OBS Chapter 2143 A Descent from the Heavens, From the Azure Sky to the Yellow Springs!
Chapter 2143 A Descent from the Heavens, From the Azure Sky to the Yellow Springs!
That sound?
Cao Feiyu's delicate body trembled violently, and she froze on the spot. Her hand, which was tightly gripping the longsword, trembled uncontrollably for a moment, and the tip of the sword gently touched the cold rocky ground with a "ding".
She suddenly looked up, staring at the cave entrance shrouded in thick fog, her pupils filled with utter disbelief and a faint, almost desperate, hope that she herself was unaware of.
It was the voice of Chen Fei, a junior apprentice.
Was it a hallucination before death? Or a delusion caused by severe injuries and mental turmoil?
With such a meticulously planned deadly trap, and with Shi Pojun, Liu Yanqing, and Chang Guwu, three mid-stage Tai Cang Realm cultivators working together, how could Chen Fei possibly escape?
The next instant, the thick, seemingly impenetrable gray mist at the cave entrance was gently parted by an invisible hand, flowing quietly to both sides.
A tall, upright figure emerged unhurriedly from the flowing mist, stepping calmly into the dimly lit cave.
His dark, close-fitting clothes were spotless, as if he had never been in any battle. His face was calm, with a faint smile playing at the corners of his lips. His eyes were clear and deep, like a deep pool reflecting the faint light filtering in from outside the cave.
He stood there, his breathing steady, long and peaceful, completely out of place in this perilous, deathly, and oppressive environment, yet strangely bringing an indescribable sense of security.
Cao Feiyu froze, staring intently at the familiar face at the cave entrance, at the gentle smile on his face, as if trying to find a trace of pretense.
That was a deadly trap. Cao Feiyu asked herself honestly, if she were the one caught in it, there would be no other possibility but mutual destruction. But Chen Fei... not only did he escape, but he also seemed... completely unharmed?
Even his breathing is so steady and long?
How can this be?
Shock, confusion, and disbelief overwhelmed her like a surging tide.
Cao Feiyu's long sword remained hanging low, but she forgot to put it away. She just stared blankly at Chen Fei, her lips moving slightly, but no sound came out.
After a brief moment of distraction and blankness, a sharp sense of alertness suddenly surged into Cao Feiyu's heart.
In the dark side of this perilous and unpredictable ruin, any abnormality would be enough to make her tense up to the last bit of nerve.
Chen Fei's appearance was too abrupt and illogical.
He was unharmed, his breathing was steady... Is this normal? After such a brutal ambush, how could he be so relaxed? Did Shi Pojun and the others let him escape so easily?
Unless... the Chen Fei in front of us is not the real Chen Fei at all.
It's a vengeful demon!
Thinking of this, the confusion and expectation in Cao Feiyu's eyes were instantly replaced by a chilling killing intent. A furious anger at being fooled, mixed with immense grief over the possible misfortune of Chen Fei, erupted.
"kill!"
A sharp, angry shout, filled with determination, echoed through the cave like an ice bead exploding.
The Autumn Water Longsword hanging low in Cao Feiyu's hand suddenly emitted a clear and deafening clang, and the azure water elemental energy on the blade surged like a tide.
The powerful aura of a mid-stage Tai Cang Realm cultivator erupted without reservation, like an invisible mountain, carrying a chilling killing intent, and crashed down on the familiar figure at the cave entrance.
The temperature inside the cave seemed to drop instantly, and fine frost condensed on the rock walls.
Cao Feiyu's eyes were sharp as knives as she stared intently at Chen Fei. If he made the slightest move, she would not hesitate to launch a thunderous attack, even if it meant mutual destruction.
Locked onto by Cao Feiyu's overwhelming aura, Chen Fei's gentle smile faltered slightly at the cave entrance, a hint of helplessness flashing across his face. He shook his head with a wry smile.
