Chapter 449 - 421: Blood Slaughter Throne, Fallen Array Node
"Revenge?"
"Fine, I agree!" Xuetu nodded and said with a smile.
He would never miss an opportunity to kill a Golden Core cultivator from the enemy camp.
Especially...
"Yinshan!"
Xuetu’s eyes narrowed, his expression turning grave.
Yinshan had been missing for several years!
Even though evil cultivators were suspicious by nature and didn’t use Life Token Soul Lamps, this situation...
It forced him to suspect that Yinshan had very likely already fallen!
And based on that premise, the most likely culprit was this recently famous, newly-ascended Golden Core of the Flame Alliance—Yehai!
He had no proof, but as an evil cultivator, when had he ever needed proof?
’Rest in peace, Yinshan... I will avenge you, if only because I inherited your entire fleet for a bargain...’
Xuetu thought to himself.
"However."
"It’ll be a bit difficult on my own..."
They were both Mid-stage Golden Core cultivators.
He had fought Chu Wunian before. He was confident he could defeat him, but killing him would be troublesome.
The Undying nature of the Infinite Sea of Qi was very tricky to deal with.
For this Yehai, a newly ascended Golden Core, to have accomplished this, he either had bizarre Divine Techniques that specifically countered his opponent, or his combat prowess was simply outstanding, far surpassing others of the same rank!
In any case, he wouldn’t be easy to handle.
’In that case...’ Xuetu counted on his fingers, calculating how many people he needed to call.
’That brainless brute Lie Lin counts. A Tier Four Mid Stage Dragon-man with sturdy Scale Armor would make a perfect punching bag of a meat shield.’
’And there’s Yingshi. He’s also in this war zone. It wouldn’t be hard to invite him under the pretext of attacking Yu Lan Island...’
’With that, it’ll be foolproof!’
Xuetu finished his calculations and muttered to himself.
Two evil Golden Core cultivators from the Central Sea Region and one Tier Four Mid Stage Dragon-man. Three against one. With such a huge advantage against a newly ascended Golden Core, what could possibly go wrong?
Impossible!
’Attack the Yu Lan Island front line, besiege their strongholds to lure out reinforcements!’
’At the same time, we’ll keep striking and eliminating the Luotian Array points near Yu Lan Island... to form an encirclement!’
Xuetu finalized his plan!
...
「Over a month later.」
The Day Flame Sea Region.
A black-and-red meteor was speeding through the Gangfeng Layer!
The countless pale green Gang Winds not only failed to damage the Array Shield but actually became a tailwind, making the Ghostly Flood Dragon even faster!
The wind element within the Gui Cang Wind Stone.
Empowered by the divine kingdom, it had become even more exceptional.
At this moment.
Inside the captain’s cabin, Su Ye sat cross-legged, comprehending the legacies of Array creation.
His Magical Power had already reached its limit, and there was also a ceiling to comprehending the Divine Intent map—after all, the methods in the Divine Intent map were based on the insights of others.
It was fine to draw inspiration from it.
But becoming obsessed with it and following it step by step was more harmful than beneficial to a cultivator’s training.
Therefore, Su Ye only comprehended the [Bright Moon Reflecting Sea Map] once every few months.
He was currently in the "cooldown" period.
So, out of boredom, Su Ye picked up his study of Arrays and continued his research.
With his current Golden Core cultivation, his speed of comprehending Array legacies had increased dramatically. Content that was once like an indecipherable tome and made him drowsy was no longer so tedious.
During this time, he had easily raised his Array Master proficiency to the peak of Tier Three!
Becoming a Tier Four Array Master was now in sight!
’My special trip to the Spirit Realm Sea Region wasn’t a waste...’
Su Ye muttered to himself.
His rapid progress in the Dao of Arrays was not achieved by working in isolation.
After his trip to the Far South Continent, Su Ye made a special journey to the Spirit Realm Sea Region. He went to the location of the Gui Cang Wind Stone to observe the masterpiece created by Qiuya, the grandmaster of the Spirit Control Sect.
Furthermore.
He used his own proficiency in the Dao of Arrays, combined with the power of his Divine Techniques, to regulate the wind disasters in the sea region.
This practical application not only greatly benefited his proficiency in the Dao of Arrays...
...but it also significantly weakened the wind disasters in the Qingwei Sea Region, restoring them to the state they were in before Su Ye took the Gui Cang Wind Stone. This fulfilled a promise he had once made.
Su Ye had promised that after he reached the Golden Core realm, he would intervene to regulate the wind disasters to compensate for the negative impact caused by his taking a piece of the Gui Cang Wind Stone.
...
WHOOSH.
The Gang Wind flowed as they flew for several days.
