blogombal Chapter 1813 The Power of Refining Void
Chapter 1813 The Power of Refining Void
Inside the icy valley, the pressure grew increasingly intense.
Seeing that the talismans were being consumed at a great cost, while the Soul Devouring Technique remained inexhaustible, Ye Zhenjun knew that he could not delay any longer.
He made a decisive decision and roared, "We can't prolong this battle! The cause of the Soul Devouring Riot is unknown, and its numbers are endless! Follow me, we're going to the fourth-level teleportation array! Quickly!"
The eighteen "subordinates" he brought, who had always been taciturn and wore straw hats, finally showed their unusual qualities at this moment.
They simultaneously raised their hands, revealing no faces beneath their straw hats, only two points of scarlet light.
A complex and mysterious fiery red magic circle instantly expanded beneath their feet. The patterns of the magic circle flowed like magma, and the intense heat temporarily dispelled the surrounding cold.
Countless scorching fire lines shot out from the magic array, precisely targeting and killing the approaching Soul Devourers. They were especially effective against ice-attribute Soul Devourers, burning a narrow passage through the frenzied soul tide.
"Puppets? What an exquisite fire spirit battle formation!" A hint of surprise flashed in the Dragon King's eyes, and he held Ye Zhenjun in even higher regard.
Even Chen Wanli raised his eyelids slightly.
According to the Immortal Healer's Scripture, in the Spirit Realm, most puppets are products of powerful sects, and individuals rarely possess such powerful puppets.
The reason is simple: the materials and costs required to create advanced puppets are beyond the reach of ordinary cultivators.
This made Chen Wanli even more suspicious about Ye Zhenjun's true identity.
However, this is not the time to explore this.
Ye Zhenjun's suggestion to go to the teleportation array and teleport to the fourth floor as soon as possible was indeed the right option.
After all, no one knows how long this soul-devouring riot will last or how it will end.
Now the golden spirit is rapidly closing in on him, with hundreds of "pursuers" following behind, leaving him with no way to retreat.
Chen Wanli also supported getting to the teleportation array as soon as possible to go to the fourth floor.
No one dared to be negligent and immediately followed Ye Zhenjun and his fire spirit puppet as their guide.
Chen Wanli and the Dragon King protected the two wings, while Kuafu Chong, Fang Fengting, and their subordinates followed closely.
Following the direction indicated by Ye Zhenjun, they fought their way through the raging tide of soul devouring, retreating as they fought.
While fighting, Chen Wanli sensed the location of the golden body.
The only concern is that there are too many souls being devoured. Before the path can be cleared here, the golden body will bring even more souls to be devoured.
Sure enough, not long after, everyone was horrified to discover that the dark, soul-devouring torrent that had been converging towards a certain fixed point in the distance was now visible.
Some of them changed direction and, like a group of sharks that had smelled blood, rushed wildly toward a certain place to their side and rear!
"Why does it seem like they're suddenly coming at us? Who's behind this?!" Ye Zhenjun noticed it too, and his suspicions deepened.
Could it be that the Heavenly Demon King has gone mad? Ye Zhenjun wondered to himself.
But he had no time to think about anything else, so he could only grit his teeth and urge, "Hurry! Forget everything else! Get to the teleportation array!"
Ye Zhenjun, the Dragon King, and Chen Wanli were all top-tier experts, and with the addition of eighteen fire spirit puppets skilled in group attacks and countering attacks, the team, though in disarray, was advancing at a considerable pace.
However, everyone knew that if they were to be divided by the newly appeared Soul Devourers behind them and surrounded by the Soul Devourers blocking their way in front, the consequences would be unimaginable.
After a bloody battle, the group finally reached the location of the teleportation array from the third to the fourth level, which was in Ye Zhenjun's memory—an ancient altar situated on the edge of a massive ice abyss.
However, the altar was quite similar in design to the first and second floors, and Chen Wanli even felt that some parts of it looked familiar.
Before I could take a closer look, two suffocatingly terrifying auras, like two icebergs, blocked my way and interrupted my thoughts.
