Fearless

"'Yin Sha Luo Demon God Earth-Splitting Curse'!" Xuan Luo's oily, slippery voice suddenly echoed in the void. "Little calf-noses, aren't you going to subdue this lecher? He's about to trigger the earth's core poisonous flames within a hundred-mile radius, blowing this mountain forest into the sky for scenery. Oh, your ancestor just used the 'Minor Sumeru Divine Ability' to remotely whip him with his Ruyi scepter, and my true essence is completely depleted. I don't have the energy to subdue him! Heh heh, little calf-noses, keep it up, otherwise, if this mountain gate is blown into the sky, hehe, how should we punish you?"

Daoist Yi Xing was startled and looked up sharply, angrily saying, "Martial Uncle, if you know this is the 'Yin Sha Luo Demon God Earth-Splitting Curse,' why aren't you acting quickly? Your true essence is depleted? Who are you kidding?"

"I'm kidding you, and you can bite me! Your master and mistress are also in seclusion by my side. Do you dare to bite me?" Daoist Xuan Luo suddenly cursed loudly. "I just don't want to make a move, so what? Do you dare to bite your Daoist uncle? Hmph, I won't make a move! So what? I've already taken one blow. My reputation for being wise and mighty in this life has been ruined. Do you want me to take a second blow and ruin my reputation for the next life too? No, no! Absolutely not!"

Daoist Xuan Luo sneered, "I'd rather the mountain gate blow up into the sky. My face can only be lost once, not twice!" He snorted, "I won't hide it from you juniors. Your master and mistress and I are joining forces to overcome the Heavenly Demon Tribulation. If we succeed, we can break through to the Nascent Soul Stage and enter the Void Realm of Great Freedom. I am truly powerless to act! You figure it out!"

Daoist Yi Xing and the other Origin Sect elders were shocked, and their expressions quickly turned to ecstatic joy! They naturally knew what the Heavenly Demon Tribulation was. Refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into void, and refining void into Dao were the four major stages for cultivators before ascension. The cultivation of Golden Core and Nascent Soul were merely within the great realm of refining essence into qi; only by cultivating the Nascent Soul did one reach the stage of refining qi into spirit; when the Nascent Soul merged with the Great Dao of heaven and earth, reaching the state of unity between man and heaven, that was the realm of refining spirit into void; the Nascent Soul could eventually split into thousands, existing between the tangible and intangible, and even the physical body would transform into a similarly ethereal and substantial existence as the Nascent Soul, capable of unleashing the power of heavenly rules with every move. These were the experts who had refined void into Dao, preparing to ascend to a higher realm.

In the process of refining spirit into void, the Nascent Soul began to gradually merge with the Great Dao of heaven and earth. The energy fluctuations emitted by the Nascent Soul would attract Heavenly Demons from unfathomable outer realms, manifesting countless illusions and igniting inner tribulations and ghostly fires to attack the cultivator. This was the Heavenly Demon Tribulation. Once the Heavenly Demon Tribulation was overcome, the Nascent Soul would subtly connect with the Great Dao of heaven and earth, gaining infinite variations and divine abilities from nothingness. This was considered officially reaching the realm of refining spirit into void. Experts in the Void Realm, it seemed, had not appeared in the cultivation world for a very long time.

And now, three senior elders of the Origin Sect were undergoing the Heavenly Demon Tribulation simultaneously! Especially when they were undergoing their tribulation, one of them could still divide their attention to use the Minor Sumeru Divine Ability to remotely injure a peak Nascent Soul Stage expert! This showed that they were close to overcoming the Heavenly Demon Tribulation, and their Nascent Souls had initially reached the state of unity between man and heaven. How could this not make Daoist Yi Xing and the others overjoyed?

Compared to three Void Realm experts, what did it matter if the mountain gate within a hundred-mile radius was destroyed? It was nothing significant!

Daoist Yi Xing laughed heartily three times, feeling full of energy. He strode forward, taking seven steps towards Immortal Miao, stopping less than three feet away from him. Daoist Yi Xing let out a low hum, and a purple light flashed from the Spirit-Calming Incantation in his hand. He lightly waved his right hand, about to place the Spirit-Calming Incantation on Immortal Miao's forehead. Immortal Miao, who was chanting the demonic incantation to activate his magic, let out a sinister smile, two green lights flashing in his eyes. Suddenly, the space within ten feet around him flickered with light and shadow, as if countless barren mountains and treacherous peaks flashed around him, and a vast pressure pressed down on Daoist Yi Xing from all directions. Immortal Miao used the 'Minor Formless Heavenly Demon Forbidden Technique,' drawing the earth's vital energy within a hundred-mile radius to transform into a vicious restriction and attack.

