Martial Peak

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Yang Bai appeared extremely calm and arrogant as he hovered above the battlefield, not placing this world or anyone in it into his eyes.

 

Yang Kai expression changed as he stared fixedly at Yang Bai.
 From what he just said, Yang Kai was able to gleam some key information.

 

Did Yang Bai know about the mysteries of this world and what lay beyond it?

 

Not giving him any time to ponder the issue, Yang Bai suddenly shouted, “Evil Kings, come to me!”

 

The Tyrannical Force King rushed toward Yang Bai without hesitation.

 

As for the Poison King, Ghost King, Shadow King, and Beast King, they showed some hesitation, as if they didn’t know what they should do.

 

Yang Bai gave them a faint look and chuckled, “What’s wrong?  Do you want to defy my orders?”

 

The Poison King smiled gloomily and replied, “Sir Demon Lord, I just want to ask, why haven’t we seen you since the beginning of the battle yesterday?   The Holy Land’s forces have suffered a great deal of casualties in your absence.”

 

“Because I needed them to die!  If they didn’t die, how could I achieve my goal?” Yang Bai replied casually.

 

“I understand,” The Poison King nodded, suddenly cupping his fists, “Sir Demon Lord, you take care.
We won’t be accompanying you any further.”

 

The four Evil Kings had followed Yang Bai to attack Central Capital because they truly wanted to destroy it.
 Now that there was no chance of them succeeding and seeing Yang Bai acting so indifferently to their situation, how could these Evil Kings still be willing to remain?

 

Each of them was selfish, insidious, and sinister.
Loyalty and honour had nothing to do with them.

 

Finished with what they had to say, the Poison King, Ghost King, Shadow King, and Beast King turned to leave.
 Since Yang Bai didn’t care whether his subordinates lived or died, they naturally would care about his life or death either.
 As long as they could survive, everything else didn’t matter.

 

However, Yang Bai suddenly sneered, “None of you can get away!  Stand guard for me!”

 

Just as his voice resounded, the four Evil Kings who were preparing to make their escape suddenly froze in place, a look of pain emerging on their face, like they were desperately resisting something.
 A moment later, their looks all slowly eased and then once more turned and flew to Yang Bai and began tightly guarding him.

 

The masters from the Eight Great Families all paled.

 

Although none of them were clear what just happened to the four Evil Kings, all of them understood that Yang Bai had used some kind of tyrannical method to forcibly control them!

 

Yang Bai finally took action, waving his hands as a mysterious energy spread through the air, quickly covering the entire Central Capital.

 

“Stop him!”  Yang Kai shouted, it didn’t matter what Yang Bai’s true purpose was, what was most important right now was to stop him.

 

As soon as this order was given, all the Transcendents who could still fight charged into the sky, targeting Yang Bai and the Six Great Evil Kings.

 

“You’re too late!”  Yang Bai laughed, “From the moment I appeared, there was nothing you could do.”

 

As he spoke, the blood of all the people who died throughout the Central Capital in this battle and all the blood which had seeped into the earth since the beginning of this war sunk into the ground, seemingly drawn down by a vague and mysterious energy.

 

Witnessing this, Yang Bai’s face filled with joy as his eyes turned towards a certain place and his hand waved.

 

The blood that had penetrated into the ground was all rushing towards that place.

 

A shocking bloody aura suddenly erupted.

 

Old Demon, who was next to Yang Kai, suddenly wore a dignified expression and quickly said, “Young Master, this should be some kind of blood sacrifice ritual.”

 

Old Demon was also a master when it came to blood sacrifices, so naturally he could see some clues from this situation; although his methods were different from Yang Bai’s, what was the same was the need for many people to die in order to gather a massive amount of blood.

 

The Ash-Grey Cloud Evil Land and the Central Capital’s forces had suffered massive casualties these past few months and the blood of the fallen flowed like a river.
 Yang Bai now using all this blood to perform some kind of blood sacrifice ritual was really quite luxurious; at least, it was many times grander than when Old Demon used his Demon Specter Saint Technique of Old Demon.

 

From deep underground, a loud boom resounded, shaking the entire Central Capital shook.

 

Everyone’s face was filled with shock.

 

Yang Ying Hao suddenly seemed to think of something and exclaimed, “Oh no, could Yang Bai be after what’s buried beneath the Central Capital?”

 

“What’s down there?” Yang Kai hurriedly asked.

 

Yang Ying Hao hurriedly explained, “This is a matter only mentioned in the ancient records of our Eight Great Families.
 No one has ever confirmed it really exists, but it is said that there is a huge Earth Vein that runs beneath the Central Capital.
 It is because of the existence of this Earth Vein that my Eight Great Families took root here.
Not only does the Yang Family have records of this, the other seven families should also have them as well.”

 

Qiu Shou Cheng thought about it and nodded, “En, this old master has also seen this matter mentioned in my family’s ancient books.”

 

“However, it is said that many generations of our ancestors sought out this Earth Vein, yet after many years they never found anything.
 Could it be that it really exists and we were just unable to discover it all this time?” Meng Xi Ping asked with an ugly expression.

 

The Eight Great Families had already resided in the Central Capital for countless years and although they all had records of the existence of this Earth Vein, no one had ever seen it, so Demon Lord Yang Bai being able to accurately determine its location made him somewhat uncomfortable.

 

“An Earth Vein?” Yang Kai was stunned.

 

Yang Kai had encountered an Earth Vein before and had even absorbed a great deal of energy from it.

 

On Endless Sea Islands’ Hidden Island, there was a tiny Earth Vein that was all but exhausted and dried up, yet even that pitiful remnant contained enough energy for him to greatly improve his strength in a very short period of time.

 

Obviously the Earth Vein beneath the Central Capital was not only far grander in size, but was completely intact.
 If one could find it and enter it, they would be able to obtain an indescribably amount of benefits from it.

 

“There’s at least an eighty percent chance this is what he was after all along.” Yang Kai nodded gently.

 

Yang Bai was already a Third Order Transcendent; he had reached his limit, and if he wanted to further improve his strength, he would have to rely on external forces.
 The huge energy contained within this Earth Vein was his best option.

 

Although it was still only a guess, it shouldn’t be far from the truth.