Chapter 911: Scorpion Queen

Yan Buji's eyes reflected the figures of the thirty‑six descending Dao paths, the void‑refining cultivators who had previously pursued them!

Only now the group was enveloped in pink mist, evidently all struck by a divine technique!

The leading purple‑robed elder erupted fire from his seven orifices, the Town Mountain Seal turned into a phantom mountain that slammed down. That would have pulverized a transformation deity cultivator in a single strike, but it fell apart the instant it met the blood spear.

The shattered spiritual light, before it could disperse, was inhaled by Yan Buji, who opened his mouth and drew it into his belly.

"Tastes good." He licked his lips, his pupils fully turning into blood‑colored vortices, "Next one."

City Lord Da Xiong summoned his life treasure "Nine Heavens Thunder Pool", ten thousand purple‑sky divine thunders transformed into a dragon vortex and thundered down.

Lin Qingli curled up in the rock crevice, watching Yan Buji meet the thunderstorm without flinching, and even stretched his body within the lightning as if bathed in a spring breeze. Even more terrifying, the divine thunders, upon touching his skin, all turned an ambiguous pink!

"How could this be......" she dug her fingernail into her palm.

Purple Sky Divine Thunder is a yang‑born thing, how could it be tainted by desire?

The answer soon revealed itself.

When the Thunder Pool's energy was exhausted, Yan Buji chuckled lightly and also employed a Thunder Seed!

He exhaled softly; the sky filled with pink thunder rolled back, and the struck cultivators instantly flushed crimson, their Dao Hearts collapsing as they tore at their own robes.

"This is also Purple Sky Divine Thunder." Yan Buji strolled through the frantic crowd, his fingertip brushing a cultivator's heavenly spirit cover: "All seven emotions and six desires can be turned into calamities."

The cultivator suddenly stiffened, his lifelong cultivation surged into Yan Buji's body like a flood released from a dam.

At the same time, the silver sand in the sand abyss began to boil, countless sand demons shrieked and lunged at the survivors.

Lin Qingli finally saw his fighting style; it wasn't a slaughter but seemed to relish a banquet!

"Go!"

Yan Buji sensed that the pursuers behind grew ever more numerous, and the sense of danger intensified, and he kept running with Lin Qingli!

The relentless desert sun baked the air into twisted ripples; Yan Buji's robes had long been soaked with sweat, then instantly evaporated in the heat, leaving fine salt crystals.

Lin Qingli's ice threads coiled around their wrists, the frost continuously melted and dripped, blooming fleeting blue lotuses on the sand.

"Spiritual power is draining faster than expected,"

She gasped, tightening the ice threads, "If we don't find an oasis within three hours......" Before she could finish, Yan Buji suddenly yanked her back ten zhang, the sand they had stepped on collapsed into a funnel vortex, countless sand grains infused with spiritual energy crawled up their ankles like living things.

"It's the hunting ground of the Mysterious Sand Scorpion Queen." Yan Buji wiped the blood from his mouth corner, and the grayish crystal atop his Rift Staff suddenly flared. The staff's trail tore three serrated cracks in the air, swallowing the incoming sand wave into void.

Yet more quicksand seeped from the crack edges, carrying a corrosive, ink‑green toxic fog that began to unveil the domain of the Void‑Refining Beast.

When the nine‑section scorpion tail burst through the sand, the entire desert seemed washed by an inverted celestial river.

Each carapace segment displayed golden Dao patterns, and the sandstorm tornado spewed by the poisonous needles mixed with shattered law chains.

Yan Buji pushed Lin Qingli toward the ice‑thread barrier behind, and the Sea Whale Hammer crashed down onto the ground.

The hammer's body bore moving whale patterns like a living thing; azure water waves formed a massive whale illusion that surged skyward. This was because Yan Buji, having mastered the Essence Law, directly mobilized the five‑element Dao Marks bearing the essence to command the Sea Whale Hammer; he hadn't expected that the first release would trigger the hidden Peng Whale power within the hammer.

But honestly, the Sea Whale Hammer was merely a six‑turn Accumulation Device, and when it struck the tornado, it was pierced by countless sand grains; the water spirit qi was assimilated and absorbed by the chaos Dao patterns in the sandstorm!

