Chapter 2724: Another Breakthrough
Su Yang fled with all his strength, dodging the encirclement and attacks of these Guardian Gods, and persisted for a full three months.
At last, the Heavenly Warriors of the Human Clan arrived.
As soon as they arrived, the two sides immediately erupted into a great war.
Knowing they could no longer escape, these Guardian Gods simply stopped running and fought the Heavenly Warriors to the death.
The Heavenly Warriors’ current strength was indeed somewhat stronger than that of the Guardian Gods, but only just a bit stronger.
Su Yang’s plan was very good, but after all, he hadn’t dared send a large number of people to carry it out before. At first there had only been ten batches of people, so the number they could rescue wasn’t large.
This great battle between the two sides went on for seven or eight years.
In the end, the Human Clan won. However, among the Guardian Gods, there were still some strong experts who escaped, such as the Heavenly Sect, which fled with a group of people.
Su Yang did not have anyone pursue them. There were definitely powerful experts sitting in town within the Guardian Land; if they approached the Guardian Land, that would be courting death. Being able to win such a great victory in this battle was already not easy, so of course they could not take risks.
Moreover, after this battle, of the thousand years’ time, nearly eight hundred years had already passed.
The Guardian Gods had suffered such heavy losses that it would take at least a hundred years for them to recover. In other words, when the next war began, Su Yang and the others would only need to hold out for another hundred years.
Su Yang knew very clearly that although the Human Clan had won this time, the situation was still grim.
He led everyone back to the Nine Realms, and also began activating Reincarnation, guiding those fallen experts to return.
The next hundred years would be a period of recuperation for both the Human Clan and the Guardian Gods, and Su Yang did not dare waste even a moment.
After properly arranging all matters of the Human Clan, Su Yang once more entered the Heavenly Sect and again began secluded cultivation.
This bout of seclusion was not for charging at the Peak of Earth-level; he had not yet touched upon the feeling of that peak.
This time, his main purpose was to study the Heavenly Destiny Treasure Book. When he advanced to the Middle Level, he had been able to open one page of the Heavenly Destiny Treasure Book; at Advanced Earth-level, he could open another page. A lot was recorded within, and Su Yang had not had time to carefully and thoroughly study it.
This time, with a hundred years, Su Yang finally had some time to properly research this Heavenly Destiny Treasure Book.
The hundred years flashed by in a hurry, and Su Yang remained in seclusion within the Heavenly Sect the entire time. However, on the Guardian Gods’ side, they were already stirring restlessly, sending out large numbers of people to probe the situation of the Human Clan. It seemed the Guardian Gods were preparing to launch another full-scale assault.
This situation made the experts of the Human Clan all quite worried.
After these few great wars, the Heavenly Warriors of the Human Clan had come to completely trust Su Yang’s commanding ability. For this coming battle, they were waiting for Su Yang to come out and preside over the overall situation.
Now that the Guardian Gods were about to take action while Su Yang was still in seclusion, it naturally made people anxious.
Just as people were hesitating over whether they should enter the Heavenly Sect to invite Su Yang out to take charge, an anomaly suddenly appeared on the side of the Heavenly Sect.
This phenomenon shocked all the Heavenly Warriors. This anomaly was the same one that had appeared when Su Yang advanced previously!
Could it be that Su Yang had advanced again? From Advanced Earth-level to the Peak of Earth-level?
Sensing the anomaly, all the Heavenly Warriors rushed outside the Heavenly Sect, their faces filled with shock.
They knew that if Su Yang succeeded in advancing this time, his strength would reach the Peak of Earth-level. One more step, and he would be at the Heavenly Realm!
At present, among the Heavenly Warriors in the World Melting Furnace, the strongest were only at the Peak of Earth-level.
If Su Yang advanced to this realm, wouldn’t he be able to stand on equal footing with these strongest experts?
The strongest among the Heavenly Warriors looked at each other in dismay; when Su Yang had first become the leader of the Human Clan, they had never imagined such a day would come.
Back then, they had only thought that it was because those Strongest supported Su Yang that they had been forced to let Su Yang take charge of the Human Clan. In truth, these Heavenly Warriors hadn’t cared about Su Yang at the start. After all, Su Yang had only been at the Initial Stage Earth Level at that time—how could he be compared with people like them?
But after several great wars, they had witnessed Su Yang’s leadership ability.
This time, Su Yang’s breakthrough to the Peak of Earth-level once again let them witness his formidable strength!
With transcendent leadership ability and immense strength, who among them could refuse to accept such a person as their leader?
Amid everyone’s expectations, a huge illusion suddenly appeared above the Heavenly Sect. Half of its face was Buddha and half was demon, trampling the entire Heavenly Sect beneath its feet.
Seeing this illusion, everyone felt a shock from the bottom of their hearts.
The Buddha half was the manifestation of the Buddha Venerable, and the demon half was the Heaven Slayer illusion.
Although everyone had long known that Su Yang carried these two illusions, previously they had not felt so overwhelming. Now, with the illusions appearing again, they truly and vividly felt the aura of the Buddha Venerable and the Heaven Slayer!
The illusion stood in the Void, while the Heavenly Sect below it continuously turned illusory, transforming into clumps of Spiritual Energy that were slowly absorbed by that illusion.
This shocked everyone even more. The Heavenly Sect Palace had been built back then by the Heavenly Sect at great cost of effort and resources. It could be said that all the finest things of the Three Thousand Great Worlds had been placed within this Heavenly Sect Palace.
Now, the illusion actually wanted to devour this entire Heavenly Sect Palace?
Under their gazes, the entire Heavenly Sect finally turned into Spiritual Energy and was completely absorbed by the illusion.
With the Heavenly Sect gone, they finally saw Su Yang sitting cross-legged where the Heavenly Sect had been. His eyes were still closed, mist swirling all around him, and part of the Spiritual Energy formed from the Heavenly Sect was actually falling onto his body.
What shocked them most was that beneath the Heavenly Sect lay a Ten Thousand Miles Blood Sea. This Blood Sea was an evil thing from Ancient Times, belonging neither to the Human Clan nor to the Guardian Gods, able to taint all things, with boundless power.
Originally this Blood Sea had been subdued by the Heavenly Sect and placed beneath the Heavenly Sect Palace to bear its weight.
At the same time, during the Ancient great wars, the Heavenly Sect had thrown some experts’ Magic Artifacts and similar items into the Blood Sea to let it refine them. Thus, within this Blood Sea, countless experts’ weapons lay immersed.
Now that the Heavenly Sect Palace had been refined away, this Blood Sea was completely exposed. Su Yang’s current position was right above this Blood Sea.
Seeing this scene made everyone’s hearts turn cold. The Blood Sea’s power was immeasurable; even at their peak in the Ancient era, they had not dared casually enter it.
Su Yang’s current position was only a hair’s breadth from the Blood Sea, almost touching it. If he fell down, Su Yang would at the very least shed a layer of skin!
"Hurry and inform Su Alliance Leader, tell him to get away from this Blood Sea!" a Heavenly Warrior said urgently in a low voice. "Although the Blood Sea was slain back in Ancient Times, its power remains. If Su Alliance Leader touches the Blood Sea, it will be extremely dangerous!"