Chapter 1061: Chapter 1061: Blood Slaughter World (Part 2)
The intense combat continues in the arena, with Nero, Di Xin, and Pei Yan locked in a fierce battle in the air. Meanwhile, blood from Ivan is about to cover the entire ground of the arena. Despite Ivan’s strange behavior, most people feel that the current battle seems to have finally entered the right track. The Blood Slaughter team, working together, is beginning to leverage their numerical advantage. Pei Yan no longer finds the same ease as he did when he first entered the fight.
"Pei Yan, what exactly do you intend to do?" Ye Ruozai murmured to himself as he watched Pei Yan in the midst of everyone’s focus. Others may not understand, but those like him who are Children of Origin, as well as the Mechanical Masters who had once worked on Pei Yan’s transformation, all know that Pei Yan is not using his full strength right now. Seeing Pei Yan handling the battle with disinterest and lack of enthusiasm, Ye Ruozai was filled with anxiety and confusion. Could it be that Pei Yan was too confident, resulting in arrogance? Why isn’t he taking advantage of the prime opportunity to eliminate the enemy when one person can’t attack?
Just as Ye Ruozai was puzzled, the blood flowing from Ivan finally covered the entire floor of the arena. Having completed this, Ivan, who had been kneeling motionlessly, exhaled a long breath and gripped the hilt of the sword embedded in his abdomen. As he slowly pulled the longsword inch by inch from his body, the entire space inside the arena underwent a radical transformation!
Blood plasma on the ground began to boil, and countless mournful wails echoed from every direction. At the same time, the sky turned color inside the defensive shield, and the clear sky was enveloped by dark red blood clouds. Seeing this, members of the investigation team, who had battled for five years on the Hell Plane against the Disaster Legion under the Blood Slaughter, immediately recognized this all-too-familiar scene.
"Does he intend to establish a Disaster Territory in the arena?" Jiang Feiyang instinctively voiced his thoughts.
Ye Ruozai pressed his hands onto the defensive array and released his source energy to probe the changes in source energy within the arena. His expression quickly turned grim as he growled, "This isn’t establishing a Disaster Territory; it’s a space swap. They’ve exchanged a portion of the Blood Slaughter’s space with the arena space. Now, the arena itself is the Blood Slaughter Realm."
As soon as he finished speaking, the thin layer of blood that originally covered the arena floor turned into a surging Sea of Blood when Ivan fully withdrew the longsword from his body. Amidst the tumultuous blood waves, gigantic and strangely shaped monsters leapt out of the sea. Ivan, whose face turned quite pale after unlocking the Divine Artifact within himself, jumped onto the head of a monster and used it to propel himself into the air.
Moments ago, when Pei Yan was evenly matched with Nero and the others, they now felt a surge of familiar origin energy as the space swap took place. Excitedly, Nero grinned at Pei Yan, saying, "I know you haven’t used your full power, and now it’s too late to do so! I told you, Pei Yan, you’ll pay for your arrogance!"
"Many people want me to pay the price, so come on, show all your cards! Let me find some interest in this battle!"
"I want to see how long you can keep up the bravado! Blood Wine!" Provoked by Pei Yan’s taunt, Di Xin, who had been suppressed, couldn’t hold back his fury. Ignoring Nero’s earlier advice to assist in attacking, he roared as the Divine Artifact Wine within his body poured out, merging with the blood waves on the ground and rushing towards Pei Yan.
"Fusion Evolution." Seeing Di Xin initiate the attack first, Nero had no choice but to cooperate. He inhaled forcefully with his right hand, dragging over ten gigantic beasts from the Sea of Blood with overwhelming suction. Their massive bodies disintegrated in mid-air, turning into countless masses of blood and flesh that Nero absorbed entirely into himself.
Benefiting from this nourishment, Nero not only healed his previous injuries but also significantly boosted his combat strength once again. Although this strength is temporary, akin to a steroid boost and would inevitably cause adverse side effects afterwards, for Nero, all this is worthwhile to defeat Pei Yan.
Compared to the high spirits of the Blood Slaughter team, Pei Yan, who only had a brilliant performance upon entering before turning indifferent, truly seemed to suffer from arrogance as Nero implied. The space swap meant he was now fighting on enemy grounds, leading to constant setbacks, breaking the previously balanced situation on the battlefield.
"I don’t understand; does it seem like Pei Yan is at a disadvantage?" Even an outsider like Engineer Li noticed something was off, cautiously asking the few people standing guard in the front row.
"Yes, just like how sports have home and away games, fights between cultivators also consider this factor! They even pay more attention to it compared to ordinary people. A Daoist Realm cultivator and a Magic Realm mage could battle, and even if the cultivator’s power is one level lower than the mage’s, if they fought in the Daoist Realm, the cultivator could leverage the geographical advantage to turn the tables. Because in different source energy environments, fighting in one’s familiar surroundings is definitely more advantageous."
Wang Wenze continued explaining without looking away from the match: "In this competition, all participants are Children of Origin, possessing six types of origin as one. The external origin environment doesn’t significantly impact them, so the arena didn’t set up any special configuration. It merely isolated the arena from excessive infiltration of Daoist Realm source energy, creating a relatively fair environment for both sides. However, Ivan exchanged an entire Blood Slaughter space onto the arena, which undoubtedly changes the battle significantly. At least in using the Power of Origin, the Blood Slaughter team, now fighting on home turf, holds more convenience and advantage over Pei Yan."
Wang Wenze’s words were soon verified on the battlefield. The quick source energy slashes that once amazed everyone when Pei Yan faced Moira are no longer effective as they were before, in Pei Yan’s hands during his crisis. The source energy slashes that struck the Blood Wine released by Di Xin only created towering splashes instead of cutting through the blood waves and hitting Di Xin’s true body hidden within, as people expected.
"Pei Yan! This is the Blood Slaughter Plane now! When using the Blood Slaughter Origin Power, we no longer have so many factors holding us back." In the midst of speaking, Di Xin, dwelling within the blood waves, swung both hands, launching compressed blood wine slashes along the trajectory where Pei Yan had previously attacked, sending them back without alteration.
Seeing Pei Yan’s predicament under the relentless attacks of the blood wine slashes, Di Xin couldn’t help but show a smug expression, taunting, "Didn’t you say you wanted to reclaim what doesn’t belong to me from my body? Come on! Come and take it! How does it feel now that your attack was swallowed and then rebounded? Doesn’t feel good, does it? Aren’t you good at purification? Why don’t you try neutralizing my attack!"
Perhaps these words enraged Pei Yan. Besieged by the blood wine slashes, his protective source energy was heavily consumed. He no longer dodged but instead opened his palm towards Di Xin in a counter-attack. The space around Di Xin was instantly locked, followed by a dazzling beam of light.
