prynovel Chapter 81 The Mysterious Seal
Chapter 81 The Mysterious Seal
Chapter 81 The Mysterious Seal
"squeak!"
This wasn't the Phoenix responding; it was the arrival of the Demon Shadow.
The distant clouds and winds disintegrated, transforming into cracks radiating the power of the void, constantly overlapping, converging, and twisting, emitting creaking sounds, eventually weaving into a thick and profound mass that Xiong Zhou could not describe in words.
It is like a miniature galaxy, silently revealing strange, eye-like stars, or interstellar dust that resembles gaping, ferocious mouths, with an inexplicable smile.
In the next instant, it seemed to transform into a giant with long, scaly body and a ferocious face, opening its blood-red maw and roaring to the sky.
In a daze, it seemed to collapse into a mosaic, square and neat, like smooth mechanical gears, reflecting the gloom and darkness in the hearts of all beings, unfathomable, like a boundless abyss.
Just seeing it evoked a surge of unknown terror, like iron claws scratching at my heart and lungs, filling me with suffocation.
This is the true form of the Demon Shadow!
"The finest and most wondrous teachings can save people ten times over."
"A hundred demons conceal their essence, separation and reunion are natural."
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The text of the "Scripture of Salvation" echoed in Xiong Zhou's mind, eliminating the fear in his heart and smoothing out the delusions that arose deep in his soul.
One after another, pure and serene sounds of the Dao arose from nothingness, and boundless light of the Dharma arose from nothingness, blooming into pale golden lotus flowers in the void.
A faint, serene Taoist aura spread gently, and within a radius of one mile, the white sea of clouds was bathed in golden light, sprouting lotus flowers one after another, as if forming a lotus realm, dreamlike and illusory.
Every wisp of demonic intent that extended was refined by the Dharma light, transforming into strands of pure clarity that merged into all things in heaven and earth, creating the universe.
—Scripture: Eliminating Karma and Exorcising Demons "Squeak!"
The Demon Shadow, seemingly unaware of the "Scripture of Salvation" restraining it, continued to tear at the void with a certain rhythm, grinding the already shattered space filled with terrifying demonic thoughts, and covered Xiong Zhou, wanting to turn him into a part of itself.
A collision occurred.
One by one, the pale golden lotus flowers shattered, turning into scattered points of light, arranged like stars in the cosmos, forming large arrays, with the power of refinement running rampant.
At the very center of the great formation was Xiong Zhou, who was holding a phoenix egg. He was like a bright sun, hanging high in the sky, reciting one passage after another of the "Scripture of Salvation" in spiritual words, evolving the Daoist text, and refining demons into emptiness.
【修行境界：炼炁二重·真意当前进度：Lv.6（5，354↑/10，000，000）】
[Taoist scripture: The Supreme Scripture of Limitless Salvation of the Lingbao School]
Current progress: Lv.1 (245↑/∞)
The power of [Innate Divine Ability: ■ (Pixel Cube)] manifested, constructing a panel that pulsed with information that was changing.
Xiong Zhou glanced at the panel, his expression softening slightly.
Immediately afterwards, the Refining Path and the Saintly Path, which were suspended in mid-air in the inner world, simultaneously shone brightly, bursting forth with various laws of heaven and earth and abundant authority, merging into the external refining array, and rapidly expanding the area covered by the light.
The power of the demonic shadow was firmly blocked outside this stretched-out magical light, constantly being refined and extinguished.
At this moment, Demon Shadow seemed to finally "see" the existence of Xiong Zhou, and knew that there was such an "iron lump" under him that he could not swallow and that had caused him damage.
"boom!"
It went berserk.
Like a firework that has been detonated, it splits into countless shapes, forming one hazy image after another, and conjuring up huge mouths that bite towards Xiong Zhou.
"Crunch..."
"
"Crunch..."
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One by one, the Daoist runes imbued with the true meaning of refinement became blurred, and cracks appeared under each bite.
Xiong Zhou's face turned slightly pale, and the fur on his entire body trembled. He hurriedly mobilized more of the universe's power from his inner world to repair it.
This is not because the "Scripture of Salvation" is not powerful enough, but because Xiong Zhou, who was practicing the scripture, did not fully comprehend the true meaning of the text and his cultivation level was not strong enough.
It was alright before; it was just a simple collision, and the loss of refinement didn't cause any particularly big fluctuations. But now, under the attack of the Demon Shadow, the turbulence has increased in an instant, and it is suddenly unable to cope.
