Chapter 296: Eight Demon-Suppressing Halls, Demon of Reincarnation, Demonic Magic Treasure

"Look ahead!" Xiao Yu raised his head, his gaze crossing the forest of pagodas, pointing forward in horror. The big guy and the old Daoist beside him followed his gaze, and were instantly stunned by the scene before them!

"Those are the eight iron halls we saw!"

They saw that between the gray heaven and earth, strands of Nine Heavens demonic qi gathered into a deep abyss of demons. At the center of the abyss, the most terrifying place of the demonic land, stood eight towering iron halls, with a surging blood river circling outside them.

A Bagua divine furnace stood amidst the eight iron halls, the divine fire beneath the furnace having long since extinguished.

The iron halls were ancient and dilapidated, incomparably grand, almost comparable to a small city. The eight iron halls were connected by iron chains, possessing a majestic momentum. The heavy black iron looked ancient and grand, with an extremely old style, giving people an extremely desolate feeling.

Xiao Yu's legs were trembling, and he whispered: "Are we going into these iron halls to steal opportunities and fortune?"

The old Daoist's face was also incomparably solemn, even turning a bit pale. He used the Yin-Yang Qi-Observing Art to look at the demonic abyss, and was suddenly terrified and speechless: "The demonic abyss, there really is a demonic abyss leading to the Nine Heavens in this world!"

"The geomantic situation here!" The old Daoist was covered in cold sweat: "I can't see it at all... but inside those eight iron halls, there must be an extremely terrifying existence being suppressed."

"Xiao Yu, how about we forget about this fortune!" The old Daoist gritted his teeth, his face full of terror: "The stone tablet at the entrance was right; this is indeed a place for suppressing demons, and what is being suppressed is definitely a Supreme Supreme Tian Mo comparable to an immortal!"

Seeing his expression, Xiao Yu felt even more uneasy: "Is something wrong?"

The old Daoist pointed: "Do you see that Demon-Suppressing Hall? The blood river piercing through the demonic blood is the residual blood flowing down from the steps in front of the hall. The demon suppressed there, just a little blood flowing out, turned into the extremely evil blood river of this place."

"Why did we stop caring about that soul-hooking Yin Spirit just now when we escaped to the opposite side?"

"Why?" Ma Laohei asked, terrified.

"Because he didn't dare to cross that blood river! Teacher dared to lead us on that path above, preferring to borrow a path from the Ghost King rather than take us across that blood river."

"That is the General General Xuehe of the Nine Heavens!" Qian Chen arrived beside them at some point, whispering: "Legend has it that the blood river connects to the Nine Heavens Demon Realm, and the resentful souls and fierce ghosts of the human world drift with the waves to the Nine Heavens. The demons in the Nine Heavens can also go against the current and come to the human world. Hidden within the blood river are very terrifying demons. They are transformed from the strange life-force of the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo's essence blood suppressed in the Eight-Phase Demon-Suppressing Halls!"

"Teacher, what kind of fortune do you want us to steal from those eight iron halls?" Xiao Yu couldn't help but ask.

"There is a supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo suppressed there. It is already an existence beyond imagination, its demonic body filled with demonic nature, impossible to kill, only to be suppressed. It is extremely dangerous for you to steal fortune from it."

"It can be said that you are to steal a bit of divinity born after the supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo's demonic body was suppressed."

"The Demon-Suppressing Halls are divided into eight phases: Qian, Kun, Xun, Dui, Gen, Zhen, Li, and Kan, arranged according to the Bagua. They are the Demon-Suppressing Halls—Jade Emperor Court, Nine Heavens Qi, Avici Ghost, Void Mirror Life, Indestructible Bone, Demon Painted Skin, Azure Heaven Blood, and Wucang Prefecture."

"They respectively suppress the brain, qi, soul, eyes, bones, skin, blood, and viscera of that supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo."

"Dismembered and suppressed!" Xiao Yu felt uneasy in his heart: "That ruthless?"

"Ruthless?" Qian Chen said indifferently with his hands behind his back: "That's because after the supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo was dismembered, its residual bodies all transformed into a Supreme Supreme Tian Mo, immortal and indestructible, comparable to a Primordial Spirit True Immortal. If any part of the residual body flows out, it could cause monstrous slaughter."

"The entire Earth Immortal Realm would flow with blood!"

