Chapter 495 - Secret Technique, Yellow Springs Crossing

Dragons roared without end. As Yun Ao and the Flame Emperor collided, purple and green flames scattered down continuously, devastating the area. Holding nothing back, they left neither themselves nor their opponent any room to retreat. Former close friends had now become enemies, and both wanted the other dead.

In the distance, Yun Tu took the opportunity to retreat far away. He glared at the two with intense unwillingness and resentment. “Dragon Ancestor bloodline?! Yun Ao, Father, I will destroy the things you pride yourselves on!”

Kneeling, he muttered nonstop, chanting obscure and abstruse incantations one after another.

***

In the Central Continent, Ren Wu sighed. “Old Liu, from now on, don’t say a single word, alright?”

Ren Liu hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Pi Luo was somewhat surprised, as if he had vaguely heard that name before, but he still didn’t take it to heart. With his strength, he could dominate everything here. “Yellow Springs? Just ants!”

Layers upon layers of vast divine power erupted from him like a raging sea, sweeping everything in its path. Large stretches of the ground, already drained of life and turned ashen white, crumbled into powder.

Ren Wu sneered. “It’s just tricks! You really think I haven’t seen a big scene before?!”

The black light engulfing him grew darker, exuding a faint yet deadly stillness. Similarly, Ren Liu’s white light blazed brightly, faintly exuding a vibrant and lively aura. The black and white lights broke through the layers of divine power’s blockade and arrived before Pi Luo.

“Take this!”

With Ren Wu’s fierce shout, the black and white lights fell upon Pi Luo.

Pi Luo snorted coldly, lifting his blue-gray, massive hand to block them. The lights exploded, and a fiercely powerful momentum burst forth. Even Pi Luo, who was tens of thousands of zhang tall, trembled faintly.

Ren Wu chuckled. “Now you know how formidable I am, right?”

Ren Liu also wanted to show off, but he feared being scolded by Ren Wu, so he forcefully held back.

Pi Luo’s three eyes swept over his scorched-black palm, and his gaze turned cold. “No matter how strong an ant becomes, in the end, it is still just an ant! Divine might!”

His six hands clenched fiercely, causing space to tremble incessantly. Before it could fully repair, it shattered once more. A vaguely transparent crimson aura, distinct from divine power, spread outward from him.

Ren Wu and Ren Liu bore the brunt of it and were swept in. The divine might was way stronger than mere divine power. Even with the protection of black and white lights, the two still couldn’t steady themselves. They were like two small boats adrift on the ocean, at risk of capsizing at any moment.

“Too slow!” Ignoring the two, Pi Luo’s three eyes swept across, taking in the entire view of the Central Continent. “Nevermind. It can still be used.”

His third eye opened once more, emitting a crimson beam. Instead of striking anyone, it split into tens of thousands of crimson threads, each thinner than a strand of hair. The threads then coiled and condensed, forming a small rune that bore earth-shattering power. Even stranger, the rune seemed to contain a trace of some inexplicable force. Just the slightest contact with it made one feel an urge to kneel and submit.

Ren Wu cried out in alarm, “Oh no! It’s the divine core!”

This rune was the foundation of the divine clan: the divine core. It was also the cornerstone through which the divine clan nurtured its countless believers. Out of nowhere, the rune trembled faintly for a moment. Dozens of red blood threads vanished into all directions as if alive.

Ren Wu and Ren Liu forcibly broke free from the suppression of the divine might. The black and white lights blazed fiercely, falling upon the blood threads. However, the two were merely split souls after all. Their best efforts could only eliminate a portion of them. Most of the strands vanished into the air.

Pi Luo’s three eyes shifted, once again landing on the two. “Oh? You two deserve death!”

***

In the outer ring of the Central Continent, two figures fled forward without pause, leaving everyone far behind. They were the two venerables of the Central Dao Palace. With their Ascension realm cultivation, they were way faster than the others.

At this moment, their feelings were exactly the same as the Tian Yun president. Pi Luo’s descent had been too abrupt. The most valuable possessions of the Central Dao Palace were all within a secret realm, so they had no chance to bring them out.

One of them sighed. “Nevermind. As long as the green hills remain—”

Two eerie, blood-like threads of qi trembled lightly and caught up at an astonishing speed. With a faint tremor, they vanished into the two men.

“Ah...”

“What is this...”

Instantly, the two let out miserable howls. Amid their howls, their bodies rapidly mutated. In the blink of an eye, they had turned into monsters like Yun Tu, the divine servants!

“Glory to our god!”

Instantly, a look of fervor flashed through their eyes, and they kowtowed repeatedly toward the direction where Pi Luo was.

“The divine lord commands!”

“Exterminate all living beings! Purify the world!”

With their four thick arms raised high, they turned around and charged at the fleeing masses. They came across several Saint realm cultivators from the Central Dao Palace.

The crowd was shocked by the venerables’ appearances.

“D-Dao Venerable!”

“How could you—”

A massive hand, over ten zhang long and bulging with veins, grabbed them. With only the slightest pressure, the Saint cultivators exploded into clouds of blood mist before they could even cry out.

“Exterminate living beings! Purify the world!”

The two exchanged glances, and immediately charged deeper into the Central Continent. Everyone they encountered along the way fell to their hands.

***

Upon seeing that they could not stop the spread of the blood threads, Ren Liu’s white light intensified, and even his form became translucent. He glared viciously at Pi Luo. “Brother! Fight... Fight to the death!”

Though he spoke with difficulty, he had a fierce temperament.

Upon seeing Ren Liu’s white light, Ren Wu already understood his intention. He no longer hesitated and cursed, “It’s always been us bullying others! Who would dare bully us?! Old Liu, let’s show him the might of the Yellow Springs Ferrymen!”

His form also grew translucent, and in exchange, his black light a few times darker than before.

“Brother!”

“Old Liu!”

The two shouted simultaneously, arriving before each other. By then, they had become extremely translucent, showing signs of merging. The black and white lights intertwined. Within ten thousand li, wind and clouds surged wildly. Heaven and earth changed colors. The rolling of thunder echoed.

Ren Wu’s furious shout resounded vaguely amid the roar. “Take this! Yellow Springs Crossing!”