Chapter 1500: Meteor Fire Rain

Chapter 1500: Chapter 1500: Meteor Fire Rain

The sun was clearly shrouded by the sky-darkening clouds, yet those beneath them could not feel a trace of coolness. Instead, as the red light within the clouds grew brighter, the surrounding temperature gradually rose, becoming stifling. Under such apocalyptic pressure, people’s breathing became difficult.

At this moment, the forbidden curse had not yet descended, but a new change appeared on the battlefield. In this oppressive atmosphere, the army of the Temple Knights were, after all, living beings, bound to be influenced by this environment. However, their enemies were all mechanical puppets, unaffected by external changes, still methodically launching their attacks. But at this time, Jiang Feiyang, hidden among them with a stealthy figure, showed a flaw due to the attack.

"Over there!" A keen-eyed Great Mage responsible for pursuing Jiang Feiyang detected this, noticing that Jiang Feiyang’s unstable breathing led to a failure to merge his own source energy with the surroundings. At the moment he pointed out the target, over a dozen magical attacks were directed towards the indicated location.

"Damn it!" Jiang Feiyang cursed briefly, immediately switching positions with another puppet from afar.

"Where is it!" Unfortunately, in shifting positions to once again calm the source energy fluctuations and integrate with the nearby puppets, this process required a bit of time to complete. Now the opponent had firmly locked onto his aura, giving him no chance to hide himself like a dragon returning to the sea.

Just as the Great Mage confirmed the target, three accompanying Holy Knights disregarded the risk of being surrounded by the mechanical army, taking to the air and rapidly flying towards the military formation, rushing towards Jiang Feiyang. Just as they were about to capture Jiang Feiyang, who was executing a second conversion among the army, a sharp blade light stretched across their path, forcing them to abandon the pursuit.

When the three adjusted their posture to initiate another chase, they found a man clad in a Daoist Plane warrior’s battle robe, wielding a Cyan Dragon Crescent Blade, standing in their way, surrounded by black air, emanating a god-like aura.

"I view you vermin as mere head-marked sellers," said Wang Wenze, who had absorbed the exceptional abilities of Divine Desire Zhao Li, using his tattooed deity-like abilities to amplify their power to the utmost, as he stroked his chin condensed by source energy and pointed to the three Holy Knights strategically.

"This guy’s aura is strange, why do I feel a touch of divine pressure from him?" One Holy Knight, blocked in his path by Wang Wenze’s imposing and awe-inspiring stance, didn’t understand what the other was saying but felt a sudden sense of apprehension.

"What divine pressure! Even if it is, it’s just a false god! Doesn’t the Dark Council also use such methods? Deceiving people into believing in themselves, then converting this belief into a part of their own source energy. This power looks intimidating but doesn’t contain the Power of Origin, apart from psychologically intimidating low-level cultivators, there’s nothing to fear!" The leader of the three, seasoned and experienced, saw through Wang Wenze’s ruse and ordered, "I’ll hold him off! Don’t waste time entangling with him, quickly handle the commander of this army."

"Understood!" The other two accepted the order and promptly split from both sides, intending to bypass Wang Wenze.

"Vermin! Where are you going!" Wang Wenze shouted, sweeping his blade to block them.

"Your opponent is me!" The leading Holy Knight charged forward with his sword towards the enemy. Wang Wenze swept aside the opponent’s chopping, leaping to block the path of one on his side. With his current body technique, he could block two, but the one escaping from another direction he was utterly unable to stop. In haste, Wang Wenze was about to activate another ability within him or summon his Symbiotic Divine Beast, when he heard a humming sound beside him. In an instant, over twenty Pei Yan mechanical duplicates landed around him, with five of them directly blocking another pursuing Holy Knight.

Wang Wenze was overjoyed to see reinforcements arrive, he no longer minded another, swinging his great blade, leading the remaining mechanical duplicates to engage in a battle with the Holy Knight. Meanwhile, the magician camp responsible for pursuit also erupted with continuous explosions. To track one’s aura amid an army, a high sensitivity and discernment of source energy are required, a talent not every Great Mage possesses. Therefore, among the mage and knight forces, only two Great Mages were truly responsible for directing pursuit against Jiang Feiyang, who became key targets for Liang Qian, Zhao Yuanhu, and Pei Yan’s mechanical duplicates.

Regarding the pursuit on the battlefield against Jiang Feiyang, Pei Yan merely paid a little attention by deploying some mechanical duplicates to help, then ignored it thereafter. As long as the pursuit rhythm of those two Great Mages was disrupted, providing Jiang Feiyang a moment to regain his breath, Pei Yan believed he would soon adjust his aura and hide back within the army. As for the forbidden curse in the sky, Pei Yan was not overly concerned, trusting his companions have the strength to counter such attacks without worrying himself. His attention was solely on the Heavenly Dao Peak Realm experts above Council City and the Primordial Venerable of the magical plane, whose lingering silence despite the turmoil remained a crucial point in deciding the outcome of today’s battle.

And at this juncture, the forbidden curse within the clouds, having undergone formation through source energy, finally revealed its terrifying face — one after another, massive rocks burnt red by high temperatures slowly spat out from the black clouds. As soon as this group of lava left the control range of the clouds, they hurtled towards the ground like a meteor shower.

Meteor Fire Rain! Compared to the Sixteen Linked Meteor Technique Flamel cast on Pei Yan at the Sword Discussion Conference, the summoned lava was smaller, yet the number, attack frequency, and attack area greatly increased, different from the Great Meteor Technique that caused substantial damage to groups.

Under such lava strikes, even with Pei Yan’s mechanical army having a certain degree of magic immunity, they would be destroyed by the impact and explosion caused by the meteor’s descent; this was the most suited forbidden curse for Aleister’s requirement against enemies.

Faced with the overwhelming fire rain descending from the sky, Xia Yu, standing beside Pei Yan, was the first to act, drawing circles in the void as she lifted her arm, extending a gravity circle centered on her to cover the entire battlefield.

Having signed a symbiotic contract with a Dragon Domain Divine Beast, Xia Yu broke through the constraints of her realm with the beast’s assistance, reaching the ninth-level awakening. In this realm, her ability’s coverage greatly expanded.

Influenced by the gravity circle, the lava descending imperiously from the sky seemed to be slowed, hanging in mid-air stopping its momentum in full swing, suspended above the battlefield, floating downward slowly at a relatively slow pace.

"Continue!" Urban, witnessing this scene from the other side of the battlefield, coldly spat out two words of command.