Chapter 270: Nether Beast Demonic Soul

Xu Chen naturally did not know that the Fourth Senior Brother he met for the first time would have so many doubts about his appearance.

At this moment, he was already standing on the top of the highest broken peak.

And the moment he landed, he had already seen a very familiar rune mark.

A 'Swastika' rune that looked like a distorted cross, over a zhang in size, carved into the hard rock at the very top of the cliff as if with iron hooks and silver strokes; although it only consisted of two strokes intersecting, each stroke was over a chi deep into the rock, looking exceptionally striking.

"You really did come here!"

The heart that Xu Chen had been holding in his throat suddenly dropped, he let out a long breath, and then landed in the middle of the Swastika Rune; an instant of strange feeling appeared in his heart, as if Youtong or Feng Feiyi were standing right beside him.

Xu Chen squatted down, gently stroked the deep rune grooves, and muttered softly: "Are you alright? Since you are safe, I can rest easy!"

At this time, hundreds of millions of miles away from the Minghuang Boundary, a woman who was fighting a three-headed giant wolf over a hundred zhang in size in the Void suddenly stopped, and then appeared out of thin air in a pitch-black wasteland.

Black Mist surged and churned all around, and waves of cold, terrifying aura made one's hair stand on end.

"Roar~~" The three-headed giant wolf lunged out from the Void, roaring and raising its giant claws.

"I am alright!"

A strange expression appeared on the woman's beautiful face; she muttered softly after a moment of silence, then the blood-red giant wings on her back flapped violently, and she turned into a streak of red light again to fight the giant wolf, soon crashing through the Void together and disappearing.

On top of the ten-thousand-zhang-high giant broken peak.

Xu Chen sat in the middle of the Swastika Rune, feeling an unprecedented peace in an instant.

Although he could not hear any sound, it was as if a familiar figure with a beautiful silhouette turned back within his Soul.

"Crack~"

A crack appeared on the huge Swastika Rune.

The familiar feeling vanished without a trace in an instant.

Xu Chen sighed and stood up, full of joy yet full of loss.

This parting might be for eternity, with no chance of meeting again.

"Youtong, take care, and look after Feng Feiyi well."

Xu Chen recited silently in his heart, rose into the air looking at the shattered cross rune, and after a moment, the Shell Light appeared behind him, and with a gentle flap, he flashed away.

By the small lake dozens of miles from the valley entrance.

This was the place where Xu Chen had stayed after saving Chen Yang and the others that day.

After seeing the Divine Slave Mark left by Youtong, Xu Chen's heart immediately relaxed.

He sat by the lake and took out the huge Ox Skull to begin his research.

He continuously used his Divine Sense and Qi to infuse and drive it, in order to explore the spatial rule aura of the Black Horn and the Golden Crystal.

Chen Yang sat far away on a giant rock, watching with both shock and joy.

From this huge Nether Beast skull, he felt an unprecedented terrifying aura, as if he would be ground to pieces if he were touched by the circles of black ripples that Xu Chen was stimulating and releasing.

Although his Soul at the Danyuan Realm could be considered strong, compared to this intense spatial fluctuation aura, he was completely like a small ant with no power to resist.

The Junior Brother only appeared to have the cultivation and strength of the Danyuan Realm, so why was he not only unafraid but even able to drive and stimulate such a terrifying aura?

Chen Yang could not figure it out at all and could only stare blankly.

Soon, nearly two hours passed, and after exploring and using it over and over again, Xu Chen also roughly understood how to use the Ox Skull.

It was actually very simple: just keep striking it with powerful Divine Sense.

However, his current Soul strength was far from enough to fully stimulate the power of the Black Horn; he could only barely trigger spatial fluctuations. As for that Golden Crystal, he was even more powerless; no matter how he drove it with his Divine Sense, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and he could not feel any movement.

But he was not discouraged; if his Divine Sense was not enough, he would use starlight to make up for it.

The Blue Starlight in the Blue Light Treasure Bottle seemed to have various miraculous functions; it could impart techniques, record Divine Pattern Battle Techniques, form Divine Slave Marks, and even fuse with the Heaven-Suppressing Divine Stele.

To thoroughly understand the origin of the Blue Light Treasure Bottle, he needed to keep experimenting.

Therefore, he decided to try introducing Blue Starlight into the Ox Skull.

Thus, his Divine Sense entered the vortex of the Heaven-Suppressing Divine Stele, and he tried to draw out a grain of starlight from the pitch-black Void; he did not expect that he would actually succeed.

However, the speed was very slow.

It took him a full half-hour to get this one grain of starlight out of the blue light vortex of the Heaven-Suppressing Divine Stele.

As a faint grain of Blue Starlight flew out from between his eyebrows and landed on the huge Ox Skull, the huge Ox Skull suddenly erupted with an intense Soul fluctuation.

With an earth-shattering roar, the phantom of a familiar giant Ox Nether Beast flashed and emerged from the Golden Crystal between the eyebrows of the skull, and then a ripple of golden light spread out, instantly freezing Xu Chen within it.

"This Nether Beast is actually not dead?"

Xu Chen was instantly panicked to the extreme.

