Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect-Chapter 872 - 448: Eight Gates Golden Lock

Red, red, everywhere you look, it’s all red.

Aside from this boundless crimson sky, this endless sea of blood, there are no other colors between heaven and earth.

Who knows how long has been spent lying on this vast blood sea.

Tie Dan suddenly heard the roaring sound of waves crashing.

Turning his head, he saw a wave crest approaching from the horizon.

It was the beast’s claw, lizard’s foot, fang, myriad eyes, the towering Yazi beast, holding a treasure sword in its mouth, crossing the blood sea, treading on waves as it came.

The fierce and murderous giant beast, its entire body covered in pitch-black dragon scales, imprinted with shimmering blood talismans.

Above its head countless tentacles, bound by silver threads, each beast’s eye sealed, as if bridled by a head full of reins.

Swimming from the blood sea towards Tie Dan, the myriad eyes Yazi did not exhibit the slightest bit of aggression.

It appeared as gentle as a well-behaved mount, circling quietly, bowing close to the ground, putting its mouth near Tie Dan’s hand.

Thus, Tie Dan reached out and grasped the black sword that Yazi presented with its mouth.

In an instant, the sword returned, the beast returned, and the blood returned as well.

"Huh—"

Tie Dan took a deep breath, sitting up from the blood sea, breathing heavily.

Each breath was like inhaling mist, like rivers turning upside down, swallowing large swathes of the red glow and blood mist from the heaven and earth into his stomach.

Power, every drop of blood was power.

Of course, this was not merely blood.

It was essence, Refining, spirit, fused into one, perfect and complete, the most supreme and pure Dao Yuan.

Indeed, this was originally prepared by the Eastern Venerable, using the Hanhai Demon Flood Dragon and the blood sacrifice of millions from Liangdu, as a gift for the new Great Strength Dharma King’s ascension for the Divine Sect’s Divinity Transformation.

Yes, this was the pure Dao Power, formed only in the last moment after Emei Cang Bi’s interference, cooking all the Venerables and protectors along with hundreds of Blood God’s Son avatars together.

Indeed, this was the Blood Transformation Divine Pill chen xiantian seized, first naturally used to supply essence, repair the Dao Body, and temper the Primordial Spirit.

Now, Tie Dan’s Primordial Spirit was nurtured and revived, the Dao Body finally repaired, ready to start devouring and digesting, converting the remaining Dao Yuan into True Breath Dao Power.

Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale,

The previously empty and fragile meridians, lungs, and viscera quickly filled with True Essence Blood Breath.

Like a riverbed long parched getting soaked by heavy rain, each bone, every cell, every inch of skin bathed in Dao Yuan Essence Blood continually strengthening.

As physical strength, Dao Power, and Primordial Spirit continually revived and strengthened, memories kept flashing back in his mind.

As if countless blood shadows softly whispered beside his ears, blowing the blood wind, recounting all the skills and experiences previously gained to Tie Dan.

Thus, Tie Dan understood everything.

Standing up, turning his head, discovering that the world had transformed.

When all Dao Yuan from heaven and earth were absorbed into the Dao Body, the ruins of Suiyang Pass City, previously submerged beneath the blood sea and utterly destroyed, revealed themselves.

Yes, this was still Suiyang, more precisely, the Du Gate within the Eight Gates Formation.

The so-called Eight Gates refer to the concepts of Qimen Dunjia: Opening, Rest, Life, Injury, Du, Scene, Death, Fear.

At present, the Ten Extremes Earth Sinking Array is based on the Eight Gates Formation, with each gate representing a standalone Jiezhi Space within the Spell-formed Tribulation Struggle Qi Formation.

Du implies exclusion or blockage, the direct opposition of the Opening Gate.

According to formation theory, the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation, entering through the Du Gate leads to certain death, but Chen Xuantian broke through this gate first.

Indeed, Chen Xuantian achieved a great accomplishment this time.

