Chang'an once again became a hell on earth.
A black fog enveloped the entire city.
Only this time, the instigator is no longer the demon clan’s Xuanzun, but... King Qing, Xia Qing, who was once regarded as the guardian general of Daxia!
Above the sky, King Qing, holding the Slaughter Spear and displaying all his strength, was like a god, extremely powerful and glorious.
In Chang'an City, the surviving monks stood there motionless.
They looked up at the sky, watching the wisps of blood formed from their own essence and blood being continuously drawn out of their bodies, surging into the air, and gathering towards that ball of blood. Their faces looked extremely pale.
In the palace.
Knowing that the situation could not change any further and that King Qing's real purpose was to massacre Chang'an, the Daxia monks who had originally held out a glimmer of hope became completely despair.
One of them even burst into tears and fell to his knees.
"You beast, you beast! The ancestor of Xia founded Daxia to protect the human race. How could he, as a member of the royal family of Daxia, do this?"
The city of Chang'an is home to tens of millions of humans. Throughout the past 20,000 years, Chang'an has always been the largest and most prosperous city in the human world.
After today, this city will become a ghost town.
The Daxia monk who knelt on the ground pounded his fist and said, "I was wrong, I was wrong..."
He is the Marquis Pingfeng of Daxia, a great cultivator of the eighth realm. In the past, he never showed his emotions. But today, he could no longer control his emotions and burst into tears.
When the giant demons raided the human city gates, he was a young monk in one of the city gates. He witnessed Prince Qing risking his life to break out, pass on the intelligence, and thus quell the chaos.
So since then, he has always been a loyal supporter of Prince Qing.
Later, he achieved great success in his cultivation and even became the current Marquis of Pingfeng, but his respect for Prince Qing never diminished. He always supported Prince Qing in his heart and hoped that Prince Qing could take over the position of the Great Xia Lord.
But now, facing the scene of Prince Qing slaughtering the city, the feeling of collapsed faith almost made him collapse, and his lips kept trembling.
"How could Prince Qing do such a thing... He was willing to die for the human race back then, how could he end up like this today?"
The other Da Xia cultivators standing by might not be as grief-stricken and angry as Ping Feng Hou, but they all had bloodshot eyes and clenched fists that made crackling sounds.
Prince Qing is very powerful now.
Less than ten thousand years after becoming the Martial Emperor, he already possessed strength that was enough to rank among the top five cultivators of the human race. His talent was beyond doubt.
However, such a great monk who should have been the pillar of the human race chose to stab his own people with his spear, at the human race that he was supposed to protect.
How can this not make people feel painful?
"What exactly does Prince Qing want to do?" Chang'an Wei Anxi Hou gritted his teeth and said, "First, defeat Xuan Zun, then massacre Chang'an..."
"He wants to break through with bloody slaughter, but he doesn't want to be criticized by thousands of people." At this time, Xia Zhao's voice came from the throne.
"Ah?!" Everyone was shocked, but after thinking about it carefully, they all understood.
Massacre is a crime.
But if after the massacre, Prince Qing successfully ascends to the rank of Half-Ancestor, he will be the number one person in the human race today.
You must know that even the Tianhe Sword Immortal Chu Mushen only possesses the combat power of a half-ancestor, and his realm is still at the level of a sword immortal.
By then, let’s not talk about whether anyone can sanction King Qing.
Since the bloody massacre has already happened, and the result is a new semi-ancestor cultivator of the human race, even if we can sanction him, can everyone still reach a consensus at this juncture when a major war is about to begin?
Regardless of the twists and turns of the matter, the semi-ancestor cultivator is definitely the backbone of the clan.
Even if this arm has a tumor, it is still an arm after all.
How many people can do such a thing as cutting off their own arms?
Chang'an has been massacred. For the sake of the human race, are the others really determined to kill Prince Qing and avenge the people of Chang'an?
It's a very simple truth.
This is Prince Qing’s conspiracy.
As long as he succeeds, no one will care about his mistakes anymore. Even if someone holds a grudge against him, they will have to accept it.
Moreover, lions never need to care about the eyes of sheep.
…
Above the sky.
Prince Qing, with divine power like a prison, stood in the clouds, overlooking the city of Chang'an below, his face gradually blurred in the black fog.
The entire city of Chang'an has turned into an alchemy furnace.
The human beings all over the city are spiritual materials.
He is an alchemist.
In front of Prince Qing was a ball of blood essence that was constantly condensing. A terrifying aura gradually emerged from this ball of blood, causing the surroundings to roar.
His breathing couldn't help but become rapid.
"Impossible..." Xuan Zun, who had lost his ability to move and was firmly locked up by King Qing using the power of the Killing Zun Array, was still muttering in a daze as he watched this scene.
The Blood Word Formula is one of the Eight Secrets of the Abyss and is the supreme secret technique.
