Chapter 724: Mythic Unleashed - Blood Nemesis

Chapter 724: Mythic Unleashed - Blood Nemesis

Azure Dragon Stellar Array - Wrathful Azure Dragon Apocalyptic Dragon Breath!

Titan's Fall - Ultimate Force!

Crimson Phoenix Feather - Flame Feather Incineration!

God-Slaying Flying Sword Cannon - Supreme Dao Sword Pellet!

Infinite Immortal Quantum Star Annihilation Cannon - Infinite Immortal Quantum Sword Light!

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Following the attack command from the Xian Qin Ancestor Dragon, countless beams of light in various colors rapidly converged outside the Demon God Floating Continent.

Buzz, buzz, buzz!

The immense energy buildup almost drained all the energy from the vast surrounding starry expanse. This immense energy convergence created a powerful energy tide outside the Demon God Floating Continent. The energy contained within this tide was no less intense than when the Dragon Spine Continent ascended to the eighth rank, and this was merely the result of the overflow from numerous attack methods.

Not only did the Flame-Ember Human Civilization sense the immense threat, but the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon Civilization within the Floating Continent's shield also felt it.

Inside the Floating Continent's shield, ten towering figures almost simultaneously extended their arms, and more majestic eight-armed illusions appeared above their heads, reaching out with their ethereal limbs.

Under the influence of the Floating Continent's innate will, each eight-armed illusion's power approached the peak of the ninth rank and even the semi-mythic realm. When all ten acted together, it seemed as if the heavens and earth were cracking, presenting a scene of imminent apocalypse.

Even the three hyperdimensional flagships standing outside the Floating Continent sounded urgent alarms internally. The onboard AI had long detected the immense threat, but the three Human Emperors showed no significant emotion.

Not only did the eight-armed illusions' power diminish significantly once they extended beyond the Floating Continent's shield, losing the enhancement from the Floating Continent's innate will, but the ten giant arms also aimed directly at the most densely populated areas of the Flame-Ember Starship fleet on either side.

Clearly, these Ninth Rank Serpent Demons were not attempting targeted assassinations but rather trying to disrupt the energy buildup of the Flame-Ember Starship fleet on a large scale.

It wasn't just these Ninth Rank Eight-Armed Serpent Demons; the hundreds of Eighth Rank Serpent Demon overlords and nearly five thousand Seventh Rank Serpent Demon overlords inside the Floating Continent's shield also joined in.

Over nearly two millennia, the Ember Flame Civilization had killed thousands of Seventh Rank Serpent Demon overlords during its continuous advancement, plus those left behind in the northern territory of the Octopus Demon Star Cluster. This is why there were so few Seventh Rank Eight-Armed Serpent Demons gathered at the Demon God Floating Continent.

Before the Civilization War, the number of Seventh Rank overlords on the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon side far exceeded that of the Flame-Ember Humans.

With such a large number of top-tier Serpent Demons acting together, the commotion they created was no less significant than that of the Flame-Ember Starship fleet outside the Floating Continent's shield. It was easy to imagine that if these nearly five thousand attacks were to get close, the energy buildup of the Flame-Ember Starship fleet would be severely affected.

"Ji Lie, it's time!"

At a certain moment, a subtle message was transmitted from the central hyperdimensional flagship, and one of the dozens of Galactic Ships in the rear suddenly emitted a radiant, multicolored light.

This multicolored light spread extremely fast, and just as the countless serpent arms extended beyond the Floating Continent's shield, the multicolored light easily covered the entire Ember Flame Civilization fleet.

At the same time, in the main control rooms of the million Flame-Ember Starships at the front of the fleet, a subtle change was occurring.

The slow energy buildup of the ship cannons was suddenly and forcibly corrected.

"This is... the ship cannons' energy buildup time reset to zero?"

Seeing the ship cannons on the Heavenly Ruins Sky almost instantly complete their energy buildup, Song Chi immediately understood the key and guessed what kind of incredible component the Chi Yu Ji Clan had activated.

Instantly completing the energy buildup for a million warships was undoubtedly a high-level strategic component, with a value approaching that of an ultimate-level component.

Although his breathing quickened, Song Chi was not overly surprised.

As one of the four major Pillar Royal Clans of the Flame-Ember Humans, the Chi Yu Ji Clan had not previously taken center stage, but this was because Emperor Ji had not personally participated in the Civilization War.

Underestimating the Chi Yu Ji Clan, one of the four major powers of the Flame-Ember Humans, would only invite ridicule.

Indeed, with their unfathomable depth, they could easily resolve the current crisis with just one card from their arsenal.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Countless beams of light shot forward, aiming to pierce through the Demon God Floating Continent.

However, before they could collide with the Floating Continent’s shield, they had to first pass through the phantasmal hands of the Dharma manifestations that extended out to intercept them.

