Chapter 1563 - 137: Nether Lake

Chapter 1563: Chapter 137: Nether Lake

"Are we... going to retreat?"

Silver Moon Great Venerable gazed at the battlefield beneath, his expression somewhat complex.

He asked himself honestly.

He didn’t want to get involved in this troublesome affair.

But, could Xie Xuanyi and Qilin Miaofa True Monarch alone resolve this disaster?

"Retreat."

Peacock Venerable responded crisply.

Among all the Great Venerables, his strength was the greatest.

He was well aware that Xie Xuanyi’s words were not alarmist.

Even in the Fifth Realm of Yang God, within this slaughter, there was still a suspicion of holding back... his Five-Colored Dao Domain, its advantage lay in slow attrition, which was completely restrained by Nether Sea Venerable. That strange Taoist Intent with intense erosive power, once it adhered to his Dao Domain barrier, could likely stain his Lifebound Demon Body.

He looked down.

The ink-black area had already expanded to a hundred-foot span, like a lake.

On the lake.

Dense figures stood.

Some disciples of Five-Colored Ridge had also fallen into it.

This Divine Skill, unheard of, was even more sinister than the Ten Thousand Demon Array!

He could die in battle.

But... absolutely could not be transformed by this Black Lake!

"The entire Fighting Holy Peak is shrouded by the Ten Thousand Demon Array."

Master Ni Yu grit his teeth: "If we are to retreat, we can only retreat back to the Fighting Holy Peak."

This made people feel suffocated—

The Great Venerables just prepared to fight freely, yet in the end still had to retreat to the Fighting Holy Peak.

"This time is different from the last."

Peacock Venerable exhaled a turbid breath.

He looked into the distance and said earnestly: "Nether Sea has no time to withdraw, the demon cultivators shrouded by the Ten Thousand Demon Array, saving one... is one."

This grand kill plan.

The participants, weren’t just these few Great Venerables.

Five-Colored Ridge, Heavenly Phoenix Palace, Erosion Sun Swamp, all had many disciples attending.

First was the Ten Thousand Demon Array, then this Black Lake.

After a bout of slaughter...

The survivors now numbered less than half.

"I must trouble you all."

Saint Prince tightly grasped the Spirit Sun Rod, speaking in a deep voice: "Save all these innocent demon cultivators back to the Fighting Holy Peak... as for me, I might need to go ahead a little..."

"Go ahead a little?"

Silver Moon was puzzled.

"I... have an important matter."

Saint Prince spoke with deep meaning.

He hesitated no longer, transforming into golden light and directly darting into the Sacred Peak’s Forbidden Land.

...

...

A few Great Venerables, one after another, invoked their Divine Skills.

Mountain Shifting, Sea Overturning, Chu Lin also joined in the rescue operation.

This killing plan, reversed upon the activation of the Fighting Holy Peak’s Ancient Array.

Looking at the numbers.

At this moment, Nether Sea had already lost every single advantage.

Besides him.

Willing to fight side by side... was only one, Ling Chenzi, whom Xie Xuanyi had stepped on.

However.

He did not show the slightest hint of panic.

Watching the Tunneling Light continuously dart through the Ten Thousand Demon Array.

Nether Sea showed no intention of intervening.

"Thank you, Great Venerable..."

"Thank you, Master Ni Yu, for stepping in to save us!"

The Ten Thousand Demon Array was suppressed by the Fighting Holy Peak Ancient Array, golden light surged.

In the array, the overwhelming majority of demon cultivators had already lost their ability to resist... Nether Sea Venerable’s Divine Soul Technique was extremely formidable, just casting a few soul sounds, had seized their consciousness. Now that the Great Venerables joined the battle, these demon cultivators could revive, their first reaction was counterattack, tooth for tooth, blood for blood, the demon country’s cultivators possessed an extremely strong "barbaric nature" in their bones, seeing the Great Venerables’ choice astonished them.

This battle had already seen a reversal.

Why not counterattack?

Looking around.

Only the hundred-foot central area of the great array was still shrouded by darkness.

Only one Great Venerable remained—Nether Sea.

Lonely standing at the center of the Black Lake.

"Retreat!"

"Quick retreat!"

Wu Jiu and the others wasted no words, in just tens of breaths, had brought all survivors from the array into the Fighting Holy Peak.

"True Monarch, Xie Xuanyi..."

Peacock Venerable stood on the Heavenly Peak.

He looked at the two flanking Nether Sea, hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke.

"Be careful."

As words fell.

This five-colored tunneling light fluttered into the sky, darting into the Fighting Holy Peak’s Forbidden Land.

The mountain gate fell completely silent.

...

...

"You didn’t stop them."

Xie Xuanyi maintained the stance of his slightly spread sword domain, ready to strike if Nether Sea made a move.

Unexpectedly, this rescue went smoothly beyond anticipation.

Nether Sea did not take any measures.

"A bit of tranquility is good."

Nether Sea Great Venerable smiled and said: "Moreover, they merely escaped into the Fighting Holy Peak, not out of the Third Realm..."

Currently, the entire battlefield was still under lockdown.

The Ten Thousand Demon Array was only temporarily restrained.

After all this ends.

Those people, still destined for death, would die.

"Makes sense."

Xie Xuanyi suddenly laughed: "But are you really confident to win fighting one versus two?"

Battles between Great Divine Ability Users.

If evenly matched, victory is hard to determine.

For example, the previous fight between Nether Sea and Qilin.

If Xie Xuanyi hadn’t intervened, the two could have fought for three days and nights.

Ascending to the Seventh Realm of Yang God.

Divine skills, treasures, magic... they wouldn’t differ much...

If Ling Chenzi had previously chosen to "fairly" fight with Xie Xuanyi, then they would have faced an equally prolonged battle, this level of battle persists until one side willing to risk their life, tooth for tooth, desperate struggle, forcing the other to make an equally costly choice, only then revealing a clear "superiority and inferiority."

"One versus two?"

Nether Sea laughed soundlessly.

He shook his head and said indifferently: "The one fighting against many is not me, but you."

The towering figure on the Black Lake slowly extended a hand.

Nether Sea’s palm faced down.

He slowly raised his arm.

"Swish..."

The viscous lake surface revealed clusters of heads. This Black Lake itself stood with dense figures, but with Nether Sea’s motion, numerous unseen faces also slowly emerged from the Black Lake... these figures were not demon cultivators transformed during the banquet.

"This is..."

Xie Xuanyi furrowed his brows.

Years ago, the Shadow escaped from the Ruins, came to Great Ape Mountain, colluding with Nether Sea.

These years.

Nether Sea always secluded himself within his abode.

For the throne of Holy Emperor, Nether Sea spared no expense... his preparations naturally weren’t confined to a single Ten Thousand Demon Array.

"This Divine Skill, named ’Nether Lake’."

The Shadow spoke softly, leisurely saying: "Both of you should know now, my Divine Skill can grant ’undying and undying’ eternal vitality to living beings herein. Actually, this power can also be used on the dead... of course, they mustn’t have been dead for too long..."

"...?"

Qilin Miaofa True Monarch’s expression was exceptionally heavy, cold sweat seeping down his back.

Does such horrifying Divine Skill truly exist in this world that reverses life and death?

An intense unease arose in his heart.

If these heads rising from the Nether Lake were "the deceased" collected by the Shadow over these long years, then in recent years of the north-south war, Demon Country Sacred Land and Human Race’s two great dynasties clashed in bloody war, it undoubtedly witnessed the situation the Shadow most wished for.

Just select the opportune moment, then continuously extract the power of souls.

These people, wouldn’t they all be the deceased from the north-south war?