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Chapter 341 Lin Yin Luo Sect Mountain Gate! Old Demon Qian! Death Crisis!

In the makeshift, simple cave dwelling, Zhou Yuan sat cross-legged.

A piece of demonic beast skin, about three feet square, floated in front of him, its entire body shimmering with a pale green spiritual light.

This hide was the top-grade material he had peeled from the toughest part of the back of the tenth-level demon beast, the Azure Feather Spirit Roc, after he killed it outside the Azure Spirit Island in the Chaotic Star Sea.

This skin is an excellent medium for crafting high-level talismans.

Zhou Yuan took a deep breath, his eyes gleaming.

He opened his mouth and spat out a fist-sized, pale blue ball of his natal infant fire, radiating astonishingly high temperature and pure magical energy fluctuations, enveloping the piece of Azure Feather Spirit Roc skin within it.

As the infant fire burned, the animal hide sizzled, its surface slowly softening and shrinking. Impurities were gradually refined and expelled, and the originally irregular shape gradually converged into a regular square.

This process is extremely taxing on mana and mental energy, but Zhou Yuan is now a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator with incredibly profound mana and divine sense comparable to a Nascent Soul cultivator. He can manipulate the Infant Fire to perform such delicate operations with ease.

It took three days and three nights to finally refine the animal hide into a piece about the size of a palm, as thin as a cicada's wing.

It is a perfect talisman embryo with a light gold color, a smooth, mirror-like surface, and a faint sound of wind and thunder flowing through it!

With the rune embryo complete, the next step is the most crucial and also the most tedious: inscribing the runes and integrating the materials.

Zhou Yuan dared not delay and took out all the rare materials he had prepared beforehand.

There was chalcedony extracted from the ten-thousand-year-old black jade, star iron essence extracted from star-patterned meteorite iron, and several kinds of spirit mineral powders that had long since disappeared, obtained from the relics of those ancient cultivators.

He used the infant fire to melt and purify these materials one by one, and then carefully incorporated them into the pale golden talisman embryo using pure magic power as a guide.

The addition of each material made the spiritual light on the talisman embryo even more dazzling, and the aura it emitted even more profound.

After all the auxiliary materials were incorporated, Zhou Yuan took out the most important core material—the Broken Jade!

He carefully used his flying sword to split the palm-sized piece of broken jade in two.

Take half of it and refine it with infant fire into a viscous, silvery liquid that resembles liquid starlight.

Then, with his powerful divine sense, he manipulated the silver liquid, as if it had a life of its own, and slowly seeped into the core of the rune embryo, forming an extremely complex three-dimensional rune structure inside the rune embryo, resembling a miniature spatial array!

The moment the essence of the broken jade was completely integrated into the talisman embryo, the entire talisman suddenly burst out with a dazzling silver light, and the void around the talisman seemed to ripple with visible waves!

Zhou Yuan quickly calmed himself down, not daring to be distracted in the slightest.

He bit his tongue, spitting out a mouthful of blood essence, which turned into a cloud of blood mist and sprayed evenly onto the talisman embryo.

Immediately afterwards, he joined his fingers like a sword, his fingertips gathering pure magic power and a trace of the original power of the exorcising divine thunder. Dipping them in the beast blood ink, which was made from the blood of several rare birds and beasts and shimmered with an eerie green light, he began to rapidly inscribe those complex and mysterious runes on the talisman embryo, which seemed to contain the ultimate truth of heaven and earth!

His fingers danced like butterflies flitting among flowers, so fast that only afterimages could be seen. Each stroke was accompanied by a violent fluctuation of spiritual energy and the lighting of runes. This process consumed a great deal of spiritual energy; the slightest carelessness could ruin everything, or even cause a conflict between materials, resulting in the destruction of the talisman.

Zhou Yuan was completely focused, fine beads of sweat appearing on his forehead, but his eyes remained as firm as a rock. He was so engrossed in the process of making the talisman that he forgot the passage of time.

Three or four days passed!

As Zhou Yuan inscribed the final talisman, pouring his purest magical power into it without reservation, a loud "Buzz—!!!" rang out.

The talisman floating in front of him suddenly burst forth with a dazzling golden-silver light! A vast, profound, and terrifying aura, seemingly containing fluctuations of spatial laws, swept through the entire cave like a tidal wave!

