Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 805 - 339: Why Does He Never Play by the Rules? (Part 2)
Previously on Cultivating with Top Enlightenment...
"If you want to live, then lead the way."
Brahma Heaven and his companions exhaled in relief, relieved that the foe had agreed to their offer.
"Please release the seal on us, senior."
Blood Slaughter Enemy snapped his fingers, sending two red beams straight at the pair.
As the beams struck them, the seal imposed by Fei Bing and his group with great effort vanished right away!
Brahma Heaven and his allies rose to their feet, appearing ragged and unkempt.
Confronted by the twenty Unity Realm experts and the two surviving domain forces from the Vast Realm, they resembled insects facing a massive human force.
Although they possessed techniques granted by their father, facing such overwhelming might, they refrained from deploying them.
Afraid that prior to acting, they would be effortlessly smashed by the adversaries!
Their minds weighed down with dread, yet recalling that Ning Qi had triggered this crisis, a fierce loathing toward him surged within.
"Damn guy, just you wait!"
Sacrificing a companion to save oneself had long been their guiding rule.
Even if it involved turning against the common cultivators in the Mountain and Sea Realm, provided they stayed loyal to the Mountain Ancestor, all was acceptable.
To them, solely those endorsed by the Mountain Ancestor counted as true allies.
The vast hordes of cultivators under their command were nothing more than tools battling for their gains, assets to secure their dominance.
Handing over such assets didn’t constitute disloyalty in their eyes; the value of those assets’ lives fell far short of worth!
Right as the pair prepared to guide the Vast Realm forces against Ning Qi’s Three Domains troops.
Abruptly, a dreadful shift unfolded in their area.
Roughly a thousand miles northward, a violet celestial star cast down a ray of light.
In an instant, all present sensed their forms growing heavier, their power curtailed by a full thirty percent.
"Not good, this location’s node has been captured by the Mountain and Sea Realm!"
Positioned at the domain’s boundary, barely within the star’s radiance, they detected the alterations clearly.
At these words, the commanders of the Three Domains forces, Fei Bing and his peers, froze in shock.
Fei Bing declared, "Lord Blood, our earlier surveys showed the node’s core missing, yet now it reappears and activates abruptly—it has to be Ning Qi’s doing!"
"Ning Qi, is it?"
Blood Slaughter Enemy scanned the group, his eyes ultimately settling on Brahma Heaven and his allies.
He instructed Fei Bing and his fellows, "Watch them closely; if anything shifts, strike without mercy!"
Fei Bing and his group nodded at once.
Meanwhile, Brahma Heaven and his companions, whose complexions had barely brightened, paled once more.
They had barely grasped a shot at survival when the tide turned anew!
Blood Slaughter Enemy surged ahead, soaring toward the purple star’s descent point.
"Follow me!"
The nineteen Unity Realm experts trailed him swiftly.
All twenty streaked through the heavens, akin to high-speed aircraft, etching twenty streaks upon the vault above.
The sole solace lay in the node’s recent activation, with the Mountain and Sea Realm Will not yet fully manifested.
Had it been otherwise, the restraint upon them would intensify greatly!
Even as Unity Realm practitioners who had severed their ties, a complete arrival of the Mountain and Sea Realm Will would trouble them deeply.
It mirrored the plight of Vast Realm cultivators abruptly thrust into the Mountain and Sea Realm—how could they avoid disadvantage?
The Spirit Realm Will proved invincible!
Within moments, Blood Slaughter Enemy and his entourage covered five hundred miles.
Their sight permitted a vivid view of events five hundred miles distant.
A figure in white robes positioned itself upon the earth.
An ceremonial platform rested ahead of him, with the white-clad individual at one edge, apparently intoning words to wholly invoke the Mountain and Sea Realm Will.
"Accelerate, we must destroy the altar before Ning Qi summons the Mountain and Sea Realm Will!"
The team chorused their agreement.
