Staying in the sect, controlling beasts and cultivating immortals

Before the ripples of the healing of the spatial passage had subsided, the chaotic pressure that seemed to tear apart the Netherworld had already crushed the entire outer perimeter of the Heavenly Ghost Cave as if it were a tangible force.

The pulsating dark red blood cocoons on the bone altar suddenly stopped, and for the first time, an undisguised look of horror appeared on Elder Yin Bone's withered face.

"Impossible! How could he have arrived so quickly?!"

boom--! ! !
His response was the collapse of the heavens.

The gray light domain, interwoven with six chaotic origins, crashed down like a world-destroying seal cast by a god! It covered thousands of miles, enveloping the entire gloomy ghost domain.

The illusory image of the Xuan Turtle pressed down heavily, causing countless jagged ghost rocks to groan under its weight and instantly turn to dust. The "Netherworld Abyss" concealment array set up by Elder Yin Bone shattered like a fragile eggshell, unable to withstand even a moment, revealing the massive altar below, built of countless bones and flowing with foul blood, and on the altar, a dark red blood cocoon pulsating more rapidly, radiating an ominous and malevolent aura!
"Roar--!"

The piercing cry of the Chaos Golden Roc tore through the deathly silence.

Its wings are outstretched, and the Guixu sword patterns flowing on its dark gold feathers burst forth with a sharpness that pierces the soul!
With a sudden flap of its wings, it was no longer a storm, but a myriad of spatial rifts condensed to the extreme, like an invisible net of death, fiercely enveloping the thick, churning blood clouds above the altar!
Chi Chi Chi -!
The unstoppable sharpness of Geng metal cuts through everything!
The filthy blood cloud seemed to have met its nemesis, instantly sliced, torn apart, and disintegrated by the invisible web of cracks! The bloodthirsty aura emitted a shrill scream, attempting to erode the cracks, but was mercilessly annihilated by the primordial chaos and ultimate truth contained within. The final barrier shrouding the altar was shattered to pieces by the Golden Roc's single strike!
"Stop them! Awaken the Lord of the Underworld!"

The shriek of Gui Li, the chieftain of the Heavenly Ghost Clan, pierced through the chaos.

Thick, inky ghostly mist swirled around him, within which countless vengeful spirits wailed and sank.

He formed a hand seal, and the base beneath the altar, constructed from the bones of countless living beings, suddenly glowed with a ghastly green light. A tremendous force surged upwards, injecting into the dark red blood cocoon. The blood cocoon throbbed violently, and a ferocious aura, far surpassing that of the early stage of the Void Refinement realm, erupted with a deafening roar!

At the same time, the dormant elites of the Heavenly Ghost Clan surged out from the caves from all directions like a tide. The three Ghost Kings at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, carrying hundreds of sinister secret techniques, transformed into a torrent of ghostly energy and fiercely attacked the Chaos Golden Roc that had just torn apart the blood clouds and swooped down!
At this critical moment——

"hold head high--!"

The Chaos Flame Dragon's enormous crimson-gold body, carrying a violent dragon might that could burn the eight wastelands, arrived first despite being a latecomer!

It did not directly attack the Ghost King Torrent, but instead opened its mouth wide and unleashed a dark golden line of fire compressed to the extreme, like a divine spear that split the heavens and earth, ignoring spatial distance and instantly piercing through the core of the skeletal base below the altar, which was surging with a ghastly green light!
Burning World - Dragon Flame Piercing the Rainbow!

*Whoosh—Boom!*
The moment the dark gold fire line struck the skeletal base, it was like a spark falling into an ocean of oil!

The terrifying World-Burning Dragon Flame burst forth from a single point, erupting with a deafening roar! The entire altar base, composed of billions of bones, was instantly ignited by the supremely yang and powerful chaotic dragon flame, acting as the perfect fuel!

The eerie green light was devoured by the dark golden flames, and the bones twisted, disintegrated, and turned to ashes in the intense heat! The massive array core that supported the blood cocoon in absorbing power was pierced and incinerated by the fiery dragon's attack!
"Pfft!" Gui Li was struck as if by a heavy hammer, spitting out a mouthful of dark green ghost blood containing his essence, and his aura instantly weakened.

