While the player is in Battle Through the Heavens, the system is in The Great Ruler.

Chapter 217 Bone Netherworld is enraged, a Half-Saint descends!

"Damn it!"

"We actually got tricked by that old bastard!"

Above the sky, Blood River Celestial Venerable was covered in blood and his aura was extremely weak.

The Fifth and Sixth Heavenly Venerables were even more terrified, never expecting that Venerable Heavenly Fire would be so cunning.

"If the three of you had joined forces to attack from the beginning, I might have had to fight a tough battle."

The Heavenly Fire Venerable's gaze swept over the three heavily injured Heavenly Venerables with lightning speed, his voice resounding through the sky: "It's a pity that you all harbored your own ulterior motives and wanted to preserve your strength... With such a mindset, you deserve to perish here! Today, I will accept the heads of the three Heavenly Venerables of the Soul Palace on behalf of the Spirit Treasure Pavilion!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Venerable Tianhuo waved his hand, and the Nine Locks Illusionary Array light screen, which had been "broken in one blow" by Venerable Xuehe, was instantly repaired and reassembled at a speed visible to the naked eye, and its brilliance was even greater than before!

Upon seeing this, everyone suddenly realized that the formation being broken by Blood River Celestial Venerable earlier was actually a scheme by Heavenly Fire Venerable to feign weakness and lure the enemy into a trap!

The dazzling light curtain, like an inverted giant bowl, instantly enveloped the fourth, fifth, and sixth Heavenly Venerables, who had suffered heavy injuries and were almost incapacitated, trapping them completely!
The Heavenly Fire Venerable no longer glanced at the trapped turtle in the jar. His icy gaze instantly locked onto the pale-faced, trembling Elder Mu Gu and the Soul Palace protectors, his killing intent soaring to the heavens!
"Next, it's your turn!"

With a swift movement, he intended to seize the opportunity to eliminate these mid-level combatants of the Soul Hall first!
"Run away!"

The old man Mu Gu was terrified. He had come to claim credit, but the situation had taken a dramatic turn for the worse; the three Heavenly Venerables of the Soul Palace were proving to be utterly incompetent!
At this moment, he could no longer care about the Netherworld Poison Fire and turned to escape into the void.

However, the other elder of the Soul Hall was a beat too slow. Just as he was about to move, a palm print of extremely condensed fire tore through the air and instantly engulfed him!
He only had time to let out a short scream before the venerable elder was reduced to ashes by the terrifying heat of the Fallen Heart Flame, his soul and spirit annihilated!
Seeing his companion perish instantly, Elder Mu Gu was filled with dread. His spatial power surged wildly, and he desperately tore through space, trying to escape into the void.

While desperately fleeing, he still pleaded for mercy: "Your Excellency, spare my life! I surrender! I am willing to dedicate all my alchemy knowledge to the Lingbao Pavilion!"

"late."

Venerable Tianhuo's eyes were cold and unwavering. With a swift movement, he appeared behind Elder Mugu as if by teleportation, and a hand wreathed in invisible flames, seemingly slow but actually as fast as lightning, pressed down on Elder Mugu's back.

"Do not--!"

The old man, Mu Gu, felt the destructive aura rushing towards him from behind and let out a desperate scream. However, the next moment, his body suddenly stiffened, the light in his eyes quickly dimmed, and he fell straight down from the sky.

Immediately afterward, Venerable Tianhuo charged into the Soul Hall's protectors like a tiger among sheep. These Soul Hall protectors, who were usually infamous for their ferocity, were now like lambs to the slaughter, powerless against the wrath of a peak Dou Zun. In an instant, most of them were brutally killed, their screams echoing endlessly.

Within the light barrier of the Nine Locks Heavenly Array, the Fifth and Sixth Heavenly Venerables were deathly pale. They anxiously looked at the Blood River Heavenly Venerable, whose aura was disordered and who was covered in blood. Their voices were filled with undisguised panic: "Blood River! The situation is hopeless. We can't hesitate any longer! Quickly call for help!"

