At this moment, explosions of light continuously erupted among the group of Evil Spirits. The widespread nature of the self-destruction also caused several Human Character Institute experts who rushed in to be inadvertently injured.
However, the purple pollution on their bodies was quickly neutralized by a large amount of fresh blood, turning into black smoke and swiftly dissipating.
As both parties are Spiritualized Evil Spirits, as long as the quality disparity isn’t too vast, the fewer will inevitably lose to the many.
In no time, within just five minutes.
The last Evil Spirit Horse exploded with a thunderous bang under the swift glint of two silver lines.
The initial Human Character Institute Extreme Realm man slowly sheathed his sword.
He darted forward a hundred meters, reaching the hilltop.
Standing here, he could see the dilapidated ruins of a city ahead.
The broken city walls had long been battered into disrepair by Evil Spirit Bodies, riddled with holes everywhere.
Inside the walls, large areas of houses had turned to charcoal, ravaged by daylight, burned, leaving only half-melted black stones.
The man took out a map to check.
"This should be it. The gathering place of those Spirit People who dared to repay malice with malice—Baisu."
At this moment, within the ruins, there were small scattered exploration teams from the gathering place, who had hidden to avoid the previous Evil Spirit swarm.
They quietly emerged from hiding, intending to head out to find new resources while the daylight hadn’t yet dawned and the Evil Spirits had left.
Baisu served as a fixed supply point for many passing caravans from surrounding areas, with some even settling there long-term.
These caravans and the Eternal Palace only had a simple mutual utilization relationship and did not take orders from the Eternal Palace.
To be precise, all caravans and Spirit People were not subordinates of the Eternal Palace.
They simply purchased blueprints from the Eternal Palace to build their own Heart-Burning Furnace and maintained it occasionally.
There was no additional relationship.
Sometimes they even grew resentful due to the Eternal Palace’s high prices and demands.
This was why the Great Spirit did not care about Zhang Rongfang clearing out these Spirit People caravans.
The only ones truly taking orders from her were the statue troops.
At this moment, each Spirit Person from Baisu, who had come out to scout, keenly noticed the unfamiliar figures standing a hundred meters away.
"Those armor patterns... They are the marks from that so-called Great Spirit Empire’s behemoth!"
One among Baisu’s people gazed solemnly at the looming figures.
"Quickly go notify all the leaders in the inner city!!"
He promptly called over his subordinates nearby, instructing them to hurry back and deliver the message.
Within Baisu, it was said that over a hundred caravans had settled there.
In reality, there were at most thirty-some caravans gathering, attracting the remaining scattered Spirit People, thus forming this small yet strong divine and spirit stronghold.
But before they could worry about that group coming closer, on another side, the deafening sounds of trampling approached steadily.
Also wafting in were thick clouds of black smoke.
The black smoke diffused, drifting with the wind, even forming a small temporary black cloud overhead.
"Why are there so many Evil Spirits still?!" The people of Baisu were shaken to the core, promptly retreating back into their hiding places.
But they soon found that these Evil Spirit armies weren’t charging at them, but at those newly appeared figures claiming to be from the Great Spirit Empire.
With swish sounds.
At this moment, on the hilltop, experts in gray-black armor from the Four Institutes all appeared one after another.
Everyone gazed from afar at the newly emerged mass of Evil Spirits.
At least over a thousand vast numbers of Evil Spirits, among them even massive humanoid figures made of black smoke.
They towered over ten meters high, seemingly entirely formed of black smoke, without a physical form.
Every step they took caused enormous tremors.
Occasionally stepping into magma pits, they continued ahead without care.
The high heat of the magma was useless against them.
"So many!?" The pale-faced man from the Human Character Institute changed his expression slightly.
"What on earth are those gigantic black smoke men towering over ten meters!?" He had never seen such exaggerated monsters before.
The others nearby had never seen them either, looking at each other in bewilderment. They didn’t know how to respond.
"Those are Evil Spirit Elephants."
An old and low male voice answered his question.
The man was startled, quickly stepping aside a few steps, looking in the direction of the voice.
There, unbeknownst to him, a silhouette draped in a wide black cloak had appeared.
The silhouette wasn’t tall, but seemed rather broad. The entire figure was shrouded under the cloak, the face unseen.
From the voice, it seemed like he was very old.
The back of the cloak had a massive Spiritual Line pattern, twisted into the shape of a lotus flower, giving off an eerie and divine impression.
That was... the symbol of the Spirit Extreme Institute, the highest of the Four Institutes!
"But we’ve never encountered such a large gathering of Evil Spirits before... This..." A Grandmaster from the Earth Character Institute frowned.
"Perhaps our clearing of so many Evil Spirits has attracted aware parties." The cloaked elder replied.
"I’ll handle things here, everyone, it seems someone intends to stop us from acting...." He turned around, whispering a few words to a person behind him.
The person behind nodded slightly, turning to suddenly vanish in place.
Roar!!
At this time, in the distance within the Evil Spirit group, towering black smoke figures gazed over at them, roaring furiously.
And at the very core, a vague purple figure peered through the black smoke, looking towards the direction of the Great Spirit.
