Chapter 140: Dragon Palace, Soul Devouring Transformation (Part 2)
The bronze pillar forest let out an unwilling roar, shaking the entire sea.
The copper rust on Lu Qingyang’s three-inch Nascent Soul Avatar suddenly came alive, like thousands of black beetles gnawing at his Dao body, and spiderweb-like cracks spread through the Chaos Mother Qi.
The laughing Little Lord, however, tugged at the frost flower formed by the Ice Soul Sword on Leng Yuehan’s sword tassel: “Fairy, this Sword Qi is bone-chilling, even better than the extreme northern ice springs, saving this Little Lord the Spirit Stones for Ice Soul Immortal Brew!”
“Noisy!” Fairy Leng lightly raised her hand, and her Soul Transformation Stage Han Yuan Dao Domain unfolded with a roar.
The seabed instantly froze into a glazed world, and a hundred thousand Ice Soul Swords condensed from nothingness, their hilts entwined with azure runes, and the frost flowing on their blades reflected the bloody tears of her previous life when her eyes were gouged out.
A Mystic Frost Giant Dragon traversed the seabed, and the moment its Dragon claws shattered a bronze pillar, stardust burst forth like a meteor shower, each speck of light reflecting the scene of her kneeling on the Immortal Execution Platform, her eyes pierced by the Soul Devouring Banner.
“If Little Lord continues to be glib, beware that this concubine will refine you into a Fox Fire lamp wick, never to reincarnate!”
Su Meiniang’s nine tails suddenly unfurled, the Fox tails like crimson silk piercing into the Void Realm rift.
The Burning Sky Silk rolled up countless Azure Hill Rebirth Butterflies, the Azure Hill totems on their wings swirling in the flames, reflecting the bronze mirror in the Demon Dragon’s inverse scale—in the mirror, Lu Qingyang’s past life, clad in blood armor, was extracting Primordial Xuanhuang Qi from the chaos bell pestle, and that rusty copper coin sword actually resonated faintly with the patterns of the bell pestle.
The Nine Nether Yellow Springs split open from the seabed, scarlet blood surging like boiling lava.
Twelve bronze coffins floated to the surface, their lids carved with ancient gluttonous beast patterns devouring the sky, and the Soul Devouring Sect Master’s remnant soul seeped from the coffin seams, transforming into a three-headed, six-armed Avatar.
The Peak Soul Transformation Stage pressure crushed the Void Realm like a tangible entity, and the rust on the copper coin sword peeled off in flakes: “Junior, do you know, this East Sea Dragon Palace…” The coffin suddenly opened, and Lu Qingyang’s first-life remnant body lay within, a fragment of the Heaven Severing Sword still embedded in his severed arm; his second-life remnant body held half of a Soul Devouring Banner, black blood flowing from the vertical eye on his forehead; his third-life remnant body was pierced through the shoulder blades by bronze chains, fragments of the chaos bell entwined between his collarbones… Twelve remnant bodies, twelve ways of dying, each corresponding to a world-ending tribulation recorded in the Soul Devouring Sect’s secret texts.
The moment the Soul Devouring Sect Master’s six arms formed a Seal, the twelve bronze coffins emitted an eerie hum.
Profound Nether Death Qi gushed from the coffin seams, transforming into an inky mist engulfing millions of shattered souls—the faces of those remnant souls constantly twisted, sometimes transforming into the wailing of Cultivators whose Golden Cores had been extracted, and sometimes condensing into the empty pupil of Leng Yuehan’s left eye.
Fairy Leng lightly raised her hand, and the Ice Soul Sword tassel ignited with a Nether Blue Frost, the flames like an ice crystal Phoenix spreading its wings, instantly incinerating the surrounding Death Qi.
But strangely, the devoured remnant souls actually materialized in the flames, revealing identical bronze patterns at their respective Dantians.
“This Soul Burying Tomb… can it replicate a Cultivator’s Lifebound Treasure?”
Su Meiniang’s nine tails suddenly unfurled, and crimson Fox Fire scorched the Void Realm along the cracks of the Burning Sky Silk.
The space rift reflected the “Greedy Wolf Devouring Heaven” divination symbol at the bottom of the bronze coffin, and the half-copper coin sword embedded in the eye of the symbol resonated with the rust on Lu Qingyang’s Nascent Soul Avatar.
The Soul Devouring Sect Master’s three-headed, six-armed Avatar cackled wildly: “The Celestial Sword Master’s third-life remnant body is here, and you all are the sacrifices to complete this old man’s Dao Foundation today!”
Before he finished speaking, the Nine Nether Yellow Springs stirred up a hundred-zhang blood wave.
