Chapter 492: Senior Brother, Ran Off After Taking Advantage
Crosswinds stirred the city, and waves of ominous dark purple lightning coursed through the dark clouds, casting a gloomy hue on the foreheads of the Demonic Cultivator disciples in Donghuang Immortal City.
“Heh heh—”
Swish—
Accompanying a ghostly bell-like laughter, a blood-colored arc swept across the chests of several Ghost Spirit Sect disciples, cleanly slicing them in half.
Then, a rain of blood poured down, landing on the foreheads of the few Demonic Cultivators below.
They raised their hands in confusion and wiped their faces. Seeing a tinge of blood on their hands, they involuntarily looked up at the sky. But the next moment, a black shadow charged towards them, and as if slicing vegetables, split them in two from their foreheads in an instant.
The blood-colored Spiritual Sword coiled around her. Gu Mingxin did not pause for a moment. After slaying one Demonic Cultivator, she rapidly moved towards another. For her, Ghost Spirit Sect disciples below the Nascent Soul Stage were not even strong enough to delay her for a breath.
Some people reacted and protected themselves with ghost spirits, only to be swallowed by the thousand-foot-long giant python.
If they encountered Sword Cultivator sword moves to parry, they would be severed by Gu Mingxin along with their Spiritual Swords.
The Ghost Spirit Sect disciples near the prison didn’t even have time to mourn their fellow disciples before they followed suit, all dying by the hands of Gu Mingxin and the black python.
Roaring—
The streets shattered, and buildings collapsed.
Smoke and dust billowed, and blood splattered.
“Twenty-seven!!”
Swish—
“Twenty-eight!!”
Gu Mingxin happily counted the number of Ghost Spirit Sect disciples she had split with her sword. Her expression was almost monstrous as she charged towards the next person. Looking towards the Sky Observation Platform in the east, she asked,
“Did you see?! I’ve already killed… twenty…”
Swish—
“Nine!! demonic cultivators who dared to oppose you, haha!”
Just as Gu Mingxin was tirelessly expressing her “love” to Ye Anping, Xue E, who was perched above her head, keeping watch for her, suddenly sensed danger. She turned her head to the side and then shouted,
“Mingxin, to your right rear!”
A flash of bloody light flickered in Gu Mingxin’s eyes. She glanced sideways and then extended her left hand, which Ye Anping had returned to her, grabbed the neck of the Core Formation Stage Ghost Spirit Sect disciple in front of her, and turned around, using the Ghost Spirit Sect disciple as a shield in front of her.
The next moment—
Boom—
A blood-colored light accompanied by immense killing aura charged straight towards Gu Mingxin’s face. The Ghost Spirit Sect disciple she used as a shield instantly disintegrated into a bloody mist upon contact with this blood-colored light.
Gu Mingxin reacted extremely quickly. Although she couldn’t see the face of the person wrapped in the blood-colored killing aura, she could sense that it was likely Kong Xiangmo. Therefore, she immediately held her right hand’s Spiritual Sword horizontally in front of her chest.
Clang—!!
A wrinkled hand landed directly on the body of her blood-colored Spiritual Sword. The shock transmitted through the sword body to the hilt and then entered her body through her right hand.
Following that, waves of dense blood qi erupted, turning the earth and stones into sand.
Sensing that something was wrong, Xue E quickly shouted,
“A Mang!!”
The black python, who was enjoying its extra meal not far away, suddenly twisted its body, opened its snake mouth with four fangs, and lunged towards Gu Mingxin.
Kong Xiangmo’s hand rested on Gu Mingxin’s sword. The pair of bloodshot, dim yellow eyes beneath his eyebrows glanced at the black python and he snorted disdainfully,
“Heh!”
He formed a palm with his left hand, and a piece of ice shaped like congealed blood suddenly appeared in his palm.
Whoosh—
The crimson ice cone instantly transformed into a blood-red thread and shot straight towards the black scales on A Mang’s abdomen. Although it didn’t pierce the scales, it directly sent A Mang’s hundreds of tons of body flying backward.
Several streets of Donghuang, along with the Ghost Spirit Sect disciples who hadn’t managed to escape, were directly crushed under the falling black python.
Roaring—
Smoke and dust rose to the sky.
Seeing that things were not looking good, Gu Mingxin felt a pang of regret. She knew her limits; if she faced Kong Xiangmo head-on, it would be a dead end. After all, he was a late-stage Deity Transformation Elder of the Ghost Spirit Sect…
“Tsk…”
Whoosh whoosh—
Two blood-colored sword lights slashed towards Kong Xiangmo. Although she used all her strength, they were feints. After unleashing the two blood-colored lights, Gu Mingxin immediately sent her spiritual energy to her feet, kicked off the nearby house, crashed through it from the other side, and fled directly towards the black python.