The runes on the surface of the talisman seemed to come alive, flowing slowly as if they had a life of their own, radiating a chilling pressure!

It worked!

A tired yet gratified smile appeared on Zhou Yuan's face. He reached out and the talisman, which seemed to be woven from gold and silver light and emitted faint spatial fluctuations, floated lightly into his palm.

The talisman felt warm and smooth to the touch, like a piece of warm jade, yet it was as light as a feather.

"The Thousand-Mile Guiding Talisman—it's finally complete!"

Zhou Yuan stroked the talisman, which had consumed countless efforts and precious materials of his time, feeling a great sense of accomplishment.

He did not immediately attempt to activate the symbol.

This talisman is a one-time consumable item; once activated, it will instantly teleport the user thousands of miles away.

Once you use it, you'll have one less.

He couldn't bear to waste it.

After resting for a while to recover his magical power and spiritual sense, he took advantage of the momentum, took out the remaining half of the broken jade and the remaining materials, and spent several more days refining the second Thousand-Mile Traction Talisman in the same way!

With the two talismans in hand, Zhou Yuan's sense of insecurity finally vanished.

With these two life-saving trump cards, in this mortal realm, unless a Nascent Soul cultivator acts recklessly and sets up a top-level array to seal off space in advance, almost no one can stop him from escaping!

"Alright, now that we've prepared our trump card for survival, it's time to settle accounts with certain people!"

Zhou Yuan stood up, a cold killing intent flashing in his eyes.

He waved his hand to remove the cave's restrictions, identified the direction, and then transformed into a pale golden streak of light, speeding towards the Fangmang Mountains!

Fangmang Mountains.

This place is shrouded in yin energy and miasma all year round, with the sky always gray and gloomy, exuding a sense of oppression and misfortune.

This is the old lair of the Yinluo Sect, which has been operating for tens of thousands of years. Inside and outside the mountain gate, there are layers upon layers of demonic restrictions, and ordinary cultivators dare not approach it at all.

Zhou Yuan's figure appeared like a ghost on the outskirts of the Fangmang Mountains.

Unlike when he dealt with Yueyang Palace, he didn't carefully break through the barriers to infiltrate. This time, he was here to kill!

They're here to establish their authority!

He wanted the entire cultivation world of the Great Jin Dynasty to know what price they would have to pay for provoking him, Zhou Yuan!

With a flicker of his body, he transformed into a streak of pale golden light and charged straight toward the core area of ​​the Yinluo Sect's mountain gate with an overbearing attitude!

Along the way, all the warning arrays, illusion arrays, and killing arrays were either avoided in advance by his abnormally powerful divine sense and aided by Xiao Zi's elusive spatial abilities. They were either forcibly torn open and passed through. Not a single restriction could truly stop his progress!

In less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Zhou Yuan had already unknowingly reached the deepest part of the Yinluo Sect's mountain gate, the core area surrounded by black peaks.

He hovered in mid-air, his powerful divine sense sweeping out like an invisible storm, instantly covering the entire Yinluo Sect!

"Hmm? Only the aura of a Nascent Soul cultivator?"

Zhou Yuan raised an eyebrow, a hint of surprise on his face.

The Yinluo Sect, one of the ten great demonic sects of the Great Jin Dynasty, now has only six Nascent Soul cultivators left in its ranks!

Moreover, only one of them had reached the mid-Nascent Soul stage, while the other five were only at the early Nascent Soul stage!

Clearly, the sect's strength is now pitifully depleted.

"Fine, saves me the trouble." Zhou Yuan sneered, no longer concealing his presence, and directly swooped down towards the nearest black mountain peak according to his senses!

On that mountain peak, there is a cave dwelling shrouded in strong restrictions, which is the cultivation place of one of the Nascent Soul stage elders.

Without saying a word, Zhou Yuan pointed his fingers like a sword, and a golden sword aura, condensed to the extreme, slashed down fiercely like divine punishment!

"BOOM—!!!"

A deafening roar!

The several layers of protective light shields surrounding the cave were easily torn apart and shattered by the golden sword energy, as if they were made of paper!

The violent sword energy cleaved a huge crack in the entire mountain peak!

"Who goes there?! How dare you trespass into my Yinluo Sect!!!"

From the depths of the cave came a furious shout filled with shock and anger! A dark figure rushed out of the collapsed cave in a disheveled state; it was the Yinluo Sect elder who was at the early Nascent Soul stage.

