286: Forced to join forces

On Xiao Zhuo's side, although there were only a dozen Blood Prison Demon Generals, they had already secretly set up a Formation. Evidently, before Xiao Zhuo and the others stepped into this place, they intended to activate the Formation to seize the immortal king golden body.

At this moment, the fierce battle erupted, as if disturbing the sleeping existence in this place.

Above the immortal king golden body, a colossal pressure steadily climbed, and an ancient will was recovering from within it!

"Ba Xue Demon General! This golden body still has lingering thoughts; once it recovers, we will surely suffer casualties! It's better to retreat temporarily!" The Old Demon General, having jointly slain a Blood Prison Demon General with several others, flew to Xiao Zhuo's side and said urgently.

Xiao Zhuo's gaze was like a torch, fixed on the Blood Prison Leader who was forced back by the recovering aura of the golden body, completely ignoring the Old Demon General's suggestion.

With a great treasure within reach and his side having numerical superiority, if he were to retreat out of fear of danger, not only might the immortal king golden body fall into the hands of the Blood Prison Abyss, but his, Xiao Zhuo's, prestige would also plummet.

Absolutely impossible!

"Go all out! First, eliminate the remaining Blood Prison Demon Generals! The strongest one, leave him to me!" Xiao Zhuo's voice was indifferent, yet carried an undeniable decisiveness.

"Yes, sir!"

In an instant, various ultimate killing moves erupted with a roar!

Even though the material of this dilapidated hall was extraordinary, it was bombarded by the violent energy, sending debris raining down.

The sixteen Blood Prison Demon Generals who were originally relying on the Formation to contend with the Eternal Calamity Demon Generals instantly had eight of them killed!

The rest were all injured.

That blood-colored Domain Formation also shook violently, on the verge of collapse!

Seeing this, Blood Prison Leader Half-step Demon Lord Chi Yanyang's brows furrowed with even greater anxiety.

They had entered this place early, setting up the Blood Seal Soul Suppressing Formation to suppress the spirituality of countless Vengeful Spirit Bones, and even the surviving will of the immortal king golden body was confined.

The intrusion of the Eternal Tribulation Demon Abyss's people forced them to divert their attention to activate the Formation to resist an enemy several times their number, leading to a loosening of the suppression on the Vengeful Spirit Bones and the golden body, ultimately causing them to recover!

Watching as the remaining eight Blood Prison Demon Generals were in precarious danger under the siege of numerous Eternal Calamity Demon Generals led by the Old Demon General, one by one being slain, he was helpless!

He could only hope to seize the golden body, making the sacrifice of others somewhat meaningful!

"Pfft!"

The head of the last Blood Prison Demon General was pierced by a black demonic light condensed to the extreme, the bloody glow in his eyes extinguished, and his corpse fell into the pile of bones.

The pervasive blood-colored Domain, like a popped bubble, let out a mournful wail and completely disintegrated!

"It's done!" The Eternal Calamity Demon Generals' spirits lifted, but before the euphoria of victory could rise, it was instantly frozen by a sudden, even more bone-chilling and terrifying pressure that descended!

"Woo--!"

The moment the Blood Prison Demon General's Blood Seal Soul Suppressing Formation collapsed, it was like tearing open a Seal that had been dormant for ages.

Within the hall, the faint, flickering ghostly blue Soul flames in the eye sockets of tens of thousands of skeletons suddenly burst into flames, as if doused with boiling oil!

A cold, sticky, and venomous intent, condensed from countless years, transformed into a substantial tide, sweeping through the entire space with a roar!

"Roar!"

"Kill!"

"Die! All must die!"

Countless venomous roars directly exploded deep within everyone's Sea of Consciousness!

Skeletons of various forms, with blazing ghostly blue flames in their eye sockets, moved stiffly yet swiftly, like an army of undead crawling out of the Abyss of Hell!

The closest skeletal demon soldiers, like specters, pounced on the nearest Eternal Calamity Demon Generals!

"Form a Formation! Defend! Quickly!" The Old Demon General roared hoarsely, his voice echoing through the hall.

Too late!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Among the bone mountains, several massive bone shadows radiating auras far exceeding ordinary Demon Generals rose with a roar!

There were giant skeletons several zhang tall with bone claws like knives; flying bones with bone wings on their backs, their wing blades tearing through the air; and ferocious creatures resembling primeval beasts, their roars stirring up storms of resentment!

A total of over thirty powerful Vengeful Spirit Bones comparable to the Demon General class simultaneously recovered!

They were like fearless vanguards, leading the countless Demon Soldier-level Vengeful Spirit Bones surging forward like a black tide from behind!

