This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered-Chapter 907 - 694: River of Oblivion (2)
"Are those lost souls and ghost cultivators celebrating wildly?"
Gongsun Bai'an glanced over and realized that the river was boiling simply because of the lost souls roaring excitedly underwater.
As Zuo Yongning's voice gradually grew more intense, the River of Oblivion behind him abruptly paused, and then the pitch-black river water soared into the sky, transforming into a black dragon, charging straight toward the blood moon that hung in the sky like a jade plate!
On the battlefield, after Liang Yi casually swept away the vitality of an abyss Great Cultivator with his sword, he suddenly felt his vision darken, and a hint of unease lingered in his heart.
Looking up, he wasn't the only one; all the Great Cultivators on the battlefield seemed to have the same feeling, their faces growing serious as they paused, looking around, trying to find the source of danger.
"Is there even a lunar eclipse in the game?"
The few remaining players on the battlefield also raised their heads in surprise, guessing whether this was a new plotline.
"The other side is preparing to make a move..." 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
When Liang Yi noticed that the top abyss cultivators who had been out of sight suddenly reappeared on the battlefield, he realized something was amiss.
With the celestial phenomenon now occurring, it further confirmed his suspicions.
"Ding! You have entered the [River of Oblivion Domain]!"
The system's prompts always came unexpectedly.
"River of Oblivion Domain? Isn't that the domain of the ghost cultivator grandmaster Zuo Yongning? When did I enter his domain if he's not even here!?"
Whenever Liang Yi stepped into another cultivator's domain, the system would kindly remind him, though he never paid it much mind. After all, he wasn't blind; he always knew if he entered or not.
But now, even without seeing Zuo Yongning, how did he get into his River of Oblivion Domain?
Liang Yi sharply sensed that the impending danger they were feeling might be related to Zuo Yongning.
"This feeling... Is it that not quite human, not quite ghostly fellow, Zuo Yongning?"
Aside from Liang Yi, others on the battlefield who had previously fought Zuo Yongning, like the Bodhi Zen Master and Xu Yi, also had a change in expression. They too hadn't spotted Zuo Yongning.
"Bodhi old man, how are your injuries? To deal with Zuo Yongning, we're still relying on you..."
Xu Yi turned to look at the Bodhi Zen Master sitting under the Bodhi Tree, asking.
"Severe, and the Bodhi Tree isn't specialized in healing. I doubt I can make a move anytime soon."
The Bodhi Zen Master opened his eyes to sense his wounds and then shook his head helplessly.
Lift the robe and one could see a scarlet fist mark, burning like blood on his chest. It's not flames that burn, but his blood energy!
This is precisely Xia Kun's ability; every punch and kick ignites the opponent's blood energy, dealing nonstop damage, and the denser the blood energy of a body cultivator, the greater the harm.
But if an ordinary cultivator took a punch from Xia Kun, their blood energy might be burned out instantly. Thus, the best way to fight Xia Kun is with a body cultivator strong in blood energy.
"While Xia Kun has enhanced power in the abyss, it was extremely difficult for me and Emperor Zhou to hold on together. If not for Chen Hua and Zhou Yuzhi's timely rescue, we would have perished..." Bodhi said with a grave expression.
"Given our current injuries, we can't make any moves for at least a day. However, Xia Kun's injuries should be similar to ours."
After speaking, the Bodhi Zen Master closed his eyes again, sitting under the Bodhi Tree. A faint golden light enveloped him, slowly eroding Xia Kun's power of laws using the treasure of the Zen sect.
Hearing the Bodhi Zen Master's words, Xu Yi's expression turned grim, not just because two top powerhouses couldn't suppress an abyss envoy, but also because if Zuo Yongning made a move now, the most capable of countering him was unable to act.
Though they had the Bodhi Tree, it was still no match for the Bodhi Zen Master taking action himself...
After receiving the news from Xu Yi, Chen Hua and the others felt a heaviness in their hearts, helplessly opting to adapt to circumstances as they arose.
