Sword Sect Outer Sect

Chapter 128 Endless Hell
To the cultivators patrolling Shiguping, the sun in the sky disappeared almost instantly.

In the distance, a towering black aura erupted from the center of the village, with countless grotesque ghostly figures swirling and spreading as they roared.

Any mortal who touched the black aura instantly turned into bones, from which bloodied and mangled demons crawled and frantically attacked other living people.

Shiguping, in the blink of an eye, has been transformed into an infernal hell!
"..."

Looking at Jin Tianya on the mountain of white bones, Liu Ciming felt his resentment and anger build up to the extreme.

Under the sweep of his divine sense, he could tell that the other party was simply borrowing the power of the calligraphy!
He felt a little relieved.

Jin Tianya has not yet fully merged with this calligraphy. If he can act quickly enough to bypass the painting and kill him directly, the outcome will still be the same!

His spiritual power surged, and he no longer concealed his Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation.

Pale yellow lightning gradually gathered in his palm.

"Three Corpse Yin Thunder!"

Something he never expected happened.

The moment he activated his spiritual power, his cultivation level began to plummet rapidly!
How is this going? !
Liu Ciming was almost in the very center of the Avici Hell.

He felt as if his cultivation level was being slowly sealed by a strange mist.

In just a few breaths, his cultivation level had dropped from the late Foundation Establishment stage to the mid Foundation Establishment stage!

It is even falling back to the early stage of foundation building.

The realm is still there, but it's like a painting—visible, but unusable.

The spiritual energy consumed by the Yin Thunder in his palm gradually dissipated, making it difficult to even maintain the most basic form of a spell.

Liu Ciming had never seen anything like this before!

His mind was shaken, and without further hesitation, he immediately flew towards the outside of Shiguping.

They only managed to stop when they reached the outskirts of the Avici Hell.

"What an eerie painting..."

Liu Ciming felt a lingering fear in his heart and looked on with apprehension as he stared intently at the center of Shiguping.

"Is this the masterpiece of a Nascent Soul cultivator? It's just a painting..."

"It can cause the cultivation level of anyone who stands within it to drop?!"

The very center of Avici Hell.

Jin Tianya laughed loudly as he watched Liu Ciming flee in disarray.

It was exhilarating, yet tinged with a sense of melancholy.

Now that I have merged with the Hell Transformation Diagram, I can say that I have become half of the spirit of this masterpiece.

Unable to move, he could only sit on this mountain of bones and barely control a part of the Avici Hell.

In the future, it will probably only be refined by a Golden Core cultivator or a late Foundation Establishment cultivator.

There is no way out and no freedom left.

However, its characteristics are already clear.

At first, it was indeed just a painting.

What the Golden Core cultivator in the Demon Ruins coveted was the Nascent Soul cultivator's understanding of the Great Dao of the Avici Hell.

However, now that he has merged himself into the painting, what will happen next is beyond his control.

The hellish realm depicted in this painting will continuously devour mortals and even cultivators at the Qi Refining stage.

If he could devour enough living beings, he might be able to solidify his ghost general in the painting, perhaps even making him comparable to a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Cultivators at the Golden Core and Foundation Establishment stages will be affected by this hellish transformation, causing their cultivation to rapidly drop to the Qi Refining stage.

For a Nascent Soul Realm expert, the meager spiritual power of a Qi Refining Realm cultivator might be no different from that of an ordinary person.

However, staying in the Qi Refining Realm for a long time does not make it any easier for Qi Refining Realm cultivators than for Foundation Establishment or Golden Core Realm cultivators.

The true terror of this Avici Hell is not the presence of evil spirits everywhere.

Instead, it is the reflection of hellish beings within the ink-black color.

That was a test of will.

In the reflection of hell, the sins committed by the cultivators will emerge.

If a cultivator lingers in one place for too long, it will pull them into that place, allowing them to experience the true Avici Hell!
The *Xianchao Mohua Lu* records that an old monk at Jingyun Temple once told his disciples:
“When Wu Shengdao Xuan painted the hellish scenes of this temple, there were many wicked and deceitful people in Chang’an who, upon seeing it, were filled with fear and repented.”

