The moment the Blood Hell Demon Blade broke through the ground, Lin Yi's chest suddenly erupted with a piercing chaotic light. He arched his body in pain, feeling that something was tearing through his muscles from within his chest - the Xuan Spirit Bead, which had always existed in the dantian in the form of an imaginary shadow, was actually about to break out of his body at this moment!

  “Ah...!” Lin Yi let out a heart-rending roar as his chest sash exploded, and a bead the size of a pigeon egg slowly rose up. The body of the bead took on a semi-transparent chaotic color, and within it there was actually a magnificent scene of a river of stars in motion, with countless nebulae living and dying and changing within it.

  The paper crane that Su Yao was riding was overturned by the sudden energy fluctuation, and the two of them fell from mid-air. She sharply pinched her sword technique in the air, and the Yao Guang Sword transformed into streams of light to catch them, but the moment the sword body came into contact with the chaotic aura emanating from the Xuan Spirit Bead, it actually emitted a wail of being unable to cope with the weight.

  “What kind of magic treasure is this?!” Su Yao's eyes widened as the Demon Shining Mirror in her hand trembled crazily, countless cracks surfacing on its surface. She had never seen an existence that could make even the Yao Guang Sword cringe!

  Zhao Tian on the ground struggled to activate the last life-preserving feature of his battle armor, the Quantum Protection Layer. The light blue hexagonal light screen had just taken shape when it was impacted by the air waves emanating from the Xuan Lingzhu. The protective layer, which was claimed to be able to withstand the full force of a Jindan cultivator's strike, shattered like papier-maché at the moment, and Zhao Tian's entire body was lifted off dozens of feet, continuously crashing through three ancient trees before coming to a stop.

  “Warning... Warning...” The remains of the mechanical dog emitted the last spark of electricity, “Eleven-dimensional energy fluctuations detected... System overload...” Before the words left his mouth, the core processor exploded into a ball of fire.

  A deafening roar came from the direction of the ancient tomb. The giant green-scaled claw that had reached out from the cracks in the earth's veins suddenly reversed its direction, abandoning the demonic blade and heading straight for the Xuan Spirit Pearl. The space distorted wherever the giant claw passed, and the five clawed toes were entwined with pitch-black ethereal qi, clearly coming from some ancient great demon.

  “Not good!” Su Yao's face turned pale as she hurriedly pulled out a handful of golden sand from her sleeve and threw it into the air, “Dipper seven stars, protect my true form!”

  The golden sand transformed into seven star shadows rotating around the two of them, forming a protective boundary. However, the green scale giant claw only slapped, causing the star shadows to dim by half. The giant claw opened up, and a bloody mouth covered in sharp teeth split open in the center of its palm, biting down hard towards the Xuan Ling Pearl.

  Lin Yi was in an arcane state at the moment. Although his body was suffering from tearing pain, his consciousness seemed to have become one with the Xuan Ling bead. He “saw” a star in the star river inside the bead suddenly shine brightly, and a message was transmitted directly into his mind:

  “Chaos has begun, all laws are one. Use blood as a guide, use the soul as a contract.”

  Almost instinctively, Lin Yi bit his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of blood onto the Xuan Ling bead. The moment the blood bead touched the body of the bead, the speed of the internal astral river's operation suddenly accelerated, erupting into a pillar of chaotic light that struck the green-scaled giant claw's bloody mouth in the center of its palm straight on.

  “Ow-!” An agonizing hiss came from the depths of the earth, and the giant claw trembled violently as a large hole was seared out of its palm. But what was even more astonishing was that the splattered cyan blood did not dissipate, instead it was absorbed by the Xuan Ling Bead, and the starry river within the bead was instantly dyed with a layer of demonic cyan color.

  Su Yao seized the opportunity and pulled Lin Yi by the hand, “While we're at it, get out of here!”

  However, as soon as she spoke, the Xuan Spirit Bead suddenly released monstrous chaotic air currents, forming a tornado that connected to the sky and the earth and swept Lin Yi and the bead into it together. Su Yao only had time to grab a piece of Lin Yi's coat, and watched as his figure was swallowed up by the chaotic air currents.

  “No!” She lost her voice and cried out in shock, but she saw the tornado reversing its direction and rushing straight towards the earth vein crack...

  Wherever the chaotic tornado passed, the earth and rocks crumbled and the ground shook. Lin Yi was wrapped up in it, feeling that his body was pressurized by a thousand pounds at times, but at other times it was as light as a feather. The Xuan Spirit Pearl hovered in front of him, emitting a soft glow to protect his heart and veins, otherwise the violent energy turbulence alone would have been enough to tear him apart.

  “Where is this taking me...” Lin Yi struggled to stay awake, and saw that the tornado was traveling all the way down the crack in the earth's veins. The rock walls on both sides were engraved with ancient runes, which were currently lighting up one by one due to the chaotic aura, emitting an eerie blue light.