On the left is a giant bird with wingspan that blots out the sky, composed entirely of deep purple lightning and icy soul power, resembling a roc.
Every feather crackled with destructive lightning, and his eyes shone like two blazing purple suns!
It is the soul-devouring phantom beast, Xuan Yin Lei Peng, formed by the remnant soul of the ancient ferocious bird "Lei Peng" after its death, combined with the Xuan Yin thunder of this place!
On the right is a colossal beast that resembles a Qilin but has a dragon's head and its tortoise shell is covered with sharp ice spikes.
It lay there, seemingly merging with the glacier below, exuding a heavy, cold, and indestructible aura—the Ice-Armored Dragon Turtle!
These two Soul Devourers simply stood there quietly, yet the aura they released made the blood of everyone present freeze.
The Dragon King gasped, his eyes widened, his mouth gaped open, and his entire face changed color!
With its strength, the fact that it can make its calves cramp is definitely not something of the same level!
The Dragon King slowly turned his stiff neck and looked at Ye Zhenjun, his eyes full of questions.
A Void Refinement cultivator blocking the way?
Is this the way out that Ye Zhenjun was talking about?
Ye Zhenjun nodded, responding silently to the Dragon King.
The Dragon King looked at Chen Wanli.
Chen Wanli remained expressionless.
Chen Wanli had long suspected that there was a Soul Devourer at the Void Refinement level deep within the Moon Extreme Divine Platform.
But I didn't expect to encounter it on the third floor!
How did the Demon King of Heaven and Earth get in back then? Or did they never enter the fourth level?
It has to be said that Chen Wanli was also a little numb at this moment!
However, even with his late-stage Nascent Soul realm, he once challenged a higher-level Kunlun Divine Transformation cultivator.
With Ye Zhenjun and the Dragon King assisting them, and their opponent being a fragmented and incomplete being like the Soul Devourer, the pressure wasn't as great as it had been before.
But the gods and the Dragon Palace members didn't have such good mental fortitude.
Kuafu Chong and Fang Fengting were pale-faced; their divine cultivators had already suffered losses.
Under the soul-devouring impact of the Nascent Soul Realm warriors, they were already overwhelmed.
This is the Void Refinement stage!
What is the concept of "Refining to Emptiness"? I haven't seen it in so many years!
Even in the ancient books of the gods, there are only records of it in the strange tales of the wilderness. In ancient times, those who had refined their powers would ascend to the spirit realm, leaving behind only awe-inspiring legends.
“It’s over…” Fang Fengting murmured.
"Old man, just how capable are you? Tell me!" the Dragon King asked in a deep voice.
This question was clearly directed at Ye Zhenjun.
Two Void Refinement cultivators, even if they are only at the initial stage of combat, are still extremely terrifying.
A difference of one level is an insurmountable chasm!
Even because none of them had ever seen a Void Refining cultivator.
It's simply unimaginable what kind of combat power a Void Refinement cultivator would possess!
The only thing to be thankful for is that the Void Refiner in front of them is a Soul Devourer with incomplete consciousness, so he naturally doesn't have as many methods as the cultivators.
This is the only opening that allows the Dragon King to see a chance to win!
Before Ye Zhenjun could answer, the Xuan Yin Lei Peng launched the first attack.
It did not flap its wings, but merely raised its head and cried out.
A ring of deep purple lightning waves, visible to the naked eye, exploded from his throat, sweeping across the surrounding area in a circular pattern!
Wherever the ripples passed, the space emitted a crackling sound as if it could not bear the weight. Fine black cracks flashed by, and three feet of the altar floor, which was made of pure ice, were scraped away!
Before the ripples even arrived, the destructive thunderous will and the chilling cold that froze the soul had already caused the blood and qi of Nascent Soul cultivators like Kuafu Chong and Fang Fengting to stagnate, and their souls to feel like they were about to break apart!
"Retreat!" Ye Zhenjun's pupils shrank sharply, and at the same time, he slammed a thick, earth-yellow talisman with mountain patterns onto the ground with lightning speed.
"Genyue Town Spirit Talisman! Activate!"
