#517 - A prelude to an explosion...? - The most powerful system in the world of fantasy.

After Qin Buqi unleashed the three successive Nine-Style Combined Killing techniques, his entire physical strength instantly vanished.

His divine sense connected with the five remaining golden pellets in his heart.

"Bang!"

One of the golden pellets exploded, and dense medicinal power entered every part of Qin Buqi's body, instantly restoring his depleted physical strength.

With his strength fully recovered, Qin Buqi decided to add more fuel to the fire for Deqing and the others.

"Killing Life·Slaughter·Extermination·Death Domain·Soul Scattering·Annihilation·Immortal Slaying·Severing Past Karma·Seizing Longevity·Immortal Ghost·Blood Realm!"

The Ten-Style Combined Killing technique was unleashed from Qin Buqi's hands.

"Zheng!"

A bloody light flew out from the Killing Blade and attacked the formation beneath Qin Buqi's feet.

"Boom!"

With the addition of this third bloody light possessing the attack strength of a mid-stage Human Immortal Realm cultivator, the formation was on the verge of collapse, with the possibility of shattering at any moment.

Deqing and the other three watched the formation, now riddled with cracks for the third time, and were beyond feeling like cursing.

The four of them now felt a chill in their hearts, a chill that had almost reached despair.

Faced with life and death, Deqing said, "Everyone, let's burn all the remaining essence blood in our bodies."

"Damaging our foundation is better than dying!"

Deyuan said, "Deqing is right, damaging our foundation is better than dying!"

"Let's burn our essence blood, everyone, and have no more reservations."

Dehui and Deming naturally understood this principle.

Without any hesitation, the four of them burned all the remaining essence blood in their bodies.

"Puff!" "Puff!" "Puff!" "Puff!"

Four sounds of spitting blood rang out simultaneously. After burning all the essence blood in their bodies, Deqing and the others had faces as pale as gold paper, and their figures swayed precariously.

They seemed likely to faint at any moment. Then, a surge of powerful spiritual energy poured out from their bodies, instantly dispelling the feeling of weakness in Deqing and the others.

For cultivators, essence blood is also very precious. The amount of essence blood determines the state of the body's foundation.

It was rare for cultivators to burn all the essence blood in their bodies like Deqing and the others.

Even Tong Ying, who died at Qin Buqi's hands, knew to leave a few drops of essence blood as a primer for future healing.

One could imagine the extent to which Deqing and the others had been pushed by Qin Buqi...

After burning all of their essence blood, Deqing poured all of their spiritual energy into the scroll in his hand to maintain the formation.

This time, because Deqing and the others burned all the essence blood in their bodies, the spiritual energy and power they obtained were exceptionally strong.

They instantly stabilized the trend of the formation breaking, and in less than five breaths, the scene returned to the previous equilibrium.

The only difference was that after Qin Buqi's attack, three-fifths of the formation could not be repaired at all and were full of cracks.

The three weapons within the formation were also in a state of fragmentation.

At the same time, the rate at which Deqing and the others consumed spiritual energy changed from one-third per breath to three-fifths per breath.

This rate of consumption was almost twice as fast as before.

This also meant that even if Deqing and the others fully recovered their spiritual energy, they would not be able to last for two breaths.

Pills for replenishing spiritual energy were eaten by Deqing and the others one after another like candy beans.

Deqing looked at the dwindling reserves of pills in his spatial ring and said in a low voice:

"If reinforcements don't arrive soon, even if Qin Buqi doesn't break the formation, we won't be able to maintain this grand formation anymore."

Dehui, Deming, and Deyuan did not speak. Deqing's words had already expressed the state of their hearts.

Qin Buqi looked at the formation that had stabilized again and thought to himself, "It can still be stabilized."

"It seems that they have not reached their limit yet!"

"Another wave of attacks should reach their limit."

"In that case..."

The reason why Qin Buqi was still stalemating with Deqing and the others in this formation was not because he did not have the ability to break the formation, but because he had other plans in mind.

If he wanted to break the formation, he would have already broken it just now.

Deqing and the others' words, except for the beginning when they were still using sound transmission to avoid him, later did not avoid him at all.

Regarding the reinforcements that Deqing mentioned, which could also be said to be rescue, Qin Buqi had a bold plan and idea in his heart...

Now, on the surface, he was trapped in this formation by Deqing and the others, but in reality, from another perspective, it was Qin Buqi who had the upper hand and Deqing and the others who had the disadvantage.

In order to prevent the accumulated attacks in the formation from erupting, Deqing wished he could use all his strength to maintain the formation, to the point that he now had to burn all his essence blood to maintain it.

The price for cultivators to burn all their essence blood was so heavy that even those who had just entered cultivation in the Foundation Establishment Realm knew it.

Now, within the formation, there were a total of twelve bloody lights, nine bloody lights with the attack power of a peak early-stage Human Immortal Realm cultivator from the Nine-Style Combined technique.

Three bloody lights with the attack power of a mid-stage Human Immortal Realm cultivator...

These twelve bloody lights, combined with the power of the formation, could be seen as the relationship between a powder keg and gunpowder.

The formation was the powder keg, and the bloody light was the increasingly volatile gunpowder inside.

The power of the powder keg's explosion completely depended on the amount of gunpowder inside.

If Qin Buqi relied on his own power alone, it would be absolutely impossible to create the current situation.

To be able to have the current situation, he naturally had to thank Deqing and the others for their cooperation with the formation.

If they had not cooperated with Qin Buqi so well, it would not have been possible to accumulate such terrifying power within the formation.

Qin Buqi estimated that once the bloody light broke through the formation, the power of the explosion would be absolutely astonishing!

With these twelve bloody lights alone, if an explosion occurred, an ordinary mid-stage Human Immortal Realm cultivator would definitely not be able to resist it, and even a late-stage Human Immortal Realm expert would have to be seriously injured if they were not careful.

The bloody light powder keg created by the right timing, the right place, and the right people, Qin Buqi was naturally not satisfied with focusing his attention on Deqing and the others.

If he really used this terrifying attack on the four of them, it would be like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, a waste of talent.

It would be more interesting to leave this terrifying attack for the people who were about to support Deqing.

Based on Qin Buqi's estimation of the Heaven's Canopy Sect, this time it must be an elder-level figure who was coming.

With these bloody lights, this elder-level figure, except for the Great Elder at the Human Immortal Realm Completion stage, every single one of them would have to die in the Great Ming Imperial Capital!

It was precisely for this reason that Deqing and the others were desperately maintaining this formation.

Otherwise, if the formation exploded, they would be the first to die!

Qin Buqi looked at the formation beneath his feet, held the Killing Blade, and shouted:

"Killing Life·Slaughter·Extermination·Death Domain·Soul Scattering·Annihilation·Immortal Slaying·Severing Past Karma·Seizing Longevity·Immortal Ghost!"

Three Nine-Style Combined Killing techniques were once again unleashed from Qin Buqi's hands!