191: Bloodthirsty Devouring Primordial Locking Formation

"Zhang Sheng? You're still alive?!"

Zhang Sheng had just swept up to the gates of Tianxing City when Lu Shi Qi's Divine Sense transmission exploded in his mind, startling him.

"Let's talk inside!"

The two flashed into the city, one after the other.

Zhang Sheng immediately smelled the source of the strange fragrance—it was right inside Tianxing City!

"Brother Zhang, where are the three Divine Power Realms who were chasing you?" Lu Shi Qi quickly followed up.

Zhang Sheng stared intently at him: "Lu, how did you see through my disguise?"

Lu Shi Qi pointed to his own eyes: "With these!"

What a powerful Eye Technique! It definitely reached the True Intent Concept... This guy hides his strength well! An alarm rang loudly in Zhang Sheng's heart.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, listen to me, don't follow me! The trouble I've caused is too big; if you keep following, your life won't be safe!"

Lu Shi Qi's face suddenly turned pale, and he looked sharply into the distance: "Zhang Sheng! I'm afraid... both our lives are hanging by a thread now!"

A Divine Sense roar covering the entire city vibrated, causing eardrums to ache:

"Savage Beasts are attacking the city! Everyone, leave the city and meet the enemy!!!"

Zhang Sheng suddenly looked up.

The sky in all directions seemed to have been splashed with thick ink, instantly turning into a desolate gray silence!

As far as the eye could see, densely packed Savage Beasts covered the sky and earth like rolling black clouds!

"Formation, activate—!"

Huge light screens instantly lit up around Tianxing City, and the protective Grand Formation roared into action!

However, almost simultaneously, thousands of Cultivators who had just rushed out of the city were targeted by countless terrifying energy beams from the Savage Beasts!

They didn't even have time to scream, instantly turning into ash, leaving nothing behind!

"Are you kidding me?! This scale... definitely over a million! There must be tens of thousands of Divine Power Realm Savage Beasts! This battle is impossible to fight!" Zhang Sheng's pupils constricted. Without hesitation, he turned into a streak of light and rushed straight toward the teleportation array.

The next moment, he witnessed a scene out of Hell.

The body of the Cultivator guarding the teleportation array suddenly swelled, and his skin tore open!

Snake heads covered in black scales and lined with jagged fangs drilled through the flesh, writhing and dripping foul-smelling black-brown mucus!

"Hiss—!"

One snake head bit down like lightning, swallowing the Cultivator who had just stepped onto the Formation in a single gulp!

"Void Demon!" Zhang Sheng gasped.

The monster, completely mutated by the Void Demon, opened one of its massive, bloody snake heads and bit ferociously toward the teleportation array beneath its feet!

"Stop!" Zhang Sheng's eyes were about to split.

"Soul-Startling Thorn!" An invisible Soul thorn shot out!

But it missed! Within that monster's body... he couldn't sense the slightest Divine Soul fluctuation!

"How is that possible? Even if it was taken by Void Demon Possession, there should still be residual Soul!" Zhang Sheng was deeply shocked.

It was too late to try and cast the Moon Slash Spell!

He could only watch helplessly as the monster violently swung its snake heads, completely destroying the core structure of all the teleportation arrays!

Damn it! The teleportation arrays were destroyed. The only way out was to force a path outside the city!

However, an even more despairing scene followed immediately!

In the central area of Tianxing City, four gigantic monsters, similarly mutated and distorted by the Void Demon, burst out of the ground!

They simultaneously raised their terrifying limbs, and four destructive beams of energy violently struck the colossal pillar in the center of the city—the spirit suppressing pillar!

Boom, rumbling—!!!

The spirit suppressing pillar snapped immediately!

The core hub supporting the protective Grand Formation instantly collapsed!

The light screen covering the entire city flickered violently, then dissipated like shattering glass!

The stable Spiritual Qi within the city was instantly assimilated and torn apart by the violent and chaotic external energy!

"Inside help matching outside attack! These Void Demons and Savage Beasts are working together!" Zhang Sheng's mind was in chaos.

The city gates clearly had Spirit-Illuminating Mirrors... How did these monsters sneak in?!

Roar—!!!

Stripped of the Grand Formation's protection, the boundless flood of Savage Beasts instantly overwhelmed the city wall defenses!

A bloody, annihilating battle instantly erupted in every corner of the city!

In the direction of the City Lord's Residence, various chaotic, panicked, and desperate Divine Sense transmissions wildly intertwined.

But amidst this clamor, a majestic Divine Sense transmission, carrying monstrous rage, exploded in everyone's mind like Startling Thunder:

"Everyone in Tianxing City listen! Break out immediately! This is a trap set by the Song Kingdom! They intend to refine our flesh, blood, and Divine Souls!!!"

Regardless of whether it was true or false, this voice ignited the final fuse!

All Cultivators who were still resisting or hesitating instantly went mad, rushing desperately towards the city limits!

Zhang Sheng also didn't hesitate, pushing his speed to the extreme and shooting like lightning toward the area where the beast tide was relatively weaker!

