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Chapter 294 Cultivation World 83
A deep gray aura spun in her palm, initially no bigger than a fist, but instantly transformed into a vortex that resembled a black hole—the Void Devouring Vortex!
This vortex is no longer just about devouring energy; it also carries a sense of "ending" that makes even the laws themselves tremble!
The raging torrent of golden-red destructive breath crashed into the dark vortex, as if it had vanished into thin air.

Instead of unleashing the anticipated terrifying impact, its violent outer shell was rapidly "stripped away" at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the pure but violent energy within was forcibly annihilated and reduced to nothingness! The scale of the torrent shrank and dimmed at an astonishing rate!
Si Lingle's body swayed slightly, a flash of golden light passing through her dark eyes, but the vortex remained stable.

Behind them, Le Miao, who witnessed all of this, was instantly filled with indescribable shock in his previously despairing eyes! A cultivator at the early stage of True God had actually blocked a full-force attack from an early stage Golden God demon beast?!

Although it seemed like a struggle, the calm yet terrifying methods... she had never seen anything like it before!

"What are you daydreaming about?" A cold, detached voice reached Le Miao's ears. "Its weakness lies beneath the third reverse scale between its brows! Use your sharpest arrow! You only have one chance!"

Si Lingle's words were like a bucket of ice water, waking Le Miao from her daze. She instantly understood that this mysterious, unpredictable gray-robed cultivator was creating an opportunity for her to deliver a fatal blow!
At this moment, the destructive breath was mostly restrained by the Void Devouring Vortex, and the giant beast seemed to be slightly stunned for a moment due to the abnormal loss of power! On the dark golden scales covering its brow, a relatively small, slightly dull scale revealed a gap under the light of the breath!
"Okay!" Le Miao didn't hesitate for a moment longer! A resolute determination to fight to the death flashed in his eyes.

As Windwing Bow hummed to its limit, she concentrated almost all of her wind-elemental divine power and the ultimate "cutting" essence of the wind law, pouring it all into a seemingly slender arrow that was so refined that it emitted a piercing blue light!
"Extreme Wind Divine Fall!" This was the strongest attack she could currently unleash. Normally, it required time to charge up, and forcibly unleashing it now put a tremendous strain on her.
Whoosh-!
The arrow left the bowstring! There was no earth-shattering sound, only an extremely thin and fast blue line, as if piercing through the barrier of space, with an unstoppable and all-tearing sharpness, shooting with perfect accuracy towards the giant beast's brow!

The target—that barely visible crack beneath the third reverse scale!

The behemoth sensed a deadly threat! It thrashed its head wildly, trying to dodge! But the Void Devouring Vortex suddenly contracted inward, unleashing a powerful suction force, not to devour it, but to fix its head in place for a fleeting moment!

puff!

It was as if a hot knife was slicing through butter.

The blue line, containing all of Le Miao's wind essence and killing intent, precisely pierced into that tiny gap!
Roar—!!!
A wail filled with pain, terror, and disbelief echoed throughout the Misty Gorge!
The enormous, mountain-like, and ferocious Golden God Realm beast suddenly convulsed violently!

A destructive golden light burst forth from its head, attempting to resist the sharp edge that had invaded its core. However, the power of "Extreme Wind Godfall," with the all-pervasive and all-tearing nature of wind, had already poured into its divine soul origin, which contained the core laws, through that single gap!
Countless tiny yet deadly wind blades erupted wildly inside his skull!

The behemoth struggled and roared, its dark golden scales bursting open, and its golden-red light dimmed and became chaotic.

Its massive body, as if its spine had been removed, crashed to the ground with a deafening roar, shattering several small, floating meteorites into dust! The ground trembled violently, and smoke and dust mixed with the chaotic energy of the broken pieces shot into the sky, only to be quickly swallowed by the mist.

The terrifying beast, which was at the early stage of the Golden God realm, was killed in one blow by the bizarre cooperation between the late stage and early stage True God realm beings!
As the smoke and energy turbulence gradually subsided, only the enormous but lifeless remains of the behemoth remained, with a small, penetrating wound on its head from which flowed lava-like golden-red blood, which was slowly losing its luster.

Le Miao knelt on the ground, exhausted. His arm holding the bow trembled slightly, and his face was pale, but his eyes were filled with relief at surviving the ordeal and deep shock.

She gasped for breath, staring incredulously at the figure still shrouded in a gray cloak, his aura as deep as an abyss—the mysterious man who had reversed an absolute disadvantage with just two "moves".

She spoke with difficulty, her voice weak and hoarse: "Le Miao, an inner disciple of the Divine Flower Palace... Thank you for saving my life, fellow Daoist! May I ask your esteemed name?"

Si Lingyue slowly withdrew the remaining gray ripples from her palm. Her silver-gray eyes, hidden beneath her cloak, glanced at the remains of the colossal beast on the ground before turning back to Le Miao. Her voice remained calm, revealing no trace of the turmoil that followed the slaying of the golden beast:
"Nan Chu".

She paused for a moment, then added, her gaze seemingly casually sweeping over the Divine Flower Palace insignia on Le Miao's body:

"It's no trouble at all. The remains of this fang are quite valuable; we'll split them in half."

