OBS Chapter 2146 Huge Harvest
Chapter 2146 Huge Harvest
Chen Fei stood with his hands behind his back a few feet outside the formation, manipulating the formation puppets and subtly adjusting the formation's nodes and strength. Hearing Cao Feiyu's question, his gaze remained fixed on the battlefield, and he calmly replied:
"Judging from their martial arts techniques and the patterns on their clothing, if my memory serves me right, they should be members of the Taiheng Sect."
Chen Fei had been trying to understand the various sects under the jurisdiction of the Yan Yang Immortal Dynasty ever since he stepped onto the Primordial Continent.
As one of the 108 sects, Dan Chen Sect provides quite detailed basic information about other major sects. Chen Fei naturally had some knowledge of the core disciples' cultivation techniques, clothing insignia, and other aspects of behemoths like Tai Heng Sect, which ranked among the top nine sects.
"Junior brother has good eyesight; it is indeed Taiheng Sect."
Cao Feiyu drew a graceful arc with her longsword, the azure sword light like a crescent moon, silently grazing the side of the demon, once again stirring up a cloud of demonic energy.
"Taiheng Sect is recognized as one of the nine strongest and most profound sects among the thirty-six superior sects of Yanyang Immortal Dynasty. Its techniques are all-encompassing, especially renowned for sword, formation, and talisman techniques. It has a long history and produces many talented individuals."
Cao Feiyu flicked her wrist, dispersing the wisps of demonic energy clinging to the sword tip, and continued, "Because of their transcendent status and formidable strength, the disciples of the Taiheng Sect, especially their core disciples, often consider themselves very arrogant and habitually refer to themselves as the Upper Nine Sects to distinguish themselves from other sects. They have an inherent arrogance in their bones."
Cao Feiyu's assessment of the Taiheng Sect was quite objective, highlighting its strength while also hinting at the potential arrogance of its disciples. Despite her words, her swordplay remained remarkably swift.
A heavenly cleansing!
With a soft shout, Cao Feiyu's figure suddenly rose higher, and the long sword in her hand emitted a dazzling azure light, as if gathering water vapor from all directions, with faint ripples appearing around the sword.
In the next instant, she merged with her sword, transforming into a massive blue sword aura, like a celestial river flowing backward, carrying a majestic aura of purification and cleansing, crashing down from above towards the vengeful demon.
"Roar!"
Sensing the terrifying threat contained in this sword strike, the demon's three demonic eyes emitted a horrifying blood-red light, letting out a desperate and frenzied roar.
It knew that if it continued to be trapped by the formation and passively take hits, it would eventually be worn down to death by the woman's fierce sword light. With no hope of breaking out and its offensive efforts thwarted, the shadow of death had already loomed over its mind.
Driven to desperation, the vengeful demon unleashed its full ferocity.
Its massive demonic body trembled violently, and the swirling gray-black demonic energy around it suddenly collapsed and solidified inward, its color deepening at an astonishing speed, eventually turning into a pure black.
An extremely violent, chaotic aura, full of destruction and depravity, erupted from his body like a volcanic eruption.
"Insects, perish with me!"
The vengeful demon let out a final shriek filled with venom and madness, its entire black body swelled violently, and countless twisted, eerie runes appeared on its surface.
Seeing no hope of escape, the vengeful demon burned all of its original demonic energy, arousing its deepest resentment and demonic nature, and unleashed a forbidden secret technique of mutual destruction.
It will transform itself into the most terrifying source of corruption, polluting, eroding, and destroying these two despicable humans, along with this space.
The pitch-black demonic body, swollen to its limit, exploded with a deafening roar.
It transformed into a pitch-black torrent exuding a thick stench and an aura of death. This torrent seemed to have a life of its own, ignoring the obstruction of some of the formations. Most of its power, carrying a world-destroying force, frantically crashed and swept towards Cao Feiyu, who was closest to it.
Faced with this sudden and incredibly powerful self-destructive counterattack, Cao Feiyu's beautiful face remained completely calm. This was not her first time fighting a vengeful demon, and Cao Feiyu knew all too well the tricks these demons often used when they were cornered.
Her sword momentum remained undiminished, but in the blink of an eye, her figure drifted backward in a mysterious trajectory. At the same time, she activated her sword technique, and the vast Cleansing Sword Qi did not clash head-on with the black torrent, but instead transformed into a soft and dense azure water curtain that stretched across her front.
However, the real defense did not come from her sword.
Just as the dark torrent was about to crash into the azure water curtain, a humming sound, seemingly emanating from the depths of the earth, resounded.