He stared in utter astonishment at Zhou Yuan, who was suspended in mid-air like a god descending to earth, and was momentarily speechless!

"So noisy!"

Zhou Yuan didn't even bother to glance at him. With a thought, a golden beam shot out! It was the Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword!

The Yinluo Sect elder only felt a flash of golden light before his eyes, and then an invincible and sharp sword intent locked onto him completely!

He tried to dodge, tried to use his magic weapon to defend himself, but Zhou Yuan's sword was too fast! So fast that he didn't have time to react at all!

"Pfft!"

A soft sound.

A head filled with astonishment and resentment shot into the sky!

The headless corpse gushed blood several feet high before falling limply from the sky.

Even the Nascent Soul stage was instantly annihilated by that fierce sword energy, without even a chance to escape!

One sword!

Instantly killed a Nascent Soul stage cultivator!

This sudden turn of events was like a bomb dropped into a calm lake! The entire Yinluo Sect was instantly thrown into chaos!

"Enemy attack!!!"

"A powerful enemy has invaded the mountain gate!!!"

A piercing alarm sounded, accompanied by streaks of light, rising from all directions!

Countless Yinluo Sect disciples poured out of their respective caves and halls, their faces filled with terror and anger!

Soon, the other five Nascent Soul stage elders also quickly gathered together, hovering in mid-air, looking towards Zhou Yuan's direction as if facing a formidable enemy.

Behind them, hundreds of disciples at the Core Formation and Foundation Establishment stages gathered, forming various complex or elaborate attack formations in an attempt to fight against the powerful enemy.

However, when they saw who it was and sensed the terrifying pressure emanating from Zhou Yuan, which was undisguised and belonged to the late Nascent Soul stage, as well as the pale golden flying sword that had just killed a Nascent Soul elder and was still dripping blood, everyone's face turned ashen!

Fear spread among the people like a plague!

Five Nascent Soul elders, facing a late-stage Grand Cultivator, didn't even have the courage to step forward and fight!

Zhou Yuan coldly surveyed the terrified Yinluo Sect cultivators below, his eyes devoid of any pity.

He reached out and gently patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist.

"roar-!!!"

"Awooo—!!!"

Two earth-shattering roars rang out almost simultaneously!

A colossal beast, hundreds of feet in size, covered in dark blue scales and shaped like a mountain, crashed to the ground, collapsing several mountain peaks!

It is indeed a beast demon!

Its fierce aura, combined with its terrifying size, brought a tremendous visual impact and psychological pressure to the Yinluo Sect disciples below!

Immediately afterwards, an even colder and more eerie figure silently appeared beside Zhou Yuan.

It was a necromancer with a dark gold body, eyes burning with ghostly green flames, wearing tattered armor, and wielding a huge bone sword!

It was Zhou Yuan who used corpses as raw materials and supplemented them with a variety of rare materials to create the Heavenly Demon Corpse!

Its aura had clearly reached the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm!

"Beast demons, demon corpses! Kill them!"

Zhou Yuan's icy voice sounded as if it came from the deepest hell!

"Roar!" "Awooo!"

The Beast Demon and the Heavenly Demon Corpse, like two untamed prehistoric beasts, roared as they charged towards the Yinluo Sect disciples below! With each roll and slam of the Beast Demon's massive body, dozens of low-level disciples were crushed! The Heavenly Demon Corpse, on the other hand, moved through the crowd like a ghost, its bone sword flashing as it took lives one after another!

Zhou Yuan himself once again summoned the seventy-two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords!

"Great Geng Sword Formation—Activate!"

"Clang clang clang clang—!!!"

Seventy-two golden sword lights bloomed like a peacock spreading its tail, instantly transforming into a huge golden sword net covering several miles, enveloping the five Nascent Soul elders!

Within the sword net, countless fine golden arcs of electricity leaped and flickered—the very same Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder!

Faced with this overwhelming and terrifying sword formation, the five Nascent Soul elders couldn't even muster the slightest thought of resistance! They frantically channeled their magical power, trying to defend themselves!

"ah--!"

A piercing scream rang out! An elder in the early Nascent Soul stage was struck simultaneously by several golden sword lights. His protective demonic light shattered instantly, and his physical body was torn to pieces by the fierce sword energy!

