Chapter 767: Hope (Two in One)
Outside the battlefield raged, Lin Rui had already extracted all the essence of blood and qi within the prison before him.
He changed the mudra with both hands this time, manifesting a white jade seal about the size of two palms behind him.
Below the jade seal, the eight ancient seal characters "Mandated by Heaven, the nation prospers and the people are at peace" were boldly etched, precisely the Imperial Jade Seal temporarily under Lin Rui's control!
With the appearance of this seal, Lin Rui's speed in purifying and extracting these essences of blood and qi significantly increased, nearly doubling.
Meanwhile, Lin Rui also allocated some of his focus to observe the battle outside the fortress.
Erosion Sky Venerable is a strong practitioner at the 'Extreme Longevity' level, indeed one of the most capable aides among the Lord of Darkness's henchmen.
Once Martial Cultivators reach the 'Extreme Longevity' rank, even if they hide within the deep, vast, endless, and labyrinth-like interconnected corridors of the Purgatory Sky Pond, their situation would become extremely difficult.
Limitless Saber Venerable and Ge Xianshan serve as examples. Once their conceptual power reaches eighty-five percent or above, they must restrain their sharpness and even hide underground for fear of being tracked by the Three Gods of Purgatory.
However, Erosion Sky Venerable is an exception, still heavily trusted by the Lord of Darkness.
Lin Rui speculated that the Lord of Darkness intended to use Erosion Sky Venerable to balance his two brothers.
It must be known that during the fifty thousand years of the Lord of Darkness's control over Purgatory, his brothers have been replaced time and again. After the old gods of Purgatory fell, new gods would quickly rise to replace them, yet only the Lord of Darkness himself remained unshakeable.
Lin Rui was keen to witness the power of Erosion Sky Venerable, based on the intelligence he had, confirming that this person was one of the ten founders of the Longevity Association.
He was also curious about how Luo Wangshu would confront Erosion Sky Venerable?
Luo Wangshu's ultimate combat power had reached the Super Divine Envoy level, but currently, the power she displayed to others was at the Senior Divine Envoy level.
However, the reason why a Divine Envoy is called 'Divine Envoy' is because they are still 'messengers of the gods'!
Boom!
At this moment, Luo Wangshu had appeared in a cave spanning over a thousand miles wide, and a pair of golden wings unfolded behind her.
Upon closer inspection, those wings were condensed with an incredibly dense and solid Ether Element Spirit. One wing's ether was in an extremely still state, almost frozen; the other wing's spirit was in another extreme, in constant motion.
This was precisely the consolidation of two kinds of Concept Divine Powers from the East Abyss, one called 'Stillness', the other 'Movement'.
Golden light flowed on Luo Wangshu's body and sword, as though every inch of her flesh and bone turned crystallinely transparent, as if transforming her entire being into an incredibly sharp sword instrument.
—That was her own power, the 'Refinement' and 'Sublimation', the 'Solid Law' and 'Growth', as well as 'Limit' and 'Enhancement'.
Her sword light surged like a tide, sweeping the thousand-mile cave, obliterating and clearing away all remnants of the Eye of Nihility.
At this moment, the liquid on the cavern ceiling suddenly began to melt, with pitch-black liquid sprinkling down like raindrops, toward Luo Wangshu.
The black liquid, seemingly normal as it fell, actually followed an extremely mysterious trajectory, and unfolded into a massive net, leaving Luo Wangshu no escape but to fully extend her wings upwards to block it.
The wings emitted a hissing corrosive sound.
The liquid contained formidable decaying corrosive power, seemingly eroding even space itself.
Luo Wangshu murmured softly: "Erosion Sky Venerable!"
This person's true form should have arrived by now—
She could feel her sword light and wings being gradually eroded, the black liquid seemingly alive, constantly seeking flaws within the sword light.
Though Luo Wangshu's various conceptual powers were strong, against Erosion Sky Venerable's near Quasi-Abyss Level 'Erosion' power, she struggled.
This one could even break through the divine power of the East Abyss augmenting her, forcibly corroding her pair of wings.
However, this was not their first confrontation. Just moments ago, when high-level demons raided the fortress's Fusion Furnace, the two had briefly clashed.
Luo Wangshu then shook her wings, sweeping away all the black liquid.
"Such powerful sword prowess under the feet of the Sword Phoenix!"
Erosion Sky Venerable's voice came through, like countless tiny insects gnawing on something: "You intrigue me more and more. Among the three Divine Envoys, only you can control this ninety percent motion and stillness power to a certain extent."
As his voice echoed, the entire cave shook violently. More black liquid dripped from the ceiling, gradually forming massive waves, roaring and surging.
The entire cave was engulfed in darkness, with no light visible in the entire cave battlefield, turning completely into a realm of darkness and shadow.
There was also a portion of black liquid gathering in the air, forming a vague humanoid shape, with an eye opening in the center of the humanoid's forehead, gazing toward the inside of the fortress.
The reason Erosion Sky Venerable returned to this battlefield was not for the Eastern Heavenly Sword Phoenix, but for the soul power fluctuation and the immense blood qi that had just erupted within the fortress.
The prison inside the fortress was a place he had been eyeing for half a month.
Erosion Sky Venerable had long planned to cause chaos in the fortress from here, to defeat the three million elite troops of the Great Song stationed there.
Unfortunately, before he could act, Luo Wangshu had already begun to clear out the prison.
This woman's methods were ruthless, slaughtering all the demons within the prison in one fell swoop, causing great commotion in the area.
Erosion Sky Venerable suspected that Luo Wangshu's proud disciple, Duke Lin Hao of Great Song, had arrived at this Sky Pond battlefield.