Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 805 - 339: Why Does He Never Play by the Rules? (Part 2)
Previously on Cultivating with Top Enlightenment...
"If you want to survive, then show us the path."
Brahma Heaven and his companions exhaled in relief, grateful that the foe had agreed to their idea.
"Please lift the seal from us, senior."
With a flick of his fingers, Blood Slaughter Enemy sent two red beams racing toward the pair.
As the beams struck, the seal imposed by Fei Bing and the rest was immediately dissolved!
Brahma Heaven and his group rose to their feet, appearing ragged and unkempt.
Before the twenty Unity Realm experts and the two leftover domain forces from the Vast Realm, they resembled mere insects facing a massive human force.
Although they possessed methods granted by their father, confronting such overwhelming might, they refrained from deploying them.
They feared that prior to activating those means, they would be effortlessly obliterated by the adversaries!
Their minds weighed down with gloom, yet recalling that Ning Qi had sparked this crisis, a fierce loathing toward him surged within.
"Cursed fool, you’ll regret this!"
Sacrificing allies over oneself had always been their creed.
Even if it involved turning against the common cultivators of the Mountain and Sea Realm, provided they remained loyal to the Mountain Ancestor, all was well.
In their view, solely those endorsed by the Mountain Ancestor counted as true kin.
Regarding the vast hordes of cultivators under their command, they served merely as tools vying for the siblings’ gains, mere assets to sustain their dominance.
Betraying such assets didn’t constitute disloyalty to them; the existences of those assets held no such sanctity!
Right as the pair prepared to guide the Vast Realm’s forces against Ning Qi’s Three Domains army.
Abruptly, a dreadful shift unfolded at their position.
From roughly a thousand miles northward, a violet celestial star cast down a ray of light.
In an instant, all felt their forms grow heavier, their powers restrained by thirty percent.
"This is bad, this domain’s node has fallen to the Mountain and Sea Realm!"
Positioned at this domain’s boundary, they fell squarely within the star’s radiance, thus sensing the alteration vividly.
At these words, the Three Domains army leaders, Fei Bing and his allies, stood dumbfounded.
Fei Bing declared, "Lord Blood, our earlier reconnaissance showed this node’s core missing, and now it reappears and activates abruptly—it has to be Ning Qi’s doing!"
"Ning Qi, huh?"
Blood Slaughter Enemy scanned the group, his eyes ultimately settling on Brahma Heaven and his companions.
He instructed Fei Bing and the others, "Watch them closely; if anything unusual happens, show no mercy!"
Fei Bing and his fellows nodded without delay.
Meanwhile, Brahma Heaven and his group, whose cheeks had barely regained some hue, paled once more.
They had barely clinched a shot at living, only for the tide to turn abruptly!
Taking the vanguard, Blood Slaughter Enemy soared toward the spot where the purple star’s light fell.
"Come with me!"
The nineteen Unity Realm experts hastened after him.
The twenty streaked across the heavens like swift jets, carving twenty streaks in the sky.
The sole solace lay in the node’s recent activation, with the Mountain and Sea Realm Will not yet fully manifested.
Had it been otherwise, the suppression upon them would prove far more intense!
Though they were Unity Realm cultivators who had severed their ties to a higher realm, a complete descent of the Mountain and Sea Realm Will would spell trouble for them.
It mirrored the plight of Vast Realm experts abruptly thrust into the Mountain and Sea Realm—how could they avoid disadvantage?
The Spirit Realm Will reigned supreme!
Within moments, Blood Slaughter Enemy and his group covered five hundred miles.
Their sight permitted a clear view of events five hundred miles distant.
A figure in white robes stood upon the earth.
An altar rested ahead of him, with the white-clad individual positioned at one edge, apparently reciting incantations to wholly invoke the Mountain and Sea Realm Will.
"Speed up; we have to shatter the altar before Ning Qi calls forth the Mountain and Sea Realm Will!"
The company affirmed together.
Yet, among the twenty, Wu Xu in his scholarly robes wrinkled his forehead, sensing irregularity.
