The Old Gods

Chapter 850 Embers

Chapter 850 Embers
hurry up!

Faster!
Deng Yuxiang gripped the knife handle with both hands, her anxiety growing.

Every extra second that the divine weapon takes to advance increases the danger for Lu Ran! She also knows that she should concentrate fully on guiding the divine weapon to its advancement.

Easier said than done!
Since the start of the battle, Deng Yuxiang has been carried by Luo Ying through countless flights of air and crashes, dodging left and right.

The vicious female disciple's repeated questions only fueled Deng Yuxiang's anger!

Sure enough, the other side caught up, and at such a crucial moment—they really know how to pick their timing.
As it turns out, you can always trust Lu Ran!

Even if the opponent is a disciple of the Heavenly Realm's Evil Dog, he can still overcome him!

As Deng Yuxiang heard the strange woman's cold words turn into a shrill scream, she felt an indescribable sense of pleasure!
Just as one wave subsided, another arose, and the number of faceless jade deities within the fog increased.
"Buzz!"

The Greatsword of Night Slash suddenly trembled slightly.

Deng Yuxiang gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, held his breath, and desperately sought an answer with his divine weapon.

The First Divine Weapon Domain - Endless Night can extend a broken blade to a length of 28 meters.

The "night" in the name of the sword originally represented the fifteenth night of the lunar month.

Now, Deng Yuxiang has ascended to the Heavenly Realm and is becoming a god step by step. The two characters "Long Night" in his Divine Weapon Domain represent the rule of gods and demons.

She likened the more than forty years of enslavement and oppression suffered by humanity to a long, dark night.

The night is still young,
Then the war will not end!

In the breakthrough direction of "one person, one sword", the second divine weapon domain is in line with the first domain, only the blade is stronger and sharper.

The same six-word principle remains:

The night is not yet over, the battle continues!
"Om!!"

The Night-Slaying Blade trembled violently, and under the influence of the concept of the Lord of Divine Weapons, it climbed upwards with great fanfare.

A gust of wind spread out!
Deng Yuxiang's long, jet-black hair danced in the wind, swaying in a beautiful rhythm, interspersed with wispy veils, creating a breathtakingly beautiful scene.

Tier 3 Divine Weapon: Night-Slaying Blade!

"Crack!!"

The piercing cracking sound awakened both the soldier and the lord.

On the battlefield not far away, Lu Ran shattered a faceless jade statue with a single slash, then abruptly turned his head to look to his right.

"It's done!" At that moment, Deng Yuxiang's voice echoed in Lu Ran's mind.

at last!

Fifteen minutes, then another fifteen minutes, half an hour has passed, and the ultimate weapon has finally been unleashed.

[Withdraw.] Lu Ran immediately transmitted the order, [I'm going to your side now. Don't resist, get inside my gourd.]

Once the divine weapon completes its advancement, the strange phenomena will gradually dissipate. Once the thick fog clears, the faceless jade deity's combat power will definitely soar.

"There are quite a few enemies around, I'll take them down!" Deng Yuxiang said in a deep voice.

Before the telepathic message had even finished, the Night-Slaying Greatsword in her hand unleashed an astonishing burst of energy.

The broken blade grew rapidly, becoming increasingly larger.

Lu Ran had just put away Wei Yun when he saw the infinitely elongated blade in the Great Nightmare's hand.

28 meters?
No, it's probably heading towards 280 meters!
Interestingly, the hilt of the Zanya Greatsword is of a normal size, allowing its owner to easily grip it.

But starting from the blade, everything went wrong.

"Ahhh!" Deng Yuxiang stood in mid-air and let out a passionate battle roar.

She was a calm and collected warrior, and she was usually very silent during battles.

Now, she roared in a way that was completely out of character, and the magic artifact, the Blood Jade Ring, on her finger burst forth with a deep crimson color, infusing its mistress with a violent power.

"call!!"

Deng Yuxiang swung his knife horizontally, simultaneously spinning his body and delivering a powerful blow.

The blade, pieced together from pure energy, is made of similar Heavenly Steel as the Night-Slaying Blade, but its chilling gleam is even stronger.

A cold moon suddenly appeared!
Wherever the cold light passed, the sound of jade shattering was incessant and subtle.

"Snap! Snap!"

Lu Ran put Wu Xiao into the gourd and couldn't help but grin.

Is that so domineering?!

The faceless jade deity that had been slashed had its jade skin cracked open!
The Divine Weapon Domain: The Long Night is Never Ending already possesses powerful armor-piercing properties.

Today, this field has seen a comprehensive upgrade!
One strike can cripple an enemy!

Tsk~
What a terrible nightmare!

It truly lives up to my expectations as the sharpest knife in my hand!

Come back quickly, everything around you is empty.

"Go in." Lu Ran's figure flashed, and he picked up the gourd with the phoenix pattern, aiming it at Deng Yuxiang, Luo Ying and Lu Yuan.

The fog will soon dissipate.

Now that things have come to this, there are no more enemies to kill.

Within a radius of 800 meters, there are numerous faceless jade statues, and beyond the mist, a continuous stream of enemies are surging in.

It was clearly impossible to silence them all.

After this battle, the existence of the Burning Gate Squad will inevitably be exposed.

Well, let's take it one step at a time.

Lu Ran vanished into nothingness early on, taking Yan Chou into his gourd and collecting several other souls before disappearing in a flash.

The fog gradually dissipated.

The villains lurking in the fog were nowhere to be seen.

The battlefield, which had been fiercely contested, fell into an eerie silence.

Only faceless jade statues remain, some flying in the air, others standing atop the peaks, surveying this world.

