System Possession, One Sword Shocks the Gods

135: Sword cuts through the bones, orchid’s shadow lingers.A gray Chaos Domain shrouded the platform, temporarily isolating the violent energy storms outside.

Within the Domain, perception was distorted and the Law was chaotic.

Elder Yin Gu and the Deacon felt as if they had fallen into a quagmire; their movements were hindered, and the operation of their Demonic Technique was even sluggish by thirty percent.

”Domain?! What kind of person are you?!” Elder Yin Gu was horrified.

Anyone who could master a Domain at the Earth Fiend Realm was a Prodigy among Prodigies, with heaven-reaching backing!

He wanted to retreat, but the arrow was already on the bowstring!

The baleful green ghost fire spewed by the two skulls saw its power plummet by thirty percent the instant it entered the Chaos Domain, and the vicious intent that eroded the Divine Soul was continuously decomposed and purified by the power of the Domain.

Ye Chen tapped his guixu sword lightly, and a Chaos Vortex bloomed at the tip, like a giant whale absorbing water, forcibly sucking in and annihilating the two streams of ghost fire!

At the same time, the Divine Soul impact released by the soul banner hit an invisible wall of sighs.

Before Ye Chen’s Sea of Consciousness, which was as solid as a rock and guarded by the chaos spirit pearl, it could not stir up a single ripple.

”Your Divine Soul attack is ineffective against me.”

Ye Chen’s voice was cold.

His figure moved through the Domain like a teleportation, avoiding the black snake attack controlled by the Deacon, and the guixu sword traced an arcane trajectory, aiming straight for Elder Yin Gu’s main body!

”Nether Bone Shield!” Elder Yin Gu was terrified and pushed his Protective Aura to the limit.

In front of him, several shields constructed of white bones and entangled with Devilish Qi instantly condensed.

”Break.”

Ye Chen spat out a single word.

The trace of ”Order-Setting” intent flowed on the guixu sword.

Where the sword edge passed, the bone shields encountered their nemesis; their structural stability was forcibly destroyed, and they shattered one after another!

The sword momentum did not stop, piercing straight for Elder Yin Gu’s glabella!

”No!” Elder Yin Gu’s soul fled in terror.

He desperately leaned to the side while slamming the pair of bone beads in his hands together!

”Crack!”

The bone beads shattered, and a thicker, darker Nether ghost Qi filled with despair and curses erupted, transforming into a giant ghost claw that grabbed at the guixu sword!

This was a life-saving secret technique he had unleashed at the cost of destroying his own Lifebound Treasure!

”A deathbed struggle.”

Ye Chen’s eyes remained unchanged.

The momentum of the guixu sword paused slightly, and the darkness at the sword tip suddenly expanded.

”Guixu — Annihilation.”

There was no earth-shattering momentum.

The moment the giant Nether ghost claw touched the darkness at the sword tip, it was like a painting wiped away by an eraser, disintegrating and dissipating inch by inch from the fingertips, returning to nothingness!

Even the curses and resentment contained within were completely purified!

Elder Yin Gu watched helplessly as his strongest trump card was broken so casually by the opponent, his eyes filled with despair and disbelief.

”Puchi!”

The guixu sword pierced through his glabella without any resistance.

Elder Yin Gu’s body stiffened, the light in his eyes rapidly dimmed, and the Devilish Qi around him collapsed like an avalanche.

He could feel his vitality, cultivation, and Divine Soul being frantically extracted and decomposed from that point on his glabella by an irresistible force, returning to eternal silence.

”The Temple... will not... let you...”

He used his last strength to spit out a few blurred syllables, then his body disintegrated inch by inch like a weathered sand sculpture, finally turning into a wisp of blue smoke and dissipating within the Chaos Domain.

Elder Yin Gu, at the Peak of the Earth Fiend Realm Fourth Level, had fallen!

The remaining Deacon was already scared to the point of Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering.

Seeing Ye Chen’s gaze sweep over, he let out a strange cry and turned to flee into the energy storm outside.

”Stay.”

Ye Chen flicked his fingers, and a subtle strand of Chaos Sword Aura arrived first despite being launched later, accurately piercing into the Deacon’s back.

The Deacon’s forward momentum suddenly stiffened, and he fell to the ground, lifeless.

In the blink of an eye, three Dark Hall experts—two dead, one unconscious (the burly man from before).

Ye Chen dissipated the Chaos Domain.

The platform returned to its original state, with only the faint residual Devilish Qi in the air and the traces of battle telling of the intensity just now.

