The black torrent of energy jointly unleashed by the three Corrupt Spirit Race experts was like three roaring Nether Rivers. Wherever it passed, space hissed as it was corroded; even light was devoured. Carrying the deathly aura of annihilating all things, it instantly swallowed Lin Feng's figure!
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Bing Yun and the clan chief, who had only just steadied her breathing, both changed color behind him!
Yet, at the very instant that destructive energy was about to completely break Lin Feng down and devour him—
"Buzzz—!"
An utterly different, yet equally heart-palpitating evil aura suddenly erupted from where Lin Feng stood!
It was not the Corrupt Spirit Race's corrosive energy, but something even more chaotic, brutal, and filled with endless resentment and greed... Netherworld Demonic Qi!
At Lin Feng's glabella, the black rune that had fallen silent suddenly lit up, erupting with an unprecedented black radiance!
At this critical moment, not only did he not suppress the Soul Imprint, he instead actively dropped all defenses. Using his own Chaos Thunder Origin and the Primordial Dao Source as bait, he frantically stimulated the Netherworld Tracking Mark!
"Roar—!!"
A blurry yet incomparably enormous Demon Shadow seemed to roar in furious rage across endless time and space, following the forcibly widened passage of the mark!
Lin Feng's body became a temporary coordinate and passage. Pure Netherworld Demonic Qi surged out of him like an erupting well, crashing viciously against the Corrupt Spirit Race's black torrent of energy!
"Rumble—!!!"
Two dark powers that both represented destruction but were fundamentally different collided, corroded, and exploded fiercely before Lin Feng like mortal enemies!
Pitch-black demonic qi and the Corrupt Spirit Race's black mist crazily intertwined and tore at each other, producing teeth-grinding hissing sounds. The shockwaves from the explosions lifted and shattered the thick ice covering the ground!
"Netherworld? How is that possible?"
The Corrupt Spirit Race experts sent out shocked and enraged spiritual ripples.
They had clearly recognized this power, which shared the same origin as their "cleanup target" yet was older and purer!
This had completely exceeded their expectations!
Meanwhile, Lin Feng, used as the "battlefield," was enduring unimaginable agony.
The two extreme powers madly clashed within his body and soul. His meridians felt as though countless red-hot blades were slicing through them, while his soul seemed to be ground beneath a millstone.
Yet the madness and calmness in his eyes intertwined to the utmost extreme!
"Now! Furnace! Reverse it for me!"
Enduring the agonizing pain that threatened to scatter his soul, he frantically activated the Thunder Emperor Seal Fragment and the Great Dao Furnace within his dantian!
The seal fragment erupted with chaotic light. Rather than refining, it generated a strange force of "repulsion" and "guidance." Like a precise valve, it forcibly redirected most of the Corrupt Spirit Race energy invading his body, mixed with part of the erupting Netherworld Demonic Qi, sending it violently back along the still-open mark passage!
This was no longer a simple clash of energy. Using his own body as a fulcrum, Lin Feng had pried part of the Corrupt Spirit Race's attack loose and transformed it into a "poisonous stinger" wrapped in Netherworld Demonic Qi, stabbing through the soul passage directly at the Demon Shadow on the other end!
"Pfft—!"
From some distant, unknown time and space came a muffled groan mixed with pain and fury!
The Demon Shadow's will transmitted through the mark clearly faltered and weakened for an instant!
Lin Feng could even vaguely sense that the terrifying existence at the other end of the passage seemed to have suffered no light injury!
[Netherworld Tracking Mark activity reduced by 37%! Countermeasure successful! Temporarily obtained partial mark interference authority!]
The Great Dao Furnace's feedback rang out in his mind, and Lin Feng's heart settled.
He had gambled correctly!
However, the crisis was far from over!
Though the three Corrupt Spirit Race experts had been caught off guard by the sudden eruption of Netherworld Demonic Qi, they reacted extremely quickly and immediately changed tactics.
The black mist around two of them contracted into denser armor. Bracing against the aftermath of the energy explosion, they wielded blades condensed from pure corrosive energy and charged at Lin Feng from the left and right!
The last one floated in midair, pressing both hands downward as he chanted ancient, obscure syllables. A massive black magic array composed of countless twisted runes emerged beneath his feet, radiating terrifying fluctuations that imprisoned space and stripped away souls!
They wanted a swift battle, leaving Lin Feng no further chance!
"Your opponent is me!"
A cold, clear cry rang out. Holding an ice crystal longsword, Bing Yun drew upon the wind and snow filling the heavens, transforming into an ice-blue whirlwind as she fiercely intercepted the Corrupt Spirit Race expert on the left!
Though her cultivation was inferior, relying on the Snow Clan's exquisite secret arts and the advantage of the terrain, she actually managed to entangle her opponent for the moment.
The clan chief also forcibly gathered her true essence. Her plain white gown stirred without wind as she formed seals with both hands, drawing upon the secret realm's primordial cold qi to form nine enormous ice crystal dragons. Roaring, they charged at the Corrupt Spirit Race expert who was setting up the array, interrupting his casting!