"Senior sister, it really is me. I am not a demon in disguise. I escaped from their encirclement and attack."
"Escaped?" Cao Feiyu's heart skipped a beat.
Chen Fei's expression did not seem feigned.
What if... what if what he said is true? What if Junior Brother Chen really managed to carve out a bloody path out of that desperate situation with unimaginable trump cards and strength?
Once this thought arose, it grew wildly like weeds, impacting Cao Feiyu's originally firm killing intent.
Her hand gripping the sword trembled almost imperceptibly, and her fierce aura wavered slightly. But reason and vigilance prevailed, and she forced herself to calm down.
"Then tell me, how did you escape from their four-man ambush?"
Cao Feiyu's gaze was fixed on Chen Fei's face, not daring to miss a single change in his expression. This was her last criterion for judging the truth.
Upon hearing Cao Feiyu's question, Chen Fei, who was at the cave entrance, showed a relieved expression and was about to explain.
"Yes, Senior Sister Cao, that's a good question. I've been wanting to hear how you escaped from their encirclement."
A calm, indifferent voice suddenly rang out from not far away. The voice was not loud, but it was extremely clear.
Cao Feiyu's heart trembled violently, and the hairs on her body almost stood on end in that instant. The voice was clearly Chen Fei's as well.
On the other side of the rock wall, in the shadows, a figure had silently appeared.
They were both dressed in black, with the same tall and slender figures, and the same calm and gentle face.
Chen Fei seemed to have been standing there all along, blending into the shadows, until now when he finally revealed himself.
What shocked Cao Feiyu was that the right hand of this newly appeared Chen Fei was like an iron clamp, gripping the top of the head of the original "Chen Fei" at the entrance of the cave.
The vengeful demon Wan Guiyuan trembled violently, as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and a chill originating from the depths of his soul instantly swept over his entire body.
He had been constantly on guard, sensing every slight movement and fluctuation of his spiritual energy. But this hand seemed to appear out of thin air, passing right through all his sensory barriers and landing on his head.
Only after his head was firmly pinned down did his remaining soul belatedly begin to tremble wildly.
"break!"
Wan Guiyuan let out a shrill, inhuman scream. No longer caring about pretense, the vast, malevolent demonic energy accumulated within his body, belonging to the mid-stage of the Tai Cang Realm, erupted without reservation at this moment.
The pitch-black resentment soared into the sky, transforming into countless twisted and wailing ghost faces that surged wildly in all directions.
His entire body swelled and twisted instantly, trying to break free from the grip of that hand.
However, faced with Wan Guiyuan's desperate outburst, Chen Fei, who was holding his head, shattered like a dream, turning into tiny sparks of light that dissipated into the air.
"what?"
Wan Guiyuan's desperate burst of demonic energy missed its target. He abruptly turned his head to look around, alarm bells ringing in his mind, and various thoughts flashed through his head.
Before he could think it through, another unexpected event occurred.
Centered on the spot where he stood, within a radius of a hundred feet, countless crisscrossing, extremely complex and profound array patterns suddenly lit up on the ground, rock walls, and air.
These array patterns are dark gold in color, flowing with powerful and pure elemental energy. They are interconnected and instantly form a huge and precise array that exudes a terrifying aura of sealing and strangulation.
The great array of light soared into the sky, forming a semi-transparent dark golden light shield that firmly sealed Wan Guiyuan and the surging demonic energy he unleashed within it.
Runes flowed across the light barrier, permeating the air with Daoist energy, emanating an indestructible and powerful aura that isolated the inside from the outside.
"A formation?" Wan Guiyuan suddenly looked up, gazing outside the formation.
Not far away, the space rippled slightly, and two figures slowly emerged like ripples on water, solidifying from the ethereal. It was Chen Fei, and the array puppet whose only feature was a cold soul flame flickering in its eye sockets.
