The Gui Xu Sea Eye's vortex swallowed and exhaled the Spiritual Tide of the Three Realms. Lu Qingyang sat cross-legged on a lotus platform forged from the Chaos Green Lotus. The roots of the Chaos Green Lotus pierced through twelve layers of Void Realm barriers, actively devouring a dark purple Spiritual Vein. In the distance, among the floating coral reefs, the Merman Great Priest held a Dragon Bone Scepter, and the scales of the three thousand Merman Guards behind him reflected the black flag pattern of the Starry Sky Merchant Guild.
"Daoist Lu has been in seclusion for three days, he certainly has patience!" The Feather Race Sword Immortal, Bai Wuya, flapped his wings and hovered at the edge of the vortex. The seven Lifebound Swords behind him shimmered like stars, forming the Zhou Tian Star Array, exuding a terrifying Spiritual Pressure.
The Gui Xu Sea Eye only appears once every hundred years. If this opportunity is missed, he would likely have to wait another hundred years. Bai Wuya was secretly anxious, but on the surface, he remained calm.
However, just as he finished speaking, seventy-two streams of Green Lotus Sword Qi shot out from the depths of the vortex, rushing forth like lightning. These Sword Qi were incredibly fast, reaching the coral reefs in the blink of an eye.
In an instant, the Soul-Devouring Insect eggs hidden within the coral reefs burst open, and a green toxic mist permeated the seawater. These Soul-Devouring Insect eggs were extremely malicious; once they invaded the body, they would devour a Cultivator's Soul, causing unbearable suffering.
Just as the toxic mist spread, a figure emerged from the vortex, breaking through the water. Lu Qingyang stepped onto a pure white lotus platform, as if an Immortal had descended. On his Nascent Soul Dao platform, the Chaos Green Lotus had already bloomed its ninth petal, emitting a dazzling light.
Lu Qingyang's lips curved slightly, a half-smile playing on his face as he looked at Bai Wuya and slowly said, "Fellow Daoist Bai's Seven Star Sword Array seems much looser than it was three days ago."
His voice was not loud, but it echoed across the sea like a great bell. Bai Wuya's expression changed slightly upon hearing this, and he was secretly alarmed. Lu Qingyang had been in seclusion for three days, and his strength had improved so much.
At this moment, the sea surface suddenly erupted with thousand-foot-high waves. A Demon Race warship, like a ferocious beast, broke through the Void Realm and descended. At the bow of the warship stood a black-robed man, none other than Ye Wusha.
Ye Wusha sneered, tightly gripping the Eight Desolations Flag. His gaze was cold as he stared at Lu Qingyang, taunting, "Brother Lu's nose is still as keen as ever, to be able to detect the Soul Devouring Gu I hid within the Spiritual Tide." Before he finished speaking, the Eight Desolations Flag in his hand suddenly unfurled, as if imbued with life.
The patterns on the flag surface began to writhe as if alive, and twelve gigantic Heavenly Demon statues slowly rose from the seabed. Each of these Heavenly Demon statues was dozens of feet tall, with ferocious and distorted faces, exuding a chilling aura. Even more astonishingly, the brow of each Heavenly Demon statue was inlaid with the Lifebound Treasure of a different race, clearly Sealed here by Ye Wusha using some special method.
At this moment, Su Meiniang's Fox Fire-tail swiftly wrapped around Lu Qingyang's waist like lightning. Her movements were light and agile, like a phantom. The golden bell at the tip of her tail suddenly vibrated, instantly shattering three Heavenly Demon statues into countless fragments, scattering them across the ground.
Su Meiniang playfully chided, "Little Lord, you've been in seclusion for three days, have you finished all of Sister's drunken immortal brew?" Her voice revealed a hint of playful blame and intimacy. Before her words faded, the Burning Sky Silk in her hand shot out like a fire dragon, tightly entangling Ye Wusha's flagstaff.
The Fox Fire quickly spread along the array patterns, burning fiercely and heading straight for the ship's hull. Ye Wusha's expression changed slightly upon seeing this, and he quickly activated his Magic Power to resist the sudden attack. However, Su Meiniang's Fox Fire was exceptionally fierce; in the blink of an eye, it ignited the Merman Blood Curse at the bottom of the ship, and raging flames soared into the sky, engulfing the entire ship in a sea of fire.
In the deep, silent seabed, a colossal bronze light suddenly emerged from the darkness. It was a massive bronze coffin, seemingly carrying endless secrets and power.
Gongshuye stood to the side, tightly gripping his gilded hammer, his eyes gleaming with excitement and anticipation. He swung his hammer fiercely, smashing it hard against the bronze coffin lid. With a loud bang, the coffin lid shattered.
