Chapter 446: Chapter 267: Cultivation World 57_3
Above the first altar, an "Nether Bone Corpse General" of the early Golden Immortal stage condensed, with seven Soul Capturing Lamps embedded between its ribs, releasing "Soul-devouring Sound Waves" each time one extinguished.
Si Lingle quickly set up the "Clear Heart Mantra Array" to counter the sound attack.
Si Lingle acted as the Water Element Array Eye, synchronously injecting True Yuan with the cultivators of the Gold, Wood, Fire, and Earth lineages. As the Array Map unfolded instantly, the array patterns on the altar’s surface revealed the "Kan and Li Conflict" weak point marker.
The remaining five cultivators divided into two groups:
Lure Group: Use the "Godspeed Talisman" to attract the Corpse General’s attention, triggering the altar’s defense mechanism to expose the core;
Strong Attack Group: Use the "Breaking Gang Thunder Talisman" to blast the Array Eye.
As the first altar shattered, a towering resentment condensed into the phantom of the Nine-headed Xiangliu. Si Lingle activated the Ice Soul Immortal Talisman to unleash "Extreme Cold Soul Seal," combined with teammates’ "Heaven-Burning Sky Technique" to achieve an ice-fire dual attribute annihilation.
When destroying the sixth altar, the remaining altars triggered the "Netherworld Resonance." Corpse Puppets grew Mystic Iron Scale Armor on their skeletal surfaces, enhancing resistance to the Five Elements Magic, forcing the team to switch to Divine Skills like "Star Shattering Mountain."
Si Lingle discovered a control spell imprint on the back neck of the Corpse Puppet and immediately transmitted to the Strong Attack Group: "Attack the puppet’s core three inches from its Shanzhong!"
At the instant the ninth altar collapsed, a bronze coffin rose from the battlefield center. From within leaped the "Heavenly Killer Corpse King," whose every swing of the "Netherworld Mountain-breaking Axe" tore open space rifts, engulfing two Immortal Friends who could not dodge into the void.
Luckily, Jiu Jiu acted in time, saving the two individuals.
Facing the remaining three altars, Si Lingle deployed the Space-Time Domain and released the Sword Pill to form the "Evil-slaying Sword Formation."
The Sword Array precisely pierced the last three Array Eyes. When Si Lingle’s sword tip penetrated the Array Eye of the last altar, the ink-black stone pillar emitted a shrill cracking sound.
The ground suddenly collapsed, revealing a bone altar deeply buried underground—constructed from countless red-brown accumulated bones, with bone ash rising like a blood mist as the wind swept over.
Twelve blood-colored light columns erupted from the ruins of the destroyed altar, weaving into the Iris Evil Emblem of the Netherworld Holy Hall in the sky, an infernal wind carrying a sulfur smell raging across the battlefield.
The dry black-brown bloodstains on the altar’s surface suddenly came to life, coiling like venomous snakes around everyone’s ankles.
Amidst the rumbling of gears turning, twelve Iron Maiden devices flipped up from the bone pile. The instant the rotten corpses inside fell, the bronze coffin at the altar’s center burst open violently.
Scalding liquid metal spewed forth and condensed, transforming into the black-robed Great Elder of the Netherworld Hall—the Purple Crystal Artificial Eye reflected a chilling light, the serrated long sword entwined with the Soul-locking Chain, and the sacred relic heart emitted a pulsation in sync with the Cain Seal.
The Great Elder’s robe vibrated, and an ink-black soul stone floated and exploded, condensing Yin energy into a giant ice crystal serpent lunging at Si Lingle.
Where the serpent’s kiss passed, all the accumulated bones crumbled to dust, and the scorching valley turned into a frosty hell in an instant.
The Jade Sword transformed into a rainbow, and seven sword shadows formed the "Breaking Realm Sword Formation," stabbing toward the sacred relic’s core, the collision of the sword blades with the Ice Crystal Armor erupting in blue flames.
Ming Xing brandished a Bone Flute, inscribing spells in the air, as the igniting phosphorous fire spread along the altar’s blood grooves, scorching the Netherworld emblems on the black robe.
Xiang Yan stomped heavily on the altar’s base, the emblem of craftsmanship inlaid on an infant’s skull cracking in response, attempting to destroy the sacrificial inscriptions.
The Great Elder grinned viciously, severing his left arm and inserting a silver candlestick into the altar’s crevice.
In a flash, the phantom of the Nine Netherworld Staff manifested in the air, and the remnants of the Snake Nether Guard climbed from underground. The sound of chains dragging and an organ-like hum resonated, transforming several miles into a living Holy Seal Furnace.
Yan Chen caught sight of the north frontier ancient poem appearing on the staff’s body: "Where blood forges royal power, ten thousand corpses bow to the netherworld." —This was precisely the revival ceremony planned by the Holy Hall millions of years ago.
Ten characters seeped darkly in the moonlight, each stroke revealing a miniature skull totem—this was the long-lost [Ten Thousand Corpses Blood Contract] of the Holy Hall.
Blood Forging Royal Power: Requires gathering nine Immortal Monarch Rank Immortal Soldier remains to refine the Blood Seal.
Ten Thousand Corpses Bow: Needs to induce the worship of a million ghost soldiers on the night of a lunar eclipse.
Gate of Netherworld: Ultimately requires the direct lineage bloodline of the Holy Hall as a sacrifice.
Yan Chen suddenly chuckled coldly: "No wonder in these years..."
The Northern Territory frequently saw cases of missing cultivators, ancient battlefields in various places became unusually active with yin energy, and the Netherworld Hall recently made significant acquisitions of Rebirth Flowers.
Cannot allow the Netherworld Hall’s plan to succeed.
Yan Chen bit through the tip of his tongue, spraying three mouthfuls of life essence blood onto the Li Huo Sword, and instantly, the sword’s body revealed the "Red Heaven Connecting" inscription.
A projection of the Vermilion Bird Star emerged in the sky above the battlefield, the reflection of the Nine Flames Separating Fire flickering in its pupils.
This Secret Technique consumes three years of lifespan for each breath maintained, with meridians revealing crimson-gold cracks (if cracks exceed seventy percent, it triggers "Tao Body Collapse").
The "Nine Nether Soul-devouring Array" controlled by the Great Elder of the Netherworld Hall had already gathered sixty thousand Yin Souls, while the "Yellow Springs Demon Stele" at the Array Eye was extracting the yin energy from the Earth’s veins.
Yan Chen used life essence blood as a guide to unleash the "Yellow Springs Heavenly Fury" sound wave, instantly shattering three thousand Yin Soul Puppets.
As the sound wave penetrated the array pattern’s weak point, cracks emerged on the demon stele’s surface, forcing the Great Elder to cease spellcasting and cough up blood due to backlash.
The Great Elder summoned the "Netherworld Mountain-breaking Axe" to cleave, with the ax blade tearing the space to form a black hole.
Yan Chen used the "Nine Flames Separating Fire" enhanced by burning life essence blood to weave a fire net, collapsing the spatial rift by scorching it.
Their intense battle created a chaos of a hundred-zhang diameter in the center.
The Great Elder crushed a "Soul Jade Talisman," awakening twelve slumbering "Xuanyin Corpse Kings" from underground (each possessing the combat power of the early stage of Daluo Golden Immortal).
The Netherworld Fires leaping in the Corpse Kings’ eye sockets could corrode the spiritual nature of magic treasures, and rust spots began to appear on the surface of Yan Chen’s Li Huo Sword.
