Chapter 378: Inevitable Doom

Cave Heaven!

Almost instantly, Li Yan understood what kind of place this was.

So-called Cave Heaven Blessed Lands actually had two situations.

One is outside, which are famous mountains and great rivers, places where innate gang-qi and spiritual apertures gather, helpful for cultivation, where cultivators rely on them to store spirits and build towers.

There is another type that is relatively secret, also located in famous mountains and great rivers, but it is a unique space that can provide shelter for Earth Immortals.

And the one before him was a bit special.

They seemed to be using the giant clam treasure pearl from the ancient prehistoric era to project the "Guishan" that only existed in the Immortal Realm, or what was called the Great Luo Dala Fajie.

And this place, "Guishan," was the place where Qiongqi lived...

There were many things Li Yan didn't quite understand, but he knew clearly that these people were not immortals, but a nest of Yin-Bureau criminals hiding in this place!

Sure enough, he was shrouded in white mist again.

The situation was urgent, so Li Yan couldn't care about thinking too much; after quickly passing through the white mist, a water well appeared before his eyes.

The difference was that two water wells appeared at the same time.

One was a stone well, and there was also a bronze water well.

Li Yan was stunned when he saw this; he hadn't expected there to be two types of Yin-Bureau criminals in this place!

To this day, he had seen three types of wells.

The stone well was for capturing people who had returned to life, and the bronze water well contained turbid black water; the ones he had to capture were all evil ghosts that had escaped from the Netherworld.

The last black well with blood water was for capturing demonic qi.

Having two types of Yin-Bureau criminals appear at the same time, this place was indeed strange!

Li Yan hurriedly placed his hand on the well rim.

Water surged, and light shadows appeared:

There were shamans of the ancient Fuxi tribe who had committed grave crimes, led the tribe to flee to the vicinity of Xianshan, were guided by an old man, dug in the mountains, and after many years, dug out the giant clam treasure pearl, building the ruins...

Li Yan had seen it at the Goddess of the Han River's place; this old man was precisely the ancient immortal Chishongzi, who cultivated using the treasure pearl, and afterward left Xianshan to travel.

And after Chishongzi left, the Fuxi tribe controlled this place, and gradually some learned the method of transformation, able to turn into Qiongqi fierce beasts.

Afterward, leaders who were about to die would all enter the treasure pearl, while other clansmen would help them capture people everywhere to perform sacrifices, changing their name to the Qiongqi tribe.

In that ancient era, there was no, and this place had also become a holy land for cultivation, and even many tribes came to visit...

Seeing this, Li Yan had vaguely sorted out the context.

The descendants of Shaohao at that time were likely the ones who learned the "Qiongqi" transformation technique in this place.

He continued to look down, and the situation changed again.

This place gradually went out of control; when performing blood sacrifices, black mist would appear out of thin air, turning into the appearance of Qiongqi fierce beasts, drilling into their physical bodies...

It turned out the "Qiongqi" transformation technique came from this!

After accepting all the missions, the white mist before his eyes dissipated instantly.

Just like in the outside world, it seemed to have lasted a long time, but in reality, it was only a short moment.

"Roar!"

A shrill roar resounded through the entire ruin.

Whether it was the later cultivators or the people of the ancient Qiongqi tribe, all turned into fierce beasts, flapping their wings, surrounded by black smoke, and rushed toward the outside of the ruins.

The Heavenly Saint Sect monsters were startled.

They didn't understand what had happened at all and turned to flee, but discovered that this place was like an isolated island.

Outside the giant clam ruins, there were large mountain slopes, and although it looked like clouds and mist were swirling around, if one walked further, it was pitch black, and it seemed to be blocked by an invisible wall.

They wanted to resist, but discovered in terror that the weapons in their hands had disappeared, and even their arts were difficult to use.

Bearing the brunt were the two great monsters.

Whether it was the Donghu Ancestor or the Alligator Master, after entering this place, the wounds on their bodies all disappeared, but they were also unable to use their arts.

