Realm-Hopping Martial Master

Chapter 1145: Chapter 614: Reforging the Desolate Star Halberd! (Part 2)

Behind him, the portal forcibly maintained by the War Alliance struggled to preserve its last thread of stability amidst the violent spatial folds and turbulence.

Thick, cold, twisted...

The instantaneous transmission brought a strong sense of dizziness and tearing.

The feeling of entering this time was completely different from the last time stepping in through the ancient path entrance.

Gone was the seemingly calm desolate blood-colored plain, replaced by omnipresent space turbulence and chaotic law storms.

It was as if an enraged giant beast poured out its most violent malice towards this foreign entity forcibly entering its body.

As soon as he landed, a fierce wind mixed with a decaying bloody and heavy sinister aura swept in, causing Jiang Shu’s clothes to flutter wildly, his exposed skin feeling as if it were being scraped by fine blades.

Underfoot was no longer the remnants of an ancient battlefield, but an ink-black swamp-like sludge with a viscous elasticity, exuding a nauseating sense of decay.

The air was filled with a dark red mist visible to the naked eye, containing a malicious power capable of interfering with the divine soul and eroding flesh.

The mixed energy remnants from the secondary turbulence region formed when he tore space to escape last time were being greedily absorbed by this sludge, integrating into its own body.

The environment had become harsher!

The world’s malice no longer solely targeted intruders but instead consumed and digested everything more instinctively and greedily, accelerating its own growth.

Jiang Shu instantly released spatial perception, spreading his spiritual sense like a net.

However, the range was greatly suppressed. The dense, substantive malicious mist and chaotic, violent law turbulence, like layer upon layer of noisy chaotic curtains, obscured his exploration.

He attempted to sense the subtle spatial marks left on Zhan Feng and others, but those marks were like stones sinking into the sea, completely swallowed by this embryonic massive negative aura.

He could only perceive some vague lifeform fluctuations restless and moving in the distant darkness.

"Unable to accurately locate them; it seems I can only rely on the passive resonance of the Void Origin Seal and actively create disturbances to attract them."

Jiang Shu’s heart sank slightly.

Just as his thoughts were settling, two scarlet points suddenly lit up in the shadow of a huge, twisted, obliquely growing black stone pillar to his left.

A swift black figure, like a viper striking from its burrow, wrapped in a piercing whistle, shot straight at Jiang Shu’s back.

It was an image of an ancient barbarian soldier!

Although its size was not as large as the ancient barbarian soldier encountered previously, its form was more streamlined, with dark red glows flowing over its bone-like outer armor, and its movement speed far exceeded those encountered before.

Even more eerily, its stabbing angle was as cunning as if endowed with intelligence, silently piercing through several natural barriers formed by spatial folds, directly targeting the vital points.

Jiang Shu hadn’t even completely turned around, just shifted his footing, his body moving like willow in the wind, narrowly avoiding the fatal bone spike.

At the same time, the Desolate Star Halberd in his hand seemed to possess life, its blade tracing a silent yet unmatched sharp silver line in the dim light, its trajectory mysteriously warping space, precisely striking the wrist part of the image holding the spike.

Jiang Shu’s Desolate Star Halberd made not a sound of piercing through air, only a faint spatial hum.

The halberd blade precisely hit the bony wrist guard of the ancient barbarian soldier’s image.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment.

"Ka-cha!"

What reached the ears was not the crisp sound of breaking but a decayed wood instantaneously powdered as if hit by some high-frequency vibration.

The entire forearm holding the bone spike, along with a small section of the upper arm, disintegrated into countless dark brown fragments, silently dispersing in the thick blood-colored mist.

The image’s movements suddenly halted, the scarlet glow in its eye sockets flickering intensely, unexpectedly revealing a few moments of clarity and bewilderment.

A completely uncharacteristic anthropomorphic emotion for a low-level slaughter image.

As this Secret Realm’s world will gradually awakens, these images’ spiritual wisdom is also slowly activating.

However, Jiang Shu did not give it any time to react or escape.

