The Great Genetic Era

On the Immortal Slaying Platform, Xu Tui watched the scene before him in utter shock. The Earthly Venerable’s trump card had gone completely beyond his expectations.

Not only in method, but in killing power as well.

At this moment, Chuling and Yuan were surrounded by the tide of evil ghosts rushing out from the Gate of Hell. With every instant, both of their strengths were being weakened at terrifying speed.

Meanwhile, the other alien giant, Hei Yang, was also pinned down by the Earthly Venerable with the Netherworld’s remaining elites.

Neither the King of Hell nor those two thousand Netherworld ghost kings and ghost marshals could withstand a single attack from Hei Yang. But slaughtering two thousand of them still took a little time.

Moreover, Yin Tianzi had personally charged into the spatial seal that trapped Hei Yang. Every blow could deal Hei Yang a bit of damage.

Hei Yang’s strength was being slowly worn down as well.

Worse still, Yin Tianzi was also a Small Universe Realm expert. Though a relatively weak one, he could still pin Hei Yang down with considerable force.

What would originally have taken only a minute to massacre would, with Yin Tianzi’s addition, take longer. And on the Netherworld elites’ side, every one of them fought like madmen, asking not to kill the enemy but only to die in battle. The reason was simple: as long as the Netherworld’s Houtu Will remained, the Netherworld ghost army was undying.

On the battlefield of the three supremes, the Netherworld ghost army that had been at a constant disadvantage suddenly shifted formation, and the fighting regained order.

It was no longer the one-sided, suicidal situation of before.

With that, at the army level of the Three Clans Expeditionary Force, the situation flipped slightly, and the expeditionary force’s casualties began to rise a little. Xu Tui glanced at the two hundred thousand troops surrounding the Immortal Slaying Platform and could not help but feel a chill.

No matter how the battle went, those two hundred thousand troops had not moved a single soldier. So what kind of big move had the Earthly Venerable prepared for him? As for the trump card the Earthly Venerable had prepared for Chuling, Yuan, and Hei Yang, Xu Tui had basically figured it out.

Weakening.

Rapidly weakening those three’s strength.

At the same time, Xu Tui also saw the problem.

Hei Yang.

The weakest point in the Earthly Venerable’s trump card was Hei Yang.

So the moment Hei Yang broke free would be the critical instant of this battle.

When Hei Yang broke free, either the three alien supremes would retreat then and there, or the true decisive battle would begin. The key was when Hei Yang could get free.

As things stood, Chuling and Yuan’s strength had already been worn down to less than forty percent. If Hei Yang took more than three minutes to break free, this battle of the Three Clans’ expedition into the Samsara Small Universe would end then and there.

It would end in the three clans’ defeat.

Xu Tui believed that if giants like Chuling and Yuan had their strength drop below twenty percent, they would certainly withdraw from the fight at once. The Earthly Venerable’s arrangements had clearly been precisely planned.

All of a sudden, Xu Tui realized that he had unwittingly done the Earthly Venerable a huge favor.

Had he not, by accident, drawn Hei Yang away from the Samsara Small Universe battlefield, the Earthly Venerable’s plan would still have been used, but the damage dealt to the three giants would have been far smaller.

What Xu Tui did not know was that the favor he had unwittingly done the Earthly Venerable went far beyond that.

Had he not drawn Hei Yang away for nearly two hours, the power of the Earthly Venerable’s trump card would have been weakened by more than half. By now, the decisive battle had already begun.

At the critical moment, time passed both fast and slow.

After more than a minute, under Yin Tianzi’s interference, Hei Yang had wiped out more than half of the Netherworld elites, and Yin Tianzi had also been heavily wounded again and again.

Another thirty seconds later, the King of Hell was slain by Hei Yang, and a true spirit was drawn straight into the Reincarnation Division. By then, Chuling and Yuan’s strength had been weakened by about another fifteen percent.

In the communicators of Chuling, Yuan, and Hei Yang, Chuling’s furious roar already rang out. This was the final ultimatum.

“Hei Yang, if you still can’t break free within thirty seconds, then we go our separate ways and we’re done playing!” Chuling was truly enraged. “As if I don’t want to break free, damn it!” Hei Yang was furious too.

“Thirty seconds left.

If you still can’t break free, then in a few years we can all just be the Earthly Venerable’s subjects together,” Yuan said lightly, and then added one last vicious jab.

“At worst, it’ll be like back in the Heavenly Court—driven around by others as we please!”

Yuan’s words were like an iron spike driven straight into the deepest memory Chuling and Hei Yang least wanted to face.

Chuling glanced toward Hei Yang’s direction and shouted, “Within thirty seconds, we still have a chance.” “Thirty seconds!”

Hei Yang pressed his lips together, then suddenly brushed the yellow gemstone ring on his finger. In an instant, countless earthen-yellow voids surged out from within the holy light.

The yellow gemstone ring shot skyward, then fell. The moment it landed, it turned into more than a thousand rays of light.

Each ray of light fell upon a ghost king or ghost marshal.

That earthen-yellow radiance was extremely sharp; touch it and you died.

In the blink of an eye, the remaining ghost kings and ghost marshals were cleared out by Hei Yang. And Hei Yang’s holy light poured all its force into bombarding and suppressing Yin Tianzi.

After the attack finished, the phantom of the Heavenly Earth Outline returned and once more became a yellow gemstone ring on Hei Yang’s hand, looking little changed.

