Chapter 438 Taking the Initiative: Siege of the Demon Bone Tribe's Main City

Inside the Chaos Stone Cave, Nightmare poured out everything from Bone Crack's Storage Pouch.

*Clatter—*

A pile of beads shimmering with a greyish-white luster rolled onto the ground. Each bead contained pure chaos origin within it, with faint bone patterns flowing on the surface.

"Demon Bone Beads, essences nurtured by Chaos Supreme Realm Cultivators using their own Origin. They can be absorbed directly." Nightmare casually picked one up and crushed it.

"Buzz—"

Pure chaos origin flooded into his body, quickly refined and absorbed by the Dao Reversal Demonic Star Flame. He could feel his adaptation to the Chaos environment improve by another notch.

"Zuo Feng, Right Wing, Dark Blade." He called out their names.

The three of them stepped forward.

"Take ten each and refine them on the spot. The rest of you, take three each."

"Yes!"

The three sat down cross-legged without hesitation and began absorbing the Demon Bone Beads. The other elites also took their share, and the humming of Cultivation Techniques soon echoed through the grotto.

Three hours later.

Zuo Feng was the first to open his eyes. His aura had significantly solidified—though he hadn't achieved a Breakthrough, he was now firmly at the Peak of the Cosmic Supreme Realm's Late Stage.

Subsequently, Right Wing and Dark Blade also completed their absorption.

Nightmare scanned the area. Among the eighty elites, twelve had achieved a Breakthrough in their aura, and the others had all made progress.

"Is it enough?" he asked.

Everyone's gaze sharpened as they shouted in unison, "Enough!"

"Then let's move out."

Nightmare stood up and walked toward the cave entrance.

"Target: Bone Prison City."

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Deep within the Grey Mist Wasteland, five hundred miles away.

A towering greyish-white city stood upon the wasteland. Its walls were a hundred zhang high, built entirely from countless giant beast bones. Dark green viscous liquid flowed through the gaps between the bones, emitting a pungent, corrosive stench.

Bone Prison City.

On the city wall, Bone Evil's younger brother, "Gu Ya," stood with his hands behind his back, clad in dark green bone armor. His face was sinister, his eye sockets sunken, and a snake-like glint flickered deep within his pupils.

"No news from the leader yet?" he asked coldly.

An Elder behind him whispered, "Commander Bone Crack's Soul Lamp... has gone out."

Gu Ya's pupils constricted.

A Soul Lamp extinguished meant death.

"Useless," he cursed under his breath, but a hint of solemnity flashed in his eyes.

Bone Crack was one of the top five generals in the tribe, with a Chaos Supreme Middle Stage cultivation. He had taken two hundred and fifty elites... and yet they were all wiped out?

"Those outsiders are not simple." Gu Ya turned to look into the city. "Pass the order: activate the 'Bone Wall Defense Array.' All defenders to the walls, archers in position, and charge the Bone Cannons."

"Yes!"

The orders were quickly relayed.

The entire Bone Prison City came to life. Three hundred Chaos Celestial Venerable Realm and eighty Chaos Supreme Realm Cultivators quickly mounted the walls. Dense bone patterns appeared on the surface of the bone walls, and the dark green liquid began to boil, forming a thick defensive light barrier.

On the city walls, thirty bone artillery batteries slowly raised their muzzles, with green light condensing within them.

Gu Ya narrowed his eyes, looking toward the wasteland.

"Come, you rats."

"Let this seat see how many lives you have to lose."

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Half an hour later.

At the end of the horizon, a patch of moving black appeared.

Nightmare led eighty elites, like a black blade cutting through the grey mist, heading straight for Bone Prison City.

On the city walls, the defenders were in an uproar.

"They... they're just charging straight at us?"

"They're not even forming a formation? They must be crazy!"

Gu Ya sneered, "Seeking death."

He raised his hand and ordered:

"Fire the Bone Cannons! Send them on their way!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom—!!"

Thirty thick green light pillars erupted from the city walls, carrying terrifying corrosive energy as they lunged straight at Nightmare's group!

Nightmare didn't even slow down.

He simply raised his right hand and spread his fingers.

"Disperse."

Pitch-black Demonic Flame gushed from his palm, transforming into a massive shield of fire that blocked the front of the group.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!!"

