Great Demon Sun Wukong

All of them were sprinting and slowly converging with their companions or allies. Lin Xi, Six-Eared Macaque, and King of Qin gathered together, discussing something as they ran.

At last, they nodded to each other and gradually changed direction, looking as if they had decided to give up on entering the City of Ruins from the front and instead planned to enter from the Eastern Gate on the direct east side of the city.

Although Jing Potian of the Annihilation Demon Nation had lost an arm, he did not hesitate at all. After meeting up with Yao Wumeng, Bu Yun, and Hao Chen from the Myriad Demons Country, the four of them also changed direction and headed toward the Western Gate of the City of Ruins, looking like they planned to enter from there.

Bi Hai from the Myriad Gods Hall and Jixin from the Myriad Spirits Realm were both startled. They had thought that everyone would start fighting right at the city gate to enter the City of Ruins first. However, they did not expect that the two alliances would give up entering from the front at the same time. Jixin looked at Bi Hai with a worried expression, asking silently.

Although Jixin's physical and spiritual power had recovered to peak condition, he felt that something was not quite right, and every time he saw the six-eared individual from the Netherworld World, he had a strange feeling—an extremely dangerous feeling, and a genuinely lethal threat.

Bi Hai, however, nodded firmly, indicating to Jixin that there was no need to worry. Thus, the two headed straight for the main gate. If it were the old Bi Hai, he definitely would not have acted so decisively. He would have hesitated or followed the alliance of the Genesis Divine Nation and the Netherworld World.

After all, his own side was the weakest in strength, with the fewest numbers and slightly weaker power, and it was very risky to charge through a gate alone.

But things were different now. Not only had his own power greatly increased, but he had also awakened the bloodline power of his race and acquired an extremely strong defensive power by merging and refining those mysterious mortals' crystalline bodies, at the cost of sacrificing all his attack power. However, Bi Hai didn't feel it was a pity. Now, he was not acting alone; he also had Jixin.

As an ally from the Myriad Spirits Realm, Bi Hai knew Jixin very well, and it seemed that Jixin had also had some fortunate encounter in the Sand Realm. Bi Hai could distinctly sense the explosive and potent energy emanating from Jixin. With his own supreme defense and Jixin's powerful attack power, Bi Hai felt a strong confidence about this final stage.

Since they were the ones moving straight forward, Bi Hai and Jixin were the first among the three forces to arrive at the gate of the City of Ruins. It looked like a gate, but it was really just a broken section in the middle of the tall, dilapidated walls.

This place was supposed to be the gate, but the original gates, whatever material they had been made of, had been completely turned to sand by the power of the Primordial Earth Pearl.

Speaking of the Primordial Earth Pearl, Bi Hai couldn't help but feel a wave of excitement. Only with that bead could he combine it with his supreme defense—then, who would be his match? He truly did not expect to gain such a treasure from this Six Kingdoms War. The Primordial Earth Pearl was originally a Domain Instrument, and now it had absorbed a Divine Nation's destiny and energy.

Its quality had probably far surpassed that of a common Domain Instrument.

Actually, the Transcendent Origin Earth Bead was the real reason why everyone was working so hard. Ordinary Domain Instruments were already extremely rare, and among all the participants in the Six Kingdoms War, only Lin Xi of the Genesis Divine Nation possessed a Domain Instrument, the Dong Tian Chi, which allowed him to claim thirty Domain Beads by his own strength.

The two exchanged glances, each seeing a thirst for battle in the other's eyes. Even if they didn't obtain that Domain Bead in the end, the multitude of Black Mirror Scorpions and Tongtian Worms inside the city were a rare treasure trove.

Both felt that by absorbing enough of those mysterious crystals, they could even become Perfect Bodies and use that power to train their race's Divine Skills to the highest realm.

However, as they stepped through the decayed and collapsed city gate one after the other, they both suddenly froze. What they saw before them was a field of colossal Black Mirror Scorpions—at least five meters tall. Everywhere they looked, amid a variety of ruined buildings, on the fractured or pit-filled streets, and underneath the sandified ground, were these supermassive Black Mirror Scorpions.

Although the two had mentally prepared themselves and Bi Hai was blowing a jade flute to release a three-layer Barrier while leading the way, with Jixin vigilantly following behind, they were still momentarily careless due to their surprise as they entered, allowing a more than ten-meter-tall Black Mirror Scorpion to clamp onto them with its huge, razor-sharp pincers.

Watching the Barrier being repeatedly struck by the massive Iron Pincer dripping with deadly poison, both of their foreheads were covered with cold sweat.

