Chapter 533 - 261: Suppressing Blood River and Slaying Divine Communication

Chapter 533: Chapter 261: Suppressing Blood River and Slaying Divine Communication

"What?!"

Duan He’s pupils shrank abruptly.

Chen Sheng’s calm words exploded in his ears like a clap of thunder.

Duan He snapped his head up. A pitch-black canopy that blotted out the sky filled his vision. A sinister, toxic Evil Qi and a restrictive force as heavy as a mountain emanated from it.

Panic instantly washed away his earlier smug satisfaction.

’A trap within a trap?!’

’We... fell for it!’

It wasn’t just Duan He. The entire allied army of the four sects that had charged into the array fell into a brief, deathly silence, which was immediately followed by an irrepressible uproar and commotion.

Their elation was replaced by a bone-chilling sense of crisis. The stark contrast drained the color from many of their faces.

"Duan He! You dog, how dare you lead us into a trap?!"

"Song Zhe, you old fiend! What in the world is going on?!"

The Black Wind Valley Master, the Thousand Bamboo Sect Leader, and the others were filled with a mixture of shock and rage. Their sharp gazes stabbed toward Duan He and Song Zhe like daggers.

The situation before them couldn’t be clearer.

They had been led into a premeditated trap!

The curses ignited a fire in Duan He’s heart. He redirected his fury toward Song Zhe and roared,

"Song Zhe! You dare scheme against me?!"

However, Song Zhe looked just as bewildered, his face a mask of disbelief.

He stared at the completely unfamiliar, pitch-black Grand Array and the cold mockery on Lan Yufei’s face.

He understood everything in an instant, and his aged face cycled through shades of green and white.

’She was acting the whole time, pretending to be weak to lure me into making a move. Her goal was to capture all of us—the traitors and the external enemies—in one fell swoop!’

"Fellow Daoist Blood River, calm your anger!"

Song Zhe suppressed his terror and hurriedly explained,

"I knew nothing about this array either! It must be a hidden trump card from that venomous woman, Lan Yufei."

But at this point, panicking is useless.

We still have fifteen Profound Mastery experts on our side. We still hold the upper hand in terms of strength.

As long as we work together to kill Lan Yufei and destroy the array’s core, this array will surely break! It’s our only way out!"

Duan He shot Song Zhe a vicious glare, his heart filled with extreme hatred for the man, but he knew this was not the time for infighting.

He immediately whirled around to face the doubtful allied army of the four sects and roared hoarsely,

"Elder Song is right! The advantage is still ours! Lan Yufei is merely relying on this array. She herself, along with the remnants of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, only has five or six Profound Mastery experts."

If we join forces and slay this fiend, the array will collapse on its own! Kill!"

"Right, kill Lan Yufei!"

"Break the array and survive! Kill!"

In this desperate situation, the will to survive overpowered their fear.

The dozen or so Profound Mastery experts knew their path of retreat was cut off. Their only chance of survival was to fight to the death.

United by a common enemy, their killing intent surged once more. They all locked their gazes on Lan Yufei at the array’s core, and their multicolored Gang Qi flared as they prepared to attack in unison.

Facing the surging enemies, the corner of Lan Yufei’s lips curled into an undisguised, contemptuous sneer.

She lightly raised a slender finger and pointed it at the phantom of the coiled, pitch-black viper in the sky.

"HISS—!"

The single-horned Profound Nether Viper’s scarlet, vertical pupils gazed down coldly. It suddenly opened its massive maw, and a torrent of pitch-black, extremely condensed toxic Evil Qi gushed out at an astonishing speed.

In an instant, it submerged an early-stage Profound Mastery Cultivator who was charging at the very front!

"AHH—!"

A shrill, brief scream echoed.

The Cultivator’s Protective Gang Qi rapidly dissolved.

In the Evil Qi, which was filled with deadly poison and corrosive power, his physical body visibly blackened and rotted away, turning into a set of blackened, withered bones in the blink of an eye.

Then, even the withered bones crumbled into ash.

In a flash, he had suffered Total Annihilation!

This terrifying scene was like a bucket of ice water poured over their heads. The other Profound Mastery experts who were about to charge forward froze, the fanaticism in their eyes replaced by deep wariness and fear.

The might of the Tier Four Grand Array far exceeded their expectations.

"Fellow Daoists!"

The Thousand Bamboo Sect Leader’s face was pale, but knowing there was no way out, he shouted sternly,

"Hesitating now will only get us picked off one by one and lead to a faster death! Our only hope is to focus our attacks on a single point! Charge with me!"

"I’ll risk my life to tear a chunk of flesh off that venomous woman!"

With a savage expression, the old woman from Beast Taming Mountain slammed her bone staff onto the ground as phantom beasts roared to life around her body.

"Kill!"

Desperation ignited their ferocity.

The dozen or so Profound Mastery experts surged with True Essence once again, forming a loose formation and unleashing their Secret Techniques.

The gleam of blades and swords, the whistle of Magical Treasures, and the roars of Spirit Beasts converged into a destructive torrent, hurtling recklessly toward Lan Yufei, who was controlling the Grand Array.

The Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s side would not just stand by and watch.

Ouyang Ke’s eyes were bloodshot as he roared,

"Protect the Sect Leader! Slay the traitors and invaders!"

Ouyang Li and two other Profound Mastery elders loyal to the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect shot forward, each intercepting an opponent.

To Lan Yufei’s slight surprise, Sun Yuzhi also let out a cold snort and boldly intercepted the Black Wind Valley Master, who had the most sinister and formidable aura.

And she actually fought him on equal footing.

To Sun Yuzhi, her score with Lan Yufei was a personal grudge, one to be settled at another time.

But now, facing external enemies, Lan Yufei was on Chen Sheng’s side and, more importantly, the key to this battle.

For both public and private reasons, she could not just watch as Lan Yufei was surrounded and killed.

With Sun Yuzhi and the other four fighting hard to intercept the attackers, the pressure on Lan Yufei was greatly reduced.

However, there were still as many as eight Profound Mastery experts coming for her.

If she were to face them head-on with only her own Cultivation, she would have no chance of winning.

But now, with the empowerment of the Profound Nether Viper Array, the outcome was uncertain.

Lady Lan’s gaze was ice-cold as her hands shifted through a series of Seal Techniques.

In the sky, the phantom of the Profound Nether Viper’s aura changed abruptly under her control.

Within the area covered by the array, a thick, ink-like poisonous mist began to endlessly rise and spread from the ground and the void. It silently eroded the invaders’ Protective Gang Qi, weakening their combat strength.

In an instant, the area within the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s gates transformed into a brutal battlefield.

High above, nearly twenty Profound Mastery experts paired off and clashed in a chaotic melee.

The multicolored radiance of True Essence and the gleam of Magical Treasures reflected off one another, painting the sky in a bizarre and dazzling spectacle.

The clang of colliding blades and swords, the boom of exploding Gang Qi, and the roars and snarls of ferocious beasts intertwined into a deafening cacophony.