Chapter 658 - The Cracked Sky
Far far away, the skies were ripped apart and divine rays spread around the skies before they turned into a rainbow bridge that connected the realm with the cracked dimension. Colorful and bright lights never existed in the entire Bone Realm, throughout all these years, gray was the only color present all over the skies of the Bone Realm. Thus, the scene now created a very strong contrast when the divine ray from the outer world came into this world.
As the cracked dimension appeared in the skies, an endless army of skeletons swarmed towards the rainbow bridge and wage a war against these “demons” from the outer world!
But the war was in fact, nothing more than a one sided massacre.
Even after Zhong Yue educated the Qi Practitioners in the Bone Realm after rising as their king, their strength was still far too weak. They just didn’t stand a chance against these “demons” from the outer world.
The skeleton Qi Practitioners died ugly deaths, but they did not fear death; each time one of their fellow warriors fell, another one would replace their fallen comrades and fearlessly dive into the battle.
They had never gotten been exposed to the aspect of extreme states as they only relied on devouring each other to cultivate. This rather barbaric method had deprived them of acquiring knowledge and understanding on the totem patterns, let alone the mysterious Dao.
Yet, they still managed to keep their foes at bay because of their very unique trait—-unlike the Qi Practitioners in the other worlds, the skeleton Qi Practitioners in the Bone Realm cultivated techniques directly related to the souls.
Thus, even with power inferior to their enemies, their enemies had no choice but to carefully protect their Yuan Shen lest they be destroyed by the skeleton Qi Practitioners.
In fact, everything related to techniques and skills taught to them by their Skeleton King Zhong was entirely related to souls and Yuan Shen and this had granted them a power sufficient enough to pose threats to the “demons”.
Throughout these years, Zhong Yue did more than just awaken his innate true spirits; he studied the various precious techniques left behind by the Realm Lord, which brought his understanding on the Six Path Reincarnation techniques to a whole new level.
And as he shared his own thoughts and knowledge to the skeletons, he directy pushed the average power of these skeletons to another level higher.
Hence, they could still put up a fight despite being much weaker than their foes.
“They are so weak…,” murmured a lady standing on the rainbow bridge.
This lady had colorful wheels spinning at the back of her head and the light illuminated by the wheel amplified her beautiful face and perfect skin.
So strange… These skeletons are actually alive.... Could it be that this realm is also one of the places created by the ancient ones to research on the Six Path Reincarnation?
As she tried to figure out an answer for herself, she struck out with her own attack. She would swing her sleeves about, and they would extend and slither around the skeleton Qi Practitioners and crush them like pythons.
Suddenly, she stopped her rampage on the ordinary skeletons before joining up with another lady on the rainbow bridge against a Qi Practitioner from the Prison Realm and killed him in one swift strike.
Ding—
A clear sound came from her Yuan Shen Secret Realm and from there she took out a soul token. She had a look at the token and she murmured happily, “Another step closer to my goal!”
“Xiang Si, the creatures here are weak but their techniques are very unique.” A young man with glowing swords floating all around him said as he got down from the bridge.
Suddenly, an inner core flew out from the young man’s head. This inner core expanded and it exerted a gravitational field that enclosed a radius of a thousand metres within it before it shrunk into a very tiny size.
The young man then grabbed the inner core in his hand and squeezed it. Ashy bone fragment then spilled to the ground.
“Strange techniques, seems like they are specifically targeted toward souls?” The young man murmured.
He then scanned the surroundings as if nothing happened and he said, “Though slightly weak, the techniques are still amazing in their own ways. The ancient one created the Ancient Land of Gods Grave that contained tiny to huge realms like this one for the purpose of researching the Six Path Reincarnation. We best be careful in these realms, we must not absorb the energy here or we will be trapped here, even if you are on the level of the Realm Lord.”
Immediately, the lady that Xiang Si teamed up with said with an alluring smile as she charged towards the other Prison Realm’s Qi Practitioners, “Sword Master, I heard that there are a lot of them being teleported into the many realms within the Ancient Land of Gods Grave and my guess is that most of them are doomed.”
“But I think they are going to end up worse than that!” The young man answered as he disappeared for a second before reappearing between the two girls and their enemy.
With the power of that Qi Practitioner, he had proven himself to be far too strong for the girls even after they teamed up against him.
But with just a flick from the young man, one of the swords floating around him shot out and vanished into the space. The next moment, the sword reappeared out of nowhere and pierced into the body of the Qi Practitioner from the back, exiting out of his chest.
Right away, the two girls took the precious chance and had their enemy killed as Xiang Si’s sleeves wrapped onto the neck of the Qi Practitioner and snapped his head off from his neck.
However, from the severed head of that Qi Practitioner grew a pair of wings and that head tried to escape immediately, which was very strange because he was still trying to run away.