Fortunately, they were prepared; otherwise, the sudden attack would have left them no time to deploy the Barrier, and by now, they would have been sliced into four segments, waiting to become the Black Mirror Scorpion's breakfast.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Bi Hai turned to Jixin and said, "Do you, do you want to give it a try?" But just as he spoke, he saw Jixin's eyes suddenly filled with terror.

At the same time, Bi Hai had a bad feeling and abruptly turned around, only to see the three-meter-long poison needle on top of a giant scorpion tail with a diameter of one meter, hovering right in front of his eyes—merely half a meter away. And to his surprise, the outermost of the three protective barriers surrounding him had already been breached.

There were three layers of the barrier, with the first layer two meters away from his body, the second layer half a meter away, and the third layer was a barrier that enveloped Bi Hai himself, serving as his last line of defense. However, the outermost barrier was the most fragile; the second layer was ten times stronger than the first, and the third was ten times stronger than the second.

Cracking an uneasy smile, Bi Hai didn't turn his head again. Instead, he stared at the sharp poison needle on the scorpion tail before him and swallowed a gulp, saying, "Accidents happen, accidents happen. I need to concentrate on my barrier, or its defensive power will decrease. Heh heh, no problem, no problem. But now you really need to take action.

Although that big scorpion's tail can't destroy my barrier, it's too strong. With it pressing against the barrier, we can't move forward."

Jixin also knew this was not the time for jokes or to mock Bi Hai, as he had already noticed that the originally ten-meter-tall scorpion had now grown to fifteen meters. Moreover, this scorpion didn't just have one tail; it had three, and it had just retracted the other two from the bodies of two approximately seven or eight-meter-long Black Mirror Scorpions.

"Focus!" Jixin commanded, "This Black Mirror Scorpion can actually absorb its kind and grow swiftly. I'll go out and test its strength; make sure to protect me with the barrier." As he spoke, Jixin suddenly clenched his fists and smashed them together fiercely, and the purplish-red patterns on his body rapidly spread.

A closer look would reveal that two-thirds of the patterns on Jixin's body had turned light red, a significant increase from the initial one-third.

This indicated that Jixin's strength had also considerably increased; whether it was due to stimulation from the Six-Eared Macaque or the absorption of the mysterious crystal was unknown. Once Jixin was ready, he nodded at Bi Hai, and immediately, a large hole appeared in the second layer of the barrier in front of Bi Hai.

The Black Mirror Scorpion had an incredibly keen sense, and the moment the hole in the second barrier appeared, it detected it. Almost like a bolt of lightning, another giant tail from behind stabbed viciously toward the hole.

However, Jixin was faster than the scorpion; just as the tail was three meters away from the hole, he had already appeared outside the barrier, and the hole vanished instantly.

Feeling the hole disappear again, the Black Mirror Scorpion became enraged. After letting out a piercing shriek, the stabbing tail suddenly accelerated by a notch. Meanwhile, Jixin didn't even glance at the incoming sharp tail but instead stepped on the air, instantly creating two basin-sized spherical barriers under his feet.

Leveraging the recoil from that step, Jixin's speed surged once more, and he dashed straight towards the Black Mirror Scorpion's back.

In truth, Jixin knew that the scorpion's back was its most fortified area—hence, this was tantamount to a test of the Black Mirror Scorpion's defensive strength. More importantly, deep down, Jixin was repulsed by the idea of touching its grotesque face covered in purplish-green venom.

Not to mention the risk of poisoning, its repugnant appearance alone was reason enough for him not to look any closer. Your adventure continues at empire

Seeing the oncoming man not dodge or evade, the Black Mirror Scorpion's other two Iron Pincers also lunged towards its back instantly. With the scorpion's sharp tail above and a pincer on either side, the only apparent escape seemed to be to retreat or duck. Yet Jixin didn't spare a glance for the Iron Pincers and the tail attacking him.

Suddenly, his right fist illuminated with a red glow, eventually forming the phantom head of a one-horned rhinoceros with a horn half a meter long.

By this time, Jixin was about to crash into the Black Mirror Scorpion's back, and the Scorpion's tail along with its Iron Pincers were closing in on him.

In that moment, Jixin suddenly bellowed, "Armor-Breaking Awl, Rhino Split!" Simultaneously, Bi Hai, shielded within the barrier, had his eyes emitting two rays of rainbow light and he too roared in a lowered voice, "Rainbow Space Shield, Protection!"

As their words ended, Jixin's right fist smashed fiercely into the Black Mirror Scorpion's back, and the attacks from the Scorpion's tail and Iron Pincers hit!