txolops Chapter 228 Slaying the Silver-Winged Yaksha! Entering Mount Ling Kunwu! The Great Jin Dynasty is in
Chapter 228 Slaying the Silver-Winged Yaksha! Entering Mount Ling Kunwu! The Great Jin Dynasty is in
Bai Yaoyi desperately activated the Ice Heart Technique to resist the all-pervasive invasion of evil power.
The movement inevitably became sluggish.
"Go to hell!"
A fierce glint flashed in the Silver-Winged Yaksha's eyes. His silver wings, like blades, crossed and slashed out again, aiming straight for Bai Yaoyi's neck!
This time, it's determined to win!
However, just as the silver wing was about to strike—
"clang!!!"
A deafening clang of metal clashing rang out! Sparks flew everywhere!
A tall, silver-gray figure appeared as if teleported in front of Bai Yaoyi!
It was that late-stage Nascent Soul puppet!
It had already raised its heavy, silvery tower shield without anyone noticing, and steadily blocked the Silver-Winged Yaksha's inevitable cross-slash!
The runes on the surface of the tower shield flowed, only slightly dented, and were completely undamaged. The magic marrow drill flying knife held in the puppet's other hand transformed into a black light, piercing straight into the heart of the silver-winged yaksha!
Silver-Winged Yaksha was greatly alarmed, never expecting the puppet to react so quickly and defend so strongly!
It hurriedly folded its wings to block, clashing head-on with the Demonic Marrow Drill Flying Knife, producing a piercing friction sound. Using the force, it drifted backward, intending to use Wind Escape to hide again.
But what Lin Chuan was waiting for was this moment when its old power was exhausted, its new power had not yet been generated, and its mind was slightly distracted due to fighting with the puppet!
The Divine Sword of Awakening Insects!
Lin Chuan, who had been hiding in the shadows and locking onto the battlefield with his powerful divine sense, suddenly launched his strongest soul attack!
Twenty-seven extremely refined, formless and intangible spiritual spikes, like twenty-seven deadly poison needles, ignored spatial distance and instantly pierced into the space between the eyebrows of the Silver-Winged Yaksha who was about to escape!
"Ugh—!!!"
The Silver-Winged Yaksha let out a bloodcurdling scream that was so shrill it was inhuman!
Its soul, formed from malevolent spirits and tempered over countless years, seemed to be simultaneously and fiercely struck by twenty-seven red-hot iron cones!
The indescribable pain and dizziness caused its mind to go blank for a moment, its body to stiffen, and even the silver wings on its back stopped flapping, thus interrupting its wind escape technique!
It's now!
"roar--!"
The Howling Soul Beast, which had been eyeing the area covetously, had been waiting for a long time!
From its enormous nostrils, two silver beams, several times thicker and more solid than before, suddenly erupted, like a reversed Milky Way, instantly engulfing the Silver-Winged Yaksha who was standing there stunned due to the damage to his soul!
"Zzzzzzz—!!"
The silver, soul-absorbing divine light collided violently with and dissolved the dense corpse-evil aura on the Silver-Winged Yaksha's body.
The Silver-Winged Yaksha let out a desperate and unwilling roar, struggling frantically, its body even displaying countless twisted, vengeful faces in an attempt to resist. But before the soul-absorbing divine light specifically designed to counter it, all resistance was futile.
Its enormous body began to become illusory and transparent at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into streams of incomparably pure black-gray air. Along with the original corpse demon and soul power within its body, it was forcibly extracted from its shell and screamed as it entered the nostrils of the Howling Soul Beast!
In just a few breaths, the once majestic Silver-Winged Yaksha, which had slain two mid-Nascent Soul cultivators, vanished completely, leaving behind only a pair of dull, lifeless silver bone wings and a few fragments of broken armor. Its immense Yin Sha soul power had become nourishment for the Howling Soul Beast.
The Soul-Crying Beast let out a satisfied burp, its silver-black fur appearing even shinier, and its aura subtly rising, clearly indicating that it had benefited greatly.
It shrank its body, hopped back to Lin Chuan's shoulder, and nuzzled affectionately.
Bai Yaoyi was stunned as she watched everything that happened in the blink of an eye, especially the transformation of the Silver-Winged Yaksha from being invincible to being reduced to ashes.
