I established the Eternal Immortal Clan by taming beasts.

Lin Che remained silent for a moment, then withdrew his gaze from the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Demon Emperor and returned it to the monster that was slowly disintegrating.

The light in the monster's empty eye sockets was flashing at an increasingly slower frequency.

"It's too far... This puppet can't hold out for that long."

He also knew something about the Fallen Soul Mountain Range.

The Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range is composed of three main ridges: the Iron Spine Mountain Range, the Fallen Soul Mountain Range, and the Crouching Dragon Mountain Range, each corresponding to the territory of one of the three major Nascent Soul Realm forces.

The Fallen Soul Mountain Range is famous for its remnant souls.

Based on the history of that time, the Fallen Soul Mountain Range was the main battlefield between the Great Qian Dynasty and the demon beasts. Countless cultivators and demon beasts died in the battle. After the battle, a large number of yin spirits and beast souls wandered around, accumulating over time and creating that special environment.

If you're looking for a place to find powerful soul beasts, the Fallen Soul Mountain Range is definitely the best choice.

Every mountain ridge and valley there may be a remnant soul that has been sleeping for hundreds or even thousands of years. Over the long years, those souls have been repeatedly washed away by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, either completely dissipating or becoming more solid and resilient than before they were born.

However, the Fallen Soul Mountain Range in the central part of the Southern Region is tens of thousands of miles away from the Fulong Mountain Range in the eastern part of the Southern Region. Even though he is now a Nascent Soul cultivator, it is impossible for him to retrieve the main soul before this puppet collapses.

The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox smiled slightly, a glint of light flashing in her silver-gray pupils: "I naturally considered that. In fact, there is a teleportation array a hundred miles away. This teleportation array can reach the depths of the Fallen Soul Mountain Range, which is also only a hundred miles away from that remnant soul. As long as we are fast enough, we can return before this thing completely collapses." Her voice was not loud, but it carried a kind of composure as if she had already calculated every step, which made Lin Che frown slightly.

Hearing this, Lin Che instinctively felt something was wrong, a sense of unease creeping into his heart.

The other party seemed to have anticipated that he would need this, and had even prepared the location of the teleportation array.

But there really isn't a better solution right now.

Lin Che originally thought that with so many remnant souls here, he would surely be able to find one or two relatively complete and powerful soul beasts that could devour all the remaining remnant souls.

The truth is that most of these soul beasts are incomplete and have weak consciousness; none of them are capable of shouldering great responsibilities.

The most crucial issue is the inability to communicate!

If you can't form a contract with them, everything is in vain.

Those fragments of the soul were like pieces of paper that had been repeatedly torn apart; each piece was too small, too fragmented, and too blurry, and none of them could bear the will of the "main soul."

Lin Che turned to look at the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Demon Emperor, his eyes no longer hesitant: "There's no time to lose, so I'll trouble the Demon Emperor to lead the way."

"No problem."

The two continued their journey one after the other, heading towards Qingfeng Gorge.

Moreover, the teleportation array mentioned by the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox was actually located on the main road at the entrance of Qingfeng Gorge.

He had walked that road many times, the only way connecting the depths of the Fulong Mountains to Chuyang City, and he never imagined that a teleportation array was buried beneath it.

"This is it." The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Demon King stopped on a seemingly ordinary pebble beach, his silvery-white gaze falling on an inconspicuous depression in the ground.

Lin Che looked at the empty road without question and immediately activated the Wind Eye Strike.

A blue light swirled in his eyes, and the energy veins around him appeared before him.

The array patterns that were originally hidden underground are now emerging layer by layer in his field of vision.

The outline of a massive teleportation array was faintly visible on the ground. Although the array patterns were not obvious, some of them were still scattered out.

The Flowing Clouds Domain unfolds.

The drifting clouds, carrying dust, probed downwards layer by layer, clearing away the patterns that had been buried for countless years.

The patterns gradually emerge from the flowing clouds, transforming from blurry traces into clear lines, and from scattered fragments into a complete loop.

Soon, a teleportation array appeared in front of the two of them.

The octagonal base was covered with ancient runes along its edges, and in the center was a fist-sized groove, as if waiting to be filled with something.

"Is this teleportation array still usable?"

"I don't know, but we can give it a try!" The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Demon Emperor pointed to the array's eastern core. "It can be activated once by consuming a fourth-tier spirit beast demon core, and the array can last for an hour."

Lin Che paused, realizing that he had just obtained the demon core of the Burning Sky Crimson Ape and had to use it before he could even enjoy it.

The dark red demon core lay quietly in his sleeve, its surface flowing like embers that had not yet completely cooled, radiating the last warmth of a fourth-tier demon emperor.