Fang Zhi attempted to calculate something, but ultimately, with a look of resignation, his hands fell. In the Abyss Continent, the Abyss Will prevented him from divining anything about the heavenly mechanism.
Only He Zhiqing, with his magical Eyes of Stars, could see part of the future, disregarding all powers.
"Ghosts, endless ghosts, coming from the sky and the ground!"
At the center of the battlefield, He Zhiqing, responsible for observing the entire battlefield's situation and devising strategies, suddenly opened his eyes, spitting out blood, but without time to wipe it, urgently shouted into the starlight beside him.
"From the sky and the ground?"
In the battlefield, Liang Yi and Su Youyi, upon hearing the voice from the starlight, exchanged a glance, then transformed into streaks of rainbow light, shooting away both upwards and downwards.
The enemy's fierce approach, causing He Zhiqing to mention endless ghosts, indicated that their numbers were enough to impact a war. And since they were coming from both the sky and the ground, their traps might be hidden somewhere in the sky and the ground!
As sword cultivators, Liang Yi and Su Youyi were among the most sensitive, unlikely to miss any anomaly.
Simultaneously, many cultivators skilled in investigation were also drawn from the battlefield to seek any possible abnormalities.
Even the players hacking away at enemies received similar tasks midway. With different perspectives, perhaps new discoveries could be made.
But up until the lunar eclipse reached halfway, submerging half of the red moon into darkness, Liang Yi, Su Youyi, and the others detected nothing unusual.
They investigated any likely spots to hide arrays or set traps, but strangely found nothing!
"What about your side?" Liang Yi's expression was stern, realizing the seriousness of the matter.
"No discoveries!" Came the reply, He Zhiqing, with a weakened body, answered from within the starlight.
Many locations suitable for ambushes or traps were directly abandoned by the enemy, likely because they were very confident about the events about to unfold, confident enough not to need extra traps.
"Ding! Task accepted [Seek Battlefield Anomaly]!"
On the battlefield, a player from the Purple Cloud Sect casually accepted the newly released task. He didn't much care. He had taken many such tasks, and without luck, they were nearly impossible to complete. As an old unlucky veteran, he had little hope.
Although drooling over the task's rewards, he had to painfully forgo them, continuing to hunt weaker foes for contributions.
He was currently at level 70, at the pinnacle of the Sixth Realm. Just one level away from becoming a top player, surviving solely on various life-saving items and a bit of luck.
Yet he felt his luck was nearly exhausted, for at this point, there was little left to scavenge, and he was planning to take the Abyss Battle City task directly.
"Huh? What's this?"
Just then, the player bent down and noted a just-deceased abyss cultivator with a remnant rune on its chest.
"Ding! Congratulations, task [Seek Battlefield Anomaly] completed!"
"WTF?" The player was bewildered.
He just gave this corpse an extra glance in the crowd, and the task was accomplished?
At the same time, all cultivators on the battlefield received an order to destroy the runes on the abyss cultivators' chests!
Liang Yi and Su Youyi met, eyes filled with shared shock.
"So the enemy hid the array patterns on the chests of countless abyss cultivators!"
They didn't understand how an unlinked array could function, but since the opponent did it, they must be confident.
"At least seven in ten have array runes, and since the war began, abyss cultivators have appeared in the billions!" Su Youyi took a deep breath, suppressing the shudder in her heart.
Because even if each abyss cultivator's array rune counted for just a bit, adding billions over time, such an array could be called world-shatteringly remarkable!
In sheer scale, it surpassed the Country of Ten Thousand Buddhas by thousands!
Afraid to ponder what kind of array it was, Liang Yi and Su Youyi lunged, wielding Sword Qi towards the abyss army on the battlefield!
"So it was discovered... but isn't it a bit late?"
On the floating island, Gongsun Bai'an put away his folding fan, somewhat surprised, but now too late to make a difference.
"Stop them!"
At the command, several figures burst from the cloud sea, without exception, all top powerhouses of the Mystical Mechanism Continent, wearing cold expressions as they charged Liang Yi and the others on the battlefield!
