Chapter 56

"Puff!"

The dark golden sword qi was peerless and sharp, accurately sweeping across the neck of a Youming Sect disciple who was fully focused on maintaining the array. The disciple's body stiffened, his eyes filled with confusion and horror, his head rolled to the ground, blood sprayed, destroying the stability of the array.

The other disciples were shocked, and before they could react, several more tricky and ruthless sword qi shot out from the shadows!

"Ambush!"

"Watch the flank!"

Screams sounded one after another, and in a blink of an eye, those Youming Sect disciples responsible for the array were either dead or injured, and the weakening array they set up collapsed instantly!

Elder Youquan and others who were in a stalemate with the spirit battle array ahead noticed the movement behind them and were shocked and angry.

"What kind of rat, dare to ruin our Holy Sect's great event?!" A peak Golden Core Elder roared, splitting a ghost fire stream to sweep toward where Lin Xuan was hiding.

Lin Xuan succeeded in one strike, did not linger, "Shrinking the Earth into an Inch" exerted, his figure flickered continuously in the shadows of the tunnel, easily avoiding that attack. He did not fight hard with the other party, just relied on his movement technique and the metal-attribute sword qi he disguised to constantly harass and sneak-attack those Youming Sect disciples with lower cultivation, attacking their vital points, disrupting their attack rhythm.

"Form array! Kill this bastard hiding his head and showing his tail first!" Elder Youquan was so angry that his ghost fire rose, and he had to split a portion of his manpower to deal with this sudden variable, Lin Xuan.

However, Lin Xuan was slippery, not fighting them head-on at all. Although his harassment could not directly severely damage the Youming Sect's main force, it greatly relieved the pressure on those ancient spirits.

The spirit battle array's pressure lightened, and the spirit general holding a broken spear, whose aura reached late-stage Golden Core, had his soul fire flourish, seized the opportunity, let out a silent roar, and the battle array suddenly contracted, turning into a sharp "knife," stabbing fiercely at the Youming Sect's formation that had a weak link due to splitting troops!

"Kill!"

The broken weapons erupted with their final glory, carrying a tragic will of going forward without retreat, instantly involving and strangling two mid-stage Golden Core Youming Sect cultivators who couldn't dodge in time!

"Bastard!" Elder Youquan's eyes were about to split, and he had to turn back to rescue, making the scene even more chaotic.

This was the effect Lin Xuan wanted! He was like a poisonous snake wandering on the edge of the battlefield, constantly creating chaos and weakening the Youming Sect's power. His gaze, however, was always locked on that giant rune metal door and the Youming Soul-Suppressing Token vibrating more and more violently in his arms.

Taking advantage of a gap in dodging, he approached the door silently. The "Eye of Truth" fully operated, scanning the runes on the door.

These runes were incomparably complex, containing powerful sealing power, but some of them, especially some key nodes near the center of the door, their energy flow trajectories and fluctuation frequencies actually echoed with the Youming Soul-Suppressing Token in his hand!

"Sure enough! This Soul-Suppressing Token is the key to controlling or reinforcing the seal here!" Lin Xuan was certain in his heart.

He tried to probe a strand of weak spiritual sense, mixed with the simulated metal-attribute spiritual energy, cautiously toward a rune node on the door that echoed with the Soul-Suppressing Token.

Hum!

That rune node lit up slightly, and the door seemed to shake gently. Although the change was extremely subtle, Lin Xuan clearly felt that the palpitation from the Soul-Suppressing Token in his arms added a trace of "affinity" and "longing"!

There's a way!

But he didn't dare to make big moves; the battlefield was chaotic now, and any obvious abnormal movement toward the door might attract attacks from both sides simultaneously.

Just as he was thinking about how to take further action, a change occurred again!

On the other side of the tunnel, a violent explosion suddenly came, and amidst the flying rubble, a violent lightning sword gang like an angry dragon swept in, instantly splitting two blocking Youming Sect disciples into coke!

"Youming Sect scum, actually playing tricks here! Die!"

Accompanied by a cold drink, a figure wrapped in purple lightning killed into the battlefield fiercely; it was Ye Chen!

He was not alone, followed by two powerful companions, one with vast blood energy, one with an ethereal aura, exactly the two who fought side by side with him in the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range!

Their appearance was like pouring a ladle of cold water into a boiling oil pan, making the already chaotic battle situation completely out of control!

"Ye Chen!" Elder Youquan's face changed drastically, not expecting the Imperial Dynasty's geniuses to find this place so quickly!

Ye Chen's gaze was like electricity, sweeping across the field instantly, seeing the ancient spirits fighting to the death, seeing the Youming Sect crowd fighting with the spirits, and finally, his gaze fell on that rune door, a trace of gravity flashing in his eyes. He clearly also knew the key to this place.

"Guard the seal, execute the demons!" Ye Chen did not hesitate at all, pointed his long sword, and the brilliant lightning roared toward Elder Youquan! His two companions also attacked simultaneously, attacking the other peak Golden Core Elder.

