Fights Break Sphere: Purple Thunder Emperor

Chapter 349 It seems my Qinglin has no affinity with this ancient celestial serpent.

"Xiao Xiaobai!"

The old ghost's pupils suddenly contracted as he sensed Xiao Bai's vast aura, a look of disbelief flashing in his eyes.

"you you."

"A three-star Dou Zun?!"

The voice sounded like a duck being choked, and the body under the black robe trembled violently, causing even the black mist around him to fluctuate wildly.

It's only been a little over a year since the last time, and he's already soared from the peak of Dou Zong to a three-star Dou Zun, almost reaching the four-star level. Could this guy be some kind of old monster reborn?
Xiao Bai stood in mid-air, his black robes fluttering, looking at him with a half-smile.

Upon seeing this, the old ghost who picks stars instinctively took several steps back.

"W-what do you want to do?"

"Star-Picking Old Ghost!" he shouted, his voice stern yet betraying his fear, while secretly sending a distress signal to his companions.
"I'm not the only elder of the Soul Hall here!"

Although he knew that Xiao Bai was no longer the same as before, the overwhelming palm strike outside Luoshen Gorge still left him with considerable psychological trauma.

Who knows if this guy will suddenly spring up again? He doesn't want to experience that feeling of closing his eyes and waiting to die again!
"Boring!"

Xiao Bai glanced at him, scoffed inwardly, then looked at the crack not far away and casually asked:
"How's the matter I asked you to handle going?"

Old Ghost Zhaixing was taken aback. What had he been told?

Then, a thought flashed in his eyes, and he immediately realized what he was going to ask, and subconsciously said:

"Heh heh heh, the people who have fallen into the hands of my Soul Hall, you think... No, this is a secret of my Soul Hall, why should I tell you?"

He was secretly furious. Damn it, this guy's tone made him sound like a palace master.

What else did you confess?
I'm not your subordinate!

"Ok?"

Xiao Bai stood with his hands behind his back, glancing sideways at him, and let out a soft "hmm" from his nose.

Old Ghost Zhaixing looked frustrated, and after a long pause, he gritted his teeth and spat out two words:

"died!"

He was very agitated at the moment, and his mind was in constant turmoil.

Did this kid use up all his life essence last time?
If he runs out of resources, he'll definitely teach this guy a lesson. So what if he's a three-star Dou Zun? He's still only a six-star!

But he didn't dare to gamble.

If he wins the bet, he's not confident he can kill him; if he loses, he's playing with his life.

It's not worth it at all.

"Roar."

Just then, several low roars, filled with boundless bloodlust and malevolent energy, suddenly emanated from the cracks in the ruins.

The spatial rift suddenly trembled violently, and a suffocating pressure surged out like a tidal wave. Those who had not yet escaped were struck as if by lightning and fell from mid-air.

Their bodies stiffened instantly, their eyes filled with a bloodlust, and a faint killing intent arose in their hearts.

"Hurry up, there's nothing in these ruins except for a nine-headed monster!"

With a loud roar, several streaks of light suddenly flashed out from the crack, rushing out in a panic.

"This is the aura of a beast soul, and not just any ordinary beast soul."

After carefully sensing for a moment, the old ghost's eyes suddenly lit up, and his expression gradually became excited. He murmured:
"If we can acquire it, it would be equivalent to the souls of a branch temple harvested over a hundred years!"

Thinking about how the palace had recently increased the rewards for collecting souls, a determination to succeed immediately arose in his heart.

Suddenly, he thought of Xiao Bai, an unstable factor, and immediately turned his head to look. His expression changed, because the figure had disappeared and had obviously entered the ruins while he was in a daze.

"Damn it. Could this guy also be here for this beast soul?"

Thinking of this, he could no longer sit still. He transformed into a streak of light and plunged straight into the crack.

in space.

On a massive, spiraling mountain of bones, rows of white bones, each as thick as several people could hug, stand tall and meander upwards, resembling a white bone corridor stretching straight to the sky.

"Young Master."

Qinglin stood at the foot of Bone Mountain, gazing up at the mountain that pierced the sky, her voice trembling slightly:

"I sense that something terrifying is hidden within this mountain of bones."

"Never mind that for now, there should be something good ahead, let's go check it out!" Xiao Bai's voice echoed in her mind.

Qinglin was slightly taken aback, then nodded obediently and followed the direction Xiao Bai pointed out, circling around Bone Mountain and heading towards the back of the mountain.

A moment later, a waterfall of white bones came into her view.
Nine spines, each tens of feet thick, cascade down from the bone mountain, like a waterfall hanging over the massive bone mountain.

"Tick tock."

The sound of a water droplet hitting the ground immediately caught Qinglin's attention, and she looked up.

"That is."

Below the 'White Bone Waterfall', on a dark red boulder, there is a small pool several meters square, slightly damp inside.

A dazzling red hue is set in the center of the small pond, appearing and disappearing, radiating an eerie glow.

