Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 811 - 342: Another Recruitment Attempt (Part 2)

The Blood Slaughter Enemy surveyed the group using his crimson eyes filled with blood.

His gaze shifted far away to the Vast Realm forces, where he observed the troops Ning Qi called forth from the Three Domains surging ahead in their direction.

At the same time, the Sword Ancestor along with his companions charged forward, brimming with battle intent and showing considerable eagerness.

Right now, rescuing the Vast Realm army was far from their minds; their own survival hung in doubt.

A subtle light shone from the Blood Slaughter Enemy’s blood-red eyes.

"I truly possess one final hidden move, yet the question remains: how to deploy it at this juncture?"

At these words, the others swiftly exchanged thoughts through mind links.

The positive aspect was that Ning Qi showed no signs of launching another assault on them just yet, and the Sword Ancestor’s group posed no real threat to them.

Thus, their current quandary boiled down to either saving themselves or aiding the Vast Realm army?

What about going after Ning Qi?

Earlier, the Saint Ancestor’s Suppression Talisman proved ineffective against Ning Qi, and uncertainty lingered over whether this last resort would fare any better.

Within mere instants, they deliberated on how best to employ it.

All of a sudden, the Blood Slaughter Enemy drew a scroll from within his robes.

Ning Qi detected the action right away and bridged the distance through space in a flash.

"Oh, holding back one more secret weapon?"

Trailing behind him, the Sword Ancestor and his allies had not caught up yet.

Ning Qi’s sudden arrival startled the Blood Slaughter Enemy and his companions too.

Yet, without a word, they united in launching attacks against Ning Qi.

The void brimmed with innumerable techniques and divine abilities, forming a massive barrier woven entirely of magical spells that hurtled toward Ning Qi.

To counter, Ning Qi unleashed the Five-Colored Divine Light Giant Palm.

This enormous palm resembled a sky-obscuring hand, cutting through the emptiness to clash against the foes’ techniques and divine abilities.

Boom!

Thunderous detonation echoed, as radiant bursts alternated with the surging Five-Colored Divine Light.

Filling the Blood Slaughter Enemy and his group with dread was the fact that Ning Qi’s Five-Colored Divine Light Giant Palm displayed even greater supremacy now!

It steadily broke down their techniques and divine abilities, drawing in their power and expanding larger with each passing moment.

Meanwhile, their own strikes seemed to wither, shrinking steadily.

Across the Five-Colored Giant Palm, thunder boomed, with myriad shattered Rule Fragments dispersing into the void, while their spell-made wall endured ceaseless erosion.

The scroll gripped by the Blood Slaughter Enemy at last unfurled, yet he directed it neither at Ning Qi, nor toward the Sword Ancestor’s party, nor at the Three Domains’ forces within the Profound Truth Realm.

Instead, he pointed it toward the shield formed from the Mountain and Sea Realm’s might.

The scroll ignited on its own, unleashing a crimson "Kill" symbol!

As it manifested, every cultivator nearby caught a suffocating wave of blood aroma, like stepping into a vast pile of bodies amid an ocean of gore!

Cultivators with frailer Primordial Spirit resolve lost their senses immediately, turning zombie-like and snapping at those around them.

With the Kill character’s appearance, endless crimson blades erupted from its lines, slicing onward.

The Mountain and Sea Realm power’s barrier shattered in an instant.

The Blood Slaughter Enemy and his allies seized the chance to dash through and escape.

Once outside the reach of the Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s influence, the strength curtailed by the twenty self-slashed Harmonization experts finally surged back.

Yet, much to Ning Qi’s astonishment, they refused to linger and instead pressed on with the Kill Talisman, fleeing northward.

Witnessing this, Ning Qi abruptly grasped their scheme!

This location lay on the northern edge of the Central Domain, perilously near the Upper Domain.

Similar to Ning Qi’s prior domain traversal, barriers existed between the Lower Domain and Central Domain to sever inter-domain links, aiding swift war realm consolidation and enabling quick Harmonization influx into both areas.

Hence, the Blood Slaughter Enemy and his group aimed to breach the barrier to the Upper Domain.

Sure enough, they propelled the Kill Talisman forward.

This imposing crimson Kill character radiated bloody glows that shrouded the Blood Slaughter Enemy’s twenty members.

Now, rather than them controlling the Kill character, it seemed the symbol bore them away in flight.

In truth, a single glance at the Kill character told Ning Qi it stemmed from the Saint Ancestor’s hand.

Unlike the earlier Suppression character, this Kill character boasted superior might, especially with the embedded Saint Ancestor’s Will.

