Journey to the head

It was an invisible and intangible wind of extinction, yet it was all-pervasive, all-pervasive, and impossible to defend against.

It gently and softly passed through Wang Ruoyu's "indestructible" massive city wall. Zhao Kongque gritted his teeth and roared, and the blue-green golden crow fire on his body shone brightly again, breaking through the paralysis of the lightning on his body, but it was too late.

The shadow of death loomed over the two of them, and they felt a chilling tremor that came from the depths of their souls.

Wang Ruoyu stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

I'm going to die, die at the hands of Senior Brother Lin—

A strange roar!

Lin Le frowned, and two figures suddenly rushed out diagonally, blocking Wang Ruoyu and Zhao Kongque's path. Bi Feng struck the two directly, while flames burst from Zhao Kongque's body as she grabbed Wang Ruoyu and retreated.

The two men groaned, their flesh and bones dissolving, their bodies turning to ashes.

But Lin Le could see clearly that their eyes had no whites, but were pure black.

Lin Le withdrew his supernatural powers, calmed his spiritual energy, and reinforced the Mirror Palace once again with his mental power.

Then Wang Yu led the remaining three Golden Core Corpse Relatives into the Five Elements Formation. Beside him were Dongfang Hui, who was wielding twin hammers, and Cui Linglong, who was draped in emerald light.

With a rumble, the gate of Biluo Peak shook, and the Crimson Scale Python, summoned, burst forth from the earth. Its enormous body, over three hundred feet long, stretched out, causing rocks on the mountain to fall continuously.

Huo Jin, a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, raised his enormous snake head, spewed out a cloud of poisonous mist, and was about to take flight.

Outside the Five Elements Formation, a Starry Sky Divine Ship and several Flying Expeditionary Divine Ships have begun to move, draped in the silver light of the Vast Sea Star Formation. Is that An Fanghe in command?
Apart from Su Yan, who happened to be on duty in Lingsha City, the Tao brothers stationed in Hanjiangzhu, and Xie Yongchang stationed in Meihuafang, all the Golden Elixir of Yunshan in Cangzhou had gathered here.

"Lin Le! You have been bewitched by your inner demons. We are here to save you!" Wang Yu had already taken off his long robe and wide sleeves, revealing a black and red soft armor that gleamed brightly.

"Give up resistance and come back with me. When the sect leader returns, he will surely find a way to save you!"

Lin Le remained silent. He glanced at everyone, his eyes flashing with murderous intent, his mind growing increasingly chaotic and frantic.

These people are all loyal followers of the sect leader. Now that I have been exposed, it will be difficult to win them back in the future. It would be better to kill them all!
We need to finish this quickly! Otherwise, once Yanmei returns after hearing the news, we definitely won't be able to leave.

However, most of my mental energy has been diverted, making it difficult to use incantations. I can only rely more on the array diagrams that already contain changes, and...

With a thought, he activated the spirit beast restriction. Huo Jin, which had just taken off, let out a miserable cry, its body convulsed, and it plummeted down, smashing the rock wall below to pieces.

Wang Yu cursed inwardly upon seeing this. In such an emergency, he had forgotten that Lin Le, as the vice sect leader, also possessed the spirit beast restriction of the Fire Brocade!
Originally, Huo Jin, as a descendant of the Bashe, possessed astonishing defense, blood and energy, and strength, and also had the supernatural power to devour all things, which should have given Lin Le a great headache. However, he is now unable to participate in the battle.

After dealing with the troublesome Huo Jin, Lin Le clasped his hands together, causing the Five Elements Array to rumble and vibrate.

Fivefold Transformation: Devouring Void Spirit Mist.

The billowing spiritual mist swept across and spread, and the people of Yunshan felt their scattered divine senses being completely swallowed up. In an instant, the world spun around them, and they couldn't even distinguish up, down, left, right, front, or back, let alone see the scene before them. At the same time, their spiritual power was uncontrollably and slowly dissipating outwards, gradually being swallowed up by the mist.

