Chapter 360: Sacrificial Summoning Art, the Sakura Country Divine Beast Appears
Sato’s hands were covered in fresh blood, yet his face was twisted into a bizarre smile.
He ignored Gu Yuexi, quickly crouching down. Using the blood from the two still-steaming hearts, he rapidly drew an incredibly complex, blood-red sigil on the ground!
The sigil looked like a writhing snake, exuding an ancient, evil, and nauseating aura.
“What is he doing?!”
Outside the arena, in the Great Xia mentors’ section, Chen Shanhe shot to his feet. He stared intently at the bloody sigil, his pupils constricting.
“Is that… the Sakura Country’s Forbidden Technique—Blood Contract Summoning?!”
“This is bad! It’s a Forbidden Technique that uses the blood of a Divine Beast as a catalyst, sacrificing the flesh, blood, and soul of living beings to forcibly summon a powerful Demon Beast!”
“Quick! Gu Yuexi! Stop him!”
Chen Shanhe roared in desperation, nearly charging in himself.
But he couldn’t get through.
The rules of the gauntlet were just that cruel. Unless one side was completely wiped out, the barrier would not open.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
The female leader of the Sakura Country team burst into a fit of crazed laughter.
“Hahaha! That’s it! Well done, Sato!”
“You should have used this trick from the start! Kill every last one of these damn Great Xia People!”
“What’s sacrificing a few weaklings for the sake of victory? This is the ultimate trump card our Great Sakura Empire has been preparing!”
Her laughter was filled with such madness and cruelty that the leaders from the other nations shivered in fear.
’These lunatics would even kill their own people just to win?’
Inside the arena.
Gu Yuexi’s brow was tightly furrowed.
Although she didn’t know what trick he was pulling, the intensifying sense of danger told her she absolutely could not let him complete the ritual.
“Courting death.”
She tried to swing her sword.
But the moment her fingers twitched, a sharp pain shot up from deep within her meridians.
That last attack, though she had only drawn the blade by two centimeters, had put far too much strain on her.
Right now, the meridians in her right arm were practically in spasms. She wouldn’t be able to use the sword again for a short while.
In that brief moment of hesitation, Sato completed the final step.
He pulled a small, black crystal vial from his robes, his face taking on an expression of pious reverence.
“Oh, great Divine Beast…”
“Please enjoy your offerings and descend upon this sullied mortal realm!”
CRACK!
The crystal vial was crushed.
A single drop of blood, so deep a black it seemed to devour light, slowly fell into the center of the bloody sigil.
That was…
The true blood of Orochi!
RUMBLE—!!!
The moment that drop of black blood hit the ground, the entire Beast Fighting Arena began to shake violently!
The two hearts placed on the sigil instantly exploded, transforming into a thick blood mist that was absorbed by the mark.
“PFFT—!”
As the caster, Sato also spat out a large mouthful of blood, his face instantly turning ashen.
The backlash from such a Forbidden Technique was terrifying; more than half of his Life Force was drained away in that instant.
But he was laughing.
He laughed with wild arrogance and triumph, his blood-soaked mouth making him look like a demon crawled up from hell.
“It worked… It worked! Hahahaha!”
“You’re finished! All of you damn Great Xia People will die without a grave!”
“Come forth, my Lord Divine Beast!”
HISSS—!!!
A terrifying hiss, as if from the primordial wilderness of antiquity, suddenly echoed throughout the arena!
Above the bloody sigil, Space shattered like a mirror.
Immediately after, a vast black mist erupted forth.
Within the black mist, an immense figure slowly emerged.
It was a snake.
But not an ordinary snake.
It possessed an enormous body, its scales shimmering with a cold, metallic light. Each scale was the size of a millstone.
The most terrifying part was… it had two heads!
Not some grotesque deformity, but two genuine, colossal heads!