Xue E, who was holding Gu Mingxin’s hair, immediately reacted and shouted,
“A Mang! Protect Mingxin!!”
Hiss—
The snake head flickered, and the black python used its tongue to roll several Core Formation Stage Demonic Cultivator corpses from the side of its head into its mouth, consuming their spiritual energy to recover. Then, it coiled its body and directly wrapped Gu Mingxin, who was rushing towards it, inside. It coiled itself into a giant black mass dozens of feet high.
After being wrapped inside the black python, Gu Mingxin stumbled and fell to the ground. She quickly took out several pills from her Storage Bag, threw them into her mouth, sat down cross-legged, and began to condense her qi to recover.
Although Kong Xiangmo’s palm had not touched her body, she still felt his ghost qi flood into her body.
The ghost qi of a late-stage Deity Transformation Ghost Cultivator, if it entered an ordinary cultivator’s body, would be enough to cause them to explode into a bloody mist, just like the Ghost Spirit Sect disciple she had used as a shield earlier.
Although Gu Mingxin had the Blood Fiend Physique, she wouldn’t explode on the spot, but this was not something she could endure by gritting her teeth.
“Mingxin, inject spiritual energy into the Ren and Du meridian points. Don’t rush.”
Xue E calmly reminded her from the side how to resist the ghost qi.
The next moment.
Boom—!
The heavens and earth trembled. The giant python’s body slightly contracted, letting out a painful hiss.
Gu Mingxin slightly raised her hand and touched the scales beside her as a gesture of comfort. Then, she closed her eyes and cleared her mind, no longer listening to the sounds outside her serpentine body, and began to meditate and condense her qi.
Kong Xiangmo had already arrived in the sky. He glared with bloodshot eyes at the black python below him and waved his hand, shooting several more blood-colored lights towards it.
Boom boom boom—
Every blood-colored light that landed on the snake’s body left a bloody wound, but these wounds would grow and heal within two breaths, regrowing scales.
After bombarding for a while with ghost arts, Kong Xiangmo retracted his spiritual energy, placed his hands behind his back, and closed his eyes to calm his mood slightly.
His son was dead, which indeed filled him with extreme rage.
But Gu Mingxin was like a turtle in a jar at this moment. He didn’t need to personally act. Although the blood python had a tough body, there were now four Deity Transformation Stage cultivators in Donghuang, as well as dozens of Nascent Soul Stage elders.
No matter how capable Gu Mingxin was, she could never leave Donghuang.
At this time, the other three Deity Transformation Stage elders in Donghuang also arrived. The three of them glanced at the tightly wrapped black python below and saw Kong Xiangmo there, so they quickly flashed over.
“Great Elder Kong.”
Kong Xiangmo glanced at the three of them, then tilted his head slightly and looked down, amplifying his voice with spiritual energy:
“Gu Mingxin, where is Liang Liu?”
“…”
“I’ll give you a chance. Hand over Liang Liu, and I’ll spare your life.”
Kong Xiangmo suppressed his emotions, but when he said this, he remembered the state of his son’s corpse just now and couldn’t help but suddenly roar,
“Gu Mingxin!!! Where is Liang Liu?!”
“…”
“I’ll count to three!!!” Kong Xiangmo squinted slightly, his blood-stained sleeves gently flicking, “One!!!”
Seeing his gesture, Luo Yi and the other two Deity Transformation Stage Ghost Spirit Sect elders understood and leaked their spiritual energy.
Roaring—
The dark clouds hovering over Donghuang were instantly dyed red by a dense blood qi, and lightning snakes spread out, descending as dozens of crimson lightning bolts, forming a cage around the black python below.
Kong Xiangmo squinted slightly, “Two!!!”
His voice passed through the snake’s body and reached Gu Mingxin, who was meditating and condensing her qi below.
She slowly opened her eyes. Although she could already feel the oppressive spiritual might of four Deity Transformation Stage cultivators pressing down on her like ten thousand pounds, her expression remained as calm as ever.
On the contrary, Xue E gritted its teeth, its face full of tension.
A Mang was an ancient Spirit Taming Spiritual Beast, a Heavenly Demon Blood Fiend. Like Feng Yu Die’s Golden Dragon, it was a bloodline inheritance from a Void Returning Realm Great Master.
Furthermore, after Gu Mingxin reached the Nascent Soul Stage, A Mang’s body shape and spiritual power had multiplied several times.
However, if it were just one Deity Transformation Stage cultivator, it would be manageable.
At worst, they could peel off A Mang’s snake skin. Anyway, A Mang was immortal and would recover in ten days to half a month. But a joint attack by four Deity Transformation Stage cultivators was no joke.
