Cultivating Immortals in Two Realms, I Possessed the Primordial Thunder Vine

Chapter 16 The Three-Lacking Taoist

Fortunately, the Demon-Slaying Thunder Sword transformed into a golden bolt of lightning, which dissipated all malevolent energy and resentment wherever it passed, preventing external evils from invading and ensuring safety.

After passing through the first nine levels of the Cave of Sin, we ventured deeper into the even more terrifying Shadow Prison, a place where even the guards were said to avoid venturing.

"Finally found it!"

The cells in the Shadow Prison below seemed to have been neglected for a long time, covered in dust. Compared to the overcrowded state of the Sinister Cave, the number of people imprisoned below was not large.

After all, the entire Xu family only has one Purple Mansion Venerable, and capturing a Foundation Establishment cultivator is no easy task.

Immediately, Xu Changyun's soul attached itself to the Demon-Slaying Thunder Sword and stopped outside the prison of a strangely shaped Taoist priest.

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"Elder Tianyang said that the guys imprisoned in the Shadow Prison are all vicious and ruthless."

Xu Changjun calmed himself down and looked at the old Taoist priest who was imprisoned in the cell in front of him.

Compared to the imposing Taoist priests Xu Changjun had encountered before, this one before him was quite strange.

Two enormous iron claws cruelly pierced through his collarbone, pinning him firmly to the ground.

Four or five thick chains were embedded in the wall and connected to the array, forming an almost indestructible cage that trapped him inside.

The person seemed dead, without a sound, hanging there like a rag doll by iron chains. His skin was fair, as delicate as a woman's, but mysterious blood-red patterns spread all over his body, even on his face, from his bald head down, and his eyes were tightly closed.

Moreover, the blood-red patterns seemed to be alive, twisting like snakes and worms, constantly wriggling on the surface of the fair skin, until they covered the entire body, both the torso and the limbs, completely enveloped by these thick patterns.

It looked as if someone had painted an extremely complex and obscure picture on it.

"These runes seem to have come alive, like human blood?"

Suddenly, a thought popped into Xu Changjun's mind, prompting him to activate his divine sense and slowly touch the patterns before him.

Xu Changjun suddenly felt a darkness, and a thick sea of ​​blood rushed towards him. The entire world before him seemed to have turned into a surging ocean of blood. In the high-rolling waves, a huge blood-red giant walked through the air and roared as it charged forward.

Xu Changjun felt the world darken, and he seemed to be pulled into a sea of ​​blood. Tall and fierce blood giants charged at him, as if they would devour him in the next second.

Click!

Just as the blood giant's hand was about to cover it, a golden bolt of lightning tore through the space, like a golden divine spear, and pierced directly into the blood giant's chest, pinning it to death in the ocean amidst its angry and unwilling roar.

call!

In the prison, Xu Changjun suddenly opened his eyes. He had no physical form; he was merely in a state of astral projection, attached to the Demon-Slaying Thunder Sword.

However, the terrifying and distorted scene was so realistic that it caused the original body, who was far away in the fifth level of the prison, to suddenly open its eyes. A chill rose from its back and went straight to its neck, and its forehead was covered with cold sweat.

Clearly, his soul was startled and awed by the bizarre scene just now, and returned to his physical body.

He was just a hair's breadth away from being killed by the Blood Giant.

"No wonder they say Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators are unpredictable and cunning; such methods are truly impossible to guard against."

It seemed like it all happened in an instant, giving one a sense of unreality, like waking from a dream. But Xu Changjun knew that if he had really been killed by that blood giant, his soul would have sunk into the sea of ​​blood and become a plaything manipulated by others.

Even if they miraculously survive, part of their soul will likely be devoured, their foundation damaged, and their path to immortality ruined.

Even more terrifying is that when one's soul is controlled, the body naturally becomes the other party's puppet, leaving one unable to live or die.

I almost suffered a major setback.

Peak Qi Refining cultivators and Foundation Establishment cultivators are indeed not on the same level.

Their strength and methods are worlds apart, a vast difference!

"The sword embryo sacrificial ritual must be completed!"

Xu Changjun took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart, and released his divine soul again, attaching it to the Demon-Slaying Divine Thunder Sword. He no longer dared to let his curiosity run wild.

"Huh? You actually managed to escape."

The Blood Curse Taoist, who had been chained to his collarbone and hung in the room with his eyes closed and motionless as if he had been dead for a long time, suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes filled with vicissitudes.

But deep within his eyes lurked cunning and a sinister intent. Clearly, Xu Changjun's act of probing the blood patterns was not intentional on his part, but rather he was influenced by them.

"I told you, you couldn't do it alone, but you insisted on trying. Now you've let the duck that was about to be caught slip away. What a disheartening situation."

"It seems the Xu family has a successor? Not old, but bold. With only Qi Refining cultivation, he dares to come to the tenth underground level and even dares to use his divine soul to probe the Blood Curse Daoist among our Three Missing Daoists."

"Hahaha, don't you know? The blood curse on this old rabbit is specifically designed to break all mystical cultivation techniques. Not to mention juniors in the Qi Refining stage, even Foundation Establishment stage cultivators will have a layer of skin scraped off if they fall for it."

As two other somewhat gloating voices rang out, Xu Changjun realized that the prison did not only hold the Blood Curse Taoist who used human blood to carve his entire body.

The entire area was divided into three prison cells. In addition to the Blood Curse Taoist, the other two cells also held people, who were similarly imprisoned with iron hooks and claws piercing their collarbones, and were suspended by thick chains connected to the array walls.

One of them was tall and ugly, but his chest glowed with a red light, as if something alive was trying to crawl out—it was a violently beating heart.

In addition, there was another person with an ordinary appearance who could not be distinguished from others in a crowd, but he had two eerie pupils, one silver and one gold, which shone brightly in the darkness, making him extremely eerie.

"The Three-Lacking Taoist?!"

"Blood Curse Daoist, Demon Heart Daoist, and Demon Eye Daoist... it seems I've found the right targets..."

Since Xu Changjun dared to come to Zhenyu to find his target, he certainly didn't come empty-handed; he had already investigated the specific information and intelligence.

He knew that twenty years ago, three demonic cultivators caused a great disturbance at Cloud Cave Lake, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of rogue cultivators and the blood sacrifice of 100,000 mortals.

This incident successfully angered the three major forces, to the point that Xu Weichao, the patriarch of the Xu family's Purple Mansion, personally took charge, and the three families mobilized a total of ten Foundation Establishment cultivators and hundreds of Qi Refining cultivators.

It is said that the entire sky above Cloud Cave Lake was filled with cultivators shuttling back and forth that day, an unprecedented spectacle.

It took the combined strength of the three families to suppress these three demonic cultivators. They were ostensibly executed, but unexpectedly, they were imprisoned in the Shadow Prison on the tenth level of the Xu Family Town Prison. Their collarbones were locked, and they were subjected to severe torture, yet they were still alive.

(End of this chapter)