Not only did he save Tie Dan’s life from Emei’s ambush, but also defeated the Emei Six in a deadly battle, seizing the Blood Transformation Divine Pill, thus allowing Tie Dan to repair his Primordial Spirit, reshape his body, greatly advancing his cultivation.

Furthermore, he allied with the emissary of the Taiyin Heavenly Demon, researched the combat body of the company’s wetted bits, combined Dragon Slayer Vaccine with Dragon Seed Gene analysis, and tamed the unexpectedly born Yazi Demon Fang from the awakening of the Demon Dragon bloodline, conveniently suppressing Tie Dan’s Heart Demon.

Hence, Tie Dan not only resurrected instantly, but regained his entire cultivation, regardless of Dao Body, Mana, or Primordial Spirit, his cultivation power reached a higher level. For easier numerical understanding, it’s approximately equivalent to a thousand years’ increase in cultivation.

Indeed, the Blood Transformation Divine Pill itself equaled expedited advancement to a Divinity Transformation master, although it also consumed significant Dao Yuan to reshape Tie Dan’s Divine Consciousness Dao Body.

This time Emei interfered in refining hundreds of Blood God’s Son avatars, capturing the Dharma King, Venerable, and numerous protectors.

Equivalent to Tie Dan swallowing a big piece instantly, rapidly boosting his cultivation by a thousand years, truly wielding a sword with two thousand years of power; how many old Mystic Sects could withstand that?

Probably, thinking his Divine Skill had achieved great success, you found Chen Xuantian bored, voluntarily joining the Suiyang challenge, entering the city to break through the barriers, intending to crush the Ten Absolute Array with the Blood God Main Body, yet mistakenly triggered the Eight Gates Golden Lock and simply vanished...

Yes, clearly he vanished, otherwise Tie Dan should still be lying there recuperating, now that even the sword’s been returned, isn’t it just Chen Xuantian perishing within the array again?

Sigh, indeed he was competent, but his peculiar knack for suddenly failing quite unexpectedly left people speechless...

Overall, one’s calamity must be faced personally, cannot eternally rely on benefactor assistance, expert guidance, or chance survival.

In short, not only must we contend with the Divine Sect’s Ten Absolute Array but confronting experts orchestrating the Eight Gates Golden Lock beneath Suiyang Pass is equally needed, failing to break this array, Suiyang remains unconquerable.

So Tie Dan stood up, circling around Suiyang Pass City.

Recalling the scenes seen before in the ’Opening Array’, Du Gate and Opening Array, the terrain of these formations is actually Suiyang Pass City.

It seems that the entire Eight Gates Formation is on this map. One must conquer the gate city here, breaking eight gates in a row, to pass the formation.

As for how to break the Du Gate Array specifically, looking at the endless blood sea scene, one can guess.

Perhaps Chen Xuantian relied on the boost in power, directly flooding Suiyang with blood, inundating it with floodwaters, forcefully breaking through the city.

So Tie Dan followed the traces washed away by the river, along the gate city gate, through the heap of corpses piled like mountains in the muddy blood marsh, and walked all the way into the City Lord Mansion.

Looking at the bleached white bones in the City Lord Mansion dissolved by the blood water, Tie Dan thought for a second, turned around, retraced his path, and walked back towards the city gate.

Chen Xuantian fell into the trap unexpectedly since this Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation was arranged within the city.

It’s like a hidden vessel city; once the outer city is breached, the elite troops that first rush into the city would be trapped by the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation.

This way, the city defense forces have ample time to regroup, gather strength for a counterattack, reclaim positions, and repair the city’s defenses.

Therefore, the Array Eye of this formation won’t be hidden inside the city, disrupting the operation of the bunch of secret formations from the Divine Sect.

Nor should it be too far from the city gate, or else one wouldn’t see the frontline battle situations clearly, too late to activate the formation array.

Tie Dan stopped, looking at the ruins of Suiyang Pass City, and that’s it.

Flicking his finger, he unleashed a giant Sword Qi Blade, directly piercing the earth vein, stirring the array eye, the mountain-color of the formation morphed with the waves caused by the sword.

