ATPnovel Chapter 448 : Volume Twelve Initial Ancestor Suffers a Minor Injury
Chapter 448 : Volume Twelve Initial Ancestor Suffers a Minor Injury
“What should we do?”“Next time, they’ll probably target the few of us again.”
At this moment, the most terrified were precisely Mother of Ten Thousand Tentacles, Star Net Ancestor, and Dream Weaver, the three who specialized in soul techniques!
Mogus was Undying and Indestructible, while Extinction Ancestor was also one of the Nine Emperors. But the physical bodies of Mother of Ten Thousand Tentacles, Star Net Ancestor, and Dream Weaver were much weaker, only somewhat stronger than those two who had died.
“Among the eight Lords, only two have relatively weaker Mental Will, Lord Jin and Naigu Lord.” After suffering two consecutive failures, Mogus no longer had sufficient confidence, “This time, we’ll deal with the weaker one.”
Previously, Mogus had been far too confident, and it was also extremely familiar with Yuan. This was a killer move meticulously prepared specifically for Yuan. Against the other Lords, its effectiveness would be relatively weaker.
The key factors in the Lords’ formation were Yuan and Luo Feng, which was why those two had been targeted one after another.
Yuan had still fallen victim to it and lost the ability to resist. Although he had recovered so quickly, something Mogus found somewhat incomprehensible. But Luo Feng…… had not been affected in the slightest, greatly diminishing Mogus’s confidence.
“Deal with Lord Jin.”
Mogus and the other four jointly executed their move.
The soul technique silently and soundlessly enveloped Lord Jin.
The eight Lords were currently resisting the overwhelming attacks while waiting for Lord Moman to recover before executing the ‘Curse-Killing Tribulation Formation’ again.
“Hmm?” Jin’s expression suddenly changed, and even his eyes glowed red as he fell into an enormously vast Illusory Realm.
Jin’s temperament was different from Yuan’s.
Yuan had suppressed his true nature for far too long, whereas Jin acted extremely freely. Furthermore, Nightmare and Thousand Eyes were already dead, so the power of the soul technique had weakened once again.
“Some troublesome separate consciousnesses actually appeared.” Jin was still able to remain conscious. His red-glowing eyes swept across the surroundings as he transmitted, “Everyone, I need to divide some of my attention to suppress several separate consciousnesses. I can probably exert sixty percent of my strength.”
“The team led by Mogus truly poses the greatest threat.” Luo Feng and the others actually understood this as well, which was why they had been trying every possible means to assassinate them.
“Jin, rest for now. The four of us will act.” Yuan immediately transmitted.
Moman, Luo Feng, Starlight, and Yuan coordinated once more to execute the Curse-Killing Tribulation Formation! Without ‘Jin’, its power appeared to have weakened only slightly. But sometimes, when it came to completely annihilating an Ancestor, that small amount of power was precisely what was lacking.
“Buzz.”
The Curse-Killing Tribulation Formation descended upon Mother of Ten Thousand Tentacles, who was protected within layer upon layer of formations.
Mother of Ten Thousand Tentacles felt annihilation coming from across the timelines, the vitality within her Life Core being extinguished, and her Life Core violently fluctuating. Her many tentacles twisted in agony, yet she forcibly endured it.
Her vitality was inherently a level stronger than Nightmare’s and Thousand Eyes’! The power of the Curse-Killing Tribulation Formation had also weakened somewhat, allowing her to completely withstand this move.
As long as she survived that single instant, the vast amount of Life Power supplied by her companions allowed her to rapidly recover to her peak.
“I endured it, I endured it.” Mother of Ten Thousand Tentacles was overjoyed.
Infinite Serpent Ancestor, Icepeak Ancestor, Shazhou, and the many other Ancestors all relaxed inwardly. If even ‘Mother of Ten Thousand Tentacles’, whose body was so weak, could not be killed, then those Ancestors with far more terrifying physical bodies had much less pressure to worry about.
“A killer move that ignores all obstructions ultimately has limited power.” Infinite Serpent Ancestor transmitted to all sides, “Under the soul technique, the strength of the Lords on the Cultivators’ side will continue to weaken. Eventually, they won’t be able to withstand us.”
“Deal with Naigu!” Mogus regained some confidence. The soul technique jointly executed by Mogus and the other four once again enveloped its target.
During the years before this, Naigu and Jin had both suffered losses when facing mental techniques! The Mental Will of the two of them could already be considered extremely powerful, but among the eight Lords, they were the relatively weaker pair.