Even the nascent soul was affected by the evil-repelling divine lightning, emitting a "sizzling" sound, and instantly dissolved!

"No!!"

"Let's fight him!"

The remaining four elders, witnessing the tragic death of their companion, were both shocked and enraged. They unleashed their strongest magical weapons in an attempt to fight like cornered beasts!

However, faced with an absolute disparity in strength, all struggles are in vain!

Just then—

"Damn it! I haven't left the mountain for years, and someone dares to bully my Yinluo Sect like this!!!"

An aged voice, filled with endless rage and killing intent, erupted like rolling thunder from the deepest part of the Yinluo Sect, at the bottom of a pitch-black mountain shrouded in dense black energy!

Immediately afterwards—

"Boom—!!!"

The dark mountain peak seemed to be detonated from within by an invisible, terrifying force, and it exploded with a deafening roar! Countless rocks and dust shot into the sky!

Five white figures, like five white lightning bolts, burst forth from the epicenter of the explosion! They lined up in a row in the air!

These five figures are exactly the same in height, build, clothing, and even face!

Their bodies were a ghastly white, their skin seemed to be covered with a layer of bone armor, their eyes were hollow, and they exuded a chilling aura of death and ferocity!

It was none other than the Five Hearts Demon, the name on which the Yinluo Sect's Grand Elder, Qian Laomo, made his name and which shook the demonic path of the Great Jin Dynasty!

"The Five-Hearted Demon!" Zhou Yuan's gaze sharpened, and a serious expression appeared on his face.

He knew that the appearance of the Five Hearts Demon meant that the only remaining Nascent Soul stage cultivator of the Yinluo Sect, the mysterious Old Demon Qian, was finally about to make his appearance!

Sure enough, right after the Five Hearts Demon appeared, a hazy light flashed behind the central demonic figure. An old man dressed in a gray robe, his face shrouded in a faint gray mist, making his features unclear, but with a slightly hunched figure and an aura of twilight and coldness, separated from the demonic figure like a ghost and floated in mid-air.

"Old Demon Qian!" Zhou Yuan's gaze locked onto the gray-robed figure.

The true form of the Old Demon Qian actually separated from the Five Hearts Demon and appeared directly!

His cold gaze swept over the chaotic and heavily damaged sect below, then looked at Zhou Yuan, who was suspended in mid-air with a sharp aura like a sword. The killing intent in his eyes shot out like a real thing!

"Zhou Yuan! How dare you storm my Yinluo Sect's gates! Today, I will extract your soul and refine it to appease the spirits of my sect's dead!"

Old Demon Qian's voice was hoarse and deep, yet it carried a chilling resentment.

Without further ado, he flipped his withered hand, and a huge banner, entirely black, embroidered with countless hideous ghost faces, and radiating overwhelming resentment and demonic energy, appeared in his hand!

It is the Yinluo Sect's most prized treasure—the Ghost Banner!

However, when Zhou Yuan saw the Ghost Banner, a mocking smile appeared on his face.

He had already seized one of these Ghost Banners when he killed the former sect leader of the Yinluo Sect in Tiannan!

Later, when they killed Li Gu in Jinjing, they obtained another main banner from his storage bag!

The old demon Qian wants to use this treasure to deal with him? That's just wishful thinking!

"Great Geng Sword Formation! Go!"

Zhou Yuan was too lazy to waste words with Qian Laomo, so he directly activated the sword formation. Seventy-two golden flying swords transformed into a rain of swords that shot towards Qian Laomo and the Five Hearts Demon.

Old Demon Qian's expression changed, and he hurriedly urged the Five-Hearted Demon to meet the enemy.

The five white demonic figures roared silently, brandishing their sharp claws and clashing with the golden rain of swords, creating a deafening sound of metal clashing against metal!

However, Zhou Yuan's Great Geng Sword Formation is a top-tier sword cultivation technique. When combined with a spiritual treasure like the Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword, its power is astonishing!

Although the Five-Hearted Demon was fierce, it was repeatedly defeated by the relentless and all-pervasive golden sword rain. Its white demonic body was constantly scratched, emitting a piercing scraping sound!

Seeing this, Qian Laomo was both shocked and furious! He hadn't expected Zhou Yuan's sword formation to be so powerful that even his proud Five Hearts Demons couldn't withstand it!

A fierce glint flashed in his eyes. He suddenly bit his tongue, spitting out a mouthful of blood essence, which merged into the Ghost Banner in his hand!

