Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 811 - 342: Another Recruitment Attempt (Part 2)

With blood-red eyes, the Blood Slaughter Enemy swept his gaze across the group.

He peered into the far horizon at the Vast Realm forces, realizing that the troops summoned by Ning Qi from the Three Domains were surging toward them too.

At the same time, the Sword Ancestor and his companions rushed forward, brimming with battle fervor and a touch of thrill.

Right now, they had no mind to rescue the Vast Realm army; their own survival hung in the balance.

A subtle light flickered in the Blood Slaughter Enemy’s blood-red eyes.

"I do possess one final trump card, yet how best to deploy it at this juncture?"

Hearing these words, the others swiftly exchanged thoughts via divine sense.

The positive aspect was that Ning Qi showed no sign of launching another assault on them presently, and they held no fear toward the Sword Ancestor and his allies.

Thus, the choice facing them boiled down to rescuing themselves or aiding the Vast Realm army?

Regarding an offensive against Ning Qi?

The Saint Ancestor’s Suppression Talisman had proven ineffective against Ning Qi before, and uncertainty loomed over whether this last trump card would succeed.

Within mere instants, they deliberated on its application.

Abruptly, the Blood Slaughter Enemy drew a scroll from within his robes.

Ning Qi detected it right away and traversed the void in a flash.

"Oh? Holding onto one more trick, are you?"

Trailing behind him, the Sword Ancestor and the rest had yet to catch up.

Ning Qi’s sudden arrival startled the Blood Slaughter Enemy and his group as well.

Yet, without a word, they all unleashed their attacks on Ning Qi in unison.

Innumerable techniques and divine abilities flooded the emptiness, forming a massive barrier woven entirely from spells that hurtled toward Ning Qi.

To counter, Ning Qi unleashed the Five-Colored Divine Light Giant Palm.

This colossal hand spanned the heavens, cutting through the void to clash against the enemies’ barrage of techniques and divine abilities.

Boom!

The detonation roared like thunderclaps, with radiant bursts on one side clashing against the alternating flows of Five-Colored Divine Light on the other.

What struck terror into the Blood Slaughter Enemy and his allies was how Ning Qi’s Five-Colored Divine Light Giant Palm had grown even more overpowering than earlier!

The Five-Colored Divine Light Giant Palm relentlessly broke down their techniques and divine abilities, devouring their essence and expanding steadily.

Meanwhile, their own strikes withered away, shrinking progressively.

Thunderous booms echoed over the Five-Colored Giant Palm, with myriad shattered Rule Fragments scattering through the void, as their spell-wall eroded without mercy.

The scroll clutched in the Blood Slaughter Enemy’s grip unfurled at last, but he directed it neither at Ning Qi, nor at the Sword Ancestor and his group, nor toward the Three Domains armies in the Profound Truth Realm.

Instead, he pointed it at the barrier woven from the Mountain and Sea Realm’s power.

The scroll burst into flames on its own, unleashing a crimson "Kill" glyph!

As it manifested, every cultivator in the vicinity caught a suffocating wave of blood stench, as though plunged into a landscape of piled corpses and endless sanguine seas!

Weaker Primordial Spirit wills succumbed immediately, their minds muddled, turning them into frenzied undead that gnashed at those around them.

With the Kill glyph’s appearance, endless blood-hued blades erupted from its lines, slicing ahead.

The Mountain and Sea Realm power’s barrier shattered in an instant.

Seizing the moment, the Blood Slaughter Enemy and his allies darted through the breach.

Once outside the Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s influence, the strength they had slashed via self-Harmonization among the twenty finally surged back to full potency.

Yet, to Ning Qi’s bemusement, they didn’t linger there but pressed on, propelling the Kill Talisman northward.

Witnessing this, Ning Qi abruptly grasped their scheme!

This location lay on the northern edge of the Central Domain, perilously near the Upper Domain.

Similar to Ning Qi’s earlier domain-crossing, barriers existed between the Lower Domain and Central Domain to sever inter-domain links, hastening the war realm’s stabilization and enabling swift Harmonization influx into both realms.

Hence, the Blood Slaughter Enemy and his cohort aimed to breach the barrier to the Upper Domain.

Sure enough, they channeled the Kill Talisman with urgency.

The vivid crimson Kill glyph blazed forth, its sanguine radiance shrouding the twenty of the Blood Slaughter Enemy’s group.

In truth, it was more as if the Kill glyph bore them away in flight than they driving it.

After all, a single glance at this Kill glyph told Ning Qi it stemmed from the Saint Ancestor’s crafting.

Unlike the prior Suppression glyph, this Kill glyph wielded far superior might, especially infused with the Saint Ancestor’s very Will.

