Chapter 675: Revival and Rise

As Xu Qing and the Captain's words echoed, their bodies stepped into the Mirror of the Sky, which reflected the lake. They appeared outside the highest hall of the Anti-Moon Palace, like deities, overseeing everything.

The mountain body of the Anti-Moon Palace instantly shook.

The authority lockdown, imposed after the rebellion of the First and Fifth Palace Masters, was instantly removed by Xu Qing and the Captain.

They were the true Lords of the Anti-Moon.

Under Xu Qing and the Captain's supreme authority, the power of all Vice Palace Masters could be easily suppressed.

At this moment, the mountain within the mirror roared. One by one, the temples within it began to shine, and in the blink of an eye, a hundred thousand temples emitted a dazzling, brilliant light.

It was as if a hundred thousand stars had transformed into a sea of stars, erupting with overwhelming power.

Their aura was immense, shaking mountains and awing the universe.

Furthermore, waves of astonishing aura rose from within these hundred thousand temples, forming terrifying fluctuations that echoed on the mirror's surface, creating ripples and affecting the outside world.

The world formed by the Scarlet Mother's Mortal Metamorphosis roared at this moment, unable to continue shrinking or devouring, as it was blocked by the power of the Anti-Moon Palace!

This was the profound power of the Anti-Moon Palace.

Xu Qing and the Captain's words echoed not only in the world of the Scarlet Mother's Mortal Metamorphosis but also in the blood sea outside and across the skies in all eight directions, reverberating throughout the Moon Sacrifice Domain.

The statues were the cultivators of the Anti-Moon Palace.

To return to their positions meant to return to the Anti-Moon Palace.

In the blink of an eye, the Anti-Moon cultivators within the Ku Sheng Mountain Range Resistance Army felt their minds explode like thunder. Their bodies became uncontrollable, rapidly blurring and turning illusory.

It was as if a supreme power had descended upon every Anti-Moon cultivator, transforming into a pull that disregarded their location and cultivation level, summoning them back.

One cultivator after another, their bodies vanished in this illusion, reappearing within the Anti-Moon Palace, inside their respective temples, merging with the temple statues, opening their eyes, and radiating divine brilliance.

Among them was the Fourth Palace Master of the Anti-Moon Palace, whose body was also summoned, appearing in the Vice Palace Master's temple suspended in mid-air.

Outside, it was the same.

In the eastern part of the Moon Sacrifice Domain, the dying Duanmu Zang suddenly opened his eyes, his expression filled with disbelief. At that instant, he heard those four words in his mind.

His body instantly blurred, vanished in the blink of an eye, and reappeared within the Anti-Moon Palace.

Anti-Moon cultivators like Duanmu Zang, scattered across the domain, no matter where they were hiding or what injuries they had, as long as they were not dead, their bodies would be automatically summoned back.

Especially in the northern part of the Moon Sacrifice Domain, where the Third Palace Master and his hundreds of thousands of subordinates were sealed and besieged by Red Moon cultivators, all the Anti-Moon cultivators within suddenly changed their expressions.

They didn't know what had happened, but they all heard the majestic voice resonating in their minds.

Under this voice, a large number of Anti-Moon cultivators, including the Third Palace Master, all disappeared.

When they reappeared, they were all in their respective temples within the Anti-Moon Palace.

All this took a long time to describe, but in reality, it all happened in an instant. In the blink of an eye, the mountain body reflected in the mirror, and the doors of its temples, began to open one after another with rumbling sounds.

Tens of thousands of divine statues all stepped down from their pedestals at this moment, pushed open the temple doors, and walked out.

These statues varied in appearance, each possessing an immense and astonishing aura. Their minds were churning with thoughts.

Some were shocked, some bewildered, some startled, and some excited.

In the sky, the temples of the nine Vice Palace Masters were likewise.

