680 Empire III

The earth's surface.

On the black earth, beams of light from the Heavenly Light flew down and fell into the ground.

Where the light shines, the ground slowly begins to turn red, melt, and form magma.

The land is covered with rolling hills and hilly terrain.

Among the hills lies the ruins of a town.

The two wandering Evil Spirit Car were slowly surveying the area. They flapped their wings, and the dark red vertical pupils on their chests glowed with a faint red light.

"These Evil Spirit Car were originally powerful gods Gods and Buddhas from various places. After being corrupted by evil spirits, they were transformed into these mindless monsters."

Essentially, a very small minority of them might develop sentience, but according to the data we've collected, only the progenitor has encountered one so far.

Outside the ruins, First Squad fifteen black-armored humanoid figures slowly and silently surrounded the two Evil Spirit Car from afar.

They were covered in black armor from head to toe, with no gaps even in their faces, except for two red crystals embedded in their eye sockets.

The armor had a bony sheen, and a crimson lotus pattern adorned the shoulders. That lotus represented the national flower of the entire Great Ling Realm, and was also the symbol of the Blood Immortal Path.

The leader of the group was three meters tall, with a strong physique, and was also covered in armor, carrying a serrated Black Blade.

"Gentlemen, clear them away quickly. We need unobstructed roads and cannot allow any obstruction."

The leader raised his Black Blade and pointed it at the two Evil Spirit Car.

"Yes!"

Those who came out to carry out the cleaning mission were all the most elite military experts in the Spirit Empire.

As Super Grade, they weren't selected for the Human Character Division. After all, the Super Grade in the Human Character Division are all carefully selected geniuses of the same level with various potential talents.

Even if they weren't chosen, their strength increased significantly after their Blood Descendant transformation.

The Captain's voice faded.

Immediately, the First Squad split into four, each consisting of two people, and rushed towards the two Evil Spirit Car.

The Evil Spirit Car was much faster than them.

But the Great Ling, who have conducted detailed research on this monster, now have a complete set of methods to counter it.

An Evil Spirit Car flapped its wings and suddenly transformed into a dark red blood shadow, lunging at one of the attackers.

The man didn't dodge; instead, he let out a low roar and entered his Limit State, his body instantly expanding significantly.

He gripped the knife with both hands, holding it firmly in front of him.

When!!

With a loud bang, he was thrown back, and the Black Blade in his hand was dented inward.

After each attack, the Evil Spirit Car would stop in place, using its confused state of mind to decide whether to continue the attack.

Their instinct is to plunder the Spirit Thread of living beings and devour their lives.

However, there doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm for Blood Descendant.

Make use of this pause.

On the other side, someone took this opportunity to activate their Limit State, and unleashed Breaking Limit Skill from behind, punching the Evil Spirit Car hard in the vest.

Bang!

With a deafening explosion, the Evil Spirit Car staggered, its back ripped open by sharp gauntlets.

Although the breaches quickly disappeared under the influence of the Spirit Thread.

However, the soldier who was knocked away also stood up, and the shock injuries on his body had already healed.

In this way, one person drew the fire while the other took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack; the two worked together seamlessly.

With the Blood Descendant's terrifying self-healing ability and speed, as long as their reaction can barely keep up with the Evil Spirit Car's attack speed.

The ending was already predetermined.

A short while later, a soldier seized an opportunity and punched the huge vertical pupil between the chest and abdomen of the Evil Spirit Car.

The dark red eyeballs were impacted by the immense force and burst open instantly, gushing out fluid.

The two soldiers quickly retreated, but they were still a step too slow.

Boom!!

The Evil Spirit Car exploded completely, turning into a ball of dark red flames that sent shockwaves out in all directions.

The flames covered an area of tens of meters around it, moving at an incredible speed, leaving no time for anyone to react.

The two soldiers who were surrounded were the first to be hit. Even with the increased speed from the Blood Descendant, they only had time to raise their hands to protect their heads.

Soon, the light dissipated, and the area below their necks was completely eroded and pierced by the flames, leaving them riddled with holes.

"Abandon yourselves!" the team Captain said coldly.

A soldier behind him immediately stepped forward and brought down his knife.