The pulsation of the dark red blood cocoon suddenly stopped, and the ferocious aura that had just erupted seemed to be choked, fluctuating violently.

"Kill that dragon!" The three peak Nascent Soul stage Ghost Kings' eyes were bloodshot with rage, and their attacks became even more frantic. Countless ghost claws, poisonous curses, and soul-devouring Yin lightning rained down on the Flame Dragon and the Golden Roc!

"Yo——!"

The ethereal and melodious cry of a deer rang out at just the right moment.

The Chaotic Star Deer, treading on starlight, quietly appeared on the flank of the battlefield. Its emerald star eyes reflected the universe, and with a light thud of its four hooves, the emerald starlight around it spread out silently like the gentlest tide.

Starlight - The Realm of Eternal Imprisonment!

The flow of time and space underwent a bizarre shift within the starlight-shrouded area. The three ghost kings and hundreds of elite celestial ghosts, charging wildly, seemed to be trapped in incredibly viscous amber. Their movements instantly became sluggish and slow, as if they had been put on slow motion.

The demonic claws that had been unleashed froze in mid-air, the shooting lightning seemed to stand still, and even the狰狞 expressions on their faces were frozen in time with exceptional clarity. Only their thoughts remained uninterrupted; the terror of watching death approach helplessly yet being unable to move instantly gripped the hearts of every celestial demon!
The pressure on Jinpeng and Yanlong was greatly reduced.

With a flap of its wings, the Golden Roc easily dodged several "frozen" bolts of Yin lightning. Its dark gold feathers rained down like a storm, precisely piercing the heads of the frozen Heavenly Demons and stirring up plumes of ghostly mist.

The Flame Dragon swept its tail across, and the dark golden dragon flames surged like a raging torrent, burning a large number of Heavenly Ghost elites, whose movements were slowed by the starlight, along with their frozen expressions of despair, into nothingness!
"No!!" Seeing his elite troops slaughtered, his altar destroyed, and his blood cocoon restrained, Gui Li finally went completely mad. He plunged his arms into his chest, and when he pulled them out, his palms were holding two pulsating, ghostly green orbs—his life essence!
"I offer my soul as sustenance! I beg the Lord of the Underworld... to devour this entire world!"

He let out a blood-curdling scream and slammed the two wisps of soul energy into the dark red blood cocoon!
Om-!
The blood cocoon erupted with an unprecedentedly dazzling blood-red light!
A more violent, chaotic, and insatiable ferocious will exploded forth! A crack appeared on the surface of the blood cocoon, and a terrifying giant claw, composed entirely of viscous, foul blood and bound by pitch-black chains, fiercely reached out!
With a chilling coldness that freezes souls and a greedy desire to devour all things, it ignored the barriers of space and went straight for the Chaotic Star Deer that maintained the "Starlight·Eternal Imprisonment Domain"!
This claw strike contained a portion of the "pseudo-fusion" power absorbed by the blood cocoon, making it incredibly ferocious!

A hint of seriousness flashed in Cai Xinglu's emerald eyes. His starlight domain fluctuated violently, clearly unable to completely contain this attack that had exceeded its limits.

A close call!
"Wow—!"

A sharp screech filled with endless greed and a devouring desire tore through the blood!
The evil beast of the Chaotic Eternal Night has moved!
Its enormous body, shrouded in the churning, gray night, had now expanded to its limit, like a gaping maw that suddenly covered half the sky and led to the endless void!
Eternal Night - Throat of the Ruins!

A terrifying devouring power erupted.
The target is not the giant, blood-stained claw, but the dark red blood cocoon that protrudes from behind it, as well as all the energy connections between the blood cocoon and the entire Heavenly Ghost Cave's earth veins, the remaining blood energy, and even the dissipated souls!
Whoosh—!
Like a whale swallowing the sea!

