Chapter 711 – Strengthened
Iron Claw gave a nod before he went towards the spatial rift. The Lich and the Archer didn't speak, they were aware that the Demon Dragon King was telling the truth. Even if Zhao Hai was injured, he still had a lot of cards in hand. They weren't even sure if Zhao Hai had a method to recover quickly. If Zhao Hai did, then with his strength as well as his strange helper, the Demons' troubles would surely be big.
Also, for them and the Demon Dragon King, protecting the the city was a much more important task. Therefore, before their city gets finished, they still wouldn't go and attack Zhao Hai.
In fact, the Demon Realm intended to attack Zhao Hai in turns. God-ranks were unable to stay in the Ark Continent for too long. And since the Demon Realm's experts were numerous, they were planning to have them go to the Ark Continent in turns. They believed that with such a plan, the Ark Continent wouldn't be able to hold on.
The Demon Dragon King's group were one of the most famed experts in the Demon Realm, thus the reason why they were the ones to who were sent to the Demonic Abyss first. The Demons believed that with them in the vanguard, then there wouldn't be any problems that would derail their plan.
However, they had underestimated Zhao Hai as well as his Space. They didn't think that the Ark Continent would produce three God-ranked experts in such a short time. Most importantly, they didn't expect that Zhao Hai was able to comprehend a Domain, and a formidable Domain at that.
And because they underestimated Zhao Hai, they lost big. It was then that the Demon Dragon King discovered that their current group weren't enough to keep the city safe. Therefore, he decided to ask for reinforcements from the Demon Realm. For the Demon Race, asking for reinforcements was something that was extremely rare. However, the Demon Dragon King still did it, this city was just too important for the Demons.
Zhao Hai was healing himself up inside the Space. This was the first time that Zhao Hai had been injured after all his fights. He couldn't help but recognize how strong those Demon God-ranks were.
Although Zhao Hai has his crystal body, he was using his Domain in this fight. Because of this, the damage to Zhao Hai was more spiritual than physical. This was the reason why the crystal body was unable to block the Demon attack.
To be honest, this was also due to the fact that Zhao Hai was still unskilled in using his Domain. He can actually use his divergent abilities with his Domain. However, he has not done it yet because it wasn't an easy task to use divergent abilities with a Domain. However, as long as he succeeds in doing so, he would definitely be more powerful.
Among the many fights that Zhao Hai did, this was the first time that he had suffered such a heavy wound. However, Zhao Hai was not too worried about it. The Space had a lot of methods to cure wounds, among them were the Spatial Water and the God's Blood.
However, Zhao Hai also managed to discover that another place actually had a good healing effect, it was the Hot Spring. It could actually make him recover, and the effect was no weaker than the Spatial Water and God's Blood.
Although Zhao Hai's wound was quite heavy, it was actually just a damage on his soul. Such wound might be troublesome to others, but to Zhao Hai, he really doesn't need to worry too much about it.
Even if the Space didn't have the experience of curing damage to the soul, one shouldn't forget that Zhao Hai's side had an expert on spiritual force, Berry.
The Succubus race relied purely on spiritual attacks in order to confront the enemy. Their mental attacks were the most powerful among the Demons. Therefore, Berry was quite experienced when it came to treating these kinds of damages. Moreover, Berry had a method of curing such wounds. So when Berry discovered that Zhao Hai suffered an attack on his soul, she immediately imparted the method over to Zhao Hai.
But who would've thought that when Berry passed the method over, the Space suddenly issued a prompt, "Host obtained soul cultivation manual, Advanced level. Host's spiritual force has been strengthened. Resistance to spiritual attacks increased."
Zhao Hai blankly stared while listening to the prompt. He didn't think that he would be gaining a soul cultivation method. Moreover, the Space had actually strengthened his spiritual force as well as his resistance to attacks on the soul. This was too astonishing.
All of these happened after Zhao Hai returned to Demon City. Before this, Zhao Hai appeared in front of the people of Demon City. He rode on top of his Bone Dragon as his undead were right behind him.
Zhao Hai did this in order to give confidence to the people of Demon City. He cannot have them think that he was injured since morale was too important to Demon City.
It was great that Zhao Hai's wound cannot be seen by the naked eye. Because of this, the people of Demon City were completely unaware. The only thing they witnessed was Zhao Hai's battle with the other God-ranked Demons.
