357: Blood Demon Realm Movement

Deep within the Blood Palace, Xue Tian, who was meditating in a secret chamber, suddenly frowned.

His consciousness instantly connected with the Heavenly Dao will of the Blood Demon Realm.

After more than a hundred years of integration, his synchronization with this Heavenly Dao had reached an extremely high Realm.

If he could help the Blood Demon Realm ascend to a Major Thousand Worlds, he would almost be equivalent to controlling a Major Thousand Worlds; even if he couldn't wield it as effortlessly as Xiao Zhuo did with his zizai world, he could still mobilize immense World Power.

At that time, even a Saint who had proven the Dao with force entering this boundary realm might not gain an advantage.

However, communication with the Heavenly Dao will not only failed to alleviate his worries but deepened the furrows between his brows.

“Uneasy?” Xue Tian muttered, his voice echoing in the silent secret chamber.

Just then, a figure tore through space and suddenly descended above the Blood Palace.

Xue Qin!

At this moment, Devilish Qi surged around her, and her imposing aura indicated she was already a Heaven Demon Realm expert.

In just a hundred years, she had passed the Ascension Tribulation to become a True Demon, and with her profound foundation, she had directly entered the Heaven Demon Realm.

If not for the Restriction set by the Old Ancestor in the Blood Palace preventing spatial teleportation, she would have already appeared directly before Xue Tian.

The moment she appeared, she transformed into a dazzling blood-red rainbow, piercing through the invisible barrier/boundary outside the palace and directly into the depths of the underground palace.

In just one breath, her figure solidified outside Xue Tian's secret chamber, her voice carrying a rare urgency: “Old Ancestor! Something has happened!”

“What is it?” Xue Tian's tone was calm and unperturbed, as if he had already anticipated it.

“Countless armored Demonic Beasts are surging out from beneath the Endless Abyss! The weakest among them have Demon Core Realm strength, and the strongest are comparable to the Nascent Soul Realm! They are continuously crawling out from the bottom of the abyss!” Xue Qin spoke rapidly, her beautiful face as stern as iron, “Hordes of these insects are already approaching the Seven States of the Blood Palace, and the Disciples have been ordered to intercept them!”

She paused, a hint of surprise flashing in her eyes: “These demonic insects... Divine Sense cannot perceive or lock onto them; they can only be seen with the naked eye, extremely bizarre!”

The door to the secret chamber silently opened, and Xue Tian, clad in a blood-red, gold-patterned imperial robe, slowly stepped out, his gaze profound: “It seems the will of the boundary sea has sensed something. Although this Old Ancestor has not fully triggered the tribulation, the anomaly has arrived first.”

“Old Ancestor, rest assured, Yun Qing has already led ten thousand Elders out of the palace to suppress them. Although the insect hordes are numerous and strange, their individual strength is still weak; they should be quickly quelled,” Xue Qin said with a frown.

“This is merely the beginning of the storm!” Xue Tian's voice suddenly turned cold, carrying an undeniable authority, “Issue an order to the entire boundary realm: effective immediately, enter the highest state of alert! All Cultivators, regardless of their affiliation, including the three direct sects and the Five Great Sects, are to quickly gather at the various Blood Palace branch palaces and await unified deployment! Additionally, have Cultivators above the Body Integration Realm in each prefecture relocate all cities near the branch palaces to preserve as many Mortals as possible.”

“Understood!” Xue Qin responded, her figure vanishing instantly.

Xue Tian's consciousness once again turned towards the Blood Demon Realm's boundary wall.

He saw the boundary realm barrier/boundary seemingly being infused with an invisible immense force, becoming incredibly tough and thick at an astonishing speed.

His heart sank—at this rate, in less than a month, the entire Blood Demon Realm would be completely sealed off!

Blood Demon Realm, Wuluo Prefecture, Ya Yue City (Cliff Moon City).

Outside the city built of white stone, a translucent black barrier/boundary fluctuated violently.

On the city wall, Blood Palace Disciples and local Cultivators clutched their weapons and Magic Treasures, their faces pale as they gazed at the suffocating scene outside the barrier/boundary—

Black insect Demonic Beasts, covering the sky and earth, like a surging black tide, frantically crashed against the city's protective light screen!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Dull and continuous crashing sounds penetrated the barrier/boundary, like heavy hammers, striking hard at everyone's hearts.

Ya Yue City (Cliff Moon City), a small city near the Endless Abyss, where the highest cultivation was only a few old Devils in the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Since the previous night, sporadic appearances of bizarre black insects had continuously harassed them.

Initially, the Cultivators in the city didn't pay much attention.

Although these insect Demonic Beasts were difficult for Divine Sense to detect, most were in the demon core (stage of cultivation) Realm; after killing a few and finding no clues, they dismissed them.

