Chapter 314: Chapter 31 Flying Asura
Long Mountain Ruins, within the underground passage.
Large swarms of corpse spiders came howling out of the tunnel.
After a moment, driven by the burning of the Great Bright Fire, they frantically fled back into the distance.
“With so many corpse spiders, there must be a lot of corpses in these ruins,” Xu Yinglian deduced.
“Relics of the ancient Nether Ghost Path, isn’t it normal to have corpses?” Qiu Changtian said indifferently, “The Nether Ghost Path has two branches, one is ‘raising obscurous ghosts,’ the other is ‘refining nether corpses.’ This place was probably a branch stronghold of the Nether Corpse Sect.”
The two continued walking forward and soon arrived at the octagonal palace room where they previously placed the coffin, which was also where they had met Wen Yang and others.
All they saw now were the tombs and coffins, which had long since disappeared, leaving only a vast expanse of gray pits.
“Eight passages,” Qiu Changtian looked at the archways on the surrounding walls and said, “Excluding the one we came through, there are seven other directions. Is there a way to tell from which direction Jian Qingnan’s letter came flying from?”
“Let me try.” Xu Yinglian pondered for a moment and then spread out her hand again, blowing gently.
The searing breath came out and quickly turned into seven firebirds in her palm, each flying into one of the seven entrances in the surrounding walls.
Less than fifteen minutes later, Xu Yinglian spoke up:
“From right to left, the first, third, and fifth entrances are not dead ends.”
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Qiu Changtian nodded, “Then let’s start searching from the far right.”
The two picked the farthest entrance on the right and began to make their way.
Walking a certain distance, Qiu Changtian felt the temperature around him seemed to be slowly dropping.
It wasn’t the cold that was deepening, but the gloominess was becoming denser.
“Be careful, senior brother,” Xu Yinglian suddenly said, “It was right ahead where my ‘Fireflow Phoenix’ was extinguished.”
“Hmm.” Qiu Changtian then formed a seal with both hands, pressing the Jade Pivot Thunder in his palm.
Passing through the corridor, the surrounding blue brick walls suddenly broke apart, revealing natural eroded rock layers.
It was as if the construction of the ruins had abruptly stopped when they reached this point.
“The gloom here is excessively dense,” Xu Yinglian suddenly said, “Could it be that ahead leads to the Nine Serenities Underworld?”
“The likelihood is slim,” Qiu Changtian said in a low voice, “The Nine Serenities Underworld, as far as is currently known, has only nine entrances connected to this world. They were suppressed by the nine cauldrons forged by Emperor Yan in ancient times, which prevented the overflowing of the nether force and the collapse of Divine Land.”
“If this place were connected to the Nine Serenities Underworld, who could forge another Shennong Cauldron to suppress it here? Countless netherghosts and strange demons would have long since swarmed out and occupied this place by now.”
“What do you think, senior brother?” Xu Yinglian neither agreed nor disagreed, but countered.
“I suspect there is a formidable Ghost King up ahead,” Qiu Changtian frowned and said.
“A Ghost King?” Xu Yinglian pondered thoughtfully.
Not to mention my senior brother’s Thunder Method is renowned for vanquishing evil and subduing demons, even my Great Bright Fire has a unique effect in exterminating magic.
Even if it’s a Ghost King of the Golden Core Rank… well, this… at least self-preservation shouldn’t be an issue, right?
She was somewhat uneasy, but thinking of her senior brother being by her side, she felt a baseless confidence.
Continuing forward, the surrounding blue brick corridor became a natural cavern, and the gloominess grew colder and more penetrating.
Xu Yinglian suddenly felt her footing slip, but it was Qiu Changtian’s quick reflexes that extended a hand to steady her.
Looking down, she saw that there had been a sunken pool under her feet, which was now frozen over. Under the light of the Universal Pure Tone Minor Illumination Technique, it reflected a blurry, dazzling brightness.
“Is it getting foggy?” Xu Yinglian suddenly said.
“It’s not mist,” Qiu Changtian muttered in a low voice, “it’s a dense mass of dark energy that’s almost solidified into substance.”
