Chapter 103 : Bingo
Chapter 103: Bingo
In the sky, brilliant heavenly lightning crashed down one bolt after another.
Purple lightning, like raging dragons, exploded against the coffin in an unending barrage, blasting stone fragments into the air and splintering the coffin apart.
Lightning wrapped itself around the coffin, exploding continuously. The deafening thunder shook the surrounding lands.
The entire sky was illuminated as bright as day.
Under the relentless bombardment of heavenly lightning, the coffin trembled violently. The sinister Yin aura within it was thrown into intense turmoil as it was steadily worn down by the overwhelmingly Yang heavenly lightning.
Cheng Hua wanted to fly up and assist, but Yue Han firmly held her back.
She frowned as she looked into the sky.
It felt as though something were tightly clutching her heart, leaving her unbearably distressed.
If only I were stronger... would Fang Chang not have to bear this predicament alone?
Her slender jade fingers tightened ever more around her sword hilt.
The figure stood suspended in the air, robes fluttering, both hands drawing down heavenly lightning as purple electricity coiled around his body.
He truly looked as though a divine being had descended upon the world.
Even Yue Han stared in a daze.
Her opinion of Fang Chang had completely changed. A righteous cultivator willing to sacrifice himself for others could never be a Corpse Refinement Path cultivator!
Even if he was, he must have been someone who had abandoned evil and turned over a new leaf—a truly good person!
At this moment, Yue Han even wished that the figure in the sky were herself.
Deep within the heart of the socially withdrawn fairy also lay a desire to astonish the world.
If she were going to die,
she wanted to look as cool as Fang Chang!
She possessed no lightning techniques. The Kan Water techniques she specialized in belonged to the position of Kun Yin, and she had not yet reached the level where she could nurture a strand of True Yang within it.
Everything in existence had things that restrained it.
Not only would her techniques fail to weaken the sinister Yin aura, they might instead strengthen it and force it into descending ahead of time.
Even if it was only a manifested incarnation that had been forced into existence, it had absorbed power at the junction of the two spirit veins for a very long time. Even weakened, she still would not be able to deal with it!
The junction of two spirit veins...
Everything has its restraining counterpart...
Yue Han suddenly paused as a flash of inspiration crossed her mind.
She patted Cheng Hua's shoulder, signaling her to wait, before flying out through the opening and circling the mountainous terrain around Twin Su Manor at low altitude.
Then she hurried back inside with a face full of delight.
"Fo-Four... Four Symbols Returning to the Origin! Th-this... this is a Four Symbols Returning to the Origin... formation!"
Cheng Hua tilted her head.
Yue Han gestured frantically in panic, but since she could not speak clearly, she quickly transmitted her voice directly.
"The thing inside the coffin is using the convergence of the two spirit veins to forcibly imitate the process of the Dao giving birth to One. Meanwhile, at the four cardinal points surrounding the convergence point of the spirit veins, there remain traces of the Four Symbols' power—separating Yin and Yang, differentiating primordial chaos, transforming clashing qi, and defining life and death!"
"I still don't understand."
Cheng Hua blinked.
But she heard the hope in Yue Han's voice.
Yue Han continued,
"When the Four Symbols' power stabilizes the four extremes, the Five Elements return to their origin, and the evil nature of the Yin Corpse... can be restored to its original root!"
"He... he... doesn't need to sacrifice his life to destroy it! Tell Fang Chang to hold on! This is a natural formation. I can teleport you to the four cardinal points of the convergence. Quickly retrieve the four stabilizing objects, and this sinister thing can be completely dispersed!"
"There's a chance!"
Perfected Yue Han exclaimed excitedly.
Hope flashed through Cheng Hua's eyes.
However, at that very moment,
a blazing wave of energy suddenly surged behind them.
She whipped around and saw Xue Dali standing beside the stone statue, his body swelling like a balloon.
—Self-destruction!?
Yue Han reacted the fastest. The smile had not yet disappeared from her face before her Flowing Water Sword had already slashed out.
A line of highly compressed water shot forward, as thin as a strand of hair yet incomparably sharp, producing a piercing hiss!
The waterline swept across.
Blood mixed with flowing water sprayed across the mountaintop.
Xue Dali, who stood not far behind them, was split cleanly in half from head to toe in an instant.
Yet despite that, the self-destruction did not stop.
