SWDnovel Chapter 193 Gu Qingwan has been captured!!!
Chapter 193 Gu Qingwan has been captured!!!
Chapter 193 Gu Qingwan has been captured!!! (5400)
"Buzz—!!!"
That resounding hum, which shook the very soul and trembled the very rules of the world, was like the death knell of the apocalypse, tolling at the heart of this meticulously constructed prison.
When the last obstacle was forcibly broken through.
When those countless black and red light spots, painstakingly condensed, finally completed their final, violent fusion and eruption under some irresistible will.
It has arrived, and it is complete.
It did not remain silent, but rather proclaimed its existence in an extremely domineering and forceful manner, almost "bursting" this independent space that was reinforced by numerous restrictions.
The dense, blackish-red mist, like a living Styx River of blood, instantly engulfed a large area at the cave entrance.
The fog churned and rolled, thick and heavy, within which seemed to be the endless illusory stars and the phantoms of ancient blood battles rising and falling.
There were indescribable, terrifying whispers echoing, and a cold, majestic aura that seemed to transcend all things and disregard all existence, permeating every inch of the air as if it were a tangible presence.
In the center of this pure, domineering, and destructive black-red mist, a figure slowly came into focus.
The first thing that catches the eye is a striking yet perfectly harmonious element within this destructive landscape—moon white.
It was a simple, well-tailored, moon-white cheongsam.
Its texture appears soft, yet under the backdrop of black and red mist, it radiates a strange luster that is as cool as moonlight and as tough as cold jade.
The cheongsam has no superfluous patterns, only extremely fine, almost imperceptible flowing cloud patterns embroidered in silver thread on the collar, cuffs and hem.
As the mist surged, the clouds seemed to flow slowly as well.
The cheongsam perfectly hugged her tall and slender figure, outlining her breathtaking curves.
Yet it exudes a kind of aloofness and inviolability, a divine quality that keeps people at a distance.
Her long hair was not loose, but loosely tied into a bun at the back of her head with a simple, unadorned white hair tie.
A few strands of hair fell down her neck, adding to her cool and casual demeanor.
The hair tie was as white as snow, standing out conspicuously against the backdrop of black hair and dark red mist, and was also particularly—glaring.
Because it was just an ordinary cotton rope that Lu Yuan bought casually in town during the Chinese New Year.
Her face was still shrouded in a thin veil of mist, as if formed from the purest darkness, making it difficult to see clearly.
But through the mist, one could vaguely see the perfect, breathtaking, yet cold and devoid of any human presence outline beneath, as if sculpted from millennia-old ice.
She had a delicate nose and cherry lips, and her features were exquisite, yet she was lifeless, possessing only an absolute calm that looked down upon all living beings and disregarded life and death.
But what's most captivating is those eyes.
What kind of eyes are visible behind the thin mist?
The two pools were bottomless, as if leading to a pure, blood-red abyss where all things end and everything returns to nothingness.
In the abyss, the desolation of stars and the collapse of the world are reflected.
It reflects eternal solitude and — a supreme divinity that transcends good and evil, transcends emotions, leaving only absolute rationality and indifferent rules.
But deep within this blood-red abyss, which seemed capable of freezing souls and extinguishing hope, her gaze slowly swept across the cave.
Hu Huhu swept his gaze over Liu Xuanyin, who looked as if facing a formidable enemy.
As the light swept across the illusory figures of the "Thousand-Faced Nightmare" and the "Mother of Ten Thousand Bones," writhing wildly in the darkness and exuding an aura of terrifying evil—
Her gaze, in the end—
The image freezes on the young Taoist priest who sits cross-legged on the damp ground, his face pale, dark red blood seeping from the bandage on his right fist, his body disheveled yet his back still straight.
Lu Yuan.
Eyes facing each other.
In an instant, Lu Yuan felt as if he had been dragged into that boundless, blood-red abyss.
Extreme coldness, extreme majesty, and extreme destructive will surged through his mind like a tidal wave.
He was truly locked up, his spirit and soul were wounded, and under such gazes, his soul seemed to be frozen and torn apart.
but----
Under that terrifying gaze that seemed to want to completely annihilate him.
Lu Yuan, however, keenly sensed a subtle, fleeting, and ineffable fluctuation.
That wasn't an emotion; it was more like a confirmation.
To make sure he is alright, to make sure he is not injured, to make sure he—does he still need her.
Although the confirmation process was accompanied by a pressure and coldness that could terrify ordinary cultivators.
Then, that gaze shifted away.
The moment he was moved away, Lu Yuan felt the terrifying pressure that had almost crushed him suddenly ease.
But it felt like an invisible hand was squeezing my heart tightly.
A mix of emotions surged up: bitterness, guilt, helplessness.
