Chapter 633: Five Pointed Star Annihilation Ray
Facing the one-armed blood-soaked figure before her, Hong Zhu felt anything but joy.
She and Tu Ji had fought on the same battlefield, witnessing everything clearly.
Tu Ji could have escaped alone, yet to protect her as a lead, he had sacrificed himself to such an extreme degree!
“No wonder they say the Blood Light Punishment Institution is full of madmen!” Hong Zhu felt this truth acutely at that moment.
What troubled her more was that her relationship with the necromancer had been shallow and simple. If Tu Ji discovered the truth, would he fly into a rage, driven by fury and hatred, and kill Hong Zhu to vent his anger?
Hong Zhu was clearly surrounded by enemies, her life hanging by a thread.
Yet her fear of Tu Ji was even greater.
At this moment, she desperately wanted to shout: “Lord from the Blood Light Punishment Institution, I am innocent! Do not place excessive expectations upon me!”
Compared to Hong Zhu's complex emotions, Da Dou's response was far simpler.
Tu Ji bellowed, “Follow me!”
Da Dou immediately replied, “Understood.”
His answer was crisp and decisive.
He swept his arm, scattering seeds.
Then he used his battle skill again, causing the seeds to grow rapidly.
In an instant, countless green vines swelled like giant serpents, spreading swiftly and engulfing a corner of the battlefield.
The earth elementals that had been closing in were all repelled by these vines.
With this advantage, Da Dou calmly followed Tu Ji's footsteps, carrying both Hong Zhu and the big guy.
Tu Ji's eyes lit up upon witnessing Da Dou's technique.
Da Dou was capable of such feats too.
He couldn't overuse this move; it drained his battle qi too heavily.
But its combat effectiveness was undeniably formidable.
Da Dou employed it both to repel the earth elementals and to demonstrate to the frenzied, ferocious Tu Ji that he wasn't someone to be trifled with!
The two thus joined forces, cooperating to break through the encirclement.
Even the re-gathering gold level earth elementals struggled to withstand them.
Several factors contributed to this:
First, Da Dou and Tu Ji worked in perfect harmony, fully committed to each other. The earth elementals, however, were preoccupied with vying for the first kill, their minds scattered and their actions constrained by mutual rivalry.
Second, their partnership freed up both Da Dou and Tu Ji to unleash their full combat potential.
Previously, they had to juggle defense and rescue, leaving little energy for offense. Da Dou especially focused on escape, only occasionally counterattacking.
Now, with a simple division of offense and defense, they could truly harness their offensive capabilities.
One was a giant from Eruption Island, possessing exceptional physical prowess. The other is a member of the Blood Light Punishment Institution, mastering formidable divine spells and battle skills. Both surpass ordinary gold level combatants in strength.
Moreover, the most troublesome earth elemental has been temporarily neutralized by Tu Ji's battle skill.
Without that pesky petrification weapon, Da Dou and Tu Ji faced fewer constraints, moving with greater freedom.
Their coordinated slaughter carved a bloody path through the enemy lines.
They were on the verge of breaking through the earth elemental army and reaching the edge of the divine script formation.
At that moment, divine light surged skyward once more, vast and majestic, enveloping the entire battlefield.
The next instant, the earth convulsed. Towering walls rose from the ground, forming a thirty-meter-high barrier within seconds.
The surface of the walls rippled with intense divine light.
“A saint level earth-element divine spell!” Da Dou's pupils contracted sharply.
Hong Zhu's face was etched with despair.
They were just one step away from truly escaping.
Yet, in the end, they were still trapped within the walls.
Tu Ji refused to accept defeat, his eyes blazing with fury. He roared, unleashing a crimson battle skill that slammed heavily against the towering wall before him.
The divine light rippled across the wall's surface, leaving it unscathed.
The wall stood like a mountain, sealing off the battlefield, immovable.
Da Dou attempted to charge upward by running along the wall's surface. Yet the higher he ran, the greater the gravitational pull became.
Before he could ascend ten meters, the force became overwhelming, dragging him back down.
The fishman youngster observing this grasped the crucial insight.
“It's a divine script formation deployed by the earth elemental army before the battle began!”
“The Main Earth Elemental God has channeled divine magic through this formation, achieving power on par with the saint level.”
The divine script formation itself was of gold level, but when the Main Earth Elemental God channeled divine magic through it, its power effortlessly transcended its limit, reaching the saint level.
“Deities stand at the pinnacle of transcendence, yet divine support carries inherent limitations.”
“Take Divine Descent, for instance, its primary constraint lies in the vessel. The superior the vessel, the more fully the god's power manifests.”
“When I use the big guy for channeling, I can only achieve gold level combat strength at best. The primary limitation is that the big guy isn't a fishman, making him incompatible with fishman god authority. The fact that the big guy believes in me instead of the Charming Blue Goddess is also a major flaw."
“The Main Earth Elemental God hasn't actually descended upon any earth elemental believer. Instead, He used the divine script formation as a bridge to cast divine magic.”
"As a vessel, the quality of the divine script formation surpasses even a gold level earth elemental entity. Thus, the Main Earth Elemental God can unleash saint level power.
“In this rescue mission, my true adversary isn't Tu Ji, it's the Earth Elemental God.”
The thought weighed on the fishman youngster's chest like a boulder, constricting his breath.