"Watch the domain's property!" Lin Qingli bit her fingertip, drawing an ice soul formation on the sand: "It can devour the five‑element spiritual energy!"

Yan Buji's pupils contracted, the twelve scorpion‑tail afterimages blocked all retreat.

Using Instant Shadow Step, he traced starry tracks on the sand, narrowly evading three body‑penetrating poisonous needles, while his right shoulder was still torn open by the residual wave, exposing a deep blood groove down to bone.

The deadly toxin seeped along the wound, eroding the meridians; the Reverse Fate Candle Night suddenly flew from his chest, a feral ghost mask appeared on his back, and it sucked out all the poison that had entered his body.

"Good chicken!"

"Kiki ki!"

The Reverse Fate Candle Night seemed to express its displeasure, saying it was not a chicken, but a Reverse Fate Candle Night.

"Heaven's Four Symbols!" Yan Buji spat out pure blood to dye the Sea Whale Hammer crimson, and ancient turtle‑snake roars echoed from deep desert.

Fist and palm force shadows enveloped a hundred‑zhang radius, the scorpion tail struck the barrier, scattering bronze‑colored sparks.

Lin Qingli seized the chance to unfold "Nine Heavens Cold Jade Manual", the ice threads split into three hundred sixty formation flags planted into the quicksand; the extreme cold temporarily solidified the writhing sand sea.

"Maintain ten breaths!"

She let blood seep from her seven orifices, apparently invoking a formidable secret technique, forcibly elevating her realm to the later stage of incarnation, barely reaching near Void‑Refining strength; at this moment the ice formation was being layer by layer shattered by the rising chaos force beneath the sand.

Yan Buji took the opportunity to leap into the high air, the Rift Staff opened a rift for traversal.

The massive whale illusion reappeared, this time wrapped with silver glints of spatial stingers.

When the hammer fell, the desert's water element was forcibly extracted, condensing in the rift's torn void into a Heavy Mercury River.

The Scorpion Queen emitted a painful screech, five scorpion tails were crushed by the river, and at the wound sites gold sand particles interlaced with Dao patterns surged forth, instantly rebirthing.

The sand sea suddenly boiled like lava, and the Scorpion Queen's hundred‑zhang true form finally manifested.

The chaos Dao patterns flowing on the carapace formed an Innate Eight Trigrams Diagram, and between the opening and closing pincers, yin and yang qi circulated.

"Humans... become nourishment for the desert..." The sand's hoarse divine thought trembled souls, and Lin Qingli's ice formation shattered with a roar.

Yan Buji held Wenwu Fire in his left hand, and drew the True Phoenix Bow from his right!

In an instant!

True Fire Arrow collided with the Scorpion Queen's Chaotic Breath, space cycled between annihilation and rebirth.

Yan Buji let out a fierce cough, shocked as he stared at the Earth Spikes suddenly erupting from below; even though he reacted in time to dodge, the massive earth‑origin force burst his blood vessels, and even deploying heavy armor and exhausting all effort could not fully absorb the backlash.

The Scorpion Queen's chest lit up with dazzling gold light; in the wound pierced by the True Phoenix Bow arrow emerged a walnut‑sized fate core.

Yan Buji teleported to the fate core, the Sea Whale Hammer gathered its final spiritual power and struck down, only to see countless sand grains forming miniature scorpion shadows on the core's surface—this beast had hidden parts of its primordial spirit within each grain of sand!

The scorpion tail seized the chance to pierce Yan Buji's abdomen, the venom instantly corroded his organs.

"Now!" Lin Qingli detonated the nine pre‑buried ice souls in the sand sea, the extreme cold temporarily froze the Scorpion Queen's primordial spirit from reconstituting.

Yan Buji let the venom eat him, raised both hands, uttered a law, grasped a High‑grade Spirit Stone and roared: "Zodiac Battle Formation!" The twelve zodiac signs emerged from the river of time to guard around him, then he recklessly consumed the stocked High‑grade Spirit Stones to continue invoking the Four Seasons Scenery, briefly altering the desert's weather!

"Die!"

Yan Buji unleashed a punch, releasing all the essence‑borne power within him.

Chaos Break!

The Scorpion Queen was blasted several hundred meters by that punch, her dying struggle triggered the explosion of her fated demon crystal, and the entire desert began to collapse into a black hole......