Lu Yuan saw it; he saw Gu Qingwan's moon-white cheongsam and the pure white hair tie in her hair—
That was given to Gu Qingwan by Lu Yuan; it was a gift from Lu Yuan.
In this desolate land filled with filth, intrigue, and slaughter, in this death trap meticulously prepared for her.
Gu Qingwan was still wearing the clothes he had given her and using the hair tie he had given her.
Lu Yuan, however, personally led her here.
Lu Yuan wanted to say something, to tell Gu Qingwan something.
For example, run fast —
For example, don't worry about yourself —
But given the current situation, Lu Yuan felt that nothing he said would make a difference.
Saying anything is pointless now.
This deadly situation has already been calculated—
After Gu Qingwan shifted her gaze from Lu Yuan, she regained her absolute indifference and coldness, as if looking down on ants.
She slowly turned her neck, the movement elegant and slow, yet carrying a heavy feeling that seemed to freeze the space itself.
Gu Qingwan's gaze slowly swept across the entire room.
The image finally settled on the two enormous, malevolent figures deep within the cave, exuding an aura of terrifying evil, and on Liu Xuanyin, who stood motionless like an eerie willow tree.
Her gaze was indifferent, cold, and devoid of any emotion.
It was as if they were examining two pieces of trash that were about to be disposed of, and a tool that was slightly unusual.
"This place is filthy."
"When clean."
A voice, clear and calm, yet carrying an undeniable power of rules, once again resounded deep within the consciousness of every being.
As she finished speaking, the pure darkness at her fingertips suddenly expanded.
It transformed into an extremely thin black line, yet it seemed capable of slicing through space and annihilating everything.
It silently spread towards the darkness where the "Thousand-Faced Nightmare" and the "Mother of Ten Thousand Bones" were located.
However, just as the black threads were about to touch the two writhing masses of darkness, Liu Xuanyin, who had been standing still, moved.
He seemed to have anticipated that Gu Qingwan would attack the evil god first, or rather, this was part of his plan.
This forces Gu Qingwan to expend her power here, while simultaneously activating all the means that this world has prepared for her!
"The Nine Netherworlds are the foundation, and the Earth's veins are the network."
"All ghosts, heed my command! Refine your spirit and return to your origin!"
Suddenly, a series of rapid, strange, and difficult-to-pronounce incantations rang out from Liu Xuanyin's mouth, sounding like the wailing of countless wronged souls or the sobbing of the earth's veins!
This incantation is not human speech, but more like an ancient secret language that connects the earth's yin energy with the core of an evil formation!
As the incantation began, his hands, with their distinct knuckles and dark blue nails, moved rapidly in front of his chest.
A series of dazzling hand seals, exuding a strong sense of eeriness and antiquity, were formed!
"Yin Sha Soul Locking Seal"
"Earth Vein Connection Seal"
"Seal of Ten Thousand Ghosts Paying Homage to the Ancestor"
"Refining the Spirit and Returning to One's Origin Seal" —
The hand seals changed so quickly that they left afterimages in the air.
With each hand seal formed, the dark blue mist swirling around him grew thicker.
The connection between you and the ground beneath your feet, the surrounding rock walls, and the "Nine Netherworld Refining God Array" deep within the cave becomes even closer!
His pale face even showed an abnormal, sickly dark blue tinge, as if he were forcibly drawing some kind of primal power.
"rise!"
With the final hand seal frozen in place, Liu Xuanyin pointed his fingers together like a sword, and pointed in mid-air towards the direction where Gu Qingwan was!
The dark blue mist at his fingertips solidified into a thin stream, instantly disappearing into the rock strata beneath his feet.
It was as if, through some invisible network, it was connected to the entire cave and to the "Nine Netherworld Refining God Array" below. "Rumble—!!!"
The entire cave, no, the entire mountainside, seemed to come alive in that instant!
The ground shook violently, ten times, even a hundred times more violently than when Gu Qingwan descended!
It was not a disturbance in the spatial structure, but rather the result of the earth's yin energy being completely stirred up and erupting violently!
Countless streams of pure, viscous, and chillingly pale white earth vein yin energy erupted from all parts of the cave like fountains, rushing straight to the cave ceiling!
Within the yin energy, countless twisted ghostly figures faintly appeared, their faces contorted in agony, howling.
These are the lingering spirits and remnants of the souls that have been refined and imprisoned here by the Liu family for thousands of years, and now they are being fully activated by the great formation.
It transformed into the purest, yet most chaotic, feminine frenzy!
At the same time, ancient dark red runes, which had only been faintly visible on the walls, ceiling, and floor of the cave, were also visible.
At this moment, it was like a red-hot iron, suddenly bursting out with a blinding dark red blood light!
The runes wriggled, extended, and intertwined wildly, instantly connecting to form a massive, extremely complex three-dimensional evil array that covered the entire cave space.
