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A cold glint flashed in Chen Xu's eyes, and the First Saint Spear suddenly slashed out.

The critical strike law of 【Transparent Lotus II】flowed wildly through the meridians, endowing every strand of spiritual power with the sharpness to tear apart all things.

"break!"

The spear shot out like a dragon, its dark blade piercing precisely into the spatial node that Nan Longyue had pointed to.

With a "whoosh," the void was indeed torn open.

"A good opportunity!" Qianjizi reacted with lightning speed, and the twelve barrier-breaking talismans that he had been holding in his palm flew out of his hand.

The talisman swelled in the wind, transforming into twelve rune chains that coiled around the edge of the crack that Chen Xu had "nailed" shut with his spear, like serpents.

Liu Yiyi's ten fingers left a blur on the scorched-tail strings.

The sound waves condensed into a tangible, azure-blue tidal wave, which, with immense force, slammed into the light screen of the Stabilizing Pearl.

"Hurry up!"

boom!!!

Everyone suddenly felt dizzy, as if the immense tearing force was about to pull their souls out of their bodies.

When their vision finally cleared from the chaos, they found themselves in a completely unfamiliar space.

Beneath their feet lay a bronze floor covered with strange patterns, and in their sight were collapsed and broken walls, as well as the scattered remains of magical artifacts that had long since lost their spiritual light.

"Cough...cough cough..." Wu Yazi's face was pale, and the blood at the corner of his mouth was still wet. He put away the Dinglan Pearl.

He managed to stay upright, but his aura was noticeably weaker. Clearly, forcibly traversing the core of the turbulent flow and enduring the impact of the spatial rift had caused him considerable injury.

"Brother Wu!" Zhang Yan hurriedly stepped forward to support him, cautiously surveying the desolate ruins.

"It's alright... I can still hold on." Wu Yazi waved his hand, his voice hoarse.

At this moment, Liu Yiyi's slender fingers gently stroked the Jiao Wei Qin, and a series of clear and ethereal notes flowed out, nourishing Wu Ya Zi's damaged meridians:

"Fellow Daoist Wu, stabilize your injuries first. This place is strange; we must not be careless."

Qianjizi, who was standing to the side, had already squatted down, his fingers tracing the patterns on the bronze floor, his eyes gleaming:

"Such exquisite remnants of the restriction... Although most of them have become ineffective, there must still be a powerful protective force in the core area."

"These patterns... resemble some kind of sacrificial or sealing formation..."

He took out several specially made detection talismans and carefully inserted them into the surrounding broken walls and ruins.

Nan Longyue stood beside Chen Xu, her delicate brows slightly furrowed, and said softly, "Senior, the water elemental energy here is a bit strange..."

Chen Xu nodded slightly, his divine sense cautiously extending outward.

Even with his powerful divine sense at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, it was greatly suppressed here, and his detection range was compressed to less than a hundred feet.

Within a hundred feet, apart from a pile of ruins and the faint residual fluctuations of the restriction, no signs of life were detected for the time being.

But that pervasive sense of coldness and deathly stillness, like a leech, constantly erodes everyone's mind.

"We can't stay here any longer. We need to find the core area as soon as possible." Chen Xu's voice was calm, but it carried an undeniable determination.

His gaze swept over Wu Ya Zi: "Fellow Daoist Wu, do you still remember the direction of the entrance to the ruins that you sensed?"

Wu Yazi swallowed a pill handed to him by Liu Yiyi, his expression softening slightly. He pointed to a direction deep within the ruins: "It's over there! If you cross this ruined plaza, you should be able to see a relatively intact bronze hall."

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Zhang Yan shouted, already holding the giant axe in his hand, and took the lead in clearing the way.

The six people maintained a tight formation as they moved through the desolate bronze ruins.

"Watch out!" Qianjizi suddenly shouted, and a golden talisman shot out from his hand, hitting a seemingly ordinary bronze floor tile three steps in front of Zhang Yan.

hum...

The floor tiles suddenly lit up with a dark red light, and a blazing red ray shot out at an extremely fast speed.

Zhang Yan reacted extremely quickly, blocking with his giant axe. The crimson rays struck the axe surface, exploding into a blinding burst of fire.

He was jolted back half a step, and a small pit was burned into the axe, with the edges turning slightly red.

"Hiss... What a powerful restriction!" Zhang Yan gasped as he looked at the sizzling red spots on the axe.

His Heavy Mountain Axe, a mid-grade third-tier magic weapon, was burned by a residual restriction.

However, before he could finish speaking, another unexpected event occurred.

The void above everyone's heads rippled silently like water, and a figure appeared without warning.

The man was dressed in a dark Taoist robe, his face hidden in the shadow cast by the hood, with only a wisp of gray-white beard showing.

An immense pressure, like an invisible mountain, crashed down, instantly locking onto the six people below.

"Hmph, these juniors do have some skill, managing to find this place."

A hoarse, chilling voice echoed through the ruins, carrying a bone-chilling cold.

