Chapter 81

The Yin Evil Corpse Hands were endless like a tide, the team's forward speed became extremely slow, and the spiritual power consumption was huge. Many Golden Core cultivators already had pale faces, having to rely on elixirs to barely support themselves. Even Nascent Soul cultivators needed to maintain body-protecting spiritual light at all times, their minds tense.

"This can't go on! Must find the source!" In the Imperial family team, that handsome young master frowned, he sacrificed a golden treasure mirror, the mirror light shone where the corpse hands melted like snow, but the range was limited, difficult to take care of the overall situation.

"This place's death Qi and miasma combined to form a special field, these Yin Evil Corpse Hands are just the manifestation of the field's power. Unless the field is broken, or the core supporting the field is found, it is difficult to eradicate." The scholar of Huangfu Tianji Academy said in a deep voice, the book in his hand moved without wind, emitting clear light, seemingly trying to deduce the field nodes.

Leng Feng's face was cold and hard, he did not use magic treasures, just opened the way with thick blood-killing fist aura, each punch could clear a large area, but new corpse hands would soon condense again. "The field core must be in the depths! Everyone gather toward me, form the 'Small Five Elements Demon-Resisting Array', and force an advance!"

The order was given, all parties, although each had their own thoughts, knew that this was not the time for infighting, and gathered quickly. The Demon Suppression Division cultivators were well-trained, occupied the Five Elements positions, guided spiritual power, and instantly formed a five-colored light shield covering the whole team. The light shield flowed, bouncing and crushing the corpse hands that kept scratching, and the advance speed suddenly accelerated.

Lin Lin Xuan was in the array, feeling the power of this array. The Small Five Elements Demon-Resisting Array was quite exquisite, able to gather everyone's power to form a defense, but it had extremely high requirements for the person presiding over the array eye, and the consumption of spiritual power was not small. He was happy to be relaxed, still keeping a low profile, but "Eye of Breaking Delusion" always locked on that gloomy and evil aura hidden in the depths of the miasma.

As the team penetrated into the center of the basin, the scene around became more bizarre. Faint blood color began to emerge in the gray miasma, and a faint smell of blood permeated the air. There were more and more bones on the ground, and even some incomplete human remains wearing ancient costumes appeared, their bones presenting an ominous pitch-black color.

"The resentment here is extremely heavy, they must have experienced great pain and fear before death." Huangfu Tianji scholar's tone was grave.

Suddenly, Lin Lin Xuan's gaze froze. In his field of vision, several hundred feet ahead, where the miasma was thickest, space appeared a trace of extremely subtle distortion, where three incomplete black stone pillars engraved with bizarre runes stood faintly! The stone pillars were arranged in a triangle, and there seemed to be an altar-like stone platform in the center. That gloomy and evil aura was exactly emanating from the center of the stone pillars!

"There is something strange ahead! It's three stone pillars!" Lin Lin Xuan immediately warned through the One Heart Talisman. He couldn't appear too prominent, just said he saw it vaguely.

Leng Feng, Huangfu Tianji scholar, and others heard this, and immediately strengthened their spiritual sense probing, and indeed vaguely sensed the abnormal energy fluctuations there.

"Is it an ancient altar? Or some kind of seal?" The Imperial family young master asked in surprise.

"Be careful, that aura... seems to be arranged by humans!" Ye Chen suddenly spoke, the long sword he held made a slight humming sound, producing a strong repulsion to that evil aura.

The team approached cautiously. As the distance narrowed, everyone saw the three stone pillars clearly. The stone pillars were about three feet high, pitch black, engraved with twisted runes that seemed to be living things, those runes were absorbing the death Qi and miasma around them, flickering with faint light. On the altar in the center of the stone pillars, several fresh, disemboweled demon beast corpses were placed, blood flowing, outlining a complex array pattern, exuding rich blood light and that gloomy aura intertwined.

And beside the altar, three figures stood!

The leader, wearing a pitch-black robe embroidered with a ferocious ghost head, his face withered like a skeleton, two clusters of green ghost fire jumping in his eye sockets, exuding a powerful spiritual pressure at the peak of the late Nascent Soul, even a line stronger than that Zhao family's gloomy old man! He held a white bone staff in his hand, with a skull that kept wailing embedded on the top of the staff.

