Chapter 2762: The Underworld

The geniuses who perished in the giant turtle's mouth never reappeared, but those who escaped from its maw did return.

The weaker, auxiliary nations suffered, and the dominant nations paid them no mind. The rulers and their ministers offered no pity.

Yet, among the common people, there is love and hate.

In the end, like a wildfire igniting dry grass, it spreads uncontrollably after years of simmering wind, erupting wildly overnight.

Although Yin Guan had clearly escaped, he still didn't hesitate to use a treasure obtained from Wan Xian Palace through nine deaths and a lifetime's struggle, initiating a challenge against Ji Yan Yue.

The result of this challenge was that Ji Yan Yue remained completely unharmed, while he, thousands of miles away, suffered severe injuries and vomited blood on the spot.

So, did that "Thousand Tribulations Eye" truly return without merit?

At this moment, Ji Yan Yue's body twisted continuously. The curse power, like leaf veins and tree networks, was responding.

The mouthful of blood Yin Guan spat out in the nameless tavern was the true declaration of this challenge.

From that point on, his curse upon Ji Yan Yue never ceased for a single day.

Water droplets can pierce stone, and accumulated soil can form a mountain.

In Dao Calendar 3918, he had already proven himself a Shen Lin, set to tread the arduous path to the heavenly way.

In Dao Calendar 3921, he returned to You, killing the monarch, ministers, and generals, overthrowing the old court, and escaping unharmed.

In Dao Calendar 3923, he participated in the Shi Zhen battle, already capable of using curse power to influence Zhuang Gao Xian.

Today is already Dao Calendar 3927!

Having been continuously cursed by such a Yin Guan for nearly six years... the curse power, like a disease, had reached an incurable stage!

At this moment, the curse power inside Ji Yan Yue's body was not spreading or invading, but being awakened and actively engaged.

It was like another instinct of the body, awakened through life's experiences.

Survival and destruction are both instincts!

Cultivating the heart is all about subduing original desires. How can people resist instincts?

"I truly underestimated you, Yin Guan." Ji Yan Yue endured the strong urge for self-destruction and raised a fist directly.

The palace lamp was already shattered.

Five-colored glazed fire escaped its cage and soared upwards, boiling flames rolling. She took a step and stepped into it!

Burning the body with fire, burning the curse with truth.

Above her head, wisps of green smoke rose, like mayflies far away.

That was the curse power being expelled.

Standing upright in this swaying five-colored glazed fire, Ji Yan Yue manifested a kind of sacred beauty: "Yin Guan, after lying low for six years, don't you personally come out to reap the harvest? How can just this degree repay your hatred?"

Responding to her was rainwater, green raindrops falling from the sky.

Each drop of rain contained resentment and madness.

A sudden downpour.

This world was cursed... no, this world was cursing Ji Yan Yue!

At this moment, Ji Yan Yue also smelled a foul odor. Her palace, presiding over this world, seemed to have turned into a latrine. Filthy, disgusting, viscous corpse fluid overflowed from the palace's crevices, flowing out in all directions, polluting everything it touched.

Ji Yan Yue frowned. She didn't feel fear, but rather disgust.

And in the air, that round red flame bright moon, which she had timely cut off, also broke free. Yin Guan had completely plundered it. At this moment, it was a green flame moon, curved like a knife, suddenly slashing down!

"Alright..."

Ji Yan Yue lightly sighed, her brows furrowed. With a single grasp of her right hand, the entire world infinitely contracted—

Divine dragons wailed, mountains collapsed, the iron rules of the world easily dissolved. The curse power clinging to this world like a bone-attached ailment also dissolved into nothingness. Those foul parts, along with the blood coffin, were naturally erased.

She ultimately held the highest authority in this world and possessed the most choices. And she chose to abandon over two hundred years of accumulation, reopen this world, and let Yin Guan's subsequent means die in the womb.

But as she put away her True Fate King Realm, what she saw before her eyes was no longer the prosperous scenery of the Chi Dao. Instead, there were green trees forming a forest, green grass forming a turf, birds singing, flowers blooming, and a gentle breeze blowing... what a harmonious place!

Her expression was serious.

In front of her stood Yin Guan, with a mask hanging from his waist and an expressionless face.

Very clearly, Yin Guan had been standing here just moments ago, triggering the curse across worlds to fight her.

This was their truly meaningful first meeting. Previously, this young person named "Yin Guan" had never dared to truly stand in front of her. Only last time was a hastily ended illusion.

She seriously sized up this person and this world, trying to grasp a reality.

Behind Yin Guan, seven people stood in a row, some standing, some squatting, some on treetops, some on the grass. Everyone was wrapped in black robes, and everyone manifested the Shen Lin aura.

Hand carrying double knives, Song Emperor King. Back carrying a blood coffin, Wu Guan King. Hands incessantly turning dice, Yan Luo King. Blood qi pervading, Tai Shan King. Right hand holding an array disc, Du Shi King. Like a blazing sun emitting strong light, Ping Deng King. Rune chains like snakes winding around his body, Zhuan Lun King.

