The sinister aura in the Blood Cave was different from the thin strands in the Blood Tide Forbidden Area. The sinister aura here was like smoke, and it lingered around Gu Zheng and the others' immortal power barriers.
Fortunately, Gu Zheng and the others were all at the Golden Immortal Stage and above. Even though they had suppressed their cultivation bases, the strength of their immortal power shields was still stronger than that of ordinary cultivators at the peak of the Return to Void Stage. Otherwise, it would be very troublesome to deal with the Blood Qi that was almost everywhere! After all, this blood aura had a certain degree of destructive power against immortal power barriers. If they stayed here for too long, it was inevitable that their immortal power barriers would break.
Furthermore, the blood aura here also had the characteristic of entangling divine sense. Thus, not to mention using divine sense to attack, they couldn't even use divine sense to investigate. This undoubtedly made it more difficult for Gu Zheng and the others to find the demonic cultivators.
"Squeak squeak squeak squeak …"
Strange squeaks sounded from below, and a large 'red cloud' flew up.
The 'red cloud' was made up of blood-red bats. Gu Zheng and the others could tell at a glance that these bats, which were only the size of a bowl, had the strength of a high-grade spirit beast.
For ordinary cultivators, bats, which were equivalent to high-grade spirit beasts, were already considered a formidable foe! However, Gu Zheng and the others were all cultivators, and cultivators with relatively high cultivation bases at that. Thus, these bats were nothing to them.
Three fire dragons appeared at the same time, and they roared as they opened a path for Gu Zheng and the others. Gu Zheng and the others followed behind the fire dragons and began to search for the demonic cultivators. As for the bats that came into contact with the fire dragons, they were burned into nothingness. After all, they were spirits born from the Blood Cave, and they didn't really have a physical body.
Gu Zheng and the others were searching for the members of the Demonic Dao Alliance. At this moment, the twenty or so members of the Demonic Dao Alliance were standing in front of a stone wall underground, looking at the Great Alliance Leader Nightmare with hopeful eyes.
The Great Alliance Leader Nightmare was bleeding, and his blood dripped onto the roots of a fruit tree growing on the stone wall.
The fruit tree looked very strange, like a twisted snake. It didn't have a single leaf, and there were more than thirty cherry-sized blood-red berries hanging from its branches.
Following the absorption of the Nightmare Blood, the small berry began to flicker with a red light, and the smell of blood became stronger.
"Take the fruit and you won't have to be afraid of the Blood Qi in the Blood Acupoint anymore."
The King of Nightmares distributed the fruits to the demonic cultivators and frowned slightly. He seemed to sense something and tapped his forehead with his index finger. Immediately, the images of Gu Zheng and the others appeared in front of him.
"Hmph."
Nightmare laughed coldly, then turned to the Devil Cultivator and said, "Gu Zheng and the rest have already entered, you guys go and kill them now!"
With a thought, the location of Gu Zheng and the others immediately appeared in the minds of the demonic cultivators.
"This subordinate obeys!"
The demonic cultivators accepted the order in unison and flew in the direction of Gu Zheng and the others without any nonsense.
If the demonic cultivators had heard Gu Zheng's name before taking the berries, they might have been a little afraid. They might even ask the King of Nightmares if they could really kill Gu Zheng and the others. However, after taking the berries, they were no longer their original selves. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they were the King of Nightmares' puppets!
Not all of the demonic cultivators went to kill Gu Zheng and the others. Beside the King of Nightmares stood the Second and Third Alliance Leaders of the Demonic Dao Alliance.
"Great Alliance Leader, can they really kill Gu Zheng and the others?"
Alliance Master Three, who had greyish-white hair and a slightly thin face, asked worriedly.
The King of Nightmares didn't immediately answer the Third Alliance Leader's question. He had watered the berries with his blood earlier, so his Blood Qi was somewhat unstable. At this moment, he closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing.
"Isn't it just one Gu Zheng? Do you really think he's someone important? "
Seeing that the King of Nightmares didn't answer, the Second Alliance Leader, Venerable Master Chenguang, sneered.
