Chapter 78: Sealed Land
"Buzz!" A dull roar echoed from beyond the stone gate! Immediately afterwards, an incredibly powerful, yet all too familiar, seal imbued with the destructive force of thunder suddenly appeared above the stone gate, sealing their path. The net, woven from countless golden arcs of electricity, exuded a terrifying, heart-pounding aura. "It's Xuan Chenzi!" Mo Li's face instantly darkened. "He actually found this place! We're trapped!" "No, he didn't find this place." A cold glint flashed in Chu Yun's eyes. He sensed that this seal wasn't newly placed; it had already existed, only now being activated. "From the very beginning, he never intended for us to escape this way." This so-called "way out" was a trap from the beginning. "Then what should we do?" Li Ge asked gravely. "What should we do?" Chu Yun's lips curled up in a cold arc. "He thought this net, locked from the outside, would be foolproof. But he didn't know that any strong fortress is much easier to breach from the inside." He turned to Mo Li, "Mo Li, scan the energy nodes of this seal and find its three weakest points!" "Got it!" Mo Li immediately understood, a glint of excitement in her eyes. She aimed her newly upgraded mechanical arm armor at the stone gate. Countless blue light patterns instantly appeared on the surface of the arm armor, and she began to rapidly analyze the energy structure of the "heavenly net." "Li Ge!" Chu Yun looked at Li Ge again, "Use your silver needles to disrupt the flow of spiritual energy around the seal and create a moment of 'hysteresis' for us!" "Okay!" Li Ge, without hesitation, flipped her hands, and dozens of silver needles gleaming with a faint blue light appeared between her fingers. "Found it!" Mo Li shouted in a deep voice after just ten breaths. "Three inches to the upper left, seven inches in the middle, and four inches to the lower right! These are the three core hubs of its energy circulation!" "Now!" Chu Yun shouted. The silver needles in Li Ge's hand instantly transformed into dozens of blue streams of light, precisely piercing the walls surrounding the stone gate, forming a strange formation. The golden arcs of electricity flowing through the "net of heaven and earth" froze for a moment! "Mo Li!" "High-energy particle cannon, ready!" A dark muzzle on the front of Mo Li's mechanical arm armor was already aimed at the stone gate, its interior gleaming with a terrifying, destructive light. "I'll take the lead!" Chu Yun took a deep breath, completely merging the fragments of the Evil-Suppressing Seal within his body...
“Buzz!”
A dull thud came from outside the stone gate!
Then, an extremely powerful, yet extremely familiar, seal filled with the destructive force of thunder suddenly appeared on the stone gate, blocking their way! The net formed by countless golden arcs of electricity exuded a terrifying aura that made people's hearts palpitate.
"It's Xuan Chenzi!" Mo Li's expression instantly turned extremely ugly. "He actually found this place! We're stuck!"
"No, he didn't find this place." A cold light flashed in Chu Yun's eyes. He could feel that this seal was not just set up, but had existed for a long time and was only activated at this moment. "From the beginning, he had no intention of letting us leave this way."
This so-called "way out" is a trap from beginning to end.
"Then what should we do?" Li Ge asked in a deep voice.
"What should we do?" Chu Yun's lips curled up in a cold arc. "He thought that this net would be safe if it was locked from the outside. But he didn't know that any strong fortress is much easier to break through from the inside."
He turned to look at Mo Li: "Mo Li, scan the energy nodes of this seal and find its three weakest points!"
"Got it!" Mo Li immediately understood, a glint of excitement in her eyes. She aimed her newly upgraded mechanical arm armor at the stone gate. Countless blue light patterns instantly appeared on the surface of the arm armor, and she began to rapidly analyze the energy structure of the "heavenly net".
"Li Ge!" Chu Yun looked at Li Ge again, "Use your silver needle to interfere with the flow of spiritual energy around the seal, creating a moment of 'delay' for us!"
"Okay!" Li Ge didn't hesitate at all. He flipped his hands and dozens of silver needles flashing with faint blue light appeared between his fingers.
"Found it!" Mo Li shouted in a deep voice after just ten breaths, "Three inches to the upper left, seven inches in the middle, and four inches to the lower right! These are the three core hubs of its energy circulation!"
"Now!" Chu Yun shouted.
The silver needle in Li Ge's hand instantly transformed into dozens of blue streams of light, precisely piercing the wall surrounding the stone gate, forming a strange formation. As expected, the golden arcs flowing on the "heavenly net" froze for a moment!
"Mo Li!"