The Ghostly Flood Dragon arrived at the Luotian Defense Line.
However.
’The situation seems... a little grim.’
Su Ye’s eyes narrowed, a flash of icy silver within them, as his Divine Sense swept over a thousand li.
The azure sea surface was in chaos. Thousands of Flame Alliance spirit ships, their sails fully hoisted, were desperately fleeing toward the heartland of the Flame Alliance.
They were not fleeing from an insectoid swarm, but from Tier Three beings of the enemy camp!
Crystallization Realm experts from Candle Python Cave, Tier Three insectoid beasts, Tier Three Dragon-men... about twenty Tier Three beings in total were rampaging through this sea region, slaughtering Flame Alliance cultivators!
They had clearly turned this sea region into their personal hunting ground!
’A total rout?’
’By the looks of it, a Luotian Array point has already fallen.’
After a Luotian Array point falls, the effect of the Luotian Illusion Array in the nearby sea region is significantly weakened for a short time, making it easy for Tier Three beings to see through it.
At the same time.
A flicker of recognition crossed Su Ye’s eyes.
Among the fleeing ships, he sensed a familiar Magical Power aura.
’Is that them?’
...
On the surface of the sea.
A spirit ship drifted aimlessly, its mast broken, its sails tattered, and its power lost.
Dozens of cultivators, their faces filled with terror, were herded onto the deck like lambs to the slaughter, awaiting their fate.
On the deck, a gaunt old man in green robes with sunken cheeks and sharp, hawk-like eyes stood with his hands behind his back, scrutinizing them.
"Brother, what do we do?"
Xv Yiyi’s voice was filled with fear.
She and Xv Xiuping had been incredibly unlucky this time.
They were on a logistics mission, providing supplies to a Luotian Array point.
But they just happened to run into an attack from Candle Python Cave, and the Luotian Array point fell!
In their panic, they fled haphazardly, but unfortunately, they were too slow. They were intercepted by a Crystallization Realm cultivator from Candle Python Cave and taken captive.
"What else can we do..." Xv Xiuping said with a bitter smile.
Facing a Crystallization Realm old monster, with their level of strength, all they could do was resign themselves to fate.
"This Crystallization Realm expert hasn’t attacked us directly. Maybe there’s still a chance..." he comforted his sister, speaking words he didn’t believe himself.
Just then.
The green-robed old man let out a sinister cackle.
"Juniors, you’re in luck."
"If you had met any other Crystallization experts from Candle Python Cave, none of you would have escaped death. And if you’d run into the Tier Three insectoid beasts or Dragon-men, you wouldn’t even find peace in death—you’d end up in their stomachs."
The green-robed old man shook his head, his tone full of mock sentimentality.
"But."
"You ran into me."
"This old man has always been soft-hearted and merciful..."
’Merciful?’
The cultivators present didn’t believe a word of it.
But they were in no position to argue. Their lives were in his hands. In this situation, even if the green-robed old man claimed he was Emperor Qin Shi Huang, they would have to agree.
Enjoying the cultivators’ fear, the green-robed old man was very pleased. He smiled and said, "Therefore, I’ll make you a deal. Kill one of your companions, and I will let the killer go free!"
"What?"
"Kill a companion?!"
The crowd of cultivators erupted in an uproar.
Killing a companion was a grievous crime in the Flame Alliance!
But.
The green-robed old man just gave a sinister laugh. With a flick of his robes, a dark green toxin scattered, forming a venomous wall of wind that trapped the cultivators.
One cultivator, caught off guard, came into contact with the toxin. Their flesh instantly rotted, and within a few breaths, they had completely dissolved into a puddle of pus and corpse fluid!
At the same time.
The circle of poison began to shrink.
"This..."
"How vicious! He’s clearly forcing us to kill each other!"
A jolt of fear shot through Xv Xiuping, his expression grave.
He glanced at the cultivators around him. Faced with a life-or-death crisis, the look in some of their eyes had already begun to change, glinting with an unreadable light.
But.
Just then, something unexpected happened.
A black-and-red meteor shot across the distant sky. The green-robed old man, who had been amusing himself by toying with the cultivators, suddenly paled and looked up in terror!
’That kind of power?’
’It’s a Golden Core! I have to run!’
SWISH!
He wrapped himself in his green robes, activating a Secret Technique.
He transformed into a dark green Escape Light, shooting away like an arrow released from a bowstring!
However.
HUMMM!
A sound of freezing ice rang out.
Before this Crystallization Realm expert could fly even ten zhang, his figure abruptly froze.
In an instant, bone-chilling ice encased him, turning him into a lifelike ice sculpture, his face a mask of utter shock.
BOOM!
The ice sculpture exploded, and he was annihilated, body and soul!