Staying in the sect, controlling beasts and cultivating immortals

Elder Lock Soul clearly sensed that Wang Cheng's aura was rising and transforming at an alarming speed, faintly touching the threshold of the realm he had always dreamed of! Half-step Void Refinement? No! The sheer ferocity and potential of this power far surpassed that of an ordinary half-step Void Refinement cultivator!
"Absolutely cannot let them live!" Elder Soul Lock's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he showed no mercy! He bit his tongue hard, spitting a mouthful of blood onto the Nine Nether Soul Suppressing Banner! The banner instantly turned pitch black, as countless agonizing souls were forcibly sacrificed and burned! The ghostly fire in the eye sockets of the nine skulls at the top of the banner surged, merging into a dark light that was extremely condensed, radiating a strong aura of ominousness and curse—the Nine Nether Soul Annihilation Curse! As soon as this curse was unleashed, Elder Soul Lock's aura instantly weakened, demonstrating the immense price he had paid!
That dark light was silent and stealthy, yet it seemed to have locked onto fate, ignoring Wang Cheng's newly formed Overlord Blood Chaos Burning Heaven Domain and directly targeting the core of his true spirit! This attack contained the Soul Dao Law of the Soul Locking Elder's Void Refinement Realm and the original evil power of the Nine Nether Soul Suppressing Banner, determined to completely obliterate Wang Cheng's soul!
Wang Cheng was currently in a profound state of enlightenment. The control over his newly formed domain, the surging chaotic energy within him, and the pressure of life and death had propelled his fighting spirit to an unprecedented peak! Facing the Soul-Destroying Curse Light, he felt no fear whatsoever; instead, he felt a violent and exhilarating surge originating from the depths of his bloodline!
"Old ghost! Take this punch! Tyrant Blood Chaos - Burning Heaven Ashes!" Wang Cheng roared, pouring all the power of his newly formed domain, along with the last source power erupting from the chaotic mark in his sea of ​​consciousness, into his right fist! The fist no longer shone with light, but instead condensed to its ultimate form: "destruction"! Crimson gold, chaotic gray, and a trace of the annihilating blackness of returning to the void intertwined, compressing into a terrifying energy sphere the size of a fist! Space collapsed and annihilated inch by inch in front of the fist!
He stepped forward, twisted his waist, and threw a punch! The movement was extremely simple, yet it carried a devastating aura as if the world were being cleaved apart! The space in front of his fist shattered completely like fragile glass, forming a twisted, destructive passage that crashed headlong into the Soul-Destroying Curse Light!
"boom--!!!!!"

An explosion so terrifying it defies description! The entire Qingzhou Guard camp, along with several surrounding hills, was instantly flattened as if by an invisible giant hand! Blinding energy turbulence shot into the sky, forming a pillar of death light mixed with crimson gold, chaotic gray, pitch-black soul energy, and destructive ripples, tearing through the clouds! The shockwave swept in all directions, and the earth undulated violently like ocean waves!

At the center of the light, Wang Cheng was sent flying backward like a kite with a broken string, his body covered in blood. His newly formed Tyrant Blood Chaos Burning Heaven Domain flickered violently before completely extinguishing. His right arm was twisted at a bizarre angle, white bone piercing through flesh, a truly gruesome sight. He crashed heavily to the ground, his breath barely audible, his fate unknown.

Elder Soul Lock also let out a muffled groan, his body swaying violently in the air, his face deathly pale. The light on the Nine Nether Soul Suppressing Banner dimmed considerably; nearly half of the Soul-Destroying Curse Light had been forcefully shattered by Wang Cheng's desperate punch! Although the remaining power severely injured Wang Cheng, it failed to completely obliterate his soul as he had wished!

"What...what a powerful body! What a chaotic force!" Elder Soul Lock's eyes were filled with shock and anger, but even more so with a burning greed. This boy's potential is terrifying; if he isn't eliminated today, he will surely become a great threat! He forcefully gathered his true essence, and the Nine Nether Soul Suppressing Banner once again pointed at the fallen Wang Cheng, preparing to deliver the final blow!
"Soul Lock! How dare you—!!!"

A furious roar, like a thunderclap from the heavens, carrying boundless rage and chilling killing intent, instantly resounded throughout Qingzhou! Before the sound even faded, a dazzling sword light pierced the sky, carrying the aura of annihilation, tearing through space from the direction of the imperial city, and striking the Soul-Locking Elder's head as if by teleportation! Even before the sword light arrived, the terrifying killing intent and the lock-on of laws had already caused the Soul-Locking Elder's soul to tremble violently, and his entire body to feel a chill!

Yu Changsheng has arrived!

