Chapter 2854: Fierce Battle

Chapter 2854: Chapter 2854: Fierce Battle

"Bading Old Thief, Old Thief Tianlin, I’ll fight you to the death!"

Just as the Bading Alchemist and the Tianlin Divine King were about to fly down to help their disciples blast apart that Defensive Array, a furious roar suddenly came from the distant sky.

With the roar, several divine rainbows streaked over—it was the Nourishing Essence Alchemist, the Great Might Divine King, Fang Bai, Rongrong, and those few Nourishing Essence Sect disciples who had escaped by sheer luck.

While he was still ten thousand miles away, the Nourishing Essence Alchemist released his Divine Sense to probe the Sect’s situation, and discovered that it was exactly as the few disciples had said—the Nourishing Essence Sect he had personally founded was already almost completely destroyed, and there were hardly any disciples left.

This discovery drove the Nourishing Essence Alchemist into a fury bordering on madness; his battle intent surged, and he had already resolved to fight to the death.

Before he had even flown close, the divine furnace in his hand had already been hurled out; in an instant it expanded thousands of times, like a towering mountain, crashing down toward the Bading Alchemist and the Tianlin Divine King.

He poured his full strength into that attack; in an instant, within a radius of a thousand miles, mountains and rivers shattered, the earth collapsed, and only the Nourishing Essence Sect’s last Defense Qi Shield remained untouched and still intact.

Ten thousand elite disciples of the Bading Sect and Sect Leader Mansion, caught off guard, suffered heavy casualties under the supreme pressure unleashed when that divine furnace slammed down.

Some quicker-reacting disciples of the two Sects hastily formed protective Qi Shields around their bodies to avoid being affected, but they also lost the ability and courage to continue attacking, and all withdrew beyond the range of the furnace’s pressure.

"Master has returned!"

"The Great Might Elder is back too!"

"We’re saved!"

...

The Nourishing Essence Sect disciples trapped inside the Defensive Array by the elite disciples of the Bading Sect and Sect Leader Mansion had thought they would not escape calamity this time; they never expected their Master, the Nourishing Essence Alchemist, and Honorary Elder, the Great Might Divine King, to appear in time. After an instant of stunned silence came a frenzied cheer of survivors snatched from death.

Some Nourishing Essence Sect disciples were so agitated that they couldn’t stop their tears from flowing.

"That old Nourishing Essence geezer reacts quite fast!"

The Bading Alchemist and the Tianlin Divine King hadn’t expected the Nourishing Essence Alchemist and the Great Might Divine King to see through their scheme so quickly, and couldn’t help feeling regret. They thought, if those two had arrived another two hours later, the Nourishing Essence Sect would have been completely annihilated, and its treasure vault would be theirs.

Now, however, the appearance of the Nourishing Essence Alchemist and the Great Might Divine King brought them a great deal of trouble instead.

These two were both peak experts of the Divine King Realm; even though they held an absolute advantage in numbers, to kill the two of them would still take considerable effort.

"Master, Great Might Divine King, I’ll lend you this Divine Artifact for now... When you’re done dealing with them, remember to give it back!"

Fang Bai summoned out the Blood-Drinking Mad Blade and the Pangu Axe, lending them to the Nourishing Essence Alchemist and the Great Might Divine King, then rushed with Rongrong into the Defensive Array surrounding the Nourishing Essence Hall.

He knew very well how powerful his two Divine Artifacts were; by lending them to two High Rank Divine King Realm experts, he could maximize their combat strength and help them defeat the enemy.

After Fang Bai led Rongrong into the Nourishing Essence Hall’s Defensive Array, he began continuously tossing out Divine Crystals, forming Array Runes one after another, repairing the Defensive Array that was on the verge of collapse.

In this way, not only did the Defensive Array become solid again, its defensive power even surpassed what it had been before; even a Divine King Realm expert would find it difficult to break through in a short time.

To avoid Tianlin Star being damaged, the Nourishing Essence Alchemist and the other three Divine King Realm experts had already flown to the starry sky ten thousand miles away to battle.

"Stop standing around—break the Formations around the Nourishing Essence Hall and go seize the Nourishing Essence Sect’s Cultivation Resources!"

