Chapter 1161 - 528: Gui Xu Devil Patterns_2

The dragon elephant leg bone that pierces the heavens and earth! The ever-expanding jade-white "Sacred Domain"! The terrifying figure sitting cross-legged, opposing the Abyss with his own strength! And within the dragon elephant domain, the towering scene of constructing a super grand array!

All of this proved that the news was not groundless!

In an instant, the entire Region Geng was shaken.

Abyss Domain, a place of exile, a place of despair. The beings here are either exiled for heinous crimes, or they are the defeated from external wars, or they are pitiful creatures born here, struggling in the cycle of devouring and being devoured.

For them, the future is dark. The periodic eruptions of the Bone Demon Abyss are a Damocles’ Sword hanging over the heads of all living beings.

But now, suddenly someone tells them, there is a path, not only to survive but also to ascend to greatness in one step!

For a group of desperados who have struggled in the darkness for countless ages, what a deadly temptation this is?

Thus, starting from the third month after the news spread, teams of varying sizes appeared from every direction towards the Dragon Elephant Domain.

Rumble...

The earth trembles as an army of three thousand "Skeleton Knights" steps into the border of the Dragon Elephant Domain. They ride nightmare warhorses pieced together from the bones of various fierce beasts, while the knights themselves are clad in heavy bone armor, wielding bone spears nine meters long, emitting a towering Evil Qi.

Leading the group is a particularly towering knight, whose soul fire within his skull is a strange purple, revealing that he is of the Burning Fire Realm!

"The Purple Lightning Legion, under the order of ’Thunder Spear King,’ comes to meet the Master of Dragon Elephant!" His thoughts carried a cold and arrogant tone.

Meanwhile, in another part of the sky, a massive shadow is cast down. It is a colossal "Rotting Corpse Dragon" over a thousand meters in length, not just a skeleton, but a zombie-type creature retaining large patches of decaying flesh, with green corpse water flowing over its body, corroding the ground with a sizzle.

On the back of the corpse dragon stands a figure draped in a tattered black robe, holding a white bone staff. His soul fire is ghostly green, exuding a dense aura of curse and plague.

"The ’Decaying Hand’ comes to witness the feast." His voice is hoarse like the scraping of sandpaper.

Furthermore, a streak of blood-colored light, like lightning, slashes through the sky and descends onto a peak in the Dragon Elephant Domain. The light recedes, revealing a strange being composed entirely of blood-colored Crystal Stones. It has no fixed shape, like a mass of flowing blood, emanating the terrifying aura of a Burning Fire Realm at Perfection, no weaker than Zhen Shan!

"I am the ’Blood Demon,’ having heard of great opportunities here, I have come to claim it!" Its thoughts are filled with blatant greed and violence.

The Purple Lightning Legion, the Decaying Hand, the Blood Demon...

One infamous force and strong individual after another from the nearby Abyss Domain, like sharks smelling blood, gather here. Some are desperate with nowhere to go, some are ambitious, some are purely curious, but without exception, they all come with scrutiny, suspicion, and... ill intentions.

Zhen Shan, in accordance with Xu Ran’s instructions, has already led the elite of the Dragon Elephant Domain to mark out a large temporary encampment outside the Sacred Domain, coldly observing these uninvited guests.

In just a month, the number of outsiders gathered in the Dragon Elephant Domain exceeded a hundred thousand! Among them, there are over a hundred experts at Perfection in the Bone Forging Realm! And five individuals at the Burning Fire Realm have arrived!

This force is already enough to easily overthrow any ordinary Bone King!

For a time, dark currents surge within the Dragon Elephant Domain.

These unruly desperados are nothing like the easily integrated skeletons native to the Dragon Elephant Domain. As they gaze upon the Spiritual Qi cloaked "Sacred Domain," as well as the dragon elephant leg bone exuding an Immortal aura, the greed in their eyes practically begins to manifest physically.

