Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1292 Yuan Tiansi Under Siege

Compared to the colossal Yuan Tian Si, the rainbow light that was still accumulating power was so tiny.

Like a lighter struck in the wind, it emitted a pitiful, flickering, and extremely faint flame.

If you zoom out to the top and bring the entire Yuantian Division into view, it becomes so small that you can only see a thin ray of light. It's like the size difference between an adult and a chopstick.

When Yuan Tiansi was aimed at by the analytical cannon, he seemed to react to the impact and let out an extremely loud cry.

Ignoring the pursuit of the Red Calamity, He intended to retreat directly.

But at this moment, the Crimson Calamity did not want to let Him go.

He launched a swift pursuit without regard for anything else, unleashing all his power—in an instant, all of Yuan Tian Si's thousands of tentacles were severed, and a deep red dragon breath, like a blood mist, pierced through the remaining tentacles and directly crossed the mirror!

This dragon's breath looked like a soft, spreading cloud of smoke.

It spread out like the deep red clouds at sunset.

But every single grain of dust there is equivalent to wielding a sharp blade.

Just like when a warrior's skill reaches its peak, even with a wooden stick, he can unleash the most exquisite swordsmanship; a single stone thrown contains the sword energy of his full-force strike.

And this skill, when infinitely refined, becomes this strike.

As the dragon's breath moves slowly, the billions, even tens of billions, of crimson dust particles it contains, upon contact, are equivalent to a full-force strike. And if this pervasive dust directly touches an individual, it's equivalent to performing hundreds of billions of strikes every moment!
—This is "Legion's Breath"!
The concept of "all-out attack" is refined and condensed into the "general attack" breath, using the dragon's breath, a unique attack method of dragons, as a medium.

This single breath contains an entire microscopic legion!
They can gather into a fire that burns everything, or they can disperse into transparent, invisible smoke, depending on their own will.

They possess true intelligence, transforming into a moving cloud that will surely shatter the tentacles along the way and attack Yuan Tiansi's crystallized true body!
But at this moment.

A dazzling blade of light flashed—

Guinevere, wielding the Holy Sword of Light, stood before the Crimson Calamity, preventing the red dragon from advancing any further.

This was the moment when the Lord of War dispatched his "legion," his most vulnerable moment. At this moment, the Crimson Calamity no longer possessed the authority of the Pillar God, and the God of War briefly transformed back into the Calamity Dragon.

However, at this point, the option of the Crimson Calamity is still available.

—He has a choice: to continue launching the fiercest counterattack against the Great Abyss, creating an opportunity for the Geometry Celestials to kill the Great Abyss here; or to let the Great Abyss go back to deal with the Geometry Celestials and the Gray Celestials, regain his power, and fight against the remnant soul of the Silver Crown Dragon and the Riding Celestials, so that the battle will return to the stalemate at the beginning.

In that case, the Great Abyss might be in a bit of a mess, but He would still be able to defeat the Geometry Celestials in the end.

Having withdrawn all his power, he could easily defeat Qitiansi and Futigeng. Afterwards, he would return to his standoff with Yuantiansi.

"—Is there even a need to choose?"

The Crimson Calamity gave its answer with a sneer almost without hesitation.

Compared to a young Celestial Master like Lancelot, he was more wary of Celestial Master Abyss. As the corpse of a forbidden Pillar God, Abyss was filled with the remaining power of the Pillar God. Rather than a Celestial Master, Celestial Master Abyss was actually closer to an old Pillar God who could no longer use the authority of the Pillar God and had completely lost his mind.

Now we have the opportunity to defeat them completely, and the only price we have to pay is to hold off Vortigern and the Celestial Knights.

This was a battle where victory wasn't a must; he only needed to remain undefeated. The power of the Seventh Source River, along with the curse of "unwavering resolve," had been absorbed into that crimson breath. He was no longer burdened by the immense pressure of "must win," nor by the "survival of the fittest" curse inherited from the Devouring Beast.

Therefore, there is no need to compare these two options at all.

