"The day when rivers and mountains flow with blood is mournful, bones of warriors do not regret frost spreading across. Hard to forget that rain in March, blood tears painting a thousand forests red."

A chill long chant tells of a bloody landscape. The sky drizzles an unreal yet real blood rain, as a young figure wrapped in linen walks out from the long river.

The Third Human Emperor - Yuan Jian.

Once again a Human Emperor appears, the soul consciousness of the Third Human Emperor enters the battle body, the Six Emperors return to their positions, and the Qi mechanism suddenly surges.

"Mourning God and Confessing Soul."

As if tearing down a heavenly curtain, warriors and massacres appear upon the scene, blood-stained war soldiers, a rush of fierce Soldier Evil blood energy from this battle map rushes out, dimming the sky and sun.

These Six Emperors, unlike their past selves, unleash divine power surpassing previous limits due to the Third Human Emperor's return.

"Primordial Darkness."

Papiyan sees this and also exerts full strength, six arms forming seals, a pillar of lightless energy rises, connecting the heavens, devouring light.

Heaven and earth, only the battle map of the Six Emperors still shines with pure blood light, while all other places are shrouded in darkness.

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"Such intense blood energy, along with that obscure lightless demon intent, the Human Emperor should return to earth to face off against the Demon Buddha."

Outside Xunyang City in Xuanzhou, Yin Tianxia gazes at the lightless shield in the distance and speculates.

Due to Daqian being tricked by the Buddhist sect, the Human Emperor and two Supreme Warriors left for nearly three days, allowing the Peacock Remnants to invade Xuanzhou, seizing much of the territory.

While Northern Zhou takes the chance, like a mantis watching a cicada unaware of a snipe behind, they send Divinity Realm warriors simultaneously from Yan and Hong Provinces, capturing four cities in one day with decapitation tactics—an impressive feat.

However, the Xunyang City before us is not to be compared with those previous four cities.

Above Xunyang City, the Blood Sea ripples, a Blood Lotus opens its thousand petals, slowly rotating. At its center, a figure sits cross-legged, sometimes manifesting as a human, other times as a Blood Shadow.

"Xue Ya," Yin Tianxia calls, "resisting like a mantis is unwise. Step aside, and I may spare your life."

The one stationed in Xunyang City is the former Blood Demon Sect Leader, now the Desire Realm Blood Sea Tathagata Xue Ya. He swallows the city's living beings into the Blood Sea, erecting the Blood Sea Floating Killing Array to block the way.

"Yin Tianxia."

Within the Blood Lotus, a huge demon face formed of blood emerges, mouth spewing intense sanguine air, "Break this fusion Blood Sea Floating Killing Array of Buddha and Demon, and then let's talk about sparing my life. The question is, do you dare to enter?"

The Blood Sea Floating Killing Array claims to be a fusion of Buddha and Demon, but it's more of a transformed Buddha Formation. Originally a prototype of Nalanda Temple's Great Array "Sea of Suffering Floating Platform," it was demonized by Demon Buddha Papiyan and passed to Xue Ya.

The array swallowed nearly hundreds of thousands of citizens in the grand city of Xunyang City in Xuanzhou, refining their soul consciousness within the Blood Sea. It gathered their resentful energy and hatred, and through the Blood Sea's evil nature, transformed it into Blood Souls for its own use.

After the Dao Ancestor's guidance, Xue Ya's strength had already increased considerably, not weaker than that of Yin Tianxia who had improved significantly these years.

With the Blood Sea Floating Killing Array empowering him further, his battle prowess soared; no wonder facing Yin Tianxia leading demonic warriors, he showed not a trace of retreat or fear.

"Body and array are one, Xue Ya fully merges himself with the array using the 'Blood God Scripture,' as long as the array isn't broken, his body is undying. Troublesome!" Yin Tianxia mutters while frowning.

The "Blood God Scripture" of the Blood Demon Sect is famed for its evil and undying properties. Now, Xue Ya merges his body with the Blood Sea Floating Killing Array; the array is his source of power. The blood energy and essence of tens of thousands within are absorbed into the array; to kill him, one must first break the array, and to break the array, first obliterate the essence of tens of thousands.

These tens of thousands may not be warriors, with few even reaching the Divine Origin Realm, but their combined essence and blood energy already surpass those of a Supreme Warrior.

Even a Supreme Warrior entering this array faces grave danger, a single misstep might lead to the demise of their body and spirit. Their essence would even be absorbed by the array.

"The Demon Buddha Papiyan and Xue Ya, they treat people as livestock for slaughter. Compared to them, we demonic people are quite benevolent." Mo Guming gazes at the gushing Blood Sea and laments.

To enhance their battle strength quickly, both the Demon Buddha and Xue Ya disregard human life, using beings as fuel, burning their lives to bolster their power. In terms of demonic nature, even Mo Guming, a demonic warrior, admits inferiority.

'Perhaps only that person can compare to the two.'

A hazy figure forms in Mo Guming's mind, causing his heart to shiver involuntarily.

The longer Mo Guming stays with Northern Zhou, the more he realizes how many corpses this person treads upon. Living over two hundred years, Mo Guming fears few, yet that person ranks as the foremost, the most untouchable fierce figure in Mo Guming's mind.

'However, if that person comes, they should be able to break this array.' Mo Guming ponders.

Instantly, he wants to suggest requesting Qing Yu's help, but upon seeing Yin Tianxia's cold and solid expression, he suppresses the thought.