If not for their apprehension of the sitting figure, and the grand array that has begun to form and emit a dangerous aura, they would have already attempted to seize it.

"Hmph, what Master of Dragon Elephant, hiding and playing tricks for half a year, I think he is already corroded by Abyssal demon energy, just barely holding on!"

The Blood Demon’s grating thoughts resonate in the minds of all the strong. It is the most powerful and the boldest.

"Indeed," the leader of the Purple Lightning Legion, that Burning Fire Realm Purple Fire Knight, echoed, "Invited, yet he avoids meeting us, with no sense of hospitality. Why don’t we join forces, break through the grand array, enter the Sacred Domain, and seize this so-called ’opportunity’ for ourselves! Distribution can be decided by our abilities!"

"Good!" the Decaying Hand sinisterly laughed.

Their incitement immediately received the response of countless desperados. For them, there is no order, only profit. The so-called "invitation" is merely an excuse to come and loot!

"Presumptuous!"

Zhen Shan roared with anger, the aura of the Burning Fire Realm exploding forth, his massive form standing before the Sacred Domain, "The domain of my master, how dare you act recklessly!"

"A mere newcomer to the Burning Fire Realm dares to stop us?" The Blood Demon sneers disdainfully, and a vast wave of blood-red energy surges upward, transforming into a massive blood hand, slapping down fiercely towards Zhen Shan!

This strike carries an overwhelming power, and even before it lands, the bloody and violent aura makes countless Low Tier skeletons’ soul fires flicker wildly, almost collapsing on the spot.

Zhen Shan roared back, his entire skeleton radiating a lead-grey light, preparing to take the blow head-on.

However, at this moment, a calm voice, without any warning, echoed between heaven and earth, resonating deep within the will of every living being.

"Half a year unseen, this place has indeed become lively."

As the voice sounded, the entire world seemed to be paused.

The massive blood-red hand that blotted out the sky froze abruptly, just hovering a hundred meters above Zhen Shan’s head, unable to advance a single inch!

Time seemed to stand still at this moment.

The soul fires of all living beings froze, horrifyingly discovering that they seemed to be completely restrained by an invisible force, making even the slightest movement of a finger or a thought extremely difficult!

What a terrifying level of mastery is this?!

Under the shocked and horrified "gazes" of countless beings, in the center of the Sacred Domain, the figure who had been sitting cross-legged for half a year slowly stood up.

Crack, crack.

As he stood up, his obsidian-like bones emitted crisp sounds, as if an ancient fierce dragon was awakening from slumber.

Xu Ran had finally finished his seclusion.

He did not look at anyone, just calmly raised his head, glancing briefly at the blood-red hand frozen in midair.

"Noisy."

He casually uttered two words.

The next moment, he raised his right hand.

The very same dark black arm that had once struck fear into countless skeletons.

But now, this arm had become deeper, more terrifying. Upon the arm, ninety-nine mysterious demonic runes flowed like a black galaxy, emitting a "Gui Xu" aura that could make all beings tremble.

He grasped at the blood hand in midair.

"Melt."

Buzz—!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a subtle hum as if space had collapsed.

The massive blood-red hand, condensed by the power of a Blood Demon at Burning Fire Realm Perfection, enough to shatter mountains, quickly "melted" and "decomposed" like a pricked balloon. The primal blood-red energy was pulled by an invisible force, traversing thousands of measures of void, and was completely absorbed into Xu Ran’s dark black palm!

"Hic..."

A soft sound, as if satiated, came from the arm.

And the ninety-nine Gui Xu demonic runes glowed a bit brighter after absorbing this energy.

"Gui Xu Demonic Rune: 100 runes."

"Detection of runes reaching the critical number, undergoing transformation..."

Xu Ran paid no mind to the changes within him, his gaze finally fell upon the peak, on the completely stunned figure composed of blood-colored Crystal Stones.

"You wish to take away my opportunity?"