Chapter 514

"Yes, Executive!"

The other four responded in low voices and immediately dispersed, each taking out strange instruments.

Some were shaped like compasses, some were like bone whistles, and others were small black flags, starting to probe the surroundings carefully; they didn't seem to have much discomfort with the scorching environment, clearly prepared.

Yin Extreme Yang Birth?

At the extreme of Xia, the opportunity for Winter might be hidden?

Chen Mu and Ning Ning Zhixi exchanged a glance, both seeing surprise in each other's eyes.

The Nine Nether Sect's goal seemed to be the "Winter Key," or clues related to "Winter"?

And they actually had a method to find the "Yin Extreme Yang Birth" node in Yanzhuo Mountain, where the "Xia" secret realm was located?

This "Four Seasons Secret Treasury" was indeed profound; the four seasons were not isolated, but actually contained the principle of Yin-Yang transformation.

Chen Mu transmitted, "Observe the changes, perhaps we can get clues about other 'keys' or the secret treasury itself from them."

Ning Ning Zhixi nodded.

The Nine Nether Sect didn't have a good reputation, but now was not the time for conflict.

If they could really find clues related to "Winter," perhaps they could laterally verify some laws of the "Four Seasons Secret Treasury," and even discover the connection between different "keys."

The Nine Nether Sect group searched extremely carefully, almost not letting go of every rock crevice or geothermal gas hole.

After about half an hour, a female disciple stopped in front of an inconspicuous ground fissure half-covered by reddish vines and gave a low cry.

"Executive Yin, there's a discovery!"

Executive Yin's figure flickered and arrived nearby. The other three also quickly gathered.

I saw that the ground fissure was about three feet wide, bottomless, with hot wind faintly surging up, but unlike other ground fissures, in this hot wind, there was actually a trace of extremely weak but pure coldness mixed in!

If it weren't for the Nine Nether Sect disciples' special cultivation techniques and the assistance of the "Ice Soul Bead" and specialized instruments, it would be extremely difficult to detect.

"It's here!"

Ghostly light flashed in Executive Yin's eyes, and without hesitation, he threw the "Ice Soul Bead" into the ground fissure.

The Ice Soul Bead fell as a blue light; instantly, the coldness in the hot wind surging from the ground fissure was clearly triggered and amplified, even resonating with the cold air of the Ice Soul Bead, and blue and white light faintly flickered at the mouth of the ground fissure.

"There is indeed an extreme Yin node below, covered and obscured by the geothermal fire Yang power. We need to break the outer Yang power barrier."

Executive Yin judged, looked at the ground fissure, and scanned the surroundings, "The fire-attribute energy here is active, so we need to be careful when breaking the barrier to avoid triggering a geothermal fire explosion."

"You four, form an array in the 'Four Symbols Soul Array' orientation, use Yin-evil Qi to temporarily neutralize the surrounding fire spirits, and I will cast a spell to break the barrier."

"Yes!"

The four Nine Nether Sect disciples quickly dispersed, occupying the four directions, inserting small black flags into the ground, chanting words, and gray-black Yin-evil Qi emerged from their bodies and injected into the flags.

The four small flags moved without wind, releasing richer Yin Qi, weaving into a gray-black light net, slowly covering the mouth of the ground fissure.

Wherever it passed, the scorching fire-attribute energy seemed to be poured with ice water, making a "hissing" sound, temporarily suppressed and neutralized.

Executive Yin sat cross-legged in front of the ground fissure, his hands forming complex and strange seals, his body emitting a more intense cold aura, echoing the coldness triggered by the Ice Soul Bead in the ground fissure below.

He chanted obscure incantations in a low voice, and a cold, dead, soul-freezing power began to gather between his hands.

In the rock crevice, Chen Mu's eyes narrowed slightly.

The Nine Nether Sect's means were indeed unique, actually able to accurately locate and attempt to open an extreme Yin node in this place of extreme Yang.

