Daily News: Intercepting the Female Lead at the Start, with a 10,000-fold Return

"Buzz!"

With a strange buzzing sound that struck straight to the soul, a dark, ghostly light suddenly burst forth from the surface of the nascent Three Lives Stone.

The eerie light wasn't dazzling, but it carried a chilling quality that seemed to freeze one's soul.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of completely invisible and intangible black chains shot out from the dim, ghostly light.

These chains are not physical metal, but are formed from the most primordial and purest laws of reincarnation.

They travel through the seawater without making a splash, and even the terrifying water pressure cannot hinder them in the slightest.

They were like venomous snakes lurking in the void, ignoring the limits of physical defense, writhing and weaving wildly in the void, their chilling whistling sounds aimed straight at Tantai Qingyi's brow and sea of ​​consciousness.

These chains do not harm the physical body, but specifically hook the karma of a living being's past life. The illusory figure of reincarnation sneered inwardly. He knew all too well how terrifying this move was. As long as one was entangled by these chains of karma even slightly, even an ordinary supreme expert at the level of an immortal lord would have their soul forcibly pulled out of their body in an instant, falling into the deepest abyss forever, sinking into eternal damnation.

Faced with this bizarre and unavoidable killing move that pierced straight to the soul, Tantai Qingyi remained calm, and not even a ripple appeared in her clear eyes.

Instead of retreating, she stepped forward gently.

At this very moment, her moon-white dress suddenly shone brightly against the dark seabed.

"In the long river of destiny, cause and effect are determined by me."

As the cold voice fell, the void behind Tantai Qingyi seemed to be struck by an invisible giant blade that split the heavens and earth, creating a huge, bottomless crack.

The next moment, a vast river, tens of thousands of miles wide and surging with endless silvery starlight, suddenly appeared in the oppressive and murky depths of the seabed!

What flows in the long river is not water, but the intertwined destinies of countless living beings and the dazzling starlight.

The river flowed swiftly, emitting a deafening roar. That absolutely sacred and supreme aura of destiny instantly repelled the viscous, foul-smelling sea of ​​blood around it, and forcibly created an absolutely sacred domain of destiny in this bottomless seabed.

Dozens of chains of reincarnation had closed to within a few feet of Tantai Qingyi, and the chilling, soul-snatching aura even stirred a few strands of hair on her forehead.

At this critical moment, Tantai Qingyi slowly raised her right hand.

She extended her jade-like, crystal-clear, and flawless index finger, and gracefully flicked it across the rushing silver water before her.

The movement was like that of a peerless musician plucking the strings of a musical instrument.

"Splash!"

A crisp splash of water rang out, yet it was exceptionally clear amidst the roaring river.

The splashing silver water droplets stretched out in mid-air, transforming into millions of thin, hair-like, yet dazzlingly bright silver-white strings of destiny.

These threads of fate intertwined rapidly in the void, as if they possessed their own life, and precisely landed on the dozens of invisible chains of reincarnation that were thrusting towards them.

Causal deviation.

The moment the threads of fate were bound together, the flames in the eyes of the phantom of reincarnation suddenly froze.

He was horrified to discover that his connection with the laws of reincarnation had been forcibly distorted by a higher-dimensional force!

Under the pull of the threads of fate, the causal trajectory on the chain of reincarnation that was originally locked tightly between Tantai Qingyi's eyebrows underwent an extremely bizarre distortion in mid-air.

It was like an arrow that was originally shot straight, but its trajectory was bent by an invisible hand.

"Whoosh—"

Dozens of chains abruptly changed direction just three inches from Tantai Qingyi's brow.

They carried a chilling aura as they brushed past Tantai Qingyi's ears and cheeks, then with immense force, they pierced deep into the thick layer of white rock on the seabed below.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Deafening explosions resounded across the seabed. The incredibly hard, sea-hardened, ten-thousand-foot-deep white rock layer, tempered by millions of years of seawater, became as fragile as tofu under the bombardment of the Chains of Reincarnation, instantly turning into bone dust that filled the sky.

The seabed was blasted open, creating huge, bottomless craters, and violent shockwaves carrying bone dust and blood swept wildly in all directions.

However, Tantai Qingyi, who was at the center of the explosion, remained standing quietly in place.

The shockwave, powerful enough to tear mountains apart, vanished without a trace when it touched the domain of destiny surrounding her, leaving not even a single strand of her hair unharmed.

The second move.