Xiong Zhou held the phoenix egg and sighed softly, "Oh."
[I'm really no match for a direct confrontation. I'm only at the second level of Spirit Refinement, and the Qi of Heaven and Earth in my inner world isn't nearly enough to sustain me. I simply can't withstand it.]
"Waaah..."
""
[Phoenix, please help me out, or I'm just going to abandon this mess and run away...]
The phoenix inside the phoenix egg seemed to truly hear the sigh. Strands of processed, untainted primordial energy flowed from the phoenix egg, rushing towards the inner world of the bear boat. With almost no loss, it was transformed into the abundance of the bear boat.
Xiong Zhou perked up and remarked, "Phew..."
""
[I knew you could hear me, but why aren't you responding...]
Forget it.
Xiong Zhou didn't intend to dwell on it too much. He simply put the phoenix egg, which was constantly releasing the power of heaven and earth, into his inner world and placed it on the golden pixel wheat on the pixel plain, treating it as an inexhaustible source of energy.
With the support of heaven and earth, the somewhat shaky refining array began to stabilize, and a second violent collision occurred with the approaching Demon Shadow.
"boom!"
A violent sound erupted, and strands of golden light transformed into golden flowers, flying in all directions, aiming at one shadowy serpent after another, landing on their bodies, and splashing out countless tiny shadow pixel blocks.
Xiong Zhou also used the power of [Innate Divine Power: ■ (Pixel Block)] to divide the power of Demon Shadow as much as possible, mix it with the "law impurities" belonging to the innate divine power, and at the same time use its higher nature to destroy the highly polluting activity of the shadow.
Strands of shadow were successfully refined by the Dharma light of the "Scripture of Salvation," propelling the elevation of one's true self and building up the progress bar of cultivation realm.
"squeak!"
Suddenly, before the Refinement Array, the Demon Shadow fell silent.
The previously separated, living shadows suddenly converged, transforming into a large black serpent with a blue head. Its body seemed capable of spanning an entire secret realm, its gaze filled with deathly stillness, and wisps of gray mist, like smoke and dust, accompanied by a blood-red forked tongue, slowly emerged from its snout.
"Hmph!"
A roar erupted from the mouth of the giant black-bodied, green-headed serpent.
The patterns of heaven and earth, one after another, manifested on the snake scales, evolving into totem images filled with wild and untamed charm.
A beaver, its body parched, died in despair amidst a smoldering fire; an ancient tree, imbued with spirit, gained consciousness, only to be swallowed whole by a giant wolf as a precious medicine; a fading lion was brutally killed, surrounded and attacked by hyenas.
Each image contains totems that convey terror, fear, dread, and resentment...
All these particular negative emotions transformed into a dark, heavy shadow, so thick that it was impossible to see the bottom, which was swallowed whole by the black-bodied, green-headed giant serpent.
In an instant, it became much larger.
It seems to symbolize these things, and thus exists, carrying the hatred of the dead, seeking revenge against heaven and earth.
The black-bodied, green-headed giant serpent slashed across vast distances, biting down on the powerful array spanning a radius of ten thousand miles, tearing apart the golden lotuses, revealing its sharp fangs, and biting down forcefully.
"Click..."
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"Click!"
Xiong Zhou's eyes widened, revealing an expression of disbelief.
"boom!"
The grand array for spiritual salvation, which was set up with the Daoist text of the "Scripture of Salvation" as its core, shattered!
Xiong Zhou's figure was completely exposed under the snout of the black-bodied, green-headed giant snake, without any warning!
"boom!"
The black-bodied, green-headed giant serpent closed its snout and swallowed, swallowing the fragments of the refining array that had originally scattered and emitted golden light.
"hiss......
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However, the black-bodied, green-headed giant snake flicked its tongue, and a rare look of confusion appeared in its deathly gaze.
Why does it feel like I've swallowed a wad of air?
It seems that only a portion of the space has been assimilated?
It felt completely unreal...
It once again sensed the flowing天地 (heaven and earth) and a mysterious vitality with a strong presence.
The black-bodied, green-headed giant snake slowly raised its head. It could sense that the thing was rushing towards it from a distance.
Getting closer...
It was a square, asteroid-like celestial body, with specks of reddish starlight, falling toward this location!
"Thump!"
The square asteroid, with its immense mass and powerful gravitational pull, firmly locked onto the black-bodied, green-headed giant serpent, smashing a terrifying crater into its head and causing its body to slump downwards.