Chen Fei stood with his hands behind his back, calmly watching Wan Guiyuan, who was filled with shock and anger within the great formation. The formation puppet beside him was waving its hands in the air.
As it waved its hands, new, functionally diverse array phantoms condensed and manifested from the void, like stacked Arhats, and were then mercilessly superimposed on the main trapping array.
Spirit Sealing Array!
As the dark blue light fell, Wan Guiyuan immediately felt his magical power stagnate, as if he were stuck in a quagmire.
A protective array to ward off evil spirits!
As pure white light shone down, the surging resentful demonic energy on his body seemed to encounter its nemesis, hissing and being continuously weakened.
Soul-Locking Array!
Invisible ripples spread, penetrating straight to the soul. Wan Guiyuan felt his soul tighten, as if he were shackled by layers of chains, and his connection with the outside world became blurred.
Geng Metal Killing Formation!
A sharp, incomparable golden sword aura appeared out of thin air and rained down from all directions like a storm.
The Heaven-Burning Fiery Array!
Scorching flames suddenly ignited, turning the area within the formation into a furnace.
……
One, two, three... In just a few breaths, more than ten interconnected arrays, each with different functions but all exquisite and powerful, completely enveloped Wan Guiyuan in layers.
These grand formations are not randomly stacked, but rather they echo and complement each other, with various effects such as trapping, killing, sealing, suppressing, illusion, and grinding intertwined to form a despairing array cage.
Wan Guiyuan had just exhausted all his strength and barely managed to break through the suppression of the first sealing spirit array and evil-removing array with his violent demonic energy. Before he could even catch his breath, the light of two or three new great arrays had already fallen, instantly filling the gap that had just appeared.
He was like a flying insect caught in a spider web; the more he struggled, the more and tighter the threads became entangled around him.
Within the grand formation, Wan Guiyuan's demonic energy was continuously weakened, and the black-colored outfit he had conjured was already tattered, revealing the churning gray-black mist beneath it.
His eyes widened as he stared intently at the young man standing with his hands behind his back outside the formation.
"Open the gate for me!"
Unwilling to be bound, Wan Guiyuan roared and once again unleashed his demonic power, his body suddenly expanding into a twisting, ever-changing gray-black demonic shadow.
Countless ferocious ghostly hands emerged from the demonic shadows, tearing and pounding wildly at the surrounding array of light with mournful howls.
At the same time, he opened his mouth and spewed out a thick, black, and foul-smelling primordial demonic energy. This demonic energy was extremely corrosive, even eroding the space itself, causing it to hiss and crackle, attempting to pollute and dismantle the foundation of the formation.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The great array's light barrier trembled violently, and the dark golden runes flickered, emitting a loud buzzing sound.
Wan Guiyuan was, after all, a vengeful demon at the mid-stage of the Tai Cang Realm, and his desperate counterattack was not to be underestimated. He forcibly tore a gap in the sword energy condensed in a Gengjin Killing Array, and the flames of a Li Huo Burning Heaven Array were temporarily suppressed by the primordial demonic energy he spewed out.
However, the puppets outside the formation continued to move in an orderly manner.
Its hands drew afterimages in the air. Whenever Wan Guiyuan broke through a great formation, or was about to break through it, two or even three new great formations would immediately descend with their light, enveloping him once again.
Upon breaking through the Gengjin Killing Array, the Thick Earth Prison Suppression Array and the Profound Ice Sealing Array immediately descended, the power of the earth binding its movements and the power of extreme cold freezing its magic.
After suppressing the Blazing Fire Formation, the Wood Dragon Trapping Formation and the Wind Bone-Eroding Formation followed closely behind. The tenacious vine phantoms coiled around it, and the invisible bone-eroding winds penetrated every nook and cranny.
Wan Guiyuan charged left and right, using every trick in the book, his demonic energy surging, ghosts howling and gods wailing, causing the great formations to flicker with light, seemingly on the verge of collapse.