After all, the Domains were very large and they were fighting mid-air. Even if they were far away, the people in Demon City can still see them. They saw Zhao Hai manage to fend off five attackers. And although they didn't see Shiying being captured, they were still able to witness Zhao Hai retreating safely. Now that he had appeared in the city, it was no wonder that he was greeted with huge cheers.
After appearing in the city, Zhao Hai told the guards to stay put once more before entering his Bone Dragon to recover. He wasn't even expecting that because of his relationship with Berry, he was able to acquire a soul cultivation method.
Zhao Hai had now recovered to his normal state, which made Laura and the others relaxed. When then they saw Zhao Hai spurt out blood, all of them had been worried to death.
After seeing that Zhao Hai was doing well, Laura then pointed towards the corner of the room, where the entangled Shiying was placed. Shiying was already sober from his bewilderment, he really didn't expect that a God-ranked expert such as him would actually be captured.
When he was pulled into the Space, he intended to go all out fighting. However, he discovered that he was just a small insect in this terrifying place. The other party can just do whatever they want without him being able to resist.
He had witnessed Zhao Hai being healed, as well as the Space issuing a prompt. However, he was still completely clueless about what just happened. However, he knew one thing, the reason why Zhao Hai was able to fight them was due to this Space.
Zhao Hai stood up and walked towards Shiying, he smiled faintly to the Assassin and said, "I must congratulate you. You will be the first God-ranked undead to join my army. How does it feel? Do you feel honored?" Then Zhao Hai waved his hand, allowing Shiying to speak. The Assassin looked coldly at Zhao Hai and said, "The Great Demon King is all-powerful! All of those who offend him will suffer."
Zhao Hai couldn't help but smile towards Shiying and said, "Not necessarily. I know that the Great Demon King is formidable. Although the Demons have been silent for tens of thousands of years, he still managed to make a plan that shocked not just me, but I believe the Divine Race as well. However, do you really think that he could do anything to me? The Demons have completely underestimated the Ark Continent. I'm afraid that the one who wouldn't get a good ending would be the Demons."
Shiying looked at Zhao Hai, he didn't know what to say. Zhao Hai smiled at him as he made a signal to Cai'er. Without any hesitation, Cai'er twisted Shiying's neck, breaking his spine in the process. Shiying's vitality might be formidable, but it was completely useless in the Space. If Zhao Hai wanted to kill him here, then there was no doubt that he would certainly die.
Shiying quickly died from Cai'er's move. Zhao Hai wasn't polite as he immediately turned the Assassin into an undead.
But Zhao Hai didn't expect that as he turned Shiying into an undead, a prompt was suddenly heard, "Mutant Robot Assassin detected. Copying his abilities and integrating it to all Assassin-class robots in the Space. Space's Assassin robots now has God-rank strength."
Zhao Hai stared, then a huge sense of happiness washed over his entire being. He never expected this outcome. Although he only had a small number of assassin undead, there were still more than 500. For Zhao Hai's side, this development was too significant.
Most importantly, this discovery informed Zhao Hai about the method to turn his undead into God-ranked. When Zhao Hai became God-ranked before, he didn't manage to hear anything about the undead. Zhao Hai even thought that the undead had already reached their peak, unable to advance any further. But there was actually a method to strengthen them. This was a very crucial discovery.
Laura and the others heard about the Space's prompt as well. They weren't expecting this to happen. Zhao Hai laughed in happiness as he turned to Laura and said, "Today is a very good day. We should celebrate. I think it would be great if we do it in Demon City." Naturally, the others didn't oppose to this idea. Zhao Hai smiled faintly as he brought Berry and Shue to appear in Demon City. At this moment, the people inside the city were talking about the recent fight that just happened. When they saw Zhao Hai come out, all of them cheered in one voice.
Zhao Hai looked at all of them and smiled. Then he stood on his Bone Dragon as he made the undead Shiying appear and told everyone, "I have good news! During the fight with the Demons, we managed to kill a crucial character to the Demon Realm. This is a God-ranked Demon, and now he is a member of my undead army!!"