Her gaze toward Lin Chuan was filled with indescribable shock and awe.
Unfathomable! That was the only thought in her mind.
Not only does he possess the strange beast Yihun, which is specifically designed to subdue ghosts, but he also has a mysterious jade disc with astonishing defense, a powerful puppet with combat strength comparable to the late Nascent Soul stage, and a bizarre secret technique that directly and severely injures the soul of the Silver-Winged Yaksha... This Fellow Daoist Lin's strength is simply like a bottomless abyss. Every time you think you've seen his limit, he can unleash an even more astonishing technique the next moment!
Is he really in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm? Even ordinary late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators might not possess such terrifying combat power and an endless stream of trump cards.
After the initial shock came the relief of surviving a disaster and a deep sense of gratitude.
Bai Yaoyi took a deep breath, suppressing the turmoil in her heart. She bowed solemnly to Lin Chuan, who had revealed himself, her voice tinged with lingering fear and sincerity: "Thank you so much, Fellow Daoist Lin, for saving my life! If it weren't for your extraordinary abilities and continuous assistance, I fear I would have already followed in Junior Sister Chang's footsteps… I will forever remember this kindness!"
"No need for such formalities, Fairy Bai. It was nothing more than a small favor. As companions, we should naturally look after each other," Lin Chuan waved his hand, his tone calm.
For him, although there were twists and turns in killing the Silver-Winged Yaksha, the outcome was already expected.
He was more concerned about what would happen next.
His gaze shifted to a corner of the square, to the giant gray-white cocoon that had trapped Fu Cheng.
This cocoon was formed from the evil spirit silk of the Silver-Winged Yaksha. It was exceptionally tough and could isolate the inside from the outside. Fu Cheng was trapped inside. Although he was not in immediate danger, he would have difficulty escaping.
"Tihun, go and help out again," Lin Chuan instructed the little guy on his shoulder.
The Soul-Crying Beast squeaked, seemingly satisfied with its "extra meal," and leaped out again, spitting silver light from its nostrils at the grayish-white giant cocoon.
"Sizzle..."
Although the Soul-Destroying Silk was difficult to deal with, it melted away quickly like snow melting in the spring sun in the face of the Soul-Absorbing Divine Light of the Soul-Crying Beast.
In a short while, a large hole was sucked out of the giant cocoon, revealing Fu Cheng inside, who was pale-faced and weak.
"Ahem... Thank you, Fellow Daoist Lin! Thank you!"
Fu Cheng staggered out of the hole, his face filled with relief and lingering fear at surviving the ordeal. He thanked Lin Chuan repeatedly, his eyes filled with gratitude and complex emotions.
He witnessed firsthand how Lin Chuan swiftly defeated the Silver-Winged Yaksha and rescued Bai Yaoyi. At this moment, he was completely convinced of Lin Chuan's strength and even felt a sense of awe.
"Fellow Daoist Fu, there's no need for such formalities. This place is not safe to linger, we..."
Just as Lin Chuan was about to say that he should leave as soon as possible to find Yin Zhima, a sudden change occurred before he could finish speaking!
"Boom—!"
The plaza floor, paved with black boulders, began to shake violently without warning!
The ancient runes that were originally blurry and indistinct now lit up one by one, emitting a faint silver glow!
In particular, the broken array base in the center of the square shone brightly with silver light, and an ancient and vast spatial fluctuation, like a giant beast awakening, slowly spread out!
"What's going on?!"
"This formation... how did it activate by itself?!"
Fu Cheng and Bai Yaoyi's expressions changed drastically at the same time, staring in astonishment and uncertainty at the runes that lit up beneath their feet and the increasingly dazzling silver light in the center.
This sudden turn of events was completely beyond their expectations.
Only Lin Chuan remained calm, with even a hint of knowing "I knew it" flashing in his eyes.
Even at the very beginning of his battle with the Silver-Winged Yaksha, the divination he had been working on for the day had already been updated, giving him a clear prediction.
The divination indicates that he will be teleported by the ancient teleportation array in this place to the legendary ancient sacred mountain—Kunwu Mountain!
Kunwu Mountain is a universally recognized sacred place for cultivating immortality in the human world. It is said to be the place with the most abundant spiritual energy and the supreme training ground for ancient cultivators to cultivate and comprehend the Dao.
