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Chapter 856: Not Even a Dog
Chapter 856: Not Even a Dog
"You are no longer of any use."
In those eyes, a cold and imposing authority shone, with golden, stern sword light embedded within.
Then, a flash of golden light.
Shui Yanluo's expression became dazed, as if he were trapped in a prison woven from sword light. A thousand golden sword lights were slowly slicing through his soul.
"Eye technique?!"
At the critical moment, Shui Yanluo used all his strength, infusing his eyes with malevolent energy, attempting to resist the golden eye technique with his Blood Demon Eyes.
A sea of blood appeared, with vengeful spirits contorting in agony.
But with a sweep of the golden light, the sea of blood vanished in an instant.
Shui Yanluo's soul felt as if it had been slashed, his mind trembling with terror under the sword's intent.
He tried to struggle, but the malevolent energy he had suppressed for so long was gradually losing control, eroding his mind.
His failure in the eye technique duel led to the malevolent energy turning against him.
If the malevolent energy flooded his mind, he would surely die!
Shui Yanluo's expression twisted, using his remaining consciousness to suppress the malevolent energy.
But his eyes gradually filled with blood, and at that moment, he saw Mo Hua.
At some point, Mo Hua had freed himself from the Spirit Binding Lock.
He approached Shui Yanluo, taking advantage of his mental collapse, and in front of Shui Yanluo, he took the Water Prison Chest.
The Water Prison Chest, which he had worked tirelessly to obtain, sacrificing half his life essence, and had only just opened...
Shui Yanluo felt a surge of anger, the malevolent energy in his mind becoming uncontrollable.
At that moment, he heard Mo Hua mutter softly:
"Alas, I overestimated you. You are far inferior to the dog in my Tai Xu Sect..."
These words ignited Shui Yanluo's fury, causing him to spit out blood, and the malevolent energy within him erupted.
His mind was overwhelmed by the malevolent energy, his soul gradually fracturing.
His eyes turned from deep red to black and gray, but a remnant of instinct remained, causing him to lash out wildly.
Mo Hua quickly stepped back.
Ouyang Feng and Hua Qianqian, seeing Shui Yanluo suddenly lose his mind and become chaotic, took the opportunity to attack.
Ouyang Feng thrust his sword directly into Shui Yanluo's heart.
Hua Qianqian used her Hundred Flowers Spirit Needles to pierce Shui Yanluo's forehead.
Both were fatal injuries.
Under such severe blows, the malevolent energy in Shui Yanluo's body gradually dissipated, and he had a brief moment of clarity, as if he wanted to say something.
Just then, a figure appeared from the corner.
This person wore a Daoist robe, with a handsome face and fair skin—it was Xiao Tianquan.
Xiao Tianquan, quick and decisive, flashed over and thrust his sword through Shui Yanluo's throat.
Shui Yanluo's pupils contracted, his gaze fixating on Xiao Tianquan before gradually fading, and he breathed his last.
This Shui Yanluo, who had committed countless atrocities on the Smoky River, was now dead.
Mo Hua glanced at Xiao Tianquan, then patted his chest, taking a deep breath and saying with a lingering fear:
"Brother Xiao, thank goodness you arrived in time. Otherwise, I might have fallen victim to Shui Yanluo's malevolent hands."
Xiao Tianquan nodded, "This man was a great evil, and his death is well-deserved."
However...
Xiao Tianquan looked at Shui Yanluo's dead eyes, now black and gray, and frowned.
"Why did he suddenly lose his mind?"
Mo Hua shook his head, "I don't know... Perhaps his evil deeds caught up with him, and he received divine retribution."
He had used the eye technique discreetly, so no one present had seen the golden sword intent in his eyes.
Xiao Tianquan's brow furrowed, staring at Shui Yanluo for a moment before sighing in relief and muttering:
"Perhaps he couldn't control the malevolent energy, and it turned against him..."
Mo Hua's eyebrows raised slightly.
This Xiantian Dog knows quite a bit.
With Shui Yanluo dead, the matter was settled. Ouyang Feng thought for a moment and asked:
"Director Gu and Director Xia are still engaged with that Mr. Wu. Should we go and see if we can help?"
At this point, even if they wanted to escape, they couldn't.
In this Bone Maze, dangers lurked everywhere. There was the scaly monster "Mr. Wu," countless blood zombies, and the treacherous Director Xiao.
The reliance of the group was on the Golden Core cultivators, Gu Changhuai and Xia Dianshi.
If Gu Changhuai and Xia Dianshi were unharmed, there was still a chance.
If they met an unfortunate end, the group, including Mo Hua, would be in grave danger.
Mo Hua thought for a moment and nodded.
"Let's go and see."
