Chang 'an once again became a ghost town.
Black fog shrouded the entire city.
However, this time, the culprit was no longer Lord Xuan of the Demons. Instead, it was … Prince Qing, who was once regarded as the Divine General of the Da Xia Kingdom, Xia Qing!
In the sky, Prince Qing wielded the Slaughter Lord Spear and displayed his full strength. He was like a god, extremely powerful and glorious.
In Chang 'an City, the cultivators who were lucky enough to survive stood stupefied.
They raised their heads and looked at the sky. They watched as the wisps of blood formed from their Essence Blood were continuously drawn out of their bodies. They surged into the air and gathered into the ball of blood. Their faces were extremely pale.
In the palace.
After knowing that there would be no other changes to the situation, and that Prince Qing's true goal was to massacre Chang 'an, the cultivators of the Da Xia Kingdom who had originally held onto a glimmer of hope completely lost all hope.
One of them finally burst into tears and knelt on the ground.
"Bastard, bastard. Our ancestors established the Da Xia Kingdom to protect the human race. As a member of the Da Xia Kingdom's royal family, how could he do this? How could he?"
There were tens of millions of humans in Chang 'an City. For 20,000 years, Chang' an City had been the leader of the Human Territory. It was extremely prosperous.
After today, this city would become a ghost town.
The cultivator of the Da Xia Kingdom who knelt on the ground clenched his fists and hammered the ground. "I was wrong. I was wrong …"
He was the Marquis Pingfeng of the Da Xia Kingdom, a Realm Eight great cultivator. In the past, he did not show his emotions on his face. However, today, he could no longer control his emotions and burst into tears.
Back then, when the Giant Spirit Demons launched a surprise attack on the human city, he was a small cultivator in one of the city gates. He had personally witnessed Prince Qing risking his life to break out of the encirclement and spread the news, thus quelling the chaos.
Hence, ever since then, he had always been a loyal fan of Prince Qing.
Later on, his cultivation base had improved, and he had even become the current Marquis Pingfeng. However, his respect for Prince Qing had never decreased. He had always supported Prince Qing in his heart, hoping that Prince Qing could take over the position of the ruler of the Da Xia Kingdom.
Yet now, faced with the scene of King Qing massacring the entire city, the feeling of his conviction crumbling nearly caused him to collapse. His lips were trembling nonstop.
"Why would Prince Qing do such a thing … Back then, he was willing to die for the sake of the human race. How did he end up like this?"
The other cultivators of the Da Xia Kingdom might not be as indignant as Marquis Pingfeng, but their eyes were also bloodshot. They clenched their fists so tightly that their knuckles cracked.
The current Prince Qing was very, very powerful.
He had been a Martial Emperor for less than ten thousand years, but he already had the strength to rank among the top five cultivators of the Human Clan. There was no doubt about his talent.
However, such a great cultivator, who was supposed to be the pillar of the human race, had chosen to stab his spear at his own kind, the human race that he was supposed to protect.
How could he not feel pain in his heart?
"What is Prince Qing trying to do?" The Chang 'an West Marquis gritted his teeth and said, "First, he defeated Lord Xuan, then he slaughtered Chang' an …"
"He wants Xue Tu to break through, but he doesn't want to be condemned by everyone." At that moment, Xia Hou's voice came from the throne.
"Ah?!" Everyone was shocked. After thinking about it carefully, they all understood what was going on.
Massacring the city was a crime.
However, if Prince Qing successfully advanced to Half-Ancestor after massacring the city, he would become the strongest person in the human race.
After all, even the Sky River Sword Immortal, Chu Mushen, only had the combat strength of a Half-Ancestor. He was still a Sword Immortal.
At that time, there would be no one who could punish Prince Qing.
Since Xue Tu had already happened, and in exchange, a new Half-Ancestor cultivator of the human race had appeared. Even if they could punish him, at this juncture where a great war was about to break out, would they still be able to come to a consensus?
There were many twists and turns in this. A Half-Ancestor cultivator was definitely the right arm of a race.
Even if there was a tumor growing on his arm, it was still his arm after all.
How many people would be willing to cut off their own arm?
Chang 'an had already been massacred. For the sake of the human race, would the others really have the determination to kill Prince Qing and avenge the people of Chang' an?
It was a simple logic.
This was Prince Qing's overt scheme.
As long as he succeeded, no one would care about his mistakes. Even if there were people who bore a grudge against him, they could only pinch their noses and accept it.
Moreover, lions did not need to care about sheep's gazes.
.....
In the skies.
The invincible Prince Qing stood in the clouds and looked down at Chang 'an City. His face was gradually blurred by the black fog.
The entire Chang 'an City had turned into a pill furnace.
The humans in the city were the spiritual materials.
He was the pill master.
Before Prince Qing was a mass of condensed blood essence. A terrifying aura gradually appeared in this mass of blood, causing the surroundings to rumble.
His breathing could not help but quicken.
"Impossible …" Sovereign Xuan, who had already lost his ability to move and was firmly bound by Prince Qing's Great Formation of Slaughtering, was still in a daze when he saw this scene.
