Chapter 425 ·Successive Suppressions and Kills
Chapter 425: Successive Suppressions and Kills
Chen Beiwu did not even spare Yu Qianpo a glance.
The troublesome aspect of a Soul Refining Sect Nascent Soul True Monarch lay in the endless attrition of the ghost sea and the elusive escape transformations of divided souls.
Yu Qianpo’s strength was indeed not weak. Even though Chen Beiwu possessed powerful Divine Sense far surpassing that of mid-stage Nascent Soul True Monarchs of the Southern Wastes, he still could not detect his whereabouts within a short period of time.
This also meant that, under normal circumstances, when fighting Yu Qianpo, an ordinary mid-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch would need to probe continuously until they completely locked onto the location of his true body before they could decide victory in one stroke.
However, Chen Beiwu had the Nine-Breath Chaos Divine Ability to cheat, allowing him to see the radiance of fate with incomparable clarity.
Under such circumstances, no matter how profound and exquisite Yu Qianpo’s concealment and transformation methods were, they were as conspicuous as a lamp flame in Chen Beiwu’s eyes.
He only needed a single Grotto-Heaven Calamity-Truth Finger to make Yu Qianpo perish while caught completely off guard, without even having the chance to bring out his hidden trump cards.
“This……!”
Seeing Yu Qianpo’s miserable death, Yun Xi’s expression changed slightly as he activated his escaping light and frantically retreated.
What a joke.
Judging by his aura, Chen Ziang was merely a newly advanced Nascent Soul True Monarch, yet with a casual finger he could instantly unleash a terrifying strike far beyond the mid-stage Nascent Soul level.
Fortunately, that strike had been aimed at Yu Qianpo rather than him. Otherwise, if caught unprepared, he might truly have suffered severe injuries.
“As expected, there was a trap!”
Zhao Caixuan remained calm. Seizing the opportunity, instead of retreating she advanced, holding two fingers together like a sword and pointing them at Chen Beiwu.
A pale-pink beam of light suddenly tore through space, transforming into a startling rainbow that shot straight toward Chen Beiwu’s heart.
The Southern Wastes had no shortage of Nascent Soul True Monarchs with powerful offense but weak defense.
The fact that the Mirror Moon Dao Child could suppress and kill Yu Qianpo with one finger, unleashing a strike extremely close to the late-stage Nascent Soul level, did not mean that his defense was comparable to a late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch’s.
Golden Egg’s dragon eyes narrowed. His figure vanished into thin air and instantly appeared before Chen Beiwu, three divine lights illuminating his entire body.
‘Courting death!’
The corners of Zhao Caixuan’s lips rose slightly.
Her finger strike appeared casual, but she had actually already unleashed the Red Luan Heart-Eroding Needle, refined from the flames of the Seven Desires.
The Red Luan Heart-Eroding Needle was a soul-type Mystical Treasure that directly invaded the Nascent Soul and specialized in breaking through a Nascent Soul True Monarch’s protective True Qi. Only a Heavenly-Gang Dharma Aspect could resist it to some extent.
If this Fourth-Realm flood dragon thought that forging the Three Indestructibles meant it could withstand the strike head-on, then it was undoubtedly seeking death.
But this time, Zhao Caixuan had miscalculated.
The pale-pink rainbow struck Golden Egg’s scales, yet not only did it fail to break through his defense, it instead shattered inch by inch, revealing a slightly illusory fine needle.
‘Something’s wrong. This isn’t an ordinary Fourth-Realm flood dragon.’
Zhao Caixuan’s gaze sharpened as a bad feeling arose in her heart. Her figure silently collapsed, transforming into blooming peach blossoms that disappeared without a trace as she concealed herself in the shadows.
“Wondrous Desire True Monarch, join forces with me and quickly kill the Mirror Moon Dao Child!”
Yun Xi roared angrily as the blood-red robe around his body exploded, transforming into a filthy blood river that covered heaven and earth.
Within the blood river, the stench of blood assailed the nose. Wherever it passed, ghosts retreated and spiritual activity ceased to exist,
But this blood river did not directly rush toward Chen Beiwu. Instead, it coiled around like a giant python, completely enveloping Yun Xi.
Clearly, Blood Marrow True Monarch valued his own life rather highly.
Especially after personally witnessing Yu Qianpo’s death, compared to completing the sect mission, he was more inclined toward preserving himself.
“Woof!”
“Na!”
But Iron Egg and Xuele would not give Blood Marrow True Monarch even the slightest chance to react.
Iron Egg closed both eyes as Mana circulated around his body, then suddenly opened his left eye, reflecting Yun Xi’s sins and karmic burden, ignoring the blood river’s deception and locking onto his true body.