Chapter 712 – Unexpected Development, The Divine Race Has Arrived
The people in Demon City couldn't help but stare at Zhao Hai. This was a God-ranked expert, a thing that only existed in legend. But now, it actually appeared in front of them, moreover, it has been killed and turned into undead!
But even with how unfathomable this was, all of them still believed in Zhao Hai. In their minds, Zhao Hai's exploits have always been out of the ordinary. Therefore, upon hearing Zhao Hai's announcement, a short dullness was experienced before the entire city blew up in cheers. The celebration was too loud that even the Demon Dragon King was able to hear it.
Upon hearing the cheers, the Demon Dragon King's complexion couldn't help but turn cloudier. He had a faint understanding about what this cheer represented. It seems like Shiying had suffered an unfortunate end.
The Demon Dragon King couldn't help but sigh, he was truly speechless now. Their attack on the Ark Continent didn't turn out as simple as they had thought, in fact, it was actually very difficult.
At this time, the sky in the distance suddenly had a huge change. Blood red radiance was seen coming from the Radiant Empire's direction. Along with this red light, an incomparably huge blood red formation suddenly appeared. The formation seemed to cover the entire Radiant Empire, it slowly rose up as it clashed with the sky.
Zhao Hai's complexion changed as his figure flashed, bringing Berry and Shue back into the Space. Then without saying any words to Laura and the others, he disappeared once more and reappeared in the border between the Buddha Empire and the Radiant Empire. He looked at the misty Radiant Empire in the distance, his expression difficult to describe.
The blood red formation slowly rose as the white mist covering the Radiant Empire slowly vanished. When the mist vanished, Zhao Hai immediately used his Divine Sense to scour the Empire, what he found out made his expression turn extremely sour.
He hasn't visited the Ocean Waves Dynasty before, therefore he wasn't aware of the situation inside. Then afterwards, while the Radiant Church usurped the Empire, he was in another place, unable to divert his attention to there. When he managed to make time, the mist had already covered the entire Empire, even his God-rank Divine Sense was unable to find anything out. In the end, Zhao Hai can only wait and see what would eventually happen.
The Ocean Waves Dynasty was one of the five powerful nations in the Continent. Although their strength wasn't very good, their navies were still invincible. And in fact, the Dynasty was even the richest nation in the entire continent, this was because of their great marine trade.
As a country gets richer, their citizen's moral requirements also increase. This made it rare for men in this country to have several wives. Because of this, the Dynasty population couldn't be compared to the other great nations.
The reason as to why the Dynasty was placed on the same level as the other Empires was because they took their navy very seriously, pumping huge amounts of money in order to gain naval superiority. This allowed them to hold their heads up in front of the other nations, even if their army wasn't that great. It was their naval strength, not their population, that made them great.
When Zhao Hai's Divine Sense swept through the first city of the Empire, he immediately found what was wrong. The whole city was extremely empty. Aside from the people of the Church, the entire city's population have all died.
Everyone, it didn't matter if they were women, children, elderly, or able bodied men. All of them seemed to be trapped in the city, like magic beasts ripe for slaughter. No living witnesses managed to survive.
The cause of death was also very unusual, all of them turned into a shriveled corpse. Their blood and flesh seemed to have been sucked out, only their skin and bones were left behind.
Under the bodies of these people were traces of a magic formation. It was quite obvious that the Radiant Church had grouped these people up in this place and then killed them, carrying a ceremony similar to sacrificial offering. However, this formation was actually used to make a connection towards the Divine Realm.
Zhao Hai's face turned pale, his eyes spewing out flames of hatred. He didn't expect the Divine Race to be as crazy as the Demons. The Demons used magic beasts in order to activate their Blood Void, however, the Radiant Church actually used living people, the entire population of the Ocean Waves Dynasty as the conduit for their formation!
Shue and the others had also seen this situation, they didn't think that the Radiant Church and the Divine Race would be this merciless. Zhao Hai's expression turned uglier and uglier as time passed by. His chest constantly heaving up and down, and when he couldn't bear it anymore, he suddenly coughed up blood.
Shue looked with great surprise as he supported Zhao Hai, "Young Master, what happened? Young Master, what's wrong?!"
