People in the Imperial Music Bureau: The Storytelling Demon Child Nezha

The chained apostle watched in horror as the light blade approached: "Impossible! This power...this is..."

"This is the power of protection." Li Qiye's voice resounded throughout the heavens and earth. The moment the light blade struck, the phantoms of the twelve apostles let out desperate screams and completely dissipated in the light.

However, the battle was not over. The abyssal altar began to collapse, and the entire space was twisting and annihilating.

Li Qiye struggled to lift Su Yuqing, and the combined power condensed into a teleportation array beneath his feet.

Just before the tower completely collapsed, they disappeared into the light.

When Li Qiye opened his eyes again, he found himself in an unfamiliar wasteland.

Su Yuqing lay unconscious in his arms, her breath faint. He tried to summon his power to heal her, but found that the primordial fire within him was almost depleted.

"Is the price... still too high?" Li Qiye smiled bitterly as he stroked Su Yuqing's pale face.

Suddenly, familiar footsteps came from afar.

Turning around, they saw Wuchen's figure, but now all the black patterns on his body had disappeared, and his whole body was radiating a soft light.

Wu Chen walked up to the two of them. "You succeeded. But this battle came at a heavy price."

Chapter 222 Hard-won

Li Qiye struggled to his feet: "Su Yuqing, she..."

"Don't worry." Wuchen raised his hand, and a beam of light entered Su Yuqing's body. "I will help her recover."

"And you..." He looked at Li Qiye's transparent body, "Burning your essence preserved the world, but it also brought your soul to the brink of dissipation."

Li Qiye smiled with relief: "Being able to protect the people I care about makes it all worthwhile."

“No.” Wuchen shook his head. “The secrets left behind by the first tomb keeper and the Heavenly Evil Buddha are not limited to this.” A crystal bead appeared in his palm, with golden and red light flowing within it. “This is the ‘life core’ born from your fused power. Perhaps it can reverse all of this.”

Li Qiye took the life core, and the moment the bead touched his palm, a warm power surged into his body.

He could feel that his dissipated essence was slowly recovering. At this moment, Su Yuqing, who was in a coma, slowly opened her eyes.

"Did we... succeed?" she asked weakly.

Li Qiye tightened his grip on her hand, his eyes filled with tenderness: "Yes, we succeeded. But perhaps this is only the beginning."

In the distance, a mysterious light flashed across the sky. Wuchen gazed in the direction of the light, his expression grave: "A new crisis is brewing. However, with you all here, I believe that one day the world will see light again."

Li Qiye and Su Yuqing exchanged a glance, and saw determination in each other's eyes.

Li Qiye gripped the life core tightly in his palm, the golden and red light flowing along his blood vessels, but each time he repaired a part of his origin, it was accompanied by excruciating pain.

He suppressed his trembling and pressed the life core to Su Yuqing's chest: "First, heal your injuries."

"Don't be foolish!" Su Yuqing suddenly opened her eyes, her blood-stained fingertip pointing at his brow. "You can't even stand up straight!" She forcibly mobilized the remaining Heavenly Evil Bloodline in her body, and blood-red incantations wrapped around the surface of his life core, forming a strange resonance with Li Qiye's tomb-guarding power.

Twelve streams of light suddenly flew out from Wuchen's sleeve, forming a star map around the two of them: "This is the 'Twin Pact' left by the first generation. With the life core as the guide, you can share life force!" Before he finished speaking, the star map suddenly contracted, and the life core turned into a stream of light and entered the hearts of the two of them. Li Qiye felt a warm power flowing into his body along the connected blood vessels, while Su Yuqing's originally pale cheeks gradually regained color.

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“This power…” Li Qiye opened his palm, and the patterns of the tomb guardian mark and the Heavenly Evil bloodline intertwined to form a brand new totem. “Our power… has merged even more deeply.”

Suddenly, the ground trembled, and a crack spread out from the ruins of the altar. From the depths of the crack, countless wronged souls let out mournful howls, and dark purple mist surged out, instantly turning grass and trees into withered bones wherever it passed.

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Wu Chen's expression changed drastically: "This is bad! Although the abyss has collapsed, its origin has not been completely eliminated. These are the polluted ley lines!"