Suddenly, Tie Dan felt brightness before him. Upon closer inspection, he found himself back inside the medical tent.

Pulling back the tent flap, he saw not far off, the walls of Suiyang City shrouded in war flames, smoke rising, burning across the sky.

In the chaotic clamor, countless figures were battling atop the city walls. Amid flashing blades, severed heads rolled, layers of fresh blood dripped down from the wall, sounding like rain.

Amid roaring blasts, dust flew and rocks fell like rain, as huge breaches exploded open on various parts of Suiyang City walls, followed by thousands of armored demon giant beasts charging into the city.

With drum beats and horn sounds, armored soldiers formed into arrays, rushing from various gates to clash with the demon chaos troops. War drums thundered, horns echoed, blood flowed like waterfalls, streaming from the wall top to the moat, converging into rivers.

Indeed, Chen Xuantian did not come to siege the city alone.

Rather, after a long march, witnessing the immortal family battle in Liangdu that left ruins and devastation, the Heavenly King Army no longer had the leisure to slaughter cities and entertain in despair.

This chess game is evident. If dragged on further, one can only watch as city after city sinks and collapses.

Tens of thousands of troops would either be crushed by the great formation or killed by immortals, or starve to death; in that case, it’s better to die early.

Thus, to ensure the boss’s game experience proceeds smoothly, the company conducted under-the-table maneuvers, promptly deploying elite troops, racing day and night to rush beneath Suiyang City for a surprise attack.

And this first batch of advancing Death Soldiers, naturally, were brave and sharp soldiers from the Northern Land, carefully selected flying troops, equipped meticulously with external aids. There were dozens of Tenglong Middle Lang Generals leading the charge, plus Chen Xuantian as the path-opening vanguard. This suicide squad naturally slaughtered wildly all the way, breaking gates and seizing formations, unstoppable.

So like Chen Xuantian, they were trapped by the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation, blundering around inside like headless flies.

"Boom—!" With a loud bang, Suiyang’s city gate was rammed and collapsed, the entire city wall caved in.

Yet the defenders inside the city continued to hold formation, eyes hollow under face shields, stained with blood. Some charged holding spears despite missing arms; some severed in half, still shouted. Trying to seal the breach with their blood and flesh.

But when thousands of Demon Soldiers swarmed through the cracks, led by towering giant demons, clad in Mystic Iron heavy armor, bearing bone wings, lantern-like eyes, roaring thunderously, their ear-deafening rally as they thundered into the city.

In an instant, the Human Clan’s array was trampled and crushed by the beast-like shadow, engulfed in torrents of blood blooms.

Tie Dan watched the battle not far away, remarked to the busy medical officer tending to the wounded.

"Don’t waste effort. This city has fallen. You can’t hold it alone."

The medical officer ignored him, while Tie Dan continued,

"Eight Gates Golden Lock can only trap people temporarily, key is to work together with inside and outside.

But even I have been conscious for over a day; it’s impossible reinforcements haven’t prepared.

Perhaps the attack outside the formation is also fierce, Divine Sect people have suffered heavy losses.

Suiyang no longer has strength to aid you."

"Cloudy mountain embroidered with brocade, morning dew glistens. Endless worldly roads, finite struggling lives..."

The medical officer shook his head, suddenly raised a short blade, stabbed into the wounded soldier’s heart.

Then vision suddenly brightened. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Raising his head, Tie Dan found himself standing outside the city, in the distance, the towering Suiyang Pass City, surrounded by a bewildered crowd of demon soldiers.

Opened another gate, still unwilling to give up...

Tie Dan sighed, swinging his sleeves, a whistling gale arose, the sword energy burst forth furiously.

Blue-white Sword Rainbow flashed, unexpectedly slaughtering the surrounding demon soldiers to nothingness.

After slaying the surrounding demon soldiers to nothing, Tie Dan tunneled, arrived at the city wall to knock,

"Nine Yin Mountain Man Xuantian, comes to pay respects to the Suixian Governor."