#818 - Pre-arrangement

Jun Wuxie overlooked the city, with numerous large rivers flowing from the mountains, traversing the plains, and entering the city.

His gaze settled on those large rivers, his eyes flashing with mysterious runes, not the Primordial True Eyes, but a special pupil technique of a Rune Master.

In his eyes, those rivers gradually transformed into large dragons.

These were Dragon Vein Rivers!

These dragon veins were hidden beneath the rivers, converging within the city, generating rich spiritual energy, and even imbuing the river water with spiritual energy.

"I didn't expect the environment of the imperial capital, Hualunba, to be much better than I imagined. So many dragon veins, the spiritual energy generated over countless years, although consumed by the city, is still preserved deep within the earth, which can be put to good use."

Jun Wuxie and the Vermilion Bird landed in the mountains. His body disappeared into the void, and then mysterious runes appeared beneath his feet, and his body sank into the soil without any hindrance.

This was the most basic technique of a Primordial Rune Master. Comprehending the Rune Dao allowed one to establish a mysterious connection with all things in heaven and earth, and earth tunneling was naturally not a problem.

He moved stealthily in the earth, approaching the city of Hualunba. When he was about a thousand miles away from the city, he discovered the array formations hidden beneath the earth.

The techniques of these array formations were very ancient, obviously methods left over from ancient times, who knows how many long years ago.

The array formations were well maintained, obviously with later generations of experts frequently maintaining them to ensure their power did not diminish.

One by one, talismans flickered uncertainly beneath the earth, filled with a sharp aura of slaughter.

Without a doubt, this was an extremely large killing array, nourished by the earth's spiritual energy hidden deep in the earth, and providing it with energy when activated, releasing the power of slaughter.

If it were anyone else, it would be impossible to get close. From a great distance, they would trigger these killing array talismans, but Jun Wuxie was a Ninth Realm Peak Spiritual Rune Master. He had hundreds of ways to deceive the perception of the killing array talismans and make them ignore him.

"This killing array is too large. If there were enough time, I could completely transform it into an array formation that I can control, but time is limited. I cannot stay under the earth for too long. I can only use some means to make it dormant. At that time, the Xiluo Church and the royal family will find it difficult to activate it…"

Jun Wuxie studied some of the talismans of the array formation and came to this conclusion.

"Hmm, over the years, these array formation talismans have accumulated vast energy. I can draw out this energy for my own use!"

Jun Wuxie made a decision and continued to sink to a deeper position, arriving in the stratum hundreds of thousands of miles deep.

He decided to start setting up his own killing array from here. Absorbing the energy of those array formation talismans at such a depth would not be perceived by the surface, and could be done very safely.

At the same time, he could also absorb some of the energy overflowing from the star core to a certain extent from below.

He closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, combining it with the actual situation here, and a vast killing array diagram quickly evolved in his mind.

When the killing array diagram constructed in his mind was completely formed and perfected, he opened his eyes. Within the cave heaven of his sea of consciousness, Rune Dao energy surged, pouring into his palms and fingers, and he began to quickly engrave runes, condensing talismans, and imprinting one talisman after another deep into the earth.

… …

At the same time, within the city of Hualunba, the imperial capital of Xiluo, atop a majestic mountain.

The spiritual energy here was particularly rich, with swirling mist and hazy light.

A long jade stone staircase sloped upwards, reaching straight to the summit.

The summit was very wide, with many halls built of bluestone, with various patterns carved on the bluestone, filled with an aura of majesty.

In the very center of all the buildings was a wide square, and at the end of the square was a magnificent palace castle with several floors.

In front of the palace were very long steps, and on both sides of the steps stood many hooded monks wearing church robes. Their bodies stood straight, but their heads were slightly lowered, in a devout posture.

The interior of the palace was luxurious and did not lose its classical flavor.

Many people were gathered here, all of them were elders, their eyes were sharp, their energy was extremely vigorous, and they faintly exuded a suffocating aura.

At the very top of the main hall, there was a golden throne on which sat an old man wearing papal robes, holding a scepter, with his eyes closed.

On both sides of his body stood two old men with extremely strong auras, the Patriarch and the Chief Bishop of the Church, respectively.

The two of them each held a thick scripture in their hands, and remained silent.

In the very center of the main hall, there was a large long table, and people were seated on all four sides of the table.

At the top were two red-robed Grand Masters, their deep blue eyes very sharp, sweeping over everyone present, saying: "According to everyone's request, my Xiluo Church can provide the last layer of cage to ensure the target is killed without fail. I hope you will not break your promise!"

"Don't worry, we will fulfill our promises once we make them. As long as Jun Wuxie is killed, we can join hands to go to Dishi Star and flatten the Zhuxian Dynasty!" The strong man of the Tianli Four Sects sneered, "At that time, in addition to the resources of the Zhuxian Dynasty belonging to us, the rest will belong to you. Dishi Star has five continents: Donghuang, Nanjiang, Beiyuan, Ximo, and Zhongtu. The people of the Tianjing Sect have agreed that except for Zhongtu, which cannot be touched, you can occupy, colonize, preach, and exploit rich resources."

"Amitabha, Jun Wuxie's demonic obstacles are too deep. If he is not killed as soon as possible, he will inevitably degenerate into the number one demon in the starry sky. Under his dynasty's rule, Dishi Star will eventually become a place for the incubation of demons in the starry sky." An old monk with drooping white eyebrows from Dawei Ancient Star whispered: "This time, after suppressing and killing the demon and destroying the demon's lair, the Zhuxian Dynasty, my Dawei Buddhist Temple is incompetent, as long as it is enough to preach in Ximo."