Visibly, the dense bloody aura permeating the entire cave, the netherworld power surging from the ground, and even the pure soul power transformed from the remnants of the Heavenly Ghosts who were immobilized by the Colorful Star Deer and killed by the Golden Roc Flame Dragon, all transformed into torrents of scarlet, pitch-black, and grayish-white energy, surging madly toward the chaotic maw opened by the evil demon!
As that ferocious, blood-stained giant claw extended, its power visibly dissipated and thinned rapidly! It was as if an invisible force had stripped it of its support from its very core!
"howl--!"

A furious and astonished roar came from within the blood cocoon, and the downward force of the filthy blood giant claw inevitably slowed down and weakened!
"Evil heretics dare to act so violently?"

Yu Changsheng's icy voice, like a chilling wind from the depths of hell, echoed across the battlefield. He finally moved.

With each step, the space beneath one's feet automatically folds over.

He did not directly attack the Blood Claw or Blood Cocoon, but appeared in front of the Colorful Star Deer. The Returning Void Sword was not even drawn. He simply pointed his fingers like a sword and pointed at the sluggish, filthy giant claw in mid-air.

Return to the Void - Extinction Finger!
A thin, gray wisp of air, seemingly capable of ending all existence, drifted out leisurely, ignoring the distance, and instantly touched the palm of the filthy, blood-stained giant claw!
laugh--!
It was like a scorching hot iron pressed onto the dirtiest mud. There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a chilling sound of melting.

The massive, blood-stained claw, imbued with the ferocious power of a pseudo-fusion-level being, disintegrated and vanished silently, starting from its fingertips, as if ice and snow had been thrown into strong acid, turning into wisps of green smoke! Even the pitch-black chains wrapped around it were not spared!
"Pfft!" Gui Li spat out ghost blood again, his body swaying precariously. The backlash from sacrificing his soul source, coupled with the destruction of his blood claws, caused his aura to plummet.

"Clan leader!" The remaining powerful members of the Heavenly Ghost Clan cried out in despair.

"It's your turn, Gui Li." Yu Changsheng's gaze, like two cold, chaotic divine swords, pierced through the chaotic battlefield and firmly locked onto the weakened Heavenly Ghost Clan Chief.

He didn't take action himself, but merely had a slight thought.

"Purple Spirit!"

Clang——!!!
A clear, resonant sword cry, seemingly capable of severing the shackles of fate, echoed throughout the universe!
The Chaos Purple Spirit Emperor Sword moved! The core of the "Return to the Void Sword Seal," which was forged by the imprints of the six beasts' chaotic origins and the power of the vast chaotic tribulation lightning, on its blade, burst forth with an unprecedented deep purple light!

The sword seal rotated, drawing upon the immense chaotic energy of the entire "Six Beasts Guarding the State" domain!

The profound earth vein power of the Xuan Turtle, the unparalleled penetrating sharpness of the Golden Roc, the world-burning dragon flame will of the Flame Dragon, the star birth and death law of the Colorful Star Deer, and the pure chaotic energy devoured and transformed by the Evil Demon—six origins and six great powers—are all gathered in the Purple Spirit Emperor Sword at this moment!
Six Phases Return to One - Chaos Returns to Nothingness - Slaying!
The Purple Spirit Emperor Sword transformed into a deep purple, eternal stream of light that pierced through the past and future! It was not a simple sword light, but the judgment of the chaotic will and the manifestation of the laws of the Void!
Wherever the sword light passed, space vanished silently like fragile glass, leaving behind eternal black cracks. Time seemed to lose its meaning in its path.

All the ghostly energy, residual blood energy, and secret techniques of the Heavenly Ghost that tried to block it turned into the most basic particles of dust the moment they touched the sword light, without even a ripple!

Even ghosts and spirits are terrified!

He felt an unprecedented death lock-on! The sword light ignored the heavy ghostly shields he had hastily set up, ignored the ghostly substitution technique he had activated by burning his life soul source, and even faintly locked onto the faint soul lamp mark he had left in the endless netherworld!

"Lord of the Underworld, save me!!" he screamed in despair, frantically lunging at the pulsating, dark red cocoon of blood, trying to make a final struggle.

However, the blood cocoon itself could not be saved.

