txolops Chapter 314 Mysterious Yin Demon Seal
Chapter 314 Mysterious Yin Demon Seal
At this moment, on the altar, Luo Ming, Xuan Gu, Han Li, and Wu Chou stood in four directions. The atmosphere, after the departure of the Extreme Yin Ancestor, not only did not ease but became even more bizarre.
Han Li's gaze swept almost imperceptibly over Luo Ming on his right. Seeing that Luo Ming's expression was calm and his eyes were deep, without the slightest panic or urgency, Han Li felt somewhat relieved.
If it weren't for Luo Ming being there, facing such an unfathomable old monster as Xuan Gu, he would probably already be looking for a way to escape and would never have stayed in this dangerous place.
Wu Chou first stared at the Void Heaven Cauldron that had sunk to the bottom of the cave, his face full of resentment and regret, but the next moment, he vaguely sensed something was wrong!
The atmosphere around him was too quiet and too oppressive! He suddenly looked up, his gaze sweeping over Luo Ming, Xuan Gu, and Han Li with suspicion and uncertainty. He then noticed that the way the three of them were looking at him seemed strange, so he quickly summoned his magic weapon to protect himself.
However, in the eyes of Luo Ming and the others, his actions were nothing more than a trapped beast's struggle, futile and laughable.
Luo Ming didn't even bother to lift a finger. He merely glanced at the expressionless Xuan Gu, a half-smile playing on his lips, and said calmly:
"Fellow Daoist Xuan Gu, let you 'cleanse' your own house first, and then we can discuss the next steps together, shall we?"
"Mysterious Bone?"
Upon hearing this, Wu's body jolted violently, his face contorted with disbelief and terror, his eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets! His voice trembled sharply as he spoke:
"So...so you are...Grandmaster Xuan Gu?"
He finally understood! He understood why the aura emanating from this person when they were vying for that transforming treasure had a faint sense of familiarity.
"Run! We must escape this place and tell the patriarch the truth, only then will he have a chance to save his life."
Just as Wu Chou was terrified and had just managed to control a crooked black beam of light, desperately trying to escape,
"If I kill you, I think that old ghost Ji Yin will be very sad."
Xuan Gu snorted coldly, without making any big movements, only slightly flicking his sleeve.
"Whoosh—!"
A chain of yin energy, only as thick as a finger but as solid as a substance, pitch black in color, and exuding a dense yin energy and binding power, appeared like a venomous snake emerging from its hole. With extreme speed, it wrapped around and bound Wu Chou from head to toe before he could even react!
The chains were filled with a sinister aura, which not only sealed Wu Chou's magic power but also invaded his meridians, rendering him unable to move or even make a sound. He could only stare wide-eyed, his face filled with despair.
Immediately afterwards, a gray shadow shot out from Xuan Gu's body and instantly arrived beside Wu Chou, revealing a ghostly figure, which was the ghost cultivator that Xuan Gu had brought out from the Ghostly Resentment Zone.
The ghostly figure circled Wu Chou twice, then said with some disdain, "Brother Xiao, why is the body you found so ugly? The only thing is that the Yin attribute cultivation technique you practiced is quite pure and quite compatible with my primordial spirit."
Xuan Gu coldly shouted at him, "Stop dawdling, there are still things to do."
Upon hearing this, the ghostly figure knew the situation was urgent and, without further ado, plunged headfirst into Wu Chou's brow with a "whoosh" sound!
"Uh..." Wu Chou's body stiffened abruptly, and the light in his eyes quickly faded, replaced by emptiness and pain. The muscles on his face twitched violently, as if he were enduring unimaginable pain, but this process did not last long.
Just a few breaths later, Wu Chou's eyes reopened! But his gaze had completely changed! It was filled with coldness, and a hint of barely concealed joy.
But before they could celebrate for long, the barrier at the exit suddenly and violently trembled without warning!