Wasn’t Ning Qi acting too boldly, venturing solo to this spot despite knowing their proximity, to claim the node and beckon the Mountain and Sea Realm Will?
Did he truly believe the arriving Mountain and Sea Realm Will would shield him and vanquish them?
Moments later, they closed to two hundred fifty miles, a distance ideal for launching potent strikes.
Blood Slaughter Enemy commanded, "Strike now!"
He pressed onward through the air, lifting his right hand.
From his right palm, boundless bloody radiance erupted, swiftly forming a blood-spear of jagged, glassy scarlet form.
"Launch!"
Blood Slaughter Enemy bellowed, flinging the blood-spear with force.
"Thunder!"
With a thunderous snap, the blood-spear pierced the void like lightning, targeting the white-robed form at the altar.
Trailing it came the rest’s assaults.
Be it verdant thunderbolts, golden sacred arrows, keen Sword Qi, or more...
In the end, the barrage of strikes landed unerringly on the altar two hundred miles off.
The onslaught linked perfectly, causing the altar to crumble as if fragile, the purple star’s beam from above seeming to fracture.
Yet right then, every face twisted in shock.
Wu Xu cried out sharply, "It’s a trap—pull back at once!"
He led by example, halting abruptly in flight and withdrawing swiftly.
Blood Slaughter Enemy and the rest also fell back, eyes wide with incredulity.
For the altar they had demolished was nothing but an apparition, as was the white-robed silhouette beside it.
This mirage had evidently been crafted to lure their focus from the outset, coaxing them nearer.
Had they not struck from afar and uncovered the deception, drawing closer would have spelled peril!
Observing their blows pass through empty air, they swiftly discerned that the illusion’s maker excelled in blurring truth and falsehood, especially in array formations.
The entire scheme had been meticulously plotted by the enemy!
Even the falling purple star ray formed part of the ruse.
It convinced them the Mountain and Sea Realm Will remained incomplete in its descent, urging them to hasten and halt it.
But curse it, striking the illusion appeared to trigger a hidden mechanism entirely.
The beam’s disruption stemmed not from their interference with the rite, but from the Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s genuine arrival!
A profound vexation gripped Blood Slaughter Enemy and his allies.
Their one consolation was the Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s fresh manifestation, not yet at full potency.
Though still inside this domain, they could flee promptly.
Swiftly, they withdrew hundreds of miles.
Tension seized Wu Xu, who then yelled abruptly.
"Check our rear!"
At his call, all turned their gaze from ahead to behind.
The sight chilled their hearts like glacial frost!
They almost stiffened in place, their fleeing forms pausing, uncertain of escape routes.
To their rear, around a thousand miles distant, two additional purple star beams descended from the heavens.
These two completed their fall in a flash, differing from the prior one they had witnessed.
Abruptly, a fearsome force welled up from behind, manifesting the Mountain and Sea Realm Will.
"Blast it, how did things escalate so?"
Despite being Unity Realm cultivators, dread now consumed them.
Absolute certainty dawned: only their quarry, Ning Qi, could orchestrate such upheaval!
Yet Ning Qi’s prowess surpassed their wildest guesses, utterly upending their schemes!
Their scheme had been for these twenty Unity Realm experts to either hunt Ning Qi outright or compel his emergence.
Regardless, they aimed to overwhelm Ning Qi in isolation through joint assault.
But Ning Qi denied them that opening; they hadn’t even clashed with him before he overturned the board in a blink!
Ning Qi shunned direct confrontation, instead reshaping the battlefield by invoking the Mountain and Sea Realm Will.
Blood Slaughter Enemy and his group found themselves cornered!
How had it spiraled to this point?
With Ning Qi’s ploy enacted, he seized control of the three adjacent nodes and concurrently summoned the Mountain and Sea Realm Will.
This amounted to territorial confinement.
Furthermore, Ning Qi astutely ensnared them near the trio of nodes’ center.
Their urgent concern shifted from confronting Ning Qi to breaking free from the Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s blockade.