In the void about ten feet in front of Cao Feiyu, countless dark golden array patterns suddenly lit up, as if the most precise machinery was instantly assembled and unfolded, instantly condensing into a huge rhomboid barrier several feet thick, with countless complex runes flowing endlessly on its surface.
This barrier was incredibly solid, radiating an aura of indestructibility and impervious to all magic. It was the Xuanwu Zhenyue Barrier, the strongest defensive formation that Chen Fei had set up in an instant by manipulating the array puppets.
This formation is specifically designed for defense and is most effective at resisting various energy impacts and negative erosion.
"boom!"
The viscous, terrifying torrent of pitch-black liquid crashed solidly into the suddenly appearing dark golden barrier.
A deafening roar erupted, and violent energy ripples spread wildly in a ring, uprooting and annihilating all the surrounding sand and dust.
The dark golden barrier trembled violently, its surface flashing rapidly with light, emitting a creaking sound as it struggled to bear the weight. Fine cracks spread rapidly outwards from the point of impact.
However, this desperate attack, which combined the vengeful demon's lifelong cultivation and resentment, was ultimately blocked by the Xuanwu Zhenyue Barrier, which forcefully blocked the most crucial first wave, which was also the most violent impact.
Taking advantage of this fleeting moment, Cao Feiyu's longsword rang out with a clear sound, and the azure sword light that had transformed into a water curtain suddenly contracted and condensed, transforming from the softest to the hardest in an instant.
A divine intervention, drawing evil spirits back to ruins!
The longsword traced a mysterious trajectory, like a skilled butcher dissecting an ox, precisely cutting into the weak points of the black torrent's energy channels, guiding it with skillful force.
The remaining black torrent was actually drawn away by this exquisite sword strike, deviating from its original trajectory to strike Cao Feiyu. Instead, it traced a perilous arc around her side and slammed into a giant rock dozens of feet behind her.
As Cao Feiyu unleashed this exquisite sword strike to defuse the crisis, she moved with the sword, transforming into a pale blue streak that almost merged into the void. Against the aftershocks of the black torrent, she pierced the head of the demon's remaining consciousness core.
At this moment, the vengeful demon had self-destructed most of its demonic body, making it the weakest and most vulnerable. On its ferocious head, the three demonic eyes still held madness and a trace of astonishment, as if it hadn't expected its desperate attack to be neutralized in such a way.
"laugh!"
A soft sound, less ear-piercing than the previous roars of battle, yet carrying a sense of impending closure.
The azure longsword in Cao Feiyu's hand pierced effortlessly into the largest demonic eye in the center of the vengeful demon's brow. The immense sword intent and purifying power contained within the longsword erupted with a deafening roar the moment it pierced through.
The vengeful demon's remaining body trembled, and its entire remaining head exploded, turning into countless pure soul energy points and wisps of black resentment impurities that scattered across the sky.
The battle, from its start to the moment the vengeful demon unleashed its ultimate attack, lasted only a few breaths.
The fight was fraught with danger, yet thanks to the perfect teamwork between Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu, it all came to a safe conclusion.
A fierce wind swept across the Gobi Desert, carrying away the last trace of dissipated demonic energy and residual power.
Cao Feiyu slowly sheathed her sword, the azure longsword returning to its original sheath with a clear, resonant sound. She was slightly out of breath, but her eyes shone brightly like stars, sparkling with the brilliance of victory.
With the perfect assistance of Chen Fei's formation, she was able to unleash the full power of the Heavenly Sword Technique, and this exhilarating combat experience put her in a very good mood.
Cao Feiyu gestured with her left hand, and the essence of the vengeful demon flew into her palm. Without even looking at it, she released her energy from her palm, and the pure water-based energy, like the most skillful carving knife, instantly divided the mass of essence evenly in two.
Half of it was enveloped in her Yuan energy and gently pushed toward Chen Fei.
"Junior brother, here you go." Cao Feiyu's voice was light and cheerful, carrying a hint of relief after completing the task.
Chen Fei accepted it without hesitation.
"Senior Sister, you just forcibly drew upon the self-destructing power of that vengeful demon to perform the 'Returning to the Void' technique, which must have taken a toll on your mental energy. Would you like to rest for a while before continuing your journey?" Chen Fei asked gently, his gaze falling on Cao Feiyu's slightly flushed cheeks.
Upon hearing this, Cao Feiyu gently shook her head, a bright smile appearing on her face: "It's alright. With my junior brother's formation protecting me, I only need to focus on my sword strikes and don't need to be distracted by defense and dodging. The consumption of my Yuan energy and mental energy is much less than expected. I can recover in a short while."
