“Heh heh, it seems I was careless. Those who could be brought here are all close confidants of the city lords, how could they flee on their own? But with you rabble, even if you unite, what waves can you create?” Shao Ying sneered, saying.

Having said that, he reached behind him with lightning speed with both hands, and when he retracted them, his palms were already wearing a pair of pale white bone claws, covered with glittering starlight, with dozens of star apertures, clearly a high-level Star Device.

At the same time, the clothes on his body swelled without wind, and one after another mysterious apertures lit up on the surface of his body.

“Two hundred and eighty-three apertures, you’ve opened so many…” Seeing this, Shi Chuan-kong’s expression couldn’t help but change slightly, and he murmured.

Not only him, but the face of Elder Hu beside him also changed. Two hundred and eighty-three mysterious apertures meant that his strength had reached the level of a city lord, and even surpassed Qin Yuan and others.

“Save the city lord, save the city lord…” Just then, a vague voice came from the ground.

When Shao Ying looked down, he saw Fang Chan, who had just fallen to the ground, had somehow stood up again.

From the bloody wound on his chest, wisps of red blood mist were emerging, and the broken flesh and blood were squirming quickly, repairing itself little by little at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At the same time, his figure actually grew several feet taller again, and black scales began to grow on his chest and shoulder joints. The blood color in his eyes was even more intense, and his fierce aura soared, making him look no different from a ferocious scaled beast.

“What did you give him to eat? It doesn’t seem like a beast pill for healing injuries?” Shao Ying frowned.

“I wonder if you’ve heard of it, it’s called Blood Tide Pill,” Shi Chuan-kong said with a smile.

This Blood Tide Pill was also given to him by his third brother, Shi Po-kong, back in the day. Shi Chuan-kong didn’t know if it contained any tricks like the jade pendant seal, but Fang Chan was on the verge of death just now, and he had no choice but to give it to him.

Judging from the current situation, there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with this pill, and its efficacy is far beyond his expectations.

“I thought it was some kind of miraculous elixir, but it’s just a pill to briefly stimulate the power of the flesh…” Shao Ying said, his figure suddenly flashed, and disappeared in place.

Shi Chuan-kong had been on guard, roaring, and tightly gripping a purple-black long staff with both hands, he swept it horizontally towards the void beside him.

With a sharp “铮” sound.

Two sharp bone claws划出数道火星on the staff and flashed past.

Shao Ying flew back upside down. After stabilizing his figure, he looked at the staff in Shi Chuan-kong's hand, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Just then, a shadow loomed over his head, and Fang Chan rushed over in large strides, raising a giant palm to slap him.

"Rumble" a loud noise!

Shao Ying flashed, barely dodging, but the earth in front of him was hit hard. Rocks splashed and cracked a huge opening that extended to the outside of the blood-colored light curtain before stopping.

Before he could stabilize his figure, a gust of wind suddenly rose behind him. Elder Hu had already followed closely, holding a delicate short blade flashing with white light in his hand, stabbing towards the back of his head.

Shao Ying snorted coldly, without dodging, he wrapped one hand around to the back of his head to protect it, and the other hand suddenly pulled backward. The stars on the white bone claw shone brightly, and a powerful tearing force emerged from it, directly distorting the void.

Elder Hu was pulled by this force and involuntarily leaned towards Shao Ying.

His heart was startled, and he stomped his feet on the ground, his feet directly sinking into the stone slabs on the ground, barely stopping his figure.

However, before he could feel at ease, Shao Ying had already turned around and attacked him.

Fortunately, Shi Chuan-kong and Fang Chan had already caught up and intercepted him, and the three of them joined forces to fight him in a melee.

On the other side, although Xuan Yuan-xing’s cultivation was slightly higher than Zhu Zi-qing’s, the latter's bone armor and bone spear were both very powerful Star Devices, making up for the difference in strength between the two, and they fought inextricably.

Compared to them, Zhu Zi-yuan and Duan Tong fought extremely fiercely, and it could be said that they were in constant danger.

At this moment, the purple-black runes on Duan Tong's exposed skin were all lit up, as if they were burning talisman paper, emitting bursts of scorching aura.

As this aura became more and more scorching, wisps of black smoke began to rise from his skin, enveloping his entire body, and even the mysterious apertures on his body could no longer be seen clearly.

After Zhu Zi-yuan picked him open with a spear, he distanced himself from him, and a hint of fear flashed in his eyes.

"It seems that compared to the last Five Cities Martial Arts Competition, your progress has improved a lot..." Zhu Zi-yuan couldn't help but sigh.

"I originally planned to win back the victory from that bitch Gu Qian-xun, but now it can only be considered your bad luck." Duan Tong's voice was muffled, coming from the surrounding black mist.

"Oh, then let's see if you have the strength." Zhu Zi-yuan casually replied, glancing at Zhu Zi-qing out of the corner of his eye.

"To dare to be distracted while fighting me, you're courting death!" Duan Tong was furious, and rushed forward, raising his right fist and smashing it down on Zhu Zi-yuan's head.

His right fist was already extremely large, and now it was surrounded by black mist, even more like a black magic lion biting down on Zhu Zi-yuan.

