Chapter 453

At the moment the White Dragon's dragon head appeared, our hearts tightened; we had already prepared for battle.

The next moment, the Golden Copper Coin net appeared!

The Copper Coin Person is still here!

This battle hasn't ended yet!

At the moment the Jiǔ dào tiānléi struck down, the Bādà hùfǎ simultaneously released a strand of true qi, protecting Liu Junyan.

The first eight heavenly thunderbolts weren't all aimed at Liu Junyan.

But Liu Junyan bore the brunt of them; having come this far, Liu Junyan was inevitably covered in wounds.

The Jiǔ dào tiānléi charged straight for the Heavenly Gate; Liu Junyan stood just below it, and indeed needed this true qi for protection.

The Golden Copper Coin net sealed the entire Heavenly Gate barrier; inside, things crashed about, and the roaring howls lasted a long time.

Boom!

At the moment the barrier shattered, the entire Dragon Gate, the Eight Dao pillars, and the bone ladder extending from the seabed all the way down to Liu Junyan's feet all shattered and collapsed.

In midair, the Copper Coin Person and Liu Junyan faced off against each other.

Not far below were the Bādà hùfǎ.

The Copper Coin Person won!

The Copper Coin Person defeated the White Dragon's Dībā pò and devoured it.

A bolt of lightning flashed, and we could clearly see the Dragon Qi surging wildly inside the Copper Coin Person's body.

But I and Hu Yulin weren't excited.

The Copper Coin Person's state was off.

The Copper Coin Person turned its head left and right, moved its joints; that state... was like a new soul adapting to this copper coin body.

Moreover, this soul was clearly familiar with this body.

The Copper Coin Person quickly became fully adapted.

When another bolt of lightning flashed, I narrowed my eyes, and indeed, through the layers of copper coins, I saw that beating heart and the vermilion spine!

"Is it Jiluán, or the White Dragon's Dībā pò?"

No, it shouldn't be the true form of Jiluán.

The true form of Jiluán has a fleshly body.

But it also doesn't seem like the White Dragon's Dībā pò has possessed the Copper Coin Person's body.

So, is it a fusion?

Back then, Jiluán almost succeeded in seizing the White Dragon's Dībā pò via Body Seizure; at the critical moment, the White Dragon awakened, but the White Dragon's Dībā pò was still tainted by Jiluán's evil qi.

Now, as the Copper Coin Person devoured the White Dragon's Dībā pò, that evil qi also invaded the Copper Coin Person.

History repeats itself once again.

Liu Junyan had already begun fighting the Copper Coin Person.

When the Ancient Bronze Sword swept across the Copper Coin Person's body and the Golden Scale emitted brilliant Golden Light, I only then belatedly recalled that those three Golden Scales had not yet been retrieved.

They were guarding that heart!

Fortunately, the Bādà hùfǎ had already joined the battle; Hu Yulin flicked his Zhé shàn and said, "Xiao Jiu, I'm going to help—be careful!"

After over a hundred rounds, the Copper Coin Person began to struggle against our encirclement.

If it were truly a fight to the death, the Copper Coin Person would have died more than once or twice in those hundred-odd rounds.

The difficulty lies in that our aim is not to kill the Copper Coin Person, but to force out the Jiluán evil qi within its body and then retrieve what we want.

Thus, fighting becomes hampered.

Seeing the Copper Coin Person retreating step by step, that evil qi surged wildly inside its body; Liu Junyan suddenly reached out toward me from afar and made a hand seal.

The Golden Copper Coin I had been carrying suddenly flew up and shot straight toward Liu Junyan.

Under Liu Junyan's control, the Golden Copper Coin slammed hard into the Copper Coin Person's brow.

Ding…

A clear chime.

The Copper Coin Person's whole body froze.

Just as if its memory had been awakened, the Copper Coin Person's assembled body began to continuously contract and squeeze inward.

When a sharp birdcall burst from the Copper Coin Person's body, I froze for a moment.

Birdcall?