The Ghost Banner suddenly emitted a burst of black light, and countless ferocious ghosts swarmed out from it, attempting to break through Zhou Yuan's sword formation!

Zhou Yuan neither dodged nor avoided, but a flash of golden lightning appeared on his body, and the aura of the Evil-Repelling Divine Lightning spread out!

As soon as those ghosts came into contact with the aura of the exorcising divine thunder, they were as if they had encountered their nemesis, letting out a series of mournful screams, and all turned into green smoke and dissipated!

"The Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder! It truly is the nemesis of my demonic path!" Old Demon Qian's face was so gloomy it was almost dripping with water.

His mind raced; he knew he couldn't afford to waste any more time like this! He had to finish this quickly!

A flash of bloodlust appeared in his eyes, and he suddenly raised his right hand, with crimson light shooting out from the tips of his five fingers at the same time!

He actually fused his fingers with his blood essence, and with a secret technique, instantly condensed them into a blood-red longsword several feet long, entirely blood-red, narrow and sharp, with an extremely strange shape!

"Blood Soul Slash!"

With a roar, Qian Laomo swung his blood-red longsword and slashed at Zhou Yuan from a distance!

A streak of blood-red light, seemingly capable of tearing through the void, carrying a pungent stench of blood and a nauseating resentment, slashed down towards Zhou Yuan!

Zhou Yuan frowned slightly. He could sense that the strike contained an extremely vicious and strange power, so he did not choose to take it head-on.

A flash of lightning appeared behind him, accompanied by the wind and thunder wings!

"Crack!"

With a thunderous sound, his figure vanished from his original spot and reappeared two hundred feet away, having avoided the fatal blow!

"Hmph! Let's see how long you can hide!"

Old Demon Qian snorted coldly, while controlling the Five Heart Demons to merge into one, transforming into an even larger and more terrifying white demonic shadow to resist Zhou Yuan's sword formation, he once again swung his blood blade, preparing to launch a second round of attacks!

Zhou Yuan hovered in the distance, his expression remaining calm.

He looked at the combined Five-Hearted Demon, then at the murderous Qian Laomo holding a blood-stained blade, and a cold smile appeared on his lips.

He took a deep breath, and the vast, ocean-like magical power within his body erupted without reservation!

Seventy-two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords, their sword light shining brightly, their sword cries shaking heaven and earth!

Countless golden sword energies, like a raging storm, swept towards the combined demonic figure and the old demon Qian!

At the same time, he made a hand seal with his left hand, and one high-level spell after another poured out as if he didn't need any magic power!

With a flick of his right hand, another massive net of divine lightning, designed to ward off evil, enveloped Old Demon Qian!

He actually intended to use this almost "limitless" and tyrannical method to wear down the old demon Qian!

The more Qian Laomo fought, the more frightened he became!

He has lived for a thousand years and has never seen such a freak!

The opponent's spellcasting speed was faster and more powerful than that of the people of the grasslands.

It seemed as if its magical power was boundless.

What frustrated him even more was that his demonic powers were constantly countered by the opponent's exorcising divine lightning.

You can't unleash even 70% of its full power!

"This man must die! Otherwise, our Yinluo Sect will never have peace!"

Old Demon Qian had made up his mind to kill!

A resolute glint flashed in his eyes. He gritted his teeth and unleashed three treasures at once, striking fiercely at Zhou Yuan!

The first item was a bone knife, its entire body made from the ribs of some kind of huge demonic beast, radiating a pale white light, which slashed towards Zhou Yuan with a piercing sound!

The second item was a fist-sized, jet-black bell that emitted a strange "ding-a-ling" sound, as if it could bewitch the soul and strike directly at the primordial spirit!

The third item was a black sphere, only the size of a walnut, perfectly round, jet black, with a smooth, mirror-like surface, and seemingly inconspicuous. It was silently shot toward Zhou Yuan amidst the attacks of the bone knife and the bell!

However, when his gaze fell on that inconspicuous black sphere, a strong sense of crisis, seemingly originating from the depths of his soul, suddenly rose in his heart!

His combat instincts, honed through years of life-or-death battles, were frantically sending him warnings!

"There's something wrong with this sphere!"

Zhou Yuan's pupils suddenly contracted!

An object flashed through his mind.

The Immortal-Slaying Pearl!

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