Eternal Life by Daily Divination

The two exchanged a few sound transmissions and quickly reached an agreement.

Wu Zhe slapped the Storage Pouch at his waist, and an eerie light flew out. It landed in his hand and transformed into a horrifying skull.

The skull was a deep, dark red and burned with an unnervingly cold flame. Within its light, countless shrieking souls could be faintly seen.

"Ten Thousand Souls Fire, go!"

Wu Zhe roared and slammed his palm onto the skull.

The flames on the skull flared violently. It opened its mouth and spat out a ghastly fire that seemed to originate from the Netherworld Hell itself.

The numerous Protective Treasures surrounding Gu Yunqi shattered instantly.

He couldn’t dodge in time and was forced to activate his Yellow Sand Undying Body.

However.

This ghostly fire was far too powerful. Even the Yellow Sand Undying Body couldn’t withstand it, and countless grains of sand were incinerated into dust within the flames.

’What an astonishing Soul Fire Technique.’

Li Chang’an was secretly alarmed.

He had originally planned for Gu Yunqi to make a "mistake" and deliberately die at the hands of the two siblings.

But now, before he even had a chance to orchestrate that "mistake," the ghostly fire had already severely wounded him, leaving his life hanging by a thread.

Even if Gu Yunqi himself had been controlling this body, the outcome would have been the same.

This was a display of absolute, overwhelming power!

’Thankfully, I didn’t have to face those two directly.’

Li Chang’an knew that if he had faced the Ten Thousand Souls Fire, he would have been grievously wounded, if not killed.

Once the flames subsided, he immediately had the severely injured Gu Yunqi turn and flee.

For the next fifteen minutes, countless Cultivators in the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm witnessed the sight of Gu Yunqi being hunted down by two powerful Demon Cultivators.

In the end, in that Great Jin ruin, Gu Yunqi’s Magical Power ran out. He was caught by the pair and once again engulfed by the Ten Thousand Souls Fire.

This time, his body was directly consumed by the Ten Thousand Souls Fire, turning to ash amidst the flames. Even his powerful Immortal Golden Core was incinerated.

The renowned Saint Child of the Yellow Sand Sect, a Yellow Sand Spirit Body of his generation, had fallen!

At the moment of his death, Li Chang’an felt the ochre symbol in his Sea of Consciousness shatter, dissolving into a pale yellow Spiritual Light that vanished into the world.

’Where in the world do these symbols come from?’

He collected Gu Yunqi’s Soul and pondered the question.

「Meanwhile.」

Wu Zhe and Wu Lan both received a Sound Transmission from Tang Taixian.

"Flee, now! My divination shows you are both shrouded in a calamitous omen! Under no circumstances can you return to the Yin Soul Sect’s Mountain Gate!"

Hearing the urgent voice from the Communication Jade Pendant, both of them were alarmed.

They didn’t dare to linger and hastily fled.

「Not long after.」

Four figures, all Nascent Soul True Monarchs, appeared one after another in the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm.

Zi Xia True Monarch and Vermilion Bird True Monarch were present, along with Huang Sha True Monarch and White Tiger True Monarch.

Although their sects were rivals, the matter involved the Demonic path, so Zi Xia True Monarch did not stop the other two from entering the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm.

Huang Sha True Monarch’s expression was grim. He entered the Great Jin ruins and raised a hand to retrieve what was left of Gu Yunqi’s Storage Pouch.

The pouch had been shattered by the Ten Thousand Souls Fire, leaving only a few fragments behind.

"Ten Thousand Souls Fire!"

He and the other three Nascent Soul True Monarchs present all detected the residual Soul Fire aura on the pouch’s remnants.

White Tiger True Monarch said grimly, "This is the Lifebound Demon Fire of the Ten Thousand Souls Old Demon from the Nether Soul Sect."

"When the Lifebound Demon Fire is deployed, it’s almost as if he’d acted himself. No wonder Gu perished here."

None of the Nascent Soul True Monarchs present wanted to delve too deeply into why Gu Yunqi and the Demon Sect’s Holy Son and Saintess had been in the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm.

In their youth, they had all disguised their identities to travel the world in search of opportunities.

Now, the only question was: what would Huang Sha True Monarch do?

"Demon Cultivators!"

With a frigid expression, Huang Sha True Monarch vanished on the spot.

「Not long after.」

Deep within the Black Dragon Mountain Range, a colossal hand made of yellow sand suddenly materialized over the Yin Soul Sect’s new Spiritual Land, blotting out the sky.

The hand was majestic, powerful, and utterly terrifying. It pressed down upon the Yin Soul Sect’s entire Tier Three Spirit Vein, descending with the unstoppable force of a raging tempest!

BOOM!

The world trembled, and the sun and moon vanished from sight!

The entire Tier Three Spirit Vein shattered on the spot. Along with it, the countless Cultivation Dojos and the numerous Demon Cultivators on the vein were all pulverized into dust.

Whether they were Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, or Golden Core Demon Cultivators, not a single one escaped. They died under that one palm strike without even having time to scream.

When all the dust settled, the towering, several-thousand-zhang-high Spirit Vein was completely gone. All that remained was a horrifying, giant palm print in the earth.

Just like that, the Yin Soul Sect, a Sub-Sect of the Nether Soul Sect, was annihilated for the second time.

This annihilation was far more thorough than Li Chang’an’s; not even the Spirit Vein remained.

’What astonishing power!’

Li Chang’an was inwardly shocked.

This was the first time he had truly witnessed Huang Sha True Monarch in action.

He hadn’t watched with his main body or a clone. Instead, he had used the Divine Split Beast Taming Technique, splitting off a portion of his Divine Sense to possess a nearby Demon Beast and avoid Huang Sha True Monarch’s notice.

From that single palm strike, Li Chang’an now had a basic understanding of Huang Sha True Monarch’s power.

’It truly is too difficult for a Golden Core to fight against a Nascent Soul. I have to avoid him at all costs from now on. I can’t let him find me.’

Li Chang’an performed a quick divination, trying to calculate the location of the siblings, Wu Zhe and Wu Lan.

But their auras were faint and intermittent, making their position impossible to pinpoint.

Clearly, the Tier Four Divination Grandmaster had used their own arts to conceal the siblings’ auras.

...

「Meanwhile.」

Outside the Black Dragon Mountain Range, beneath a Chaotic Burial Mound.

Wu Zhe and Wu Lan’s faces were pale, their auras were in disarray, and their hearts still pounded with lingering fear.

Their hiding spot was a Corpse Nourishing Land, a place heavy with yin energy that Wu Zhe had discovered some time ago. He had been cultivating a large number of Poisonous Corpses here.

At this very moment, Tang Taixian was using a massive amount of Corpse Qi to conceal their living auras.