  Su Yao on the ground clenched her silver teeth and violently inserted the Yao Guang sword into the earth: “Qian Kun Positioning, Ten Thousand Miles Tracking!” The sword lit up with a golden light, pointing straight into the depths of the earth vein. She was about to leap into the fissure to chase after him when she suddenly sensed an overpowering killing aura coming from behind.

  Zhao Tian had stood up at some point, and dozens of metal tentacles were sticking out from the broken places of his battle armor, deeply rooted into the ground. Those tentacles had bizarre runes flowing on their surface, and they were crazily drawing spiritual energy from the earth's veins to repair the battle armor. What was even more terrifying was that his left eye had been completely mechanized, his scarlet electronic eye locking onto Su Yao, and his right hand transforming into a plasma light blade.

  “Bring... That monster... Hand it over...” Zhao Tian's voice was mixed with electronic murmurs, obviously the cyborgization had eroded his vocal cords.

  Su Yao sneered, “Being transformed into this shape by the Xuanji Sect and still not realizing it, pathetic.” She suddenly bit through her fingertip and used blood as ink to draw a complex talisman in the void, “Taixu borrows the law to cut down the demons and remove the devils!”

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  The talisman transformed into the silhouette of an ancient bronze sword, carrying a flooding aura as it chopped towards Zhao Tian. This sword seemed slow, but it actually blocked off all space for evasion. Zhao Tian's battle armor alarms sounded furiously, and his mechanical tentacles rushed back to defend, but they were chopped off by the roots the instant they came into contact with the sword shadow.

  “Ah!” Zhao Tian screamed miserably as he retreated, blue arcs of electricity erupting from his severed mouth. He looked at Su Yao incredulously, “Void Drawing... You're from the Taixu Sect?!”

  Su Yao did not reply, the bronze ancient sword shadow reversed its direction and chopped down towards the earth vein crack. Where the sword light passed, the green scale giant claw that was chasing after the Xuan Lingzhu snapped with an audible sound, half of the claw fell into the abyss, while the remaining part quickly shrunk back into the ground.

  An angry roar came from the depths of the crack, and the entire earth trembled. But Su Yao no longer had time to care, she leapt into the crack and chased after Lin Yi, following the guidance of the Yao Guang sword.

  Lin Yi in the chaotic dragon scroll suddenly shuddered, and an unfamiliar memory surfaced in his mind - it was a white-robed Taoist who was setting up some sort of formation deep within the earth's veins. The Daoist man was holding a spell, and nine ancient bronze lamps then lit up, forming a complex pattern...

  “Swift Ancient Weapon Nurturing Technique?” Lin Yi blurted out, not understanding why he knew the name. What was even stranger was that he was able to read and understand the subtleties of the spell that the Daoist had cast, as if it was knowledge that he had originally mastered.

  The tornado suddenly slowed down, and Lin Yi found himself in a huge underground hollow. Countless stalactites hung down from the roof of the cave, while a circular formation a hundred feet in diameter was carved into the ground. At the edge of the formation, nine ancient bronze lamps burned without wind, emitting an eerie green light.

  “Trapped Dragon Formation!” The name automatically surfaced in Lin Yi's mind, and at the same time, a chill ran through his bones - this formation was clearly set up to trap the Xuan Lingzhu!

  Sure enough, as soon as the Xuan Lingzhu entered the range of the formation, the nine ancient lamps simultaneously shone brightly. The flame of the lamps transformed into nine chains wrapped around the treasure bead, and the chains were densely engraved with suppression runes. The Xuan Ling bead rushed left and right, but it was never able to break through the blockade, and the operation of the star river inside the bead became sluggish.

  Lin Yi inexplicably felt a pang of heartache, as if it was he himself who was trapped. He subconsciously reached out to help the Xuan Ling Bead, but then he saw the ground formation suddenly light up with a blinding blood light, and a vicissitude voice echoed through the cave:

  “Three thousand years... Finally waiting for Chaos to reappear...”

  Along with the voice of the vicissitudes of sighing, a stone tablet slowly rose from the center of the Dragon Trapping Formation. Written in blood on the stele were four big words: “Chaos Hijacking Begins”. Each stroke wriggled like a living creature, emitting a suffocating sense of oppression.

  The Xuan Spirit Pearl sensed the appearance of the stone tablet and suddenly trembled violently. The star river inside the pearl rotated rapidly, actually absorbed before the green scale giant claw demonic power as much as possible refining, spewing out a chaotic nebula. The nebula was like a spirit, splitting into two strands, one wrapping around the nine chains, while the other one disappeared into Lin Yi's dantian.

