Transmigrating over ten thousand years late, I was forced to become a mighty presence - Chapter 535

Chapter 535: Chapter 236: Dao Marks Catastrophe_2
 

The battles were not confined to a single location; if someone could ascend above the Ninth Heavens and look down upon the entire Secret Realm Square-Inch, they would be amazed to find that the Netherworld supernatural beings always coincidentally encountered a portion of the separated sect cultivators.

An invisible force had divided the entire secret realm into various small-scale battlefields.

And at the very center of the secret realm, amidst the vast expanse of yellow sand, the White Tiger and Vermilion Bird, along with a team of over thirty Netherworld supernatural beings, also collided with the main force of the sect’s side.

On the side of Netherworld supernatural beings, over thirty Spirit Transmutation Realm beings armed with weapons formed a formation, and two enormous Ghost Kings wrapped in chains, holding shackles, presided over them, with one of the Ghost Kings even carrying a huge Yin Temple on his back.

On the sect’s side, there were as many as six Spirit Refining True Beings and dozens of Qi Training Stage cultivators congregating, looking at the Netherworld supernatural beings with surprising glee.

An elderly, black-robed man let out a chilling laugh:

“Who would have thought we could catch you Netherworld litter here; it seems your luck has turned sour.”

If it were outside the secret realm, the rules of heaven and earth would suppress us and prevent us from exerting our full strength, then these Spirit Transmutation Realm demons would warrant my threefold caution.

But within this secret realm, do you really think a mere two Ghost Kings can withstand us?”

Another middle-aged nun spoke in a somber voice:

“If the Luofeng 6 Hell Deities are willing to swear an oath that the Netherworld is willing to withdraw and no longer ally with Great Xia or meddle in the incense offering magic domain, we may let you go.”

The black-robed elder furrowed his brows, his expression displeased:

“True Being Yunxia, why waste words with them? Since they stand with Great Xia, we are bound to clash sooner or later—it’s merely a matter of time.

Eliminating these supernatural beings would ease great pressure for our various sects.”

As he spoke, he already viewed the Netherworld supernatural beings as trivial, easily erasable.

White Tiger, whose face was as gloomy as dark water, standing before the Yin Temple:

“You, an old man on his last legs with no great cultivation, sure have a big mouth.

You speak so arrogantly just because other sect’s Spirit Refining True Beings are present; don’t you find it laughable?”

The black-robed man’s eyes widened, and the powerful aura of a Spirit Refining True Being was unleashed without reservation, and a Sun God Dharma Image resembling dead wood appeared between heaven and earth.

“Presumptuous, to offend a True Being with only your Spirit Transmutation cultivation, you truly are bold!”

The dead branches turned into a withered palm that swatted towards White Tiger; a huge Ghost King stepped forward, blocking the ferocious attack, and battled against the black-robed elder.

The other five Spirit Refining True Beings on the sect’s side all flashed a hint of displeasure upon seeing the black-robed elder make his move.

In their eyes, if it were just ordinary Ghost Kings or supernatural beings, killing them would indeed benefit the conflict between the sect and Great Xia.

But among the Netherworld supernatural beings present were two of the Luofeng 6 Hell Deities; killing them would cause a stir throughout the Netherworld and incite total hostility from Netherworld supernatural beings.

Although they naturally do not fear the Netherworld supernatural beings, the other four from the 10 Netherworld Commanders who had evolved from the Luofeng 6 Hell Deities were truly powerful experts, and even the ancient ones in the grotto heavens sacred ground were extremely wary of them.

Not to mention, behind the Netherworld, there was the enigmatic Fengdu Emperor.

The several Spirit Refining True Beings had not wished to take action, but now that the black-robed elder had already dealt a deadly blow, it was difficult for them to remain uninvolved.

Although displeased with the black-robed elder’s actions, the situation no longer allowed for their retreat; one after another, the Sun God Dharma Images appeared—scorching and immense—in the firmament above, pressing down upon the Netherworld supernatural beings.

White Tiger, with a face grim as iron, said: “Do you truly think that only your side has called for reinforcements with the emergence of the Secret Realm Square-Inch?”

As the words fell, White Tiger and Vermilion Bird bowed towards the massive Yin Temple behind the Ghost King and chanted loudly:

“We humbly request the assistance of the Tianzhao Zuiqi Heaven Palace!”

“The Tianzhao Zuiqi Heaven Palace?”

All five Spirit Refining True Beings were taken aback; the next moment, they saw a ghostly figure with a leopard’s head and a human body step out from the Yin Temple.

The moment he emerged in the Secret Realm Square-Inch, his aura immediately soared to Spirit Refining Peak, even bearing the semblance of transcending the heavens and earth, stepping towards the state of a Return-to-Void Great True Being.

“How could this be?”

“You are the Netherworld Commander Leopard Tail!”

All Spirit Refining True Beings were greatly shocked.