However, the puppet's control was so exquisite that it could always compensate and transform with new formations at the most critical moments, keeping Wan Guiyuan firmly trapped in the formation and quickly wearing down his power.
However, after a few breaths, the demonic shadow that Wan Guiyuan had transformed into clearly dimmed and shrank.
On the surface of the demonic shadow, wounds left by the power of the array began to appear, from which wisps of pure demonic energy escaped and were quickly dissolved by the surrounding purification array.
Although these injuries were not serious, they were continuously depleting his vital energy and causing his aura to become unstable.
The injury inevitably slowed down his speed in breaking the formation. However, the speed at which the formation puppet controlled the formation to envelop him did not decrease at all; in fact, due to its familiarity with Wan Guiyuan's attack patterns, it became even more precise and efficient.
"No, how can I perish here!" Wan Guiyuan roared in unwillingness, his demonic shadow churning violently in its final struggle.
Chen Fei, standing outside the formation, merely glanced at him indifferently. The formation puppet showed no reaction whatsoever, only waving its hands incessantly, creating one massive formation after another, like a net covering the sky, completely engulfing Wan Guiyuan.
In the distance, Cao Feiyu stood with her sword in hand. At this moment, she was somewhat unable to tell whether what she was seeing was real or just a trick played by the vengeful demon.
Just then, Chen Fei, who was controlling the formation from outside, seemed to sense her hesitation and struggle. He slowly turned his head, his gaze passing over the churning array light and landing on Cao Feiyu's pale face.
Eyes facing each other.
Cao Feiyu saw that in those deep eyes, there was only a clear calmness and a familiar gentleness.
Then, she saw a faint smile on Chen Fei's face.
Chen Fei didn't speak, but simply raised his right hand gently towards Cao Feiyu.
A faint light appeared in Chen Fei's palm, rapidly expanding into a chaotic ball of light that seemed to contain the birth and death of stars—a projection of the Void Realm.
Immediately afterwards, an aura even more familiar to Cao Feiyu was deliberately amplified by Chen Fei from within the chaotic light cluster.
That's the aura of the Xuan Yu Realm.
At the same time, Cao Feiyu felt a slight warmth on her neck.
She subconsciously looked down and saw that the jade pendant that Chu Xuanyu had given her years ago was now emitting a soft and warm light, faintly resonating with the familiar aura emanating from the Void Realm in Chen Fei's palm.
All the doubts in Cao Feiyu's mind melted away at this moment, like ice and snow being exposed to the sun.
Only Chen Fei, who truly inherited the Xuan Yu Realm, could trigger the resonance of this jade pendant; this cannot be faked.
“Junior Brother Chen…it really is you.” Cao Feiyu’s voice was hoarse, yet filled with indescribable joy and relief.
Chen Fei looked at Cao Feiyu with a gentle gaze, nodded, and said softly, "Senior Sister, please meditate first."
However, Cao Feiyu shook her head vigorously. Her previous fear and hesitation had now transformed into boundless rage and murderous intent.
"Junior Brother Chen, let me do it!"
Cao Feiyu let out a clear shout, and the long sword in her hand emitted a clear and deafening ringing sound. The azure water elemental energy surged like a tide. Her momentum, which had been somewhat weakened due to her injuries and exhaustion, suddenly rose again at this moment.
With a flash, she transformed into a stunning blue streak, instantly traversing the distance to appear at the edge of the chain formation that trapped Wan Guiyuan.
With a slight thought, Chen Fei manipulated the array puppets to open a gap in front of Cao Feiyu, just wide enough for one person to pass through.
Without hesitation, Cao Feiyu slipped inside.
Upon entering the formation, the violent aura of the vengeful demon rushed towards her. But Cao Feiyu seemed oblivious; in her eyes, there was only the gray-black demonic shadow, Wan Guiyuan, charging left and right within the formation.
"Death!"
