Chapter Ninety-Four: The Underground Palace

  He concentrated his mind and controlled the painting scroll and ancient tripod to move closer to the altar, wanting to take a look at that broken black stone.

  As he walked in, the pressure emanating from the magic stele grew greater. When he was within twenty steps of it, the aura emitted by the stele had become almost tangible. The icy aura pierced through the glow of the painting and ancient tripod, reaching deep into Ding Yan's soul. Under the eerie aura, fear began to spread.

  Under the magical stele, an extraordinary old demon is absolutely buried.

  Ding Yan could no longer get close, he clearly sensed the mournful cry of the painting and the ancient tripod.

  The treasure left by Jiujie Xiansan can only support Dingyan's journey up to this point.

  Following the trend, Ding Yan's gaze fell on the broken stone. The broken stone was about five meters high, with dense and intricate ghostly patterns carved on its surface. After the black fog appeared on the magic stele, these ghostly patterns also flickered. Unfortunately, this piece of black stone had been forcibly broken by someone, so that the magic energy could not be infused into the black stone.

  Ahh!!

  Ding Yan attempted to attack the black stone, but the yuan force he released was like hitting steel and was dispersed with a crisp sound. Looking at the broken stone again, there was no trace left behind.

  "The hardness of this black stone is comparable to that of refined gold." He withdrew his aura and sank into deep thought.

  The Demon Stele is clearly absorbing some kind of power scattered within the city of futile death and then transmitting it into the underground through the black stone.

  "Ah..."

  A shrill cry rang out.

  Ding Yan turned around and saw that the Blood Path cultivator who was guarding outside the square had been injured by someone, and his body was flying towards Ding Yan's direction in a sorry state.

  Ding-dong...

  A crisp sound of iron chains echoed. A headless ancient corpse wrapped in iron chains appeared at the edge of the square, with fresh blood dripping from the iron chain on its right arm. The powerful and overbearing Blood Path cultivator was actually injured by this headless ancient corpse.

  An ancient corpse stood at the edge of the square, but did not step forward. Under his feet, countless black auras flowed in like water, constantly surging into his body.

  The pupil of the eye contracts.

  This headless ancient corpse was the same one he had seen in the outer domain before. Originally, the ancient corpse wasn't this powerful. But now, something unexpected had happened, making it so that even a Blood Path cultivator like him wasn't its match.

  Bang!

  Another muffled sound.

  On the edge of the square, in another direction, a pitch-black iron coffin appeared at some unknown time. The coffin was surrounded by an aura of darkness, eerie and strange.

  "Quickly, kid, give me the Three Souls Sword Qi or we'll both be dead!" The Blood Path Cultivator's expression was urgent, as if he had seen something.

  Under the intimidating aura of Mo Bei, he didn't dare to move forward too much.

  Firstly, he had not fully recovered and was injured again by the ancient corpse. Secondly, he did not have a good spiritual treasure to help him resist the aura of the magic stele. Just standing in the square was already very strenuous for him.

  Shasha...

  In the southwest of the square, a ghostly figure made entirely of leaves appeared. At the same time, a skull with a body completely red with blood also appeared on the opposite side. Four demons, forming a quadrangle, stood at the edge of the square and did not step forward.

  "This is the Ancient Soul-Extraction Formation!" The Blood Path's face turned deathly pale, and a hint of madness leaked out from his blood-red eyes.

  The Ancient Soul-Extracting Array is a genuine magical array that can extract the souls of all living beings within a hundred miles, transform them into life force, and provide it to some extraordinary old demons for cultivation. Some exceptional individuals also like to use this array to defy heaven and rebirth.

  The Blood Path cultivator suddenly leaped into the air, and in the midst of the void, his right arm exploded with a loud crash.

  In an instant, the evil energy on Blood Path's body increased by more than tenfold. A blood-red light shot out and flew directly towards Ding Yan's location. Ding Yan used his Cloud Step to dodge to the side, trying to avoid Blood Path's attack.