—Does losing the power of the Pillar God mean he's weaker than Lancelot?

Lancelot was once Arthur's follower, but he has only been a Celestial for a month!

Vortigern was in a similar situation—he had already been defeated once by the Crimson Calamity and stripped of his Pillar God powers. Even now, though he still possessed a remnant soul, he had lost his Pillar God powers. Furthermore, because he was no longer a Pillar God, his authoritative power had to be converted into war power to be used properly, effectively suppressing him by half an energy level.

Vortigern and he were essentially each other's half-bodies.

Now, the two people before him were, one of them a half-crippled Vortigern—lacking the authority, power, and power of a pillar god, and the power of a fragment of the Celestial Realm, merely a larger version of a phantom demon. Even his energy level had been suppressed by half a level.

The other person was merely Arthur's lackey. He didn't even have the ability to become a Celestial on his own; it took two souls combined to barely meet the minimum requirements for a Celestial.

These two things are combined, and you only need to break even.

If the Crimson Calamity becomes afraid, then it means his courage has wavered!
"Come on, let me see your courage."

The Crimson Calamity's voice boomed, filled with laughter and a hint of ferocity: "Let me see—your courage to challenge me!"

The crimson dragon roared.

On the other side, when all four magic arrays of the Geometry Bureau were fully lit, they rotated at high speed and gradually merged into one.

— Mana was drained, runes were stolen.

All spells are meaningless before it, and no spell attack can stop this spell from being cast.

Even the forbidden spell that Yuan Tiansi instinctively launched was disintegrated the moment it took shape. The enormous magic array didn't even form properly before it transformed into streams of light and disappeared into the crystal cannon.

The magic circle revealed a huge pentagram—wind, earth, water, fire, and the hypothetical element "ether" as the harmonizer, which is the original element before the split of light and darkness, each occupying one corner.

A slender rainbow beam transformed into five thicker rainbow beams!
As the pentagram array rotated rapidly, the five beams of red light transformed into five swirling blades of light.

It instantly shattered the tentacles and pierced straight into the crystallized "giant whale"!
The tentacles burst open and scattered the moment they touched it, like balloons being blown up.

The light drill advanced without hindrance, tearing apart thousands of tentacles and reaching the inner core protected by the tentacles!
Yuan Tiansi's posture is like a giant whale's head connected to a squid's tentacles, or a transparent jellyfish with thousands of tentacles.

However, the so-called "head" was actually the body of the forbidden pillar god.

After the "Taboo" lost its life, its flesh and blood sprouted uncontrollably, transforming into a gaping maw that devoured everything. This is why the Abyss craved sacrifice—its own incompleteness drove it mad, and it desperately wanted to replenish its nourishment and restore its wholeness.

If He devours enough spirits, He might actually be able to grow another head.

This is the essence of the "forbidden" path, and also the unique power of the former Heavenly Reincarnation Bureau—the Ring of Ouroboros and the Endless Knot. A snake needs to devour its own body in order to grow an equal amount of new body.

However, no matter how much of the soul of a mortal is replenished, it can never make up for the lack of spirit and power in a pillar god. It cannot even make up for the portion represented by the Spirit Amber Celestial, which is the head.

This is why Yuan Tiansi is forever thirsty and forever insane.

Now, this rainbow sword, spinning like an electric drill, shines brightly in the deep, dark sea.

From a distance, it looks like a colorful line piercing through the head of a giant sea monster.

After a brief silence, the seawater was churned and burst open!
The bombardment launched from the seabed to the surface blasted the entire ocean away!
In an instant, a huge amount of water was poured directly onto the entire Anxi!

It looked like a downpour, but it was actually just a torrential downpour. Heavy water slammed onto the ground, completely submerging and soaking the desert, with the seeping water forming small streams.

Even the crystallized head of the giant whale, Yuan Tiansi, was covered in cracks within seconds under the bombardment of the analytical cannon!
—And at this moment, the full force of the Crimson Calamity has arrived!
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(End of this chapter)