I just don't know why,
At the end of ancient times, it was sealed away by an ancient powerful being with astonishing divine power, and the entire sacred mountain sank into the depths of the earth, thus becoming isolated from the world.
Rumors say it was built to suppress and cleanse the overwhelming demonic energy leaking from the ancient demon realm. This mountain is said to contain more than one heaven-reaching spiritual treasure, as well as countless legacies of ancient cultivators.
The loosening of the seal and the activation of the teleportation array were something Lin Chuan, the transmigrator, knew very well, and it was probably related to the Ye family, the royal family of the Great Jin Dynasty.
In the original story, the Ye family planned for hundreds of years and finally found the location of the sealed Kunwu Mountain. They managed to open a crack and sent their elite troops to infiltrate it.
They intend to seize the treasures hidden in the mountains in order to break free from the control of the ten major sects and revitalize the royal family.
As for the Silver-Winged Yaksha, and the possibly existing Wood Demon, Lion Beast, and Black Rock Turtle, they were all contingency plans set up by ancient cultivators to protect Kunwu Mountain. They were usually imprisoned in various forbidden areas of the Great Jin by the great formation.
Once the seal on Kunwu Mountain weakens, these guardian creatures will be instantly summoned back to Kunwu Mountain by a pre-set teleportation mechanism to defend against invaders.
And the very thing they are standing on right now is one of the array nodes that imprisoned/teleported the Silver-Winged Yaksha back then!
The fact that the Silver-Winged Yaksha was devoured by the Crying Soul may have triggered some kind of chain reaction, or perhaps the actions of the Ye family just happened to reach a critical point, causing the teleportation array, which had been dormant for tens of thousands of years, to be passively activated!
"Fellow Daoist Lin, this formation is strange, we must leave this place quickly!" Fu Cheng shouted anxiously as he sensed the increasingly strong spatial fluctuations.
Bai Yaoyi also looked at Lin Chuan, waiting for his decision.
Lin Chuan shook his head, his gaze fixed on the increasingly dazzling silver light in the center of the formation, and slowly said:
"It's too late. This is an ancient teleportation array, and it's already activated. Whether it's a blessing or a curse, we'll find out once we go in."
As soon as he finished speaking, the silver light in the center of the formation suddenly surged, transforming into a thick silver pillar that shot into the sky, illuminating the entire square and completely engulfing Lin Chuan, Fu Cheng, and Bai Yaoyi, who were standing within the formation's range!
"Buzz—!"
A strong sense of spatial distortion and weightlessness washed over me, and my vision was filled with boundless silver light.
The next moment, the silver light faded, the tremor subsided, and the ancient square returned to deathly silence, leaving only the aftermath of the battle and some remnants left by Silver-Winged Yaksha, Chang Zhifang, and Yuan Kui.
The figures of Lin Chuan and his two companions had vanished without a trace, as if they had never been there at all.
……
Above an unnamed lake in the southern border region of the Great Jin Dynasty.
The once calm and still dark green lake surface is now churning violently as if it were being boiled!
In the center of the lake, a massive, milky-white pillar of light, over ten zhang in diameter and composed entirely of pure spiritual energy and spatial power, burst open the lake's surface without warning and soared into the sky!
The beam of light was incredibly solid, piercing straight into the sky and tearing a large hole in the clouds above, clearly visible for hundreds of miles around!
The immense spiritual energy fluctuations and spatial tremors emanating from the pillar of light were like a beacon in the darkness, instantly alerting the divine senses of countless cultivators in the Southern Frontier and even further afield!
"not good!"
"How could this happen?!"
At the edge of the lake, several figures stood suspended in mid-air, their faces ashen and extremely unsightly.
The three at the head were Ye Yuesheng, the current eldest elder of the Ye family, a middle-aged scholar with a refined appearance and dignified demeanor, and the big-headed oddball, Ye Ming, the second elder.
The Confucian elder had only rushed here from his clan two days ago, intending to personally lead the team into Kunwu Mountain, but he never expected that such an astonishing change would occur so soon after they met!
"Weren't several sets of 'Sky-Covering Array' and 'Spirit-Locking Array' already set up? They were meant to conceal any celestial phenomena that might occur during the breaking of the seal! What's with this pillar of light?!"
The Confucian elder's face was ashen, his gaze sweeping over Ye Ming and the others like lightning, his voice filled with barely suppressed anger.