"Each part of its residual body is a supreme demonic cultivation technique, capable of cultivating into a Supreme Supreme Tian Mo." Qian Chen pointed to the blood river: "Just a little blood flowing out is equivalent to an immortal demonic body, a General General Xuehe Demon God."

"Now you know why I didn't take you across the river!"

The group felt their scalps go numb. The green ox stood carefully behind Qian Chen, stretching out its head, looking nervously at the eight iron halls. Tao Kan pulled its tail, and the green ox flicked its tail impatiently, whispering: "Don't move around, that kid is right. I swear in the name of my ancestor, the Azure Dragon of the East, that inside those eight iron halls, what is being suppressed is definitely something very fierce."

"My origin of Wood is trembling. See that iron hall written 'Wucang Prefecture'? Inside is hidden the innate Five Elements Qi."

"The Supreme Supreme Tian Mo's viscera and five qi rotate. If they rotate in order, they create endless life-force, capable of opening a small world. If they rotate in reverse, the world collapses, and the aura of destruction is enough to severely injure me, and even a Primordial Spirit True Immortal would have their origin ground away!"

The green ox was a bit puzzled: "This demon cave should be an arrangement from the last ten thousand years, but why have I, Old Ox, never heard of such a supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo appearing?"

Qian Chen whispered: "Because that Supreme Supreme Tian Mo is not from this realm!"

"He comes from the Land of Reincarnation!"

"The Land of Reincarnation?" The old Daoist and the others exclaimed in unison, feeling that this name was mysterious and unfathomable, full of immeasurable aura, ancient and mysterious.

The green ox also chanted: "The Land of Reincarnation?"

"Yes!" Qian Chen nodded slightly: "Legend has it that it is a secret place among the countless realms of the cosmos, very ancient. In the history of the Earth Immortal Realm, it has only appeared a few times, and each time it has set off a terrifying tribulation. The decline of the Earth Immortal Realm to this day has its reasons."

Qian Chen thought to himself: I'm not lying to you. If the Land of Reincarnation appears in the eyes of the world, it must be a heaven-shaking mission, inevitably accompanied by a great tribulation. Just like the Chang'an demon tribulation.

"The decline of the Earth Immortal Realm naturally has its reasons. Don't look at how many of the Supreme Three Treasures are in the Land of Reincarnation? And the inheritance spiritual treasures of the Demon Sect and the Buddhist Sect..."

"I have also heard of the Land of Reincarnation!" The green ox said solemnly. Its expression was incomparably solemn, no longer oily or slippery.

Tao Kan was suddenly terrified, and he whispered: "Could it be... ancestor?"

The green ox nodded slightly: "Since I was young, I followed your ancestor, True Person Tao Qian. At that time, the True Person had already attained the Primordial Spirit and went to the Peach Blossom Realm to visit friends. As a result, the Peach Blossom Realm suffered a great tribulation, and the True Person's close friend fell. It was then that he mentioned the Land of Reincarnation."

"That place, even the True Person was very wary of. He said that even the Heavenly Court couldn't do anything about it! A tribulation in the Peach Blossom Realm was caused by the battle between several mysterious figures from the Land of Reincarnation. Legend has it that in that realm, time is pierced, and some people have stood in the past and future at the same time, striking at great enemies."

"So, among True Persons like Tao Qian who have attained the Primordial Spirit, there is also news of the Land of Reincarnation circulating. Listening to what the green ox said, Tao Qian should not be a reincarnator, but he also knows some things about reincarnators, such as that reincarnators can cross time and space to perform missions." Qian Chen analyzed in his heart.

The crowd looked at the eight Demon-Suppressing Halls, feeling uneasy in their hearts. Someone said: "If a Supreme Supreme Tian Mo from the Land of Reincarnation is being suppressed there, then who suppressed such a terrifying existence? In our realm, could there still be a Dao Lord?"

"The foundation of the Earth Immortal Realm is too deep; it's not strange to have a Dao Lord!" The green ox said.

"According to the tablet, the person who suppressed that demon was a senior of the Louguan Dao." The green ox nodded slightly: "The inheritance of the Louguan Dao is very extraordinary. It is said that the founder of the sect once heard the Supreme Dao Xie Xie Zushi preach! It is one of the true transmissions of the Dao Xie Xie Zushi recognized by the Supreme Dao!"

"Actually only 'heard' the Dao Xie Xie Zushi preach!" Qian Chen was a bit speechless.

