Cultivation: Start From Simplifying Martial Arts Techniques

Chapter 1145: Chapter 1101: The Qiankun Cauldron Shatters

The killing never ends; in the hearts of all at the Rule Integration Realm Peak, these Black Demons seemed inexhaustible. No matter how hard they fought, there always appeared new demons before them.

“Ah!”

As they advanced to the twenty-fifth mile, suddenly several despairing cries of imminent death rang out, over ten peak Rule Integration Realm cultivators had died in that instant.

Chen Fei’s heart rippled slightly as he watched the horde of Black Demons outside the formations, where peak-level Black Demons of the Rule Integration Realm began to appear.

These peak Black Demons concealed themselves within the tidal waves, indistinguishable from ordinary demons, but once they launched an attack, it was earth-shattering.

The ten or so peak cultivators who had just perished had been slain by such suddenly intensified attacks.

Descendants of the Wu Meng Clan, Xuan Clan, and those who devoured the essence force naturally faced this issue too, but they were all saved in time by the Open Heaven Realm powerhouses of their clans, so they survived.

Therefore, those who died were all peak Rule Integration Realm cultivators from the Black Stone Domain.

Without the protection of the Open Heaven Realm, the life and death of the races within the Black Stone Domain truly depended on fate.

Compared to other races, the situation for the human race was slightly better.

Tang Yunshou was gravely injured and on the brink of death, but fortunately, he clung to life and now watched the front with lingering fear.

The human side had the Qiankun Cauldron, connecting the eighteen Emperors together.

The Qiankun Cauldron, as an object that suppressed the human race’s destiny, was also refined by the Power of Faith, giving it such strong power over the human Rule Integration Realm.

But the Qiankun Cauldron, after all, was merely a Sixth-Tier Dao Artifact. Although it was much stronger than the ultimate-grade artifacts, it was not a Seventh-Tier Open Heaven Profound Treasure.

After the hit just now, the light emitted from the Qiankun Cauldron had dimmed a lot.

For now, it could still protect the human Rule Integration Realm peak cultivators, but as time passed, the power of the Qiankun Cauldron would gradually fade, and it might even shatter.

Faced with such a war, the human race, was ultimately too weak.

Tang Yunshou retreated to the rear, allowing the other seventeen Rule Integration Realm peak cultivators of the human clan to continue the fight at the front.

Twenty miles!

In the Black Stone Domain, several more Rule Integration Realm peak cultivators died.

Although they were already guarding against the peak Black Demons of the Rule Integration Realm, sometimes being prepared didn’t mean they could withstand their assault.

By now, these Black Demons had gone from previous disorganized attacks to gradually becoming more measured in their offense and defense.

Especially these demons, they knew to first target and kill those at the peak of the Rule Integration Realm within the Xuanwu Formation.

As long as they killed the peaks, the power of the Xuanwu Formation would inevitably weaken somewhat.

Although it was just a little, in the overwhelming surge of Black Demons, this diminished part would keep getting magnified.

In the sky, the Open Heaven Realm powerhouses knew this, but aside from the three Clans like the Wu Meng Clan saving their own Rule Integration Realm peak cultivators, they did not care at all about the life and death of the other cultivators in the Black Stone Domain.

They only needed to assess whether the Xuanwu Formation could reach the entrance to the ruins; as for how many of the Rule Integration Realm in the Black Stone Domain would die or get injured in the end, what did it have to do with them?

Ten miles!

After more than half an hour, the Xuanwu Formation finally advanced to the ten-mile position from the entrance to the ruins.

“Buzz!”

A barely perceptible ripple spread throughout the entire Xuanwu Formation, and immediately after, all Rule Integration Realm cultivators found that its defenses had weakened.

Previously, the Open Heaven Realm powerhouses had warned that there would be changes in the Xuanwu Formation at ten miles from the ruins.

However, what no one in the Rule Integration Realm had anticipated was how conspicuous that change would be.

Originally, the Xuanwu Formation had been operating smoothly, but now it had become somewhat sluggish.

“Boom boom boom!”

Huge booming sounds pierced the heavens, and at the moment the Xuanwu Formation experienced operational issues, the Black Demons violently counterattacked, and in an instant, more than twenty peak cultivators died.

Not only the peaks, but also many late-stage Rule Integration Realm cultivators on the outskirts perished in an instant, with hundreds lost, and those of mid-stage and early-stage Rule Integration Realm suffered heavy casualties as well.

If it weren’t for the Open Heaven Realm powerhouses intervening at the last second to stabilize the formation, the number of casualties would have been even more exaggerated.

Chen Fei looked ahead, the Qiankun Cauldron which suppressed the destiny of the human race, now bearing several cracks, as it had borne the brunt of the attack just now.

Thus, thirteen Emperors were gravely injured, and the remaining five were all wounded.

Chen Fei, standing at the back of the formation, saw ten percent of the early-stage Rule Integration Realm cultivators around him perish, almost a hundred members of the human Rule Integration Realm early-stage.

In other areas, cultivators of the Rule Integration Realm suffered similarly heavy losses, with nearly three thousand auras vanishing.

A sense of despair spread throughout the entire Xuanwu Formation; the power of these Black Demons was too strong. Merely relying on the Rule Integration Realm’s power, they could not advance much further.

What was more crucial was that they had all been forced to take part in this battle for the ruins; whether they lived or died, they wouldn’t gain anything in the end.

“Fellow cultivators, make your move!”

A voice rang out within the Xuanwu Formation; within ten miles of the ruins, that weakening force was too strong. A single Open Heaven Realm cultivator couldn’t resist it, and neither could this formation composed of tens of thousands of Rule Integration Realm cultivators.