The hastily formed defense line of over seventy Eternal Calamity Demon Generals, in the face of this undead frenzy driven by pure resentment, was like a lone boat in a raging sea, instantly shattered and broken!

Demonic light exploded, screams rose one after another, the team was forcefully cut apart and pushed back, retreating step by step towards the hall entrance!

With every step back, a Demon General was swallowed by the ghostly blue Soul fire, transforming into a new skeleton to join the army of resentment!

Only in the deepest part of the hall, within a hundred zhang radius around the bone throne, a "pure land" was eerily maintained.

The frantically attacking Vengeful Spirit Bones, as if from an instinctive fear, dared not cross the boundary.

In the center of this "pure land," Xiao Zhuo and Half-step Demon Lord Chi Yanyang were constantly entangled in a struggle to seize the golden body!

"Brat! You're courting death!" Half-step Demon Lord Chi Yanyang's eyes were bloodshot, his blood daggers transforming into a sky full of crimson venomous snakes, each move deadly and cunning, trying to force Xiao Zhuo back to snatch the golden body.

His heart was twisted with pain; his elite subordinates were all lost, yet the great treasure remained out of his grasp!

Xiao Zhuo's eyes were as cold as ten thousand years of profound ice, World Power flowed, and invisible repulsive and gravitational fields precisely distorted the trajectory of the blood daggers.

The jade blood saber had not yet been unsheathed; relying solely on the Universe God Step and his exquisite control of World Power, he firmly blocked Half-step Demon Lord Chi Yanyang's furious assault outside the throne!

He was also somewhat anxious; even with over seventy Demon Generals, facing the frenzy of Vengeful Spirits led by over thirty Vengeful Spirit Bones comparable to Peak Demon Generals was still not enough!

He had to quickly resolve this situation and use World Power to relieve them, otherwise the manpower he had just gathered would be wasted!

These were his future connections in the Black Edge Legion.

Just as the two were locked in intense combat, with violent Qi stirring the space around the throne into Chaos—

Buzz!

On the bone throne, the mummified corpse, which had been lowering its head, suddenly lifted it!

The dust covering its face rustled and fell, revealing a shriveled yet still majestic countenance.

In the depths of its empty eye sockets, there was no longer deathly silence, but two points of pure golden flames that stung the Soul!

Rumble!

An indescribable terrifying pressure, like billions of stars collapsing, descended with a crash!

This pressure surpassed the limits of a Demon General, carrying a supreme will that transcended all beings, an indifference to everything, and a bone-deep deathly stillness, instantly pressing down on Xiao Zhuo and Half-step Demon Lord Chi Yanyang, who were locked in battle, causing their movements to freeze and become sluggish!

The Immortal King's lingering will had completely recovered!

It had taken control of this golden body, which contained immortal divinity!

"Ants... how dare... disturb my... long slumber..." A grand, cold voice, like the friction of metal on metal, directly exploded deep within their Souls, carrying a monstrous wrath at being desecrated!

The broken greatsword plunged into the golden body before it vibrated with a hum, and a withered hand covered in tattered dark golden armor slowly pulled it out.

Though the sword was broken, on its remaining blade, there still flowed an unparalleled sharpness capable of cleaving stars!

No hesitation, no fancy moves.

The recovered immortal king golden body merely swung the broken sword casually towards the two minuscule beings below!

A crescent-shaped sword Qi, composed purely of destructive golden divine light, silently tore through space, instantly occupying Xiao Zhuo and Half-step Demon Lord Chi Yanyang's entire field of vision!

Before the sword Qi arrived, the terrifying destructive will and mountain-heavy Dao Power it contained had already made the protective demonic Qi of the two groan on the verge of collapse, their Souls feeling as if they were about to be frozen and ground into dust!

This was an attack comparable to a true Demonic Lord at the Peak! Absolutely not something an ordinary Demon General could contend with!

"Join forces! Otherwise, we'll all die!" Half-step Demon Lord Chi Yanyang screamed in horror, no longer caring about seizing the treasure, his entire body burning with blood-light, transforming into a massive, ferocious blood-skull shield to block in front of him!

Xiao Zhuo's pupils constricted, the shadow of death had never been so clear! He made a decision instantly!

"zizai world, empower my body!" A thunderous roar echoed in his heart.

Buzz! The nascent world phantom within him suddenly materialized, and the vast and boundless Origin Power of the World surged like a bursting flood, pouring into his limbs and bones!

His aura erupted like a dormant volcano, rising steadily, and even profound and unpredictable Chaos patterns appeared on the surface of his skin!

Clang!

The jade blood saber, unsheathed with a resolute clang!