What she said was true. Under the absolute protection of the formation, she could focus all her energy on attacking without any distractions, unleashing the full power of her sword techniques while greatly reducing her own energy consumption.
With her mid-stage Tai Cang Realm cultivation, she could recover from the slight exertion she had just experienced with a little rest.
Seeing that she was indeed alright, Chen Fei nodded and said no more.
He gazed into the distance, in the direction they had come from, and roughly in the direction of the palace ruins marked in the map.
"If that's the case, then the battle between Taihengzong and the other two against the vengeful demon should have ended long ago. Shall we go back and see what's happened to that marked palace?"
"Okay," Cao Feiyu replied crisply.
Two streaks of light rose up again, one gold and one blue, piercing the gray sky and speeding towards the collapsed pavilion along the path they had come from.
In just a short while, the half-collapsed white jade pavilion came into view again.
The two activated their escape techniques and landed on the remaining base of the pavilion. Their gaze swept over the open space where the battle had broken out, and it was indeed empty, leaving only a huge, charred crater mixed with ice crystals, a messy battlefield.
With a single step, Chen Fei appeared in that area as if the distance had shrunk to an inch.
He did not look down to examine the marks on the ground, but slowly closed his eyes, raising his divine sense and perception to the extreme.
In Chen Fei's perception, the space in front of him seemed no different from the surroundings, filled with the chaotic and deathly energy field unique to ruins.
However, the encyclopedia shows that there is an entrance and exit here.
If this place had not been marked by a map, Chen Fei would have had great difficulty discovering its strangeness with just a quick scan, even if he had activated the Undying True Light Mirror to its fullest extent.
Chen Fei stood still, his figure seemingly blending into the surrounding environment, with only his clothes fluttering gently in the breeze, and the inner power of the Undying True Light Mirror within his body was quietly activated.
The movement of air, the settling of dust, the faint residual energy radiation from the ground, the churning of gray fog in the distance...
All ordinary and chaotic sensory information was filtered and analyzed by Chen Fei's powerful divine soul. He was searching for that discordant ripple, or rather, that belonged to spatial anomalies.
Time passed slowly, and Cao Feiyu stood quietly a few feet behind Chen Fei, holding the hilt of her sword, observing her surroundings vigilantly, protecting Chen Fei.
About the time it takes to drink a cup of tea has passed.
Chen Fei's tightly closed eyes suddenly snapped open. Deep within his eyes, countless fine, pale golden runes seemed to flash by—a manifestation of the Undying True Light Mirror operating to a certain degree.
"Found it." A smile appeared on Chen Fei's face, and his right hand, which had been held out in front of him, suddenly moved.
The five fingers gently flexed and extended, as if plucking invisible and intangible strings. Wherever the fingertips passed, ripples like water spread through the void.
This ripple was not caused by the vibration of Yuan energy, but rather by Chen Fei's precise control over the power of space, combined with the penetrating spiritual perception of the Undying True Light Mirror, allowing him to accurately touch the vein of that spatial anomaly.
The next moment, Chen Fei brought his right hand together, and without using much force, he simply made a light stroke towards a certain point in the void in front of him, and then split it to both sides.
The movements were gentle, like lifting a light veil.
"laugh!"
A sound so faint it was almost inaudible, yet seemingly tearing through the very soul, rang out.
In Cao Feiyu's pupils, the space in front of Chen Fei, like a torn scroll, slowly cracked open to both sides.
A doorway, about ten feet high, with its edges constantly twisting and undulating, appeared out of thin air in front of Chen Fei.
Inside the doorway, the first thing that rushed in was an incredibly dense, pitch-black demonic aura.
These demonic energies surged and churned, as if they possessed life, with countless vengeful spirits wailing and struggling within them, emanating an aura of resentment and death ten times stronger than that of the outside world.
Deep within the doorway, the outline of a palace constructed entirely of a dark-colored metal and strange stones can be seen, appearing and disappearing amidst the swirling demonic energy.
Most of the palace's details were blurred, but a sense of desolation and weight, along with an indescribable sense of majesty and deathly stillness, pierced through the demonic energy and rushed towards us.
"These vengeful spirits... are truly bizarre."
Standing before the spatial portal opened by Chen Fei, Cao Feiyu did not rush to step inside. Instead, she frowned slightly and murmured to herself.
