From Blood Mage to Styx Ancestor

Chapter 367 The Mother of No Life

Conventional nodes cannot support the massive Deceitful Array; only something more unique and robust can serve as a node in the Deceitful Array.

Fortunately, this vast world is not lacking in these things.

Famous mountains and rivers, ancient cities with spiritual veins, and forbidden and dangerous places—these are all natural nodes.

With proper guidance, they can be transformed into nodes of the Heaven-Deceiving Array, which will greatly reduce the cost of setting up the array.

However, in some places where there are no natural nodes, artificial nodes are still needed, which requires cultivators to move mountains and fill seas.

Although in the present day, it would be almost impossible for them to do this without the help of external forces.

"Fortunately, what we have in abundance is external support... Hey, you over there, remember to wear a hard hat on the construction site!"

The inner disciple of the Feathered Ascension Sect who was supervising the work angrily rebuked, while not far away, an outer disciple who was skilled in both earth and wood magic scratched his head, took out a yellow safety helmet from his pocket, put it on, and continued to dust.

The spiritual energy structure roared and began cutting through the mountain after several disciples finished adjusting it, preparing to guide it to a specific area.

"This is the last one. Once it's completed, we can begin the next step of the plan: attempting to capture Tianji."

Mordi stood in the dimensional rift, inspecting the construction progress of this final node together with the other three gods.

"Slaughtering Heaven, your henchmen are inefficient. They're the last to finish repairing." Blissful Heaven shrugged, shook his head, and sighed.

"We finished fixing it a long time ago."

Modi glanced at him and said expressionlessly, "If you want to take on more work, I can give you back what's rightfully yours."

"Coo coo, me too," said the usurper, raising his hand.

Blissful Heaven's smile froze for a moment, and he immediately severed ties with his previous self.

"Sorry, never mind then. How about you beat me up instead? Consider it payment."

"I have no interest in BDSM," he sneered.

Modi had long seen through His trick of provoking a beating. To Him, it was a reward, and ignoring Him was the best course of action.

"Shout." Realizing his trick had been exposed, Blissful Heaven could only purse his lips and abandon his clever scheme.

Time passed, and although they only exchanged a few words, several days had already gone by outside the narrow gap.

The last node has been completed and is now ready for the Four Gods to inspect.

"Check the status of each node again," Liu Wuxian ordered. "This matter concerns all cultivators, so I hope everyone will check carefully."

"No abnormalities were found at the feathering peak node."

"No abnormalities were found at the Suiyangshan node."

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"Our sect is responsible for a total of 775 nodes, and none of them are abnormal."

"Messages have been sent from the Medicine King Hall, the Myriad Transformations Sect, and the Blissful Sect that all nodes are functioning normally."

"The final self-check is over," Liu Wuxian said, looking at Mo Di who had appeared beside him at some point. "Old Mo, we can begin now."

Modi lowered his eyes and withdrew his spiritual sense from scanning the earth.

He looked at the three gods in the void and said, "Then, go ahead and do it."

"You all must have quite a few avatars, right? There are a total of 2,332 nodes. I can send a Blood God Child to each node to oversee it."

In terms of the number of incarnations, he is second to none.

"Coo coo coo, then I'll send some avatars over there too." The mutated heaven tilted its head, and a constantly changing blue mist emanated from its body.

The Heaven of Decay and the Heaven of Bliss had nothing to say, but silently devoted their power to creating incarnations.

Modi suddenly exploded into a blood mist, using the connections between the nodes as channels to send Blood God Children to be stationed at the locations of each node.

The Deceiving Heaven Formation is essentially a momentary deception of the heavens, making them believe that the energy level of the entire world has dropped to zero, thus causing them to manifest as observable entities.

It will definitely do this; it must do this, otherwise it will be unable to accomplish its final great undertaking.

Once it manifests as an observable entity, it will randomly appear in more than two thousand nodes, and they can simply wait and capture it.

Perhaps, a fierce battle is inevitable.

"The avatars are ready, let's begin the battle."

Liu Wuxian stood at the Yuhua Peak node and nodded to the sect leaders beside him.

"Charge!"

The spiritual energy reactor roared to life, and the array patterns covering the surface of Feathered Peak began to glow faintly.

Centered on this point, array patterns lit up one after another at various nodes within the territory of the Feathered Ascension Sect, eventually merging with the array patterns of the other three sects that had also lit up.

The light grew brighter, and the entire world was enveloped by the Heaven-Deceiving Array.