The Blood Symbol Mantra was one of the Eight Secrets of the Abyss. It was a supreme secret art.
Even among the Giant Beings, there were very few who could truly comprehend this secret.
However, Prince Qing had not received any inheritance of the secret art. With just a little information, he could forcefully deduce this secret art.
How could Sovereign Xuan believe this?
This was completely beyond the scope of his understanding.
On the other side, Prince Qing took a deep breath and calmed himself down. He looked at Sovereign Xuan, and his lips curled into a cold smile.
He was confident that as long as he had a breakthrough, no one would dare to pursue the matter of him slaughtering Chang 'an.
However, this was not his only goal.
He still needed the position of the Da Xia Kingdom's supreme ruler.
If someone who slaughtered Chang 'an wanted to take over the position of the Da Xia Kingdom's supreme ruler, it would be difficult for him to be accepted by the masses.
Hence, he still needed a fig leaf, a pretense.
As for this pretense …
He had it all planned out.
Sovereign Xuan!
The Sovereign Xuan, the strongest among the Giant Beings and Demons!
The Blood Symbol Mantra was the secret art of the Giant Beings and Demons.
Naturally, the slaughtering of Chang 'an was done by the Demons and Sovereign Xuan. It had nothing to do with him.
It was Sovereign Xuan who had somehow infiltrated the Human Domain and massacred Chang 'an.
As for him, not only would he not be the culprit of the massacre of Chang 'an, but he would also be the hero who had a breakthrough in his cultivation base in the face of Sovereign Xuan's rebellion. He would avenge the people of Chang' an and kill Sovereign Xuan with his own hands.
He would establish himself as the Divine General of the Da Xia Kingdom. His reputation would be unparalleled for a time!
Prince Qing had already considered every aspect and every detail in his 10,000 years of preparation.
However …
This was not the only reason he had gone through so much trouble to lure Sovereign Xuan into the Human Domain.
After deducing the Blood Symbol Mantra and fully mastering it, he understood something that he could not understand before. After all, there were countless Demons, and they had a surplus that could be squandered at will. However, the Giant Beings and Demons who had mastered the Blood Symbol Mantra had never dominated.
This did not make sense.
If he could slaughter Chang 'an and break through, Sovereign Xuan should be able to imitate him. If that was the case, why did Sovereign Xuan not try it?
Was it because Sovereign Xuan had a conscience and did not want to break through by slaughtering his own kind?
This idea was too naive.
There was only one reason.
To break through, it was not enough to rely solely on the amount of Blood Essence. The quality of the Blood Essence was also required.
Just like refining an Immortal Pill, an extremely powerful main ingredient was required — the Blood Essence of a powerful cultivator.
Although there were many Giant Beings and Demons, the Blood Essence that could help Sovereign Xuan break through was only from the other three peak Devil Lords.
It was easy to slaughter Blood Essence, but difficult to kill a Devil Lord. This was the reason.
Similarly, the Blood Essence of all the Chang 'an cultivators in the city was only a supplementary ingredient for Prince Qing to refine the Breakthrough Pill. His main ingredient was …
Sovereign Xuan's Blood Essence!
The Blood Essence of the strongest Devil Lord in the Giant Beings, a peak Devil Lord who was infinitely close to becoming a Half-Saint, was definitely qualified to be the "main ingredient".
Not only did Prince Qing want Sovereign Xuan to take the blame for him, but he also wanted to use the Blood Symbol Mantra to refine Sovereign Xuan and help him break through.
The next moment, Xia Qing took a deep breath and waved his left hand. Immediately, wisps of black mist flew out from his palm.
As the black mist flew out, a terrifying aura spread out. Even the cultivators of the Da Xia Kingdom in the palace, who were some distance away from Prince Qing, could feel the power.
As the target of the black mist, Sovereign Xuan felt it the most. The pressure from the Blood Symbol Art made his body tremble uncontrollably.
He never thought that there would be a day when someone would use the Blood Symbol Art to extract his Blood Essence!
Prince Qing's eyes shone brightly. He channeled his Invincible Cultivation Base and fully activated the Secret Art until the black mist completely covered Sovereign Xuan's body.
At first, the black mist kept rolling, but no wisps of Blood Essence flew out.
This was the strength of a Sovereign Xuan. Even if he was extremely weak, his powerful God-Devil Body could still seal his Blood Essence and Life Essence, preventing them from being extracted.
"Go!" Seeing this, Prince Qing's expression finally changed. He threw out the Sovereign Slayer Spear in his right hand.
Golden light shone brightly as divine flames filled the sky. The Sovereign Slayer Spear pierced through the sky and sank into the rolling black mist.
"Splat!"
The specific scene in the black mist could not be seen, but the sound of the spear piercing into a body could be heard.
Immediately after, green blood and a painful scream came from the black mist.
Prince Qing did not show mercy. This time, Sovereign Xuan was severely injured!
After a short while, countless green wisps of Blood Essence intertwined and swam out from the black mist. They even intertwined in the air, forming runes of Life Essence. Each rune was surging with Blood Essence.
"Come." Prince Qing revealed a greedy expression as he fused all the green wisps of Blood Essence into the blood ball in front of him.