He held the incense burner and a red incense stick left by Shui Yanluo, using them to drive away the blood zombies, and then walked toward the main gate.
Ouyang Feng and Hua Qianqian followed behind Mo Hua.
Xiao Tianquan was at the back but deliberately hesitated, glancing at Shui Yanluo, pulling the sword from his throat, and still not satisfied, stabbing Shui Yanluo's heart a few more times. Then, he quietly searched Shui Yanluo's body and his storage bag but found nothing.
"Nothing?"
Xiao Tianquan's expression turned serious, his gaze darkening as he looked at Mo Hua. After a moment of contemplation, he silently followed.
Mo Hua led the group, driving away the blood zombies, retracing their steps to the Bone Gate.
Before the gate, several Golden Core cultivators were still fighting fiercely.
Blood zombies littered the ground, their blood almost turning the entire area red.
Gu Changhuai was holding off the blood zombie Xie Liu, while Xia Dianshi and Director Xiao were fighting the scaly Mr. Wu.
Everyone had sustained injuries to varying degrees, and their auras were much weaker.
Even the monster Mr. Wu, whose body was covered in blood, had lost nearly half of his energy.
But Mr. Wu clearly had the upper hand, especially with the numerous blood zombies aiding him, making his attacks and defenses more fluid.
At this rate, it was only a matter of time before Gu Changhuai and the others fell.
Mo Hua observed the situation, forming a plan in his mind, and handed the incense burner to Ouyang Feng, "Senior Brother Feng, you stay back. I'll be right back."
Ouyang Feng, unsure what Mo Hua intended to do, could only caution, "Junior Brother Mo, be careful."
"Sure, Senior Brother Feng, don't worry."
Mo Hua finished speaking and silently cast a Small Five Elements Concealment Technique, his figure dimming and vanishing once more.
Now invisible, Mo Hua took advantage of the intense battle, where no one was paying attention, to stealthily circle around Mister Wu and the others, while also avoiding the blood corpses, and made his way to the entrance.
He remembered clearly that the blood corpses had initially crawled out from near the entrance.
Mo Hua searched for a moment at the entrance and indeed found a blood-red evil array carved into the base of the bone stone pedestal.
These evil arrays were created using blood sacrifice techniques to refine the blood corpses.
Mo Hua didn't fully understand them, but breaking them wasn't too difficult.
Around the evil array, he drew some metal and fire-based formations. The metal formations repelled evil, the fire formations burned away the malevolent energy, and the array formations countered the evil array.
In reality, the best formations for repelling evil were lightning formations.
However, the inheritance of lightning formations was extremely rare, and even the Tai Xu Sect didn't have them, so Mo Hua had no knowledge of them.
But these blood sacrifice arrays weren't high-end, and simply destroying them violently wasn't overly complex.
Mo Hua glanced up and saw the intense battle raging on, with no one paying him any attention. He then used his divine consciousness to control the ink, drawing and guiding the spiritual ink to form the array.
In no time, the array materialized.
Without hesitation, Mo Hua immediately triggered the array.
Instantly, flames erupted, and a loud boom echoed as the ground's bones shattered, and the blood array was destroyed along with them.
The moment the blood array was destroyed, the surrounding blood corpses lost their control, twitching a few times before collapsing and lying still.
Even Xie Liu lost his resistance, falling to his knees, awaiting his fate.
Gu Changhuai summoned his spiritual energy, condensing a powerful wind blade to decapitate Xie Liu. He then turned and joined Xia Diansi and Xiao Diansi in surrounding Mister Wu.
The blood corpses lay prostrate, and Xie Liu was dead.
In the blink of an eye, the once formidable Mister Wu, who had been surrounded by a tide of blood corpses, was now alone and isolated.
Mister Wu was shocked and then furious. "Who are you, to break my array?!"
Mo Hua naturally remained silent.
At this moment, there was no need for him to reveal himself and draw Mister Wu's hatred.
Xiao Diansi and the others also recognized the opportunity and struck out, their sword auras and light swords converging to begin their assault on Mister Wu.
Mo Hua remained hidden, observing for a while, then began secretly setting up more formations to prepare for the next phase of his plan.
Mister Wu had transformed into a monstrous form resembling a Yaksha, covered in dragon scales that were impervious to blades and spells, making him very powerful.
However, he was facing three Golden Core cultivators.
Moreover, Mo Hua had already devised a plan, and Gu Changhuai and the others had experience in dealing with Mister Wu.
At this point, they were simply reusing their previous tactics to implement Mo Hua's plan.
Mister Wu indeed couldn't withstand the prolonged assault.
In less than half an hour, the blood aura surrounding him had thinned, and his scales became clearly visible.
Without the blood aura and the blood water to sustain him, Mister Wu finally panicked.
