Chapter 563 – Qilin of Primordial Chaos
The commotion in the depth of Hell affected the wardens on the first floor. Lilim mobilized everybody and led her troops to attack the Meng Clan for revenge, leaving only trainees and weak immortals in the Netherworld Realm.
Meanwhile, the blood essence of Wei Yuan slowly crept toward a large prison room, where several women had been locked inside.
Ju Chen and a dozen female disciples from Siren City were trapped in this room. The former was crucified to a wall while the others were restrained with Qi-Sealing legcuffs.
The blood slime entered the room unnoticed. It hopped onto Ju Chen's shoulder and slipped into her left ear.
Ju Chen slowly opened her eyes as she sensed the aura of Wei Yuan. Then, she heard her voice transmission.
'Ju Chen, are you still alive?'
Ju Chen dryly smiled, 'Somewhat. Lilim's sealed my cultivation and pulled out my fangs.'
Not all prisoners were treated well in here. Ju Chen was among the ill-treated prisoners, who had shown disobedience toward Lilim. As a result, she was tortured and thrown here along with her disciples.
'It's fine. Digest my blood, and recover your strength.'
'Then, what? I'll be tortured again. I can't break out of here by myself.'
'Don't underestimate the power of Chaos Oni. I've cultivated Chaos Element to the point that it assimilates with my bloodline. Use my blood essence to regain your power and break the seal. Aren't you a fucking vampire queen?'
Ju Chen narrowed her eyes. She allowed the blood slime to puncture through her eardrum and enter the circulation system. Then, she closed her eyes, concentrating on digesting the blood.
CLANK
While Ju Chen was focusing on Wei Yuan's blood essence, the jail's door was unlocked, and a Lamia entered the room with a bottle of grain pills and a bucket of dirty water. The monster tossed the grain pill bottle toward the disciples and dropped the water bucket.
"Today's food and water is here. Help yourselves."
The disciples crawled to take the grain pills. However, it was only enough for 12 people.
But there were 13 prisoners in this room!
Ju Chen sneered at the Lamia. This was also a part of the torture, which she was used to it.
"No food for me again?"
The Lamia snorted, "You're a vampire. If you're hungry, just eat them."
"Don't be a fool. How can I eat my disciples?"
"Pfft. Disciples? Hey, children. Do you think this woman is your mentor?" The Lamia grabbed one of the girls and forced her to look at Ju Chen's face.
The girl's pupils dimmed as she had already lost hope and willpower. None of them answered.
"See? She doesn't see you as her master anymore. Say, little ladies. If you agree to accept my ancestor's blood and become one of my kin, I'll let you out. How about it? Will you stay here to accompany this vampire and die here? Be a part of the Netherworld Realm and be free, or stay here with your so-called… mentor."
The young disciples hesitated. They had no experience in dealing with this situation.
The girl that shook her head earlier suddenly widened her eyes as she noticed something in Ju Chen's pupils. Her eyes regain a tinge of light.
She mustered her courage and spoke in a hoarse voice, "I'm staying."
The Lamia was not amused, "Aren't you unwilling to stay here?"
The girl turned toward the monster, "EVEN SO, I WILL NEVER BETRAY MY MASTER!!"
"…"
The Lamia's face was distorted in anger. She threw her against the wall and knocked the water bucket using her long tail. Then, she burnt the pills to ash.
"No food for you, then. Go ahead and starve to death along with your MASTER!"
The Lamia left and locked the cell. She slithered away.
Ju Chen snickered and looked at the girls, who were sobbing and crying over the ruined food and water.
"Be patient. We're getting out of here soon."
"R-Really?" The girls were surprised.
"Believe in your master. My friend has just given us hope. Just stay still and be ready for anything."
"Y-Yes, Elder Ju!"
Ju Chen closed her eyes and digested the blood essence of Wei Yuan.
An hour later, she felt like something inside her chest and her stomach was burning and freezing at the same time. The chaotic power of Chaos Oni Bloodline slowly transformed and mutated her physique.
Two short horns grew from her forehead. Her fangs regenerated, and her damaged dantian was repaired. Furthermore, something in her dantian had evolved.
"In the primordial era, only void existed. Then, Pangu descended and shed a drop of blood. The blood created the chaos providence, and the chaos providence gave birth to the universe."
"We, creatures, were originated from the chaos. One must return to the chaos upon death, but death is only a beginning of a new circle."