The Fourth Palace Master's temple opened, and his majestic divine statue, carrying brilliant colorful light, stepped out of its hall. Beside it, the Third Palace Master's temple also opened at this moment, and a divine statue, like an enraged Vajra, carrying terrifying pressure, stepped out of the temple.

However, compared to the Fourth Palace Master, the Third Palace Master's expression showed intense shock.

Even the rebellious First and Fifth Palace Masters, along with the Anti-Moon cultivators who followed them and chose to rebel, could not escape either. They were forcefully pulled into the Anti-Moon Palace.

As the temples opened at this moment, these two rebellious Vice Palace Masters also rushed out. Their expressions changed, and their hearts were filled with dread. All of this was simply too unexpected and sudden for them.

Their appearance immediately drew angry glares and murderous intent from others.

But at this moment, no one acted on this murderous intent, because compared to the rebellion of these two Vice Palace Masters, what now captivated the minds of all Anti-Moon cultivators was the highest hall in the sky!

So everyone, by unspoken agreement, instinctively raised their heads, looking at the sky.

The highest hall's doors had already opened, and endless light spread out from within, illuminating all directions, as if transforming into a sun.

And within that sun, two figures stood tall, reaching to the heavens and standing on earth, inspiring worship.

Their gaze descended, sweeping over all the Anti-Moon cultivator statues. All the cultivators present felt their minds buzz, instinctively lowered their heads, and a sound emerged.

"Greetings, Lords of the Anti-Moon!"

The Captain was smug, proudly raising his head.

"Deities are not eternal, but hope endures forever!"

"Today, with the Red Moon's invasion, is precisely the time for our Anti-Moon mission to rise!"

The Captain's voice echoed. He raised his right hand and violently waved it. Instantly, the mountain body of the Anti-Moon Palace roared and rapidly expanded, as did the Ku Sheng Mountain Range where its true body had descended.

On the sky screen, as the mountain body within the mirror grew larger, the mirror also continuously expanded with rumbling sounds. The resulting sky screen instantly came into contact with the Scarlet Mother's Mortal Metamorphosis that enveloped the area.

The moment they made contact, their mutual confrontation erupted suddenly.

The sound was like heavenly thunder, as if two worlds were colliding.

Heaven and earth shook, and the void collapsed.

The Scarlet Mother's Mortal Metamorphosis was the Scarlet Mother's body before she became a deity, containing obsession and being extraordinarily eerie.

And the Anti-Moon Palace was the Sovereign's most powerful supreme treasure, a treasure of the entire domain, further containing the Sovereign's will before their death, with unparalleled power.

The ripples created by their collision, centered here, echoed throughout the entire domain like a storm, causing the sky to churn and the earth to tremble.

Outside the Scarlet Mother's Mortal Metamorphosis, all the Red Moon cultivators changed their expressions. The Temple Emperor in mid-air had an even gloomier expression. He wanted to reinforce the Scarlet Mother's Mortal Metamorphosis, but he had no way.

This object could only be truly controlled by a divine child, who could unseal it and reveal its final form.

And he, as the Temple Emperor, could influence this metamorphosis with his faith and some special methods, but he could only simply release it; he was not qualified to unseal it.

Originally, he wouldn't have needed to unseal it and reveal its final form to complete his plan this time.

But even as the Temple Emperor, he had not expected that his arrangements would not await the heir, but instead await the birth of the Lords of the Anti-Moon!

This was beyond his expectations.

Thus, the Scarlet Mother's Mortal Metamorphosis was continuously propped open, and after its range grew larger and larger, it rolled back and rapidly retracted, revealing the Ku Sheng Mountain Range, which had been mostly devoured!

The beings of the Ku Sheng Mountain Range saw the light of day again.

And the Anti-Moon Mirror, no longer restricted by the Scarlet Mother's Mortal Metamorphosis, suddenly surged at this moment, directly covering a sky screen tens of thousands of zhang in circumference, obscuring the red sky and enveloping the blood sea.

The mirror surface within fluctuated, and the mountain body of the Anti-Moon Palace shone with light.