The next instant, Iron Egg’s right eye, which had remained tightly shut, abruptly opened. Deep within his pupil, a speck of utterly pure pitch-black flame suddenly emerged.
‘Not good!’
Sensing an indescribably terrifying crisis, Yun Xi’s expression hardened. No longer holding anything back, he instinctively brought out the defensive Mystical Treasures he carried and the True Monarch Dharma Aspect he had yet to use.
In an instant, Yun Xi’s body within the blood river collapsed and melted, transforming into drops of viscous blood as thick as glue, dark red and nearly black.
This filthy blood capable of assimilating heaven and earth and transforming all things rapidly fused with the blood river, forming an eight-hundred-zhang-tall Heavenly-Gang Dharma Aspect 【Myriad Marrow Free-Transformation Demon】.
As long as the Myriad Marrow Free-Transformation Demon remained undestroyed, the blood body would not die.
Even if a late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch wanted to kill him, they would first need to destroy the Myriad Marrow Free-Transformation Demon Dharma Aspect.
Otherwise, Yun Xi could replace his blood and substitute death at any time, transforming into blood and escaping.
However, even after making complete preparations within an instant, unease still lingered in Yun Xi’s heart. He instinctively split off blood bodies, trying to avoid Iron Egg’s gaze.
But Yun Xi discovered that no matter how he teleported, escaped, or hid within the blood river afterward, he could still sense Iron Egg’s gaze locked firmly onto him without ever leaving.
This inescapable sense of being locked onto, originating from a True Monarch’s spiritual perception, grew stronger and stronger as time passed, causing the sense of crisis in Yun Xi’s heart to intensify.
At that very moment, Iron Egg closed his right eye, and the flame deep within his pupil disappeared.
“Ugh-ah!”
Yun Xi suddenly released a shrill, inhuman scream of agony. Strands of pitch-black Judgment True Fire continuously surged from within his body, radiating a brilliance that purified all things.
Seeing this, Iron Egg remained calm and silent.
Karma-Severing True Fire burned sin without burning the body, punishing karma by punishing its root.
The Judgment True Fire surging from Yun Xi’s body appeared to be burning his flesh, but in reality, it used his sins as fuel, continuously burning his Nascent Soul Yang Spirit and Three Souls and Seven Spirits.
If Yun Xi had not currently been protected by his Dharma Aspect, allowing him to maintain an unbroken thread of vitality, he would probably already have died within ten breaths.
Hearing Yun Xi’s screams, Zhao Caixuan, hidden in the shadows, showed a slight change in expression as a trace of wariness entered her gaze toward Iron Egg.
Nascent Soul True Monarchs were not mortals, but transcendent existences who had achieved unity between heaven and man.
Pain unbearable to Golden Core cultivators was no different from a gentle breeze brushing the face to a Nascent Soul True Monarch.
Yet before that strange pitch-black flame, Yun Xi reacted like an ordinary mortal, releasing uncontrollable wails.
From this, one could see just how bizarre that pitch-black flame was!
“Na!”
Taking advantage of the opportunity Iron Egg created, Xuele gripped her right wrist with her left hand and decisively unleashed a Heavenly-Gang Mystical Ability, Five Qi Heaven-Stealing Hand!
There was no heaven-shaking momentum, nor any vast surge of the world’s spiritual activity. An invisible giant hand suddenly pierced through space, directly plucked off Yun Xi’s right arm, and appeared before Xuele.
Looking at the Storage Ring on the five fingers of the severed right hand, Xuele nodded in satisfaction.
After advancing to a Fourth-Realm Beast King, her use of the Five Qi Heaven-Stealing Hand was no longer random theft, and she could roughly determine a portion of the target range.
Therefore, after realizing that she could not suppress and kill Yun Xi in a single strike, Xuele’s first objective was not killing him, but seizing his wealth.
“Na?”
Xuele happily stored away the Storage Ring and looked toward Iron Egg beside her.
Iron Egg shook his head slightly and looked toward Chen Beiwu.
Although Judgment True Fire possessed formidable might, it was still difficult to destroy a mid-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch protected by a Heavenly-Gang Dharma Aspect. At most, it could restrict Yun Xi’s movements and plunge him into endless agony.
“Rather than suffer like this, why don’t I send you on your way!”
Chen Beiwu activated the Grotto-Heaven Calamity-Truth Finger and pointed one finger toward Yun Xi.
Boom!
As the finger descended, Yun Xi’s head exploded, transforming into countless streams of blood that merged into the blood river. He then swiftly regenerated, restoring his human form while cries of pain continuously escaped his mouth.
‘Nascent Soul True Monarchs cultivating the Blood Demon Dao really are difficult to kill!’