This time, they were targeted again!
“Gugu gugu.”
Naigu Lord’s gaze became somewhat colder. He slightly twisted his neck, yet one head after another grew from his neck, with nine new heads emerging.
“Naigu, how are you?” Wulan asked worriedly, while the other Lords also looked toward Naigu.
“My strength isn’t affected.” Naigu Lord said calmly, “Fortunately, two Ancestors died, weakening this technique somewhat. The alien bloodline wills it awakened aren’t too powerful yet. With the Heart-Severing Technique, I can sever them.”
“Heart-Severing Technique?” Yuan’s eyes widened.
Luo Feng also frowned.
They had all read Naigu Lord’s inheritance texts and knew that the ‘Heart-Severing Technique’ meant actively severing one separate consciousness after another while still maintaining perfect control over all of them.
This was somewhat similar to ‘Collective Consciousness’. A Collective Consciousness had one Primary Consciousness, while all the others were separate consciousnesses.
But this path was ultimately not as pure as possessing a single ‘Primary Consciousness’. Naigu Lord’s path was the ‘Primordial Bloodline Path’, but one difficulty in controlling an Ancestor Bloodline was the residual Bloodline Will. Naigu had created the Heart-Severing Technique long ago, but had simply never used it in the past.
This time, the residual Bloodline Wills of the many Ancestor Bloodlines within his body had been greatly strengthened. Naigu could no longer suppress them and could only execute the Heart-Severing Technique, causing the separate consciousnesses to become independent one by one.
Naigu appeared to have suffered no loss of strength, but his cultivation path had shifted away from a single Primary Consciousness toward the path of the ‘Heart-Severing Technique’. The more separate consciousnesses there were, the greater the influence of the resulting Collective Consciousness upon the ‘Primary Consciousness’.
The other seven Lords were all helpless.
Jin’s situation was far better than Naigu’s. Immediately after being struck, he could still maintain sixty percent of his strength. Given more time, perhaps he could recover to eighty or ninety percent! This tempering might even make his Mental Will stronger.
Naigu, however, had undergone a change to his cultivation foundation! His strength was unaffected now, but what about the future?
“This is the price of war.” Starlight transmitted, “Find a way to continue killing Mother of Ten Thousand Tentacles, Star Net, and Dream Weaver.”
“Kill our way into the formations.” Yuan also transmitted.
The Curse-Killing Tribulation Formation could not even kill Mother of Ten Thousand Tentacles, so naturally they had no confidence in using it against the other Ancestors.
The eight Lords did not waste any time and immediately joined forces to execute another killer move, the ‘Heaven-Severing Blade Formation’.
The Heaven-Severing Blade Formation utilized the Blood Shadow Blade’s characteristic of being able to sever all matter and energy, with all eight Lords jointly controlling it. Luo Feng even burned his Main Battle Avatar, consuming thirty percent of his Energy Reserves and integrating it into this move.
Thirty percent of his Energy Reserves was even greater than the energy consumed when Moman, Jin, Minghuang, and the others burned their Main Battle Avatars.
“Boom——”
Luo Feng and the other seven Lords seemed to become one with the Blood Shadow Blade, transforming into an incomparably dazzling blade light. The blade light was so dazzling and magnificent that even the Ancestors found it somewhat ‘blinding’.
The moment the blade light appeared, all the Ancestors felt fear from the depths of their hearts.
“Can’t block it.”
“There’s no way to block it!”
All the Ancestors instinctively possessed this understanding.
The blade light was incomparably dazzling, as though patrolling endless space-time. Wherever it passed, it silently severed layer upon layer of Supreme-Level Power obstructing it and also cleaved into the Ancestors’ many formations! The defenses of these formations were inherently extremely powerful, being combinations of multiple kinds of Supreme-Level Defensive Power.
Yet beneath this blade light, they were still split apart.
“Deal with Minghuang.” Mogus, Extinction Ancestor, Mother of Ten Thousand Tentacles, Star Net, and Dream Weaver immediately executed another soul technique as quickly as possible.
They had already dealt with the two whose Mental Will was relatively weaker, ‘Naigu and Jin’. The other Lords all possessed very powerful Mental Will.
“I’m fine.”
Minghuang endured this strike, yet remained expressionless. The few separate consciousnesses that had developed within her mind were all destroyed and annihilated beneath her terrifying Mental Will, which manifested in the form of ‘Golden Lightning’!