He walked to the center of the platform and looked at the few starfall orchids.

The deep blue leaves and the starlight-shimmering stamens radiated pure star power and vegetation vitality; they were indeed excellent main Materials for refining high-level antidotes.

He carefully harvested the five starfall orchids by the roots and placed them in a pre-prepared jade box for storage.

With these, it would be enough to detoxify the Elder of the Azure Wood Sect, with even some to spare.

However, just as he harvested the last starfall orchid, his brows furrowed slightly.

In the soil at the roots of this starfall orchid, he sensed a trace of extremely faint, yet cold anomaly that was completely incompatible with the pure aura of the starfall orchid itself.

He squatted down and investigated carefully.

His Divine Sense penetrated deep into the soil and discovered that the source of the anomaly was a small black crystal the size of a fingernail buried deep in the roots.

This crystal emitted an aura that was of the same origin as the Dark Hall’s Devilish Qi, but purer and colder.

It was like a parasite, slowly absorbing the star power of the starfall orchid and releasing imperceptible toxins, polluting the Spiritual Plant!

”So that’s how it is...”

Cold light flashed in Ye Chen’s eyes.

No wonder people from the Dark Hall appeared here.

They were not simply hunting Yao Beasts or intercepting Sect Disciples.

Their more important goal was probably to use the special environment of Star Shattering Ravine to Cultivate these polluted starfall orchids!

If these polluted Spiritual Plants were used by an unsuspecting Alchemist to refine Medicine, the result would not be a holy antidote, but a deadly poisonous pill!

They might even become auxiliary Materials for some evil ritual or cultivation of the Dark Hall!

What a vicious method!

Ye Chen immediately checked the other starfall orchids.

Sure enough, the same black crystals were found at the roots of two others!

Only the first two he harvested were pure.

He did not hesitate to completely annihilate the three black crystals with his Chaos Sword Intent and sealed the three polluted starfall orchids separately to prevent their toxins from spreading.

”The tentacles of the Dark Hall are indeed everywhere...”

The chill in Ye Chen’s heart grew deeper.

This Starfall Mountain Range was probably not a pure land either.

He put away the two pure starfall orchids, swept his gaze over the unconscious burly man and the Deacon’s corpse, pondered for a moment, and flicked two strands of Chaos fire to turn their bodies into ashes, erasing the traces.

After doing all this, he did not stay any longer.

His figure moved, and he was about to leave this Star Shattering Ravine.

However, just as he was about to rush out of the gorge, his hidden dragon ring suddenly transmitted an extremely faint, yet warning vibration!

At the same time, he perceived a hidden yet massive spatial fluctuation flash and disappear in the area of Star Shattering Ravine that was deeper and closer to the core of the energy storm!

That fluctuation... was not naturally formed; it was more like the sign of some large-scale teleportation Formation being activated, or... some Secret Realm being opened!

”Is there someone else?”

Ye Chen’s heart tightened.

He immediately restrained all his auras, sticking to the steep cliff like a gecko, and carefully probed his Divine Sense towards the direction from which the fluctuation came.

At the edge of his Divine Sense perception, that was an area completely shrouded by colorful energy storms.

The violent energy turbulence was enough to tear apart the Protective Aura of a Cultivator at the Late Stage of the Earth Fiend Realm.

However, right at the center of that destructive area, there seemed to be an extremely small, highly unstable ”calm point.”

And at this moment, near that ”calm point,” he vaguely captured a few incomparably powerful auras, far exceeding those of Elder Yin Gu!

One of them even caused the chaos primordial fetus within his body to produce a strong repulsion and warning!

That aura was full of Chaos, tyranny, and a kind of... ancient evil that seemed to come from another world!

It was of the same origin as the Moon-Erosion Demon Venerable, but different—more primitive, more indescribable!

”Dark Hall... could it be that there is an even bigger secret hidden here?”

Ye Chen’s eyes were extremely solemn.

He had originally planned to leave after harvesting the starfall orchids, but now he changed his mind.

The Dark Hall’s activities here were so strange, even involving Secret Realms and unknown evil existences; he could not turn a blind eye.

After pondering for a moment, he decided to take the risk and investigate.

With the hidden dragon ring and the 【Myriad Transformations】 Divine Ability, as long as he was careful enough, he might not be unable to deceive those powerhouses.

He adjusted his aura, perfectly simulating himself as a part of the surrounding violent Spiritual Qi, and like a swimming fish, he silently crept toward the core area of the energy storm.

The secrets hidden in the depths of Star Shattering Ravine seemed far more shocking than just a few starfall orchids.