Boom! A solid, earth-yellow phantom mountain rose from the ground, blocking everyone's path.
The thunderous ripples slammed into the mountain phantom, producing a deafening roar. The mountain phantom shook violently, and countless cracks appeared on its surface, but it ultimately withstood the first wave of indiscriminate bombardment.
However, Kuafu Chong and Fang Fengting were still shaken by the dissipating shockwave, their blood churning and they retreated repeatedly, their eyes filled with horror.
The Ice Armored Dragon Turtle then moved.
Its seemingly clumsy dragon head slightly raised, and its pair of icy blue giant eyes indifferently swept over the crowd, as if looking at a group of ants.
It didn't even roar; it simply opened its mouth and spat at the densest part of the crowd.
There was no deafening sound, only a highly condensed breath, grayish-white with countless ice crystals and dust particles, silently swept through the space.
Wherever the breath passed, it did not freeze, but rather... "returned to nothingness"!
All spiritual energy, light, and even the "activity" of space seemed to be absorbed and devoured by that grayish-white breath, leaving behind an absolutely silent and dark path that rushed straight towards everyone!
"Get out of the way! Don't take it head-on!" Ye Zhenjun's expression changed again as he recognized that this was a terrifying breath containing a faint trace of the true meaning of "Return to Nothingness," which was specifically designed to break all laws and annihilate life force!
However, the breath came too quickly and over a wide area.
Kuafu Chong roared and instinctively raised his giant weapon to block, his muscles bulging and his divine strength and blood energy soaring into the sky, attempting to meet the attack head-on.
Fang Fengting then pushed the Xunfeng Flag to its limit, transforming it into a blue wind wall.
"Bang! Crack!"
The teeth-grinding impact and the sound of shattering rang out almost simultaneously.
The giant weapon of Kuafu Chongna, comparable to a magical treasure, had its surface radiance dim and peel off at a visible speed the moment it came into contact with the grayish-white breath.
Immediately afterwards, the giant soldier itself let out a groan of unbearable strain, and was corroded into countless pits!
Kuafu Chong was struck as if by lightning. His tiger's mouth split open, and his massive body was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing heavily into the ice wall behind him, as if hit by an invisible giant hammer.
The ice wall suddenly exploded, creating a large hole. He was embedded in it, spitting out blood and his life force instantly waning.
The wind barrier of the Thunderstorm is like a bubble under the sun, collapsing at the slightest touch.
The grayish-white breath, still powerful, swept across half of his body.
He screamed in agony as his protective aura, along with half of his robe, instantly turned to ashes. The exposed skin and flesh quickly lost their color, becoming gray and withered, as if his life force had been forcibly drained away!
He staggered backward, almost losing his balance, when a dazzling golden light enveloped him and pulled him aside.
His face was ashen, he was breathing heavily, and his eyes were filled with terror.
The next second, he came to his senses and looked at Chen Wanli with gratitude.
If Chen Wanli hadn't intervened, he would probably have died on the spot.
With just one breath, two elders of the Divine Race, who were in the mid-to-late stages of the Nascent Soul realm, were left severely injured and on the verge of death!
The power of the Void Refinement Realm is terrifying!
What terrified them most was that the Soul-Devouring Beasts had previously used very limited attack methods.
But these two Void Refining Soul Devouring beasts in front of us were using "magic"!
This "spell" is not the kind of magic that cultivators typically use to activate with spiritual energy or divine energy; it seems to be using soul power to draw upon the energy in this place.
In other words, the fragments of consciousness before the Soul Devourer was formed still retain the fighting techniques from before.
It was only used instinctively, and perhaps it was not even one-tenth as powerful as the original divine might.
But it had already terrified everyone present!
Chen Wanli could sense that the golden body was being chased by hundreds of soul-devouring creatures and was "running away in panic." He feared that it wouldn't be long before the golden body brought all the soul-devouring creatures over.
At that time, it will truly be a battle with tigers in front and wolves behind, an incredibly unpleasant experience!
"We must deal with these two at all costs!" Chen Wanli and Ye Zhenjun exchanged a glance, both seeing the determination in each other's eyes.