Chapter 1359 – Trap
“Lord Wuheng, where are we going?” Ancient God Cheng Yun asked.
The Grand Elder had chosen three people in total to follow Xin Wuheng: the Rank Eight Ancient God Sundermount, peak Rank Eight Ancient God Cheng Yun, and the last was the peak Rank Eight Ancient God Resplendence.
After all, the majority of the Ancient Gods needed to remain to hold down the forces from Ancient Soul Hall. Three people was the most that could be mobilized.
“Let’s get away from here first. Only then can we allow our comrades to retreat earlier!” Xin Wuheng whispered.
As long as they could escape these dangerous circumstances, the members of the Giant God Race who remained could make their own escape. Thus, Xin Wuheng currently had no other goal except to get away from here as quickly as possible.
“Someone is coming,” Zhao Feng suddenly said.
Ancient Soul Hall had numerous members and formidable strength. Even if the Giant God Race used all its strength, it was not capable of stopping everyone. Moreover, Ancient Soul Hall’s true goal was the Ancient God Seal. They naturally would think of every method to get past the Grand Elder’s defense line.
“What’s the situation?” Xin Wuheng directly asked.
The rest of them were taken aback. They could sense nothing at all, but Xin Wuheng completely trusted Zhao Feng and asked him what was going on?
“One Rank Nine Ancient God and two Rank Eights!” Zhao Feng used his senses to determine the cultivation levels of the opposition.
The three members of Ancient Soul Hall quickly entered the sensory range of the rest of the group.
“It really is the case!” Ancient God Resplendence had a look of disbelief. Was Zhao Feng’s Divine Sense stronger than all of theirs?
“It’s only three people! Even if they catch up, there’s no way they can do anything to us.” Ancient God Cheng Yun breathed a sigh of relief.
If a large group was chasing them down, or perhaps even a half-step God Lord or actual God Lord, they would truly be doomed.
“No, they might not have any plans to fight with us,” Zhao Feng suddenly said.
Ancient God Cheng Yun and the others were confused for a moment, but then they instantly understood.
“In a fight, they would be no match for us. The goal of these three is probably just to follow us….” Ancient God Resplendence’s expression instantly darkened.
As long as the trio managed to keep up, Ancient Soul Hall could continue to send reinforcements, at which point the group from the Giant God Race would find it extremely difficult to escape.
“Damn, to think they would do such a thing!” Ancient God Sundermount was furious.
The Ancient Soul Hall trio kept a fixed distance between them, neither catching up or falling behind.
It would be exceedingly difficult to throw off this group. However, if they turned around and tried to attack, this trio would definitely choose to run, and the Giant God Race group wouldn’t be able to do anything. Moreover, if they chose to attack and didn’t swiftly bring an end to the battle, the Giant God Race group would just be delaying themselves, and they would be placed in an even greater predicament.
For a moment, the four members of the Giant God Race group and Zhao Feng had grim expressions.
“I have a plan.” In this dour mood, Zhao Feng suddenly spoke.
The other members of the group immediately turned to him in surprise.
“What plan?” Xin Wuheng immediately asked. The situation was extremely dire, and not even he had an idea of what to do.
“I’ll stay while the rest of you leave first….”
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Four hundred thousand li away:
“Haha, we just need to follow them, and then once the reinforcements from Ancient Soul Hall arrive, we can exterminate them and seize back the Ancient God Seal!” The black-robed elder of the Ancient Soul Race leading this group coldly chuckled.
Their objective was the Ancient God Seal. In comparison, killing the members of the Giant God Race was rather unimportant.
“Elder, just what is that Ancient God Seal that the Giant God Race possesses? To think that Ancient Soul Hall would go through so much trouble to obtain it!” a red-skinned man asked. He was not a member of the Ancient Soul Race, so there were many things that he was not clear about.
“Long ago, Ancient Soul Hall was ruled jointly by the Ancient Soul Race and the Giant God Race. The reason the Ancient Soul Race had a falling out with the Giant God Race and attacked them was the Ancient God Seal!” The black-clothed elder smiled.
“Just what sort of mysteries does the Ancient God Seal contain?” The red-skinned man attentively listened and continued with his questions.
Just what sort of secrets did the Ancient God Seal hide that it would make two major races turn hostile to each other?
“This Ancient God Seal can open up the Giant God Race’s Ancestral Legacy Treasury. You should know that the Ancestral Legacy Treasury allowed the Giant God Race to produce two God Lords in the span of just a few thousand years!”
These words left the two Rank Eight Ancient Gods utterly flabbergasted. Excluding God Kings, God Lords were the supreme experts of the Ancient Desolate Realm of Gods, controlling the very forces of nature.
“That’s too formidable…. We have to get it!” Avaricious looks immediately appeared on the faces of the two Rank Eight Ancient Gods.
“It’s rumored that this Ancestral Legacy Treasury doesn’t just hold the secret to advancing to God Lord; it might even be connected to one of the mythical races in the top ten of the Ten Thousand Ancient Races….” the black-clothed elder whispered.
The top ten ancient races! The two other Ancient Gods felt their hearts shiver.
Even a race as strong as the Giant God Race was only ranked 15th. Those ranked in the top ten were almost all extinct or taboo races. The rank 7th Light Race, rank 8th Golden Crow Race, rank 9th Destruction Dragon Race; every one of them was a legendary and forbidden existence, and that treasury was actually linked to these top ten races!?
“Elder, the situation has changed!” The red-skinned man suddenly slowed down.
“What’s going on? That kid remained behind to stop us to protect the Giant God Race?” The other Rank Eight Ancient God couldn’t help but chortle.