Such an astonishing phenomenon could be sensed not only by cultivators hundreds of miles away, but probably by cultivators thousands of miles away!
The Ye family's plan to quietly seize the Kunwu Mountain treasure for themselves vanished in an instant!
"Elder, please calm down!"
Ye Ming, sweat beading on his forehead, quickly explained, "The formation's setup is flawless, and it's been consistently guarded and maintained by designated personnel. Logically, even if the seal were broken, causing slight spatial fluctuations, the formation should be able to conceal them. This…"
"Elder, Ye Qing and Ye Hong, the two juniors from Ye Laowu's lineage who were guarding the array's core, disappeared after their shift last night... and have not returned since. We cannot contact them with the communication talisman either."
Another Nascent Soul elder from the Ye family stepped forward and reported in a low voice with a grim expression.
"One of Ye Laowu's men?"
A cold glint flashed in the eyes of the Confucian elder, and he instantly understood the key to the matter.
The Ye family is not a monolithic entity; fierce infighting takes place among the different branches in the struggle for resources and power.
Ye Laowu has always been at odds with his lineage, and in recent years he has been getting quite close to the "Haoran Pavilion" among the ten major sects... It seems there is a traitor among them!
Ye Qing and Ye Hong were likely bribed to secretly sabotage the concealment formation, or even deliberately triggered some kind of restriction, causing this earth-shattering pillar of light. Their purpose was to make the news of Kunwu Mountain's emergence public and disrupt the Ye family's plans!
"Well done! Well done, Ye Laowu!"
The Confucian elder, enraged, laughed, but as the head of the family, he knew that anger was useless at this moment. He made a decisive move: "Now that things have come to this, there's no point in covering it up. Once this strange phenomenon appears, at the latest within a day, cultivators from nearby sects will come to investigate, and within a few days, the news will spread throughout the Great Jin! We must seize the initiative!"
His gaze swept over the Ye family elites gathered behind him, including himself, Ye Yuesheng, Ye Ming, and a total of nine Nascent Soul cultivators!
This is practically the most core force that the Ye family can openly utilize.
"Everyone, listen up! Follow me into Kunwu Mountain immediately! Proceed as planned, head straight for the core area! Our backup plan at the entrance should hold off outsiders for six or seven days. Those six or seven days should be enough for us to obtain those two items!"
"yes!"
The Ye family cultivators responded in unison, their faces showing worry, but even more so, determination and fervor. Centuries of planning—the outcome hinged on this one move!
Without hesitation, the nine streaks of light rushed toward the churning lake surface and plunged into the source of the enormous, milky-white pillar of light—a deep, dark rift, more than ten feet wide, with unstable spatial ripples flickering at its edges, which they had just forcibly torn open!
Before rushing into the rift, the Confucian elder waved his sleeve, and several array flags and a large number of spirit stones disappeared into the area around the rift. Instantly, several large-scale illusion and trapping arrays that had been prepared beforehand were activated, temporarily concealing and protecting the entrance to the rift.
Although I know I can't hold them off for long, I'll buy myself a little time.
The nine figures disappeared into the crack. After lasting for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the milky white pillar of light on the lake surface finally weakened and dissipated, leaving only the still churning lake surface and the intense fluctuations of spiritual energy in the air that had not yet completely subsided. Silently, it was announced that a storm sweeping through the cultivation world of the Great Jin Dynasty was about to erupt with this place as its center.
Meanwhile, deep underground, inside an ancient sacred mountain that had been sealed for tens of thousands of years.
Lin Chuan, Fu Cheng, and Bai Yaoyi felt a sudden dizziness as their vision was filled with endless silver light.
I don't know how much time passed, perhaps just a moment, or perhaps an extremely long time, but then my feet felt solid, and the intense feeling of space tearing suddenly disappeared.
The three of them appeared in a huge natural stalactite cave.
The cave is about 100 feet high and exceptionally wide. Countless stalactites of various shapes and sizes hang from the ceiling, shimmering with a faint spiritual light. Many stalagmites also stand on the ground. The scenery is magnificent, yet it carries an ancient silence.
Beneath their feet was an ancient teleportation array embedded in the ground, constructed of some kind of silver jade and engraved with complex spatial runes. At this moment, the array patterns were slowly fading.