Chapter 00239: A Scene of Carnage
# A Scene of Carnage
Chapter 239
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 239: A Scene of Carnage
"Ha ha ha..."
Amidst bursts of wild laughter, tens of thousands of cultivators surged forward.
Two of them immediately began setting up various formation flags as soon as they entered.
Lan Xiaobu was startled, but upon seeing the formation flags these two were setting up, he immediately relaxed.
These two were, at best, only third-grade formation masters...
Wait, that couldn't be right.
The Great Profound Cultivator Alliance had such a grand reputation.
Could they only afford to hire two third-grade formation masters? They should at least have a fourth-grade formation master, right?
Lan Xiaobu knew this wasn't the time to ask questions.
He immediately said, "Qianhen, hand over the recruitment of the Mubei cultivator army to Lian Yinping. You take some people and guard the city gate's protective formation with Chang Qingshuang. Brother Kong, dare you come down with me and join the fray?"
Kong Zhengxing was startled by Lan Xiaobu's words but quickly understood.
Lan Xiaobu was planning to activate the entrapment and killing formation, with Lan Xiaobu personally controlling it.
His task was to protect Lan Xiaobu while he did so.
"Ha ha ha..."
Kong Zhengxing also laughed heartily.
"Why wouldn't I dare? Let's go! Even if I die here today, it will be worth it."
In Kong Zhengxing's view, no matter how powerful Lan Xiaobu's entrapment and killing formation was, with so many people, they could crush it through sheer numbers.
Kong Zhengxing thought this way, and so did the banner-holding immortal from the Great Profound Cultivator Alliance.
After laughing heartily and entering the protective formation outside Mubei Great Immortal City, he immediately ordered the two third-grade formation masters to continuously set up formation flags, sealing the entrance to the protective formation and preventing it from closing again.
But this still didn't feel entirely safe.
Even though he knew that their tens of thousands of cultivators could break through the entrapment and killing formation with sheer numbers, he still shouted, "Black Protector, immediately gather two thousand cultivators and attack all possible formation base locations. No matter what, even if they manage to close the entrapment and killing formation again, it won't be able to exert its full power. The rest of you, follow me and charge into Mubei Great Immortal City. Kill them all. Whoever kills them gets the spoils."
"Kill..."
The earth-shaking roars of tens of thousands of cultivators, all at least at the True Immortal Realm, seemed to darken the sky and make the ground tremble.
Chang Qingshuang felt her hands trembling as she stared blankly at the sea of black-clad cultivators charging toward Mubei Great Immortal City, completely unsure of what to do.
"City Lord Lan, dying here today with someone like you is a fitting end. If you had another hundred years, I believe even if these tens of thousands of cultivators charged in, you wouldn't fear them. What a pity..."
Kong Zhengxing stood at the city gate of Mubei Immortal City with Lan Xiaobu, sighing with emotion.
Lan Xiaobu's abilities were formidable, but his cultivation level was too low, and both the Great Desolate Immortal Sect and Mubei Great Immortal City had been established for too short a time.
Lan Xiaobu smiled faintly.
"Even now, I'm not afraid."
As he spoke, Lan Xiaobu grabbed hundreds of formation flags and scattered them, saying, "Brother Kong, follow me."
While speaking, Lan Xiaobu continued to throw out formation flags.
Boom! Boom! Boom! A series of explosions erupted beneath their feet, and the surrounding space instantly blurred, turning into a dense gray mist.
The mist rapidly expanded, soon filling the entire area outside Mubei Great Immortal City.
Thick immortal spiritual energy surged out, and Kong Zhengxing stared in shock at the gray mist.
Screams echoed from within, and blood mist, initially just a few wisps, soon turned into a downpour of blood, dyeing the entire area outside Mubei Great Immortal City red.
The screams seemed to spread like a contagion, filling the surrounding space.
"This is..."
Kong Zhengxing stared at Lan Xiaobu in disbelief.
Lan Xiaobu, still moving and throwing formation flags, explained, "This is my fifth-grade chain killing immortal formation. Anyone below the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm will be directly killed. As for Great Luo Golden Immortals, we just need to put in a bit more effort."
Kong Zhengxing finally understood and murmured, "Why didn't you use this earlier..."
Lan Xiaobu sighed.
"Do you think I wanted to? I had no choice."
Kong Zhengxing wanted to ask why Lan Xiaobu hadn't activated this chain killing formation when the two hundred experts from the Great Yin Immortal Sect entered Mubei Great Immortal City.
If he had, many lives could have been saved.
"City Lord Lan, I still don't fully understand," Kong Zhengxing said, looking at the blood-soaked space, the stench of blood growing stronger.
Lan Xiaobu continued to throw formation flags as he spoke gravely, "With those two hundred people, I could have activated the killing formation, but I had to wait until they entered the city lord's mansion. Otherwise, this indiscriminate killing would have wiped out everyone in Mubei Great Immortal City. Do you know why so many of our Great Desolate Immortal Sect disciples died earlier? Some were indeed killed by the experts from the Great Yin Immortal Sect, but others died because they panicked and walked into the death gates of the entrapment and killing formation."
