodline attack. Despite channeling his energy to the limit, he remained completely suppressed by the Blood King.
"Hahaha! Pathetic human brat, out of tricks now, aren’t you?" The blood construct burst into laughter upon seeing Ye Liuyun’s struggle.
It even taunted him, "Recall all those things you summoned and surrender! Otherwise, death is your only fate!"
Wu Xing, witnessing the Blood King gaining the upper hand, finally relaxed a little.
Hearing this, Hei Yan and Sha Ying dared not attack Wu Xing’s doppelgänger anymore, fearing Ye Liuyun might be harmed.
Ye Liuyun exerted all his strength but still couldn’t break free from the Blood King’s suppression. He could only let out a helpless sigh.
The blood construct, mistaking his sigh for surrender, continued gloating with laughter—until suddenly, a beam of black light shot from Ye Liuyun’s pupils, striking directly at the Blood King’s soul within the blood figure.
Before the Blood King’s divine soul could even discern what that black light was, it had already been pierced through and began to dissolve. Its laughter abruptly ceased.
Meanwhile, the blood avatar never returned to the Blood King’s body, nor did it launch another bloodline attack against Ye Liuyun. The oppressive tension in Ye Liuyun’s body eased as his power of bloodline smoothly resumed its circulation.
The black barrier that had shielded the Blood King also lost its effect, shrinking into a small black crystal orb. The puppets Ye Liuyun had summoned were about to charge at the Blood King’s corpse and the blood avatar, but he stopped them, recalling them back into his spatial realm.
He then casually stowed the Blood King’s remains into his spatial world, tossing them to Hei Shan to absorb. The black barrier orb was also handed over to Hei Shan to prevent it from being destroyed on the battlefield.
As for the blood avatar, Ye Liuyun encased it in Xuan Yuan energy and sealed it away in his spatial world to prevent its power of bloodline from leaking. He planned to refine and absorb it later.
**"Kill them! What are you waiting for?"**
Ye Liuyun noticed that Hei Yan and Sha Ying had stopped fighting, staring at him in shock. He snapped them back to reality, and the two immediately resumed their assault on Wu Xing’s clone with full force.
**"How is this human so strong? What was that black light?"** Wu Xing’s anxiety grew by the second.
The three of them were the strongest among the Ancient Demons, and their cultivation levels were five realms higher than Ye Liuyun’s—yet they hadn’t managed to injure him.
He had already exhausted all the forces at his disposal—forces that could have easily crushed an army of a million. Yet, they couldn’t even subdue a single human at the Sovereign Realm.
For a moment, he considered summoning all the Ancient Demon guards to kill Ye Liuyun, but a glance at the massive orbs hovering nearby made him abandon the idea. With those things present, no number of guards would make a difference.
Meanwhile, his own true essence was nearly drained dry by the Demon-Sealing Stele and the Demon Vine. Even the energy sustaining his puppets was almost depleted. If this continued much longer, his cultivation realm would begin to deteriorate.
**"You two are too slow!"**
Ye Liuyun’s golden pupils flickered as he assessed Wu Xing’s condition before urging Hei Yan and Sha Ying to hurry.
Fearing that Ye Liuyun might deem them useless and eliminate them afterward, the two immediately intensified their attacks, overwhelming Wu Xing’s clone until it could barely fight back.
