Crow's Eyes

However, it's hard to say for sure. The Luo Sect's search for the 'Vacuum Home' might be orchestrated by the Thousand-Faced Immortal behind the scenes, seeking the universe of the system on the other side of the gate. Since the Divine Cult has made contact with the Legion and begun deep cooperation, the True Saintess of the leadership must also know about the other world. If these two sides form an alliance, wow, that would truly be a super chaotic and evil demon god camp.

The being in the void just now was incredibly powerful. I wonder if there are Non-Thing besides the Thousand-Faced Immortal who have already joined forces with the Divine Cult...

"What, you're not coming over? So you still want to fight to the death? Fine, actually I think you still have a sliver of a chance in a battle at the Nascent Soul Realm, but I'm open to anything. It'd probably be easier to just tear your head off and devour it."

The True Saintess's right fingernails transformed into sharp spikes, slicing open her left wrist. Blood, gleaming with an eerie pink light, dripped down like rubies. A foul, hot wind wafted from the surrounding shadows. The demons stared intently at the string of blood droplets, as if they had spotted some exquisite delicacy, swallowing their saliva as they crowded around.

She gathered these blood droplets in her palm and clenched them, forming a piece of blood jade resembling God Lord Jade. The True Saintess laughed sweetly.

"What, you're not going to feed your dog so it can fight for you? Or do you simply not remember what to do?"

"Hey, are you blind?! Which eye saw a dog?!" "Of course I'm blind!" "She saw it!"

The bird-headed creatures began to clamor, which enraged the Saintess so much that her fingers swelled up and began to stab wildly.

"Can't hit her!" "Can't hit her!" "Bip-beep girl!" "Female beep-beep!" "Wahahaha!"

Li Fan felt that launching a mental attack would buy him time.

After all, Zhang Yanzhi was still trembling. Golden Core cultivator fighting a Nascent Soul Stage alone was already a long shot, not to mention that there were so many ferocious beasts and demon gods surrounding him. It was already a struggle for him to stand and tremble under this terrifying aura and pressure.

Using only the Guiche to defeat the True Saintess level is still quite difficult.

Although the Guiche also has some extraordinary aspects. Its main body, with so many Tai Su Dao Body, was devoured and destroyed by the Tai Su Star Core, yet this Nine-Headed Bird was able to survive only as a remnant soul, which was somewhat beyond Li Fan's expectations. He speculated that it was thanks to the <Taiyi Nine Songs>.

But no matter what, Guiche's Nascent Soul Stage level is fake. It didn't actually possess a physical body like Qiongqi did, through possession and disintegration. Right now, it's just that Li Fan came over and temporarily used the Tai Su Qiankun method to create a Microdust Avatar for Guiche to house its soul.

At this moment, the bird's body was far weaker than Qiongqi, which could tear apart demon gods with its bare hands. If it were touched by so many demon gods around it, it would probably be reduced to a pile of feathers.

"Hmph! You stinky bird! I'll pluck all your feathers and roast you sooner or later!"

The True Saintess, after a period of wild grabbing and shooting, finally realized what was happening. She had no time to waste with these impolite bastards, so she raised the blood jade in her hand and shouted,

"Which demon lord is willing to protect me?"

The demons outside the courtyard roared and howled, seemingly after a fierce battle. Finally, from the shadows, a dragon-shaped shadow rose up, and an overwhelming aura of malevolence swept into the courtyard. The dragon-shaped beast took a step and stepped into the temple.

The next instant, the baleful aura and smoke flared up! Enveloped in flames and billowing smoke, the beast roared and charged into the center of the temple hall, finally dissipating to reveal a demon god with the head of a dragon.

This demon had black scales, yellow horns, green eyes, and a blue beard. He wore a brocade robe and a jade belt, and spoke in a handsome male voice.

"Meng Run Qingguangtan on Wansheng Mountain! I am willing to serve the Saintess!"

"Kunlun Poison Dragon King? Fine! Here you go!"

The True Saintess waved her hand and threw out the Blood Jade, which was swallowed whole by the Black Dragon Demon God. His bones and muscles crackled and popped, and he instantly transformed into human form! He became a tall, strong man with dragon horns between his brows, and immediately knelt down in worship!

"Meng Run thanks the Saintess for her guidance!"

Li Fan looked around and confirmed that with the entry of the dragon, a barrier had been set up around them, and he could no longer sense the Divine Sense of the divine protectors.

He also discovered that a powerful guardian spirit had descended upon the two Saintess, to some extent separating them from the mortal world and projecting them into a higher dimension.

Oh, so this is what it is? It seems the competition among these candidate Saintess for the title of True Saintess is some kind of Pokémon trainer battle, where they send their demons to fight in the arena, or something like that, to avert a bloody calamity?

Then you can use the secret technique.

"Wow, the Poison Dragon King is so cute! Does he have the Electric Poison Dragon Drill?" Li Fan landed on the roof and said sarcastically.

With a single glance from the Poison Dragon King, a flash of light appeared, and all nine of Guiche's heads were severed, falling to the floor of the hall with a clatter.

Zhang Yanzhi shuddered and almost collapsed to the ground.