The 10 Netherworld Commanders, due to their positions, were favored by the heavens and earth and in the Netherworld they could exert the might of a Return-to-Void Great True Being.

But such formidable power naturally had its drawbacks; namely, that the 10 Netherworld Commanders found it difficult to leave the Netherworld.

Nobody had expected that the Netherworld side would have covertly arranged for Netherworld Commander Leopard Tail to descend into the Secret Realm Square-Inch.

Although he had lost the enhancement from the Netherworld and could no longer display the cultivation of a Return-to-Void Great True Being, the realm of a Spirit Refining Peak, along with the perspective and Divine Arts once possessed at the peak of the Immortal Realm, made suppressing a mere few Spirit Refining True Beings a mere trifle.

The group of Spirit Refining True Beings exchanged glances and shouted in unison:

“Run!”

In the next moment, within the desert, the five proud suns scattered across the sky and fled in madness.

Netherworld Commander Leopard Tail merely uttered slowly:

“Demons and water monsters!”

The sky suddenly fell into darkness, and demons and water monsters engulfed the land; the five Spirit Refining True Beings were easily devoured by the water monster.

The energy of the dark Hell crazily corroded the bodies of the Spirit Refining True Beings, and their originally flawless and radiant Sun God Dharma Images were now becoming increasingly dim.

“Bring out all your trump cards, all of them!”

A Spirit Refining True Being roared.

One after another, the brilliance of spirit treasures soared upwards; Divine Arts were exercised without end, yet they couldn’t shake the massive demons and water monsters.

The eyes of the robed old man flickered uncertainly, but upon seeing that the gaze of Leopard Tail had shifted toward him, he eventually made up his mind and clenched his teeth, taking out an Array Formation from his bosom.

With a spell in hand, the robed old man called out loudly:

“I beseech the comrades of the sacred land to lend your aid!”

Formation patterns spread through the void, and a Spirit Refining Peak True Being, donned in a black Vestment robe and exuding great presence, stepped into the midst of demons and water monsters from within the formation patterns.

“What has befallen Daoist friend that you resorted to using the Void Teleportation Array Formation…”

“Demons and water monsters? You’ve pulled me into Netherworld Commander Leopard Tail’s water monster domain?

You irredeemable fool!”

As the True Being from the Left Deity Dark Void Heavens took in his surroundings, his face underwent a drastic change.

And at that moment, the light from the Array Formation shone once more, and another Spirit Refining Peak True Being of the Grotto Heavens Sacred Land was transported there by the Void Teleportation Array.

Next, a voice filled with shock and anger rang through the hellish water monster:

“Which fool is recklessly setting up the Array Formation!”

…

In the midst of the desert, Shen Yuan frowned slightly as he observed the Spirit Refining True Beings entering one after another into the demons and water monsters.

Although he wished for these trialists to be eliminated quickly, having the high-ranking forces of the sects and the Netherworld meet so soon was not what he wanted.

If the supernatural beings of the Netherworld and the True Beings of the sects were to fight to death and retreat en masse, causing the trial to end too swiftly, it could potentially affect the evaluation of the Secret Realm trials.

With that thought, Shen Yuan looked up at the gigantic sun that occupied nearly half of the desert sky.

“Let them cool down a bit first.”

The vast sun seemed to contract violently in a moment, shrinking from occupying half the sky to less than a tenth of its original size, leaving only a small orange disc hanging high in the sky.

The scorching high temperatures of the desert also rapidly descended at this moment, and such a wide-ranging anomaly naturally caused every cultivator in the desert to look up at the sky.

In the next instant, a fierce white light enveloped the entire world, and the compressed Great Sun exploded with a bang, the intense True Fire of the Great Sun devouring the eyes of every cultivator who looked towards the sky.

The world seemed to transform into a colossal furnace at that moment; the yellow sand melted into glittering crystals in the high heat, and the scorching fire poison eroded every cultivator.

In the center of the desert, the demons and water monsters that had suppressed a total of ten beings collapsed under the Great Sun, and numerous Netherworld supernatural beings, terrified, rapidly sought refuge, fleeing into the Yin Temple to evade the spectacle of the Great Sun burning the skies.

Netherworld Commander Leopard Tail and ten True Beings of the sects had already lost all will to fight.

They watched the sky with an obsessed gaze, as if the Great Sun had exploded; even as True Sunfire scorched their eyeballs and turned their eye sockets into voids, they couldn’t be shaken in the slightest.

For within the blazing Great Sun, they beheld a treasure like none before.

It was the Taiyang Path melting this Secret Realm, the ultimate path performed by the power of a world’s creation.

They were merely Spirit Refining True Beings, utterly unqualified to commune with the path, yet now within this newly formed world, they could peek at the Major Path true intent, which to them was an unparalleled treasure.

A Spirit Refining True Being from the Grotto Heavens Sacred Land, with dry, cracked lips, muttered with a trembling, hoarse voice.

“Could this be… the Heavenly Calamity of Dao Marks?”