Chapter 158 - Echo
The morning light pierced through the gloom of the God Burial Abyss, casting a long, angular shadow on the skeleton of the Talisman Array Tower, which had just taken shape in the Immortal Killing Square.
On the surface of the tower base, the Guixu Town rune, branded with Chenji Star Sand and flowing with dark gold and faint blue light, is like the heart of a sleeping giant beast, beating slowly in the morning light. Every flow of light causes the evil energy of the earth veins to resonate slightly.
"Family members! The Abyss Infrastructure Maniac is showing off his skills online!" Su Tang's clear and excited voice resounded throughout the square.
She sat cross-legged on the Xuanbing live broadcast platform, the Star Induction Token hovering in front of her, her psychic eyes locked onto the tower base, and the camera lens of the photo stone pointed at the core rune. "Look! Guixu Town! Senior Brother is tempering the Dragon Evil, and Second Brother is brightening the Star Sand! It even has a special effect of earth vein vibration!"
The camera panned over Chu Linyuan, who stood silently beside the tower's base. His black robes were as black as ink, and the hideous scar on his left arm, where the robes had been torn, looked like a medal in the morning light.
He fused his fingers like swords, condensing his icy energy into the precise connection between a newly erected Scarlet Phoenix Main Dragon Bone and the Void Talisman structure, instantly freezing and strengthening it. His movements were icy and efficient, like the most sophisticated machine.
"Brother! Look at this newly designed 'Toilet Talisman' of mine!" Xie Zhao's voice came from not far away with a lively and proud tone.
His Jinghong talisman brush danced in the air, and a pale golden light instantly condensed into a delicately constructed cubic phantom emitting faint spatial fluctuations. It landed steadily in a corner on the west side of the square. "How is it? It has built-in spatial folding, automatic cleaning, and odor isolation! It's guaranteed to be a hundred times better than the pit that Tie Niu dug in the vegetable garden! From now on, Junior Sister Luo will never have to worry about her herb garden being contaminated again!"
Tie Niu was grunting as he walked over carrying a large piece of newly melted Shenyuan Star Pattern Iron. Upon hearing this, he protested in a muffled voice: "Second Brother! The pit I dug is... solid! Yours is made of paper... it will run away at the slightest breeze!" His huge body brought up a gust of wind, as if he wanted to prove something.
"Stupid cow! Put it down!" Luo Hongyi's scolding voice was filled with lazy disgust.
She leaned against the newly built star-patterned iron frame covered with pale golden rune vines next to the herb garden. A wisp of dark green poisonous mist moved from her fingertips like a spirit snake, accurately supporting the heavy metal on the iron ox's shoulder that was about to slip.
"If you destroy my Nine Nether Smiling Madness experimental field, I'll make you laugh for three days and three nights!"
"Senior Sister Luo... I was wrong..." Tie Niu quickly and carefully put down the star-patterned iron. His huge body shrank, and the bright silver horns on his head seemed to dim a little.
He cautiously glanced at the stone basin in the corner of the medicine garden, which was covered by a special restriction. Inside, several dark green mushrooms with strange shapes and emitting an ominous sweet fragrance were slowly spreading their caps under the nourishment of the poisonous mist.
"Little Deer, this way," Xie Zhao called out. Little White Deer, holding the Moon-Eating Rabbit, trotted over. Her clear eyes were calmer than usual. Though still tinged with a hint of childishness, a toughness belied her age.
The Moon-Eating Rabbit was in her arms, its ruby eyes scanning the surroundings vigilantly. The starlight from the star runes flowing under its fur was gentle and restrained, blending with the breath of its owner.
Xie Zhao pointed his Jinghong Talisman Pen, and a miniature "Star Attracting Talisman" shot into the small packet of seeds in Bai Xiaolu's hand - those were the spores he bought at the Chenyuanxia Market yesterday.
"Try to use the power of the rabbit's star map to guide it, and combine it with the evil energy of the medicine garden's veins to see if you can give birth to some mutant species? I'll add to Junior Sister Luo's poison storage!"
Little White Deer nodded vigorously, her face serious. She carried the rabbit to a reserved black rock area at the edge of the herb garden and squatted down.
The Moon-Eating Rabbit seemed to understand her intentions. Its ruby eyes lit up slightly, and the star runes on its back flickered like breathing.
An extremely weak but pure strand of star power, mixed with the deer's own life force, slowly flowed into the spore bag in her hand.
The spores wrapped in star power seemed to have life, automatically and evenly falling on the black rock ground and instantly sinking into it.
Then, the black rock land was covered with a layer of deep dark green at a speed visible to the naked eye, and fine moss like velvet spread and grew rapidly, with faint starlight twinkling on the edges of the leaves!