He didn't want to repeat his previous mistake and started darting around, looking for an opening to escape and regain his strength by absorbing more blood aura.
But the three Golden Core cultivators were not to be trifled with.
Mister Wu had no chance.
In no time, he was subdued.
Xiao Diansi originally wanted to kill Mister Wu but discovered that in his current Yaksha form, he had undergone some changes. Not only did he retain his consciousness, but his scales had become even harder.
His teeth were tightly clenched, and no blade could pierce them to destroy his internal organs and take his life.
"Restrain him. We need to find a way out first," Mo Hua finally revealed himself and personally secured Mister Wu with chains and restraining arrays, layer after layer, binding him tightly.
Xiao Diansi looked at Mo Hua with a deep gaze and said, "Young Master's array skills are indeed extraordinary."
Mo Hua waved his hand modestly, "Just getting by, earning a living."
Xiao Diansi's gaze grew serious, and his expression became more solemn.
With Mister Wu and the blood corpses dealt with, Ouyang Feng, Hua Qianqian, and Xiao Tianquan also gathered over.
The group gathered together, and Xiao Diansi suddenly paused, frowning. "Where is Shui Yanluo?"
Everyone exchanged glances.
Mo Hua said, "He's dead..."
"Dead?!" Xiao Diansi's pupils dilated.
Mo Hua sighed, "For some reason, he suddenly lost his mind, his eyes turned red, and he went mad, trying to kill me, Brother Feng, and Sister Qianqian. Fortunately, Brother Xiao arrived in time and killed Shui Yanluo..."
Xiao Diansi's sharp gaze suddenly turned to Xiao Tianquan.
Xiao Tianquan felt his scalp tingle but could only steeled his resolve and said, "Yes... I killed him..."
Xiao Diansi's gaze turned dark as he looked at Xiao Tianquan, then turned and said, "Let's find a way out first."
Everyone had different thoughts but said nothing.
At the entrance, the door was tightly shut, the bone decorations menacing, with no gaps and no array for opening it.
But fortunately, they found a demon statue.
This statue was identical to the one at the entrance of the Dragon King Temple, used to insert the fish bone token to open the temple doors.
The fish bone token was currently in Xiao Diansi's possession.
Gu Changhuai glanced at Xiao Diansi.
Xiao Diansi fell silent for a moment, then slowly approached, taking the fish bone token from his storage bag and inserting it into the demon statue.
In a short while, the door trembled and slowly opened with a dull sound.
However, either due to changes in the blood pool or damage to some array, the door only opened a crack and then stopped.
The group breathed a sigh of relief.
The door was large, and even with just a crack, it was enough for them to pass through.
Just as they were about to step out, another change occurred.
A green-blue wind blade suddenly shot towards Xiao Diansi.
The attacker was Gu Changhuai.
He wanted to kill Xiao Diansi.
A flash of icy blue appeared, and Xia Diansi also used an ice-based sword beam to press against Xiao Diansi's throat.
Xiao Diansi wasn't surprised.
But instead of engaging Gu Changhuai and Xia Diansi, his first action was to use Water Shadow Step to dodge, then flash over to Xiao Tianquan's side, reaching out to grab him.
Xiao Tianquan seemed to have anticipated this.
The moment everyone made their move, he immediately retreated, narrowly avoiding Xiao Diansi’s grab.
Seeing his grab miss, Xiao Diansi wanted to try again, but Xiao Tianquan quickly shouted, “Uncle, I don’t have it.”
Xiao Diansi, half-believing him, suddenly remembered something and turned to look at Mo Hua.
Mo Hua looked completely innocent.
Xiao Diansi was even more uncertain now.
Mo Hua, that little devil, might be putting on an act.
And Xiao Tianquan, his nephew whom he had watched grow up, was also quite cunning. The likelihood that he was lying was not small.
Though Xiao Tianquan had killed Shui Yanluo, the Water Prison Casket might not be in his possession.
Just as Xiao Diansi was hesitating, he suddenly noticed that Mo Hua had vanished again.
He scanned the area with his divine sense and noticed a faint figure near the demonic bronze statue.
"That little devil, he wants to grab the token!"
Xiao Diansi immediately struck, slashing at Mo Hua with his sword, then flashed away, abandoning Xiao Tianquan to chase after Mo Hua.
The Fishbone Token was within reach, but with Xiao Diansi attacking, Mo Hua had no choice but to drop it and use the Fading Water Step to evade.
Gu Changhuai and Xia Diansi also came to assist Mo Hua.
They blocked Xiao Diansi’s attack and tried to seize the Fishbone Token, but Xiao Diansi wasn’t about to let them have it.