Looking at this posture, they were not doing something similar for the first time, and perhaps their understanding of the "Four Seasons Secret Treasury" was deeper than the Blood Refining Sect.

Just as the cold power gathered in Executive Yin's hands reached its peak and was about to turn into a ghostly blue light beam to shoot into the ground fissure, forcibly breaking the outer Yang power barrier—

"Swish!"

A subtle piercing sound, almost impossible to detect, shot out from the shadows of a reddish giant rock behind the crowd.

The target was not Executive Yin who was casting the spell, nor the four disciples forming the array, but the "Ice Soul Bead" suspended deep in the ground fissure!

It was a poisonous needle, as thin as a cow's hair, entirely pitch black, without the slightest reflection!

The speed was astonishingly fast, and the flight trajectory was erratic, carrying an insidious corrosive energy.

"Looking for death!"

Executive Yin reacted extremely quickly; the moment he sensed the attack, the ghostly blue light beam that was originally going to shoot into the ground fissure forcibly changed direction, sweeping toward the poisonous needle.

However, the poisonous needle seemed to have spirituality; at the moment of a hair's breadth, it twisted slightly, actually avoiding the direct sweep of the light beam, only being grazed by the edge, its speed slowing down slightly, but it still firmly shot toward the Ice Soul Bead!

At the same time, from the shadows of the giant rock, a small, withered figure, dressed in colorful, tattered clothes, with oil paint on her face, shaped like an old woman, sprang out like a ghost, letting out a "cackle" weird laugh, and pounced directly at the ground fissure!

She held a curved short blade in her hand, glowing with a greenish light, the target also being the ground fissure, or rather, the "thing" that might exist under the ground fissure!

"Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, Poison Gu Granny!"

Executive Yin was both shocked and angry, shouting out, no longer caring about maintaining the spell, his figure rising, meeting the old woman, and at the same time shouting sharply: "Hold the array! Protect the Ice Soul Bead!"

The four Nine Nether Sect disciples forming the array were also shocked and angry, and the operation of the array inevitably stalled.

It was this stall that allowed the poisonous needle, which had been grazed by Executive Yin's light beam and slowed down slightly, to "ding" and hit the Ice Soul Bead.

The blue light on the surface of the Ice Soul Bead flickered violently, a layer of ice crystals instantly covered it, blocking the direct entry of the poisonous needle, but the strange corrosive energy attached to the poisonous needle spread rapidly, eroding the spiritual light of the Ice Soul Bead, and the cold air emitted by the bead suddenly became chaotic and weakened.

"Cackle! Little dolls of the Nine Nether Sect, the old woman has taken a fancy to this Yin extreme node too! The 'Cold Marrow Essence' inside is just right for my little babies to nourish their bodies!"

Poison Gu Granny cackled, the greenish short blade in her hand drawing a treacherous arc, bringing up a piece of foul-smelling green poisonous mist, covering Executive Yin.

Executive Yin was anxious and angry, waving his cold palm force, colliding with the poisonous mist, making a "hissing" corrosive sound.

The two instantly fought in one place, cold and poisonous evil Qi overflowing, colliding violently with the fire-attribute energy that had been temporarily suppressed in the surroundings, making the energy in this area increasingly violent and chaotic.

And in the ground fissure, because the Ice Soul Bead was polluted, the suppression force was greatly reduced, and the Yin extreme coldness triggered and the geothermal fire explosive Yang power outside lost their balance, beginning to collide and vibrate violently.

The mouth of the ground fissure flickered with chaotic light, heat waves and cold currents sprayed out alternately, the ground began to vibrate slightly, surrounding rocks fell down, and the "Four Symbols Soul Array" maintained by the four Nine Nether Sect disciples was in jeopardy.

The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

Blood Refining Sect, Nine Nether Sect, Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, all appeared one after another.

Especially the latter seemed to be equally determined to get the "Yin extreme node" or the "Cold Marrow Essence" within it!