Chapter 169: The Eight Extremes Evil Spirit Formation

  In the Soul-Gathering Pool.

  In the dark and deep pool of water, a multitude of fierce ghosts are floating about, with layers of ghostly shadows at the bottom. The spirits seem to be swimming like fish, filling every corner of the pool.

  A gloomy and deathly atmosphere fills the Soul Gathering Pool, and as soon as a rock falls into the pool water, a chill immediately rises from the depths of one's soul.

  Endless hordes of vengeful spirits, surging up in waves!

  These ghosts were bizarre and ferocious, baring their teeth and brandishing their claws, with savage expressions, pouncing on his hands and feet, head, biting and scratching, revealing rows of sharp fangs, trying to gnaw the stone body clean.

  Originating from Xuan Bing's icy flames, a wave of cold air forms, and wherever the cold air passes, the dark pool water quickly freezes.

  The extremely cold air of the Mystic Ice Flame was incredibly powerful, and wherever it passed, even the vengeful spirits that had merged with the pool water were frozen along with the water, locked in solid ice, making it difficult to truly approach the stone cliff.

  "Pay no attention to these ghosts, dive down!" The mysterious ice flame flickered unsteadily within the blood-patterned ring, continuously sending out signals.

  Shi Yan's expression was invigorated, his body transformed by the cold air, fully adapted to the chill of the Xuan Bing Flame. The frost covering his skin didn't feel stiff at all.

  In his induction, those hard ices were like some soft armor, and did not affect the activity of his body.

  He took a deep breath, Shi Yan's eyes shone brightly, and he sank all the way to the bottom of the pool.

  One by one, the fierce ghosts rushed over, but none of them had approached him before being frozen by the cold air released by Xuanbing Huoyan. The countless fierce ghosts in the Soul Pool were unable to pose a threat to Shi Yan under the freezing cold air of Xuanbing Huoyan.

  The stone cliff gathered spiritual energy, and the ghosts that rushed over didn't enter his mind, he just stared at the bottom of the pool with piercing eyes.

  Unfortunately, the Soul-Gathering Pool was filled with countless fierce ghosts, and the pool water was dark black. Although the stone rocks had fallen into the pool, visibility was greatly affected, making it difficult to truly see the scene in the pool. All that could be done was to pay attention to the changes below as the body sank down.

  "Go down on the left!"

  Xuanbing cold flames hastily directed, one fell into the soul gathering pool, Xuanbing cold flames immediately became excited and agitated.

  It not only helps Shí Yán deal with the ubiquitous fierce ghosts, but also helps Shí Yán indicate the direction of the Soul Gathering Bead. In order to get the Soul Gathering Bead, it can be said that it has gone all out.

  Xuán ice cold flame life form is special, in the Soul Pool, it dares to release the power of the soul to detect the surroundings, but Shí Yán does not dare.

  His line of sight was blocked, and he didn't dare to release his spiritual power to sense, Shi Yan was equivalent to being blind in both eyes. He naturally wouldn't be arrogant and completely listened to Xuan Bing's command. As long as Xuan Bing gave a clear direction, he immediately followed her words and moved forward in the direction she pointed.

  "Keep going forward a bit!"

  "Go down!"

  "Attention! Almost there!"

  “……”

  The blood-patterned ring flickered constantly, with the mysterious ice flame inside it excitedly sending out soul messages.

  Under the command of Xuan Bing Han Yan, Shi Yan sank all the way to Ju Hun Tan, and along the way, he constantly changed his position.

  A few minutes later.

  The murky pond water suddenly appeared a faintly bright light.

  Shi Yan's expression changed, and he looked towards the direction of the bright light with a shocked face.

  That is an octagonal ancient formation!

  In the eight corners of the ancient formation, there are eight pieces of five-colored and six-colored demon crystals. Each of the eight demon crystals has an extraordinary energy fluctuation. The eight demon crystals emit light, forming eight layers of different colored light patterns, covering the octagonal ancient formation.