"It's not that I want to think of him as someone important, but he himself is someone important! In just a few years, he went from an ordinary person to an immortal cultivator. Then, he ascended to the Eldritch World and returned to Earth. He even fought with the Great Alliance Leader! It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he's a legend! "Alliance Leader Three said seriously.
"If we didn't have to go get the demonic artifact first, I would have gone over to take care of Gu Zheng right now!"
Venerable Master Chenguang sneered, and the corners of his mouth curled into a trace of defiance. An object that looked like a coiled dragon also floated beside him as he spoke.
The coiled dragon jade was the Kunlun Sect's Realm Stone. Now that it had shrunk, it was controlled by Venerable Master Chenguang. Furthermore, not everyone could control such a treasure that contained extremely powerful Realm Energy! For example, when Gu Zheng first came to Mount Shu, the only person who could control the Hidden Sword Peak in Mount Shu wasn't Xuan Qizi, who had the highest cultivation, but Elder Feng, who wasn't even an immortal cultivator.
Another point was that there was a limit to how much one could control treasures like the Realm Stone and the Hidden Sword Peak. The lower the degree of control, the lower the power that could be unleashed. Back then, Elder Feng of Mount Shu and the people who could control the Hidden Sword Peak in Mount Shu could only control the Hidden Sword Peak at the most basic level! This basic level of control couldn't even be achieved by bringing the Hidden Sword Peak out of Mount Shu! On the other hand, Venerable Master Chenguang could already change the size of the Realm Stone and bring it into the Blood Cave. The degree of control he had over it was very obvious.
"Don't think that just because you can control the Realm Stone, you can definitely defeat Gu Zheng! Don't forget that your control over the Realm Stone hasn't reached a very high level! "Alliance Leader Three shook his head and said.
"Even if it's not very high level, it's enough to deal with Gu Zheng!" Venerable Master Chenguang was unconvinced.
"Alright, the two of you stop arguing!"
After finishing his meditation, Incubus opened his eyes and looked at Venerable Master Chenguang. "Put away your contempt for Gu Zheng. If we really encounter Gu Zheng, we must fight him with all our strength!"
Incubus looked at Alliance Leader Three again. "I don't expect them to kill Gu Zheng. It's just that I needed to rest just now, so I didn't immediately cast the spell again."
After Incubus finished speaking, his body trembled, and countless blood-red mist shot out from his body.
"Rumble …"
A sound came from the depths of the Blood Cave. The blood aura that originally existed in the air began to surge out from the depths of the Blood Cave. In the end, it completed a connection with the blood aura that Incubus had separated and started to churn in the air.
"Roar!"
Strange cries continuously came from the depths of the Blood Cave. In an extremely short period of time, a total of seven humanoid monsters flew out and attacked Gu Zheng and the others according to Incubus's will.
The seven humanoid monsters were originally humans. It was just that they had been in the Blood Cave for too long and had been deeply affected by the blood aura. That was why they had become neither human nor ghost! When they were alive, they were demonic cultivators who had entered the Blood Cave in search of opportunities but had never been able to leave.
"With these seven blood slaves, it should be enough to deal with Gu Zheng, right?" Incubus sneered after finishing his cultivation.
Alliance Leader Three nodded and said, "Even if it's not enough, there's still the three of us!"
"Let's go. It'll take some time to collect the demonic artifacts, and I'll need the two of you to help. When the time comes, just follow my instructions."
After Incubus finished speaking, the three of them flew into the depths of the Blood Cave.
At the same time, in the maze-like tunnel, Gu Zheng and the others had already started fighting with more than twenty demonic cultivators.
It was not as intense as expected. After all, Gu Zheng had no intention of sparring, so his attacks were deadly.
Although Gu Zheng had no choice but to suppress his cultivation base to the Return to Void Pinnacle Stage on Earth, the Five Elements Immortal Ball and the Immortal Power Ball were different. Moreover, he had many immortal artifacts with him. As a Return to Void Pinnacle Stage cultivator, he felt like a tiger entering a flock of sheep when facing the large group of demonic cultivators from the Demonic Dao Alliance.
