Chapter 120: Fierce Battle with the Island Master

Inside the underground cavern.

On the mottled mountain walls around, more than a dozen pitch-black cave mouths had appeared at some unknown time. Streams of blood water gushed out from them like waterfalls, rumbling as they poured into the blood lake below, causing the blood water to churn endlessly.

In midair, as the giant formation composed of blood-colored light pillars hummed and operated, a loud "puff" sound arose. Countless clusters of blood flames sprang up from various parts of the formation and blazed fiercely, with threads of law force spreading out from them, causing the nearby heaven and earth vitality to boil instantly.

The law force filling the space seemed to have taken a great tonic, instantly increasing several times over.

A flush of blood surged on the faces of Jiao Ba and Lu Kun. Both spat out a mouthful of blood, then their bodies trembled as they fell backward, their auras rapidly wilting.

Almost in the next moment, two flashes of blood light shot toward each of them—it was the two blood-colored monsters that had been fighting them earlier!

Jiao Ba was greatly alarmed. He opened his mouth, and a gust of greenish wind surged out, turning into a crescent-shaped wind blade that flashed across the air and vanished, leaving behind a thick white trail from which intense spatial fluctuations emanated.

As a result, the monster, without dodging or evading, was split directly in half by the crescent wind blade.

As a result, the two halves of the body, undiminished in speed, transformed into two bloody rainbows that shot directly towards Jiaolong Ba, pierced through his body, and then merged again behind him into a blood-colored monster, one hand clutching a several-inch-tall small figure with a somewhat dispirited expression—precisely Jiao Ba's Nascent Soul.

The blood-colored monster let out a sinister chuckle, and without another word, opened its mouth and swallowed the Nascent Soul in its hand.

At the same time, as Lu Kun's body descended, he felt his mana inexplicably stagnate and become sluggish, his heart sinking.

Seeing the blood-colored monster rapidly approaching, with no way to avoid it, he gritted his teeth and, with a mental command, the head and body of his Earthly Deity incarnation not far away suddenly separated. Then the body erupted with a brilliant blue light and exploded with a bang. A blue watery mist swirled like a whirlpool, emitting a vast suction force that caused the blood-colored monster's form to stall and its speed to slow greatly.

The incarnation's head, however, turned into a streak of blue light, flew towards Lu Kun, and, carrying him with its momentum, plunged rapidly downward. With a plop, it submerged into the blood water and vanished without a trace.

While Jiao Ba and Lu Kun both suffered setbacks under the influence of the law's power, in another battle group, continuous loud noises erupted as two figures interlocked—Han Li and the third blood-colored monster.

Although Han Li's face was somewhat flushed, his movements seemed completely unaffected.

In midair, Gongshu Hong witnessed this scene, a flicker of barely noticeable surprise flashing in his eyes.

At that moment, a sharp whistle sounded, followed by a fiery red crystalline sword-light that swept in, emanating a terrifying law fluctuation that caused the void to hum and tremble.

Gongshu Hong gave a cold laugh and flicked his sleeve.

Beams of blood light shot forth from the surrounding pillars of light, merging with clusters of blood-colored flames rising from the blood lake below, instantly coalescing into over a dozen thick layers of blood-colored light screens that shielded him.

Boom!

The fiery red sword light struck a blood-colored light screen, and with a puff, the flame curled and tore it apart.

With a crisp tearing sound, the blood-colored light screens were torn apart layer after layer.

However, the fiery red sword light also shrank and dimmed continuously, finally reaching its limit after breaking through the ninth layer, flickering a few times before dissipating.

Not far away, Jiao San raised the huge crimson sword above his head again, and a scorching aura of the law of fire swept out from him, isolating the surrounding blood light.

Before he could strike down, a sudden change occurred!

Rumble!

The surrounding blood-colored pillars suddenly flashed with blood light, then blurred and in an instant, nearly a hundred blood pillars formed a huge blood-colored cage, trapping Jiao San inside.

Though startled, Jiao San remained calm. The fire light on his body surged, and the huge fiery red sword in his hand blurred into a blooming fire lotus, which trembled and shot out several crisscrossing foot-long sword shadows that struck the blood-colored cage.

The cage flashed wildly as blood pillars were continuously severed, but under the sweep of viscous blood spouting from the surrounding pillars, they instantly healed as before.

A hint of mockery flashed in Gongshu Hong's eyes. He muttered incantations and waved his hands to form hand seals again.

The blood lake below churned and surged, then once again rose huge blood pillars, their surfaces burning with blazing blood-colored flames, like countless tentacles coiling around the massive blood-colored cage.

The blood lake's water level dropped rapidly, and despite being replenished by the continuous influx of blood from all sides, it was nearly drained in an instant.

The blood-colored cage was covered by a thick layer of blood flames, which blazed fiercely and transformed into a blood-colored cauldron shape, slowly rotating.

Inside the blood-colored cauldron, Jiao San sat cross-legged, his eyes once again becoming somewhat bloodshot, his blood boiling as if on fire.