“Buzz!”

Dozens of Open Heaven Realm cultivators began to infuse their power into the Xuanwu Formation.

Light erupted from within the Xuanwu Formation, and the celestial image of the Black Tortoise in the sky burst forth with a majestic momentum, reversing the weakening formations in an instant.

The Xuanwu Formation, no longer struggling, began to forcefully charge towards the location of the ruins.

The difference between the Open Heaven Realm and Rule Integration Realm is like heaven and earth. Just the addition of dozens of Open Heaven Realm powers multiplied the Xuanwu Formation’s strength by several times.

The Black Demon outside the ruins became increasingly frenzied, trying to stop the Xuanwu Formation before it could reach the ruins.

But at this moment, the Black Demon could no longer manage. In just a short time, the Xuanwu Formation had advanced to a position one mile from the ruins.

Half of the ruins began to tremble slightly. The Black Demon grew more and more deranged, and simultaneously, his power started to surge. The Xuanwu Formation involuntarily slowed, as if mired in mud.

“Clang!”

The Qiankun Cauldron let out a mournful cry, a gigantic crack nearly splitting the whole cauldron in two, its light already long gone.

Human Sovereign Du Ruoyuan put away the Qiankun Cauldron; if he had continued to resist, the cauldron would have shattered directly, and then the human race would have no artifact to suppress their fate.

“Full force strike!”

A fierce shout resounded within the formation, contrasting the previously lukewarm response. Now that they had reached this position near the ruins, the emotions of several late-stage Open Heaven Realm experts had changed.

For late-stage Open Heaven Realm experts, the supreme treasure within the ruins concerning the Tunyuan clan was tied to whether they might break through to the peak of Open Heaven Realm, or even grasp the slim chance to ascend to the Eighth Tier of the Creation Realm.

Now that the ruins were just in front of their eyes, how could they remain calm?

Chen Fei felt that the Xuanwu Formation was frantically drawing essence force from his body. The formation was now dominated by the Open Heaven Realm, and they were set to unleash the strongest power to withstand the proximity to the ruins.

As for whether forcefully drawing power from the Rule Integration Realm would drain their energy completely, they didn’t even consider it.

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

The formation seemed to truly transform into an actual Black Tortoise, rampaging ahead, and any Black Demon in its path, regardless of their power, was crushed into powder.

This final mile was almost trampled through in the blink of an eye.

However, the price paid for this was that more than thirty percent of the Rule Integration Realm cultivators in the Xuanwu Formation died, nearly ten thousand of them.

Most of them were at the early and mid stages of the Rule Integration Realm, as they could not sustain such a level of essence force extraction, and were directly turned into a pile of ashes.

Chen Fei’s figure seemed on the verge of collapse, his breath at its lowest point. All the surviving cultivators at the early stage of the Rule Integration Realm within the formation looked like this.

In just a moment more, it was feared that all the early-stage cultivators within the formation would turn to ashes.

“Hahaha, go!”

Laughter rose within the formation, and dozens of Open Heaven Realm cultivators wrapped around the whole Xuanwu Formation, charging directly into the ruins.

The Xuanwu Formation, expanding and contracting as desired, did not affect the entrance of all Rule Integration Realm cultivators.

The inside of the ruins was an unknown situation to the dozens of Open Heaven Realm experts. Thus, taking the Xuanwu Formation forward to explore was the best choice.

Chen Fei looked ahead and saw that out of the eighteen peak Rule Integration Realm cultivators of the human race, twelve were now on the brink of death and unconscious, in a similar condition to Dao Yuefeng before.

Barely maintaining a spark of life, whether they would wake up and how to do so, with the current power of the human race, was completely unknown.

Entering the ruins, a violent twisting force fell upon the Xuanwu Formation.

The Xuanwu Formation shook violently, and dozens of Open Heaven Realm cultivators tried to maintain it, but found that the more they resisted, the more it swayed.

Chen Fei observed the scene within the ruins; there wasn’t a single Black Demon in sight.

Before Chen Fei had a chance to see clearly, the entire Xuanwu Formation suddenly scattered. The powerful Space Rules exploded, and tens of thousands of Rule Integration Realm cultivators, along with dozens of Open Heaven Realm experts, disappeared without a trace.

The space above, below, and to the sides kept shaking. Chen Fei tried to align with his own Space Rules, only to find they were utterly ineffective.

The next moment, the blurry space around him faded, and Chen Fei found himself in a desert.

Chen Fei instinctively looked back and saw, tens of miles away, the desert vanished, replaced by violent space rifts. Chen Fei felt his soul threatened just by looking a few moments longer.

Chen Fei glanced at the space rifts above, then at a farther location, and faintly felt it seemed to be a cauldron torn apart.

It was very similar to the appearance outside the ruins just before, as if it had also been ripped in half.

“Buzz!”

Several ripples emanated from the sleeve of Chen Fei, and a mystical treasure flew out, with ripples originating from within it.

With a wave of his hand, Chen Fei brought out two Bronze Fragments, which were vibrating continuously at the moment.

Chen Fei’s expression shifted as the Bronze Fragments really did belong to the Tunyuan clan. He wondered what supreme treasure lay within the ruins, but now was not the time to concern himself with treasures. The question was how to leave this desert and, indeed, the ruins?

Chen Fei used a jade box to pack up the Bronze Fragments, then tossed them into the spatial grid; the resonance of the Bronze Fragments ceased.

“Clang!”

A bell chime suddenly resounded from above the sky. In quick succession, ripples surfaced tens of miles away, and several figures appeared.