Su Yuqing struggled to her feet, the Blood Curse Dagger humming: "I'll sever these evil veins!" She was about to rush over when Li Qiye grabbed her arm.

"Wait!" Li Qiye stared at the constantly twisting mist in the crack. "This mist is mimicking our attack trajectory. Making a rash move will only..." Before he could finish speaking, the dark purple mist suddenly condensed into chains and shot towards the two of them at an even faster speed than before.

Wuchen unleashed a golden light that shattered the chains, but more mist began to gather, forming a gigantic skull in the air: "This is the instinctive counterattack of the remnant souls of the abyss; we must destroy them before they develop consciousness!" IV.

Chapter 223 Activating the Seal

Li Qiye took a deep breath, and the newly fused power condensed into a blade of light at his fingertips: "Su Yuqing, use your blood curse to trap it, I will find the core!" He flashed, and his golden wings cut through the mist. Wherever the Blade of Severance went, the mist emitted a metallic clanging sound.

Su Yuqing bit her tongue, and nine blood-red runes floated in the air, forming a cage that trapped the skull.

But the skull suddenly opened its huge mouth and spewed out not the flames of fire, but a corrosive black liquid.

Li Qiye swung his light blade to cleave through the liquid, only to find that his wings were being slowly eroded.

"This can't go on!" Li Qiye shouted. "Senior Wuchen, is there any way to purify the power of the abyss?"

Wuchen raised his hand and presented an ancient bronze mirror: "This is the 'Purifying Mirror' of the first generation of tomb guardians, but it requires..." His voice was suddenly interrupted by a burst of wild laughter.

A figure rose from the crack, shrouded in dark purple mist, resembling the Chain Apostle but even more ethereal: "Want to purify? Too late! This land will become nourishment for the abyss!" In his hand appeared a longbow composed of vengeful spirits, its arrows gleaming with a deathly light.

Li Qiye's pupils contracted sharply, and he pulled Su Yuqing back quickly.

The arrow grazed past his shoulder and struck a distant mountain peak, instantly corroding the entire mountain into black mud.

Wuchen brandished the Cleansing Mirror, and a beam of golden light shot out from its surface, but it was swallowed up the moment it touched the misty figure.

"He absorbed a portion of the Abyss's essence!" Wuchen frowned. "Ordinary attacks are completely useless!"

Su Yuqing suddenly grabbed Li Qiye's hand: "Do you still remember the resonance of the life core? Perhaps we can..." Before she could finish speaking, the misty figure launched a second round of attacks, with countless arrows falling like a torrential rain.

Li Qiye suddenly shielded Su Yuqing behind him, and the new totem burst forth with dazzling light, forming a protective shield around the two of them.

The moment the arrow struck the protective shield, he suddenly felt a throbbing in his life core, and a strange memory flooded his mind—the first tomb guardian and the Heavenly Evil Buddha had used their combined power to seal the abyss deep within the earth.

"I understand!" A glint flashed in Li Qiye's eyes. "Su Yuqing, let's use the power of the Life Core to reseal these remnant souls of the abyss!" He formed hand seals, and golden light spread along the earth's veins. At the same time, Su Yuqing activated the Blood Curse, and crimson patterns formed a huge sealing array on the ground...

Sensing the danger, the figure in the mist transformed its longbow into a giant axe and slashed at the sealing array. Li Qiye swung his light blade to block it, but was so shocked that his tiger's mouth split open.

At this critical moment, Wuchen suddenly pressed the Purifying Mirror against Li Qiye's back: "Use me as the guide to activate the seal!"

Three beams of light simultaneously entered the sealing array, and the remnant souls in the earth veins let out unwilling roars.

The figure in the mist tried to escape, but its legs were bound by Su Yuqing's blood curse.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Li Qiye poured all his power into the sealing array, and the ground suddenly closed, completely suppressing the remnant soul of the abyss.

As the dust settled, Wuchen's figure became increasingly transparent: "0.4 I was originally part of the seal, and now... it's time for me to return." He raised his hand and brushed Li Qiye and Su Yuqing's foreheads, "Remember, the life core is not only power, but also your bond."

"Senior!" Li Qiye tried to stop him, but only managed to grasp a wisp of dissipating golden light.