The green light pillars slammed into the fire shield, erupting in a piercing corrosive sound! But to everyone's horror, the green corrosive energy not only failed to erode the shield but was instead rapidly devoured and assimilated by the Demonic Flame!

Behind the shield, Nightmare's gaze was calm.

He had long since analyzed the energy properties of the Demon Bone Tribe—bone poison, corrosion, and death were essentially distorted forms of chaos origin.

And the Nidao Demonic Flame was best at "Unification."

"Break the array."

He spat out those two words, and his figure suddenly accelerated, turning into a black line that charged straight at the city wall!

Gu Ya's pupils shrank. "Stop him!"

On the city walls, dozens of Chaos Supreme Realm Cultivators attacked simultaneously. Bone spears, bone arrows, and bone techniques poured down like a torrential rain!

Nightmare didn't dodge or evade. The Demonic Flame around him erupted violently, forming a swirling firestorm!

The moment any attack touched the storm, it was shredded and devoured!

Three breaths.

In just three breaths, he broke through all interceptions and reached the city wall!

"Bone Wall Defense Array—Activate!" Gu Ya roared.

On the surface of the wall, the dark green light barrier surged, its thickness tripling!

Nightmare stopped before the light barrier and pressed his right hand against it.

"Sizzle..."

White smoke rose from where his palm met the barrier.

"Decent corrosiveness," he remarked, and then the Demonic Flame flickered in his palm.

"But it's not enough."

"Dao Reversal Unification: Origin Breaker."

The pitch-black Demonic Flame spread along his hand like a living thing, quickly covering a corner of the barrier! That defensive light barrier, which could withstand a full-strength strike from a Chaos Supreme Late Stage, actually melted away like snow under the erosion of the Demonic Flame!

"Impossible!" Gu Ya cried out in horror.

Nightmare stepped through the gap in the light barrier.

He stood on the wall, looking at Gu Ya a hundred meters away.

Between them stood hundreds of defenders.

Yet not a single one of those defenders dared to move.

"You are Gu Ya?" Nightmare spoke.

Gu Ya gritted his teeth as dark green bone armor manifested on his body, and he condensed a bone poison short blade in each hand.

"You outsider scum, daring to invade my Bone Prison City! Today, I will definitely make you—"

Before he could finish his sentence.

Nightmare was already in front of him.

"Too much nonsense."

A fist wrapped in Dao Reversal Demonic Star Flame smashed straight toward his face!

Gu Ya's pupils constricted as he crossed his blades to block!

"Clang—!!"

As the fist and blades collided, Gu Ya felt an irresistible force surge toward him. His arms were in agonizing pain, and he was sent flying, crashing heavily into a bone tower behind him!

*Cough!* He spat out a mouthful of green blood, his eyes filled with horror.

The opponent's strength... was a complete overwhelming crush!

Nightmare gave him no chance to catch his breath. Taking a step forward, he reached him again and threw a second punch!

Gu Ya roared, burning his Origin as his twin blades transformed into a sky full of poisonous shadows, attempting to force Nightmare back!

"Thousand Bone Poison Strikes!"

Nightmare didn't even look at those poisonous shadows. With a simple punch, he shattered all the illusions, and the fist's momentum continued unabated, striking Gu Ya square in the chest!

"Crack—!"

The dark green bone armor shattered!

The fist pierced through the bone armor and sank into the chest cavity!

Gu Ya's body froze as he looked down at the pitch-black arm in his chest.

"You..."

Nightmare withdrew his hand, now holding a still-beating dark green heart in his palm.

Gu Ya opened his mouth, but the light in his eyes quickly faded, and his body slumped to the ground.

A deathly silence fell over the city wall.

All the defenders stood frozen like wooden chickens.

Their deputy leader... killed in three moves?

Nightmare crushed the heart, shook the green blood from his hand, and looked at the defenders on the wall.

"Surrender, or die."

His voice was calm, yet it felt like a cold winter blade.

After a brief, dead silence.

"Run—!!"

Someone shouted, and the entire wall defense instantly collapsed! The defenders scattered and fled, their Battle Intent gone!

Nightmare didn't give chase. He simply turned and looked into the city.

With Gu Ya dead, there was no one to maintain the core of the Bone Wall Defense Array, and its light quickly faded and dissipated.

Outside the city, the eighty elites had reached the base of the wall.

Nightmare raised his hand and pointed into the city:

"Enter the city."

"Wipe out all resistance."

"—Leave no one alive."