Chapter 556 - Xuanji, Moonlight
Previously--
Thunderbolt--
The little white hand made a gesture and thunder roared in the sky. The black fox's tail swung and turned the mountains and rivers into huge waves that soared into the sky.
Arcs of lightning scattered in the air, wrapped around a huge black fog fox head which opened its huge mouth ferociously, as if it wanted to swallow the entire world.
Ying--!!!
The fox's roar echoed in all directions.
However, facing this vast spiritual energy, Yu Yan's eyes were as calm as always.
His Heavenly Demon Sect Patriarch robe was not stained with dust and did not have a single wrinkle even after the joint attack of Si Xuanji and Hu Mu.
Gu Yu Yan put his left hand behind his back and held his chest with his right hand.
"Red Moon, I am getting more and more confused."
Sizzle—
The beast energy condensed by Hu Mu's aura instantly shattered with a sound like broken glass.
Countless blood pillars gushed out from the ground below, and turned into blood eels from Yu Yan's body, swimming in the sky, and in just a moment, Hu Mu was wrapped up into a bloody cocoon.
Ying—!!!
Seeing Hu Mu being caught by the demonic blood cocoon, Si Xuanji clenched her fists and hurriedly prepared to use some spells to help him escape, but the moment her attention was diverted, a bloody hand had already slapped her shoulder.
Gu Yu Yan's voice sounded from behind her: "Red Moon, you are now very different from the one in my memory..."
Si Xuanji's yin-yang eyes slightly widened, and she immediately turned to look behind her, but she didn't have time to use her spiritual power.
Crash--
The blood eels swimming in the air suddenly turned into iron chains made of blood, tightly wrapped around her hands, feet, neck, waist, and abdomen, and then exerted tremendous force as if trying to tear her apart.
"Tsk--"
This method was one of Gu Yu Yan's blood punishments. Although it was essentially a formation, it was like a direct spell and could be activated without setting up the terrain in advance.
Ordinary cultivators would be torn into strips of meat in just three breaths if they were entangled by this chain.
Even Si Xuanji's divine body and jade bones of the Void Returning stage made a series of "crackling" whines under the tearing of the blood chains.
Yu Yan's body landed from the sky ten feet away from her. His bloodshot eyes behind the mask stared into Si Xuanji's eyes. After a moment of silence, he said: "In my impression, you are not a reckless person like Immortal Yun Tian, so I am very curious about what it was that could make you, a person who is afraid of death, step into the Eastern Region and face me. Could it be that you are tired of living for such a long time? Hehe..."
Si Xuanji gritted her teeth and stared at Yu Yan, her eyes still bright, with no intention of answering him. She glanced in the direction of the Heavenly Demon Sect, hoping that Ye Anping could move faster.
Her cultivator name was "Red Moon".
The moon contained her Void Returning Golden Core spiritual energy.
Where the moonlight couldn't reach, she was equivalent to a cultivator without a golden core.
Although he could still use immortal spells that were beyond the reach of ordinary cultivators by relying on her vast energy, simple spells were of almost no use in the battles between Void Returning stage cultivators.
Now she could indeed make the moon break through the dark clouds and let the moonlight shine on her.
But as mentioned before, the moon itself was her inner spirit.
Letting the moon fall, basically meant exposing her spiritual core to Gu Yu Yan.
Gu Yu Yan was a formation practitioner, and this was his territory.
As long as she summoned her spiritual core, Gu Yu Yan could smash it with just one blow, and then she would be dead.
"Tsk—"
"Heh..."
Gu Yu Yan looked at Si Xuanji, who was now in such a miserable state but still confident of victory, and felt a little dissatisfied. His bloodshot eyes narrowed slightly.
Clatter—
The blood chains that bound Si Xuanji's hands and feet straightened again, and even Si Xuanji couldn't help but let out a cry: "Ah!"
"That's quite a nice sound."
Gu Yan sneered, but soon his face fell again, and he turned to look at a bald man who was meditating on the top of a mountain about a thousand miles away.
He had actually noticed that Grand Master Zhiming and Zu Yuan, who had lost his cultivation, were already watching from there. He originally thought that the bald man was Red Moon's heavenly soldier, but the baldy from the Awareness Sect had no intention of taking action until now.
