280: Chapter 280 Bloodlust Leads to Danger

"Roar—!"

In the deathly silent and oppressive world within the formation, the Ice Spirit Snow Ape King let out a violent roar that shattered the heavens.

Around its mountain-like massive body, countless dark creature Puppets, like a bursting black ocean, emitted ear-piercing and deafening monstrous shrieks, surrounding it in the center.

These dark puppets, refined by the ancient formation, were extremely hideous and terrifying. Some had three heads and six arms, their bodies covered in barbs; some were like giant decaying skeletal dragons, with ghostly green fire flickering in their eye sockets; others were just wriggling piles of black rotten meat, emitting a nauseating, extreme stench of corpses.

The Snow Ape King's eyes were blood-red, its arms like two pillars supporting the sky, swinging madly through the Puppet army. The terrifying power of the Half-step True Immortal Rank poured out without reservation.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Extremely dense and muffled impact sounds exploded one after another in the passage. With every punch the Snow Ape King threw, it carried the Law of extreme cold to its extreme, smashing the dozen or so dark puppets at the very front into pieces of meat.

A dark, foul-smelling blood mist spread wildly in mid-air, dyeing the space for hundreds of feet like a Shura Hell. Severed limbs and broken arms fell like raindrops, hitting the cold and sticky ground.

However, these monsters simply could not be killed off!

Kill two, and in the blink of an eye, three or even five would step over their companions' corpses and pounce madly, unafraid of death. They knew no pain, felt no fear; their only instinct was to completely tear the living being before them to shreds.

Even though the Snow Ape King's strength was formidable to the extreme, under such an endless and terrifying war of attrition, it soon fell into a disadvantage.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

Tooth-gritting sounds of shattering echoed densely. The thick ice crystal armor around the Snow Ape King, which was enough to withstand a full-strength strike from a Peak Emperor Realm, actually began to break inch by inch under the frantic biting and clawing of countless Puppets!

A dark puppet shaped like a cheetah and extremely fast suddenly leapt high, its extremely sharp black fangs biting hard into the Snow Ape King's left shoulder, which had lost its armor protection!

"Roar!"

The Snow Ape King let out a painful grunt and slapped the Puppet into meat paste with a backhand.

But its Physical Body was already instantly covered in dense, tiny wounds.

What made this Overlord of extreme cold feel even more horrified!

From those bone-deep wounds, not much hot beast blood flowed out; instead, extremely eerie black mist constantly rose.

A hair-raising dark aura was following these wounds, boring into its body like a maggot on a bone, overbearingly eroding its spiritual power and powerful Physical Body!

"Damn it! My spiritual power is dissipating!"

A look of extreme horror flashed in the Snow Ape King's crimson giant pupils. It could clearly feel its vitality being forcibly stripped away by this dark aura. Its spiritual power, originally as vast as the sea at the Half-step True Immortal Rank, actually began to become sluggish and decayed under the pollution of this aura.

If this continued, it, a dignified Half-step True Immortal Rank Overlord of extreme cold, would actually be bitten to death by these ant-like monsters!

"Get the Hell away from me!"

The Snow Ape King fell completely into a frenzy. It let out a heart-wrenching roar toward the sky, and the remaining extreme cold Origin within its body erupted without reservation!

"Rumble—!!!"

A terrifying ice storm, enough to freeze the Void Realm, swept wildly in all directions with the Snow Ape King as the center.

The violent Law of extreme cold instantly froze nearly a hundred dark puppets at the front into black ice sculptures, which then exploded into a sky full of ice shards under the storm's extremely violent tearing.

This world-destroying strike forcibly cleared a range of dozens of meters around the Snow Ape King!

However.

Before the Snow Ape King could even catch its breath, or even have time to remove the fatal dark aura from its body.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"

Scalp-numbing shrieks pressed down overwhelmingly again.

In the blink of an eye!

The vacuum zone of dozens of meters that had just been cleared was once again completely filled by endless dark puppets, like a black hole being refilled!

Dense crimson eyes stared fixedly at the Snow Ape King with absolute greed and destruction. Sharp claws rubbed against the ground, making tooth-gritting, piercing sounds.

The Snow Ape King had completely fallen into a life-or-death crisis.

Its massive body trembled violently, and a flash of suicidal madness and determination crossed its eyes. It prepared to directly burn its Half-step True Immortal Origin to perish together with these dark puppets!

Just as the Origin within the Snow Ape King's body was about to reverse and it intended to fight for its life!

"Step back."

An extremely cold and indisputably overbearing voice suddenly drifted from the darkness behind it.

The voice wasn't loud, but it was like a thunderclap from the Nine Heavens, exploding with extreme precision deep within the Snow Ape King's Divine Soul, forcibly interrupting its frantic action of burning its Origin!

The Snow Ape King turned its head abruptly.

It saw Su Xuanchen in white robes, untainted by a speck of dust, with his hands behind his back, standing extremely calmly at the edge of the myriad things mother qi cauldron.

On his face, which was usually lazy and casual, there was currently no expression at all.

But those eyes, deep as the ancient stars, were as calm as a still well. Beneath that calm surface, there was an extreme killing intent sufficient to make the All Heavens and Myriad Realms tremble!