Getting the ever-strict Yin Sect Master to soften and ask Qing Yu for help might be even harder than ascending to heaven.

"The Blood Sea Floating Killing Array is actually not difficult to break."

A familiar voice comes from behind, Yin Tianxia frowns and looks over, showing a curious expression, "Emperor Zhou?"

"Emperor Zhou Your Majesty."

The others, upon seeing the visitor, slightly bow to express respect for the Northern Zhou Emperor.

"You actually left the Divine Capital to come to this border?" Yin Tianxia asked in surprise.

Emperor Zhou of Northern Zhou is most powerful in the Northern Zhou Divine City. If he leaves the city, his strength will weaken. In this border area, Emperor Zhou's power is only about eighty-five percent of his full strength.

"The reduction in strength is not as severe as you might think," Emperor Zhou said with a calm smile, "The neighboring Hong Province has also become part of the Northern Zhou territory, Xuanzhou has been seized of four cities, and my territory has expanded again, along with loosened regional restrictions.

Here, I can exert at least ninety-three percent of my power."

Only then did Yin Tianxia and the others notice that Emperor Zhou's Qi mechanism surged up again, its increase was so significant that it seemed difficult to restrain the spilling over.

Having taken Hong Province and reached into Xuanzhou, combined with Meng Province Grassland, the territory governed by Northern Zhou at this time is comparable to the area of the Central Plains Six Provinces.

Such a large ruling area brings a substantial increase in strength. According to Yin Tianxia's perception, just considering his power, Emperor Zhou has already surpassed her.

"Does Emperor Zhou wish to break the array personally?" Yin Tianxia frowned, asking.

It's not that she underestimated Emperor Zhou, it's just that this Northern Zhou Emperor should not have much combat experience. And breaking an array isn't solely about having high power.

Emperor Zhou should not understand arrays.

"Of course," Emperor Zhou smiled and said, "Yin Sect Master is somewhat constrained by formality; actually, if you think from another perspective, breaking the array isn't difficult."

He raised a hand, pointing at the motionless Blood Lotus suspended in the air over Xunyang City: "Xue Ya is integrated with the Great Formation, purely speaking in terms of worded combat power, it can obliterate us. But why hasn't he acted?"

He pointed at Xunyang City again, "I just discovered through sensing the Earth Qi that there are eighty-one Futu Towers erected within Xunyang City, each tower is surrounded by Blood Souls, able to gather blood energy.

This should be the foundation of the Great Formation, these eighty-one Futu Towers forming the Array Plate of the Blood Sea Floating Killing Array. Xue Ya hasn't acted because he is integrated with the Great Formation; while gaining combat power beyond the limit, he is also bound to this Great Formation.

He cannot move easily."

"So you intend to attack the Array Plate?"

Yin Tianxia is also smart; she was just a bit myopic earlier. Now, hearing Emperor Zhou's words, she immediately understood his plan.

Attacking the Array Plate is indeed a good idea; once the Great Formation is broken, with her and Emperor Zhou as the two Supreme, Xue Ya would be unable to escape.

"The Array Plate is the weak point, but also the strongest point. Attacking the Array Plate is quite laborious."

Emperor Zhou rotated his palms, gathering Earth Qi, "The entire Xunyang City is covered by the Great Formation, but outside Xunyang City is not under the Great Formation's protection."

His hands suddenly flared wide open, as if embracing the sun and moon. In front of him, a cross-shaped Divine Weapon shadow slowly appeared.

This was precisely the shadow of the Ten Directions Destruction that Qing Yu absorbed, and Emperor Zhou is now going to connect to the Divine Ability of Ten Directions Annihilation from the original location to unleash an Extreme Move.

"Earth Shift—"

The earth suddenly shook violently, and infinite Earth Qi responded to the call of Dragon Vein Power, drawn by Emperor Zhou, "—Star Move."

"Boom—"

The earth trembled madly, even deep underground, sounds of cracking could be heard. Starting from the ground beneath Emperor Zhou's feet, countless fissures spread rapidly, expanding, shattering.

A powerful gravitational force also emerged, causing everyone's bodies to suddenly sink. Even those flying in the air had a bit of instability.

In the distance, Xunyang City, Emperor Zhou's main target, trembled continuously. Even with the protection of the Blood Sea Floating Killing Array, it could not prevent the ground from cracking.

If areas not covered by the Great Formation are like this, then Xunyang City, despite its stability, is still a building standing on earth, losing its foundation, it has to collapse.

Emperor Zhou actually did not use much True Qi to shake Xunyang City. After all, it's a big city accommodating at least ten thousand people; its area is not so easily shaken.

He merely moved the rock layer beneath Xunyang City, plus the gravity of Earth Shift and Star Move, leveraging manpower to trigger a natural disaster.

This move couldn't harm those in the Divinity Realm, let alone Supreme Xue Ya. However, causing Xunyang City to sink underground was still achievable.

"Boom—"

The earth swayed, causing a feeling like the sky was turning upside down, and Xunyang City began to sink, about to be buried by the earth.

"No way!"

Xue Ya's figure emerged from the Blood Lotus, countless blood lights connecting Xue Ya and the Great Formation, using the thick Essence accumulated by the Great Formation to forcibly drive it, intending to detach the Great Formation from Xunyang City.

Though this would cause immense loss of accumulated Essence, it's better than being buried along with Xunyang City by the earthquake.

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"Xue Ya, did you forget about me?"

Yin Tianxia took action.

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