Three hundred and sixty Soul Devouring Banners broke through the water from the blood wave, the fierce ghosts embroidered on the banner faces having Leng Yuehan’s gouged-out left eye, their roars shattering three thousand miles of seabed profound ice.
Lu Qingyang’s Nascent Soul suddenly exploded into a Chaos mist, and a lazy laugh came from within the mist: “This old coffin-stuffing fellow is quite considerate, even preparing a Dual Cultivation ice coffin…” The mist transformed into rusty chains, wrapping around Leng Yuehan’s slender waist, and the copper coin patterns at the end of the chains were subtly connected to the bronze divination symbols on the Soul Devouring Banners.
“You seek death!” Leng Yuehan’s left eye, Cold Abyss, erupted with Dao patterns of annihilation, and the Taiyin Soul Slaughtering Wheel crushed five bronze coffins.
The Xuanhuang Qi overflowing from the coffins wrapped around her Ice Soul Dao body like poisonous pythons, even condensing into mandarin duck patterns on her skirt hem, resembling a neon-colored dudou—the patterns were identical to the “Yin and Yang Return to One” Talisman engraved at the mouth of the heaven severing sword sheath.
Su Meiniang suddenly formed a hand Seal, and Azure Hill Rebirth Butterflies poured out from the tear in the Void Realm created by the Burning Sky Silk, the butterfly wing totems reflecting the Soul Devouring Sect’s underground secret chamber: countless Cultivator remnant bodies were nailed to bronze pillars, and in the heart position of each, a rusty short blade similar to Lu Qingyang’s copper coin sword was inserted.
“So the Soul Devouring Sect stole Azure Hill’s Soul Forging Art and also plundered the heaven severing sword sheath’s Heaven Devouring Secret Art!”
Fairy Leng formed a hand Seal, and the Mystic Frost Giant Dragon turned its head, its Soul Transformation Stage Han Yuan Dao Domain transforming into an ice-blue barrier.
But when the fierce ghosts on the Soul Devouring Banners rushed towards Lu Qingyang, their ghostly claws actually corroded the Chaos Mother Qi, revealing the Celestial Sword Master’s Lifebound Treasure intertwined within—each of those silk threads was soaked in the Cultivator’s vital blood, and their ends were connected to Lu Qingyang’s previous life remnant body, which had been pierced by ten thousand swords in the bronze mirror.
“This old immortal’s eyesight is indeed sharp, even seeing Fairy Leng’s missing eye so clearly!”
Lu Qingyang’s Nascent Soul reformed, and the rusty copper coin sword shattered seven Soul Devouring Banners.
The sword edge suddenly turned to lift Leng Yuehan’s veil, and the Mystic Frost Giant Dragon erupted in rage, its Dragon breath freezing half of Lu Qingyang’s Avatar.
But just as the ice crystals spread, the scene in the bronze mirror suddenly changed: in his previous life, the Celestial Sword Master, holding the heavily injured Leng Yuehan, leaped into the chaos bell, and the Xuanhuang Qi gushing from the mouth of the bell pestle was actually of the same origin as the Death Qi overflowing from the Soul Devouring Banners at this moment.
“This is the backlash of the chaos bell!” The Soul Devouring Sect Master’s Avatar cackled wildly, his six arms simultaneously throwing twelve bronze coffin nails.
The coffin nails pierced through the Void Realm, embedding themselves into the three vital points of Lu Qingyang’s Nascent Soul Avatar: his heart, Dantian, and Sea of Consciousness.
A clear sword hum suddenly came from within the Chaos mist, and the rusty copper coin sword’s body bloomed with nine layers of Chaos rings, the ring patterns swirling to reflect the star map at the mouth of the heaven severing sword sheath.
Su Meiniang suddenly threw nine Fox Fire bells, their chimes shattering three coffin nails: “Little Lord, don’t panic, these star patterns… this concubine once saw them on the Azure Hill rebirth monument!”
Su Meiniang’s nine Fox tails suddenly unfurled, and the golden bells at their tips erupted with the Sanskrit sound of the Azure Hill Netherworld Curse.
The moment the curse touched the rust on the copper coin sword, the Demon Dragon’s inverse scale suddenly exploded with the ringing of the chaos bell, the sound waves shaking the seabed volcanoes to erupt crimson lava.
The bronze pillar forest came alive amidst the roar, one hundred and twenty thousand bronze pillars twisting like giant pythons, and the “Greedy Wolf Devouring Heaven” divination symbols carved on their bodies seeped inky blood, dyeing the surrounding hundred miles of seawater a bizarre scarlet.
“So this rusty copper coin… is actually the key to opening the Dragon Palace’s secret vault!”
