Chapter 4571 - Tragic Hero

“It’s Big Brother!” Tianming’s expression changed drastically. Those were the anguished howls of Li Tianzi’s four lifebound beasts.

Even Ying Huo, Meow Meow, Lan Huang, and Xian Xian felt a bloodline resonance from the sound itself, and the immense pain the other side was enduring. They emerged, joining Tianming in the rush through the green blood vessels until they finally burst into a vast chamber resembling the ventricle of a gigantic heart.

Inside, an endless sea of crimson blood stretched before them. Green blood vessels pulsed throughout the chamber, and every beat sent scarlet ripples surging across the blood sea like violent tides.

Tianming saw eight blood tombstones at the center of the chamber collapsing apart with deafening force.

“It’s Jie Ba!” Those crimson tombstones were unforgettable. Back in the Vermilion Bird Starcage, those same eight tombstones had nearly killed Tianming and all of them together.

If Li Tianzi and Li Muyang had not arrived in time, Tianming would never have survived.

Yin Chen was the first to get a good look. “That bastard... is already... heavily wounded.” Back in the Vermilion Bird Starcage, Yin Chen’s bodies had been crushed apart by those tombstones. It had first-hand experience of Jie Ba’s power.

Just as Tianming arrived, the eight bloody tombstones shattered completely.

The pieces floated around Jie Ba, who was in his form that resembled a monster two hundred thousand meters tall. But his crimson body was riddled with wounds and cracks.

To Tianming, Jie Ba’s form somewhat resembled Zi Zhen’s transformed state somewhat, like a specter crawling out of hell itself.

But now, four powers, infernal, chaos, primordial, and radix, powers Tianming were intimately familiar with, were suppressing him.

Tianming saw four black lifebound beasts with bodies already shattered and covered in cracks. Yet they were using the last embers of their lives to destroy Jie Ba.

Under the seal of those four powers, Jie Ba’s body broke down with nowhere left to escape. He looked mortally wounded, even his eight crimson tombstones completely destroyed.

Then Tianming noticed a black cosmic-god essence inside Jie Ba’s body that contained a familiar destructive aura.

“It’s Big Brother!” Tianming’s eyes widened with fury.

Unlike ordinary cosmic-god essences, the black sphere was covered in hexagonal scales. Tianming recognized them at once as the scales of the Plundering Arm transformed into a shell around the core.

The hexagonal shell spun like a drill of annihilation, shredding Jie Ba from within as the four black lifebound beasts tore him apart from the outside.

Amid Jie Ba’s agonized screams, he was finally shredded to pieces.

But at the same moment, Li Tianzi’s black cosmic-god essence and the broken bodies of the four lifebound beasts were struck by the exploding crimson power and shattered apart as well.

Under Tianming’s disbelieving gaze, Li Tianzi and the four lifebound beasts were all destroyed. He had arrived too late to help.

The pure black infernal phoenix turned to ashes, every sword-like feather breaking apart into black ash like Midas once had.

The gray lightning beast exploded into countless fragments, every piece still crackling with gray lightning as it continued suppressing Jie Ba even in death.

The black-and-gray twin-headed divine dragon collapsed as the mountains upon its back turned to rubble and the oceans within its belly became blood-stained tsunamis, like an entire world going through an apocalypse.

Then there was the gigantic tree wreathed in black smoke, blooming with nine black flowers. Crimson corruption spread across it as the flowers themselves turned blood-red, melted into liquid, and dissolved into the sea of blood.

As for Li Tianzi’s black cosmic-god essence, it too was smashed apart by the surging blood sea.

Tianming had come too late. Everything was already over.

Yet the blood sea within the chamber continued surging violently. Jie Ba’s power still roiled within it.

“RAAAAHHH!” Jie Ba’s screams echoed endlessly through the chamber, growing louder and more furious. Within the sea of blood, Tianming saw a strange image attempting to reform into a humanoid figure once more.

It was Jie Ba.

“How laughable! A resurrected puppet truly thought it could drag me down with it? All this was meaningless!” Jie Ba’s mocking voice was filled with disdain and contempt. Like Shen Wu, he was an Aeternal Being who could not be killed through ordinary means.

But at that moment, Li Tianming had arrived.