  The center of the octagonal ancient formation, a fist-sized black demon crystal was placed, on which a few dark lights were floating. Upon closer inspection, it would be discovered that each of these dark lights on the demon crystal was actually an evil spirit.

  The eight corners of the ancient octagonal formation hold eight demon crystals, and the existence of these eight demon crystals seems to be solely for the protection of the pitch-black demon crystal in the center.

  This ancient formation obviously utilized the eight demon crystals at the corners, forming an eight-layered barrier to guard the Soul Gathering Pearl in the center.

  In the center of the octagonal ancient formation, the Soul Gathering Bead was constantly flashing with black light, stirring up mysterious soul fluctuations.

  On the surface of the Soul-Gathering Bead, each black dot flashed once, and a fierce ghost flew out from it. The fierce ghosts penetrated the barrier of the ancient formation method and flew into the Soul-Gathering Pool.

  Innumerable vengeful spirits gathered on the surface of the Soul-Gathering Pool, forming a strange mirror on the water's surface.

  Shi Yan looked up at the surface of the pond and suddenly discovered that from this angle, he could see a dark black hole exposed on the surface of the pond. From that black hole, rolling devilish energy emerged, and the devilish energy flew out of the Soul Gathering Pond, gathering in the sky, seemingly becoming a source of power for the devils in the sky.

  When Shi Yan looked at the Soul Gathering Pool from outside, he didn't notice anything unusual.

  Now he had descended into the Soul-Gathering Pool, and from the bottom of the pool, looking up at the surface, he discovered that the surface of the Soul-Gathering Pool had indeed formed a strange soul mirror!

  The Soul Mirror became a bridge connecting the two realms, releasing the demonic energy from the Fourth Demon Realm and turning it into a power of the Demon Lord Mo Qi. This allowed the Demon Lord Mo Qi to counterattack against Mo Duanhun.

  The reason why the Soul Pool can form a soul mirror is naturally due to the effect of the Soul Gathering Pearl at the bottom of the pool, which releases tens of thousands of vengeful spirits and souls, creating a soul mirror that communicates between the two realms.

  Once the Soul Gathering Pearl is broken, the tens of thousands of souls in the pond will immediately rush back into the Soul Gathering Pearl.

  At that time, the Soul Mirror will naturally disappear, and the passage between the two realms will be sealed. The soul of Mo Qi Tong, the Demon Master, will not be able to use the Soul Mirror to return to the Demon Realm! The demonic energy from the Demon Realm will also find it difficult to borrow the Soul Mirror to enter Yunxia Island!

  The key to everything lies in the Soul Gathering Bead!

  In the few seconds close to the Soul Gathering Bead, a string of thoughts flashed through his mind. Shi Yan's expression was cautious as he stared at the octagonal ancient formation protecting the Soul Gathering Bead. His soul transmitted a message to Xue Yu: "There is a defensive barrier! How can we break the eight-layered light pattern?"

  "Eight Trigrams Evil Spirit Formation!"

  Xuan Bing Han Yan let out a loud shout, "Indeed it is that heretic cult! In the past, that heretic cult could utilize the Soul Gathering Pearl to form a soul mirror and summon demons from outside realms to fight. This Eight Extremes Evil Spirit Array is a unique evil secret technique of that heretic cult, using eight eighth-level demon crystals with beast souls as the eight array eyes to protect the Soul Gathering Pearl. The eight kinds of light patterns formed by the Eight Extremes Evil Spirit Array have the defensive power of eight eighth-level demons, making it extremely difficult to break through!"

  "The eight eighth-grade demon beasts' demon crystals are used as the foundation of the array eye to protect the Soul Gathering Pearl? Ridiculous!" Shi Yan cursed, "How can we break through this?"

  "This Eight Pole Evil Spirit Array is not the real deal. The eight pieces of demon crystal used here come from eight seventh-level demon beasts, and there won't be any demon souls in the crystals of seventh-level demon beasts, so their power won't be too great. This Soul Gathering Pearl is just a demon crystal of an eighth-level Devouring Soul Beast. If it were guarded by the demon crystals of eight eighth-level demon beasts, they would completely suppress the energy of the Soul Gathering Pearl. Moreover, eighth-level demon beasts only gather during the heyday of that evil cult, and are used to guard a ninth-level Devouring Soul Beast's Soul Gathering Pearl."