Daoist Yi Xing's hand firmly pressed towards Immortal Miao's forehead. Daoist Yi Xin let out a clear shout, and a white, softly glowing jade bracelet flew out from her sleeve. The jade bracelet, like condensed water droplets, disintegrated in the air with the sound of rushing water, transforming into a spray of blue-green water waves that enveloped Yi Xing and Yi Xin. The layers of water waves continuously flashed with dazzling blue light. The external invisible Wutu gravity struck the water shield, causing loud roaring waves within the shield. The blue-green water waves continuously contracted inward, and Yi Xin's body trembled violently.

"Hmph! A little woman in the early Nascent Soul Stage, not knowing the immensity of heaven and earth!" Immortal Miao sneered, "Do you think this Immortal is so easy to deal with?"

With a fierce shout, Immortal Miao's chanting speed increased several times. The light and shadow around him flickered, and two shapely, peerlessly beautiful, completely naked female demon gods with three horns on their heads appeared beside him. These two demon gods were condensed by Immortal Miao using the souls of countless female cultivators who had met a tragic end at his hands, along with the soul fragments and a bit of blood essence from an ancient sealed demon god that Immortal Miao had accidentally obtained. Their power was extremely formidable, each equivalent to a peak expert in the middle Nascent Soul Stage! As soon as the two female demon gods appeared, they swung their sharp claws, fiercely digging into the blue-green water shield.

Immortal Miao's Heavenly Demon Restriction and the attacks of the two demon gods simultaneously struck the water shield. Yi Xin let out a soft groan, and two streams of blood sprayed from her nostrils. Her body trembled violently, and the water shield suddenly shattered. Just as the water light in the sky was about to condense into the original jade bracelet, the jade bracelet let out a clear ringing sound and exploded into countless fragments in the air.

Immortal Miao's body trembled, and he transformed into a streak of pinkish-red light, breaking free from dozens of Demon-Binding Ropes. He opened his large hand and grabbed towards Yi Xin. He let out a strange, sinister laugh, "Do you think this Immortal is so easy to deal with? Heh heh, Old Ghost Xuan Luo, you are indeed undergoing the Heavenly Demon Tribulation. If your attack had been a little stronger, this Immortal would have been unavoidable today, but~~~ heh heh!"

Yi Xin sneered, and a brilliant, dazzling golden light suddenly flew out from her sleeve. The golden light faintly carried countless thread-like black rays. Immortal Miao's hand had already reached her waist when he suddenly saw the golden light. Immortal Miao hastily withdrew his arm, shouting in surprise, "How did the 'Scattering Form Golden Needles' end up in your hands? Damn it!"

Yi Xing remained silent, merely directing the golden light, several feet long, to circle his body. Countless black rays rained down from the golden light, forcing the two female demon gods to retreat repeatedly. Every black ray that passed through the demon gods' bodies brought with it extremely fine blood-red light. The two female demon gods cried out in pain, their bodies gradually becoming blurry, clearly suffering no small amount of damage. Although the strength of these two demon gods was extremely high, they lacked suitable magical treasures to use. With their bodies condensed from souls, how could they not be at a disadvantage when encountering the 'Scattering Form Golden Needles' specifically designed to counter all energy bodies?

Seeing that the demon gods he had painstakingly refined had encountered their nemesis, Immortal Miao roared in anger. He sneered, "Excellent! Today, this Immortal will go on a killing spree and let you juniors of the Origin Sect know what peak Nascent Soul Stage truly means! I am only one step away from the realm of refining spirit into void! Watch, this is the strength of the Void Realm!"

The strength of the Void Realm!

Lin Xiao was startled. He instinctively grabbed Yaoying, who was hanging on his shoulder, and bolted backward. He was just a little rookie who had just condensed his Golden Core. He only had one offensive technique, a lightning spell from Jiang Zizai. A cultivator who had reached the Nascent Soul Stage was already an insurmountable expert for him, let alone the power of the Void Realm, which far surpassed the Nascent Soul Stage!

