Chapter 296

A desolate temple.

Several snake shadows were reflected behind Jiu Ying. His divine power was fierce and strong. After grabbing Ying Ning's long whip, he directly crushed half of the whip in mid-air.

A snake's shadow flashed by like a ghost.

Ying Ning narrowly dodged, and then another ruthless divine power attacked her vital point. She struck down with her palm, and countless scarlet flowers immediately sprouted from the array beneath her feet.

It blocked a divine force.

In an instant, the red spider lily pierced through one of the snake shadows.

Ying Ning conjured an ancient Hou pearl in her palm and crushed it in an instant. The aura within the divine artifact was refined by her in a flash, and she even broke off a flower branch to make a sword.

He attacked alone, slashing at Jiuying.

The latter, with his serpentine eyes gleaming with malevolence, turned and leaped, a snake-like shadow darting towards Ying Ning with a flick of his sleeve.

Five snake shadows moved eerily through the temple.

Their attacks were like a whirlwind, each move possessing the immense power to crush their opponent. The sand in mid-air churned and churned with their movements.

The snake's shadow moved nimbly, colliding with the foil.

Yingning's eyes gleamed with golden light as she met the snake's gaze.

She slashed his cheek, nearly burying Jiu Ying completely with her Blood Flower Sword, but was instead slammed against the temple wall by three snake shadows.

The slender woman's figure suggested she was in extreme pain.

Pressed against the wall by the snake's shadow, he was in so much pain that he was too weak to even struggle.

Jiu Ying stepped forward, scrutinizing Ying Ning's pale and weak face, and sneered:

"You really think that my power is enough to kill a god?"

With a sharp glint in her eyes, Jiu Ying suddenly reached out and, with a force that seemed to appear out of nowhere, snapped Ying Ning's left hand. She gritted her teeth, her thin lips turning even whiter.

Just as Jiu Ying was thinking about her next move, a cluster of Heart-Refining Fireflies dragged a heavy object into the temple.

The Firefly of Refining Heart condensed into a human form, which was none other than the expressionless Qingzhu:

"Your Excellency."

"Li Ziqing has become possessed by a demon."

"Li Ziqing?"

Jiu Ying thought for a moment before coming up with this name:

"oh."

"So it was that little fairy disciple."

"They've grown so much." Jiu Ying walked to the spot where the Heart-Refining Firefly was, and the wound on her cheek from the fight earlier healed instantly.

"He's even become possessed by a demon."

"What a waste of all the effort I put into nurturing him back then." Jiu Ying temporarily ignored the silent Ying Ning and looked at Li Ziqing, who was being parasitized by the Heart-Refining Firefly.

Qingzhu spoke:

"Back then, His Majesty used the Heart-Refining Firefly to control Qingjian Daoist and teach Li Ziqing for a few days. It is his blessing to be taught by his master."

Jiu Ying looked at Li Ziqing, his snake-like eyes flickering:

"Back then, I saw that he had a heart full of swordsmanship and that he would probably reach the divine realm in the future. I thought he was a good puppet that I could control, but I didn't expect that the Heart-Refining Firefly would be useless to him."

"He was clear-headed and never had any distracting thoughts."

"I never thought that even after falling into demonic possession, I couldn't escape the Heart-Refining Firefly."

The divine power of Jiuying slowly enveloped Li Ziqing, and he reacted as soon as he sensed something amiss:

"It has lost its immortal soul and spirit."

"No wonder he went mad after enduring this long."

"Now, it might be able to lend me a hand."

The cries of the Heart-Refining Firefly were particularly piercing.

Jiu Ying, controlling Li Ziqing's body, actually began to forcibly extract his immortal soul and spirit. A soul with a supreme heart might have some useful purpose.

The figure in the snow-white robe lay on the ground, cold sweat pouring down his forehead, and a weak groan escaping his lips.

However, no one could hear what he said while he was unconscious.

The Soul-Refining Firefly successfully extracted a piece of Li Ziqing's soul from his body, which eventually fell into Jiu Ying's palm. The moment he refined a piece of Sword Heart Immortal Soul, another ethereal snake shadow appeared beneath him.

The spirit and soul become more pure and concentrated.

"Just as I predicted." Jiu Ying laughed greedily.

The Soul-Refining Firefly once again ripped out a piece of Li Ziqing's immortal soul, and this time, the figure lying on the ground couldn't help but curl up.

His joints were white from the pain, and his lips were bloodless.

They didn't even have the strength to make a sound.

One by one, the Soul-Refining Firefly extracted four pieces of immortal soul, and the shadow beneath Jiu Ying's feet once again transformed into seven snakes.

Just as Cui Xin Wang Ying was about to take another step...