Just by meeting this gaze.

The Snow Ape King's massive body suddenly stiffened, its heart felt as if it were being squeezed hard by an invisible giant hand, and it skipped a beat!

"Great... Great Immortal..."

The Snow Ape King's heart trembled wildly, and that suicidal madness was instantly extinguished without even a spark left. It couldn't even produce a single thought of resistance. Dragging its wound-covered body in an extremely pathetic state, it hastily bowed and scrambled back to the rear of the group.

With the Snow Ape King's withdrawal.

The endless dark puppets ahead instantly lost their target.

"Roar!"

In the next second, thousands of dark puppets turned their heads in unison. Those dense, crimson gazes, like a sky full of stars, were cast greedily toward Su Xuanchen's group!

"Boom!"

An extremely thick and pungent blood stench erupted from this massive Puppet army, like a tangible blood-red tsunami, sweeping toward everyone overwhelmingly!

This blood stench was extremely eerie! Not only did it carry a nauseating corpse smell, but it also contained a certain magic that could directly penetrate the Protective Aura and strike the Divine Soul!

Just by inhaling a trace of it.

The most primitive and bloodthirsty violent emotions in everyone's hearts actually grew uncontrollably like ignited dry wood!

"Not good! Everyone, hold your breath! Keep your mind clear!"

Gu Hongchen's face changed drastically, and she let out an extremely urgent shout.

She gripped the biluo emperor sword in her hand tightly, and her terrifying True Immortal Realm magic power circulated wildly, forcibly pushing the trace of blood stench that had invaded her body out.

Looking at the Puppet army ahead that looked like a black ocean with no end in sight, Gu Hongchen's beautiful face was filled with extreme solemnity and horror.

Only at this moment did she completely understand the true horror of this ancient killing formation!

"It's too terrifying..." Gu Hongchen gritted her silver teeth, her voice filled with deep wariness, "The individual strength of these Puppets is at most equivalent to the Supreme Realm or Great Saint Realm, not even reaching the true Emperor Realm."

"But! They each have their own specialties; some are extremely fast, some have amazing defense, and some even carry deadly poison! Moreover, their numbers are endless and they cannot be killed off!"

Gu Hongchen swallowed hard, feeling her scalp go numb.

"Even more fatal is that they carry that dark aura which can erode spiritual power and even cause one to lose their mind! Under such endless wave tactics and the erosion of the eerie aura, let alone the Great Emperor Realm, even a genuine True Immortal Cultivator, if trapped within, would be drained of their last bit of immortal power and eventually become their food!"

Although Gu Hongchen, relying on her powerful True Immortal Realm cultivation, barely resisted the erosion of the blood stench.

Behind her, the situation for Ji Luanxi and the two Emperor Realm Snow Apes acting as guards was extremely bad!

Ji Luanxi's cultivation had only just soared to the Peak Supreme Realm by consuming the ice spirit jade fruit. In the face of this eerie blood stench that even a True Immortal would be wary of, her resistance was practically negligible.

"Ugh..."

Ji Luanxi let out an extremely painful grunt.

On her beautiful face, the original rosy color vanished instantly, replaced by an extremely sickly pale.

Unknowingly, she had already inhaled a large amount of the foul-smelling blood stench.

"Kill... kill them all..."

From Ji Luanxi's throat, an extremely hoarse, beast-like low growl actually emerged.

Her large eyes, which were originally clear as water, were now completely covered by an extremely thick and hair-raising layer of blood-red!

Ji Luanxi's delicate body trembled violently, her hands clenched tightly into fists, her nails digging deep into the flesh of her palms. Blood dripped from the gaps between her fingers, but she seemed completely unable to feel the pain.

An extremely violent killing intent that only wanted to destroy everything completely occupied her mind. She even involuntarily took a step, wanting to rush out of the protection of the myriad things mother qi cauldron and throw herself into that certain-death ocean of Puppets!

She almost completely sank into this endless slaughter illusion!

At the critical moment just as Ji Luanxi was about to lose control completely!

"Wake up!"

Gu Hongchen turned her head abruptly, her eyes nearly bursting, her Qi sinking into her Dantian, and she let out a roar like a thunderclap from the Nine Heavens!

This roar was mixed with the supreme sound wave Law of the True Immortal Realm, exploding directly deep within Ji Luanxi's mind!

"Buzz!"

Ji Luanxi's whole body suddenly shuddered.

The thick layer of blood-red in her eyes receded rapidly like a tide, and her clarity was restored.

"Hoo... hoo... hoo..."

Recovering her senses, Ji Luanxi panted heavily, her chest heaving violently.

She lowered her head somewhat blankly, looking at her hands, which were bloody from excessive force, and then at the group of hideous dark puppets ahead that emitted a terrifying blood stench.

Recalling the unconscious state of loss of control just now, where even her Soul was not under her own control and she only wanted to kill madly, Ji Luanxi only felt an extremely bone-chilling coldness rush straight from her spine to the top of her head.

She slumped weakly onto the ground, her beautiful face filled with extreme lingering fear, her delicate body unable to stop shivering.