Rong Jiaojiao looked at Ziling. Although it was a little tired, it still stood on her shoulder with great spirit, seemingly still enjoying the battle.
"Ziling, are you alright?" Rong Jiaojiao asked softly, her eyes full of concern.
Zi Ling shook her head and let out a clear chirp: "Master, I'm fine, I can fight again!"
Rong Jiaojiao patted its head: "Ziling is great!"
Li Li smiled slightly, and couldn't help but look at Rong Jiaojiao's spirit pet with new respect.
The strength and potential of these two little guys should not be underestimated.
Rong Jiaojiao asked in confusion, "Elder Li, is there something wrong here? You said that in previous years there were people who would clean up demonic spirits and monsters. There shouldn't be so many powerful demonic spirits and monsters here, but we've encountered them several times already."
Li Li nodded solemnly: "It is indeed strange. In previous years, the outer area of Yinshan only had demonic spirits at the early stage of the Earth Master realm, but this time we even encountered one at the peak of the Celestial Master realm."
Mo Bai suddenly coughed, spitting out a mouthful of blood: "Cough cough... Look at the bottom of this blood pool..."
Following the sound, everyone looked and saw a huge, strange array carved at the bottom of the dried-up blood pool.
Nine blood-red crystals were embedded in the center of the formation, but most of them were now broken.
"This is a Gathering Fiend Array?" Old Zhou gasped. "This is a Gathering Fiend Array that can accelerate the gestation of demonic seeds!"
Rong Jiaojiao's heart skipped a beat: "Could it be that those endless demonic spirits are grown from these demonic seeds?"
"If that's the case, and if the bloodthirsty energy here can't be resolved, then won't the evil spirit of the Immortal Mountain have an endless supply of energy?"
Everyone's faces turned grim at this thought, filled with worry.
Li Li, with a sullen face, waved his hand to destroy the formation, but Rong Jiaojiao felt a longing coming from the small secret realm, as if something good was buried under the pool.
Just then, the stone tablet fragment floating in the air suddenly emitted a dazzling blue light.
A blurry female phantom appeared, and with a light wave of her hand, azure light spread out like ripples, purifying the remaining bloodthirsty aura.
"The spirit of the Demon-Suppressing Stele!" Mo Bai exclaimed.
The illusory figure turned to Rong Jiaojiao, its gaze gentle: "The inheritor of the First Seal...to clear the ancient battlefield...quickly gather the nine seals and combine them into the Demon-Suppressing Stele..."
Before the words were finished, the illusory figure transformed into a stream of light and fell into Rong Jiaojiao's hand, turning into a small nine-sided green jade seal.
Each side has a dragon pattern mark, but now the jade seal is dull and lifeless, and only the dragon pattern on one side is clear.
At this moment, the small seal suddenly shone with a bright blue light, and mysterious patterns appeared on its surface.
Rong Jiaojiao felt as if her mind exploded, and countless fragments of memories came rushing in—there were the control techniques for the Demon-Suppressing Seal, and some scenes from that earth-shattering battle ten thousand years ago.
A senior named Fairy Qingli sacrificed herself to the monument, while nine other seniors each held a seal, guarding the four directions and the central battlefield, trapping the evil spirit within.
However, at the last moment, the evil god launched a desperate counterattack. The nine predecessors fought desperately to suppress it and moved it to the Nine Dragons Demon-Sealing Altar that had been set up on the immortal mountain, where it was finally suppressed.
But the cost was heavy.
All nine predecessors perished as a result, and the nine Demon-Suppressing Seals, which should have been combined to form the Demon-Suppressing Monument, failed to unite due to the chaotic battle and their whereabouts remain unknown.
According to the calculations of our predecessors, if the main soul of the evil spirit cannot be completely destroyed, the energy of the nine spiritual veins can only be maintained for a maximum of ten thousand years. Now that ten thousand years have passed, the day predicted by our predecessors is getting closer and closer, and the whereabouts of the nine demon-suppressing seals are still unknown.
"So that's how it is..." Tears streamed down her face as she murmured, "We need to find the other eight seals as soon as possible."
Rong Jiaojiao snapped out of her daze and, seeing everyone looking at her, immediately recounted all the fragments of her memory.
Mo Bai wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and the Nine Dragons Demon-Subduing Brush in his hand transformed into a small, golden seal, which he held in his hand.
He bowed respectfully, a rare occurrence for him: "Mo Bai, the new generation seal holder of the Second Demon-Suppressing Seal, greets the First Seal Holder. From now on, Mo Bai will follow the First Seal Holder's lead."
Rong Jiaojiao quickly stepped aside and said, "I am still young and cannot shoulder such a great responsibility. We must report this matter to the Xuanxiu Alliance and ask the seniors to come and preside over it."
Everyone understood the logic. Elder Li smiled and said, "Now the demonic spirits here also need to be cleared out. Let's find a place to rest first. I'll send a telegram to report the situation here to the captain and see how she arranges things."
"Wait a minute," Rong Jiaojiao pointed to the bottom of the pool and said, "There's something good down there, everyone dig and see what it is?"
Mo Bai's eyes lit up and he said, "Things often have two extremes. Perhaps beneath this filthy pool of blood lies a treasure of utmost purity!"
Old Zhou stroked his beard and nodded: "That's right. There is yin within yang, and evil spirits can give rise to life. It is very likely that a rare spiritual creature has been nurtured at the bottom of this blood pool."
Upon hearing this, Li Li immediately made a hand seal, and a sword aura cleaved through the thick, hard soil at the bottom of the pool.
Sure enough, a pure blue light shone through.
"It's Xuan Yin Jade Marrow!" Elder Zhou exclaimed in surprise, "and the quality is so high!"
Buried beneath the soil were more than a dozen fist-sized blue crystals, crystal clear and emitting a soft blue light.
Even after being buried at the bottom of the blood pool for many years, it remains completely untainted.
Mo Bai took the Xuan Yin Jade Marrow into his hand and felt it. He sensed a powerful energy within it. Just as he was about to speak, Zi Ling's voice rang in everyone's minds: "A demonic seed is rapidly approaching."
As it finished speaking, a strange laugh suddenly came from afar: "Hahaha...Finally found it!"
Before Mo Bai could say anything more, the blue crystal disappeared from his hand, replaced by the Nine Dragons Demon-Subduing Brush, which shimmered with golden light.
Dozens of dark figures surged in from all directions, led by a black-robed man wearing a bronze mask.
His cultivation level had reached the Celestial Master realm, and he held a blood-red longsword in his hand, with strange black energy swirling around its blade.
The people behind him were all wearing black demon masks, and each of them was at the Earth Master level.
"Remnants of the Blood Fiend Sect!" Elder Zhou's expression changed drastically. "How is that possible? Weren't they wiped out long ago?"
If he hadn't seen the mask worn by the leader, he wouldn't have remembered the symbols on masks recorded in ancient books.
The man in black robes chuckled sinisterly, "Thanks to you for breaking the Gathering Fiend Formation, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to obtain the Demon Suppressing Seal. Now, hand over the Demon Suppressing Seal and the Profound Yin Jade Marrow, and we can leave you with your corpses intact!"
Li Li sneered, "With your kind of despicable creatures?"
He spoke forcefully, but they had just fought a great battle and their spiritual energy was running low. This battle was likely to be tough.
The leader waved his hand, signaling the imminent outbreak of a major battle.
Rong Jiaojiao...
What about those who say the villains talk too much?
This is so unconventional...
The Blood Fiend Sect members formed a strange formation, and the dense blood fiend energy transformed into countless ferocious ghostly shadows that rushed towards them.
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