Zhu Zi-yuan withdrew his gaze, gripped the spear shaft with both hands, and thrust upward. A ball of starlight white light condensed on the tip of the spear, and when it came into contact with his right fist, it suddenly burst out with dazzling light.

The white light and black mist merged into one place, just like a blazing sun piercing into dark clouds, and immediately made bursts of "嗤嗤" sounds.

The black mist rolled violently, still quickly dissolving, a large amount of mist was burned clean, and Duan Tong's fist reappeared.

However, it was not in a fist posture, but he was holding the sharp spearhead of the snow-white bone spear tightly with his palm.

Zhu Zi-yuan gripped the spear with both hands and let out a violent roar, lifting the spear upwards.

On the white bone spear, one star aperture after another lit up, and the snow-white light bursting out from the spear tip soared several times, radiating from Duan Tong's tightly gripped fingers.

However, even so, Duan Tong did not let go, but took the opportunity to leap up, being picked into the high sky by Zhu Zi-yuan.

At this moment, the runes on Duan Tong's arm suddenly lit up with a large area of ​​scarlet light, and streams of thick mist burst out from his palm, like two swimming snakes, entwining the white bone spear and swimming towards Zhu Zi-yuan.

Seeing this, Zhu Zi-yuan frowned slightly, and shook his hands violently. The white bone spear then shook violently, and all the star apertures on the spear almost simultaneously burst out with a powerful force of stars, directly shattering the two black mist swimming snakes into powder.

But before he could stabilize the spear, a crisp "咔" sound suddenly came from the spearhead.

Immediately afterwards, he saw that the spearhead of his Star Device bone spear seemed to be completely decayed, turned into a black color, and shattered from the spear tip all the way down to the junction of the spear shaft.

"Damn it, it's Death Zombie Poison..." Zhu Zi-yuan was about to retreat when he suddenly stiffened and frowned.

He only felt that his legs were as if they had been filled with lead, becoming extremely heavy. Not to mention moving around, even moving a little became extremely difficult.

"Hmph, my Profound Arm has already been refined into Death Zombie Poison, so you can die in peace!" Duan Tong roared and punched Zhu Zi-yuan.

The black mist condensed on his right arm giant fist, like black clouds pressing down on the city, crushing down with an incomparably powerful oppressive force.

"Brother!" Zhu Zi-qing in the distance caught a glimpse of this scene and cried out loudly.

As soon as she was distracted, Xuan Yuan-xing slapped her shoulder, the shoulder bone armor exploded with a bang, and her body flew out directly like a broken sack.

Seeing this, Zhu Zi-yuan’s eyes narrowed, and anger surged in his eyes. All the mysterious apertures around his body lit up, and the body that was already difficult to move was twisted abruptly, avoiding Duan Tong’s punch.

With a loud "rumble", the ground exploded into a deep pit, chaotic world flying, smoke and dust everywhere.

……

Just as everyone was fighting inextricably, no one noticed that at this moment, the sky outside the main hall was howling with strong winds, and the rolling yellow clouds were just like yellow sheep being driven, gathering towards this side from all directions.

Under the cover of these sky-遮地黄clouds, the area of ​​hundreds of miles centered on the main hall below was pitch black, like the bottom of a pot.

The increasingly thick clouds, stacked layer upon layer, and under the control of a mysterious force, gradually formed a huge vortex like a storm, with a dark hole in the middle, just like its eyes, coldly overlooking the main hall below.

Thick arcs of electricity appeared and jumped in the cloud vortex, and the dull rumbling sound was endless.

Before long, the vortex had already reached ten thousand feet in size, and an extremely powerful aura was brewing in it, accumulating for a long time but always enduring without breaking out.

……

Inside the main hall, among the five people in the Blood Weeping Great Array, except for E Kui, the other four had completely collapsed on the top of the statue, their faces pale and their bodies trembling uncontrollably.

Sun Tu and the others seemed to have given up resisting, their eyes dim, and they were almost in despair.

Although Chen Yang was drooping his head, his expression was dejected, but what was revealed in the depths of his eyes was an undisguised anxiety and worry.

At the same time, on the stone arch bridge leading to the back hall, a figure appeared silently, but did not rush over, but carefully restrained his breath and flashed to this side of the bridge.

This person is naturally none other than Han Li.

As soon as he returned to the altar, he first saw the strangeness in the Blood Weeping Great Array. Except for E Kui, Chen Yang and others were obviously not right, completely different from the scene before he left.

This made him involuntarily recall the restriction triggered by the sulfurous blood cloud in his dantian not long ago. Could it be that all this in front of him is related to this? Or is it E Kui's conspiracy?

Before he had time to think, he witnessed an extremely tragic scene. Elder Hu of Xuan Zhi City under Qin Yuan's command failed to sneak attack on Shao Ying, but was pierced in the chest by a pair of bone claws in his hand.

Only a "嗤啦" sound was heard.

Shao Ying divided his hands left and right, and the elder let out a scream, and the whole person was torn apart.

Before his Nascent Soul could escape, Shao Ying tore it down again, shattering it into powder.

And Fang Chan, who had transformed into half a monster, let out a sharp roar, and rolling sound waves surged towards Shao Ying.

The latter tapped his toes and moved away instantly, avoiding the attack, but directly swept towards Shi Chuan-kong.