Qinglin walked forward involuntarily, and three small flowers in her emerald green pupils began to spin rapidly.

"Young master, is this a magic core?"

Her eyes immediately lit up. This was the magic core of a ninth-order magical beast, and it was even the magic core of a mutated nine-headed celestial serpent!
Xiao Bai's soul form then appeared, and with a slight wave of his hand, the crystal detached from the boulder, transforming into a stream of light that flew into his hand. After examining it for a moment, his tone carried a hint of regret:

"This is not a magic core. It should be a crystal formed from the blood essence of an ancient celestial serpent. However, due to the passage of time, it has lost the quality of ninth-tier blood essence. Nevertheless, it is still a treasure for some serpentine magical beasts."

Upon hearing this, a hint of disappointment flashed in Qinglin's eyes, but she quickly cheered up again:

"Young master, will this crystal be useful to Sister Cailin?"

"it works!"

A hint of tenderness appeared in Xiao Bai's eyes, and he nodded gently. Then, sensing something was amiss, he asked in surprise:
How do you know about Cai Lin?

He remembered that the Queen was called that after Qinglin left the Snake-People Clan and went to the Heavenly Snake Palace.

Upon hearing this, Qinglin seemed to remember something, her face suddenly turning pale. She bit her lip, a deep sense of guilt rising in her eyes.

"Young master, it's me."

Just then, the nine drooping spines suddenly began to writhe, making a teeth-grinding "crackling" sound. The entire bone mountain exuded a vast and ancient pressure, as if a ferocious beast from ancient times was awakening.

"go!"

Xiao Bai's expression changed, and he waved his hand, carrying Qing Lin with him, and retreated at lightning speed.

"Haha. It really is the aura of our ancestors! Heaven blesses my Nine Netherworld Python clan!"

A burst of maniacal laughter tore through the air as three figures emerged from a spatial rift. But when they saw the nine hideous heads hanging from the mountain of bones, their smiles froze on their faces.

"The distant ancestor of these nine heads?" The gray-haired old man on the left asked, his voice trembling.

Yao Yu's vertical pupils also contracted slightly, and his gaze swept down along the skeleton, suddenly fixing on the dark red stone pool.

From there, he could faintly feel the throbbing of his blood, but there was nothing there.

There were some odd marks in the depression in the center of the pool, indicating that something had just been removed.

"Humanity!"

Yao Yu's eyes suddenly turned cold, and a terrifying pressure surged towards Xiao Bai and the other person like a tsunami.
"Hand over the relics of our ancestors!" They considered themselves descendants of the ancient celestial serpent, and naturally regarded everything in this body as their own. How could they allow others to touch it, let alone a human?

Xiao Bai's soul shifted half a step to the side, blocking Qing Lin's path, his black robes fluttering even without wind.

With a flick of his finger, a transparent barrier completely neutralized the oppressive force.

"Son!"

Qinglin exclaimed in surprise as she saw Xiao Bai's semi-transparent sleeves turning into specks of light and dissipating.

"It doesn't matter."

Xiao Bai smiled faintly, but his gaze turned solemnly toward Bone Mountain.

The Bone Mountain trembled, and an even more powerful pressure than before suddenly emanated from the mountain.

The attention of Yao Yu and the others was also drawn to the strange phenomenon at Bone Mountain.

The bone mountain began to shake, and massive skeletons continued to fall from the sky. After several breaths, a plume of black smoke shot into the sky from the bone mountain, piercing the dim heavens. To everyone's horror, it transformed into a phantom of a nine-headed serpent thousands of feet long. As the phantom appeared, it roared to the heavens, shaking the entire space.

The entire ruins space suddenly trembled violently. Some of the people who had excitedly entered through the spatial rift suddenly bled from all seven orifices, clutching their heads and screaming as they fell from the sky.

"It's a soul attack! Quickly seal your consciousness!" someone shouted a warning.

The bone mountain collapsed completely, and countless bones poured down like a torrential rain, but they mysteriously hovered in mid-air before turning into dust and being swallowed by black smoke.

Nine illusory snake heads appeared and disappeared in the clouds, each head as large as a mountain, its scarlet snake eyes like eighteen blood moons, dyeing the entire space a terrifying red.

The three of them, Yao Yu, Yao Yu, and Yao Yu, knelt on the ground, trembling all over.

Their blood was boiling, yet also being suppressed; they both wanted to worship and were filled with greed.

"The soul of our distant ancestor. If it could be brought back to the clan..."

"Hehehe, what a powerful beast soul!"

A chilling laugh suddenly came from above everyone's heads. Old Ghost Zhaixing appeared, stepping on black mist, followed by three elders of the Soul Hall.

The chains rattled in their hands, and their eyes gleamed with a hungry, wolf-like green light. "This trip was definitely worthwhile! A beast soul of this quality will surely be richly rewarded by the Palace Master!"