The purple figure’s eyes shone with intense purple light, seemingly able to pierce through anything, meeting directly with the eyes of the black-cloaked figure on the hill.
"Let this battle be my first step into the Outer Realm."
The elder reached out, pulling back the black cloak, revealing a strong and large, twisted body beneath.
At the sight of this body, everyone around involuntarily took a step back.
The elder’s upper body astonishingly had two figures!
One male, one female.
The woman had a voluptuous figure, a black veil covering her face, and gentle, beautiful eyes.
The man’s hair was gray, with a hint of sorrow flickering in his pupils.
From the waist down, their bodies were shared as one.
This bizarre form left everyone feeling a chill run down their spines, unwilling to look further.
This person was none other than Emperor Jiang, who had just completed his blood transformation.
"Sorry... for letting you endure such strange looks... Jun’Er..."
Emperor Jiang gently caressed Jun’Er’s face, his expression tender.
"It’s okay... As long as I’m with you, I don’t care about anything..." Jun’Er leaned lightly on his shoulder.
The two nestled together, truly resembling a couple in love.
At that moment, figures clad in black armor began to emerge continuously from behind Emperor Jiang, gathering around them.
These were the many bloodline masters from the Great Spirit who had arrived one after another.
Strangely, the Evil Spirit Vehicles, which usually displayed no intelligence, actually stopped moving two hundred meters before reaching the Great Spirit Army.
It seemed as though some force was restraining them.
Chirp!
On the side of the Great Spirit, a spectral bird hovered above, looking downward with flapping wings.
"Blood Immortal Ancestor, boundless in power!"
"Blood Immortal Ancestor, boundless in power!!"
The blood bird, seemingly a parrot by species, surprisingly blurted out a somewhat garbled slogan. Clearly, the person who had trained the bird was trying to curry favor but lacked much education, resulting in this misunderstanding.
Nevertheless, it served its purpose.
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At the breach in the Great Spirit Celestial Curtain.
Zhang Rongfang’s large sleeves billowed as he stood quietly beneath the black celestial curtain, gazing into the distance from an already constructed watchtower.
Behind him were large expanses of newly constructed buildings and barracks in the Great Spirit style.
Towers surrounded the large buildings, each towering over twenty meters high.
The ground was covered with a carpet of flesh and blood, and above was the black spiritual line celestial curtain he had evolved using his life transformation ability.
Essentially, this entire area could be considered inside his body.
The blood carpet had already expanded to over thirteen hundred meters, forming a broad circle with a diameter of over thirteen hundred meters.
As the blood bird’s flattery rang out, a blood line in Zhang Rongfang’s mind subtly lit up.
It was the power of blood echo taking effect.
’In trying to maximize the potential of the Ghost Spring ability, I’ve accidentally expanded the influence range of all my other powers, which is a pleasant surprise...’
Zhang Rongfang realized within.
Now he understood that as long as his flesh and blood were present, even as little as a single blood cell, the Ghost Spring ability would be effective.
This ability didn’t seem much at first glance, but upon using it, it was a delightful surprise.
Its effects were incredibly exaggerated, grossly violating the conservation of energy.
Up to this point, Zhang Rongfang still didn’t know where the energy that the Ghost Spring used to accelerate recovery came from.
Bear in mind this involves the repair of both body and soul!
At that moment, the blood bird’s voice activated the blood echo, and Zhang Rongfang’s mind immediately pinpointed the blood bird’s location and direction.
Then, with a single thought, his innate ability instantly activated.
In an instant, the blood bird circled above the Evil Spirit Army halted slightly.
Its chest feathers automatically parted, revealing the red flesh beneath.
The flesh wriggled and split, and in the blink of an eye, a red human eye grew there.
Blood light gleamed in the human eye, staring directly at the Evil Spirit Army below.
This was Zhang Rongfang’s own eyeball. By using the division and regeneration capabilities of the ultimate being, which shared information, he grew his own eyeball on the blood bird, then used the eyeball to transmit the image back to his body via the ultimate being’s ability.
In this way, he achieved the goal of remote image transmission.
Looking at the gathering armies below.
Zhang Rongfang stood atop the watchtower, observing the Evil Spirit Army, whose numbers were nearly ten thousand.
Among them, a vague purple humanoid figure caught his attention.
Could that be the demon?
Long and the Evil King had mentioned before that there existed demonized individuals among the Evil Spirit group. These were powerful Evil Spirit Bodies endowed with intelligence, second only to the Evil King as chief generals.
Perhaps that purple humanoid figure was the so-called demon.
The Great Spirit also had an increasing number of bloodline masters gathering at this time.
Although their numbers were not as great, each was a definite elite. Their numbers had also reached over a thousand.
The situation between the two sides was tense, and the battle was on the verge of breaking out.
’Long, are you trying to stop me?’
Zhang Rongfang squinted his eyes, it seemed that after this battle, he might need to visit Chana Tower once again....
The plan he and La devised would surely be agreeable to Long.
Many times, he truly wanted to try and see just how strong the so-called ultimate physical form could be.
La was already very strong, then there was the Evil King, and above them was Long....
’If I could gather a bit of their flesh....’
A faint trace of anticipation rose in Zhang Rongfang’s heart.
He had long coveted Long’s ultimate physical form...