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Chapter 218 Soul Abyss Rift, The Secret of Sealing the Lord

In the far north, snow cliffs stand as if broken, and the wind howls through the sky.

Above Mount Cangque, a massive fissure of light and flame stretched across the sky, like a crack in the heavens and earth, releasing billowing demonic flames and an aura of destruction.

The gale, like millions of ice blades, tore through the leaden-gray sky.

A massive fissure of light stretched across the sky, like a hideous wound forcibly torn open the heavens and earth, continuously spewing out viscous, ink-like demonic flames and an aura of destruction.

The setting sun struggled to pierce through the thick haze of the soul, casting an ominous blood-gold halo that painted the cold hull of the towering, mountain-like World Ship "Dawn".

“Buzz—boom!!!”

A deep, resounding roar, powerful enough to shake one's very soul, erupted from the depths of the Boundary Ship's core formation, like the roar of an ancient beast, echoing across the land and forcefully suppressing the howling of the wind and snow.

The Pavilion Master's Seal hangs high at the core of the array, and five ever-flowing soul patterns intertwine to form a giant net covering the sky. The immense power of the law pours down, locking the entire Cangque Snowfield tightly, attempting to stifle the madness gushing from the crack.

Chu Ning stood with his hands behind his back at the bow of the ship, his black robe fluttering wildly in the raging air currents like an unyielding battle flag.

His gaze pierced through the surging snow mist and demonic energy, locking onto the abyss at the center of the swirling snowstorm ahead—the Blazing Bone Sealing Abyss, emanating a chilling aura.

The Boundary Ship has arrived.

Yu Xingshui was the first to step out of the cabin, followed by twenty-one first-rank martial artists.

Their soul locks hummed, and the moment their feet landed, the permafrost beneath their feet trembled. The raging snowfield soul tide was suddenly calmed down as if pressed down by an invisible giant hand, but it was accumulating an even more terrifying counterattack power in the deeper layers.

Li Jing'an, Chu Yun, and Lei Jingjing were already lined up below the snow-capped mountains, their faces as solemn as iron, their soul armor covered in frost.

“Sect Master.” Li Jing’an stepped forward, his voice cut off by the wind and snow.

"How is the seal?" Chu Ning stepped onto the bridge, ice crystals spreading where he landed, his gaze sharp as lightning, pointing directly at the core.

"It's in grave danger!" Li Jing'an's face was extremely grim as he raised his hand to activate his soul power.

The light and shadow distorted above the snow, revealing the projection array that sealed the core.

The core of the array, which should have been composed of chains of profound gold law, was now being eroded by large swaths of writhing, multiplying dark black demonic spots.

The demonic spots, like a living malignant tumor, constantly gnawed at and twisted the foundational runes of the seal, emanating a nauseating aura of decay and resentment.

Deep within the formation, a blurry yet ferocious phantom of a giant golden-boned ape appeared and disappeared as the demonic spots expanded, each flash causing violent spasms throughout the entire seal.

“It’s not breaking the seal,” Yu Xingshui’s clear voice carried an unprecedented solemnity. She looked up at the giant ape phantom, her soul diagram flowing deep within her pupils. “It’s ‘reshaping’! Using the laws of the devouring seal as fuel, it’s reconstructing the foundation of its soul imprint! If it’s allowed to complete even a tenth of its work… the foundation of the boundary lock will surely crack!”

Chu Ning remained silent, pressing his fingertips onto the Soul Mirror Pavilion Master's Seal that floated beside him.

"Buzz!"

The five patterns vibrated simultaneously, and a condensed, almost tangible, dark golden light flowed from the seal and poured into the icy plain below.

"Adjust the seal, lock the boundary."

His gaze swept over the assembled worshippers behind him, his voice not loud, but carrying an undeniable will:
"Elder Li and Elder Yu are in charge of the Soul Power Pivot Array, with the Heavenly Gang on the left and the Earthly Fiend on the right."

"Red Flame, guard the North Ridge Pass, and will not move an inch."

"The rest—using the five elements in rotation, evolve into thirty-six celestial array gates, overlapping and sealing them!"

"As you command, Pavilion Master!" the crowd shouted in unison, their voices breaking through the wind and snow.

Chu Ning flashed to the edge of the seal. He knelt on one knee and pressed his palm onto the cold, frozen earth.

"boom!"

A massive, intricate lock-like phantom, composed entirely of soul bones, suddenly appeared beneath his palm and instantly connected with the core of the Soul Master's Law Seal.

A vast and boundless soul force surged forth from him like a burst dam.

In an instant, the entire snowfield was illuminated by a ghostly golden light.

Countless mysterious array patterns spread out from below the Boundary Ship, like living soul veins, rapidly intertwining and covering, forming a magnificent soul net that enveloped the entire Sealed Abyss.

The demonic aura that was eroding the seal was forcibly isolated and suppressed.

But this magnificent scene of sealing off the area only brought a deeper chill to everyone's eyes.

Everyone can see that beneath this glory lies a temporary reprieve, like drinking poison to quench thirst.