Two monstrous, massive snake heads, radiating an overwhelming, ferocious might, appeared and disappeared within the black mist. Their four crimson, vertical pupils were like four red lanterns hanging in the air, coldly looking down upon the ants below.
“Th-this is…”
Zhao Cheng was so scared he fell right on his rear, his face deathly pale.
“Orochi?!”
“It only has two heads… but this aura…”
Shen Yixuan was also frozen stiff, the hand gripping his gun trembling.
“Eighth-Grade… and the Peak of Eighth-Grade!”
“How can a Demon Beast of this level possibly appear here?!”
At that moment, everyone on the Great Xia Team fell silent.
The overwhelming power of a Peak Eighth-Grade being made them all feel a sliver of despair.
Even Xiao Tian swallowed hard. “Lord Mosquito… Lord Mosquito hasn’t made a move yet. Lord Mosquito… he should be able to handle it, right?”
Even as he said it, he didn’t quite believe it himself.
How could a tiny mosquito possibly take on a clone of their Divine Beast?
…
“Hahaha! Did you see that? This is the power of a god!”
Sato knelt on the ground, kowtowing frantically to the two-headed giant snake.
“What a pity. The sacrifices were too few. I was only able to summon a two-headed clone of the great Divine Beast.”
“But… to kill trash like you, it’s more than enough!”
“My Lord Divine Beast! Please tear these Great Xia People to shreds! Their flesh and blood are far more delicious!”
One of the giant snake’s heads turned slightly to look at Sato, a trace of disdain in its eyes.
Then, its gaze shifted toward the Great Xia team.
It flicked its forked tongue, releasing gusts of a nauseating, foul wind.
It then slowly slithered to the center of the arena. Of its two heads, one stared at Gu Yuexi, while the other fixated on the black dot on her shoulder.
…
In the center of the arena.
Gu Yuexi still stood her ground, not retreating an inch.
But her expression was also extremely grave.
’A Divine Beast? This thing is worthy of being called a Divine Beast?’
’But… a Peak Eighth-Grade Demon Beast… for me, in my current state… is indeed a bit troublesome.’
She subconsciously turned her head to look at the mosquito on her shoulder.
At that moment, Chu Sheng was rubbing his ’chin’ with his forelegs, his compound eyes gleaming with keen interest.
“Buzz buzz?”
Noticing Gu Yuexi’s gaze, Chu Sheng turned his head.
“Buzz? (Why are you looking at me? Just draw your sword and slice it. That last move was so cool. Do it again and chop this thing in two.)”
The corner of Gu Yuexi’s mouth twitched slightly. With a stern face, she said:
“I… can’t draw it again for a while.”
Chu Sheng froze.
“Buzz buzz? (Huh? So you only drew it two centimeters because that’s all you *could* draw? You can’t pull it any further, can you?)”
’So she really was at her limit.’
Having the truth exposed by a mosquito, Gu Yuexi’s face instantly turned cold.
“…So what if I was?”
“This is the Ancient Divine Sword. Besides me, no one else in this world in the Sixth-Grade Realm can draw even an inch of this blade.”
As she spoke, she gritted her teeth, a resolute look flashing in her eyes.
“Hmph. Forget it. Even without the sword, I have my own ways of dealing with this beast!”
With that, she prepared to forcibly channel her Mental Power.
“Alright, alright.”
Just then, Chu Sheng’s exasperated voice cut her off.
He slowly flew up from Gu Yuexi’s shoulder and hovered in front of her.
“Stop trying to use your life-risking moves at the drop of a hat. You’re making it seem like I’m just here for decoration.”
“It’s just a deformed worm with two heads.”
Chu Sheng turned to face the imperious Orochi clone, his tone filled with a casual arrogance.
“Lord Mosquito will play with it for a bit.”
’I haven’t had a proper fight since my Mental Power and Qi Blood both advanced to the Sixth-Grade Late Stage.’
’This big bug will be the perfect warm-up!’
With that, Chu Sheng slowly took flight, flying toward the colossal figure.
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