Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 743 Dust to dust, ashes to ashes

Xiao Ran opened her eyes with difficulty, her hands supporting her on the ground, but they were trembling uncontrollably.

Clearly, even with the Golden Toad burning its golden blood as a price, his forced use of divine power still caused his body enormous damage.

"Can you still hold on?"

Xiao Ran swallowed hard and asked Jin Chanzi behind him, but after a moment of no response, he turned around abruptly.

It was discovered that the golden toad's severed arm no longer bleeds golden blood, but rather bright red blood, and almost no other energy can be sensed within the statue.

"Golden Toad!!"

Xiao Ran's pupils constricted, and she called out again, but Jin Chanzi's consciousness seemed to have vanished, and there was no response.

This made Xiao Ran's heart sink.
Xiao Ran's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints, and her heart felt as if it were being gripped and squeezed tightly by an invisible, cold giant hand!
Xiao Ran opened her mouth, but she was too weak to make a sound.

He turned around and looked ahead, where he saw the scorched earth cracking open, and demons constantly rising from beneath it.

Although their physical condition was not much better than mine, some of them were just a torso.

But undeniably, they are still alive. As long as they are alive, as long as they hold on until the moment the Lost City lands, they have won.

At that time, millions of fresh flesh and blood will be like a nourishing elixir, allowing them to recover to their peak condition in the shortest possible time.

"Hoo!!" The Bone-Scraping Demon King slowly straightened up, a smile appearing on his torn face. He looked up at Xiao Ran and said, "Boy, don't think that just because you inherited the mantle of Plum Blossom Taoist, you are Plum Blossom Taoist. Even if Plum Blossom Taoist himself came, so what? Even if you invited the Thunder Ancestor, so what? The Yin-Yang Inspector is so powerful, isn't he? He has no military power and no help. You think you can succeed with just a few makeshift teams?"

"Ha ha ha ha!!"

The Demon King's teasing made the demons burst into laughter. With victory in hand and time running out, they didn't believe Xiao Ran could cause any more trouble.

Facing the mockery of the Bone-Scraping Demon King below, Xiao Ran's face showed no change in emotion, but in her heart she was repeatedly calculating what she still had to rely on at this point.

Xiao Ran looked at the [Gourd of Yin Soldiers] at her waist, but was at a loss.

From the moment Huang Chao designed Ghost City, he placed a restriction on his corpse slaves, making it impossible for them to be controlled.

"No, there is still a chance."

Xiao Ran did not give up. At this moment, he was unusually calm, like a gambler who had lost his mind at the gambling table, carefully calculating every penny he had. Even if it was only a one in ten thousand chance, Xiao Ran would not let go of this lifeline.

Xiao Ran stood motionless in place, her figure appearing even more frail in the cold wind.

But in reality, he was trying to buy himself a chance to catch his breath, as Huang Chao's spirit had been buried in his subconscious.

This was originally Xiao Ran's capital accumulation for her future promotion, but now it has become a life-saving medicine.

"When Heaven unleashes its killing intent, the Five Elements are reversed; when Earth unleashes its killing intent, dragons and snakes rise from the land; when Man unleashes his killing intent, Heaven and Earth are overturned."

The Soul Cultivation Technique was activated to its limit at this moment, and Huang Chao's enormous spiritual energy was rapidly drawn out of his subconscious.

However, this energy was not directly absorbed by Xiao Ran. Instead, it flowed into every acupoint of his body under the impetus of the Soul Cultivation Technique.

When the Bone-Scraping Demon King and the others saw that Xiao Ran was silent, they assumed that Xiao Ran had become so desperate that she had nothing left to say.

He dragged his crippled body, tilted his head and looked at Xiao Ran, "Kid, I'll give you a chance. Actually, you don't need to be a pawn of those big shots. It's not worth it."

"They say that when gods fight, mortals suffer. You are nothing but bait thrown out by the emperors after weighing the pros and cons. Do you really think this Yin-Yang Inspector is a good job? Bah! To put it bluntly, you're just a scapegoat, a scapegoat. I'm not afraid to tell you, the gods of the underworld have long been prepared to be the first to enter the mortal world. But whoever takes that first step will break the rules. Whether it's millions or tens of millions, someone has to bear the consequences. You agree, right?"

Xiao Ran knew that the great demon king in front of him had said so much just to buy time, but he also needed time, so he might as well see what else this guy had to say.

Xiao Ran's blank expression changed slightly. He opened his mouth, his chapped lips splitting open, and replied in a hoarse voice, "What... do you want to say?"

"Hehehehe..." Seeing that Xiao Ran had responded, the Bone-Scraping Demon King laughed even more freely and easily.

“I’ll give you a chance. You can summon gods, right? Summon another one, but this time, summon one from below. As long as you open the gates of the underworld wide, someone will naturally come to your aid. The underworld is boundless; there will always be a place for you to rest. This outcome is far better than eternal damnation. When the calamities subside, you might still have a chance to rise again. You tell me… right?”

As the Bone-Scraping Demon King finished speaking, his voice became soft and gentle, and he appeared to be suffering from great distress. Those who knew him would mistake him for the Demon King of the Bone-Scraping Forest in the Underworld, while those who didn't would think he was a master who was giving guidance to people.

"I see." Xiao Ran suddenly realized. "You mean, I should give up my physical body, relinquish the authority of the Yin-Yang Inspector, and then submit to that old ghost, Yu Zi?"