They had the largest bodies and attracted the most Qiongqi, so they could only bite and flap around, knocking away the pouncing Qiongqi.

The Donghu Ancestor's strength was slightly stronger, but in this place, the Alligator Master had the advantage; its armor was tough, and it not only knocked away the pouncing Qiongqi time and again but also protected Lu San and the others.

Seeing this, Li Yan didn't dare to have the slightest hesitation, jumped onto the valley in a few leaps, and shouted: "Brother Lu San, close your eyes!"

After saying this, he pinched the token and recited loudly: "Heaven has discipline, earth has order, Yin Bureau captures souls, mortals avoid!"

"Close your eyes quickly!"

Lu San hurriedly admonished the Alligator Master, Wu Ba, and the others upon hearing this.

The Alligator Master also vaguely knew what was going on, closed its eyes immediately, twisted its body, and protected Lu San and the others within, with its tough scales on the outside, letting those Qiongqi fierce beasts bite and tear.

But soon, the biting stopped.

Li Yan picked up the command flags, lit incense and candles, took out yellow paper and cinnabar to write a petition, the general meaning being to request the Luo Feng Mountain to accept the Five Camps of Yin Bureau troops for his use.

Li Yan, standing on the mountain top of the ruins, was also somewhat surprised.

This appearance of the Yin soldiers was very different from the past.

The clouds and mist around suddenly turned pitch black, followed by a whistling wind, which turned into black flags in the air.

Those Qiongqi fierce beasts all turned into human shapes, roaring madly, and ran toward the treasure pearl in the center of the ruins.

However, darkness was like a tide, surging from all directions, engulfing this place.

Li Yan also hurriedly closed his eyes.

But this time, it was a bit different.

He had his Ear-Listening ability and could hear ghost and god language.

In the whistling wind, he could not only hear the sound of chains surging but also the neighing of warhorses and the sound of armor moving.

Vaguely, he also heard people talking in the distance.

"Reporting to the General, all Yin-Bureau criminals have been captured!"

"Smash that clam pearl and fill the loophole, otherwise the Great Luo Dala Fajie's evil qi will continue to flow into the human world, triggering disasters!"

"General, there are too many Yin-Bureau merits this time; if you bestow the gang-order, I'm afraid the remaining amount in our Six Palaces will be insufficient, and we will have to demand it from the Ten Palaces in the future..."

And another voice was silent for a moment, "Take that thing and let this living Yin-Bureau official choose for himself; if he can choose correctly, we won't be violating heavenly laws..."

Li Yan's heart pounded, but he pretended to be expressionless. This Cave Heaven had been completely engulfed by darkness.

Only the giant treasure pearl in the center still emitted a faint blue light, but it was like a candle in the wind, constantly being eroded by the darkness.

Boom!

Finally, the blue light of the treasure pearl dissipated completely.

Everything before Li Yan's eyes went black, and white mist appeared around him again.

He moved forward rapidly, the mist dissipated, and a giant cauldron appeared before his eyes, ancient in form, with a texture like ink jade.

Black light hovered over the cauldron.

Li Yan was very familiar with the aura of those black lights; it was precisely the gang-order.

Besides this, there were five small black flags, looking tattered and unremarkable.

This was clearly asking him to make a choice.

Li Yan pretended to hesitate, then grabbed the five small flags.

!.

In an instant, Yin wind surged around him.

Li Yan slowly opened his eyes again and discovered he had returned to his physical body, only he didn't know when, like those corpses, he was sitting cross-legged on the stone wall cave.

This crystal cave was also undergoing changes.

The blue light around gradually faded, and those corpses decayed rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Not only that, even Wang Chan's stone steles seemed to have been destroyed by some kind of power, shattering all over the ground.

Seeing this, Li Yan felt a pang of heartache.

He had only seen "Great Luo Dala Fajie" and knew a trace of the secrets of the so-called Immortal Realm, how to avoid heavenly laws, and other deeper secrets of heaven and earth, none of which he had time to see.

But it was normal to think so.