A whistling flower branch pierced its wing and pinned it to an inch beside Li Ziqing. It flapped its other wing, wanting its master to save it.

When Jiu Ying turned around, she saw the woman who had broken free from the snake's shadow.

Ying Ning stood atop the temple, her left palm devoid of any shape, coldly staring at him as she summoned a blood sword brimming with overwhelming demonic energy from the array.

A snake-like shadow pierced her left arm, but was severed from the arm by the blood sword.

Even though Ying Ning's left side was numb with pain, her eyes revealed determination and resolve, and each sword strike carried a world-destroying power.

The sword flashed, and a phoenix's cry could be heard.

"Still not giving up!" Jiu Ying's divine power surged at this moment, and Li Ziqing's sword heart immortal soul allowed him to condense two snake souls, making his strength even more formidable.

His palm strike, imbued with divine power, collided with Ying Ning's blood sword, and his body instantly materialized.

The temple collapsed.

A ferocious beast with the head of an ox, the tail of a dragon, and the body of a five-headed snake bared its fangs and claws, while new heads were faintly about to grow from the four necks on half of Jiu Ying's body.

Five snake heads, speaking human voices:

Hahahaha.

"This time, the barrier finally couldn't stop me!"

"I will use your blood, you vile wretched woman, to condemn the Heavenly Dao of the Six Realms. I have emerged!" The serpentine body, several meters long, unleashed terrifying power towards the core of the barrier array.

In an instant, cracks appeared all over the barrier.

With sharp, closely spaced teeth on either side of its tongue, Jiu Ying roared to the sky and pounced on the barrier, tearing through the sealing barrier of the temple.

The barrier shattered with a deafening roar.

In the Myriad Silences Secret Realm, a blood mist seemed to float in the sky, while a huge, five-headed, serpentine beast soared happily through the air.

"I'm out!"

His face was contorted in a ferocious expression, and his massive body stirred up a sea of ​​blood.

When Jiu Ying charged toward the temple again, his target was Ying Ning, who was holding the sword!

His chillingly gleaming scales reflected the icy pupils of five snake heads, and he swung his upper limbs, about to smash Ying Ning to pieces.

"Jiuying!"

A silver-white dragon burst forth from the sea of ​​blood, its claws blazing with fire, and met Jiu Ying's upper limbs!

Boom—

The earth-shattering power caused the entire secret realm to tremble.

Upon seeing the figure of the Chilong, Jiuying's five snake eyes flashed with furious flames. He opened his blood-red maw and spewed out a burst of scorching flames.

It used a flick of its tail to block the attack.

"As for the final parting, I was just saying I was going to find you."

"How about millions of years in the underworld?" he said with an evil smile.

He had imprisoned Wei Jue in the underworld, but he never expected to fall into a trap set by the enemy and the gods, and be trapped in the Fallen Temple for millions of years.

"I remember you loved hellfire the most." Jiu Ying's words were vicious as he looked at the Chilong's body, which was riddled with nails in its four claws and its long tail was covered in wounds.

The demonic artifact was stuck in the jawbone of the dragon, and it has been stained with blood for thousands of years.

The dragon's pearl-like eyes, after gazing at the temple for a moment, then blocked Ying Ning's path:

"Jiuying, the divine realm has been in decline for millions of years. Stop doing evil."

“Wei Jue, you are my defeated opponent.” Jiu Ying looked at Wei Jue’s body covered in wounds and seemed to have thought of something.

“Each nail is actually driven into your body by the very same person.”

Taking advantage of Jiu Ying's unpreparedness, it suddenly broke into the underground palace of the divine realm, and the five-headed serpentine body swiftly coiled around the Chilong's body.

Hidden within the underground palace is a sealing formation that an ancient god once failed to create.

That barrier couldn't confine Jiuying for too long.

When Wei Jue's figure reappeared in the temple, a faint scent of fresh blood emanated from his black robe.

He did not show any unusual behavior.

Wei Jue simply walked lightly to Ying Ning's side, but it actually took him a very long time to walk those few short steps.

But he didn't say it.

The man's handsome face was expressionless at this moment.

He wanted to call her by her name, but he didn't know whether to call her Little Foolish Grass or Ah Ning.

This could be considered their first real meeting.

When Wei Jue looked at the red spider lily beside Ying Ning's eyes, the scarlet flower really resembled her appearance in his dream. So even though he already knew those things, it was just a fleeting dream.

But he still felt sorry for her, for the scars on her body.

The divine power in Jue's palm was very gentle, and the healing power swept away all the wounds on her left side, healing Yingning.

He said:

"He won't be trapped in the underground palace for long."

"I'll see you off."