Earthnether Master spoke instead.
“An opportunity like this is rare. Earlier that Ghost Fiend Maiden kept staring at the Crow Snake Priest the whole time. He had no choice but to travel with us, so of course he would want to leave on his own.”
Filth Daoist nodded in agreement.
“Perfectly normal human behavior. There seems to be another Nascent Soul inside as well.”
Jade Water Demon Lord was momentarily stunned, then grinned viciously.
“Another one? Perfect, let’s see who’s bold enough to do this.”
Because Yin Gui had actively fled, the gap he had previously corroded in the Li position was now completely exposed. Without a second thought, Azure Water Demon Lord stepped through it first and entered the Immortal Officials’ Medicine Vault.
Earthnether Master did not move at all. He shook his head helplessly and said,
“If he runs into trouble later, Brother Filth, you’ll have to save him.”
Filth Daoist’s ugly features twisted into a strange arc, as if he were smiling.
The hidden meaning behind those words was easy to understand.
Since the opponent dared to stay behind, he must have some confidence. Rashly entering an unfamiliar place could cause even a Nascent Soul great cultivator to suffer losses, or even risk falling.
“No need to worry. Letting this kid eat a little bitterness is good too. Otherwise he’ll really think that just because he broke through recently, he can stand on equal footing with the likes of us.”
“You…”
While the two of them chatted casually and indifferently,
Inside the medicine vault.
When Wang Yu saw that only one person had entered, an expression of undisguised disappointment appeared on his face. The restrictive formations inside the medicine vault were the perfect chance for him to severely weaken Yellow Springs Monastery’s forces.
If he could make all of them fall here, not to mention the later opportunities in Eastern Extreme Capital, he could even push straight back across the entire Cloud Ridge Prefecture battlefield in one breath.
What a pity.
However, Jade Water Demon Lord’s mood was quite poor. In order to break through to late-stage Nascent Soul, he had completely exhausted the savings he had accumulated over several hundred years. Right now was precisely the time when he needed to rely on his strength to plunder resources on a large scale.
His proactive decision to head to the Cloud Ridge Prefecture battlefield had come from exactly this mindset.
Who could have guessed that the even larger Eastern Extreme Capital ruins would fully emerge? It was truly a heaven-sent opportunity, the perfect chance to fill his pockets.
When he saw Wang Yu standing straight in the center, calmly meeting his gaze, the wariness that belonged to a veteran Nascent Soul old monster quietly rose in his heart.
Yet his tone remained extremely contemptuous.
The moment he laid eyes on him, he said, “You’ve got quite the nerve, daring to snatch food from the tiger’s mouth. How did the two of you get into the palace city? If you can give me a proper explanation, this lord might spare your life.”
He had struck right at the key point.
Wang Yu did not reply. Instead, he arrogantly drew a hand across his throat, clearly indicating he intended to kill Jade Water Demon Lord on the spot.
“Insolent!”
Jade Water Demon Lord’s figure vanished instantly. In a flash he appeared directly behind Wang Yu. Surging dark-green water gushed from his palm.
He seemed to want to capture him alive.
Wang Yu had originally planned to use the Water Ancestral Token to activate the medicine vault’s restrictions. Seeing this, he instantly changed his mind.
This opponent seemed to be a water-path expert?
The Water Ancestral Token detached from the Feng Shui Compass. This special treasure that normally should not display any effect in battle suddenly revealed its ability to make all waters retreat.
The dark water could not close up to form a water prison. Wang Yu twisted his body and delivered a spinning kick. Vast divine strength combined with a variant of the Ten Directions Frozen Demon Fist was triggered through the kicking technique.
Yellow Springs Ghost Kick!
When a divine ability reached perfection, it could naturally extend into different applications. The Ten Directions Frozen Demon Fist could command ten different divine abilities and turn them into fist techniques. With both at perfection, converting them into kicking techniques was entirely possible.
The turbid Yellow Springs current, bolstered by the Water Ancestral Token, forced all the dark water aside. With a single kick, he sent Jade Water Demon Lord flying backward. A pitch-black footprint appeared on the chest of his magic robe.
It was particularly eye-catching.