But for that monster, the investment was worthwhile!

Without hesitation, Lin Che took out the dark red demon core and placed it into the groove at the center of the array.

The array patterns began to light up.

It started from the point of contact with the demon core, and then spread outwards along the cleared grooves, one after another, piece after piece, illuminating the outline of the entire formation again in the night wind.

As the two stepped into the formation, the space before them began to distort, fold, and recombine.

The distances that were originally fixed in the same world have been rearranged, and the journey of a thousand miles is being compressed into a moment.

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"Damn it, damn it! They're using me as a laborer again!" Qin Yulin muttered under his breath as he flew, glancing around.

She was leisurely studying a third-order array pattern in her studio when she suddenly received news that Burning Bone Pass was about to fall.

At first, she looked completely bewildered: "Are you sure this isn't a joke? Burning Bone Pass can't be defended?"

When she stepped out of the studio, she was dumbfounded.

The Fengxing Chamber of Commerce was empty. She flipped through the communication jade slips and found that the earliest message was from two days ago.

Upon climbing the city wall again, she discovered that not only could it not be defended, but a large number of demonic beasts had already crossed the Burning Bone Pass and were attacking Chuyang City.

Those dark gray figures, like a moving tide, were slowly devouring the earth in the twilight.

After asking a few independent cultivators and learning the details, she was still pondering whether to retreat with the Fang family's main force or break through to Chuyang City to join a disciple when she received a message from Lin Che.

"Help me retrieve that thing I hid in the old cave back then."

Qin Yulin immediately burst into a tirade: "Do I owe the Lin family anything? Humph, I'm not going!"

As a result, Lin Che gave her a promise that she could not refuse: the Lin family would unconditionally provide her with research materials and fully support her breakthrough to the fourth-tier array master.

Blinking, Qin Yulin's face immediately lit up with a smile: "Leave this to me, I'll handle it perfectly!"

At this moment, gazing at the entrance to the secret realm ahead and recalling Lin Che's promise, Qin Yulin felt that the guy wasn't so hateful after all.

The guards from the three families at the entrance to the secret realm have long since disappeared. The cultivators from the He, Cheng, and Liu families who used to stand guard here have either already left or are on their way to leave. No one has the mind to guard a secret realm anymore.

The array before her was designed by her own hand, allowing her to enter the core of the secret realm without any hindrance and retrieve the object born from the secret realm.

Without further delay, recalling the route Lin Che had sent her, she began heading towards Tingfeng Pass.

According to Lin Che, the demonic beasts that breached Tingfeng Pass should have already left, and the land that had been repeatedly turned over by the flames of war was now at its safest.

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Fallen Soul Mountain Range, Melting Soul Abyss.

Looking down from the air, three ring-shaped extinct volcanoes enclose a closed valley. From the air, the three dark brown ridges look like the fingers of a giant interlocked, leaving only a narrow gap less than two people wide to enter.

The rock walls on both sides of the fissure are as smooth as a mirror. They are black glassy rocks formed by melting at some high temperature and then cooling. They emit a faint residual heat all year round. Even in the night wind, you can feel the heat seeping from the depths of the rock walls, like embers that have not yet been extinguished.

A very faint gray mist covered the valley. It was not water vapor, but the faint spiritual energy left in the air after the earth fire had burned for hundreds of years. Cultivators would feel a burning pain in their lungs if they inhaled it, as if they were swallowing tiny sparks with every breath.

"This is it. Master Lin, you must have sensed that remnant soul too, right?"

Lin Che nodded slightly.

His divine sense had already penetrated into the valley shrouded in gray mist before his eyes could see it.

Passing through the rock layers repeatedly scorched by the subterranean fire, passing through the embers of spiritual light settled by the years, it landed on a silent entity in the deepest part of the valley.

The aura of that soul was completely different from those he had seen in the Blood Fiend Soul Refining Array.

It possesses consciousness, a resilient soul, a terrifying obsession, and an extremely pure fighting spirit, making it hundreds or thousands of times stronger than the remnant souls gathered by the formation.

That fighting spirit was like iron that had been repeatedly forged. Over a long period of time, it not only did not wear down, but became purer and purer, like a sword that had been sealed for hundreds of years, slowly revealing its sharpness from its sheath.

Using it as the main soul is the most suitable choice.

Just as he was about to land, Lin Che, who was continuously operating the eye of the storm, noticed something was wrong.

A series of array patterns enveloped the valley.

The array patterns stretched from the edge of the valley all the way to the bottom, layer upon layer, like a repeatedly woven net, enveloping the entire valley in an invisible confinement.