If A Mang couldn’t withstand it and it fell directly onto its master Mingxin, then not even a strand of hair would be left.
Xue E tightly bit its lips and simply crouched on Gu Mingxin’s head, holding on for dear life.
At this point, it could only believe that Ye Anping had a way to break the stalemate.
—”Three!”
Kong Xiangmo’s voice came from outside the python’s body. Xue E immediately closed its eyes tightly and grabbed Gu Mingxin’s hair with its small hands.
Meanwhile, in the sky, Kong Xiangmo saw that Gu Mingxin still had no reaction. His lips twitched slightly, and he immediately waved his hand to give the order.
With a sweep of his sleeve, Luo Yi and the other two Deity Transformation Stage Ghost Spirit Sect elders’ eyes sharpened, and they raised their hands to form a seal.
The dozens of crimson lightning pillars coiled around the black python’s body surged towards it.
However…
Almost simultaneously.
Roar—
A dragon’s roar echoed through the heavens.
Golden light rose from the Sky Observation Platform of Donghuang Immortal City, followed by a second, a third…
The spiritual energy filled with immortal essence swept across Donghuang like a vast ocean. The crimson lightning pillars condensed by spiritual energy from Kong Xiangmo and others disintegrated into specks of spiritual light and dissipated the moment they were about to touch the black python.
Kong Xiangmo looked at the more than seventy rays of golden light rising from various parts of Donghuang. The fury in his eyes gradually turned into a hint of fear.
The locations of those golden lights were the array eyes of the “Nine Phases Ghost Array.”
In other words, someone had found a way to break the main array eye of the Ghost Array and break most of the sub-array eyes in one fell swoop.
Kong Xiangmo looked down at the black python below and suddenly realized that he had made a big mistake.
When he found Kong Huayuan’s corpse, he shouldn’t have rushed over because he saw the black python. Instead, he should have searched for “Liang Liu,” who was impersonating his son.
Gu Mingxin was merely “Liang Liu’s” bait; “Liang Liu” was the one holding the fishing rod.
From beginning to end, “Liang Liu” had never shown their face.
From beginning to end, he had been led by the nose by “Liang Liu.”
But now, even if he realized it, it was too late.
The “Nine Phases Ghost Array,” personally set up by the Ghost Ancestor in Donghuang with countless Demonic Treasures and ghost spirits, had been so easily broken.
And the mistake he made was not just breaking the great array of Donghuang.
That “Liang Liu” had broken the Ghost Array using Kong Huayuan’s identity!
In other words, it didn’t matter who broke the Ghost Array.
Once this news reached the Ghost Ancestor’s ears, it would be “Kong Huayuan betrayed the Ghost Spirit Sect, colluded with Immortal Cultivators, and secretly broke Donghuang’s Ghost Array.”
With this burden, he would have no defense.
The Luo Yi and the other two Deity Transformation Stage Ghost Spirit Sect elders present at the scene would likely not testify for him either.
As the saying goes, when a wall falls, everyone pushes.
All because of his oversight, all because his untalented son did something stupid.
He was finished.
The Kong family was also finished.
Kong Xiangmo’s face instantly turned pale. The imposing aura of a late-stage Deity Transformation cultivator vanished without a trace. He now looked like a lonely old man floating in the air, haggard and worn out.
He slowly raised his wrinkled old hand and grasped the beard on his chin.
*Riiiiip*—
“Aaaaarrrrggghhh—!!!”
Roars like thunder, accompanied by countless crimson lightning bolts, struck various parts of Donghuang.
Roaring—
Countless Ghost Spirit Sect disciples were accidentally injured by the blood lightning. Upon contact, they exploded into bloody mist, and screams and wails erupted from all over Donghuang.
Luo Yi and the others beside Kong Xiangmo quickly protected themselves, but they were still struck by the blood lightning and had to dodge hastily.
“Great Elder Kong, there are still disciples in the city… Please restrain yourself…”
Boom—
Before the person could finish speaking, Kong Xiangmo’s eyes widened, and he instantly transformed into a blood-colored light, charging directly towards the Sky Observation Platform.
The other three Deity Transformation Stage elders were utterly confused as to what had happened. When they shifted their gaze back to the black python below, the black python that had been coiled there had vanished. Only large patches of shed snake skin remained…
…
——
Ye Anping, clad in the Ghost Spirit Sect’s uniform, sat cross-legged in the center of the Sky Observation Platform. The Nine Dragon Seal, carved with nine dragons, was suspended and floating before his chest, supported by spiritual energy.
Whoosh—
Feng Yu Die, wearing a mask, flicked the blood off her spiritual sword with a swish. She scanned the surroundings, confirming there were no survivors, and quickly retreated to Ye Anping’s side.
“Young Master Ye, it’s all taken care of…”
“Mm.”