Yet, within the twenty, Wu Xu in scholarly robes creased his forehead, sensing irregularity.
Wasn’t Ning Qi excessively bold, venturing solo to this spot despite their proximity, claiming the node and calling forth the Mountain and Sea Realm Will?
Did he truly believe the arriving Mountain and Sea Realm Will would shield him and overcome us?
Moments later, they closed to two hundred fifty miles, a distance ideal for launching potent strikes.
Blood Slaughter Enemy commanded, "Act now!"
He pressed onward in flight, lifting his right arm.
Boundless crimson radiance welled in his right palm, swiftly forming a blood-spear of jagged, crystal-like scarlet form.
"Go!"
Blood Slaughter Enemy bellowed, flinging the blood-spear with force.
"Thunder!"
Accompanied by a sharp snap, the blood-spear pierced the emptiness at thunderous velocity, targeting the white-robed form beside the altar.
Trailing it came the assaults from the rest.
Be it emerald thunder strikes, gilded sacred bolts, keen Sword Qi, or more...
In the end, the barrage struck the altar two hundred miles off with perfect precision.
The onslaught landed true, causing the altar to crumble as if frail, while the heavenly purple ray seemed to fracture.
Yet right then, all faces twisted in alarm.
Wu Xu cried out sharply, "We’ve been tricked, retreat quickly!"
He led by example, halting abruptly mid-flight and withdrawing at speed.
Blood Slaughter Enemy and his comrades pulled back too, their gazes brimming with incredulity.
For the altar they had demolished was but a mirage, identical to the white-robed silhouette nearby.
This mirage appeared crafted to lure their focus initially, coaxing them nearer.
Had they not struck from afar and unveiled its falsity, drawing closer would spell peril!
Observing their blows fail to connect, they swiftly grasped that the mirage’s maker excelled in blending real and false, with special prowess in formations.
The entire scheme had been plotted by the foe in advance!
Moreover, the falling purple star ray formed merely another element of the trap.
It convinced them the Mountain and Sea Realm Will remained incomplete in descent, urging haste to halt it.
Yet curse it, striking the mirage fully triggered a hidden mechanism.
The ray’s disruption stemmed not from halting the rite but from the Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s genuine arrival!
Blood Slaughter Enemy and his group brimmed with unspoken rage.
Their lone consolation was the Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s fresh manifestation, not yet at peak might.
Though still inside this domain, timely flight remained possible.
Swiftly, they fell back hundreds of miles.
Wu Xu grew alert and abruptly yelled.
"Look behind us!"
At his call, all eyes turned from ahead to rearward.
The sight chilled their cores like glacial frost!
They almost stiffened in place, their withdrawal stalling as flight paths eluded them.
To their rear, some thousand miles off, two additional purple star rays plummeted from above.
These twin rays finalized in a flash, differing from the earlier observed one.
Abruptly, a fearsome force erupted from the rear, manifesting the Mountain and Sea Realm Will.
"Damn it, how did it come to this?"
Despite being Unity Realm masters, unease now gripped them fully.
They felt absolute certainty that such upheaval pointed to their quarry, Ning Qi!
However, Ning Qi’s prowess exceeded their anticipations vastly, utterly shattering their schemes!
The original intent had these twenty Unity Realm masters hunt Ning Qi outright or compel his emergence.
Regardless, they aimed to overwhelm him through collective assault.
Yet Ning Qi denied them that opening; without clashing, he upended the board ere they could respond!
Ning Qi shunned direct confrontation, instead reshaping the battlefield by invoking the Mountain and Sea Realm Will.
Blood Slaughter Enemy and his allies found themselves utterly cornered!
How had matters spiraled thus?
With Ning Qi’s ploy executed, he seized the three adjacent nodes and concurrently called the Mountain and Sea Realm Will.
This amounted to territorial confinement.
Furthermore, Ning Qi astutely ensnared them at the trio of nodes’ center.
Their urgent concern shifted from confronting Ning Qi to breaking free of the Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s siege.