The monstrous maw of the evil demon, like a leech, clung tightly to the energy source of the blood cocoon, devouring it madly.

The emerald starlight of the Rainbow Deer fell once more. Although it could not completely immobilize the will of the pseudo-fusion level Blood Cocoon, it firmly locked the last bit of spatial connection between Gui Li and Blood Cocoon!

puff!
The deep purple, eternal light, like a hot knife slicing through solidified butter, pierced through the brow of Gui Li's madly twisted, despairing ghost body without any hindrance.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no horrific carnage.

Gui Li's body suddenly froze, his face frozen in extreme fear and disbelief. The next moment, his body, formed from pure Netherworld Ghost Power, began to silently annihilate, decompose, and transform into the purest Netherworld particles, starting from the wound pierced between his eyebrows, like sand sculptures scattered by the wind.

Along with the wisp of his natal soul that he tried to escape, it was completely reduced to nothingness under the shroud of the Returning Void Sword Intent, never to be reborn!

Gui Li, the patriarch of the Heavenly Ghost Clan, has fallen! His body and soul have been annihilated!
"Clan leader!!!"

The remaining elite members of the Heavenly Demon Clan let out heart-wrenching, desperate cries, their fighting spirit collapsing instantly.

Rumble——!
Having lost the support and source of power from Gui Li, and with its origin being devoured by Xie Chi, the dark red blood cocoon throbbed and swelled violently. Its surface was covered with cracks, and it emitted an unwilling and furious roar from within, as if some terrifying being was about to forcefully break out of the cocoon!

Yu Changsheng's eyes were icy cold. The Guixu Sword was finally slowly drawn an inch from its sheath, and the Chaos Divine Runes lit up on the spine of the sword.

"Yin Gu, your 'Netherworld Lord' cannot save you, much less the Xuanming Sect. Today, I will first destroy the Heavenly Ghost. In the future, I will personally go to Xuanming, sever your sect leader's dog head, and wash the Netherworld Palace in blood!"

His voice was not loud, but it was like a thunderclap at the beginning of chaos, carrying the supreme will and overwhelming killing intent of the Void Refining Supreme. It slammed into the depths of the blood cocoon that was about to collapse, and also penetrated through layers of space, imprinting itself on the soul of Elder Yin Bone, who was hiding deep in the core of the altar and trying to escape through blood escape!
Elder Yin Gu's withered body trembled violently, and the ghostly fire in his eyes flickered wildly. For the first time, the emotion called "fear" clung to his already withered heart like a cold, venomous snake.

"Destroy the Heavenly Demons and massacre the Xuanming Sect?" Elder Yin Gu was filled with fear and dread, but even more so with the madness of being driven to the brink of despair. "Don't even think about it! The Underworld Lord is about to awaken, and you will all become sacrifices for his resurrection!"

Before the words were even finished, the killing intent in Yu Changsheng's eyes had already solidified into a tangible form. He didn't need to respond with words at all; wherever his mind went, the six chaotic beasts became an extension of his will, a war machine that would crush all obstacles!

The Black Tortoise guards the mountain, the Golden Roc cleaves the sky.

"Roar--!"

The Chaos Tortoise was the first to respond, letting out a desolate roar that shook the Heavenly Ghost Cave. Its four legs stomped heavily, and the dark yellow light on its shell surged, with countless ancient and mysterious runes lighting up, drawing upon the vast dragon energy of the earth's veins.

An invisible gravitational field suddenly descended, covering the entire altar area.

The air became as thick as lead and mercury, and the elite Heavenly Ghost Clan members who tried to rush forward, whether they were Golden Core cultivators or Nascent Soul cultivators, instantly became incredibly slow, as if they were carrying a colossal mountain on their backs.

The bone altar itself emitted a piercing cracking sound, and countless supporting bone pillars crumbled and collapsed inch by inch under the terrifying suppressive force! It set the tone for the entire battlefield—absolute suppression, an indestructible bulwark!

Almost at the same time that the Xuan Turtle unleashed its power, a blinding golden light tore through the dark sky of the Heavenly Ghost Cave.

The Chaos Golden Roc has moved! (End of Chapter)