The Phoenix Eagle wings behind him had already been fully extended. Gu Zheng moved at lightning speed, dodging left and right among the demonic cultivators. Since the start of the battle, not a single demonic cultivator had been able to last more than three moves against him!
"This, this is the legendary Heaven Flipping Seal?"
Seeing Gu Zheng take out a huge seal and smash the head of a demonic cultivator in the distance into pieces, Perfected Han Shuang could not help but exclaim.
"Don't talk nonsense, kill them quickly!"
With a ruthless person like Gu Zheng around, even Yue Qiushui and Perfected Han Shuang had an easier time killing the enemies. Although Yue Qiushui, who was berating Perfected Han Shuang, had long been dazzled by Gu Zheng's endless methods, she still remembered Gu Zheng's previous instructions. The sooner the battle ended, the better! That was because every attack they made would consume the lifespan of the Kunlun Ruins. The situation in the Kunlun Ruins was not much better than the Shu Ruins.
"With your current cultivation, you dare to come and fight me?"
Gu Zheng finally arrived beside Yu Yang. However, in the face of his question, Yu Yang, who was no match for him at all, did not have the slightest bit of fear in his eyes other than the fearlessness of death.
"Die!"
Gu Zheng raised his saber and chopped off Yu Yang's head.
"A bunch of pitiful worms who were used by the King of Nightmares!"
Gu Zheng looked at Yu Yang's falling corpse mockingly and then flew to the next enemy.
Whether it was Yu Yang or the demonic cultivators from the Xuanming Sect who had once attacked Foggy Wind Island, Gu Zheng did not plan to bring them out. He fixed them on the Emei Sect's stone pillar. After all, this was the final battle. The grudges that were related to them would also end in this battle!
When the seven blood slaves arrived, only a few of the original 20 over demonic cultivators were left.
The blood slaves, who were covered in bone spikes and no longer looked human, did not attack Gu Zheng and the rest immediately. Instead, they all roared excitedly.
As the blood slaves roared, the souls of the dead demonic cultivators flew toward them and were sucked into their mouths and noses.
Gu Zheng and the rest did not spend any time dealing with the souls of the demonic cultivators that they had killed. However, who would have thought that the souls were actually nourishment for the blood slaves?
After absorbing the souls of the demonic cultivators, the blood slaves' originally stooped bodies straightened. The aura they emitted also increased sharply.
The blood thralls devouring the souls of the fiendish cultivators happened in an extremely short period of time. During this period of time, Gu Zheng and Yue Qiushui were dealing with the remaining fiendish cultivators, while Daoist Han Shuang was attacking a blood thrall.
However, not only did Enlightened Master Han Shuang's immortal technique not cause any harm to the blood slave, but it was also completely devoured by the blood aura surrounding the blood slave.
"Martial Granduncle, these guys are very powerful!"
Enlightened Master Han Shuang, who had attacked with all her might, already felt terrified when the blood slaves' bodies had not expanded. Now that their bodies had expanded, Enlightened Master Han Shuang hurriedly asked Gu Zheng for help.
Gu Zheng let go of the demonic cultivator he was chasing. His body flashed and disappeared from the spot. When he reappeared, he had already slashed the neck of a blood slave with his saber.
The blood slave's body was the size of a cow, and its neck was not very thick. However, Gu Zheng's saber did not cut through its neck. It only cut halfway through! From this, it could be seen that the defensive power of the blood slave's physical body was very strong.
Moreover, although Gu Zheng had cut Tang Mo into the blood slave's neck, the blood slave did not die. A strong suction force was released from its neck, vainly trying to prevent Gu Zheng from pulling Tang Mo out. At the same time, two blood slaves spat out two streams of blood aura that reeked of blood at Gu Zheng from different directions.
"Die!"
Gu Zheng did not choose to pull out his saber and leave. The Five Elements Immortal Sphere in his body shook, and Tang Mo's body was immediately wrapped in his' Natal True Fire '! The blood slave's neck that had not been cut off was quickly cut off by Gu Zheng like butter meeting a kitchen knife on fire.