"Zhang Sheng! Take me with you! I swear what I said is absolutely true!" Lu Shi Qi shouted urgently behind him.

Zhang Sheng ignored him, focused only on escaping this purgatory as quickly as possible.

Suddenly!

The entire sky, without warning... was stained a viscous, oppressive blood-red!

Boom—!!!

Zhang Sheng felt like a high-velocity cannonball, slamming violently into an invisible, indestructible barrier of heaven and earth!

The protective Profound Light Shield instantly shattered one layer!

The massive recoil made his Qi and blood churn.

Looking up, a colossal blood-red light barrier, covering the entirety of Tianxing City and the surrounding thousand li, was like an overturned giant bowl, locking everything inside!

Not only him and all the Cultivators attempting to break out, but even most of the Savage Beasts that had rushed into the city were trapped inside!

More terrifying still, an irresistible power of Law descended!

Flight Restriction!

All Cultivators and Savage Beasts flying in the air plummeted from the sky, screaming and roaring, like dumplings dropped into a pot!

"What's going on?!" Zhang Sheng landed back on the ground, staring in horror at the blood-red sky above.

"Moon Blade! Slash!" He condensed all his magical power, and a dazzling blade of moon essence fiercely struck the blood-red barrier!

The Moon Blade, powerful enough to easily sever a Tier 2 Spiritual Artifact and tear apart a Divine Power Realm Physical Body, only caused a faint ripple when it hit the barrier, leaving no trace!

"This... could this be a Star God Realm method?!" Zhang Sheng's heart sank to the bottom.

He tried every offensive Spell, even detonating several powerful Talismans, but the blood-red barrier remained completely still!

The communication jade slip was also completely non-functional, leaving dead silence.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang Sheng!" Lu Shi Qi caught up, panting, despair undisguised on his face. "This... this is likely the 'Bloodthirsty Soul-Devouring Void-Locking Grand Array'!"

"You fly so fast... unfortunately, we were still a step too late." He smiled bitterly.

Zhang Sheng suddenly grabbed Lu Shi Qi's shoulder, his gaze sharp as a knife:

"Lu Shi Qi! What exactly do you know? Tell me! I'll take you out of here with me!"

"Get out?" Lu Shi Qi gave a miserable laugh. "Forget it! Once we're in this Formation, we... might all die here!" He suddenly spoke urgently, as if grasping at a final straw: "Right! Zhang Sheng! Can you dig holes? Quick! Dig down! The deeper the better!"

"This Grand Formation will slowly drain the flesh, blood, and Divine Souls of all living beings inside! If we hide deep underground, maybe... maybe we can last until someone from outside breaks the Formation!"

Zhang Sheng's heart tightened, and he immediately felt the power of Qi and blood within his body slowly draining away at a strange speed!

Time is life!

"Earth-Binding Quicksand!" Without hesitation, he pressed his palms to the ground!

The hard rock beneath their feet instantly turned into loose quicksand!

The Object Manipulation Art swept up the sand and rock, throwing it aside. Zhang Sheng continuously cast Spells, and the two burrowed madly into the depths of the earth like moles!

Every time they dug down a section, Zhang Sheng used a high-temperature flame Spell to melt the entrance of the quicksand tunnel above into a smooth, hard glass layer, isolating the Qi above as much as possible.

After burrowing downward for an unknown duration, they reached ten thousand meters underground!

Zhang Sheng clearly felt that the strange power draining their Qi, blood, and Divine Souls had suddenly weakened by over ninety percent!

"Fellow Daoist Zhang Sheng, the Spells you know are certainly varied!" Lu Shi Qi panted in the dark underground tunnel, his tone complicated.

Zhang Sheng continued digging downward while asking in a deep voice: "Lu Shi Qi! Cut the nonsense! What is the origin of this 'Bloodthirsty Soul-Devouring Void-Locking Grand Array'? And what about the Song Kingdom trap that powerhouse mentioned just now?!"

"Alas..." Lu Shi Qi sighed, his voice echoing in the narrow tunnel. "Zhang Sheng, actually... I Ascended to the Upper Realm over eighty years ago. After Ascending, I disbanded the New Prefecture and wandered around the Upper Realm, enjoying gathering strange news and collecting various information."

"I heard about this 'Bloodthirsty Soul-Devouring Void-Locking Grand Array' outside the Song Kingdom. Legend says it's an evil Formation used by extremely powerful High-Grade Void Demons to refine the flesh, blood, and Souls of living beings inside the Formation to nourish themselves!"

He paused, lowering his voice, tinged with a hint of fear:

"But... I also heard an even more terrifying theory. If it were just for refining living beings, Savage Beasts would be enough. But this evil Formation always appears where Cultivators gather in large numbers!"

"It's not just for flesh, blood, and Divine Souls... it forcibly extracts and refines the 'Divine Ability True Intent' painstakingly cultivated by Supernatural Power Realm Cultivators! The ultimate goal is... to refine a Medicinal Pill!"