Ye Anping slowly opened his eyes, supporting the Nine Dragon Heavenly Seal in his palm, preparing to gather the golden spiritual energy rising from all parts of Donghuang to give the Ghost Spirit Sect disciples a small Nine Dragon shock.
However, at this moment, the wind stopped and the clouds scattered.
The commotion caused by Gu Mingxin abruptly ceased.
Almost simultaneously, Xiao Tian, who was perched on Feng Yu Die’s head, as if sensing something, suddenly widened her eyes and shouted,
“Old Nine!!! Protect Yu Die and Anping!!”
After uttering this, golden spiritual energy emanated from Feng Yu Die’s chest and instantly condensed into a golden dragon, protecting Ye Anping and Feng Yu Die within its belly.
The next moment, dense blood qi pressed down on the entire Sky Observation Platform like a vast ocean.
Boom—!
The Ghost Spirit Sect disciples killed by Feng Yu Die moments ago instantly disintegrated into bloody mud. Although the golden dragon resisted the blood qi pressing down from above, it couldn’t help but let out a series of low groans.
Roar…
Old Nine: “Tian Yi, I can’t hold on for long. Let them two escape quickly…”
Receiving Old Nine’s transmission, Xiao Tian quickly relayed it to Ye Anping, saying,
“Anping, Old Nine can’t hold on much longer. You should quickly…”
“Hah—!!”
Roaring—
Before she could finish speaking, Kong Xiangmo plummeted from the sky, his eyes glaring at Ye Anping and Feng Yu Die within the golden dragon’s embrace. Upon seeing the Nine Dragon Heavenly Seal in Ye Anping’s hand, his eyes narrowed slightly:
“Nine Dragon Heavenly Seal? And the Saint Emperor’s…”
Feng Yu Die immediately raised her spiritual sword, blocking in front of her, and stepped back towards Ye Anping.
“Young Master Ye…”
“…”
The next moment, a dense blood qi flowed from Kong Xiangmo’s chest. He glared at Ye Anping, whose face now resembled his son’s, trembling with rage.
Roar—
The golden dragon let out a low moan, as if saying it couldn’t hold on any longer.
Ye Anping couldn’t help but gasp. He immediately poured his spiritual energy into the Nine Dragon Heavenly Seal.
The golden light rising from all parts of Donghuang converged towards the Sky Observation Platform. Seeing this, Kong Xiangmo took a forceful step forward, raised his hand like a claw, and powerfully gripped towards Ye Anping.
The golden dragon, which had been resisting the blood qi from above, staggered and shrunk downwards.
“Three breaths!”
Ye Anping gritted his teeth and quickly poured more spiritual energy into the Nine Dragon Heavenly Seal in his hand, urging mentally:
—Faster!!! Faster!!
Strands of golden spiritual energy gathered in the Heavenly Seal. Ye Anping frowned and stared intently at Kong Xiangmo, but in the next instant, Kong Xiangmo’s figure transformed into a blood-red shadow and slammed directly into the dragon’s belly.
A powerful blood qi surged towards him. Kong Xiangmo must have used all his strength this time, causing the transparent golden dragon body that had been protecting Feng Yu Die and Ye Anping to be directly pierced, creating a bloody hole.
“Hiss—”
Ye Anping sensed danger and immediately rushed forward, taking out Bai Yue from his Storage Bag, blocking Kong Xiangmo’s palm with his sword.
Clang—
Ghost Spirit killing aura instantly flowed from the sword body to the hilt, and then into Ye Anping’s right hand’s meridians. He staggered back laboriously, but Feng Yu Die quickly crossed her sword behind his spiritual sword.
“Young Master Ye!!”
“Hahhh—!!!”
Kong Xiangmo pressed his palm against their crossed spiritual swords, gritted his teeth, and took a step forward. At this moment, Ye Anping supported the Nine Dragon Heavenly Seal in his left palm.
Whoosh—
A spiritual light that dyed the world a hazy color burst from the Heavenly Seal, engulfing the figures of the three of them, and then rapidly expanded outwards, swallowing more than half of Donghuang Immortal City.
All sounds were hushed. The entire Donghuang fell silent for a moment.
There was no earth-shattering sound, only a spiritual light bright enough to illuminate a thousand li of yellow sand.
A moment later, the spiritual light receded.
And of the three who had been in a stalemate at close range, only Kong Xiangmo remained.
The Ghost Spirit Sect Elder’s uniform he wore was tattered beyond repair. His entire skin was as if he had jumped into a lava bath, with sparks radiating from it.
Kong Xiangmo slowly lowered his outstretched right hand and then clenched it tightly into a fist, tilting his head to the sky and roaring out:
“Aaaarrrrggghhh—!!!”
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