"Ophelia...!!?" Sandra and Di Mo felt a chill run down their spines upon seeing the newcomer.
Their spiritual lines surged rapidly, and the glow of their furnaces flickered intensely, almost transitioning into battle mode.
The infamous reputation of the three evil kings was not spread through legends, but forged through brutal slaughter.
The number of Spirit People who perished at their hands is unknown.
Some Spirit People crawled out from the interaction zone alone. Others fled entirely after the interaction zone was breached. And some were found by the caravan, absorbed, and transformed into Spirit God Spirit People who became large-scale furnace carriers.
But no matter the type, they must go to the Eternal Palace, obtain the Martial Arts Atlas, and forge the Heart-Burning Furnace to withstand evil energy contamination.
Resisting even basic evil energy contamination is so challenging; the arrival of one of the three evil kings is akin to a walking catastrophe.
Even if Ophelia does nothing, merely standing there would naturally emit massive volumes of polluted radiation.
"Damn... even someone from Chana Tower came... and it’s one of the three kings!!" Sandra had once fought Ophelia.
She unleashed the ultimate furnace technique to full power, yet couldn’t withstand even three moves before being obliterated on the spot.
Had it not been for La, who was extremely familiar with Taoyuan, reconstructing her conscious body using remnants of spiritual lines and flesh within Taoyuan.
She would have been completely dead for who knows how many years by now.
"Retreat!" Di Mo solemnly raised his hand, signaling the team to withdraw further.
Though they could counteract purifying evil energy radiation, it was limited. They didn’t have total immunity.
If the concentration was too high, they couldn’t withstand it.
"Interesting.... The two little friends from the Eternal Palace also came. Why did Sister La not come personally? It’s been so many years since I’ve seen her...." Ophelia flicked open her bone fan, concealing her crimson lips, and laughed lightly.
"Perhaps they didn’t anticipate that the Blood Alliance would invite even us. Considering we just had a major battle before. Both sides suffered significant casualties." A tall man composed of purple crystals spoke behind.
"Possibly." Ophelia raised her enchanting eyes, gazing towards the distant Celestial Curtain Pavilion.
There, several blood-red figures were rapidly moving towards both this side and the Eternal Tower team.
They seemed to be messengers coming to meet.
However, when they approached within fifty meters, they automatically stopped.
That fifty meters marked the range of the silent, invisible evil energy halo emitted by Ophelia’s body.
Within fifty meters, the concentration of evil energy radiation was tens of times more than outside.
"May I ask if the one ahead is indeed Lord Ophelia of the three kings of Chana Tower?" A woman among them stepped forward and asked loudly.
The woman’s appearance and figure were quite balanced, neither voluptuous nor particularly beautiful, but she possessed an aura of being easily convincing and mysterious.
"I am Ran Xinyue, a member of the Earth Academy of Blood Immortal Dao, here on Imperial Tutor’s orders to greet."
Ran Xinyue had been a Bloodline for quite some time. As a Bloodline Grandmaster at present, she was considered above average within Blood Immortal Dao, though not as monstrous as those from Extreme Realm, whose powers soared dramatically after immersing in dark springs. With final resolutions unleashed like they were free.
But she was of an above-average level within the Great Spirit.
"It’s me." Ophelia signaled the Evil Spirit Elephant below to halt. "However... does your place have room for a king like me?"
Though she did her best to restrain the aura around her, she still had a fifty-meter radius of potent evil energy radiation.
If entered without protection, it wouldn’t be long before massive evil energy contamination was unleashed.
"The Imperial Tutor has made preparations. But these Evil Spirit Army cannot enter together, please understand." Ran Xinyue said sincerely.
"Naturally." Ophelia nodded slightly.
She leaped down from the Evil Spirit Elephant’s shoulder and landed on the ground.
Boom!
The earth resonated with a dull sound, vibrations expanding in circles into the distance.
Her body seemed exceptionally heavy, so much so that it hammered out a circular shallow pit over a meter deep in the ground. This was with some force used to diminish the impact.
"Please!"
Ran Xinyue’s eyelids twitched, her heart racing, yet she still gestured for her counterpart to move forward.
She trusted Zhang Rongfang; despite the opponent’s special status and formidable strength, there were ways to restrain it.
Ophelia chuckled softly, advancing slowly with two purple demonized subordinates.
When her white boots beneath her skirt tread upon the dark red blood carpet.
Sss....
The blood carpet quickly blackened, decayed, and crumbled to black ash.
But swiftly, the surrounding blood carpet extended rapidly, expanding and promptly repairing the damaged section after Ophelia left.
And magically, her radiation was indeed fully absorbed by the surrounding blood carpet.
Ophelia was taken aback, about to inquire.
Suddenly, she made a subtle movement, looking up towards the top of the Celestial Curtain Pavilion.
There, a dark red blood cloud, unbeknownst when it appeared, silently gathered overhead.
Dong.
A clear and melodious chime resonated slowly.
At the center of the blood cloud, a tall winged human figure descended slowly.
The person donned an exquisite blood robe, with black-red bat wings over ten meters long gently fluttering, eyes aflame with blood-light illuminating the surroundings.
