Chapter 310 Bad News: The Eagle God Descends

"Ah!!! Help! What is this!!?"

On the Central Axis Avenue of the Imperial Court, a man let out a miserable scream as he was pierced by the red light of the Formation's runes, instantly transforming into a bloody mist.

Not a single drop of blood splashed out; it all merged into the Formation and flowed into the underground palace at the very bottom.

Similar scenes were playing out all across the city.

Blood-red Formation runes appeared on every street, and a terrifying Aura began to awaken within the Imperial Court.

Soon, the Formation runes extended to the vicinity of the Council Chamber.

"Retreat, quickly!"

A Supreme Grandmaster shouted urgently, but as the Formation runes awakened, a massive suppressive force descended. Everyone in the Imperial Court felt as if several mountains were pressing down on them; their internal True Yuan could not be mobilized effectively, and their speed slowed by more than a thousandfold.

Swish! Swish!

Red light flashed by in silent stillness.

Two guards at the Great Grandmaster level didn't even have time to scream before they were directly transformed into red light and dissipated.

The scene unfolding before their eyes deeply shocked the group of Supreme Grandmasters and Heavenly Humans who usually stood high above others.

"Quickly, go to the Imperial Palace! That is the Formation eye of this grand array; the Formation cannot reach there!"

When the grand array was being set up underground, the Luan Di Clan had already designated the Imperial Palace as a Forbidden Ground, excluding it from the Formation's coverage.

However, the Luan Di Clan ancestors probably never expected that the Imperial Palace would now have a new master.

With a loud shout from Xiao Sidao, the others gathered their power and rushed toward the Imperial Palace.

As Celestial Being Experts, they could use the power of their Divine Treasury to temporarily offset the suppressive force of the grand array.

But if this continued for long, they would inevitably become part of the blood sacrifice Formation. Everyone swept up their trusted subordinates and rushed into the Imperial Palace.

As for the others in the city, they could only fend for themselves.

The Imperial Palace guards had also been alerted by the changes in the city. Xiao Yuanjia appeared atop the palace walls, wearing a bright yellow palace dress with a white fox fur cloak draped over it.

The moment she appeared, the world seemed to lose all color.

Her peerlessly charming face made hearts flutter. Her long hair was styled into a Phoenix bun and adorned with a golden Phoenix crown; she lacked the typical traits of a grassland woman and looked more like she was styled in the fashion of the Southern Dynasty.

Her charm was infused with an air of majesty.

"A Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation! The remnants of the Luan Di Clan have returned!"

Even with her brow furrowed, Xiao Yuanjia still radiated a fatal allure; it was no wonder Yan Chu was so captivated by her.

Seeing the changes in the city, she immediately guessed what was happening.

The fact that a Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation was laid beneath the Northern Mang Imperial Court was not a secret among the high-ranking nobles.

However, exactly where the Formation was and where the entrance was located was only known to the high-ranking members of the Luan Di Clan; others were unaware.

Now that the Luan Di Clan had been destroyed not long ago, and Yan Chu had been staying in the Imperial Palace neglecting his duties, the entire Empire was almost at a standstill, relying on local regions to govern themselves.

No one had the mind to investigate the matter of the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation.

No wonder news came that members of the Luan Di Clan were performing a blood sacrifice by the Sun-Chasing River. The Sun-Chasing River was a hundred thousand li away from the Imperial Court; this was a plan to lure Yan Chu away to seize the opportunity to sneak into the Imperial Court and sacrifice the city's millions of residents.

Luantu Kuo? Or the Left Worthy King? What ruthless calculation!

By this time, Xiao Sidao, Pu Cha Shou, Huyan Subai, and others had already fled into the Imperial Palace, their eyes filled with lingering fear.

The glowing Formation runes outside stopped flashing once they reached the palace walls and instead extended in other directions.

If one looked down from above,

They would see that, except for the Imperial Palace, red light was glowing from the ground everywhere else, forming a massive Formation.

The red light pierced through the chests of countless people, devouring their life force entirely, and then the most brilliant light converged toward the depths of the earth at the very center of the city.

Above the Imperial Palace, Xiao Sidao and the others arrived beside the Empress Xiao Yuanjia. At this moment, they had no heart to admire her kingdom-toppling beauty; they all looked at various parts of the city with solemn and nervous expressions.

"Empress, when will the Khan be able to return?"

The Qiyan Tribe Clan Chief asked.

Everyone present was shrewd; what the Empress could think of, they naturally could as well.

However, this grand array covered the entire city. A massive amount of precious resources must have been consumed when it was set up. Now, the pressure emanating from the Formation weighed heavily on everyone's hearts, and they knew they were powerless to break it.

Not long ago, some had tried to fly directly out of the Imperial Court, but before they could ascend very high, they were pressed down by a heavy force. Even the physique of a Heavenly Human could not withstand that pressure.

Empress Xiao Yuanjia's gaze was deep as she released her vast Primordial Spirit power from the palace, hoping to find the figures of the Luan Di Clan remnants.

But her Divine Sense was suppressed by the Formation and could only be limited to a radius of a thousand zhang.

