mtl008 Chapter 2025
Chapter 2025
The Red Lotus Karmic Fire is specifically designed to burn the soul and karma, making it a deadly nemesis for beings like these, who are corrupted by evil wills and whose hands are stained with blood.
When the flames touched them, they burrowed into their cultivation and soul like maggots clinging to bones, scorching their very essence.
Chen Xuan had personally endured the burning of his soul by the Red Lotus Karmic Fire for seven days, and knew the pain deeply. However, the screams of these beings, whose strength was comparable to that of a third-class True Immortal or a first-class Celestial Immortal, far exceeded his expectations.
He paused in the void, not in a hurry to press his advantage, but keeping a close eye on the reactions of the creatures, his mind filled with doubts: "Something's not right. Creatures of this level, even if burdened with sins, should have strong enough bodies and souls. How could they be so badly burned by karmic fire?"
He stared at a wolf-headed, spider-bodied creature rolling on the ground, watching the fragments of human souls constantly overflowing from its spirit. Suddenly, a guess occurred to him, and he murmured:
"Could it be that after capturing human cultivators, they not only absorb their cultivation but also devour their souls to strengthen themselves? These foreign souls are not derived from or strengthened by themselves, and their foundations are unstable. When they encounter the karmic fire, they reveal their true nature and become so vulnerable?"
With this in mind, Chen Xuan no longer hesitated and increased the output of the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire. The crimson flames dyed the sky red, scorching the souls and malevolent energy of the creatures, causing their strength to decline rapidly at a visible rate.
At the same time, he raised his hand and summoned seventy-two pure white, top-grade Fuxi staffs from his storage ring. The staffs were covered with mysterious array patterns, forming an indestructible trapping array in the void within a radius of 100,000 miles.
Although formations were not his specialty, his understanding of the fundamental principles of formations was more than enough to trap these enemies at the True Immortal level.
The eighteen creatures, along with the leading spider-humanoid creature, had already been burned to death by the karmic fire, and there was no trace of their previous ferocity left.
They tried their best to escape from the formation, some frantically ramming the formation walls with their spider legs, some spraying venom to corrode the formation patterns, and others trying to join forces to launch a fierce attack on the same spot in the formation.
However, the trapping formation set up by Chen Xuan was as solid as a rock. No matter how they attacked, they could only make the formation walls flicker, but they could not break through it.
The karmic fire continued to erode their power, their malevolent aura gradually dissipated, and their force against the great formation weakened.
Chen Xuan stood with his hands behind his back amidst the karmic flames, his robes fluttering in the fire. He coldly watched as these strange creatures went from their initial frantic struggles to their near-death experiences, and finally their forms gradually disintegrated, turning into wisps of black mist that were completely burned away in the crimson karmic flames, leaving not even a trace of their souls behind.
Of the eighteen creatures, only the spider-humanoid creature that controlled the formation held out until the very end.
It collapsed in mid-air, its bluish-black skin charred black, the venomous snake on its head long since turned to ash, its voice filled with barely concealed terror:
"Impossible! You're just a Void Reversal Realm cultivator, not even a Celestial Immortal in the Ancient Ancestor's memories. How could you possibly control the Crimson Lotus Karmic Flame completely? Although I can't stop the karmic flame, if you kill me, you'll be targeted by the Ancient Ancestor's will! Human brat, you'll die a horrible death. Sooner or later, you'll be transformed by the Ancestor and become a puppet for your own kind to kill each other!"
As soon as it finished speaking, it seemed to remember something, and suddenly let out a shrill laugh of resentment before its form completely dissipated into the void.
Only three jet-black arrows and a blood-red, menacing bow remained suspended in place.
Chen Xuan raised his hand and the blood-red bow shrank to the size of a palm, landing in his hand.
He tried to infuse his magic power into the bow, but found that the bow was like an invisible barrier that he could not refine at all.
"The danger of that arrow just now was far beyond that of a celestial-grade magic weapon; it must have been a pure yang-grade or innate-grade divine weapon."
He weighed the great bow in his hand and muttered to himself, "I'll keep it for now and study it when I have the chance." With that thought, he put the great bow and arrows into his storage ring and retrieved the seventy-two Fuxi staffs.
He carefully scanned the surroundings with his divine sense, but found no trace of information about the Devouring Demon Star Ruins or the Immortal Clan left by the eighteen creatures.
Chen Xuan immediately worried about Qiu Zixian, his brows furrowing tightly: "I was careless! The talismans and defensive formations I gave Zixian are enough to deal with ordinary first-class celestial immortals and third-class true immortals, but if we encounter a strange creature with this kind of strength, I'm afraid they won't be enough at all."
He dared not delay any longer, and with a solemn expression, he began to teleport. A silvery-white stream of light streaked through the void and sped off in the direction Qiu Zixian might be heading.
But after flying less than three million miles, Chen Xuan suddenly stopped – he had actually triggered a huge formation hidden in the void!
Upon seeing the patterns of the formation clearly, he was shocked: "This is actually a broken Pure Yang Formation! No! The sect leader clearly said that this place was the site of the decisive battle between forty Quasi-Emperors. How could there be a Pure Yang Formation here?"
When he first moved to this void, everything around him was peaceful and safe, and he didn't even detect a trace of an array.
But the moment he took a step, the surrounding void suddenly flickered with dense killing array runes, which intertwined into a net, instantly trapping him within.
Chen Xuan's heart tightened, and he wanted to use spatial teleportation to escape again, but he found that the void had already been sealed by the formation, and he could not mobilize spiritual power at all.
Fortunately, after observing carefully for a while, he discovered that the Pure Yang Formation had been severely damaged, with a corner of the formation wall missing, and its operation was somewhat sluggish.
With Chen Xuan's profound understanding of the Dao of Formations, breaking the formation would not be difficult if he simply calmed down and deciphered its operating logic.
He was not in a hurry. With a wave of his hand, he summoned the small, spinning Northern Underworld Immortal Mansion. Upon entering the mansion, Chen Xuan immediately sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began to deduce the mysteries of the great array set up outside.
Just as Chen Xuan was immersed in deducing the formation, a teasing voice suddenly rang in his mind, lazy yet still a bit groggy from just waking up: "Hey kid, this void you're in isn't simple. I can actually sense a familiar aura—where is this?"
Upon hearing the voice, Chen Xuan was first taken aback, then filled with a mixture of joy and anger, cursing in his mind, "Little Tower, you're finally awake! Do you know that I was almost surrounded and killed by strange creatures in this Devouring Demon Star Ruins!"
"What? It's the Devouring Demon Star Void? The Immortal Ancient Battle, where nearly forty Quasi-Emperor level beings from both sides perished?"