Only one kind of person can walk on flat ground in this inescapable hell.

Those are people who possess both a flawless Dao heart and a clear will!

However, let alone this small state of Chu nowadays.

Even among the major sects of the Central Region and the Tang Dynasty, such people are rare.

The Avici Hell continues to spread!
……

The commotion at Shiguping was truly enormous.

Most of the elders from the six major sects had already arrived, suspended outside the Avici Hell.

Cong Yuzhen followed behind Elder Fu, her brows furrowed. "Master." "Those mortals..."

Fu Xiao sighed softly. His disciple was good in every way, except that he was too compassionate.

"This ghost realm is so eerie!"

Many Foundation Establishment cultivators experienced a rapid decline in their cultivation levels as soon as they entered the scroll, influenced by its rules.

"Able to influence the rules of heaven and earth within a small space..."

"It's at least a treasure belonging to a Nascent Soul cultivator!"

The strange influence made many Foundation Establishment cultivators extremely wary, and everyone noticed something.

That is the Avici Hell, which seems to be gradually spreading.

In fact, Jin Tianya had become completely familiar with the treasure map in a very short time.

Even Foundation Establishment cultivators can no longer enter it.

Perhaps because all the mortals in Shiguping have become evil spirits in the realm, the spread of this hellish reflection is extremely slow, but it has not stopped.

In other words, cultivators are still dying in Shiguping!
The cultivators from the six sects aboard the flying magical artifacts took in the tragic scene at Shiguping.

Master Sanjue of Huadu Temple closed his eyes with great sorrow, and surprisingly sat down cross-legged and began to chant Buddhist scriptures.

The Buddhist disciples behind him followed suit one by one.

Xu Ziqing's brows furrowed as he gazed at the faint, ethereal image of the painting in the distance, muttering in disbelief.

"The Hell Transformation Diagram?"

He had seen this painting in an ancient book called "The Immortal Dynasty's Ink Painting Record" in the inner sect's library.

That was the private collection of his master, Daoist Li Jun, the sect leader of Dongyuan Sect.

Unexpectedly, I found the original here.

"No...no, this isn't the original."

Logically speaking, the original painting of the Hell Transformation Diagram should have been painted in a temple in the Central Immortal Dynasty.

This should be a copy.

He suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly asked Dai Rui of the Sheyang Sect who was standing next to him.

"Are any disciples of my Dongyuan Sect patrolling Shiguping today?"

"Elder Xu, your sect's Song Yan and Li Qingfeng are among them."

"Besides these, there are Shen Huai and Ji Chuanqiao from the Xuan Yuan Sect, and..."

As the captain of Team A, Dai Rui reported to the three elders involved one by one.

Xu Ziqing's brows furrowed even deeper.

He gazed intently into Shiguping. Fortunately, Shiguping was located in a low-lying area, and the houses were generally low-rise, so the scenery was clearly visible.

They quickly discovered Song Yan and Li Qingfeng.

……

To tell the truth.

Even now, Song Yan still doesn't know what exactly happened.

His only thought was to protect himself.

A burst of sword energy shot out from his fingertips, killing several vengeful ghosts that were following him like shadows.

But in that brief pause, from the ink-like ground, withered black hands would emerge and grab his ankles.

Pull him down.

Demonic sounds lingered in my ears, and I saw hazy phantoms in my eyes.

"What is this?!"

Fortunately, beneath the Zhendao Sword Mansion, the small sword formed from his Dao Heart occasionally hummed softly, dispelling the dazzling illusions before his eyes.

"Xiao He! Can you tell? Are these vengeful ghosts real?"

Xiao He's eyes flickered with a bluish-gold spiritual light, and her voice carried a hint of timidity.

"it is true!"

After receiving Xiao He's affirmative answer, he couldn't help but have some doubts about life.

He slightly raised his eyes.

Above Shiguping, the sky was filled with vengeful ghosts and a faintly visible scroll of hell.

An absurd idea flashed through my mind.

Could I have suddenly died...?

Did they go to hell?
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