At this moment, Liu Xuanyin forcibly connected the "Spirit Locking Forbidden Land" and the "Nine Netherworld Refining God Formation" with a secret technique, merging them into one!
The amorphous mass of flesh of the "Thousand-Faced Nightmare" suddenly swelled and twisted.
In an instant, it transformed into a vast, overwhelming, and ever-changing dark green fog, filled with various distorted and terrifying dreamlike scenes.
From within the thick fog came the murmurs, screams, and maniacal laughter of countless beings, carrying with them the deepest temptations of inner demons and spiritual pollution.
Like an invisible tsunami, it swept towards Gu Qingwan!
This mental attack was several times stronger and wider than the one before!
With the combined power of the "Spirit Locking Forbidden Land" and the "Nine Netherworld Refining God Array", its spiritual erosion power is enough to cause any sentient being to instantly fall into despair and have their soul disintegrate!
The filthy sac of "Mother of Ten Thousand Bones" swelled violently.
Countless holes on the surface opened and closed wildly, spewing out a torrent of dark yellow, foul-smelling blood and pus like a waterfall!
Amidst the torrent, there were countless "filthy offspring," twisted and grotesque in form, instantly formed from filthy blood and broken bones.
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They roared, brandishing their sharp claws and bone spikes, like the most frenzied swarm of insects, rushing towards Gu Qingwan along with the filthy blood and pus!
At the same time, from the pale white mist above the sac, countless giant faces emitted overlapping, soul-shattering "Wail of Ten Thousand Spirits".
The sound waves, mixed with the foul odor, formed visible, distorting, pale white shockwaves.
It struck first despite being behind, and then blasted towards Gu Qingwan!
A trap set in the sky, a deadly scheme!
The earth's yin energy erupted, imprisoning the space. The dual evil formations suppressed and weakened its essence, and the two super evil gods, greatly enhanced by the formations, launched a full-scale attack.
One attacks the soul, the other corrodes the body and corrupts the spirit; when they work together seamlessly, their power is multiplied!
Faced with this terrifying siege that would make any "god" tremble, Gu Qingwan remained floating there quietly in mid-air.
The moon-white cheongsam fluttered slightly in the black and red mist, and the white rope in her hair swayed gently.
She didn't even look at the overwhelming, emerald-green nightmare fog, the torrent of filthy blood and pus, the swarm of filthy offspring, and the pale sonic shockwaves that swept in.
She simply raised her head slightly, her eyes, shrouded in a thin mist, quietly "watching" the wildly flashing, intertwined dark red evil runes on the cave ceiling.
It's as if they're observing, analyzing, or perhaps—simply ignoring it.
There was no movement, no defense, and no sign of counterattack.
It was as if—the sudden, terrifying, and combined attack of the formation and the evil god had completely—"suppressed" them?
Lu Yuan slumped to the ground, looking up at the motionless red figure in mid-air, his heart almost stopping.
He didn't understand those profound formations and evil mystical arts, but he could clearly feel the terrifying power that filled this space at this moment, enough to crush his soul billions of times in an instant!
That was a long-planned, deadly strike that combined the advantages of terrain, formations, evil gods, and the full power of Liu Xuanyin, the core controller of the formation!
Or is it that Qingwan is already powerless to resist?
Despair, like the coldest tide, once again completely engulfed Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan looked at the still, moon-white figure in mid-air, which seemed to have given up resisting.
Looking at the destructive torrent of eerie green, dark yellow, and deathly white that was about to engulf her—
Lu Yuan opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
Liu Xuanyin looked at Gu Qingwan, who was motionless in mid-air, and at the deadly strike that was about to hit its target, a strike that combined countless efforts and calculations of the Liu family.
Deep within those gray, lifeless pupils, a faint, extremely subtle, cold certainty belonging to a "hunter" and—an uncontrollable fervor—finally flashed.
This perfect "material" is about to be captured!
The Liu family's centuries-old dream, the ultimate creation that surpasses even the "Evil God," is about to be realized in his hands!
"break!!!"
Liu Xuanyin's suppressed, fervent shout seemed to sound the horn for a general offensive.
It was as if this had drawn the final, fatal mark on this long-planned decisive attack.
Time, in Lu Yuan's despairing eyes, seemed to be stretched infinitely, yet also seemed to collapse in an instant.
The first thing to hit was the overlapping "Wail of Ten Thousand Spirits" sound wave from "Mother of Ten Thousand Bones," which was powerful enough to shatter the soul.
A pale white shockwave that distorts space.
It passed through the seemingly dense, but actually much "docile" black and red mist surrounding Gu Qingwan without any hindrance.
It struck her moon-white cheongsam with a resounding thud!
There was no earth-shattering roar, only a dull thud, like a heavy hammer striking ancient iron.