The final Corrupt Spirit Race expert appeared before Lin Feng in an instant with icy killing intent, thrusting the corrosive blade in his hand straight at Lin Feng's glabella!
His speed was extreme!
Lin Feng had just completed that perilous backlash, and his aura was at its lowest ebb, when old strength had faded and new strength had yet to arise. Faced with this ghostly swift strike, he seemingly had no time to evade!
Yet a cold glint of a scheme fulfilled flashed through his eyes.
He had never intended to dodge!
Just as the corrosive blade was about to touch his glabella, Lin Feng suddenly raised his head and stared directly into the "eyes" beneath the Corrupt Spirit Race expert's black mist. His soul power trembled in an unprecedented manner, releasing a roar that contained the "partial mark interference authority" he had just seized, as well as the will of his own Chaos Thunder Prison:
"Look over here, trash!"
At the same time, he forcibly mobilized the weakened yet still-existing Netherworld Mark, magnifying and twisting its fluctuations in an instant. He simulated the illusion that the "coordinate was about to transfer" and the "variable was about to escape," transmitting it outward!
The Corrupt Spirit Race expert's movement paused with an incredibly slight hesitation.
Their core command was to eliminate the "variable" and ensure that all traces of civilization were completely erased.
Lin Feng's soul-shaking roar and the abnormal fluctuations of the mark happened to trigger their programmed judgment logic.
That tiny, almost negligible hesitation!
"Chaos Thunder Prison—Instant Hell Kill!"
The true essence within Lin Feng, which had seemed utterly depleted, erupted once more under the Great Dao Furnace's ruthless extraction!
The dark-purple lightning no longer burst outward, but instead became intensely condensed upon the joined index and middle fingers of his hand!
At his fingertips, space twisted slightly as a point of ultimate darkness and destruction gestated within!
Though he struck later, he arrived first. Using his fingers in place of a sword, he tapped toward the corrosive blade that was only inches from his glabella!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a soft "pop" that pierced straight into the soul.
The blade condensed from pure Corrupt Spirit energy dissolved and vanished soundlessly from its tip the instant it touched Lin Feng's fingertips, like a snowflake cast into the void!
Even the arm holding the blade shattered inch by inch beneath that finger force imbued with the meaning of chaos and annihilation, turning to flying ash!
"Aah—!"
The Corrupt Spirit Race expert unleashed a mental shriek of pain and disbelief. The black mist churned violently as he retreated at high speed!
Lin Feng pressed his advantage without mercy. Enduring the tearing pain in his meridians, he followed like a shadow. His dark-purple fingertips were like death's invitation, stabbing directly toward the opponent's core—the center of that churning black mist!
Just then—
"Buzzz!"
The entire Snow Clan Secret Realm suddenly shook!
An immense and majestic array fluctuation carrying supreme suppressive force swept outward like a tidal wave!
Countless enormous ice crystal runes appeared in the sky, linking together to form a heavenly net covering the entire secret realm!
The Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Great Array had finally been forcibly activated by the Snow Clan elders!
Brilliant ice-blue pillars of light descended from the heavens like divine judgment, accurately enveloping the three Corrupt Spirit Race experts!
"Cleanup... incomplete... mark... deeply embedded..."
The three Corrupt Spirit Race experts let out unwilling hisses within the black mist. Their bodies rapidly froze and collapsed beneath the ice-blue pillars, ultimately becoming three struggling black cores. The array's power forcibly sealed and compressed them until they turned into three thumb-sized ice crystal beads that continuously emitted black qi, falling to the ground.
The crisis seemed to have been temporarily resolved.
The array's radiance slowly receded, leaving only the devastated Frost Scar Barrier and the people still shaken by fear.
Lin Feng dispersed the lightning from his fingertips. His face was pale as paper, and his body swayed slightly. A mouthful of blood he could no longer suppress sprayed out, splashing across the crystalline ice in a shocking sight.
His series of actions just now had appeared imposing, but in truth, every step had been taken on a tightrope, inflicting immense consumption and damage upon himself.
Bing Yun hurried forward to support him, her eyes filled with worry.
The clan chief also walked over, her gaze upon Lin Feng incomparably complicated.
Had Lin Feng not taken such a perilous gamble today, the consequences would have been unthinkable.
With a wave of her hand, she drew the three sealed black ice crystal beads into her palm. Feeling the still-restless Corrupt Spirit origin within, she said in a grave voice:
"The Corrupt Spirit Race has reappeared. This matter is no trifling concern; we must immediately notify the other guardian clans. Little Friend Lin, you..."
Before she could finish, Lin Feng suddenly raised his head and looked beyond the secret realm, his gaze sharp as a blade.
"I'm afraid... it's already too late."
In his perception, beyond the secret realm, a far greater and colder terrifying aura, carrying pure intent to "clean up," was approaching from afar. Like an invisible tsunami, it was crushing toward the Snow Clan Secret Realm!
The scale of that aura surpassed the three Corrupt Spirit Race experts from before by a hundredfold!
The true army of Cleaners... perhaps, had already arrived.
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