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Chapter 105 Strange Fire

Deep within the Crimson Fire Mine, the Earthly Fiend Fire Pool churns and boils, its scorching heat waves baking the surrounding rock walls until they turn a deep red.

In the center of the fire pit grew a Sacred Heart Lotus, emitting a strange and refreshing fragrance. Within the lotus seedpod, several crystal-clear lotus seeds were faintly visible.

"Form the formation!" Without wasting words with True Person Lonely Moon, the Black Spider Dharma King gave the order directly.

The five ghosts of Tianshui quickly dispersed to five different locations, and simultaneously spat out a mouthful of blood essence.

In an instant, countless black spider silks intertwined with mournful ghostly howls, transforming into an extremely ferocious and deadly formation, trapping Master Guyue firmly in the center of the formation.

The formation was filled with malevolent energy, attempting to refine it with boundless, insidious power.

Despite being surrounded and attacked by six experts, Master Guyue remained completely calm.

"break!"

Master Guyue let out a cold shout and unleashed his inner power without reservation.

An extremely domineering Taiyin divine light erupted from her body like a geyser, and the dark blue, extremely cold light pillar transformed into a giant sword that cleaved the heavens and earth, tearing a huge gap in the fierce and deadly formation.

She moved with lightning speed, instantly appearing in the center of the fire pool through the gap, and reached out her jade-like right hand to grab the Sacred Heart Lotus Seed.

However, just as his fingertips were about to touch the lotus seedpod, Master Guyue's expression changed slightly.

She keenly sensed that the Sacred Heart Lotus Seed was not fully mature.

If the lotus seed is forcibly removed from the fire pool below, the life force within it will be completely lost within a few breaths, rendering it utterly useless.

The reason why the Sacred Heart Lotus Seed can survive in this fiery place is entirely due to the nourishment of the dark green strange fire that entwines its roots.

Seizing an opportunity is like fighting against fate; there is no room for hesitation.

Master Guyue steeled his heart, and his palm surged with magical power, transforming into a giant ice crystal handprint that uprooted the ghostly green flame and the entire Sacred Heart Lotus in one fell swoop!

The moment the strange fire broke free from the earth's veins, a sudden change occurred.

This extraordinary fire of heaven and earth had already nurtured a trace of violent spirituality.

Feeling restrained, it immediately erupted into a violent rampage like a mad beast, its eerie green flames retaliating wildly, attempting to incinerate everything.

The first to be affected was that delicate and not yet fully mature Sacred Heart Lotus.

"Damn it!" Master Guyue cursed inwardly.

In order to prevent this rare treasure from being destroyed by the strange fire itself, she disregarded the powerful enemies surrounding her and was forced to pour most of her supernatural powers and magic into her hands, using the ultimate Taiyin divine light to wrap, seal, and suppress this raging strange fire layer upon layer.

"Hahaha! Lonely Moon, you've brought this upon yourself!"

The Black Spider King was incredibly shrewd; he saw through Lonely Moon Immortal's predicament at a glance.

In order to seize the lotus seeds, she had already focused most of her power on that strange fire, and this was the moment when she was at her weakest and most vulnerable!

"Do it! Kill her!"

With a fierce roar, the Black Spider King swung his hands, and two jet-black spider spears formed from highly poisonous true essence tore through the air and pierced straight at the face of the Lone Moon True Man.

At the same time, the Five Ghosts of Tianshui seized the opportunity and activated the great formation again, sending countless ghostly claws sweeping towards Gu Yue Zhenren to kill him.

With one hand holding the frozen strange fire and lotus, Master Guyue could only use one hand to deal with the situation hastily.

Because most of her magical power was used to suppress the strange fire, the power of her proud Taiyin Divine Light was greatly reduced.

Faced with the Black Spider King's extremely vicious attacks and the Five Ghosts' harassment from the side, she could only try her best to maintain the seal of the strange fire while dodging and blocking in a sorry state.

"Bang!"

A ghostly claw grazed her shoulder, shattering her protective aura. Her spotless white robe was instantly torn open, revealing a trickle of blood.

"We succeeded!"

Upon seeing this, the black-faced ghost controlling the ghost claws revealed an uncontrollable surge of ecstasy on his sinister face. Master Guyue was a Grand Cultivator at the peak of Foundation Establishment; to personally injure such a being, even with most of his power currently restrained by the strange fire, was enough for him to boast about for half his life within the Wusheng Sect.

If we can take advantage of the situation to kill him and seize the Sacred Heart Lotus Seed, the sect leader will surely bestow a huge reward upon us.

However, this greedy joy, before it could fully spread in his eyes, froze completely.

Although Master Guyue was injured, there was no panic in his cold eyes, only extreme coldness and killing intent.

Instead of retreating, her free left hand advanced, moving with seemingly effortless yet incredibly fast fingers like a sword, pointing out a point in the air.

There were no earth-shattering light and shadow phenomena, only an extremely restrained gray-white finger beam, as if it were nothing, instantly pierced through the black-faced ghost's proud protective black light, and went straight for his heart.

A suffocating sense of impending death instantly enveloped the black-faced ghost.

