Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains

Chapter 309: 171. The great powers of the major Holy Lands.

Maiden Hong's creepy laughter, as though coming from beyond the heavens, echoed in everyone's ears, stirring their hearts, which also trembled in response.

The skies began to change color and the earth started shaking violently. The blood-colored ocean that spanned hundreds of miles from east to west began to surge and expand rapidly. The twisting branches within the sea of blood also grew as they expanded...

Over a hundred miles... one hundred and fifty miles... two hundred miles...

Three hundred miles... five hundred miles... a thousand miles...

The sea of blood expanded to over a thousand miles before its speed finally slowed, but by then, it had already covered the land, leaving not a trace of the original sky.

This was not merely a physical expansion. If the presence of the Blood Demon's main body within the original hundred-mile radius was only heart-palpitating, then the current thousand-mile sea of blood filled everyone's hearts with despair, with no desire or courage to resist left at all.

"Cack cack cack cack cack..."

As the creepy laughter rang out again, from the very center of the sea of blood, a stream of black, sky-high demonic flames shot up. The whole sky seemed to ignite, instantly transforming into a vast expanse of billowing black flames.

Inside and outside of Tongling City, the attacking Xuzhou Army, the defending Mansion Army, warriors of the Hou Clan, Hou Yuxiao, Tian Fazheng, Lu Guanqing, Fan Longhe, as well as the six experts in midair—regardless of where they were from, their level of cultivation, everyone looking up saw fear and astonishment in each other's eyes.

They could all clearly sense that the black sea of flames above them was not something they could reach. The black flames burning within were emitting waves of terror that made the heart quake.

"This... this... is this the... true form of the Blood Demon?"

"Over a thousand miles, the whole Sanling Region is just a bit over five hundred miles across, and the entire Xingnan Prefecture with its seven counties is just over fifteen hundred miles. Has her true form grown larger than a whole prefecture?"

"It's all over... completely over!"

...

Hou Yuxiao's expression had completely stiffened. If the emergence of the Blood Demon's main body in the form of a towering ancient tree was still within his understanding, then Maiden Hong transforming into a hundred-mile sea of blood had already made his courage falter.

Now, the thousand-mile sea of blood overhead was utterly beyond his comprehension.

A thousand miles—that could cover nearly the entire territory of the Xingnan Prefecture...

This power, let alone moving mountains and seas or plucking stars and moons, was probably not far from altering the heavens and earth itself.

Is this the power of a rank three demon of the Indestructible Realm!

Hou Yuxiao began to feel a choking sensation. It was not psychological, but the oppressive aura from the black sea of flames overhead was indeed crushing the air currents all around, making his breathing intermittent and his body unable to move. He found himself unable to speak and could only move his eyes in panic. Seeing the state of others only added to the chilling feeling in his heart.

With his Grandmaster Second Realm Divine Communication level cultivation, he was already struggling under this pressure. The warriors of the Hou Family behind him, as well as the soldiers of the Xuzhou Army outside the city, all of whom were at most at the fifth level of body refinement, were faring even worse.

As they struggled to breathe, their faces had turned red, many beginning to stagger. Those who had just surpassed the fifth level of body refinement started to show a layer of blood mist on their bodies as their vital blood was being evaporated by the high temperature of the black sea of flames.

How much time had passed? Less than ten breaths. If this continued, there would be no survivors in Tongling County, and there was no telling how far Maiden Hong's oppressive force had spread.

If the whole Sanling Region, or even the entire seven counties of the Xingnan Prefecture, were affected like this, how many would die? Millions, tens of millions...

Hou Yuxiao felt ice-cold inside. He had the cultivation of a Grandmaster and could survive the brief suffocation, but the problem was the absence of hope, which left him feeling panicked.

No one wanted to die!

"This is what you get from Bailu Academy, pretending to master strategies behind the scenes, cooking up such a huge disaster, leaving the Sanling Region's living beings in dire straits without anyone to clean up their mess. You lot just hide behind the name of Confucianism, waving the banner of loyalty to the emperor and service to the people, deceiving and swindling everywhere you go, pah!"

Zhan Taiqing... could speak...

Hou Yuxiao's face showed a glimpse of hope. He turned his eyes towards the sky, only to freeze in shock. The voice belonged to Zhan Taiqing; he had recognized it instantly. But that Zhan Taiqing could still move freely at this moment astonished him even more.

But what followed made him dumbfounded once again.

After Zhan Taiqing moved, Zen Master Yuan Kong and Moxuzi likewise followed suit, seemingly trying to get closer to the vast sea of flames, and flew even higher.

As the three ascended, three terrifyingly dense streaks of fire plummeted from the black sea of flames. These streaks of fire, as if from another world, fell swiftly like meteors, tearing open three fissures in the air, and in an instant arrived before the three...

With Maiden Hong at a third-rank Karmic Position, even a casual blow from her could match a being from the Broken Realm. Zhan Taiqing was only at the Qiányáng level of cultivation, while Master Yuan Kong and Moxuzi were merely at Full Completion of Yuandan. From where did they derive such confidence?

It wasn't just Hou Yuxiao who was shocked; even the Sword Chief Xizhao of the Wanjian Holy Sect and Gu Tianyun, who had just fought with Zhan Taiqing, found their gazes towards the three filled with confusion.

He was at the Qiányáng level of cultivation, just like Zhan Taiqing, yet he too could not move under this pressure. How did these three manage it...

Soon, Hou Yuxiao and Gu Tianyun understood...

The moment the flames approached them, a dazzling light rose from each of the three, their momentum skyrocketing like a rocket, and behind each one of them, a phantom figure emerged simultaneously.