Chapter 8
That's right. Twenty years ago, the Ghost-Faced Venerable had already lost his life at the hands of Jiang Liuya.
At that time, Jiang Liuya had just successfully advanced to the Nascent Soul stage and was already plotting to kill the enemy who had controlled her for a long time.
Jiang Liuya had been implanted with a child Gu of the Netherworld Gu King. At the time, the Netherworld Gu King was significantly stronger than Lin Yuan. Her chances of devouring the child Gu and killing the Ghost Face Venerable were extremely slim.
She knew it wasn't the best time, but she could no longer bear living like this, without any control over her own destiny.
Fortunately, the Ghost Face Venerable has quite a few enemies.
It's nothing more than sowing discord and using someone else to do the dirty work. She's used these tricks before; she's just repeating the same old methods.
Under her scheme, the Ghost Face Venerable walked step by step into the trap.
Ultimately, the Ghost Face Venerable was severely injured by his enemies.
The Ghost-Faced Venerable is a powerful figure in the late Nascent Soul stage. As the sect leader of the Nine Nether Sect, he enjoys a formidable reputation in the Western Continent. A cultivator like him is not easily killed, even with elaborate schemes.
After being injured, the Ghost-Faced Venerable seemed to have come to a realization. On the verge of life and death, he gained insight into those seemingly insignificant details that he usually disdained to pay attention to.
He suddenly demanded, "How did Jiang Liuya, Ning Yu, and Jin Zhengxiao die?"
Jiang Liuya stood to the side, a slight smirk playing on her lips: "Naturally, it's because they are too useless. His Excellency once said that the Nine Nether Sect does not support useless people."
As she spoke, the Gu array she had prepared beforehand instantly activated. The Gu array resembled a huge black mist, with Gu worms flying within it, emitting sharp hissing sounds. It surged towards the Ghost-Faced Venerable like a tidal wave, completely surrounding him.
"Your Majesty, you should pass away soon. By the way, I will not let you rest in peace after you die."
Jiang Liuya forcibly used Lin Yuan to devour the Netherworld Gu King's offspring Gu. She turned the masked man into a puppet, making him a walking corpse, unable to find peace even in death.
However, the son of Gu murdered his master, and was consumed by karmic fire.
While forcibly devouring the Gu worm, Jiang Liuya also suffered a severe backlash. If she wanted to break free from its control and regain her own autonomy, she had to bear the karmic consequences.
This is the price of regaining freedom.
From then on, she spent most of her time on the Western Sea, hunting the inner cores of sea monsters, because their abundant water elemental energy could temporarily suppress the karmic fire that would backfire.
She had received some of the memories of the Ghost-Faced Venerable, and knew of a supreme treasure that had briefly appeared in the Western Continent, called the Power of Chaos. Its power was immense and all-powerful, capable of eradicating karmic debts. Unfortunately, it was abducted by the Heavenly Profound Sect of the Eastern Continent many years ago, and its whereabouts have remained unknown ever since.
Until Yun Zheng appeared. She discovered that this silly boy was actually the sect leader of the Tianxuan Sect.
"You do all this for the power of chaos."
"For the power of chaos, you're willing to risk your life. Is it worth it?"
There was a hint of barely perceptible pity in Danxi Daojun's voice.
Jiang Liuya lay prostrate on the ground, her breath faint, her hair disheveled and plastered to her cheeks, her body covered in blood.
After a while, she leaned against the wall and stood up with difficulty, looking at Daoist Danxi with a smile.
There was a hint of misery in her smile as she gasped, "They're nothing but ants, struggling in vain."
"There's no need for that. I can tell you the secret of the power of chaos without hesitation."
As he spoke, he made a gesture in the air with one hand, his fingertips flashing with a mysterious light, and in a moment he opened a spatial rift.
"Come with me."
The forbidden area of the Tianxuan Sect, the Spirit Ruins Secret Realm. This place is secluded, surrounded by towering mountains and shrouded in mist, shrouded in mystery year-round, making it an excellent hiding place.
"This is the Spirit Ruins Secret Realm, where sect disciples used to conduct trials."
As they spoke, they had already crossed the barrier and arrived inside the Spirit Ruins Secret Realm.
Before Jiang Liuya was an exquisitely crafted array.
"This formation is the Azure Nether Mystery Formation," said Daoist Danxi calmly.
The Azure Netherworld Mystery Array is based on a thousand-year-old divine tree, with twelve sandalwood pillars on the outer perimeter driven into the earth's veins according to the positions of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Fiends, their surfaces engraved with spiritual patterns. The inner layer is a blue lotus formed from spiritual energy.
This formation aligns with the principle that wood gives birth to all things, requiring an innate wood spirit as the key to activate the azure lotus formed from the spiritual energy within the formation. If the formation is forcibly broken, the outer wooden pillars will immediately attack the intruder. The inner azure lotus will then close, forming a cage that will forever imprison the intruder in the wood spirit's illusion.
Danxi Daojun stood at the Xun position of the formation, condensing a wisp of pure innate wood spirit energy from his fingertips and injecting it into the spirit pattern of an outer wooden pillar. The wooden pillar instantly lit up, and the spirit pattern moved like a living snake, activating the outer Heavenly Gang Formation, causing the green lotus at the center of the formation to tremble.
Danxi Daojun then unleashed another beam of azure spiritual light, which shot directly at the azure lotus, creating a gate of light at its heart.
Jiang Liuya followed Danxi Daojun and walked into the gate of light together.
Leaving aside the formation itself, even the outermost barrier is beyond our control.
Jiang Liuya knew that without Danxi Daojun, she would have no chance of getting in on her own.
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