Cultivation Starts from Killing Pigs-Chapter 235 - 234: Heretical Blood Sacrifice, Destroying Gods and Breaking Altars
"You... you are also of the Divine Race?"
Venerate Huanxin was dumbfounded.
He really hadn’t expected Zhang Kui to counterattack in this manner.
That round light was a unique symbol of Divine Spirits, much like the Illusionary Dharma Aspect of the Mahayana Realm. How could this guy in front of him possess it?
Moreover, the intricate runes on it seemed even more advanced than his own...
Venerate Huanxin suddenly felt a little uneasy. The guy in front of him had a physical body even more powerful than his own, coupled with such a mystical round light. Could he be a high-ranking Divine Spirit with a hidden identity?
He had gone through so much hardship to find this path, and he didn’t want to offend someone out of the blue.
"Take a guess!"
Zhang Kui snorted coldly, forming a sword technique with his fingers. Hundreds and thousands of purple sword lights appeared out of thin air, whistling out with an astonishing aura.
He hadn’t expected that "Longevity" would undergo such a transformation after consuming that Divine Resentment.
Ancient exotic vines, Immortal Fungus, strange blood-colored cloth strips, the white gauze sealing the Locust Demon... "Longevity" had absorbed too many peculiar things, and the evolution path was no longer within his control.
However, there was no time to ponder it now. Getting rid of this guy was the priority.
A thousand sword lights arrived in an instant, and Venerate Huanxin’s expression turned grim as he dodged swiftly. Meanwhile, the black round light behind him flickered continuously as he pointed with a finger and shouted, "Stabilize!"
However, the sword lights showed no sign of stopping; instead, they dispersed instantly, blocking him from all directions.
Venerate Huanxin’s expression changed abruptly, "Impossible, why are my Divine Powers ineffective against you?"
Zhang Kui laughed heartily, "Because mine is the ancestor of round lights, and yours is just a descendant. How dare a descendant act presumptuously before an ancestor!"
"Nonsense!"
Venerate Huanxin’s face twisted in anger as his three pairs of arms whipped out with black light, attempting to swat away the oncoming sword lights.
Given the strength of his divine body and the transformed Divine Power, it was not surprising that he could confront flying swords barehanded.
Indeed, explosive sounds rang out continuously, purple light scattered, and sword lights were knocked away.
However, Venerate Huanxin’s face changed again as he swiftly retreated, looking at the sword wounds on his hands, where the flesh was continually necrotizing and peeling away, his eyes filled with doubt and alarm.
"What is this thing?"
The person before him had already instilled fear in him—a terrifying physical body, a round light that could negate Divine Powers, flying swords with almost abnormal destructive power... What other strange trump cards did this guy have?
"No need for the dead to know!"
Zhang Kui snorted coldly, his hands instantly changing the sword technique. Without the constraint of Divine Powers, he had numerous methods, only wanting to deal with this guy quickly.
The sword lights swirling in the sky suddenly paused, then swiftly aligned, the purple light forming a sheet, setting up the Five Elements Demon-Sealing Sword Array.
This array, which Zhang Kui had mastered when dealing with the Locust Demon, didn’t spit fire or condense ice. Instead, it evolved the five properties of the sword light—descent, ascent, bending, reform, and harvesting—using mutual generation and restriction to trap the enemy.
Sure enough, with the array deployed, Venerate Huanxin felt something amiss, like being stuck in a muddy quagmire, the more he moved, the deeper he sank.
Meanwhile, the sword lights, filled with a radioactive aura, continued to erode his flesh.
When his Divine Powers were useless, and even his powerful divine body was being restrained, Venerate Huanxin suddenly recalled that he was once also a formidable Demon Cultivator.
His face twisted, enduring the continual dissolution of his flesh, he entered the Metal Position, then the Wood Position, then shifted back to the Water Position, his range of movement gradually expanding.
"Oh?"
Zhang Kui was momentarily stunned, then recalled that this person had once ruled the East Sea with illusion skills, and could seal the Hundred-Eyed Demon Monarch for thousands of years in a fate worse than death, clearly possessing substantial knowledge of arrays.
"Good, let’s see this array!"