Su Yuqing gripped his hand tightly, and the life cores on their chests lit up simultaneously, a warm power dispelling the fatigue of battle.

Chapter 224 Protecting this World

"Let's go," Su Yuqing said softly, "but before that..." She looked into the distance, where the sky had turned an eerie purple, "a new crisis seems to have arrived."

Li Qiye gripped the Blade of Severance, golden wings unfurling behind him: "No matter what, as long as you're here..." He turned to look at Su Yuqing, his eyes filled with determination.

Under the purple sky, Li Qiye and Su Yuqing had only taken a few steps when spiderweb-like patterns suddenly appeared on the ground beneath their feet.

Their life cores trembled violently in their chests, and a chilling power coiled around their ankles along the earth's veins, instantly condensing into ice crystals.

"Be careful! This isn't ordinary cold air!" Li Qiye slashed down with his Boundary-Severing Blade, but the blade's light was refracted into a strange arc upon touching the ice. 07

Su Yuqing's Blood Curse Dagger followed closely behind. Its crimson light collided with the ice crystals, causing plumes of white smoke to rise and emitting a stench like rotting flesh.

The sound of chains being dragged came from afar, and a figure clad in ice crystal armor emerged from the thick fog.

His face was covered in frost, only his eyes gleamed with a ghostly blue light, and black liquid dripped from the tip of the spear in his hand, cracking the ground wherever it went.

“The Ice Abyss Envoy, a remnant of the Twelve Abyss Apostles.” Su Yuqing gripped her short sword tightly, her blue eyes reflecting the abyss patterns on the enemy’s armor. “It seems that some escaped when the abyss collapsed.”

Ice Abyss raised his spear and pointed it at the sky, instantly turning the clouds into a sky full of ice spikes.

Li Qiye spread his golden wings and rapidly ascended into the sky with Su Yuqing, but the ice cone split in mid-air, each piece of ice crystal locking onto their trajectory.

Su Yuqing flung out blood-red incantations, which wove into a protective net in the air. However, the ice spikes pierced through the incantations, freezing all the blood-red color into pale white ice flowers.

"His power can suppress the Heavenly Evil Bloodline!" Before Su Yuqing finished speaking, the Ice Abyss Envoy had already teleported in front of her, his spear aimed straight at Li Qiye's throat.

Li Qiye hastily parried with the Blade of the Boundary. Amidst the clanging of metal, he felt a chill creep into his meridians along the blade, and his entire arm instantly lost sensation.

At the critical moment, the life core erupted with a blazing light. The golden and red power surged through the meridians like a torrent, and the chill instantly dissipated.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Li Qiye swung his sword backhand, unleashing a scorching blade of light towards the Ice Abyss Envoy.

However, a sudden surge of cold air erupted around Ice Abyss, and the light blade turned into a pool of molten iron the instant it touched the cold air.

"This won't do!" Li Qiye landed on a boulder, looking at his slightly trembling right hand. "His cold energy can adapt to our attack characteristics."

Su Yuqing bit her finger and drew an ancient array on the surface of the boulder: "Try this! The Blood-Guiding Array can draw away the opponent's attacks, and perhaps we can find a weakness." As soon as the Blood-Red Array 893 was completed, countless ice spikes came whistling in, but changed their trajectory as they approached the array, shooting towards the Ice Abyss itself.

Ice Abyss Envoy snorted coldly, his spear stirring up a cold tide that shattered all the ice spikes.

But just then, Li Qiye suddenly appeared behind him, the Blade of Severance carrying the power of the life core, aimed straight for his back.

Ice Abyss reacted extremely quickly; spikes instantly protruded from the surface of his armor, forcing Li Qiye to withdraw his sword and retreat.

"His armor can also defend itself!" Li Qiye frowned, suddenly noticing the black liquid dripping from Bingyuan's spear. "Wait... that liquid is corroding the earth's veins after it touches the ground!"

Chapter 224 Corrosion

Su Yuqing followed his gaze and saw that the earth veins corroded by the black liquid were spreading at a visible speed. Wherever it passed, the land turned as black as ink and was constantly bubbling with a foul odor.

