đź“– Chapter 1246 - Mystic Blossom Returns!
Innumerable transparent fragments scattered in the starry sky as the Never-Ending Clan’s formation was finally breached. Patriarch Seven Spirits, was the first to enter through the gap and appear inside the Never-Ending Clan’s starry sky. Throwing his head back, he laughed uproariously.
Patriarch Seven Spirits’s body was extremely muscular. Although he had a head full of white hair, his aura was still vigorous, and the power of qi and blood roiling from his body towered to the heavens. Obviously, the Dao he cultivated was related to the fleshly body. When people looked at him, rather than a cultivator, it was more like looking at a human-shaped vicious beast!
“Fellow Daoist Wang, I’m here to help!” Laughing loudly, Patriarch Seven Spirits walked over to Kiga with long strides. Even as he walked, he lifted his right hand and grabbed at the void, causing a huge mace to appear out of nowhere. Clenching the mace tightly, he smashed out toward Kiga.
“Come on, Kiga, have a taste of my stick!”
As Patriarch Seven Spirits attacked with overwhelming momentum, Wang Baole’s eyes flickered. He could see that Patriarch Seven Spirits’s Dao was most likely… the Strength Dao!
Wang Baole took advantage of the situation to hurriedly retreat. Meanwhile, Kiga’s expression darkened. Patriarch Seven Spirits’s words seemed to have some humiliating implications.
But in any case, Patriarch Seven Spirits’s mace was covered in countless sharp spikes, making it seem extremely barbaric and savage. Endless dead souls spun around it, wailing noiselessly in despair. Wherever it went, the starry sky was ripped apart, and powerful mysteries of Dao rippled outward.
No matter how unwilling Kiga was, he had no choice but to fight back against Patriarch Seven Spirits with all his strength. At the same time, the three Universe Realm cultivators of the Underworld Sect also stepped into the territory of the Never-Ending Clan. With their arrival, the aura of the Underworld Dao in this place instantly surged.
But just as the three of them were about to join Patriarch Seven Spirits in attacking Kiga, a shrill roar rang out from the void. The Never-Ending Clan’s Heavenly Dao… had descended.
The moment it appeared, the giant beetle instantly rushed toward the trio from the Underworld Sect. Gritting his teeth, Radiant Light quickly followed it, and rumbling soon rang out in all directions. In this short period of time, the battle between Patriarch Seven Spirits and Kiga had already reached an extreme intensity.
Although Kiga had been injured in the previous battle with Wang Baole, his whole body was still shining brightly under the effects of his vitality-sacrificing trump card. He had already sacrificed one arm for the halberd strike, but those of the Never-Ending Clan had three heads and six arms; thus, he could still afford to sacrifice a few more.
And at this moment, he was sparing no effort to kill Patriarch Seven Spirits as soon as possible.
Amid the intense battle, the entire Never-Ending Clan was heavily affected. Powerful fluctuations rippled out in all directions, and the Never-Ending Clan’s stars and planets were all quaking. As for Wang Baole, after a moment of thought, he changed trajectories and rushed out. He wasn’t heading for the battlefield, but rather toward the Never-Ending Clan’s chief planet.
In the Never-Ending Clan’s starry sky, there were innumerable planets, and many which were labeled as chief planets. However, Wang Baole had a clear target; guided by the feeling in his heart, he quickly approached a particular chief planet.
It was… the place of Mystic Blossom’s seclusion.
Now that he’d finally succeeded with the heart devil implantation, Wang Baole obviously wouldn’t let Mystic Blossom escape. After all, a Universe Realm Divine Emperor wasn’t someone that could just be happened upon. Although Mystic Blossom was quite a bit weaker than Wang Baole, the power of a Divine Emperor would still be of great use.
Thus, Wang Baole didn’t hesitate as he stepped onto the chief planet housing Mystic Blossom. Neither the barrier over the planer nor the Never-Ending Clan cultivators standing guard could stop him in the slightest. After little more than ten breaths of time, Wang Baole took a step forward and landed atop a mountain peak.
As he landed, the mountain suddenly shook. Starting from the spot touching the sole of Wang Baole’s foot, the entire mountain crumbled into dust, and terrifying rumbling spread along the ground. Now standing in mid-air, Wang Baole glanced to the side.
“Mystic Blossom, why haven’t you come to greet me?”
Before Wang Baole had arrived, Mystic Blossom had been sitting cross-legged within a spell formation, a curtain of light flowing over his body. Both the spell formation and the curtain of light had the power to block divine will, and they were left behind by Kiga and Radiant Light in order to help Mystic Blossom suppress his heart devil. But as soon as Wang Baole appeared atop that mountain, the heart devil in Mystic Blossom’s body instantly multiplied in strength.
Veins bulged all over his body, and his expression distorted in pain as huge amounts of black mist spewed out of his seven orifices.
“I… won’t…” Gritting his teeth, Mystic Blossom couldn’t even finish his sentence. Sweat was pouring down all over his body, and his eyes were filled with desperate struggle, but with the curtain of light and the spell formation around him, he was still able to resist. However… the moment Wang Baole spoke, all of that changed.
A violent thud seemed to ring out from Mystic Blossom’s body, and the black mist that had emerged from his seven orifices converged into a shadowy figure in front of him.
This figure’s appearance wasn’t that of Wang Baole, but rather… that of Mystic Blossom himself. However, it had Wang Baole’s aura on it. To be precise, it was… Mystic Blossom’s heart devil.
At that moment, the heart devil’s lips were curved into a grin. Looking up to the sky, it cackled loudly.
After doing so, it turned back into black mist and entered Mystic Blossom’s body again. No matter what he did, Mystic Blossom was completely unable to stop it, and a moment later, he suddenly trembled, lowered his head, and fell still.
A dozen breaths of time later, Mystic Blossom slowly raised his head. There was no longer any struggle in his eyes. Waving his hand, the curtain of light around his body collapsed, and the spell formation around him shattered into pieces. With a look of liberation on his face, Mystic Blossom dusted off his clothes and rose to his feet.
“Ahh… If only I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have struggled so hard. Fusing with the great Dao… feels so good.” Smiling in satisfaction, Mystic Blossom moved to leave his place of seclusion. But at that moment, illusory chains suddenly entangled him from all directions, tying him to the spot.
Mystic Blossom’s expression sank, and he unleashed the power of his cultivation base. The might of the Universe Realm spread in all directions, causing the chains around him to quickly shatter one after another. Even the seclusion room collapsed, turning into ruins and revealing the bright sky above it.
Turning his head to look at the vault of heaven, Mystic Blossom took a deep breath and flew up into the air. Then, with a tap of his feet, he suddenly disappeared on the spot. When he reappeared… he was already in a place a hundred zhang away from Wang Baole.
Rather than approaching immediately, he adjusted his clothes first. Then, wearing a solemn expression on his face, he walked step by step toward Wang Baole until he was only five zhang away. Then, he stopped and prostrated himself.
“Mystic Blossom greets the Dao Lord!”
Wang Baole smiled and slowly spoke.
“Are you willing to participate in the battle in the starry sky?”
After a moment of thought, Mystic Blossom replied in a calm voice.
“I and the others have been fellow Daoists for many years, but… our paths are different, so a battle is inevitable.”
“Good!” Laughing, Wang Baole flew out toward the starry sky, and Mystic Blossom immediately followed. The two turned into long arcs of light that pierced through the void and arrived at the battlefield in an instant.
When Mystic Blossom appeared along with Wang Baole, everyone in the battlefield was shocked. The expressions of Radiant Light, Kiga, and Imperial Mountain all turned peerlessly ugly.