Chapter 769 - 769: The 720 Method, Part 3

Surface.

The sky gradually turned black and red.

The clouds were slowly covered by the black sky, blocking the originally bright sunlight. The light, losing its previous dominance, continuously crashed into the black sky, trying to break through the blockade, but to no avail.

The sky of the Blood Alliance contained many special bacteria that could harness the energy of sunlight, continuously converting it into energy for the sky to grow and expand.

Instead, the continuous exposure to sunlight accelerated the pace at which the sky expanded and covered the area.

On the ground, a dark red blood carpet resembled an immensely large piece of flesh, like rotting skin.

It seemed alive, continuously spreading and crawling toward the distance.

Every second it could cover vast amounts of black land.

The air was gradually turning gray, filled with countless bloodline spores.

As soon as these spores are inhaled, they will immediately take root and sprout inside the body, drawing nutrients from the organism to grow themselves.

They disguise themselves, transforming into various cells of the organism to deceive and obtain more nutrients.

At this moment, even the Evil Spirits, who were not greatly affected before, started to have these bizarre spores enter their bodies.

Compared to ordinary people, the Evil Spirits, due to their wandering nature, were parasitized much earlier.

Some weaker Evil Spirits were already in a bad state.

They started coughing continuously, then coughed up blood. The spiritual lines in their bodies were constantly being consumed by the disguised bloodline spores. Although the radiation of dark energy counteracted this, the parasitic speed was slow, but progress was being made.

"Has it come out!?"

Inside an underground void.

On the island atop Nabux's head, people from the group of stars were nervously watching Sol.

"Almost there, almost there!!" Sol was also anxious at this time, but Nabux's speed was just that fast. The format space wasn't something you could enter or exit as you wished. It required a great cost and enormous consumption.

They didn't even consider having to pull the Blood King out again.

At this moment, countless blue patterns were lighting up continuously on Nabux's massive body.

In all the blue patterns, pieces of silver light flowed and meandered like groups of lively small fish.

Watching the virtual image of the star in hand turn redder and even the surrounding air seemed tinged with a layer of blood.

Finally.

Buzz!!!

A ring of blue light exploded mid-air in front of everyone.

Within the light, a red dot gradually emerged and brightened.

With a swish, the red suddenly expanded, condensing into a human figure.

A figure clad in a red robe, with black hair down to the waist, was none other than Zhang Rongfang, who had just emerged from the format space.

He extended his hand forward, as if trying to grasp something.

Realizing it was impossible to grab, Zhang Rongfang withdrew his hand, and the inexplicable look in his eyes gradually faded away.

Then, he looked towards the island on Nabux's huge body.

"Long time no see, Blood King. Fortunately, I came to pull you out in time, or you might not have been able to come out after a while." La stepped forward, speaking in a calm voice. This was the excuse agreed upon from the beginning.

The rest of the group of stars all watched her and Zhang Rongfang nervously, awaiting the outcome.

Sol and his group had long hidden themselves away.

Their presence or absence did not affect whether the Blood King would act to save everything.

So after consideration, all the Secret Keepers chose to hide themselves.

The three kings of Chana Tower did the same, hiding and leaving at the first moment.

Only the Spirit Alliance, Human Alliance, and the Eternal Palace's La remained.

"The situation is a bit bad; during the brief time you were sealed, the bloodline staged a revolt...."

"La." Zhang Rongfang suddenly interrupted, with bat wings behind him gently flapping, stirring circles of air currents.

"You are not good at lying at all."

"I...." La wanted to say something but opened her mouth and didn't speak further.

"For the previous matter, I don't wish to pursue it, but.... the people taken must all be returned, and the bloodline transported must all be recovered. Lastly, I want the special ability to get in and out of that space!"

Zhang Rongfang clarified.

He was this close to potentially knowing how his future path would unfold.

But... everything was disrupted by the sudden transmission.

This was a negotiation.

"I'm not sure...." La was about to reply when Sol's voice quietly resonated in her mind.

She paused for a moment, nodding slightly.

"I can agree on their behalf. But entering and exiting requires massive energy and computational power, and it can only be facilitated through Nabux.

The energy and computational power you must handle yourself; they will only provide you with the method of how to enter and exit."

"Alright. I hope you keep your word, or else...."

Zhang Rongfang's expression was calm; he could suppress everything, and he could recreate everything.

Sizzle!

In an instant, his figure twisted and soon disappeared from the spot.

When he reappeared, he was already on the surface.

The sky had long turned black and red, devoid of brightness.

Endless bloodline sky replaced the original sky color. Without sunlight, the ground and atmosphere began to cool rapidly.

Suspended in this gloomy mid-air.