"I am delighted to have so many friends attend the ceremony today.
Our Great Spirit, just arrived, is rife with challenges, so the idea to host such an opening ceremony to define the subsequent path and range came to mind."
Zhang Rongfang’s voice was clear, yet silently spread over the thousands of meters of earth surrounding them.
"Present are friends from the Eternal Palace, fellow visitors from Chana Tower, and other strangers who came out of curiosity." He continued.
"To all, as this place is modest, if there’s any hospitality lacking, I ask for your understanding. Since the Great Spirit is newly arrived, any offenses caused, please pardon."
As the words fell, he raised his hand and pointed.
Immediately, troops below dragged massive black boxes, each over ten meters long and wide, and quickly gathered around the Celestial Curtain Pavilion.
Each box was over two people high, and a continuous sound of flowing water accompanied their movement.
"What’s his plan?"
Several thousand meters away, above a blackened wasteland.
Several mysterious figures, cloaked entirely in black robes and wearing black masks, watched from afar.
These figures were dressed identically to those headed for the Human Alliance, including Mubarakah and others.
"Sol, have you figured anything out?" one person looked at the leading figure in a black robe.
The person shook their head slightly.
"The Blood Alliance recently emerged suddenly, initially rumored to be a super-large Evil Spirit interaction zone. The Blood Alliance is the enormous power formed after the demonization of Evil Spirits there."
"A super-large interaction zone... there weren’t many established back then, right?" another asked, puzzled.
"We don’t know about the past. What matters is the present." Sol’s gaze was fixed gravely on Zhang Rongfang in the distance.
"Being able to easily convene with monsters from the Eternal Palace and Chana Tower shows that the King of Bloodline has indeed met both La and Long. Meeting without dying, and earning respect from both sides, is a demonstration of power in itself."
"So, in other words, the King of Bloodline is the Blood King, and this ritual ceremony is to showcase his power?" someone behind asked, puzzled.
"It seems so; there’s not much to see here. Being able to earn the respect of both parties and sit down for talks is already impressive." Sol nodded. "Next, the Human Alliance has already gathered four bloodline practitioners who meet the detection criteria. Quickly bring them to the Spiritual Atlas and activate the comprehensive defense system."
"Understood, Chana Tower’s Ming is already near Falgara Lock, we don’t have much time."
"Is the traded ore sufficient?"
"We’ve stocked up twice as much as before, definitely enough!"
"Then, let’s wait for the bloodline practitioners..." Sol nodded slightly, looking toward the Celestial Curtain Pavilion.
"It seems there’s nothing much to see here, let’s withdraw."
Woosh.
Just then, an invisible wind, centered on the Celestial Curtain Pavilion, suddenly blew outward in all directions.
The wind scattered sand and stones, crossing hundreds of meters, thousands of meters, tens of thousands of meters!
Zhang Rongfang hovered at the center, raising his right arm, aiming at the sky blood cloud.
"Prelude."
"It’s starting...."
Beginning from his palm, all the flesh began to disintegrate, shatter, transforming into countless dark red bats.
The bats flapped their wings, spreading densely in all directions.
Bang!
Bang bang bang!!!
Suddenly, as the bats continued flying, they exploded again, turning into blood mist.
The blood mist continued expanding in the distance, blowing, transforming into a blood cloud.
The range of the blood cloud rapidly expanded from the initial dozens of meters to hundreds, thousands of meters.
With a clang, massive black boxes on the ground had their lids flung open, releasing streams of dark red blood water.
The soaring blood water resembled red ribbons, merging into the blood cloud.
In the blink of an eye, the entire sky above the Celestial Curtain Pavilion, stretching over ten thousand meters, was completely shrouded in blood red.
Everyone was drawn to this transformation, glancing toward the sky.
Whether it was Di Mo, Sandra, or Evil Spirits like Ophelia, or the black-robed mysterious merchant Sol from afar, even the distant wandering spirit people troop.
All eyes converged on this location.
The wind howled, filled with a heavy scent of blood.
Meanwhile, further away, La and Long were observing the scene through additional means.
This was the Blood Alliance’s official proclamation on this land for the first time.
Equally, it was the first step of a joint plan by three major forces.
They also wanted to see how Zhang Rongfang would initiate this first step.
Whooosh!
A column of blood mist, several meters in diameter, shot from the blood cloud, thundering across tens of thousands of meters, embedding into the barren black earth.
Bang!!
The blood column was like a spike, burying deeply underground.
Furthermore, the entire blood column began rapidly crystallizing, transforming from blood mist into Blood Crystals.
This slender blood column, stretching tens of thousands of meters, directly connected the earth with the blood cloud above the Celestial Curtain Pavilion.
Whooosh!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!
Following this, more blood columns shot out, spreading in all directions.
Amidst massive impacts, the ground trembled as it was pierced through.
Bristling blood columns rapidly crystallized, forming straight, sturdy, elongated pillars.
Altogether, six of them.
Six enormous Blood Crystal pillars jointly supported a giant lotus gradually crystallizing in the blood cloud.