The colossal carcass of the giant beast lay across the shattered asteroid belt, its golden-red blood flowing like lava, gradually solidifying and radiating an astonishing energy pressure and a fierce aura.

The shattered space around them slowly mended itself, and chaotic energy flowed softly in the mist.

After taking a few pills, some color returned to Le Miao's pale face.

She propped herself up and walked to the remains of the giant beast. Her gaze toward Si Lingle was filled with gratitude and complex emotions: "Fellow Daoist Nan Chu, I will always remember your life-saving grace! This beast was killed by our joint efforts, so it should be disposed of by you first."

Si Lingle's gray eyes swept over the corpse containing the surging essence of the Golden God Realm, and she nodded without refusing.

She stepped forward slowly, her gaze as calm as ancient ice, precisely landing on several key parts of the behemoth: its spine covered with the thickest dark gold scales, its enormous heart flowing with golden-red divine blood, its single horn flashing with law runes, and its pair of golden claws capable of tearing through space.

She wasted nothing. A highly refined gray light condensed at her fingertips, the "End Slash" power compressed to its limit, far surpassing that of ordinary divine artifacts.

With a few soft hissing sounds, the thick scales and tough tendons were easily separated as if they were rotten wood.

The heart and horn were completely removed, each carrying immense life force and fragments of laws, and were sealed away layer by layer with jade boxes imbued with an aura of annihilation and array-like restrictions. The giant claws were also removed, their sharpness unmatched.

She extracted most of the giant beast's core essence and placed it into a specially made amethyst bottle. A faint gray light flowed within the bottle, suppressing the boiling power within.

Finally, she looked at the area between the giant beast's eyebrows where the arrow had pierced through its reverse scale.

There, the edges of the shattered scales still retained a strong sense of wind's sharpness and destructive power.

Si Lingle slightly raised her hand, and an invisible suction force drew in a palm-sized bone fragment stained with blue and gold—it was the core part that bore the fatal blow, containing the giant beast's last divine resentment and the law of destruction, as well as part of the essence of Le Miaofeng's meteor arrow.

"The rest is yours." Si Lingle put away what she had received and turned to Le Miao. Her tone remained calm, but the "rest" she referred to included most of the flesh and blood, some bones, scales, and some secondary materials, all of which were equally valuable.

Watching Si Lingle's swift, ruthless, and precise movements, and seeing the most crucial and terrifying materials she had collected, Le Miao felt a chill run down her spine once again.

This fellow Daoist from the Southern Beginning was far more refined and unpredictable than any other genius of the same level she had ever seen.

She took a deep breath, without feigning reluctance to offer more. The life-saving grace was already a great debt, and these materials were a tremendous gain for her. She solemnly bowed again to Si Lingle: "Thank you for your generosity, Fellow Daoist Nan Chu! I, Le Miao, am unworthy of such kindness."

After the division was completed, Le Miao quickly collected her share. Looking at the mysterious and powerful savior before her, her mind raced, and she finally mustered the courage to speak: "Fellow Daoist Nan Chu! I have no way to repay your life-saving grace. Your cultivation is extraordinary, and your methods are even more mysterious and unpredictable."

“A month ago, Le Miao explored a hidden coordinate in this area and inadvertently discovered the entrance to a cave that appeared to be left behind by an ancient deity. The complex and powerful restrictions surrounding it are beyond my ability to break alone.”

“I have tried several times but have all returned empty-handed. The aura of that cave is mysterious and unpredictable, and it may very well contain great opportunities… but it may also be accompanied by great dangers. I wonder… if you would be interested in going to explore it with Le Miao? We can split the gains fifty-fifty!” Si Ling Le raised her eyes, her hazy gaze seemingly piercing through Le Miao, and turned to the direction she was pointing. Her expression was not visible in the shadows of her cloak, but after a few moments of silence, her clear, cold voice rang out:
"can."

That single word relieved Le Miao of a great weight, and his joy was palpable: "That's wonderful! Fellow Daoist, please follow me!"

Deep within the Misty Gorge, amidst the core gaps of countless shattered celestial bodies and distorted spatial flows, Le Miao pointed to a seemingly ordinary area of ​​stardust, flowing with a gray-purple halo.

She made a hand seal and released a beacon composed of strange flower petals.

The petals merged with stardust, rippling outwards and revealing the true scene hidden beneath the chaotic energy—

A towering ancient stone gate, hundreds of feet high, is embedded in the void.

The stone door is made of neither gold nor stone, and is a deep dark purple color. Its surface is covered with fine cracks, through which a pale white light shines through the cracks.

There were no handles or carvings on the door, only countless twisted, intricate, and ancient Dao patterns that exuded a wild and primordial aura flowing slowly.

These Dao patterns, though seemingly incomplete, are interconnected, forming a vast and profound defensive system. Strands of spatial tearing force and eerie curse aura emanate from the gaps in the Dao patterns.

The two stood intently in front of the stone gate, a chilling aura permeating the air.

