King of Creation Chapter 2259 - 2244: The Peril of the Defensive Line
Previously on King of Creation...
Qiankun Palace within Luoyi Imperial Palace!
Ren Venerate Emperor Ji Long’s face was as calm as water, the Military Department Minister Ban Di, Chief Sun Priest of the Ancestor God Temple Bai Xiang, Grand Celestial Official Wu Yu, Prince Zhen Ji Jie, Prince Xun Ji Zong, and Prince Dui Ji Zhan, the three Princes of Political Affairs in Luoyi, were all present at the scene.
Also present were other ministers of various departments, the Pillars of the Great Zhou with King Wei Liu Wubing as the head of the military faction’s princes and dukes.
One could say, the key ministers of the Great Zhou Empire, the military officials, including power priests of the Ancestor God Temple in Luoyi, were all gathered, including West Patrol Xio Qiangu who had also arrived.
On the left side of Qiankun Palace’s light and shadow section, a phantom stood in a glow emitted by the National Guardian Qiankun Seal, looking calm and composed.
Upon closer inspection, it would be found that the phantom had the appearance of Princess Ji Yuan, which was her avatar projection.
However, this Qiankun Palace was not ordinary, with the National Guardian Qiankun Seal’s suppression; ordinary avatar projections would collapse instantly upon entry.
Therefore, Princess Ji Yuan’s avatar projection needed the Qiankun Seal’s glow to maintain in Qiankun Palace.
As the door of Qiankun Palace slowly closed, the palace was instantly isolated from the world.
High on the imperial throne, Ren Venerate Emperor Ji Long coughed lightly, "Since everyone is here, let us first look at the Shadow Capture Jade Slip sent desperately by the Vanguard General Tang Zhun when Laiyang Fortress fell!"
A jade slip slowly floated to the top of Qiankun Palace, and then an incredibly shocking scene unfolded in front of the ministers of Great Zhou.
First in view was the blood-red radiance surging from underground.
In that blood-colored radiance, all Great Zhou military officers were affected by various negative forces.
Soldiers with low cultivation and determination went mad, cried, fell unconscious, or were poisoned to a state of complete decay, extremely affected.
The three hundred Ancestor God Temple’s military priests present were also similarly affected.
Originally, the military priests of the Ancestor God Temple were adept at dispelling all kinds of negative forces.
Moreover, their secret techniques and talismans for dispelling negative forces were effective!
However, there was an overwhelming amount of negative force here, seemingly endless.
The military priests’ purification secret techniques, and even protective purifications, turned to nothing in just a few breaths under the impact of the blood-red light.
Only the protective purifications of Late Stage Realm King military priests could last for fifteen minutes in the blood light.
Almost all soldiers were affected.
Even Vanguard General Gao Zhun, whose cultivation had already reached the peak of the Ninth Stage Realm King Realm, had to divert some power to resist the blood light.
The sudden eruption of the blood light caused chaos among the Black Armored Army reinforcements, but being elite troops, they began to resist and organize using various secret techniques and formations after the initial chaos.
The scene shifted; the demon army, which had just retreated due to exhaustion, actually counterattacked Laiyang Fortress under the bathing of the red glow.
The senior officials of Great Zhou were horrified to see that within the range of the blood light, these demon armies were unaffected, each one full of energy.
Especially worrisome was that among the demon army, those who cultivated the Five Elements Yin Yang forces were merely unaffected by the blood light, but those demons like Bone Demon, Winged Demon, Corpse Demon, Snake Demon, and Shadow Demon, who specialized or partially cultivated negative forces, became invigorated and their strength surged intensely under the blood light.
The Black Armored Army engaged in a death-defying resistance in this wave of assault.
But the influence of the blood light on their strength was too great, and the demons not only were unaffected but enhanced, especially those demons cultivating negative forces, whose strength markedly increased under the blood light, and whose injury recovery speed multiplied several times.
This ebb and flow resulted in vast power disparities.
In less than two hours, the 100,000 reinforcements had been completely wiped out, and Vanguard General Tang Zhun died in service to the nation!
