Chapter 59: Quasi-Emperor Forbidden Artifact

"What nonsense!"

Jiang Xuan waved his hand casually, and the Heaven and Earth Furnace descended from the sky to suppress; a powerful suction force erupted from the furnace mouth, and "Pang Bo" could not restrain his figure, transforming into a streak of green light that plunged into the furnace.

Inside the furnace, which emanated vast Dao Meaning, blazing Divine Fire ignited; Eight Trigram runes rotated atop the furnace, fully displaying Dao Meaning.

Jiang Xuan sat cross-legged, lightly brushing his sleeve, occasionally sending a thread of magical power into the furnace.

"Jiang Xuan, what happened to Pang Bo? Nothing will happen to him, right?"

Seeing Jiang Xuan now calm and composed, appearing completely at ease, Ye Fan only then spoke with worry.

"Nothing much, just a Great Demon trying to possess Pang Bo." Jiang Xuan's gaze was deep and remote, his tone flat, as if it were a perfectly ordinary matter.

Ye Fan clicked his tongue in amazement, utterly astonished; he knew Jiang Xuan's personality — since Jiang Xuan said Pang Bo was fine, then Pang Bo would definitely be fine.

Ye Fan was long since no longer a novice just entering the cultivation world; he knew how difficult it was to possess someone — this Great Demon's cultivation realm was probably far beyond his imagination, yet Jiang Xuan spoke of it so lightly; one truly didn't know what terrifying realm he had reached by now.

Jiang Xuan's expression was peaceful, without a trace of impatience, completely different from the killing intent when he previously slew dozens of people with his sword in the depths of Lingxu.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Intense trembling sounds came from within the Heaven and Earth Furnace; it was the Great Demon trying to possess Pang Bo making a desperate struggle, wanting to break Jiang Xuan's divine ability!

"Still want to put up a futile resistance!" Along with Jiang Xuan's indifferent voice, crimson Sword Intent plunged into the Heaven and Earth Furnace, slashing at the Great Demon.

"If I die, this body won't survive either!" The Great Demon roared; this youth truly wasn't human — this furnace divine ability was simply heaven-defying, unheard of in all history; under the furnace fire's refining, his soul was no longer stable, showing a tendency to separate from his body.

Jiang Xuan flicked his sleeve, and the furnace fire surged upward; this descendant of who-knew-how-many-generations of the Qing Di could hold on no longer.

"Ah, stop! I'll give you the Demon Emperor's sec... ah!" Under the burning furnace fire and the Sword Intent piercing his body, the Great Demon could endure no longer; a streak of green light burst from Pang Bo's brow, terrifying flames enveloping him, emitting sizzling sounds.

Pang Bo, now at the Xun Position, watched with heart-pounding fear, a wave of lingering dread rising in his heart; before the Five-Colored Ancient Hall, he and Ye Fan had merely stood in place, yet he suffered an undeserved calamity, possessed by a Great Demon — even though this Great Demon had only a wisp of remnant soul left, near the end of its lamp oil, it still instantly suppressed him; as time passed, he would certainly be devoured until not even dregs remained.

Fortunately, Jiang Ge discovered something was wrong with him and used a great divine ability to strip the Great Demon from his body.

Thinking of this, Pang Bo felt immense gratitude toward Jiang Xuan, yet also couldn't help feeling guilty; although his soul was suppressed, he could still sense everything outside — Jiang Ge had killed people from the Yaoguang Holy Land and the Ancient Ji Family; this was a monumental matter.

Such a thing could not be concealed; Jiang Ge would soon face the crazy pursuit of the Two Great Powers; the most rational course was to flee quickly, rather than delay on his account.

Every moment of delay added a measure of danger.

The trembling sounds from within the furnace gradually grew quieter, finally falling completely silent; Jiang Xuan's mind moved, and the Heaven and Earth Furnace divine ability dispersed; Pang Bo appeared in the cave, hair disheveled, clothes tattered, like a street beggar.

"Jiang Ge, this time it was truly too close for comfort, brother; fortunately you..." The moment he appeared, Pang Bo spoke with lingering fear.

Seeing Jiang Xuan had no reaction, he looked at him in puzzlement, only to see his gaze directed at the Heavenly Dome, his expression changing slightly.

They've come!

Jiang Xuan couldn't help but sigh inwardly; given a few more breaths' time, he would have been confident of escaping, but he fell short by just this tiny bit of time.

