Chapter 508: Chapter 462: Safe and Sound
The Ice Hornless Dragon charged swiftly, cold energy surging, with a heroic spirit of mutual destruction, madly colliding, shattering inch by inch before Zhur Jiuyou.
The splashing ice crystals hit Jiang Yuebai, as she continuously pressed down the Condensing Light Mirror, watching the chaos barrier before Zhur Jiuyou, which was already on the verge of collapse, gradually cracking under the icy aura.
Crack!
The Ice Hornless Dragon used all its strength, using its last bit of power to shatter the barrier before Zhur Jiuyou, a flicker of bluish light shot forth like a meteor, unexpectedly dashing into Zhur Jiuyou’s forehead, vanishing from sight.
Jiang Yuebai and Zhur Jiuyou both revealed expressions of astonishment at the same time.
Was that... Yuchen?
Ice Armor Beetle King!
Why did it rush into Zhur Jiuyou’s brain?
It really has a knack for picking targets!
Although Jiang Yuebai thought so, she quickly merged a divine thought with Yuchen through the Spiritual Insect Contract after it charged in.
Amid the gray fog, Jiang Yuebai ’saw’ through Yuchen a swaying mass of golden light, containing the blood aura of Huntian.
Zhur Jiuyou’s remnant soul?
Devour it!
Jiang Yuebai, driven by divine thought, commanded Yuchen to rush straight for the mass of golden light. Yuchen’s talent magical technique, Ice Prison, spread out, imprisoning Zhur Jiuyou’s remnant soul, with ice spikes sweeping rapidly!
Zhur Jiuyou’s soul was not fully restored; the chaos qi outside was insufficient to replenish the body, coupled with controlling the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron and resisting the Nine-Headed Flood Dragon’s struggle.
Zhur Jiuyou was afflicted both externally and internally, caught off guard, with the remnant soul trapped by the Ice Prison, barely able to move left and right amid the overwhelming ice spikes.
Yuchen’s strength was insufficient, so Jiang Yuebai split a divine thought onto Yuchen, racing against time, pouring all the residual power from her divine elixir into Yuchen’s body.
Yuchen, being a spiritual insect, also belonged to the demon clan, cultivating divine soul and demonic power.
Jiang Yuebai’s divine elixir contained Emperor’s Liquid, which was a great supplement for Yuchen.
Immediately, Yuchen erupted with ten thousand trails of blue light, transforming into thousands of Ice Armor Beetles, sharing the same source of cold energy with the Ice Hornless Dragon, surging like the sea, overwhelming Zhur Jiuyou’s remnant soul in an instant.
Jiang Yuebai saw the mass of golden light being frozen, torn, and devoured by the swarm of Ice Armor Beetles!
The multitude can kill the mighty, she had experienced this before.
Jiang Yuebai wasn’t idle either, inscribing all the contract runes between her spiritual pets she could remember, covering every corner of Zhur Jiuyou’s Sea of Consciousness.
If one constraint wasn’t enough, she’d use a hundred; if a hundred weren’t enough, she’d use a thousand or ten thousand!
Jiang Yuebai wanted to ensure that even if Zhur Jiuyou couldn’t be killed, or revived after death, he wouldn’t be able to harm her anymore, including with Zhur Jiuyou’s rotten cauldron!
If she couldn’t deal with the cauldron, she’d deal with the cauldron’s master!
As the golden light dimmed, the commotion outside gradually lessened, Zhur Jiuyou’s eyes filled with unwillingness and anger, staring fixedly at Jiang Yuebai.
He died with resentment, eyes unable to close peacefully!
The Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron ceased its devouring, landed on Zhur Jiuyou, and the entire coffin suddenly plummeted downward.
Jiang Yuebai braced her body, having no time to think where she would fall this time.
Within Zhur Jiuyou’s Sea of Consciousness, an unexpected change was occurring.
Yuchen retracted the insect swarm, and its body erupted with golden light, establishing itself at the center of Zhur Jiuyou’s Sea of Consciousness, with faint Nine Dragons patterns appearing on its small shell.
Surrounding Yuchen were numerous runes, along with Jiang Yuebai’s two irretrievable divine thoughts, forming a golden cocoon, taking root.
This process seemed like the Outer Body Incarnation mentioned in idle chats with the Supreme Elder, yet it was different...
Boom!
The coffin slammed heavily into the abyss below, causing the entire mountain to collapse with a loud crash, burying everything.
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The ten-thousand-foot Black Demon Mountain, stretching for thousands of miles, completely collapsed overnight, with dragons fleeing amidst chaos.
A huge rift, as if slashed by a Mahayana Immortal Monarch from beyond the domain, cleaved a corner off the continent, pushing it into the deep sea.
