The Life Mountains, at the Central Divine Mountain of the Black Region.
An unbearably oppressive aura stretched between heaven and earth.
Storms filled the sky, and Thunderclap blanketed the earth, tearing at the blood-colored world in the center.
The blood-colored world resembled an enormous tentacled monster. Countless purple lines extended from its red body, spreading in every direction.
With destructive power both above and below, the purple lines spread mainly sideways, expanding between Thunderclap and the storms.
Thunderclap and the storms naturally destroyed them as well, but their coordination was insufficient, leaving gaps.
Those purple lines seemed to take root where they landed, drawing on life force and transforming into seedlike clumps of blood wrapped in purple Secret Patterns.
Although some were destroyed, even more appeared.
And the blood clumps likewise served as anchor points, beginning to send out purple lines.
Although they grew thinner under the destruction of Thunderclap and the storms, their reach continued to expand.
To achieve their objective, Ming Nian and Lei Fuchang could only prioritize destroying those approaching the Central Divine Mountain, allowing some to slip through toward the mountain's outer reaches.
Those became new anchor points in turn, branching along multiple routes and encroaching inward from different directions. Some even contaminated the ground.
Lei Fuchang had no choice but to devote more of his attention to clearing away the "seeds" that touched the soil of the Life Mountains.
Defense in the direction of the Divine Mountain was thus left mainly to Ming Nian.
"We can maintain this, but given enough time, something is bound to slip through. Yet we don't know just how much contact with the Divine Mountain they need to fully accomplish their objective." Ming Nian frowned.
Compared to when the battle had first begun over a dozen days earlier, they had