This was the corrosive effect of the Yellow Springs turbid current. A single strike had damaged his magic robe, causing his aura to become somewhat disordered.
Supporting himself against a medicine cabinet to stand up, Azure Water Demon Lord was utterly shocked.
“Yellow Springs divine ability? Who exactly are you?!?”
In battle, one must never give the enemy an opening. Verbal sparring only occurred between cultivators of similar strength. Since Wang Yu’s cultivation was being suppressed, it would be very difficult to overpower the opponent in direct confrontation.
At this moment, the continuity of his offense was crucial.
Before Jade Water Demon Lord could finish speaking, the Lock of Heaven, covered in black frost, quietly coiled around his legs. The extremely high rank of spatial power made it very difficult for him to break free immediately.
Asura Dao intent suddenly emerged. The Blood and Flesh Demonic Sword layered with the Blood Slaughter Heart Sword. The triple collision of mind, divine ability, and Dao intent pushed the battle into its most intense stage right from the start.
Jade Water Demon Lord no longer had the leisure to speak.
Dark-green gloomy water surged out once again, transforming into layers of miniature heavenly river curtains. A pitch-black, gleaming diamond-shaped needle suddenly pierced through the water screen, stabbing straight toward Wang Yu’s glabella.
Divine Sense Magic Treasure · Black Pervasive Needle!
The scarlet sword light clashed with the water screen. Asura Dao intent collided with Dark gloomy water Dao intent. The hidden killing intent within was extremely dangerous. Fortunately, Wang Yu’s divine sense had just advanced and was currently at an extremely sharp peak.
In that instant, divine light flashed between his brows. The Soul-Breaking Needle obtained from the Feng Clan ancestor also shot out. The comparable divine sense power caused the two relatively fragile esoteric treasures to shatter simultaneously.
They had actually fought to a draw.
“You are also at late-stage Nascent Soul? No… you only have late-stage divine sense. What a genius. This lord likes…”
—Crackle!
Black Demon Thunder exploded violently. A bolt of black lightning struck down from above. Wang Yu had no interest in listening to his nonsense. In his eyes, Jade Water Demon Lord was merely a benchmark to measure his own combat strength.
Whether he could win or not, it was always worth testing.
If he could lure one more person into the medicine vault, he would unhesitatingly activate the restrictions here. He himself could rely on the Water Ancestral Token to instantly enter the hidden underground water channels beneath Eastern Extreme Capital.
When he had taken the Heavenly Yin Water Pool earlier, he had already discovered that the pool constantly moved around Eastern Extreme Capital, stopping wherever yin energy was strongest.
This meant there were unknown water formations hidden underground, all directions he could borrow power from.
Back to the main topic.
Struck directly by the Black Demon Thunder, Jade Water Demon Lord became much more disheveled, and he was truly enraged.
He immediately summoned his life-bound magic treasure— the Jade Fall Treasure Vase!
This treasure was one of the accompanying magic treasures recorded in the Yellow Springs Azure Fall Scripture. Once refined, it could absorb the power of Azure Firmament and transform it into gloomy water to attack enemies.
This kind of water was similar to Yellow Springs turbid current, possessing the ability to destroy magic treasures, though much weaker. It focused more on another aspect… the devastating blow to divine sense and souls.
The long-necked, double-eared Jade Fall Treasure Vase displayed extremely ferocious power the moment it appeared. The Blood and Flesh Demonic Sword, also a high-grade treasure, was noticeably suppressed.
This should be the difference brought by a life-bound treasure.
After all, although the demonic sword possessed spatial sharpness, the fact that it had not sliced through those layers of water screens already exceeded Wang Yu’s expectations. His suppressive continuous assault had not achieved the desired effect.
Naturally, he now had to face the opponent’s counterattack.
An enormous amount of dark gloomy water gushed out from the vase, nearly filling the entire medicine vault. Standing at the center of the vortex, Wang Yu reached out and wiped across the Seaheart Ring.
The Blood Fiend One Origin Gourd appeared in his hand.
Heavenly Yin Divine Water poured continuously from the gourd’s mouth, all injected into the Water Ancestral Token. A pale-blue spiritual shield sparkling with starry ice points enveloped him tightly.