"Refine!" He shouted. As the green wisps of Blood Essence fused into the blood ball, the blood ball began to shrink again.
The green wisps of Blood Essence were continuously extracted and refined into the blood ball. Rumbling sounds came from the blood ball, and the pressure and aura from it became more and more terrifying.
Gradually, Prince Qing's body began to tremble.
Using the Blood Symbol Incantation like this was quite a burden for him.
However, his eyes were filled with determination.
His hands trembled slightly as he pressed down on the blood ball.
Immediately after, the blood ball that had shrunk to the size of a baby's fist suddenly shrank and turned into a blood pill the size of a fingernail.
The original scarlet color mixed with green had completely transformed into gold!
A supreme aura erupted from the blood pill.
The aura of a Half-Martial Ancestor.
The "Breakthrough Pill" was completed!
Prince Qing's body trembled, and his breathing quickened. He raised his right hand without hesitation, grabbed the blood pill, and swallowed it.
In an instant, as the blood pill entered his mouth, a majestic force erupted from the blood pill, and the impact caused Prince Qing's body to tremble.
The powerful and pure Blood Essence without any impurities was fusing with his own Qi and blood, cleansing his body.
The blood pill was like a wave, tempering and cleansing his body. It caused his cultivation base that had already reached the limit of the Venerable Realm to surpass the limit, and he was infinitely close to … Half-Martial Ancestor!
"I'll break through to Half-Martial Ancestor first!" Prince Qing's eyes shone with a strange light. All the meridians and blood in his body were rumbling. The power of the blood pill spread to every part of his body. Strands of golden blood sank into his meridians and flowed rapidly through his body along with his Origin Energy.
Every time a strand of golden blood completely fused with his blood, Xia Qing's cultivation base would rise a little. This kind of rise allowed him to continuously advance toward the Half-Martial Ancestor Realm.
A terrifying will was awakening in his body.
The entire process was extremely fast.
In just a few breaths of time, the last strand of energy from the blood pill in Prince Qing's body finally fused with him.
Then, his body suddenly trembled.
Following the trembling, an earth-shattering aura suddenly erupted.
Prince Qing's cultivation base grew stronger and stronger. His Origin Energy fluctuations formed a terrifying storm around his body.
In the palace, the cultivators of the Da Xia Kingdom and Xia Hong's expressions were solemn as they watched this scene in silence.
"He's going to break through," Xia Hong muttered.
Prince Qing had been preparing for this day for far too long. Coupled with his talent that could be said to be the number one body cultivator in the world, it was not surprising that he could break through.
"Half-Martial Ancestor. The only Half-Martial Ancestor in the human race is actually such a person." The Marquis of Pingfeng's eyes were about to shed tears of blood.
Before this, he had always been loyal to Prince Qing and even looked down on Xia Hong because of this. He felt that her virtue was unworthy of the position and that she had forcefully taken over the position that should belong to Prince Qing.
However, no matter what, his belief was to protect the human race. This would not change. He was loyal to Prince Qing because he felt that Prince Qing was more suitable to lead the Da Xia Kingdom and could better protect the human race.
But now …
"We cultivators can die at the hands of Demons or on the battlefield. At most, the younger cultivators can avenge us. But no matter what, we shouldn't die at Prince Qing's hands!"
"If we slaughter tens of millions of humans in exchange for a Half-Martial Ancestor, then how are we different from Devil Cultivators?"
In order to become a Half-Martial Ancestor, Prince Qing could sacrifice Chang 'an. Then, in the future, for the Ancestor Realm, would Prince Qing sacrifice the entire Human Territory?
The human race had never had such a powerful cultivator.
Back then, Dao Ancestor Xia had broken into the Ancestor Realm with her own strength!
Endless unwillingness surged in the Marquis of Pingfeng's heart, but he did not know who could stop the current Prince Qing.
.....
Prince Qing closed his eyes slightly, and his aura grew stronger.
His hair and clothes fluttered. Within his divine might, a wisp of … Ancestor Will gradually condensed!
It was extremely domineering and powerful, and it surged into the heavens.
Xia Qing's eyes abruptly opened. The instant he did so, everyone heard a thunderous roar. Even their souls began to tremble.
Behind Prince Qing, the illusory image of two Heavenly Pillars overflowing with light appeared.
They were hazy, flickering, and indistinct.
"Heavenly Gate Shadow."
"This is a phenomenon that can only be summoned by a Half-Martial Ancestor. Because their cultivation base has reached a level that this world cannot tolerate, the Heavenly Gate is about to appear."
"If they can open the Heavenly Gate without dying, they will obtain great fortune and reach the tenth realm, the Ancestor Realm."
When the cultivators of Da Xia Kingdom saw this, they could not help but mutter.
This was the limit of a cultivator.
Above that was the Ancestor Realm.
Prince Qing was now a Half-Martial Ancestor!
However, amidst these absent-minded murmurs, Xia Qing, who had opened his eyes, had a cold gaze as he looked down on them.
His voice was incomparably calm, but it carried a powerful will that was difficult to resist. "Do you know that I've never wanted to become a Half-Martial Ancestor, but … the Ancestor Realm!"
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