"... That's it?"

The Poison Dragon King clearly hadn't expected it to end so easily. Just in case, it opened its mouth and swallowed the bird heads that had rolled to the ground, chewed them, and then swallowed them.

"It's a bit of a waste for the Saintess to use up a Protector's position for someone like this! How about I transfer an extra wave of cultivation to you? Hahaha!"

But before the Poison Dragon King could utter two more words, he suddenly noticed something amiss in the eyes of the two. Turning his head, he saw the headless bird that had just fallen to the ground flap its wings and fly up again. Its neck shrank and then expanded, revealing a human-shaped face resembling a steamed bun, which opened its mouth and roared.

"Oh dear, that Dragon Drill is pretty powerful! Everyone watch closely, it attacked first! I was acting in self-defense!"

The Poison Dragon King Meng Run took another closer look and confirmed that the aura emanating from Li Fan was indeed only at the Nascent Soul stage. He then burst into laughter.

"Hmph! You bird monster, you dare to challenge me? Don't make me laugh! Hahaha! Hahaha--"

"Taiyi Jiuge--!"

Then, with a sharp shriek, nine pairs of pupils—eighteen in total—opened instantly on that bun-shaped head!

The countless raven eyes flashed simultaneously! Instantly, the Poison Dragon King's eyes were dazzled, his vision blurred, and before he could react, the raven monster rushed into his mouth and devoured him, burrowing straight into his stomach!

The Poison Dragon King was also taken aback. What was going on? Did they just deliver themselves to his doorstep? And why did they taste so bland...?

"You think it tastes bland!" "Snake meat tastes like chicken!" "It should taste like loach, right?" "Anyway, it's so tender, hahaha!"

Then one after another, Guiche heads emerged from the Poison Dragon King's neck, wrists, chest, and back! They took turns tearing at its skin and muscles, instantly ripping the humanoid form apart, leaving it covered in blood!

"Ah--! Ah--! Ah--! What's going on! What kind of sorcery is this! Get away! Get away! Ah--!"

The Poison Dragon King was utterly horrified! It roared at the top of its lungs, desperately trying to tear off the heads, but it found that it couldn't unleash its dragon power at all! Its hands and feet felt like blocks of ice under the scorching sun, rapidly turning into pools of pus and blood! Its entire body felt as if it had fallen into a swamp, visibly submerged in its own flesh and blood! Blood filled its mouth, nose, and eye sockets, plunging it into boundless darkness...

Falling, falling, falling, the last earthworm-like dragon plunged into the Void Abyss. Looking up, it saw a nine-headed, crimson-feathered blood crow spreading its wings, blotting out the sky and shining with golden light.

"Refining the body but not the spirit! That's utter idiocy!" "Utter idiocy!" "Utter idiocy!"

Then the Nine-Headed Bird pecked wildly, tearing the dragon to pieces!

"Aaaaaaah!"

In reality, the two Saintess stared dumbfounded at the Poison Dragon King and the bird monster with eighteen eyes that flashed in nine colors: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, black, and white, staring at each other with cross-eyed expressions.

Within Meng Run's twin dragon crystals, the nine-colored pupils, like neon lights, were reflected. Her face was stained with nine colors by the light pollution, while she let out a suppressed scream, "Ah ah ah," like a mosquito's buzz.

He screamed like that for a full three minutes, until the Poison Dragon King tilted his head, rolled his eyes, and froze in place.

Then the eighteen-eyed monster bird laughed, its entire body shattered, turning into specks of gray wind that blew into Meng Run's mouth and nose.

Zhang Yanzhi and the True Saintess stood by, dumbfounded.

"W-What's going on?!"

"Is this possession?"

Yes, it can't always be just Li Fan being taken away from him! Someone has to experience his frustration sometimes, right? And what about Nine Songs's Primordial Spirit Technique? He hasn't used it yet, but there has to be a first time, so he gave it a try.

Well, it worked quite well. Taiyi Jiuge easily defeated the Poison Dragon King with a single move, sending him into the Divine Court. His primordial spirit was even shattered into nine pieces, leaving him severely injured and unconscious. This gave Li Fan ample time to set up a primordial spirit formation, pulling Meng Run's shattered primordial spirit piece by piece into a deeper dream realm to devour it, completing the fusion and seizing control of this demon god's body.

"Ha--Yawn--It's alright."

Meng Run, no, Li Fan stretched and loosened his arms and legs.

This Taiyi Jiuge is quite impressive, mainly because objectively speaking, this Poison Dragon King is a fool who focuses on body cultivation but never on spirit cultivation. Moreover, it seems that his primordial spirit has long been covered with blood talismans by that bandaged Saintess, and has been subjected to countless secret curses, subtly taming him into a loyal dog. It is already riddled with cracks and holes.

So Li Fan took the opportunity to use the blood talisman left on the Poison Dragon's primordial spirit by the True Saintess, recalled and rearranged Lu Ya's formation, and easily killed the Poison Dragon's primordial spirit.

Of course, since it has only absorbed a segment of memory, it can only control the main body and exert one-ninth of its power. It's just so-so.