If these secrets could be spread at will, Xing Hepu wouldn't have hidden them in this place, and the Yin soldiers would definitely destroy them upon seeing them.

Crack! Crack!

As the blue light faded, this stone cave formed by the treasure pearl also lost its spiritual charm, turning into something like plaster, with cracks appearing one after another.

Li Yan couldn't care about anything else, hurriedly stood up, stepped on the gang-steps, pinched a spell, and used the North Emperor Profound Xuan Xuan Shui Dun.

This place was buried deep at the bottom of the river; once it shattered, river water and silt would inevitably surge in frantically, and he had to find an opportunity to escape.

Boom!

Finally, the stone cave collapsed completely, and river water and silt poured down instantly, swallowing all the decaying corpses.

Just as this place was completely destroyed, Li Yan's hidden strength exploded, he crashed directly through the top, used the power of the Profound Xuan Xuan Shui Dun, twisted his body constantly, and rushed out against the silt and water flow.

However, as the treasure pearl was destroyed, the bottom of this underground river returned to normal, currents surged, silt flowed, forming a huge suction force.

It was as if a pair of giant hands were dragging Li Yan down.

Just at this moment, a black shadow whistled over; it was precisely the Alligator Master.

The Alligator Dragon was good at digging holes; its four limbs surged, its head drilled directly into the silt, it pushed Li Yan out, and swam rapidly to the water surface.

"Brother Li!"

On the stone platform, Lu San waved his hands and shouted.

"Hahaha..."

Having survived a disaster, Li Yan was also in a good mood and jumped onto the stone platform in a single leap.

He saw that around the stone platform, those monsters were dead all over the ground, their skin pale and blue, their eyes filled with terror, and there was white frost on their clothes.

When Li Yan saw this, he knew what was going on.

Lu San and he had walked all the way here and long known the taboos of the Yin Bureau capturing people; one must restrain curiosity and not look around randomly.

These people were likely guilty of taboos and were taken away directly.

Thinking of this, Li Yan looked at the river surface again.

The underground river was surging and violent, and the Donghu Ancestor's corpse was floating on the water, also covered in white frost, clearly also an unlucky curious baby.

And the Alligator Master was biting its body and dragging it toward the shore.

Thump!

After landing, the Donghu Ancestor's body was thrown heavily onto the ground.

He saw the Alligator Master open its big mouth and rip the Donghu Ancestor open.

Li Yan frowned, "Ancestor, now is not the time for a meal..."

Before he could finish speaking, his expression changed, and he hurriedly stepped forward.

He saw that after the Alligator Master tore the Donghu Ancestor's belly open, its internal organs flowed out, stinking to high heaven.

Not only that, its internal organs had also changed.

Its liver had turned into the appearance of a stone block, covered in dense holes, like a honeycomb, with white gu-insects wriggling inside.

When the Alligator Master saw this, it let out a low roar.

Lu San understood instantly and said: "The Alligator Master has been hit by gu; this thing must be taken away and burned dry to be used for curing gu..."

However, Li Yan couldn't care about saying more and stepped forward directly, waving his blade to dissect the small stomach bag next to the Donghu Ancestor's stomach.

Clatter, clatter!

Dense copper coins surged out.

Lu San was stunned, "So many suppression coins?"

Li Yan shook his head: "This Donghu Ancestor was enlightened by Master Liu Hai; it must have seen a real Three-Legged Golden Toad, but unfortunately, it ended up on an evil path."

As he spoke, his expression was solemn as he took out a few from the suppression coins.

They were precisely Three-Talent Demon-Suppressing Coins!

And in this pile of money, just a rough look revealed dozens of Three-Talent Demon-Suppressing Coins, and there were quite a few other treasure coins as well.

Li Yan had once entrusted people to search for the descendants of those old soldiers, and even if he couldn't find them, he could collect Three-Talent Demon-Suppressing Coins.

Unfortunately, all the people had gone missing.

It turned out the Three-Talent Demon-Suppressing Coins had all been collected by Zhao Changsheng.

