Chapter 156: Refining the Soul with Netherfire

  The second update!

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  In front of the grand hall of Xing Luo Palace, on the vast and flat ground, countless disciples of Xing Luo Palace had already gathered. Among them were dozens of elderly men wearing star-patterned robes, whose auras were extremely terrifying. The most eye-catching among them was a middle-aged man with a star crown on his head and a golden robe on his body - Iron Cloud, the leader of Xing Luo Palace.

  At this moment, hearing Bai Weiqing's voice filled with endless hatred, the Star Luo Palace changed color, extremely angry, and scolded loudly.

  "How dare you! My Star Luo Palace has 84,000 disciples, and I'm afraid of just the three of you?"

  "You really are looking for death! You think you three can annihilate my Star Luo Palace? It's simply a joke of the century!"

  "Hmph, sneaking into my Star Luo Palace like a ghost, you're already guilty of a crime that can't be escaped. And yet, you dare to spout crazy talk about destroying my Star Luo Palace? Truly, the ignorant are fearless, and deserving of death!"

  "Shut up!" Star Luo Palace's Iron Cloud Sect Master suddenly bellowed, his face already a deep shade of iron grey. With his keen eyesight, how could he not see through the true nature of Bai Yuqing and her companions? It was precisely because of this that when Bai Yuqing spoke those words, his heart skipped a beat as he silently cursed their bad luck. At this moment, upon hearing his disciples one by one foolishly shouting, he truly wished to slap them all to death with one palm.

  As soon as Tiyunzi spoke, all the sounds disappeared instantly, and the atmosphere became solemn and oppressive.

  These disciples all looked at the sect leader with suspicion and uncertainty, seemingly unable to understand why Iron Cloud wanted to boost someone else's morale while undermining his own prestige. However, given their level of cultivation, they couldn't see that the old cultivator standing beside Bai Yuqing was verifying the saying "the ignorant are fearless".

  Tie Yunzi had no idea what his disciples were thinking, took a deep breath, looked at Bai Yuqing, and was about to speak when a loud laugh interrupted him.

  He was the red-haired young man beside Bai Weiqing, with a handsome and charming face, his red hair like fire, now laughing loudly towards the sky, a domineering aura bursting out from his body.

  "Little girl, what can you say to these ants? Daring to forcibly take my younger sister as a disciple, all of them must die!"

  The red-haired young man flipped his eyelid, turned his head and swept the crowd in the Star Luo Palace with disdain. He said coldly: "I'm telling you, today, no one in heaven or earth can save you. Hand over my sister quickly, I'll let you die a quick death. Otherwise, I'll make you taste the flavor of the underworld's refining soul fire!"

  Arrogant!

  Arrogant!

  The red-haired young man's overbearing demeanor and the thick disdain in his words made him seem like a demon among men, and compared to him, the young master of the Xie family, Xie Zhan, was practically a kind and gentle soul.

  "How dare you! You're taking advantage of us, letting us die? I think you've gone mad!" A Star Luo Palace disciple finally couldn't hold back and shouted out loud.

  "I'm ill... looking for death!" The red-haired youth's eyes narrowed, and a golden elixir phantom burst out from the top of his head, as big as a human skull. On its surface, there were magical gods, waves, mountains, dark clouds, water and fire, as well as dragons, tigers, flying cranes, hurricanes... all sorts of strange phenomena emerged, like living things, with an infinite variety of appearances.

  Boom!

  As soon as the golden elixir phantom appeared in the void, the void around the red-haired youth suddenly shook violently, and a terrifying airflow surged across the sky, instantly shattering the clouds and mist within a thousand miles into nothingness, revealing a true vacuum zone.

  "How formidable! A single Golden Elixir actually contains nineteen kinds of Dao intentions!" In the distant place, Chen Xiao's pupils contracted, and his heart was shocked.

  When the master reaches the two-yin and yang golden elixir realm, yin and yang blend together, dragon and tiger give birth to each other, and all kinds of Taoist intentions that he has realized will appear in the golden elixir. The more Taoist intentions he realizes, the stronger the power of the golden elixir will be. If he further realizes the Taoist domain, its power will double and surge violently!

  Chen Xiao had once seen Su Leng's Golden Elixir, and only then did he comprehend a Dao intent named You Ming, which was accumulated within the Golden Elixir, presenting itself as a dark energy flow that seemed gray but wasn't.

