I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 214 Trying to outdo me in madness? (Seeking monthly votes)
On the other side, Lin Xiyue once again shielded Ji Honglian with her body, only to be struck solidly by the toad's tongue, crashing into a distant stone pillar and falling to the ground, spitting blood.

"Senior sister!"

Ji Honglian's eyes were bloodshot, and the Burning Heaven Fire Wheel burst forth with unprecedented crimson flames. The gilded serrations on the edge of the fire wheel spun wildly, biting down hard on the golden toad's long tongue.

The gray flames collided with the crimson flames, exploding into blinding sparks, and the toad's tongue snapped off in response.

The golden toad roared in agony, and the gray-white sea of ​​flames gushing from the furnace on its back suddenly boiled over, with countless ghost-faced moths forming a towering wave of fire that rushed towards the crowd.

Lin Xiyue was seriously injured and coughed up blood, but she forced herself to make a hand seal and flicked a drop of her essence blood into Lan Shuiyan's body.

The illusory ice phoenix transformed from Lan Shuiyan stretched its neck and cried out. Its ice-blue body was stained with a touch of blood. The power of the ice phoenix suddenly erupted, and its wings spread out like a curtain falling from the sky. It crashed hard into the refining furnace, and the extreme cold storm instantly froze the refining furnace with spider web-like cracks.

"Watch me smash it to pieces with one punch!"

Zhen Shan's majestic body crashed down like a chariot, and the Earthly Fiend Mountain-Shaking Fist slammed into the crack in the refining furnace, causing the furnace to split open with a crack.

The broken gold transformed into a golden afterimage and flashed, the cracking gold claw tearing fiercely along the crack, actually ripping open half of the refining furnace, revealing the charred bones inside that were almost integrated with the furnace wall.

With the forging furnace destroyed, the Fire-Swallowing Toad let out a heart-wrenching wail. Taking advantage of the moment, Ji Honglian unleashed the Heaven-Burning Fire Wheel, slicing into the Fire-Swallowing Toad's gaping maw. The serrated edges of the fire wheel spun like minced meat, cutting all the way from its throat to its abdominal cavity, causing the toad's blood to splatter like lava.

The golden toad's dying struggle caused rocks to fall from the cave, but it was then firmly pressed to the bottom of the lake by the illusory claws of the ice phoenix.

Every struggle of the golden toad caused Lin Xiyue to vomit blood, but she would rather die here than let Ji Honglian and Jiang Yi get into trouble.

Otherwise, even if she survived, her path would have ended there!
"Junior, how dare you!"

The illusory image of the Heavenly Heart Ancestor suddenly twisted, and a monstrous ghost moth spewed out from the hole in his right eye. He abruptly turned around, abandoning his pursuit of Jiang Yi, and shot towards the lake shore like an arrow.

Lin Xiyue was using her last bit of true energy to try to make the illusory ice phoenix shatter the demon core inside the fire-swallowing golden toad.

It's now!

Jiang Yi's eyes flashed with a cold light, the Broken Tribulation Sword roared like a dragon's cry, its blade pointing straight to the sky, and a hundred invisible and shadowless Heavenly Gang Sword Qi burst forth from the mouth of the sword-nurturing gourd at his waist like a galaxy bursting its banks.

With the addition of the "Shadowless" technique from the Hidden Edge Sword, the sword energy pierced through the air silently, and burst into brilliant starlight the instant it touched the gray flames, engulfing the remnant soul of the Heavenly Heart Ancestor in a torrent of sword light.

Before the Heavenly Heart Ancestor's shriek had even faded, his phantom had already been torn into thousands of gray moths by the sword energy. Those ghost-faced moths struggled and exploded within the Heavenly Gang Sword Energy.

Upon seeing this, Lin Xiyue collapsed to her knees, exhausted, and Lan Shuiyan cried out as she transformed back into her swallow form.

"It worked?" Ji Honglian looked incredulous. When she saw Lin Xiyue falling backward, she rushed over and caught her.

Jiang Yi rushed to Lin Xiyue's side immediately and used Shi Zhan Huansheng to treat her; any later and her life would have been in danger.

Zhenshan and Duanjin were panting heavily, never expecting to encounter such a fierce battle so soon after submitting to their new master.

Just then, the toad's remains suddenly convulsed violently, and Duan Jin quickly pulled Zhen Shan away using the Sand Shadow Escape technique.

"It's useless. I can't bear to die until I've turned the Xia family members into lamp wicks, hahaha—"

The skin of the red toad peeled off like a snake shedding its skin, and the mad laughter of the Heavenly Heart Ancestor came from the mouth of the newborn toad.

The moment the ashes reignited, Jiang Yi pushed Ji Honglian and Lin Xiyue aside, saying, "Go first, I have a plan!"

"You—" Ji Honglian tried to struggle, but Lin Xiyue pressed her wrist down with her cold palm.

"Trust her..." Lin Xiyue said weakly, as Lan Shuiyan transformed into an ice bridge and stretched towards the cave entrance that Jiang Yi had previously discovered. "We... are the burden."

Lin Xiyue watched Jiang Yi grow from the beginning of her training, and in less than five years, she reached the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, leaving Jiang Yi behind.

Jiang Yi's strength is unfathomable. As a direct disciple of the Nascent Soul stage, she must possess life-saving methods left behind by True Monarch Danxi.

Their master was only a Golden Core cultivator, and before leaving, he could only give her an Ice Dragon Talisman for protection.

The Heavenly Heart Ancestor's goal was to possess Ji Honglian's body. Lin Xiyue believed that Jiang Yi could escape unscathed.