Most of them had cold eyes, and many looked angry. They had a feeling of being fooled by human villains.

One by one, the faceless jade deities spread out their jade robes, letting their thick, long hair spread out in the air, maximizing their surface area of contact, searching for the souls of their fallen companions, and continuously absorbing them into their bodies.

On the battlefield, no one spoke.

Only the sound of the jade robe fluttering could be heard.

This was undoubtedly a crushing defeat! The only saving grace was that the human race had not successfully advanced to the second level of the Heavenly Realm.

The human team was clearly unable to resist any longer and had no choice but to stop in a sorry state and give up their chance to advance.

As a result, this human will find it difficult to make any further progress in his/her life.

Of course, there is another possibility: this is not an advancement of human believers at all, but an advancement of divine weapons and magical artifacts.

The thought of that possibility...
A small number of the faceless jade deities, whose noble and aloof faces had become somewhat ferocious.

Meanwhile, to the east of Huoshenshan.

Inside a huge stone peak.

"Uh." Lu Ran leaned against the stone wall, and with a thought, a figure emerged from the phoenix-patterned gourd at his waist.

As soon as the woman appeared, she reached out and supported Lu Ran's arm, whispering, "Are you alright?"

"It's nothing." Lu Ran shook his head.

Deng Yuxiang's expression was somewhat complicated: "Is it worth it?"

"what?"

"With the Night-Slaying Blade's advancement to our level, our existence has come into the sights of the Faceless Jade Venerable."

"It's only a matter of time." Lu Ran waved his hand.

If you stand by the river often, you're bound to get your shoes wet.
With two small teams from the Burning Gate venturing into the Heavenly Realm, they were bound to be discovered eventually.

But this is the only chance to upgrade your divine weapon! If you miss it, you miss it.

Deng Yuxiang just used his Divine Weapon Domain to show Lu Ran that everything he did was worthwhile.

Lu Ran suddenly said, "The size of the God and Demon Stone Sculpture is two to three hundred meters."

"So?" Deng Yuxiang asked, puzzled.

Lu Ran suddenly laughed: "Using your Night-Slaying Greatsword to chop it up is just right."

Deng Yuxiang looked at the young man's smiling eyes and nodded gently: "Mm."

indeed so!

"By the way," Lu Ran took out an ancient bronze coin and handed it to the other party, "the soul of that vicious female disciple is inside. You need to interrogate her carefully."

Deng Yuxiang accepted the money for the deceased, her expression growing increasingly solemn.

It now seems that the God and Demon faction is aware of everyone's existence, but it's unclear how much intelligence the female disciple with the vicious dog has gathered.

"You lead your team back to Holy Spirit Mountain first, find Niu Zhengzheng, and interrogate him together," Lu Ran added.

Deng Yuxiang realized that Lu Ran intended for everyone to lay low for the time being.

Sure enough, Lu Ran said again, "I'll go find the first squad and bring them back with me."

Deng Yuxiang immediately said, "Let's go back together. Why bother using the teleportation mirror twice?"

Lu Ran tapped his temple: "After this battle, Wuya Stone Sculpture will probably be advancing soon. I'll stay near the Divine Mountain for a few more days and then go back."

As he spoke, Lu Ran summoned a bronze mirror with one hand: "Go back and interrogate them first, and contact me anytime."

"Yes," Deng Yuxiang nodded in response.

The floor-length mirror tears through space and quickly takes shape.

Deng Yuxiang stepped in, and Lu Ran also picked up the gourd and reached into the mirror, spitting out everyone inside one by one before withdrawing his arm and closing the full-length mirror.

Subsequently, Lu Ran contacted the first squad of the Burning Gate and temporarily suspended their mission.

The battle, which lasted for more than a month, brought great rewards to the group of false gods.

Chang Ying, a person from the Sea Realm, could not grow by devouring the souls of the dead, but after more than a month of tempering in the flames of war, she had changed completely.

That's the spirit of warriors facing death, a unique kind of tenacity and determination.

Lu Ran didn't know if he was forcing the seedlings to grow too fast, but when he saw Chang Ying again this time, she really seemed like a big shot!
That kind of charm was unmatched by her fellow students Deng Yutang, Bai Manni, Tian Tian, and others.

Lu Ran sighed with emotion and put the first team into the gourd. Then, as planned, he went to the vicinity of the sacred mountain to plunder resources.

Several days later, when the Boundless Stone Sculpture in the sculpture park began to tremble, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally, I can go back!
Before leaving, Lu Ran made a special trip to contact Huangfu Zhao to check on him.

While both were in the First Heaven, Lu Ran could communicate more clearly with the magical artifact, the Jade Tiger Talisman. After returning to Holy Spirit Mountain, although people could still communicate with magical artifacts, it was inevitably somewhat blurry.

Unexpectedly, Huangfu brought both good news and a lot of bad news.

"You're saying that only Leng Tianxing and Leng Tianyue, the two siblings, survived?" Lu Ran's expression was grim.

Of Yunhai's former followers, only six remain, their fates unknown.

After searching for so long, Huangfu Zhao only found two living people?

"Young Master, of the remaining four, three are dead and one is missing." Tiger Tally relayed Huangfu Zhao's words with a hint of sorrow.

Lu Ran gripped the hilt of the Cloud Sea Sword tightly.

To put it nicely, it's called missing, but everyone knows what it really means.

Of Yunhai's former subordinates, only one in ten survived.

More than that!

Huangfu Zhao, Yan Chou, Wuya, the Leng siblings, and Xiang Wang, who is imprisoned.

There are only six people left.

The once towering flames are now reduced to embers.