The two Saintess stared at him, wide-eyed, before finally realizing what was happening. They began to perform rituals, their eyes sparkling as if they were reviewing a replay of a match.

"You... you actually tampered with my bloodline!"

"Why would a bird know the secret techniques in the Blood Record Heavenly Book?!"

Did your mentally challenged Dharma King teach you this?

"I am a unique being, born to meet the right time! Coming to face calamity! Divine Beast born with knowledge! The Crimson Crow, the bloodline of the three ancestors destined by the Primordial Chaos!" Li Fan made up on the spot.

The True Saintess was shocked. "Blood Talisman Crimson Crow! How terrifying! Eh! Sarilang! Why are you always so lucky! To be able to find such a treasure!"

Zhang Yanzhi: "Hey, hey? No, you actually believe that kind of thing?"

No, don't ruin it for me...

"Indeed! Blood Talisman Crimson Crow! My eighteen eyes can see beyond the Three Realms! The Six Paths of Reincarnation! The Eleventh-Dimensional Great Spacetime! I say that Sarilang is the True Saintess! She is the True Saintess!"

While convincing him, Li Fan tore off his mask, revealing countless raven-like eyes on his face to unleash the power of Taiyi Jiuge. He also released a Dao Breath of dragon's Dao aura, which transformed into rising fire crows, creating a smoke effect to enhance his persuasiveness.

"Oh oh oh... Crimson Crow... Blood Talisman Crimson Crow..."

Upon seeing the True Saintess kneeling on the ground, completely absorbed in the light show featuring eighteen eyes, Zhang Yanzhi finally realized what was happening.

The opponent was also bewildered by the Yuan Shen illusion technique. However, it seemed that Li Fan's move only worked when their eyes met directly and the divine light shone upon them. Therefore, Zhang Yanzhi unharmed, while the True Saintess, although her eyes were covered with a bandage to slightly block the light, still fell for it after seeing it for a while.

"That's right! I am Crimson Crow! Zhang Yanzhi is the True Saintess! What are you standing there for? Run!"

"Ah, ah? Oh, oh!" Zhang Yanzhi finally realized what was happening and turned to run away.

But the True Saintess was one step ahead; a blissful smile appeared on her face. "Zhuoma understands now, Zhang Yanzhi is the True Saintess!"

Then she plunged her hand into her chest, ripped out her heart, and presented it to him. The beating heart blazed in the wind, as if she were holding a handful of golden flames!

"The seed of the Holy Flame is here; I am willing to offer my blood as a sacrifice to the divine lord!"

The Holy Flame shines brightly, its light illuminating my mind and awakening my true nature.

What joy is there in life, what sorrow in death? All happiness and grief return to the Pure Land...

The next instant, the Saintess's body, hidden beneath the bandages and tightly bound, burst into flames! The candlestick, seemingly sculpted from grease, ignited the fireball in its hand, shining brightly like a flare! The dazzling light shot out from the ruins of the temple, illuminating the entire Great Guangming Temple! The demons and monsters hiding in the shadows screamed and howled, enveloped in a cloud of malevolent energy, and vanished without a trace!

Li Fan also clearly felt that the Poison Dragon King's demonic body was scorched and rotten in large parts of its flesh just by being exposed to the bright light! It was almost immediately forced to regress in its cultivation and reveal its true form!

However, at this moment, a furious roar suddenly echoed from the netherworld! Space violently distorted and fluctuated! From the dazzling light, some black lines suddenly began to dance like snakes and insects, twisting and leaping, opening a door!

Wow!

Li Fan knew things were going badly. With quick reflexes, he tore off the True Saintess's arm, stuffed the arm and heart into Zhang Yanzhi's arms, grabbed her, and flew away!

The darkness behind her instantly expanded, engulfing the True Saintess Zhuoma and then spreading outwards, engulfing half of the Great Guangming Temple area!

Well, in just a short while, the headquarters that the cult had painstakingly repaired was gone again...

Thankfully, no guardians flew over to collect fines, and the cult seemed to be used to their headquarters being razed to the ground. They immediately and methodically began to divide the work: some surrounded the area to set up magic arrays to seal off the calamity, while others rescued resources and transferred the wounded. Their skill was so adept it was heartbreaking...

Zhang Yanzhi stared blankly at the remains of the Saintess in his hand. The arm had been drained of its essence and blood, turning it into a charcoal-black piece, but the saintly heart still shone brightly.

"I am not worthy; she is the true Saintess..."

Li Fan didn't have time to comfort her, so he threw Sarilang onto the belly of Qiongqi, who was lying comfortably on its side basking in the sun after eating and drinking its fill, and then flew back to the situation at the Temple of the Saintess.

The calamity and evil influence did not continue to expand; it only destroyed half of the area of the cult's headquarters. Now, only a large area of black, gelatinous substance resembling tortoise jelly remains in the city centered on the temple. Under the sun's rays, it evaporates and emits a dense evil aura, almost obscuring the sun.

If Li Fan hadn't guessed correctly, the 'door' must have only opened for a fleeting moment. The thing on the other side of the 'door' snatched the remaining part of the True Saintess.

It's not the Thousand-Faced Immortal, it's something else or something similar...

Or,

It's not a thing.