The spiritual energy was stagnant, and the energy level plummeted to its lowest point in an instant. All living beings, whether cultivators or mortals, felt an indescribable sense of oppression at this moment.

It was as if some terrible fate had quietly arrived, and in just a moment, it would fall upon everyone's head.

Fortunately, the effect of the Heaven-Deceiving Formation only lasted for a moment.

The next moment, the effect of the Heaven-Deceiving Array ended, the energy level returned to normal, and everyone felt relieved.

But for Mordy and his companions, it was only the beginning.

"It's finally here."

At node 678, Modi, along with the incarnations of Elysium and Corruption, simultaneously noticed a female silhouette that seemed out of place with everything around her, appearing out of thin air at the node they were guarding.

Her face was blurred and indistinct, yet it gave off a feeling of loving kindness and a peaceful, undisturbed state, as if she were in the deepest sleep.

Facing the three objects, she tilted her head, revealing a confused and bewildered expression.

It seemed to be wondering why the energy level had suddenly returned to normal.

"It's her."

Before Modi could finish speaking, he reached out his right hand and grabbed at the blurry female silhouette.

Blood seeped out and clung to his hands, forming a massive, blood-red handprint that blotted out the sky.

With a single palm strike, gravity reversed, and the world collapsed.

Zhi Futian and the other two knew that it wasn't the Blood Hand that was pressing down, but rather that the entire 678th node had been captured in its grasp, and that everything around it was actively moving closer to the Blood Hand.

The space around them, which was originally as fragile as paper, has now been reinforced to be as hard as iron, turning it into a cage.

"Now let's see where you run to."

As soon as Modi uttered the words, he inexplicably felt a pang of regret.

He was careless; he shouldn't have made such a bold prediction.

As expected, the moment the bloody hand touched the woman's silhouette, a wisp of gray energy flowed from its surface and entered the bloody handprint.

Modi's eyelids twitched, and he severed the connection between himself and the blood hand, withdrawing his right hand in time.

The colossal hand that he severed instantly lost all its energy, disappearing inch by inch, as if it had been killed.

"It's less about killing it and more about directly determining its death; there wasn't much of a killing process involved."

Zhifu Tian analyzed, waving his hand to summon flies, insects, and germs, causing them to form a dark green longsword.

He held the sword of plague and swung it forward.

There was no sword energy that swept across the land, nor any sword intent that charged forward, but everything that stood in its way began to rot, stink, and eventually decay.

There is only one exception, and that is the entity of "divine jealousy".

She didn't even look at the result of the sword strike, but simply pointed at the spreading stench of decay.

The continuous process of decay was abruptly interrupted. An external force intervened in this severed cycle of life, continuing the interrupted cycle of death after the decay process.

Seeing that his first attack had failed, Zhifutian did not continue, but simply frowned and sheathed the Plague Sword.

In some ways, He disliked this guy in front of Him more than the mutated God, who was called the monstrous bird.

Seeing that both Modi and Zhifutian's attempts to test him had failed, Jiletian also gave up on the idea and shouted at the top of his lungs, "When dealing with these evil heretics, there's no need to talk about chivalry or honor. Let's all charge together!"

After saying that, he took a step back, waiting for the other two to demonstrate their skills first.

Modi glanced at him, but remained unmoved.

Like him, the stagnant and corrupt heaven remained unmoved.

"Everyone, why aren't you making a move?" Jiletian smiled awkwardly, not daring to meet his gaze.

Modi looked at Tianjue's physical form again and saw that her figure was becoming blurry, so he knew that she wanted to leave. "Prepare to intercept her."

The two disappeared one after the other, and consciousness traveled through the network of nodes.

The entity of Heavenly Jealousy leaped out of the node, and as soon as it appeared, it saw three figures blocking its path.

"We meet again." Modi said expressionlessly.

"It is indeed the aura of death; this is undoubtedly a contingency plan of the Mother of No Life," the Usurper Heaven said with a smile.

The corrupted heaven remained silent, but the plague battle axe in his hand spoke volumes about his will.

Without hesitation, the entity of the Heavenly Jealousy once again leaped into the node network, attempting to find an unattended node.

But doing so would be futile.

This time, it is Modi, the Usurper, and the Blissful Heaven that appear.

Next time it will be Modi, Bliss, or Stagnant Heaven.

The next time, all four appeared together.

After jumping more than ten times in a row, the Heavenly Jealousy entity stopped jumping for the first time, and its blurry face turned towards the Four Gods.

"I didn't want to act so soon," she said for the first time. "It is you who have forced this world into a desperate situation ahead of time."

"My...divine calamity."

