Chapter 2463: Sacrifice

The golden figure's eyes gleamed with a cold light. Two frosty, crystalline beams swirled out from them, and with a flash, they severed the golden fingers that had seized it. Then, the figure leaped, transforming into a dazzling rainbow, and streaked away into the distance.

"Excellent! I never imagined that a Gold Devouring Immortal, cultivated to such a level, could exist even in this mere lower realm. If I subdue it and bring it back to the Immortal Realm, it would be a tremendous asset for me in the future."

The giant formed by Ma Liang revealed a look of pleasant surprise. With a single hand, he pointed at the distant rainbow. Immediately, points of golden light converged from all directions, transforming into several large golden hands that clawed down towards the rainbow, while simultaneously a power of cosmic law enveloped the area.

From within the rainbow, a faint, sharp cry was emitted. After a circling maneuver, a sudden sizzling sound erupted as countless invisible sword energies burst forth, wildly slashing in all directions by the thousands.

After a series of explosions, the golden hands were shattered by the sword energies, but more hands continuously appeared nearby.

At the same time, the figure within the rainbow sank, instantly caught within a void created by the power of law, and its escape speed became incredibly slow.

On the ground, the golden volcanoes rumbled loudly, surprisingly transforming into dozens of towering golden armored warriors amidst flashing golden light.

With a whoosh through the air, these warriors expressionlessly charged towards the rainbow.

Under these circumstances, the possibility of the Gold Devouring Beetle King escaping was almost nonexistent.

Seeing this, the giant formed by Ma Liang in the distance couldn't help but reveal a faint smile. However, his aura had clearly weakened considerably. Apparently, the severe injuries he had sustained earlier and his repeated use of powerful divine abilities had significantly depleted his immortal spiritual energy, leaving him unable to compare to his initial state.

"It should be about time."

Below an altar, tens of thousands of miles away, Han Li looked at a cyan ancient mirror floating before him and suddenly muttered to himself with a strange expression.

The scene displayed on the ancient mirror was none other than the Gold Devouring Beetle King, transformed into a massive golden beetle tens of feet long, its eyes spewing crystal light as it battled the golden armored warriors.

The Beetle King's presence there was, naturally, due to Han Li's secret instructions.

Only in this way could he accurately grasp the situation there and prevent any unforeseen accidents.

"It's time to act! I didn't expect to still need to use this last resort. After this battle, the Fengyuan Continent will be severely weakened, but for the sake of the entire Spirit Realm, it must be done."

In a somewhat dim, empty grand hall in the Heavens, a figure seated within a giant magic array sighed and muttered to himself. With a flick of his wrist, a palm-sized silver spell disk he had been holding immediately shone brightly. Countless silver runes floated out from it, surging into the magic array below.

In the dazzling silver light, the figure's face was clearly illuminated. It was, surprisingly, another Bright Lord.

Yun Dan and Yue Shu, two Mahayana cultivators, were originally sitting cross-legged with closed eyes at the core of the formation they were responsible for. They suddenly felt the surrounding worldly spiritual energy stir. The eight cylindrical pillars and the giant altar simultaneously emitted a terrifying wave of law power.

Startled, the two of them involuntarily opened their eyes at the same time.

The thousands of Trade Alliance guards nearby naturally sensed something was wrong. They became restless, most of them showing looks of panic.

"How could the spiritual energy here become so violent!" Yun Dan stood up instantly and said with a mixture of shock and uncertainty.

"Could there be a problem with the Two-Element Dust Extinction Array?" Yue Shu showed a hint of hesitation.

"Something's wrong," Yun Dan said, his expression suddenly changing drastically after quickly scanning the sky. He seemed to have superior insight. "How could this power of law gather above us? It seems to be specifically targeting us. Let's go, quickly!"

As siblings, Yue Shu naturally always trusted Yun Dan's words. Startled by his words, she unhesitatingly flicked her sleeve. A ball of black light shot out, and after spinning rapidly, it transformed into a rhomboid flying vehicle right in front of them.

This flying vehicle was entirely black and surprisingly had three pairs of silver wing-like devices on each side. It was clearly extraordinary at a glance.

But before Yun Dan and Yue Shu could get into the vehicle, the altar and the eight pillars trembled, and each shot a five-colored light beam skyward.

A thunderclap from a clear sky!

A wave of law power converged high in the sky, and suddenly a light array, a dozen miles in diameter, appeared.

The light array buzzed, and immediately a five-colored vortex appeared at its center. With a roar from within, it instantly spewed out a dazzling, blood-red glow, which descended directly towards the formation's core.

After a flash of blood-red light, a semi-circular blood-red light barrier suddenly formed, trapping Yun Dan, Yue Shu, and all the Trade Alliance guards beneath it like a giant bowl.

At the same time, a power of law filled the entire blood-red barrier.

Yun Dan and Yue Shu felt a chill run through them, and most of the magic power within their bodies immediately became impossible to gather.

"This is bad, let's go underground," Yun Dan roared softly. He pulled Yue Shu with one hand, and they simultaneously appeared vaguely within the flying vehicle.

Yue Shu hastily formed a hand seal, and the flying vehicle immediately transformed into a ball of black light, drilling towards the ground.