"I told you long ago there was something wrong with this Sea Suppressing Coffin!" Gongshuye shouted triumphantly, his voice echoing through the seabed.
However, the moment the coffin lid shattered, a powerful force surged out from within the coffin. It was xuanming heavy water, which rapidly condensed into a figure like a black torrent—the figure of the Soul Devouring Sect Master.
The Soul Devouring Sect Master's phantom coldly looked at Gongshuye and said, "Little Lu, was it you who altered the taotie pattern at the bottom of the coffin?"
Gongshuye was stunned, then burst into laughter, saying, "Great Master Gongshu's Artifact Refining technique certainly benefited Mr. Lu."
Just then, Lu Qingyang's Nascent Soul suddenly left his body, rushing towards the bronze coffin like a flash of lightning. The roots of the Chaos Green Lotus also rapidly extended, firmly embedding themselves into the bronze coffin.
The Heavenly Dao Eye in the lotus heart shimmered with light, revealing the secret at the bottom of the coffin—three projections of primeval star shards were being refined into array eyes, emitting terrifying energy fluctuations.
"The Sect Master uses the Gui Xu Sea Eye to nourish the Immortal Realm passage; this is far more grand than the Starry Sky Merchant Guild's approach," Lu Qingyang's voice echoed from the seabed, carrying a hint of surprise and admiration.
The Soul Devouring Sect Master's phantom suddenly solidified. He raised his hand and waved, and seventy-two Soul-Slaying Swords whistled out like a swarm of malevolent spirits, directly striking the Chaos Green Lotus.
The moment the sword array touched the Green Lotus, nine hundred altars suddenly rose from the seabed. Each altar was entwined with Origin chains of different races, exuding a powerful aura.
Bai Wuya's Seven Star Sword Array suddenly reversed. The Sword Qi, which had previously scattered like meteors, now trapped three altars tightly like a cage.
"Brother Lu! These altars are devouring the Spiritual Qi of the Feather Race Sword Tomb!" Bai Wuya exclaimed, his face becoming very solemn.
However, Leng Yuehan's voice rang out at this moment: "More than just the Sword Tomb." She wielded her Ice Soul Sword Qi like a sharp arrow, piercing through the Void Realm and directly striking two Heavenly Demon statues, instantly crushing them.
"Guanghan Palace's Moonlit Pool has dried up by thirty percent." Leng Yuehan's voice was cold and resolute. Her ice soul hairpin drew a graceful arc in the air, a trajectory that perfectly coincided with the Gui Xu array diagram formed by the Green Lotus Dao patterns on the seabed.
Just as everyone was astonished, Lu Qingyang suddenly threw out the Yin Yang Jade Pendant. The jade pendant spun rapidly in the air, eventually transforming into a massive compass that firmly embedded itself in the center of the array diagram.
"Does everyone know that the Gui Xu Sea Eye is actually a wound in the Three Realms' Spiritual Veins?" Lu Qingyang's voice was exceptionally deep at this moment.
As his words fell, the compass needle began to spin frantically, faster and faster, as if it intended to draw the entire world into itself.
Finally, amidst the compass needle's frantic spinning, a blurry figure gradually emerged—it was none other than the true body of the Soul Devouring Sect Master!
Everyone was shocked to discover that the Soul Devouring Sect Master had actually refined his own body into the core of the Sea Eye, coexisting with the Three Realms' Spiritual Veins!
Just then, Ye Wusha's Eight Desolations Flag suddenly ignited with raging demonic flames. His voice resonated within the demonic flames: "Lu Qingyang! If you are willing to join forces to break through the Immortal Realm barrier..."
"Fellow Daoist Ye's Void Realm escape technique is indeed more refined than it was three days ago." Lu Qingyang's copper coin sword suddenly changed direction, its Sword Qi piercing through the substitute Puppet hidden within the flag, "But this Clone cannot withstand the Gui Xu Spiritual Pressure."
The seabed altars suddenly resonated, and the Merman Great Priest's scepter burst with blood-red light: "The time has come!" Three thousand Merman Guards chanted in unison, their sound waves congealing into blood-colored chains that wrapped around the Green Lotus. Bai Wuya's Seven Star Sword Array shattered in response, and traces of Soul-Devouring Insects gnawing appeared on his Lifebound Swords.
"This is what I've been waiting for." Lu Qingyang's Nascent Soul Dao platform suddenly expanded dramatically, and the Chaos Green Lotus bloomed into a twelve-petal lotus platform. The dark purple Spiritual Vein, devoured for three days, surged forth, actually forming a mirror image of the Gui Xu array diagram in the Void Realm. "Does the Sect Master know that the Yin Yang Jade Pendant is best at mirror reversal?"
