Staying in the sect, controlling beasts and cultivating immortals

Wang Cheng roared, and the surging domineering battle intent around him receded into his bones like the receding tide. The dark golden light on the Chaos Bone Arm solidified and became restrained, turning into a layer of ancient and deep metallic color covering his body. His aura was as solid as ten-thousand-year-old black iron.

Chen Xueqing took a deep breath, and the Pure Lotus radiance flowed, its emerald halo becoming even more solid, like the most resilient glass dome, isolating it from all invisible erosion from the outside world.

Ling Wuying and Gui Yinzi silently accepted the order. Their figures flickered like two wisps of smoke, using the shadows of the floating debris as cover, and stealthily made their way to the edge of the Soul-Devouring Sand Sea, disappearing from sight in an instant.

Protected by the double array and the Azure Lotus, the group moved slowly towards the desolate, gray-yellow sea of ​​sand, like a submerged boat struggling through a murky swamp. The closer they got, the stronger the oppressive feeling originating from the level of the soul became.

The desert is not real sand, but is composed of countless tiny fragments of star debris that have lost all luster and vitality, presenting a desolate, withered yellow color.

They are not static, but under the influence of invisible forces, they surge and flow silently like viscous, slowly flowing mud, forming solidified "sand waves".

The air was thick with "dust," each grain containing a powerful force that eroded the spirit. Inhaling it through the mouth and nose caused a feeling of mental exhaustion, as if memories and will were being slowly scraped away.

Even more bizarre were the omnipresent "sounds" in the desert. These weren't howls of wind, but rather a chaotic cacophony of desperate wails, mad murmurs, and resentful curses left behind by the deaths of countless beings. Like billions of rusted steel needles, they relentlessly pierced the soul of the Purple Mansion. Even with the double protection of the Solidifying Yuan Guardian Array and Chen Xueqing's Azure Lotus power, the noise still assaulted the ears like a demonic chant, disturbing the mind and causing the blood to churn.

"Stay calm! This is the 'Soul-Devouring Sound,' which ignores defenses and targets the core of your Dao! Embrace your primordial energy and guard your spiritual platform!"

Mo Heng shouted, sweat rolling down his withered face. While maintaining the formation, he was also doing his best to resist the mental erosion.

In his eyes, the data streams were flashing wildly, and the furnace of Guixu was roaring. He analyzed the composition of the dust and noise, trying to find patterns and possible flaws.

Wang Cheng gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead, the runes on his Chaotic Bone Arm slightly warm, forcefully suppressing the turbulent blood within him caused by the noise. Chen Xueqing's face was pale, the light of the Pure World Lotus flickering like a candle in the wind under the impact of the noise, but her eyes were firm, the lotus platform's phantom image as stable as a mountain in her sea of ​​consciousness.

Yu Changsheng walked at the front, each step he took on the flowing sea of ​​sand feeling exceptionally heavy.

The conflict between the power of stellar annihilation within his body and the blood of the Chaos Emperor was stirred up by this soul-devouring sound, intensifying like oil being poured on a raging fire. Intense pain surged through his nerves like a tidal wave, but his Emperor Soul will remained as steadfast as an ancient rock. The Annihilation Sword trembled slightly in his hand, the silver-blue starlight at its hilt faintly echoing an unknown coordinate deep within the desert.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred!
Boom——!
Hundreds of feet ahead, a relatively calm sandy area suddenly exploded!

Countless grayish-yellow sand grains shot into the sky like boiling sewage, accompanied by a nauseating, thick stench of decaying corpses!
Amidst the surging sand waves, three enormous and ferocious figures slowly rose up!
Those were three gigantic skeletal golems, each ten feet tall!
Their entire bodies were pieced together from the ghastly white skeletons tinged with a murky green rust, thick chains dripping with black blood wrapped around their joints, and sharp bone spurs standing upright on their spines. Most terrifying of all were their heads, not beast-shaped, but three enormous and twisted human skulls forcibly embedded in their neck bones! Eerie green soul flames burned in the eye sockets of the skulls, and their jaws opened and closed with a teeth-grinding "click."

