Chapter 354: Hundred-Ghost Procession! Body of a Judge of the Underworld! Burning Lifespan! Blazing Inferno!

At this time, the robed elder’s eyes were locked firmly on the ancient seal in Li Yanchu’s hand. He had opened the Ghost Gate, and behind him surged a Hundred-Ghost Procession.

Just then, yin qi erupted. Yet, to his shock, the archaic seal swallowed it all like a whale devouring the sea.

The hundred ghosts trembled in fear, and in the very next moment, they all fell to their knees together, bowing in humble submission! The fearsome, heaven-shaking parade of ghosts... now looked utterly ridiculous.

“Is that a seal of the underworld? At the very least, it’s at the judge level!”

The robed elder’s breathing grew ragged, and he couldn’t help but swallow hard. Cultivators sought longevity; those who walked the Ghost Dao sought their destination in the underworld.

But alas, with heaven and earth transformed, and with ages of change and myths buried in oblivion, the truth of many things had long since vanished in the river of time.

To obtain the body of an underworld official was nearly impossible. Yet to wield a seal of the underworld meant there was a chance to condense the body of a Ghost Immortal, to possess the form of an underworld judge!

From his lips spilled an obscure incantation. At first it sounded like Daoist scripture, but listening closely, it was not. Soon it shifted into a strange, unearthly tongue.

Before the naked eye, the elder’s entire body began to grow younger. The age spots faded away, and his features became striking and vigorous like a middle-aged Daoist. His white hair turned black, and divine light radiated from his eyes!

One after another, mysterious incantations enveloped the heavens and earth. His aura surged higher and higher, while stones shattered and flew, and the ground shook violently.

Terrifying power raged around him, yin winds howling madly. He was recklessly burning his very lifespan and dharma-body through a secret technique, all to break into the third realm in the shortest possible time, and to forcibly suppress this young Daoist.

In just an instant, the robed elder had already sensed several terrifying auras converging on this place, among them two that were all too familiar and both brimming with malice. He would not scheme for so long only to let others reap the spoils. This battle must be swift and decisive!

The winds shifted, the skies changed; it was as though the very boundaries of heaven and earth had been pulled down. The dense mists within the city surged and boiled, like a vast sea of clouds.

At this moment, the robed elder’s aura stirred heaven and earth, manifesting a phenomenon all by his own.

“Die!”

Just then, his fingers pressed together like a sword. In the next instant, a colossal razor-sharp azure saber appeared before Li Yanchu, tearing through the void!

Clang!

𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

The sound of great bronze bells thundered across heaven and earth. The azure giant sword crashed into the protective qi around Li Yanchu’s body, and in a single moment, it shattered!

However, the sword’s aura dimmed greatly as well, which made the elder dumbfounded. To temper a warrior’s true qi to such a level, if he had not burned his own lifespan to ascend into the third realm, he likely could not have so easily suppressed this young Daoist. Now, though, the elder brimmed with vigor, confidence surging like never before!

“Wind, come!” With a low command, the heavens erupted in ghostly gales.

“Rain, fall!” Dark clouds blotted out the sky, and torrential rain poured in sheets.

The yin wind and cursed rain corroded divine arts and souls alike, destroying flesh, bone, and marrow. Nothing could be more vicious!

He stood proud amid the storm, his Daoist robe immaculate, not touched by a speck of dust, like a true grandmaster commanding wind and rain at will. His overwhelming aura even forced the restless ghosts and miasma of Fengdu into temporary silence!

“So this... is the wondrous vision of the third realm?”

The robed elder relished the feeling of such immense power. He turned toward Li Yanchu, his tone icy cold as he said, “Hand over the ancient seal in your possession, and I will grant you a swift death! Otherwise, I shall refine you into a walking corpse, and let your soul suffer the agony of a thousand cuts!”

His voice rumbled like rolling thunder, echoing across all heaven and earth.

“You? You think you’re worthy enough to defeat me?” Li Yanchu’s reply rang out, and at once the elder’s face darkened. With but a thought, the ghostly winds surged forth, but in midair, it dispersed completely.

He had taken out a mythical artifact, the Wind Tamer!