The attack missed its mark, and the pale flames in the eyes of the illusory figure of Samsara flickered violently, sometimes bright and sometimes dim.

Although his gaunt face was expressionless, the violently churning death aura around him betrayed his inner shock.

He never expected that his causal killing move, which he was so proud of and which he had unleashed with the nascent form of the Three Lives Stone, would be neutralized by the woman in front of him in such a nonchalant, even elegant, manner.

"I can't hold back anymore..." A trace of fear flashed through the Samsara phantom's mind, followed by an even more frenzied killing intent.

He no longer holds any cards up his sleeve.

"The Six Gates of Death, the Nine Netherworlds descend!"

The phantom of Samsara let out a mournful howl, and his two withered hands suddenly clasped together in front of his chest, his ten fingers flying, instantly forming an ancient, solemn, and endlessly evil hand seal.

Then, with veins bulging on his arms, he pressed down hard on the seabed beneath him with immense force.

"Boom!"

The entire Styx River Blood Sea seemed to be completely enraged, and began to shake violently.

The white rock layer on the seabed began to collapse on a large scale, and countless huge cracks spread outwards like a spider web.

Immediately afterwards, six terrifying auras that were suffocating rose into the sky around Tantai Qingyi.

Six black gates to the underworld, hundreds of feet high and made entirely of countless skulls of living beings, rose abruptly from the seabed rock!

These six enormous gates tightly surrounded Tantai Qingyi in the very center.

Above the gate, there are engraved ferocious patterns representing the Heavenly Path, the Asura Path, the Human Path, the Animal Path, the Hungry Ghost Path, and the Hell Path.

The patterns are not inanimate objects; the Asuras on them are roaring, the hungry ghosts are wailing, and the evil spirits in hell are being tortured, as if the real suffering of the six realms of reincarnation has been forcibly brought to this seabed.

"Creak—"

A crisp scraping sound rang out, and the six doors swung open simultaneously.

Behind the door was a bottomless darkness, with an endless, thick aura of death gushing out from within like a burst dam.

These deathly energies rapidly condensed in the seawater, transforming into billions of black "ghost claws" that blotted out the sky.

Each of the demonic claws reeked of a nauseating stench, and its nails were as sharp as knives.

They swarmed everywhere, their sheer numbers so overwhelming it was despair-inducing, tearing dark cracks into the very seabed wherever they went.

These billions of ghostly claws simultaneously reached out from six different dimensions of death, completely sealing off all of Tantai Qingyi's escape routes, attempting to drag her, along with the vast river of fate behind her, into the abyss of eternal damnation after entering the gate.

Faced with this apocalyptic scene that seemed to devour everything, Tantai Qingyi slowly raised her head.

The previous indifference on that exquisite face has finally faded, replaced by a sense of solemnity and reverence.

She did not back down. Her hands moved rapidly in front of her chest. Her movements were so fast that her fingertips left mysterious afterimages in the seawater, as if she were weaving the most profound laws of heaven and earth.

"The secrets of the Eight Trigrams, breaking through evil and returning to the origin."

As her cool, clear voice fell.

"Buzz!"

A magnificent Daoist sound resounded from the seabed, and an enormous, pure white Bagua Heavenly Secret Array Diagram, covering tens of thousands of feet of sea area, rose high above Tantai Qingyi's head!

This array diagram emitted an extremely pure white light, illuminating the originally pitch-black Styx Blood Sea as if it were daytime.

Above the array diagram, eight ancient divine characters—Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, and Dui—resembled eight dazzling stars, rapidly rotating around the center of the array diagram and bursting forth with intense, dazzling pure white divine light.

This light contains the most fundamental deductive power of the Heavenly Dao and the law of exorcism.

In the next instant, tens of millions of thick, pure white beams of light, like a torrential downpour from the heavens, fell from the Bagua Heavenly Secret Array, carrying an overwhelming momentum, and precisely bombarded the billions of ghostly claws of the underworld that surged in from all sides like a tsunami.

"Hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss!"

A continuous stream of dense, chilling sounds of melting echoed.

Wherever the white light passed, the ghostly claws of the underworld, formed from extreme death energy and blazing with ferocity, were like pure white snow meeting boiling hot oil.

The moment they came into contact with the divine light of heaven, countless ghost claws let out ear-piercing screams. Before they could even struggle, they evaporated and dissolved in large quantities, turning into gray smoke that drifted across the sky and completely disappeared into the seawater.