With a bang.

The black light was repelled by a layer of silently appearing cyan light from the ground, and the flying vehicle reappeared in its original form in the air.

Yun Dan roared in anger. With a flick of his wrist, a golden halberd about ten feet long suddenly appeared in his hand. He swung it forcefully downwards, and it transformed into a golden streak of light, plunging fiercely downwards.

With a loud boom.

A golden sun exploded on the ground. After the shockwave spread out, it blew some nearby Trade Alliance guards reeling, unable to stand steadily.

But when Yun Dan waved his hand, recalling the golden halberd, and the golden light on the ground receded and dissipated, cyan runes on the surface flickered continuously, and the ground appeared completely unharmed.

"How is this possible!" Yue Shu exclaimed in disbelief upon seeing this scene. "Brother, your Spirit Light Halberd is indestructible!"

"Don't you understand?" Yun Dan said with an exceptionally grim expression, staring intently at the faintly visible cyan light on the ground. "We've all been greatly fooled by that old scoundrel, Bright Lord. This isn't a formation core at all; it's clearly a trap specifically set for us siblings."

"Why would he do this? What benefit could he gain by trapping us here? And even if this restriction is powerful, can it truly trap us siblings?" Yue Shu was startled at first, but then immediately said through gritted teeth.

"This restriction doesn't need to truly trap us," Yun Dan replied. "It only needs to prevent us from leaving immediately. As for why..."

A sharp glint flashed in Yun Dan's eyes, and his arm suddenly blurred again as he threw the golden halberd towards the altar.

A deafening boom.

The altar exploded after a flash of golden light. After countless shattered stones scattered, only a huge deep pit remained in its place.

"This is..." Yue Shu stared at the giant pit with a hint of surprise.

"Bright Lord didn't leave any Profound Sky Treasures here at all," Yun Dan said coldly through gritted teeth. "He probably wants us siblings to be substitutes for the Profound Sky Treasures!"

"He actually dares to do this!" Yue Shu exclaimed, her face drained of color. "In that case, we siblings must not stay here; we must leave immediately."

"Don't be afraid," Yun Dan said. "Although I didn't foresee Bright Lord setting up this trap, since I dared to bring you to this Immortal Extermination War, I naturally have several backup plans ready."

As soon as his words fell, Yun Dan opened his mouth and spat out a faint black spherical bead.

He grabbed the bead, and with a ferocious look on his face, he fiercely hurled it towards the nearby blood-red light barrier.

Almost simultaneously, the blood-red light barrier merely flashed with a bloody light, and suddenly a blood-red ripple reverberated within it. Wherever it passed, the Trade Alliance guards exploded into plumes of blood mist.

The black spherical bead, before it could even hit the blood-red barrier, was also swept into the blood-red ripple.

With a poof, the black spherical bead merely spun twice and then vanished into thin air as a wisp of black smoke.

"Impossible!"

As soon as Yun Dan saw this, his face instantly turned deathly pale, and he could no longer remain composed.

Yue Shu, greatly alarmed, continuously waved both her sleeves, immediately sending dozens of various treasures shooting out in all directions. But they had barely flown far when they inexplicably exploded as well.

At this point, all the other Trade Alliance guards elsewhere had already turned into blood mist, and the eerie ripple immediately swept towards the two of them from all directions.

After Yun Dan and Yue Shu exchanged glances, they both saw a hint of despair in each other's eyes.

If their strength had been intact, they might not have been without means to deal with this eerie attack, but now they were truly helpless.

Gritting their teeth, they released all their treasures at once and simultaneously activated all their remaining magic power, pouring it into their protective spiritual light.

With a flash of blood-red light, the eerie ripple instantly engulfed both of them.

Just a moment later, two muffled thuds came from within the blood-red barrier. After the blood mist inside condensed, it was all sucked into the vortex in the sky.

At the other formation core, Han Li was on a small patch of ground separated by a yellow light barrier. He looked up at the massive light array in the sky, which was buzzing loudly again, his expression extremely solemn.

Apart from him, all the other Trade Alliance guards in this place had surprisingly also turned into blood mist and been completely absorbed by the light array in the sky.

With a poof.

The light array in the sky flashed and vanished into the void.

The golden figure was held down by several golden armored warriors simultaneously. At the same time, purple-golden light threads emerged from the nearby void, wrapping around its body one by one.

"Haha, within my Spirit Domain, no matter how great your abilities are, they are useless," the giant golden figure formed by Ma Liang laughed loudly as he drifted towards the smaller golden figure. "Now, let's see where you can escape to."

But at this moment, a ripple appeared below as a super light array, almost covering half of the Ming Sha land, emerged from the ground, with the golden giant precisely at its center.

"Not good!"

Ma Liang's heart trembled. As soon as his divine sense swept across the light array on the ground, his face drastically changed, and he cried out.

Almost simultaneously, a crystalline light thread silently shot out from the center of the light array below. After a flash, it pierced through the void, traversing the entire world.

When Ma Liang saw this crystalline thread, his pupils constricted as if he had seen a venomous serpent. Without hesitation, his escape light flared, and he transformed into a ball of golden light, shooting backward.