His lingering anger filled the sky, his sword pointing towards the netherworld.
The sword light, like the scythe of death, tore through the sky, carrying an aura of annihilation, instantly traversing the distance of space and reaching the Soul-Locking Elder's brow! That chilling killing intent was pure and vast, as if the will of the entire Qingzhou was condensed into this one sword! The Soul-Locking Elder was terrified, he clearly felt that this sword had locked onto the source of his soul, and there was no way to avoid it!
"Nine Netherworld Protection!" Elder Soul Lock shrieked sharply, no longer caring about finishing off Wang Cheng, frantically pouring all his magical power into the Nine Netherworld Soul-Suppressing Banner. The banner instantly expanded, transforming into a massive, pitch-black soul shield in front of him. Countless twisted soul shadows on the shield's surface howled and struggled layer upon layer, forming a viscous, filthy soul barrier. At the same time, he retreated rapidly, and a set of ancient, cracked bone armor appeared on his body, emitting a faint, ghostly light.

"laugh--!"

The sword light of the Void Returning to Nothingness struck the soul shield, producing no earth-shattering roar, only a sickeningly clear sound of annihilation. The seemingly sturdy soul shield was easily sliced ​​through like a hot knife through butter! Countless soul shadows silently vanished into nothingness within the gray-black sword energy of the Void Returning to Nothingness! The sword light's momentum diminished slightly, but it remained incomparably sharp, striking the Soul-Locking Elder's bone armor with devastating force!

"Crack!" The cracks that already existed on the bone armor widened instantly, groaning under the strain! A power of law that could annihilate all things passed through the bone armor and slammed into Elder Soul Lock's body!
"Pfft!" Elder Soul Locking was struck dumb, spitting out a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. His aura instantly weakened, and his eyes were filled with disbelief and horror. The power of Yu Changsheng's sword strike far exceeded his expectations! This person could suppress the ancient filthy cocoon while simultaneously unleashing such a terrifying attack from afar? Just how much strength had he recovered?
"Go!" Elder Lock Soul didn't hesitate for a moment. Despite his severe injuries, he shouted at Faceless Man and crushed a pitch-black jade talisman covered with spatial runes. A dense spatial fluctuation instantly enveloped him.

The faceless creature reacted extremely quickly, slashing with its dagger, cutting through a patch of shadow, and then disappearing into it.

"You've injured my comrades, and you think you can just leave?!" A chilling voice, like an eternity of ice, boomed in the ears of Elder Soul Lock and Faceless. It wasn't Yu Changsheng's true form, but rather his will transmitted through the grand formation!
"Buzz!"

The invisible space above the entire Qingzhou Guard camp instantly froze! The spatial fluctuations caused by Elder Locking Soul crushing the jade talisman were forcibly suppressed and smoothed out by an even more powerful force of chaotic void! The teleportation light surrounding him flickered violently a few times like a candle in the wind, and was actually frozen in place! The figure of Faceless, which had merged into the shadows, was also forcibly forced out in mid-air, as if it had crashed into an invisible wall of chaos!

Elder Soul Lock was filled with shock and rage, his heart sinking to the bottom. Yu Changsheng's control over the laws of space had reached such an inconceivable level! He frantically activated the Nine Nether Soul Suppressing Banner, and the remaining soul power on the banner burned again, transforming into shockwaves of vengeful spirits, attempting to tear apart this spatial confinement.

"Suppress!" Another imperial edict came from the direction of the imperial city.

The phantom of the Chaos Tortoise flashed across the sky above the camp! An immense, overwhelming force of primordial gravity suddenly descended! Like a hundred thousand mountains pressing down! Elder Lock Soul and Faceless's bodies sank abruptly, the space beneath their feet groaning under the unbearable weight, their escape techniques completely disrupted!
Just as Elder Soul Lock was in despair, an inconspicuous blood-red domino at his waist suddenly shattered on its own! A faint but intensely dark light, imbued with the aura of Blood Netherworld, instantly vanished into the void! This was Elder Blood Netherworld's last resort, a secret technique that burned a portion of his essence blood to forcibly create a tiny, unstable spatial rift!
A flicker of pain and ruthlessness flashed in Elder Soul's eyes. Without hesitation, he transformed his heavily injured body into a blur and forced his way into the closing rift! Faceless followed closely behind, disappearing into the rift just before it vanished!
"Hmph!" Yu Changsheng's cold snort carried a hint of regret and icy killing intent. Ultimately, he had only managed to suppress the remnant cocoon from a distance, and the Soul-Locking Old Ghost had only managed to escape by risking severe injury and sacrificing his most prized possessions. However, that faceless assassin… "Leave something behind!"

A subtle yet incredibly sharp sword aura, like a leech, precisely pierced the half of the faceless body that had disappeared into the rift before the spatial rift completely closed!

"Ah—!" An uncontrollable, shrill scream came from the disappearing rift, accompanied by the sound of something being forcibly torn apart! An arm wrapped in a black bodysuit, along with that strange dagger, was severed by the Returning Void Sword Qi and fell from the sky!
The spatial fluctuations completely subsided. The camp was a scene of utter devastation, deathly silent. Only the severed arm and the dagger stood as testament to the breathtaking battle that had just taken place.

Yu Changsheng's figure didn't actually descend; instead, a chaotic stream of light brimming with vitality shot out from the direction of the imperial city, instantly enveloping the heavily injured and unconscious Wang Cheng and the dying Shi Poshan, stabilizing their injuries. A cold divine sense swept across the entire area: "Mo Heng, do everything in your power to heal the wounded! Shi Poshan, temporarily assume command, reorganize the camp, and activate the highest alert! After I suppress the remnants, I will settle accounts with the Xuanming Sect!"

