Chapter 2039: Silencing

The palace-dressed woman threw the copper coin in her hand toward the high sky. With a flash of spiritual light, it turned into a copper basin the size of a foot, falling from the sky and landing right in the middle of the stone platform.

The surface of this basin was covered with complex layers of runes, and inside, a purple mist-like light ball was flashing, vaguely containing something, but it made people unable to see clearly at all.

The palace-dressed woman's expression remained unchanged, but a slender finger pointed at the eight wooden figures around her from a distance.

Immediately, the originally motionless wooden figures suddenly flashed with layers of eerie black energy, and then condensed, actually transforming into eight ferocious ghost faces of different appearances.

They let out terrifying low roars behind the wooden figures and struggled repeatedly, but they couldn't leave the wooden figures too far, appearing to be firmly bound to them.

"Prepare the sacrifice."

The palace-dressed woman ignored the strange phenomenon of the wooden figures and ordered indifferently.

"Yes, Master!"

Upon hearing this, the black-armored man immediately agreed, then flashed to a position directly above the purple copper basin and slapped his waist with one palm.

"Puchi" sound!

A pitch-black leather bag the size of a palm flew out from his body, spun, and turned into a giant the size of a foot, then turned upside down above the purple copper basin.

The bag opened, and a stream of blood water sprayed out, pouring toward the purple light ball in the basin.

An eerie thing appeared.

Despite the blood water pouring down like a waterfall, the seemingly small purple basin was like a bottomless pit, catching it all, and never showing any signs of overflowing.

The black-armored man didn't seem surprised by this, just pinching spells with one hand to continuously urge the black leather bag.

After a cup of tea's time, the blood water poured from the bag was over a thousand catties, but it was still pouring out continuously, showing no signs of weakening or stopping.

"Alright, that's enough. These essence bloods were obtained by killing those Body Integration stage ancient beasts, and collecting them was not easy. It's better to save some," the palace-dressed woman suddenly said, her brows moving.

"Obey!" Upon hearing this, the black-armored man immediately grabbed the leather bag with one hand.

The black leather bag surged with blood water, and the bag mouth flashed with light and stopped abruptly, returning to its original size and flying toward the man.

The palace-dressed woman took a light breath, pinched a spell with one hand, and behind her, light and shadow flashed. A giant pink flower tree appeared.

This flower tree was crystal clear, its branches covered with pink exotic flowers the size of a fist, emitting bursts of strange fragrance, making people feel intoxicated after smelling it.

The palace-dressed woman blurred and disappeared in place.

But the next moment, she appeared directly above the flower tree, one white-as-jade bare foot stepping lightly on the most top exotic flower of the flower tree, her figure standing steadily without trembling at all.

This woman flipped her hand, and an extra white-as-jade bone knife appeared in her hand, extremely thin and sharp.

The palace-dressed woman's expression remained unchanged, and one arm slowly raised, revealing a section of wrist as white as jade from her long sleeve.

The bone knife waved slightly, and a white line flashed across her wrist.

A stream of thick, pale silver liquid turned into a silver line, fell from her wrist, dripped onto the crystal flower tree below, and disappeared without a trace in a flash.

A humming sound arose!

The originally pale pink flower tree turned into a pale silver color in an instant, with silver flowers hanging high on the branches. Looking from afar, it was truly gorgeous.

After waiting for a while, the palace-dressed woman withdrew her wrist and opened her sandalwood mouth.

A stream of orchid fragrance rolled over her wrist.

That faint bloodstain disappeared without a trace amidst the flashing white light.

And only then did the palace-dressed woman move her eyes and glance at the purple basin below. She flipped her hand, and the bone knife disappeared, replaced by a black silk-like cloth, which she threw into the air.

The sky in the water curtain darkened, and suddenly a layer of pitch-black night sky appeared, covering everything outside tightly, not allowing a single ray of light to penetrate.

The palace-dressed woman raised her jade foot again and stepped lightly on the flower tree below with her toe.

"Peng" sound!

The giant flower tree exploded out of thin air, and dots of silver light shot into the sky.

The black night sky suddenly had numerous silver stars, and under the woman's spell, they rotated slowly according to a mysterious law.

The water curtain had actually become another world.

The palace-dressed woman's eyes flashed with crystalline silver light, her figure blurred, and her body expanded, actually turning into a giant white phantom over ten feet tall.

Pleasant incantations suddenly sounded in the void.

The stars in the sky rotated faster and faster with the white phantom as the center, evolving and forming one mysterious star map after another from time to time.

At the same time, the light ball in the copper basin suddenly floated up slowly and began to squirm and condense under the stars in the sky.

Sometimes it changed into a pattern, sometimes it formed several strange runes, making people feel dazzled...