As one of the two direct disciples of the Supreme Dao Xie Xie Zushi, True Person Wenshi, the author of the "Dao De Jing." Now, in the impression of others, he is actually just a figure who was lucky enough to hear the Dao Xie Xie Zushi preach—how poorly has the Louguan Dao been doing in the past million years!

Even the sacred traces of the founder are known to few!

Xiao Yu said with a trembling voice: "Are we really going to those eight iron halls?"

Qian Chen pondered for a moment and said: "The way out should be there."

Looking in the direction of the iron halls, the fire beneath the Eight-Scene Furnace had long since gone cold. When Qian Chen was explaining, he intentionally or unintentionally ignored the divine furnace. Some people saw it, but didn't speak.

The eight iron halls trembled slightly, and an aura soared into the sky, making people tremble, which was incomparably terrifying. That aura was more powerful than any strong person they had ever seen in their lives, far exceeding a cultivator in the Yang Spirit realm!

No wonder Qian Chen always suspected that his demonic nature didn't come from himself, but was left behind by the Supreme One.

He even had to dismember and suppress it.

How long has this demonic nature been out with Qian Chen? Qian Chen is now only in the Penetrating Law realm, capable of fighting mere Yang Spirit cultivators, but what about the demonic body? I'm afraid if a Demon Lord came, it could swallow him up.

If this demonic nature continues to grow, Qian Chen fears that before he becomes an immortal, his demonic body will have already become the Third Demon Xie Xie Zushi!

The terror of this aura was enough to shake the Nine Heavens. Even if a Nine Heavens Demon Lord came, he would feel wary.

The residual bodies of the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo suppressed in the eight Demon-Suppressing Halls sensed Qian Chen's approach and struggled, causing the entire demonic abyss to tremble. The aura of the demonic abyss churned, and the center seemed to be returning to chaos!

Beneath the Nine Lands connected by the demon cave, the turbid Yin qi gathered rapidly. With just one tremor, the demon cave expanded by a point, and the place where the demonic body was suppressed evolved into the prototype of the Nine Heavens Demon Realm, manifesting the terror of the future Third Demon Xie Xie Zushi—the Primordial Demon Xie Xie Zushi.

The green ox said with a trembling voice: "We'd better not go forward!"

"I want to return the way I came. Anyway, that path won't take much of my lifespan." The green ox muttered: "Even if a Primordial Spirit True Immortal came, they might not dare to explore those eight iron halls."

Tao Kan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said: "This place is no longer something we can handle! After we get out, we must inform the Dao Academy."

"Don't!" The green ox said: "The Dao Academy is not as powerful as you think, or rather, it was once very powerful, but with the discord among the three Heavenly Masters, the splitting of Mount Juqu, Mount Gezao, and Mount Longhu, telling the Dao Academy such news might not solve the problem, and could even lead to a great disaster."

"Even if you are bold enough to reach the sky, you won't be able to release the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo suppressed in the iron halls."

"But the Dao Academy might!"

After a while, the trembling of the Demon-Suppressing Halls disappeared. Several people withdrew their gazes and began to examine the forest of pagodas in front of them. The top of the Bone Pagoda was pure gold, shining with a circle of light, from which faint wish-power emanated. Xiao Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, then said: "Something in the pagoda is being worshipped! Wish-power is overflowing..."

At this moment, a loose cultivator rushed out from a dilapidated bone pagoda, holding a giant iron hand. The spiritual light on the iron hand was mottled, as if many seals had collapsed, but it still retained about twenty-one layers of Yuan Yuan Tiangang seals.

It was a supreme magic treasure comparable to the inheritance of a great clan.

Two people were chasing behind the loose cultivator, and someone roared: "Leave the magic treasure, and I'll spare your life!"

That cultivator of the Lei family had escape light mixed with thunder, extremely furious.

Originally, everyone hadn't paid attention to those collapsed bone pagodas, and it was only out of caution that he hadn't touched those intact Bone Pagodas. But who would have thought that while searching the collapsed bone pagodas, this person would be the first to find a precious magic treasure.

Twenty layers of seals, and it was a Yuan Yuan Tiangang magic treasure; even in a great clan, it was rare.

Unless one was of the direct line of the family head or a direct descendant of an elder, one wouldn't even get to see it.

At this moment, everyone seemed to wake up. From the direction of several dilapidated bone pagodas, intense sounds came, as if people were fighting. Soon, several more magic treasures appeared, were snatched by people, and they fled into the demonic abyss.

