Many children, many blessings: Stealing the offspring of powerful figures to cultivate immortality.

As soon as Jiang Yining finished speaking, she moved.

A surge of purplish-gold chaotic laws erupted from her body, and the phantom of the Myriad Spirit Divine Tree rose from the ground behind her, its thick vines howling out and crashing head-on into the second layer of the barrier.

Silver moonlight and purple-gold vines intertwined fiercely in mid-air.

The Moonlight attempted to purify all heterogeneous forces, but the Devouring Law of the Myriad Spirits Divine Tree devoured this purifying power as nourishment.

Two completely opposite laws exploded into countless orbs of light at the point of collision, and the energy storm swept away all the rubble within a radius of a hundred feet.

"Ning'er!"

Feng Liuyun threw away the folding fan, and Nirvana True Fire surged from his palm. The crimson-gold flames bypassed Jiang Yining's flank and precisely burned the weak point on the left side of the barrier.

The wound on his back reopened due to the intense exertion of his internal energy, and a large patch of deep red quickly seeped into the back of his crimson robe.

Feng Liuyun frowned and forcefully increased the output of the Nirvana True Fire by another ten percent.

"Uncle Bird, you're bleeding!"

Sanbao called from behind.

"It's nothing!"

Feng Liuyun gritted his teeth and squeezed out two words, and the crimson flames burned a gap in the moonlight on the left wing of the barrier.

On the right, a deafening dragon roar tore through the void.

Ao Lin transformed into half of a true dragon's body.

Golden dragon scales covered his entire right arm and half of his chest. He unleashed the power of a peak True Monarch and slammed into the right wing of the barrier.

The dragon's fist slammed into the moonlight barrier, and the purifying power frantically gnawed at its dragon scales. The golden scales shattered and peeled off piece by piece, revealing the bleeding flesh beneath.

Ao Lin let out a muffled roar and immediately followed up with a second punch.

The third punch.

The fourth punch.

Each punch took away a layer of dragon scales, and each punch widened the cracks in the barrier.

"Stupid dragon, use brute force."

Yu Luofeng stood at the back, his face extremely grim.

His ghostly aura was rendered immobile by the purification array, leaving him no choice but to endure his resentment and watch from the sidelines.

Ao Lin threw his fifth punch, then turned and bared his teeth at him.

"At least I can still move! You cripple, just stand there and watch the show!"

Yu Luofeng's eyes were filled with malevolence, and the ghostly energy at his fingertips was about to stir, but it was burned and retracted the moment it touched the moonlight.

He gritted his teeth and remained silent.

Jiang Yining's purple-gold vines pushed forward to the extreme.

The Devouring Law of the Myriad Spirits Divine Tree gradually devoured and dissolved the moonlight of the second layer of the barrier. The cracks spread from the center to the edges, connecting with the gap on the left wing burned by Feng Liuyun and the crack on the right wing smashed by Ao Lin.

"broken."

Jiang Yining clenched her five fingers, and the purple-gold vines suddenly tightened.

The second layer of the barrier collapsed completely, and silver fragments poured down like a torrential rain.

The third and final layer of the causal seal was exposed to everyone.

This floor is completely different from the previous two floors.

There was no moonlight, no radiance, only a web of laws woven from countless transparent threads, almost invisible to the naked eye.

Each thread is connected to a cause-and-effect relationship; pulling one thread affects the whole.

Jiang Yining scanned the net with her divine sense and frowned.

"The Law of Cause and Effect Lock, if forcibly removed, will backfire on the Five Treasures."

Gu Qinghan had already walked to her side without her noticing, his hand holding the broken sword was steady and strong, and the bloodstain at the corner of his mouth was still wet.

"Use my pure Yang sword intent as the catalyst, and your chaotic laws as the blade."

His gaze was fixed on the center of the formation ahead.

"Start from those three thickest lines of cause and effect, and sever them simultaneously."

Jiang Yining turned her head to look at him.

"Your sword heart is already cracked seven times; if you suffer another karmic backlash..."

"We can hold on."