I immediately realized it must be the Jiluán call.

That evil qi occupying the Copper Coin Person came from Jiluán.

And Jiluán's true form is simply a Jiluán bird.

At the moment the birdcall rang out, a black surge burst from the depths of the Linghai sea, I heard the familiar clanking of iron chains, and my scalp went numb.

The Qiankun Yuanyang Hook surged out of the water, charging straight toward Liu Junyan.

Hu Yulin threw his Zhé shàn to meet the Qiankun Yuanyang Hook; from the ribs of the Zhé shàn suddenly sprouted over ten black iron chains, which swiftly wrapped around the Qiankun Yuanyang Hook.

As the Qiankun Yuanyang Hook appeared, countless vortices appeared on the Sea Surface.

Within the vortices, big and small, bursts of black qi kept spewing out.

I knew that the resentful evil qi Xiaoye spoke of, the countless resentful evil qi in the Linghai, had been building up, ready to erupt.

I tightened my grip on the Soul-guiding Lamp in my hand and glanced upward again.

Just then I saw the Copper Coin Person had contracted to its limit; a phantom was being peeled from its body in an extremely twisted posture.

At the very moment it began to show its head, Liu Junyan leapt up without hesitation, the Ancient Bronze Sword rose and fell……the evil qi that had tainted the White Dragon's Dībā pò with Jiluán's influence finally vanished into smoke.

Immediately, the three Golden Scales were summoned, sucked out of the Copper Coin Person's body, and returned to the hilt of the Ancient Bronze Sword.

What I never expected was that, after the three golden scales detached from the Copper Coin Person's body, those sutured internal organs, one by one, also broke free from the Copper Coin Person's body uncontrollably.

It turned out they had stitched various internal organs, cinnabar spirit bones, and so on into the White Dragon's eighth po, and it was only with the power of the three golden scales that it was stabilized!

One after another, the internal organs were squeezed out of the Copper Coin Person's body, entered the air, and instantly burst.

They seemed already unable to bear the burden.

My heart pounding, the moment that translucent red spinal bone thrust out of the Copper Coin Person's body, I flung open the black cloth covering the Soul-guiding Lamp, bit my finger, pressed it into the lamp chamber, silently chanted the incantation, cast out the sword finger, and pointed it at the cinnabar spirit bone.

Four ghost faces swooshed up, successfully seized the cinnabar spirit bone, and brought it back.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye.

The ghost faces' movements were as fast as lightning.

When the four ghost faces returned to the lamp chamber again, that spinal bone had already been wrapped in the Merit Light within the Soul-guiding Lamp.

It neither burst nor disappeared.

I let out a small sigh of relief—how close.

If this spinal bone had also burst or disappeared, something bad would surely have happened.

It is one of the debts I owe.

The ground shook violently, and a torrential downpour poured down.

To the north, toward the Linghai Dragon Palace, eight beams of light shot straight at the Copper Coin Person.

Diluan's planted spy within the Linghai Dragon Palace activated the Fǎzhèn they had set up.

The mighty Dragon Qi within the Copper Coin Person's body instantly split into eight streams, transforming into eight translucent dragons that precisely connected with the light bursting forth from the eight Formation Arrays.

In a gasp, the Dragon Qi within the Copper Coin Person's body completely dissipated.

Along with the disappearance of the Dragon Qi, the seven golden scales that had just been gathered on the Ancient Bronze Sword also vanished.

The eight Formation Arrays extended outward in eight directions, one of which happened to pass through the Linghai Forbidden Ground.

Liu Junyan gripped the hilt of the Ancient Bronze Sword with both hands, pointed the tip downward, aimed at the beam of light entwined with Dragon Qi, and stabbed down hard!

When the sword tip pierced that Dragon Qi, a blinding white light flooded heaven and earth, almost blinding our eyes.

I instinctively closed my eyes.

When I opened them again, I saw the dragon coiled upon the blade of the Ancient Bronze Sword held by Liu Junyan, as if it had come to life……