But if one looked carefully, the ring’s radiance had dimmed by more than half. A key to an Origin Small Universe that had not been fully refined recovered rather slowly.

That was also why Hei Yang did not use it lightly.

With the Netherworld elites cleared from the spatial seal trapping Hei Yang, only Yin Tianzi remained, and for Hei Yang there was no pressure at all.

In barely more than two seconds, Yin Tianzi was blasted back step by step by the holy light with nowhere to hide. Just as he was about to be finished, space suddenly rippled, and he vanished into thin air.

At the critical moment, the Earthly Venerable had acted to save Yin Tianzi.

The other Netherworld ghost kings and Yama Kings could die; once they died in battle they would slowly recover. But Yin Tianzi could not.

The instant the Earthly Venerable pulled Yin Tianzi out at the last second, Hei Yang began bombarding the spatial seal with all his strength. Three blows.

The spatial seal shattered.

In the next instant, a milky-white stream of light shot straight at the spatial seal trapping Chuling, and Hei Yang roared as well. “Eighteen seconds.

I used half my trump cards.

Later, whoever dares hold back, I’ll be the first to turn on them!” Watching Hei Yang break free, the Earthly Venerable sighed.

Along the way he used spatial seals twice more to block Hei Yang, but each time they broke in one or two seconds. Three seconds later, the spatial seal trapping Yuan shattered.

One more second later, the spatial seal trapping Chuling shattered.

By then, evil ghosts were still pouring endlessly from the Gate of Hell, but by Xu Tui’s observation there were already far fewer.

Once free, though, the three giants wasted no more words. Their combined strike in a single blow left the enormous white-bone Gate of Hell covered in countless cracks.

Amid violent trembling and the wails of countless fierce ghosts, the Gate of Hell sank into the void.

In the next instant, Chuling, Hei Yang, and Yuan all charged the Earthly Venerable at once. The decisive battle had come. The Earthly Venerable had naturally foreseen this scene long ago.

And the final result was far better than he had imagined.

He smiled calmly and withdrew straight toward the Eye of River Styx at the Reincarnation Division. Chuling, Hei Yang, and Yuan naturally understood the Earthly Venerable’s combat intent.

Once the Earthly Venerable returned above the Eye of River Styx at the Reincarnation Division, he would gain endless reincarnation power, and the difficulty of the great battle would rise another step.

Suddenly, Yuan took a single step.

It was only a light step, yet in an instant he crossed several thousand li and appeared directly behind the Earthly Venerable. Light surged forth and blocked him.

The Earthly Venerable’s fleeing figure stalled at once.

He still wanted to slip straight into the void, but Yuan reached out and hauled him back from it. Spatial ability.

Yuan was proficient in space-type supernatural ability.

In the future, facing Yuan of the Great Xi Clan, one would have to be extremely careful. Vigilance had already risen in Xu Tui’s heart.

The Earthly Venerable was only blocked for an instant before Hei Yang and Chuling arrived in turn, and the three again besieged him three-on-one. Only now,

this siege was already different from the one before.

In the earlier siege, whether Hei Yang, Chuling, or Yuan, all three had around sixty percent of their strength and could bring their full combat power to bear.

But at this moment, Yuan and Chuling had only about twenty percent left, and Hei Yang had only fourteen pairs of wings behind him—less than forty percent.

In the distant Eye of River Styx at the Reincarnation Division, a long river of reincarnation power shot straight into the heavens, then poured down from above the Earthly Venerable’s head, continuously restoring his strength.

Hei Yang and the other two, by contrast, were being steadily drained.

Less than thirty seconds into the fight, Yuan swallowed several crystals blazing with light, laced inside with countless patterns that seemed like stellar cores, and his strength surged back to a little over forty percent.

Chuling lightly clapped his hands, and from somewhere within his body two identical Chulings split off and merged back into him. In an instant, Chuling’s strength also recovered to fifty percent.

As their strength recovered, the pressure on the Earthly Venerable grew.

Xu Tui had thought that once Chuling and Yuan both used treasures to restore their strength, the moment of decisive battle would arrive. Perhaps in the next few seconds, those three would unleash killing moves and annihilate the Earthly Venerable.

Xu Tui watched the battlefield with full concentration.

For one thing, a chance to observe like this was extremely precious. He could get firsthand intelligence on Chuling, Hei Yang, and Yuan’s strength, of enormous use in the future.

For another, in a situation like this, the opening for Xu Tui’s plan of fishing in troubled waters might appear. Xu Tui waited quietly.

But that wait stretched into several minutes.

To Xu Tui’s astonishment, three or four minutes passed, the fierce battle was still going, and this decisive clash among the universe’s top experts had still not truly begun.

They were all exchanging relatively conservative attrition moves, with no explosive finishing techniques at all. Xu Tui was stunned!

What was going on?

Did Chuling, Yuan, and Hei Yang mean to grind the Earthly Venerable down through attrition? That was absolutely impossible.

The Earthly Venerable had an endless supply of reincarnation power. Play a war of attrition, and in the end Hei Yang, Yuan, and Chuling would be the ones worn down. Xu Tui could see that, so Chuling, Hei Yang, and Yuan could see it too.

So why were they still playing attrition now?

All of a sudden, as Xu Tui noticed Yuan, Hei Yang, and Chuling repeatedly trying to break through in a certain direction, he understood the reason.

And he understood where the key to this decisive battle lay.