"Unfortunately, this is my secluded cultivation ground. Leave behind all your storage artifacts and get out of the Netherworld Sea Eye, and you may still live. Otherwise..."

His black robes billowed without wind, and a chilling killing intent emanated from them: "Then they will all turn into withered bones here!!"

Late stage of Core Formation!?

Upon seeing this, Chen Xu's pupils contracted slightly, instantly assessing the other party's cultivation level.

Wu Yazi and the others' expressions changed drastically, as if facing a formidable enemy.

Zhang Yan roared, his giant axe held horizontally in front of him, his body surging with crimson and yellow light: "Bullshit! This ruin is unclaimed land. If you want to monopolize its treasures, you'll have to ask my axe for permission first!"

The shadow beneath the black Taoist's hood seemed to twitch slightly: "Stubborn to the end."

He slowly raised his withered right hand, and a bronze mirror, no bigger than the palm of his hand, floated in his palm.

The mirror surface is covered with twisted swirling patterns, and a point in the center has an incomparably deep, eerie light.

"Nine Netherworld Dividing Light Mirror, I beseech you all to meet your deaths!!"

hum...

The small bronze mirror suddenly emitted a chilling, eerie light.

The mirror spun rapidly, instantly splitting into nine identical mirror images, which floated above everyone's heads in a nine-palace configuration.

As the mirrors rotated, the entire space of the bronze plaza twisted and folded violently.

"Oh no! It's the ancient treasure Nine Netherworld Dividing Light Mirror!? Retreat quickly!" Qianjizi's expression changed horrified, and he threw out a handful of golden, piercing talismans as if they were free.

However, it was too late. The nine mirror images shone brightly, and everyone felt as if the scene before them was being shattered like broken glass, as if they had been isolated to another world.

Light and shadow shift, space is transformed.

Chen Xu found himself alone in a vast labyrinth made entirely of twisted bronze walls.

The walls are so high that you can't see the top, covered with eerie reliefs, all depicting the twisted and tormented faces of creatures, wailing silently.

"The space of the Nine Netherworld Dividing Light Mirror? Interesting..." Chen Xu pondered, without the slightest fear.

His powerful divine sense quickly extended outwards, surging in all directions like an invisible tide.

Although the power of divine sense was weakened layer by layer by this strange space, it still stubbornly penetrated part of the fog.

"Hmph, your divine sense is not weak. High-energy chapter 197 Xuanhei Daoist, Nine Netherworld Dividing Light Mirror updated! Read now:." Xuanhei Daoist's cold voice seemed to come from all directions, carrying a hint of barely perceptible surprise.

"Unfortunately, once you enter my Nine Netherworld Divided Light Realm, no matter how powerful your divine sense is, you cannot escape being torn apart and annihilated! Enjoy this final despair!"

Before he finished speaking, the eyes of the relief sculptures on the bronze walls surrounding Chen Xu suddenly lit up with a scarlet light.

Countless dark red rays, like a torrential rain, attacked from all directions.

Seeing this, Chen Xu not only did not retreat, but instead wielded the First Saint Spear in front of him, turning it into a dense, impenetrable black halo.

The attack speed stacked by the [Berserk Blade of the Light Edition] was pushed to its limit at this moment, with the gun shadows overlapping and almost turning into a physical barrier.

A series of ear-piercing collision sounds rang out as the dark red rays struck the rapidly spinning Primordial Holy Spear, exploding into countless tiny sparks and energy ripples.

With each collision, a strange corrosive force attempted to penetrate the spear's edge and enter Chen Xu's body.

Chen Xu's arm muscles bulged, and the area between his thumb and forefinger throbbed with pain from the impact.

"A mere trick, yet you dare to show it off?" Xuanhei Daoist's voice carried a hint of mockery, like a cat playing with a mouse.

"Let's see how long you can hold out!"

Before the words were even finished, more of the relief eyes on the wall lit up, and the ray density more than doubled!

An invisible force of spatial compression surged from all directions, like a giant millstone, threatening to grind Chen Xu into dust.

The pressure increased sharply, and Chen Xu groaned, unleashing his full divine sense.

The divine sense power at the Nascent Soul level ignored the layers of obstacles brought about by the spatial folds and forcefully swept towards the core of the entire Nine Netherworld Divided Light Realm.

hum...

The space trembled violently, and Xuanhei Daoist's astonished voice suddenly rang out: "What?! This divine sense... How is this possible for someone who's merely at the early stage of Core Formation?!"

Although Chen Xu's spiritual impact did not directly injure the enemy, it instantly captured the core node hidden deep within the layers of space.

His eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he swung the First Saint Spear in his hand.

"Open it!!!"

The First Holy Spear transformed into a bolt of dark lightning that tore through the void, precisely piercing the spatial node locked by divine sense.

Wherever the spear's edge passed, the distorted bronze wall crumbled inch by inch like fragile glass.