The two people behind him, also wearing Youming Sect uniforms, had cultivation bases at the mid-stage Nascent Soul.

"Youming Sect Elder, 'Ghost Bone True Person'!" Leng Feng's pupils shrank, recognizing the person, his voice carrying intense murderous intent, "It really is you group of rats who can't see the light playing tricks!"

The Youming Sect Elder called Ghost Bone True Person let out a shrill laugh like a night owl: "Jie jie jie... Leng Feng, long time no see? Didn't expect the mad dog sent by the Imperial Dynasty this time to be you. Just right, use the essence blood and soul of you so-called geniuses to blood-sacrifice the 'Youming Blood Curse' remaining here, it will definitely lock the Demon Venerable's position faster!"

Youming Blood Curse! The crowd changed color when they heard this. This is an extremely vicious tracking curse technique, requiring a large amount of living essence blood and soul as a guide, which can lock the target's aura across a long distance. The Youming Sect actually set up this array here, obviously to search for that escaped Abyss Demon Awareness!

"Delusional!" Leng Feng shouted, no longer talking nonsense, his figure rose, the Demon Suppression Blade at his waist clanged out of its sheath, turning into a blood-colored blade light that tore through the gray darkness, slashing directly at Ghost Bone True Person!

"Form array, strangle the Youming Sect remnants!" The Demon Suppression Division cultivators shouted in unison, the Small Five Elements Demon-Resisting Array light flourished, turning into five light chains of different colors, entangling toward the other two Youming Sect mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators.

The battle broke out instantly!

The Imperial family young master and that servant old man also made a move at the same time, golden light and heavy earthy yellow light shone, attacking the altar, trying to destroy the blood sacrifice array.

Huangfu Tianji Academy scholar's book flew, golden characters flew out, forming a beautiful article, suppressing the restless death Qi and miasma around, stabilizing the battlefield environment.

Ye Chen turned into thunder sword light, directly looking for a Youming Sect mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, the sword light was swift and violent, entangling him to death.

Rogue cultivators and other small force cultivators also made moves one after another, various spell magic treasure lights smashed toward the Youming Sect cultivators and the Yin Evil Corpse Hands that kept surging and becoming more violent.

The scene instantly fell into a melee!

Lin Lin Xuan mixed in the rogue cultivator crowd, seemingly resisting the corpse hands with all his strength, but his eyes were calmly observing the whole scene. His main attention was placed on that Ghost Bone True Person and that Youming Blood Curse altar.

Ghost Bone True Person's strength was extremely strong, the white bone staff in his hand danced, countless grievances howled out, forming ghost-Qi-filled barriers, actually fighting the blood-colored blade light of Leng Feng to a draw. He could even distract himself to control the altar, the blood light on the altar became more and more prosperous, faintly establishing a connection with some existence in the depths of the void, and a heart-palpitating demonic power began to permeate faintly.

"Can't let him complete the blood curse!" Lin Lin Xuan's thoughts turned. Once the blood curse is completed, whether the demon head is found or not, everyone here may be marked, with endless trouble. Moreover, he absolutely would not allow the Youming Sect to find the demon head so easily, that would disrupt his own plan.

He noticed that the three black stone pillars were the key to maintaining the altar and the field. As long as the stone pillars are destroyed, the array will break itself!

However, the stone pillars were heavily protected by the altar blood light and Ghost Bone True Person's ghost Qi, and ordinary attacks were difficult to be effective.

Just at this time, that Youming Sect mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator fighting Ye Chen, seeing his companion in danger under the siege of the Demon Suppression Division array, bit the tip of his tongue, sprayed a mouthful of essence blood on the white bone magic treasure, the magic treasure ghost light flourished, temporarily forcing back Ye Chen, and then his figure swayed, actually performing a bizarre body technique, rushing toward the rogue cultivator team side, intending to grab a few "blood foods" to supplement the altar!

His target, was exactly Lin Lin Xuan, who looked the weakest and was "struggling to support"!