Le Miao's expression was solemn: "Fellow Daoist, please take a look. The core of this defensive formation has at least three layers of changes: the outer layer is a distorted spatial force field, which can confuse perception and tear apart intruders; the middle layer is a cycle of ten thousand curses that devour the heart, and once you are tainted, it is like a maggot clinging to your bone, invading the origin of your soul; the core is the Guardian Divine Restriction of Returning to Origin and Annihilation, which has the strongest defense and can absorb and reflect attacks of the laws."

"I fell into that curse cycle last time. If it weren't for the sect's secret treasure protecting me, the consequences would have been unimaginable."

Si Lingle observed in silence. In the depths of her ethereal gray eyes, it seemed as if the stars of the universe were undergoing a cycle of annihilation and reincarnation. Under her gaze, the profound and complex flow of the Dao patterns on the stone gate seemed to be invisibly analyzed and dismantled.

She could "see" the nodes where power was blocked, the gaps between the Dao patterns, and the imperceptible gaps of birth and death when the curses circulated. To her, those curses were like dust thrown into a desolate star field, barely qualifying to be "returned to nothingness".

"I erode the curse, you break the spatial chain." Si Lingle's voice broke the silence.

No further words were needed. The two seemed to have rehearsed it a thousand times.

Le Miao moved instantly.

With the Windwing Longbow suspended in front of her, her fingers moved with dazzling speed, and streaks of azure light, like living things, shot precisely at the key nodes of spatial distortion around the stone gate—those "anchor points" hidden in the gaps of the Dao patterns.

A piercing, wind-stabilizing needle! Each of her azure rays carried a spatial-cutting force as sharp as a needle tip and a vibrational frequency so precise it reached the pinnacle. Hissing sounds filled the air, and the spatial disorder around the stone gate visibly calmed down, as if nailed down by countless strands of azure light.

Just as Le Miao forcefully stabilized and suppressed the spatial ring chain, Si Lingle made her move.

She did not use any powerful explosive force, but simply raised her jade-like hand, her fingertips swirling with wisps of ash-like aura, and gently pressed it against the core intersection of the Dao patterns flowing through the stone gate—the very source of the endless cycle of the curse.

Buzz…!
Silent erosion! The moment the ashes touched the door, the ancient stone door trembled violently!
Countless pale white runes on the door suddenly lit up, appearing like thousands of ghostly figures howling. The terrifying power of the Myriad Curses Devouring Hearts surged wildly towards Si Lingle's fingers like a flood that had found an outlet!
The raging tide of curses, powerful enough to drive even a Celestial God Realm cultivator mad in an instant, collided with that single speck of ashes at the fingertip.

The next moment, a scene that left Le Miao dumbfounded unfolded: the earth-shattering confrontation he had imagined did not occur.

When that surging torrent of curses touched the ashes, it was as if it had been plunged into an absolutely silent deep pool, without even a ripple, and it vanished without a sound!

Completely stripped away, annihilated, and reduced to nothingness!
The pale, cursed runes in that area visibly dimmed, their flow becoming stiff and sluggish.

Si Lingle's fingertips seemed to carry the "negation" of some ultimate law, forcefully "carving" a silent gap in the "living" defense of the stone gate.

"Central Gate Divine Forbidden Zone!" Le Miao seized the fleeting opportunity and shouted.

The Wind Wings, long poised to unleash their power, erupted with a dazzling azure divine light. Her arm muscles bulged, compressing her late-stage True God-level wind essence to its limit, drawing upon the might of the laws:

"Nine Heavens Wind and Mist Annihilation Arrow - Break!"

A gigantic cyan arrow of light, thicker than the one used to slay the behemoth and imbued with immense destructive pressure, seemingly capable of extinguishing stars, materialized out of thin air. The space at the arrowhead collapsed inch by inch.

The arrow was launched! Like the wrath of the wind god descending from the heavens, it carried the momentum to shatter all obstacles and slammed into the area of ​​weak law defense that Si Lingle had "carved" open with the power of the end!

Boom—Crack!

Amidst the deafening roar, there were also piercing sounds of spatial barriers shattering and chains of laws breaking.

The energy of the entire Misty Canyon seemed to be stirred up by this impact.

The purplish-black light on the ancient stone gate surged to its peak in an instant, attempting to withstand the earth-shattering blow that combined the power, strength, and laws of the two people!
However, with the core defense zone eroded by the power of annihilation and the outer space nailed shut, this massive Origin Annihilation Divine Restriction was like a giant beast that had lost its claws and teeth, possessing power but unable to smoothly utilize it to counterattack.

The stalemate lasted only three breaths before the incredibly sturdy ancient god's gate, which had blocked countless years of dust, finally cracked open in a blinding energy storm, creating a gap large enough for one person to pass through! From within the gap, endless darkness and the aura accumulated over the ages surged forth.

At the edge of the crack in the stone gate, spatial fissures spread like a spider web, and chaotic energy flows roared out.

Without the slightest hesitation, the two exchanged a glance, and Si Lingle was the first to transform into a streak of gray light that blended into the shadows, flashing inside.

Le Miao followed closely behind, his figure disappearing into the darkness.