His wrist slightly lowered, the Desolate Star Halberd as weightless effortlessly glided downward.

There was no piercing cold light, only a faint silver line slicing through space. At the neck of that image, it gently caved inward, and then the entire gruesome head quietly slid off, the fracture smooth as a mirror, as if thrown into an invisible void and directly obliterated.

The enormous body stiffened momentarily, then crashed down, smashing into the ink-black sludge ground, stirring up a filth before the body began rapidly disintegrating, transforming into pure energy merging into the surrounding world’s barrier.

The whole process was as swift as a blink of lightning, from attack to counterkill, merely two movements simplified to cold precision.

Jiang Shu glanced at the remnants melting away, heart slightly cautious.

These images, compared to those he encountered while fleeing desperately before, indeed possessed more spiritual intelligence, more coordinated actions, and more concentrated power.

They seemed to continue evolving along with the "growth" of this world.

This place was not safe to linger.

Sensing the omnipresent malice and prying within this space, Jiang Shu knew the aura of his recent action must attract stronger beings like a torch in darkness.

Finding people was not easy.

The passive sensing of spatial marks had failed, so he could only create momentum.

"Since the perception is vague, let this disturbance be big enough to penetrate this filth-ridden land!"

A glint of fierceness flashed in Jiang Shu’s eyes.

His figure flickered, like a silver line melding into the shadows, heading straight towards the right front.

Shooting towards the most chaotic space wave and most intense perturbation zone.

Over several jagged hills formed by massive fractured remains, a low-lying "basin" appeared before him.

The space here was even more unstable, with the blood-colored mist so dense it almost formed an impenetrable dark red sea.

Amidst the mist, shadowy figures swayed indistinctly, with no less than a dozen in number.

Their aura mostly ranged from the Peak of Ninth Realm to the Early Stage Tenth Realm, occasionally with one or two reaching the Middle Stage Tenth Realm, with even one obscure fluctuation faintly approaching the Late Stage.

Chaotic, dense, intertwining auras.

This was exactly the hunting ground Jiang Shu needed.

Within Jiang Shu’s view, the influence not only contained the ancient clans and beasts long obliterated in the river of history but also numerous legendary heroes who laid the foundation for the human clan today, but now, all were muddled, becoming Jiang Shu’s enemies.

If their heroic spirits remained, they would not want to see themselves in such a state.

Thus Jiang Shu had no intention of hiding his aura.

Bang!

The Law of Power flowed through his body, and a sudden explosion of energy and blood burst forth as if an awakened dormant volcano, his immense aura like an invisible boulder thrown into this bloody mire, instantly disrupting the basin’s balance.

Woo!

Eerie, venomous, and bloodthirsty screeches echoed from all directions in the thick mist.

Several black figures imbued with filthy Evil Qi, like sharks scenting blood, burst through the mist from different directions, pouncing directly at Jiang Shu with varying attacks.

Some wielded giant bone claws tearing space from above, others hurled filthy corrosive energy bombs like meteors, and several black chains adorned with bone spikes snaked towards his limbs.

Jiang Shu remained still, the Desolate Star Halberd already in hand.

Facing the overwhelming attacks, he merely raised his left arm simply, fingers spread wide, pressing fiercely against the void before him!

A vast twisted space ahead was forcibly compressed and folded by an unmatched power, forming an invisible, thick barrier.

"Thud!"

"Thud!"

"Thud!"

The dull crash sounds blended together as bone claws struck the space barrier, shattering inch by inch.

The energy bombs, as if crashing against a refined gold wall, exploded into countless filthy light points.

The poisonous barbed chains, upon contact with the barrier, were shattered segment by segment by the annihilating force inherent within the barrier!

With power breaking all laws, space as a shield!

The first wave of attacks dissipated, more shadow soldiers swarmed forth in follow-ups.

Among them was even a faint sense of coordination, with several powerful heavy armor images in the front charging to clear the way, attempting to break the space barrier, while from behind, swift ghostly blade-wielding images sought open seams for ambushes.