Swoosh! The blade severed the heads of the two soldiers who had been shot through the ground.

Two human heads flew high into the air and rolled to the ground.

But soon, the Captain stepped forward, took out a water bag from behind his back, untied the bag, and poured it down onto the two heads.

Blood gushed out of the bag.

Within seconds, countless fleshy tendrils sprouted from the base of the two heads.

These fine tendrils, like roots, burrow into the blood and greedily absorb it at a rapid pace.

At the same time, new necks, shoulders, chests, and torsos grew under the two people's heads. In just over ten seconds, the two people's bodies were completely restored.

"Thank you, sir." The two soldiers, unconcerned about being naked, clasped their hands in salute.

The roots beneath their feet had by then completely absorbed the blood, retracted into the skin of their soles, and disappeared.

Another soldier, who was already prepared, handed over the robes so that the two could put them back on.

"Go back and get the armor again. These Evil Spirit Car aren't too hard to kill, they're too stupid, they just make the armor a bit useless."

The Captain looked somewhat helpless.

"I just had my car serviced yesterday, what a hassle," a soldier muttered.

"I told you before, don't waste your time. You only use one set at a time, and it takes a long time to recover afterward," the other person said, raising an eyebrow.

"It's a pity we don't have armor to protect us. The Heavenly Light is too strong and it takes too much to handle. If only we could just wear whatever we want out there."

At this moment, the two attackers on the other side also finished their fight.

After a burst of red light, the two people on this side were much faster. They anticipated the time of their self-destruction and immediately retreated.

The two ended the battle unscathed, though their armor and weapons were dented.

The team Captain stepped forward and looked at the two soldiers' bodies engulfed by the explosion of light and flame.

The flesh beneath the armor on these two bodies was partly purplish and partly a normal red.

Purple represents the corruption of the Spirit Thread. At this moment, the two colors are constantly clashing, with purple clearly being stronger, continuously eroding the red flesh and blood.

"Both of you went to soak in the new Nether Spring the day before yesterday, and it seems to have worked."

"Our flesh and blood couldn't have resisted this level of pollution before," the Captain remarked with some admiration.

"The Imperial Celestial Numerology Pavilion is actually quite useful after all." A soldier came over in surprise to take a look.

In Great Ling, Zhang Rongfang even established a research institution called Celestial Numerology Pavilion to cover his tracks. Any changes to his new abilities could be attributed to the Celestial Numerology Pavilion.

This would also allow for a legitimate and rapid transformation and enhancement of the bloodline strength of the Great Ling Blood Descendant.

"And I feel the regeneration speed is also much faster than before," a soldier agreed with a smile.

As the vanguard in advancing the path, they bore the arduous task of opening up the route between Great Ling and another gathering place of Gods and Buddhas — Hundred Sulfur.

Therefore, they are already extremely experienced in dealing with evil spirits.

"Alright, let's move on."

The Captain raised his hand, signaling that they could stop.

"Yes!" The group ignored the polluted bodies left behind. These bodies would soon consume all their nutrients in the battle against the pollution, turning into clumps of proliferating polluted flesh.

The fleshy mass will then turn into some wriggling, strange purple worms, which will be cleaned up by the cleaning team behind it.

Just as the First Squad was preparing to continue their journey.

Suddenly, a plume of black smoke rose in the distance, and a faint hissing sound drifted over.

"Watch out!!" The Captain's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he shouted.

All soldiers quickly went to alert and looked in the direction from which the sound came.

"It's being located by sound! This is it!" The Captain clearly recognized the source of the sound.

Whoosh! Suddenly, a horse-headed, human-bodied monster shrouded in black smoke leaped up from the distant hills.

Its massive, over four-meter-long body, casting an ever-growing shadow, rapidly pressed down on the crowd.

"It's a horse!" The Captain instantly drew his curved sword from his back, and his more than three-meter-tall body also rapidly expanded, becoming taller and larger.

Bang!

The shadow in mid-air landed steadily, crashing into the center of First Squad soldiers.

The ground cracked open, and lava below was splashed everywhere. Some of the lava landed on the armor of the men, emitting wisps of black smoke.

