Chapter 127 From this moment on, you are free.

A red chain, formed from resentment and malevolent energy, suddenly surged out from the cracks in the tree roots and began to coil around Shen Yue Po in the formation.

A strong stench of blood filled the air.

Shen Yuepo's expression remained unchanged, but his eyes became even sharper.

"break!"

With a clear shout, she spread her five fingers on her left hand, palm facing upward, and instantly condensed a dazzling silver ball of light.

If you look closely, you'll find that the so-called silver orb is actually covered with burning yellow talismans.

The surging chains crashed into the silver orb, producing a piercing melting sound, and instantly disintegrated into wisps of black smoke that dissipated.

At the same time, Shen Yuepo pointed his right hand together, and golden light surged from his fingertips.

She wrote swiftly in mid-air, each stroke of her finger creating a phantom of a golden rune.

"Imperial decree! The earth's veins are fixed!"

A golden talisman struck the dark red ground beneath their feet, causing the ground to tremble violently and the surging Yin energy to momentarily halt.

"Imperial Decree! Seal the Spiritual Root!"

Another golden talisman shot towards one of the main roots with the strongest resentment. The golden light penetrated the root, and the wriggling of that root instantly became stiff and slow.

"Imperial decree! The evil nail has appeared!"

As the third golden talisman fell, the soil in the burial ground suddenly churned, and two stark white skeletons bound with red ropes burst forth from the earth.

The Soul-Suppressing Nails within the skeletons were drawn by an invisible force, bursting out of the bones and hovering in mid-air, their bodies trembling violently and emitting an unwilling hum.

A cold glint flashed in Shen Yuepo's eyes, and his right hand's sword-finger gesture instantly changed. His thumb tightly gripped his middle and ring fingers, while his little and index fingers pointed diagonally towards the sky, forming a thunder seal.

"The Nine Heavens respond to the Origin, thunder resounds universally! It dispels evil and vanquishes all impurities! By decree!"

"Boom!"

As her last syllable faded, a deep rumble of thunder sounded overhead.

A blinding bolt of lightning, formed from the Yang Thunder condensed by Shen Yuepo's fingertips, crashed down like a divine punishment spear.

The target was those dozens of Soul-Suppressing Nails floating in the air, radiating overwhelming resentment.

The blinding lightning instantly engulfed the Soul-Suppressing Nail.

Amidst the deafening explosions, the Soul-Suppressing Nails, forged with evil magic, shattered inch by inch, turning into dust.

Once the Soul-Suppressing Nail was destroyed, the core of the entire Soul-Locking and Evil-Suppressing Array was instantly destroyed.

"boom!"

The earth shook violently, and the gnarled tree roots, as if losing their support, withered at a visible speed.

The dark red soil on the ground quickly faded and turned gray.

The lingering resentment and malevolent energy, which had permeated the area for a century, dissipated wildly outwards like a punctured balloon.

The formation that had imprisoned Lu Ningshuang and Abao for a hundred years, condemning them to eternal damnation, completely collapsed.

A long-lost sense of lightness instantly swept through the souls of the Lu siblings.

They could clearly feel that the binding force of the array that had tormented them day and night had disappeared.

"It's...it's broken?! It's really broken!"

Lu Ningshuang was so excited that her soul trembled, and she hugged Abao tightly, who was equally excited and incredulous.

Shen Yuepo stood in the center of the formation, his body surrounded by silver light that mingled with the lingering lightning.

His cold gaze swept over the area where only decaying tree roots and remains remained, and he slowly withdrew his handprint.

"The formation has been broken, and the bindings on the corpses have been removed." She said to the Lu siblings in the distance, "From now on, you are free."

Lu Ningshuang, holding Abao's hand, transformed into two gusts of yin wind once more, instantly drifting to Chen Yuepo's front.

This time, they knelt directly at Shen Yuepo's feet.

"Thank you, Master, for saving my life!"

Lu Ningshuang's voice choked with emotion as she kowtowed heavily, her forehead almost touching the ground. "This kindness and virtue, Ningshuang and her brother will never forget!"

"Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master!" Abao followed her sister's example, her little head thumping loudly.

Seeing their souls regain their freedom but remain weak, Shen Yuepo did not immediately let them leave.

She extended her left hand, and the Reincarnation Ring glowed faintly. "Your souls have just been freed from their confinement and are burdened with sins. Wandering in the outside world for even a day may lead to unforeseen events, or you may attract the attention of the underworld officials who arrest you prematurely."

"For now, you will be nurtured within this cycle of reincarnation. Once I have resolved the matters in the temple, I will release you, fulfill my promise for one day, and then send you to the underworld."

Lu Ningshuang knew that Shen Yuepo was thinking of them, to prevent them from encountering misfortune again after just escaping from their cages.

"Yes! We will follow Master's arrangements! Thank you for your thoughtfulness!" She quickly pulled Abao along to agree.

Shen Yuepo tapped the Reincarnation Ring with her fingertip, and a gentle suction force emanated, drawing the Lu siblings into the ring.

A faint glow flashed across the surface of the ring, then it returned to its calm state.

Shen Yuepo withdrew his gaze and turned to walk towards the dilapidated temple.

She returned to the dilapidated temple, her gaze once again focusing on the strangely shaped clay Buddha statue.

Without the slightest hesitation, she walked to the Buddha statue, squatted down, and pressed her fingertip on the recessed button under the third petal of the lotus seat.

"Clatter... Rumble rumble rumble..."

The mechanism whirred, and the bluestone slab engraved with Sanskrit slowly slid open, revealing a dark cave entrance.

The chilling, bloodthirsty aura, more than ten times stronger than before, surged out like a ferocious beast breaking free of its restraints.

The entire interior of the dilapidated temple was stained with a nauseating dark red.

Shen Yuepo held his breath, and his spiritual energy flowed naturally around him, forming a thin golden halo on his body, which kept the filthy blood energy out.

She stepped down the stairs.

The stairs were short, only a dozen or so steps. Below was a stone chamber.

In the center of the stone chamber, there was a dark red coffin, as if it were cast from congealed blood.

This is the blood coffin that Lu Ningshuang mentioned.

The surface of the blood coffin was not decorated with any ornate carvings, but only with countless dark lines that rose up like blood vessels, slowly wriggling on the surface of the coffin, as if they were alive.

Shen Yuepo stood in front of the blood coffin, no more than three feet away.

Just as she got close—

"Thump! Thump thump! Thump thump thump!"

Her heart felt as if it had been clenched by an invisible hand, then suddenly released.

It began to throb violently at an almost frantic frequency, as if trying to break free from the confinement of the chest cavity.

The feeling was intense and unfamiliar, causing Shen Yuepo's expression to change slightly, and she subconsciously covered her chest.

What happened?

Why did this blood coffin trigger such a violent reaction in her?

She suppressed the turmoil in her heart and stared even more sharply at the blood coffin.

Her intuition told her that the answer lay in the coffin.

She slowly raised her right hand and gently pressed her fingertips onto the lid of the blood coffin.

The instant her fingertips touched the blood coffin—

A sharp, stinging pain suddenly shot through my fingertips, as if I were being cut by an invisible blade.

Shen Yuepo withdrew his hand with lightning speed, and a small wound appeared on the tip of his right index finger.

A drop of blood is slowly seeping out, congealing into a perfectly round blood bead.

As if summoned by some irresistible force, the blood droplet did not fall to the ground, but strangely hovered in mid-air before finally dripping onto the center of the blood coffin lid.

The blood coffin suddenly burst forth with a blinding light.

However, the anticipated awakening of evil entities or terrifying attacks did not occur.

Under Shen Yuepo's shocked gaze, the evil power of the blood coffin clashed with the golden light in her blood bead.

Immediately afterwards, an even more dazzling golden light shot into the sky.

Amidst the golden light, a slender object slowly coalesced into shape.

Its entire body is almost transparent milky white, and you can vaguely see a faint golden light flowing slowly inside.

It is a bone flute.