Chapter 81: Domain of the Land

The Nightmare Beast could feel that part of its spiritual power was about to be completely devoured, and its pair of hollow eyes flickered with a deep blood-red light.

It intends to swallow everyone's soul power.

To make up for the spiritual power it has lost.

At the same time—

The people inside the prison rooms suddenly felt a sharp pain in their seas of consciousness, as strands of sticky, icy spiritual power frenziedly drilled into their seas of consciousness, trying to seize their soul power!

"Ah ah ah——"

The miserable cries came one after another.

Many people clutched their heads and screamed, rolling on the ground.

At that moment, a prison room was broken open—that was the place where the Carefree Sect's Second Elder Zong Rao was located; she quickly brought out three townspeople.

"Second Elder!" Xiao Lingwei and Ying Wuji both saw Zong Rao.

Zong Rao looked in their direction.

"Catch them." Zong Rao used her spiritual power to send the three unconscious townspeople to Xiao Lingwei and Ying Wuji's front.

Afterward, she quickly gathered spiritual power and attacked those prison rooms.

At the same time, she took out her pill furnace and refined pill fire with spiritual power.

Boom—

A huge mass of flame instantly surged toward the prison rooms.

The heat waves rolled, and the walls constructed from spiritual power gradually showed a tendency to melt.

Seeing this, Xiao Lingwei placed the three townspeople safely, then she and Ying Wuji quickly stepped forward, gathering spiritual power to help Zong Rao burn the pill fire!

The roaring flames almost covered an entire side of the house.

Boom!

And the Nightmare Beast, feeling the burning sensation, was both startled and angry, instantly splitting out another mass of black mist.

The black mist appeared out of thin air behind Zong Rao, and just as the black mist was about to 'engulf' Zong Rao, Ying Wuji swung his sword backward!

With a clang of the sword, mingled with spiritual power fluctuations, the black mist was split apart!

The black mist regrouped and attacked again!

Ying Wuji temporarily withdrew his spiritual power, then focused on dealing with the black mist!

Hum!

With a tremendous bang, one of the prison rooms instantly vanished under the pill fire's attack, and the five people inside also escaped, but they are now extremely weak.

Because they have had part of their soul power taken by the Nightmare Beast.

Among the five rescued, one happened to be a disciple of the Carefree Sect's Heaven Study Peak; his face deathly pale, he exclaimed in both shock and joy: "Second Elder! Senior Sister Xiao! Senior Brother Ying!"

"Eat." Zong Rao casually tossed out a pill bottle.

The disciple fumbled to catch it, lifted the lid and saw— a medicinal fragrance of a third-grade pill emerged.

It was the Healing Divine Pill!

The disciple was deeply moved, quickly poured out a pill and swallowed it.

The other four stared enviously and jealously at the pill bottle in the disciple's hand.

At this moment, the black mist that had been entangled with Yan Lao and the others suddenly rushed toward this side.

The two masses of black mist merged into one.

In an instant, the black mist swelled larger, emitting a stronger sense of oppression.

It seemed to want to stop Zong Rao from burning the pill fire, charging madly toward her direction, but was intercepted midway by Ying Wuji!

Ying Wuji lifted his icy, gorgeous phoenix eyes, his gaze filled with a killing aura; he raised his sword, gathered spiritual power onto the longsword, and swept a horizontal slash!

Boom!

The black mist was instantly shattered!

At that moment, Zhai Qingye arrived, quickly condensing a spiritual power seal and blasting it at the dispersed black mist.

The black mist instantly froze, as if it had been sealed.

Ying Wuji lifted his eyes and gave Zhai Qingye a faint glance.

Zhai Qingye tilted his head to look over.

The two locked eyes; Zhai Qingye let out a slight, disdainful snort.

At this moment, Zong Rao's voice came: "You old geezers, why aren't you coming to lend me a hand!"

Upon hearing this, Yan Lao and the several elders all turned green.

Too arrogant!

Too disdainful of others!

Too disrespectful of elders and loving of the young!

But now is not the time for internal strife; they must unite!

Yan Lao and the others quickly rushed to Zong Rao's side, then gathered spiritual power to help the pill fire burn even more vigorously!

Under the scorching of the pill fire, the prison rooms were gradually broken open.

More and more people were rescued.

And the black mist that had been sealed broke free of its bonds, frenziedly launching an attack on those present.

In midair, more and more black mist appeared out of thin air.

Everyone's faces drastically changed.

The sect disciples immediately summoned weapons to defend, shielding the townspeople of Yunming City behind them.

The townspeople had long been weak and powerless; not to mention resisting, even standing steadily was difficult.

"What?! Yao Yao is trapped in the innermost part?" Zong Rao heard Xiao Lingwei's words, his heart jolted, and his expression instantly turned solemn.

Just then—

A booming burst rang out from the very center of all the house cages.

Immediately followed by a second sound.

Third sound.

…

Everyone stared warily at the direction the sound came from.

Before they could figure out what was happening inside—

Suddenly, a terrifying pressure surged forth, covering the sky and earth, crushing most of them to the ground!

They struggled to lift their heads, only to see the grayish sky actually descending at an incredible speed!

This is…

The sky is collapsing!

The townsfolk and disciples stared at this scene, their faces pale with terror.

Even Xiao Lingwei, Ying Wuji, Zhai Qingye, and the others were utterly shocked.

Such a sight was too shocking, even though they were within the mental space constructed by the Nightmare Beast.

Immediately, a mass of black mist came from the void above, gradually forming the silhouette of a giant beast; its skull resembled a skull almost exactly, and its hollow eye sockets were filled with a blood-red light, so chilling and horrifying.

As it descended with the collapsing heavens, it delivered an extremely shocking visual impact.

Everyone suddenly felt the stabbing pain in their sea of consciousness growing increasingly obvious.

Many collapsed, blood bleeding from their seven orifices, clutching their heads in agony and emitting shrill wails.

Even several townsfolk already weakened to the extreme, under the Nightmare Beast's influence, instantly turned into a wisp of smoke and drifted toward the Nightmare Beast.

Being absorbed by it.

At this moment, the Nightmare Beast conjured a giant claw and slammed it down toward Zong Rao and the others.

Boom—

Seeing this, Zong Rao and the others quickly gathered their strength to resist.

The two forces collided violently, erupting with tremendous impact, sending many flying.

The Nightmare Beast's giant claw exerted force, and in an instant pressed Zong Rao and the others in midair straight down to the ground.

Thud!

With the blast, blood trickled from the corners of Zong Rao and the others' mouths.

The Nightmare Beast's cultivation is mid-sixth stage, equivalent to a human cultivator's mid-Void Refinement Realm!

And the highest cultivator present is Yan Lao, whose cultivation is late Spirit Transformation Realm!

If they were not trapped within the Nightmare Beast's mental domain, perhaps they could match it one-on-one.

But unfortunately, they are all within the Nightmare Beast's mental domain!

Here, spiritual power cannot harm its life at all.

Only mental power can inflict a fatal wound upon it.

And Yan Lao does not specialize in mental power; here his strength is effectively discounted.

Ying Wuji saw this, his expression slightly tightening; he lifted his head, leapt up, and brandished his sword to slash at the Nightmare Beast.