SWDnovel Chapter 134 The Looting, Fragments of the Upper Realm
Chapter 134 The Looting, Fragments of the Upper Realm
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Above a cloudless sky.
A streak of azure light flashed past between several towering peaks, and the gusts of wind it stirred up snapped many of the trees on the nearby peaks.
But at this time...
Above the blue light, a dark cloud instantly appeared, covering an area of several miles.
Lightning flashed and thunder roared amidst the dark clouds, with crimson lightning dragons swirling within them. A sudden surge of tribulation power from heaven and earth formed, locking onto the fleeing azure light below.
boom!
In the blink of an eye, a bolt of purplish-red lightning, almost as thick as a bucket, struck down.
It struck the blue bird directly within the blue light, and the bird's body was immediately wrapped in arcs of purple-red electricity.
A piercing cry rang out from the bluebird, its sound carrying a hint of pain.
The jade-like feathers on the bluebird's body, which were originally radiant, have now become dull and lifeless. Its aura has immediately become extremely weak. Surrounded by tribulation lightning, this Core Formation bluebird looks at the two streaks of light flying close behind it as if facing a formidable enemy.
"snort!"
"Ancient avian demons with the bloodline of the Azure Phoenix are extremely rare!"
"Such a highly nourishing substance, how could we let you leave!"
"Let's do it!"
"A swift and decisive victory!"
"This ancient demon is very likely a demon cultivator from the Myriad Spirits Sect."
"We cannot linger in battle."
When Qingyi, who had been chasing after him, saw that the demon cultivator with the bloodline of the Azure Phoenix in front of him was intimidated by his third-grade superior Heavenly Thunder Talisman, he couldn't help but feel a surge of joy.
Qingyi himself is a spiritual cultivator of the avian race.
In this second level, the ancient demons of the secret realm with the bloodline of the Azure Phoenix are like a powerful tonic to him, comparable to a breakthrough pill, and are among the rare treasures that can improve his own aptitude.
Since we've encountered this situation, we're prepared to use our trump cards.
Behind Qingyi, the bald, red-robed giant, Chi Sha Gui, exuded a murderous aura. Suddenly, a long, blood-bone blade flew out from between his eyebrows, transforming into a stunning crimson rainbow that rushed straight towards the ancient demon Qingniao, whose body was slightly stiff after being cleaved.
"Senior brother, I will definitely extract this demon's inner core for you!"
The Crimson Demon's eyes were fierce.
The bond between the brothers in the Heavenly Demon Sect was exceptionally strong.
It is precisely because of this that their branch has been able to gain a foothold among so many branches of the Heavenly Demon Sect.
The ancient demon bluebird, injured by the Heavenly Thunder Talisman, struggled once more and let out a sorrowful cry. At the same time, a blood-red mark appeared between its brows, which shattered instantly, turning into a blood-red ripple that spread outwards.
The ripple spread for more than ten miles in the blink of an eye, and then rapidly extended further into the distance.
"Oh no!"
"We can't hold back!"
"This ancient demon was just calling for help."
Upon seeing this, Qingyi immediately took out his trump card, a life-saving talisman given to him by their master.
A red and blue intertwined talisman was taken out, with two carp, one red and one blue, connected end to end on the talisman, slowly rotating.
When Qingyi tried to activate this talisman, the spiritual energy and blood energy in his body were immediately drawn out and poured into the talisman in front of him.
next moment.
The red and blue spiritual light on the talisman suddenly shone brightly.
Like a blazing sun rising in red and blue, the ancient demon bird with the bloodline of the Azure Phoenix was filled with terror in its eyes.
It immediately flapped its wings and fled towards the edge of the calamity clouds.
boom!
But in the blink of an eye, dark clouds appeared above.
Then another bolt of crimson lightning struck down, sending a shiver of numbness through the bluebird's body. Its once pristine white feathers were now covered in wounds, with even the edges showing signs of charring. A faint burnt smell emanated from the bluebird.
It's almost cooked!
"It's over."
At this moment, the ancient demon bird saw a huge red and blue vertical pupil suddenly open in the red and blue sun, and a tremor from the soul spread from the ancient demon bird's heart.
Puff puff puff!
In the blink of an eye, fine wounds ranging from several inches to several feet began to appear on the wings, body, and claws of this ancient demon bird.
It seemed as if countless tiny throwing knives appeared around him.
Strands of blue blood shot out from it and fell into the dense forest below.
In some parts of the forest, a patch of blue flames began to burn.
It took less than ten breaths in total.
The ancient demon bird's body was then dismembered into eight pieces.
