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Join the Server“Useless.” The human-faced ancient tripod sneered with disdain.
Its massive mouth suddenly opened wide, inhaling fiercely.
A tremendous vortex appeared out of nowhere, and the Golden Crow True Flame, capable of melting gold and iron, was savagely devoured by the vortex!
Instead of harming it, it seemed to be adding fuel to its fire?
“The Golden Crow True Flame is barely acceptable as top-tier furnace fire for alchemy.”
Yaoguang Saint Lord’s mocking voice echoed from within the tripod.
“You old hag!!!”
Luan Ge was fuming with rage. Her wings flapped, and she shot forward like a golden cannonball, wrapped in raging flames, crashing violently toward the Eternal Life Tripod.
“Blood Dragon, Devour!”
At the same time, Ling Shuangjue’s attack arrived.
In her hand, the Abi Yuan Tu Sword had fully transformed into a hundred-zhang-long ferocious blood dragon. The dragon was formed from purest killing intent and demonic qi, with thousands of venomous eyes opening across its body emit a soul-shaking roar. It opened its maw wide and bit viciously at the neck of the human-faced ancient tripod.
One attacked head-on, another ambushed from the flank, and the third severed the causal threads from afar.
“Stubborn.”
Confronting this world-destroying combined assault, the human-faced ancient tripod coldly spat out two words.
The next moment, Mu Qingli, who had been pinned at the center of the sacrificial altar array and reduced to a charred bonsai, began to tremble violently!
“Ah—!”
A painful scream came from within the bonsai.
Visible streams of pure, quintessential Wood Vitality were being frantically extracted by the glazed jade needle, then channeled through the formation into the Eternal Life Tripod.
“Boom!”
Replenished by this vast life force, the tripod’s aura surged once more.
On its surface, the face of Yaoguang Saint Lord grew clearer and more majestic!
“Ten Thousand Wood… Prison!”
At her command, the ground of the entire sacrificial altar burst open.
Countless thick, metallic-glowing cyan vines, like awakened pythons, shot up from the earth. These vines were covered in sharp barbs.
The devoured Golden Crow True Flame.
Fire and wood mutually reinforced each other, doubling the power!
“Pfft!”
Luan Ge, caught off guard, was instantly entangled by dozens of vines. Her indestructible demon body was pierced through by the barbs, and golden demon blood gushed out.
“Get off!”
Ling Shuangjue’s blood dragon roared, trying to tear the vines apart, but the severed vines regenerated even faster, endless and unstoppable.
Even Gu Chang’an was forced back by the sudden vines. Her invincible sword light struck the vines with a clang, leaving only a shallow white mark.
This was the terror of the “Dan Domain.”
As long as vitality was inexhaustible, she was invincible.
“See? This is the gap between you and me.”
“Within my domain, you don’t even qualify to harm me.”
As she spoke, she multitasked, once again driving the Eternal Life Tripod to accelerate the extraction of Shen Zhaoqing’s origin.
The streams of chaotic-colored light were pulled out faster and more urgently. Shen Zhaoqing’s already withered body began to show cracks, as if it would shatter into ash in the next second.
“No… don’t…”
Bound nearby, Bai Zhileng could no longer cry, only letting out desperate whimpers.
She watched helplessly as the object of her affections was about to perish, as the three powerful women who came for her fell into a death trap, and as her most respected master turned into a heartless monster.
Everything was over.
An eerie silence fell over the sacrificial altar. Only the rustling of the rapidly growing vines and the hum of the Eternal Life Tripod extracting origin wove together into a symphony of despair.
Gu Chang’an, Ling Shuangjue, and Luan Ge were all entangled by the endless vines. Though not in immediate danger, their immense cultivation was suppressed to the point they couldn’t even break free.
They could only watch, watch as the one they were willing to risk everything to reclaim slowly walked toward death before their eyes.
Was this… really the end?
She reveled in this feeling.
The sense of control—playing everything in the palm of her hand, trampling all resisters underfoot.
Just three more breaths.
In three breaths, the deed would be done!
She would become the sole immortal in this age of withering dharma.
However, in those final three breaths that would decide fate…
No one noticed.
The one sitting cross-legged before the Eternal Life Tripod, already at the end of their rope and unconscious, the right hand that had withered like a chicken claw… the little finger…
gently twitched.
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[Shen Zhaoqing’s Sea of Consciousness]
Here was an endless expanse of darkness.
No light, no sound, no time, nothing.
Shen Zhaoqing’s consciousness floated like an insignificant speck of dust in this void.
She felt no pain, no joy, because her emotions had been sealed by Bai Zhileng.
She just wanted to drift on like this until she dissipated completely into nothingness.
This was… fine.
Very quiet.
Suddenly, a faint light flickered without warning at the edge of the darkness. It was a sword light… cold as snow.
In the sword light, she seemed to see a figure in white, on the Reflection Cliff of Qingyun Sect, swinging a long sword over and over again.
“Junior sister, when practicing the sword, focus without distractions.”
The voice was as cold as snow on the mountaintop, yet carried an awkward concern.
Was that… Gu Chang’an?
A ripple stirred in Shen Zhaoqing’s consciousness.
Then a second light appeared—a violent, fire-like blood-colored demonic flame.
In the demonic flame, a woman with white hair and crimson eyes held a demonic sword radiating annihilation aura, her back to Shen Zhaoqing, standing atop mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
“Come back to Ten Thousand Flowers Blood Palace with me. No one in this world will dare touch a hair on your head.”
A third light followed.
It was a brilliant golden sun.
Under the sun, a girl with amber eyes, a sly smirk on her lips, strutted in front of her like a proud little peacock.
“Hey, my little prey. Without this princess’s permission, you’re not allowed to die, got it?”
Ying Ge?
Three beams of light grew brighter and clearer in this dead sea of consciousness.
They tore through the darkness, brought warmth, and also… memories.
The sealed, forgotten, good, bad, troublesome, headache-inducing… all of it came rushing back like a breached dam!
The blizzards of the North, the fragrance of wine in Qingzhou, the clang of swords on Reflection Cliff, the roses of Ten Thousand Flowers Blood Palace…
Scene after scene flashed rapidly through her consciousness.
Finally, the image froze on the sacrificial altar.
She “saw” it.
They were… fighting for her?
Was it worth it?
At that moment, the “Three-Life Stone Immortal Fragment” that had lain dormant in the center of her sea of consciousness suddenly lit up!
“Wum—!”
An indescribably vast and profound force of causality erupted from the Immortal Fragment.
Those sealed emotional shackles, before this power, were like paper—shattering inch by inch in an instant!
Sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, salty…
Joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, fear…
All emotions returned to her at that moment!
The excruciating pain of having her origin drained, the fear of imminent death.
And… seeing those three fools risking their lives for her, a feeling arose in her heart—an irritation and heartache she herself couldn’t name!
“So noisy…” A faint murmur echoed in the sea of consciousness.
‘Can’t you just let me… die in peace for once?’
The next second, Shen Zhaoqing’s sea of consciousness erupted into a complete boil.
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