  BOOM!!

  At the moment when Ding's words moved, a blood-red aura burst forth from the bodies of the four monsters around the square. A dark and evil force took the four as its base and merged into the ground. The black bricks on the square exploded with a loud noise after coming into contact with this aura, and one by one, ghosts flew out from within.

  The ghosts were like rain, crazily flying towards the magic tablet.

  Having lost the support of the bricks, the huge square directly turned into a giant pit, and Ding Yanshun fell down with the momentum. On him, the light of the painting scroll and the ancient tripod became even dimmer. The Blood Path person behind also followed closely.

  The giant pit was unknown how deep it was. Ding Yan fell in the air for about half a cup of tea time before he saw the ground.

  This is an underground palace!

  The surroundings were made up of huge, light yellow square stones, on which there were murals and several card slots for placing torches. Inside, the torches continued to burn, with flames jumping and flickering, and the shadows of the stone pillars in the hall also swayed back and forth.

  Ding Yan's right foot tapped lightly in mid-air.

  The Eight Trigrams flashed, and under the effect of Leiyun's movement, Ding Yan fell like a willow leaf, silently and quietly.

  "A sea of blood, overflowing the heavens!"

  Above the void, the blood halberds fell from the sky like a vast ocean. The Blood Path cultivator stood on the sea of blood, surrounded by swirling mists of blood. Ding Yan's face changed color; without the restraint of the Demon Stele, the Blood Path cultivator's magical powers were enough to suppress him in an instant.

  "Sky Splitting Finger!" Ding Yan stood below, pointing out with one finger.

  The illusory finger print transforms into a tangible form, and then begins frantically absorbing the surrounding energy.

  At the same time, Ding Yan's feet stepped on the thundercloud step, transforming into a flowing light that rushed towards the depths of the stone hall.

  BOOM!!

  The illusory giant finger pointed towards the upper Blood Sea and pressed down. The power of the Taoist technique was unfathomable, and with a single finger, even the Blood Sea trembled slightly. A strange light flashed in the eyes of the Blood Path person, but it quickly disappeared.

  Blood filled the sky, and endless waves of blood instantly swallowed up the giant finger.

  The gap in cultivation can make up for everything.

  The blood sea transformed, forming a massive whirlpool that converged towards the Blood Path person in the center. By the time it landed on the ground, all the blood waves had already merged into the Blood Path person's body.

  "Blood Dragon!" The Blood Path person's left hand sank deeply.

  A massive wave of blood shot out from his palm, transforming into a blood dragon that roared out.

  Ding Yan, in the midst of fleeing, clearly felt that the Blood Dragon was getting closer and closer to him. He stopped in his tracks, and a hint of ruthlessness flashed across his eyes. With a flick of his right hand, he tore off the ancient Ding from his head, and between his fingers, a virtual yin-yang aura appeared, merging into the ancient Ding.

  "Reversal of Yin and Yang!"

  With the experience of his past life, Ding Yan's means of fighting were in no way inferior to those of a Blood Path cultivator.

  The old tripod rotated out and heavily collided with the Blood Dragon.

  BOOM!!

  The terrifying Blood Dragon was actually shaken open by the aura of Gu Ding, and the huge dragon head was placed on the side stone pillar. And after this move, Gu Ding also lost his momentum, even the surface green light completely faded away, turned into a flowing light, and escaped into Ding Yan's body.

  "So you're also a reincarnated person! No wonder you understand that ancient Taoist technique."

  A blood tide swept across the sky, a gigantic blood vortex spinning in mid-air, stopping above the dragon's head and coalescing into the figure of a Blood Path person.

  "As long as I refine you, and with the help of Huang Quan's three souls sword energy, this demon will surely break through the current realm and achieve the supreme magic body. At that time, even this ancient soul-extracting array won't be able to trap me..."