To be honest, he had never fought with this baldy before, and he had never seen him take action. He only knew that he was a cultivator who specialized in formations, like him.
"Grand Master Zhiming, if you don't take action now, Red Moon will die in my hands. Hehe..."
The mocking voice spread a thousand miles and fell into the Grand Master Zhiming's ears who was meditating on the top of the mountain, but he did not move at all.
Zu Yuan, who was standing next to him, looked at this situation with a troubled expression.
Seeing Si Xuanji being tied up in such an embarrassing state was like seeing a naughty kid finally being punished for her pranks. He was indeed a little happy right now.
But happiness aside, he didn't want to see Si Xuanji die at the hands of Yu Yan.
"Grand Master Zhiming, you won't help?"
"I..." Grand Master Zhiming put his hands together and answered in a very calm tone, "I can't beat him."
Zu Yuan was speechless: "..."
However, Grand Master Zhiming's words were true. Even if he still had his cultivation and joined forces with Zhiming, Si Xuanji, and the Demon King to attack Yu Yan, their chances of winning were less than 20%, not to mention him acting alone.
Every kind of cultivation had its advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage of a cultivator who practiced formation techniques was that he was almost invincible in his own territory, not to mention Gu Yu Yan, who had already reached the top of the cultivation at the Void Returning stage.
But Zu Yuan didn't get it.
Si Xuanji herself drew up the plan to attack the Heavenly Demon Sect. She must have been aware of Yu Yan's ability in his own territory.
Zu Yuan originally thought that Si Xuanji had some tricks up her sleeve, but now it seemed...
Even Zu Lingzhi, who was standing by, saw the dejected look on Red Moon Matriarch's face, and grabbed Zu Yuan's sleeve tightly, shouting: "Master!!! What…what should we do?"
The name "Ye Anping" popped up in Zu Yuan's mind, but he didn't understand how a Nascent Soul cultivator like Ye Anping could turn the tide in such a situation?
But even if he didn't understand, Ye Anping was the one who inherited his spiritual roots after all.
Zu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, and patted Zu Lingzhi's head, comforting her: "Huh - Red Moon Matriarch is not dead yet..."n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
"..."
Gu Yu Yan, who stood up and floated in front of Si Xuanji, waited for Grand Master Zhiming to make a move, but seeing that he still showed no signs of moving and ignored him, he shook his head slightly and turned back to look at Si Xuanji who was struggling in his formation.
"Red Moon, you really spoil my fun..."
Yu Yan had come here intending to fight Red Moon for ten days and ten nights, but he didn't expect that it would be over in just a few hours, before he could even use his full strength.
In order to kill Red Moon, he had been looking for the Heavenly Demonic Scroll for thousands of years.
In order to kill Red Moon, he had refined countless of his beloved disciples into blood pills...
However, at this moment, it was as if someone was telling him that he had simply wasted his efforts.
Disappointing!!!
How disappointing!!!
Gu Yu Yan narrowed his eyes and looked at Si Xuanji, who was gritting her teeth. Veins on his cheeks bulged as he could not control the anger in his heart. He raised his right hand.
"Die."
Yu Yan clenched his right fist after saying this.
A pillar of blood instantly gushed out from the earth veins, swallowing Si Xuanji into it, and then condensed into the stomach of a giant beast, and began to devour everything in it.
This technique was the ultimate technique in Gu Yu Yan's blood punishments. It was similar to Hu Mu's tail. After swallowing a cultivator, he could directly turn him into his own nutrients.
Gu Yu Yan had never used this technique to swallow a Void Returning cultivator. It would probably take a few years to digest Si Xuanji and turn her into blood, but he was not in a hurry. After all, as long as he swallowed Si Xuanji, the day of becoming a demon was one step closer.
As for the big fox...
Yu Yan glanced at the blood cocoon that was constantly wriggling on the side. It seemed that the Demon King was still struggling to get out.
Ying—
The ferocious fox's head was covered with blood. It broke out of the cocoon, bared its teeth, glared at Gu Yan, and roared: "Gu Yu Yan!!!"