Zhang Rongfang looked up at the sky.

"This world.... is becoming more and more broken...."

As his mind stirred, the suppression of the ancestor's bloodline began to activate once more.

In an instant, an invisible resonance echoed deep within the genes of all star-planet bloodlines.

This resonance needed no transmission; it linked through some other strange method.

It spread across the entire planet in an instant, comparable to the speed of light.

"In my name."

A collective thought simultaneously appeared in the mind of every bloodline at this moment.

"Enough."

In an instant, the originally rampant bloodlines, whether spores, fungi, or viruses, all stopped as if time had frozen.

The reddening of the planet seemed to be paused at this moment.

The blood catastrophe ceased.

All bloodlines regained clarity and consciousness.

At this moment, they reflected on what they had been doing before.

Tens of thousands of bloodlines began returning to various cities.

Yet, many felt a growing sense of dread.

The source of bloodlines is the Daoist Ancestor Blood King, everyone knows this. But no one knew that after the Blood King's disappearance, the bloodline would go out of control!?

To those who believed the bloodline was perfect, this situation was undoubtedly a devastating blow.

It turns out this overwhelmingly powerful bloodline could also backlash.

They had been so mild, without any backlash, because the Daoist Ancestor had been suppressing them.

Zhang Rongfang gazed at the celestial canopy in the sky.

The countless celestial canopies were rapidly retracting, moving back to where they had originally extended.

On the earth, countless blood carpets began to shrink similarly, returning to their original land color.

But this was all that could be done.

Only the celestial canopies and blood carpets could retract; everything else that had been bloodied, everything that had been corroded, could not return....

At the same time, within the Celestial Lotus Palace in Yuan City.

Zhang Zhenhai's belly, constantly shining with gray light, seemingly reached a limit and suddenly bulged outward.

Her garment was torn, revealing the fair skin beneath.

The skin on her belly was stretched very large, even showing a twisted human face.

Amid Zhang Zhenhai's anguished groans, the gray light suddenly expanded once more, emitting sharp cries.

Buzz!!

In an instant, an invisible barrier appeared outside of the gray light, countless low chants resonated again.

Sharp and low tones, the two sounds rapidly canceled each other.

But this time, there were not the previous two locks to cancel; the awakening of Nabux made one of the locks lose its barrier function.

The awakening of the king of Secret Keepers by the bloodline does not come without a price.

While gaining immense protective power, the invisible protective barrier was ultimately weakened.

This is the principle of energy conservation; the emergence of the king of Secret Keepers only moves a portion of the power to another place. That's all.

Two forces held in stalemate for quite a while, before the gray light slowly retracted, drawing back.

Zhang Zhenhai's eyes turned white, long unable to endure, finally collapsing down, falling into slumber.

The Celestial Maiden caught her in time, a hint of worry in her eyes.

In the previous stalemate, she seemed to have seen that invisible barrier develop a crack.....

Yet Zhang Rongfang's power arbitrarily leaked out, went outside to corrode and pollute everything, unable to gather to aid suppression.

Fortunately, everything has returned to normal now. Otherwise, if that gray light had broken out, what would happen, she did not know.

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In the underground space.

La watched the planetary projection before her, the red region on it rapidly retracting, her heart finally slightly relaxed.

This world, though filled with chaos and desolation, was ultimately her homeland, the home she'd lived in for hundreds of years.

No matter what, she didn't want it to completely turn into hell, stepping into destruction.

"Is it over?" Beside her, Buxius and Xuezelas were fundamentally just filling in.

Their role among the stars was dispatching bloodline individuals to cooperate in awakening the king of Secret Keepers, or probing Blood Alliance interiors.

"Most likely....the Blood King has ceased the pollution, but the remaining impact still requires us to slowly...."

La was interrupted, suddenly raised her head.

Looking high into the air.

Not just her, but the others hidden, like Sol, all looked in the same direction.

There, at an unknown time, floated a strangely shaped tall humanoid.

That person had no eyes or nostrils, only a crack-like mouth inlaid on the face.

He carried none of the Blood King's exaggerated red light wave, nor the special energy radiation of the Heart-Burning Furnace, from afar, he looked like an ordinary but bizarre-looking mortal.

Yet, just this one person caused everyone's breath among the stars to halt.

"....Long...! What are you doing here!?" A strong unease surged in La's heart.

"I come, naturally to do what should be done...." Long's mouth cracked open, revealing a pitch-black mouth.

"Heretic!" Nabux's cold female voice resounded, evidently feeling the massive threat.

"I am no heretic...." Long smiled, "I simply....want to live on."

Boom!!

In an instant, a pair of giant hands thunderously struck where he stood.