“It’s completely useless!” Mother of Ten Thousand Tentacles, Star Net Ancestor, and Dream Weaver all became anxious and transmitted, “The eight Lords are already killing their way over. We need to hide immediately.”
“Don’t panic. They still need to kill their way through layer upon layer of formations. Initial Ancestor is right in front of you and can immediately take you into his body.” Extinction Ancestor transmitted, “We’ll deal with Moman first.”
According to historical experience.
Wulan was the Lord with the strongest defense. Even his Mental Will seemed like pure matter and could not be shaken in the slightest.
Starlight could not be locked onto, while Yuan and Luo Feng had already been tried. The relatively weaker Jin and Naigu had also been tried.
Only ‘Minghuang and Moman’ were still worth trying.
“Buzz.”
If the soul technique had still possessed its peak power, it might have posed some threat to Minghuang and Moman. But with only sixty to seventy percent of its power remaining, Lord Moman likewise endured it. As an existence of the pure ‘Primordial Fluctuation Path’, his Primary Consciousness was itself like a fluctuation, effortlessly crushing every derived separate consciousness.
“Kill!” The eight Lords broke through layer upon layer of obstructions and had already reached the core, directly charging toward Mother of Ten Thousand Tentacles, Star Net, and Dream Weaver.
“They’re here.” Mother of Ten Thousand Tentacles, Star Net, and Dream Weaver were no longer willing to attack. Each of them voluntarily rushed toward Initial Ancestor, who was close at hand and silently encompassed all three of them.
This allowed all three to hide inside Initial Ancestor’s body.
Within the Absolute Sphere.
Only then did Mother of Ten Thousand Tentacles, Star Net Ancestor, and Dream Weaver feel at ease.
“Our physical bodies are relatively weak. We shouldn’t have participated in the war.” Dream Weaver felt somewhat regretful. Previously, under the simultaneous coercion of the Innate Primordial Faction and Icepeak Faction on one hand, and the temptation of resources on the other, they had joined the war.
But who could have imagined that even the formations assembled by the Ancestors could not stop the eight Lords.
“Hiss——”
Suddenly, a terrifying blade light forcibly cleaved into the internal space of this Absolute Sphere.
The three Ancestors watched in terror as that streak of blade light appeared. The instant it appeared, it swept past all three of them, and their corpses were carried away by the blade light as well.
……
“What?”
The Ancestors’ side stared at the scene before them in shock and fury.
That terrifying blade light controlled with the full strength of the eight Lords had actually forcibly cleaved into Initial Ancestor’s body! The blade scar that had cut inside was incomparably thin, yet it had still forcibly penetrated halfway through.
“Even with all of us joining forces, we still couldn’t cleave him into two?” Luo Feng and the other seven Lords were also very surprised.
For an Ancestor’s body, even being cleaved into two generally did not count as a serious injury, and the energy consumption would not be great. Usually, only complete annihilation, including annihilation of the Life Core, could be called a kill.
Merely cleaving open a crack? And the crack could only penetrate halfway through? It could barely be considered a minor injury. Initial Ancestor instantly recovered completely.
“Even with all eight Lords joining forces, we only cleaved this deeply. If I attacked alone, I’d probably only be scratching the surface.” Luo Feng realized this.
But the scene before them caused the morale of the Ancestors’ side to collapse completely.
This degree of injury was merely a minor injury to Initial Ancestor.
But it represented the fact that even hiding inside ‘Initial Ancestor’s’ body would not prevent them from being killed.
“There’s simply no way to win.”
“We can’t keep fighting.”
“Retreat, retreat.”
The many Ancestors fell into panic. More than half of them voluntarily transmitted messages demanding retreat.
Infinite Serpent Ancestor, Icepeak Ancestor, and the other fourteen Undying and Indestructible existences had all seen Initial Ancestor cleaved halfway through. Among those ‘non-Undying and Indestructible’ existences, who would dare claim they could withstand that blade head-on?
At this moment, there was no fighting spirit left.
At this moment, they all understood that this battle had been completely lost! In the future, they would also be unable to gather so many Ancestors to continue risking their lives.
“Retreat.” Infinite Serpent Ancestor was extremely unwilling, but could only transmit the order.
“Retreat.” Icepeak Ancestor also gave the order.
In truth, in this battle, the killer move of the ‘Mogus team’, upon which they had placed their greatest hopes, had struck Yuan, yet Yuan had actually recovered. That alone meant the battle had already begun tilting toward the Cultivators’ side.