"No matter how colorful the elements are, when they are combined, they end up as black. And black is the color of darkness, the original color of chaos."
"We are the Chaos."
Ju Chen's mind and psyche had been strange since birth. Everyone thought that she was born with a mental illness, but she soon behave like a human. However, when she was absentminded, strange thoughts always came to her mind as if she slowly remembered something from the distant past.
This also was the cause of her mutation when Xu Xiuying had given her a drop of vampire's blood. She instantly went berserk as her hidden instinct took over. Then, she was locked up in the underground prison. Even so, Ju Chen often recited strange things when she was half-asleep.
Currently, Ju Chen's mind reentered that state because of Wei Yuan's Chaos Element Qi. She reminisced something that she had never experienced.
After receiving a bit of Wei Yuan's Chaos Element Qi and her bloodline, Ju Chen entered the zone and let her instinct guide her.
The Chaos Element Qi slowly multiplied and formed an elemental crystal. Strangely, the Chaos Element Qi consumed her vampire blood to multiply. Then, it replaced Ju Chen's blood with the black fluid, generated from the Chaos Element Crystal.
Because of the black blood, Ju Chen's blood vessels turned dark, and countless lines of blood vessels could be seen under her skins.
The disciples were shocked by the transformation. They started to worry about their master.
But soon, Ju Chen did the unbelievable things. The Qi-Sealing chains that had been restraining Ju Chen was absorbed into her body.
Bricks on the wall and metal material were disintegrated as Ju Chen's physique and her aura melted them all and absorbed them into her skin as food. Even the clothes of her disciples and her clothes were not an exception.
Fortunately, the rampaging chaotic blood did not harm Ju Chen's disciples. On the contrary, they felt refreshed.
Every material in the room turned into food for the Chaos Element Qi and the chaos blood. Ju Chen also gained an insight on this phenomena, and a Dao Avatar was formed.
The avatar was a shadow silhouette of a horse-like creature. However, its antlers and its face did not resemble a horse. Its shining eyes brightened the room as if they were modern spotlight.
The avatar slowly merged with Ju Chen's body. Then, Ju Chen felt like her psych had just unlocked something inside her brain and her dantian.
Ju Chen's physique transformed. Her vampire bloodline and physique were no more as they were replaced with something better.
BOOM
Everything except living beings in the radius of 100 meters around Ju Chen turned into her food. All material disappeared!
The floor below them and a portion of the prison tower suddenly vanished.
The disciples fell to the lower floor right away. However, Ju Chen extended her hands and protected them with using telekinesis.
Not only Ju Chen's room was broken, but Ju Chen also accidentally freed her neighbors. Next to her room, Jiang Lan and Fang Meirong had been imprisoned there.
Because of Ju Chen's transformation and her new domain power, Jiang Lan and Fang Meirong were released from their shackles, and they regrouped with Ju Chen right away.
"Ju Chen?" Jiang Lan and Fang Meirong were surprised to see Ju Chen's new transformation. Now, this former vampire looked like another Oni.
But there was something odd about her eyes and her skin. Dark green scales were slowly replacing her skin, and Ju Chen's no longer had pupils. Her entire eyes shone like the Sun.
"Less talk. I'll turn this place upside down. You girls rescue and protect the others."
"… On it!"
Although Jiang Lan and Fang Meirong had no idea what had happened to Ju Chen, they cooperated with her. They shared grain pills and water supply with the disciples and carried them to a safer place.
The commotion attracted the attention of all warden trainees, including the immortal lamia earlier. They rushed to the site and surrounded Ju Chen.
Ju Chen ignored them. She flew toward other prison towers and began consuming every material with her domain power. While she was at it, she freed other prisoners as well.
"I KNEW YOU WERE UP TO SOMETHING! BITCH, I'LL KILL YOU NOW!"
The lamia flew toward Ju Chen with a heaven-grade trident. The weapon was thrust toward her, coming for her head.
But the naked Ju Chen easily caught the weapon with her left hand. She only glanced at it and incited the keyword of her new power.
"Feast."
CLANK
The heaven-grade trident was shattered to fragments, and they were absorbed into Ju Chen's body!
The immortal lamia wasn't familiar with Ju Chen's power. She thought that it was related to her vampire bloodline.