This was the Main Earth Elemental God! Such a supreme being naturally imposed immense psychological pressure.
An instinctive warning gripped the fishman youngster—any attempt to use the Deceptive Disguise spell and Anti-investigation and Prophecy spell before the Main Earth Elemental God would fail spectacularly!
He understood clearly: intervening now would unleash immense trouble later. More likely, even giving his all might not save the big guy!
“No. I must save Xiao Guai.”
"But how exactly can I save him?!" The fishman youngster strained every fiber of his being to think.
Meanwhile, at the White Hair Trench.
After a violent explosion, Da Han and Zhou Zhang both recoiled violently, creating distance between them.
Their clash had been intense from the very start.
Da Han showed no urgency, but Zhou Zhang needed to defeat him first to rush back and confront Qian Xing.
Thus, she fought with full force from the start.
Da Han responded calmly. As a sorcerer, he could only cast innate racial spells. Yet these spells were amplified by his bloodline, making them fierce, swift, and extremely low-cost to cast.
Zhou Zhang countered with a divine spell, a reckless move that left both lightly wounded.
Divine spell - Time Rewind.
Da Han cast the spell on himself, restoring his body to its previous state and erasing the minor injuries entirely.
Divine spell - Self-Deception!
Zhou Zhang also used a divine spell, deceiving herself into believing she was unharmed. The deception reached its peak, and her injuries vanished in an instant.
"It seems I won't be able to take down Da Han anytime soon. This will be a protracted battle!" Realizing this, Zhou Zhang's sense of urgency grew even more intense.
Da Han, however, wore a smile, his demeanor composed. He deliberately flew back, intentionally creating distance.
With two of them, the tactic of splitting forces was clearly advantageous now.
Da Han only needed to hold Zhou Zhang off while allowing Qian Xing to break through elsewhere.
Zhou Zhang had no choice but to follow, charging forward once more to attack Da Han.
Another battle group.
Qian Xing stood proudly, surveying the battlefield. “Can you continue?”
Nearby, several gold level fishmen lay fallen. Their life force was gone, each mortally wounded, their transcendent aura slowly fading.
Unlike Da Han, Qian Xing held clear dominance against the swarm of gold level interceptors, moving with effortless ease.
He toyed with them like a cat with mice, while the gold level believers of Charming Blue wore expressions of tension, panic, and deep, unresolved fury.
“What's there to fear? It's just death!”
“Hold him back! Even if we die, it matters not.” Even if we only delay him for a second, making such a contribution to our Lord is worth it!"
Zhang Yu Wan and Jiu Hua Bi shouted in unison, rallying their comrades.
Their bodies were covered in wounds, limbs mangled and broken, weapons shattered. Though gravely injured, their morale remained unshaken, as if locked at its peak.
Qian Xing sneered coldly: “Impressive fighting spirit.”
“But to think you could delay me? You underestimate me terribly.”
“Did you believe my earlier attacks were merely for fun?”
With that, Qian Xing's form flickered, splitting into over a dozen illusory figures, each indistinguishable from the real one.
The gold level Charming Blue believers scrambled to intercept.
Qian Xing's true form soared dozens of meters upward, rapidly gathering power.
By the time Zhang Yu Wan and the others realized, it was already too late!
Battle skill - Five Pointed Star Annihilation Ray!
Qian Xing extended his right arm, fingers splayed wide. The blue light at his fingertips was blindingly intense.
Saint level battle qi condensed and compressed in his palm, forming a sphere.
The sphere spun rapidly, humming with energy.
In the next instant, the battle qi sphere erupted violently, firing a beam of light.
The outer edge of the beam was defined by the light emanating from the tips of his five fingers, forming five sharp points.
When first fired, the beam was only as thick as his palm.
But as it shot outward, its diameter grew larger. It expanded from his palm to the circumference of his forearm, then to his thigh, growing as thick as a basin, then as massive as a millstone.
Finally, upon striking the gathering place of the Charming Blue Church, its diameter reached two meters.
“No, impossible!”
The gathering place was already cloaked in deception magic. How could Qian Xing possibly perceive it from such a great distance?"
Zhang Yu Wan and Jiu Hua Bi paled in shock.
Seeing their expressions, Qian Xing understood their thoughts.
As the beam in his hand faded and dissipated, he calmly withdrew his hand, looking down at the numerous Gold level cultivators and declared arrogantly, “Battle requires the use of your brain.”
“You underestimate me. I'm no brute.”
Zhang Yu Wan and Jiu Hua Bi instantly understood. The former exclaimed in shock and anger, "I see! You appeared to be toying with us, but you were actually applying external pressure."
“You created the illusion of multiple breakout attempts to test our level of tension.”
After repeated tests, you grasped the direction we were most tense about. That was precisely the route you intended to attack!"
Wisdom was a remarkable power.
Qian Xing's reconnaissance capabilities were insufficient for long-range detection, but through strategic tactics, he exploited the enemy's vulnerabilities and deduced the correct direction of attack!
The Five Pointed Star Annihilation Ray unleashed unparalleled, razor-sharp power. It plowed a straight furrow across the ground, cleaving magic and divine script formations in two.
Then, rising upward, it severed a third of the golden altar.
Finally, it slammed into the Ocean Mother Nest.
The Ocean Mother Nest was shattered clean through!