Even among the giants, there are very few people who can truly comprehend this secret.
However, King Ke Qing, who had not received any inheritance of the secret method, was able to deduce this secret method with just very little information.
How dare Xuanzun believe it?
This was completely beyond his understanding.
On this side, Prince Qing took a deep breath, calmed himself down, looked at Xuan Zun, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He was confident that as long as he broke through the realm, no one would dare to pursue his responsibility for the bloody massacre in Chang'an.
But his plans went far beyond that.
He also needs the position of the Great Xia Lord.
It would be difficult for a person who slaughtered people in Chang'an to be accepted by everyone if he wanted to succeed the Lord of Daxia.
So he still needs a fig leaf, a cover.
As for this cover...
He had planned it long ago.
That’s Xuanzun!
Xuanzun, the strongest person in the giant demon clan!
The Blood Word Technique is the secret method of the giant demon clan.
Then the bloody massacre in Chang'an was naturally done by the demons and Xuanzun, and had nothing to do with him.
It was Xuan Zun, who somehow sneaked into the human realm and committed the bloody massacre in Chang'an.
Not only will he not be the sinner who massacred Chang'an, but he will also be a hero who, facing Xuanzun's rebellion, would break through his cultivation out of grief and anger, and finally avenge the people of Chang'an and kill Xuanzun with his own hands.
He will completely establish his name as the guardian general of Daxia, and his reputation will be unparalleled!
After tens of thousands of years of preparation, Prince Qing had already considered every aspect and every detail.
only……
He went through so much trouble to bring Xuan Zun in, but his purpose was not just this.
After deducing the Blood Word Art and fully mastering it, he understood something that had been puzzling him before - the demon race had an innumerable , and was already in surplus, so they could squander their power at will, but the giant demon race that had mastered the Blood Word Art had never dominated.
This seems very unreasonable.
He was able to break through by slaughtering Chang'an, so Xuan Zun should be able to imitate him. If that's the case, why has Xuan Zun never tried it before?
Does Xuanzun have a conscience and is unwilling to break through by slaughtering his fellow countrymen?
This idea is too naive.
There is only one reason.
To break through, it is not enough to just stack the amount of essence and blood. There are also certain requirements for the quality of the essence and blood.
Just like refining an elixir, it requires an extremely powerful main ingredient - the essence and blood of a powerful monk.
Although there are many people in the giant demon clan, the essence and blood that can truly help Xuan Zun break through the realm only comes from the other three top demon lords.
It is easy to kill blood but difficult to slay the demon lord, this is the reason.
Similarly, the essence and blood of the monks in Chang'an City are actually just auxiliary materials for Prince Qing to refine the "Breakthrough Pill". His main material is...
Xuanzun’s essence and blood!
The strongest demon lord of the giant clan, whose essence and blood are infinitely close to the top demon lord who is a semi-saint, is definitely qualified to be the "main material".
Prince Qing not only wants Xuanzun to take the blame for him, but also wants to use the Blood Word Formula to refine Xuanzun and help him break through.
The next moment, Xia Qing took a deep breath and waved his left hand. Immediately, wisps of black mist flew out from his palm.
The black fog flew out, with a terrifying aura spreading out from it, and a roar erupted. Even the Da Xia cultivators in the palace, who were still some distance away from Prince Qing, felt the power of it.
Xuan Zun, who was the target of the black mist, felt it the strongest. The pressure from the secret technique of Blood Letter made his body tremble.
He could never have imagined that one day, someone would use the Blood Word Technique to extract the blood from his body!
Prince Qing's eyes gleamed with brilliance, and he activated his invincible skills, using all his strength to activate the secret technique until the black fog completely covered Xuan Zun's figure.
At first, the black fog kept rolling, but no blood flew out.
This is the power of Xuan Zun. Even if he is extremely weak, his powerful body of a god or demon can still lock his essence, blood and life essence and prevent them from being extracted.
"Go!" Upon seeing this scene, Prince Qing's face turned grim and he threw the Luzun Spear in his right hand directly.
The golden light was dazzling, the divine flame was raging, and the spear of the Killer cut through the sky and went straight into the rolling black fog.
Phew!
The specific scene in the black fog could not be seen, but the sound of a spear tip entering the body could be heard.
Immediately afterwards, blue blood and a painful scream were heard from the black fog.
Prince Qing showed no mercy, and Xuan Zun was seriously injured this time!
It can be seen that after just a moment, countless green blood threads intertwined and swam out, breaking away from the black fog, and even intertwined with each other in the air, forming runes of the origin of life, and each rune was filled with blood.
"Come on." Prince Qing showed a greedy look and merged all the green blood threads into the blood ball in front of him.
"Refine!" he shouted, and as the blue blood threads merged, the shape of the blood ball began to shrink again.