Three bone puppets stood in a triangular formation, their immense deathly pressure mixed with the soul-devouring power of the sand sea, descending like heavy shackles!
"Bone Prison City! Black Wind Bone Guards!" Mo Heng's pupils shrank, and he shouted in a hoarse voice, "Damn it! How could they track us here so quickly and ambush us on the edge of the sand sea!"

"Hehehe... Yu Changsheng! I have said that the debt owed by Black Star Fortress will be repaid a hundredfold by Bone Prison City!" A cold, slippery voice, like the hiss of a venomous snake, came from the huge skull of the bone puppet in the middle. It was none other than the voice of the Black Fiend Old Demon! Clearly, although his true body had not arrived, he had already attached his will to this powerful bone guard through a secret technique.

"Hand over the Star Origin Marrow, bind your souls, and enter my Bone Prison as slaves! Otherwise, today we will refine your flesh and blood into oil, build cities with your bones, and light lamps with your souls for ten thousand years!" At the same time, sharp shrieks rang out from the skulls of the two bone puppets on the left and right, which were the wills of the other powerful beings in Bone Prison City.

Before the words were even finished, the three Black Wind Bone Guards moved simultaneously!
Their massive bodies moved with extraordinary speed across the quicksand, rushing forward with the force of a landslide and a tsunami!

The giant claw of the Bone Guardian in the middle was wrapped in thick black energy, tearing through space and grabbing straight at Yu Changsheng!
The bone spurs on the left side of the Bone Guard stood upright, spewing out countless bone spears tempered with dark green poisonous fire, engulfing Wang Cheng, Mo Heng, and Chen Xueqing like a torrential rain!

The bone guard on the right opened its huge bone palm, and a filthy vortex spun wildly in the palm. A terrifying suction force instantly locked onto the shadows where Gui Yinzi and Ling Wuying were hiding, trying to forcibly pull them out of their hiding place and devour them!
The Bone Prison Killing Scheme, combined with the natural dead zone of the Soul Devouring Sand Sea, instantly forced everyone into a true place of certain death!
"Wang Cheng! Clear the way!" Yu Changsheng's eyes flashed with chaotic purple-gold light, and his shout was like a thunderclap!
"Roar--!!!"

Wang Cheng, who had been holding back his raging fury for ages, erupted like a volcano that had been suppressed for millennia! He unleashed his raging power of blood and qi without reservation, and a purple-gold surge of blood and qi rose into the sky, causing the poisonous fire and bone spears that were shooting down from all directions to pause in their tracks!
He took a step forward, and the sea of ​​sand beneath his feet collapsed with a roar!

The Chaos Bone Arm instantly expanded, transforming into a ferocious giant hammer burning with crimson-gold flames and chaotic gray light—Overlord Blood: Earth Splitter!

The giant hammer, carrying an unparalleled will to crush stars and create the world, smashed down in the most savage and direct way on the giant claw of the Black Fiend Bone Guard that was grabbing at Yu Changsheng!
boom--! ! ! !

A terrifying, metallic clang reverberated through the desert! The violent shockwave whipped up towering, turbid waves dozens of meters high from the shifting sands!

Wang Cheng's eyes were bloodshot, blood gushing from his mouth and nose. The cracks on his bone arm widened instantly under the immense recoil, dark golden bone fragments piercing his flesh, yet he didn't retreat an inch! The Black Fiend Bone Guard's giant claw was actually flung high by this hammer blow imbued with destructive power, its claw tip shattering, the swirling black energy dissipating, and its massive body showing signs of staggering for the first time! The eerie green soul fire within his skull flickered violently, and the Black Fiend Old Demon's voice was filled with unbelievable shock and rage: "Insect! How dare you!"