"Yes, yes, you're still a sensible person." The group of demon kings nodded with smiles.

But the next second, Xiao Ran changed her tone: "Sorry, I don't have the habit of being someone else's dog."

"Um!!!"

The smiles on the faces of the demons froze instantly, and then they glared at Xiao Ran with cold eyes; "You won't listen to reason, so you'll have to suffer the consequences!"

The demons exchanged glances and prepared to attack, wanting to teach Xiao Ran a lesson. Although they were crippled and their strength was greatly reduced, they still had plenty of ways to make Xiao Ran suffer.

Just as these malevolent demons were about to make their move.

"Crench!"

A deep, long sound of a door hinge turning echoed behind the group of demons.

The palace gate was pulled open a crack from the inside out, and a figure dressed as a eunuch walked out. The Bone-Scraping Demon King and his men glanced at him sideways, but only gave him a brief look and didn't take him seriously.

Even some demons, upon seeing this little eunuch delivered to their doorstep, already revealed a greedy desire to taste him.

In the past, they really looked down on these eunuchs, thinking they were all too frivolous. But now... they might be a bit frivolous, but they're definitely nourishing.

"Little eunuch, did Eunuch Wang send you?"

A demon slowly approached the little eunuch. It wasn't that he didn't want to hurry, but his crippled body made even taking a single step difficult, with his body parts clattering and falling down.

Upon seeing the approaching figure from afar, Xiao Ran's expression changed slightly, but he dared not speak up to warn them, fearing that his words would make the demons realize that the little eunuch was familiar with them.

"Yes!"

The young eunuch bowed and took out a scroll of imperial edict from his sleeve, holding it in his palm.

"Eunuch Wang said he would give you all another great gift."

Upon seeing the imperial edict in the eunuch's hand, the Bone-Scraping Demon King and his entourage immediately felt relieved.

“Alright, tell that old eunuch that after he dies, he will be given a peaceful and blissful death, and a good final resting place.”

"promise."

The young eunuch bowed, then opened the imperial edict, a glint of shrewdness flashing in his clear, bright eyes:
"Disciple:
The universe was first divided into black and yellow, and the clear and turbid were distinguished. Yin and Yang were established, and the hidden and the manifest were separated.

"Now there are those who are filthy and defiled, who do not follow the usual ways, whose celestial bodies are out of order, who arbitrarily disturb the human world, and who corrupt the moral order..."

As the clear recitation came from Dai Long's mouth, the Bone-Scraping Demon King, who had been smiling, suddenly turned around, his pupils dilating violently: "Damn it, kill him!!"

Before he could finish speaking, the demon god, who had already walked up to Dai Long, opened his blood-red maw and bit down on Dai Long's head.

However, Dai Long was not an ordinary eunuch. Although he was only a D-level newcomer, he was the eldest grandson of the Dai family and the successor he had carefully cultivated.

Facing the charging demon, Dai Long remained calm. Just as the demon lunged forward, he suddenly took out a Bagua mirror from his sleeve and shone it on the charging demon.

"Whoosh!"

A golden light burst forth from the mirror, striking the demon god squarely in the cheek.

"what!!"

When the golden light shone on him, the already severely injured demon god let out a miserable scream. His face looked like it was on fire, and he desperately slapped his face with his palms.

Dai Long did not make any further moves, but immediately continued reading the imperial edict.

"By imperial decree, let his physical form be returned to fertile soil, and let his soul return to the abyss..."

"court death!!"

Upon seeing this, the Bone-Scraping Demon King immediately panicked and threw out a bone spear.

The bone spear was extremely fast, arriving almost instantly. Dai Long had no time to dodge and was pierced through the chest by the bone spear.

His body swayed, and a fist-sized hole appeared in his chest.

"Dai Long!!"

Upon seeing this, Xiao Ran couldn't help but roar and suddenly swooped down from the high platform above.

Xiao Ran took out the [Guillotine Blade] from his spatial storage and swung it. His body shimmered with fluorescent light, and he was instantly split in two.

The soul escaped from the physical body, falling rapidly like a meteor. Vast spiritual power filled the void, and it cleaved through the air with a single strike: "Slash!!"

The blade's shadow transformed into a condensed, chilling light; even before the blade's edge arrived, its fierce killing intent had already frozen the space.

Within the blade, there was a divine might that caused the Bone-Scraping Demon King's mind to tremble.

It turns out that this strike was made by Xiao Ran using Huang Chao's essence as a base, and gathering the essence of a celestial being.

The Bone-Scraping Demon King was filled with shock and rage, and tried to resist by burning his demonic energy, but how could the Bone-Scraping Demon King in his current state withstand Xiao Ran's strike, which was infused with the power of Huang Chao's soul?

The blade's edge sliced ​​through rotten cloth like a knife, instantly striking the Bone-Scraping Demon King's neck.

Click!

A piercing cracking sound rang out, and a tearing sound came from the neck of the Bone-Scraping Demon King.

The next second, his vision spun rapidly. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see his massive body still standing in front of Xiao Ran, but his head was gone.

At the same time, Dai Long's figure swayed, blood spurting onto the imperial edict before him. He continued to open his mouth and recite:
"Their crimes are clear, judged by the underworld; dust to dust, ashes to ashes! All things shall return to their proper domains, and the three realms shall return to peace..."

(End of this chapter)