From this insight, Ning Qi pieced together more understanding.

The Blood Slaughter Enemy and companions were probably puppets of the Saint Ancestor’s Will!

Likely, following the prior confrontation with Ning Qi, the Saint Ancestor’s Will assessed Ning Qi’s formidable strength.

Thus, at this critical point, it deployed the Kill character to rescue the Blood Slaughter Enemy and others, utterly abandoning their initial purpose for coming here.

It hurtled straight toward the war realm’s preceding barrier.

The Kill character’s bloody radiance spread wide, ferrying the party while unleashing thousands more blood blades, tearing a vast gap in the barrier.

Following that, the Blood Slaughter Enemy and his allies vanished from Ning Qi’s sight, as the rift sealed shut, thwarting any chase by Ning Qi or his forces.

Ning Qi’s brows furrowed faintly.

He refrained from blocking the Blood Slaughter Enemy’s group, for against the Saint Ancestor’s intervention, enduring without revealing his full power would be impossible, leaving only a contest of mental fortitude.

Moreover, considerations tied to the True Martial Realm factored in.

Ning Qi never forgot his need for a chance to intensify the chaos and ferocity of the inter-realm wars.

Thus, why pass up this opening?

Could he genuinely assist the Mountain and Sea Realm Will in vanquishing the Vast Realm?

Behind him, the Sword Ancestor and companions halted.

"Kid, it seems the duck we had roasting has slipped away!"

The Sword Ancestor jested.

Qi Keqing and the rest remained quiet.

A trace of terror flickered in everyone’s eyes too.

That Kill character’s unleashed force—if faced head-on—would probably annihilate them in a blink.

Luckily, the foes chose flight over perishing together.

"Allow their escape; it might not be all bad."

"A good thing?" The Sword Ancestor inquired.

Ning Qi pivoted to regard them, grinning: "The Vast Realm holds me in such high regard, dispatching twenty self-slashed Harmonization experts, but what of our Mountain and Sea Realm?"

His words left them momentarily speechless.

All stood within the Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s domain, hesitant to voice anything against the realm.

As the realm’s denizens, its Will commanded them like the divine sky above.

Only a figure like Ning Qi, acknowledged by the Mountain and Sea Realm as Domain Master, could voice such candid thoughts.

Ning Qi eyed the Three Domains’ armies from the Profound Truth Realm; they had almost eradicated the Vast Realm’s leftover cultivators.

"Fine, once the Central Domain falls entirely to us, we’ll head across domains to the Upper Domain for reckoning—let’s see them flee then."

These directives left the Sword Ancestor and others with no choice but to agree.

Now, Ning Qi occupied a level beyond their grasp, surpassing them not only in power but in cunning plans and far-reaching sight.

Ning Qi produced the Compass, displaying the layout.

He scanned it; across the Central Domain, just three nodes awaited conquest.

Next, he directed the Three Domains’ forces to assault those lingering points.

Once the group had left.

Ning Qi floated amid the emptiness.

Before him, the Mountain and Sea Realm Will materialized as an ethereal form.

"Ning Qi, why permit their getaway?"

Without flinching, Ning Qi answered: "Realm Venerable, you’re merely seeking issues. I’ve seized three nodes—you saw the fight—and they revealed a Saint Ancestor artifact; how was I to oppose it?"

The ethereal form fixed its gaze on Ning Qi, as if probing his inner mind.

Ning Qi gave a casual shrug, ending the exchange there.

Such a carefree attitude momentarily baffled the Mountain and Sea Realm Will; it held no grudge against Ning Qi anyway.

The form looked toward the Upper Domain’s direction.

"They’ve fled to the Upper Domain; it appears the Vast Realm will seize it fully—quite the complication."

Ning Qi countered: "I’ve dispatched our forces to claim the last three nodes; after that, we’ll swiftly move to the Upper Domain. Regardless of their speed, they won’t overrun it instantly, eh?"

The form swiveled around, eyeing Ning Qi once more.

"Very well, a minor domain like that—with you here—we can claim it whenever."

After a brief halt, it added: "My manifestation now serves to warn you: Harmonization Realm beings in the Mountain and Sea Realm have marked you as a threat; they may plot against you."

Ning Qi answered steadily: "Do you mean those Harmonization Ancestors from the Celestial Fire Realm, Vine Wood Realm, and Earth Gold Realm?"

The Mountain and Sea Realm’s ethereal form remarked: "You show no fear—perhaps considering my earlier offer to take you as disciple?"