Master of the Xuanyin Sect of Mount Shu

Chapter 48 Sword Sacrifice
Guan Minghui was unaware of Hua Yaosong's true strength, only knowing that she was a Nascent Soul Earth Immortal, but not all Earth Immortals were the same.

Anyone who hasn't ascended to heaven and remains on earth is an Earth Immortal. Li Jingxu is an Earth Immortal, as is the Red Staff Immortal, and Lu Rongbo is also an Earth Immortal.

However, Li Jingxu cultivated the innate five elements avatar outside his body, which allowed him to ascend to immortality in his physical body, achieving a rank equivalent to a Golden Immortal, and becoming incomparably noble.

Because he married the Red Staff Immortal, the True Man of the Red Staff would have to undergo another tribulation to achieve physical sainthood. He was unwilling to reincarnate with his disciples and grand-disciples, nor did he want to go to heaven to be bound by divine duties, so he stayed in the mortal realm to pass the time.

Lu Rongbo was the kind of person who could barely ascend to heaven. Even if she ascended and attained the rank of a celestial being, she would only be a fairy maiden who served peaches and wine and sang and danced at Dharma assemblies.

In the original story, she didn't have enough external martial arts skills and didn't have the fortune to become a celestial being. When she was about to ascend, she encountered the Three Phoenixes and was knocked down by the Demon Sand.

Now that her mind is disturbed by external influences, she can no longer fly away even if she wants to.

Hua Yaosong belongs to a side sect and also possesses the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, which seems very solid. Like Cui Haike, he also relied on the power of external elixirs, making him worlds apart from Qi Shuming, who has been a true disciple of the Xuanmen sect for nine generations.

However, her nascent soul was very powerful. It was a nascent soul made of a hundred herbs, using a total of one hundred kinds of rare immortal medicines. Each immortal medicine was combined with ninety-nine kinds of auxiliary medicines to make a golden pill. She would take one pill every three years to nourish and refine her nascent soul.

It took a total of three hundred years to nurture the nascent soul until it was surrounded by azure energy and auspicious clouds, making it immune to all poisons.

The malevolent aura of the Xuan Yin Divine Curtain could affect others, but it could not affect her in the slightest. It could even release a cloud of azure light, protecting her and Ku Tie and the others inside.

Guan Minghui racked his brains for a way to break the deadlock. The Qing Suo Sword moved back and forth inside, but he had no flying sword or magic weapon that could withstand its edge. If it got hit, it would be damaged, and if it stayed there for too long, it would be destroyed.

He could only keep moving around to avoid the attacks of the Green Chain Sword.

Hua Yaosong, who was outside, also knew that time was of the essence, so he launched a fierce attack from within.

The Mysterious Yin Soul Refining Array can change its gates, choosing to face inwards or outwards, making it very difficult to be attacked from both inside and outside.

After all, only eight of these banners have seven turns, while the rest have six turns.

Loose immortals are rare... Back then, the Heavenly Lust Cult Master used not all the primordial spirits of loose immortals to create so many seventh and eighth-level divine banners, but rather refined beast souls.

First, they disassembled the three souls and seven spirits of various wild beasts, then recombined them to create all sorts of messy things like the blue-faced lion, the six-tusked white elephant, the nine-headed Naga, the four-faced Buddha, and the thousand-clawed octopus.

After years of cultivation, one can become a seventh or even eighth-level main god, but the primordial spirit is much weaker than that of a true Nascent Soul Earth Immortal or Golden Core Loose Immortal.

Guan Minghui still has too few beast souls, and it's a massive project that takes hundreds of years, measured in 60-year cycles.

He has worked tirelessly for twenty years with six oxen and horses to create this Xuan Yin Banner, which is the best he can do.

In recent years, in addition to the Xuan Yin Banner, there has also been the Xuan Yin Divine Curtain, which has undergone many changes, spewing out countless Xuan Yin Netherworld Arrow Qi, like ten thousand crossbows firing at once, a chaotic barrage of arrows.

Hua Yaosong's nascent soul could generate auspicious clouds overhead, with radiant light supporting its feet, and swirling azure energy, protecting the person inside completely. Arrow energy shot at it, crackling and exploding, dispersing into a cloud of cold air.

Yang Li stood behind Hua Yaosong, watching the blue light outside explode like popping beans, becoming more and more dense, and felt a little frightened.

Besides the Netherworld Arrow Qi, there was also the Profound Yin Cold Flame, which burned fiercely outside the auspicious blue clouds, casting a white glow on everyone's faces through the blue light.

Hua Yaosong released his flying sword magic weapon to attack the array gate, while Sanfeng and Dongxiu used their primordial spirits to control the sword and defend against it.

The flying swords they used were made by Tianyi Jinmu and were of decent quality. Each of them was accompanied by several beast souls, and they could still use the spells they had used in life. They could also draw on the evil energy of the formation for enhancement.

Hua Yaosong was overpowering the two of them by herself, but the surrounding Xuan Yin Divine Curtain kept changing and her attack methods were rapidly upgrading. Everything else was fine, but then a Black Frontier Cold Tide arose.