Even Wang Yu and the Corpse Clan's innate sensitivity to living beings was suppressed to the minimum. He shouted, "Everyone be careful, don't scatter!"

After a moment's hesitation, he gritted his teeth and said, "Lin Le has gone mad and is out of control. You all need not hold back!"

With a deafening roar, before he could even react, a bolt of purple lightning, like a dragon, struck his head. This divine lightning of divine punishment naturally countered evil spirits, instantly tensing all his muscles. In his haste, he could only command a Golden Core corpse to use its supernatural powers to withstand the attack, but it was instead struck by the divine lightning, leaving its entire body charred black and its facial features crackling with lightning.

At the same time, thousands of ribbons shimmering with five-colored light fell again, and the Yellow Spring Swamp, which contained countless wronged souls and corpses, spread out completely. The people of Yunshan used various methods to resist, but they were also enveloped by the Devouring Void Spirit Mist and scattered with the slightest movement.

Wang Yu knew something was wrong. With the aid of the array diagram, Lin Le could simultaneously unleash four different fifth-level transformations, all of which possessed the power of a Nascent Soul cultivator. Moreover, the array diagram was powered by spiritual essence, making its attacks virtually inexhaustible.

We must interrupt his formation!
Wang Yu flipped his hand, and a fist-sized azure bell began to shake gently, surging with a tidal wave of sound, a sound wave sweeping across the entire area.

This is the Chaoyin Lock-shaped Bell, a secret treasure obtained by the sect leader from the Sikong family in his early years.

found it!
Following the sound wave, Wang Yu leaped up with two corpse companions. An eight-petaled black lotus in his dantian trembled, and the round, pure white corpse core on the lotus platform shone brightly.

The power of the spirit surged throughout his body, and Wang Yu's body suddenly swelled up like a giant. Dark veins ran through his fair skin, and his entrails surged in his chest cavity. His two giant red-haired arms, as strong as cast iron, gripped the crescent-shaped longsword and slashed down fiercely at Lin Le!

With a loud bang, the blade broke the sound barrier, and a twisted blade of light cleaved Lin Le in two from head to toe!

However, Wang Yu dared not relax at all. He suddenly turned around, his long sword swirling like a bolt of lightning, and the two corpses displayed their skills, attacking and flying around.

As expected, Lin Le behind him had already vanished into clouds, becoming the Wind Shadow Cloud Body. However, the anticipated attack did not come. Wang Yu's expression changed. He knew that Lin Le had used the Mirror Flower Water Moon Technique to teleport in front of the others.

"careful!"

The figure that flashed in front of Lin Le was Cui Linglong!

Knowing that her combat strength was not high compared to her fellow disciples, she had been focusing on defense, hoping to hold off Lin Le for a while. At this moment, as soon as Lin Le appeared, the ancient trees surrounding her, with their gnarled and unruly branches and trunks as strong as steel, trembled and their branches and leaves protected her in the center, while the vines and creepers all over the sky began to dance and entwine towards Lin Le like a tide.

At the same time, she took a deep breath, and her supernatural powers began to build up.

"Liu Zaijiu is already dead!"

But then Lin Le let out a strange laugh, and Cui Linglong's eyes widened, her supernatural powers momentarily frozen.

"Your beloved Liu Zaijiu has already violated the sect rules and has been executed according to the law!" Lin Le spoke rapidly, his words piercing her heart like a sharp sword. "The so-called opportunity for him to be taken away by a Nascent Soul cultivator is all a lie! His remains have long since turned to ashes. Have you ever gone to pay your respects?"

"Impossible! You—" Cui Linglong suddenly couldn't hear her own voice anymore. Everything around her was moving away from her. Lin Le in front of her and the spiritual plants around her had all disappeared without a trace.

There was only utter, chilling darkness.