The ecstasy on his face instantly turned into extreme terror. His fighting instincts, honed from years of walking the line between life and death, made him let out a shrill scream in the blink of an eye, and with all his might, he twisted his body violently to the side.

"Pfft!"

Blood spurted out. Although the fatal finger had avoided the heart, it had pierced through his right chest, leaving a gaping, bloody hole.

The extremely domineering and insidious finger force raged wildly within his body. The black-faced ghost was struck as if by lightning, blood gushing from his mouth. His entire body flew out like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily onto the scorching hot rock wall.

He convulsed a few times, his breath instantly weakened to the extreme, his meridians were severely damaged, and he completely lost the ability to fight.

"Mysterious Heaven Finger!"

Upon seeing this, the Black Spider King, who was about to deliver a fatal blow not far away, suddenly constricted his pupils and couldn't help but cry out in alarm.

He stared intently at Master Guyue's slender, pale finger, his heart churning with turmoil. This ruthless and domineering supernatural power, which disregarded protective spiritual light, was clearly one of the signature techniques of Master Xu, the former abbot of Xuantian Temple!

If he had been the one to take that finger strike head-on, he probably would have suffered a great loss as well.

As the Black-Faced Ghost collapsed from his severe injuries, a fatal gap instantly appeared in the once airtight and ever-renewing formation set up by the Five Ghosts of Tianshui.

Drawn by the energy, the other four ghosts groaned as they suffered a backlash from the broken formation. The black net that had sealed off the heavens and earth and the mournful howls of the ghosts were momentarily halted.

Master Guyue had no intention of pressing his advantage, as he was still suppressing the strange fire that could erupt at any moment and the Sacred Heart Lotus Seed that was not yet completely stable.

Taking advantage of the moment when the formation paused, she pushed the last remaining mana in her body to its limit, and her whole body instantly transformed into an extremely dazzling stream of dark blue light.

With a sharp "whoosh".

Like a sharp blade tearing through the night, the stream of light burst forth through the gap in the collapsed formation. With incredible speed, it broke through the encirclement of the Black Spider King and the others in the blink of an eye and sped towards the outer edge of the mine.

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Outside another hidden exit of the Crimson Fire Mine, Xia Dong and Pei Hongling were lying in wait quietly among the rocks.

Suddenly, a streak of dark blue light tore through the darkness, carrying with it a slightly chaotic aura of extreme cold. Like a shooting star, it sped out from the depths of the mine and landed steadily in front of the two.

As the light faded, the aloof figure of the Lone Moon Immortal was revealed.

Master Guyue found her precisely by sensing Pei Hongling's aura.

"Walk."

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There was no time for any further explanation; Gu Yue Zhenren's voice was filled with an undeniable urgency.

Without even glancing at her expectant apprentice Pei Hongling, she reached out her left hand and grabbed Xia Dong's shoulder tightly.

Xia Dong felt an irresistible, immense force locking onto him.

His mind raced, and he rationally suppressed his physical urge to retaliate, allowing the other party to grab him without offering any resistance.

He knew perfectly well that struggling in front of a Grandmaster who had reached the Foundation Establishment stage was pointless; obedience was the safest way to save his life at the moment.

In that brief moment of close proximity after being captured, Xia Dong, with his exceptionally keen eyesight at the Transcendent Realm, clearly saw the tear on Gu Yue Zhenren's left shoulder and the crimson bloodstains that stained his white robes.

Xia Dong was immediately horrified.

Master Guyue was a great cultivator who was only one step away from forming the core. He still vividly remembered the arrogant and powerful demeanor of her when she broke the formation earlier. Just what kind of terrifying enemy was she that could injure her in such a short time?

Master Guyue acts with extreme decisiveness and pragmatism.

In the moment she weighed the pros and cons, Pei Hongling, her disciple, was nothing more than an outlying pawn that could be discarded at any time; Xia Dong, on the other hand, was different. He possessed a Daoist certificate, and after giving birth to a child with spiritual roots, he could use this to obtain an ascension order from the imperial court. Moreover, she still owed him a favor.

Such a key figure should never be left in such a dangerous place where he could lose his life at any moment.

She slapped her storage pouch at her waist with one hand, and a delicate wooden boat the size of a palm shot out. The boat expanded in the wind, instantly transforming into a streamlined magic boat several meters long.

Master Guyue, carrying Xia Dong, leaped lightly aboard. The stern of the magic boat instantly spewed out dazzling array light, completely ignoring Pei Hongling, and transformed into a swift rainbow, rising from the ground and soaring into the sky.

Just moments after the Dharma Boat left the ground, a loud "boom" resounded, and the hard rocks at the exit shattered, sending debris flying through the air.

The Black Spider King, along with the remaining four Heavenly Water Demons, surged forth from the ground, enveloped in a dense aura of malevolent energy.

The Black Spider King's sinister eyes swept across the surroundings in an instant, immediately locking onto the eerie blue light in the sky that was about to disappear into the night.

"Chase after them!"

With a fierce roar, the Black Spider King unleashed a cloud of pitch-black, blood-red wind beneath his feet. The four ghosts followed closely behind, each unleashing their most prized magical treasures. The group transformed into several streaks of malevolent black light, relentlessly pursuing the trail of spiritual energy left behind by the magical boat.

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