Zhang Kui grew interested, again changing sword techniques to alter the array, the Five Elements rotating, the Yin and Yang Two Qi nurturing each other, forming a massive Tai Chi Diagram.
It was the Yin Yang Demon Sealing Array that had once sealed the Demon-Entering Mountain Ancestor.
Venerate Huanxin was once again trapped, immediately spiraling into madness, roaring and struggling with brute force.
Zhang Kui squinted, having discerned the inheritance Venerate Huanxin had found. It should be through a sacrificial rite on that altar to an unknown entity, thereby stepping onto some kind of Ancient Divine Path cultivation.
It was clearly laden with side effects, this Venerate Huanxin was alternating between creepy laughter and erratic behavior, evidently in a semi-mad state.
Surely not a good thing!
Thinking this, Zhang Kui no longer hesitated, blood suddenly appeared on his fingertip, drawing a talisman in midair.
Talisman, to summon gods and exorcise ghosts, to subdue demons and exorcise evil, this guy who had entered the Divine Path was perfectly countered by it.
As a Four Symbols God Slaying Talisman gradually took shape, an astonishing murderous aura shot into the sky, and Venerate Huanxin finally awoke, fear filling his eyes.
He gritted his teeth, the black round light behind him suddenly burst, enveloping him with black light, instantly shrinking and disappearing.
Did the Divine Path Round Light have this function?
Zhang Kui didn’t have time to be surprised because Venerate Huanxin had instantaneously teleported to the altar, kneeling and praying fervently.
On the altar, Bao Wuxin struggled desperately, eyes filled with growing despair.
"Courting death!"
Zhang Kui shouted angrily, rushing toward the altar while waving a hand, the blood-red Four Symbols God Slaying Talisman crossed space instantly, stamping onto Venerate Huanxin’s forehead.
Boom!
Like a thunderclap, Venerate Huanxin’s eyes went blank instantly, the surroundings of Old Yang, Lesser Yin, Lesser Yang, and Old Yin transforming, with illusory shadows of dragon, tiger, bird, and turtle gradually rotating.
Zhang Kui didn’t have time to pay attention, as the altar began to vibrate, one blood-red rune after another lighting up faintly.
At the top of the Grotto Heaven, the starry sky and a massive black vortex reappeared.
"Get lost!"
Zhang Kui’s face was ferocious, the purple sword light condensed, black and purple particles continuously sprayed around, sparks scattered, and completely extinguished those blood-red runes.
"Go!"
Pulling Bao Wuxin, the two figures flashed and jumped off the altar.
Boom!
A blood-red flame shot straight to the sky. At this time, situated within the Grotto Heaven, Zhang Kui looked up, habitually using the Tongyou Skill.
In an instant, he saw a darkness, as if strange shadows danced in between. It was an ultimate beyond imagination, indescribable, a return to a great joy of nothingness.
It was as if trapped in a black vast ocean, the surrounding light gradually dimmed, and Zhang Kui’s consciousness became more sluggish.
Suddenly, in the depths of his mind, the starlight from the Seventy-Two Demons Technique shot into the sky. Although it was still swallowed by this black light, Zhang Kui suddenly awoke with a roar, and the surrounding darkness instantly dispersed.
He gasped for air and quickly lowered his head, only to see Bao Wuxin staring at him in terror.
Zhang Kui felt something amiss, quickly touched his forehead, only to find a crack had unknowingly appeared there.
"Damn it!"
Boundless anger surged in Zhang Kui’s heart; he fiercely inserted his finger into the crack, enduring the severe pain to gouge out a blood-red eye.
Looking at it in his hand, the blood-red eye bizarrely stared at him, with tiny tentacles below, waving as if wanting to break through the skin of his hand.
"To hell with you!"
Zhang Kui’s face was fierce, he threw the blood-red eye to the ground, then suddenly puffed up his cheeks, huffing~ a blood-colored karmic fire spewed out.
Soon, the blood-red eye turned to white ashes and dispersed in the wind.
Breathing heavily again, Zhang Kui touched his forehead, his face turning ugly.
With the strong recovery ability of his body, the hole on his forehead could not heal, even as the surface skin closed up tightly, a faint red line was still visible.
Bao Wuxin’s face was ashen, her voice trembling, "Taoist Friend Zhang, what... what was that?"