Li Yanchu raised his head slightly, and his gaze fixed upon the storm clouds above. At once, he summoned the Ten Thousand Crows Urn. With that, countless fiery crows burst forth from the vessel, blotting out the sky. The dark clouds instantly evaporated, and their eerie, baleful energy was burned to nothingness by the crows’ flames, dissipating into mere vapor.

With a thought, Li Yanchu drew forth the ancient, titanic Wind Divine Bow. As his fingers plucked its string, the roar of wind and thunder shook the heavens. Every muscle in his body tensed, brimming with explosive strength, like an ancient human deity descending into the mortal world.

Golden divine light radiated from him, as the bowstring bent swiftly into a full moon.

Whoosh!

A dazzling divine arrow shot straight toward the robed elder hovering in midair.

Boom!

The elder waved a hand, casting forth a spell, and at the same time a Daoist ritual bell appeared in his grasp. With each shake, layers of transparent, formless ripples spread outward!

Li Yanchu’s heart jolted, seized as though by an invisible hand, as if the very next instant it would be ripped from his chest.

Boom!

The muscles on Li Yanchu’s back bulged like coiled dragons; in the blink of an eye, another divine arrow was loosed. Then, it appeared instantly before the robed elder.

However, a curtain of ink-dark light surged around his body, blocking the arrow’s strike. But the divine arrow carried a force of overwhelming yang, the unyielding, unmatched supreme power that could suppress all heretics and fiends!

When he saw this, the elder’s brows furrowed. The arrow’s might was immense, something even he could not take lightly!

Of course, though he had only temporarily ascended into the third realm, such arrows still could not wound his true foundation. Not unless a hundred of them were fired in a single breath.

He sneered inwardly,

How could anyone possibly fire such killing arrows a hundred times in succession?

So the robed elder felt no fear at all.

This young Daoist is as insignificant as a mere ant!

Boom!

Another divine arrow shot forth, and it struck fiercely against the protective barrier before the elder, forcing his body to halt midair.

Boom! Boom!

As Li Yanchu drew the bow again and again, his blood and qi were as vast as mountains and blazing hot beyond measure. The Daoist spiritual qi within his body alone was, of course, insufficient to fuel the bow a hundred times. But he was wielding it with the sheer, overbearing strength of his flesh, drawing bow and nocking arrows directly while consuming almost no inner spiritual qi.

Boom!

Boom!

Li Yanchu’s face was grim and unyielding as he loosed each arrow in swift succession, forcing even a mighty third realm expert into retreat.

It was simply unbelievable! The elder had thought his opponent was merely bluffing, or perhaps just hot-blooded. But his decisive killing intent left the elder’s breath growing ragged.

With a sweep of his arm, the elder tore off his Daoist robe, which instantly transformed into a vast shadow, blotting out the heavens.

“Swift!” the elder roared, and the devastating divine arrow was abruptly halted. That Daoist robe was itself a powerful artifact!

But then, Li Yanchu summoned forth an ancient seal, the Heaven-Illuminating Seal. Divine flames erupted across the sky, swallowing the robe in reverse. The supremely domineering fire within the Heaven-Illuminating Seal was a sacred flame, and it consumed the robe utterly, reducing it to nothingness!

At the same time, the aura of the Heaven-Illuminating Seal, that mighty artifact, surged higher and higher. It seemed to carry a spirit of its own with strikingly brilliant radiance flowing across its surface.

Seeing this, the robed elder was utterly shocked.

Boom!

Yet another divine arrow came streaking toward him! The muscles of the elder’s face twitched slightly.

Again!?

“Come on then, old dog! Weren’t you just saying you’d refine me into a walking corpse? You’re just spouting bullshit!!” Li Yanchu sneered, his words laced with venom. He gave the robed elder not a shred of respect, so much so that it was as if he were slapping his face outright.

When he heard Li Yanchu’s insults, flames of fury shot from the old Daoist’s eyes. “Are all juniors these days this arrogant!?”

He was so enraged that his teeth ached. To ascend into the third realm, he had burned away what little lifespan remained to him. And yet, it now seemed... that everything he had achieved might be shattered completely by this brash and overbearing young Daoist!