The divine sense receded like a tide, carrying with it lingering anger, and once again sank into the even more dangerous and imminent underground battlefield of the Zhao family ruins.

The pupa fights back, the lotus blooms in full glory.

Beneath the ruins of the Zhao family compound, the struggle has reached its most critical and brutal moment!
The roar of the Chaos Tortoise carried a hint of weariness and rage. Countless withered, gray roots, like the most greedy parasites, had deeply burrowed into its limbs and chains formed from the power of the Xuanhuang earth veins! Large areas on the massive phantom of the tortoise began to show gray spots, signs of life being frantically plundered and the laws being corrupted. Even the chaotic source energy that Yu Changsheng had injected was being "digested" by the remnant pupa's core in a bizarre way, as if replenishing the energy of this gluttonous beast!
"Roar—!" The core of the pupa throbbed wildly and excitedly, as if savoring an unprecedented delicacy. More roots split off from its body, spreading not only along the earth's veins but also beginning to penetrate the rock layers, intending to turn the entire northern part of Qingzhou into its withered hunting ground! On the ground, the gray, deathly zone expanded at a terrifying speed, leaving no trace of life in its wake, even turning stubborn rocks to dust!
Just as Yu Changsheng's expression turned solemn, preparing to use a deeper layer of chaotic origin to forcibly suppress it at any cost—

"Brother Yu! Catch the lotus dew!" Chen Xueqing's voice, though weary, was incredibly resolute, piercing through the barriers!
A pure stream of light, emerald green tinged with iridescent colors, like a star of hope piercing the eternal night, ignored the obstruction of the underground rock layers and precisely projected itself in front of Yu Changsheng! It was the drop of lotus dew that carried the life force of the Pure World Lotus!

Yu Changsheng's eyes flashed with a sharp light! Without the slightest hesitation, he flicked his finger, and the drop of dazzling lotus dew transformed into a stream of light, not shooting towards the remnant pupa, but directly plunging into the core of the Chaos Xuan Turtle phantom beneath his feet!

"Black Tortoise! ​​Use the earth as a furnace to draw forth lotus blossoms to purify the world!"

"Roar—!" The Chaos Xuan Turtle let out a long, earth-shaking roar. Its body, which was originally covered in gray and decay, instantly burst forth with an unprecedented azure divine light! The drop of lotus dew exploded at its core, transforming into countless pure azure light threads that instantly flowed through every meridian of the Xuan Turtle's entire body!
Zizzi——!
The gray spots on the surface of the Xuan Turtle, eroded by withered roots, melted violently the moment they came into contact with the azure divine light, like ice and snow meeting the sun! The extremely concentrated life-purifying power, carrying a supreme Daoist rhyme of "reviving all things and cleansing filth," flowed along the law channel connecting the Xuan Turtle and the withered roots, like a surging torrent of purification, rushing back into the core of the gray, withered pupa!
"hiss--!!!"

From the depths of the earth, for the first time, a sharp, twisted shriek, filled with endless pain and rage, resounded! It was the roar of the will of the ancient, filthy pupa! Its almost rule-like power of "withering" had met its natural enemy! The primordial purifying power of the Pure Lotus, though far less abundant, was by no means inferior in status, and was even the natural nemesis of such a filthy creature!

The heartbeat of the pupa's core suddenly became chaotic and sluggish! The wildly spreading, withered roots convulsed and contracted violently as if scalded! That greedy devouring was forcibly interrupted!
Don't miss out!

"Six beasts guard the state, Guixu is the guide! Seal!" Yu Changsheng seized this fleeting opportunity, his hands forming an extremely complex chaotic hand seal! The Chaos Purple Spirit Emperor Sword, floating beside him, emitted a clear and melodious sword cry, transforming into a stream of purple-gold light that merged into the Xuan Turtle phantom! At the same moment, the power projections of the other five Chaos Origin Beasts also crossed the void, all empowering the Xuan Turtle!
The illusory image of the Xuan Turtle erupted with a chaotic divine light interwoven with six colors, its size swelling once more! Its four legs, like anchoring pillars, slammed firmly onto the earth's magnetic nodes. Countless new chains, fused with the power of chaos, the void, and the purification of life, spread from its shell like living things, no longer binding but acting like sealing divine runes, imprinting themselves upon the core of the remnant pupa temporarily suppressed by the Purifying Lotus Dew!

The tattered pupa struggled frantically, its gray divine runes flashing, the power of withering clashing fiercely with the power of purification. But having lost the initiative, and suppressed by the combined chaotic power of the six beasts' origins, its resistance was gradually dismantled and sealed! Finally, a complex sealing array, based on the primordial earth energy, with chaotic divine runes as its skeleton, the purifying azure light as its exterior, and the power of the void as its lock, was fully formed deep within the earth's veins, firmly imprisoning the terrifying gray core, along with most of its sprawling root system, thousands of feet underground! (End of Chapter)