502: The way to break the deadlock

Buzz—!!!

The purple-black vortex suddenly underwent a violent expansion!

The restrictive, decaying fluctuations erupting from the core instantly surged!

The demonic runes crawling over the surface of the massive obsidian body grew and flashed wildly!

It was as if billions of eerie, twisted ghost faces were screaming simultaneously!

An invisible fluctuation, far more vicious and viscous than before, instantly spread from the stone body throughout the entire Rift Abyss!

Crack—!

The tottering golden light barrier below—the Nine Yang Golden Bell Formation!

The moment it was covered by this suddenly doubled decaying force field, the entire hemispherical light barrier violently dented inward!

Several hideous and eye-piercing cracks split open at the edges!

A visible grayish-white aura, like a plague-ridden miasma, instantly spread out!

The platform at the bottom of the valley shook violently!

Lin Qingxue, Liu Rumei, Xiao Huohuo, and the others struggling to hold on within the platform's Formation Plate all shook violently at the same time!

Especially Liu Rumei; her already battered golden crow setting sun let out a wail, and the cracks on the sword's body suddenly spread further!

The flames maintaining the flow of the light screen suddenly dimmed, nearly cutting off the flow entirely!

Elder Lin Mingyuan, at the core of the Formation Plate, suddenly opened his eyes, and for the first time, intense ripples appeared on his usually calm face!

He forcibly swallowed a mouthful of blood, and the gaze he directed toward the Savage Demon and "Blood Fiend" was filled with unprecedented shock, anger, and killing intent!

"Hold on!!!"

Lin Qingxue's voice was like ice shattering and metal cracking, carrying a hint of imperceptible trembling!

She desperately circulated her Ice Soul Elemental Power to infuse the sword seal, freezing the spreading grayish-white aura!

"Move?" The Savage Demon glanced sideways at the seemingly dazed 'Blood Fiend', his sneer carrying an air of urgency.

"Hmph! These trash insects! They're preventing me from getting my share of the meat! Damn them!!"

"Blood Fiend" (Yao Delong)'s voice suddenly rose, filled with monstrous, wicked rage!

His blood-red robe moved without wind, and a thick, viscous Blood Fiend Demonic Essence, accompanied by the faint, shrill screams of countless blood souls, condensed from his right palm!

As the blood-colored energy churned, countless spiteful and twisted blurry faces faintly appeared,

it was the most ferocious signature power of the Blood Fiend Demon Venerable during his lifetime—the "Ten Thousand Soul Blood Grudge Fiend"!

Yao Delong used the nature of the thousand mechanisms origin core to reverse the Origin and simulate it, making even the soul-devouring, spiteful essence look lifelike!

The blood shadow roared as he waved a single hand!

A similarly condensed, crimson blood light of the grudge fiend tore through the air, carrying a bone-chilling, ear-piercing whistle,

and slammed into the purple-black core vortex ahead! This blood light was like a flame thrown into boiling oil!

Boom—!!!

The core vortex erupted with an unprecedentedly intense purple-black demonic light!

The Devilish Qi of the entire Rift Abyss seemed to boil and pour in reverse! The obsidian body violently expanded to its limit and then suddenly contracted!

The demonic runes crawling upon it almost seemed to come alive, ready to devour space itself!

Under the urging of the Blood Fiend Grudge, the terrifying forces of decay and restriction instantly surged several times over!

As if an invisible giant hand were tightly squeezing the entire valley-bottom cage!

Clatter! Creak, creak... the Nine Yang Golden Bell light barrier below let out a series of tooth-gritting groans!

The cracks, originally only a few feet long, spread wildly, instantly traversing most of the light barrier!

The edge areas even crumbled directly, creating a massive gap!

The chaotic, filthy Demonic Miasma, carrying a powerful spirit-corroding effect, rushed in like a flood finding a spillway!

"Ah—!"

Screams rang out!

Two Yin Yang Sect Golden Core Disciples guarding near the gap were unable to dodge in time; their protective Magic Treasures resisted for only a moment before being corroded through,

and their entire bodies melted rapidly like candles!

