Chapter 630 - 629: The Blood-Colored Birdcage! Chu Sheng, Flee
Chapter 630: Chapter 629: The Blood-Colored Birdcage! Chu Sheng, Flee
Chu Sheng did find the situation a bit tricky.
But it wasn’t panicking.
Even if it encountered a danger it couldn’t handle, wasn’t the system there to back it up?
It stood outside the range of the Celestial Tribulation, watching quietly.
Soon, the first bolt of the Celestial Tribulation finally took form.
It was a pillar of pure black lightning, radiating a terrifying aura of absolute destruction.
"BOOM!!!"
The Celestial Tribulation crashed down.
However, what left Chu Sheng stunned was that this terrifying pillar of lightning, powerful enough to instantly kill a cultivator at the Peak of Emperor Realm, didn’t strike Xuanyuan Changfeng.
Instead, it landed on the corpse of a Xuanyuan Family member, whose flesh and blood had already been drained by Xuanyuan Changfeng.
"CRACKLE!"
The corpse instantly turned to ash.
What the...?!?
Chu Sheng was completely baffled.
It hurriedly asked Immortal Venerable Shi Xi, "Immortal Venerable, what’s going on? Why is the Celestial Tribulation striking the dead instead of the living?"
Immortal Venerable Shi Xi slowly explained, "Let me give you a simple analogy."
"Say you and Xuanyuan Changfeng go to a rice shop. Xuanyuan Changfeng steals a bag of rice but frames you for it."
"Since the authorities can’t find the stolen goods on him, they have to arrest you based on the available evidence."
"This was Xuanyuan Changfeng’s original plan when he captured you."
"He wanted you to take the blame for the Forbidden God Law, while he himself enjoyed the stolen rice in peace."
"But because you were prepared and cleared your name, the authorities had to continue their investigation."
"At that point, he had no choice but to find others willing to take the fall."
"And his family became the best, the only, and the most reliable scapegoats."
"Therefore, the Forbidden God Law makes every member of the Xuanyuan Family a target for the Celestial Tribulation."
"Including Xuanyuan Changfeng himself, of course."
"However, there are only nine bolts of tribulation, yet Xuanyuan Changfeng sacrificed over a thousand of his family members."
"So, the probability of the Celestial Tribulation striking Xuanyuan Changfeng is very, very small."
Understanding dawned on Chu Sheng. ’That old bastard really knows how to play the system!’
Standing outside the range of the Celestial Tribulation, it had no way to get in and kill Xuanyuan Changfeng.
Besides, Xuanyuan Changfeng was now a Pseudo-Divine Realm cultivator.
Even if it did get in, it couldn’t kill him anyway.
「At the same time.」
The second bolt of the Celestial Tribulation came crashing down.
This time, the tribulation targeted Xuanyuan Changfeng.
Xuanyuan Changfeng’s expression changed. He pushed his power to its absolute limit, barely managing to block the tribulation bolt.
After blocking the bolt, he actually breathed a sigh of relief.
There were only nine bolts of tribulation in total.
And he had absorbed more than a thousand family members.
’On average, the probability of any single person being struck is less than one percent.’
’For it to strike me once is already highly improbable.’
Just as he expected.
The remaining seven bolts of the Celestial Tribulation all landed on the corpses of the other deceased Xuanyuan Family members.
All nine bolts of the Celestial Tribulation were over.
The dark clouds in the sky slowly dispersed.
Xuanyuan Changfeng had weathered the storm!
He had succeeded!
"Incredible! The Xuanyuan Ancestor actually withstood the Celestial Tribulation!"
"The Xuanyuan Ancestor has truly become a god!"
"This is wonderful! Our Great Xia has a god now!"
The people of Kyoto erupted in thunderous cheers once again.
However, their cheers didn’t last long.
A bizarre power suddenly began to spread from the outskirts of Kyoto.
From the four cardinal directions—east, south, west, and north—thick pillars of blood-red light suddenly shot up around the city.
The four crimson pillars soared into the sky, merging mid-air to form an enormous, blood-red dome of light.
This dome was like a gigantic, inverted birdcage.
It completely enveloped the whole of Kyoto.
"What is that thing? It looks so scary!"
"Did the Xuanyuan Ancestor summon it? What is he trying to do?"