At this moment, Qingyi also retrieved the talisman that had dimmed considerably. The talisman could be used a total of three times, and this was already the second time, leaving only the last chance to save his life.
We need to use it sparingly.
Qingyi has now lost nearly 80% of his magical power and is in an extremely weak state.
His breathing was extremely weak.
Chi Sha Gui, the bald, red-robed giant standing to the side, sensed that his senior brother's spiritual energy was almost exhausted, so he hurriedly summoned a cloud of spiritual energy to lift them both up.
And just then...
Both Chi Sha Gui and Qing Yi immediately sensed an unfamiliar magical aura appearing at the location where the ancient demon Qing Niao had been.
"Why are there other cultivators nearby?!"
The instant they both looked up ahead, the remaining demonic body, inner core, feathers, and storage bag of the ancient demonic bluebird were all taken away by that barely perceptible aura.
After the other party took it, their aura vanished abruptly the next moment.
"Disappeared!?"
"It's that guy from before!"
At this moment, Qingyi immediately thought of the time when he and his junior brother had encountered a Core Formation cultivator whose aura was impossible to detect.
"Senior brother..."
The Crimson Demon controlled the blood-red flying knife, flying back and forth around the ancient demon bluebird several times, but without any success.
Even with both of them fully aware of their surroundings, they still couldn't sense any trace of each other.
"broken."
"Several ancient demons at the Core Formation stage are heading this way."
"It must have received the distress message from that ancient bluebird demon."
"Damn it!"
Qingyi felt even more frustrated.
After a lot of hard work, expending all their magical power and energy, it was only to have the fruits of their labor stolen by the cultivators hiding nearby. This was truly infuriating.
"Senior brother, let's escape first."
Without much hesitation, the Crimson Fiend grabbed his senior brother Qingyi, whose face had turned black, and transformed into a streak of blood-red light, fleeing into the distance.
It's too late to say anything now.
Who could blame them? The guy hiding nearby had a concealment technique comparable to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator. Even though these Core Formation cultivators had the protection of Nascent Soul elders with their talismanic treasures, most of them were only good at attack and defense.
Talismans that can detect auras are extremely rare.
"No matter who you are, I will find you."
"must!"
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Qingyi, amidst the escaping light, glanced back at the location of the ancient demon Qingniao, a chilling killing intent flashing in his eyes.
...
...
A moment later.
Inside a cave in the belly of an unnamed mountain.
A streak of gray-black light flew down from a crevice in the rock wall and landed on a huge boulder.
Within the flowing light, the figure of a young man in a white robe with a ring of white down on his face was revealed.
"It still has to be a magic weapon like the Soul-Suppressing Seal!"
"Unfortunately, it can only be used in this lifetime."
"However, if I have the opportunity to become a disciple of the Xuandu Cave in my next life, this Soul-Suppressing Seal might still fall into my hands in that life."
A thoughtful look appeared in Lin Li's eyes.
Immediately, with a thought, he extracted a wisp of spiritual energy from the inner core of the ancient demon bluebird in his storage bag and refined it into his body.
[Inclusion successful]
[Third-tier superior bloodline (Ancient Demon), Azure-feathered Luan Bird!]
On the Reincarnation Disc, a jade spirit bird over ten zhang long suddenly appeared. Its pair of emerald green eyes flashed with a cold light, and its long, bright red tail feathers were very conspicuous.
Under the intimidation of the Nascent Soul stage bloodlines on the Reincarnation Disc, the phoenix circled above it a few times before flying down to one side of the Reincarnation Disc.
"Young friend, where did you get this magical artifact from?!"
"It can not only restrain spirits and suppress souls, but also conceal one's aura."
"This has truly broadened my horizons!"
Lei Feng, inside the Soul-Suppressing Seal, witnessed firsthand what the little Treasure-Devouring Rat had done outside.
It was able to snatch food from the jaws of two cultivators at the peak of the Core Formation stage.
It relies on the concealment effect of this soul-type magic artifact. With the concealment of this magic treasure, even ordinary early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators probably cannot easily detect it.
But then, before Lei Feng could ask anything more, he stopped.
Lin Li then cast a hand seal, which landed on the Soul-Suppressing Seal.
It immediately cut off the ancient demon's remnant soul's perception of the outside world within the sealed space.
He naturally wouldn't say anything, since the Soul-Suppressing Seal was originally a magic treasure from the upper realm, and this ancient demon's remnant soul could not possibly have seen it.
The Luanque's storage bag!
Lin Li summoned the storage bag to his front. It was an ordinary black storage bag that looked quite old, with some demonic sect markings on it. The storage bag used by this ancient demonic phoenix must have been stolen from other demonic cultivators.
