Above the void of Jiuyou Mountain in the Jiuyou Wilderness, the southeastern corner of the Savage Realm, the colossal skull formation, alternating between black and red, emanated wisps of black gas. The moment the gas dispersed, the face of Venerable Wuyang, with its countless veins exposed, pulsed rhythmically with his heartbeat. A thick,腥味 emanated from the skull formation, gradually spreading through the void and enveloping the ten-mile radius around Jiuyou Mountain.
The bone tower, previously standing between his brows, had vanished. Wuyang’s face grew increasingly pale as the veins on his face throbbed, and beads of sweat soaked his back.
“Hoo... hoo...”
Wuyang, his eyes tightly shut, suddenly opened them. His vital energy was depleted, and he gasped for air. He looked at the demon-qi-covered skull teleportation array beneath him, his brow furrowed.
“To construct a stable teleportation array capable of summoning experts of the Venerable realm, relying solely on the vital energy of the Divine Nurturing realm is far too taxing!”
“If this physical body were not somewhat decent, the mere refinement of demonic qi alone would be unsustainable!”
“Now, construction can begin!”
Wuyang stood up and gazed down at the vast Jiuyou Mountain. Currently, Jiuyou Mountain was devoid of any martial aura, not even a single corpse was visible; it was utterly empty.
He took a step and arrived at the summit of Jiuyou Mountain, where he sat cross-legged. Before him lay a massive circular disk, gleaming with black light.
He extended his right index and middle fingers, and a drop of blood began to fall. Drop by drop, for an unknowable duration, one of the grooves on the disk was finally filled with blood, emitting a scarlet glow.
The moment a groove on the disk was filled with blood, a massive streak of red light suddenly appeared ten miles away from Jiuyou Mountain, spanning north and south for dozens of miles.
“Rumble!!”
The earth roared, and a colossal chasm appeared at the base of the red light. Within just an hour, Jiuyou Mountain was crisscrossed with dense, massive chasms, resembling a giant spiderweb.
The disk was now completely filled with scarlet blood. Wuyang himself was like a skeleton, devoid of flesh and blood, with only skin stretched over bone. His raven-black hair had turned as white as frost.
He remained motionless, as if dead.
“Hum~~”
An hour later, Jiuyou Mountain, riddled with chasms, began to exude dense demonic qi, which surged out like rivers.
The demonic qi filled all the chasms of Jiuyou Mountain. Within the black demonic qi-filled grooves, countless red skulls struggled and roared.
A thick stench of decaying flesh and blood began to pervade Jiuyou Mountain. A red gas, of unknown origin, interspersed with crackling electrical sparks, and occasionally mingling with dense black demonic qi, started to rise.
Slowly, it began to ascend, gradually engulfing the colossal skull teleportation array in the void.
A terrifying, ferocious aura erupted between the red and black gases, its oppressive power far surpassing that of Ji Hongwen.
“Rumble~~”
Jiuyou Mountain churned with dust and smoke. The entire mountain cracked open with immense fissures, filled with black demonic qi. The oppressive aura pressed downwards, causing even the mountain, which had stood in the Savage Realm for millions of years, to show signs of collapse.
“Whoosh~~~”
Streams of deep red liquid erupted from the ground, instantly filling the massive body of Jiuyou Mountain. It was like a volcanic eruption, the scalding red liquid, exuding wisps of black demonic qi, shot outwards, filling the chasms for ten miles around Jiuyou Mountain.
“Almost there!”
Wuyang shivered uncontrollably, his skin and bones exposed.
After meticulous planning, despite unforeseen circumstances, the stable teleportation array was nearing completion. To achieve this, he had nearly depleted the blood essence of his newly acquired physical body, finally filling the pure demonic qi required for the teleportation array.
Watching the black demonic qi permeate and the rolling red liquid flow like rivers across the land, Wuyang smiled slightly and then closed his eyes wearily.
The general structure of the teleportation array was complete, but its formation and activation would require the sedimentation of demonic qi and the consolidation of vital energy.
“Wu!”
“Yang!”
Suddenly, a thunderous roar echoed through the heavens and earth. The dense red and black gases in the void vanished instantly, revealing the faintly dissipating colossal skull teleportation array.
“Ji!”
“Hong!”
“Wen!”
Wuyang, his skin and bones exposed, his eyes snapped open. Upon seeing Ji Hongwen’s face, panic seized him. His cultivation had fallen, and his blood essence was utterly depleted. How could he possibly contend with Ji Hongwen, an expert of the Venerable realm?
“Ji Hongwen, didn’t you return to the Myriad Beasts Realm?”
“You… how could you…”
“You’re wondering how I discovered you were still alive, aren’t you?”
Ji Hongwen looked coldly at the skeletal Wuyang, his killing intent engulfing Wuyang completely. Instantly, the demonic qi throughout Jiuyou Mountain and the surrounding ten-mile area froze, as if encased in ice.
Wuyang was instantly shocked. Previously, there had been no significant difference; even at his peak, he hadn’t taken Ji Hongwen seriously. But now, things were vastly different. The Venerable realm was the heaven of the Cangyuan World; all beneath the Venerable were mere ants!
At this moment, even his heart seemed to have stopped beating. The Ji Hongwen before him was like a ferocious beast from afar, staring at him as if he were plunged into ten thousand feet of ice.
Ji Hongwen scanned Wuyang and then shifted his gaze to the colossal skull teleportation array in the void. His voice was icy, “Wuyang, you’ve become increasingly audacious. If you don’t die, the Eastern Wilderness will have no peace!”
“Boom!”
With a punch, orange light completely repelled the demonic qi. The demonic qi and bloody liquid in the ten-mile radius around Jiuyou Mountain evaporated. The myriad red skulls in the chasms let out piercing screams and turned to ashes.
The entire Jiuyou Mountain was ravaged, appearing as if it had been scoured by a colossal flood, revealing chasms of varying depths.
“Crack crack crack~~”
The skull teleportation array began to collapse, its central, yet unsolidified, black passage suddenly crumbling.
A pair of colossal black eyes, piercing through the void for tens of thousands of miles, fixed directly upon Ji Hongwen.
“Ji Hongwen?”
A massive hand tightly grasped the disintegrating teleportation array, crackling with electrical discharges.
“Not good!”
“Perish!”