After cutting off the blood slave's head, Gu Zheng teleported again and dodged the blood aura spat out by the other two blood slaves. However, his immortal power shield was still unavoidably stained by some of it.
"Zzzt zzzt zzzt …"
Like water dripping into hot oil, the blood aura attached to Gu Zheng's immortal power shield turned into a large patch of faint red and continued to corrode Gu Zheng's immortal power shield.
Gu Zheng frowned. As the immortal power sphere in his body shook, a portion of the extreme Yang energy stored in it was immediately added to the immortal power shield, causing the red color to quickly fall off.
"Whoosh …"
Sounds of attacks rang out from several directions. The attacks launched by several blood thralls had already closed in on Gu Zheng. Moreover, the blood slave that Gu Zheng had just beheaded was not dead. A stream of blood-red light shot out from its headless neck and transformed into the shape of a skull. It was also heading toward Gu Zheng's chest.
"Die!"
In the face of attacks from multiple directions, Gu Zheng's body suddenly flew backward, and the magnificent phoenix eagle wings on his back flapped violently.
As a top-grade immortal tool, the phoenix eagle wings not only gave Gu Zheng the ability to fly quickly, but the flaming light on them was also not just for show.
As Gu Zheng flew backward, the phoenix eagle wings flapped, and a rain of fire instantly fell over a large area. Moreover, each drop of fire was the size of an egg.
Fire was the nemesis of evil beings, let alone the rain of fire from a top-grade immortal tool! The attacks that had been attacking Gu Zheng were all annihilated by the rain of fire. Even the seven blood slaves were struck. As they screamed in agony, dense cracks appeared on the surface of their bodies, and a deep red light leaked out from these cracks.
Immortal tools displayed their superiority in a realm where they had no choice but to suppress their opponents! If Gu Zheng had only been at the Return to Void Pinnacle Stage to deal with these blood slaves, he would have had to expend quite a bit of effort. However, the power of the rain of fire was not something that could be compared to that of a cultivator at the Return to Void Pinnacle Stage! The originally rampant blood thrall could no longer bear it in the blink of an eye.
"These monsters want to explode!"
In fact, Gu Zheng did not need the weapon spirit's reminder. He could see that the monsters could not withstand the burning of the rain of fire and wanted to use the explosion as a final attack. Moreover, the deep red light in their bodies gave Gu Zheng a sense of danger. This made Gu Zheng feel that if he did not stop all of this, not only would Yue Qiushui be unlucky, but Enlightened Master Han Shuang would also be unlucky.
"Raging Sea Tide!"
Gu Zheng pushed his palms forward, and a huge wave appeared out of nowhere and crashed toward the seven blood slaves like a tsunami.
Water-type immortal techniques had always been Gu Zheng's forte. Although Gu Zheng had used them less after his ascension, this did not mean that they had become useless.
As the tsunami-like wave advanced toward the blood slaves, it changed. When it reached the blood slaves at an extremely fast speed, its original liquid state had already become a mixture of solid and gas.
The water had turned into ice, and a thick cold mist curled around it. It was so cold that even the extremely hot blood cave was so cold that it made people tremble.
Bam bam bam bam …
Several sounds rang out one after another. The blood slaves left seven holes in the tsunami-formed glacier, and they remained motionless.
"Kacha kacha …"
Cracking sounds rang out one after another. The seven blood slaves, who had already turned into ice sculptures, shattered from the cracks on their bodies until they became pieces of blood-red ice.
While Gu Zheng was dealing with the blood slaves, Yue Qiushui and Enlightened Master Han Shuang had already dealt with the last two demonic cultivators. The entire process took only a few minutes. The passageway, which was originally filled with the sounds of battle, was now excessively quiet.
"Uncle-Master!"
Looking at Gu Zheng, who had displayed a new technique and easily dealt with the blood slaves, Yue Qiushui's eyes were filled with fervor.
"Let's go!"
Gu Zheng did not say anything and led the way into the depths of the passageway. Previously, he had performed a soul-searching on a demonic cultivator and knew where they had separated from the Nightmare Lord.
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