Despite her profound cultivation, she found absolutely nothing.

Sighing inwardly, Xiao Yuanjia withdrew her Divine Sense and said,

"I have already sent a message to the Khan by eagle, but he has gone to the Sun-Chasing River, a hundred thousand li away. I do not know when he will be able to return."

"Damn it!"

The Naiman Tribe Clan Chief cursed under his breath,

"Luantu Kuo, that bastard, intends to wipe us all out to avenge his Luan Di Clan!"

The others were also filled with righteous indignation.

Everyone present had the blood of the Luan Di Clan on their hands; reconciliation was impossible. Their only thought was to find Luantu Kuo and the others to pull them up by the roots.

At this moment, within the underground palace beneath the Imperial Court,

Luantu Kuo stood in the distance, with those five plumes placed in the center of the Formation.

As dense blood Qi was drawn in by the Formation, a thick smell of blood filled the entire underground palace. The five plumes seemed bottomless, devouring a massive amount of blood Qi as they slowly floated in mid-air.

An ancient, desolate, and lofty Aura began to slowly rise from the plumes.

More feathers began to slowly extend from the plumes, followed by eagle claws as sharp as knives, thick and heavy flesh, and a curved, sharp eagle's beak.

Finally, there were those indifferent, proud, and disdainful eagle eyes.

All of this was illusory, but as more and more blood red was injected, a massive eagle body slowly solidified.

A terrifying Aura covered the entire city, and the pressure belonging to a deity shocked everything.

Compared to the previous Wolf God Incarnation, the Sky-Rending Eagle God Incarnation at this moment seemed to be on a completely different level, because this was summoned by sacrificing the millions of people in the entire city.

Even if some had luckily escaped, the accumulated blood Qi was still immense.

Luantu Kuo knelt on the ground piously and nervously.

The terrifying Aura of the Sky-Rending Eagle God made him both respectful and fearful, his heart trembling with fear. It was also his first time seeing such a terrifying existence.

Atop the palace walls, there was no longer any need to use Divine Sense to investigate; everyone looked in the same direction at once.

That terrifying Aura was rising from underground.

The Formation runes that had just been glowing everywhere began to crumble inch by inch due to this Aura. The ground began to collapse over a wide area, countless tall buildings seemed to disintegrate, and the city's avenues split into massive cracks.

Everyone's eyes were filled with shock and fear, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.

Even Xiao Sidao, whose emotions never showed on his face, now had his teeth chattering.

"This... this is the Aura of the God of the Sky!"

"The Sky-Rending Eagle God has descended!!!"

...

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By the Sun-Chasing River.

Yan Chu had just slain the Howling Moon Wolf God with a single blade strike and reshaped the landscape. Before he could even check the spoils of killing his enemy, his gaze was drawn away by an Aura.

A hundred thousand li away, at the location of the Imperial Court,

An Aura that did not belong to this world was slowly rising.

This Aura was simply too massive and too conspicuous. It was very similar to the Wolf God Incarnation that had just died at Yan Chu's hands, but its Aura was much more terrifying.

Even from such a distance, he could sense it.

After he channeled his Primordial Spirit power into his eyes, he could see that above the Imperial Court, the Void Realm was cracking due to the descent of a deity, and one thousand-zhang-long black lightning bolt after another struck down from the sky.

The Origin Qi there had become a hazy Chaos, yet the deity's Aura was as conspicuous as a lamp in the dark night.

"Another deity Incarnation!"

"Playing the trick of luring the tiger away from the mountain with me?"

Yan Chu snorted coldly, merged into the Nine Heavens Profound Wind, and rushed toward the Imperial Court at his fastest speed.

The strength of this deity Incarnation was too great, exceeding the limits allowed by the world. It would not be easy for it to descend and would inevitably face extremely strong rejection forces.

In terms of time, he might still make it!

The Wolf God Incarnation had dropped many good things for him after dying; he wondered what kind of surprise this new deity could give him.

The descent of the Sky-Rending Eagle God shook the entire world.

The Wolf God Incarnation had received too few sacrifices, while the Eagle God had received far too many. This resulted in him obtaining power that surpassed the limits of this world the moment he descended.

...

Inside the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave, the white-browed old monk who sat cross-legged at the feet of the Buddha statue all year round reading scriptures suddenly had his white eyebrows twitch as he was startled awake.

He stood up and walked out of the grotto, which he had not left for decades.

Across the boundless sea of clouds, he looked toward the vast grasslands in the north.

In his golden-glowing Buddhist eyes, above the cracked high heavens, was a giant eagle soaring with its wings spread.

Two wings as large as mountains flapped, passing through lightning and night rain. Its back seemed capable of carrying the blue sky, much like the legendary Golden-Winged Great Peng.

Its curved eagle's beak was like the sharpest treasure blade in the world, capable of pecking open the heavens.

Every flap of its wings covered a thousand li.

A fierce, malevolent Aura rushed toward him, threatening to devour all living beings in the world.

"amitabha! How virtuous, how virtuous!"