Their joining made the balance of the battle situation tilt instantly! The ancient spirits' pressure was greatly reduced, and they began to cooperate with Ye Chen and the three to counterattack the Youming Sect.

Lin Xuan hid in the shadows, watching this sudden change, his eyes flickering. Ye Chen's arrival, although disrupting his plan to fish in troubled waters, also attracted all the firepower of the Youming Sect, giving him a better opportunity!

He no longer harassed the low-level disciples, but focused all his attention on that rune door. Taking advantage of Ye Chen and Elder Youquan fighting fiercely, energy collisions roaring, spiritual light flashing wildly, and everyone's attention being attracted by the highest-end battlefield—

Lin Xuan moved!

He was like a shadow sliding along the ground, silently arriving under the rune door. He took out the Youming Soul-Suppressing Token and pressed it tightly against the rune node that had sensed it before!

At the same time, he fully operated the "Nine Transformations Chaos Scripture," no longer disguising, and pure Chaos spiritual energy like a trickling stream, cautiously injected into the Soul-Suppressing Token!

Hum—!!!

This time, the reaction was unprecedentedly strong!

The Youming Soul-Suppressing Token suddenly erupted with deep ghost light, the complex rune on the surface seemed to come alive completely, spinning crazily! Correspondingly, the node rune on the door also lit up with the same ghost light, and this light, like a spider web, quickly spread toward the surrounding runes!

The entire giant rune door began to emit a low roar, the runes on the surface lit up one by one, and a sealing power far more vast, ancient, and majestic than before began to awaken and flow!

"What's going on?!"

"The seal is strengthening?!"

"It's that brat! What is he holding?!"

This sudden change instantly alarmed everyone on the battlefield! Whether it was the Youming Sect, Ye Chen's side, or those ancient spirits, they all looked at the green-shirted figure holding the token under the door, whose aura had already changed back to Chaos and profound!

"It's him! The little brat who made trouble outside the basin!" Elder Youquan recognized Lin Xuan instantly (although Lin Xuan was not disguised now, his aura and figure were remembered by him), shocked and angry, "What he is holding is... Holy Object fragment?! How is it possible in your hand?!"

Ye Chen's gaze also sharpened, looking at the token in Lin Xuan's hand, a trace of doubt and exploration flashing in his eyes. He felt that the aura radiated by the token was completely different from the Youming Sect magic treasure he knew, but carried a kind of orthodox sealing charm.

"Stop him! Take back the Holy Object!" Elder Youquan went crazy, ignoring Ye Chen's attack, forcibly breaking away from the battle group, and pouncing on Lin Xuan like a ghost shadow! The other peak Golden Core Elder also risked being injured, broke away from his opponent, and rushed to the door!

"Your opponent is me!" How could Ye Chen let him get his wish, lightning flourished, entangling Youquan to death.

And that ancient spirit general, seeing the Youming Soul-Suppressing Token erupt with ghost light and trigger the door's sealing power, actually revealed a trace of... excitement and relief in the burning soul fire? He waved his broken spear fiercely and led the remaining spirits to block the other peak Golden Core Elder regardless of everything!

"Guardian... messenger!" The spirit general let out a vague divine sense fluctuation.

Messenger? Is he talking about me? Lin Xuan's heart stirred, but he had no time to pay attention. He felt that the Soul-Suppressing Token in his hand was like a bottomless pit, crazily swallowing his spiritual energy; if not for his deep foundation, Chaos Golden Core and nascent infant exerting force simultaneously, he would probably be sucked dry instantly!

The runes on the door became brighter and brighter, the sealing power became stronger and stronger, and even faintly suppressed the spiritual energy operation of everyone in the field by a few points!

But the impact of Elder Youquan and that peak Golden Core Elder also arrived! The terrifying attack was about to drown Lin Xuan!

At this critical moment—

Crack... crack...

A faint but heart-palpitating cracking sound suddenly came from behind that rune door!

Immediately after, a terrifying aura that was indescribable, filled with extreme evil, chaos, and tyranny, as if a fierce beast that had slept for eternity had awakened, suddenly permeated from the door crack!

This aura was so powerful, so desperate, that all Golden Core cultivators in the field, including top experts like Ye Chen and Youquan, felt their souls tremble, and their spiritual energy almost froze!

Boom!!!

The rune door shook violently, ghost light flashed wildly in the door crack, as if the existence inside was crazily impacting this constantly strengthening seal!

Lin Xuan bore the brunt, his face turned white, and a mouthful of blood almost sprayed out. He felt that the Youming Soul-Suppressing Token in his hand no longer transmitted a simple "call," but was mixed with a violent "repulsion" and "anger"! The demon behind the door seemed to sense the existence of the Soul-Suppressing Token and was full of hostility toward it!

"Not good! The seal is not yet fully stable, the demon is about to awaken early!" Ye Chen's face changed drastically.

Elder Youquan instead showed a look of ecstasy: "Hahaha! Heaven helps me! The Demon Venerable is about to be born! Little brat, even if you reinforce the seal, it's too late!"

The situation turned sharply, falling into greater crisis and chaos!

(End of Chapter 56)