From then on, this demonically charged land became an isolated island in the sea.
The dragon clan originally living on Black Demon Mountain scattered to the depths of the East Sea, disappearing.
This enormous upheaval attracted attention from all sides, including Hek Shan and Hongchen, watching as numerous cultivators explored and excavated, uncovering many broken stone pillars, indicating that there were indeed ruins below.
Unfortunately, the discovered ruins were worthless debris, offering nothing else of significance.
Hek Shan and Hongchen were so frustrated they almost coughed blood, having spent over two hundred years of painstaking effort, though not as long as Huntian.
"Senior brother, should we continue the search?"
Hongchen was already having thoughts of retreating, as several large-scale battles had erupted in the area recently due to excavating the ruins, with numerous casualties.
Hek Shan’s face contorted with his centipede scar, "Even if we have to dig three feet deep, we must find it! I refuse to believe that a ruin of this scale really has nothing inside!"
Hek Shan and Hongchen concealed their presence, continuing to wander around the island.
Shortly after they left, Lu Nanzhi, cloaked in black and masked, arrived at the outskirts of the island, gazing at the crowds excavating everywhere on the island.
It had already been seven or eight days since the space collapse, and guided by Xingchou, she had found a spatial breach to escape by sheer luck.
Xingchou immediately ran off upon emerging, too fast for her to pursue, and concerned about Jiang Yuebai’s safety, she could only let Xingchou run far.
Fortunately, she had seen Xingchou’s true appearance, while Xingchou hadn’t seen her or Jiang Yuebai’s.
So, even if Xingchou knew Jiang Yuebai had acquired the Witch Ancestor’s legacy, it wouldn’t greatly affect Jiang Yuebai, as she only needed to revert to her original appearance and identity.
The original site of Black Demon Mountain was being excavated deeper and deeper, with the rift resembling a gaping wound, terrifyingly grotesque.
Lu Nanzhi carefully concealed her presence, intermittently checking on the group’s continued excavation below.
About a month later, a large-scale clash suddenly erupted on the isolated island.
When Lu Nanzhi heard the commotion and arrived, the entire sea was an endless display of spell flashes, earth-shattering and terrifying in momentum.
Without Nascent Soul Stage cultivation, one wouldn’t dare approach.
"Did they discover something to be fighting this fiercely?"
Amid the stormy downpour, onlookers stood over the sea, layered with protective Gang Qi, inquiring amongst themselves.
Lu Nanzhi quietly approached.
"Rumor has it someone unearthed a Black Coffin from beneath the rift, sparking a clash between a male and female Nascent Soul Demon Cultivator over its possession. Despite being surrounded by Golden Core Cultivators at the time, they joined forces to resist, eventually drawing in more Nascent Souls from afar, leading to such a battle."
Upon hearing about the Black Coffin, Lu Nanzhi’s heart skipped a beat.
Intending to investigate further, a dragon’s roar erupted at the center of the melee, whipping up fierce gales over the sea, forming a massive, terrifying vortex like a black hole, forcefully sucking all the spell lights and various magic treasures and weapons into the vortex’s core.
The sudden change plunged the sea into silence, with only the continuous sound of crashing waves and heavy rain.
Next, a streak of black light shot forth, skimming over the sea’s surface, speeding away—it was the Black Coffin.
Tens of thousands of light beams erupted from the Black Coffin, conjuring countless Dragon Armor Puppets, armed with Fiery Flame Crossbows, forming two large formations over the sea, menacingly murderous, their ferocious momentum sky-high.
The mechanical clashing sounds were uniform, launching countless arrows.
The entire sky was instantly illuminated by the blazing firelight, resembling a fiery galactic river, cascading from the sky, dragging scarlet tails, irresistibly charging into the pursuing crowd behind.
Boom boom boom!
The sea’s surface erupted into a surging fire sea, accompanied by harrowing screams, with residual waves surging hundred zhang waves, impacting all directions.
Before one wave subsided, another volley was unleashed.
Boom boom boom!
The two large formations crisscrossed continuously, launching relentless attacks to the rear, forcing even Nascent Soul Cultivators to retreat, watching as the Black Coffin fled far away, disappearing over the sea.
The distant onlookers widened their eyes in terror, yet their itchy hands showed eagerness to try.
"This time many people died; let’s go scavenge the bodies later!"
Seeing those Dragon Armor Puppets she refined with Jiang Yuebai, Lu Nanzhi slightly curled her lips, pulled her hood tight, and silently departed.
She and Jiang Yuebai had agreed that if separated by accident, they would later meet north of Stone Gate City.