At this moment, all the doubts from over a hundred years of arduous waiting suddenly came together, and all those nights of tear-soaked pillows became a joke. Yes, yes. How could I not know that Senior Brother Liu had long since died?

Back then, his kinsman Liu family committed a serious crime and was exterminated. How could he be clean? The Yunshan Sect is so prestigious, why would a rogue cultivator or a Nascent Soul cultivator teach him? He never appeared in any of the life-or-death battles, and even after his father's death, he was nowhere to be seen.

He's dead. He's been dead for a long time.

I've just been deceiving myself.

In that instant, the greatest pillar in her heart collapsed after her father, Cui Shanyan, was brutally murdered by the corpse demon. Her once rosy and lovely round face turned deathly pale, and her large eyes were suddenly shrouded in darkness.

"Lin Le!" Wang Yu roared in anguish and fury. He never imagined that Lin Le would be so despicable under the control of his inner demons!

He shook the Tide Sound Lock Bell again, and with a thunderous roar, he leaped up. As his body spun, four phantom arms grew from his back. With his six arms turning, the blade energy slashed towards Lin Le like a storm.

On the other side, a furious shout was heard. Zhao Kongque ignored his own injuries and the possibility of accidentally injuring his fellow disciples. His eyes blazed with fire as he forcefully activated his divine power!
The loud cry of the golden crow was deafening, and a translucent three-legged divine bird enveloped Zhao Kongque, spreading its wings in the air.

Its body was covered in layers of fiery feathers, like clusters of sharp swords, and burning with brilliant blue flames symbolizing the power of the Nascent Soul. Its three legs were like hooks, and it treaded on the dark blue smoke and cried out to the sky. Its wingspan was three hundred feet, and the raging flames surged and expanded, sweeping across the entire area. In the blink of an eye, it burned away the Devouring Void Spirit Mist.

Supernatural Power: Golden Crow Dharma Form!
But it was too late.

As everyone's vision returned, Lin Le's face contorted, his eyes radiating a strange light as he struck the heartbroken Cui Linglong.

Supernatural Power: Red-Powdered Skull!
Cui Linglong felt a sudden darkness before her eyes, and then that familiar voice called out.

"exquisite!"

Those eyebrows, those lips and nose, that figure, that aura—Cui Linglong simply couldn't look away. It was Liu Zaijiu.

Light reappeared in Cui Linglong's world. Overjoyed, tears welled in her eyes, and she threw herself into Liu Zaijiu's arms without hesitation.

"Senior Brother Liu!"

The Heavenly Demon devours the heart, the Rakshasa devours the soul.

But in the next instant, that warm embrace that he had longed for day and night suddenly became cold and stiff.

Cui Linglong looked up in horror and saw Liu Zaijiu give a miserable smile. His whole body was rotting, his hair was falling out, and maggots were swarming around him. Thick fluid burst from his yellow flesh. It seemed slow but was actually fast. He turned into a skeleton.

"Linglong, let's die together, together forever."

More than a century of love and hope turned into a rotting skeleton in the blink of an eye, and boundless despair, terror and fear completely engulfed Cui Linglong.

The girl with two thick black braids spat out a mouthful of blood and fell straight down from the sky!
Wang Yu's blade energy slashed through Lin Le's body, but Lin Le once again turned into clouds and dissipated.

An Fanghe, who was outside the formation, caught Cui Linglong. Looking at Cui Linglong's lifeless face and feeling her soul beginning to disintegrate, he shouted anxiously, "Sect Leader Lin, quickly dispel your supernatural powers, or Aunt Cui will die!"

He knew that the pink skull would directly awaken the deepest fears buried in everyone's heart, causing them to fall into terrifying illusions from which they could not extricate themselves. If they could not overcome their fears, they would be devoured by terror and die in the illusions.

But Cui Linglong fell for this move when she was in utter despair and her mental defenses had collapsed. She had absolutely no way to break free!
But Lin Le's face only showed a cruel smile twisted by demonic energy.