Those array patterns did not belong to any of the sealing techniques he had ever seen. The direction of each pattern was more ancient and heavier than that of ordinary arrays, like a chain that had been worn for hundreds of years but had never been replaced, with each link engraved with the emblem of the same dynasty.

Although he hadn't studied formations very deeply, he still had some basic knowledge and could tell at a glance that it was a sealing formation.

Moreover, its grade is extremely high, far beyond what ordinary Golden Core or Nascent Soul cultivators can set up.

In other words, the thing below was sealed here, and it was sealed here with extremely high standards and with great effort.

Faced with Lin Che's questioning gaze, the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Demon Emperor did not hesitate: "This demon soul was indeed sealed here, and the person who sealed it was the Great Qian Dynasty."

"This demonic beast was once the overlord of the Fallen Soul Mountain Range, at the peak of the fourth rank, only half a step away from the fifth rank. When the Great Qian Dynasty pacified the Southern Region, it blocked the marching route and fought to the death. In the end, it took a lot of effort to be surrounded and killed by the Great Qian Dynasty's army. However, its remnant soul refused to dissipate after death, and its fighting spirit was even more intense than when it was alive. In order to intimidate the demonic beasts in the Southern Region, the Great Qian Dynasty chose to seal it, trapping it at the bottom of this valley sealed by earth fire, and letting it be repeatedly burned by high temperature in order to shake the morale of the demonic beasts in the Southern Region."

Although Lin Che was focused on the puppet at the moment, he still couldn't stop thinking about the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox and the others' purpose.

Now, seeing this formation and learning its origins, Lin Che finally had some deductions in his mind: "What you're after isn't the Southern Region; your target is the Great Qian Dynasty?"

A hint of surprise appeared on the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox's usually composed face.

She hadn't expected Lin Che to be so perceptive, deducing their true target based solely on a sealing formation.

However, this was indeed their target. Even if she didn't say it, the Venerable One would discuss it with him later, so he simply didn't hide it: "That's right, our target is the Great Qian Dynasty. Once this formation is broken, they might target us. Master Lin, do you still dare to continue breaking the formation?"

"Heh!" Lin Che chuckled calmly, his eyes showing no hesitation. "What's there to be afraid of?"

A long spear appeared in Lin Che's hand. The spear shaft was slender, and the tip gleamed with a cold, bluish light in the dim light of the valley.

Lin Che didn't say anything more. He raised the gun in his hand, then leaped off the edge of the crevice, transforming into a streak of azure light, and pierced straight towards the core of the sealing formation at the bottom of the valley.

The spear left a long, thin blue trail in the night wind, like a lightning bolt compressed to its limit, weaving, rushing, and coalescing among the ancient array patterns.

In fact, many years ago, he had a thought, a vision, and a grand ambition in his heart.

However, the Great Qian Dynasty remained an obstacle if they wanted to realize that grand ambition.

Since we share the same goal, there's nothing wrong with cooperating with them!

That monster was the trump card he had to obtain, and breaking this seal was merely laying the first piece on a much larger chessboard.

The spear tip pierced the center of the formation.

The golden array patterns exploded at the same moment, like a defensive mechanism being triggered, spreading outwards from the bottom of the valley, activating, lighting up, and releasing the sealed runes that had been dormant for hundreds of years.

The ancient patterns carved deep into the rock face awoke from their slumber, and golden light, like a lit fuse, spread forward along the repeatedly carved grooves, enveloping the entire valley in a sense of impending explosion.

However, those array patterns had developed fine cracks after being scorched by the earth's fire for thousands of years.

The cracks, like the fissures on the surface of iron that has been repeatedly heated and cooled, have penetrated deep into the base of the array, causing countless stagnations and interruptions in the operation of the entire sealing array. It is like a wooden bridge that has been eaten by insects for hundreds of years, still intact on the surface, but already broken inside.

The Flowing Clouds domain unfolded simultaneously.

The wind and dust exploded at the bottom of the valley, swirling up, scattering, and blowing the sand and gravel bound by the array patterns in all directions, revealing the base of the array that had been repeatedly repaired and then repeatedly scorched and cracked.

The cracks spread outwards layer by layer, deepening and breaking apart, blowing away more dust and revealing more fissures on the originally smooth, mirror-like surface of the base.

The entire valley trembled slightly, and fine cracks appeared on the surface of the black, glassy rocks. Heat from the subterranean fire surged out from the cracks, turning into wisps of white smoke rising into the air, as if this furnace, which had been dormant for countless years, was slowly awakening.

As the attack landed, the array's light began to flicker intensely.

The ancient array patterns began to crumble from the edges, peeling off, breaking, and extinguishing piece by piece.

In an instant, the fourth-tier top-grade sealing array dissipated into the mist and ash, revealing the entrance to the rift below.