The Red Moon cultivators in heaven and earth, watching all this, each felt their minds tremble. As for the Temple Emperor, murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

"Annihilate all Anti-Moon cultivators!"

As the voice spread, the Red Moon cultivators on the surrounding blood sea each erupted with their cultivation and murderous intent, directly charging towards the Mirror of the Sky.

Looking at the situation, even though the Scarlet Mother's Mortal Metamorphosis was forced back, the power gap between the two sides was still immense.

At this moment, outside the highest hall of the Anti-Moon Palace, Xu Qing, standing beside the Captain, had a calm expression and showed no panic. He closed his eyes to sense the information that appeared in his mind after becoming a Lord of the Anti-Moon.

After a moment, Xu Qing opened his eyes, and a calm voice emerged.

"In the name of Anti-Moon, I strip the First and Fifth Palace Masters of their authority."

"Punish the rebellious cultivators."

"All relevant individuals shall be sealed within the mirror lake."

As soon as Xu Qing's words were uttered, the First and Fifth Palace Masters trembled. The light of their statue forms rapidly dimmed, and their auras instantly weakened.

It was as if an invisible force had directly diminished all their power.

It was as if Xu Qing's words carried the force of law; his words decided everything.

These two Void Return Vice Palace Masters were shocked and enraged, unwilling to accept their fate even amid their shock. So they roared, each charging out, directly towards Xu Qing and the Captain, intending to cooperate with the outside forces to suppress and kill Xu Qing.

But the moment they charged out, their bodies rapidly froze, instantly transforming into two ice sculptures. Water ripples appeared in the void beneath their feet, engulfing them until they vanished.

Also turning into ice sculptures and sinking were the cultivators who had rebelled with them.

Witnessing all this, the Anti-Moon Palace cultivators each felt awe and lowered their heads one after another.

Xu Qing's gaze swept over them, and his voice continued to echo.

"In the name of Anti-Moon, I suppress all injuries, subdue all curses, extend vitality, and transform deadly tribulations!"

As soon as his words were uttered, the mountain body of the Anti-Moon Palace shook again, just like the feedback it had given him and the Captain earlier. The power accumulated by the Anti-Moon Palace over countless years instantly erupted and surged into the bodies of all Anti-Moon Palace cultivators.

Amidst booming sounds, at this moment, tens of thousands of Anti-Moon cultivators found all their injuries suppressed and all active curses forcibly subdued.

"Unseal Anti-Moon, release ancient combat power. Any who die shall be reborn in the Anti-Moon Palace, becoming immortal and indestructible!"

Xu Qing's eyes gleamed with brilliance. The echoing of this sentence caused the entire Anti-Moon Palace to roar. All the statues began to erupt with divine radiance, empowered by the Anti-Moon Palace!

The statue bodies were like external avatars or armor. Each statue was, in essence, an extension of the Anti-Moon Palace, containing its terrifying power.

At this moment, after Xu Qing unsealed the Anti-Moon and released this power, each statue here instantly erupted with terrifying combat power, their auras shaking the winds and clouds.

"Kill!"

Xu Qing let out a low roar. These divine statues each emitted an ancient aura, carrying their own Anti-Moon intent and filled with hatred. They all charged out, stepping onto the mirror surface, and rushed to kill the approaching Red Moon cultivators.

The great battle erupted.

And the Anti-Moon Palace's own artifact spirit stepped out, directly heading towards the Temple Emperor.

For a time, the slaughter was astonishing, and the sounds of magical techniques were deafening.

Xu Qing raised his head, gazing at the battlefield outside, and slowly spoke.

"I grant special amnesty to the cultivators who failed this epoch's trial!"

As soon as his words were uttered, ripples appeared in front of him, and ice-sealed statues of various races all appeared. Within them was also the Captain's true body.

Under Xu Qing's special amnesty, these ice sculptures instantly shattered, and waves of terrifying aura erupted from within.