"No!!" Xuanhei Daoist's terrified and desperate roar came to an abrupt halt.

The spear light not only pierced through the barrier of space, but also struck the Xuanhei Daoist who was suspended in a hidden corner.

The annihilation lightning bolt unleashed by the First Holy Spear, under the blessing of [Piercing Lotus II], triggered a critical hit.

Boom!!!

Dark lightning exploded on Xuanhei Daoist's chest, unleashing a terrifying annihilation force.

It not only destroyed his protective aura, but also blasted half of his chest into a bloody mess, charred black.

Even more deadly is that the [30% attribute reduction] effect triggered by the critical hit is like a leech, instantly affecting Xuanhei Daoren.

He was already injured from the backlash caused by the forced impact on the magic weapon, and at this moment, his realm aura, spiritual power, physical defense, and even divine sense perception were all weakened by three levels.

"Pfft!" Xuanhei Daoist coughed up a mouthful of blood, his eyes filled with disbelief.

His once-proud late-stage Core Formation cultivation seemed so fragile in the face of this bizarre spear strike.

What terrified him even more was the strength of the other party's spiritual consciousness, which was completely beyond his comprehension.

"Who...who are you?!" He struggled to recall the Nine Netherworld Dividing Light Mirror to protect himself, while simultaneously crushing a life-saving jade talisman in an attempt to escape.

At this moment, Xuanhei Daoist was not only severely injured, but his attributes were also greatly weakened. His mind was shaken, and his movements were much slower.

The spear's edge swept across his neck without any obstruction.

A head with a horrified expression shot into the sky.

The headless corpse swayed, gushing blood, before collapsing heavily to the ground.

The life-saving jade talisman, which was about to activate, went out completely as soon as its spiritual light appeared.

As Xuanhei Daoist died and his Dao dissipated, the Nine Netherworld Dividing Light Mirror, which had lost control, let out a mournful cry. The nine mirror images instantly collapsed, and the distorted and folded space receded rapidly like a tide.

Almost simultaneously, the other five distorted spaces also burst like bubbles.

Nan Longyue was surrounded by azure-blue spiritual light, and the phantom of the Chiwen was faintly visible as she resisted the attacks of several bronze puppets.

As soon as the space returned to normal, she immediately looked in Chen Xu's direction with alertness. When she saw the corpse and Chen Xu's blood-stained figure, her beautiful eyes widened instantly: "Senior!"

Wu Ya Zi, pale-faced, leaned against a broken pillar, clearly having also endured a fierce battle. Upon seeing Xuan Hei Dao Ren's corpse, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak: "Fellow Daoist Xu...you..."

Zhang Yan was covered in blood and was breathing heavily.

Seeing the corpse at Chen Xu's feet, his rugged face was filled with shock and awe: "Damn it... a late-stage Core Formation cultivator... just like that... killed?!"

Soon, Qianjizi and Liu Yiyi also appeared in a disheveled state, their gazes towards Chen Xu filled with lingering fear and deep apprehension.

The entire space fell silent. Who could have imagined that a cultivator in the late stage of Core Formation would wield an ancient treasure and set up a killing trap?

In such a short time, he was killed by this newly promoted Core Formation cultivator, Fellow Daoist Xu Ping'an, with overwhelming force?!

Chen Xu remained oblivious to the shock of the crowd.

He was suppressing his internal recovery power, his face was pale, and the wounds on his shoulder and arm were so deep that the bone was visible, and blood stained half of his robe.

But Chen Xu did not pause at all. He mustered his spiritual power and made a gesture.

hum...

The Nine Netherworld Divination Mirror, which was suspended in mid-air, and the storage bag on the corpse of Xuanhei Daoist, instantly fell into Chen Xu's palm.

Then, Chen Xu took out a healing pill and swallowed it, saying calmly:

"Fellow Daoist Wu, where is the main hall of this place? Please lead the way, lest something unexpected happen."

Upon hearing this, Wu Yazi suddenly came to his senses, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Chen Xu was completely different, filled with awe and fear.

He quickly pointed to a relatively intact bronze corridor at the end of the square: "It's...it's over there! Just go through this corridor!"

"Let's go." Chen Xu said succinctly, putting away the Nine Netherworld Dividing Light Mirror and storage bag, picking up the First Saint Spear and following Wu Ya Zi.

Nan Longyue followed without hesitation.

At this moment, Wu Yazi, Zhang Yan, Qian Jizi, and Liu Yiyi exchanged glances and secretly communicated with each other.

Wu Yazi: "This Xu Ping'an... is truly extraordinary!"

Zhang Yan: "Damn it, I'm impressed! Brother Wu, you said he was highly skilled in formations, but you didn't say he had this kind of heaven-defying combat power! This is beyond the early stage of Core Formation! Even pretending to be weak doesn't look this ridiculous!"

Qianjizi: "It's good that Fellow Daoist Xu's strength is unfathomable, but his character is also unpredictable. Our previous plan... is probably going to be completely scrapped..."