This celestial master cultivates both physical and magical arts; why did you provoke him?

Late that night, at the underground palace in the eastern suburbs.

The archaeological team has been urgently evacuated by Chen Guodong.

Three layers of police tape were set up at the scene, and heavily armed special police officers guarded each intersection.

But everyone knows that if that thing underground really comes out, these warning lines and bullets won't even be able to stop it for a second.

Xia En stood at the entrance of the underground palace and looked down.

The underground palace was huge, bigger than any other underground space he had ever been to before.

The dome is very high, at least twenty meters high, and the four walls are made of polished bluestone slabs, which are covered with runes.

Those runes, like those on the tower, are legitimate Taoist runes, but their colors have faded and in many places they have even peeled off.

In the very center of the underground palace was that crystal coffin.

The woman in the coffin lay quietly, her face serene, as if she were having a long dream.

Shen Ye stood beside the coffin, looking down at that familiar face, his eyes reddening.

"Xiaoyue..."

His voice was very soft, as if he didn't want to wake her, "Brother is here."

Xia En walked to the coffin and carefully examined the runes.

"Her soul is still here."

He said, "But it's very weak, suppressed and sealed."

Shen Ye looked up: "Can you save her?"

Xia En was silent for a few seconds, then took out the three golden talismans from his pocket.

"able."

He said, "But I need your cooperation."

"How do I do it?"

Xia En affixed a gold talisman to the left side of the coffin, a gold talisman to the right side, and a gold talisman to the coffin lid.

"I will use a talisman to temporarily open a gap in the seal and draw out her soul. The moment her soul emerges, you must pull her out."

Shen Ye nodded.

"But there's a problem."

Shane said, "Once the seal is broken, the thing below will sense it. It will rush upwards. I need to reseal it before it rushes up."

How much time do you have?

Xia En thought for a moment: "About three minutes."

Fang Zijian gasped in shock.

Three minutes?

Summon the soul, pull the person out, and then seal the ancient evil back in?

How is that possible?

But Shane's expression remained calm.

"Are you ready?" he asked Shen Ye.

Shen Ye took a deep breath and nodded.

"Ready."

Xia En took a step back and formed a hand seal.

"Thunder Magic - Rune Array Activated"

The three golden talismans lit up at the same time.

The golden light was dazzling, illuminating the entire underground palace.

The dim runes were activated by the golden light and lit up again, with golden light flowing across the four walls like golden snakes.

The coffin lid began to shake.

"Gagaga!!!"

The lid of the crystal coffin slowly slid open, and a thick white vapor billowed out of the coffin.

The white vapor was icy cold and piercing, permeating the air like a winter morning mist.

Shen Yue's body began to glow.

It wasn't golden light, it was silvery-white light.

It's the exact same color as Shen Ye's eye.

Silver light emanated from her forehead, coalescing into a faint human figure in the air.

She was a girl, about fifteen or sixteen years old, with pigtails and big, bright eyes.

It looks exactly like the photo.

Her soul.

"Xiaoyue!" Shen Ye reached out his hand.

The soul opened its eyes, saw Shen Ye, and smiled.

"elder brother……"

That "Brother" was as light as the wind, yet as heavy as a mountain.

Shen Ye's tears finally fell.

He reached out, trying to grab the soul!

Just then, a loud noise came from deep underground.

"boom--!!!"

The entire underground palace was trembling.

The ground cracked open, and rubble fell from the dome.

Thick black gas billowed from the crack, emitting a pungent, fishy stench, exactly like the thing they had encountered in the eastern suburbs before.

But it's much bigger than that.

Ten times bigger, a hundred times bigger.

Fang Zijian's face turned deathly pale: "It's here! It's here! It's here!"

Xia En didn't move.

He stood there, looking at the crack, his expression calm.

"continue."

He said, "Pull her out."

Shen Ye gritted his teeth and reached out to grab the soul's hand.

The soul's hands were cold, but they truly existed.

He pulled hard!

The soul floated out of the coffin and landed in Shen Ye's arms.

"Brother..." her voice was soft and weak, "I'm so scared..."

"Don't be afraid." Shen Ye hugged her tightly. "I'm here."

Just then, the crack suddenly burst open.

"BOOM—!!!"

A huge claw emerged from the crack.

That claw was bigger than the entire body of the previous "black snake".

Covered in jet-black scales, its fingernails are like giant scimitars, each fingernail longer than a person.

Thick black energy swirled around its claws, within which countless distorted faces could be vaguely seen, roaring silently.

The temperature inside the underground palace plummeted below freezing.

Fang Zijian was shivering from the cold, and his teeth were chattering.

Liu Ruyan's face turned pale, but she gritted her teeth and did not back down.

Cuihua lingered in the corner, trembling all over, but she didn't run away.

Xia En looked at the claw and took a deep breath.

Then he took out the stack of talismans from his pocket.

It wasn't the three gold ones, but the ordinary ones of over a hundred.

He tossed the talisman into the air.

More than a hundred talismans floated in the air like snowflakes, emitting golden, red, blue, and purple light.

The interplay of various colored lights illuminated the entire underground palace as if it were daytime.

"Talisman Array - All Talismans Return to Their Origin"

Xia En formed hand seals, and magical power surged from his body.

The more than one hundred talismans were activated simultaneously, arranging themselves into a huge magic array in the air.

The magic circle slowly rotated, each talisman glowed, and each rune flowed.

The enormous claw touched the edge of the magic circle, and then abruptly retracted as if it had been burned.

"hiss--!!!"

An angry roar came from underground, shaking the entire underground palace.

But the magic circle only swayed; it did not collapse.

Fang Zijian stared at the enormous magic array, his mouth agape enough to fit a fist.

More than a hundred talismans were activated simultaneously and arranged in an array!

Is this something a human could do?

"Don't just stand there."

Xia En's voice came from ahead, calm as if he were directing traffic, "Take her out."

Holding Shen Yue's soul, Shen Ye gritted his teeth and ran outside.

Fang Zijian and Liu Ruyan also ran outside.

The female ghost Cuihua floated at the front, leading the way.

When he reached the entrance to the underground palace, Fang Zijian looked back.

Xia En stood in the center of the magic circle, surrounded by a light array composed of more than a hundred talismans.

His figure was surrounded by lights of various colors, as if he were standing in the center of a rainbow.

The enormous claw was still struggling outside the magic circle, the black energy and light colliding and making a "sizzling" sound.

Xia En took out the three golden talismans from his pocket.

"Planetary Devastation"

He said in a low voice.

He tossed the first golden talisman into the air.

The talisman flew to the very center of the magic circle, hovered in mid-air, and emitted a dazzling golden light.

"First layer, sealing."

The golden light exploded, transforming into countless golden chains that bound the enormous claw from all directions.

The chains tightened, fixing the claws firmly in place, unable to move.

An even more furious roar came from underground.

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