192: Stealing the Divine Pill

Just as Zhang Sheng buried his head and started digging,

the surface above had already turned into a bloody purgatory!

Countless Desolate Beasts were the first to have their blood, flesh, and essence drained, their vast Qi and blood power converging into a torrent toward the sky.

The Cultivators each cast their Spells, struggling to hold on, but they were like trapped beasts.

Zhang Sheng's Divine Sense was like a bright mirror hung high, reflecting every detail of the disaster!

The Souls of Divine Breath Realm Cultivators were forcibly ripped out by an invisible power, screaming as they vanished into the constantly expanding bloody sphere high above!

True Fetus Realm and Divine Power Realm Cultivators could only watch everything in despair, frantically bombarding the scarlet barrier that enveloped the area, yet all their attacks were like a clay ox entering the sea!

Even directly attacking the bloody sphere had no effect!

The more they activated their magic power, the more terrifying the speed at which the Qi and blood in their bodies were lost!

Zhang Sheng attempted to break out from underground, but was horrified to discover that the red barrier extended deep into the earth's veins!

Having no other choice, he could only continue digging deeper!

"Fellow Daoist Lu, setting up such a deadly trap to slaughter all living beings—what kind of Wicked Pill are they trying to refine? Do you have any idea?"

Lu Shi Qi's Adam's apple bobbed, his voice rough like sandpaper: "god-stealing pill... it might be that legendary Forbidden Wicked Pill that helps Divine Power Realm Cultivators forcibly Breakthrough to the Star God Realm!"

"Hey! What's wrong with you?"

Zhang Sheng suddenly realized that Lu Shi Qi's rate of Qi and blood loss was ridiculously fast; at this rate, he would be completely depleted in an instant!

"You're too weak! You've been messing around in the Upper Realm for over eighty years and still haven't touched the threshold of the Divine Power Realm?"

"Heh..." Lu Shi Qi's breath was faint,

"My greed got the better of me... I insisted on Cultivating a Supreme True Embryo Secret Technique dug out from a ruin... *cough*... I never expected... that I, who always has dumb luck, would fall here..."

"Brother... I really wasn't boasting... My Talent... is truly the 'Echo of Strong Luck'..."

"It's just that... recently it seems... it's really starting to fail..."

Zhang Sheng flipped his palm, and a hundred crimson blood essence pills appeared out of thin air: "Swallow them quickly!"

Feeling the immense medicinal power within the Medicinal Pills, Lu Shi Qi treated them like treasure and swallowed them whole.

His complexion instantly became slightly rosy, but Zhang Sheng's heart sank—Lu Shi Qi's Qi and blood were still draining at an alarming speed!

This was extremely abnormal!

"Damn it! Why now of all times!" Lu Shi Qi felt as if raging flames were rising inside his body!

Boom!

Scarlet red flames ignited around Lu Shi Qi's body without any warning!

"Brother Zhang! It's my ninth Nirvana Tribulation... activating early! Do you have more of those Medicinal Pills? Give me... a thousand! No, give me as many as you have! Please! As long as I survive this tribulation, my life, Lu Shi Qi's life... will be yours to command in the future!"

If this person hadn't reminded him to dig, he might have already followed in the footsteps of those outside.

Without saying a word, Zhang Sheng sent five thousand blood essence pills surging toward Lu Shi Qi like a flood.

"Brother Lu, if you can't even endure this, you truly can't blame anyone else!"

Lu Shi Qi swallowed all the Medicinal Pills as if a whale was sucking in the sea, nodded with difficulty, then sat cross-legged and closed his eyes, concentrating fully on fighting the Tribulation Fire within his body.

Zhang Sheng continued digging deeper underground, carrying this fiercely burning "human torch."

Strangely, Lu Shi Qi's body, engulfed in raging flames, began to curl up. A layer of glossy white substance rapidly covered his entire body, eventually wrapping him into a massive Light Cocoon!

Zhang Sheng had no time to examine Lu Shi Qi's transformation,

because the drastic changes outside were even more alarming!

A Divine Power Realm Expert wearing a strange monkey face mask and black profound robes brazenly stood mid-air, completely ignoring the suppression of the Anti-Flight Great Array!

Icy Divine Thought instantly swept over every surviving Cultivator on the scene:

"Everyone! This is the 'Bloodthirsty Soul-Devouring Void-Locking Grand Array'! If we don't break the formation soon, we will all become ghosts consumed by the pill!"

