Chapter 1039 - 282: Sirius’s Poisonous Stratagem Shocks the Snowfield, Frostblade Hero Shields the Maiden (Part 4)

"First, use the blood puppets to drain his True Qi, then send in the Death Warriors to close the net!" The leading Death Warrior let out a sinister, hawk-like laugh, his scimitar sweeping out as a sweet, metallic stench of blood instantly spread through the air.

These men actually poured their own fresh blood into their blades, unleashing the long-lost Forbidden Technique of the Red Scorpion Sect—the "Blood Sacrifice Demon Blade Array"!

In an instant, the scimitars whipped about like raging blood pythons, every arc of saber light wrapped in True Qi-corroding force.

Shi Feiyang employed the Mysterious Lightness Technique of "Deep Concealment of Body and Name" to evade, the saber energy brushing past the hem of his robe, turning the brocade to drifting ash in a heartbeat.

More troublesome still, those Death Warriors formed up into an array, their saber lights echoing one another, actually weaving a tightly sealed blood-colored net in midair.

Just then, violet lightning suddenly descended from the sky above the snowy plains.

Shi Feiyang’s heart lurched—this was the Western Holy Sect’s "Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation Array"!

Only to see a gigantic thunder sigil emerge from the clouds, wherever the lightning struck, the ice surface blew open into deep craters.

The Red Scorpion Sect’s Death Warriors seized the chance to launch a full assault, scimitars interlacing with lightning to form a lethal killing field.

Shi Feiyang circulated the Bright Jade Technique, white mist around his body condensing into a shield, yet it was battered back again and again by thunderfire. A Death Warrior seized the opening, turning into a blood shadow to launch a sneak attack.

Shi Feiyang spun and swung his blade, only to see the opponent suddenly split into three afterimages, scimitars stabbing in from different directions.

At the hair’s breadth between life and death, Shi Feiyang executed "Division of Light and Transformation of Shadow" from the Hundred Victories Saber Technique, his saber light spinning like a wheel, barely forcing the enemy back.

But before he could catch his breath, another Death Warrior unleashed the "Scorpion Tail Bone-Piercing Nail," the shrill whine of the poisoned nails tearing through the air, actually forming an Eight Trigrams array pattern in midair.

The lightning grew ever denser, and the Red Scorpion Sect’s Blood Saber Array even more impenetrable. Gazing at the killing intent filling the sky, Shi Feiyang suddenly threw back his head and laughed, driving the Celestial Frost Blade into the ground. "Since the demons are dancing in chaos, then I’ll let you witness the true might of heaven and earth!"

His Bright Jade Technique instantly surged to the eighth-and-a-half level—"Supreme Forgetting Emotions Ice Soul Cold Prison." With a thunderous detonation, taking the blade as its center, frost swept out like a raging tide, actually freezing thunderfire and blood light alike! However, at the very instant that frost roared forth like a tide, the firmament suddenly cracked with spiderweb-like fissures, and from within the dark violet lightning dropped several chains straight down, piercing through the ice walls Shi Feiyang had frozen.

At the ends of the chains was a black-robed figure, its features blurred, with only the palm clearly bearing a profound sigil identical in origin to the Five Poison Scripture—this was actually the long-missing phantom of the Five Poison Sect’s first Sect Leader! "Shi Feiyang, did you think that with mere Ice Soul Cold Prison you could halt the cycle of Heaven’s Dao?" The phantom’s voice seemed to echo from the Nine Netherworld, making everyone’s eardrums ache with pain.

The Red Scorpion Sect’s Death Warriors, seeing this, all dropped to their knees and kowtowed, their scimitars thrust into the snow, fresh blood flowing along the lines of the sigils into the ground. From beneath the snowy plain came a muffled roar; countless white bones broke through the earth, piecing themselves together amid a rain of blood into a three-headed, six-armed Demon God, empty eye sockets flickering with ghostly green flames.

In the sky, Guo Xiangyu’s hand gripping the bamboo sword trembled uncontrollably. "This... this is the legendary ’Descent of the Nine Nether Demon God’!"

Before the words had faded, the Demon God’s giant palm had already slammed down with a thunderous boom. Shi Feiyang rallied the Bright Jade Technique with all his might to resist, yet the ice armor shattered inch by inch the instant it made contact.

More sinister still, the sigils on the Celestial Frost Blade began to dim, as though forcibly suppressed by some unknown power.

Shi Feiyang’s saber energy had actually been Sealed! Just then, Sirius’s corpse suddenly twisted and reassembled in a grotesque fashion, three vertical pupils opening beneath the shattered mask as it let out a shrill screech. "Shi Feiyang, back then you stole the Scripture from Lan Xiaodie—today you’ll pay for that blood debt with your blood!"

Shi Feiyang suddenly tore open his lapel, a faint golden pattern appearing over his heart, resonating with the Five Poison Scripture.

This was a resonance inadvertently formed between him and the Scripture while he tried to suppress the riot of True Qi within his body.

"So that’s how it is..." Shi Feiyang threw his head back and laughed, a note of release in his voice. "The Scripture isn’t a murderous weapon—it’s a key!"

Only to see him suddenly grip the Celestial Frost Blade tight, pouring all his True Qi and the Scripture’s patterns into the blade.

The Celestial Frost Blade erupted with blinding radiance, its sigils transforming into golden chains that clashed and tangled with the chains from the phantom in the heavens. At the instant the two chains shattered with a resounding boom, the Nine Nether Demon God let out an unwilling roar, dissolving into dust under the searing light.

As for Sirius’s remains, they too were completely reduced to ash in the golden light.

In the distance, those Death Warriors fled in panic, leaving only ruin scattered across the ground. Shi Feiyang gazed at the Celestial Frost Blade in his hand, which had regained its brilliance, and murmured, "So the true secret of the Scripture... is to let the human heart resonate with heaven and earth..."

The aftershocks from the shattering of the golden chains had yet to fade when the snowy plain suddenly sank into an eerie, deathly silence.

The snow around Shi Feiyang began to tremble strangely—the blood that had seeped into the frozen earth actually turned into countless tiny blood leeches, swarming up through the cracks in the ice, wherever they passed the ice rapidly stained a dark red.

"Careful! It’s the Blood Leeches Soul-Devouring Array!" Before Guo Xiangyu’s warning from the sky had finished, the blood leeches had already surged forth like a tide.

Shi Feiyang snorted coldly and swung out the Celestial Frost Blade; wherever his saber energy passed, the blood leeches exploded into bloody mist, the stench so choking it made one’s eyes sting. Yet more leeches poured in from all directions, and in the blink of an eye they had crawled up to his ankles.

The Red Scorpion Sect Death Warriors seized the chance to strike; their leader tore open his crimson cloak, revealing a chest covered in centipede-like poisonous markings. "Taste the flavor of our sect’s ’Ten Thousand Gu Devour the Heart’!" With a shrill whistle, hundreds of palm-sized poisonous centipedes burst from his sleeves, each pair of venomous pincers glowing with ghostly blue phosphorescence, the snow igniting into eerie poisonous flames wherever they crawled.

Shi Feiyang tried to use the Bright Jade Technique to freeze the poisonous flames, only to discover that when his cold energy collided with the toxic fire, it let out a piercing crack, ice shards and sparks spraying in all directions.