"Kid, count yourself unlucky!" That Youming Sect cultivator's face showed a ferocious smile, a ghost-Qi-filled claw went straight to Lin Lin Xuan's heavenly spirit cover! In his view, pinching a little Golden Core late-stage bug to death was effortless.

Several rogue cultivators around exclaimed, but it was too late to rescue.

The Zhao family's gloomy old man who had been paying attention to Lin Lin Xuan, a trace of viciousness and expectation flashed in his eyes, seemingly happy to see it happen.

However, facing this fatal blow of the mid-stage Nascent Soul, Lin Lin Xuan's originally "panicked" eyes instantly became as calm as water, even carrying a trace of cold mockery.

He no longer hid.

Just at the moment when the ghost claw was about to reach his head, Lin Lin Xuan put his fingers together like a sword, a bit of Chaos brilliance condensed on his fingertips, seemingly slow, but actually fast as lightning, pointing out!

Fingertips collided with the ghost claw.

No earth-shattering loud noise, only a sound that made one's teeth ache, as if the most basic structure of matter was being disintegrated.

The ferocious smile on that Youming Sect cultivator's face instantly froze, replaced by boundless fear and disbelief. He felt that his claw, which had condensed majestic ghost Qi, the moment it touched the bit of light on the other party's fingertips, the energy, matter, and even the law fragments contained within, were all disintegrating, annihilating, and returning to nothingness in a way he couldn't understand!

Moreover, that annihilation power was spreading rapidly along his arm!

"No!! What is this power?!" He screamed in horror, wanting to break his arm to survive, but found that the space around him seemed to be imprisoned by that power, unable to struggle at all!

Under the horrified gaze of the crowd, this mid-stage Nascent Soul Youming Sect cultivator, together with his ghost claw, was like a pencil drawing erased by an eraser, starting from the fingertips, rapidly spreading to the arm, body, head... and finally completely turned into a piece of nothingness dust, dissipating in the air.

Not even a scream could be fully uttered!

Quiet!

Deathly silence!

Even Leng Feng, Ghost Bone True Person, and others who were fighting fiercely, couldn't help but slow down their movements, looking at this side in shock.

A mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, by a "late Golden Core" rogue cultivator, with one finger... killed in seconds? Body and soul destroyed?

This exceeded their cognition!

"You... who exactly are you?!" Zhao family gloomy old man shouted in loss, his face full of horror.

Lin Lin Xuan did not answer, not even looking at them. The moment he killed that Youming Sect cultivator in seconds, his figure had already moved!

"Shrinking Ground to an Inch" was performed to the extreme, he appeared in front of one of the three black stone pillars like a teleportation. Chaos Dao Seed operated crazily, majestic Chaos spiritual power gathered on his right fist, his fist was shrouded in a thin layer of gray airflow that seemed to be able to swallow everything, and even a trace of imperceptible Star Netherlight was entangled on it!

"Break!"

He shouted in a low voice, and smashed a fist fiercely at that black stone pillar engraved with countless runes!

Ghost Bone True Person reacted, and let out an angry roar: "Junior dares!" He wanted to stop it, but was entangled by Leng Feng.

Under the shock of everyone, Lin Lin Xuan's seemingly plain fist smashed heavily on the stone pillar!

"Boom—!!!"

This time, it was an earth-shattering loud noise!

Those twisted runes on the stone pillar instantly erupted with dazzling ghost light, trying to resist, but the moment they touched the Chaos fist aura and Star Netherlight, they were like encountering a nemesis, the ghost light dimmed and shattered rapidly!

Immediately after, the entire stone pillar started from the fist mark, spreading countless spider-web-like cracks!

"Crack... Boom!"

The first stone pillar collapsed and shattered!

The blood light of the altar dimmed sharply, and the faint demonic power connection also became extremely unstable.

"Bastard!" Ghost Bone True Person's eyes were about to split.

Lin Lin Xuan did not stop, his figure flashed again, already in front of the second stone pillar!

Another punch!

"Boom!"

The second stone pillar followed in its footsteps!

