Chapter 910: The Arrival of the Dao Mastery Saint, Godslayer Heavenly Bead
Clearly, they recognized the newcomer.
Saint Inked Death, a Dao Mastery elder of the deepsea race.
His arrival at this time was certainly not without cause.
It was likely due to the fall of Saint Abyssal Serpent, coming here for revenge.
Had they not been trapped within the array at this moment, they might have had a chance to fight back,
But now, they were nothing but fish on the chopping board.
“Sky Splitter! How did Saint Abyssal Serpent die? What happened!”
The moment Saint Inked Death appeared, he bombarded with questions, his face dark as storm clouds.
Had this not been near the Sacred City, he might have already been unable to restrain himself from striking at Saint Sky Splitter.
The death of Saint Abyssal Serpent, a Dao Fusion Saint, was a colossal blow to the deepsea race.
Saint Sky Splitter, who was also at Dao Fusion, was fine. How could he tolerate this?
Moreover, it wasn’t just one Dao Fusion Saint that the deepsea race lost,
Four soul lamps within their race had been extinguished!
This loss had regressed the deepsea race’s strength by ten thousand years.
Faced with Saint Inked Death’s furious questioning, Saint Sky Splitter dared not to be negligent.
Instead, he relayed everything that had occurred truthfully.
Throughout this, Saint Inked Death’s expression grew increasingly somber,
Human cultivators had actually infiltrated their sacred ground and killed so many of the deepsea Dao Integration and Void Returning cultivators.
“Such audacity, all humans deserve death!”
Saint Inked Death suddenly roared in fury, his Dao Mastery aura unfurling, making everyone present feel suffocated.
Then, he shifted his gaze to the Blood Sea Heaven Slaughtering Array.
Even through the array, Jiang Chengxuan and the others could sense that cold breath and murderous intent.
Some felt despair in their hearts,
Dao Mastery cultivators could already master a Dao of Heaven and Earth.
Coupled with the Blood Sea Heaven Slaughtering Array, killing them would be no more difficult than killing ants.
Saint Inked Death approached the array.
Gazing hatefully at Jiang Chengxuan and the others, he said,
“I will make you wish you were dead, every human I see from now on, I will kill!”
With that, he thrust his hundred-mile-long scorpion tail into the array.
Instantly, the array became even more violent,
The originally pure red blood sea now had streaks of black ink, like the apocalypse.
Moreover, within the already destructive and deadly rules, more pain and poison were added.
Even a single breath inhaled would allow the poison to invade their internal organs.
What to do?
At that moment, despair enveloped the cultivators of the various sects.
Their eyes filled with a resolution to face death, ready to self-destruct to carve out the slightest chance of survival for others.
It was then Jiang Chengxuan suddenly shouted towards the heavens:
“Do you really think this will kill us?”
Confusion spread among the crowd, and the gathering of demon beasts outside burst into scornful laughter.
“You’re about to die, yet you’re still so arrogant.”
Saint Inked Death frowned, his disdain palpable.
Yet, an unsettling premonition whispered to him that something was amiss.
But how could the situation turn, facing merely a Dao Inception human cultivator?
“Traitors to the realm, betrayers of the Floodgate Realm, deserve nothing but death!”
Jiang Chengxuan bellowed with rage.
Then, from within his robes, he produced an unassuming orb.
Its colors swirled with chaos, existing somewhere between illusion and reality.
The moment Saint Sky Splitter and Saint Inked Death caught sight of this orb, a chilling dread surged within them.
They couldn’t identify it, but their instincts screamed danger.
But before they could react, Jiang Chengxuan had already hurled the orb forward.
“Go forth, Godslayer Heavenly Bead!”
This was Jiang Chengxuan’s trump card, awarded for completing a system mission, the Godslayer Heavenly Bead, capable of annihilating all enemies within its range in an instant.
The bead flew in the direction Jiang Chengxuan pointed, piercing through the array and beyond, unleashing its catastrophic power amidst the astonished gaze of the enemy saints.
In that moment, even Saint Inked Death found himself caught off-guard, barely managing to summon his protective treasure.
The explosive force of the Godslayer Heavenly Bead was beyond Jiang Chengxuan’s control.
He could only give it the most basic instructions.
When the Godslayer Heavenly Bead unleashed its full might, everything within its vicinity froze in time.
Space itself seemed to convulse in chaos.
To the eyes of Saint Inked Death and the others, it felt as though they were being sucked into a black hole, everything about them, including their very lives, stretched to infinity before being obliterated.
This was annihilation on a fundamental level, a force of the rules themselves, unreachable even for a Dao Mastery Saint like Saint Inked Death.
It was a wiping of both body and soul.
To Jiang Chengxuan and his companions, the world flashed white, and upon opening their eyes, the blood sea world had vanished.
In fact, half of the Sacred City of the foreign races no longer existed.
Saint Sky Splitter, Saint Inked Death, and their clan members, it was as if they had never been there, with only their dropped treasures as evidence of their presence.
The cultivators of Thunderclap Valley and others were dumbfounded. Even Jiang Chengxuan himself was stunned by the sheer might of Godslayer Heavenly Bead.
In his original plan, if the Godslayer Heavenly Bead could simply break through the Slaughtering Heaven Array and eliminate some of the enemy cultivators, they might stand a chance to turn the tides.
Yet, upon its deployment, the Godslayer Heavenly Bead not only shattered the enemies but obliterated them entirely, including the Dao Mastery powerhouse, Saint Inked Death.
But truly, this outcome was primarily due to Saint Inked Death’s oversight.
Had he treated the Godslayer Heavenly Bead as a strike from an equal, preparing his intrinsic divine powers and spiritual treasures in advance, he might have avoided instantaneous defeat.
Regrettably, he underestimated Jiang Chengxuan, a mere Dao Inception foe, resulting in this dire consequence.
“Have we… achieved our goal?” murmured Saint Zenith.
They had annihilated the leaders of three races, including the only Dao Mastery powerhouse of the deepsea nomads, along with countless Dao Inception foreign cultivators.
What a splendid victory.
The loss of so many Dao Integration cultivators had undoubtedly severed the foundations of the three races,
It would take tens of thousands of years for them to recover, if ever.
The group fell into a long silence, having battled between life and death,
They had completed their mission, yet their feelings were complex.
“What’s going on… Sky Splitter?”
Just then, a voice suddenly emerged before them.
Jiang Chengxuan and the others looked around in astonishment, only to see a colossal white figure rising from the ground.
He was as vast as a star, shaped like a giant ape, with eyes as red as the sun.
His presence was terrifying, matching that of the earlier Saint Inked Death,
He was a Dao Mastery demon beast saint!
This was none other than the ancestor behind Saint Sky Splitter, Saint Skywrest!