At this moment, all eighteen eyes of the Nine-Headed Serpent turned simultaneously.

It seemed to be enraged by the successive appearance of ants, and its nine heads suddenly opened their blood-red mouths.

There was no sound, but everyone felt as if their souls had been struck by an invisible giant hammer.

Three Dou Huang and Dou Zong cultivators with weaker cultivation levels exploded on the spot, their blood mist being completely absorbed by the snake shadow before it could dissipate.

"Son."

Qinglin's face turned pale, and she covered her eyes tightly with her hands. The light inside her eyes was so bright that it made her palms look red, and the veins on them were visible.

Suddenly, as if she could no longer bear the burning sensation in her eyes, she abruptly lowered her hands, and two beams of azure light shot into the sky, directly targeting the phantom of the nine-headed giant serpent.

"That's... the legendary Jade Serpent Three-Flower Pupil!"

The sudden change immediately drew everyone's attention, and Yao Yu and the others' expressions changed drastically. They sensed two familiar auras and instantly understood why the two people who had sent the message earlier were nowhere to be found.

They initially thought they had entered the ruins, but now it seems they were clearly being controlled by those eyes.

You...deserve to die!

In an instant, his heart was filled with a violent killing intent, his eyes were icy cold, and he stared intently at the man and the soul over there.

These eyes should never have appeared in this world; they are a disaster for all snake-like magical beasts.

Seeing the azure light piercing straight at the nine-headed serpent, Yao Yu flew into a rage, his body suddenly expanding into a hundred-meter-long purple-scaled python. He opened his mouth and spewed out a stream of poisonous mist, heading straight for the azure-scaled creature.

Xiao Bai's soul ignored the overwhelming poisonous fog, watching the azure light land on the nine-headed giant serpent. It seemed to scratch an itch, shook its head slightly, and its form gradually became ethereal.

The purplish-black poisonous mist engulfed the two in the blink of an eye, and the blue light within it gradually disappeared.

"Who?"

Instead of feeling relieved at having eliminated a formidable enemy, Yao Yu's face tensed up. Just a moment ago, the human woman with the three-flowered blue eyes had vanished right before his eyes.

"Hehe. It seems my Qinglin is not destined to be with this ancient celestial serpent. I'm taking him with me, you can continue!"

A soft laugh echoed in the void, then faded into the distance and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Yao Yu's face instantly darkened. He hadn't expected that such a powerful expert was hidden in the space.

"Xiao Bai!"

The old ghost's eyes flashed, and he immediately knew why that guy was here, but he didn't believe a word he said.

They're gone? You're kidding me!

If you cut that kid open, his heart is black!

However, he didn't care. He was determined to obtain the soul of this ancient celestial serpent, and Xiao Bai couldn't stop him.

"Formation!"

With a fierce shout, the old ghost of the stars unleashed four soul-binding chains that intertwined into a net in the air, unleashing the "Soul-Binding Array!"

Black mist began to emanate from the other elders, and their hands simultaneously formed hand seals, with dense, eerie runes appearing on the black chains.

The chains wrapped around the nine snake heads, immediately emitting a hissing, corrosive sound.

"hiss--"

The ancient celestial serpent let out a roar, its massive body shaking violently, instantly tautening the chains.

Seeing this, Yao Yu's face darkened even more. He did not want the soul of the ancient celestial serpent to fall into the hands of the Soul Palace, so he led his men into the air to stop the Soul Palace's actions.

As for the Jade Serpent's Three-Flower Pupil, we'll talk about that later.

On a mountaintop outside the ruins, Xiao Bai emerged from the air, with Qing Lin's rosy cheeks in his arms. Her jade-like arms tightly embraced his neck, and her almond-shaped eyes sparkled as she gazed at his profile.

"Qinglin, it's time for you to come down!"

He looked helpless; the girl had been wearing this expression ever since she first saw him.

Qinglin shook her little head, buried her face in his shoulder, inhaling the long-lost familiar scent, and said in a muffled voice:
"Young Master, Qinglin misses you so much!"

Xiao Bai was slightly taken aback, then a gentle look appeared in his eyes.

He gently patted Qinglin's back, his voice unconsciously softening:

"Silly girl"

Just then, Qinglin suddenly seemed to remember something, raised her head, and unconsciously grabbed Xiao Bai's robe with both hands, her voice trembling as she said:

"Young master, I'm so sorry!"

"sorry?"

Xiao Bai was taken aback, wondering what she had done to offend him.

"Qinglin...Qinglin has lost Madam!"

Releasing Xiao Bai, Qing Lin twisted the hem of her clothes with both hands, lowered her head, and murmured with a face full of guilt.

"Who? Madam, which madam?!"

Xiao Bai looked bewildered, his mind filled with questions, his brain racing.

The only women who could be his wife are Xun'er, Xian'er, and the other three.

Could the lady Qinglin mentioned be Cailin and Yun'er? But how could they have disappeared when they were perfectly fine?

(End of this chapter)