A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 199

Chapter 195 Melee, Accident, Tragedy of the Nascent Soul Stage

The Nascent Soul, carrying a storage bag, frantically fled. Did it think the Core Formation cultivators, who had overcome countless hardships to reach this point, were easy prey?

“Stop him!”

Wan Tianming, one of the three righteous cultivators, urgently spoke.

“No need to capture him alive, just kill that old man Ximen.”

Without hesitation, the Barbarian Beard ordered the two controlled by the Forbidden God Token.

Ji Yin was initially stunned, then immediately understood, and promptly reminded,

“Kill that Nascent Soul, no need to capture him alive.”

This was likely directed at Wu Chou.

At that moment, the Barbarian Beard’s telepathic message arrived, reaching Han Li’s ear:

“I’ve already captured one, that’s enough. You can search his soul later. There’s no need to leave Ximen’s Nascent Soul for Wan Tianming and the other two.”

Since the demonic path had captured one, they naturally didn’t need a second.

What they needed were only the three righteous cultivators.

Upon hearing this, Han Li instantly understood.

To monopolize the information about the Void Heaven Palace in the Star Palace Elder’s mind, and for the sake of profit, allies who were tacitly cooperating just a moment ago have become adversaries again, reverting to rivals!

The situation is truly ever-changing!

Upon hearing this, Wan Tianming and the other two’s expressions changed drastically.

They looked at Man Hu Zi and Ji Yin with shock and anger.

“Stop!”

This place is the Void Heaven Palace, its internal space incredibly stable. Even teleporting is extremely difficult for Nascent Soul cultivators, consuming even more vital energy.

Therefore, given enough time, the fleeing Star Palace Elder’s Nascent Soul will definitely be captured.

But if he is directly killed…

then the Demonic Path will obtain crucial information about the Star Palace, and the righteous path will lose its intelligence advantage.

Thinking of this, a murderous glint flashed in Wan Tianming’s eyes.

…

At the entrance to the inner hall.

Yuan Yao Yanli was preparing to attack with the other Core Formation cultivators when Han Li pulled the two women to the left and right, leading them into the inner hall.

At the same time, he also transmitted his voice to Gan Rushuang:

“Run!”

Before he could remind the other two late-stage Core Formation cultivators who were threatened by the Forbidden God Token,

the three righteous cultivators who had been chasing after Elder Ximen of the Star Palace, the dark-skinned old man among them, fully activated the top-level wood-attribute technique of the Chaotic Star Sea, “Jade Pill Technique,” and unleashed three water- and fire-resistant magic weapon-level vines to attack Wu Chou, who was trying to kill Ximen’s Nascent Soul, and the other two Core Formation cultivators.

Wan Tianming, on the other hand, fully activated the Heavenly Net True Technique, controlling the sword light and the Xuanhuang Mirror light to strike the barbarian bearded man.

The sword light condensed into a giant sword wrapped with countless purple lightning bolts.

The Xuanhuang Mirror shot out a crystal-clear and beautiful divine-destroying Xuan light.

As for Tian Wuzi, while he was unleashing the ancient treasure seal to smash towards Qing Yi, he was also activating another ancient treasure to block Ji Yin.

“Hmm?”

At this moment, the three demonic cultivators also changed their expressions.

Especially Ji Yin, who almost had a stroke of anger.

Because his only grandson, Wu Chou, was whipped a long distance by the dark-skinned old man along with two Heavenly Corpse corpses, suffering severe injuries instantly.

Keep in mind, this was only because the old man had specially bestowed upon him a high-grade magical treasure; it was only because that treasure spontaneously activated at the crucial moment, protecting its master and dispelling most of the killing intent, that Wu Chou was only seriously injured.

Otherwise, Wu Chou, struck by that magical vine, would have certainly lost his life.

“You bastard, surnamed Yuan! How could you be so ruthless and vicious towards a junior of my Wu family?”

Ji Yin was furious and no longer held back. He

unleashed the full power of the Heavenly Corpse Fire.

However, he was blocked by Tian Wuzi, who used the sect’s treasured “Creation Instrument”:

“Ji Yin, your opponent is me.”

Tian Wuzi, like a wall, held off Ji Yin and Qing Yi, fighting two against one.

Don’t ask why Qing Yi started to slack off. The answer is simple: Tian Wuzi is far wealthier than this poor rogue cultivator, and the power of the high-level ancient treasure seal is indeed considerable. The old man in the Confucian robe showed no intention of taking it head-on.

This, it seems, was also within Tian Wuzi’s expectations.

It’s as if he sensed the… disharmony between the three demonic cultivators .

The counterattack of the three righteous cultivators was swift and unexpected.

A dark-skinned, thin old man attacked Wu Chou and the others while also pursuing Ximen’s Nascent Soul.

Tian Wuzi, on the other hand, held off Ji Yin and Qing Yi alone.

Wan Tianming was even more ruthless.

Taking advantage of the fact that the barbarian was holding a Nascent Soul that was resisting fiercely in his right hand, he unleashed a barrage of attacks on the big guy.

The key is that while the barbarian was dodging and defending, he also had to protect the Nascent Soul in his hand.

However, there’s no such thing as a thousand days of guarding against a thief.

Every defense has its weaknesses.

Not to mention that the barbarian could only use one hand to deal with Wan Tianming.

For a body cultivator, losing an arm, even temporarily, can drastically impact their strength. In battles against cultivators of the same level, it can even turn an initial advantage into a disadvantage. And

so it happened.

Just a moment of carelessness,

and the Nascent Soul imprisoned in his hand was struck by the Annihilation Light of the Xuanhuang Mirror.

“Wan Tianming, you bastard, I’m going to kill you!”

Looking at the Nascent Soul frozen into an ice block in his hand, silently losing its life force, the bearded man was furious.

