Rong Jiaojiao's silver eyes flashed, and she suddenly noticed that all the white bones were engraved with tiny blood-red runes.
"Master! He's using runes to control these skeletons!" she exclaimed.
Upon hearing this, Qing Xuanzi's gaze instantly turned serious, and his sword technique suddenly changed as he shouted, "Zi Ling, break his runes!"
Zi Ling let out a long howl, and two beams of purple lightning shot out from her Eye of Truth, precisely sweeping across the joints of the skeleton puppet. The blood-red runes that were touched by the purple lightning instantly melted away as quickly as snow meeting boiling water.
The skeleton puppet's movements suddenly stopped, and then it collapsed with a crash.
However, the Yin Bone Master remained completely unfazed. His bone scepter traced an eerie arc under the blood moon as he sneered, "This junior does have some discernment. Too bad—"
The black bead on his chest suddenly throbbed rapidly, and the white bones on the ground began to writhe as if alive, instantly reforming into nine bone beasts of different shapes, surrounding everyone.
"These are... the remains of an ancient ferocious beast!" Qing Xuanzi's expression grew increasingly solemn. "He actually collected so many rare remains!"
Just then, Rong Jiaojiao suddenly felt the small secret realm tremble violently, and a golden beam of light shot out uncontrollably from between her eyebrows, soaring straight into the sky.
The moment the blood moon was pierced by the golden light, tiny cracks appeared throughout the illusion.
"Huh?" Yin Gu Zhenren looked at her with surprise and doubt. "You actually have..."
Before he could finish speaking, Xiao Jin suddenly transformed into a golden rainbow and pounced on the old man. Yin Gu Zhenren sneered, tapped his scepter lightly, and a wall of bones instantly rose up.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Jin's figure twisted strangely in mid-air, directly passing through the bone wall and biting his wrist holding the staff!
The wrist snapped, and the bone scepter fell to the ground.
The old man seemed to feel no pain, and a new hand instantly grew back.
He slapped Xiao Jin with his other hand, but it was burned and emitted black smoke the moment it touched the golden light.
Taking this opportunity, Qing Xuanzi pointed his sword at the sky and shouted, "Heavenly Thunder Righteous Law, Slay Evil!"
A bolt of golden lightning, as thick as a water bucket, descended from the sky and struck Yin Gu Zhenren squarely on the top of his head.
The old man swayed, and suddenly a thin crack appeared in the black bead on his chest, spurting out thick black blood.
"You...you're asking for death!"
He frantically tore open his robes, revealing blood-red runes covering his entire body.
The runes began to writhe like living things, frantically absorbing the surrounding bones.
In an instant, a giant fleshy ball composed of countless skeletons appeared before everyone, with various distorted faces constantly protruding from its surface.
"Master, he's forcibly fusing with the bones of a ferocious beast!" Zi Ling suddenly transmitted, its Eye of Truth suddenly contracting: "No! He's sacrificing the entire illusion!"
Before the words were even finished, countless white bones turned into scarlet blood, frantically converging towards the ball of flesh.
The surface of the fleshy ball was covered with a dense array of hideous faces, emitting a chilling shriek.
"This is a blood sacrifice of ten thousand souls!" Qing Xuanzi's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly formed a hand seal to set up a golden light shield. "He wants to refine us into the final sacrifice!"
Rong Jiaojiao held up four Nine Dragon Seals—cyan, crimson, white, and black—in a row. She quickly made hand gestures, and a huge Nine Dragon Demon-Suppressing Stele slowly appeared.
The old man's face showed horror. "This is the Nine Dragons Demon-Suppressing Stele? How do you have the Demon-Suppressing Stele? No, you're the new holder of the Demon-Suppressing Stele, hahaha~"
"I'll leave you here today, hahaha~~ let's see how you manage to suppress the demon, hahaha~~"
He laughed maniacally, but Rong Jiaojiao ignored him and quickly cast spells. Four Nine Dragon Seals spun in her palms, transforming into a Demon-Suppressing Stele surrounded by nine dragon shadows.
