Lotus-Born Vast Sun Array, No More Dongfang Family

Two quarters of an hour later.

"Ah!"

Screams rose one after another. Bodies rained from the sky, too many to tell whether they belonged to the allied forces or the Dongfang Family. But there was no doubt the Dongfang Family had suffered more.

After two quarters of an hour fighting for their lives, the Dongfang Family members were drenched in sweat, and the Source Qi in their Source Mansions was nearly exhausted.

Worse, many were covered in wounds. Death was only a heartbeat away!

"Hahaha! They can't hold out much longer. Attack and wipe them out!"

"Good!"

At the sight, Wang Jingyuan and the others grew fiercer, their attacks more vicious!

"Ah!"

In an instant, Dongfang Family members fell in droves!

Hearing her clansmen's cries, Feng Lian swept Du Huaiyu and Wang Shenghai aside with one move and flew above the others.

"Hmph. Trying to flee?"

"Feng Lian, where do you think you're going?"

Du Huaiyu and Wang Shenghai thought Feng Lian had weakened. They would never let her go and gave chase.

But Feng Lian held three talismans in her hands. She chanted under her breath, driving her Source Power to its limit as her own blood surged into the talismans.

"Die!" Feng Lian cried, killing intent sharp in her eyes. "Lotus-Born Vast Sun!"

"Hmm?!"

Du Huaiyu's and Wang Shenghai's hearts lurched for no reason. They looked at Feng Lian with a flicker of panic.

The three talismans rose into the air, casting crimson light across ten thousand miles.

That light illuminated everything within ten thousand miles, and a red array sprang into being!

Within the array, red lotuses drifted. Above it, a vast sun appeared.

It was one of Feng Lian's ultimate moves—the Lotus-Born Vast Sun Array. The Red Lotus Talismans took form, and the vast sun birthed lotuses!

The red lotuses were real, the vast sun an illusion. Talismans and illusions joined as one, beyond the reckoning of gods or ghosts!

But it required her own blood to activate. She could not use it lightly!

Boom!

Golden light fell from the vast sun. Boundless pressure shattered countless stretches of space and swept across the battlefield.

"Not good! Retreat!"

Wang Shenghai's pupils contracted sharply, and he shot backward.

"Ah!"

But with one scream, he and his Nascent Soul exploded into a cloud of blood.

"Husband!"

Du Huaiyu cried out in anguish.

"Feng Lian, you killed my husband! Today, I won't rest until I've killed you!"

Her eyes bloodred, she charged instead of retreating, driving her Source Power to its limit. She swore she would kill Feng Lian!

Hiss!

A red lotus descended and burned her to ash!

"No! My child, my husband!"

Du Huaiyu's Nascent Soul shrieked. It turned to ash along with her body, and she died with hatred in her heart!

The allied forces had no time to mourn Du Huaiyu and Wang Shenghai. The array's pressure was grinding them to dust!

"Is that... the Lotus-Born Vast Sun Array?"

"Not good! Channel your Source Power and hold it off!"

The other cultivators' eyes widened in horror. They drove their Source Power forward, forming barriers around themselves.

Hiss!

Yet they still could not withstand the array's might. They died one after another!

"As expected of Feng Lian, who cultivates both illusions and talismans! Even at only the fifth level of the Nascent Soul Realm, she can cast such a terrifying array alone!"

"But you're still only at the fifth level of the Nascent Soul Realm. The Lotus-Born Vast Sun Array? Watch this old man break it!"

Wang Jingyuan let out a proud howl. His long robe billowed as vast Source Qi surged forth and condensed into a giant sphere of light.

"Pfft!"

Before the sphere had even been launched, a fraction of the pressure spilling from it made Feng Lian cough up blood. Her body swayed without stopping.

She had already driven her Source Power to its limit and spent her own blood to form the Lotus-Born Vast Sun Array. How could she not falter under pressure from someone at the eighth level of the Nascent Soul Realm?

"Not good! Help Elder Feng Lian sustain the array!"

Seeing this, Dongfang Huayu gave the order urgently.

"Yes, Patriarch!"