A cold light flashed in the eyes of the red-robed Grand Master of the Xiluo Church, and said: "Your Dawei Buddhist Temple wants Ximo, Tianhuang Family, what do you think?"

"We have no objection." Several powerful men from the Supreme Master Tianhuang Family of Tianhuang Star Territory said: "My Tianhuang Family wants Nanjiang, and the remaining Beiyuan and Donghuang, if the Taoist friends of the Tianli Four Sects do not divide the territory, then they will all belong to your Xiluo Church."

"Very good." The red-robed Grand Master nodded and said: "After killing Jun Wuxie and destroying the Zhuxian Dynasty, we will each seize territory. At that time, my church's Crusader army will only fight for my Xiluo, and march into Donghuang and Beiyuan. You can solve that Nanjiang and Ximo yourselves."

"It's easy to say, at that time, we dare not bother Xiluo's Crusader army."

The Tianhuang Family and Dawei Buddhist Temple responded.

The strong man of the Tianli Four Sects said: "This opportunity is rare, we must not miss it again. We and other strong men will take action first, and your church's array formation will be behind, and we must kill the one named Jun here. In order to avoid any variables, I hope your church will carefully check the killing array, after all, it is an ancient array, and it has been a long time, although it has strong power, but I am afraid that there will be problems at a critical moment."

"Everyone can rest assured about this matter. We have many Grand Master-level powerhouses guarding the array eyes, paying attention to the changes in the array formation at all times, and there will be no flaws."

"Well, then we can rest assured." The strong man of the Tianli Four Sects nodded, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, and said: "According to the time when the one named Jun killed the four Supreme Master's Jitianwei Peak powerhouses of Dishi Star and captured the enforcer, it is estimated that he will arrive at this ancient life star tomorrow, and will arrive at Hualunba at most in the afternoon."

The red-robed Grand Master heard the words and said with a smile: "Then from tomorrow onwards, the Colosseum must arrange for stronger beasts, so that the nobles and wealthy merchants of my Hualunba can watch more enjoyably."

"Red-robed Grand Master, don't play that Ji Beilan to death, my young master doesn't like the dead, he wants a living person, leave him a breath."

"We will pay attention."

The red-robed Grand Master was more polite to the people of Tianlizong, obviously somewhat afraid of Tianli Daotu.

This force can rank among the top three in the entire starry sky. It is a truly behemoth, far stronger than the average Supreme Master.

"Is the Colosseum's barrier solid?"

"Don't worry, it is difficult for powerhouses below the Jitianwei Great Perfection to penetrate it."

"Hmph, Jun, you are too arrogant…" The strong man of Tianlizong narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself: "This time, away from the Zhuxian Dynasty, I want to see what other means you have to defy the heavens. This Hualunba Colosseum is your burial place!"

… …

Hualunba's night lights are brightly lit, very noisy, and the liveliness and prosperity are not less than during the day.

The nobles and wealthy merchants here linger in places of revelry all night long, singing and dancing every night, wine ponds and meat forests. In many high-end entertainment venues, you can hear licentious laughter, even in the deep of night.

But in the Colosseum of this city, there is no noise of the day, very quiet.

The entire Colosseum is full of dark red solidified bloodstains, filled with a strong smell of blood.

The blood of the Colosseum has never been cleaned since ancient times, because the nobles and wealthy people who come to watch the Colosseum like this bloody smell.

In such a scene, smelling the strong smell of blood, it can better stimulate the animality in their bodies, and they will feel particularly stimulated, adrenaline soaring, and they can enter an excited state more quickly.

There are many gate valves made of special metal in the Colosseum, with runes engraved on them.

Behind the gate valves are dark, deep, and humid passages.

At the end of one of the passages, there is a dark corridor, and at the end of the corridor there is a faint light.

There is a prison engraved with array formation runes. Through the black metal bars, you can see that the prison is full of messy dry grass, and a young man with blood-stained and tattered clothes is curled up on the dry grass, panting heavily.

The young man was lying curled up on his side, and his messy hair covered his face. His scarred body was somewhat thin.

I don't know how long it took, the young man struggled to climb up.

"Tomorrow… everything should be over…"

The young man murmured, and the face under the dirty hair was also covered with blood.

His voice seemed to carry relief, and there was no despair or fear in this situation.

"That person was right. I was too weak before, always thinking of hiding myself. But in the end, I still couldn't achieve what I wanted, and instead, I became someone else's pawn..."

He sat on the dried grass, congealed with bloodstains, his head hanging low, his disheveled hair falling, obscuring his face.

"Royal Sister, Brother-in-law, I know you will definitely come, but how can I be willing to become bait for those people to lure you into the game..."

He brushed aside the hair covering his face, revealing several hideous wounds, looking like claw marks, the flesh torn open, the bone visible deep within.

He no longer wanted to heal his wounds, deciding that tomorrow, in battle, he would burn all his life's potential, rush out of the arena, and kill in all directions. Even in death, he would fight back, letting those spectators who excitedly screamed in his ears every day experience the horror of death!

"As long as I die, those people will have no chips to lure you into the game!"

He murmured to himself, then gave a few desolate laughs.

To think that a Son of Destiny like him would end up in such a state, dying in this way.

If he had known this would happen, he should have fought that other Son of Destiny at all costs that day. Even if he died in battle, it would be better than dying in the arena!