"Sect Master." Yu Xingshui's soul thoughts quietly entered Chu Ning's sea of ​​consciousness, carrying a hint of barely perceptible surprise and doubt, "That Ape Marquis's soul aura... has changed. It's no longer just evil demonic flames; it's mixed with something more ancient, more... hungry. It's guiding... or rather, being 'awakened' by something!"

"I know." Chu Ning's eyes flashed with a cold light like sparks.

"We are here not just to plug the leak."

"A deeper understanding—how exactly did it manage to break free from these age-old shackles!"

Before he finished speaking, something strange happened.

"Boom——!!!"

At the heart of the sealing array, the crimson lightning and fire, having accumulated to their limit, burst forth like a volcano suppressed for millennia, breaking through layers of seals and soaring straight into the heavens. The lightning and fire twisted and expanded wildly in the air, instantly condensing into a towering, ten-thousand-foot-tall phantom of a giant ape of soul flames—the "Soul Core Manifestation" of the Blazing Bone Ape Marquis.

The phantom's eyes burned with world-destroying demonic flames, and its gaping maw unleashed a silent roar that shattered the very fabric of space.

Chu Ning's pupils suddenly shrank.

"town!"

With a sharp shout, the five-patterned soul locks around his body suddenly opened.

A dazzling golden light covered his entire body like a suit of armor. He stood still, advancing instead of retreating, and his right palm grabbed out from the air.

"Buzz!"

The massive soul bone lock beneath its feet erupted with an unprecedented ghostly golden light, surging upwards and transforming into a gigantic hand that blotted out the sky, fiercely grabbing at the soaring soul flame giant ape.

"laugh--!"

The giant hand and the soul flames collided violently.

The ear-piercing tearing sound seemed to crush one's soul.

The giant golden palm, with its five hook-like fingers, forcefully tore apart, clenched, and sealed the raging soul flames within the invisible void array.

The violent energy turbulence crashed wildly within the array layers, stirring up a storm of soul power that filled the sky.

"Elder Li!" Chu Ning's voice came through the storm, carrying the sound of metal and stone, "Three quarters of an hour! The first 'Soul Sealing Lock' must be applied!"

"I obey!!" Li Jing'an's hair and beard stood on end, and with a loud shout, the ancient long seal "Chen Hao" in his hand suddenly transformed into a blazing wheel of light, carrying the power to shatter mountains, and smashed into the core central node of the main formation.

At the same time, Yu Xingshui made a grasping motion with her hand, and a phantom of a soul brush flowing with starlight appeared out of thin air. Holding the "Sealing Law Soul Slip," her jade fingers flew, using the void as a scroll and soul power as ink, the brush moved like dragons and snakes, outlining the incomparably profound main seal foundation runes.

"Seal the soul with the Eight Laws, lock the spirit and suppress the soul, close—the Nakano Gate!"

"Rebellious Demonic Flame, all laws return to nothingness, sever—the delusions of reincarnation!"

"Seal! Seal!! Seal!!!"

The voices of Yu Xingshui, Li Jing'an, and Chu Ning, three earth-shattering torrents of soul power, surged into the great formation with the final cry of "Seal!" "Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Three dazzling beams of light, each over ten feet in diameter, shot into the sky from the sealed triangle, like three divine nails piercing the heavens and earth, pinning the struggling Soul Flame Giant Ape firmly within the void array.

The Ape Lord's Soul Fire emitted a painful roar that shattered eardrums. The sound penetrated the flesh and reached the depths of the soul, as if a ferocious will from the ancient primordial era had been fully awakened.

Its crimson eyes pierced through layers of seals, locking onto Chu Ning with unwavering resentment and greed, which almost materialized.

"This seal is not for imprisonment." Chu Ning met the venomous gaze with a voice as cold as ancient ice. He flipped his palm, and a soul imprint, radiating a strange gray-white light and shaped like a broken bone, slowly emerged, exuding an aura that could annihilate all things.

"Just to... bury you completely in the abyss!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the five-patterned main seal in his sleeve, symbolizing the soul's sovereignty, shone brightly, and a pure primordial light poured into the soul bone lock seal.

"Om-!"

Around the Heavenly Mirror Platform, thirty-six dark golden beams rose up in response, piercing straight into the sky.

Soul power surged between the pillars of light like a celestial river, instantly weaving into a magnificent net covering an area of ​​hundreds of miles.

"Heavenly Mirror - Heavenly Locking God Array!"

"Boom!"

The entire Blazing Bone Sealing Abyss trembled violently, as if it had been pressed down hard by an invisible giant hand.

The surging demonic flames, the howling tide of souls, and the violent anomalies were forcibly suppressed and frozen at this moment.

The earth fell silent, save for the mournful howling of wind and snow. The pervasive mist of souls reluctantly sank back into the abyss.

Yu Xingshui was slightly out of breath, her soul power greatly depleted. She looked back at Chu Ning, her eyes filled with inquiry.

Chu Ning did not look at her, his gaze, like that of a hawk, was directed towards the deeper and more fragmented rift in the northern realm.

There, a pale golden lightning bolt, thinner than a strand of hair yet so pure it was breathtaking, flickered in and out of sight amidst the wind and snow, as if... awaiting its final judgment.