"So, this is your strongest ability, eh? Too bad, you may be able to destroy my weapon, but a nascent soul cultivator can't possibly beat an immortal!"
A snake spirit appeared as the lamia had activated her soul domain. The snake lunged at Ju Chen and penetrated through her body.
Ju Chen was unharmed. However, her nascent soul was in the snake's mouth.
"Hahahaha! Without your nascent soul, your body is just an empty husk! If I destroy your body, your nascent soul will perish. If I destroy the nascent soul, you will also die! Now, struggle all you can because I will enjoy tormenting your soul!"
At the sideline, Fang Meirong grounded her teeth. She wasn't confident that she could defeat all the wardens with her bare hands. As for Jiang Lan, she regretted that the opponents were not men, and she felt useless.
Suddenly, Ju Chen's soulless body smirked.
"You talk too much, snake."
"Huh?"
Everyone was confused. Ju Chen's nascent soul was forcefully extracted and captured by the snake spirit. Logically, she shouldn't be able to move.
BOOM
Suddenly, the snake spirit exploded into black mist. Then, the true appearance of what the snake had snatched was unveiled.
It was a horse-like creature with two antler horns and green scales. Its green mane and tail fluttered by the wind.
All along, that was not Ju Chen's nascent soul. The snake spirit had caught her Dao Avatar!
But now, the Dao Avatar seemed more completed.
"WHAT?!"
Using the opportunity while the lamia was still in shock, Ju Chen completed a hand incantation as she casted a spell that she saw in her strange dream. Although it was her first time using it, she felt like it was with her since the beginning of her birth.
Chaos Domain, Death Replenishing Life!
Aside from the lamia, a hundred other immortal wardens had been watching them fight.
Ju Chen's domain had no shape and fixed range. Every immortal beings within her eyesight were caught under dark bubbles, and they were trapped in there.
One bubble imprisoned one immortal. Even the lamia was captured.
"Pitiful nascent soul domain. I can easily break this!"
The lamia punched the bubble, attempting to break out from the domain.
Unfortunately, her punch did nothing to the dark bubble.
"Hmm? Wait a minute-AHHHHH!!"
The bubble suddenly shone in silver light and began absorbing the life force of every living creature inside. Then, they transferred their life energy, Qi, and memory to the caster.
Ju Chen closed her eyes and accepted everything. Also, because of the Chaos Physique and the growing Chaos Element Crystal, she had a vision.
She started recalling the unknown memory of someone else. Yet, she felt nostalgia.
Chaos Element
Chaos Physique
Heaven Realm
Pangu
The Players
Pangu Online
The Invaded Qilin Kingdom
The burnt palace, the burnt home
And her previous life's memory…
BOOM
Another transformation occurred to Ju Chen's physique and soul. She dispersed her cultivation base and recultivated everything from the beginning at a tremendous speed.
She consolidated five extreme elements, Sacred Wood, Primordial Fire, Pristine Water, Untainted Earth, and Indestructible Metal. Then, her cultivation shot up from the mortal realm to the immortal realm within seconds!
Her mortal physique merged with her soul and completed the Soul Physique Transformation. Yet, her cultivation method started to branch from the humans.
The Oni horns on her forehead transformed into Qilin antlers. Her long black hair turned green, and a fluffy green tail grew. All of her skin grew green scales as if she was a dragonewt.
Her silver shining eyes looked more refine and elegance. Heaven Lightning gathered around her as if the Heavenly Dao was giving her a Heaven Tribulation. Yet, it coiled around Ju Chen as if it was protecting its master.
The Chaos Element Qi of Wei Yuan broke the Heaven Laws and returned Ju Chen's past life memory! And now, she returned to her original race in the past.
"I was a at the palace, but those Players killed me. Damn. How come my status has fallen so low that I become a mortal's yin slave? Do you know what kind of offense it is to threaten a Qilin Saint!"
Ju Chen closed her eyes and clenched her fists. Then, all immortals under the bubbles dissipated into dust, and their power was absorbed into her body.
With new food, Ju Chen's strength continued to soar.
1-Star… 2-Star… 3-Star…
Green planets appeared inside Ju Chen's dantian space as she collected more Soul Qi and Soul Essence from the dead immortals.
Ju Chen slowly turned to the other wardens.
"I see. I always wondered why I was always hungry. So, my Qilin Soul craved for Soul Essence."
Ju Chen's eyes flashed, and every warden turned to dust!
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