After entering Hell, Tian Muyan stumbled upon a Hell filled with bones, nearly stepping into a skull. She frowned, then with a gentle sweep of her arm, the scattered bones automatically moved aside, revealing the dark blue earth beneath. There were no flames here, only endless mountains of bones. When the wind blew, the bone mountains made a "crackling" sound, like someone grinding their teeth in the shadows.
"No wonder it's called the Ten Thousand Bones Hell." She opened her Tenseigan, shooting out three beams of white light that entered the three bone mountains. Moments later, the bone mountains suddenly trembled violently, and three of the largest bone puppets emerged from them, their eye sockets glowing with the same Senjutsu Chakra light as Tian Muyan —it was her Secret Puppet Technique using the Tenseigan.
"Go ahead and scout ahead, and find all the nearby ores while you're at it." She clapped her hands, and the bone golems immediately strode off in different directions with heavy steps. She herself chose the highest bone mountain, sat cross-legged on the top, and played with a piece of "Yin Spirit Stone" she had just picked up—this thing had miraculous effects on healing soul wounds; a bone snake that had ambushed her earlier had dropped this piece after it died.
Before the bone puppet could return, a massive rift suddenly split open in the distant bone mountain, and nine black dragons with nine heads emerged from it, each head spewing gray death energy. Tian Muyan's expression changed slightly; the Tenseigan was useless against such high-level Hell creatures. She quickly took out a sealing talisman and affixed it to the bone dragon. "Sealing Talisman Secret Technique personally crafted by Tsubasa - Spirit Sealing! Specifically designed to counter these ghostly beings."
The golden light from the exploding talisman caused the black dragon to pause temporarily, and all nine heads roared angrily at the same time. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Tian Muyan jumped onto the back of the bone dragon and quickly tapped its spine with her Gentle Fist —she had seen similar skeletal structures in medical books, and this black dragon's weakness was in its vertebrae.
"Found it." She took out an ice arrow from her spatial ring, infused it with Senjutsu Chakra, and plunged it into the seventh vertebra. The black dragon let out a deafening wail, and its massive body began to disintegrate, eventually transforming into a small mountain made up of countless white bones. At the summit of the mountain was a white crystal the size of a walnut, emitting a gentle halo.
"Black Dragon Crystal Core?" Tian Muyan picked it up with delight. This thing was much more precious than Yin Spirit Stone. It could be used to refine Soul Replenishing Pill, which could instantly restore the spirit of a seriously injured ninja. At this moment, the bone puppets she had sent out also returned, each carrying a pile of dark ore. Among them was a fist-sized piece of " Netherworld Cold Iron," which was the precious forging material that Tsubasa had been looking for.
The tremors grew louder and louder from the depths of the bone mountain, as if more bone spirits had been disturbed. Tian Muyan stuffed the crystal cores and ores into her spatial ring, patted the head of the last bone puppet, and said, "You've worked hard. Go back and rest." After saying that, she began to pack her belongings to leave—knowing when to quit while she was ahead was the way of survival for the Ten Family.
Just as Tian Muyan stuffed the last piece of Netherworld Cold Iron into her spatial ring, the bone mountain beneath her feet suddenly creaked under the weight. She glanced down at the black mineral powder remaining between her fingers, her fingertips still stained with Gold Dust from when she crushed the talisman—her husband's talisman was indeed powerful, but the splattering when it exploded would probably take half a bottle of laundry detergent to wash off.
"It's about time I slipped away." She patted the bone fragments off her body and was about to get up when she heard a sickening grinding sound behind her. The sound was like countless dull knives scraping against her bones, sending chills down her spine.
Three dark figures suddenly darted out from the bone mountain fissures from different directions, their landing sending up bone dust three zhang high. Tian Muyan narrowed her eyes, and the purple patterns that automatically appeared in her Tenseigan drew two bewitching arcs at the corners of her eyes.
"A Ghost King level expert?" She clicked her tongue, her fingertips quickly tracing patterns on her spatial ring. "There are actually three of these ghostly things on the edge of the Ten Thousand Bones Hell."
The one on the left was covered in a sticky black liquid, its ten fingers sticking out like steel needles, and the sound of tendons rubbing together could be heard with every movement. The one in the middle was even more outrageous, its upper body was that of a burly man with seven faces, but its lower body dragged a snake tail covered in bone spurs. When its seven mouths opened and closed at the same time, the sounds coming from its throats were not human voices, but rather the wails of countless wronged souls.
The one on the far right looks the most normal, wearing a tattered black robe and holding a white bone staff. But Tian Muyan's Tenseigan can see clearly that the top of the staff is not a gemstone, but a gray heart that is still beating slightly.
"Such a bold little girl." The Many-Faced Ghost King in the middle spoke, his seven mouths uttering a cacophony of voices that made one's temples throb. " The Ten Thousand Bones Hell hasn't seen a living being enter for three thousand years, and you've delivered yourself to our doorstep to give us a taste of meat."
"Small change of heart?" Tian Muyan took a half step to the side, avoiding a loose jawbone under her feet. "Just the three of you? I just killed a hydra; its bones will be used as firewood in my alchemy furnace."
The Black-Robed Ghost King suddenly cackled, his laughter like rusty iron scraping against each other. "Quite the boast, but alas, your Tenseigan are useless against us." He raised his staff, and the gray heart at its tip suddenly pounded violently. The scattered bones around him began to move without wind, piling up into a small pyramid at his feet. "These eyes might be a divine skill in the mortal realm, but in Hell..."
"Once you're in Hell, it's all up to my mood." Tian Muyan suddenly raised her hand, and the Senjutsu Chakra gathered in her palm exploded into countless points of light in mid-air. The points of light froze instantly upon landing, and countless ice shards suddenly emerged from the originally bluish-black earth, completely sealing off the three demon kings' retreat.
The Many-Faced Ghost King slammed its serpentine tail into the ground, sending bone dust flying and shattering the icicles. "Little brat, do you really think we're those bone dragons from before?" Its central face suddenly grinned, revealing two rows of serrated teeth. "We watched the Ten Thousand Bones Hell transform from a sea of blood into a mountain of bones..."
Before she could finish speaking, Tian Muyan suddenly vanished from the spot. The Black-Robed Ghost King reacted the fastest; the instant his staff swept across, Tian Muyan had already leaped into the air on an ice ladder. She touched her brow with her fingertip, and the white light emitted by her Tenseigan became ten times brighter than before. Her originally loose long hair moved without wind, and tiny ice crystals condensed at the ends.
" Ice Set, activated."