"The vengeful demons that fought us were like this, as were the vengeful demons that fought to the death against the disciples of the Taiheng Sect. Even when they were on the verge of defeat, they only knew how to fight to the death. Could it be that... they didn't know that there was a way out behind this door? Or rather, this door was not a way out for them?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Fei withdrew his divine sense, which had been probing the demonic energy behind the door, pondered for a moment, and slowly said:
"The vengeful demons are mostly the heavenly soldiers and generals who were deeply obsessed when the ancient Heavenly Court fell. Over the long years, they were corrupted by the special yin and death energy and chaotic laws of this place, and combined with their deepest obsessions and resentment in their previous lives. Their very existence is the manifestation of obsession."
Chen Fei paused for a moment, then continued:
"Back then, when the ancient Heavenly Court collapsed, these immortals and heavenly soldiers would rather perish together, tearing the entire Heavenly Court apart from its original plane, than let the treasures fall into the hands of the enemy."
"This protection is the core will imprinted deep within their remnant souls, and may even have transformed into a kind of rule, surpassing the instinct for survival."
Cao Feiyu was stunned, a complex emotion flashing in her beautiful eyes.
“The past is gone, and obsessions have vanished. Moreover, these vengeful demons are not the heavenly soldiers and generals of yesteryear, but rather a collection of various remnant souls.” Chen Fei composed himself, his gaze sharpening once more.
With a slight thought, Chen Fei's puppet's eyes flashed with a faint light, and it stepped heavily into the spatial portal.
The puppet stepped into the churning demonic energy, its figure instantly swallowed by the dense blackness. However, through mental connection, Chen Fei could clearly see that behind the door was a passageway paved with some kind of black jade.
At the end of the passageway stood a heavy, tightly closed palace door. The door was made of neither gold nor wood, but a dark bronze color, and its surface was also carved with intricate patterns, though most of them had been worn away by time and demonic energy.
Under Chen Fei's control, the puppet arrived at the palace gate. Without much hesitation, its metal arm pressed against the cold palace door and suddenly exerted force.
"Crench!"
A dull, massive scraping sound echoed through the enclosed passageway, as if a colossal beast, dormant for millennia, had been awakened. The heavy bronze palace doors slowly slid open, revealing a crack.
Just as the palace doors opened.
"Buzz!"
A surge of powerful and pure primordial energy, like a torrent suppressed for millions of years, suddenly burst forth from the cracks in the palace gate.
This vital energy was so concentrated that it temporarily dispersed the dense demonic energy churning in front of the gate, forming an area shrouded in spiritual mist. Accompanying the surge of vital energy was a profound and mysterious fluctuation that made even the soul tremble.
Through the eyes of the puppet, Chen Fei saw the scene inside the hall.
The interior of the main hall is quite spacious, with a high dome inlaid with pearls. Although most of them are dim, a few still emit a soft light, illuminating the interior.
The first thing that catches the eye is the mountain of Dao Crystals.
Like the most perfect diamonds, they were crystal clear, with what seemed like flowing starlight inside, radiating a mesmerizing ethereal light. They were not piled up haphazardly, but arranged in a strange formation on the floor in the center of the hall, forming a huge mountain of crystals.
At a glance, the number was well over ten million. The energy fluctuations emanating from the pile of ten million Dao Crystals were almost tangible, illuminating the entire hall with dazzling light and making it a magnificent sight.
However, this breathtaking display of wealth was not the most striking feature of the palace.
Above the mountain peak formed by the accumulation of Dao Crystals, at a height of about one person, a jade box about a foot square floats quietly.
The jade box is a warm, milky white color, with a smooth, watery sheen on its surface.
Through the translucent material of the jade box, one could vaguely see a strange, swirling ball of light sealed inside. As the light swirled, strange phenomena such as the sun, moon, and stars appeared and disappeared, emanating an indescribable and profound Daoist charm.
"A sixteenth-grade low-level spiritual material?" Chen Fei was full of surprise. This was the first time he had encountered a complete sixteenth-grade spiritual material in the ruins.
Under Chen Fei's control, the puppet did not rashly touch the jade box and the Dao crystal. Instead, it cautiously walked slowly around the hall, while raising its perception to the extreme.
After completing the lap, the puppet did not trigger any restrictions, nor did it discover any hidden killing formations, vengeful demons, or other suspicious energy fluctuations.
The entire hall was devoid of anything except for the dense, impenetrable primordial energy, the floating jade box, the piled-up Dao crystals, and the deathly stillness accumulated over the years.
Retracting his mind from the puppet's perspective, Chen Fei slowly opened his eyes and looked at Cao Feiyu beside him. Without needing to say anything, through their mental connection, he had already transmitted what he had seen inside the hall to Cao Feiyu with his divine sense. (End of Chapter)