The Legend of the Princess' Counterattack

Chapter 866: Heavenly Dao Corpse Puppet: Former Void Spirit Envoy

Bloody mist swirled through the Corpse Puppet Cemetery, each wisp carrying the stench of the Laws of Heaven. Yun Yao's Chaos Dao foundation rippled, and the System Master within her sea of consciousness suddenly sounded a piercing alarm: "Full fluctuations in the Laws of Heaven detected! Energy intensity exceeds the current tolerance threshold by 300%!" Before the words had even finished, the ground exploded, and a pale figure, entangled in chains, emerged from the earth. The chains were covered in inscribed seal characters, glowing a faint blue light. These were none other than the Heavenly Dao Pavilion's most forbidden curse, the "Heavenly Dao Soul-Locking Curse."

Yun Yao's pupils suddenly constricted—the corpse's face was identical to hers, two clusters of dark golden flames burning in its hollow eye sockets. Embedded in its chest was a half-block of crystal inscribed with star tracks—the legendary "Heavenly Core." Chu Mochen fiercely shielded her behind him. The Ni Lin Blood Sword roared like a dragon, and the candle dragon pattern on its blade glowed with golden red. "Be careful, this is..."

"The former Void Spirit Envoy." The System Lord's voice trembled with a rare tremor. "A victim thrown into the 'Heavenly Dao Furnace' by the Pavilion Master a hundred years ago, a being that should have been reduced to ashes..." The corpse puppet suddenly raised its hand, and chains shot out like a living being, one of which precisely wrapped around Yun Yao's wrist. She was horrified to discover that the incantations on the chains were frantically absorbing the chaotic spiritual energy within her body, while the Heavenly Dao Core in the corpse puppet's chest began to resonate, continuously draining her power.

"So you're the new vessel," the corpse puppet said, its voice like sandpaper scraping against metal. "Let me teach you the consequences of betraying the Way of Heaven—" Before he could finish his words, Chu Mochen's Ni Lin Blood Sword had already shattered three chains, its force like a rainbow piercing the sun, striking directly between the corpse puppet's eyebrows. However, the moment the sword's tip touched the corpse puppet, a powerful burst of light erupted from the core of the Way of Heaven, sending the blood sword flying a hundred meters. Chu Mochen stumbled to the ground, dragon blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, and his Candle Dragon phantom began to turn transparent.

Yun Yao seized the opportunity to activate her Chaos Dao Foundation, attempting to cut off the power transmission. However, her consciousness was suddenly dragged into a dark space, and countless fragments of memories flooded back like a tide: a hundred years ago, the Void Spirit Envoy and Zhu Yin (Chu Mochen's previous life) had secretly met at the Heavenly Dao Pavilion, where they had secretly buried half of the Heavenly Dao Core in the Corpse Puppet Cemetery; the Pavilion Master's sneer; the despair in her eyes as she was pushed into the furnace... And deep within these memories lay a truth that horrified her: the current Pavilion Master's true identity was actually the spirit of the Heavenly Dao Core!

"Do you remember?" The voice of the corpse puppet exploded in her sea of consciousness, "Back then, Zhu Yin used the power of defying fate to protect your soul, and I volunteered to be the bait. But now, it's time to repay the debt." The Heavenly Dao core in the chest of the corpse puppet suddenly expanded, and the space of the entire cemetery began to distort. Countless Heavenly Dao chains emerged from the void, trapping Yun Yao and Chu Mochen into a cocoon.

At the critical moment, Yun Yao suddenly discovered a fine crack on the corpse puppet's neck, a flaw left by the forced fusion of the Heavenly Dao Core. She bit her tongue and sprayed her blood essence onto the Void Spirit Jade. The jade revealed the "Fate-Defying Talisman Formation" she and Zhu Yin had drawn together in their previous lives. The formation transformed into a stream of light and sank into the corpse puppet, unexpectedly pulling the power of the Heavenly Dao Chain in the opposite direction. The corpse puppet let out an inhuman roar, and the Heavenly Dao Core began to tremble violently, and the cracks spread at a visible speed.

"So that's how it is." Chu Mochen suddenly chuckled, and dragon blood dripped along the blade, outlining ancient array patterns on the ground. "We buried more than half a core back then - Yun Yao, do you remember the opportunity to bind to the system when you traveled through time?" Yun Yao's whole body trembled, and she figured out all the connections in an instant: the essence of the system is a fragment of the core of the Heavenly Dao, and the binding condition is precisely the remaining Void Spirit Bloodline in her body!

At that moment, the system's mechanical voice vanished completely, replaced by a cold female voice: "Ethereal Envoy, it's time to complete the unfinished plan." A beam of light emanated from Yun Yao's brow, forming a triangular resonance with the Ethereal Jade and the Heavenly Dao Core. The corpse puppet's body began to disintegrate, the Heavenly Dao chains transformed into scattered stardust, and the phantom of the Pavilion Master's spirit within the core gradually materialized.

"Do you think you can resist the predetermined fate?" The shadow of the Pavilion Master grinned, "Look at the heart of this corpse puppet!" Yun Yao looked closely and saw a beating black crystal hidden deep in the chest of the corpse puppet. The surface of the crystal was densely engraved with the longitude and latitude coordinates of the modern earth - it turned out that the Tiandao Pavilion had already extended its tentacles to her hometown. The so-called "reunification of the Heavenly Dao" was nothing more than refining the earth into a new core energy source!

Chu Mochen roared, and the shadow of the Candle Dragon soared to a thousand feet. The Ni Lin Blood Sword, wrapped in blazing flames, slashed towards the Pavilion Master. Yun Yao mobilized all of her chaotic spiritual energy, condensing a star-like projection in the void. Their attacks struck the core simultaneously. Amidst the violent explosion, Yun Yao saw the Pavilion Master's final plot: he had already planted hidden devices throughout the Three Thousand God Realms, and the countdown to detonating the Earth was less than a hundred years.

After the dust settled at the Corpse Puppet Cemetery, Yun Yao grasped the fragmented Heavenly Dao Core, sensing the Earth's aura within. Chu Mochen placed his blood-stained hand over the back of hers. Dragon blood and chaotic spiritual energy mingled, casting a shadow of their past and present lives on the ground. The voice of the System Lord (now the Star Realm Center) rang out: "Demonic fluctuations detected. The next war may come sooner than we imagine."

Yun Yao looked up at the blood-red sky and tightened her grip on Chu Mochen's hand. She finally understood that she had to protect not only the world of cultivation, but also the blue planet that held all her concerns. The appearance of the Heavenly Dao Corpse Puppet was merely the tip of the iceberg of the Pavilion Master's vast conspiracy. The true crisis was slowly emerging from the cracks in the divine realm...