Almost at the same moment Wang Cheng made his move, a fierce look flashed across Mo Heng's withered face, and he plunged his hands into the sand beneath his feet!
"Return to the Ruins: Creating a Prison from Sand!"

The runes around him glowed as if they were burning! The Myriad Transformations Returning to the Void Furnace hummed under the strain, spewing out a waterfall of gray light from its mouth, which instantly merged into the surrounding Soul-Devouring Sand Sea!

The originally slow-flowing sand waves seemed to be given a violent life, and under the guidance of the Returning Void Array, they transformed into countless roaring sand pythons, frantically coiling and ramming towards the bone guard on the left that was spraying bone spears! At the same time, a viscous quicksand trap formed beneath its feet, dragging its massive skeletal body like a swamp!

The torrential rain of bone spears from the left-hand bone guard was mostly dispersed by the sand python, and its massive body was also bound by quicksand, instantly slowing its movements! The bone spears that were shot towards Chen Xueqing and the others were barely blocked by the solid, jade-like "Lotus Wall" that Chen Xueqing had raised with all her might. The light wall fluctuated violently, and cracks appeared.

"Xueqing! Help me!" Mo Heng roared, blood seeping from his seven orifices as he maintained such a large-scale sand control technique!
Without hesitation, Chen Xueqing unleashed a wisp of pure Azure Lotus Origin Divine Light from her fingertip, which merged into Mo Heng's body. Mo Heng's withered body trembled, and the nearly collapsing Returning Void Array patterns instantly stabilized, making the Sand Python even more ferocious!

On the other side, the instant Ling Wuying was hit by the bone guard's suction force, his figure exploded like ink, instantly splitting into dozens of shadows that were indistinguishable from the real ones, shooting out in all directions! The terrifying suction force dispersed instantly, unable to lock onto his true form!
Gui Yinzi let out a sharp shriek, and his Yin energy surged, transforming into a huge "Shield of Ten Thousand Souls" covered with painful and distorted faces, actively meeting the suction vortex!
"Want to swallow? You'll burst!" He grinned maliciously, and countless faces on the Myriad Souls Shield wailed simultaneously, unleashing a chaotic mental shock that interfered with the Bone Guard's will. At the same time, the shield itself shattered, turning into a viscous Yin Sha swamp, which temporarily covered the filthy vortex in the Bone Guard's palm!

The situation was forcibly stabilized in a flash, but the crisis was far from over! The three bone guards were only temporarily hindered and were not damaged! The soul-devouring sound of the sand sea became even more violent under the fierce battle, frantically impacting everyone's minds that were on the verge of collapse! The bone guard possessed by the Black Fiend Old Demon had recovered from Wang Cheng's fierce attack, and the killing intent in the ghostly green soul fire was even stronger!
Yu Changsheng stood at the center of the storm, the conflict between the two forces within him ignited by the desperate situation and the Soul-Devouring Sound from the outside world, like a volcano about to erupt! The excruciating pain almost tore his consciousness apart, but the depths of his Emperor Soul were icy cold.

He clearly sensed that deep within the desert, the power of the "Heavenly Ruins Coordinates" that resonated with the Sword of Annihilation was being stirred by the death energy and intense battle here, producing a subtle... resonance... or rather, a thirst.
An extremely dangerous yet potentially the only way out thought struck his mind like lightning—to use his body as a medium to unleash the raging power of stellar annihilation within him, and with the resonance of the Sand Sea Dead Zone and the coordinates of the Heavenly Ruins, to erupt completely! To gamble—whether it's self-destruction or… a breakthrough and rebirth!

"Mo Heng! Remove the Sand Python! Release it!" Yu Changsheng shouted fiercely, his voice piercing through the roar.

Mo Heng was taken aback. Although he didn't understand why, his almost instinctive trust in the Emperor made him instantly form a hand seal. The sand python that had been binding the bone guard on the left collapsed, and the quicksand trap that had been binding it also suddenly disappeared.

