Suppressing Ancient Demon

Qin Yu rushed forward and wrapped both arms around Ling Yao's slender waist, too delicate to fill a single hand.

Yet although Ling Yao was like a walking corpse, for some reason she resisted. Gang qi burst from her body and directly blasted Qin Yu away.

Qin Yu's blood and qi churned from the blow. Though Ling Yao lacked experience, her cultivation was incomparably formidable, and the gang qi around her was peerlessly sharp. It was simply not something Qin Yu could withstand.

But Qin Yu did not give up. He charged forward again.

Before long, Qin Yu was blasted away once more.

And so it went, again and again. Qin Yu was drenched in blood. The more severe his injuries became, the more ferocious the power he unleashed, yet no matter how great his strength grew, he was still no match for Ling Yao.

The gap between their cultivation was simply too vast!

Though Qin Yu suffered grievous wounds, he still could not halt Ling Yao's steps.

"Get lost!" Seemingly enraged by Qin Yu blocking her over a hundred times, Ling Yao suddenly turned around and cried out. A dense Killing Intent surfaced on her once-stunning face. With a wave of her delicate hand, a savage blast of gang qi cleaved down.

Qin Yu hurriedly leapt aside and dodged the strike.

After attacking, Ling Yao glanced at Qin Yu as though warning him, then continued forward.

Qin Yu's expression changed sharply. He stopped circulating the Six Transformations of the Mad Demon. If he continued taking injuries like this, he would surely lose consciousness. Fortunately, over the past few months, he had consumed quite a bit of fierce beast blood and qi, raising his own blood and qi by several levels. Otherwise, this alone would have knocked him unconscious.

He took out the remaining three medicinal pills from his Void Storage Ring and tossed them all into his mouth. Staring at Ling Yao, the struggle in his eyes grew fiercer.

Unable to stop Ling Yao, if he kept following her, not only would he fail to save her, but he would also trap himself in a hopeless predicament.

What should I do? Give up? Qin Yu clenched his teeth as countless thoughts swept through his mind. He desperately wanted to turn around and leave. He even regretted retaliating in the first place. Had he not fought back, he would not have unveiled Ling Yao's face, and then he would never have hesitated.

But could he really watch her go in like this?

Qin Yu could not do it!

He truly could not!

Although Qin Yu knew Ling Yao was not Zou Xueqing.

He vaguely felt that Ling Yao and Zou Xueqing must share some kind of connection. Otherwise, there could not possibly be such a coincidence!

"Wait, that person controlled Ling Yao earlier... That means that person is either on the verge of death, or trapped and restricted from moving. But no matter which it is, that person must be in a crisis right now, which is why they want to use the Innate Dao Body to recover!"

"If that is the case... is there still a sliver of hope?"

Qin Yu weighed the matter back and forth. Looking at Ling Yao, who had already gone far ahead, he pressed his lips tightly and clenched his fists. After a long while, he let out a heavy sigh and swiftly followed after her.

Just as Qin Yu followed Ling Yao into the depths of the forbidden land.

At the outskirts of the Land of Beast Burial, inside a certain cave.

"Li Tianji, what the hell are you calculating? Calculate and calculate, and every disaster was calculated by you! If you hadn't calculated wrong, would we have provoked the Jade Pool Sect? If you hadn't calculated wrong, would that little wench have chased us here? If you hadn't calculated wrong, would Big Brother Qin have encountered such danger? If anything happens to Big Brother Qin, I, Xiong Tatian, will never forgive you for the rest of my life! Hey, I'm talking to you! Go on, try calculating again!" Xiong Tatian sat atop a large tree, glaring down at Li Tianji, who was performing divinations below, and roared angrily.

Li Tianji was immersed in his calculations and did not hear Xiong Tatian at all.

Seeing this, Xiong Tatian flew into a rage and jumped straight down, landing before Li Tianji.

His sturdy, towering frame made the ground tremble faintly, startling Li Tianji awake.

Li Tianji glared furiously at the equally enraged Xiong Tatian and snapped, "Xiong Tatian, what are you doing? Is there any use in you standing here and babbling on and on?" Rage surged within Li Tianji. If not for the last shred of reason he possessed, he would have said, "If you have the ability, go in and save him." But Li Tianji knew that if he truly said it, Xiong Tatian would certainly charge inside.

With anger he could not vent and fury he could not release, Li Tianji felt stifled beyond measure.

"And is there any use in you calculating here?" Xiong Tatian glared with wide eyes and roared.

Li Tianji pressed his lips together, unable to utter a single word. He did not know why, but he had exhausted every ounce of strength and used every method at his disposal, yet the result was always the same: he could not calculate Qin Yu at all, not even the slightest trace of him!

If not for the fact that he had been unable to calculate him before, Li Tianji would have thought Qin Yu was dead.

"Useless, right? If it's useless, why the hell are you calculating? I get annoyed just looking at that thing. If you had the ability, calculate that little wench wouldn't chase us here..." Xiong Tatian said in uncontrollable fury. His heart was wildly restless. Whenever he thought of Qin Yu remaining in danger to save him and Li Tianji, his heart ached all the more!

Li Tianji's eyes lit up at those words. Right—he could calculate that Jade Pool Sect disciple. She would definitely be with Big Brother Qin.

"Unfortunately, I never obtained a single item from her before! Forget it, I can only use that method," Li Tianji muttered to himself.

"You still want to calculate? Go on, try it again!" Xiong Tatian roared.

"You fool, if you hadn't provoked the Wolf King, would things have come to this? Do you think you're the only one anxious? What use is your anxiety? If you keep obstructing me and delay the opportunity, then it will be you, Xiong Tatian, who killed Big Brother Qin!" Li Tianji's hair seemed to stand on end with rage as he coldly shouted.

