I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 276 Please Set Off (Bonus Chapter for Cumulative Donations)

Jiang Yi sat cross-legged on the ground, his blue robes fluttering in the wind, his figure as steady as a mountain.

The sound of the crossbows of the surrounding stone soldiers was deafening, and arrows rained down like a storm. However, when they reached within three feet of her, they were blocked by an invisible force. The arrows sparked and shattered upon impact.

With a talisman between her right fingers and a wave of her left hand, the two stone lion warriors fell and stirred up dust.

The Mountain-Suppressing Fist, with its thunderous force, shattered the stone statue's head. The Golden-Breaking Fist, like a ghost, dodged and weaved, while the Thousand-Pound Blade slashed at the crossbow array, protecting Jiang Yi's body.

Hua Gu hovered high in the air, her body amidst clouds and mist swirling with tiny sparks of electricity.

The burning heart and lingering soul flicker like a candle in the wind.

"You've lost the right to sit at the table and negotiate. You might as well just die."

Jiang Yi moved his right hand, and the remnant soul of the Burning Heart hurriedly raised its hand, "Wait!"

The once arrogant and eccentric Ancestor Tianxin now showed a hint of yielding.

"Do you know that losing a spiritual root means you are born with a deficiency, and your core formation will definitely fail? You have considerable abilities, are you really willing to stop here? I guarantee that, apart from me, no one in this world knows how to repair a separated spiritual root!"

Jiang Yi remained outwardly calm, but inwardly she had to admit that she had never heard of a method to repair spiritual roots before, and even her master, True Monarch Danxi, certainly had never heard of it.

Because in today's cultivation world, there has never been a person who lost their spiritual root and was able to live and start cultivating again.

She was the first, with no prior experience to draw upon.

Regardless of whether Ancestor Tianxin is bluffing her now, losing a fire spirit root will affect her core formation, something she had already sensed when she was in the foundation building stage.

At that time, she had forged a Heavenly Grade Dao Foundation. The backlash from the shattered Fire Spirit Root transformed into a fiery phoenix lightning bolt, instantly shattering her newly formed Dao Foundation.

She survived the Foundation Establishment stage, but she really had no idea what to expect when she reached the Core Formation stage.

But no matter how uncertain she was, she wouldn't fall for the tricks of the Heavenly Heart Ancestor!

Seeing that Jiang Yi did not react, the madman Fen Xin became somewhat kind.

"I will give you the origins of my Yin-Erosion Moth Fire and Candle Moth Pure Fire, as well as all the ghostly cultivation techniques I have practiced and all my lifelong experience in weapon crafting. These are the most important parts that I don't have in my storage ring."

Fenxin glanced down at Hongli, who dared not move, and said, "I will also unlock the shackles and release this poor little thing. I only need you to give this remnant soul a way out, so that I can still have a chance to seek revenge on Xia Changying. I can swear that I will never be your enemy again, how about it?"

Burning Heart had no other way out. If Jiang Yi hadn't discovered that her remnant soul was attached to Hong Li's shackles, she could have used the same trick again and escaped when she reached a safe place.

But now, she has been discovered.

A cultivator has only one chance to possess another body and be reborn. If they die after possessing another body, their soul will dissipate and they will not be reincarnated.

She was unwilling to accept her unavenged revenge!
"Ancestor, be decisive and set off on your journey. Don't disgrace the prestige of your Heavenly Heart Ancestor."

"Ha, ha, ha! They took everything from me, what reputation do I have left!"

The burning soul surged forth like a raging fire.

"If you help me kill Xia Changying, I'll give you everything I have, everything! What more do you want? How can you agree to this? Tell me! Tell me!"

No matter how frantic Fenxin became, Jiang Yi always looked at her with calm eyes.

Flames erupted from the talisman, and her burning hysteria revealed that she had reached a dead end, so Jiang Yi no longer needed to be afraid of anything.

"Ancestor, please."

With a burning heart and a broken soul, he closed his eyes in despair, thinking, "You have such a tough backbone; you really have the same spirit I had back in the day."

Ugh……

A sigh escaped, a sigh that exhausted all of Burning Heart's pride and resentment, carrying with it a helpless sorrow.

"Crazy girl, do one last thing for me. If you ever see Xia Changying in the future, tell them that I, Duan Tianxin, will come to take revenge on him sooner or later. I want him to live in fear and unease, never to have peace again!"

The remnant soul, consumed by the burning flames, began to crumble, turning into sparks that fell to the ground.

"You simply won't believe me no matter what, right?"