"Anyone who blocks my way dies! It doesn't matter who it is!"

"No need to hold back!" Wang Yu roared again. Only by truly hardening his resolve to kill could he possibly capture Lin Le. "His spiritual power is running low!"

However, Lin Le once again dodged Dongfang Hui's massive golden hammer, which resembled a small mountain falling from the sky, using the Mirror Flower Water Moon technique. Then, with a flick of his wrist, he swallowed a Rejuvenating Golden Pill. The immense medicinal power of the innate elixir instantly dissipated, completely erasing the fatigue he had just displayed.

"You—" Lin Le's icy gaze swept across the entire room, "you will all die here!"

His response was a brilliant blue sun that pierced the sky in an instant!
With a deafening roar, the blue flame vortex exploded thousands of feet wide, and the Golden Crow Dharma Form stirred up raging waves of flames within it, but Lin Le once again escaped from another direction.

He snorted coldly, and divine lightning bolts of heavenly punishment struck down one after another, causing the golden crow's avatar to stand on end and making it difficult for it to advance.

He knew that Zhao Kongque used supernatural powers to achieve Nascent Soul level combat power with his late-stage Golden Core cultivation, but it didn't last long. After the supernatural powers ended, he immediately weakened and could no longer fight.

Then came another piercing whistle. Wang Ruoyu mustered her limited spiritual power and, wielding a giant shield, slammed it down on Lin Le's head like a falling meteor!
A cloud of mist exploded, leaving only the shrill, howling Yellow Springs Swamp behind. Lin Le then used the Mirror Flower Water Moon technique to escape again, instead using the vengeful spirits and remnants of the corpse to tightly bind Wang Ruoyu.

But the moment Lin Le revealed himself, Wang Yu mustered his six arms and unleashed a mountain-splitting blade of energy that was already at his forehead. Meanwhile, Dongfang Hui screamed as two mountain-sized hammers attacked from both sides, trying to smash him into a pulp!
With a series of rapid attacks, Lin Le didn't have time to use Mirror Flower Water Moon!
The clanging sound was deafening. In an instant, Wang Yu and Dongfang Hui were both thrown high into the air by the immense force of the recoil. Lin Le's entire body was filled with white-gold light, which was more dazzling than the bright moon in the sky. This was the supernatural power, the Indestructible Golden Body.

Despite being struck by such immense force, Lin Le trembled all over and froze in mid-air.

Just then, Wang Yu's two remaining corpse followers, transformed from corpse demons, suddenly attacked, each displaying their corpse race talents.

A creature wrapped in thick white cloth covered in talismans, revealing only a deathly pale face, with drops of blood seeping from it, shrieked. The blood-stained cloth tore open and flew like a snake, instantly coiling around Lin Le's body before tightening its grip, locking his limbs and torso firmly in place.

Meanwhile, another figure emerged from the shadows, its body writhing like mud as it rapidly wrapped around Lin Le's wrist. In that instant, it snatched the array diagram from Lin Le's palm and flung it away like a shooting star!
The booming of the formation abruptly stopped, and the Five Elements Formation immediately collapsed.

Zhao Kongque was about to pounce on the Golden Crow Dharma Form, but his body swayed and his supernatural powers dissipated. He fell to the ground exhausted and was barely caught by Wang Ruoyu, who was also seriously injured and whose spiritual power was almost depleted.

Then another loud cry rang out, followed by terrifyingly high temperatures. Zhao Kongque's eyes were filled with disbelief.

The two corpses that were binding Lin Le were lifted up by the suddenly rising golden sun crow. Their bodies were engulfed in ghostly blue golden crow flames, and they screamed as they were flung away.

A slightly smaller golden crow dharma image soared into the sky, but its nascent soul-level blue flames were in no way inferior.

This is Lin Leyu's divine power – the Golden Crow Dharma Form! (End of Chapter)