The biggest difference between Void Realm experts and Nascent Soul Stage experts was that Nascent Soul Stage experts still needed to chant spells and form hand seals to 'borrow' the power of heaven and earth. Void Realm experts, however, maintained a state of unity between man and heaven at all times, as if they had a substantial little treasury within their bodies, capable of unleashing infinite heavenly power at any time. Even for an expert like Immortal Miao, who had just touched the threshold of the Void Realm, the heavenly power he could mobilize was unimaginable to ordinary people!

Flipping his right palm, a small hill in the mountain forest to their right, spanning a mile and nearly a hundred feet tall, suddenly broke from its roots and flew high into the sky. Like a cotton ball soaked in burning oil, the mountain suddenly ignited with a 'boom.' Pale blue flames instantly burned the mountain into a crimson, semi-transparent molten lava. Large masses of magma rained down from the sky. Immortal Miao let out a wild laugh, and the giant mountain, carrying billowing flames and boundless heatwaves, roared towards the Origin Sect disciples on the ground.

Over two hundred Origin Sect disciples who were setting up the Heavenly Net Array were staring blankly in this direction. As the giant molten rock fell, dozens of Origin Sect disciples with lower cultivation let out miserable cries, their bodies already burned to ashes by the terrifying heatwaves. The remaining hundred-plus Origin Sect disciples could only gather their true essence to desperately support themselves, stubbornly resisting the terrifying heatwaves from the outside. But the burning mountain was getting closer and closer. Once it fell, they would surely die.

"Pretty Boy Miao, you've gone too far." Daoist Xuan Luo's voice rang out again, but this time, his voice carried a hint of seriousness and anger, devoid of the previous oily, slippery tone. A small black hole suddenly tore open in the void in front of the Origin Sect disciples, and a hand as white as jade gently emerged from the black hole. With a casual palm strike, it slammed towards the rapidly descending mountain. With a 'boom,' invisible force surged. Such a grand mountain actually disintegrated in mid-air, vanishing into nothingness without leaving a trace.

"Pretty Boy Miao, you can be proud for the time it takes an incense stick to burn! After an incense stick, my three martial brothers and I will join forces to hunt you down! Hehehe, let's see what you can do." Daoist Xuan Luo chuckled lightly. "The attacking Heavenly Demon has been trapped by the eighteen of us Xuan-generation martial brothers using the Golden Light Flame Demon Extermination Array. We will refine it within an incense stick's time. Hmm, three people hunting you seems a bit condescending to you, Pretty Boy Miao. If all eighteen of us hunt you together, I think that would be fitting for your reputation as Pretty Boy Miao, wouldn't it?"

Immortal Miao, who was proudly spewing out thousands of silver sword lights, forcing Yi Xing and the others to desperately defend themselves, his expression changed, and his body trembled violently.

After the time it takes an incense stick to burn, three peak experts who had refined Heavenly Demons and officially entered the Void Realm would join forces to hunt him? And this was considered looking down on him, Immortal Miao? Furthermore, there were fifteen more Origin Sect Xuan-generation elders, who were at least in the late Nascent Soul Stage, joining forces? This, this was too much respect for him, Immortal Miao!

Immortal Miao let out a strange cry. He abandoned the thought of killing one or two Origin Sect elders, raised a silver light, and prepared to flee.

Lin Xiao, who was watching the excitement from more than three miles away, shook his head and sighed, "If Senior Xuan Luo says that, won't he just scare him away?" However, Lin Xiao shook his head again and then praised, "This also makes sense. This Immortal Miao's cultivation is astonishingly strong. If he were allowed to continue, by the time an incense stick burns, a generation-level senior would be injured, and that would not be good."

In the later stages of cultivation, the gap between any two realms was vastly different. With Immortal Miao's peak Nascent Soul Stage strength, close to the Void Realm, he could easily suppress elders like Yi Xing and even have the opportunity to kill a few Origin Sect elders. Daoist Xuan Luo, unwilling to see his junior disciples suffer losses, once again used the Minor Sumeru Divine Ability, remotely striking with a palm to cleanly obliterate the mountain, slightly displaying the true strength of a Void Realm expert, merely hoping to scare Immortal Miao away.

