Chapter 410: Fish Basket Guanyin Refines the Sea Tribe

Ye Zhenren's hair stood on end in anger; it was truly burning from his eyebrows to his hair, all transformed into flames.

At the same time, a small flame appeared between his brows, burning upwards, vaguely resembling a third eye.

He cultivated the Luofu Mountain Heavenly Immortal Fire Method, named the "Great Sun Scorching Bing-Ding True Scripture." This scripture originated from the Fire Mansion, passed down by the Flame Immortal of Luofu Mountain, who was a Sun Immortal. He was skilled in the Seven Birds Fire Art and was rumored to serve by the side of the Taiyang Xingjun.

After Ye Zhenren's "Divine Transformation," nine Scorching Fire Dragons grew from behind his head. These nine dragons were formed by him harvesting the essences of fire flood dragons and refining them into the Great Sun Fire, Earth Core Fire, and Ten Thousand Families Fire.

The nine fire dragons were the manifestations of nine low-level Merit Pure Yang Immortals.

With the nine fire dragons' reinforcement, that flame cart became a treasure of military Dao soldiers, with countless fire snakes, fire bats, and fire crows flying out from the flames... One person formed an array, and one person became a "Fire Department Lingguan."

"Monster, it is not too late to surrender now; otherwise, once my fire dragons descend, I fear you will have no chance to cry out."

Chen Yunxiao smiled, a smile that was graceful and gentle: "Daoist, whatever methods you have, feel free to use them. I will take them all. Although I do not wish to harm our harmony, today I have no choice but to give it my all. Since I began my cultivation three thousand years ago and formed my Original Fetus, I have always been hiding from people. Today, I shall properly test whether I have the foundation to engage in a magical battle."

Ye Zhenren sneered, his expression chilling. Flames covered his entire body, forming a layer of Fire Armor; he truly looked like a "Fire Department Lingguan."

With a thought, two fire dragons charged over. The two fire dragons intertwined, like meteors falling to earth, rotating around each other. What they were chasing was a "Dragon Pearl," a fireball condensed from the ultimate power of true fire.

Yunxiao did not dodge; she merely raised her brows and eyes, making a "clasping" gesture with her hands. Immediately, an Invisible Shell appeared, blocking the fire dragons outside.

This was something carried by her original body's clam shell, and it was also an innate defensive Divine Ability. Even after shedding the shell, it still existed, only transformed into an "Imprisonment Divine Ability"—it could trap others, and it could also trap herself.

This innate Divine Ability had, after all, three thousand years of tempering, so she was very confident. How many giant beasts in the sea had tried to seize her Inner Elixir and failed? In three thousand years on the seabed, despite countless geological movements, nothing had damaged her; it naturally possessed the essence of "Diamond."

When the fire dragons crashed into it, they merely shattered and scattered, but the flames in the sky recombined, still baring fangs and brandishing claws.

"If you, fellow Daoist, can break my innate defensive Divine Ability, I will consider you the winner," Yunxiao smiled.

"Insolent!" Ye Zhenren unleashed all nine fire dragons, transforming them into a Nine Dragon Divine Fire Array, wrapping Yunxiao within to burn her alive.

Yunxiao did not move; she only took out a small shell. Inside the shell was a scoop of crystal-clear true water resembling dew, which was the "Heaven One Pure Water."

Yunxiao dipped her fingers into the pure water and drew a Talisman in the void. This Talisman was evolved from the Register method passed down by Xu Jia, and it also obtained the Dao of the Heaven One Water Mother, representing the mastery of all true water.

Ye Zhenren felt his blood pulsing, and his heart even became somewhat uncontrollable. He immediately cried out that it was bad: "She is controlling the blood inside my body!"

He immediately steadied his mind to suppress it, calming the agitation within his body, but a Gold Shuttle appeared in his sleeve. The Gold Shuttle was extremely fast, exploding forth like a rainbow light.

Yunxiao also sensed danger. She pushed with both hands, and twenty-four Canghai Bright Moon Pearls hung before and behind her. Their brilliance intertwined, and a huge moon appeared behind her head. As the moonlight shone, one could vaguely see a giant white giant clam protecting her in the center.

"Vast Sea Bright Moon!"

The twenty-four bright pearls paired up, one true and one illusory. With the true and illusory combined, they formed twelve moon phases, and the twelve moon phases connected into one, transforming into a "Moon."

This moon became a "Great Moon Phase" behind Yunxiao's head, as if Taiyin Star Lord had descended to the mortal world.

The Gold Shuttle struck, but it could not pierce the moon phase. Instead, Yunxiao flicked a drop of Lunar Heavy Water, which immediately exploded and transformed into "Lunar Vast Cold Ice Soul Divine Thunder."

The Ice Soul Divine Thunder exploded, shooting out rays of cold light, extinguishing many of the fire dragons' flame Qi.