The Soul Devouring Sect Master's pupils constricted abruptly, and the core of the Sea Eye suddenly vibrated violently. The Green Lotus roots plunged into the Spiritual Veins along the mirror image array diagram, and the Spiritual Qi of various races, which had been devoured, began to flow back. Leng Yuehan's Taiyin Soul Slaughtering Wheel suddenly split into myriad forms, piercing through the altar array eyes along the direction of the Spiritual Qi's return.
"What a brilliant move to pull the rug out from under him!" Gongshuye's gilded hammer smashed the last Heavenly Demon statue, and the hammer's shadow condensed into a massive taotie mouth that swallowed the blood-colored chains. "But the backlash from the Sea Eye's rampage..."
"That is precisely what Mr. Lu desires." Lu Qingyang suddenly crushed a bronze token. The token fragments reassembled into the Ferrying Calamity Boat within the vortex. The moment the boat's body touched the rampaging Spiritual Veins, a sound like shattering glazed glass came from his Nascent Soul Dao platform—after devouring an excessive amount of Spiritual Veins, the Chaos Green Lotus finally Broke through the Nascent Soul shackles, and a half-illusory, half-real Soul Transformation Dao Seed condensed in its lotus heart.
Su Meiniang's nine tails ignited with her Lifebound Fox Fire, and the Burning Sky Silk wrapped around the Ferrying Calamity Boat's mast: "Little Lord, this Soul Transformation Tribulation of yours is a hundred times livelier than others!" The Fox Fire followed the Spiritual Veins, burning towards the Sea Eye's core, igniting all three thousand array patterns laid by the Soul Devouring Sect Master.
The Soul Devouring Sect Master's true body was forced to manifest. He raised his hand, summoning a projection of the Immortal Realm: "You think with half a step into Soul Transformation, you can..."
"What Mr. Lu seeks has never been a Realm." Lu Qingyang's voice boomed like thunder from within the Chaos Green Lotus. The previously unfurled Green Lotus suddenly retracted, tightly encasing his body like a suit of armor. At the same time, Lu Qingyang's true body and Nascent Soul instantly merged, and immense power surged wildly within him.
At the Gui Xu Sea Eye, the previously boiling Spiritual Tide seemed to be drawn by an invisible force, rapidly condensing into a colossal Tai Chi diagram beneath Lu Qingyang's feet. The Yin and Yang fish within the Tai Chi diagram were actually the Origin manifestations of Leng Yuehan and Su Meiniang, slowly swimming within the Tai Chi diagram, exuding a terrifying aura.
"Sect Master, you've been planning for three hundred years, but did you ever calculate that your evil corpse would backfire?" Lu Qingyang's voice echoed above the Sea Eye, carrying a hint of mockery and disdain. Before his words finished, a violent tremor suddenly came from the depths of the Sea Eye, as if something was desperately trying to break free.
With a loud bang, the fissure in the depths of the Sea Eye suddenly ripped open, and a black figure shot out like lightning. This figure was precisely the evil corpse of the Soul Devouring Sect, which had been suppressed for three hundred years. Its body exuded a dense Immortal Realm aura, clearly having merged with the power of the Immortal Realm during its three hundred years of suppression.
After escaping, the evil corpse did not hesitate in the slightest, directly pouncing on the true body of the Soul Devouring Sect Master. The Sect Master's true body seemed completely unprepared for this scene, was bitten firmly by the evil corpse, and was instantly enveloped by black Death Qi.
At this critical moment, Ye Wusha suddenly made his move. The Eight Desolations Flag in his hand shot out like a flash of lightning, accurately landing above the Sea Eye. The array patterns on the Eight Desolations Flag resonated strongly with the Dao patterns of the Chaos Green Lotus, and the entire Gui Xu Sea Eye was enveloped by this power, as if it had transformed into a Dao field for Undergoing Tribulation.
When the first Soul Transformation Lightning Tribulation struck, Lu Qingyang soared into the sky without hesitation, stepping on the remains of the evil corpse. In his palm, the Chaos Green Lotus bloomed completely, emitting a dazzling light. At the lotus heart of the Green Lotus, a Soul Transformation Dao Seed was faintly discernible, and the patterns on the Dao Seed actually reflected a miniature of the Three Realms.
This was the true killing move Lu Qingyang had comprehended during his three days of seclusion. He intended to use this move to Break through to the Soul Transformation Realm in one fell swoop!