As long as Daoist Xuan Luo and his companions refined the Heavenly Demon, with the strength of three Void Realm experts, even if Immortal Miao escaped an incense stick earlier, how could he escape their pursuit? Moreover, the planets near Qi Yuan Star were all territories of the Origin Sect. With millions of Origin Sect disciples attacking together, even Void Realm experts would be blasted into powder. At most, Immortal Miao could kill a batch of lower-level Origin Sect disciples before being blasted into pieces by the endless tide of Origin Sect cultivators. Where would he have a chance to escape?

As long as the core backbone of the sect was not harmed, the loss of some Golden Core or even Nascent Soul stage junior disciples wouldn't be a major concern for the Origin Sect's Xuan-generation elders!

This was the confidence of the Xuan Sect! The Xuan Sect's strength was too great.

Lin Xiao understood the key point and couldn't help but nod slightly, then shake his head again.

A clump of moss on his shoulder squirmed slightly. Yaoying's little head poked out from the moss, looking curiously at Lin Xiao. She whispered, "Brother Lin, are you trying to capture that person? Don't you have very strong pill poison? Why don't you use it against him?"

Lin Xiao casually took out a pale green jade bottle from his bracelet and tossed it in his hand. He said with a bitter smile, "This is the 'Bewitching Immortal Powder' that Senior Sister Yao'er stole from the Spring Return Valley's secret treasury. It's one of the few remaining Xuan-grade pill poisons from the Great Luo Pill Dao. Even Void Realm experts would fall for it if they weren't careful. But~~~"

Lin Xiao's face contorted bitterly. He pointed at Immortal Miao, who was driving thousands of silver sword lights, forcing Yi Xing and the others to retreat repeatedly, his sharp sword energy splitting the ground into pieces. He shook his head and said, "Look at that demon Miao. His cultivation is so profound. I'm afraid I'd be cut into pieces before I could even get close to him, so how could I use this pill poison to incapacitate him?"

"Cut into pieces?" Yaoying blinked blankly and muttered softly, "What's wrong with being cut into pieces? Yaoying is used to it! I used to steal medicine, and I'd get cut into pieces every three to five months." Lin Xiao didn't hear her muttering. Lin Xiao was just looking in the direction of Immortal Miao's battle, flicking his fingers, preparing to throw the Bewitching Immortal Powder back into his bracelet.

Yaoying suddenly revealed her human form. She snatched the Bewitching Immortal Powder from Lin Xiao's hand, giggled a few times, and strode towards the battlefield. She was originally a demon, albeit the weakest among demons, a plant spirit, and even the worst quality moss transformed. But demons were demons; their physical abilities were much stronger than ordinary cultivators. Lin Xiao, caught off guard, had the medicine bottle snatched by Yaoying. By the time he reacted and reached out to grab Yaoying, his fingers only brushed against Yaoying's flowing dark green hair. With a few leaps, she had already run far away.

"Yaoying! What are you doing?" Lin Xiao was anxious and panicked! In his panic, he forgot to use the Divine Movement Art and instinctively chased after Yaoying. But Yaoying ran like a rabbit, covering more than two miles in three to five leaps. How could Lin Xiao catch up?

Immortal Miao had flown tens of feet into the sky. He arrogantly laughed at Daoist Yi Xing and the other Origin Sect elders, who were struggling to breathe under his pressure, "You are all just like this. Heh heh, Old Turtle Xuan Luo, listen up! This Immortal is just scouting today. Your Origin Sect will sooner or later become like the Great Luo Pill Dao, with your entire sect turned to dust!"

Immortal Miao laughed arrogantly, "However, your Origin Sect won't have the good fortune of the Great Luo Pill Dao. You will all have your souls scattered! Your souls will be scattered! Hahaha!"

With a clear shout of "Rise," Immortal Miao was about to escape Qi Yuan Star with one person, having suppressed over a dozen Origin Sect elders, when suddenly a dark shadow rapidly approached. It leaped lightly tens of feet high and flew straight towards Immortal Miao.

Immortal Miao's reaction was extremely fast. He let out a cold reprimand, pointed his finger, and the thousands of silver lights differentiated from his body rapidly converged towards the dark shadow.

From a distance, Lin Xiao shouted, "Yaoying! Come back! Are you crazy!"