Blue blood threads were continuously extracted and refined into blood balls. Rumbling sounds continued to be heard from the blood balls, and the pressure and aura emanating from them became more and more terrifying.
Gradually, Prince Qing's body began to tremble.
Performing the Blood Word Technique in this way was also quite a burden for him.
But his eyes became more and more persistent.
His hands trembled slightly as he pressed the blood ball hard.
Immediately, the blood ball, which had shrunk to the size of a baby's fist, suddenly shrank and turned directly into a blood pill the size of a fingernail.
The original scarlet and green color completely transformed into gold!
A supreme aura burst out from this blood pill.
The breath of a semi-ancestor.
“Breakthrough Pill”, it’s done!
Prince Qing's body shook and his breathing quickened. He raised his right hand without hesitation, grabbed the blood pill and swallowed it directly.
In an instant, as the blood pill entered its mouth, a tremendous force burst out from it, shocking King Qing so much that his entire body began to tremble.
The powerful, pure and impurity-free blood essence was merging with his own qi and blood, washing over his body.
This blood pill, like a wave, tempered and baptized, causing the cultivation base that had already reached the limit of the Honored Title Realm to surpass the limit and approach infinitely close to... Half-Ancestor!
"Defeat the half-ancestor first!" King Qing's eyes flashed with surprise. All the meridians and blood in his body were roaring. The power of the blood pill spread to all parts of his body. Strands of golden blood sank into the meridians and quickly traveled through his body along with the Yuan power.
Every time a strand of golden blood completely merged into his blood, Xia Qing's cultivation level would rise a little. This rise enabled him to continuously move forward towards the semi-ancestor realm.
A terrifying will was awakening in him .
The whole process was very quick.
In just a few breaths of time, the last bit of energy in the blood pill in Prince Qing's body finally merged with him.
Then his body shook violently.
Along with the vibration, an earth-shaking momentum erupted.
Prince Qing's cultivation became stronger and stronger, and the fluctuations of his energy formed a terrifying storm around his body.
Inside the palace, cultivator Da Xia and Xia Zhao both had solemn expressions as they watched the scene in silence.
"He's going to succeed." Xia Zhao murmured.
Prince Qing had been preparing for this day for an inordinately long time, and coupled with his talent that makes him one of the best physical cultivators today, it was not surprising that he was able to achieve a breakthrough.
"Half-ancestor, the only half-ancestor of the human race now, turned out to be such a person." Marquis Pingfeng almost shed tears of blood in his eyes.
Although before this, he had always been loyal to Prince Qing, and even looked down on Xia Zhao because of this, thinking that she was unworthy of the position and had forcibly occupied the honorable position that should belong to Prince Qing.
But no matter what, his belief is to protect the human race, and this will not change. He is inclined towards King Qing only because he thinks that King Qing is more suitable to lead Daxia and can better protect the human race.
But now...
"As cultivators of our generation, we can die at the hands of demons, or on the battlefield. At most, the younger cultivators can avenge us, but we should never die at the hands of King Qing!"
"If we slaughter tens of millions of human beings just to get a half-ancestor, then what is the difference between us and the devil cultivators?"
In order to be promoted to the semi-ancestor, one can sacrifice Chang'an. Then, in the future, for the sake of the ancestral realm, can King Qing even sacrifice the entire human domain?
The human race has never had such a powerful cultivator.
Back then, Daozu Xia also broke into the ancestral realm with his own strength!
Marquis Pingfeng felt extremely unwilling, but he didn't know who else could stop the current King Qing.
…
Prince Qing closed his eyes slightly, and his aura became even stronger.
His hair was flying, his clothes were fluttering, and within his divine power, a ray of... ancestral will gradually condensed!
It is extremely domineering, extremely powerful, and rising like a towering force.
Xia Qing's eyes suddenly opened, and at the moment his eyes opened and closed, everyone heard a thunderous sound like the Waking of Insects in their ears, and their souls trembled.
Behind Prince Qing, two phantoms of celestial pillars appeared with brilliant light.
Hazy, twinkling, and vague.
"The shadow of the Heavenly Gate."
"This is a vision that can only be summoned by the semi-ancestor realm, because their cultivation has reached a point that cannot be tolerated by this world, and the gate of heaven is about to come out."
“If you can open the gate of heaven and survive, you will gain great fortune and achieve the tenth realm, the ancestral realm.”
The Daxia monks who saw this scene couldn't help but murmur.
This is the ultimate goal of a monk.
Going further up, we have the ancestors.
Prince Qing is now half-ancestor!
But amidst these dazed mumblings, Xia Qing opened his eyes with a cold look, looking down on everyone.
He spoke calmly, his voice was extremely calm, but it carried an irresistible strong will, "You know, what I want is never the half-ancestor, but... the ancestor realm!"