The last scene was the blood light covering the sky, shrouding a hundred-mile range, which weighed heavily on all Great Zhou senior officials’ hearts like a blood curtain.
"Gentlemen, what do you think?" Ren Venerate Emperor Ji Long’s voice was somewhat hoarse!
It had been over half a day since this jade slip was received.
As the emperor, Ren Venerate Emperor Ji Long had already thought of all the consequences brought by this sudden blood light from underground.
Very serious!
Incredibly serious!
In the worst-case scenario, if not handled properly, the defensive line of the Human-Demon Battlefield would completely fall.
Gathering all key ministers was actually just to inform them of the matter, and to rally the entire country’s power to respond to this matter.
"Your Majesty, Moon Palace Master Baili Fei has come by imperial decree!" Chief Eunuch Yu Chaoen suddenly spoke softly.
Ren Venerate Emperor Ji Long nodded, "Announce!"
It had come to the point where it could no longer be kept from the Heavenly Temple; it couldn’t be hidden anyway, rather, it would be better to involve them.
The mysterious formation found underground at Blood River Fortress also needed to be revealed now.
Anyone with basic intelligence could link the blood light erupting from Laiyang Fortress underground to the mysterious Blood Light Formation found underneath Blood River Fortress, possibly induced by an identical formation.
According to current knowledge, the mysterious Blood Light Formation underground at Blood River Fortress hadn’t erupted because sufficient blood qi and negative forces hadn’t been accumulated yet.
The Void Hunting King had already rushed to Laiyang Fortress underground to investigate and obtained first-hand information.
Indeed, there was an identical Blood Light Formation under Laiyang Fortress as the one under Blood River Fortress, but this formation was currently in an erupting state, thus easy to locate.
Moreover, even the Void Hunting King at Dao Realm Peak couldn’t get close to the already erupting Blood Light Formation.
The closer you get, the stronger the influence of the Blood Light Formation becomes, such that at a ten-mile radius, even the primordial spirit of the Dao Realm Peak Void Hunting King would be hugely affected.
In other words, previously underneath Laiyang Fortress was an identical Blood Light Formation like the one under Blood River Fortress; it merely accumulated enough blood qi and negative forces over a long time and erupted.
The issue now was that there were known and discovered two such Blood Light Formations: one underground at Blood River Fortress, yet to erupt and still under study.
The other beneath Laiyang Fortress, already erupted and occupied by the demon army.
What about the unknown and undiscovered ones?
How many more hidden Blood Light Formations exist under the Human Demon Battlefield?
Just one Blood Light Formation eruption at Laiyang Fortress caused the collapse of the whole Chengling Fortress line of defense there, cutting into the South War Zone’s defense line like a sharp blade.
So what if there were five or six, or even a dozen more such formations?
In that case, if all these Blood Light Formations erupted, wouldn’t the entire Human Demon Battlefield line of defense become riddled with holes in an instant!
A defense line full of holes is nothing but a joke!
More troubling is, based on current known intelligence, the hiding spots of these Blood Light Formations are incredibly concealed.
Before eruption, they are like secret realms hidden in spatial folds, where finding hidden spots is impossible without stumbling upon the secret entrance.
Otherwise, if Great Zhou could dispatch a hundred strong Primordial Spirits in Dao Realm to probe with their Divine Sense throughout the Human Demon Battlefield underground, it would eliminate the hidden threat.
But it’s impossible.
Just like the hidden entrance of the Blood Light Formation underneath Blood River Fortress was impossibly discrete.
It was hidden under an unremarkable water vortex beneath Blood River. There are countless such vortices in the river, and these vortices change constantly.
Moreover, that water vortex was just one method of hiding the entrance; there are countless other possible methods.
The likelihood of finding the Blood Light Formation’s entrance by locating hidden entrances is too low!
All this was causing deep concern among Great Zhou’s high-ranking officials in Luoyi Qiankun Palace, who discussed it intensely but couldn’t find a solution.
Amidst the worries of the Emperor and officials of Great Zhou, from the Demon God Palace on Ten Thousand Saints Mountain of the Demon Clan came again a voice from the Refined House of the Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi!
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