"Oh no! It's Ji Yin! How did he get back?!" Xuan Gu's expression changed drastically, and he exclaimed in a low voice.
The next moment, at the gap in the broken light shield, an old man with a gaunt figure, surrounded by thick, ink-black mist, appeared. It was none other than the Extreme Yin Ancestor who had returned!
His icy gaze was fixed on "Ugly Crow," and when he sensed the completely unfamiliar fluctuations of the primordial spirit within its body, the anger and killing intent in the chest of the Extreme Yin Ancestor finally erupted completely!
"Good! Good! Good!" The Yin Ancestor squeezed out three "good"s through his teeth.
"I was gone for less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea... and my grandson... died a horrible death at the hands of you scoundrels! And you even dared to seize his body?!"
Before he finished speaking, he didn't waste any more words and suddenly waved his wide black sleeves towards the sky!
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!!!"
A thick, black fog of corpses, reeking of putridity and death, surged forth from his sleeves like a boiling sea of ink, instantly covering half of the altar! As the fog churned, figures exuding a chilling and violent aura roared as they materialized from within it!
One, two, three... a total of fifteen! These were none other than the Heavenly Capital Demon Corpses, the source of the Extreme Yin Ancestor's fame!
At this moment, they all let out a roar that was not human, and the ghostly fire in their eye sockets locked onto Luo Ming, Han Li, and Xuan Gu. The intense killing intent mixed with the corpse energy was nauseating.
"Roar—!" Upon receiving the order, the fifteen Heavenly Capital Demon Corpses, like ferocious beasts released from their cages, transformed into streaks of gray-black afterimages, some swift and some heavy, but all carrying a strong aura of corpses, and fiercely pounced on Luo Ming, Han Li, and Xuan Gu from all directions!
"Oh no, why is the Yin Ancestor back? Could it be that he sensed the danger from Wu Chou? But it's too fast."
When Luo Ming saw that the Yin Ancestor had returned and discovered that Wu Chou had been killed, his original plan was disrupted. He had no choice but to use the two spirit beasts that had been exposed to fight the enemy, while he looked towards Xuan Gu.
He knew that this guy had hidden methods that could deal with the Nascent Soul stage Extreme Yin Ancestor. He was going to see how good Xuan Gu was. If he was too weak, then he would have to give up the Void Heaven Cauldron and temporarily use the Escape Wind Shuttle to run away.
Although he believed he had many tricks up his sleeve, he would never risk his life against those Nascent Soul stage monsters who had lived for countless years, or test their trump cards, unless he was forced into a desperate situation.
Han Li, who was standing nearby, saw several corpse puppets rushing towards him. He frowned and summoned several flying swords to fight them. At the same time, he secretly summoned the blood-red cloak that he had obtained from Baoguang Pavilion.
He had already tested the power of this treasure; its speed was comparable to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator. If he sensed something was wrong, he would simply run away.
The target of the Extreme Yin Ancestor was not Luo Ming or Han Li, nor even Xuan Gu! At the same moment the horde of corpses pounced out, his figure suddenly swayed, and a black light flashed beneath his feet.
He moved with incredible speed, like a ghost, traversing space and instantly appearing in front of "Wu Chou," who had just been possessed and had not yet fully adapted to his new body!
The speed was so fast that Xuan Gu only had time for his pupils to shrink, and Luo Ming and Han Li only saw a blurry afterimage!
"Junior! Come out here for your ancestor!" The Extreme Yin Ancestor's face was ferocious, his right hand's five fingers were bent like hooks, and the pitch-black Heavenly Capital Corpse Fire instantly enveloped his entire palm. Without any mercy, he slammed his palm down hard on "Wu Chou's" crown!
He wanted to tear out its soul and seal it into a corpse puppet, then burn and refine it day and night with the Heavenly Capital Corpse Fire, making it suffer eternal torment to vent his hatred!
"A Nascent Soul stage cultivator... is he really that terrifying?"