Chen Beiwu’s gaze shifted toward the eight-hundred-zhang Myriad Marrow Free-Transformation Demon.
With his Divine Sense, he could naturally tell that the core power of this Dharma Aspect did not lie in killing, but in its bizarre assimilation and resurrection.
“You… you can’t kill me!”
Yun Xi wept and howled, shouting like a madman while continuously attempting to use Blood Dao Mystical Abilities to suppress the power of the Judgment True Fire.
“With nothing more than an eight-hundred-zhang Heavenly-Gang Dharma Aspect, you dare claim immortality!” Chen Beiwu’s expression remained unchanged as he activated his Primordial Origin Dharma Aspect and pointed out with one finger.
“Rumble!”
As the power of the Dharma Aspect stirred heaven and earth, spiritual activity began to tremble. The Nine Nether Soul-Locking Qi-Binding Demonic Formation enveloping the entire Blood-Weeping River gradually shattered, revealing Zhu Jinglong and Xin Yu trapped within.
At that moment, a sense of crisis originating from the depths of the soul caused Zhu Jinglong and Xin Yu, including Zhao Caixuan hidden in the shadows, to instinctively raise their heads and look toward the sky behind Chen Beiwu.
They saw the firmament tear apart as heaven and earth suddenly lost all color, and an immense object slowly manifested.
Zhu Jinglong and Xin Yu’s pupils contracted slightly. Looking carefully, they discovered that the Dharma Aspect was incomplete—it was actually half of a finger.
That half giant finger was chaos-colored, seeming like stone yet like jade, its enormous body blotting out heaven and earth.
Before it, Yun Xi’s 【Myriad Marrow Free-Transformation Demon】 Dharma Aspect was as tiny as a child and utterly insignificant.
“Annihilate!”
As Chen Beiwu’s voice fell, the enormous finger blotting out heaven and earth suddenly descended, sealing the entire world.
At this moment, even though Yun Xi realized that mortal danger had arrived and wanted to use his hidden Blood Demon Disintegration Free Escape Art, the Judgment True Fire continuously burning within the depths of his soul caused his body to stiffen.
And that brief stiffness directly erased Yun Xi’s final chance of survival.
Boom!
The giant finger descended, effortlessly annihilating the Myriad Marrow Free-Transformation Demon, then continued downward, crushing Yun Xi’s bones, flesh, organs, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul as easily as crushing an ant, leaving not even the slightest trace of blood behind.
Not far away, Zhu Jinglong and Xin Yu, who had just escaped and personally witnessed this scene, could not conceal the shock in their eyes.
How many breaths had passed? Yun Xi, who could briefly contend with a late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch without dying and styled himself Blood Exchange True Monarch, had died just like that?
He had died so simply at the Dao Child’s hands without even causing a ripple?
This intensely unreal, illusory feeling even made Zhu Jinglong and Xin Yu wonder whether they had fallen under Wondrous Desire True Monarch’s illusion.
“One finger to suppress and kill Bitter Soul True Monarch, one finger to suppress and kill Blood Marrow True Monarch—is this the true strength of our sect’s Dao Child after attaining the Dao as a True Monarch?”
Wang Hao swallowed and looked toward Chen Beiwu with increasingly bright eyes.
Unlike Zhu Jinglong and Xin Yu, who had been trapped within the grand formation and did not know that Yu Qianpo had already fallen, he had personally witnessed from the Spirit Boat exactly how casually the Dao Child had flicked his finger and suppressed and killed Nascent Soul True Monarchs of the enemy sect.
This overwhelmingly destructive suppression even gave Wang Hao an illusion.
Before our sect’s Dao Child, even the infamous Bitter Soul True Monarch and Blood Marrow True Monarch were nothing more than this.
Mo Li and Bai Zhi reacted the same way as Wang Hao, staring blankly at Chen Beiwu without even blinking.
And while everyone remained shocked, Zhao Caixuan waved her fair hand. The Seven Emotions Heavenly Net Gauze suspended above Zhu Jinglong and Xin Yu suddenly lit up, transforming into a streak of escaping light that tore through space and shot southward.
As for Zhao Caixuan herself, she unhesitatingly activated the Mystic Feminine Sect’s escape Secret Art 【Red Dust Escape】 to conceal her aura and fled in the opposite direction from the Seven Emotions Heavenly Net Gauze.
The strength displayed by the Mirror Moon Dao Child was simply too exaggerated, far beyond that of a newly advanced True Monarch.
Moreover, Zhu Jinglong and Xin Yu, two mid-stage Nascent Soul True Monarchs, had already escaped their restraints. If she continued to remain here, not only would she fail to find an opportunity to kill the Mirror Moon Dao Child, she might instead be detained by reinforcements from the Mirror Moon Sect.
