Chapter 1073 - 376: Innate Comprehension—Beholding All Mysteries (Double-Length - )

Chapter 1073: Chapter 376: Innate Comprehension—Beholding All Mysteries (Double-Length Chapter)

Lei Jun: "Senior, you’re the one being far too polite."

Sun Li laughed: "When Mo Bai was chatting with me about the Celestial Master, he also addressed you as Sect Leader."

Lei Jun: "That’s exactly what leaves me utterly helpless."

The two joked a few more lines, then Sun Li’s gaze turned to the distance: "Over there should be Qiongqi Abyss, one of the Seven Abysses of Heaven."

The power of the Sacrificial Formation from the opposite side had just come from that direction.

"Li Jin of the Lu Li Clan, I haven’t had much dealing with her."

Sun Li rubbed the stubble on his chin with his palm: "But the next Divine Dance lineage successor in the Eighth Heavenly Layer makes me feel... like he’s someone I know?"

Lei Jun had the same feeling.

After Li Jin laid the groundwork, the Divine Dance cultivator who took over from her didn’t seem like a Jiuli Great Witch.

Instead, he seemed more like a successor of the Southern Wildernes Witchcraft Sect’s Gepo Mountain lineage here in the Great Tang Mortal World.

Once Lei Jun’s comprehension naturally awakened, many things in his eyes no longer held any secrets.

Recalling it now, the various methods and details of that Eighth Heavenly Layer Great Witch gradually overlapped with a certain figure in his mind.

"That bastard Yuan Shanji?" Sun Li looked into the distance.

Lei Jun slightly nodded.

He had only seen Yuan Shanji and Sang Lu, Li Tianqing and the others cross hands when he first arrived in the Southern Wildernes years ago.

Yet just now, the various spell methods and minutiae of the one who took over the Sacrificial Formation all felt somewhat familiar to Lei Jun, and he gradually matched them to the right person.

Sun Li wasn’t as keen as Lei Jun.

But he was more familiar with Yuan Shanji.

Back then, the first time Lei Jun watched Yuan Shanji fight another, Yuan Shanji was backstabbed by someone who seemed to be an ally.

...The one who backstabbed him is, right this moment, standing beside Lei Jun.

"I’d previously received word that Yuan Shanji had also come to the Earth Sea." Lei Jun said, "Looks like he really has, like Yang Yuqi, thrown in with Jiuli."

Strictly speaking, Yang Yuqi might have still harbored other thoughts back then.

Yuan Shanji, as a Middle People of the Witchcraft Sect, was less burdened.

Right now, he and some Jiuli Great Witches were heading this way... Lei Jun could sense it.

As an Eighth Heavenly Layer Perfection cursed prayer Great Witch, Sun Li’s senses were likewise extremely keen.

He too detected Yuan Shanji and the others approaching this side.

That Thousand Li Descent just now had been somewhat rushed; although it disrupted the Divine Dance Sacrificial Array, it indeed hadn’t inflicted any obvious damage on Yuan Shanji.

Sun Li shook his head, ready to meet the battle.

Lei Jun beside him was not in good condition, and at the moment still needed to focus on maintaining the Ritual Instrument.

Sun Li said no more, already taking up the responsibilities of protector.

However, in the distant dim underground world, a streak of violent blood-red suddenly cut across the sky.

A thick blood stench instantly spread, so strong that Lei Jun and Sun Li in the distance could both feel it.

That streak of blood-red chopped into the crowd rushing this way, its target aimed straight at the conspicuous Jiuli Great Witches Xuanyuan People and Yuan Shanji.

The Blood Saber was tyrannical and fierce; even with a group of Jiuli Great Witches present, the crowd was forcibly cleaved apart like sea waves.

"Xing Feng?!" While frantically retreating, Yuan Shanji unfolded a Ghost God Sacrificial Array.

He was more familiar than anyone with the saber techniques on the opposite side.

Great Divine Skills of the Blood River Sect of the Southern Wildernes Witchcraft Sect in the Great Tang Mortal World, Xuezhan Mountain and River Style.

A Blood Saber with an unusually long blade was gripped in the hand of a towering young man.

From afar, Lei Jun saw that the man’s height was nearly equal to his own.

The man’s upper body was bare; blood-red curse marks rolled across the surface of his flesh from head to toe, brimming with explosive power.

The new Sect Leader of the Great Tang Blood River Sect, Xing Feng.

He swung his saber, sweeping aside the other Jiuli Great Witches blocking his way, then brought the blade forward to cleave at Yuan Shanji again:

"You and I have no personal grudge, but Li Tianqing has helped me greatly. He doesn’t have the time right now, so I’m greeting you on his behalf, lest you go and hide out of sight again."

Yuan Shanji’s face was as dark as water; using the time that the Jiuli Great Witches bought him, he had already successfully unfolded the Ghost God Sacrificial Array.

In a flash, it was as if the portal between life and death was opened, connecting the two realms. A cold, deathly aura seeped into this living world, yet without any sinister evil, only full of majesty, cruelty, and mystery.

Nine Songs · Great Commander.

Yuan Shanji set up this array, borrowing the power of Nine Songs · Great Commander to resist and suppress the savage murderous aura of Xing Feng’s ferocity.

Although he had once sided with Yang Yuqi and even the previous Blood River Sect Leader Wei Ancheng, Yuan Shanji’s experience fighting Blood River cultivators in duels of magic was extremely rich.

He knew full well the traits of Blood River cultivators:

Ferocious killing death aura bringing fearsome offensive power.

Powerful flesh and blood recovery, even rebirth methods.

Blood filth that affects the opponent’s mana, devouring the opponent’s vitality to nourish themselves.

And the Blood Battle methods that most Blood River cultivators practiced, where they became even more lethal after being injured.

Because of their tremendous recovery, their physical defense, though not the absolute pinnacle, could not usually be considered a true weakness.

Compared to their many strengths, the greatest shortcoming of Blood River cultivators actually lay in... relatively weak Spiritual Soul defense.

While Blood River cultivators could use killing intent and death aura to intimidate the enemy’s mind and shatter their will, their own Spiritual Souls were likewise ill-suited to withstand attacks targeting consciousness and soul.

To a certain extent, the opponents they were least adept at facing were Taoist Sect Alchemy Cauldron Sect experts whose Yang God left the body to wield Divine Soul Secret Skills.

As a legitimate elder of the orthodox Gepo Mountain lineage, Yuan Shanji, though not like a Taoist Sect Nascent Soul, likewise mastered secret methods that directly attacked the Spiritual Soul.

However, it was not the Innate Divine Ability he cultivated in the Upper Three Heavens, but rather an existence evolved from the life-bound spell he cultivated in the Middle Three Heavens.

Nine Songs · Lord Xiang.

While using Nine Songs · Great Commander as his foundation to resist Xing Feng’s attacks, Yuan Shanji simultaneously unleashed a second Ghost God Sacrificial Array.

As Nine Songs · Lord Xiang took shape, multiple phantom shadows appeared in the Void.