Chapter 413: Mountain Divines (1/2)

Fighting was handled by the Silvermoon Wolfking and silverback gorilla for the last five hundred kilometers. Reaching the end proved to be quite easy after all. A pitch-black island loomed ahead of them, like a great shadow cast over heaven and earth. Even Lu Yun’s Spectral Eye couldn’t get a good look at the specifics.

However, the young man was sure of at least one thing: the island was located on the other side of the Blood Sea, and not within the ocean. In light of that, his curiosity continued to grow—what was the Sovereign Ranking, exactly?

……

There was a melee at the very end of the path.

Here, some of the divines had set up an ambush to throw passing cultivators back onto the walkway over the Blood Sea. Their would-be victims were no slouches, however; everyone who had come this far was exceptionally talented. Resistance against the divines came naturally to them.

Although the ambushing divines were hidden in the void with some special techniques, cultivators of various other races had banded together to strike at divines who arrived there openly.

The Path of Ingress was too wide to fully encompass; cultivators who walked upon it were almost ant-like in scale. Although Lu Yun and Qing Han hadn’t encountered many people on their way through, more and more cultivators were joining them every second.

Right now, at least several hundred thousand of them were gathered here.

Humans, monster spirits, and cultivators of other races had formed all kinds of groups to gang up on any divines that passed by. From time to time, their efforts were sufficient to force some out of concealment.

The divine race had gained an air of mystery after relinquishing worldly rule eighty thousand years ago; its members rarely appeared to the public anymore. This time, quite a few of them had chosen to participate. Although they weren’t as numerous as the other races, their talents far outstripped their competitors’.

Of course, plenty of cultivators with ulterior motives were provoking fights for their own gain as well. Although all contestants were uniformly limited to golden core, the strength they displayed far surpassed their theoretical realm.

Thump—

A dull impact saw the little daoist nun from earlier flying back once more. She landed in front of a startled Lu Yun in a heap.

“How’d you get tossed back here again?” Qing Han helped her up.

“There were seven of them! Not fair!” The girl looked like she was about to cry. She cast a pitiable look at Qing Han, unsure of whether to ask for help; she was out of restorative pills.

Qing Han passed one along, which the girl accepted with hurried thanks.

“Out of the way!” An ochre-colored man came barreling in their direction and came at the nun with a pair of hammers. “How dare a human wench eliminate my brother. Die!”

A loud hum preceded the weapons’ transformation into two small mountains, its zone of effect now encompassing Lu Yun’s entire quartet.

To Lu Yun however, the man’s movements told a different story. Instead of trying to kill the quartet, the man was actually trying to blast them back onto the Path of Ingress in the Blood Sea for the marine creatures to finish the job.

“No, you die!” The silverback gorilla grinned evilly and ran up to intercept the attack with its staff.

“Don’t kill him!” the girl warned hastily. “We can’t kill anyone here. Anyone who does will be eliminated themselves!”

But it was too late; the gorilla’s staff collided with the pair of mountain-sized hammers.

Clang!