The meteorite exploded, causing a second wave of damage. It blasted out some of the brain matter from the skull of the black-bodied, green-headed giant serpent, staining the dark red world crimson.
"Hmph!"
The black-bodied, green-headed giant serpent roared towards the sky, its anger palpable.
Shadows surged in from all directions, transforming into flesh, tendons, bones, and scales... filling the crater blasted into the snake's skull and repairing the brain tissue torn apart by the meteorite.
But soon, its scales burst open one by one, sensing a deadly threat.
At the very top of the sky, one after another, vortexes of spacetime appeared.
One after another, square meteorites of the same size as before slowly materialized from within, carrying golden firelight and containing the meaning of refinement, before falling.
The quantity is in the tens of thousands!
"Thump!"
"Thump!"
"Thump!"
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One after another, square meteorites fell from all directions, smashing the black-bodied, green-headed giant serpent into a daze. Dark red blood, broken serpent bones, and torn serpent flesh were scattered throughout the entire secret realm.
The muffled explosions and golden flashes obliterated shadows one after another, annihilating everything in their path.
Xiong Zhou stepped out from a void, panting as he watched the black-bodied, green-headed giant serpent sink below. He let out a soft "Ugh..."
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I've used my ultimate skill to this extent, I should be dead by now...
The phoenix egg in the inner world trembled slightly, and the Qi of Heaven and Earth surging out from it not only did not decrease but increased, even surging in an explosive state, frantically replenishing the lost abundance.
This unusual behavior startled Xiong Zhou, causing his expression to change drastically.
"call!"
[No, with your support of heaven and earth, this move is enough to cleanse the surface of some life-bearing planets and format the process of life evolution!]
"call!"
[I've gone to such lengths, surely that Demon Shadow won't die?!]
Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration?!
Is the immortality of demons really that powerful?
You must know that he used the Abundance Sculpture and the Dharma Light of the Salvation Sutra to create more than 10,000 meteorites, each with a radius of 100,000 li. Under such a high-intensity offensive, and such an attack with a restraining effect, if he is still alive, how thick must his health bar be?!
"Splash..."
Waves surged from the bottom of the entire secret realm, and a vast, turbulent tide of shadows rose from the bottom, evolving into a "serpent encircling the world".
Its dark, massive body, with its serpentine scales rubbing against the structure of the entire secret realm, and its magnificent form encircling the entire realm, looked so terrifying and ferocious.
It still had the same black body and green head, and it still slowly looked at Xiong Zhou, sticking out its forked tongue, its malice palpable.
"Boom!"
""
The black-bodied, green-headed serpent that encircles the world opened its enormous snout and lunged to bite the small dog that was coiled in the center of its body.
Xiong Zhou looked solemn, took a deep breath, and pulled out his trump card from the [Gate to Another World].
—With a flick of its paw, the dog tossed the tattered, dark yellow cloth, and the vast expanse of cloth billowed in the wind.
It seems to be integrated with heaven and earth, and all kinds of laws and information of heaven and earth seem to be covered by this invisible curtain.
The future is obscured, the past is shrouded in mystery, and the flowing time is deceived.
In an immeasurable, infinitely brief moment, a dark yellow "wall" rose into the sky, towering between the bear boat and the black-bodied, green-headed giant serpent.
It cannot be crossed!
"Bang!"
Strands of dark crimson blood splattered, snake bones shattered once more, chunks of snake flesh turned to ash, and shadows disintegrated into nothingness...
This is an extremely "weak" reaction force from an unknown level, so weak that it can't even be called a backlash.
But it was this very "interaction force" that directly reflected the power of the Demon Shadow almost unharmed, leaving it shattered and broken.
This time, the Demon Shadow was struck at its core by the Xuanhuang Ragcloth, causing it a severe injury that was difficult to heal.
A swarm of shadows surged in, piling up on its body and evolving into flesh and bones, yet it could not repair the horrific injuries inflicted.
With a gentle wave of its claws, Xiong Zhou used all its abundance, even actively extracting the essence of heaven and earth from within the phoenix egg, to painstakingly drive the tattered, yellow cloth that was almost integrated with heaven and earth. Utilizing its "indestructible" properties, it "packed" all the shadows, forming an unbreakable seal.
Once the entire tattered, yellowish-brown cloth had curled into a small ball, only one thing remained on Xiong Zhou's paw, still trembling from time to time.
"Small package".
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