With a sharp cry, Cao Feiyu unleashed her longsword, which cascaded down like a silver river from the heavens, pouring all her anger and killing intent into this single strike.
A sword technique descends from the heavens, from the azure sky to the yellow springs!
With a swing of the longsword, carrying an indomitable and resolute killing intent to cleanse evil, a dazzling azure sword aura soared into the sky. Within the sword aura, there seemed to be the sound of a vast celestial river flowing and the shadow of a blue sea rising.
Wherever the sword energy passed, the churning resentful demonic energy within the formation melted away like snow melting in the spring sun.
Wan Guiyuan was exhausted by the endless array formations when he suddenly saw Cao Feiyu, a heavily injured mid-stage Tai Cang Realm cultivator, dare to break into the array and attack him. He was overjoyed, thinking this might be his chance to escape.
"Die!"
The demonic shadow that Wan Guiyuan transformed into let out a sharp roar, temporarily abandoning its attack on the surrounding array. It gathered its demonic power and transformed into an extremely ferocious ghost claw. Wraiths clung to the ghost claw, howling mournfully, carrying a bone-corroding and soul-destroying sinister power, and fiercely grabbed at Cao Feiyu.
However, just as the giant ghost claw was about to collide with the Azure Sky Sword Qi, the hand seals of the array puppet outside the array changed.
Among the several great formations that trapped Wan Guiyuan, the dividing formation shone brightly, and an invisible spatial dividing force suddenly acted on the ferocious ghost claw.
The originally solid and ferocious ghost claw seemed to be cut by countless invisible blades, instantly splitting into dozens of greatly weakened gray-black streams of energy.
Although it still lunged at Cao Feiyu, its power had been reduced to less than half.
At the same time, the Thick Earth Prison Formation was activated, and an invisible gravity field as heavy as a mountain suddenly pressed down on Wan Guiyuan's demonic shadow, causing him to stagnate and making it difficult for him to follow up with subsequent changes.
Cao Feiyu's Azure Sky Sword Qi effortlessly shattered the remaining power of the ghost claw, which had been weakened beyond recognition by the formation. With its momentum slightly reduced, it slashed fiercely at Wan Guiyuan's demonic shadow's left shoulder.
"laugh!"
Like a hot knife through oil, the pure, azure sword energy tore a huge wound in the demonic shadow, and pure demonic energy gushed out like black blood.
"Ah!" Wan Guiyuan let out a roar of pain mixed with shock and anger.
Cao Feiyu's spirits soared, and her swordplay surged like a tidal wave, each move faster than the last. The azure sword light swept towards Wan Guiyuan like a storm.
Despair, like a cold tide, completely overwhelmed Wan Guiyuan.
"You forced me to this, let's all die together!"
A glint of madness and determination flashed in Wan Guiyuan's eyes as he let out a final, shrill roar.
The demonic shadow he had transformed into suddenly contracted rapidly inward, condensing into a pitch-black demonic sphere less than a foot in size, yet extremely solid.
Chen Fei remained unmoved. At this moment, the dozen or so large arrays surrounding Wan Guiyuan shone brightly, and all the array patterns instantly resonated and connected, unleashing a terrifying power far exceeding that before.
An overwhelming and irresistible sealing force firmly locked down the rapidly shrinking, about-to-explode black magic ball.
Cao Feiyu seized the opportunity, her longsword emitting a clear and resounding roar, its blade radiating an intensely bright azure light.
A sword technique descends from the heavens, purifying the world!
She became one with her sword, transforming into a streak of azure light that pierced through the heavens and earth, unstoppable in its force, and pierced through the dark magic sphere.
"puff!"
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a soft sound like tearing tattered leather.
"No!"
Wan Guiyuan let out a howl filled with endless resentment and unwillingness. The next moment, the pitch-black demonic sphere trembled violently and exploded completely, turning into countless tiny specks of light that dissipated into the array space without leaving a trace. (End of this chapter)