“Barbarian, this isn’t my fault, it’s all your fault for being too greedy,”

Wan Tianming retorted with a cold snort.

The renowned Xuanhuang Mirror, an ancient treasure of the Wanfa Sect, was a top-tier ancient treasure that his aunt, Wan Sangu, had taken from the Void Heaven Cauldron in her youth, later becoming one of the three treasures of the Wanfa Sect.

The ancient mirror could release the Divine Annihilation Light, causing crystal prisms to appear around the bodies of those illuminated by the mirror’s light, and their souls to quickly dissipate.

For high-level beings with physical bodies, especially for high-level demonic beasts and body cultivators of level six or seven, the Divine Annihilation Light of the Xuanhuang Mirror was not actually fatal. As long as the primordial spirit and physical body were strong enough, it was not impossible to withstand the Divine Annihilation Light.

The burly man in front of him had done

just that. Caught off guard, he managed to withstand a hit with his physical body, and the result was not serious.

However, if the soul and primordial spirit separated from the body were illuminated by the mirror’s light, even the primordial spirit of a Nascent Soul cultivator would suffer exponentially more damage.

Divine Annihilation! The main target was… the primordial spirit!

Killing the physical body’s life force was merely incidental.

The Nascent Soul of a Nascent Soul cultivator is a high-level condensation of the three treasures of a cultivator: essence, qi, and spirit. The most important of these is the primordial spirit. Simply put, the Nascent Soul is the materialized manifestation of the primordial spirit.

Without a physical body and exposed, the Nascent Soul naturally weakens.

Having just been severely injured by these individuals, its injuries were considerable.

Now, struck by the Divine Annihilation Light, even a mere glancing blow would be fatal.

Sure enough, the Nascent Soul of the Star Palace cultivator instantly disintegrated into a mass of pure primordial energy and soul power. Then, swept away by the shockwave of the battle, it vanished from the space in an instant.

“Wan Tianming!”

A golden giant, tens of feet tall

, rose from the ground. The giant’s eyes blazed with fury.

The Nascent Soul he had so painstakingly captured had been destroyed by Wan Tianming’s sudden attack. How could the Barbarian not be enraged?

And with no constraints, the Barbarian’s strength was so formidable that even the Sect Master Wan was extremely wary of him.

…

Having flown a considerable distance into the inner hall, Han Li and his companions witnessed the scene of Wu Chou and the two Heavenly Corpse Demons being sent flying by the dark-skinned, thin old man from the righteous path.

They saw two late-stage Core Formation experts; one was knocked back and injured, no longer daring to attack. The other was killed on the spot, turning into a bloody mess under the wooden vines.

Seeing this, the three women paled.

Han Li, seeing this, accelerated his escape again:

“Go.”

He led the three women a considerable distance away from the battlefield near the main gate.

They quickly reached the first crossroads several hundred feet away.

Looking back, they saw Elder Ximen’s Nascent Soul and the dark-skinned, thin old man catching up.

Further behind were Wan Tianming, Man Huzi, and the others.

Without the slightest hesitation or delay, Han Li transmitted his voice to Yuan Yao, Yan Li, and Gan Rushuang, instructing them to continue along the main road of the inner hall.

Go as far as you can.

Even though they got separated, Yanli still had a map of the inner hall, marking the secret chamber containing the Soul-Nourishing Wood that he had learned from the young master of the Qingyang Sect.

Yuan Yao had another map, a treasure trove he had unearthed from Xiao Cha’s memories, where a Spirit Eye Tree was planted.

As for the secret chamber on the first floor of the inner hall with the Golden Magnetic Spirit Wood?

He had already calculated its exact location.

The inner structure of the Void Heaven Palace can be considered a massive magical artifact.

Inside the artifact, numerous intricate arrays were arranged, these arrays and restrictions being the masterpieces of the Ice Soul Fairy over decades. On

the second floor, the stone hall containing a large mouthful of Spirit Eye Spring and Soul-Nourishing Wood was one of the array’s cores.

It was the main array core of the second floor.

The core array core of the third floor was the stone hall provided by Xiao Cha.

The array core of the fifth floor was the Cold Li Platform, which housed the Void Heaven Cauldron and the Azure Ice Flame.

Knowing three of the five array eyes, it wasn’t difficult to deduce the locations of the other two.

Furthermore, he knew that the lower four layers were built on the framework of the Four Symbols Array.

Therefore,

even without knowing the array eyes of the first and third layers, he could accurately deduce the location of the fourth layer’s array eyes based on the location of the second layer’s array eyes.

Knowing the locations of the second and fourth layer’s array eyes, the accuracy rate of deducing the locations of the first and third layer’s array eyes was about 50/50.

Initially, the success rate was only 50%.

However, he not only knew the location of the second layer’s array eyes but also the precise locations of the third and fourth layer’s array eyes. In this situation, simply comparing the map of the inner hall and deducing the location of the first layer’s array eyes was a trivial matter.

“Take this,”

Han Li said, tossing a jade slip to Gan Rushuang before they parted at the crossroads.

“What’s this?”

“Find that room on this floor and take the spirit wood inside. This ancient wooden sword should be of assistance.”

This ancient wooden sword is one of the four ancient treasures left behind by the barbarian bearded man in the Treasure Pavilion.

He took a liking to its wood attribute and took it immediately.

As a fine ancient treasure, it must have something unique.

“For me?”

“What I borrowed from you must be returned. So, get out of here alive, don’t die in there,”

Han Li said calmly.

Hearing the first sentence, Gan Rushuang immediately felt a sense of disappointment: so, it had to be returned; she thought she would receive the same treatment as the other sword servants.

But upon hearing the second sentence, an indescribable feeling immediately arose:

“That hateful little man…”

(End of Chapter)