With their Divine Senses, they noticed that Zhao Feng alone had suddenly stopped while the rest were rapidly moving away. Their Divine Senses could detect no change in their soul energies, indicating that this was not a trap. Xin Wuheng and the others had truly left.
“Kill him quickly! We can’t lose their trail!” The elder’s eyes flashed with cold light.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
A moment later, the three of them used Instant Movement to rush at Zhao Feng.
“Zhao Feng, I truly admire your sense of righteousness. You would actually sacrifice your life for the Giant God Race? However, your efforts are pointless!” the black-clothed elder barked, his body surging with powerful ripples of Soul energy.
“Relax. Once you’re dead, they’ll quickly be accompanying you!” The red-skinned man gave a wicked chuckle.
The two Rank Eights and one Rank Nine planned to swiftly obliterate Zhao Feng.
But Zhao Feng stood where he was, completely unflustered.
“Haha, could none of you tell that this was a trap?” Zhao Feng faintly smiled.
“Oh no!” The elder’s expression dimmed.
Although he still hadn’t noticed anything strange, Zhao Feng’s words immediately gave him an ill foreboding.
Of course, Zhao Feng might also just be planning to buy time with these words, so he decided that it was better to kill Zhao Feng first.
“Soul-Destroying Wave!” The elder circulated his soul energy and prepared to unleash a powerful soul attack.
“Come out!” Zhao Feng’s left eye began to turn.
Bzzz! Swoosh!
In front of him, four vortexes of Eye Intent emerged, producing four people.
“This is a Spatial technique!” The elder instantly understood.
It turned out that Zhao Feng had left marks on the four members of the Giant God Race. While the four of them escaped from the range of the Ancient Soul Hall trio’s Divine Senses, they had not fled entirely. Now that the trio from Ancient Soul Hall was here, Zhao Feng used these marks to shift the four members of the Giant God Race through space and bring them here.
“Ancient Soul Hall, die!” Ancient God Resplendence immediately moved out, circulating her bloodline energy as she punched. Although her body did not grow larger, a massive phantom arm appeared around her fist, suffused with enormous energy.
“Giant God Finger!” Xin Wuheng gathered his bloodline energy and the energy of the world and thrust out his finger. The finger exploded with dazzling light, and a massive and nigh tangible image of a finger appeared. Gathering Earth Intent around it, it shot forward like an enormous pillar of heaven.
Even before this finger descended, the members of Ancient Soul Hall felt an enormous pressure on their bodies. The blood in the bodies of the two Rank Eight Ancient Gods froze, and they become incapable of moving, much less escaping.
The black-robed elder stared at this all in shock. The majority of the Giant God Race members weren’t that scary, but those with truly thick bloodlines had the dreadful power to destroy the heavens. An example of this was Xin Wuheng. The elder didn’t even dare to think about trying to oppose him.
“Ancient Soul Body Transfer!” The elder stopped his soul attack and began to execute a secret art. A moment later, his body became translucent black, as if he had completely transformed into a soul body.
The Ancient Soul Race’s techniques were all linked to the soul. Soul bodies were innately immune to many wounds, but the souls of the Ancient Soul Race were even more formidable in their defensive aspects. In using this secret art, one could block lethal attacks from experts who were a little higher in level.
Boom! Bang! Crash!
The attacks of the Giant God Race landed.
“Hmph, nothing but foolish clowns!” Ancient God Cheng Yun coldly sneered.
In this head-on confrontation, the trio from Ancient Soul Hall was instantly exterminated.
At this moment:
Whoosh!
In a fierce gust of wind, a weak black light shot into the distance.
“Not good! The Rank Nine Ancient God used a secret art and managed to escape!” Ancient God Sundermount called out in alarm.
A soul body could move at several times the speed of an ordinary Ancient God and was extremely hard to catch.
Suddenly, a bolt of Eye Intent flew by.
Kacrack!
The black-robed elder, who had already fled more than one hundred thousand li, was immediately struck by Tribulation Lightning Flame.
His soul had already been badly wounded from the attacks of the Giant God Race, and now he was struck Zhao Feng’s Tribulation Lightning Eye Flame. After struggling for a few moments, the black-robed elder was slain.
“Dead!?” Ancient God Cheng Yun was surprised.
All of them couldn’t help but look at Zhao Feng. That eye-bloodline technique was naturally his. He had clearly fired off that eye-bloodline technique almost instantly; it seemed like he had already predicted everything and knew the route the elder would take to escape. The eye-bloodline technique was extraordinarily accurate and had instantly eliminated the black-robed elder’s weakened soul.
“Let’s go!” Xin Wuheng called out.
Every second they delayed was in exchange for the lives of the other members of the Giant God Race!
Swish! Swish! Swish!
They hurriedly used Instant Movement to flee.
One day later, they finally stopped to rest in a deserted area that had very little Yuan Qi.
“What’s the situation?” Xin Wuheng looked to Zhao Feng.
“I don’t see anything. We should be safe!” Zhao Feng said.
“Lord Wuheng, what should we do now?” Ancient God Sundermount immediately asked.
“Open the Ancestral Legacy Treasury! All of you will come in with me!” Xin Wuheng solemnly said.
They all trembled. They had all heard about the Ancestral Legacy Treasury controlled by the Giant God Race, but they had never seen it with their own eyes.
“We have to get a big harvest from the Ancestral Legacy Treasury so that we can help the Giant God Race rise again!” Ancient God Cheng Yun thumped his chest and said.
The group traveled deep underground and laid down a concealment array.
Swish!
Xin Wuheng took out the Ancient God Seal and prepared to open the Ancestral Legacy Treasury.