The blood moon was in the sky, and the entire Greenstone Town was shrouded in a demonic red light. Lin Yi was curled up in the corner of the firewood room, his forehead against the cold wall, trying to suppress the Chaotic Spiritual Qi that was churning in his body. Ever since he had broken through the seal last night, this power was like a wild horse that had gone off the rails, rampaging through his meridians.

  "This feels... Like it's about to explode... " Lin Yi gritted his teeth, his nails sinking deep into his palms. Through the blood-colored moonlight that filtered in through the window slit, he saw bizarre lines emerge on his arm - those lines wriggled like living creatures, gradually forming scale-like patterns.

  Suddenly, a tearing pain came from his back. Lin Yi couldn't help but let out a low roar as his entire body flopped to the ground. It was as if his spine had been split open from the inside, and nine chaotic auras broke out of his body, intertwining behind him to form a nine-headed python silhouette. Each of the snake heads of that silhouette was as large as a bucket hat, and the eighteen eyes glowed with an eerie green light as they all tilted their heads in unison to look at the blood moon outside the window.

  “Hiss--” The nine bloody mouths opened at the same time, and actually began to devour the light shed by the blood moon. As the moonlight entered his body, Lin Yi felt the aura in his body grow at an astonishing rate, and in the blink of an eye, he broke through the threshold of the third level of qi refining, and it continued to climb!

  The humming sound of machinery running suddenly came from outside the firewood room, followed by Zhao Ming's fawning voice: "Brother Tian, this is the place! That punk made such a big commotion last night, and today... "

  Before he finished speaking, the thick wooden door was blasted to pieces by a blue light. In the midst of the wood debris, a youth in silver-white battle armor stepped on a mechanical dog and walked into the firewood room. The joints of the battle armor were glowing with a ghostly blue halo, and the crystal display on his visor was constantly refreshing the data stream. This was none other than the Zhao Family's number one person of the younger generation - Zhao Tian.

  "Thermal scan shows abnormal energy readings. “Red beams shot out from the mechanical dog's eyes, sweeping back and forth across Lin Yi's body, ”Warning! Unknown energy body detected, danger level: extremely high! "

  Zhao Tian's brows furrowed under his mask. He had just returned from the clan for the Ancestor Sacrifice Ceremony when he heard about the vision caused by that loser in the clan. He had thought that it was just the underlings exaggerating, but he hadn't expected...

  "This brat really is eccentric! "Zhao Tian pressed the energy storage button on his right arm armor, and blue energy ripples immediately flowed between the seams of the battle armor. As an inner disciple of the Xuanji Sect, he had spent 3,000 contribution points on this Tianqi Type-III armor, which was enough to fight against early stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

  Lin Yi raised his head with great difficulty, and the nine-headed python silhouette spat out a letter as he did so. Through his hazy, blood-colored vision, he saw that the core of Zhao Tian's battle armor's chest began to rotate rapidly, apparently preparing some sort of attack.

  "Zhao... Senior Brother Zhao Tian... " Lin Yi tried to explain, but all that came out of his throat was a snake-like hiss. The chaotic aura was transforming his body, and every inch of his bones was groaning with an unbearable weight.

  A series of muffled sounds suddenly came from the direction of the back mountain. Through the tattered roof, seventy-two black qi could be seen rising from the direction of the ancient tomb complex, like iron shavings attracted by a magnet, converging in unison towards the firewood room. Distorted human faces were faintly visible in those black qi, emitting silent wails.

  "See ghosts! " Zhao Tian's face changed drastically, not bothering to finish storing his energy, he directly launched an attack. The right arm of the battle armor shot out a blue beam of light, and the air rippled wherever it passed.

  One of the heads in the nine-headed python's silhouette poked out violently and opened its mouth to swallow the beam. A toothsome corrosive sound rang out, and the snake head silhouette was blown to smithereens, but it regrouped in an instant.

  "How is it possible? “ Zhao Tian looked at the data on the display incredulously, ”This is a Spiritual Energy Cannon that can pierce through three inches of steel plate! “

  The mechanical dog suddenly let out a sharp alarm, ”High energy reaction detected! Suggest immediate retreat! "

  Zhao Tian turned a deaf ear and instead activated the full power of his battle armor. He couldn't retreat in front of a punk, it was about his dignity as the Zhao Family's number one genius!

  "No matter what kind of monster you've turned into, you're going to die today! " Zhao Tian roared as the back of his battle armor unfurled six metal cannon tubes and started charging at the same time. This was his killer weapon, the “Six Harmonized Immortal Execution Formation”, which had once heavily injured a mid Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivator.

  Lin Yi's consciousness had blurred, and he only felt that something was about to break out of his body. His pupils had turned vertical, and the surface of his skin was covered in fine scales. The seventy-two black qi had arrived at the firewood room at this moment, surging madly into his body as if they had found a home.

  "Go to hell! " Zhao Tian ruthlessly pressed the launch button.

