As the Chaos Qi, like a ferocious giant beast, roared and tore through the rift of the Heavenly Gate, a purple light shot out from Lu Qingyang's sleeve like a meteor.
It was the Nine Heavens Thunder Fire Mirror, which spun rapidly in the air, emitting roars, as if cheering for its reappearance.
In an instant, purple lightning and azure frost intertwined, forming a massive thundercloud.
This thundercloud was a hundred zhang high, with lightning and thunder flashing within it, as if an ancient thunder beast was roaring in the clouds.
The thunder beast opened its fangs, spewing tribulation lightning from its mouth, which, like a divine punishment from the Nine Heavens, struck the bronze arrow with world-destroying power.
Under the bombardment of the tribulation lightning, the bronze arrow instantly melted into a puddle of molten iron; however, when the tribulation lightning touched the clothes of Lu Qingyang and the other two, it was as if it had encountered an insurmountable high wall, instantly transforming into specks of starlight, scattering like stars in the night sky.
"This key is quite a marvel," Lu Qingyang said, looking at the bronze key in his hand, suddenly realizing that it had unknowingly melted into a liquid, as if dissolved by some mysterious power.
And where the star marrow flowed, a twelve-petal Chaos Green Lotus slowly bloomed, each petal exuding a faint Chaos Qi.
The moment the lotus petals lifted the three of them, the ice soul hairpin at Leng Yuehan's temple suddenly burst forth with seven moon wheels.
The moon wheels hung high like a Cold Moon, emitting a chilling light; wherever the frost swept, the air seemed to freeze, and a thousand-mile glacier formed in an instant.
In the refraction of the glacier, Leng Yuehan's past life's afterimage flickered into view.
She held a long sword, standing in Guanghan Palace, striking the high-hanging bright moon with a single sword, her posture valiant, like a Fairy descended to the world.
Su Meiniang, seeing this scene, a sly smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.
She lightly tiptoed, like a dancing Fairy, gently stepping onto the Burning Sky Silk.
The Burning Sky Silk, as if endowed with life, quickly danced, its nine tails, like burning flames, wantonly stirring the Void Realm in the air.
In an instant, a huge opening seemed to be torn in the Void Realm, and a fiery red vortex was born under Su Meiniang's control.
The fiercely burning flames in the vortex, like the karmic fire of Hell, emitted a heart-palpitating heat.
Just then, three arrows, breaking through the air, arrived like shooting stars, with a sharp whooshing sound, shooting straight towards Su Meiniang.
However, Su Meiniang's expression remained unchanged; the golden bell at the tip of her tail suddenly emitted a crisp sound, like a morning bell and evening drum, clear and melodious.
With the sound of the golden bell, the three arrows suddenly burst in mid-air, scattering into countless fragments.
However, to everyone's surprise, where the arrowheads shattered, traces of Qingqiu Fox Clan blood seeped out.
"That old geezer stole my clan's secret treasure to refine arrows; he's truly tired of living!" Su Meiniang said with a cold voice, a hint of anger flashing in her beautiful eyes.
Before her voice faded, the fox flame, like an enraged fire Dragon, flowed upstream along the bloodstains, like a surging red torrent, burning a Dragon-shaped scorch mark deep within the glacier at an astonishing speed.
"Boom—"
Deep within the earth pulse, a mournful Dragon roar suddenly sounded, as if a wail from ancient times, making people's hair stand on end.
This sound was like a thunderous roar, shaking the entire Heavenly Gate ruins violently.
Suddenly, the Heavenly Gate ruins seemed to be flipped over by a huge force, and the part originally buried underground was exposed before everyone's eyes.
And with this flip, the collapsed Starry Sky fragments, as if drawn by some mysterious power, quickly condensed into a massive floating sword platform.
This floating sword platform was composed of a hundred thousand ancient bronze swords, each glowing with a cold light, revealing a murderous aura.
These ancient swords were arranged in a mysterious way, forming a breathtaking Immortal Slaying Sword Formation diagram.
At the core of the formation, there was a huge statue of a nine-headed snake body.
This statue was lifelike, each snake head appearing ferocious and terrifying.
And when the nine-headed snake body statue slowly opened its vertical pupils, a powerful oppressive force instantly enveloped the entire space.
In the mouth of each snake head, there was a Heaven Severing Sword, and these Heaven Severing Swords were entwined with elemental True Fire of different attributes: crimson Southern Brightness Li Fire, dark blue Xuanming True Water, dark green Yi Wood Azure Thunder, and so on, in various colors, dazzling and brilliant.