Amidst the deafening explosions, the void near the Demon God Floating Continent’s shield was crumbling, with numerous spatial collapse zones continuously expanding.

Throughout this process, only a portion of the searing light beams or spheres were intercepted by the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon’s Dharma hand seals. The vast majority of the warship attacks successfully broke through the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon’s defenses and aimed directly at the Demon God Floating Continent’s shield.

Why did Flame-Ember Starships generally possess the most formidable combat capabilities among their peers?

Because the Captain of a Flame-Ember Starship, as long as the quality of their Flame Seed was sufficient, could maximize the power of high-tier Star Sea wonders to their fullest extent. Not just one or two, but ten or even dozens, the accumulation of these wonders endowed the Flame-Ember Starships with their terrifying combat prowess.

Similarly, once they extended beyond the Floating Continent’s shield and lost the enhancement from the Floating Continent’s intrinsic will, most Flame-Ember Starships, except for those with Flame Seeds of the same rank as their warships, could easily overwhelm their opponents.

With the detailed plans from the highest command of the four empires, these seemingly uncoordinated attacks all converged on the same area of the Demon God Floating Continent’s shield.

Even after being diminished by the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon’s attacks, these strikes still had a significant impact when they hit the Demon God Floating Continent’s shield.

Although they weren’t enough to directly cause cracks in the shield, which had reached the Mythic level, they did noticeably dim its radiance.

Seeing this, the Eight-Armed Serpent Demons inside the Floating Continent’s shield seemed to relax. They raised their hands again to launch more attacks.

In their view, the damage caused by this round of attacks was well within acceptable limits. At this level of damage, the Demon God Floating Continent could quickly recover given its immense size.

Since they no longer needed to worry about the shield being breached, they naturally focused on attacking the external Flame-Ember Starship fleet as much as possible.

...

In the control room of the Heavenly Ruins Sky, Song Chi’s gaze narrowed, his eyes constantly shifting between the distant Demon God Floating Continent’s shield and the three hyperdimensional flagships.

He wasn’t surprised by the outcome. Even though they had used many high-tier ship cannons in this concentrated attack, with the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon’s defenses and the shield’s incredible strength, the current result was entirely expected.

A Mythic-level defense was absolutely not something they could tear through with their combined attacks.

At this moment, he was waiting for the reaction of the three hyperdimensional flagships.

In his opinion, to breach the Demon God Floating Continent’s shield, it would ultimately depend on the abilities of the Flame Seed Emperors.

As expected, as soon as this round of concentrated fire ended, the three hyperdimensional flagships at the front of the fleet exchanged glances. Emperor Jiang, Emperor Ying, and Pei Dinan, the Lord of the Aclermont Clan, looked at each other. In the next moment, Pei Dinan’s spiritual energy surged outward, and a faint light shone from his brow.

As an extension of the Flame Seed, a Flame-Ember Captain could easily control their warship with a mere thought. The current posture clearly indicated that he was not activating any component of the warship.

As the light from Pei Dinan’s brow grew brighter, a mark deep within his Flame Ancestor’s aperture was activated.

This mark was a vivid red, with threads of energy resembling faith power swirling around it.

If Song Chi saw this, he would recognize that this was not ordinary faith power, but a higher-level energy that had been further refined and evolved from faith power.

As soon as the Blood Mark was triggered, nearly ten billion light-years away, a profound disturbance occurred deep within a life Floating Continent, only slightly smaller than the Demon God Floating Continent.

In the Core Space, the central origin light sphere among the ten suddenly emitted an ultimate chaotic light.

As the chaotic light shone, an ethereal scroll appeared in the Core Space.

“That is... one of the mythic legacies of the Aclermont Pillar Clan, the Pantheon Scroll!”

Outside the Demon God Floating Continent, above the Heavenly Sanctum Light hyperdimensional flagship, a tangible image of the scroll hung in the air.

On this scroll, which emitted a “rainbow” light, eight divine figures could be seen.

Seeing this, countless Flame-Ember Captains in the rear instinctively recalled information related to the Pantheon Scroll.

The Pantheon Scroll, a multicolored supreme component, is undoubtedly the ultimate foundation of the Saint Federation. Legend has it that this scroll originates from an extremely unique stellar continent.

Despite being just a continent, it arrogantly calls itself the Heavenly Realm. It does not rank among the dominant civilizations of the Shattered Star Sea, yet it is home to numerous mythic-level deities, both benevolent and malevolent, forming a world almost completely isolated from the outside.

Over two hundred thousand years ago, a Galactic Ship captain from the Aclermont family, then a minor faction within the Shenxia Empire, accidentally entered this realm. Using a multicolored spatial beacon component from his ship, he successfully left a return beacon in the Heavenly Realm. This marked the beginning of the Aclermont family's rise to the pinnacle of the Flame Human Civilization.