If not for an accident, his family's would likely be among them.

Crack!

Just at this moment, the ruins cracked, shattering like a spider web, splitting open a large mouth from bottom to top.

"Not good!"

Li Yan hurriedly packed the treasure coins on the ground and said: "This place relies entirely on the spiritual charm of the treasure pearl; the treasure pearl is destroyed, so this place won't last long, let's leave quickly!"

The Donghu Ancestor's treasures, besides that pile of suppression coins, also contained several iron boxes, but Li Yan couldn't care about checking them, tore open the Donghu Ancestor's skin, and packed everything together.

Lu San also cut off the Donghu Ancestor's liver and packed it into the leather bag.

Li Yan looked around and took out the compass again.

Sure enough, the compass had returned to normal.

After seeing the direction clearly, Li Yan said directly: "Alligator Master, east along the underground river, there is a waterway that leads to the mountains of Xianshan."

"You take them, and I'll lead the way in front!"

"Roar!"

The Alligator Master let out a roar, opened its big mouth, held Lu San, Wu Ba, the little white fox Chuchu, and the two leather bags, twisted its body, and jumped into the water.

And Li Yan used the Profound Xuan Xuan Shui Dun again, followed closely, jumped into the water, lay on the Alligator Master's head, and dove into the karst cave waterway, disappearing without a trace...

Rumble!

Not long after they left, the ruins collapsed constantly, large stone blocks fell, and the underground river water surged frantically.

Dense "Jing people" drilled out of the ruins, looking at the scene before them, filled with panic and at a loss.

"Jing people" live in service to gods.

For thousands of years, they had been attracted by the treasure pearl Cave Heaven and protected by it; now that the treasure pearl had shattered, they had lost all hope.

Just at this moment, the water flow in the river suddenly formed a vortex.

"Hee hee hee..."

It seemed that a woman's giggling came from the river water.

The "Jing people" instantly brightened, danced and gestured, kowtowing constantly toward the river water...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 379 =====

Just then, cracks appeared in the ruins, shattering like a spiderweb, and from bottom to top, a large opening split wide.

"Not good!"

Li Yan hurriedly packed up the treasure coins on the ground, saying at the same time, "This place relies entirely on the spiritual resonance of the treasure pearl to hold up. The pearl is destroyed, so this place won't last long. Let's get out of here quickly!"

Among the treasures of the Donghu Ancestor, besides that pile of suppression coins, there were several iron boxes, but Li Yan no longer had the time to inspect them; he tore open the Donghu Ancestor's skin bag and packed everything inside in one go.

Lu San also cut out the Donghu Ancestor's liver and stuffed it into the skin bag.

Li Yan looked around and took out his Luo Pan again.

Sure enough, the Luo Pan had returned to normal.

After clearly identifying the direction, Li Yan spoke directly: "Senior Tuoshi, there is a waterway to the east of the underground river that leads into the mountains of Xianshan."

"You take them, and I will lead the way in front!"

"Roar!"

The Tuoshi let out a hiss, opened its large mouth, and held Lu San, Wu Ba, the little white fox Chuchu, and the two skin bags all inside. With a twist of its body, it leaped into the water.

As for Li Yan, he once again used the Profound Xuan Xuan Shui Dun, followed closely behind, leaped into the water, lay on the Tuoshi's head, and disappeared into the karst cave waterway...

Rumble!

Not long after they left, the ruins collapsed continuously, large swaths of stone fell, and the underground river water surged violently.

Dense swarms of "Jing people" crawled out from the ruins, looking at the scene before them with panic-stricken faces, at a loss for what to do.

The "Jing people" lived by serving gods.

For thousands of years, they had been drawn by the treasure pearl's cave heaven and protected by it; now that the pearl had shattered, their hope was gone as well.

Just then, the water in the river suddenly formed a whirlpool.

"Hee hee hee..."

It seemed as if the giggling of a woman was coming from the water.

The "Jing people" immediately had their eyes light up, dancing with joy, and began to kowtow repeatedly toward the river water...

(End of chapter)