Previously, the chain entrapment and killing formation had accidentally killed many of their own people.
Lan Xiaobu's cultivation level was too low, and in his effort to kill the Great Yin Immortal Sect's Immortal King, he couldn't spare the attention to protect the other disciples within the formation.
"Is there another reason?" Kong Zhengxing felt this wasn't the only reason.
Lan Xiaobu nodded.
"Yes. First, the city lord's mansion's killing formation couldn't trap everyone at once. Some people would inevitably avoid it. If only a portion were trapped, the two of us might not have been able to kill the Immortal King. There's a difference between a killing formation and an entrapment formation. For an Immortal King, an entrapment formation is more effective."
Lan Xiaobu didn't explain the real reason.
The truth was, when he received Kong Zhengxing's message, he knew that after killing these experts from the Great Yin Immortal Sect, even stronger opponents would come.
If he had exposed the chain killing formation outside Mubei Great Immortal City just to kill a couple of hundred experts from the Great Yin Immortal Sect, it wouldn't have been worth it.
The chain killing formations outside Mubei Great Immortal City and the Great Desolate Immortal Sect had cost Lan Xiaobu a great deal of time and effort.
They needed to serve their greatest purpose.
He couldn't risk exposing them before they could be fully utilized.
So even if he couldn't kill the Great Yin Immortal Sect's Immortal King Lü Xin, Lan Xiaobu wouldn't easily reveal the chain killing formation outside Mubei Great Immortal City.
To achieve his goal, when Lü Xin sent out a message via flying sword, Lan Xiaobu didn't stop it.
Otherwise, with his formation skills, how could he not have intercepted a flying sword sent from within his own entrapment formation?
Lan Xiaobu wanted Lü Xin to convey two messages: first, that Mubei Great Immortal City had no strong experts, and second, that the entrapment formation in Mubei Great Immortal City could be broken with enough people.
Even in death, Lü Xin was used by Lan Xiaobu, all because his formation skills were far inferior to Lan Xiaobu's, even more so than the gap in their cultivation levels.
Using one's weakness to attack the enemy's strength—Lü Xin exemplified this to the extreme.
Now that the Great Profound Universe Alliance's cultivator army had arrived and entered the killing formation outside Mubei Great Immortal City, it was exactly what Lan Xiaobu wanted.
Even if there were thirty thousand, as long as there was no Immortal King, as long as Lan Xiaobu was here, and as long as there was enough immortal spiritual energy to power the killing formation, he could kill them all.
The area outside Mubei Great Immortal City had become a slaughterhouse.
But unlike before, this time it wasn't the cultivators of the Great Desolate Universe being slaughtered, but the cultivator army of the Great Profound Universe.
Above the protective formation of Mubei Great Immortal City, all the disciples of the Great Desolate Immortal Sect were stunned.
This wasn't a fight where they needed to risk their lives.
They just needed to watch the harvest.
Any stragglers who managed to escape the killing formation could be finished off at the city gates.
In fact, with Lan Xiaobu controlling the chain killing formation, not a single straggler escaped.
The blood mist turned into a rain of blood, then into rivers of blood.
Even though they knew the Great Profound Universe Alliance's army left no blade of grass in their wake, most people still found the scene hard to bear.
But everyone knew that if they showed even a hint of mercy, they would be the ones turned into blood mist.
The disciples of the Great Desolate Immortal Sect were even more grateful to their sect master.
If he had activated such a killing formation inside Mubei Great Immortal City earlier, none of them would have survived.
Kong Zhengxing was completely numb.
If the Great Desolate Universe Cultivator Alliance had someone like Lan Xiaobu, the Great Desolate Universe would have long dominated this immortal region.
They wouldn't have been forced to disband, nor would they have struggled to secure a decent secret realm.
"Brother Kong, let's move."
Lan Xiaobu's sudden voice snapped Kong Zhengxing out of his thoughts.
He saw a Great Luo Golden Immortal trapped in the chain killing formation.
As Lan Xiaobu's formation flags continued to fall, the Great Luo Golden Immortal found it increasingly difficult to move.
Despite his injuries, Kong Zhengxing was still a late-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal.
Without hesitation, he swung his long staff, and the struggling Great Luo Golden Immortal was instantly killed.
As one Great Luo Immortal after another fell, the screams within the killing formation grew weaker, and the air grew thicker with the stench of blood.
After a full half-day, Lan Xiaobu finally stopped throwing formation flags.
The entire Mubei Great Immortal City, inside and out, was eerily silent, without a single sound.
Lan Xiaobu stood in place, silently gazing at the now-silent killing formation.
"City Lord Lan, if you hadn't done this, it would be us lying here. I've seen scenes like this too many times, but the difference is that it was always our Great Desolate Universe Alliance cultivators being killed. I've lost count of how many times I've seen my brothers and sisters lying lifeless on the ground, killed by these people."
Sensing Lan Xiaobu's heavy mood, Kong Zhengxing offered some comfort.
"I know," Lan Xiaobu said calmly.
He didn't want to do this, but he had to.
Even if he had to do it again, he would.
Better to kill than be killed.
(That's all for today's update.
Goodnight, friends!)
(End of Chapter)