Zhao Hai looked forward as he loudly shouted, "Divine Race! I, Zhao Hai, will surely slaughter all of you!!" Then he flashed into the Space. When he arrived inside, Laura and the others immediately rushed over. At this time the Space suddenly issued a prompt, "Host is undergoing major mental destabilization. Adjusting Host's mental state. The potential of the Host's body has been stimulated. Host's strength has been improved, soul has been improved."
However, nobody had the time to care about this. Laura and the others surrounded Zhao Hai, not knowing about what just happened to him.
Zhao Hai looked at the others and then smiled bitterly as he said, "Tell the Patriarchs and Emperors about what just happened. Make the people in Demon City retreat, we'll proceed to the second step of the plan. Make the eastern and southern parts of the Buddha Empire enter in first level alert. Shue, take me to the Blood Point. Bubble, absorb me and the Blood Pond into your body."
After Zhao Hai's command, the people in the Space immediately made their move. Shue quickly took Zhao Hai to the side of the Blood Pond. Then Bubble changed his shape as he absorbed Zhao Hai and the Blood Pond. At this moment, Shiying appeared, carrying a black bead in his hand. He gave the bead to Shue as he said, "These will be useful to the Young Master." Shue stared, he didn't think that Shiying would speak at a time like this, he didn't know what to say.
But Zhao Hai actually gave a nod to Shue, so he didn't hesitate and threw the beads towards Bubble's body. Then when the bead hit Bubble, he immediately rotated at fast speeds. Laura and the others can almost feel that the energy of the entire Space has been concentrated towards the Bubble's body.
After watching Zhao Hai, Laura immediately said, "What are we doing here, we need to act on Brother Hai's orders. Let the Patriarchs and the Emperors know about the current development, have all of them prepare their strengths since the Divine Race had come." Although they were still worried about Zhao Hai, they needed to clench their teeth as they turned and went inside the villa. Only Shue and Berry were left to oversee Bubble. Bubble was still spinning, and he was getting faster and faster.
Just as Zhao Hai entered the Space, the huge formation in the Radiant Empire suddenly rotated. And at the same time, another formation descended from the sky. This formation seemed to have been prepared for a long time. However, it was not blood red, instead, it gave off a white light, giving people a very sacred feeling.
It wasn't only Zhao Hai who managed to notice this formation. The Beastmen could even see faint traces of these two massive formations. They were just too high up and enormous that they seem to rival even the moon in the sky. It was actually difficult to miss it.
The Demon Dragon King stared blankly at the two formations. He didn't know why, but he seemed to dislike these formations, their aura elicited disgust deep inside him.
Then without much thinking, the Demon Dragon King turned to the Archer and said, "Herd, you go and return to the Demon Realm, report this to the Great Demon King. It's possible that the Divine Race had already made their move. Moreover, it seems like it wouldn't bade well for us. Make them prepare for the future. We'll continue to monitor the developments here. If there are instructions, then return here immediately."
Herd didn't dare to neglect this order, he gave a nod as he quickly dashed towards the rift. At this time, the Lich arrived by the Demon Dragon King and said, "Demon Dragon, do you really think that the Divine Race is behind this?"
Demon Dragon nodded, "Correct, you might not know, but His Highness has been sending out many scouts towards the Ark Continent. These scouts were able to discover the Radiant Church as well as their connection to the Divine Race. The reason why the Great Demon King decided to move this time is because he knew that the Divine Race wouldn't be able to arrive soon. He wanted to take control of the continent before the Divine Race even arrives. This is why he sent the five of us here, he knew that we would be fighting with the Divine Race in the future, so it would be useless to rely on 9th ranks. The Divine Race is very strong. We never expected them to come this soon."
The Lich looked at the two magic formations and said, "These two formations, have you seen them before?"
The Demon Dragon King shook his head and replied, "I haven't but it looks like it has the same function as the Blood Void. It seems to have unusual origins as well."
The Lich nodded, unlike the Humans, who weren't aware of the Divine Race for a long time, the Demons already knew that the Divine Race existed. Moreover, they were also aware about their methods, this was the reason why the Demon Dragon King was quite worried.
The two formations in the sky slowly approached each other, their rotations going faster and faster. Both of them looked like two enormous stone mills, intent on grinding the skies, moving in opposite directions to each other.
As the two formations got closer, their rotations got faster and faster. Then when they met, a huge explosion was suddenly heard, Heaven and Earth seemed to be have all of its colors removed.