“Trying to leave now? It won’t be that simple?”
Chen Beiwu ignored the Seven Emotions Heavenly Net Gauze and stepped forward, instantly crossing a thousand li and appearing before Zhao Caixuan.
“This time, this concubine miscalculated. The next time we meet, Dao Child, you won’t have such good luck.”
Zhao Caixuan laughed softly as her body slowly disintegrated, while the unpursued Seven Emotions Heavenly Net Gauze suddenly increased its teleportation speed dramatically.
“Is that so?”
Five-colored radiance appeared behind Chen Beiwu, manifesting a pair of wings with a span of roughly one zhang. It was precisely the Heaven-Reaching Mystical Treasure, Five Elements Wisdom King Wings.
Before attaining the Dao as a True Monarch, he had not dared casually use the Heaven-Reaching Mystical Treasure because the True Qi within his body was insufficient to sustain the expenditure. A single teleportation consumed more than half his True Qi.
But now, as long as he did not continuously use the Five Elements Wisdom King Wings, the vast Primordial Origin True Qi within Chen Beiwu’s dantian Qi Sea was enough to satisfy the Mana consumption of the Heaven-Reaching Mystical Treasure.
“Boom!”
The Five Elements Wisdom King Wings lightly flapped, and Chen Beiwu instantly crossed a vast stretch of space, directly blocking the Seven Emotions Heavenly Net Gauze.
‘How is that possible!’ Zhao Caixuan’s eyelid twitched.
Fast!
Far too fast!
Even as a late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch, she could not cross three thousand li within an instant.
‘Could that be a Heaven-Reaching Mystical Treasure?’
Zhao Caixuan’s gaze was drawn to the Five Elements Wisdom King Wings behind Chen Beiwu, and a trace of greed could not help rising in her heart.
Heaven-Reaching Mystical Treasures were exceedingly rare and precious, worth entire cities.
A perfected Nascent Soul great cultivator wielding a Heaven-Reaching Mystical Treasure could even briefly contend against a top cultivator at half-step Divine Transformation.
It was no exaggeration to say that even throughout the entire Mystic Feminine Sect, a Heaven-Reaching Mystical Treasure could be called part of the sect’s foundations.
“We meet again. It’s six against one now. What will you do?”
Together with Golden Egg and the others, Chen Beiwu immediately unleashed the Primordial Origin Five Calamity Seals to delay time while waiting for the two True Monarchs, Zhu Jinglong and Xin Yu, to take their positions.
“Little brother, so what if it’s six against one? A late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch isn’t as simple as you imagine!”
After breaking apart the Primordial Origin Five Calamity Seals coming toward her, Zhao Caixuan remained calm. Her gaze swept past Chen Beiwu and toward Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhu Jinglong, and Xin Yu, who had completely surrounded her.
“Very well, then let this concubine teach you one thing：for a True Monarch of the Mystic Feminine Sect, numbers are meaningless. Instead, they are an advantage.”
As her words fell, Zhao Caixuan abruptly formed an obscure hand seal before her chest.
The next instant, heaven and earth fell silent as a heart-palpitating pressure suddenly spread throughout the world.
Zhu Jinglong and Xin Yu’s expressions changed slightly as they prepared to fully manifest their Dharma Aspects.
Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and Xuele also acted as though facing a great enemy, remaining fully alert and not daring to be careless in the slightest.
“Bluffing is useless against me.” Chen Beiwu frowned slightly.
Under his gaze, the radiance of fate surrounding Zhao Caixuan suddenly vanished.
Without question, the Wondrous Desire True Monarch remaining here and bluffing at this moment was not her true body, but an avatar that had just exchanged places with the true body.
“You can even discover this. It seems you’re hiding quite a few secrets.”
Zhao Caixuan smiled slightly, abandoned her hand seals, and her figure slowly dissipated, leaving behind one sentence：
“Chen Ziang, not bad. This concubine will remember you.”
“What a pity. In the end, she still escaped!”
Looking at the dissipating avatar, Chen Beiwu sighed, his tone somewhat regretful.
His current strength was still too weak!
Without bringing out his hidden Mystical Abilities, he could not even casually crush a late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch to death.
Hearing this, the corner of Zhu Jinglong’s eye twitched. He exchanged a glance with Junior Sister Xin, both feeling rather speechless.
Had the times changed, or had they simply grown old and could no longer keep up with the thinking of the younger generation?
Suppressing and killing Blood Marrow True Monarch and Bitter Soul True Monarch was still not enough for the Dao Child—he had actually wanted to keep Wondrous Desire True Monarch here as well?
One had to know that even if a peak Nascent Soul True Monarch personally acted, they still might not be able to completely kill a late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch.