Villain Master, my disciples all want to backstab me

Then, a turbid shock wave spread out in all directions, tearing the air apart!

"Master! Senior Sister!"

Jiang Rao and Ye Shuang'er shouted, and then they were also swept up in the blood-colored storm, falling towards the surrounding ground, and also smashed several deep pits on the ground!

With their cultivation level, it was already difficult for them to fight against Shentu Jackdaw. Previously, it was only because Bai Yuan and Qing Luo absorbed most of Shentu Jackdaw's firepower that they were not the main targets. Now that Bai and Qing were defeated, the situation was instantly reversed.

"Ah."

As the situation reverses.

Shentu Jackdaw smiled sinisterly as his figure gradually emerged in the blood-colored tornado.

At this moment, he was no longer the shriveled, ugly old man. Instead, his entire body had merged with the blood-red storm. Standing tall, he stood over a kilometer tall, looking like the mythical Law of Heaven and Earth. He exuded a monstrous murderous aura that sent chills down one's spine.

"Is this the best you can do?"

"Unfortunately, it's still too poor and weak, not even enough to satisfy me."

"However, since you performed so diligently, I will personally arrange a funeral for you. If I can turn you into puppets of the 'Thread Pulling Technique'... I'm sure this will add a few more valuable items to my jade slip collection."

talking.

Shentu Jackdaw suddenly raised his arms.

The "Shentu Jackdaw" here refers to the giant who is over a thousand feet tall and looks like the law of heaven and earth.

As this guy fluttered his sleeves, dozens of arms, also formed by a huge number of wronged souls, stretched out from the blood-colored tornado and grabbed Bai Yuan, Qing Luo, Jiang Rao and others.

This action was not done quickly.

Under normal circumstances, several people might be able to dodge it.

But now, each of them was exhausted from the intense battle, and after being struck down from mid-air by the blood-red giant spear, they were already at the end of their strength. So, even though Shentu Jackdaw moved very slowly, he caught them one after another, dragging them from the abyssal pits into the air.

Only Bai Yuan and Qing Luo, even though they were seriously injured, were still much stronger than the others, so they were able to muster up the little spiritual power they had left and try to dodge.

At this moment, Bai Yuan could faintly sense Qingluo's presence, and she began to move abnormally. It seemed that this girl had finally made up her mind and was going to try the "self-destruction" mentioned earlier.

Facing this circumstances.

She could only sigh: "There's nothing I can do..."

Facts have proved that the gap between the transformation of the spirit and the return to the void is still a bit too big.

Although Bai Yuan and Qing Luo were both in the late stage of Spirit Transformation, their combined cultivation was theoretically close to the Return to Void Realm. However, there was obviously still a considerable distance between "close" and "real". Facing Shentu Hanya, a genuine Return to Void Realm, the two were like hitting a wall, and could not defeat him even with their best efforts.

That being the case...

She could only use her last trump card, a card she didn't really want to use.

As mentioned earlier, after leaving the barren mountain, Bai Yuan drew a total of two super-large lucky bags.

From one of the oversized lucky bags, she pulled out the [Taixu Qingyin Bell], which she had already started using since entering the Shentu Family Secret Realm. However, due to the characteristics of the [Qingyin Bell], it was quite useful for clearing out small groups of soldiers, but it was of little use against an enemy like Shentu Jackdaw, whose power level was a realm higher than hers.

The second huge lucky bag that Bai Yuan drew was the "plus" version provided by Little Waste, and what he drew was...

"call……"

Bai Yuan took a deep breath.

Just a thought.

A thin mask that seemed to be made of bronze and had a somewhat ominous aura appeared in her hand:

[Congratulations to the host, you have drawn the Shura Ghost Mask (a bronze mask of unknown material and origin. The surface is slightly rough, as if it was casually refined, but within it is a drop of blood and a wisp of the residual soul of a certain ancient power. After wearing it on the face, you can temporarily gain some of the memories of this ancient power, and use them to use the magical powers cultivated by them in their lifetime.

However, wearing this mask will expose you to the impact of the remnant spirits of ancient powers, and there's a chance you'll be possessed by them. Use with caution! Use with caution!

Chapter 251: White Ancient Kite! Grand Appearance!

That's right.

The thing Bai Yuan pulled out from the second lucky bag was this [Ashura Ghost Mask].

Judging from its design alone, it wasn't stunning, and could even be described as a bit crude. It wasn't as exquisite and beautiful as the [Thousand Faces of the Demonic Spider] I'd originally drawn with 1000 points of fluctuation value.

It would be difficult for any practitioner who does not know the inside story to connect it with an "ancient great power".

but……

The descriptions in Little Waste's descriptions were generally quite accurate. Since it said the mask was dangerous and needed to be used with caution, the danger must have been real.

Moreover, Bai Yuan himself did indeed sense some inexplicable aura from this mask:

Powerful, mysterious, tyrannical, ominous...

and also……

A faint sense of familiarity.

"Ok?"

The emergence of this last feeling is undoubtedly a bit strange.

After all, Bai Yuan was only in her sixties or seventies, quite young for a cultivator, and she hadn't visited many ancient secret realms. Even including the decades she'd spent as the "Blood Kite," the number of "powerful beings" she'd known and had contact with—even indirectly—was only a handful.

Ji Lingyun is not included.

Because if they could be called "ancient," they must have lived thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago, such as the celestial ancestors of the eight ancient clans and the Return to Void powerful beings of their time. Ji Lingyun was active in the world only a little over a thousand years ago.

It really doesn't fit the word "ancient".

Because he was not sure about the features of the [Ashura Ghost Mask], Bai Yuan did not put it on immediately after receiving it.