"High-energy particle cannon, ready!" At the front end of Mo Li's mechanical arm armor, a black hole-like muzzle was aimed at the stone gate, and a heart-pounding destructive light flashed inside.
"I'll take the lead!" Chu Yun took a deep breath and poured the power in his body that had been completely integrated with the fragments of the Evil-Suppressing Seal into the Evil-Suppressing Sword in his hand without reservation!
“Buzz!”
The ancient sword of evil suppression erupted with an unprecedented brilliant divine light! It was no longer simply golden, but a dark golden color that was a mixture of the purity of Taiyi Yuanqi, the domineering power of the evil suppression seal, and Chu Yun's own unyielding will, a deeper and heavier dark golden color!
"break!"
Chu Yun and Mo Li attacked at the same time!
A particle beam that condensed the top destructive power of Mohist technology, and an unmatched sword light that carried the final inheritance of the Evil Suppression Division, formed a triangular shape and bombarded the three weak nodes marked by Mo Li with incredible precision!
"boom--!!!!!"
A deafening roar suddenly exploded in the narrow passage!
The indestructible "net of heaven and earth" that could have trapped any Jindan-stage cultivator in the outside world was shattered like fragile glass by the three people's tacit internal and external attacks! Countless golden arcs of electricity scatter and eventually dissipate into nothingness.
"Walk!"
Chu Yun didn't hesitate at all and pulled the two of them out of the passage.
As they emerged from the pitch-black passage, a biting cold wind, mingled with blizzards, instantly swept over them. Before them lay a vast, boundless expanse of snow. Behind them lay the Tianshi Mansion, shrouded in mist and clouds, still imbued with an ethereal atmosphere. And before them lay the path to the unknown, cold, and bleak Far North.
"He has already calculated everything." Mo Li looked back at the huge mountain range that was once the "holy land" in her heart, and her voice was filled with indescribable complex emotions.
"Let's go." Chu Yun did not look back. His eyes were firmly looking at the north, looking at the final direction indicated by the fragment of the Evil-Suppressing Seal in his hand.
That place is the legendary sealed place where the ancient demon king was suppressed.
That is also the final "battlefield" of this gamble.
The far north, an ancient battlefield.
This is the coldest place in the entire human world, and its laws are the most chaotic. The earth-shattering battle that suppressed the Demon King caused the heavens to collapse and the earth to crack, the sun and moon to dim, and the entire universe has long been shattered. Countless hideous spatial cracks, like unhealed scars on this land, are scattered across the pale land covered by millennia of glaciers.
Time has lost its meaning here. Perhaps a year here is just one day in the outside world; or perhaps the outside world has changed dramatically in the blink of an eye.
This is a restricted area for all living beings.
But today, this forbidden zone of death that has been silent for a thousand years has welcomed three uninvited guests.
Chu Yun, Li Ge and Mo Li stood on the top of a huge iceberg, overlooking the white world of death shrouded in the eerie blood-red moonlight. Everyone's face was filled with unprecedented solemnity.
"We are still... a step late." Li Ge's voice was cold and without a trace of emotion.
Her gaze turned towards the enormous blood moon hanging high in the sky. It had fully formed, emitting an ominous, sickening red light, staining the endless pure white glacier beneath her feet a shocking bloody color, as if the entire world was silently bleeding.
"That altar... is also completed." Mo Li's eyes were fixed on the center of the blood-colored glacier.
There, a towering altar, ten times larger and a hundred times more sinister than the one they had seen in the ancient city of Jichuan, rose from the ground. The altar was composed entirely of some unknown black crystal stone mixed with long-solidified, dark red blood plasma.
A thick pillar of evil energy, which penetrated the heavens and the earth and was filled with endless resentment, pain, and filth, shot up from the center of the altar, like a giant black dragon, and slammed straight into the strange blood moon in the sky!
“Boom—!”
The entire Sealed Land trembled and wailed violently under this horrific sacrificial ritual. The thousand-year-old glaciers beneath their feet continuously cracked and collapsed, as if this ancient land, bearing the blood and tears of countless heroes, was uttering its final, painful wail.
"What...are those things?"
Chu Yun's pupils suddenly shrank.
He saw that around the enormous altar and the evil energy beam, there were tens of thousands of "monsters" of various shapes circling.
There are evil ghosts from the underworld with green faces, fangs, and a sinister aura.
There are human zombies with missing arms and legs, emitting a foul odor.
There are strange-looking forest monsters formed from plants, rocks and hills.
There are even some ancient monsters that are huge in size and exude powerful demonic energy!