Since the Heavenly Yin Water Pool was inconvenient to carry, he had transferred all the divine water inside into the gourd. This was now the best energy source to drive the Water Ancestral Token.
Therefore, Jade Water Demon Lord was extremely horrified to discover that there existed such a divine object that perfectly countered water-path cultivators. The effect of that token was simply too heaven-defying.
One of his strongest means, the Jade Fall Treasure Vase, was actually completely ineffective. It was truly unreasonable!
In truth, the Water Ancestral Token was not that heaven-defying.
It only claimed the title of ancestor of all waters in terms of rank, but it was largely in name only. Against fifth-rank water-path divine abilities or divine waters from the Upper Realm, it would be completely useless.
In the end, it came down to the supply of Heavenly Yin Divine Water and the Earth Mother Scripture secret art that could fully activate the Water Token’s power. The current situation was a perfect coincidence.
Otherwise, Wang Yu would not have wanted to test fighting him.
Without confidence, how could he act this way?
Immediately after, Wang Yu summoned the Glazed Iceheart Pagoda. Its far superior foundation compared to same-rank treasures allowed its power to rival a mid-grade fourth-rank magic treasure. The treasure pearl at the top of the pagoda spun, shooting out Ice Soul Divine Light.
It forcibly carved out an ice path within the endless gloomy water vortex.
Amid flashing lightning,
Wang Yu charged forward fiercely. Behind him, five pairs of arms appeared like phantoms — Asura Fist, Yellow Springs Fist, Blood Slaughter Fist, Ice Soul Fist, Soul-Extinguishing Fist, Curse Sword Fist, Ice Flame Fist, Black Demon Thunder Fist, Demonic Dragon Fist… and the most powerful one, the Guanghan Fist Phase!
The strongest divine ability technique of the Ten Directions Frozen Demon Path for Wang Yu.
It was the Ten Directions Frozen Demon Fist. Its ability to command the power of other divine abilities and turn them all into fist techniques was already the ultimate enhancement for close combat.
And controlling the fists of ten fully perfected divine abilities.
In a sense, it even surpassed his life-bound divine ability, the Guanghan Twelve Phases!
This was the unique advantage brought to him by the Idle Slots.
The power of ten fist divine abilities fused into a single strike. Demonic essence in his body was instantly reduced by seventy percent. The fist imprint carrying various forces merged into one punch.
All the spiritual lights transformed into ultimate black, as if carrying the power to obliterate everything, and ruthlessly smashed toward Jade Water Demon Lord.
The excessively overpowered force finally caused him to feel terror.
He used every means at his disposal to resist without hesitation.
The gloomy water screen was broken through as if it were nothing by the Water Token. The Flood Dragon Scale Treasure Shield was directly shattered into pieces by the fist’s edge. His protective Essence Qi was as fragile as tofu and shattered on contact.
The sound of his magic robe tearing and his miserable screams rang out at the same time.
Outside the Immortal Officials’ Medicine Vault, Earthnether Master and Filth Daoist were both stunned. The latter charged through the Li position gap without a word, only to witness a suffocating scene.
Jade Water Demon Lord, who had been incomparably arrogant when he entered, Now had his physical body completely destroyed. Only his Nascent Soul remained, flying around desperately inside the medicine vault, frantically dodging the black lightning chasing after him.
At first glance, it looked very similar to the black lightning that had escaped earlier.
But the power was completely different. Filth Daoist naturally would not misjudge. He simply hadn’t expected Jade Water to lose so miserably. He hadn’t even heard any major commotion from outside.
If things continued like this, in a one-on-one situation, Wang Yu really could kill him.
Filth Daoist had arrived in time, but Wang Yu had also achieved his second objective. He stopped chasing Jade Water Demon Lord. The Lock of Heaven hidden in the spatial crevice was rapidly retracting.
He took out the Water Token once more and revealed a strange smile toward the two men.
His figure transformed into a blue streak and vanished instantly.
Filth Daoist whipped his head around and charged toward the Li position gap, only to discover that the opening that had been there moments ago was now covered by restrictions.
They had both been trapped!