With a 'splatter,' Yaoying's body was shredded into powder by the thousands of silver lights. Pieces of flesh scattered, and pale green blood, carrying a faint medicinal fragrance, sprayed all over the sky.

Yi Xin exclaimed, "Ah, it's that little demon!" Yi Xing's lips trembled. She casually took out a black-gold pellet the size of a thumb from her sleeve, chanted a mantra, injected a stream of true essence into the pellet, and shot it towards Immortal Miao. As soon as the pellet was released, it transformed into a ball of black-gold lightning the size of a rice grain, silently but extremely rapidly streaking towards Immortal Miao's body.

This pellet was a treasure that Yi Xin had accidentally obtained in some ancient ruin. It was called the 'Profound Spirit One Qi True Thunder Seed,' condensed by a great divine ability cultivator of ancient times with the essence of heavenly lightning and refined with countless precious materials as a treasure to subdue demons. Yi Xin only obtained this one and had always kept it on her person as her ultimate trump card, unwilling to use it for over a hundred years. Today, seeing Yaoying's body shattered by Immortal Miao's sword light, an invisible rage rose in her heart, and she casually used her trump card.

Yaoying's body scattered piece by piece in the sky, but her small right hand firmly clutched a green jade bottle, lunging towards Immortal Miao's face.

Immortal Miao coldly smiled and elegantly flicked his finger towards the small hand. In his eyes, such a severed limb wasn't even worth wasting a bit of true essence on.

Yaoying's right hand approached Immortal Miao's face from less than three feet away. Immortal Miao's finger was still one foot and two inches from Yaoying's small hand. Yaoying's small hand suddenly squeezed hard, crushing the green jade bottle. A clear, elegant fragrance suddenly sprayed out from the jade bottle. Tiny droplets of liquid, following the momentum of Yaoying's lunge, splashed onto Immortal Miao's face.

Immortal Miao froze. He felt a faint fragrance surge straight into his brow, his body suddenly went limp, and his vision swam with dizziness. His pupils slowly shrank, smaller and smaller, and his divine sense contracted back into his sea of consciousness like seaweed being scorched by the sun. His vision went black, and he tumbled from the sword light, falling headfirst towards the ground.

The Profound Spirit One Qi True Thunder Seed shot by Yi Xin flew over precisely, lightly sticking to Immortal Miao's lower abdomen. With a crisp and melodious "ding-dong," a ball of colorful light flashed on Immortal Miao's abdomen. His lower body was blasted into pieces. The trace of Nine Heavens Light Spirit Qi contained within the True Thunder Seed, upon being stimulated, instantly turned his immensely powerful evil cultivation into flowing water.

Yaoying's small hands flew out over ten zhang. Her little hands squirmed on the ground for a moment before suddenly transforming back into a small clump of moss. The moss wriggled a few times on the ground, and Yaoying began to cry, "Wuwu, I've shrunk again, I've been blown into pieces again~~~ Wuwu, I need medicine~~~ lots and lots of medicine~~~ Wu, I want to grow big, big~~~"

The ground was covered in Yaoying's body fragments. Those pieces of flesh, identical to human flesh except for a slight difference in color, looked so shocking.

Lin Xiao, Yi Xing, Yi Xin, and the others stared blankly at Yaoying, who was constantly wriggling and wailing on the ground, looking at each other in confusion.

"This little demoness has quite the nerve," Daoist Yi Xing grinned, baring his teeth.

"This little demoness has quite the life!" Lin Xiao stomped his foot in annoyance.

"This little demoness is so lovable~~~" Yi Xin's eyes narrowed. She hurriedly exclaimed, "Quick, send her to Medicine Mountain! Let her eat as much spiritual medicine as she wants! Hurry and help her recover her original form."

Daoist Yi Yi's face immediately creased. He grumbled in a low voice, "Fine, you're generous. With Yi Xin protecting her, this little demoness will surely become lawless in the future. As for the medicinal fields on Medicine Mountain~~~ Ai yo, those few precious medicinal fields need to be quickly protected with powerful restrictions."

Lin Xiao affectionately picked up the fist-sized Yaoying from the ground and patted her head helplessly.

Yaoying giggled a few times and bounced happily in Lin Xiao's palm.

On the ground, faint wisps of green energy emerged from the body parts of Yaoying that had been cleaved off. The spiritual energy within these body tissues dissipated, quickly withering and shrinking into patches of black ash.