“This fog is too obstructive to our vision,” Xu Yinglian said as she performed a Daoist formula, exhaling Great Bright Fire from her mouth, which immediately evaporated all the surrounding fog.
“Be careful!” Qiu Changtian suddenly shouted.
Xu Yinglian’s pupils contracted and she hastily interrupted her spellcasting.
Where the fog had dissipated, several contorted bodies suddenly appeared.
One of them was none other than her junior sister, Jian Qingnan—her eyes tightly shut, her face a purplish green, motionless. Had the Great Bright Fire been delayed by even a moment, she would have been burnt alive.
Xu Yinglian quickly retracted the Daoist formula and hurried over to her side, crouching down to check her condition.
“It’s just an excessive loss of vital energy,” she said, turning her head with evident relief on her face, “It seems to have been sucked out by some evil magic…”
Before she could finish her sentence, Qiu Changtian suddenly raised his hand and a streak of bluish-red Thunder Light split the air, narrowly missing her!
Behind Xu Yinglian, outside her field of vision, a Kunlun Cultivator stood up with a facial expression melting like wax heated by a flame, revealing a menacing, sprout-like grin… only to be struck directly by Jade Pivot Thunder.
After all, with a physique like the Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart, Xu Yinglian didn’t look back but instead grabbed Jian Qingnan’s arm and immediately leaped forward with all her strength.
The Feather Jia Sword shot backward as she held her junior sister’s body, agilely twisting in mid-air, with the Daoist formula already completed in her hands, she then spewed Great Bright Fire towards their pursuer!
As the Great Bright Fire blazed fiercely, they only saw their adversary leap high, flipping onto the ceiling of the cave like a bat and hanging upside down, chuckling mockingly, “Jade Pivot Thunder! Great Bright Fire! You two kids are quite impressive, but I wonder if your brains are as delicious?”
That creature was… Both Xu Yinglian and Qiu Changtian involuntarily took a sharp breath.
Flying Asura!
It is said that the common Corpse Refinement Method of the Nether Ghost Path has rankings of iron, copper, silver, and gold. Iron and copper are easy to refine, while gold and silver are rare.
For a golden corpse to advance further, it must seek a Solitary Yin Land, bury the corpse deep underground in a coffin to be soaked in the Yin energy day and night, and then it becomes a “Ground Traveling Rakshasa,” with the strength of the Golden Core Realm, Obscure Weave Rank.
To advance yet further, one must find a place devoid of Yang energy, continue to bury it deep underground, soak and refine it, until it becomes a “Flying Asura,” with the strength of the Nascent Soul Realm, Treasure Light Rank.
As for this one in front of them, who directly withstood the Jade Pivot Thunder and Great Bright Fire without a single sign of injury, it was undoubtedly a Flying Asura.
Xu Yinglian’s expression turned grave as she silently positioned herself in front of her senior brother, preparing to seize any opportunity for them to escape.
Qiu Changtian’s heart tightened, then relaxed again.
He suddenly realized that this Flying Asura attacked Jian Qingnan but did not kill her, which probably meant it had some other purpose.
Definitely not murder! If it really wanted to kill, with the strength of the Nascent Soul Realm, it could have killed them on the spot earlier… or rather, Ah Jing would have already taken me to flee.
As he was thinking this, the Flying Asura instantly moved past Xu Yinglian.
Its menacing, sprout-like fanged corpse-face was now just three inches from Qiu Changtian’s nose, grinning wickedly at him:
“Little boy, you don’t seem to be afraid, why is that?”
“Senior,” Qiu Changtian said with a casual smile, “I am the Chief Disciple of the Foundation Establishment Realm in Kunlun.”
“And then?” The Flying Asura laughed hoarsely, “The brain of Kunlun’s Chief Disciple must be tastier than that of an ordinary Cultivator, right?”
“I’ve played chess with Chi Song Immortal,” Qiu Changtian continued to smile.
The wicked smile quickly faded from the Flying Asura’s face, leaving a stiff, deathly expression. It asked coldly:
“Chi Song Immortal from the Clarify Cult?”
“It seems the senior knows him, then all the better,” Qiu Changtian said with composure.