Gu Qinghan interrupted her, his tone exactly the same as before.

Feng Liuyun picked up the folding fan and leaned on the ground to walk over. His peach blossom eyes stared at Gu Qinghan's back, and his tone was unusually non-provocative.

"If you need more firepower to finish off enemies, count me in."

Jiang Yining didn't say anything more.

She extended her right hand, and the purple-gold chaotic laws condensed in her palm into an illusory short blade.

Gu Qinghan stepped forward with his sword, and the pure Yang sword intent transformed into three thin white lines, which were then attached to the three thickest chains of cause and effect.

"Now."

Jiang Yining swung her right hand down, and three purple-gold short blades slashed at the three chains of cause and effect along the path laid out by the pure Yang sword intent.

The light of platinum and gold burst forth at the cutting point.

The law of cause and effect released a large amount of backlash at the moment of collapse, flowing back towards Gu Qinghan through the channel of sword intent.

He groaned, a trickle of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. His hand gripping the sword trembled slightly, yet he held on as firmly as a rock, withstanding the backlash.

Feng Liuyun raised his hand from behind, and a ball of Nirvana True Fire flew past Gu Qinghan's sword, burning away all the scattered fragments of cause and effect.

The three causal chains broke.

The third layer of the barrier began to crumble from the middle, with the transparent threads breaking one by one, emitting a very faint buzzing sound.

The entire Nine-Tailed Purification Array was shattered into pieces.

The silver light dissipated, revealing the true scene deep within the formation.

An altar made of white jade and moonstone stands in the center of the void. The altar extends upwards in nine tiers, each tier engraved with dense ancient fox clan patterns.

At the very top of the altar, a pure white pillar rises straight into the sky.

The five treasures were hung halfway up the sacrificial pillar.

Nine silver chains extended from the sacrificial pillar, tightly binding and imprisoning the nine fluffy, not yet fully manifested fox tails behind her.

The silver chains emanated the laws of moonlight, drawing upon the Heavenly Fox bloodline from the Five Treasures one strand at a time.

Wu Bao had her eyes closed, her little face was deathly pale, and her little dress embroidered with silver crescent moons was covered with dried tear stains.

Those small fox ears drooped down, occasionally twitching weakly.

"Waaah..."

A weak fox cry escaped from the corner of its lips, revealing an instinctive will to survive.

Sanbao clenched his little fists, and the red lotus mark between his eyebrows shone brightly.

"Fifth Sister!"

Da Bao's purplish-gold eyes were fixed on the front, and the Anning Heavy Sword emitted a deep hum.

Jiang Yining's gaze was fixed on the five treasures on the sacrificial pillar, and the purple-gold light around her fluctuated violently.

She raised her foot to rush towards the altar.

"stop."

An aged yet powerful voice rang out from the side of the altar.

The moonlight was like water, and a figure emerged from the shadows beside the sacrificial pillar.

It was an old woman with silver hair reaching the ground, and a pair of silver fox ears standing upright on her head, the tips of which shimmered slightly in the moonlight.

She wore a moon-white robe embroidered with nine-tailed patterns, and her withered fingers rested on a silver-white vine staff.

The overwhelming pressure from the peak of the Heavenly Monarch Realm poured out without any concealment.

The heavy spiritual energy pressed down on everyone's shoulders. Ao Lin's dragon scales emitted a harsh rubbing sound, and Yu Luofeng's ghostly energy was pressed against the surface of his skin, unable to move.

The old woman's cloudy eyes darted around, scanning everyone present before finally settling on Jiang Yining.

"You are that child's mother."

The old woman spoke with certainty.

Jiang Yining stood on the first step of the altar, her purple-gold skirt billowing in the pressure. She raised her head and met those murky fox eyes.

"Give me back my daughter."

The old woman leaned on her cane, her withered lips twitching slightly as she revealed a set of gleaming white teeth.

"return?"

Her voice sounded like a dry echo coming from the depths of the earth.

"This child has the blood of my Qingqiu lineage flowing through her veins; she is coming home."