The three of them circled around the token, their swords clashing and fighting for control, but neither side could gain the upper hand.
At this moment, everyone was acutely aware of the situation.
Mr. Wu had been subdued, and if Xiao Zhenhai managed to get the Fishbone Token, they would all be at his mercy.
Xiao Zhenhai was a ruthless and calculating man, and they couldn’t risk their lives being in his hands.
Xiao Zhenhai, on the other hand, knew that if Gu Changhuai got the Fishbone Token, he would do everything in his power to kill him.
Moreover, he had to get the Water Prison Casket back.
This casket was crucial to his cultivation, and he would retrieve it no matter who had it.
Even if it meant killing everyone present and searching their bodies, he would do it!
With this in mind, both sides fought with all their might.
Gu Changhuai and Xia Diansi faced off against Xiao Zhenhai.
Ouyang Feng and Hua Qianqian provided support, and even Xiao Tianquan joined in, attacking his once-favored uncle.
Xiao Tianquan was clear in his mind.
If Gu Changhuai won, he likely wouldn’t be killed.
But if his uncle, now Xiao Zhenhai, won, his suspicious nature would ensure he wouldn’t spare him.
Thus, he fought with all his strength to kill Xiao Zhenhai.
Xiao Zhenhai laughed in anger.
Gu Changhuai coldly said, “Xiao Zhenhai, you have committed countless evils. Surrender now, and you might be spared. Otherwise, this White Bone Maze will be your grave!”
Xiao Zhenhai sneered, “Gu Diansi, we are both Diansi, such words might fool others, but not me.”
“Precisely because we are both Diansi, I’m giving you this last chance.”
Gu Changhuai’s words were smooth, but his spells didn’t stop, and each attack was more vicious than the last.
The others didn’t hold back either.
Despite Xiao Zhenhai’s mastery of the Water Prison Sect’s techniques, he felt immense pressure.
If they were in a Third-Rank State, he could use his Golden Core power to unleash his full potential.
But here in a Second-Rank State, he was limited and found it difficult to fight effectively.
Xiao Zhenhai, enraged, snarled, “Fine, you all want to kill me, then don’t blame me for being ruthless.”
His eyes turned red, and a murderous aura emerged.
Gu Changhuai, having experience, immediately avoided Xiao Zhenhai’s gaze.
But this brief moment of distraction exposed a weakness, which Xiao Zhenhai seized, using the Water Shadow Step to close in and slash with his sword.
Xiao Zhenhai wanted to press hisadvantages, but Xia Diansi came to the rescue, temporarily forcing Xiao Zhenhai back.
After that, Xiao Zhenhai repeatedly used the Blood Pupil Technique to intimidate, finding weaknesses and striking with deadly intent. Combined with his top-tier techniques and agility,Gu Changhuai and Xia Diansi were having a hard time.
The situation was looking grim.
Just then, Xia Diansi, after prolonged fighting and being affected by the murderous aura, started to slow down.
Xiao Zhenhai seized the opportunity, thrusting his sword at Xia Diansi’s neck.
Gu Changhuai’s face turned grim, and with a “tsk,” he pulled Xia Diansi aside, using his feather fan to block the sword.
However, his cultivation was slightly weaker than Xiao Diansi’s, and though he blocked the sword, Xiao Zhenhai’s quick follow-up move pierced his shoulder.
Gu Changhuai’s face paled, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
Xiao Zhenhai’s eyes gleamed with excitement, but just as he was about to deliver the Finishing Blow, his body froze.
He looked down to see array patterns glowing at his feet.
Strands of green spiritual energy, like vines, tightly bound his body.
“An array?”
Xiao Zhenhai’s pupils constricted.
Meanwhile, Xia Diansi, seeing Gu Changhuai take the hit for him and his shoulder pierced, his face flushedwith anger. He coated his short sword with a thin layer of ice crystals and swiftly slashed at Xiao Zhenhai’s throat.
Xiao Zhenhai barely avoided it, but a thin line of blood still appeared.
The ice crystals followed the blood, sealing his throat.
Xiao Zhenhai’s face turned extremely grim, and with a powerful sword swing, he forced Xia Diansi back, retreating a few steps to maintain his distance.
Just as he steadied himself, a flash of fire erupted from the ground, and an array technique exploded.
It was a Fire Array.
Then came a Killing Array.
Mixed in were some Sand Flow, Gold Lock, and Wood Cage trapping arrays.
Fire and earth energies intertwined, causing explosions one after another.
Xiao Zhenhai realized that at some point, he had become surrounded by array techniques, undergoing wave after wave of attacks.
Moreover, these arrays were all high-rank Second-Rank arrays, with eighteen or even nineteen lines.
They were the finest of the Second-Rank arrays!
(End of Chapter)
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