His flesh, blood, and spiritual power transformed into a violent shockwave, sweeping forward with shattered bones and torn clothing before crashing directly into the strange stone statue.
The cracks across the statue's surface suddenly widened, spreading like a spiderweb before it exploded apart!
As shattered stone flew everywhere, a complete skeleton, crystal-clear like flawless jade and emitting a cold, ghostly glow, emerged.
In that instant, the gray line connecting the stone statue and the coffin suddenly expanded!
Cheng Hua's expression changed drastically.
Her fingers clenched tightly around her sword.
Ice Dissolution.
That freezing strike caused the skeleton to stiffen for a brief instant in midair. The overwhelming abnormal sensation weakened somewhat, but it was nothing more than a drop in the ocean.
Instead, the skeleton transformed into a stream of light, completely merged into the gray line, shot toward the coffin in the sky, and disappeared inside.
"Ba-Ba-Bad!"
"Quickly teleport me out! I have to retrieve the Four Symbols' stabilizing objects!"
"It's too late. The two have already merged. That so-called Great Demon is about to be born..."
Perfected Yue Han said in a trembling voice.
High in the sky, the coffin that had been struck by heavenly lightning shook violently.
A black crack opened along the coffin lid as thick, ink-like evil aura surged out from within. Its sinister chill pierced to the bone, dimming even the light of heaven itself.
On the ground,
Zhang Su's lascivious dharma manifestation seemed to sense something and raised its head toward the sky.
"I have to save that idiot."
Suppressing the fluctuations in her emotions with her clear Dao Heart, Cheng Hua's face returned to its usual expressionlessness.
She stepped forward with her sword, only for Yue Han to grab her sleeve.
Yue Han pursed her moist, rosy lips.
Determination filled her face.
"I... I will use... that... secret technique... to teleport... everyone still alive... in Twin Su Manor... away..."
Cheng Hua replied coldly,
"If I alone survive, I will have no face left to meet my master."
Yue Han shook her head, tenderness flickering through her eyes.
"Xiao Hua... remember this... your... master is... a troublesome drunkard. On important matters... he can still be reasoned with... but not over small ones. In the future... spend more... time with Fang Chang. He... he is a good person."
"..."
On the verge of tears, Yue Han gently kissed Cheng Hua's smooth forehead.
Then she activated her escape technique, transforming into a streak of flowing water that shot into the sky.
Summoning the loudest voice she had ever produced in her life, she shouted toward Fang Chang, who stood surrounded by lightning.
"Take good care of Xiao Hua!"
Although Fang Chang did not seem to hear her,
Yue Han did not mind.
For some reason, she suddenly felt a sense of fulfillment.
It was the first time she had managed to say an entire sentence so completely...
Unfortunately, it was also the first time.
And the last.
Hehe...
Her spiritual aura surged violently as she prepared to exhaust her entire cultivation and magical power to cast that teleportation secret technique...
At that very moment, from the corner of her eye,
she saw Fang Chang suddenly pull something out.
A strange old axe.
More accurately,
an axe with a collection of other objects tied to it.
A dark brown Vajra was tied to the axe handle, while a whetstone was fastened to the back of the axe head.
Then she saw Fang Chang lick his lips.
From afar, he carefully aimed at a conspicuous stone millstone wedged onto the coffin, treating it as though it were a target.
Wait.
Why was there a stone millstone on top of the coffin?
Beneath her thick bangs, Yue Han's eyes widened further and further.
She slowly opened her mouth in astonishment, even stopping the secret technique she had been preparing.
Wait...
Why did the Vajra, the whetstone, the axe, and the millstone each contain the Four Symbols' powers of separating Yin and Yang, differentiating primordial chaos, transforming clashing qi, and defining life and death?
Before she could ask,
Fang Chang had already hurled the axe with all those objects tied to it.
The axe somehow maintained a delicate balance as it spun gracefully through the air, striking the exact center of the stone millstone with plain, effortless precision.
"Bingo."
The moment the word left his mouth, the sinister Yin aura surging within the coffin behaved as though boiling oil had been poured onto raging flames. It suddenly contracted inward before violently exploding outward!
Boom—
A mass of pitch-black energy erupted into the sky as foul winds carried black mist and shattered coffin fragments in every direction, instantly exploding into a dark cloud that blotted out the heavens.