A hint of surprise appeared on Luo Hongyi's gorgeous face. She probed the new moss with the poisonous mist on her fingertips, feeling the faint star power and unique cold evil spirit contained in it. She curled her red lips slightly, "Interesting. Good job, little girl."
She flicked her fingertips, and a very fine wisp of dark green poisonous mist merged into the moss. The starlight instantly took on a hint of enchanting green, and the vitality became more vigorous.
White Deer's face flushed slightly, her clear eyes filled with joy. She gently patted the rabbit's head, and the rabbit purred contentedly.
"Look! What a genius is!" Xie Zhao put his hands on his hips, pointed his Jinghong Talisman Pen at the patch of starlight moss, and proudly raised his chin in Chu Linyuan's direction. "Brother! Am I doing a good job as the logistics director? Talisman tower, living facilities, strategic poisonous grass reserves... one-stop service! Would you consider giving me a raise?"
Chu Linyuan had just stabilized the last main dragon bone and didn't even raise his eyelids when he heard this.
His cold eyes swept across Xie Zhao's smug face, and finally landed on the white deer and the new moss, and he nodded slightly, almost imperceptibly.
Then, he put his fingers together like a sword, and a condensed black ice evil spirit accurately struck the "Guixu Town" rune at the core of the base of the talisman array.
The rune shone brightly! An invisible, stabilizing force field instantly spread out, enveloping the entire square!
Xie Zhao's flaunted toilet talisman cube trembled violently under this force field, and its structure instantly became more solid and stable, even the weak spatial fluctuations dissipated on the ice surface of Su Tang's live broadcast platform were smoothed out!
"..." Xie Zhao's smile froze. He looked at his forcibly reinforced toilet talisman, then at Chu Linyuan's cold face that said "it's just a piece of cake", and the corner of his mouth twitched. "Brother...are you polite?"
Chu Linyuan retracted his fingers. He had grasped the Immortal Killing Spear in his hand without knowing when. The tip of the spear was pointed at the ground. His voice was calm and even: "It collapsed. What a shame."
"Hahaha!" Su Tang was the first one who couldn't hold back her laughter and fell over.
Tie Niu scratched his head and said in a muffled voice, "Big Brother is right... The toilet collapsed... It's quite embarrassing..."
Poisonous mist lingered at Luo Hongyi's fingertips, and her red lips curled up in a mocking arc: "You idiot, you are showing off your skills in front of an expert."
The little white deer held the rabbit in his arms, his clear eyes curved into crescents.
Xie Zhao pointed angrily at these "ungrateful" teammates: "You...you teamed up with Bingzhazi to bully me! I'm going on strike! I'm going to stop supplying talismans!"
"Oh?" Chu Linyuan's cold eyes finally fell on him, with a barely perceptible hint of mischief, "Cut off the supply?"
The Immortal-Slaying Spear in his hand trembled slightly, and a cold light flickered at the tip of the spear, pointing far away at the small black jade box containing the Chenji Star Sand on Xie Zhao's waist.
Xie Zhao instantly covered his storage bag, his eyes widening: "Brother! You've become a bad person! You weren't like this before!"
"Birds of a feather flock together." Chu Linyuan spat out these four words coldly, turned and walked towards the area where materials were piled up, leaving Xie Zhao jumping in place.
Su Tang faced the photo stone, and the camera switched back and forth between the angry Xie Zhao and the coldly leaving Chu Linyuan.
The morning light, filled with laughter and anger, flowed across the Immortal-Slaying Square, as if coating the cold black rock with a layer of warm gold.
With the joint efforts of everyone, the skeleton of the Talisman Array Tower rose a little higher. The vine and cloud patterns graffitied by Xie Zhao on the star-patterned iron components reflected a faint light in the sunlight.
However, this warm noise was unable to penetrate the invisible barrier outside the God Burial Abyss.
Thousands of miles away from Guixu Sect, is Fentian Valley.
The main hall stood majestically, constructed entirely of crimson "Heaven Burning Crystal." Nine enormous metal spheres, blazing with blazing golden flames, hovered atop it—the Nine Tribulations Heaven Burning Furnaces! The blazing heat distorted the air, illuminating the sky above the valley in a blinding golden-red.
Deep in the main hall, the current leader of Burning Sky Valley, Ling Yan, also known as Venerable Lieyang, was sitting on the red crystal throne.
He had a resolute face, his long crimson hair was like a burning flame, golden flames flowed between his eyes, and his whole body exuded a scorching and overbearing aura like a lava volcano!
The pressure of the peak-level Spirit Transformation Realm filled the hall, causing the several Nascent Soul Realm elders standing solemnly below to feel their breath burning and their hearts depressed.
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