Jiang Yi remained expressionless, while Fen Xin chuckled and closed his eyes. "Then all my life's learning... will only benefit this beast." From Fen Xin's continuously disintegrating remnant soul, a moth-shaped black ring leaped out. The ring shattered, and a half-gray, half-white moth flew out, crashing into Hong Li's brow with lightning speed.

Hum!
Caught off guard, Hong Li's emerald pupils suddenly contracted to slits as the shackles around her neck snapped.

The gray-white flames instantly enveloped Hongli's entire body. Startled, it shrank into a ball, but the flames did not cause it any harm. Instead, they were as gentle as a spring breeze and rain.

Hongli looked up in confusion and met Jiang Yi's tense gaze.

As the flames flickered, Hong Li's wounds healed rapidly. New flesh and red fur grew from beneath her charred skin, and a new tail visibly emerged from her severed tail.

As the last wisp of ash entered her body, Hong Li's body burst forth with dazzling Beast Spirit Fire. The flames were no longer simply crimson; their edges were swirling with a grayish-white halo. Sparks that drifted in the wind continuously transformed into moths, which then flew towards the fox's tail.

"Crazy girl..."

Burning Heart's final words carried a strange hint of pleasure.

"Do you know what's most precious in this underground palace? It's not the Heavenly Ruler, not the remains of the Tanuki, not the cultivation techniques left by Emperor Kun, nor these thousands of troops, and certainly not the Xuanwu Heart Flame overflowing from the seal, but rather..."

The remnant soul, consumed by burning passion, vanished completely in the midst of laughter, deliberately leaving the last sentence unsaid.

A golden needle floated in mid-air, its tail trailing a faint red thread that meandered into the distance, connecting to a girl standing on the back of a fox spirit in the distance, while the girl remained completely unaware.

This was the backup plan that Burning Heart left for that girl!

Jiang Yi was stunned for a moment before he realized that Ancestor Tianxin was truly dead this time!

……

The roar of battle echoed throughout the underground palace. Shen Puning's Myriad Manifestations Scroll unfolded, and black-armored cavalry continuously emerged from the ink-colored landscape, colliding violently with the stone army.

The pearl charged wildly, its fangs knocking away the broken halberd. The Mountain-Suppressing Lion and the Broken Gold Lion joined forces to sweep across the area.

Xin Wushuang stood on high ground, and the golden arrow streaked through the darkness like a meteor. It flapped its wings and swooped down, its wing blades bringing with them a piercing sound of air being torn apart.

As the stone terracotta warriors drew near, Shen Puning unleashed her brute strength, smashing the head of one of the approaching warriors with a single punch. She didn't care that the flying shards of stone scratched her cheek and drew blood.

"You can't kill them all, you simply can't kill them all, they'll regenerate!"

Shen Puning shouted, and just as she had said, the shattered stones on the ground continued to absorb and gather, reforming into a larger stone figure.

On the other side, Zhao Cangyun's twin blades ignited with Qilin Golden Flame, and together with the Ink Dragon Jade Serpent, they attacked the mutated fox spirit from both sides.

"Disgusting thing, die!"

Liu Tao's sword energy was like a waterfall, attempting to freeze Tanuki's left leg, which was proliferating with rotten flesh, and slow down its movement.

Suddenly, the enormous body of the raccoon disappeared into the earth and then burst out from behind Liu Taozhi.

Luo Qingsi moved like lightning, her thunder sword aimed straight at Li Li's neck, but she was knocked back by the sudden burst of dark blue flames.

The shockwave sent her flying several meters away, only stopping her momentum when she crashed into a ballista.

"Senior Sister, it's so hard! What should I do if my master can't chew it?"

Each time the dark blue flame was struck, it would burst open with tortoise-shell-like patterns. It didn't have much offensive power, but its defensive power was so strong that even Luo Qingsi couldn't break through it.

The girl stood atop Tanuki's head, her body like a phantom, impervious to any attack, just like the mortal Pei Zhixu who was once protected by the Dream Eater.

The battle became increasingly chaotic, and the cracks on the Heavenly Ruler had spread to the entire ruler. Dark blue flames frantically licked the cracks, and each scorching caused the underground palace to tremble more violently.

"Stop struggling! Today, you will all become the first food offerings for the Holy Lord upon his emergence from seclusion. Not one of you will be spared... Ah!"

Before the girl could finish speaking, she suddenly screamed as a powerful force ripped her off the back of the mutated raccoon.

The girl stumbled into the rubble of the stone figurine, and as she lay on the ground, she looked up and met Jiang Yi's eyes, who was holding a golden needle and a red thread.

"Old friend, why such a grand gesture?"

　The downside of not having a draft is showing; there's a plot hole earlier where Luo Qingsi didn't react to the girl's appearance. I'll fix that in a bit, so don't panic, haha.

　　See you tomorrow!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)