I Seek Immortality Through Serendipity

The figure appeared without warning, as if arriving through Void Shifting, without a trace of Qi being released.

By the time the Black Water Infant Beast noticed, this figure was already behind it.

”How is it possible?!”

”The Grand Array hasn’t been broken, how did you enter the island?”

The Black Water Infant Beast, originally plotting how to escape, suddenly sensed Gu Yuan appearing behind it, and was instantly plunged into panic, unable to help but exclaim.

”Zheng!”

Its answer was only dazzling sword light.

Fifteen terrifying Sword Patterns shone brilliantly, like fifteen great dragons spewing Spiritual Light, drawing countless Spiritual Qi, transforming into a torrential Sword Shadow, cutting toward the Black Water Infant Beast’s head.

”No!”

This time, the Black Water Infant Beast was truly panicked.

Although previously in danger, it had Black Water Island nearby, and as long as it fled to the island, it could take a breather and use a Secret Technique to escape into the Poison Pool, using the Water Vein to escape swiftly.

In the world of Great Demon Golden Cores, conflicts are common, but unless there is a significant disparity in strength, it’s not easy to kill a fellow cultivator of the same realm.

But with the Grand Array unbroken, Gu Yuan suddenly entered the array, this scene was too terrifying, its escape plan had not yet been executed!

Just now, it was preparing to mature the treasure gourd using the life force technique!

But the speed of the sword light was beyond imagination, as thoughts raced, the Black Water Infant Beast had no time to think.

It could only grit its teeth and whip its tail again.

”Bang!”

The newly grown snake tail broke again, exploding open, turning into a mist of blood, enveloping the incoming sword light completely.

”Escape!”

Suffering intense pain, it spat out a black water gleam from its mouth, enveloping its entire body.

This was a Water Escape Secret Technique it painstakingly cultivated, called Melt Vein Water Spirit Escape. Once the water light envelops its body, it can transform into a stream of water, from form to formless, merge into the Water Vein, disappearing without a trace.

”Ha!”

But at this moment, a light shout suddenly rang out.

The sound shook the surroundings, not only causing its heart and spirit to shiver but also seemed to shatter the Spiritual Qi surrounding the heavens and earth, halting the water light about to envelop its entire body, shattering it forcefully.

”Tzzz!”

As its eyes nearly burst, the Sword Pill started to tremble repeatedly within the blood mist.

Previously severely injured, even though it could regenerate after losing its tail, the newly grown tail lacked scales, incomparable to the old tail honed over a hundred years, the power of taint greatly reduced. A mere tremor of the Sword Pill shattered all the blood mist, restored Spiritual Light, and attacked again.

”Think fast!”

The Black Water Infant Beast roared, then spat out a sharp black light toward Gu Yuan’s Sword Pill.

This black light contained a one-foot long black wooden thorn, enveloped in black poisonous light, glowing eerily like a scorpion’s tail, unnerving to behold.

The Demon Race may not master Artifact Refining, but it doesn’t mean they can’t employ artifacts.

They can swallow Tier Three spiritual materials, refining them with Demonic Power, absorbing Sun and Moon Essence, forming items akin to Lifebound Demon Artifacts.

This black wooden thorn was made from a Tier Three Poison Wood, Nether Poison Fang Wood’s spirit plant, swallowed by the Black Water Infant Beast, refined continuously over the years, Spiritual Light gradually emerging, bearing the power of an Artifact.

If a Golden Core Cultivator with shallow Dao Practice was pierced by it, the fearsome toxin within would instantly turn their Five Viscera to pus, even immortals couldn’t save them.

But it hadn’t used this against foes earlier because it knew its roughly refined Demon Artifact was no match for an Upper-class Sword Pill.

Using it against an enemy might result in losing a Demon Artifact within a few moves.

But with its life on the line, it couldn’t care much.

”Crash!”

As expected, the sword light merely brushed against it, like a steel bullet piercing through a wooden board, in a single encounter, penetrating the black light.

”Quick, save me!”

The Black Water Infant Beast’s heart was shattered, unable to help but shout to a blood-red tablet within the hall.

”Alas!”

The tablet sighed softly but made no move.

”No!”

The Black Water Infant Beast was enraged, but the Sword Pill was already upon it, fifteen sword lights intertwining above and below. Despite its vigorous resistance, to no avail, it was decapitated within moments, all Qi gone.

An ancient Great Demon hovering beside Cyan Peak Daoist School for hundreds of years fell.

But Gu Yuan felt no joy, lightning gleaming in his eyes, the Sword Pill moved with thunder momentum, fiercely striking the blood tablet within the hall.

”Fellow Daoist, please hold your hand!”

”I’m but a Residual Soul, unable to harm a chicken, bearing no ill will, no intention to oppose the Fellow Daoist!”

The presence within the tablet didn’t expect such an explosive temper from the sword cultivator — drawing the sword without a word — hastily spoke urgently.

But the Sword Pill didn’t pause at all, its purple glow even fiercer by three degrees, eliciting thunderous sounds, the momentum ever stronger!

The presence within the blood tablet was truly panicked now.

Without further thought, it triggered the Divine Soul Power accumulated over the years, transforming into a blood-red barrier, blocking in front of the tablet.

”Zheng! Boom!”

”Ah!”

Amidst the clash of sword light and thunder light, a painfully anguished scream arose.

Thunder Power, natural bane to formless entities like Divine Soul, when combined with sword light, was supremely dominant. The existence within the tablet felt as if millions of blades pierced through its body, unable to suppress cries despite its strong will.