"Someone in the Eastern Continent is undergoing a tribulation?"
"All of us old geezers are here. Who else in the Eastern Continent could possibly be undergoing a tribulation?"
"That's impossible. Without the Demigod legacy from the Mystic Sect, how could anyone undergo a tribulation?"
"Wait... it seems you've all forgotten someone!" the Celestial Secret Elder said gravely.
His expression was extremely grim, as if he had just recalled something that filled him with fury.
The Asura Blood Emperor, the Dragon Emperor, and the others stared wide-eyed at each other in disbelief. "You mean... the Ice Emperor?"
The Celestial Secret Elder nodded. "Besides him, who else in the Eastern Continent could be undergoing a tribulation right now?"
"That bastard sealed himself within the Profound Celestial Ancestral Land. For over a hundred thousand years, we've all been slumbering," the Asura Blood Emperor said, his face dark. "Only his Profound Celestial Ancestral Land has opened periodically. I thought it was strange at the time, but looking back now, it's clear that bastard began his scheme more than a hundred thousand years ago!"
To ascend to a Demigod.
One must condense a Small World to resist the Divine Tribulation!
But there is another method that can multiply the success rate of passing the Divine Tribulation!
However... that method is far too cruel. Even back in the Ancient Era, anyone who dared to use it to face their Divine Tribulation would become a public enemy to all the world's experts and be suppressed by their combined might.
Therefore, although these Emperor Realm masters knew of that insane method, none of them ever dared to use it.
They never, ever imagined the Ice Emperor would actually be using that method to face his Divine Tribulation!
Jiang Chen looked at the blood-red tribulation clouds filling the sky, a powerful sense of unease growing in his heart. He asked, "Seniors, what exactly are you talking about?"
"A blood sacrifice!"
The Celestial Secret Elder said, emphasizing each word.
"A blood sacrifice?"
Jiang Chen shuddered.
He quickly took out the Communication Token from his Storage Ring. It was flashing continuously with messages from the experts of the Heaven-Soaring Saint Sect.
Lui Yifa: "Boss, the world is in chaos! Mysterious experts are appearing everywhere and slaughtering the populace. We're organizing the Celestial Demon Army to resist..."
Bai Lingfei: "Sect Master, we can't hold them back... There are too many of those mysterious experts! We can't stop them..."
"They're dead... all dead..."
"The Cloud Domain has become an Asura Field! Everyone is dead..."
"Sect Master, where are you? We've all retreated to the Heaven-Soaring Sacred City. We're barely holding them off with the Celestial Demon Army. Sect Master, come back quickly..."
As the messages streamed in one after another from the Communication Token, Jiang Chen's expression grew increasingly dark and grim.
「At the same time...」
The Asura Blood Emperor, Dragon Emperor, and the other experts also took out their Communication Tokens.
A series of dreadful reports came through.
"Old Ancestor, mysterious experts have appeared! The people in over thirty percent of our Luotian Dynasty's cities have all been slaughtered..."
"Old Ancestor, my Dragon Emperor Ancient Country's army has been used in a blood sacrifice..."
"Dead people... there are dead people everywhere..."
"It's over... The Luotian Dynasty is finished..."
"The Dragon Emperor Ancient Country is finished... I have failed you, Old Ancestor..."
"The Da Weii Ancient Country is finished..."
"The Flying Snow Dynasty... has been annihilated..."
"The Eastern Continent..."
"An Asura Field..."
"A blood sacrifice..."
A terrifying wave of Evil Qi and rage erupted from every one of the experts.
Tears of blood streamed from the Asura Blood Emperor's eyes. "Ice Emperor... Ice Emperor... How dare you use the people of my Luotian Dynasty for a blood sacrifice! You'll die a dog's death!"
"My Dragon Emperor Ancient Country is finished? HAHAHA! Ice Emperor, my only regret is not using my full strength to kill you back then... AARGH..." the Dragon Emperor roared, Evil Qi surging wildly from his body.
The Sword Emperor's voice was heavy. "To think we were played by the Ice Emperor..."
"Using the people of the Eastern Continent for a blood sacrifice... Ice Emperor, you will not have a good death..."
One by one, the experts roared in fury.
「In that moment...」
Everyone cast aside their old grudges.
The Eastern Continent!
This was their shared homeland.
But now... the Ice Emperor was about to perform a blood sacrifice using all the people of the Eastern Continent. How could they tolerate that? They were all united on the same front!
"We must stop him!"
"Stop him!"
"The Ice Emperor must die!"
The experts immediately flew toward Cangyue Island.