  And Chen Xiao himself only now has a complete understanding of the Wind Path, while the red-haired youth's Golden Elixir presents nineteen different path intentions. His comprehension is extremely high and his cultivation is incredibly deep, to the point of being frightening!

  If this guy grasps the concept of a domain, he'll probably be ten times more formidable than Luo Xiao's "Blood Devouring Domain"... At this moment, Chen Yao became even more aware of his own lack of strength.

  He once heard Ji Yu say that one should never think of oneself as the only genius, because there are countless geniuses in this world beyond your imagination, and those with better talents than you are as numerous as the sands of the Ganges River and the fish crossing the river.

  The strength shown by that red-haired young man undoubtedly verified this sentence from the side.

  Whoosh!

  Time waits for no one, at the moment when Jindan's virtual shadow first appeared, the red-haired young man took a step into the void, and instantly a blazing blood-colored lotus rose from under his feet, carrying him to appear in front of that Xingluo Palace disciple in an instant. His palm slapped down, with a loud slap, and had already crushed the disciple's skull. Then a black smoke gushed out, grasping at the void, firmly grabbing a struggling transparent human shadow, which was surprisingly the disciple's soul.

  "You're really looking for death, I'll let you taste the flavor of refining your soul in the underworld fire, making you unable to live or die, and suffering to the depths of your soul!" As he spoke, the red-haired youth had already returned to Bai Yuqing's side like a ghost, and a jet-black flame suddenly burst out from the golden elixir on his head, enveloping the soul of this Star Luo Palace disciple, repeatedly washing and scorching it.

  The red-haired young man's movements were extremely fast, from the moment he made his move to the deployment of the Netherfire Soul Refining Array, it was all done in the blink of an eye. Not to mention those Star Luo Palace disciples, even Iron Cloud and the other Star Luo Palace elders couldn't react in time to lend a hand, caught off guard.

  "Ahhh——" A blood-curdling scream suddenly rang out, the transparent soul in the black underworld fire's ebb and flow, fiercely struggling, curling up, dodging, its expression twisted to the extreme, making one feel a chill run down their spine just by looking at it from afar.

  "Wow, what a wonderful sound." The red-haired young man let out a moan that was almost like a murmur in his sleep, with an evil and charming face full of enjoyment.

  "Damn it, Zhou Yu was taken away, kill him!"

  "Yes, he's just at the Golden Elixir realm. Let's go together and kill him to retrieve Zhou Yu's soul!"

  "Kill!"

  Witnessing the tragic scene, the eyes of Xingluo Palace's disciples instantly turned red, and they angrily shouted out loud, just as they were about to launch a group attack, but were once again firmly stopped by Iron Cloud Master.

  At this moment, Tie Yunzi's face was already ashen to the extreme, with blue veins bursting on his face one by one. He could hardly hold back the anger in his heart and hated that he couldn't gather all the disciples and elders of Xingluo Palace right now, regardless of everything, and fight these three guys to the end.

  What's wrong?

  How come Master Shi's formation is still not set up?

  If this continues, I'm afraid Star Luo Palace will be in danger at any moment!

  Tie Yunzi had long known that even if the entire body moved, it would not be a match for Bai Yuqing's elderly companion, so he decided early on to let Ming Huazhen, Chai Shao, exhaust all the materials in the Xingluo Palace and fully activate the Jiugong Xingxiao Destroyer Array!

  The Jiugong Xing Sha Mie Xian Zhen is a traditional protective array of the Star Luo Palace, which has been passed down since ancient times. It will not be easily activated unless it's a matter of life and death, because the cost of activating this great array is too high, requiring at least thousands of years to recover from it.

  However, precisely because the cost is so heavy, the power of Jiugong Xing Sha Mie Xian Zhen is also extremely terrifying. When fully activated, it can communicate with the power of all heavenly stars and condense into a rolling star-killing divine thunder, slaughtering demons and gods, with boundless power. Even a powerful cultivator in the Earth Immortal realm who falls into it will be left without a corpse, their soul scattered and fleeing!

  "I'll count to three, if you still don't hand over the person, then don't blame me for being ruthless!" The red-haired youth stretched out his hand and instantly crushed the soul of Zhou Yu into nothingness. He then looked up at Tie Yunzi and said slowly.

  One!

  Two!