  “Uh-ah!” Lin Yi only felt that his dantian was being flooded with magma, and he fell to his knees in pain. But the pain quickly turned to warmth as his internal vision revealed that the chaotic nebulae were re-coalescing within his dantian, forming a small vortex. With every turn of the vortex, a trace of cyan-colored demonic energy was transformed into pure Chaotic Aura.

  On the ground, Zhao Tian's battle armor had been repaired for the most part. Those mechanical tentacles were not only drawing on the spiritual energy of the earth's veins, they were also secretly absorbing the energy emanating from the Trapped Dragon Formation. His mechanization was getting higher and higher, and most of his face was already covered in metal.

  “High purity energy source detected...” The mechanized left eye flashed red, “Full fusion is recommended...”

  A struggling look appeared on Zhao Tian's face, but it was quickly replaced by frenzy. He violently inserted all of his remaining tentacles into the ground and began to frantically absorb the formation energy. Ancient patterns surfaced on the surface of the battle armor, and two bulges were raised on his back, as if something was about to break out of his body.

  Su Yao finally arrived at the edge of the cave. Seeing the scene in front of her, she sucked in a breath of cold air: ''Trapped Dragon Formation? This place is actually hiding this kind of ancient forbidden system!”

  Her eyes swept over Zhao Tian, who was undergoing a mutation, and then looked at Lin Yi, who was struggling in pain in the center of the formation, and she immediately bit the tip of her tongue and spewed out a mouthful of her life essence blood. The blood condensed into a blood symbol in the air and shot straight at Lin Yi's brow.

  “You and I will only survive if we join forces!” Su Yao transmitted, “Accept my Taixu Aura!”

  As the blood talisman entered his body, Lin Yi felt a cool aura flow throughout his body, and surprisingly, it merged perfectly with the chaotic aura. He followed the “Swift Artifact Nurturing Technique” that appeared in his mind and began to strangle the technique. The Xuan Lingzhu sensed the tugging of the technique and suddenly blossomed with light, pulling the nine chains back towards Lin Yi!

  “No good!” Su Yao could see what was going on, “It's trying to forcefully recognize its owner!”

  The nine chains wrapped around Lin Yi's limbs and torso in the blink of an eye, and the suppression runes on the chains flashed madly, trying to invade his meridians. But the Chaotic Nebula had taken shape at the moment, forming a barrier within his dantian that swallowed up all the invading runes.

  The bloody characters on the stone tablet began to melt, turning into a bloody mist that enveloped Lin Yi. Countless hideous faces emerged from the blood mist, emitting ear-piercing whistles, “Chaos emerges, heaven and earth are robbed... All spirits perish...”

  Lin Yi's seven orifices were bleeding, but he looked up to the sky and laughed, “A mere remnant of a thought wants to stop me?” He violently closed his hands together, and the Xuan Spirit Pearl moved in response, slamming directly into his chest!

  “Boom--!”

  With a shocking explosion, the Trapped Dragon Formation fell apart. The nine bronze ancient lamps went out at the same time, and one of them even directly exploded. The blood characters on the stone monument completely dissipated, leaving only the mottled body of the monument behind.

  Lin Yi was suspended in mid-air, and the pattern of the Xuan Spirit Bead appeared on his chest. The river of stars within the bead was now connected to the chaotic nebula within his dantian, forming a perfect cycle. Even more miraculously, a trace of green colored demonic power was entwined within it, granting him some sort of special sensation - he could vaguely sense the presence of that green scaled master deep within the earth!

  Zhao Tian suddenly let out a roar that didn't resemble a human. His battle armor had completely mutated, with two metallic feathers sticking out from his back, and only one human eye remaining on his face, with the rest of his body fully mechanized. Dozens of tentacles danced in the air, each tip condensing destructive energy.

  “Energy... Fusion...” A mechanized voice squeezed out of his throat as he lunged at Lin Yi, “Chaos... Return to me...”

  Su Yao hurriedly threw out her Yao Guang sword, but it was jerked away by a tentacle. Seeing that Zhao Tian was about to grab the weakened Lin Yi, an intact green-scaled giant claw suddenly stretched out from the ground, slapping Zhao Tian into the rock wall!

  “Get out... My territory...” A dull roar came from the ground.

  The giant claw turned towards Lin Yi, but hesitated. The tip of the claw gently touched the Xuan Spirit Bead pattern on his chest, and surprisingly, a hint of awe flowed out.

  “So... It's that one... The inheritance...” The voice gradually faded away, and the giant claw retracted back into the ground, leaving only a warning, “The calamity... Will come...”

  The cave began to collapse, Su Yao hurriedly helped Lin Yi up, “We must leave immediately!”

  Just as they were about to rush out of the crack, Lin Yi glanced back. Between the collapsing rocks, the mottled stone tablet suddenly lit up with a last glimmer of bloody light, and new words vaguely emerged:

  “The ninth calamity...”