However... when they reached Cangyue Island, they found that the Teleportation Array here had already been destroyed. The entire Cangyue Island had been transformed into an island of ice.
This was the Ice Emperor's handiwork!
Even though the Asura Blood Emperor and the others had emerged from the Mystic Sect, they couldn't use the Teleportation Array to travel to the Eastern Continent.
Jiang Chen said in a low voice, "Our only choice is to ask Senior Kun for help!"
"But... will he help us?"
"There seem to be restrictions on Kun that prevent him from entering the Eastern Continent. However, there shouldn't be a problem having him take us to the continent's border!"
The group immediately returned to where Kun was located.
On that boundless landmass, Jiang Chen shouted, "Senior Kun, this junior has an urgent matter to ask of you!"
"I am already aware!"
Kun's voice echoed across the Celestial Vault, rolling like thunder and draining the color from the world. "I shall send you into the Eastern Continent now!"
The group instantly felt a supreme power envelop them, rendering them unable to resist. The space around them trembled violently as islands to the west rapidly receded into the distance. In just a few breaths, Jiang Chen and the others appeared over the Eastern Continent.
This was the territory of the Da Weii Ancient Country.
But now... the Da Weii Ancient Country, once one of the Ten Great Dynasties of the Eastern Continent, was a scene of utter devastation. Smoke from signal fires choked the air, cities were broken, homes were destroyed, and rivers of blood flowed through the land.
"They're dead? The experts of my Da Weii Ancient Country... not a single one left, all dead?" Emperor Ping Shan roared, his Evil Qi rocketing into the sky.
Everyone's gaze turned toward the Profound Celestial Ice Field.
The Celestial Secret Elder said gravely, "Everyone, the blood sacrifice has already begun. It's too late for us to stop it completely. Our most urgent task is to head to the Profound Celestial Ice Field and prevent the Ice Emperor from ascending. If we let him step into the Demigod Realm, no one will be able to stop him!"
"That's right! We must stop that animal!"
"To dare use a blood sacrifice... I will kill him!"
Killing intent surged from all the experts.
Immediately... led by the Asura Blood Emperor and the Dragon Emperor, all the experts charged toward the Profound Celestial Ice Field.
With the Asura Blood Emperor's power, his speed traversing the void was incredibly fast, yet it still took him the better part of half a day to reach the territory of the Flying Snow Dynasty.
「At this very moment...」
The entire Flying Snow Dynasty had been transformed into a world of ice and snow. Mountains, rivers, and cities were all frozen solid. Countless bodies lay entombed within the cold ice.
A blood sacrifice!
It was a ritual that used the lives of an entire continent's people to summon Celestial Punishment, which would then be used to resist the Divine Tribulation!
RUMBLE!
The tribulation cloud, which now covered tens of thousands of kilometers, was countless times larger than the one during the Witch Emperor's tribulation. The cloud in the Celestial Vault was no longer black, but had turned a ghastly blood-red.
So red it was as if the Celestial Vault itself was bleeding!
"For the Old Ancestor's grand ascension, kill!"
"No one can stop the Old Ancestor's tribulation..."
"Blood sacrifice!"
On the Profound Celestial Ice Field, a dense, dark mass of people from the Eastern Continent was being forced into a colossal sinkhole. There were over ten billion people inside, and the entire pit was filled with blood and corpses.
The experts of the Icefield Race, all dressed in black robes, were carrying out the slaughter.
These were all ordinary people. How could they possibly be a match for so many masters? They were all being cruelly slaughtered, turned into offerings for the blood sacrifice.
On this day, it was as if the apocalypse had come to the Eastern Continent.
Streams of bloodcurdling screams echoed from the sinkhole.
This sinkhole was none other than the Profound Celestial Ancestral Land...
"The rest of you, stop these people from slaughtering the living! We will go and stop the Ice Emperor!" the Asura Blood Emperor commanded.
Jiang Chen and the others nodded.
The seven Emperor Realm masters headed into the depths of the Profound Celestial Ice Field to find the Ice Emperor and stop his ascension to Demigod.
Meanwhile, Jiang Chen's group charged toward the black-robed figures slaughtering the masses. Even the weakest among them possessed a Human Emperor Realm cultivation. Jiang Chen led the charge, slaughtering his way through, and the black-robed men were completely unable to stop him. The group's advance only came to a halt when a group of figures clad in purple robes appeared before them.
Jiang Chen stared at the burly figure standing before him, his pupils contracting violently as a look of utter disbelief appeared on his face...
"How could it be you?"