Many children, many blessings; the twelve ancestral witches forced marriages throughout the primordi

Lin Xuan closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

The remains of the Qiongqi were below. He had already seen its entirety.

What we need to do now is to suppress it completely.

"System, how long can I suppress this thing using the Chaos Pearl?"

"Ding! Based on the current amount of malevolent energy accumulated in the Qiongqi remains, the Chaos Pearl can suppress it for about three months at full power. After three months, the accumulated malevolent energy will exceed the Chaos Pearl's suppression limit. At that time, the host will need to find another way."

Three months.

enough.

Lin Xuan pressed the Chaos Pearl onto the base of the stone pillar.

Black, chaotic energy surged from the bead, flowing down the stone pillar.

When it reached the bottom of the abyss, the chaotic energy spread out like a large net, tightly covering the remains of Qiongqi.

The moment Qiongqi's skeleton was covered by chaotic energy, the dark red, ferocious aura churned violently.

The chains on the stone pillar lit up.

Su Nu's body trembled violently.

She gritted her teeth and raised her voice by half a key.

Lin Xuan quickly increased his output.

The concentration of chaotic energy has doubled.

The malevolent aura emanating from the remains of the Qiongqi was suppressed.

The stirring frequency slowed down, and eventually became a faint pulsation.

It was like a wild beast having its head pinned down; it was still struggling, but it couldn't break free.

Lin Xuan breathed a sigh of relief.

He freed one hand and began to carve array patterns on the base of the stone pillar.

The laws of the array are in operation.

Gray veins flowed from his fingertips, embedding themselves one by one into the cracks on the surface of the stone pillar.

To put it bluntly, what he was doing was changing the lock on Qiongqi's "cell".

The original lock belonged to Su Nu.

Zhunti bound Su Nu's life to the formation, using her Daoist voice as the key.

Now Lin Xuan wants to replace this key with the Chaos Pearl.

Let the Chaos Pearl replace the Plain Maiden as the energy core of the array.

This process is much more complicated than you might imagine.

The karmic imprint of Cundi is like a plaster stuck to the intersection of every array pattern, impossible to remove.

Lin Xuan remained steadfast.

He went around it.

A new channel was drawn next to the existing array patterns, allowing energy to travel from the Chaos Pearl to the array eye via the new path, thus suspending the old path.

The old road is still there, the marks are still there, but we won't walk that road anymore.

The lock you've been holding is still hanging on the door, but the door is no longer in use.

I opened a new door.

What's wrong?

As Lin Xuan drew, he mentally gave himself a thumbs up.

That was a perfect move.

The array patterns unfolded one by one.

After drawing each line, Lin Xuan would stop and check it to ensure that the energy transmission efficiency of the new channel was no less than that of the old channel.

After all, this thing is suppressing the remains of a quasi-saint level ferocious beast.

Even a 10% drop in energy supply efficiency could allow Qiongqi to take advantage of the situation.

Time passed by, second by second.

Su Nu's singing continued.

She didn't know what Lin Xuan was doing, but she could feel that the pressure on the stone pillar was gradually decreasing.

The suction force the chains exerted on her was weakening.

Her rate of Daoist energy depletion is decreasing.

She dared not stop, but she could breathe.

After each verse, you can take an extra breath.

Lin Xuan squatted beside the stone pillar, fine beads of sweat appearing on his forehead.

Rewriting such a meticulously crafted formation is far more tiring than fighting.

Fighting relies on brute force and explosive power.

Changing formations requires both intellect and patience.

He's smart enough, but his patience is average.

Fortunately, he has a system.

The system acts as a real-time navigator, clearly marking which array pattern is off by half a point and which node has an error of a fraction of a second in energy transmission.

About 15 minutes later.

Lin Xuan finished drawing the last array pattern.

All new access routes are in place.

The energy of the Chaos Pearl flowed into the array eye along the new channel, and its energy supply efficiency was 30% higher than that of Su Nu's Dao sound.

"alright."

Lin Xuan stood up and stretched his numb legs.

He looked at Su Nu.

"You can stop now."

Su Nu was stunned for a moment.

Her lips were still moving, and the singing was still being squeezed out of her throat.

She couldn't believe it.

Tens of thousands of years.

Every time she tried to stop, even for a moment, the ferocity beneath her would retaliate.

Now this man is telling her she can stop?