"What are you afraid of, nothing more than demonic sect tricks!" Zhang Kui snorted, his heart still full of anger.
I am not myself, no matter how powerful, what use is it!
At this moment, the sky-high blood light had disappeared, affected by the blood light, the Four Symbols God Slaying Talisman on the altar began to gradually dissipate, and a trace of spirit appeared in the eyes of Venerate Huanxin who was kneeling on the ground.
Zhang Kui wasted no words, instantly flashed in front of Venerate Huanxin, with a cold face, he split open the other’s head with a sword, then Zhang opened his mouth wide, and Red Lotus Karmic Fire gushed out.
The temperature within the Grotto Heaven plummeted rapidly, the ferocious and terrified face of Venerate Huanxin first turned plaster-like, then poof, turned to ashes.
A sudden increase of over one hundred and fifty points in his mind, once again reaching four hundred.
Zhang Kui was still not satisfied with his vengeance, waving his hand, a myriad of sword lights instantly condensed into a hundred-meter-long purple giant sword, which pierced into the altar with a thunderous sound.
This altar was exceptionally hard; the sharp sword light only penetrated half a meter.
Zhang Kui gritted his teeth and continued his assault, countless cries and sounds of ritual echoed around as those divine spirits, already turned to mummies, weeped black blood, and even the Grotto Heaven turned a shade of blood.
Bao Wuxin watched in horror, but Zhang Kui merely snorted coldly, his eyes fierce as he looked around, his sword fingers tensed.
With a thunderous sound, the altar shattered into pieces.
The altar seemed like the cornerstone of this Grotto Heaven; upon its destruction, the Grotto Heaven began to dissipate from the surroundings little by little.
Suddenly, "Longevity" once again emitted a terrifying sense of hunger.
Zhang Kui glanced at the bleeding bone altar, a sinister smile on his face, "You want this thing, fine, eat it, the stronger the better, let’s fight the enemy hand in hand!"
The black halo formed by "Longevity" slowly rose, strands of green-glowing vines erupted, immediately enveloping the bone altar, dragging it into the halo like a predator, then slowly rotating to erode...
All that unfolded before his eyes was beyond Bao Wuxin’s comprehension, so she chose not to ponder it much. Looking to her sides, her eyes suddenly brightened.
"Taoist Friend Zhang, Dragon Bone Ship!"
"Seen it!"
Zhang Kui instantly leaped forward.
Upon closer inspection, the ship wasn’t big, appearing lustrous like white jade, with a base of Dragon Bone, embedded with black decks, calling it a boat was actually a Dragon Ship.
As the surroundings of the Grotto Heaven continued to dissipate, the rudimentary Dragon Ship with only its tail remaining creaked as it was about to slip into the Dark Void.
Zhang Kui hurriedly grabbed it, his feet exerting force, cracking marks echoed with a thunderous sound.
Though the Dragon Ship didn’t seem large, it was astonishingly heavy, fortunately, Zhang Kui possessed the power of Carrying Mountains, his arm muscles exerting force, and step by step he dragged it forcefully from the void.
Indeed a Dragon Ship, the Dragon Bones menacing and lifelike, the dragon head at the bow opened its large mouth, its back was hollow black hull.
"Let’s go!"
By this time, "Longevity" had consumed the altar, transformed into a black light, and flew back into his body. Zhang Kui called out, dragging the hundred-meter-long Dragon Ship and Bao Wuxin slowly exiting the Grotto Heaven.
Unlike the Ancient Secret Realm, this Grotto Heaven was extremely resilient; even without its foundation, its rate of dissipation was slow.
But the rune array within the Great Hall had already extinguished over a large area, the Teleportation Gate gradually closing, inside was the continuously dissipating Grotto Heaven...
Bao Wuxin shook her head slowly, "Who exactly established this Grotto Heaven, and built this bizarre Divine Hall?"
Zhang Kui’s eyes were grave, "It wasn’t established here; it came from beyond the heavens."
Divine Hall, Grotto Heaven, Starship...
The enemy was far more formidable than imagined!
At that moment, the Dragon Pearl left behind by the Old Turtle Demon suddenly floated up, and a vast dragon’s roar resonated throughout the Great Hall...