A bad premonition brewed in his heart. Sure enough… a massive fire suddenly erupted.
…
…
Rumbling sounds continued without end.
Earthnether Master’s expression turned slightly ugly. Right after Filth Daoist had entered, the pill-furnace-shaped Immortal Officials’ Medicine Vault suddenly changed.
It rose into the air as if being lifted.
The lid, fire outlet, medicine inlet, and wind vent were all completely sealed. Only the fire inlet door was wide open. After the building floated up, it revealed a deep, bottomless pit underground.
In less than a single breath, A surging, majestic purple fire pillar shot into the sky. With extreme spirituality, it rushed into the fire inlet as if it could never be filled, and activated at maximum power!
Earthnether Master’s expression froze. He murmured, “Purple Qi Divine Fire… The legendary fifth-rank divine fire exclusive to the ancient immortal dynasty. It is condensed from imperial purple qi and can repel all evils while burning ten thousand demons. Only those with the Ziwei fate pattern can control it.”
The concept of fate was even more profound. It was generally only referenced in feng shui studies. It was not something cultivators could change, not even Spirit Transformation Venerables.
Therefore, this Purple Qi Divine Fire could only be a restriction of this place.
As for whether Filth Daoist would die, he was not worried. The real problem was Jade Water Demon Lord… that guy held considerable influence within Yellow Springs Monastery.
That lineage had finally produced a late-stage Nascent Soul. If he died here following him, it would be hard to say there was no tacit approval or indifference on his part.
The explanation would be even harder to give.
This was like yellow mud falling into one’s crotch, whether it was shit or not, it would be treated as such.
This was not a good thing for Yellow Springs Monastery, and even worse for him. For a moment, he actually felt a headache coming on. Power struggles in the cultivation world always revolved around resources.
In the cultivation world, in the Crimson Kite Domain, this was an unavoidable issue for any faction, unless there existed a supreme powerhouse standing above ten thousand others with the ability to rule absolutely.
“Sigh…”
Roughly half an hour later, the pill-furnace medicine vault landed back on the ground. A wriggling creature resembling yellow mud crawled out from within and slowly reformed into Filth Daoist’s appearance.
However, his complexion was extremely ugly, and his lips were as pale as a corpse.
He said, “Jade Water is dead. When I entered, only his Nascent Soul remained. I sensed a Dao intent filled with murderous aura. Its intensity was slightly higher than Jade Water’s. The opponent should also be a late-stage Nascent Soul.
“Sigh… Why did it have to come to this? This person probably has a blood-deep grudge against Yellow Springs Monastery. Otherwise, if he had come forward to talk with us, there might have been other ways to resolve this.”
This was purely hindsight. He had been beaten badly, so he suddenly gained rationality and the ability to think.
Even if Wang Yu was a great cultivator, the more likely outcome would have been forcing him to hand over all his gains, then driving him away in disgrace. There was also a high chance they would have thought of surrounding and killing him.
This was simply how demonic cultivators were. It was perfectly normal.
It was too late to say anything now.
Earthnether Master asked, “Did you manage to see the opponent’s appearance clearly?”
Filth Daoist nodded, “Although he used a disguise secret art, it was quite ordinary.”
As he spoke, Spiritual light emerged from his hand and quickly formed a spiritual power projection.
After Earthnether Master saw it, his expression became even more stunned.
“It’s him… How is this possible? This person clearly only has early-stage Nascent Soul cultivation and is very young!”
“You know him?”
“Supreme Law Profound Pill Demonic Lord of the Blood Reversal Sect, known as the number one genius of the younger generation in the Crimson Kite Domain. He is famous for his cultivation speed. He condensed his Nascent Soul several decades ago. I saw him from afar once at the Demon King Assembly.
“At that time he was only at the first layer of Nascent Soul. There’s no way he could have killed Jade Water.”
Filth Daoist suddenly understood.
“Then he must have used other means, such as this Purple Qi Divine Fire. No wonder he insisted on killing Jade Water. If he’s from the Blood Reversal Sect, then it’s not surprising.”
Earthnether Master opened his mouth but ultimately remained silent.
“Sigh…”
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