Chaos Blood Sacrifice

No one in White Grass Market was able to see the whole picture.

Because not a single one survived.

Those utterly horrified cries lasted only a few breaths before vanishing completely.

Every cultivator in White Grass Market died within those few breaths.

Bai Shuilán, suspended in the air, naturally saw everything that had happened during those brief breaths.

His mouth fell open, and he could not help but try to scream, but not only was his face frozen stiff—even the flesh in his throat seemed rigid. Only an extremely strange sound kept spilling from his throat.

Before this, he had already determined that the identities of these two black-robed cultivators must be extraordinarily astonishing. He was also certain that the conspiracy involving them must be connected to conflicts among some supreme sects.

Yet he could never have imagined such a stroke as annihilating all of White Grass Market in an instant.

White Grass Market was small, but there were several hundred cultivators here. How many sects were implicated?

After the Three Saints stood side by side, the sects of every continent acted according to convention. Such slaughter would shake even the supreme sects of the Central Divine Continent!

At that moment, a voice in his mind kept reminding him that he had likely become entangled in the greatest event in Lesser Jade Continent since the Chaos Tide.

The black-robed female cultivator and Qing Xu had not expected this either.

Their expressions did not change much, but the coldness on their faces intensified, as though a layer of crystalline ice shards were about to show through their skin.

"Nether River Spiritual Poison."

Qing Xu looked at the horrifying scene below and spoke slowly.

The black-robed female cultivator nodded.

She had come to Lesser Jade Continent not only for certain necessities required for her cultivation. More importantly, she had come to investigate underground dealings connected to the Chaos Domains.

But whether it was the things needed for cultivation or this investigation, to the force behind her, it was at most a trial akin to a journey.

Yet what had happened now clearly exceeded the limits of both her and Qing Xu's imaginations.

Among the four cultivators within the black cloud, Kong Mengzhu was the most taciturn and the most easily overlooked.

At that moment, no one noticed the subtle change in his expression.

As he watched this scene, his face initially turned somewhat pale.

He seemed frightened as well.

But in the next instant, something tragic and heroic seemed to rise in his eyes, followed by a touch of emotion. In the end, there was an indescribable sense of relief.

"Has the time to begin finally come?"

Such a voice rang out in his heart, and then his expression returned to absolute calm.

A shadow appeared within the black cloud.

Qing Xu had not noticed those subtle changes in Kong Mengzhu's expression before, but when Kong Mengzhu's face finally settled into calmness, he sensed that something was wrong with him.

This abnormality made him feel an inexplicable danger.

So he decided to erase this man in an instant.

Before this, let alone facing him, even if Kong Mengzhu had faced the black-robed female cultivator, he would not have had much ability to fight back.

A First Level Golden Core cultivator like this should have vanished from this world in the blink of an eye.

Yet he did not.

His shadow vanished.

A ring of seven-colored treasure light appeared around Kong Mengzhu.

Crimson, orange, red, green, cyan, blue, violet—like a rainbow about to emerge within this black cloud.

The instant these seven colors of treasure light appeared, they were extraordinarily distinct, as clear as the purest crystals.

Yet in the next moment, the seven colors merged together and became a patch of chaos.

The shadow vanished into that chaotic treasure light, and this treasure light, still carrying traces of color, seemed about to turn into a murky blackness.

Bai Shuilán looked with incomparable shock at Kong Mengzhu, who was enveloped in that chaotic treasure light.

He could not move at all.

Not only had the True Essence within his body and the flow of his blood been completely imprisoned by an immense force, even his divine sense seemed frozen within this stretch of heaven and earth.

Kong Mengzhu within the chaotic treasure light showed no other change, yet in Bai Shuilán's eyes, he had become utterly unfamiliar, utterly powerful!

Whoosh!

The black cloud vanished completely.

A black treasure tree appeared beside the black-robed female cultivator and Qing Xu.

Under the violent fluctuations of spiritual energy, even the void trembled like torn cloth.

White Grass Market turned completely black.

Countless black droplets rose from White Grass Market. As they accelerated sharply, they turned into countless bizarre black threads that fell toward Kong Mengzhu.

Kong Mengzhu's face, which appeared so unfamiliar in Bai Shuilán's eyes, cracked open like porcelain.

Not only his face—his entire body, carrying a sense of liberation as though he had finally waited for this moment, shattered into countless pieces in that instant.

Within the countless fragments that looked unreal, like shattered porcelain, was an exceptionally brilliant golden light.

It was a perfectly round Golden Core, but it existed for only an instant.

At the moment it split apart, it underwent a wondrous transformation.

It became an infant whose face was utterly different from Kong Mengzhu's, then shattered into countless fragments.

"Chaos Blood Sacrifice!"

For the first time, shock appeared in the depths of Qing Xu's and the black-robed female cultivator's eyes.

Boom!

Countless black shadows surged from Qing Xu's body, forcibly breaking through the surrounding imprisonment of Vital Energy and forming a gigantic black talisman as tall as a person before the black-robed female cultivator.

At the same time, radiance streamed down from the black treasure tree, winding around Qing Xu and the black-robed female cultivator like countless jeweled tassels.

Whoosh!

A bolt of black lightning tore through the sky.

Kong Mengzhu's body fragments had already scattered through the air, but the instant that black lightning appeared, every fragment contracted toward a point above. A black point of light formed there and expanded in an instant.

Qing Xu gave a muffled groan. Countless light patterns appeared across his body as though he were about to explode.

At the same time, the gigantic black talisman as tall as a person abruptly shattered.

Yet at that very instant, a black human-shaped shadow still surged from his body, seemingly intending to take the black-robed female cultivator away from this region.

"No!"

Yet at that moment, the black-robed female cultivator's eyes flashed violently. The radiance cast down from the black treasure tree instead all wound around Qing Xu, suppressing his body.

The black point of light in the sky had already become a profound black hole.

Whoosh!

At that very instant, the black hole descended like a sack while shrinking sharply.

The black-robed female cultivator, Qing Xu, and Bai Shuilán vanished from the sky in an instant.

The black hole disappeared without a trace.

Yet even as it vanished, it still carried a terrifying force of attraction.

A violent gale swept up for dozens of miles around White Grass Market. Countless currents of air came surging toward the place where it had disappeared, colliding incessantly and turning into even more chaotic astral winds.

These astral winds swept and exploded wildly through the air. The buildings below in White Grass Market were also damaged one after another, while the formations embedded within them kept collapsing, triggering ever more collisions of chaotic Vital Energy.

(Double monthly votes are here. Sorry to the readers who voted for me—I worked hard to do three updates a day for half a month, only to be overtaken in an instant. Readers with monthly votes, please cast a few more~~ For an old man like me, this update speed is truly a bit of a desperate push.)