Even after seeing Shentu Jackdaw appear and realizing the latter's strength in the Return to Void Realm, Bai Yuan still didn't want to use this method -

Nonsense, things like "taking over someone else's body" are no joke!

Apart from anything else, she had put so much effort into finally raising the favorability of her three disciples from negative to positive, and even had physical intimacy with two of them. She had originally thought that after this battle, she would return home to get married...

Ahem, that’s not right. I should say I’m going back to my hometown, Yinyue Mountain, to reward myself.

If at this moment, because of a mask, all the previous efforts were used to make wedding clothes for others...

Then she would have no place to cry.

In theory, a death caused by "possession" cannot be resurrected through the Wheel of Life and Death. In that case, Bai Yuan's soul would be directly devoured by the other party, merging into one body, just as Gui Yuan had once attempted to do to her. Perhaps even Gui Yuan would be devoured by the "Ancient Power" as well.

but……

"Whatever, let's take a gamble!!"

Bai Yuan had made up his mind. He raised his hand and put the mask on his face!

In an instant.

Countless images flooded into her mind...

……

bang bang—

bang bang—

I don’t know when it started.

A strange vibration suddenly emerged in this world.

It was like the heartbeat of some ancient giant beast. Although it did not directly affect the earth, it caused the air in the entire secret realm to vibrate violently, making people tremble unconsciously and begin to feel frightened.

"Ok?"

Shentu Jackdaw, who was about to complete the final harvest, paused for a moment, looked around a little puzzled, and felt something was wrong in his heart.

"what happened?"

"This feeling... could it be that a new little mouse has sneaked in?"

Shentu Hanya did not immediately associate this unusual movement with Bai Yuan.

After all, he had just fully experienced the strength of Bai Yuan and others -

The [Way of Time] and the heritage of the Divine Phoenix Clan were indeed methods with very high ceilings. The "Five Elements Divine King Body" and the "Poisonous Gu Spirit Body" were also quite impressive. If they were given another ten years to develop... no, maybe only three to five years would be enough. Then, they would very likely pose a real threat to him, a veteran Return to Void Realm expert.

It is even possible to kill him on the spot.

but now……

Still a bit tender.

Therefore, Shentu Jackdaw's first reaction was that someone else had intervened in the battle:

"Could it be that the Ji family's patriarch, who has the strength of the Return to Void Realm, has come here?"

"Or, some old monster from Tianyuan Mountain?"

"These guys, what do they think my Shentu family is? They can come and go as they please."

Shentu Hanya felt an involuntary surge of anger in his heart.

but……

No matter how Shentu Jackdaw released his spiritual sense and looked around, trying to find the location of the third person, it was all in vain. But at the same time, the feeling of fear and trepidation intensified in his heart, making Shentu Jackdaw feel particularly uneasy.

Until the last moment.

He finally seemed to have locked onto something, and then he suddenly turned around, fixing his gaze on the abyss that Bai Yuan had previously fallen into. A look of surprise and doubt appeared on his old, thin face: "This aura... is it her? How is it possible!"

boom--! ! ! !

Flames burst forth!!

In a moment.

A dazzling light emerged from the deepest part of the abyss, and then, in a flash of lightning, it erupted into the sky, directly tearing apart the blood-red clouds and rushing higher! It seemed to pierce the sky!

——To be precise, the "sky" was really pierced.

Because even the barrier at the edge of the Shentu family's secret realm seemed to be nothing under this dazzling light.

From a perspective that was invisible to Shentu Hanya and others in the secret realm, tens of thousands of practitioners and ordinary people saw a beam of light rising slowly above the earth, just like the "Dinghai Shenzhen" in mythology, bursting out from the depths of the earth's veins and penetrating the thirty-three heavens.

"What's going on...?"

"Could it be that there are powerful people in the God Transformation Realm fighting there?"

Most cultivators had never seen a Return to Void Realm cultivator, let alone a Spiritual Transformation Realm cultivator. Therefore, they could only associate this scene with the "War of the Spiritual Transformation Realm." However, some individuals, more informed and aware that this was the Shentu family's ancestral land, immediately became more active.

“…Go and take a look!”

at the same time.

Within the secret realm.

A figure wrapped in flames, which seemed extremely small compared to the towering light column, appeared in Shentu Jackdaw's sight.

She was a woman with a graceful figure, her whole body shrouded in light.

Judging from her figure, she doesn't look much like Bai Yuan, but not that much different.

She was about 1.6 meters tall, with a pair of slender bare feet. The two-colored bells on her slender ankles reflected the light of the stars and the moon, making the skin on her ankles and calves look even whiter than snow.

Going up is a red dress.

The sleeves of her clothes fluttered and rolled in the howling wind, further outlining her graceful and proud figure. With her snow-white neck like mutton-fat jade, her whole body exuded a sense of peerless grace, making it impossible for anyone to ignore her.

As for that face...

"Ok?"

Shentu Jackdaw's eyelids twitched.

It was a face wearing a bronze mask.

Because most of the face was covered by the mask, from his perspective, he could only see a small piece of smooth jaw and a pair of slightly closed eyes.

but……

"……you?!"

Shentu Jackdaw suddenly opened his eyes wide, and several images flashed through his mind, making his scalp almost explode:

"It's you?!!!"

Logically speaking, it would be difficult for a cultivator of Shentu Hanya's level of cultivation and age to feel surprised.

After all, his nearly thousand years of life, coupled with his cultivation in the Return to Void Realm, were enough for him to experience too many things. He had encountered desperate situations on the verge of life and death countless times, and it was difficult for him to be affected by external things.