Destiny is ashes

Chapter 1017 No One Can Escape

"Damn it, Da Chen, what are you good for?!"

boom!
A steel puppet ten feet tall wielded a chainsaw sword, severing a blood-sea monstrous creature that had just emerged from the ground, resembling a giant worm but actually a mutated earthworm.

The foul-smelling blood and shattered tissue contents gushed out, sizzling and corroding the surrounding soil.

"Unit 3, retreat! Maintenance team, follow! Quickly!"

Gu Yeqi was leading several children of calamity as he ran back and forth among the numerous puppets, his long hair fluttering in the rain of blood.

Her face was covered in blood and exhaustion, yet she still managed to issue commands calmly through the communication mirror: "Squads four and five, clear out and kill all living things in the surrounding area... Don't worry about whether they've been corrupted or not. In this situation, even if they haven't been corrupted now, they definitely will in the future!"

Under her command, a legion of puppets controlled by numerous disciples of the Mingjing Sect's Feathered Path were like an iron torrent, 'extinguishing fires' and eliminating the ever-emerging blood beasts throughout Chenli.

Of course, this is just the simplest task.

True Lords like Night Soul True Lord had already traveled to various places to confirm that there were no great demon spirits or demonic beings from Taiyuan, or demon spirits from other places that had invaded Chenli—especially in the far north ice plains, where countless ice plain blood beasts and blood sea spawns were preparing to land.

This job is really too hard.

Although the entire Chenli region was sparsely populated due to the previous Nirvana War, making it easy to gather people together for protection, it was precisely because of this that the Mingjing Sect could only protect a very small area and could not stop the blood staining.

Gu Yeqi lowered his head with regret and even sorrow, gazing at the land beneath his feet that had just begun to come alive.

Having survived the ordeal of rebirth, they are now being mercilessly soaked in blood and demonic energy. Crops are being tainted, and the land is being polluted. No one knows what the future holds for this land.

Especially those evergreen trees, they can indeed resist the erosion of various demonic energies, but they have little resistance to the power of the Blood Sea Demonic Cult and are easily eroded and have their life force plundered.

"You son of a bitch, Da Chen, what are you hesitating for? Hurry up and activate the Heavenly Sea Formation!"

Seeing yet another newly cultivated evergreen forest being eroded by blood energy, and hearing the painful background of heaven and earth emanating from his own 'Purple Qi Fate', Gu Yeqi finally couldn't help but curse out loud, complaining in his heart: "Senior Brother Cha is so fast, but so slow at dealing with the Demonic Sect?"

"Or are you saying that your damned, worthless court is actually in league with the Demonic Sect?!"

It's actually hard to say, because in Huai Xu Ten Continents, only a few sects haven't secretly contacted the Blood Sea Demonic Cult.

As a demonic sect, it can do things that others wouldn't, couldn't, or wouldn't do. Compared to the past, the Blood Sea Demonic Sect is indeed like a venomous snake with its fangs removed; although ferocious, it poses little threat.

But things get complicated when the snakes grow so large that they can strangle others with their bodies alone.

The desires of everyone together nurtured an incredible monster.

Gu Yeqi didn't intend to reprimand anyone. Didn't the Mingjing Sect also have connections with the Heavenly Demon Sect back then? Although he thought it was just a one-sided exploitation, it was actually the same for the Heavenly Demon.

She had briefly identified with the Heavenly Will Demonic Sect's order, and if it weren't for her senior brother, she would have become immersed in it too. Everyone makes mistakes; there's no need to make a big deal out of it.

What truly worries Gu Yeqi is that the puppet body of the Feathered Path seems unable to resist the erosion of the Blood Sea.

【life】

The power of life is not something so superficial.

If it were purely steel machinery, it might be able to withstand the attack for longer. Machinery and flesh and blood are indeed different entities. Although both are life in a strict sense, the influence will always be biased. It would definitely take the Blood Sea Demon Cult more time to erode the iron lump.

However, in pursuit of cost-effectiveness and the highest spirituality and growth potential at the same price, most of the current Ascension Dao puppets use evergreen wood as their core skeleton.

Ultimately, evergreen trees are also a form of life; if their forests can be corroded and plundered, puppets won't fare much better. The Blood Sea Demonic Cult is disrupting the very life principles of the world. In the early stages, this might be tolerable, but once its disruption of the world's order penetrates deeper, even the Ascension Path will be unable to withstand it!

At this moment, strange blood-red patterns have begun to appear on the wooden cores of many puppets!
"Damn it...we need to prepare to retreat!"

Gu Yeqi also noticed that some of the martial artists in the team whose cultivation was not high enough had begun to experience dizziness and trembling. Although they could still continue fighting, if they continued to fight... there would be some non-combat losses.

Great age.

For the strong, a great era represents opportunity, a stepping stone to further advancement amidst global upheaval.

But for ordinary people, for those who simply want to live a peaceful life, the Great World is despair upon despair.

No one will be spared, no one can remain uninvolved... this is the so-called era of great strife.

If you don't eliminate the calamity, the calamity will eliminate you.

"Could it be that Chen Li is going to..."

Just as Gu Yeqi was feeling extremely anxious, a vast and boundless beam of light suddenly shot into the sky from the center of the Mingjing Sect.

The mirror-like light, like a pillar of heaven, swept across the sky. Wherever it passed, the endless blood clouds that shrouded the entire Chenli region rolled back and melted away rapidly, like snow under the scorching sun.

"It was the Ancestor who made a move!"

Seeing this, Gu Yeqi was overjoyed.

However, Haotian Mirror's extremely solemn, even urgent voice resounded directly in her mind: [Damn it, I didn't expect the God One Cult Leader to be so crazy!]

[Gu Yeqi! Return to the sect immediately!]

[Contract all defenses, I'm activating the mountain-protecting formation!]

"What happened, Ancestor?!"

Gu Yeqi was initially relieved, but he didn't expect Haotianjing to be so nervous, so he immediately became nervous as well: "Could it be that the Blood Sea Demonic Sect is really going to succeed?!"

"Are they really about to break through to the Heavenly Realm?!"

"How could that be? You simply don't understand the difference between 'Above the Heavens' and 'Returning to the Void'!" Haotian Mirror solemnly declared. "The Heavenly Dao of Emptiness has changed. Reaching the 'Harmony of the Dao' realm is now far more difficult than before. Even if the Blood Sea Demonic Sect were ten times stronger, they wouldn't even come close!"

However, this time, the Blood Sea Demonic Sect has likely joined forces with more than one Heavenly Sect, or even more than one faction! They... have truly gone mad!

Look, Ye Qi!

Look at the sky! And the earth!

"world?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Yeqi looked up in a daze.

Meanwhile, Bai Qinghan, far away in Ximinyan, and Cang Linzu, who had just finished comforting the survivors, both looked up at the same time.

Outside the capital, the endless stream of refugees, the officials and displaced people arguing and bribing for entry fees, all stared blankly at the sky at this moment.

(End of this chapter)