56: Chapter 56 The Séance of the Gods

After the father and son weighed their options, the confusion in Su Yu's eyes completely vanished.

The starry sky was vast, and myriad races vied for supremacy. Rather than being a sheltered flower in a greenhouse, it was better to carve a bloody path through the boundless Universe! Without hesitation, he made his decision—to participate in the "Seed Competition."

According to the news brought by Vice Principal Xu Liang, the preliminary competition ground set by the 1st Star Zone on Earth was located in—the Demon City.

There was only one month left before the official start of the competition.

This month was a crucial consolidation period for Su Yu, who had already stepped into the Early Stage of the Martial King Realm.

He declined all social invitations within Beijing Martial Arts University and rarely even set foot in Jinglin Garden. He seemed to transform into a tireless Cultivation machine, day and night polishing his newly liquefied Martial King blood and Qi in the underground hundred-fold gravity room. With the Foundation and resources provided by his father, his aura grew thicker every day at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, just half a month after Su Yu began his secluded meditation...

...

In an abandoned nuclear air-raid shelter a thousand meters deep beneath the Yanjing Base.

This place saw no sunlight all year round, and the air was filled with a nauseating stench of blood and rot.

In the very center of the air-raid shelter, a giant, eerie totem emitting a dim red light was slowly revolving.

A figure as thin as a lath, like a skeleton draped in human skin, sat cross-legged at the eye of that blood-colored totem.

His appearance was extremely bewitching, but at this moment, his skin was as pale as white paper, and one could clearly see the pulsing black blood vessels beneath it.

If Su Wu or Luo Ting were here, they would be horrified to discover that this person was actually the Great Priest of the Star Demon Cult who had personally crushed his own heart above Jinglin Garden a year ago—Ye Xiao!

In fact, for an old monster like Ye Xiao who had lived for hundreds of years, the phrase 'a wily hare has three burrows' was insufficient to describe even one-ten-thousandth of his trump cards.

What he had crushed that day was merely the core of a Clone refined using the extremely cruel 'Blood Shadow Death-Substitution Technique.' His true self had already used the cover of the blood mist to escape as a wisp of a remnant Soul into the underground water network of the Yanjing Base.

Over the past entire year, like a rat in the sewers, he had dragged his heavily injured and dying body to meticulously carve out this 'Deity Descent Array'—capable of communicating with the starry abyss—at the 108 core formation eyes of the Yanjing Base.

"Cough, cough... Pfft!"

Ye Xiao suddenly coughed up a large mouthful of black blood, his aura becoming even more withered, but his vertical pupils flickered with extreme madness and malice.

"Damn it... Damn it! You destroyed my century of Foundation!"

Ye Xiao glanced at the blood-colored patterns that had completely taken shape around him, a hint of unwillingness and annoyance flashing in his eyes.

"What a pity. Originally, this array, supplemented by the blood of those hundred top geniuses, would have been enough to summon a Star King Ninth Stage Clone of the Demon God. But now... with my broken Soul, even if I sacrifice myself, I can at most open a small crack to summon a Star King Second Stage Demon God Clone."

Star King Second Stage!

Although it was just a Clone, in Ye Xiao's view, on this Earth where even a Star Lord Ninth Stage could act as a king, the Star King Realm was an absolutely invincible dimensional strike!

"Forget it."

Ye Xiao wiped the black blood from the corner of his mouth, a sinister and evil grin appearing on his face.

"Although I can't kill Lin Feng, before he rushes back, this Demon God Clone is enough to chew the entire Yanjing Base until not even bone fragments are left!"

"Let you ignorant natives wail in the wrath of a god!"

As his voice fell, there was no longer any lingering attachment to the living in Ye Xiao's eyes.

Without any hesitation, his right hand suddenly flipped, and a bone blade coated in deadly poison and curses appeared out of thin air. He then ruthlessly stabbed it backward into his chest, which had only recently been reshaped!

"Noble King! Please have mercy on your loyal subject!"

Ye Xiao threw back his head and let out a shrill, fanatical, and non-human roar. His body began to disintegrate inch by inch, turning into the purest dark energy that poured frantically into the totem beneath his feet.

"Using my Soul as the guide! For this place... descend a destructive rebirth!!!"

...

BOOM—!!!

With Ye Xiao's sacrifice, the entire ground of the Yanjing Base shook violently.

Immediately following that, under the terrified gazes of millions of citizens, the city center of Yanjing Base, the four major military regions in the east, west, south, and north, and the three core areas including Imperial Capital Martial Arts University, all erupted with thousands of blood-red pillars of light without any warning!

These blood-red light pillars shot straight into the clouds, actually ignoring the Yanjing Base's energy shield—which was claimed to be able to withstand meteorite impacts—and interlaced at an altitude of ten thousand meters.

In just a few short seconds, an eerie blood-colored magic circle covering a hundred-mile radius and blotting out the sky completely condensed over Yanjing like a giant abyssal mouth swallowing the heavens!

Oppressive.

An extreme sense of pressure!

At this moment, all experts above the Star Lord Realm within the Yanjing Base, whether they were old monsters in seclusion or legion commanders guarding a region, felt a tremor from the depths of their Souls.

It was a sense of dread from being absolutely crushed by a higher level of life, as if an indescribable and terrifying existence was casting a cold gaze here across the endless starry sky.

"What... what is this thing?!"

Above Imperial Capital Martial Arts University, Principal Luo Ting transformed into a streak of starlight and soared into the sky.

His face was pale as he looked at the giant blood array slowly rotating above his head, feeling the destructive aura within it that far exceeded the limit of the Star Lord Ninth Stage. His hands couldn't stop trembling.

"Energy fluctuations of the Star King Realm! And it's a Star King with extremely evil attributes! These lunatics from the Star Demon Cult actually completed a Descent Ritual inside the Yanjing Base?!"

Luo Ting did not hesitate for a second and immediately activated his emergency communicator.

Meanwhile.

In the vastness of space, there was that giant ball of fire emitting infinite light and heat—the Sun.

Within the corona, where temperatures reached millions of degrees Celsius, the violent solar storms were enough to instantly shred any S-class interstellar battleship.

Yet, on this purgatory-like surface, there was a slender figure strolling through the churning sea of plasma fire as if taking a leisurely walk in a courtyard.

Lin Feng.

This Federal Chief Inspector was actually resisting the terrifying high temperatures of the star with his Physical Body alone, without wearing any protective equipment.

He leaned down slightly, his slender fingers brushing aside a cluster of bursting solar prominences, and carefully uprooted a strange, translucent little grass that was burning with golden flames.

"The Sun Flame Grass I planted last year is just at the right stage now."

A satisfied light smile curled at the corner of Lin Feng's mouth.

Just then, the communicator on his wrist flashed frantically with a red alert representing a 'Maximum Crisis,' and Luo Ting's extremely anxious voice transmitted directly into his mind via a quantum encrypted frequency.

"Descent Ritual? Star King level Demon God Clone?"