Although the giant Ox Nether Beast no longer had a body, this residual Soul was still incomparably powerful, like a demon descending to the world, carrying an aura that could destroy the heavens and the earth.

"Junior Brother, be careful!"

Sitting hundreds of zhang away, Chen Yang was scared out of his wits by this terrifying aura and jumped up, shouting loudly.

At the critical moment, although Xu Chen was panicked, he did not completely lose his composure.

Because he felt that the Blue Starlight was merging into the skull at a rapid speed; the moment the Nether Beast's demonic soul was awakened, it also erupted with brilliant blue light and swept toward the Golden Crystal, just like a shark smelling blood.

"Boom~"

The golden and blue lights exploded violently, illuminating the dark sky like a sun. In the violent explosion, the restrictive aura released by the demonic soul actually loosened. Xu Chen instantly felt much more relaxed and used all his strength to drive his Divine Sense to surge madly into the skull, pushing the blue light to merge into the Golden Crystal.

"Roar~~"

Inside the crystal, the Nether Beast phantom roared loudly, and the sound like muffled thunder shook in Xu Chen's mind.

The Heaven-Suppressing Divine Stele emitted a glowing white light, rippling in circles, constantly dissolving and breaking the roar that was shaking his Soul.

The blue and golden lights collided violently like cold water hitting hot oil. Xu Chen felt his Divine Sense constantly shattering into pieces in this explosion, but with the ripples released by the Heaven-Suppressing Divine Stele, it followed layer by layer into the skull.

The two forces constantly clashed and fought around the pale golden crystal between the eyebrows of the Ox Skull, and they soon fell into a stalemate.

Xu Chen knew that this should be his chance to refine this Ox Skull, which contained powerful spatial rules.

However, his Soul strength was far inferior to the demonic soul left behind by this Nether Beast; no matter how hard he tried to drive his Divine Sense, the Blue Starlight could not fully merge into the crystal.

"Roar~ Roar~"

The Nether Beast's demonic soul roared incessantly, exceptionally furious, yet it seemed unable to break free from the golden crystal, so it could only release powerful soul energy to continuously stimulate the crystal's power, resisting and repelling the blue light and the aura of the Zhentian Stele.

"Damn it, when will my weakling cultivation ever become strong!"

Amidst the stalemate, Xu Chen complained incessantly.

He could feel that if his Soul were just a little stronger, he would be able to push the Blue Starlight into the golden crystal.

But unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, his Divine Sense felt as if it were blocked by a tough wall, always falling just a little short of penetrating through.

Two quarters of an hour passed quickly.

In the contest against the demonic soul, Xu Chen began to feel overwhelmed; his Divine Sense was continuously shredded and forced back, and the blue light also began to be constantly annihilated and weakened by the golden light.

Seeming to sense Xu Chen's frailty, the Soul Beast became more active, constantly crashing and roaring within the golden crystal, triggering the power of Space Solidification to wrap around Xu Chen in layer upon layer once again.

What to do... what to do?

Ever since he saved the Old Witch Lord and Tu Jiu, he had rarely personally dealt with powerful Nether Beasts.

The strength of both the Old Witch Lord and Tu Jiu had reached at least the Great Perfection of the True Spirit Realm, and with their powerful Divine Pattern Battle Technique, this Tier 6 Nether Beast had been slain by the two of them working together.

Xu Chen could only watch that victory from the sidelines, always feeling that the two of them had won quite easily.

But he had not expected that now, facing this remnant soul alone, he would truly feel its power, which was almost crushing him.

If not for the assistance of the Zhentian Stele and the Blue Starlight resisting it, his Soul would have already been breached by the demonic soul.

He could not even resist this demonic soul alone, so when he later encountered the avatar of the Heitian Demon Lord and a wisp of a demonic soul from the White Bone Demon Emperor that had already been dead for an epoch, he had relied entirely on the Youtong Demon Lord to protect him; he had not even had the ability to stand by and watch.

In an instant, the various abilities Xu Chen prided himself on were all useless at this moment.

In reality, his greatest reliance had always been the Blue Light Treasure Bottle.

But now that the Blue Light Treasure Bottle and the Zhentian Stele had merged, he found it increasingly difficult to grasp how to use them.

When it came down to it, it was still related to him being too much of a weakling.

The current situation was extremely critical; once he could not resist and the fusion of the Blue Starlight failed, he would inevitably suffer a backlash from this powerful Nether Beast's demonic soul.

He still understood too little about Nether Beasts, and he had also been too careless.

While struggling to urge his Yuan Qi to release Divine Sense to stubbornly resist the Space Solidification power triggered by the demonic soul, Xu Chen racked his brains to think of a way to resolve this unprecedented crisis.

Finally, he decided to bring out his only trump card to give it a try.

The Grand Void Demon Refining Art possessed a powerful ability to refine demonic entities, and the demonic soul remaining from this Nether Beast also belonged to the category of demonic entities; if he could find a way to refine it and weaken its strength, then once he integrated the blue star into it and planted a Slave Seal, the danger before him would be easily resolved.

Soon, the aura around Xu Chen changed, and streams of illusory blue starlight erupted from the Apertures all over his body, while at the same time, an obscure aura fluctuation radiated from within his body.

(End of this chapter)