Lu Qingyang’s Nascent Soul Avatar suddenly swelled to a hundred zhang, and Chaos mist condensed into Xuanhuang Dao patterns in his seven orifices.
He waved his hand and slapped the star-track compass into the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, and the spring eye immediately gushed out a hundred thousand Nascent Souls—those Nascent Souls were all translucent amber, with identical copper rust marks on their brows as Lu Qingyang.
Fairy Leng formed a hand Seal, and the Taiyin Soul Slaughtering Wheel suddenly split into three hundred and sixty Ice Soul stars, her Peak Soul Transformation Stage Dao Domain freezing time, the star trajectories forming a life-and-death game with the bronze divination symbols on the Soul Devouring Banners.
“Soul Devouring Old Demon, this queen wants you to be forever suppressed in the Cold Abyss!”
The moment the Ice Soul stars touched the bronze coffins, the surface of the coffin lids displayed a scene of Leng Yuehan in her previous life holding the Ice Soul Sword and piercing Su Meiniang’s chest.
Su Meiniang’s Void Refining Stage Heavenly Fox True Body suddenly manifested ten thousand zhang tall, her nine tails plunging into the seabed lava like crimson meteors, and Fox Fire spread along the bronze pillar forest, reflecting the bloody secret of the Soul Devouring Sect Master gouging out Lu Qingyang’s previous life’s left eye.
“The pain of a gouged heart, I will return it a hundredfold today!”
The fox tail golden bells shattered three bronze coffins, and the Xuanhuang Qi overflowing from the coffins transformed into millions of poisonous pythons, wrapping around the Soul Devouring Sect Master.
Lu Qingyang seized the opportunity to control the Chaos copper coin giant wheel to crush the coffins, and when the rim of the wheel touched the Demon Dragon’s inverse scale, the scales suddenly grew mandarin duck patterns of a neon-colored dudou, the patterns subtly matching the Ice Soul embroidery on Leng Yuehan’s skirt hem.
“Do you all know that this Dragon Palace… was originally built by the Celestial Sword Master to refine Inner Demon Tribulation!”
The Soul Devouring Sect Master’s Avatar etherealized into thousands of soul threads, and the Nine Nether Yellow Springs suddenly poured back into the bronze pillar forest.
Each bronze pillar displayed a star map from the depths of the Northern Eye of the Underworld, and at the center of the star tracks flickered the legendary Nine Revolutions Xuanhuang Pill that could directly lead to Void Refining.
The bronze mirror suddenly reflected the scene of Lu Qingyang’s previous life’s demise: he held half a copper coin and pierced his Dantian, and where the Chaos Qi gushed out was the empty space of Leng Yuehan’s left eye in this life.
“It’s time to collect debts!” Lu Qingyang’s Nascent Soul suddenly expanded into a Chaos black hole, and the moment the copper coin sword pierced into the Soul Devouring Sect Master’s soul threads, the rust on the sword body erupted with the star tracks of the heaven severing sword sheath.
One hundred thousand Soul Devouring Banners turned to dust under the illumination of the star tracks, the wailing of the fierce ghosts on the banner faces resonating with the Dao patterns of annihilation in Leng Yuehan’s left eye, Cold Abyss.
Su Meiniang’s nine-tailed Fox Fire suddenly turned azure, and her fox eyes reflected a blood-colored pillar of light rising from the bronze altar—the fragments of the chaos bell suspended in the pillar of light perfectly interlocked with the copper rust patterns on Lu Qingyang’s Nascent Soul’s surface.
Amidst the earth-shattering collapse, the bronze pillar forest crashed down.
Lava and Xuanhuang Qi intertwined into an apocalyptic scene, and Leng Yuehan suddenly threw out her Ice Soul embroidered dudou, the neon-colored light gauze wrapping around Lu Qingyang’s rampaging Chaos Dao body.
Su Meiniang seized the opportunity to swallow the Nine Revolutions Xuanhuang Pill into her fox mouth, and the moment the pill entered her belly, her old injury on her left chest erupted with the same bronze patterns as the Soul Devouring Sect Master’s soul threads.
“So we all became the Celestial Sword Master’s… chess pieces.” Leng Yuehan’s left eye, Cold Abyss, suddenly froze the blood-colored pillar of light, and the Taiyin Soul Slaughtering Array and the Chaos copper coin sword formed Yin and Yang poles, forever sealing the Soul Devouring Sect Master’s remnant soul in the Nine Nether Spring Eye.
When the last wisp of soul thread was annihilated, a clear ringing sound, like a Dragon’s roar, came from the depths of the seabed from the heaven severing sword sheath.