After cultivating in the Heavenly Realm for over ten thousand years, the Aclermont family successfully obtained the Pantheon Scroll.

Legend has it that the eight divine silhouettes depicted on the Pantheon Scroll are true deities from the Heavenly Realm.

Now, as the projection of the Pantheon Scroll descended, one of the blood-colored silhouettes among the eight divine figures was activated.

Soon, a Captain who had witnessed the activation of the Pantheon Scroll before murmured in the joint communication channel:

"The Blood Sovereign, the Empress of Heaven, the divine-human union, the Blood Nemesis. This is the Blood Nemesis that the Pantheon Scroll once summoned from the Abyss of No Bottom!"

Blood Nemesis

Upon hearing these words, everyone immediately etched "Blood Nemesis" deeply into their minds.

A brilliant multicolored light surged, and an infinite amount of blood energy erupted from the Heavenly Sanctum Light. This was the accumulation of countless Sovereign blood.

As this massive amount of Sovereign blood appeared, the Pantheon Scroll in the sky seemed to be attracted, and the multicolored light drew all the Sovereign blood into the scroll.

With the infusion of this terrifying blood, the blood-colored silhouette in the Pantheon Scroll projection rapidly solidified.

In the main control room of the Heavenly Ruins Sky, Song Chi's double-pupil eyes narrowed slightly as he detected not just one but several Ninth-Rank Sovereign bloods in the vast sea of Sovereign blood, including a Ninth-Rank Sovereign source blood.

With just a glance, he could guess that the cost of this summoning must be staggering. Perhaps the Aclermont family had invested all the Sovereign blood they had gathered in this Civilization War, and possibly even more, given that no Ninth-Rank Sovereign had fallen in this war yet.

It was clear how much it would cost to summon this so-called Blood Nemesis.

As he pondered, the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon from the Demon God Floating Continent's shield struck again. As enemies who had been at odds for over a hundred thousand years, they were well aware of the famous Pantheon Scroll.

Fallen Angel—Mythic Blessing of the Fallen Angel!

Emperor Jiang and Emperor Ying would not stand idly by. Under the radiance of the multicolored light, a mythic-level Fallen Angel silhouette appeared in the starry sky, covering the three hyperdimensional flagships. To harm them, one would first need to break through the partial mythic defense of the Fallen Angel silhouette.

The Ninth-Rank Serpent Demon's hand seal struck, causing explosions on the Fallen Angel silhouette, but it could not break through the defense.

Seeing this, the rear Ember Captains all felt a sense of awe.

In just ten years, the mythic components displayed by the three hyperdimensional flagships had been one after another. If they were not themselves at the top of the Flame Civilization, they might have thought that mythic artifacts and components were as common as stones on the roadside.

However, this also clearly demonstrated the terrifying foundation of the four great pillars of the Flame Civilization. Over hundreds of thousands of years, the entire civilization had accumulated to an extreme degree.

Roro Kun Roro Ji Lu...

A sudden eerie murmur pulled all the Captains back to reality, followed by a sense of bone-chilling horror.

In the starry sky ahead, a blood-colored figure, indescribable to the naked eye, stood tall.

Its body was covered in large and small tumors, its flat head wrapped in red and white bandages, and its lower half was a giant fleshy ball with no legs, only a multitude of blood-colored tentacles.

This was one of the eight deities in the Pantheon Scroll—the Blood Nemesis!

He is the bloodline offspring of the Blood Sovereign and the Human Empress, but was ultimately corrupted and twisted by unknown forces, becoming one of the eight deities sealed within the Pantheon Scroll.

Even though they were over a billion kilometers apart, with the Azure Dragon Phantom formed by the Azure Dragon Stellar Array, the law field emitted by the Heavenly Ruins Sky, and the absolute isolation characteristics of the Flame-Ember Starship hull, Song Chi still felt a sharp pain throughout his body.

This was the pollution and distortion power inherent to the evil deity. It was for this reason that the three Emperors had arranged for the summoned Blood Nemesis to remain over a billion kilometers away from the main fleet. Otherwise, even with the isolation provided by the Flame-Ember Starship, the Third and Fourth-Rank Captains would have all been corrupted.

In comparison, the three hyperdimensional flagships remained calm. Even directly below the Blood Nemesis, they could easily block the terrifying distortion radiation.

"Pei Dinan, hurry!"

Knowing that the Blood Nemesis could not sustain for long, the three did not hesitate.

Under Pei Dinan's control, the Blood Nemesis charged straight toward the Demon God Floating Continent's shield.

With each step, the blood power around him dyed the surrounding starry sky red, even the recently collapsed starry debris field.