  The moment the six destructive beams were about to hit Lin Yi, the nine-headed python's silhouette suddenly swelled several times and wrapped Lin Yi's entire body in it. The beams collided with the black aura, erupting in a deafening roar...

  In the smoke and dust from the explosion, the mask of Zhao Tian's battle armor constantly flashed warning red light. He stared dead on at the energy detector, on which the life signal representing Lin Yi not only hadn't disappeared, but was instead increasing rapidly.

  "Impossible... This can't be... " Zhao Tian muttered, and the mechanical dog had automatically entered defense mode, unfurling an energy shield in front of him.

  The smoke was suddenly expelled by an invisible force. Lin Yi was suspended in the air three feet off the ground, surrounded by a vortex formed by chaotic air currents. The nine-headed python had disappeared, replaced by a vortex of aura rotating in the opposite direction in his internal meridians - this was the legendary “Chaos Reverse Flow”, one of the most overbearing cultivation methods of the ancient times.

  "Unknown energy body detected! Danger level raised to Destruction! "The mechanical dog's electronic voice trembled, and its eyes burst with electric sparks, clearly overloaded.

  Zhao Tian bit through his tongue to force himself to calm down. He quickly checked the status of the battle armor and found that the right arm weapon system had overheated and failed, and the back cannon barrel was even twisted and deformed. This set of valuable battle armor had actually lost most of its value in a single glance!

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  "We can only use that... "A hint of determination flashed in Zhao Tian's eyes as he pressed the secret compartment on the chest of the battle armor. A metal sphere engraved with runes popped out and was held firmly in his hand. This was the secret “Heavenly Thunderbolt” of the Xuanji Sect, equivalent to the full force of an early Jindan cultivator, and it was the card he used to save his life.

  Lin Yi was in a marvelous state at the moment. His consciousness seemed to be floating outside his body, and he could clearly see what was going on inside his body - the vortex formed by the chaotic aura was devouring all the energy, including the aftermath of Zhao Tian's attack just now. With every bit of energy that was swallowed, the vortex grew by one point, and his cultivation level skyrocketed.

  Fourth level of Qi Refining... Fifth layer... Sixth layer...

  This breakthrough speed would be enough to shock the entire cultivation world if it were to be spread!

  "Die! " Zhao Tian seized the moment Lin Yi was in a trance and threw the Heavenly Thunderbolt. The metallic sphere disintegrated in the air, transforming into a large net of lightning that covered Lin Yi.

  The Chaos Vortex sensed the threat and revved up abruptly. The great net of lightning was torn to shreds just as it touched the edges of the vortex, and the raging lightning-attribute energy was instead absorbed by the vortex and transformed into pure chaotic aura.

  “Pff-” Zhao Tian spewed out a mouthful of blood, and a crack opened up in the chest of his battle armor, revealing the precise mechanical structure inside. What was even more astonishing was that what oozed out of those cracks wasn't bright red blood, but a blue liquid with a metallic luster!

  Lin Yi's vertical pupils contracted violently. He had read about it in an ancient book - it was a characteristic of “semi-mechanical transformation”! No wonder Zhao Tian was able to master such a complex battle armor at such a young age, so he had already fused his body with machinery.

  The blood moon had already risen to the middle of the sky, and the moonlight became more and more scarlet and blinding. Suddenly, the center of the moon wheel cracked open a slit, and a huge one-eyed slowly opened. That eye was cold and merciless, and the pupil reflected the scene of Greenstone Town.

  "High-dimensional energy reaction detected! “The mechanical dog suddenly spontaneously combusted, burning into a pile of scrap metal in the blink of an eye, ”Warning! Warning! Force majeure! Force majeure... "

  Before the words left his mouth, the Cyclops silhouette poked out half of its body from the blood moon, casting a beam of destructive light with a diameter of more than ten feet towards the village. Wherever the beam passed, the houses and trees vaporized, and even the sound was annihilated.

  Zhao Tian's face was ashen, and the energy detector of his battle armor frantically alarmed. This level of attack was far beyond his cognitive range.

  "Dying... " he watched in despair as the beam swept in the direction of the firewood room.

  In the nick of time, the chaos vortex within Lin Yi's body suddenly blossomed outward, forming a black hole field three feet in diameter. The destructive beam struck the edge of the field and was surprisingly twisted and refracted, grazing the firewood room and flattening a forest behind it.

  "This is... Spatial Distortion? " Zhao Tian's jaw dropped. To be able to distort space was a tactic only available to at least YuanYing stage powers!

  Lin Yi himself was surprised by the change. He had a vague feeling that this ability didn't come from himself, but rather the effect of the Xuan Spirit Bead Void inside his body. At the moment, the bead was spinning rapidly within his dantian, countless ancient runes surfacing on its surface.

  The Cyclops seemed to be enraged, the one eye in the blood moon was fully open, and a second, thicker beam of light was condensing...

  The moment the destructive beam was about to descend, the chaotic aura in Lin Yi's body suddenly exploded. He unconsciously waved his palm and struck out, and the chaotic aura condensed into the form of the ancient beast Taotie in the air. The silhouette was goat-bodied and human-faced, with tiger teeth and dragon claws, and a huge mouth that took up almost half of its body.