As the words fell, Tian Du's blurred face gradually became clear.

Modi squinted at her face and exclaimed, "What a beautiful...skull."

What appeared before the four of them was indeed a skull, its bones crystal clear. Judging from its appearance, if flesh and blood were added to it, it would be a beautiful woman.

"You call us your divine wrath?" Bliss asked with great interest.

"Otherwise what?" The empty eye sockets of the Heavenly Jealousy turned to Him. "Especially you, a maggot born from your own corpse. But don't worry, the day you return to the embrace of death won't be long."

"You have all absorbed my essence and could have become my divine offspring, but... you chose another path."

The pink skull extended its slender jade finger, first pointing to the bloated and enormous stagnant heaven.

"You are stuck in the second stage of the cycle of life, decaying without any ambition."

Faced with this death finger, Zhi Futian felt unwell almost immediately, his severely decaying body exuding a sense of death.

But He was, after all, one of the four peddlers, and his path wouldn't be so easily broken.

"To decay without dying is also a form of eternity," he said coldly, and the next moment he reconstructed his own steady state, removing the death aura imposed by the entity of the Heavenly Jealousy.

"You, ever-changing, claim to control your destiny, yet deny your own destined death."

The pink skull pointed again, this time at the usurper of heaven.

The altered heavens paid no heed, transforming into a blue cloud of lightning, resisting the death she had imposed upon them.

"To control destiny, one must first break destiny," He cackled. "The Primal Destroyer is still in the distant future, but by our will, that future will never come."

The pink skull missed twice and looked at the Blissful Heaven, which originated from the belief of the Unborn Sect. Just as it was about to raise its finger, it saw Him quickly hide behind a red figure.

The Elysian Empire was quite self-aware, knowing that it could never be as powerful as the Corrupt Empire or the Usurper Empire, so it could only find a strong person to act as a shield.

"You...you have slaughtered billions, sown death," the skeleton paused for a moment, then continued, "have you ever considered joining my domain and walking the path of death?"

"I have my own path," Modi refused outright.

"What a pity."

This time, instead of using her deadly finger technique as before, she directly clenched her fist and attacked.

Unlike her skeletal face, her fists were perfectly intact, with fair and smooth skin, and seemed to pose no threat whatsoever when she swung them.

However, Modi and the others did not dare to take the attack head-on, and instead used various methods to avoid it.

The fist unleashed a shockwave that caused everything in its path to death, even the surface of the world.

"Do not be affected by it, otherwise your incarnation will surely collapse."

As soon as Modi uttered those words, his body suddenly exploded into a pool of blood, which then gushed forth to form a fountain of blood.

More and more blood gushed out, instantly forming a sea of ​​blood.

Blood mist rose up, and a pungent smell of blood spread.

A monstrous laugh, seemingly a usurper of the heavens, echoed from the mist. A cloud of blue mist emerged from the crimson, enveloping two orbs of light, one blue and one red, and hurtled toward the physical form of the Heavenly Jealousy.

Faced with this cloud of mysterious origin, the Heavenly Jealousy entity instinctively wanted to throw another simple punch, but the Heavenly Stagnant Corruption and the Heavenly Bliss beside it were not just standing by and watching.

The former appeared behind her at some unknown time, wielding a plague axe, and the concept of decay spread with each strike of the axe.

The latter, standing at a distance, exerts its own authority on her through the essence of the unborn mother it possesses.

The desire to strike that had just arisen in the body of the Heavenly Jealousy Body vanished inexplicably in the blink of an eye, leaving only a sense of peace and tranquility in its heart.

As the battle axe crashed down, at the critical moment, she still felt a surge of desire and pointed a finger at the axe blade.

Death spread, engulfing the entire Plague Axe and causing it to collapse.

But then the blue clouds followed, and two beams of light, one red and one blue, shot out, transforming into a spiral spear and a scepter respectively.

The spear struck first, ending any possibility of failure and embedding itself into the body of the pink skull.

The skeleton staggered two steps, then was pierced by the scepter, its possibility was further eliminated, and its body fell into the sea of ​​blood.

Once she fell, she could no longer escape from the sea of ​​blood.

It was as if the weight of the entire sea of ​​blood was pressing down on her; what she was facing were endless Blood God Children.

Even if she could kill the Blood God Children around her in an instant, countless Blood God Children would fill the gaps in the next moment, using their deaths to wear down her power.

Modi's voice came from beside my ear.

"Don't worry, I may not have much else, but I have a lot of lives. I'm known as the King of Endurance, so... I still have many lives to play with you."