—The battle for supremacy continues, and the path to breaking the deadlock remains fraught with difficulties.

However, beneath this deathly "calm," at the very core of the sealing formation, a chilling anomaly was quietly brewing.

Despite being firmly sealed by the Zhou Tian Grand Array, the crimson soul flame core representing the will of the Blazing Bone Ape Marquis not only did not weaken in the slightest, but instead... collapsed and condensed inward in a strange way.

It was as if a greedy glutton was frantically drawing upon the power that suppressed it.

A warning bell rang in Chu Ning's mind like thunder.

The five soul patterns between his brows flickered violently and uncontrollably, and the soul locks wrapped around them emitted a mournful cry of being overwhelmed, sending out waves of tearing pain.

"No!" he shouted sharply, "It's using the situation to its advantage! It's using the seal we set up... to temper its soul and reverse its will!"

Yu Xingshui's face instantly turned deathly pale: "Using the suppression to refine itself?! It wants to... turn our sealing power into the foundation for its reshaping?! This is... a scheme to backfire on the Soul Master's origin!"

Li Jing'an was horrified: "It's setting ourselves on fire... it's burning our very souls! Cut it off immediately..."

"retreat!!!"

Chu Ning's roar was like thunder from the heavens! He suddenly clasped his hands together in front of his chest, his ten fingers flying like phantoms, forming an extremely complex ancient hand seal that carried an aura of self-destruction!

"Soul Lock - Rift Domain - Severed!!!"

"Click——!!!"

A crisp sound, as if the soul had been ripped apart.

A blinding burst of blood-gold soul light erupted from Chu Ning's body.

That was him forcibly severing the core link between his own Soul Master Law Seal and the massive sealing formation beneath his feet, a link that was inseparable and intertwined in life and death.

Like a brave man cutting off his own arm.

"puff!"

A mouthful of scalding blood spurted from Chu Ning's mouth, staining his black robe crimson. Yet his figure remained upright as a spear, his eyes as sharp as ever. Only the fleeting, yet forcefully brightening, light of the Soul Lock revealed the sheer brutality of this self-inflicted backlash.

"We cannot let it continue to devour... Otherwise, our soul sources will all become fuel for its rebirth!" Chu Ning's voice was filled with bloodlust, yet it was resolute.

However, it was too late.

The collapsed soul fire at the core of the seal suddenly erupted with absolute darkness that devoured all light.

Immediately afterwards, a gigantic, grotesque ape head phantom, so large it obscured the view, slowly "emerged" from the darkness.

It was no longer a pure soul fire or remnant consciousness, but rather presented a terrifying form that was half-illusory and half-real. Its body was composed of countless twisted, wailing fragments of souls filled with resentment and despair.

It was as if the lingering resentments of countless fallen souls were forcibly blended and refined to create this monster known as "Soul Abyss".

Its pupils were two rotating, blood-red abysses, fixed on Chu Ning, its gaze carrying a venomous resentment that seemed to pierce through eternity, and... a strange longing.

A deep, desolate sound, seemingly composed of the roars of countless dead souls, reverberated throughout the space:

"The fifth mark... the Soul Master's Seal... indeed... returned to your hands..."

"You...shouldn't have come here..."

Chu Ning's pupils suddenly contracted to pinpoints as he forcefully suppressed his surging blood and qi: "Who... exactly are you?!" The thing before him was definitely not the Blazing Bone Ape Marquis he knew.

The gigantic maw, composed of fragments of countless souls, slowly opened, revealing a chilling "smile." Deep within its scarlet pupils, the five golden patterns on Chu Ning's soul lock were reflected, triggering an eerie resonance and buzzing.

"My name is... Liaogu? Also... Hunyuan!" The voice was filled with endless mockery and sorrow, "From the moment you shattered my very essence with your blade... my wholeness... was annihilated..."

"However...now that you have arrived..."

"The Soul Master's Seal... the Five-Patterned Authority... are all the keys to my... reunion!"

"Roar--!!!"

The Soulfire Ape Shadow exploded with a deafening roar.

It didn't dissipate, but transformed into a boundless, viscous, blood-red-gold soul domain! This soul domain was like a giant bubble, instantly stripping and swallowing the space where Chu Ning was located from reality.

"Sect Master!!!" Li Jing'an's eyes were bloodshot. The "Chen Hao" seal transformed into a stunning rainbow and pierced towards the crimson-gold light membrane, but it was like a mud ox entering the sea, only stirring up a ripple.

With a roar of rage, the demonic flames around him burned to their peak, transforming into a blood-red meteor that crashed into the enemy.

"boom!"

With a muffled thud, Crimson Flame was sent flying back at an even faster speed, spewing out demonic blood and instantly weakening its aura.

“It’s not space…it’s the ‘Abyss of Will’!” Yu Xingshui’s voice trembled, tinged with despair. “It…it forged the ‘fragments of its own realm’ from the moment of its demise into a cage! It dragged the Pavilion Master…into the Soul Abyss Rift dominated by its will!”

"The Monkey King has passed away..."

"This is... the Nightmare of the Desolate Realm! The Tomb of Ten Thousand Souls!"

(End of this chapter)