Caught off guard, the massive bone guard lunged forward several steps as it suddenly lost its restraints! And the position it rushed out of was right between Yu Changsheng and the Black Fiend Bone Guard!
At this moment!
The chaotic purple-gold light in Yu Changsheng's eyes ignited completely, like two small suns exploding!

He suddenly plunged the Annihilation Sword into the sand sea beneath his feet, and with his hands clenched in front of his chest, he forcibly compressed the silver-purple light ball that was frantically clashing with the Chaos Emperor Seal and the Star Annihilation Dao Law to its extreme with his supreme will!
"Silence... Return to Nothingness!"

He roared, as if propelling ancient stars, and hurled that extremely violent energy forward—the out-of-control bone guard and the black Fiend Bone Guard behind it—through the air!
The target is the coordinates of the Heavenly Ruins deep within the desert, which resonate with it in the darkness!

Boom boom boom——!!!!

An indescribable explosion!
The moment that ball of silvery-purple light left the body, it transformed into a destructive torrent! It was not a simple energy eruption, but rather like opening a passage to the abyss of death!

Wherever the torrent passed, space silently annihilated and collapsed like fragile glass, forming a twisted, all-consuming dark trajectory! The gray-yellow sand grains of the Soul-Devouring Sand Sea were instantly vaporized! The Bone Prison Bone Guard blocking the path, like ice and snow under the blazing sun, didn't even have time to scream before its massive white skeletal body disintegrated inch by inch, turning into the most primordial particle dust, greedily devoured by that dark trajectory!

The Black Fiend Bone Guards, bearing the brunt of the attack, instantly shrank their ghostly green soul flames to the size of needles! The Black Fiend Old Demon's terrified thoughts shrieked within the soul flames! Its massive bone claws crossed, gathering unprecedentedly viscous black fiend demonic energy in an attempt to block the attack!

However, the desolate torrent contained not only Yu Changsheng's own power, but also the ancient, silent star origin that had been dormant deep in the desert, as well as a trace of supreme desolate Dao rhyme projected from the distant Tianxu coordinates!
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The black demonic energy was torn apart like fragile cloth! The bone claws shattered and disintegrated the instant they came into contact with the torrent! A terrifying annihilation force instantly spread across the massive body of the bone guard!

"No—!!!" The Black Fiend Old Demon's unwilling roar was abruptly cut short by the soul fire!

boom!
The massive Black Wind Bone Guardian melted and disintegrated rapidly in the silvery-purple destructive light, like an ice block thrown into a furnace, along with the eerie green soul fire within its skull, all of which was completely erased! Only a huge, pitch-black crater remained, its edges rippled with spatial turbulence, and an aura of deathly stillness permeating the air, a feeling of the end of all things!
The bone guard on the right, who was entangled with the Yin Sha swamp of the Ghost Yin Child, was also swept by the aftershock of this earth-shattering attack. Half of its bone body instantly turned into dust, and the remaining remains were blown away by the violent energy turbulence. The ghostly green soul fire dimmed, and the Bone Prison City expert who controlled it was obviously also seriously injured!
The entire edge of the Soul-Devouring Sand Sea seemed to have been muted.

The rolling sandstorm froze, and the piercing, soul-devouring sound vanished for a moment. Everyone was stunned by this attack that defied comprehension; even the ancient will of death deep within the sand sea seemed to pause for a split second!
Wang Cheng, leaning on his giant hammer, his bony arm dripping with blood, gasped for breath, yet his eyes blazed with fanatical light. Mo Heng stared in disbelief, his withered face etched with astonishment.

Chen Xueqing's face turned deathly pale, her Azure Lotus Domain teetering on the verge of collapse, and her gaze toward Yu Changsheng was filled with lingering fear and heartache.

Ling Wuying and Gui Yinzi appeared in the shadows in the distance, equally terrified by the terrifying power of the Emperor's desperate attack. (End of Chapter)