"This is... the remains of the Nine Infants Demon Venerable!" Leng Yuehan's face changed drastically upon seeing this; her wide sleeves surged like flowing clouds, from which a moon essence peeled off, transforming into the Taiyin Soul Slaughtering Wheel, fiercely crushing three incoming Sword Qi.
"Daoist Lu, you must be careful, those snake pupils are formed from xuanming ice soul, and their power is astonishing!" Leng Yuehan reminded loudly.
However, before her voice faded, the third snake head suddenly opened its mouth and fiercely spat out a crimson tongue.
This tongue was as swift as lightning, reaching Lu Qingyang in the blink of an eye.
The tip of the tongue burst forth with Primordial Xuanhuang Qi, which rapidly condensed into three thousand chains in the air, each chain imprinted with the Forbidden Text of the Qingqiu Fox Clan, exuding a heart-palpitating aura.
Facing this sudden attack, Lu Qingyang showed no fear.
His Nascent Soul Avatar instantly grew three zhang, exuding Chaos Qi, like a War God.
At the same time, the Chaos Green Lotus in his hand suddenly closed, transforming into a sturdy set of armor, tightly enveloping him.
Immediately after, a copper coin sword suddenly flew out from the core of the Chaos Green Lotus.
This copper coin sword spun rapidly in the air, stirring up a Xing Jie Dan Fire, like a burning meteor, directly crashing towards the three thousand chains.
"Su Jiejie, lend me a drop of your tail-tip blood!" Lu Qingyang shouted, his hand forming a magical incantation, and the copper coin sword immediately glowed with a blood-red light.
Su Meiniang chuckled as she bit her tongue, her essence blood merging into the Burning Sky Silk to form a nine-tailed Celestial Fox phantom.
The moment the fox phantom's sharp claws tore open the chains, the remains of the Starry Sky Merchant Guild's spirit boat appeared in the ghostly fire spewed by the second snake head, and the ice-sealed Guanghan Palace Master's Dao body slowly opened its eyes in the firelight.
"Master!" Leng Yuehan's eyes widened, her pupils contracting sharply as if about to burst, and the Taiyin Soul Slaughtering Wheel, like a wild horse, uncontrollably crashed into the statue.
The moment the Ice Soul Sword Qi touched the snake scales, the Big Dipper star patterns spread rapidly from the sword marks like a plague, and the entire glacier battlefield was instantly covered by a blood-colored formation diagram.
Lu Qingyang fiercely tore open the sleeve of his right arm, and the nine star pupils that opened on the surface of his bronze fate, like nine brilliant stars, shot out beams of annihilation: "The Soul Devouring Sect's Heaven Swapping Array, how dare it make a fool of itself here!"
The beams, like sharp arrows, pierced through the core of the formation with the force of thunder, and the bronze scales shed by the nine-headed snake statue instantly transformed into a hundred thousand sword rain, pouring down like a torrential storm onto the Chaos Green Lotus, but melting into scorching iron juice the moment they touched the Green Lotus.
Su Meiniang's nine tails, like nine nimble snakes, tightly wrapped around three coiling Dragon pillars, her tail-tip golden bell shattered, and the Qingqiu blood sacrifice script seeping from the demonic text was like a curse from the Underworld: "Little Lord, the seventh reverse scale hides the essence soul of a mirage Dragon!"
The fox flame stirred by the Burning Sky Silk, like a fire Dragon soaring into the sky, condensed into a fiercely burning Sanwei True Fire, refining ancient and mysterious ancient Dragon script from the bronze scales.
Leng Yuehan's face was pale, and he suddenly bit his fingertip fiercely, blood immediately gushing out like a spring.
He unhesitatingly sprinkled this drop of essence blood into the air, and the essence blood quickly drew a strange pattern in the Void Realm—the Guanghan Palace's ultimate technique, "Moon Eclipse Three Thousand Realms"!
The pattern formed by the essence blood was like a bright, clear moon, emitting a cold light.
With a soft shout from Leng Yuehan, this moon suddenly erupted with a powerful force, crushing towards the three ferocious snake heads.
The moon wheels formed by the Ice Soul Sword Qi collided with the snake heads, creating an earth-shattering roar.
In an instant, cold air permeated, and the surrounding air seemed to freeze.
The three snake heads, facing this powerful force, had no power to resist and were instantly crushed into countless fragments.
However, the moment the cold air touched the xuanming ice soul, a mysterious power suddenly surged from within the xuanming ice soul.
This power, as if dormant for a long time, began to frantically devour everything around it after being awakened by the cold air.
