Chapter 158 – Blood Sacrifice

The balefulstar lightning was condensed from the purest baleful energy of the stars from the myriad of stars in the sky combined with the energy of lightning to be formed, and it contained extremely copious amounts of baleful energy of the stars and piercingly cold and condensed lightning bolts. Every bolt of lightning that struck down possessed a might that was sufficient to annihilate everything in the world and obliterate Earthly Immortal Realm experts, and the words ‘Immortal Slaughtering’ in the name of the Nine-Palace Balefulstar Immortal Slaughtering Formation came from this.

Moreover, for the sake of activating this grand formation, the Starnet Palace had practically completely consumed all the resources that they’d conserved for a few thousands of years. Thus, how terrifying a might the formation revealed could be easily imagined. If it wasn’t for Bei Heng’s Quasi Immortal Artifact Fifth-Earth Mirror withstanding the roiling lightning that poured down, Chen Xi would probably have been obliterated into nothingness under the lightning since long ago.

It was fortunate that he possessed this layer of barrier to neutralize more than half of the might of the balefulstar lightning, and it was only because of this that he was able to safely absorb the pure and vast amounts of baleful energy of the star to ceaselessly temper, hammer, and strengthen his body.

The saying danger and fortune exist side by side was most likely describing Chen Xi’s current situation of turning danger into safety and turning disaster into fortune. Even Bei Heng never imagined that Chen Xi actually dared draw the energy of the balefulstar lightning to cultivate, and this action, that was almost at the extent of playing with his life, caused Bei Heng...