The surrounding blood flames rolled, emitting an indescribable strange heat that enveloped his entire body and seeped into his flesh, as if trying to refine his whole body.

He let out a low shout, his ten fingers changing rapidly like wheels in front of him. Clusters of flames flew up from his body surface, swirling and dancing, vaguely propping up a flame space several zhang in size.

The flush of blood on Jiao San's face immediately eased somewhat, but it still seemed unable to completely isolate the invasion of the blood law from the outside.

"Hehe, I'll refine you bit by bit and see how long you can hold out!" Outside the blood-flame cauldron, Gongshu Hong seemed to sneer coldly, his hands continuously forming hand seals, but his gaze shifted downward toward Han Li.

At this moment, Han Li, under the influence of the blood law force that filled the void, could still keep his eyes clear and was not at a disadvantage in his fight with the blood-colored monster.

Gongshu Hong frowned, then had a thought.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

The other two blood-colored monsters suddenly turned into blood shadows and flew toward Han Li's direction, while the blood-colored monster fighting Han Li flickered and turned to fly backward.

Seeing this, Han Li flew backward a distance, his gaze quickly sweeping over Gongshu Hong above, then looking forward again, not making any rash moves.

Contrary to his expectations, the two blood-colored monsters did not attack but collided with the blood-colored monster that was flying backward.

An incredible scene appeared: the three blood-colored monsters' bodies, like a mass of blood, merged into one, transforming into a blood-red, tall, thin man whose features were exactly the same as Gongshu Hong's.

Boom!

A dazzling blood light radiated from his body, spreading outward in rings, and the emanating aura surged greatly.

"So this is Gongshu Hong's Earth Deity incarnation!" Han Li's brow twitched, his expression growing more serious.

Gongshu Hong's incarnation let out a wild roar, then blood light flickered on its surface, and a large amount of blood sprayed out from its body, instantly intertwining in front of it to form a blood ball the size of a water vat, shooting straight toward Han Li with a gust of bloody wind, as fast as lightning.

Bang!

Han Li raised one arm, and a golden fist covered with golden scales collided with the blood ball, producing a huge dull sound. The nearby void also shook violently, stirring up rings of visible ripples.

With a "puff," the blood ball spun around and burst apart with a bang, turning into a large cloud of blood mist, and a strong law force rolled out.

Han Li's pupils contracted, and he silently cried out "Not good," about to shake his shoulders and shoot backward.

But all this seemed a bit too late!

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh."

Under a violent churn, the blood mist transformed into over a dozen blood-colored chains that, as if teleporting, coiled around Han Li's torso and limbs, binding him tightly in place.

Han Li's body surface had long been covered with dense golden scales. He clenched his fists, trying to break free, but the more he struggled, the tighter the blood chains became. As the chains scraped against the golden scales on his body, a series of "clang, clang" sounds rang out.

Gongshu Hong's incarnation let out a soft chuckle. With a gesture of his hands, half of the blood surging from the caves around them flew toward Han Li, forming a massive vortex nearly a hundred zhang in diameter that engulfed him.

But in the next moment, a roar erupted from within the vortex.

Two immensely thick golden arms suddenly thrust out from the vortex, their fingers hooked like claws, fiercely grabbing at both sides of the vortex.

With a thunderous "boom,"

the blood vortex shattered, breaking into countless chaotic streams of blood that scattered in all directions.

Then a golden figure dozens of zhang tall leaped out—it was Han Li, transformed into a mountain-ape giant. Several bloody wounds gaped on his arms, chest, and abdomen.

As soon as it appeared, one of its arms suddenly lifted, and with its five fingers loosely clenched, a patch of silver flame burst forth from its palm with a whoosh, then rapidly elongated into a silver giant spear over a hundred feet long.

Gongshu Hong's incarnation was first startled, then with a wave of both hands, a large expanse of blood flames from the blood lake below flew over and formed a blood flame wheel ten feet in diameter before him.

A sharp screech rang out as the silver giant spear shot from the giant ape's hand, its surface blazing with silver flames, charging toward Gongshu Hong's incarnation with a fierce momentum that seemed to incinerate everything.

Almost at the same time, the blood flame wheel also spun with a "whoosh, whoosh" sound, flying out like a blood-red sun.

With a thunderous "boom," the blood flame wheel instantly exploded.

A vast expanse of blood flames interwoven with threads of silver flame scattered in all directions, transforming into a violent, scorching heat wave that swept outward, shaking the entire cavern and stirring up monstrous waves across the blood lake.

But the silver giant spear did not slow down; instead, propelled by the heat wave, it shot even faster toward Gongshu Hong's incarnation, and in almost a flash, it pierced straight through his chest.

After summoning his incarnation to deal with Han Li, Gongshu Hong had been fully activating the blood-colored cauldron to refine Jiao San as quickly as possible, but now his body suddenly trembled, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

"No..." He lowered his head, glanced downward, and then roared.

The silver giant spear lodged in Gongshu Hong's incarnation suddenly transformed into a dazzling blaze of silver flame, directly engulfing it.