The Hongmeng Treasure Mirror's world-shuttling function needed a few breaths' time to shuttle, and within a few breaths, the Holy Land pursuers would have killed him hundreds of times over.

And the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror currently still couldn't shuttle living beings; therefore at that time he could only wrap Ye Fan and Pang Bo and flee the original spot rapidly, rather than immediately shuttle into the Heavenly Dragon or Fengyun World.

His personality was indifferent, but not cold-hearted; after spending many days with Ye and Pang, they were people who could entrust their backs to each other; he was unwilling for the two to suffer unnecessary hardships in the early stage — that would be meaningless.

Even if it might thereby expose his greatest secret.

Divine radiance tore through the air, giant mountains collapsed, chaotic rocks pierced the sky, the very land beneath his feet threatening to cave in.

Two elders bore stern, murderous expressions, approaching from afar; fierce gale-force winds could not stir a single sleeve; their gazes revealed extreme anger and killing intent.

Jiang Xuan's gaze looked toward the Heavenly Dome; he said nothing; a thread of purple light enveloped Ye Fan and Pang Bo, pushing them aside — this was a protective technique he had comprehended based on the Purple Ribbon Immortal Robe, capable of protecting from a distance.

In this region, within a radius of a hundred li, who knew how many mountain peaks were thoroughly reduced to crushed stone and powder; gray dust scattered on the wind; the entire sky displayed a gray, turbid haze.

No existence could survive under the fury of two Great Figures!

"You, have you thought about how you want to die?" A Great Figure stood in the void, looking down at Jiang Xuan, word by word, anger almost materializing.

"My Sun Duo was so obedient, so gentle and kind; he wanted to search your soul, why wouldn't you let him? Why did you resist, and even beat him to death? Why don't you just go die!"

The elder's divine power surged, the Void collapsing; powerful force pressed this piece of heaven and earth until it cracked inch by inch; a sky-supporting giant hand descended from the heavens, intending to seize the ant below into his palm and torture it to death.

Jiang Xuan's gaze was calm; a shocking golden light emerged from within his body; at this moment, Jiang Xuan was like a Buddha descending into the world, his whole person gaining an inexplicable Dao Rhyme.

This was a bizarre transformation; a sheet of divine light emerged from behind Jiang Xuan, evolving into a Golden Ancient Temple; chanting sutra sounds made one want to convert.

The Golden Ancient Temple's gates stood wide open; the Buddha lectured sutras, Bodhisattvas lowered their brows, Vajras glared with fury; in a single instant, they all transformed into sky-filling golden light that blasted toward the elder.

"No!"

Sky-covering, earth-enveloping golden light, like a Wisdom King destroying the world; wherever it passed, the gray Heavenly Dome brimmed with destructive intent; endless shattering power continuously trembled and spread through the Void; the Great Figure from Yaoguang couldn't put up the slightest resistance before being ground into flying ash by the heaven-shaking golden light.

Jiang Xuan's left hand held a Buddha statue covered in cracks; the statue was entirely cast of bronze, no larger than a grown man's fist, its face showing a sorrowful, bitter expression, as if grieving for the suffering of the mortal world.

Sakyamuni!

The Ancient Ji Family elder's gaze was horrified, clearly recognizing the Buddha statue in Jiang Xuan's hand; originally still secretly annoyed that the Yaoguang person had acted first, he now only felt an indescribably massive terror descending.

"Flee!"

Essence blood burned crazily, completely disregarding consequences; an Immortal Sword interwoven with Dao and Principle was sacrificed; Dao Patterns flickered and jumped at extreme speed; the next instant, the elder had fled dozens of li away.

"Flee, flee!"

The Bronze Buddha Statue rotated in Jiang Xuan's palm; its originally dense cracks now bore a shockingly huge fissure running through the entire statue, as if it could shatter and fail to maintain integrity the next second.

Suddenly the Buddha Statue pierced the Void, chasing straight after the elder; intense golden light like a Sun God Arrow tore through heaven and earth, pulverized the vacuum, as if carrying a Great Sun shooting over.

"Fast, faster!"

Boom!

The elder cried out loudly, half his body turning into blood mist; borrowing the violent impact force, he burned everything even more crazily, fleeing into the distance.

In a single instant, green qi turned to white hair; his already aged face now seemed as if continuously carved by a chisel, full of deep, deep furrows, profound and ugly.

The elder burning all his lifespan and essence blood fled through the air with even more incomparable speed, escaping into the distance, instantly vanishing without a trace.

(Chapter End)