The remaining people were blinded by greed.

They actually began to attack the intact bone pagodas.

How could Qian Chen not know? These magic treasures were all placed here by him. The dilapidated bone pagodas were all side-door magic treasures with barely modified seals that could still be used. But those intact bone pagodas were flawless demonic magic treasures that were undergoing refinement.

He put a few side-door magic treasures here just to give opportunities to later generations. As long as the person who snatched them could escape this place alive, Qian Chen didn't care about those things.

But attacking the intact bone pagodas would trigger Qian Chen's previous arrangements.

Soon, the loose cultivators and great clans attacking the Bone Pagodas triggered the anomaly of the magic treasures on top of the pagodas. A string of human bone prayer beads—the one worn around the neck of the barbarian monk of the Black Witch Sect killed by Qian Chen—was strung together by skulls and was originally a witchcraft magic treasure.

Now only nine skull prayer beads remained, and the seals had fallen to the level of a top-tier magic treasure.

In the forest of bone pagodas, its power was considered formidable.

The skull prayer beads floated on top of the Bone Pagoda, opening their jaws in nine directions. A ghostly light flashed in their eyes, and a loose cultivator who was being watched suddenly spat out: "Om, Mani, Padme, Hum..."

The Zen sound was distorted, trembling with resentment and evil. The sound was as harsh as bones rubbing together, making people unable to help but tremble.

That loose cultivator's body twisted, his four limbs wrapping around his torso, twisting like a tight screw, just like that, 'crack, crack', twisting himself into a human pillar. On his skin, black witchcraft curse patterns emerged inch by inch, and in a short while, they covered his entire body, dense and numerous.

"Living Sacrifice Pillar!" The old Daoist gasped.

Soon, five living sacrifice pillars were erected near that bone pagoda, and the original cultivation, essence blood, soul, and magic power of those five human pillars were all converted into a strange curse, contributed to the human bone prayer beads.

Every time the living sacrifice pillar chanted the distorted six-character mantra, the seals on the bone prayer beads were refined once, actually repairing a seal very quickly.

"If you don't have the ability to subdue these demonic magic treasures, don't make a move casually... otherwise, you will become the material for them to repair themselves!" Qian Chen warned these people helplessly.

Looking at the evil nature of the bone prayer beads, the remaining people were a bit afraid, but in the forest of pagodas, several other demonic magic treasures had already been revealed.

There were human skin banners standing up, long knives made from arm bones, magic wheels burning with ghost fire, ancient tortoise shells covered in cracks, and even three and a half copper coins engraved with characters no one recognized.

These demonic magic treasures exerted their power together, leaving behind several more people. Either they were rolled into the banners and used their own skin to repair the scriptures, or they were blood-sacrificed by the bone knives, their heads suddenly severed, and a cavity of essence blood spilled toward the bone pagoda.

With one turn of the magic wheel, a person's soul was extracted and burned dry as fuel.

A crack appeared on the tortoise shell, and someone died mysteriously due to an accident. A dignified cultivator sneezed, actually shattering all the bones in his body, dying in extreme pain.

Blood seeped from the copper coins, and those who passed by all drilled into the eyes of the coins.

The shells they left behind had eyes filled with blood, and their eyeballs were embedded in a copper coin, rolling around...

The remaining people, either voluntarily or forced by these demonic magic treasures, all stepped into the demonic abyss. Lei Yu protected his son and also retreated into the demonic abyss, but his expression was a bit hesitant and solemn.

The boy trembled, grabbing his sleeve and saying: "Father! When can we get out of here?"

Lei Yu was speechless.

He heard the boy say again: "Father, those magic treasures seem to be deliberately driving us this way... as if, driving us to be offered to some more terrifying existence!"

Lei Yu looked back at the eight iron halls in front that were like small cities, and said solemnly: "But what retreat do we have? The Lei family has been inherited for a thousand years and cannot perish in my hands just like this!"

The boy whispered: "There is still the Old Xie Xie Zushi! The Old Xie Xie Zushi will definitely be able to save us!"

Lei Yu revealed a bitter smile. When he saw Jin Zhong die in the hands of the Ghost King holding the iron hook, he had already begun to suspect that his group might all die here.

Even if the Yin Spirit Old Xie Xie Zushi of the Lei family came, it would just be one more sacrifice! ===== CHAPTER 297 =====