But his dream to escape was foiled as one of the girls took out a pocket that opened up like a clam, which then swallowed the head when the pocket caught up with the head.
That weird looking pocket that took the form of a clam was extremely unique; it actually released a very intriguing yet nice scent when it melted the Yuan Shen and the head of that Qi Practitioner.
The Sword Master on the other hand, had another skeleton god struck down mercilessly with a grin, “Those who get themselves attached to these tiny realms will by trapped here forever even if they have power beyond measure. But worry not, we came here to offer these weaklings as sacrifices, we should focus on performing the blood ritual on them and get out from here to slaughter those fools on the outside!”
With a cold tone, he said, “There are already quite of few of them in these realms and obtained formidable power after they performed the rituals on the living beings of those realms. With our combined strength, we should be able to eliminate each and every single skeleton here and sacrificed them to acquire the power that would grant us a chance to compete for the top ten seats!”
“Sword Master, we sisters will help you but in return, we request to be rewarded greatly after you succeeded!” The lady called Xiang Si said with a smile, “Hong Dou and I do not have the strength to compete for the top ten so we are going to support you and. Only this way will we be able to gain profit after we get out of here.”
“This, I can guarantee,” replied the Sword Master seriously, “The competition is too fierce and no one can confidently say that they could win for sure. This time, in this realm, there are more than just us that tries to achieve the blood ritual first; only me alone will not be enough so I will really need both of your aid.”
Not only did they attack the Qi Practitioners from the Bone Realm, they also laid their hands onto the other Qi Practitioners from the Prison Realm. There was one thing that was for sure. however, and that was that everyone Qi Practitioners that got onto the rainbow bridge will be attacked by the three of them.
As the battles raged on, the skies suddenly got torn apart again and a huge head squeezed out from the crack. The head looked around before he burst out laughing, “So there really is a realm here! I knew it! Now, it’s time for me to grab all these fortunes for myself.”
The high profile entrance of the head immediately attracted the attention of Hong Dou and Xiang Si, which prompted the two girls to attack the head before the rest of the head’s body entered the realm.
Upon seeing this, an evil grin rose up on the face of the head, the hole in the sky widened as the shoulder and arm of the head forcefully squeezed in and the head reached out his arms to the two girls!
Xiang Si whipped towards the hand of the head with her long ribbon and her ribbon wrapped around the left hand of the head while the pocket of Hong Dou bit on the right hand of the head.
“Oh? Xiang Si and Hong Dou of the Right Eye Galaxy? How dare you attack me? Have you forgotten who I am?”
The head applied strength onto his arms, shook off the ribbon and the pocket and grabbed towards the two girls while the remaining part of his body jumped out from the outer skies.
It was giant that stood as tall as the skies and when he landed onto the rainbow bridge, he caused the bridge to tremble severely with his massive body.
And there were even three Qi Practitioners behind him, each with ridiculous strength who seemed to have been recruited by the giant.
The expression of the Sword Master changed immediately; the swords floating around him disappeared into the void in a sudden before emerging around the giant and swarmed the giant as they reappeared!
“Ah, the Sword Master from the same galaxy as the two pawns!”
A huge bell appeared around the giant, completely covering him and protected him from the swords; when the swords pierced into the bell, both the giant and Sword Master let out a battle cry and they both deflected each others’ attack.
“Bell Master of the Heaven Eye Galaxy.” The Sword Master said as he sheathed his swords, “I never thought that you could actually make it here too. Hmmm, one of us will definitely suffer wounds that will stop our advancement in this competition if we fight… Since you’ve made it here, I propose that we should work together split the profits together.”
As someone who was very well aware of the strength of his foe, the Bell Master immediately agreed to the proposal of the Sword Master, “If that’s how it is, then I will gladly accept your offer….”
“Ha! Did the two of you ask me before you made your agreement on splitting the profit?” A voice echoed out sonorously.
It was another Qi Practitioner from the Prison Realm! Together with a few other strong Qi Practitioners that had their own followers, they all descended from the crack and landed onto the bridge.
Their arrival caused the expression of the Sword Master and Bell Master to twitch slightly, prompting Lady Xiang Si and Lady Hong Dou to get back to the Sword Master and they said, “This is bad. Among them is the Scholar Master of the Left Chest Galaxy, the Zither Master of the Right Chest Galaxy and the Picture Mater of the Heaven Water Galaxy. With them here, we have no choice but to work with them as well!”
The eyes of the Sword Master twitched right away for with these different yet extraordinarily talented masters here, things are going to proceed in the way the ladies described!
Although it was said that there were a lot of strong individuals in the Prison Realm, none of them were willing to admit that their competitors were stronger than them, yet none of them dared to say that they were stronger than most either!
But, there were often some who were crowned as the strongest, and among them, those that bore the title of a “Master” were usually head and shoulders above everyone else.