Connecting these dots, Ning Qi pieced together another revelation.

It seemed the Blood Slaughter Enemy and his allies were puppets of the Saint Ancestor’s Will!

Likely, after the previous confrontation with Ning Qi, the Saint Ancestor’s Will had assessed Ning Qi’s formidable strength.

Thus, at this critical hour, it deployed the Kill glyph to extract the Blood Slaughter Enemy and the others, utterly abandoning the initial purpose of their summoning here.

It hurtled straight toward the war realm’s barrier.

The Kill glyph’s bloody glow pulsed, ferrying the party along as it spewed thousands more blood blades, tearing a vast rift in the barrier.

Following that, the Blood Slaughter Enemy and his group vanished from Ning Qi’s sight, and the torn barrier sealed shut promptly, thwarting any chase by Ning Qi or the others.

Ning Qi furrowed his brows faintly.

He refrained from blocking the Blood Slaughter Enemy and his escape, for against the Saint Ancestor’s intervention, he’d require unleashing his full power to endure, relying solely on his unyielding spirit to prevail.

Moreover, a factor tied to the True Martial Realm weighed in.

Ning Qi never forgot he required a chance to intensify the chaos and ferocity of the inter-realm wars.

So, why not grasp this opening right now?

He couldn’t genuinely aid the Mountain and Sea Realm Will in vanquishing the Vast Realm, after all?

Behind Ning Qi, the Sword Ancestor and his followers halted.

"Kid, it seems the fat duck we cooked just slipped away!"

The Sword Ancestor jested.

Qi Keqing and the others remained quiet.

A trace of dread lingered in everyone’s eyes.

The might unleashed by that Kill glyph moments ago—if they’d faced it, instant annihilation would have followed.

Luckily, the foes chose flight over perishing together.

"Let them flee; it might not be all bad."

"A good thing?" The Sword Ancestor probed.

Ning Qi pivoted to regard them, a grin spreading: "The Vast Realm holds me in such high regard, dispatching twenty self-slashed Harmonization experts, but what of our Mountain and Sea Realm?"

At these words, the group held their tongues briefly.

All fell under the Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s sway, hesitant to voice anything detrimental to it.

As denizens of the Mountain and Sea Realm, its Will commanded them like the celestial mandate.

Only one like Ning Qi, acknowledged by the Mountain and Sea Realm as Domain Master, could voice such candid thoughts.

Ning Qi eyed the Three Domains armies from the Profound Truth Realm; they had all but eradicated the lingering Vast Realm cultivators.

"Fine, once we fully seize the Central Domain, we’ll head across domains to the Upper Domain and exact our revenge—let’s see them try to run then."

Hearing this, the Sword Ancestor and the rest could only nod in agreement.

By now, Ning Qi had ascended to heights beyond their reach, not merely in raw power, but in his profound strategies and foresight as well.

Ning Qi produced the Compass, displaying the map.

He scanned it; across the Central Domain, just three nodes awaited conquest.

Then, he directed the Three Domains armies to assault those final nodes.

Once all had set off.

Ning Qi floated amid the void.

Before him, the Mountain and Sea Realm Will materialized as a spectral figure.

"Ning Qi, why allow their escape?"

Unfazed, Ning Qi answered: "Realm Venerable, you’re merely seeking excuses. I’ve claimed three nodes; you saw the fight unfold, and they wielded the Saint Ancestor’s artifact—how was I to repel it?"

The spectral figure fixed its gaze on Ning Qi, as if probing his innermost intentions.

Ning Qi merely shrugged, unperturbed.

This carefree attitude momentarily disconcerted the Mountain and Sea Realm Will; it harbored no real grudge against Ning Qi.

The figure glanced toward the Upper Domain’s direction.

"They’ve fled to the Upper Domain; it looks like the Vast Realm will seize it entirely—that spells trouble."

Ning Qi countered: "I’ve dispatched our forces to take the last three nodes; once they’re ours, we’ll swiftly cross to the Upper Domain. No matter their haste, they can’t conquer it in a blink, can they?"

The figure wheeled back, eyeing Ning Qi once more.

"Very well, a mere small domain—with you here, we can claim it whenever."

After a pause, it added: "I’ve manifested now to warn you: the Harmonization Realm experts in the Mountain and Sea Realm have set their sights on you; they may plot against you."

Ning Qi responded evenly: "Do you mean those few Harmonization Ancestors from the Celestial Fire Realm, Vine Wood Realm, and Earth Gold Realm?"

The Mountain and Sea Realm’s spectral form said: "You show no fear—perhaps you’re considering my earlier offer to take you as disciple?"