CHAPTER 342: CHAPTER 62: UNDYING BODY

The Ming Rendie had vanished, vanished so thoroughly.

Following its disappearance, Ah Chu and her son were also gone.

Yue Jinghua tried to search for the trace of the Ming Rendie with her soul, but not even the slightest fluctuation could be sensed.

It was as if it had suddenly burrowed into the depths of the earth, leaving no trace to be found.

This was the innate talent of a Time Attribute Dark Beast. Its spatial manipulation abilities were especially outstanding, able to perfectly conceal itself in any corner.

The enemy lay hidden in the shadows while Yue Jinghua was exposed in the open. She did not act rashly but paced small steps within the cave.

The dim blue light within the cave continued to shimmer; Yue Jinghua advanced a few steps, only to discover that the path they came from had vanished.

As the path disappeared, so did the wind that had been roaming through the cavern.

It was foreseeable that the entrance to the cave had been sealed.

"Oh no, you’re wasting your effort. The Evil Jiao that dwelled in this cave in the early years had a Time Attribute, and since the Ming Rendie was nurtured from a portion of the Evil Jiao’s flesh and blood, it must also belong to the Time Attribute," the Gold Eater Worm said with immense frustration.

Time Attribute Dark Beasts were extremely rare on the continent, and these kinds of Dark Beasts were innately endowed with the talent to seal spaces and twist time.

"Oh no, this isn’t the worst part. The most terrifying thing is that a high-level Time Attribute possesses the invisible Dark Techniques. It’s definitely hiding in some corner right now, ready to strike us hard," the Gold Eater Worm lamented.

The Snake-haired Gorgon quietly stood beside Yue Jinghua, accompanying her in surveying their surroundings.

Just as the Gold Eater Worm had said, after a thorough examination, Yue Jinghua still found no exit.

The Ming Rendie had been living in this cave for hundreds of years, and it’s very likely that this area had been set with special time and space prohibitions long ago. Without a proficient Array Master, it would be impossible to leave or enter.

Was she going to be trapped here to die?

Thump, thump, thump...

Yue Jinghua could hear the beating of her own heart. Her Desire Gourd carried plenty of water and food, and she wasn’t afraid to stand off with the Ming Rendie, but she slowly realized that as the dim blue light on the cave walls gradually brightened, the Dark Power she could absorb into her Dantian was rapidly decreasing.

It seemed that the Ming Rendie was trying to completely trap Yue Jinghua to death inside by squeezing the Dark Energy of the cave.

Moreover, with no sky above and no ground below in the cave, Yue Jinghua also couldn’t generate Dark Power using the Nine Revolutions Creation Technique.

The sensation was like a person who had inadvertently entered a sealed room where the air was quickly running out, and the feelings of suffocation and terror were intensifying non-stop.

Continuing like this, it was feared that even before her food and water ran out, the Dark Power in Yue Jinghua’s body would be exhausted.

One must stay calm; panic will only lead to an even more terrifying predicament.

Yue Jinghua sat down cross-legged, closed her eyes, and meditated without paying any more attention to the changes in her surroundings.

As the seconds and minutes passed, all of a sudden, the Ming Rendie revealed itself from behind Yue Jinghua, its face twisted in ferocity as it lunged towards Yue Jinghua’s neck, glowing with dark marks.

It was then that the Snake-haired Gorgon, who had been vigilantly by Yue Jinghua’s side, opened its sky-blue eyes, its serpent teeth hissing, and a coldness like an Ice Arrow shot towards the Ming Rendie.

The breath of the Snake-haired Gorgon was exceedingly cold; the Ming Rendie’s defensive power was quite ordinary. Struck by such a cold blast, a thin layer of frost covered its flapping wings, its form slowed down by a beat. Almost simultaneously, Yue Jinghua, who seemed to be meditating, leaped up.

The Great Sword in her hand whooshed as it thrust at the body of the Ming Rendie, sending out fierce sword shadows and sealing off its escape route entirely. With one stroke, she split the Ming Rendie’s body into two halves,

Just when Yue Jinghua was about to take a breather, appreciating the silent coordination between herself and Gore,

The already bisected Ming Rendie underwent a monstrous transformation, as its wings, which had been split in two, started emitting a sound like shattering glass.

Crack, crack, crack, just like a whole piece of glass instantly fracturing into numerous petals, the Ming Rendie, as if by magic, split into several individuals.

What was even more astonishing was that the splitting continued. In the span of a few breaths, the kite-sized Ming Rendie had fractured into over a hundred moth-sized butterflies, each with a fingernail-sized aged face, all resembling the original Ming Rendie, but vastly smaller in size.

Splitting; it had actually learned the mother’s ability to split. This Eighth Rank Ming Rendie was much more formidable than Yue Jinghua and the Gold Eater Worm had anticipated.

"Hee hee--"

Countless laughing sounds formed wave after wave of sonorous noise.

Suddenly, over a hundred moth-sized butterfly moths, like a group of frenzied wasps, flapped their wings in unison, not fearing the sword shadows cast by Yue Jinghua’s Great Sword, and swarmed towards her.

No matter how watertight Yue Jinghua wielded her Great Sword, she could not defend against such concentrated attacks.

Retreat, there was no route of escape.

Battle, there was no chance of victory.

The phosphorescent light filling the sky now seemed like the lamplight of the grim reaper from hell, at any moment ready to engulf Yue Jinghua and her Dark Beasts.

Between life and death, Yue Jinghua’s gaze swept over the open Stone Coffin nearby.

This Stone Coffin, a sealed Stone Coffin, impenetrable and indestructible even to her Great Sword.

Inside the Stone Coffin, the white jade-like corpse of the Jiao was intact.

The Evil Jiao, in its dying moments, had created this Stone Coffin embedded with the Jiao Clan’s spell for itself and its child.

Like a bright meteor streaking across a pitch-black, lightless night sky,

Yue Jinghua didn’t hesitate at all, her Nan Zhu Ring flashed with radiant light, and she summoned her two Dark Beasts back into Mo Xi’s Sea of Consciousness.

Her hand’s Lianyun Great Sword confidently executed a Cloud Stacking strike, and sword shadows descended like a flurry of snow. Wherever the sword light reached, the hit Ming Rendie simultaneously ceased flapping, like pebbles striking stones, their wings broken and scattered on the ground.

No sooner were the wings broken than a new group of Ming Rendie reformed. The more she killed, the more Ming Rendie appeared.

Taking advantage of the Ming Rendie’s moment of splitting and regenerating, Yue Jinghua spared no effort with a running start, supported herself with one hand on the Stone Coffin, and leapt vigorously, performing a motion as if mounting a galloping horse.

With a splash, she jumped into the Stone Coffin that still contained half a coffin’s worth of Incubation Liquid.

Her movement grossly exaggerated; such a leap stirred the liquid in the coffin, splashing it high, causing her to choke on several mouthfuls and snorts of Incubation Liquid, experiencing the extremely uncomfortable sensation of all her organs being pressed together.

Noticing Yue Jinghua’s action and seeing her attempt to hide in the Stone Coffin, the Ming Rendie howled with anger, leading its clones to pounce, but it seemed to greatly fear the yellow incubation liquid. Seeing the liquid spraying out from the Stone Coffin, it dared not approach.

The ancient Jiao Clan spell inscribed on the Stone Coffin once again shone brightly, and with a thunderous rumble, the Stone Coffin closed.