Against The Heavens 149 Universal Heart Xiang Hong.

Standing in the middle of the gargantuan crack was a youth with ocean-blue hair and light blue-eyes, a loose green robe covered in a wavy pattern draped over his body. The youth was somewhat short and lanky, but just looking at him was enough to fill the normally arrogant and confident Li Yang with limitless dread, he felt like an ant standing face to face with a G.o.d. Mao Tengzou's lips curled up slightly, but it was clear that his smile was somewhat strained as he looked at the youth.

"Xiang Hong, you came quite a bit faster than I originally antic.i.p.ated, you must love me quite a bit. But tell me, are you really going to unleash all your power here, after going through all the trouble of creating these lovely cemeteries to seal away His Lords.h.i.+p?"

The youth, Xiang Hong, didn't seem to have any plans on responding to Mao Tengzou, calmly raising his right arm and pointing at Mao Tengzou. When Xiang Hong's finger finished extending, the ocean all around Li Yang and the others all vanished, even all the moisture in the air completely vanished. The islands that hadn't been sucked dry by Mao Tengzou suddenly withered and dried up in less than a second, every single trace of water that wasn't within a living being's body vanis.h.i.+ng. In less than a second, Xiang Hong had turned the entire Ocean G.o.d's Graveyard into a desolate place so dry that just swallowing was an arduous task.

All the water and moisture that suddenly vanished appeared in front of Xiang Hong's finger, gathering together into a pesize orb that was practically completely translucent. Li Yang didn't even dare to hazard a guess at how strong that orb was, just the sheer amount of water used to create it was something he had a hard time wrapping his head around. Ever since the appearance of Mao Tengzou, in just a few short minutes, basically all of Li Yang's pride had been stomped down. Even if he was at his peak, he would not have a home in this battle, he would still just be able to watch and focus on fleeing.

Mao Tengzou's mouth started to move, but Xiang Hong unleashed his attack without bothering to hear what he was going to say. The translucent orb vanished from sight, Mao Tengzou's body blurring as he rushed to dodge, appearing several hundreds of kilometers away from his previous position. Shortly after the orb vanished, the sky split open once more, a finger-thin line running through the air and vanis.h.i.+ng into the distance.

The energy gathered within the tiny orb was so great that it simply disintegrated everything it touched as it moved. The wind, s.p.a.ce itself, even the laws and the Qi in the area, all was shattered into fragments so tiny that they looked like a thin line when they gathered together to fill the void that the orb left in its wake. Mao Tengzou dodged the attack early on, but he didn't do so unscathed, his left arm and shoulder had completely vanished, a circular wound pulsating with white tentacles all that remained.

Mao Tengzou glanced at the pulsating wound, looking surprisingly happy as he looked at it. His lips curled up slightly as he turned his head and locked eyes with Xiang Hong, his wound already regrowing so fast that it took his arm less than a second to grow back.

"Come on now, what was that p.i.s.s-poor attempt? I was able to absorb about half of the energy within that attack, it's not like you to hold back that much. It seems like the law of the Void really scared you quite a bit, you must be terrified of unleas.h.i.+ng His Lords.h.i.+p again. Is that why you didn't bring that f.u.c.king Void King with you this time around? Scared that he'll just break everything again?"

The voice of Mao Tengzou carried with the wind and reached every corner of the hidden realm, but Li Yang had no idea if it was on purpose or not. At the same time, Li Yang couldn't help but feel a mixture of curiosity and dread towards whatever being was apparently sealed here, that even someone as terrifying as this Xiang Hong would be fearful towards. Xiang Hong raised his head slightly while looking down at Mao Tengzou, opening his mouth for the first time since arriving here.

"Still as arrogant and insufferable as always. There's no need to act all c.o.c.ky, how much energy did you have to expend to neutralize my attack before absorbing it, be honest now?"
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Xiang Hong's voice was soft and soothing, but it contained a strange sound that almost resembled rus.h.i.+ng water, it made for quite a strange feeling when it entered Li Yang's ears. Mao Tengzou didn't deny Xiang Hong's words, but his smile was no longer as cramped and stiff as it had been earlier.

"You're not wrong, but there's always going to be a price to pay if you want to block an attack from a Universal Heart. I'm just glad we aren't in one of your universes, otherwise it would really have been dangerous for me to take on too many of those attacks. And don't you worry about how much energy that cost me, there are quite a few tasty snacks just waiting for me right here."

Mao Tengzou cracked his knuckles with a light chuckle as he finished speaking, the remaining white tentacles that were still covering the sky falling apart into hundreds of differently sized fleshy chunks. The chunks flew away on their own, spreading out over the entire hidden realm before falling to the ground.

Seven of the chunks fell to the ground in front of Li Yang's group, two of the chunks being far larger than the others. The chunks grew into pure-white humanoid shapes the moment they touched the ground, their skin resembling the slimy exterior of the white tentacles that they sp.a.w.ned from. Looking at the humanoid shapes and sensing the energy in them, Li Yang could guess at what their purpose was.

The humanoid figures lined up in front of Li Yang's group, each one with a cultivation that was about two sub-realms above them. The one standing closest to Li Yang was in the late stage of the Immortal Rebirth realm, but the two standing in front of Fang Yazhu and Fang Xiulan had only reached the late stage of the Celestial Immortal realm rather than entering the fabled True Deity realm. Li Yang guessed that Mao Tengzou had actually been drained of quite a bit of his energy, otherwise he would just have created a mult.i.tude of Celestial Immortal people like this to kill and absorb all the living beings still remaining here.

Since there were seven chunks, it seemed like Mao Tengzou counted Fang Ying's beast companion, Langshen, as a separate fighter. Fang Ying could of course fight alongside him, but when it came to combatants of this level, adding more people would only turn the battle more chaotic and difficult, single combat with the occasional a.s.sist was more suited for these enemies.

The six of them locked eyes for a quick moment, agreeing on the same thing. The two at the Celestial Immortal realm would have to be left to Fang Yazhu and Fang Xiulan, the others would be worse than useless if they were to attempt helping them. Tian Zheng was a bit unfortunate here, he didn't have the same tacit understanding that Li Yang and the others shared with each other, it would be a tad bit harder for him to both give and receive a.s.sistance.

Li Yang stopped paying attention to Mao Tengzou and Xiang Hong, focusing his gaze on the seven humanoids in front of them. He gave his lips a quick lick, his crimson eyes turning icy-blue as golden scales became visible on his neck.

"We can't afford to drag things out, try to finish it within half a minute at most."

This would be Li Yang's first fight after increasing his cultivation, he would be lying if he said that he wasn't looking forward to seeing how much strength he could release now, especially when he activated his bloodline as he did now. The time limit also wasn't arbitrary, he could keep his bloodline active for at most half a minute right now, any more than that would harm Jinwu and Shenlong. There was also the fact that each second they stayed here increased their risk of getting dragged into the fight above, a scenario they had to avoid at all costs. So the answer was simple, hold nothing back and end the battle as soon as possible, show the others why you were worthy of having your position.