The sound wasn't loud, but it caused the entire cavern to tremble violently!
The black and red mist surrounding Gu Qingwan suddenly caved inward.
On the surface of the moon-white cheongsam, the almost imperceptible flowing cloud patterns embroidered with silver thread suddenly burst forth with an extremely dazzling silver-white light!
The light flashed and disappeared in an instant, as if fiercely battling against the pale sound waves, ultimately annihilating them.
Immediately following was the overwhelming, eerie green mist of the "Thousand-Faced Nightmare."
The thick fog instantly swallowed Gu Qingwan and the space several feet around her completely!
Countless distorted and terrifying dreamscapes, the delirious screams and maniacal laughter of billions of living beings, the deepest illusions of fear and desire.
Like the most vicious venom, it frantically eroded Gu Qingwan's consciousness!
Thick fog rolled in, and a bright, eerie green light shone brightly, illuminating the area as if it were a ghostly realm.
Even more so, various bizarre and terrifying illusions, defying reason, were generated and shattered in the mist.
Almost simultaneously, the torrent of dark yellow filthy blood and pus, mixed with countless "filthy offspring," spewed out by the "Mother of Ten Thousand Corpses" was like a celestial river flowing backwards.
Carrying a stench that corrodes souls and spirits, and endless filth and curses, it fiercely washed over the spot where Gu Qingwan was!
The filthy blood and pus mixed with the dense, eerie green mist of the nightmare demon, emitting a hissing, corrosive sound that sent chills down one's spine.
It was as if even the space itself was being eroded and dissolved by filth.
Those grotesque "filthy offspring" shrieked and pounced in the torrent.
Wielding its bone spikes and claws, it frantically tore and scratched at the area submerged in thick fog and pus.
Finally, there was the power of restriction and suppression originating from the entire mountain's earth veins and countless lingering spirits, which Liu Xuanyin had completely activated with a secret method and was connected to the "Nine Netherworld Refining God Array".
This force is formless and intangible, yet it is the most immense and fundamental.
It is like countless dark red shackles originating from the depths of the earth and the core of the formation.
Ignoring all defenses, it directly targets the "essence" of Gu Qingwan's existence, frantically shrinking, imprisoning, weakening, and eroding her "divinity."
They tried to bring her down from her lofty position as "ruler" to the mortal world and lock her firmly in this prison and purgatory prepared for her!
"boom-!!!"
"Sizzle—!!!"
"roar--!!!"
"Awooo—!!!"
A fierce clash of various energies, indescribable in words.
Annihilation, corrosion, mental shock, physical tearing, the terrifying sounds, light and shadow, and mental fluctuations produced by the suppression of rules.
In the small space where Gu Qingwan was, a sudden explosion, mixing, and shattering occurred!
The eerie green light of the nightmare demon, the dark yellow filthy pus, the pale sonic afterimages, the dark red blood-red array, and the silvery-white flowing cloud patterns resisting the light.
And Gu Qingwan's own violently churning, flickering black and red mist—all of it was mixed together.
It formed an energy storm with a diameter of over ten zhang, constantly expanding and contracting wildly, twisting and changing, emitting destructive fluctuations, and with extremely chaotic colors!
Inside the storm, the light was completely distorted.
The space appeared like a shattered mirror, with countless fine, dark cracks, which were quickly filled and torn apart by the violent flow of energy.
The terrifying suction and repulsion forces alternated, frantically drawing in all the surrounding debris, dust, and even the surging yin energy from the earth's veins.
It is then instantly pulverized, or corroded by filthy pus into an even more disgusting viscous substance.
Blinding light, chaotic energy fluctuations, violent mental pollution, pungent stench, and sounds of spatial distortion and annihilation.
Everything erupted within that terrifying energy storm!
Lu Yuan was violently thrown back by the aftershock of a shockwave that was a mixture of mental impact and physical vibration. He crashed heavily into the rock wall behind him, felt a sweet taste in his throat, and spat out another mouthful of blood.
Ignoring the excruciating pain, Lu Yuan struggled to get up, staring intently at the center of the destructive storm. His eyes were stung by the bright light, causing tears to stream down his face, but he refused to close them.
Hu Huhu had already scrambled to hide in a more distant corner, his face as pale as a ghost, his whole body trembling like a leaf.
His eyes were filled with the fear of surviving a catastrophe, and a hint of disbelief that the plan had succeeded.
Liu Xuanyin remained standing in place, letting the aftershocks of the energy storm batter his wide black robe and ruffle the few strands of dry hair on his forehead.
His pale pupils were fixed on the eye of the storm, and the stiff expression on his face finally showed a slight relaxation.
His lips twitched upwards uncontrollably, forming an extremely strange smile that mixed fervor, anticipation, and a hint of relief.
It's done!!!
Gu Qingwan has been captured!!!
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