The ancient stele is covered with obscure and difficult-to-understand ancient runes, and at this moment it is emanating a terrifying pressure that suppresses all evil.
Yin Gu Zhenren's maniacal laughter abruptly ceased. He stared intently at the Demon-Suppressing Stele, his eyes flashing with a fierce, eerie green light: "Impossible! The Nine Dragon Seals have long been scattered throughout the mortal realm. How could you possibly have collected all four?!"
Qing Xuanzi: "Jiaojiao, your master will help you."
He unleashed the Twelve Zodiac Signs Formation, and the zodiac phantoms on the ten plaques roared forth from the Nine Dragons Suppressing Demons Twelve Zodiac Signs Formation!
Qing Xuanzi's sleeves fluttered, and twelve golden rays shot into the sky. The phantoms of the twelve earthly branches—Rat, Ox, Tiger, etc.—revealed their true forms under the blood moon, shining brightly alongside the Nine Dragons Demon-Suppressing Stele.
Suddenly, the sounds of morning bells and evening drums resounded throughout the world, as if the long river of time had materialized at this moment, and ancient runes flowed in the void, shaking every beating heart.
Yin Gu Zhenren's face was contorted, and the black bead on his chest throbbed wildly: "So what if you have the Demon Suppression Stele and the Yuan Chen Formation? Today is your death day!"
He suddenly ripped open his chest, and a ferocious, blood-red centipede shot out from the black bead and instantly burrowed into the ground.
The entire blood-red wasteland suddenly boiled over, and countless white bones surged like a tide, combining to form nine hundred-foot-long bone dragons that broke out of the ground!
"Be careful! These are Nine Nether Bone Dragons!" Zi Ling's Eye of Insight shone brightly. "Each one contains a trace of the aura of an ancient ferocious beast!"
A silver light flashed in Rong Jiaojiao's eyes. In the next instant, she channeled all her divine sense into the Demon-Suppressing Stele: "With the power of my divine soul, I summon the true spirits of the Nine Dragons!"
"hold head high--"
A deafening dragon roar echoed through the sky, and the nine dragon patterns on the Demon-Suppressing Stele simultaneously awakened.
Four physical dragon shadows—Azure Dragon, Crimson Dragon, White Dragon, and Black Dragon—rushed out first, engaging in fierce combat with the four bone dragons that attacked first.
The roar of the dragon intertwined with the howl of the bone dragon, shaking the entire world.
Qing Xuanzi's sword technique changed: "Yuan Chen returns to its place, the Four Symbols suppress evil!"
The illusory images of the twelve zodiac animals instantly transformed into the four sacred beasts: Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise, each guarding one of the four directions.
The remaining five bone dragons were immediately trapped by the Four Symbols Barrier and let out angry roars.
Rong Jiaojiao called out to Yue Ling, and Yue Ling's small body appeared in front of Rong Jiaojiao. A golden light shot out from its body and wrapped around the Demon Suppression Stele like a chain. The runes on the stele suddenly burst out with dazzling light.
The crimson runes on the nine bone dragons began to burn wildly, and they let out mournful roars, with fine cracks appearing on the surface of their bones.
Yin Gu Zhenren's face twisted, his hands frantically forming hand seals. A blood-red centipede sprang from the ground, transforming into a blood mist that coiled around the largest bone dragon. The bone dragon's aura surged instantly, and it actually bit at the red dragon.
Flames raged around the red dragon, and its tail swept across, colliding with the bone dragon and sending sparks flying everywhere.
Rong Jiaojiao's eyes gleamed with a ghostly light. She formed hand seals, and the Demon-Suppressing Stele trembled violently. An ancient dragon-shaped phantom slowly emerged from the stele, its body radiating an ancient and mysterious aura. Wherever it passed, ripples spread through the space.
"Suppress the demons and seal the evil!" Rong Jiaojiao shouted, and the dragon-shaped phantom opened its huge mouth, and a dazzling golden light burst out, rushing straight towards Yin Gu Zhenren.
Yin Gu Zhenren's expression changed drastically. He hurriedly manipulated the bone dragon to block it, but the golden light was unstoppable, instantly piercing through the bone dragon's body and slamming into him.
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