"This statue... is actually devouring my past life's Dao rhythm!" Leng Yuehan's face became extremely ugly; he clearly had not expected such a thing to happen.
"Just in time!" Lu Qingyang's eyes flashed with joy upon seeing this.
He unhesitatingly leaped his Nascent Soul from his Heavenly Spirit, and at the same time, the Chaos Green Lotus rapidly transformed into a Pill Furnace phantom.
Lu Qingyang waved his hand, and the copper coin sword, as if pulled by an invisible force, automatically flew into his hand.
Holding the copper coin sword, he gently flicked it, and the ice soul hairpin at Leng Yuehan's temple, like a meteor, flew straight into the Pill Furnace phantom.
The Pill Fire in the Pill Furnace phantom burned fiercely; the moment the ice soul hairpin fell into it, the Pill Fire and the North Sea ice marrow on the ice soul hairpin instantly made contact.
In an instant, the Pill Fire became exceptionally violent, as if it wanted to burn the entire world to ashes.
Just then, the Nine Heavens Thunder Fire Mirror suddenly emitted a dazzling light, and within the light, a star map of the Gui Xu Sea Eye in the South Sea was actually reflected.
Su Meiniang, seeing this, shot out a Burning Sky Flame from her beautiful eyes; her nine tails behind her burned fiercely like flames, instantly condensing into a crimson Avatar.
"The Qingqiu Grand Elder, who went missing hundreds of years ago, was actually refined into a coffin-guarding Puppet!" Su Meiniang's voice was filled with shock and anger.
A drop of essence blood seeped from the tip of her tail, and this drop of essence blood, like a burning flame, landed directly on the surface of the coffin.
The essence blood quickly branded a rebirth monument formation diagram on the coffin's surface, and the patterns on the formation diagram, like living things, began to spread rapidly.
However, when the formation patterns touched the Starry Sky Merchant Guild's imprint, a backlash suddenly occurred.
The formation patterns, like enraged venomous snakes, sharply rebounded, lunging towards Su Meiniang.
"Beware of the Karmic Red Lotus!" Lu Qingyang threw out his bronze fate to block the backlash, and the Tiantian Daowen that appeared where the rust peeled off suddenly came alive.
The moment the giant mouth swallowed the Red Lotus, the North Sea ice marrow embedded in the ancient demon's brow suddenly reflected the scene of Leng Yuehan's past life swinging her sword to cleave the moon.
The entire Heaven Ruins trembled violently, and the chaos bell pestle spewed from the remains' mouth was entwined with Xing Jie Dan Fire.
When the Bell and Pestle touched the bloodstain on Lu Qingyang's palm, the South Sea star map suddenly contracted into a speck of light, and an ancient Dragon roar came from the depths of the Gui Xu Sea Eye.
"So that's how it is..." Lu Qingyang wiped away the bloodstain from the corner of his mouth, and the Chaos Green Lotus suddenly bloomed with twelve petals, "Fairy Leng was able to awaken the Taiyin Soul Slaughtering Wheel back then, she's actually the Reincarnation of the first Palace Master of Guanghan!"
Su Meiniang's nine tails wrapped around the incoming Bell and Pestle, and the Burning Sky Silk rolled up the Qingqiu rebirth monument: "The Starry Sky imprint in this remains' Dantian is actually from the same source as Lingxu Zi's Soul Devouring Curse Mark!"
The star marrow flowing from the inscription suddenly condensed into chains, dragging the mirage Dragon's essence soul, which was attempting to escape, back into the Alchemy furnace.
Leng Yuehan's Taiyin Soul Slaughtering Wheel crushed the last three Restrictions, and the Ice Soul Sword Qi drew a complete moon wheel in the Void Realm: "Daoist Lu, the star marrow tide of the Gui Xu Sea Eye is about to erupt!"
"Let's go!" Lu Qingyang crushed his bronze fate, and the bursting star marrow condensed into the Ferrying Calamity Boat beneath their feet.
The moment the boat touched the sea eye, the Chaos Green Lotus suddenly closed, forming bone armor that enveloped his entire body, and the star map reflected by the Nine Heavens Thunder Fire Mirror clearly showed an ancient demon Undergoing Tribulation, confined by chains.
The moment the Ferrying Calamity Boat pierced through the star marrow tide, the unwilling roar of the Nine Infants Demon Venerable came from behind them.
In the surging Primordial Xuanhuang Qi, Lu Qingyang's past life's name gradually appeared at the bottom of the bronze coffin, and within the remains of the Starry Sky Merchant Guild's spirit boat, the Soul Devouring Sect Master's soul imprint was quietly recovering...