"Fox, there is no grudge between you and me... Why are you doing this?"
Gu Yan looked calm, raised his right hand, and prepared to turn the Demon King into nutrients like Si Xuanji.
But at this moment...
Sizzle—
An icy blue arc of light streaked across the clouds from the north, bringing billows of ice and snow.
The nine-foot spear tip swept along the mountain soil, heading toward his face with overwhelming force.
Boom—!!
A stream of blood condensed into a spiritual shield in an instant, stopping the spear tip three feet away from Gu Yu Yan.
Gu Yu Yan squinted looking at it, and suddenly in his dull eyes reappeared a little interest: "Wow!! Rare guest, rare guest!!! Sun Juehu..."
"Hah—"
Sun Juehu was furious, and swept through thousands of troops with her black ice spear, bringing out thousands of feet of frost and snow to blast Yu Yan's chest, but Yu Yan was only pushed back a hundred feet and with a wave of his hand, he swallowed the black ice frost and snow into his blood formation.
Sun Juehu waved her spear, glanced at the bloody stomach nearby, and gritted her teeth slightly.
She had been planning to wait until Si Xuanji killed Gu Yan before taking action, so she had been hiding not far away, watching. However, she didn't expect that it was Si Xuanji who was forced into a desperate situation.
Si Xuanji could only die in her hands!!!
However, she had to die later!
Although Sun Juehu hated Si Xuanji, she also knew that between her and Si Xuanji was a personal grudge.
The real hatred was between the immortals and the demons.
If Si Xuanji died in Gu Yu Yan's hands, the immortals would be finished!!!
Sun Juehu glared at the blood-coagulated stomach and shouted: "Red Moon!!! Don't hide in there and play dead!!"
Gurgle gurgle...
The surface of the blood stomach was slightly bulging, but there was no sign of rupture.
Yu Yan patted his clothes lightly, looked at Sun Juehu, and said with a smile: "Come to think of it, didn't you have a grudge against Red Moon? It just so happens that I helped you avenge your grudge, but you didn't thank me, and even turned your spear against me. This is unacceptable... Hehe..."
"What do you have to do with my grudge?!!!"
Sun Juehu swung her spear, and with just this one action, she summoned a wind blade, leaving a hundred-foot gully on the mountains below.
Yu Yan was also in a playful mood, grinning slightly, and said with a smile: "Since Mrs. Sun is so close to that woman, how about I set up a private room for you two in the blood pool?"
Swish—!!!
The strong wind stopped for a moment, and then a sky-high murderous light burst out in the air, attacking Sun Juehu.
Sun Juehu raised her spear and swung it, soaring like a dragon. Almost instantly, it turned into an ice-blue stream of light, summoning a wave of frost from the sea of clouds, turning the blood it touched into blood-red icicles.
The air liquefied instantly, and bursts of icy mist filled the air.
The Patriarch and Young Lady of the Zu family, who were hiding in the protective formation a thousand miles away, felt their throats frozen just by taking a breath.
They hurriedly took out masks from their storage bags to put on their faces, squatted behind the meditating Grand Master, and used his eight-foot-tall body to block the frost.
Da Da Da...
The Grand Master's teeth were trembling uncontrollably, and his eyebrows were instantly covered with frost and snow.
"Hiss—Amitabha~~"
Zu Yuan hurriedly shouted: "What Amitabha, damn you? You can bear it, but me and my granddaughter can't...can't bear it!!! Quickly start the fire formation!"
Boom boom—
Sun Juehu and Gu Yu Yan collided in the air, creating arcs of light.
However, Yu Yan never took her seriously from beginning to end. It was as if he was playing with the spear in Sun Juehu's hand that turned into an ice dragon, like teasing it with a dragon ball.
After all, perhaps in the next tens of thousands of years, he will never have the opportunity to fight with cultivators of the same level again.
If he didn't take advantage of it now, he wouldn't get another chance in the future.
"Hahahahahaha—!!!"
Clang—!
Sun Juehu pointed her spear at Gu Yu Yan's blood arm and shouted: "How can you laugh?!!!"