"You... you..." Xiong Tatian stared at Li Tianji, unable to speak. Li Tianji was right. If he had not provoked the Wolf King, they could have fought that little wench to the death, but...

"Aaaah!" Xiong Tatian threw back his head and let out a low roar, smashing a towering tree at its waist with several punches. His eyes bloodshot, he stared into the depths of the Land of Beast Burial. "Big Brother Qin, I, Xiong Tatian, owe you my life. As long as you can come out alive, I'll listen to whatever you say from now on."

Li Tianji did not hear him. He had already begun his divination.

After a long while, Li Tianji violently spat out mouthful after mouthful of blood, spraying it across the white silk cloth.

The blood fell and instantly seeped into the white cloth, leaving behind no bloodstains at all.

A moment later, Li Tianji stared fixedly at the white cloth. His face was pale to the extreme as he muttered, "How could this be?"

When the Dying Dao Sound rang out.

At the Myriad Heavens Battle Sect's ancestral shrine, tens of thousands of miles away.

An elderly man with gray hair, dressed in a simple moon-white robe, slowly swept the fallen leaves before the ancestral shrine. Perhaps because he was too old, his movements were exceptionally slow.

No one knew how long he swept. Seemingly tired, the old man slowly walked into the ancestral shrine, set the broom by the entrance, took three sticks of incense from a nearby table, and entered the shrine.

After lighting the three incense sticks, he bowed three times and placed them in the incense burner. Then he raised his head to look at the painting hanging high within the ancestral shrine. A faint glimmer surfaced in his clouded eyes as though he were examining the painting.

The painting depicted a person in profile. From the side, it was a hunched old man with a savage face, roaring toward the heavens as though venting the boundless fury in his heart. Above his head stretched a vast sea of stars.

This painting had been personally created by Wang Qing, the founding patriarch of the Myriad Heavens Battle Sect. It was known to all as the Star Roar Painting!

Because Patriarch Wang Qing had never spoken a single word about this painting, countless disciples let their imaginations run wild, guessing who the savage old man depicted in the Star Roar Painting might be.

Why had Patriarch Wang Qing hung this painting at the highest place in the ancestral shrine?

Some said the person in the painting was Patriarch Wang Qing's guide; others said he was Patriarch Wang Qing's master; some even guessed that it was Patriarch Wang Qing himself. Of course... even more people believed that this painting concealed some hidden secret.

"The Star Roar Painting. Its hidden secret must lie within the stars, but what secret could those stars possibly conceal?" the old man murmured softly.

Suddenly.

The old man abruptly turned his head toward a certain direction, his expression shifting slightly. He muttered, "Such a powerful fluctuation. Since when did the eastern region have such an expert?"

At the same time.

At the Tianlong Ancient Sect.

Atop a lofty mountain, an old man who seemed to have merged into one with heaven and earth opened his eyes from meditation. Gazing toward the Wu Kingdom, a sharp gleam flickered in his eyes as he murmured softly, "Who is it?"

At the Heavenly Fire Sect, the Dao Realm patriarch likewise opened his eyes from seclusion.

Meanwhile, in the direction indicated by Li Tianji, Li Jujin, who was meditating with his aura restrained, opened his eyes. Delight appeared in them. "Is it about to open? Wait a little longer, this is only a precursor... Who knew how many people this fluctuation would draw here? Just thinking about it was thrilling..."

Deep within the hills!

"An Illusion Array?"

Qin Yu, who had been following closely behind Ling Yao, discovered that she had silently vanished from his sight.

This made the struggle in Qin Yu's heart grow even more intense.

They had not yet entered the Illusion Array, so it was not too late to turn back. But once he stepped into it, what would he encounter? Everything was unknown.

"Forget it. I hope my guess is right!" Qin Yu gritted his teeth and quickly chased after her.

He could choose not to follow, but Qin Yu knew that if he truly did not, it would become a knot in his heart for the rest of his life. As time passed, that knot would become a heart demon.

When he reached the place where Ling Yao had disappeared, Qin Yu stepped forward and felt the scene before his eyes change dramatically.

If the hills were a barren land, then the inside of the Illusion Array was like a paradise beyond the world.

Lush trees stood everywhere. A winding path paved with pebbles stretched into the distance, leading who knew where, like a twisting path opening onto a secluded haven. What gave Qin Yu a slight jolt was that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth here was extraordinarily dense—so dense that it felt strange!

Generally speaking, pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth carried the scent of the earth. Yet though the trees here were lush, the spiritual energy carried no fragrance of soil. Instead, it bore a trace of bloodiness.

"Is this the Dao Mansion the Wolf King mentioned?" Looking at the path ahead, Qin Yu gritted his teeth and swiftly dashed forward.

Half an hour later.

After passing through the winding path, an open clearing came into view. The clearing was uneven and covered with grass. At its center, several grooves could vaguely be seen arranged around the area. Ling Yao was crouched on the ground, placing spirit stones into the grooves one by one.

An array!

Qin Yu's heart jolted. He then looked toward a broken stele standing beside the array. The character "Demon" could faintly be seen upon it. Without hesitation, Qin Yu rushed forward. Just as he reached Ling Yao's side, radiance spread across the ground. In the instant Ling Yao vanished, Qin Yu stepped into it as well and disappeared.

At the moment he vanished, Qin Yu suddenly saw a stone slab lying not far away. It was the missing fragment of the broken stele. The blood-red characters "Suppressing Ancient" made Qin Yu feel inexplicably uneasy.

Suppressing Ancient Demon?

This place was likely not the Dao Mansion the Wolf King had spoken of!