The Dongfang Family members drove their Source Power forward. Source Qi poured into the three talismans overhead without pause, and Feng Lian's body finally stopped swaying.

"Let's help Elder Jingyuan break the array!"

"Good!"

Since the Dongfang Family was helping Feng Lian sustain the array, the allied forces would help Wang Jingyuan destroy it!

Boom!

Source Qi surged into Wang Jingyuan's sphere of light like a raging tide. In an instant, it blazed with light that eclipsed the vast sun above the array!

"Break!"

Wang Jingyuan shouted and thrust the sphere from his hands.

Boom!

The sphere hurtled toward the talismans overhead like a meteor.

Bang!

The talismans fell, the vast sun sank, and the red lotuses scattered. The Lotus-Born Vast Sun Array was broken!

"Pfft!"

Feng Lian coughed up more blood. Her face was pale as paper, and she teetered on her feet.

"Elder Feng Lian!"

Dongfang Huayu cried out and rushed to support her in a streak of light.

"Be wiped out, every last one of you!"

Wang Jingyuan's gaze was icy. He channeled his Source Power again, and another sphere of light sprang up and hurtled toward the Dongfang Family.

"Die!"

At the same moment, the allied forces unleashed all their ultimate moves.

Boom!

Pressure filled the sky, bearing down like a mountain and crashing over them like a wave. The Dongfang Family members could scarcely breathe for despair!

"The allied forces are attacking ferociously, and the Dongfang Family is exhausted. Today, the Dongfang Family falls!"

"Yes. If not for Feng Lian's Lotus-Born Vast Sun Array, they'd have fallen even faster!"

"What a pity. Feng Lian was a rare talent in the Dual Cultivation of Talismans and Illusions. She married into the wrong family, and now she'll be buried alongside the entire Dongfang Family!"

"Sigh. Wouldn't it have been better if she'd married this young master? I'm handsome, dashing, and charming. We'd have been a match made in heaven! Alas, fate played its tricks. What a tragedy!"

"..."

Ten thousand miles away, the onlookers talked among themselves.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

On the Wang Family's flying vessel, the Martial Warriors were feverish with excitement. They sharpened their blades, eager to charge into the Dongfang Family's ancestral grounds and slaughter to their hearts' content!

The Dongfang Family.

Outside the ancestral grounds.

Boom!

Streaks of light flashed. Boundless pressure swept toward the Dongfang Family members like a bloodthirsty beast, ready to swallow them whole.

"After today, there will be no more Dongfang Family in Heaven-Opening!"

Like a god of death, Wang Jingyuan pronounced the Dongfang Family's fate, leaving no room for dispute.

"Exactly!"

The allied forces poured in more Source Power, making the pressure that filled the sky even stronger!

Bang!

At that moment, a palm strike roared in from the north and dispersed every trace of that pressure!

"Hmm?" "How can that be?" "Huh?"

Everyone present was astonished. They turned to look north.

Whoosh!

A blue streak cut across the sky. Mo Lingyuan stood proudly atop Abyssal Nether, coming into view.

Behind him were Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, Chen Guyu, and Lü Liu.

"Muxue?!"

The Dongfang Family members' pupils trembled. They were stunned.

"Mother!"

Seeing how weak Feng Lian was, Dongfang Muxue rushed to her side in a streak of light and asked anxiously, "Mother, are you all right?"

"Madam, how are you?"

Lü Liu came to Feng Lian's side as well, her face full of concern.

"Xue'er, I'm glad you're back. I'm all right."

Feng Lian gave Dongfang Muxue a faint, relieved smile.

She turned to Lü Liu, disbelief in her eyes. "And Lü Liu! I never imagined you'd reach the sixth level of Qi Refinement. What wonderful news!"

"I have you to thank, Madam, for letting me leave with the young lady—"

Lü Liu was only halfway through her sentence when Feng Lian interrupted her.

"We can talk about that later. The battle isn't over yet."

Feng Lian turned toward the battlefield, her expression grave.

"All right, Mother!"

"Yes, Madam!"

Dongfang Muxue and Lü Liu looked up at the allied forces, hatred and killing intent mingling in their eyes.