The full extent of the shadow was now revealed to everyone.

It was a deformed, purplish-black monster, over three meters tall and four meters long.

It has the head of a horse and the body of a human, with hands that are like sharp claws similar to those of a bear. It also has a purple vertical pupil on its chest and abdomen, which is nervously turning as it scans the crowd in front of it.

"This is a big guy." The Captain's palms were sweating. He was only Super Grade- grade level Three Voids, but he could still handle some of the stronger Evil Spirit Car in a one-on-one fight.

But what he was looking at was clearly beyond his expectations.

"Get out of the way." Suddenly a voice entered his ears.

Before the Captain could react, he felt a blurry figure flash past his side.

Clang!

In an instant, a Silver Light suddenly shone from the middle of the Evil Spirit Horse's body.

Silver Light slanted from the shoulder, swept across the purple pupils, and split the entire Evil Spirit Horse in two.

The phantom retreated immediately after the attack, flashing continuously at a terrifying speed far exceeding that of the others, and in the blink of an eye it was already a hundred meters away.

Boom!!

The Evil Spirit Horse froze on the spot before its body exploded with a bang.

By this time, the Captain and the others, realizing the situation was not good, had already run far away.

The purple flames exploded, and the Evil Spirit Horse was instantly killed before it could even unleash its full power.

Under the intense light of the fire, the phantom that had slain the Evil Spirit Horse stood still.

"You may leave." The phantom raised its head, revealing a somewhat pale male face.

"There's an evil spirit uprising ahead. It's beyond your capabilities."

"Thank you, sir." The team members recognized the man from his attire; he was a master from the Blood Immortal Path Human Character Division.

These experts from the Four Divisions all received the Progenitor Blood Essence, and their speed, reaction time, strength, and self-healing abilities are on a completely different level from theirs.

But will the evil spirits still riot?

The team members were all somewhat curious and puzzled.

The pale man shook the Long Sword in his hand; the blade was covered with a layer of writhing flesh.

It was a special weapon pieced together from the materials of statues of Gods and Buddhas.

This weapon is incredibly hard, and when covered with a layer of Blood Descendant flesh, it can inflict extremely terrifying fatal wounds on evil spirits once it cuts through them and hits their vital points.

This is also why he was able to kill the Evil Spirit Horse with a single blow.

The man took out a red cylinder and gently pulled off the cap from the top.

Laugh!!

In an instant, a firework shot into the sky.

At this moment, in the distance ahead, between two hills, a plume of black smoke rapidly moved towards and enveloped this area.

A dense, overwhelming swarm of Evil Spirit Car flapped their wings and swooped down towards this place.

The source of the black smoke was also mixed in with the black smoke itself: the Evil Spirit Horse.

The man gripped his Long Sword tightly.

"Facing Solution." His eyes suddenly turned empty.

Bang!

In an instant, his speed increased even more dramatically than before, becoming almost just a gray streak as he suddenly shot into the horde of evil spirits.

Not only him, but behind him, figures turned into gray lines, constantly rushing past the squad.

It was just a fleeting moment.

The Evil Spirit Car were sliced open at the first sight.

A master of the Extreme Realm, combined with the powerful physique of Super Grade Blood Descendant, and further Facing Solution by the power of the Transcendent Realm, would essentially crush these mindless monsters.

Even though they are extremely fast, Zhang Rongfang is no longer the same as before. The Nether Spring he created with his essence blood has greatly enhanced the physical abilities of all the experts from the Four Divisions who have been bathed in it.

On the surface, this Nether Spring serves a purpose similar to a blood pool, but in reality, it is a Blood Descendant amplifier that Zhang Rongfang is using as a cover.

Within 500 meters of the Nether Spring, all Blood Descendant receive a powerful boost.

All those who bathed in the Nether Spring received a completely new Blood Descendant transformation, acquiring the characteristics of Zhang Rongfang's latest bloodline.

In other words, at this point, all Blood Descendant that have been soaked in the Nether Spring are essentially a weakened version of the Nether Spring, and a portable version at that.

The key is that wherever Zhang Rongfang's flesh and blood are present, the Nether Spring will take effect.