The divine light continued its relentless sweep outwards.

The six enormous, towering gates of the underworld, hundreds of feet high and seemingly invincible, began to tremble violently under the continuous scouring of the pure white divine light. The countless skulls on their surfaces then weathered away and turned to ashes.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

With several loud roars, the six gates of the underworld, symbolizing death, collapsed and shattered, turning into a pile of useless bone dust, which was swept away by the dark currents of the sea of ​​blood.

The third move.

The phantom of Samsara hovered in the distance, its pale flames leaping wildly in its eye sockets, almost bursting out.

Seeing his two deadly moves, which he had poured all his strength into, being so easily and decisively broken by his opponent, the rage and resentment in his heart finally completely suppressed the last vestiges of his reason.

"Impossible... This is impossible! I am the Lord of Reincarnation!"

The phantom of Samsara let out a roar that was not human. It suddenly opened its mouth, which had no lips and was only bare white bone, and clenched its hands tightly into its withered chest, as if it was enduring some kind of great pain.

Immediately afterwards, he suddenly vomited a stream of yellowish-brown water that emitted a nauseating stench from the deepest part of his withered chest.

As soon as this spring appeared, the surrounding Styx Blood Sea water seemed to encounter something terrifying, and frantically retreated in all directions.

This is no ordinary sea of ​​blood; it is the primordial dead water that the phantom of reincarnation painstakingly extracted drop by drop from the deepest reaches of the Nine Netherworlds over tens of thousands of years, enduring endless torment.

[Yellow Spring Rebirth Water].

This is his true trump card, and also his most vicious method. This water is extremely insidious; a single drop can corrode a spiritually rich immortal mountain. It is capable of breaking through all the most yang and strongest defensive magic treasures in the world, and can even ignore any immortal energy shield, directly melting the flawless body and indestructible golden body of an immortal.

"Go to hell!"

The phantom of Samsara roared madly and suddenly swung its tattered sleeve.

The murky yellow waters of the underworld escaped his control and swelled with the wind.

In the churning sea of ​​blood, the dim yellow spring water quickly twisted and stretched, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a huge, upside-down, raging dragon hanging from the seabed!

This evil dragon, formed from the waters of the underworld, exudes a malevolent aura that corrodes all laws.

It churned in the seawater, and even the surrounding space hissed as it was corroded by the dim, yellowish aura emanating from it.

"roar--"

The dragon let out a silent roar, opened its blood-red maw that could devour mountains, and with a terrifying pressure that could destroy and corrode everything, it pounced down on the moon-white figure below!

The water-repelling barrier that was originally shimmering with a faint, clear light and seemingly indestructible was instantly corroded into hundreds of holes of varying sizes when it came into contact with the dim, yellowish poisonous mist spewed from the mouth of the enormous Yellow Springs Dragon. It was like a thin layer of snow being scorched by a raging fire.

A pungent, fishy stench poured in through the hole, a mixture of the putrid smell of corpses accumulated over countless years and the venomous aura unique to the River Styx and the Sea of ​​Blood.

Wherever the poisonous fog passed, even the hard void barrier on the seabed rippled with twisted waves, as if even space itself could not withstand such filth.

In the heart of this suffocatingly desperate situation, Tantai Qingyi stood quietly.

Her snow-white dress remained untouched by the murky seawater, its hem fluttering in the turbulent undercurrent.

Facing the ferocious dragon of the underworld that was baring its fangs and claws and charging with devastating force, her face showed no sign of panic.

Tantai Qingyi slightly raised her exquisite yet aloof face, and a chilling aura suddenly appeared in her beautiful eyes, like a sharp blade breaking through ice.

"You dare to show off your petty skills in front of me?"

Her voice wasn't loud, but it carried an absolute indifference that seemed to look down upon all living beings. Her clear voice pierced through the deafening roar of the evil dragon and echoed clearly in the boiling seabed.

The moment she finished speaking, the Taiyin Xuanhua essence within her body erupted completely and without reservation.

What a terrifying power this is! As the most yin and coldest physique in the Chaos Sea, and even one that only exists in ancient legends, once the Taiyin Xuanchao Origin is fully restored, its power is simply immeasurable.

"boom!"

There was no earth-shattering roar, only a dull, throbbing sensation that could freeze even the soul, exploding on the seabed.

A pure, extremely cold, silvery-blue aura roared out from Tantai Qingyi's seemingly delicate body.