"So what if I laugh? What can you do by yourself?" Gu Yu Yan didn't take her seriously at all, and took the time to shout to the Grand Master Zhiming in the distance, "Baldy!! Are you still not going to attack?!! Do you think my Heavenly Demon territory is your immortal martial arts arena where you can go up one by one?!! Hahahaha..."
"Hah--!!!"
Yu Yan winked meaningfully: "Empress, calm down... ok?!!"
As soon as the shout came out, the blood column around his body turned into a soft whip and hit the spear in Sun Juehu's hand with all his strength, then turned into countless tentacles, slapping Sun Juehu violently.
Boom boom boom--
Explosions continued in the air, beating the frost and snow protecting Sun Juehu's body into bursts of ice mist, and a cloud of snow appeared in the air.
Sun Juehu was struggling. She gritted her teeth, looked at the blood stomach behind her wrapped around Si Xuanji, and shouted again: "Red Moon!!! Come out and help me!!!"
Ying—!
Accompanied by the fox's cry, the dark mist once again formed a long whip and wrapped around Yu Yan.
However, Yu Yan just glanced sideways and waved his hand to block it.
"Fox, wouldn't it be better to take the opportunity to escape?"
"Ying—!!!"
However, the moment this shout was uttered…
Gu Yan suddenly felt a violent twitch in his heart, his eyes widened, and a long-forgotten pain rose from his abdomen.
Bang—
The blood flowing around his body instantly exploded into countless blood drops, and a bloody rain fell within a radius of one hundred miles.
Sun Juehu was still gritting her teeth, thinking about how to fight back. Seeing the blood claws that were whipping her suddenly explode, she was a little confused.
"Cough—"
Gu Yu Yan vomited a mouthful of blood, and turned in horror in the direction of the Heavenly Demon Sect behind him, with a look of disbelief on his face.
Boom—
A blood-red light shot toward the sky from the Heavenly Demon Sect.
Then, the blood stomach that wrapped Si Xuanji disintegrated instantly.
Si Xuanji's tightly closed yin and yang eyes slowly opened, she pursed her lips looking in the direction of the Heavenly Demon Sect, then raised her right hand to the sky, and the full moon that had been waiting for a long time broke through the clouds and fell like a meteorite.
The silver-white moonlight sprinkled on her long black and white hair, shining vividly.
She deliberately flew higher, looked at Gu Yu Yan who was vomiting blood below, and said with a loli voice: "Gu Yan, as you said, if I hadn't been prepared, how could I come here to fight you?"
"..."
"Even for a Void Returning cultivator, life and death are only a moment away."
Si Xuanji glanced at Sun Juehu standing with her spear. With a wave of her hand, a yin-yang shield rose from behind her head. Then, she said softly: "Just like what I said to you when we met..."
"Go to hell—"
Buzz—
The moonlight fell like a meteor, shattering the mountains and rivers.
A ray of light, like a new sun, shone over the Eastern Region, which was covered with dark clouds all year round.
When the light dissipated, Gu Yu Yan's figure had disappeared from their sight.
Si Xuanji exhaled a breath of spiritual mist and whispered: "What a disappointment..."
Then she turned her head to look at Sun Juehu who had pointed the spear toward her, and her eyes became gloomy.
Sun Juehu flicked her hair behind her, tightly grasped the spear, and said: "Is Sister Red Moon really powerful? Or is Mr. Ye really powerful?"
"...Sun Juehu." Si Xuanji frowned slightly, "Can't you..."
"No!!"
Sun Juehu's eyes sharpened, and she arrived near Si Xuanji in an instant, thrusting her spear toward her chest.
Boom--
The spiritual light lit up the land again in an instant.
Hu Mu, who was standing aside, also turned back into human form at this moment. Watching Sun Juehu and Si Xuanji fighting, he closed his eyes and calmed his mind for a while, no longer caring about them.
The fight between the Si and Sun women had nothing to do with him.
He only agreed to help them kill Gu Yu Yan.
And Gu Yu Yan was not dead yet!!
"Hmm...Yulan...hiss—" Hu Mu whined, sniffed lightly, and then turned into a ball of black mist again, hurrying toward the Heavenly Demon Sect.