Her expression changed drastically: "If these corrosive ley lines are connected, the entire continent will be assimilated by the abyss!"

Ice Abyss Envoy let out a piercing laugh: "Finally found out? Too bad, it's too late!" He plunged his spear into the ground, and countless black vines burst forth from the earth. The tips of the vines opened into flower buds covered with sharp teeth, spraying corrosive venom at the two of them.

Li Qiye swung his light blade to cut through the venom, only to find that fine cracks had appeared on the surface of the blade after the venom had splashed onto it.

At this moment, the life core vibrated violently, and Li Qiye suddenly recalled the memories of the first generation of tomb guardians—the nemesis of the abyss's corruption was actually the holy spring beneath the tomb guardian's altar.

"Su Yuqing! Buy me some time! I'm going to find the Holy Spring!" Li Qiye threw the Blade of Severance into the air. The blade of light transformed into a golden barrier to block the vines, while he sped off toward the location he remembered.

Su Yuqing bit her tongue and sprayed blood onto the Blood Curse Dagger. The crimson light surged, and the dagger moved like a dragon among the vines, each swing severing large swathes of black plants.

However, Bingyuan suddenly formed a hand seal, and all the vines instantly grew tenfold, tightly binding Su Yuqing.

He slowly walked towards the trapped Su Yuqing, the tip of his spear aimed at her heart: "Inheritor of the Heavenly Evil Bloodline, your blood should be able to accelerate the corruption of the Abyss."

At the critical moment, a golden beam of light descended from the sky. Li Qiye, holding a jade bottle filled with holy spring water, splashed the water onto the Ice Abyss Envoy.

The moment the Holy Spring touched the Ice Abyss Envoy, a violent explosion occurred, and his ice crystal armor began to melt, revealing the skin beneath covered with abyssal patterns.

"Impossible... The Holy Spring has clearly dried up..." The Ice Abyss Envoy retreated in terror, only to have his arm severed by Li Qiye's blade of light. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Su Yuqing broke free of her restraints, and her Blood Curse Dagger transformed into a stream of crimson light, piercing into the Ice Abyss Envoy's chest.

Ice Abyss Envoy let out a furious roar of resentment, and his body began to disintegrate.

But just as he was about to dissipate, he suddenly threw his spear at the spreading, corrosive veins in the distance.

The moment the spear hit the ground, all the black vines grew wildly, connecting to form a huge network of corrosion.

Li Qiye immediately sprinkled the remaining holy spring water onto the corrosive network. Wherever the holy spring water touched, the black vines made a sizzling sound and gradually withered.

However, the sacred spring in the jade bottle had run dry, and large areas of corroded earth veins were still spreading in the distance.

"Use the Life Core!" Su Yuqing suddenly grabbed Li Qiye's hand. "After our power merges, perhaps we can purify this corruption!"

The two clasped hands tightly, and their life cores erupted with an unprecedented light.

The golden and red energy flowed along the earth's veins, and wherever it passed, the black soil gradually regained its vitality.

Before the Ice Abyss Envoy completely vanished, his unwilling voice echoed in the air: "You thought... this (Qian Nuohao) was all? The true power of the Abyss... is about to descend..."

After the battle, Li Qiye and Su Yuqing sat exhausted on the ground.

The light of the life core gradually dimmed, but this was by no means the final battle.

In the distance, the purple clouds churned even more violently, and a huge shadow loomed faintly behind them.

"It seems we need to become stronger as soon as possible." Li Qiye looked at the sky and squeezed Su Yuqing's hand.

Chapter 225 This can't go on.

"No matter what lies ahead, I will be by your side."

Su Yuqing leaned on his shoulder, a hint of worry flashing in her blue eyes: "But the next enemy will probably be stronger than we imagine."

Just then, an ancient tremor suddenly came from the ground, and a stone tablet covered with mysterious runes broke out of the ground.

Li Qiye stepped forward to examine it and found that the runes on the stone tablet were extremely similar to the patterns on the life core. At the bottom of the runes, there was a line of small characters engraved on it: "When the life core awakens, the truth of the ancient war will be revealed in the 'City of Eternal Night'."

The 893 runes on the stone tablet suddenly emitted a ghostly light, projecting a tattered map into the air.