"Fellow Daoist, your methods are nothing more than this. Since you cannot break my defense, and your nine fire dragons cannot burn me, I stand in an invincible position. You had best admit defeat and leave early while you still have your life; otherwise, if your body dies and your Dao vanishes after years of cultivation, would that not be a pity?"

Ye Zhenren was also flushed with anger from being mocked: "You slut, you are merely relying on the shell you have cultivated for thousands of years. If this shell is broken, you will be powerless and at the mercy of others. Do not be complacent!"

He used the technique of merging the nine fire dragons, then swallowed the fire dragons in one gulp. His entire person transformed into a state with a human body and a dragon tail, with a sun vaguely appearing behind his head. It was exactly "Eastern Emperor Taiyi."

The most primitive image of Eastern Emperor Taiyi was not the "Golden Crow" mentioned in the Great Desolation genre; his image was actually the same as the legendary "Heavenly Emperor Fuxi." Eastern Emperor Taiyi also highly overlapped with the mythology of "Fuxi," being a symbol of the masculine, the deity of the sun.

Ye Zhenren transformed into this image and then offered up the Flame Cart. The flame cart burned with pure golden flames, carving a path of fire in the air as it charged toward Yunxiao.

The golden flames burned through the void, and black cracks appeared in the sky above, resembling the Black Spots on the sun; occasionally, the brightness was too intense to look at directly—those were Flares.

At the same time, Ye Zhenren rubbed a pure golden fireball between his hands. The more one looked at it, the more it resembled a small, illusory sun. It exploded, though it was unknown what its power was.

But even Yunxiao felt extreme danger.

"Junior brother, no!" Zhang Zhenren suddenly intervened: "If this thunder comes out, all life within a hundred miles will be extinguished, returning to the Great Desolation. It is a suicidal move that destroys both sides. Do not let the Tribulation Qi cloud your heart."

Ye Zhenren was stunned, but he had already formed it and could not take it back, so he threw it toward Yunxiao anyway.

Yunxiao splashed the Heaven One Pure Water from the shell. The pure water transformed into Gui Water Essence and Ren Water Essence upon meeting the wind, both in large masses. They collided with the fireball, evaporating in an instant and wearing down the fire power.

Huo Lingmu saw this and rushed into the steam, opening her mouth to swallow, taking the fireball into her belly to refine and suppress it, though she felt an unbearable sense of bloating in her stomach.

"This person deserves to die!" Huo Lingmu complained: "Why are you holding back at every turn? He is aiming to kill you to resolve his own killing tribulation."

She threw the Silver Flood Dragon Sword to Yunxiao, held the Golden Flood Dragon Sword herself, and immediately charged up.

Zhang Zhenren met her, only to feel the temperature rising sharply, with green flames emerging from everywhere.

"You are Bi Fang!"

"It is your grandmother!" The Golden Flood Dragon Sword, wrapped in emerald-green flames, performed a beautiful sword flourish.

Zhang Zhenren flicked out several purple Talismans, producing many lightning Spirit Generals, transforming them into Dao soldiers to intercept the green fire and block the sword flourishes.

Yunxiao also held her sword and thrust toward Ye Zhenren. The sword light carried the power of Taiyin, and the sword stance was quite illusory, vaguely true and false, false and true.

The two of them, with their gold and silver swords, occasionally coordinated. Although it was their first time using them, they were exceptionally tacit.

For a time, they forced Zhang Zhenren and Ye Zhenren to retreat repeatedly.

They feigned a flaw, made a fake thrust, and escaped back into Ganzhou City, not coming out again.

Huo Lingmu wanted to pursue, but Yunxiao stopped her: "Do not pursue. Just now, I vaguely sensed a treasure that extremely restrains you and me revealing its aura. The two of them must be trying to lure us away to divide and conquer. Do not be easily deceived."

Huo Lingmu had no choice but to give up.

On the other side, seeing that the two of them were not fooled, Ye Zhenren asked Zhang Zhenren: "What do we do now?"

"Those two demonesses, one is a thousand-year-old giant clam spirit, the other is a thousand-year-old Bi Fang demon. To deal with them, one must rely on the principles of mutual generation and restraint. Just as a thousand-year-old tree spirit fears a veteran woodcutter, and even the most powerful centipede spirit will have weak legs upon hearing a rooster crow, to deal with her, one must choose a specialized method to pry open her clam shell."

"That would be an iron shovel for prying things open. I remember the Elder in the mountain has a treasure called the Hongxing Shovel, which is a treasure specifically for coastal work and extremely restrains the sea tribes."

"Not only that, there is a Fish Basket Guanyin statue at South Sea Luojia Mountain. As long as we borrow the fish basket from the statue and recite a few times: 'The living stay, the dead depart,' even a veteran sea tribe member will be rotting and dead within a short time."

(End of chapter)