  “Roar...” the Taotie silhouette roared up to the sky, and even took the initiative to meet the destructive beam of light, opening its mouth to devour it. After having a full meal, the silhouette skyrocketed in size and turned its head to pounce on the Cyclops in the blood moon.

  The two great shadows fought in the air, and the shockwaves that erupted lifted all the roofs within a hundred feet radius. Zhao Tian was tipped over by the aftermath and his battle armor was broken in many places, blue blood gurgling out from the cracks.

  "This... What kind of monster is this... " he struggled to get up, only to see an even more horrifying scene - Lin Yi's hands were bestializing, sharp claws extending from his fingertips, his skin covered in bronze-colored scales.

  Just as the situation was about to get out of control, the sound of a crisp bell suddenly came from the sky. A white shadow sped in on a paper crane and arrived close by in the blink of an eye. It was a young girl of about seventeen or eighteen years old, dressed in white clothes that were snowy, with strings of silver bells tied around her waist, and holding a three-foot green blade in her hand.

  "Taiji and two yin, Yin and Yang are transformed! "

  The young girl shouted delicately and threw out eight golden talismans. The talismans formed a Taiji pattern in the air, steadily catching the shockwaves from the collision between the Taotie and the Cyclops.

  Lin Yi seemed to feel something, and his animalistic eyes looked towards the young girl. The moment they met, the bronze mirror in the girl's hand suddenly flew out on its own and hovered above Lin Yi's head. A blood-colored hexagram appeared on the mirror's surface, and the word “evil” could be seen faintly.

  "The Demon Shining Mirror reveals an evil omen... “The young girl - Su Yao sucked in a breath of cold air, ”This son must be brought back to the sect! "

  She quickly pinched her hand, and the paper crane transformed into an Immortal Binding Rope that wrapped around Lin Yi. However, the rope was corroded and snapped just as soon as it touched the chaotic aura, and it couldn't get close at all.

  The Cyclops in the blood moon suddenly let out a silent roar as his body began to crumble. The Taotie Shadow took the opportunity to bite off half of the giant's body and swallow it. Creepy chewing sounds echoed in the night sky, making one's scalp numb from hearing them.

  "Energy overload detected! “Zhao Tian's battle armor's alarm system has gone haywire, ”Immediate... recommended... Zip... Self-destruct... Zip... "

  Su Yao glanced at the semi-mechanized Zhao Tian, a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes, but it was quickly replaced by gravity. She bit her fingertip and drew a blood symbol on the sword.

  "Yao Guang Sword, unseal! "

  The sword immediately glowed with light, and the seven star patterns lit up in turn. Su Yao held the sword and pointed it towards the blood moon, a silver-white sword qi shot up into the sky, twisting the remaining Cyclops silhouette into smithereens.

  The Taotie Shadow that had lost its target turned its head to look at Su Yao, a ferocious light showing in its eyes. Just as it was about to pounce, Lin Yi suddenly clutched his head and let out a pained hiss. With this roar, the Taotie Shadow unwillingly dissipated into the air, and the Chaotic Aura returned to Lin Yi's body like a tidal wave.

  "Chance! " Su Yao was quick on her feet and threw out three purple talismans again. This time, the talismans were smoothly affixed to Lin Yi's forehead and shoulders, forming a sealing boundary.

  Lin Yi's bestialized features began to fade, and his vertical pupils returned to their normal black eyes. He weakly fell to his knees, panting heavily, his clothes long soaked through with sweat.

  "You... Who is it... " Lin Yi asked, raising his head with difficulty.

  Su Yao didn't answer, but instead looked around warily. The blood moon was fading its scarlet hue, but the entire Qing Shi Town was already devastated. What made her even more uneasy was the muffled sound of chains breaking coming from deep underground, as if something that had been sealed for a thousand years was awakening...

  "There's no time to explain. “ Su Yao pulled Lin Yi up, ”We must leave here immediately, that demonic blade is coming out! “

  Zhao Tian struggled to get up, ”Stop! That's a member of my Zhao family... "

  Su Yao coldly swept a glance at him, the Yao Guang Sword automatically sheathed three inches, and the powerful sword qi forced Zhao Tian to retreat back and forth.

  "If you don't want to die, take your people and withdraw thirty miles. “ Su Yao's tone was grave, ”What's sealed under the ground is the ‘Blood Prison Demon Blade’, once it comes out, the life of a hundred miles in a radius will be extinguished! "

  As if confirming her words, the ground suddenly shook violently, and a hundred feet long crack extended from the direction of the ancient tomb complex in the back mountain, with houses collapsing and earth and rocks crumbling wherever it passed.

  "Go! " Su Yao grabbed Lin Yi's waist without any further ado and sacrificed a paper crane to take off into the air.

  Behind them, monstrous black gas erupted from the crack, and a huge blood-red blade slowly rose. Nine broken chains were wrapped around the blade, and each of them was engraved with the true words of the Buddha Sect...