  "Hold on, Elder Jiang Qing, aren't you going to hand over the person?" Ti Yunzi turned his head to look at a middle-aged woman with a narrow face and a gloomy expression standing beside him, coldly ordering while transmitting a sound explanation: "Hurry up, first hand over the person, delay for a moment, wait for Master Chai Shao to set up the Jiugong Xing Sha Mie Xian array, what's to worry about not being able to kill these three people?"

  "Hmph!" Jiang Qing let out a cold hum, but also knew the situation was urgent. With a wave of his sleeve, an 8 or 9-year-old girl with a high ponytail and a delicate face appeared before him.

  Chen Yao recognized the little girl at a glance, and it was indeed Xixi. Fortunately, she seemed to have not suffered any torture, but her expression was somewhat listless and sickly, losing her former lively and mischievous spirit.

  "Master, what did you call me for?" Xixi looked up, her expression fearful, as if she was extremely afraid of the middle-aged woman in front of her.

  "Xī xī!" From afar, Bai Yuqing saw Xī xī, and two streams of tears immediately flowed out as she wailed loudly.

  His body stiffened, and he slowly turned his head. When he saw Bai Yuqing, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, followed by a terrified expression. He shouted: "Mother, you must escape quickly! If not, you'll be killed! My master will kill you! Hurry up and run!"

  "This silly child, at this time still thinking of me..." Seeing this scene, Bai Weiqing felt both heartache and anger. She really couldn't imagine how much hardship her daughter had endured over the past two years, how much suffering she had undergone, to reveal such a terrified gaze."

  "Wow!"

  Just then, the old man who had been standing beside Bai Weiqing without speaking suddenly reached out and grabbed. The void violently surged and cracked, and a huge invisible hand appeared in the distance of a thousand feet, instantly grabbing Xiangxiang over.

  So fast that it was almost like teleportation, leaving Iron Cloud and Jiang Qing completely unable to react. From this, one could tell that if the old man had struck earlier, he would have probably annihilated everyone in Star Luo Palace!

  Perhaps it was because he was still holding onto his reservations that he had yet to make a move.

  "Wah!" Xiangxiang was hugged into Bai Weiqing's arms, seemingly unable to believe it, and let out a loud wail of tears.

  "Don't cry, don't cry, mother will take you home." Bai Yuqing also had tears streaming down her face, she raised her hand and cast a spell, causing Xiangxiang to fall into a deep sleep. When she looked up at the people of Star Luo Palace, her face was icy cold.

  No good!

  Tie Yunzi's heart skipped a beat, originally he still had hopes of using Xixi's life as a threat to delay for a while, but unexpectedly the old man's move was incredibly fast, so fast that he didn't even have time to react, it completely exceeded all his imagination.

  At the same time, an uncontrollable chill rose in his heart, as if he had fallen into an ice cave. If this guy had made a move just now, wouldn't he already be dead?

  It wasn't just Tie Yunzi, everyone present, including Chen Tai and Bei Heng who were hiding in the distance to watch, felt a huge shock in their hearts and were terrified when they saw the old man make his move.

  That speed of his has already exceeded their understanding!

  Only Beiheng vaguely saw that the old man seemed to have grasped a thread of spatial grand dao, and with a casual move, he could tear open the void, doing as he pleased, his speed was more than twice that of instantaneous teleportation.

  "Bai Gan, Teng Shu, kill! Kill all these people!" Bai Yuqing said word by word, her eyes full of murderous intent, extremely resolute.

  "Don't worry, little sister, none of them will escape today!" Bai Gan, a red-haired young man with an evil smile, had an endless killing intent flowing from his handsome and charming face.

  "Miss, this matter is settled. You must follow me home, otherwise..." The old man's words were cut off by Bai Yuqing: "Don't worry, I'll definitely keep my word this time!"

  "Good!" The old man nodded, his eyes which had been narrowed suddenly opened wide, shooting out two cold gleams like thunderbolts. His whole body emitted a terrifying aura that made the heavens and earth change color. In the void within a hundred feet of him, the air suddenly churned and foamed like the surface of the sea, shattering into spatial rifts that looked like waves.

  At this moment, the old man who had been silent for a long time was like a changed person, with an overwhelming momentum that made everyone present feel an uncontrollable sense of helplessness and despair. It was as if they were facing a towering mountain that stood upright in the sky, impossible to shake or cross!