The white-browed old monk pressed his palms together, deeply worried.

In the history of the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave, thousands of years ago, the Eagle God had once descended to the world, wanting to devour all living beings. Finally, he came to the Western Regions. The Buddha, who was preaching here at the time, cut his own flesh to feed the eagle, giving the Eagle God a full meal before he abandoned the idea of devouring the people of the Western Regions and flew away.

But the Eagle God's appetite was very large.

After leaving, he did not stop his plan to devour living beings in other places.

Later, the Eagle God flew to Northern Mang. The newly established Northern Mang Empire was teetering on the brink of destruction under his threat.

The founding Khan of Beiman gathered skilled craftsmen from across the country and invited the Great Master of Artifact Refining, Ouyang Luxin, to collect trunks of Extreme Yang Wood and the sinew of the North Sea Ice Flood Dragon to forge a peerless divine weapon.

The sun-shooting divine bow!

The Eagle God possessed the ultimate speed in the world; his wings could split the sky as he flew, his speed already surpassing all Heavenly Humans of the time.

But once the arrows of the sun-shooting divine bow were fired, they would immediately lock onto the target and would never stop until they hit.

In the end, this divine bow was personally drawn by the Khan of Beiman.

Dozens of arrows were fired in succession. Even the extremely powerful Sky-Rending Eagle God could not escape the sun-shooting divine arrows even if he fled to the ends of the earth, and he finally fell under the divine bow.

"An incident has occurred in Northern Mang. Who has summoned the Eagle God again?"

"Do they not remember the catastrophe the Eagle God caused in the past?"

The grasslands worship the Wolf God and the Eagle God.

But they are also the places most harmed by these two deities.

Since over a thousand years ago, Northern Mang has rarely summoned deities to the Lower Realm. Why have they done so again now?

The white-browed old monk shook his head and sighed repeatedly, grieving for the millions of nomadic people on the vast grasslands who were about to lose their lives.

However, he did not set out.

With his speed, he probably could not catch up with that Eagle God.

And if he couldn't catch up, everything else was naturally out of the question.

Unless he had the sun-shooting divine bow, but besides the first Khan of Northern Mang, how many people could now fire dozens of arrows again?

There was a replica of the sun-shooting divine bow in the Nalanda Temple.

But that was just an ordinary divine weapon and posed no threat to an existence like the Eagle God.

Besides this, the army of Xue Bai supported by the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave had suffered a major defeat in Zhongzhou. Xue Bai himself was seriously injured and dying, his Luck devoured by Emperor Li Heming using unknown means, and his cultivation had fallen from the Heavenly Human realm. He was currently staying in the Hanging Temple to recover.

At such a time, the old monk could not care about the life or death of Northern Mang; he needed to constantly monitor the movements of the Daoist Sect.

"Forget it! The world has its own rules of operation. Since the Eagle God has descended, he certainly cannot stay in this world for long. Sooner or later, someone else will come to deal with him!"

Shaking his head, the white-browed old monk turned and walked back into the grotto, sitting peacefully at the feet of the Great Buddha, the scripture in his mouth changing to the Rebirth Sutra...

...

On Dragon Tiger Mountain, clouds and mists rose in splendor, where the dragon and tiger converged.

In the simple thatched hut behind the mountain, the green-robed old Daoist living in seclusion suddenly turned to look north, struck by a sudden premonition.

"Infinite Heavenly Worthy!"

He gave a bow, his white eyebrows twitching slightly,

"What a thick, malevolent Aura. This Eagle God is much more ferocious than that Wolf God!"

In the nearby vegetable garden, there were two Daoist acolytes watering and fertilizing the plants.

Hearing his words, they turned around. The one with a sturdy and simple look asked,

"Ancestral Master, are you going north to slay the demon?"

The tall, thin acolyte holding a gourd to water the plants said disdainfully,

"What nonsense are you talking?"

"Ancestral Master can only stay here to avoid provoking the wrath of the heavens. If he leaves Dragon Tiger Mountain, the Heavens might not allow it!"

The sturdy acolyte said indignantly,

"Then we can't just watch that fat eagle eat people everywhere, can we?"

"These so-called Upper Realm deities, every one of them comes down just to eat people. They are subservient in the Upper Realm but strike with full force in the Lower Realm. They should be given a harsh lesson!"

"Alright, alright!"

The old Daoist waved his hand and said,

"You two stop arguing!"

"There is a young man in Northern Mang. The descent of the Eagle God is related to him, and he should take steps to resolve it. If he cannot handle it, it won't be too late for this old Daoist to act!"

...

Beneath the Northern Mang Imperial Court.

As the figure of the Sky-Rending Eagle God gradually solidified, its terrifying Aura turned into substance and radiated outward, causing the surrounding earth to crack and the Formation to be torn apart.

Only the Imperial Palace still stood tall in the center of the Imperial Court.

The Imperial Palace was protected by an independent Formation, preventing it from collapsing under this terrifying Aura.

In the vast city, no terrified screams could be heard at this moment.

Because everyone had already paid the price for the descent of the Eagle God.