Guan Minghui collected the Black Frontier Frost Tide from the Yin Vein Cave in the back of Mangcang Mountain. It took him ten years to refine one of them, and he placed two of them in the Profound Yin Divine Curtain.

The cold wave spread out and was over a hundred miles long and several miles wide. It contained black evil spirits and monstrous forces. Wherever it passed, all living things were wiped out, and mountains, trees, grass, and rocks were all frozen into black ice! The two cold waves surged in the darkness, as if two giant trees were constantly colliding. Each time the cold wave passed, it made the people inside feel their scalps tingle, as if the end of the world had come.

The auspicious clouds above were greatly diminished, as if they were about to be blown away like cotton, and the protective blue light on all sides was also twisted and deformed like soap bubbles, as if it was about to burst.

Hua Yaosong originally intended to charge directly into the formation, but was repeatedly struck by the Black Frontier Cold Tide, forcing him to regain his senses and break through the cold tide first.

She sneered, leaped backward, raised the iron staff in her hand, and the green pouch at the end of the staff flew out. In the air, it quickly grew larger, and the mouth of the pouch opened, spewing out a green light with the fragrance of hundreds of herbs.

The azure light first met a black, frigid tide, enveloping its crest. The tide, originally several miles wide, was forcibly contracted and narrowed by the azure light, which then used its momentum to pull it forcefully into the bag.

In just a few breaths, she collected a cold wave into her bag, and then a second cold wave crashed in, which she also collected in the same way.

Having received two waves of cold air in succession, Hua Yaosong simply unleashed her true energy, targeting the green pouch and collecting all the surrounding Xuan Yin Cold Flame, Black Omen, Earthly Fiend, Netherworld Arrow Qi, Xuan Yin Thunder Pearl... in one go, just like a whale sucking up water.

The black sphere with a radius of several miles shrank dramatically and was quickly absorbed into the small green pouch.

Guan Minghui suddenly roared as he charged out from within the formation: "You old bastard, how dare you steal my magic weapon!"

He held the Soul-Sealing Mirror in his hand, and a pale white beam of light shot out from the mirror towards Hua Yaosong, but it was blocked by the blue light emitted from the dragon head of Hua Yaosong's iron staff.

Hua Yaosong unleashed his flying sword at him, and he responded with a burst of Xuan Yin Divine Thunder.

Sword flashes and lightning bolts, a constant barrage of explosions, traveled far along the isthmus, causing rocks to crack and mud to flow erratically.

Hua Yaosong brandished his cane, releasing rings of azure light as he used the Azure Profound Dragon Shaking Technique. Guan Minghui used the Profound Heaven Shifting Technique to teleport back and forth and move left and right, his ten fingers shooting out Profound Yin Cold Flames in a row.

He then used the remaining Xuan Yin Divine Curtain to condense a giant human head that looked exactly like himself, and opened its mouth as if to swallow Hua Yaosong whole.

Hua Yaosong pointed to the green pouch and put the head into it as well.

The two exchanged blows at lightning speed, dazzling the onlookers.

Ku Tie no longer concealed himself, chanted "Amitabha" loudly, released his flying sword to slash at Guan Minghui, and then summoned the Golden Mandarin Duck Scissors. Yang Li also followed suit and charged with his sword.

Guan Minghui's cultivation and magical power were inferior to Hua Yaosong's. He only managed to avoid being at a disadvantage by relying on his ruthlessness. The two of them flew in and attacked from both sides. Other than that, Ku Tie's Golden Mandarin Duck Divine Scissors were an ancient treasure he had obtained. They were extremely powerful. When fighting with others, he would cut off flying swords when he encountered flying swords and magical treasures when he encountered magical treasures.

Caught off guard, Guan Minghui was attacked from both sides and lost his left arm when Hua Yaosong swept across his shoulder.

He cried out in alarm, cursing, "You will all die a horrible death!" He turned and fled back to the Profound Yin Soul Refining Array in a disheveled state.

Hua Yaosong chased closely behind. She had completely withdrawn the Xuan Yin Divine Curtain, allowing her to focus on breaking the formation without distraction. She had expected to face strong resistance from Sanfeng and Dongxiu, so she released all her magical treasures, including her flying sword, iron crutch, and green pouch, determined to break the demon formation in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, Sanfeng and Dongxiu only flashed briefly under the banner at the entrance of the formation before disappearing. Then, the black energy surged, the formation gate closed, and Hua Yaosong rushed in. Seeing the black banner hanging high, he shouted and threw all his flying swords and magical treasures at it. He then used an extremely powerful spell to try to shatter the black banner.

She knew that as long as this demon banner was broken, the entire formation would be destroyed, which is why she used all her strength.

Just as the Xuan Yin Gathering Beast Banner was about to be blasted to pieces by her, it suddenly split in the middle, rolled up to the left and right, and a beam of green light shot out from behind.

"Not good!" Hua Yaosong was about to use her flying sword to intercept again, but the azure light was faster than lightning. At the same time, the formation activated, compressing space and shortening the distance between the two sides.

A flash of blue light pierced through Hua Yaosong's chest and shot out from his back, instantly killing him by striking his heart!

(End of this chapter)