The possessed "Ugly Crow" was now facing the angry attack and overwhelming pressure from the Nascent Soul stage cultivator. The "joy" he had felt after successfully possessing the body vanished instantly, replaced by boundless fear and regret!
Only now did he truly realize what an insurmountable gap was between the Core Formation stage and the Nascent Soul stage! Even though he had once reached the late Core Formation stage, now residing in this body that he had not yet fully mastered and whose own strength was mediocre, he was like a lamb to the slaughter when facing the full force of the Extreme Yin Ancestor!
"Brother Xiao! Aren't you going to make a move? If you don't, I'll be annihilated here today!"
"Wu Chou" was terrified. While desperately trying to activate the remaining Xuan Yin True Qi in its new body to hastily condense a thin layer of gray-black protective shield on its body surface, it also desperately retreated backward, trying to avoid this fatal claw.
However, how could a Core Formation cultivator possibly withstand the furious attack of a Nascent Soul cultivator?
"Hmph, trying to escape?!" The murderous intent flashed in the eyes of the Yin Ancestor. The "Ugly Black Crow" had barely managed to escape less than ten feet when the dense Yin energy surrounding it suddenly transformed into a ferocious black python, which tightly wrapped around its body, rendering it unable to move!
At the same time, the figure of the Yin Ancestor appeared beside "Wu Chou" as if by teleportation. His withered palm, carrying a chilling aura and a heart-palpitating suction force, accurately placed itself on the top of "Wu Chou's" head!
"Come out, Ancestor!"
With a sharp shout, black light pulsed from his palm, unleashing an overwhelming suction force. A phantom-like, terrified, hazy figure was forcibly torn halfway from "Ugly Crow's" body! It was none other than the ghost cultivator's primordial spirit that had recently possessed his body!
Just as the Yin Ancestor's divine sense surged, preparing to immediately begin a soul-searching exercise on this primordial spirit to see what this person's background was...
A sudden change has occurred!
The ghost cultivator's primordial spirit, forcibly pulled out, suddenly transformed from terror into a bizarre mix of resentment and madness, shrieking sharply, "Brother Xiao! I'm doing this for you, and you want me dead?"
Before he finished speaking, his primordial spirit suddenly expanded violently, and an extremely eerie, chilling, and piercing emerald green flame burst forth from a certain part of his primordial spirit without warning!
This flame was not scorching hot; instead, it exuded a chilling cold that could freeze the soul. Its sudden appearance and speed far exceeded the reaction of the Extreme Yin Ancestor! Just as he realized something was wrong and wanted to crush or shake it off completely, the emerald green ghost fire had already broken free from the shackles of his primordial spirit.
The will-o'-the-wisp was like a venomous snake with life and will. It ignored the thick protective spiritual light that the Extreme Yin Ancestor automatically generated on his body, which was enough to withstand the full force of a magic weapon of a Core Formation cultivator. It was as if the spiritual light was of the same origin as him. It flashed by and disappeared, directly entering the Extreme Yin Ancestor's lower abdomen dantian!
The whole process was so fast it took less than a blink of an eye!
The Yin Ancestor trembled violently, his face revealing disbelief and extreme horror for the first time. As if he instantly understood something, he roared in shock and rage:
"The Profound Yin Demon Seal! It's you, you old devil!!"
He could no longer care about the dying remnant of the ghost cultivator's primordial spirit in his hand, nor about the enemy who was right in front of him. He hurriedly looked inward at his dantian.
Within his dantian, the cluster of emerald-green ghost fire had transformed into a twisted, writhing, and eerie ghost face mark, firmly imprinted on his nascent soul. Like the most stubborn maggot clinging to his bone, it frantically devoured his magical power, growing stronger and releasing a strange power that stagnated his magical power!
I'm currently reading Chapter 314, "The Mysterious Yin Seed Demon Seal," and I'm completely engrossed in it.