These "evil spirits," who should have belonged to different factions, filled with hatred and hostility towards each other, now seemed to be forcibly "enslaved" by some invisible force. Their eyes were equally empty and numb, and their bodies were branded with the same black curse that belonged to the Shadow Pavilion.
Like the most loyal and fearless "guards", they densely circled around the huge altar, forming a "defense line" made up of countless evil spirits and ghosts that made people feel absolutely desperate.
"He actually gathered here all the 'evil spirits' that he could use in the Three Realms." Chu Yun looked at the doomsday scene in front of him that looked like a hundred ghosts parading at night, his voice filled with an indescribable heaviness.
The Grand Master, in this most direct and arrogant way, declared to them: He had prepared everything. The mad, subversive "alchemical ritual" had officially begun. Any "ant" who dared to intervene would be torn to pieces by this endless "army" of demons and ghosts.
"Li Ge, have the remnants of the old gods of the underworld that you contacted received any response?" After a brief shock, Chu Yun immediately regained his composure and asked in a deep voice.
Li Ge closed his eyes and felt for a moment, then shook his head, a trace of helplessness on his face: "No. The spatial laws here are too chaotic. My secret technique has been greatly disturbed, and I can't contact them at all."
"It seems that we are fighting alone." A bitter smile appeared on Mo Li's face.
"No."
Chu Yun shook his head. He looked at his two companions, whose faces were solemn but whose eyes showed no sign of retreat, and smiled confidently and warmly.
"We are not alone," he said softly. "There are three of us."
Li Ge and Mo Li looked at his increasingly resolute and reliable profile under the blood-red moonlight. Their hearts, which had become cold because of the desperate scene before them, seemed to be injected with an incomparably warm power.
Yes, there are three of them.
Perhaps, in front of the ultimate enemy that is like a god or demon, they are still insignificant.
But they are no longer alone. They can trust each other with their backs, without reservation. They can protect each other with their lives.
That's enough.
"Mo Li." Chu Yun turned to look at her, "Are you scared?"
"Afraid?" Mo Li smiled. She raised her mechanical arm armor, gleaming with a cold metallic sheen, imbued with power and beauty. Her fingers clenched together, a crisp "click" emanating from it. Her eyes burned with the pride and frenzied fighting spirit of a Mo family descendant. "I'm just afraid that this newly upgraded 'new toy' of mine... won't be enough to satisfy my killing spree!"
"Li Ge." Chu Yun looked at Li Ge again.
Li Ge didn't say anything, but slowly took out a row of silver needles as thin as cow hairs that were shining with a faint blue light from his arms.
Under the gazes of Chu Yun and Mo Li, she inserted the silver needles one by one into the "death acupoints" on her body that could unleash all potential in a short period of time with an attitude full of piety and determination.
Her movements were gentle and steady, as if she wasn't piercing her own body, but just an irrelevant skin. She answered Chu Yun's question in this most direct and tragic way.
Chu Yun looked at them and smiled too.
He stopped talking and slowly drew the Evil-Suppressing Sword from his back, which had accompanied him for thirteen years. He poured all the strength in his body, which had long since completely merged with the Taiyi Yuan Qi and the fragments of the Evil-Suppressing Seal, into the sword without reservation.
“Buzz!”
At this moment, the ancient sword, which had lost all its luster, suddenly burst out with a dazzling divine light that was enough to dim the entire bloody world!
"Are you ready?" he asked.
"We're ready," they replied.
"Okay then." Chu Yun raised the evil-suppressing sword that was burning with golden divine fire, and pointed it straight at the evil altar that reached the sky, at the countless roaring demons and ghosts, and at the "false god" who was high above and was destined to be killed by him personally.
His voice was not loud, but it was like thunder falling from the sky, resounding throughout the deadly ancient battlefield:
"Let's...go ahead!"
As the last word fell, the three of them simultaneously leaped from the summit of the ten-thousand-foot iceberg! They transformed into three streams of light that tore through the darkness, and without hesitation, they rushed towards the "abyss" composed of endless darkness and evil.
Just as they were about to rush into the outermost part of the "evil army", a figure wearing a black cloak, holding a huge sickle, and exuding an aura of ominousness and death, slowly stood up on the evil altar that reached the sky.
He, or rather it, raised his head, revealing a hollow face made entirely of bones beneath his cloak. In its empty eye sockets, two scarlet will-o'-the-wisp flames suddenly ignited, locking their gazes firmly on Chu Yun, who was charging in the front.
"Those who trespass... on forbidden grounds..."
A dry, hoarse voice, as if made by the friction of countless dry bones, rang directly in the minds of the three people.
"……die!"
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