Therefore, they are the burden.

Ji Honglian took one last look at the figure holding a sword and facing the Heavenly Heart Ancestor. Her heart was filled with complicated emotions. She decisively picked up Lin Xiyue and carried her away first.

The illusory image of the Heavenly Heart Ancestor twisted and reassembled above the Fire-Swallowing Golden Toad, and gray-white flames flowed like rivers flowing into the sea, surging towards the shattered figure from all directions.

Thick, molten lava gushed from her empty right eye, pouring into the cracks in the torn refining furnace. The furnace emitted a sickening metallic screech as it miraculously healed itself, writhing as if alive. Suddenly, she turned to look in the direction Ji Honglian had fled, a strange smile playing on her lips. She didn't pursue the fine embryo that Ji Honglian had spent a thousand years finding.

Ancestor Tianxin withdrew his gaze, "Compared to a physical body..."

The phantom suddenly appeared in front of Jiang Yi, its fingertips made of gray moths almost touching her brow.

"It would be even more interesting if you could cultivate your little sword from Xuandu Temple into a weapon spirit, hahaha—"

The furnace shook violently, and twelve golden-red chains shot out from its mouth, coiling like venomous snakes toward Jiang Yi's limbs.

Zhenshan Duanjin tried to help, but was whipped away by the chains and crashed hard into the ruins in the distance.

"The watchdog I personally crafted is quite loyal to you!"

The flames in Tianxin Ancestor's left eye surged, and hundreds of floating phantom images of weapon-refining hammers appeared in the gray-white sea of ​​fire.

Jiang Yi used a series of movement techniques, including Leisurely Steps, Phantom Escape, and the newly learned Stepping Stance, to evade the chains' encirclement and interception, employing every means at her disposal.

The Heavenly Heart Ancestor was still laughing maniacally, causing sand and stones to fall from the cave ceiling.

"Do you know what it feels like to have your soul forged? The first hammer blow will shatter your three souls and seven spirits, the second hammer blow will forge your spiritual consciousness into the weapon embryo, the third hammer blow..."

The gray flames suddenly condensed into a giant hammer and smashed towards Jiang Yitian's head.

"All I could hear was you screaming like a dog being choked!"

Ancestor Tianxin tilted her head and frowned. The pain of being ambushed and sealed in the weapon-refining furnace back then resurfaced in her mind. She would never forget the pain of each hammer blow.

"Sorry, I won't yell like you!"

Jiang Yi blocked with his Breaking Tribulation Sword. The green bamboo sword collided with the Flame Hammer, bursting into dazzling sparks. The golden bamboo leaf patterns on the sword blade trembled wildly, and were scorched and curled black by the gray fire.

"Hehe~ You little girl, you have an interesting way of talking."

Three golden needles suddenly shot out from the hole in Tianxin Ancestor's right eye. The red threads at the ends of the needles wrapped around the sword like living things and shot straight to Jiang Yi's wrist along with the sword energy.

"I've changed my mind..."

The face formed by the swarm of gray moths suddenly came close to Jiang Yi's ear.

"I'm going to turn you into a corpse puppet to keep me company and relieve my boredom~"

Countless pale arms emerged from the refining furnace, grabbing Jiang Yi's ankles and dragging her towards the furnace opening. Each arm had a mouth in its palm, gnawing at the protective blue light around her body, making a chilling chewing sound.

Flames surged within the furnace, and the souls of Zhu Mingqian and Wu Kun, who had been swallowed earlier, could be vaguely seen howling in agony within the fire.

Seeing Ji Honglian and Lin Xiyue disappear from the range of his divine sense, Jiang Yi suddenly raised his head and smiled.

"You crazy woman, you're not even close to being as crazy as me!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Yi suddenly gave up struggling and let her body be dragged into the refining furnace.

In an instant, she crossed her legs into a meditation posture and flung out the celestial timekeeping device.

Time within a three-zhang radius of the Heavenly Timing Instrument suddenly slowed down, and the face of the Heavenly Heart Ancestor was almost frozen in a moment of astonishment.

She watched as Jiang Yi tilted her head back and swallowed the Life-Sustaining Pill. Three Thunderfire Pearls, one Fire Burning Pearl, a stack of Evil-Suppressing Talismans, and a stack of Mountain-Suppressing Talismans all flew out from her sleeves and were activated.

Inside the refining furnace, Jiang Yi wore a smile even crazier than hers, and an invisible force emanated from her body, pushing away all the gray-white flames.

She used herself as bait to enter the refining furnace, and all the disposable magical artifacts and talismans on her body were completely destroyed!
The spiderweb-like cracks on the surface of the Thunderfire Pearl were reflected in the shattered pupils of the Heavenly Heart Ancestor, from which crimson lightning shone. Flames flowed within the Fire-Burning Pearl, and the cinnabar incantations on the Exorcising Talisman lit up inch by inch. The phantom of Mount Tai of the Mountain-Suppressing Talisman slowly took shape, with waves of frenzied superposition...

Boom boom boom!
The moment the time confinement was lifted, the forging furnace exploded from the inside.

First, a blinding white light engulfed the gray flames, then lightning and fire intertwined into a net, and the phantom of Mount Tai crashed down.

The shockwave from the explosion overturned the entire underground oasis, tearing the dome's rock layers apart like brittle paper, and countless sand waterfalls cascaded down.

The illusory image of the Heavenly Heart Ancestor was torn to pieces by the violent shockwave. The newly resurrected Fire-Swallowing Toad didn't even have time to wail before it was blasted into countless fragments.

(End of this chapter)