Chapter 264 - 199: Big Horn Fate Star

Three Ancient Bamboo Sticks flew out.

[Top-Top Lottery: Remain stationary and face the Nascent Soul. Gain the appreciation of a Divinity Transformation expert and be granted a Fourth Grade opportunity. Greatly auspicious!]

[Middle-Lower Draw: Flee to the northwest. You may face mortal danger. Inauspicious!]

[The Worst Draw: Flee in any other direction. Encounter a Nascent Soul Daoist Monarch from the Demon Race and die without a burial place. Greatly inauspicious!]

Qin Xuan’s heart went cold, and his expression changed.

In that instant, his figure, which had been pushing his Escape Light to its absolute limit, came to an abrupt halt.

Seeing Qin Xuan cease his escape, Elder Yun was taken aback.

"Star Monument, suppress my surroundings!"

Qin Xuan let out a low roar. His hands formed a Sealing Technique, and a profound ripple spread out from his body.

With him at the center, the rocks beneath his feet suddenly lit up, revealing countless intricate, star-like Talismans!

These Talismans spread and linked together rapidly. In the blink of an eye, they formed the phantom of a thirty-foot-wide ancient stone stele, protecting him securely at its center.

"Has Junior Brother Qin gone mad?" Pang Tunyun was dumbfounded.

By this point, Pang Tunyun was already fleeing to the northwest.

Shi Potian, on the other hand, had used some unknown Secret Technique to transform into a bloody demonic light, escaping a thousand li to the southeast!

Shi Potian shook his head. ’Junior Brother Qin is finished. How could he possibly withstand a casual strike from a Nascent Soul Cultivator?’

Suddenly, Pang Tunyun’s heart began to pound wildly.

’Junior Brother Qin, I’ll come back to collect your corpse someday. Your Senior Brother is leaving first!’

Pang Tunyun’s escape speed suddenly increased.

The next moment, just as Pang Tunyun entered an oceanic trench,

countless pairs of scarlet, demonic eyes suddenly lit up in the surrounding pitch-black seawater.

A thousand-zhang-wide Tier Three Profound Yin Array activated in an instant!

Countless razor-thin, deep-blue water blades materialized from thin air.

"Damn it, it’s a trap!"

Pang Tunyun was scared out of his wits. His Protective Demonic Light surged wildly as he tried to evade the deadly Array.

SHHHIIICK—!

A spray of blood erupted.

Although Pang Tunyun reacted with incredible speed,

several of the deep-blue water blades still grazed his left arm, severing it at the shoulder!

Excruciating pain shot through him instantly.

"AHHH!"

Pang Tunyun let out a bloodcurdling scream. Not daring to linger for even a moment, he burned his Essence Blood and forced his way through the edge of the Array.

Meanwhile, Shi Potian was hiding in the shadow of an undersea mountain range. A glint in his eye, he felt that he was the safest of all.

’Good thing I escaped so quickly. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have fared much better than Senior Brother Pang...’

Just as Shi Potian was secretly congratulating himself and preparing to flee deeper into the sea,

a Black Flood Dragon was also concealed within the undersea mountains.

This Flood Dragon was none other than the Black Flood Dragon Daoist Monarch who had been hit by the aftershock of the [White Wax Gold].

Seeing this "little bug" Shi Potian dare to charge straight at him, the Black Flood Dragon Daoist Monarch flew into a rage and manifested its thousand-zhang true form.

With a fierce flick of its tail, it smashed down on Shi Potian.

"NO—!"

Shi Potian’s eyes widened in fury and despair. He hastily activated his Positional Divine Technique, [Unbreakable Peak], and a dark golden light bloomed around his body.

But before the strike of an enraged Nascent Soul Daoist Monarch in its true form, his defense was as flimsy as paper.

BANG!

With a muffled thud, the dark golden light was annihilated.

Shi Potian, along with the hundred-zhang radius of seawater around him, was swatted into a bloody mist by that single tail strike, leaving not even a bone behind!

"Kid, do you see now? This is the difference between a Nascent Soul and a Purple Mansion. Did you really think you could contend with me?"

Elder Yun sneered.

Almost at the exact moment the phantom of the stone stele took form, Elder Yun struck out with his palm from a distance!

But Qin Xuan roared back, "Old dog! So what if you’re a Nascent Soul? For the glory of the Holy Sect... I would rather die than live in disgrace!"

BOOM!

The cyan claw print slammed viciously into the phantom of the Star Stele.

Qin Xuan felt as if he’d been struck by a heavy hammer. He violently spat out a mouthful of blood, and his internal organs felt as if they had been displaced.

"Hmm? A mere Purple Mansion Cultivator can actually block one of my attacks?"

Elder Yun’s expression shifted slightly. His killing intent intensified, and he was just about to follow up with another strike.

High above, the hazy phantom of Venerable Linglong seemed to have noticed the changes below.

"Interesting."

The corner of Venerable Linglong’s lips curved slightly. Across a distance of ten thousand li, she aimed a slender, jade-like finger in Elder Yun’s direction and gave it a gentle flick.

An icy, deathly-still, pale Dao Rhyme swept past, formless.

VMMMM—

The void trembled lightly.

The sneer on Elder Yun’s face instantly froze, replaced by a look of terror.

He didn’t even have time to react. His enormous, true form of a Cyan-Scaled Chi Flood Dragon began to crumble and weather away inch by inch, starting from its outstretched claw, turning into pale dust that scattered into the seawater.

A single strike!

A Nascent Soul Daoist Monarch’s Flesh Body, destroyed!

Only a three-inch-tall, terrified-looking cyan Nascent Soul, identical in appearance to Elder Yun, shot out from the disintegrating Flesh Body with a WHOOSH.

"Damn you! I will have my revenge for this!"

Elder Yun shot a venomous glare at Qin Xuan.

Then, without a backward glance, he transformed into a nearly invisible cyan thread and fled frantically, covering ten thousand li in an instant.

’The Divination really worked!’

Qin Xuan was overjoyed.

Exhausted, he half-knelt on the ground, gasping for breath.

A gentle yet majestic female voice echoed in Qin Xuan’s mind.

"Junior, your disposition is not bad. It’s rare to find someone who suits my tastes."

Qin Xuan snapped his head up, only to see a hazy phantom figure standing above the Nine Heavens, her smiling eyes gazing down at him.

"I see your foundation is decent. Today, I shall grant you a great fortune."

Venerable Linglong extended her jade-like index finger and gestured gently toward the endless, starry sky.

In that instant, it was as if the entire night sky had brightened for a moment!

Among the Seven Stars of the Eastern Azure Dragon, a formerly dim, gray star suddenly erupted with a dazzling golden light.

BOOM!

Starlight descended, pouring directly into the space between Qin Xuan’s eyebrows.

"This is one of the Twenty-Eight Constellations, the main star of the [Kang Metal Dragon], and its name is ’Big Horn’!"

As the Star Power entered his body, Qin Xuan felt as though a new starry sky had been opened up within his Purple Mansion.

Inside his fourth Star Palace, a Life Star that shone with golden light and was shaped like a dragon’s horn floated, slowly rotating.