"I possess a Secret Technique called the 'Lesser Heaven Life Offering Art'! It might tear open a sliver of hope in this formation! Someone needs to be willing to sacrifice their life to me! The sacrificial method is here—"

An icy Divine Thought containing the sacrificial method was forcibly poured into the Sea of Consciousness of all Cultivators!

Sacrifice?

Zhang Sheng's pupils contracted—this voice transmitter was precisely the masked person who had previously strongly advocated for breaking out!

That monkey face mask was extremely strange; it not only blocked his Divine Sense detection but also prevented his Spirit Eye Divine Ability from seeing through it even slightly.

"We're going to die either way, I'll trust you this once!"

"We won't survive anyway, let's risk it!"

One after another, True Fetus Realm Cultivators whose Qi and blood were about to be drained chose to sacrifice themselves at the peak of their despair.

Vast Life Origin transformed into streaks of light, converging into the masked person's body!

The four Void Demons guarding the great array sensed the disturbance and roared as they pounced on the Man in Black in the air.

However, the masked person's aura had already surged dramatically!

"Noisy!" A cold snort came from beneath the mask.

He put his fingers together like a sword, and a fierce Sword Qi that seemed capable of tearing the Void Realm swept out!

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

The four terrifying Void Demons were instantly sliced into two pieces!

But the Man in Black dared not relax at all.

High in the sky, the bloody sphere was still greedily devouring the essence of the Desolate Beasts and Cultivators. Its volume was slowly shrinking and solidifying, emitting a terrifyingly Wicked Pill aura!

The Man in Black held his hands in front of his chest, and a blinding light sphere condensed out of thin air, expanding wildly!

One meter... ten meters... one hundred meters... one thousand meters!

The terrifying Spiritual Power compressed inside the light sphere formed a substantial Spiritual Pressure, suffocating even Zhang Sheng, who was deeply buried underground!

"Divine Ability—Blazing Sun Burning Heaven!"

The Man in Black let out an earth-shattering roar and fiercely smashed the terrifying light sphere, which resembled a miniature sun, toward the Wicked Pill high in the sky!

Boom—Crack!

Just as the light sphere was about to hit its target, the space next to the bloody sphere suddenly tore open!

A gigantic hand that blotted out the sky stretched out from the rift. Its five fingers spread wide, and it effortlessly crushed the world-destroying light sphere!

Light specks filled the sky, scattering like a rain of stars.

"Tsk... I didn't expect an unruly little monkey like you to sneak into this fishing net."

A Startling Thunder-like voice boomed between heaven and earth!

A figure stepped out from the spatial rift, light and shadow distorting around him, preventing anyone from seeing his true appearance.

"Hmph! Hiding your face! Which Lord from the Song Kingdom is this? This isn't the first time you've done such a wicked deed, is it?" The Man in Black's voice was cold, seemingly having anticipated the appearance of the Star God Realm Expert.

"Little monkey, since you know this Lord's identity, you should understand... even if you are a Successor of the Twelve Divine Halls, you won't escape death today!"

The Star God Realm Expert's voice transmission was ruthless and clearly branded itself deep within the Primordial Spirit of every surviving Cultivator.

Zhang Sheng's heart tightened—this Star God Realm Expert had absolutely no intention of sparing anyone within the formation!

The bloody sphere in the sky had condensed to the extreme, and a wicked Pill Fragrance permeated the air.

The Star God Realm Expert merely pointed a finger casually in the air!

Boom!

A terrifying, irresistible power, as if the heavens were collapsing, instantly descended! The Man in Black in the air was struck as if by a heavy hammer, spitting out blood wildly.

Zhang Sheng noticed thick black blood dripping from the edge of the monkey face mask.

His body smashed violently into the earth like a meteor!

Despair spread like a plague.

The remaining Divine Power Realm Cultivators roared and chose to sacrifice themselves!

A more violent and mixed torrent of power surged into the Man in Black's body.

The Man in Black staggered to his feet, and a cold, hateful, and resolute laugh came from beneath the mask:

"You Imperial Dynasties treat all living beings as sacrificial dogs, merely to pave the Star God Path for your descendants!"

"Such an inhumane dynasty... is bound to be destroyed!"

"Everyone says that all beneath the Star God are ants... Today, I, Huai Jiang, insist on using Divine Ability... to Slay a God!"

"O great Sun, heed my command! Burn my broken body, sacrifice my Divine Soul—Spirit of Light, descend!"

Buzz—!

In an instant,

the entire Tianxing City, above and below the ground,

was left with only a patch of extreme white light... that consumed everything!