"Hey! Look, everyone! The dome seems to be shrinking!"
"It really is shrinking! A friend of mine lives in the east, close to the dome, and he says it’s contracting toward the city center at an incredible speed!"
Just then, at the edge of the blood-red dome,
a young man curiously reached out, wanting to touch the strange crimson barrier.
"AHHH!!!"
A bloodcurdling scream rang out.
The moment his hand touched the dome, his entire body was instantly devoured by it, not even leaving a speck of bone behind.
The same thing was happening simultaneously in the other three cardinal directions of Kyoto.
Many people who couldn’t escape in time were mercilessly devoured by the ever-shrinking blood-red dome.
News that the blood dome was devouring people spread quickly throughout Kyoto.
Only then did the populace finally realize something was wrong.
The Xuanyuan Ancestor had indeed become a god.
But it seemed... he wasn’t here to protect them?
He was going to sacrifice the entire population of Kyoto as an offering!
In an instant, the entire city of Kyoto descended into utter chaos.
Cries, screams, and the blare of car horns intertwined.
Countless people scrambled frantically toward the city center, trying to escape the shrinking blood-red dome.
「At the entrance of the Military Department headquarters.」
Lin Yuehua and Feng Wuji stared in shock at the blood-red dome covering Kyoto.
Only now did they fully understand Xuanyuan Changfeng’s true plan.
Although Xuanyuan Changfeng had sacrificed his entire family and exploited a loophole to block the Celestial Tribulation, it was merely that—exploiting a loophole in the Forbidden God Law.
His Pseudo-Divine Realm was fundamentally unstable and could collapse at any moment.
That was why he had laid this massive blood sacrifice Grand Array, intending to offer up the tens of millions of people in Kyoto.
He would use the flesh, blood, and souls of tens of millions to stabilize his Divine Realm.
Or rather, to legitimize himself.
To make the Heavenly Dao acknowledge the existence of this pseudo-god.
Only then could he be considered to have truly secured his footing in the Divine Realm.
And those four blood-red pillars that had just risen were obviously set up in advance by Xuanyuan Changfeng, who had arranged for his family members to do it.
Because the properties in those four locations all belonged to the Xuanyuan Family!
’So cunning and calculating!’
Lin Yuehua and Feng Wuji didn’t dare to hesitate for even a moment.
The two of them simultaneously transformed into streaks of light, rushing toward the nearest section of the blood-red dome.
They unleashed the full might of their Emperor Domain Power, slamming it viciously into the crimson barrier.
"BANG!"
A deafening sound erupted.
The blood-red dome merely trembled slightly, without a single crack appearing.
The attack from two Emperor Realm experts only managed to slow the dome’s contraction for a brief moment!
"It’s this tough?!?!" Feng Wuji shouted in shock.
Lin Yuehua frowned and said in a low, serious voice, "Don’t stop attacking!"
"Even if we can only slow its contraction by a little, we have to keep attacking!"
She paused, then issued an order to a Military Department general following behind her.
"Immediately summon all experts at King-level and above in Kyoto! Send them to the edges of the blood-red dome in all four directions to attack with their full strength."
"Slow the dome’s contraction at all costs!"
"Order all Cultivators below King-level to immediately coordinate with the Military Department in organizing an orderly evacuation of the populace toward the center of Kyoto!"
"Save as many as we can..."
After giving out the orders, Lin Yuehua sighed.
"All we can do now is buy time."
"We can only hope the Old Director gets here soon."
"Right now, he’s the only one who might be able to stop this tragedy."
In all of Great Xia, if there was anyone who could stop Xuanyuan Changfeng, now a pseudo-god,
it could only be the Old Director, Lu Lingchen.
Therefore, the two of them pinned all their hopes on him.
As for Chu Sheng...
they prayed silently in their hearts: ’National Guardian Divine Mosquito, just stay safe.’
In their view, Chu Sheng’s best option now was to turn tail and run, getting as far away from Xuanyuan Changfeng as possible.
After all, it was only a mosquito at the Royal Realm.
Against an Emperor Realm expert, it might have many strange abilities and be able to work miracles.
But against the Divine Realm...
just surviving would be considered the Ninth Wonder of Blue Star!