The aura of the celestial beings must be here…
at this time.
Only Lin Li could sense the activity of the Soul-Suppressing Seal.
Originally, Lin Li could only get a slight response from the Soul-Suppressing Seal by controlling the hand seals. But now, even without using the hand seals, the Soul-Suppressing Seal artifact is still constantly transmitting strands of intent.
Strands of soul-suppressing magic power detached from the soul-suppressing seal and formed a small, palm-sized, dark seal half a step in front of Lin Li.
The Soul-Suppressing Power on the small seal is greater than the total amount Lin Li uses each time he activates the Soul-Suppressing Seal.
All of this was because of the phoenix's storage bag.
Next, Lin Li eagerly erased the divine soul imprint on the phoenix, leaving behind his own divine soul mark. He then easily opened the storage bag and immediately probed into it with a wisp of divine sense.
The storage bag contains a storage space that is approximately half an acre in size.
Among them are many second-tier spiritual herbs, and even some third-tier ones.
There were also two low-grade third-tier magic treasures stained with blood: a crimson triangular shield and a three-foot-long sword radiating a fiery red spiritual light.
His divine sense swept over the pile of spirit stones in the storage bag, and among them was a broken, irregular fragment that hindered his divine sense's exploration.
"This should be it."
Lin Li's heart stirred slightly.
Anything capable of blocking one's own divine sense from detection is certainly not an ordinary thing.
After Lin Li removed the black fragment, he examined it carefully with his naked eye.
It's impossible to tell anything about it; it's like a simple black fragment from a broken pot. The surface is crooked and twisted, shaped like an oval tortoise shell, with pitted and uneven edges.
It is about the size of a palm.
Divine senses could not detect it, and even attempts to infuse it with one's own spiritual power were unsuccessful, as the spiritual energy was firmly blocked outside the iron plate.
If it were just an ordinary piece of iron, it would be impossible for it to block the magic power of someone at the Core Formation stage.
Before Lin Li could take a second look, the Soul-Suppressing Magic Power poured out from the small black seal that had been waiting half a step in front of him, transforming into a small black net that caught the broken iron piece and immediately brought it into the Soul-Suppressing Seal.
Waited for a while.
Lin Li did not see any further reaction from the Soul-Suppressing Seal.
That's it?
Lin Li probed the space of the Soul-Suppressing Seal with a wisp of his divine sense and found that in addition to the remnant soul of the ancient demon, there was now another piece of black iron.
However, with the infusion of soul-suppressing magic power, faint halos gradually appeared on the dead darkness of the black iron piece.
However, that glimmer of light was still very weak.
"Young friend, what is this?"
Upon seeing the fragment that appeared not far away, the ancient demon Lei Feng within the sealed space instinctively felt a sense of fear and flew quite a distance away before the palpitation in his heart subsided.
Lin Li once again chose to ignore the old man.
They withdrew from the Soul-Suppressing Seal.
Although the value of the fragment is not yet apparent, it is clear that the Soul-Suppressing Seal is using its own power to nurture the fragment. Perhaps in the near future, we will be able to know the fragment's effects.
"Continue breaking through the formation!"
"With the Soul-Suppressing Seal protecting him, even the teleportation mark couldn't lock onto him."
Lin Li first found the other two places mentioned by the remnant soul of the ancient demon, and then went to find the location of the ancient demon mentioned by the old ghost Feng Yuan.
There are four ancient demon formations given by Feng Yuan the old ghost.
However, even the old ghost Feng Yuan wasn't sure if the four arrays would be so effective that they wouldn't be detected by other Nascent Soul stage cultivators.
...
Nearly two hours later.
Lin Li stood before a dozen massive stone pillars, each ten feet tall and about ten feet thick. These pillars were entirely dark blue-green, constantly absorbing the spiritual energy of the earth's veins beneath the ground, as well as the wood-elemental spiritual energy from the surrounding forest.
In the center of this small group of stone pillars is an altar, half a foot off the ground.
On the altar were broken chains and several shocking sword marks that had split the altar in two. The sword marks were left long ago, and even now, those appalling sword marks still exuded a chilling sword intent.
Lin Li did not walk towards the altar, but instead went to a stone pillar.
He raised his hand and cast several hand seals, which landed on the stone pillar.
blink.
On the seemingly inconspicuous surface of the stone pillar, a miniature sealing array with a diameter of only a dozen inches reappeared.
Inside the magic circle, a yellow fur ball was currently floating.
As the sealing array appeared, a single white eye, black and white striped, suddenly opened on the orange-yellow, fluffy sphere and met Lin Li's gaze...