"You really can stop." Lin Xuan looked into her eyes. "I've already replaced the power core of the array with the Chaos Pearl. Your singing is no longer a necessary condition for the array to operate."

Su Nu's lips trembled slightly.

She tried to lower her voice.

It's gone down.

The remains of the Qiongqi below showed no unusual activity.

She lowered it a little more.

There was still no unusual activity.

Her singing grew softer and softer.

finally--

Stopped.

The cave became quiet.

Only the sound of the Luo River flowing outside could be heard.

Su Nu waited for three breaths, five breaths, ten breaths.

The remains of Qiongqi lay quietly at the bottom of the abyss, enveloped by a thick blanket of chaotic energy, remaining motionless.

She really can stop now.

Tens of thousands of years.

She can finally stop singing.

Su Nu's eyes reddened.

She opened her mouth, as if to say something, but her voice was so hoarse that she couldn't utter a complete sentence.

Tears welled up in her light gray pupils and streamed silently down her cheeks.

Her hands were still chained, so she couldn't even wipe them.

"Don't cry." Lin Xuan walked over. "The chains haven't been unlocked yet, let's take care of this first."

He looked down and examined the dark red chain on Su Nu's wrist.

The causal imprint of Cundi is embedded in every link.

Forcibly dismantling it would damage Su Nu's lifeline.

But now Su Nu is no longer the core power source of the array.

Although the life bond between her and the formation was still there, it had become one-way—the formation no longer absorbed her power; the connection was only nominal.

It's like a plug still in the socket, but the power is off.

Lin Xuan used the laws of array formation to find a gap in the chains.

A very minor flaw left over from the arrangement of the Zhunti formation.

Perhaps because Zhunti believed that this formation would never be found, he did not perfect certain details.

Lin Xuan condensed the array's laws into a needle thinner than a hair and pierced it through the gap.

"Click."

The first link of the chain broke.

Su Nu's left wrist slipped out of the chain.

The dark red scars were shocking, deeply embedded in the flesh, marks left by tens of thousands of years of wear.

Lin Xuan frowned and continued disassembling the second and third rings.

With each link removed, Su Nu's body felt lighter.

As the last chain slipped from her ankle, Su Nu's body fell forward.

Her legs could no longer support her weight.

Having been tethered to the stone pillar for tens of thousands of years, the veins in its legs had long since atrophied.

Lin Xuan caught her.

Su Nu's body was incredibly light.

He's so thin he's practically skin and bones.

She leaned against Lin Xuan's chest, tears streaming down her face.

It's not because of pain.

It was because she was finally rescued.

Tens of thousands of years of despair, tens of thousands of years of loneliness, tens of thousands of years of ceaseless singing.

At that moment, it all turned into tears.

Lin Xuan didn't say anything and let her cry for a while.

He supported her back with one hand, and with the other hand, he channeled a bit of the life force of the wood element into her back.

This was to prevent her from fainting due to her physical weakness.

Outside the cave, Lin Tian and the others looked at each other in bewilderment when they heard the silence inside.

Lin Tian listened intently for a long time.

"Why did you stop singing?"

Gonggong was also listening.

"The formation is still operating... but the power source has changed. It's no longer singing. It's the Chaos Pearl."

Gonggong's expression changed from solemn to shocked, and then from shocked to convinced.

"I'm speechless at your thirteenth brother's brain."

Lin Tian muttered something under his breath.

"You're convinced my dad's brains are good? Where were you all this time?"

Gonggong glared at him.

"What are you saying?"

"truth."

Lin Yang came closer, still clutching a ball of True Solar Fire in his hand.

"Is the woman inside still alive?"

"Live," Gonggong said.

"That's good." Lin Yang breathed a sigh of relief and extinguished the fire in his hand. "I almost rushed in just now—if my older brother hadn't stopped me."

Lin Tian rolled his eyes.

"Stopping you is to protect you. Your father is operating a sophisticated formation inside. What if you rush in and set it on fire, destroying the formation?"

Lin Yang remained silent.

Lin Wu, carrying the God-Slaying Spear, yawned to the side.

"Not fighting anymore? Then I'm going back. I'm sleepy."

No one ignored him.

The system notification sounded in Lin Xuan's mind.

"Ding! Su Nu's favorability +40. Current favorability: 40."

Lin Xuan glanced at the white-clad fairy in his arms, who was crying her eyes out.

The ancient god of music, scoring 96 points.

They were trapped for tens of thousands of years.

I'm finally free today.