When Lin Lin Xuan rushed toward the third stone pillar, Ghost Bone True Person finally ignored Leng Feng's attack, bit a mouthful of essence blood, pointed the white bone staff at Lin Lin Xuan, and roared sharply: "Youming Blood Curse, Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Heart!"

The remaining blood light on the altar erupted, turning into a blood-colored arrow condensed to the extreme, containing countless resentment and curse power, tearing through space, carrying a shrill ghost howl, and shot toward Lin Lin Xuan's back!

This blow contained Ghost Bone True Person's essence blood and part of his original ghost Qi, and its power was comparable to the life-risking strike of a peak late Nascent Soul!

"Be careful!" Ye Chen couldn't help but warn, the sword light soared, trying to intercept, but was a line slow.

Leng Feng's face also changed, the blade momentum was more urgent, wanting to stop Ghost Bone True Person.

Everyone thought that Lin Lin Xuan would either give up destroying the stone pillar and turn back to resist, or be severely injured or even killed by this terrifying blood curse arrow.

However, Lin Lin Xuan seemed to have eyes on his back, ignoring the blood arrow that could threaten his life, his fist, still unswervingly smashed toward the third stone pillar!

Just at the moment before the blood arrow reached his body, a layer of extremely thin, yet seemingly containing endless starry sky and nine-nether abyss strange halo suddenly appeared around him—it was the performance of him urging the protective power of Star Netherlight to the extreme!

"Dong!"

The third stone pillar collapsed!

Almost at the same time!

"Pu-chi!"

The blood-colored arrow smashed heavily on the halo formed by Star Netherlight!

No penetration and explosion as expected, that blood curse arrow condensed with ten thousand souls' resentment, like hitting a domain of absolute "annihilation" and "sealing", its blood light, resentment, curse runes, at a speed visible to the naked eye, rapidly dimmed, decomposed, and finally like being wiped away by an invisible big hand, completely dissipated!

Lin Lin Xuan's figure shook slightly, his face flushed with a trace of imperceptible paleness, but instantly recovered. Star Netherlight successfully blocked this fatal blow! Although the consumption was not small, he was not injured!

Three pillars destroyed!

The blood light on the altar was completely extinguished, the array was broken!

The Yin Evil Corpse Hands that kept surging around like losing the power source, collapsed into black Qi one after another, merged into the miasma, and no longer condensed.

That bizarre field shrouding the basin also dissipated accordingly.

The whole scene fell into deathly silence again.

Everyone looked like a monster at the green-shirted figure who slowly withdrew his fist and whose expression was still calm.

Late Golden Core? Fart late Golden Core!

One finger killed mid-stage Nascent Soul in seconds!

One punch shattered ancient restriction stone pillar!

Hard-resisted the life-risking curse of peak late Nascent Soul without damage!

What kind of monster is this?! "Jin Jin Shisan"... could it be him?!

Leng Feng's gaze was sharp as a knife, staring at Lin Lin Xuan.

Ye Chen's eyes erupted with unprecedented fighting intent and curiosity.

Imperial family young master and Huangfu Tianji scholar showed shock, thoughtful.

Zhao family gloomy old man and others, were pale, cold sweat dripping, lingering fear.

Ghost Bone True Person looked at the destroyed altar and the unscathed Lin Lin Xuan, trembling with anger, shocked and angry: "Chaos... is the aura of Chaos! You... are you that variable?! Ruining my Holy Sect's major affairs, my Youming Sect will not die with you!!"

He knew the plan failed, and staying would be more ominous than auspicious, bit a black jade talisman, his figure turned into a ghost light, merged into the miasma, and disappeared instantly. That other surviving Youming Sect mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator also wanted to escape, but was cut into two by Leng Feng who reacted!

The battle ended abruptly in a way no one expected.

Everyone's gaze focused on the "Golden Core rogue cultivator" who shocked the world in one battle.

Lin Lin Xuan felt the Chaos spiritual power and Star Netherlight consumed by nearly 30% in his body, his heart had no much joy, only a piece of calm. He knew that from this moment on, he could no longer hide completely.

He met everyone's complex gazes, said lightly, his voice clearly transmitted into everyone's ears:

"My name is Lin Lin Xuan."