Flesh and bone turned into black mud, and even their souls were dragged by the Demonic Miasma, letting out shrill, invisible screams!

"Bastard—!!"

In the Formation Plate, Lin Mingyuan's hair and beard suddenly bristled! The golden Dao seal in his eyes spun wildly!

A surge of furious killing intent, enough to burn everything, shot straight into the sky!

The terrifying pressure of the Void Refining Early Stage was released recklessly! He wanted to personally crush those demon brats who were adding fuel to the fire!

On the rift lookout platform!

"Good! Refreshing! Hahaha! Go on, insects! Struggle for me!"

The Savage Demon, watching the light barrier shatter below and the Righteous Path Cultivators scream in Chaos, was so excited his eyes turned red, and he let out a sky-shaking laugh!

And at the very moment his laughter was deafening and his attention was completely captivated by the miserable scene below—

a faint thought, condensed to the limit like the explosion of the primal Chaos Origin at the beginning of the Universe—

from the Blood Fiend Demonic Essence surging from "Blood Fiend's" fingertips into the core vortex, a tiny wisp was boldly split off!

Ignoring the surging, filthy impact of the Devilish Qi that was enough to crush a Nascent Soul's Divine Thought,

like a cold electric eel swimming through the deep sea, it silently went against the grain of the demonic runes,

and instantly plunged into the core of the temporary formation essence flow of the Nine Nether Soul Locking Forbidden Domain! The terrifying resilience of a powerful Divine Thought was fully displayed!

The operational trajectories of billions of demonic rune arrays were like an invisible, vast star map unfolding instantly!

The main vein! Seventeen clear auxiliary branches! Three hundred and sixty core nodes circulating and changing!

Demonic Essence supply routes! Internal connecting hubs!

Weaknesses! The gaps between void and reality! The hubs that were just barely holding on versus those truly supporting the core!

Every minute structure was revealed in vivid detail under Yao Delong's terrifying Divine Sense mirror, which surpassed that of an ordinary Void Refining Cultivator!

Found it!

As long as six hub nodes were destroyed simultaneously within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn!

And then blast three core auxiliary formation eyes as a trigger! This would trigger a local chain collapse of the Demonic Essence!

Ultimately shaking the entire Core Mother Stone! Gaining a breathing space for the golden bell light barrier! And even... creating Chaos!

This information struck his mind like lightning!

Phew... that wisp of Divine Sense retracted rapidly like a receding tide. Everything happened in a flash,

the surging Blood Fiend Demonic Essence and the pervasive Ten Thousand Soul Grudge Screams perfectly concealed the traces of the investigation.

Yao Delong's face still maintained its sneer and greed, but his eyes were as calm as an ancient cold abyss,

already mapping out a fatal path of destruction in his mind!

At the very moment the information was obtained and his mind relaxed just a fraction!

Slap!

A heavy demonic palm, as large as a red-hot cattail leaf fan, slapped onto Yao Delong (Blood Fiend)'s shoulder without warning!

The force was incredibly heavy! It contained an overbearing and peerless Body Refining Fiendish Energy!

It sent his "Blood Fiend" Mid-stage Soul Transformation demonic body stumbling! The blood-colored Demonic Essence being injected into the formation eye even paused for a moment!

Alarm bells rang in Yao Delong's heart! He instantly suppressed the Yin and Yang power that instinctively wanted to counterattack!

His Demonic Essence fluctuated violently as he suddenly turned his head!

His crimson, violent pupils stared fixedly at the Savage Demon's still unretracted palm,

and he let out a suppressed "he-he" growl from deep in his throat, like a wild beast, filled with the mania of being rudely offended!

"Brother Blood Fiend..."

The Savage Demon's copper-bell-sized red eyes were now staring fixedly at the tattooed face of "Blood Fiend",

seeming to want to probe something; his coarse face rarely showed a bit of restraint from its previous excitement,

and with an imperceptible scrutiny, he said slowly, word by word:

"...That scent of Blood Fiend grudge and poison you just had..."

His massive nostrils twitched slightly as the thick, sulfurous smell of blood washed over him.