Upon hearing this, Blood River Celestial Venerable's face flushed crimson, his chest heaving violently with extreme shame and indignation. He, Blood River Celestial Venerable, had roamed the Central Plains for hundreds of years, his fearsome reputation infamous; how could he have ever suffered such a humiliating disgrace?
To think that he could be outmaneuvered to such an extent by a seemingly frail old man!

However, seeing the elders and protectors of the Soul Hall outside the formation being harvested by Venerable Tianhuo like weeds, he knew that if he continued to worry about saving face, the elite troops of the Soul Hall he brought today would be completely wiped out.

He cannot bear this responsibility!

"Heavenly Fire Old Ghost! If I don't avenge this, I, Blood River, swear I will not be human!" He roared in resentment, and suddenly crushed a pitch-black spatial jade slip in his sleeve! The moment the jade slip shattered, an indescribable terrifying pressure suddenly descended!
The entire space of the Tianmu Mountain Range seemed to freeze. A chilling aura, countless times stronger than that of Xuehe and the others, slowly awakened like a slumbering ancient beast.

A dry, hoarse voice, as if bones were grinding together, carrying a chilling coldness that seemed to freeze the soul, resounded in everyone's ears:

"Heh... The mere Lingbao Pavilion actually forced my Soul Palace Heavenly Venerable to use the Saint's Jade Slip... That's quite unexpected for me."

Accompanied by this chilling sound, the space in the center of the battlefield began to distort violently, and a hunched figure shrouded in an impenetrable black mist silently stepped out of the void.

He simply stood there, and the pressure emanating from his body caused the battle qi of countless Lingbao Pavilion disciples below to dissipate, almost causing them to kneel down—that was a terrifying level that surpassed Dou Zun and belonged to the advanced half-saint level!
The Second Venerable of the Soul Palace, the Bone Nether Saint, has descended in his true form!

"Half Saint..."

"The Spirit Treasure Pavilion actually forced the Soul Palace to send out a half-saint..."

At this moment, countless forces secretly observing from the void surrounding the Tianmu Mountains were shaken.

Those powerful figures hidden behind the spatial folds all gasped in shock. The fact that even a half-saint level expert from the Soul Palace had been mobilized demonstrated the importance they placed on the Spirit Treasure Pavilion, and also signified that this conflict had escalated to a new level!
Gu You's gaze, hidden in the black mist, swept indifferently over the Nine Locks Heavenly Array below. His withered hand slowly rose and gently pressed against the light screen.

"Crack——!"

The seemingly sturdy spirit array light barrier shattered like paper in front of a half-saint!

The terrifying energy backlash dealt a heavy blow to Venerable Tianhuo, who was in charge of the formation. He coughed up blood and his aura instantly weakened. The aftershocks also sent Little Fairy Doctor, Cai Lin, and the others flying. They were all pale-faced and clearly had suffered serious internal injuries.

"How dare you, mere ants, block the path of my Soul Palace?"

Gu You's voice was devoid of any emotion, as if he had merely crushed a few insects. He raised his hand again, and an even more terrifying aura of death began to gather, clearly intending to end the lives of Venerable Tianhuo and the others.

At this critical moment——

"Roar!"

A deafening dragon roar seemed to come from beyond the heavens, tearing through the sky! In the distance, space was forcibly ripped open by a brute force, and a colossal black dragon with scales shimmering with an eerie light roared out!

On the dragon's head, a figure in a green robe stood proudly, his robes fluttering in the wind. Who else could it be but Lu Yu?
What shocked everyone even more was that beside the black dragon, there was an old man with a bristling beard and hair, surrounded by lightning, walking through the air. The aura he exuded had also reached the level of a half-saint—it was none other than Mang Tianchi, the dean of Canaan Academy!
"Old ghost Bone Ghost, what kind of skill is it to bully juniors!"

Beneath Lu Yu, the massive black dragon, stretching for thousands of feet, slowly opened its mouth. Its voice was like a booming bell, carrying the unique majesty of the dragon race, and the surrounding space trembled slightly with its breath.

It was none other than Zhu Li, the Third Elder of Donglong Island!

At the critical moment, Lu Yu, accompanied by two semi-saint level experts, finally arrived!

(End of this chapter)