novelzi Chapter 197: The Final Battle Begins!
Chapter 197: The Final Battle Begins!
Chapter 197: The Final Battle Begins!
Rumble!
A Rank Six one-eyed giant charged forward, drawing massive boulders from the mountain valley. The boulders orbited around it like stars, further enhancing its imposing aura.
Several Rank Five one-eyed giants channeled their strength as they followed the Rank Six one-eyed giant.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The hundreds of boulders resembled a meteor shower as they crashed into the valley where Huang Qi and the others had gathered.
The rogue cultivators and noble family elders cursed as they summoned their powerful spirit artifacts to fend off the falling meteors and then engaged in battle with the charging Vicious Beasts.
It's begun!
Pang Jian harmonized with the land to observe the battlefield from a god-like perspective.
A Rank Six female Wood Race warrior sat on an Ice Sculpture Beast as she flew toward the First Peak. She wore a thorn crown on her head and softly chanted incantations.
The thorns on the crown pierced the delicate blood vessels on the head of the mighty Wood Race warrior, greedily siphoning her thick blood essence and life force.
Towering trees sprang up from the ground, branches soaring high into the sky before rushing toward the summit of the First Peak.
The leader of the Demon Scale Race burned his blood as he rode his Rank Six black wyvern, causing it to rain down from the sky. Each drop carried the intense heat of the Fifth World's earthflame magma, along with corrosive and destructive energy.
Whoosh!
The Spirit Slaughtering Astral Array on the First Peak hissed as the blood corroded it. Unfortunately, the blood seeped through the mesh of spiritual power to splash uselessly onto the rocky ground, and the corroded web of lights swiftly reformed.
Underground...
Pang Jian focused his mind. Countless spirit jades were piled beside the radiant spirit vein deep beneath the First Peak and were being used to enhance the spirit vein's magical properties.
Thousands of light beams extended from the summit of the First Peak down into the depths of the earth, draping over the spirit vein and drawing on the spiritual power within the spirit jades. Like meridians, they transported this spiritual power to the heart of the First Peak, the cave dwellings, and the arrays within the stone pathways.
Dozens of Lady Hua's white-clad women followed an underground passage into the depths of the spirit vein. They carefully placed new piles of spirit jade around the glowing spirit vein before discarding the depleted ones.
The spirit vein resembled a slender crystalline serpent coiled deep within the heart of the First Peak. The Spirit Slaughtering Astral Array wrapped around the spirit vein as it continuously channeled spiritual power to the heart of the First Peak.
There must be tens of thousands of spirit jades. Pang Jian clicked his tongue in astonishment.
This large-scale battle would undoubtedly cause significant losses for Cao Mang. Tens of thousands of spirit jades, equivalent to millions of spirit stones, were constantly being consumed.
Once a spirit jade was depleted, it had to be swiftly replaced to maintain the array and prevent it from stuttering.
This was not the first time the invading forces from the Fifth World had launched an attack on the First Peak. Each assault would have consumed a tremendous amount of spirit jades and Cao Mang could only endure it in silence.
A Gilded Chariot from the Star River Alliance flew out of a newly formed cave on the Third Peak. Many Ghost Race warriors riding Ghost Apes instantly boarded it.
The Gilded Chariot then flew toward the valley where Pang Jian was located, and upon reaching an appropriate height, the Ghost Race warriors and their Ghost Apes descended into the valley to attack the cultivators below.
Howl!
Rank Four and Rank Five Vicious Beasts also charged in, attempting to attack Liang Ying and the others.
"Pang Jian! Get under the Star Crushing Umbrella!" Xie Xiwen shouted as she waved her hand. She feared he would be killed by the Ghost Race warriors when she saw him standing alone in the distance.
"I'm fine." Pang Jian declined, calmly shaking his head.
Liang Ying gritted her teeth in anger. "That's our Gilded Chariot!"
As she watched the chariot fly away, she reached out with her divine sense to try to communicate with it, but a sinister force tore it apart as soon as it left her sea of consciousness.
"Spirit Condensation Realm, elder, Liang Ying..." The leader of the Ghost Race perched on the shoulder of a Rank Five Ghost Ape with his gaze fixed on Liang Ying. In awkward-sounding human language, he said, "You have something we need!"
The one-meter-tall Ghost Race leader was gaunt and resembled a ghastly ghost. A segmented snake skeleton circled his scrawny waist and a black snakeskin covered his small frame. His venomous green eyes flashed with streaks of green lightning.
Screech!
He pulled at his toothed mouth and let out a shrill shriek.
Pang Jian's head immediately felt like it was splitting. His omniscient view of the Primordial Wilderness was also disrupted as he was forced to steady his mind.
A Ghost Race warrior charged at Pang Jian on the back of a Ghost Ape, intending to kill Pang Jian while his soul was in pain.
Pang Jian watched their approach in slight bafflement.
The Ghost Race is attacking me?
He quickly realized why. It had been some days since he had drunk the herbal juice so he no longer carried its scent. Thus, he was indistinguishable from other humans in the eyes of the Ghost Race.
Although caught off guard, Pang Jian did not hesitate to summon his Startling Slaughter Spear and steady his mind. The Ghost Race leader's shriek had caused several strands of divine sense in his sea of consciousness to thin and had rapidly deteriorated his mental strength.
The shriek can directly attack a cultivator's sea of consciousness.
Realizing this, Pang Jian restored his god-like perception and focused on the Ghost Race warrior before him.
A Rank Five Ghost Race warrior and a Rank Four Ghost Ape. Their physical strength and blood essence are far inferior to the warriors from the Celestial Race and Demon Scale Race, but...
As Pang Jian studied the Rank Five Ghost Race warrior, he noticed gray ghostly figures clinging to its internal organs!
Most of these ghostly figures were shrunken remnants of human cultivators' souls and several Vicious Beasts' souls.
The Ghost Race was not as strong as the Demon Scale Race and the Celestial Race, but they could absorb the remnants of their enemies' souls and store them in their bodies to use as power.