This level of radiation power had already surpassed the limits of law, reflecting the primordial essence of the Star Sea, a power unique to mythic beings.

As he flew through the air, naturally, the Eight-Armed Serpent Demons launched their attacks. However, the closer the snake magic seals approached, the slower their strikes became. Before they could fully reach the Blood Nemesis, the snake magic seals turned blood red and ultimately became part of the Blood Nemesis’s surrounding blood power.

Whether it was the full-force attacks of Eighth-Rank Serpent Demons or Ninth-Rank Serpent Demons, the result was the same.

It wasn’t until a Ninth-Rank Serpent Demon within the Floating Continent’s shield summoned a colorful artifact, emitting a beam of multicolored light, that the Blood Nemesis’s advance was halted for the first time. But that was all it managed to do.

Although the colorful artifact was powerful, the wielder was only a ninth-rank entity. Trying to use it to combat a true mythic-level being was nothing short of a pipe dream.

Seeing the effectiveness of the colorful artifact, the Eight-Armed Serpent Demons within the Floating Continent’s shield seemed to find hope. One by one, Ninth-Rank Serpent Demons summoned over ten Mythical Artifacts.

Among them were even two seven-color artifacts.

With this, the Blood Nemesis's advance was finally halted, albeit barely.

However, one must not forget that based on the Flame-Ember Starship’s interstellar deployment mechanism, the Ember Human Civilization had never been afraid to match high-tier artifacts with anyone.

Perhaps only the old Sovereign Civilizations could rival the Ember Human Civilization in this regard.

Within a ten-billion-light-year radius of the Dreadnought and below, and with no distance limit for the Annihilator Ship and above, over 300,000 years, the Ember Human Civilization controlled so many Star Sea artifacts that even if the number of Galactic Clusters were quintupled, it wouldn’t make a difference.

Another burst of colorful light shone, and the Xian Qin Ancestor Dragon once again emitted waves of multicolored light. This light spread across the entire starfield, illuminating it in a rainbow of colors.

Under the glow of the multicolored light, the Blood Nemesis’s blood power became even more turbulent. Its halted form began to move forward once more.

This time, the Eight-Armed Serpent Demons seemed to have no more means to stop the Blood Nemesis. It easily reached the vicinity of the Demon God Floating Continent.

As it approached the Floating Continent’s shield, the shield began to ripple violently. The radiation emitted by the evil deity greatly affected the Floating Continent’s shield.

However, this was far from over. Inside the Heavenly Sanctum Light, Pei Dinan’s mind raced.

[Blood Nemesis · Blood Feast]

He remotely activated another feature of the Pantheon Scroll. In the next moment, the Blood Nemesis moved.

The bloated, fleshy body suddenly split open, and a large amount of foul-smelling blood spewed out.

This blood contained a great deal of the evil deity’s essence power. As it splashed onto the Floating Continent’s shield, a violent corrosion sound echoed from the shield.

The area where the blood splashed was precisely where the fleet’s cannons had concentrated their fire. The already weakened shield rapidly dimmed even further.

Sensing the threat, the pupils of the Ninth-Rank Eight-Armed Serpent Demon inside the Floating Continent’s shield narrowed.

Buzz, buzz, buzz!

The ground of the Demon God Floating Continent trembled, causing significant panic. After all, a fierce battle was raging overhead, and any anomaly could be magnified infinitely.

Fortunately, the chaos did not last long. Some Eight-Armed Serpent Demons came down to reassure the others, indicating that this was the activation of their clan’s ultimate weapon, and there was no need for the ordinary Eight-Armed Serpent Demons to worry.

Deep beneath the Demon God Floating Continent, where the Floating Continent’s Source Core was located.

Compared to the Holy Sanctum Continent, the Demon God Floating Continent’s core was divided into eight parts. The central part almost occupied half of the core, while the other seven parts shared the remaining half.

Suddenly, a part of the core on the left side emitted a brilliant seven-color light.

In the next second, spatial energy boiled within it.

Deep in the sky of the Floating Continent, an Eight-Armed Serpent Demon, radiating near-tenth-rank power, suddenly roared:

[Void Splitting Scepter] · {Mythic Exile}!

Seven-color light shone within the Demon God Floating Continent, and a massive spatial divine stone-embedded scepter appeared above the demon’s head. In the next moment, intense spatial energy burst through the Floating Continent’s shield, directly targeting the Blood Nemesis that was clinging to the shield.

A seven-color spatial artifact,

Nurtured by the peak ninth-rank Floating Continent’s core,

Summoned by a near-tenth-rank Eight-Armed Serpent Demon.

With these three enhancements, even as a mythic being, the Blood Nemesis could not react in time. It could only rely on instinct to form a blood barrier around itself.

(End of Chapter)

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