  "Can the Soul Gathering Bead of a 9th-level Devouring Beast withstand the suppressive power of an Eight Extreme Evil Spirit Array formed by eight 8th-level demon beast demon crystals?"

  "Of course! That cult, at its peak, had used the Nine-Grade Soul Devouring Beast's Soul Gathering Pearl to form a Soul Mirror, summoning demons from the True God Realm of other domains. Moreover, they could also use secret methods to control the summoned demons for a period of time. This was an extremely terrifying summoning technique. When that cult was destroyed back then, the True God Realm demons summoned using the Nine-Grade Soul Devouring Beast's Soul Gathering Pearl killed countless strong practitioners before suddenly breaking free from the cult's control and returning to their own domain. Otherwise, it's likely that the cult wouldn't have been destroyed."

  "What should we do now?"

  Shi Yan had arrived beside the Eight Trigrams Evil Spirit Formation, but he didn't dare to make any rash moves. He continuously used his spiritual sense to ask Xuan Ice Flame.

  "With the strongest force, blast a piece of demon crystal! The light pattern formed above the Eight Extremes Evil Spirit Array is layered and interconnected. Breaking through one layer only reveals another, making it difficult to eliminate. However, the Eight Extremes Evil Spirit Array cannot lack even one piece of demon crystal. If one piece shatters, the remaining crystals will be rendered useless, and the array will collapse!"

  "A Seventh-Grade Demon Beast's Demon Crystal! Hmm, it won't be easy to break it either"

  The demon crystal of the demon beast is the most solid thing on the demon beast's body. The demon crystal of a seventh-level demon beast is even more solid than the divine artifact of a spiritual level, and it's not something that can be shattered by just a hundred calamities like Shi Yan's stone.

  "These demon crystals have existed for thousands of years, and the demonic energy inside has been greatly consumed. Hmm, that blue demon crystal, its demonic energy has lost seven-tenths, I'll infuse some power into you, with a full-force strike, it's possible to shatter that crystal, if not, we immediately leave, can only give up on the Soul Gathering Pearl."

  Mystic Ice Flame quickly responded.

  "Give it a try."

  Shi Yan took a deep breath, his eyes gleaming like electricity as he stared at the blue, prism-shaped demon crystal.

  Stimulating the negative energy throughout his body, Shi Yan's negative energy began to surge and flow, filling every corner of his body, causing him to suddenly feel a doubling of his power.

  Out of control!

  At the same time, from the Xuanbing cold flame, a cold force overflowed, this cold force gathered in Shiyan's hands and feet, accumulating momentum for release.

  Fresh blood surges up, and the negative forces inside the acupuncture points suddenly flood into the fresh blood.

  Fresh blood carries an icy chill, yet it flows rapidly, a mighty and boundless power that suddenly spreads throughout the entire body!

  On the basis of his original strength, Shi Yan's whole body strength seemed to have increased by another fold!

  Double drift!

  "Alright! This power! This power should be able to shatter that demon crystal!" The mysterious flame within the Blood Pattern Ring suddenly became excited: "You can actually burst out with such strong power! Instantly doubling your entire body's strength! Enough! It should be enough!"

  Shi Yan's face was calm and collected as he mobilized all his strength, one hand forming a life seal and the other a death seal. The life and death seals overlapped, striking out with a Life-Death Seal!

  A surge of icy air, along with the Life and Death Seal's output, also burst forth from his palm, wildly rushing towards that one blue crystal prism.

  "Bang!"

  That blue crystal prism suddenly burst into pieces, shattered by the Seal of Life and Death, and shot out in all directions as tiny shards.

  The eight layers of light patterns on the surface of the Soul Gathering Bead suddenly disappeared without a trace.

  Shi Yan's expression changed with joy, and he immediately stretched out his hand to grab the Soul Gathering Bead.

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