The Blood Demon Realm was vast, and some strange Demonic Beasts were not unusual.

However, after midnight, the insect Demonic Beasts suddenly gathered!

Dozens, hundreds... their numbers surged wildly, forming torrents of black!

Cultivators outside the city bore the brunt, suffering a brutal massacre.

Even more chilling was that these insect Demonic Beasts only devoured Divine Soul, showing no interest in flesh and blood, as if born to consume “spirituality.”

At this moment, under the continuous impact of countless insect Demonic Beasts, the city's protective barrier/boundary emitted an ear-piercing groan, and cracks spread and expanded rapidly like a spiderweb.

On the city wall, the light of Magic Treasures appeared weak and desperate under the shadow of the insect tide.

Each impact made the city wall tremble, and each extension of a crack deepened the despair to the bone.

“Hold them back! Blood Palace reinforcements are coming!” an Nascent Soul Realm deacon roared hoarsely, but his voice was easily swallowed by the deafening roar.

He unleashed a fierce blood-blade, cutting down several demon core (stage of cultivation) insect Demonic Beasts that had slipped through the cracks and lunged at him.

But more black shadows followed—they were larger, with carapaces glowing with an eerie dark light, exuding Nascent Soul Realm fluctuations: ferocious giant insects!

They ignored Spell locks; one could only rely on sight and instinct to fight them!

“Crack—Boom!!!”

An earth-shattering explosion!

The massive barrier/boundary covering Ya Yue City (Cliff Moon City) shattered completely, like fragile glass!

Violent energy currents swept across the city wall, instantly tearing dozens of low-level Cultivators into pieces!

“The city has fallen—!!!”

“Run—!!!”

Cries of fear were instantly drowned out by the shrieks of the insect Demonic Beasts and the sound of collapsing buildings.

The city wall defenses crumbled!

Nascent Soul Realm black giant insects, like swinging scythes of death, easily harvested lives, their greedy mouthparts piercing directly into creatures' heads, extracting Divine Soul essence.

This small Demon Realm city, which had stood for ten thousand years, was about to become a feast for insects.

Just at this moment of doomsday!

A violent, ferocious, and chillingly Evil Qi-filled black Devilish Qi, like a volcano suppressed for ten thousand years, suddenly shot up from a dark corner of the city!

Amidst the surging Devilish Qi, a tall, gaunt figure stepped into the air, instantly landing on the highest point of the city wall—precisely where the insect tide was about to engulf!

The newcomer had a grim face, none other than the Spirit Transformation Realm Old Devil whose fierce reputation intimidated several surrounding small cities—Li Sangji!

He was enveloped in a dense, bloody, and nauseating Evil Qi; in his daily life, he killed people for treasures and regarded all living beings as mere blades of grass, even ordinary Blood Palace Disciples avoided him.

At this moment, Li Sangji's usually indifferent, greedy, and cruel dark-red eyes were fixed intently on the black insect tide surging in below.

He saw the old Devil Head's tavern next door razed to the ground, saw the stall owner who had sold him inferior demonic materials have his head pierced and Divine Soul sucked dry by an insect Demonic Beast's mouthpart, and even saw a few “old acquaintances” whom he had plundered and who had luckily escaped with their lives, now flying desperately like lambs to the slaughter... No one knew that the notorious Old Devil Li's lair was in this small Ya Yue City (Cliff Moon City).

He had his Mortal wife and children here!

When the barrier/boundary rose last night, he felt uneasy, and now his nightmare had come true!

“Damn it...” Li Sangji squeezed out a hoarse growl from his throat, like sand grinding against stone.

On his fierce face, muscles twitched violently, contorting into extreme anger and a kind of... almost insane desire to protect.

This land, this city!

No matter how dirty, how rotten, how foul, it was his, Li Sangji's, lair for hundreds of years!

And his Bloodline descendants, for whom he had exhausted his heart and soul!

“A bunch of spineless maggots!!” Li Sangji suddenly looked up, letting out an earth-shattering roar at the disorganized crowd below and the retreating Cultivators on the city wall!

The wave of sound rolled, momentarily overpowering the clamor of the insect tide!

His blood-red eyes swept over everyone, with his usual contempt, yet burning with an unprecedented, make-or-break ferocity:

“Look at your pathetic selves! Scared out of your wits by some mindless shelled beasts?! This is Ya Yue City (Cliff Moon City)!! I've been killing and burning for hundreds of years, and you all dared to put a bounty on me! When it comes to these insects, you motherf*ckers suddenly turn chicken?!”

He laughed wildly, his laughter filled with the arrogance of a Devil Cultivator.