Bearing the blue sky

Chapter 230 Feint to the East, Attack in the West

As soon as the Locust Demon Prince finished speaking, the sky suddenly darkened.

It wasn't dark clouds obscuring the moon, but rather countless tiny Gu worms surging out of his body, densely packed, blotting out the sky and the sun.

Those Gu worms were not just ordinary first and second realms, but also included many third realms.

Thousands upon thousands of Three Realms Gu worms, combined together, exuded a suffocating demonic aura.

"This—how is this possible?" Su Feibai's expression finally changed.

"He has transformed himself into a worm nest," sighed the Wood Daoist. "Those Gu worms were fed with his essence blood and lifespan; each one is equivalent to an avatar of his. He has been hiding in the Red River Prefecture all these years to raise these worms."

The hearts of all the geniuses sank.

The Locust Prince stood in the center of the swarm of insects. The two bloody holes in his chest were no longer filled with locusts, but had become two dark, gaping holes.

Countless tiny insects were crawling in and out of it.

His face was as pale as paper, but his eyes were frighteningly bright.

"I, the Crown Prince, have been planning this for ten years, all for this day." His voice echoed amidst the buzzing of the insect swarm: "The Plague God Sparrow and the Red River Dragon Python are merely pawns, and the people of Red River Prefecture are nothing more than nourishment."

"I will use your blood to feed my swarm and help me break through to become a Great One!"

"Dream on!" Yan Liyuan shouted, waving his ruler and sending a golden light slashing towards the Locust Demon Prince.

The golden light disappeared into the swarm of insects, vanishing without a trace, like a clay ox entering the sea.

"It's useless." The Locust Demon Prince shook his head: "My swarm of locusts can devour all attacks. Your literary energy, blood energy, and magic are all nourishment for them."

The group of geniuses looked at each other in bewilderment.

Really?

Or is it fake?

The Locust Demon Prince's words were half true and half false, making them difficult to decipher.

Perhaps it's to create psychological pressure on them.

Perhaps that's true; this Locust Demon Prince is too powerful, so he's fearless.

In short, no one knew whether to believe what he said.

"Zhu Ge, are you dead yet?" Guan Julang shouted, "If you're not dead, come out for a spin! I think it would be nice to use your thing, the long, thin one."

The following congratulatory song was ignored as the singer closed their eyes, pretended to faint, and pretended to be delirious.

Guan Julang couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Looking at Zhu Ge's body, with its muscular build resembling that of a third-realm demon beast, a water buffalo, how could he possibly be vomiting blood and suffering severe injuries?

"Alas, it seems we still cannot hunt down the Great Ones alone!" a woman sighed. "We were thinking of testing our strength, perhaps we could even compete with the top ten."

"It seems that it will take more than half of the sixteen of us using all our strength to kill this Locust Demon Prince, won't it?"

This woman was the same female thief who had met Zhu Ge earlier; her figure was shrouded in a black bodysuit and cloak.

"Hey, Hongxiu, are the eight people you mentioned above or below fifty?" Guan Julang asked.

Hongxiu said helplessly, "Of course it's those above that. Look at you few under fifty, so weak, what use are you?"

Seeing that the people here had started chatting without restraint, the Locust Demon Prince's face grew even more gloomy.

"Ignorant child."

The Locust Demon Prince seemed to be enraged, and a gigantic phantom suddenly appeared in the sky.

The phantom was an old man, his face shrouded in thick darkness, his hands withered and dry as wood.

In an instant, countless insects in the sky coalesced into the shape of a locust, and then the dark swarm rushed down into the Six Valleys below.

"Oh?"

Zhu Ge immediately got up from the ground, showing no signs of serious injury.

He watched the swarm of insects pressing down, but his mind wasn't on how to defend against them.

The bone monster's clone has already manipulated the Fungus God's Annihilation Array.

The Bone Monster's clone, Zhu Ge's main body, Hua Liusha, and Zhu Sisi—there are four people who can control the great formation.

Therefore, he wasn't worried about the number of uses at all. He needed to fully utilize the Fungus God Annihilation Array more than ten times to completely drain them.

Now, Zhu Ge saw the phantom descending from the sky, but he was not flustered at all, and did not even activate the great formation much.

really!

The phantom appeared powerful and imposing, but it vanished in mid-air without causing any damage whatsoever.

However, the wooden Taoist suddenly frowned, and then his body exploded, turning into wood chips everywhere.

A feint to the east while attacking in the west!

Everyone present was a prodigy, and they immediately realized that the Locust Demon Prince was not foolish enough to attack a clearly powerful formation, but rather his intention was to target the Wood Daoist!

However, in that very instant, all the prodigies also made their moves.

High in the sky, a faint shadowy figure appears behind each person.

The true meaning is revealed!

The original sign of entering the third realm was to condense true intent in one's own Zhongyuan Palace, which is the heart, and then rush straight up to enter the Shangyuan Palace, thus achieving the third realm.

However, even among those at the same level of the three realms, some are able to manifest their true meaning and transform it into their own powerful strength.

For example, the fisherman in the straw raincoat in the past had the spirit of a fisherman's song.

Zhu Ge, on the other hand, is the martial arts enlightenment he comprehended himself.

Now, everyone present is Yan Liyuan's good friend Gu Jiu, who has come from all over the Great Sheng Dynasty to go to the Southern Yue Burmese Wilderness.

These are the people Yan Liyuan believes are capable of confronting the great ones.

Therefore, basically everyone has a manifestation of true meaning.

In an instant, the entire sky was filled with afterimages.

There were scholars reciting, teachers reprimanding, knights drawing their swords, and immortals pointing the way—

The various meanings caused the spiritual energy within a radius of a thousand miles to tremble.

The city lords of cities such as Jianshui and Mengzi all responded.

The demons in various places were also terrified and trembling.

This was a battle that affected an immeasurable distance; the mere fluctuations were enough to be sensed by powerful experts at the third realm thousands of miles away.

"boom!!!!"

The two sides collided, and the shockwave leveled the surrounding area for hundreds of miles in an instant.

It should be noted that at this moment, the prodigies took advantage of the Locust Demon Prince's feint attack to launch a sneak attack.

Everyone present was a prodigy, and those who made it onto the recent "National Ranking" had all experienced countless battles and possessed an exceptional grasp of timing.

However, even so, Chong Tianjiao's sneak attack only resulted in a draw between the two sides.

"puff!!!"

The wooden Taoist appeared from a hundred meters away, spitting out blood.

It was clear that what was just attacked by the Locust Demon Prince was merely a wooden substitute.

At the same time, the three prodigies all shuddered and took a few steps back, presumably also injured.

At that moment, the Locust Demon Prince let out a cold snort.

The next second, the two locusts on his chest disappeared into his body with a "whoosh".

"Watch out!" Yan Liyuan said with a serious expression, but it was too late.

"Bang!!"

"Snap!!"

With two soft sounds, one of the two prodigies present had his chest pierced, and the other had his neck snapped.

However, something lit up on each of them.

A halo appeared at the opening in one of the people's chests, encircling him and sending him flying into the distance.

The man with the broken neck flashed with light, and his neck returned to its original position. However, he helplessly clasped his hands in a fist salute to Yan Liyuan and said, "Brother Yan, my life-saving item has been destroyed. I cannot disobey the sect's orders, so I must take my leave first. I apologize!"