The Bading Alchemist’s voice carried down from ten thousand miles high in the sky to the ears of the ten thousand elite disciples of the Bading Sect and Sect Leader Mansion watching below.

Those disciples of the Bading Sect and Sect Leader Mansion then moved at his command, regrouping once more to surround the Nourishing Essence Hall and attack en masse.

"Just hiding here isn’t going to work..."

Rongrong said to Fang Bai, her heart weighed down with worry.

She understood that even if the two of them and the Nourishing Essence Sect disciples hid within the Array, they would be safe for the moment, but as time went on the Array would eventually be broken. At that point, one or two thousand Nourishing Essence Sect disciples fighting against over ten thousand elite disciples on the other side would be completely overmatched.

Unless the Nourishing Essence Alchemist and the Great Might Divine King could quickly defeat the Bading Alchemist and the Tianlin Divine King and then return to aid them.

Fang Bai smiled and said, "Don’t worry, there’s always a way. I won’t let them succeed..."

As he spoke, his Divine Sense penetrated the Defensive Array to probe in all directions and found that the Nourishing Essence Alchemist and the Great Might Divine King, who were fiercely battling their opponents in the starry sky, had already firmly taken the upper hand. His heart settled somewhat.

"You remember that I know the Beast Taming Scripture, right?"

Fang Bai smiled at Rongrong.

Rongrong nodded, her gaze gradually brightening; she knew Fang Bai was about to use the Beast Taming Scripture again, employing the method of driving tigers to devour wolves.

Earlier she had heard Fang Bai say that in the Divine Medicine Valley he had used the Beast Taming Scripture to drive Divine Beasts of the Divine King Realm to war against other Divine Beasts, ultimately harvesting more than a hundred stalks of Divine King Realm Divine Medicine and alarming powerful experts everywhere.

Moments later, a long howl sounded from within the Defensive Array; soundwaves surged like waves, spreading out for ten thousand miles in all directions.

This region was a stretch of continuous mountain ranges, with Divine Beasts in the mountains too numerous to count. Though those Divine Beasts were mostly mild-tempered, upon hearing the howl their eyes turned blood-red, and a violent aura permeated their bodies.

A thousand breaths later, the earth trembled, and from the mountains around the Nourishing Essence Sect came a thunderous rumbling like muffled thunder. In the sky, a large patch of "dark clouds" appeared, surging toward the Nourishing Essence Hall.

"What’s that?"

Some disciples of the Bading Sect and Sect Leader Mansion heard the sound and saw the "dark clouds," then stopped attacking and looked toward the overwhelming mass surging in.

"Divine Beasts!"

"Where did they come from?"

"Something’s wrong! Those Divine Beasts seem to have gone mad!"

"Their target... seems to be here..."

"Don’t worry—most of those Divine Beasts are Divine Venerable Realm; there are only a few Divine King Realm ones!"

...

Only then did the more than ten thousand disciples of the Bading Sect and Sect Leader Mansion realize that those creatures running on the ground and flying in the sky were all massive Divine Beasts carrying fearsome Divine Power.

But there were only a few hundred of those Divine Beasts, and only a tiny number were in the Divine King Realm; they didn’t take them seriously.

They forgot, however, that Divine Beasts possessed extremely strong defense and battle power far surpassing cultivators of the same realm, and they also didn’t know that these Divine Beasts were under Fang Bai’s control, their ferocity fully awakened, fearless of death—enough to cause them tremendous trouble.

While the more than ten thousand disciples of the Bading Sect and Sect Leader Mansion were dismissive, hundreds of Divine Beasts crashed into their ranks from both sky and ground at the same time.

The Divine King Realm Divine Beasts were especially savage, roaring as they lunged again and again, their sharp fangs easily piercing through their enemies’ Defense Qi Shields and bodies.

There were also Divine Beasts that opened their blood-filled maws and swallowed their foes whole.

In the blink of an eye, the disciples of the two Sects who had underestimated the enemy realized that already more than a hundred of their fellow disciples had fallen under the fierce assault of the hundreds of Divine Beasts.