The palace-dressed woman suddenly had an extra golden compass in front of her. Her ten slender jade fingers flicked on it either urgently or slowly, causing the compass to erupt with groups of seven-colored rosy light from time to time.

Her ten fingers were light and agile. This action seemed easy, but in reality, every time her fingers flicked, her face became paler and paler, and the silver light in her beautiful eyes flickered, gradually becoming brighter.

The eight ghost heads behind the eight wooden figures at the four corners of the stone platform didn't know when they had sprayed thick pillars of light into the high sky, as if eight giant pillars were supporting this piece of black, misty world...

Half an hour later, in the direction of the coral archipelago, a team of dozens of Demon Race members, riding on winged demon beasts like sharks, flew toward the water curtain without any hurry.

Those demon beasts looked clumsy, but their escape speed was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, they arrived near the water curtain.

However, these demons clearly didn't discover the giant water curtain hidden there, and the team didn't intend to stop at all, flying past the side rapidly.

But at this moment, an accident occurred!

"Boom, boom, boom!" A loud noise arose, and the originally invisible water curtain suddenly flashed and appeared in the void, then expanded and contracted, exploding out of thin air.

Blue light like a stormy sea rolled in all directions, actually forming a giant blue vortex in the sky.

This team of Demon Race guards was naturally startled. While avoiding it, they slapped the flying fish demon beasts beneath them.

Those demon beasts roared low, opened their mouths to spray a mass of cyan-blue light, and formed layers of cyan light shields in front of them, protecting their entire bodies.

After the giant water wave rolled down, it was actually separated by those light shields.

These demons were in a flurry, but none of them were actually injured. However, they were naturally shocked and angry, and most of them immediately drew their weapons, looking at the vortex with suspicion.

The blue vortex shrank rapidly amidst the rumbling sound and finally dissipated, revealing two figures.

They were the white palace-dressed woman and the black-armored man.

However, at this moment, the woman was holding the golden compass with one hand, her face without a trace of blood, but her silver eyes were blindingly bright, and the expression on her face was strange and complex, as if something made her somewhat unbelievable, and somewhat pleasantly surprised and hesitant.

The black-armored man stared at the surroundings, looking somewhat surprised.

A leading Spirit Severing stage Demon Race guard swept his spiritual sense over the two, and was immediately given a big fright.

Whether it was the palace-dressed woman or the black-armored man, their cultivation realm couldn't be sensed at all, but the pure demon energy on the black-armored man was not concealed at all.

Therefore, this leading high-tier demon was horrified and hurriedly jumped off the demon beast, bowed to the two people opposite, and asked cautiously:

"This subordinate is Shi Shuo of the Violent Demon Race. May I ask which race the two seniors belong to? Is there anything this subordinate can do for you?"

The black-armored man swept his cold eyes over this team of demons and didn't say anything, but the next moment, his gaze immediately turned back to the palace-dressed woman and he asked respectfully:

"Master, how should these lower-race people be dealt with?"

"Since they have discovered us, then wipe them out," the palace-dressed woman looked down at the compass in her hand and ordered without raising her head.

Her voice was devoid of any emotion, as if the Violent Demon Race members around her were just some ants in her eyes.

Upon hearing this, the black-armored man didn't reveal a surprised expression, but instead, murderous intent flashed in his eyes. He immediately agreed, then turned his head to look at the other Violent Demon Race members, his face full of bloodthirsty and ferocious expression.

"Not good, run!"

The leading Spirit Severing demon was quite clever. Upon hearing the conversation between the palace-dressed woman and the black-armored man, his heart went cold. He immediately retreated, raised one hand, and a bead the size of a fist flew out from his palm. At the same time, spiritual light flashed under his feet, and a black giant blade appeared. Man and blade merged into one, turning into a streak of black light and shooting toward the coral archipelago to escape.

The other Violent Demon Race guards saw this, and in their panic, they naturally scattered in all directions.

The black-armored man saw this, let out a wild laugh, and waved his arms. A mass of black energy flew out from his sleeves, rolling toward the surroundings.

Screams continued in the black energy, and various demon insects were vaguely visible, rolling and drowning the Demon Race guards who wanted to escape.

Immediately, screams arose one after another inside!

As for the black-armored man himself, he glanced at the streak of black light that had escaped several hundred feet away, a ferocious look appeared on the corner of his mouth, and his figure blurred, actually turning into a rolling black wind to chase after it.

After a moment, a groan came from afar, and the man returned with a bloody head in his hand.

He threw the object in his hand into the black energy, stood beside the woman, and his face returned to his original respectful expression.

At this time, the screams in the black energy also disappeared.

This black energy rolled, merged into the man's body, and disappeared without a trace.

From beginning to end, the palace-dressed woman never raised her head to look at anything, just stroking the golden compass in her hand with several fingers, her jade face full of gloomy and uncertain expressions.

... ===== CHAPTER 2040 =====