Ji Yan Yue's gaze swept over them one by one: "Ten Halls Yan Luo, why are two missing? Do you regard this palace so lightly? Bian Cheng King and Chu Jiang King?"

No one answered her.

Yin Guan stood alone in front of all the Yan Luo, and at his feet, a green flame burning evil altar rumbled upwards.

His pupils turned green, his long hair hung to his ankles, and he opened his hands: "Welcome to my world—this is also your hell!"

The small bird flying in the air suddenly grew barbs and fangs. The gentle green grass suddenly grew wildly, like a group of snakes dancing madly. The verdant green trees suddenly bared teeth and claws, twisting like demons—

Boom! Boom... Boom! Boom!

Ten sinister halls rose in this world, virtually suspended in the air, making the bright world suddenly dim. Eight of them cast down virtual shadows, covering the eight Yan Luo. And the horizon held a blood moon, floating with a touch of阴翳 (yin yi).

Everything here was twisted.

Behind the harmony was all madness.

This was exclusively Qin Guang King's curse technique world, its name was Yin Cao!

At this moment, Ji Yan Yue finally understood what Hell No Door had done while she was fighting against the curse power within her body and resisting the desire for self-destruction.

Her True Fate King Realm had been moved inside Yin Cao, her palace had been soiled by the most filthy powers, and the curse of nearly six years had exploded on her Dao Body...

But were these things alone enough to kill her, Ji Yan Yue?

She didn't think of escaping. Instead, she pounced forward: "You have invited me, how can I refuse! Then let this palace personally see what hell is like!"

There was no road in front.

Vertically blocking her path was a bone tile, at this moment as large as a door board.

The back of the bone tile faced her, while the front faced the crowd of Yan Luo.

Yan Luo King's body emitted a faint golden light. He stepped out, his black robe flying, his power surging, and with a worldly tone said: "Guess single or double ba!"

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

One by one bone tiles, one after another, flew out, as if an endless door.

His power was strengthened in Yin Cao.

"A set of Pai Gow, a total of thirty-two tiles. That means there will be thirty-two rounds between us. Guess right, the damage is reduced once. Guess wrong, this time the damage doubles." Yan Luo King introduced the gambling rules: "If you arbitrarily cross the bone tile, you will be considered to have failed and will immediately receive the attack. If—"

Before he could finish his words, a real figure had already crossed over. Ji Yan Yue indifferently crossed the wilderness and easily threw those bone tiles behind her.

Yan Luo King insisted on finishing the rules: "If you refuse the gamble, you are considered to have lost. All damages will explode at once." All the virtually suspended bone tiles disappeared in an instant.

The illusions of thirty-two bone tiles simultaneously exploded on Ji Yan Yue's Dao Body. A terrifying explosion was happening and continuously stacking—but it abruptly stopped.

Because along with it, a suddenly fluttering red, white, and blue three-colored flag appeared.

This flag was raised high in the air, unstoppable.

All the damages from this gamble happened on the flag and did not harm Ji Yan Yue at all.

This was a secret transmission of the Da Jing imperial family, an Earth Rank Dao Technique, the Heaven's Fate King Flag!

In the terrifying explosion, the flag surface was already tattered, but the flag pole turned into a spear, lightning fast across the sky, piercing Yan Luo King! Along with his dice, everything was hit into nothingness.

Ji Yan Yue's choice, seemingly bearing the maximum damage from this set of Pai Gow, was actually the most correct decision.

Truly gambling with Yan Luo King, truly touching the word "gamble," would face the worst result.

Because gambling has no end. This set of Pai Gow was just the beginning. The continuously accumulated bets and the continuously climbing greed were the means of Yan Luo King's invisible divine ability to kill.

Ji Yan Yue cleanly and neatly killed Yan Luo King, completely undisturbed. It can be said that she fully displayed her power and insight, but her tightly locked brows did not open.

Because she had already discovered that she hadn't truly killed Yan Luo King.

Yin Cao's special power had suspended Yan Luo King's life.

Qin Guang King, on the other side, had already grasped the Heaven's Fate King Flag that had fallen to the ground, trying to drill through this world. His pair of evil green eyes gradually became manic, in a moment dyeing the flag green. Then he rolled the flag surface, using the flag tip as a spear tip, and thrust a spear—

What a spear!

Just like a lone star blocking the moon, like a strong man drawing a bow.

A meteor flying arrow plundering the long sky, killing towards her eyebrows across the world.

Ji Yan Yue raised her palm like a knife in front of her eyebrows, chopping her own Heaven's Fate King Flag. Her palm knife then poked towards Qin Guang King's face. Qin Guang King leaned backward, making way for a piece of dazzling brilliance!

Like the sun rising in the east!

Ping Deng King stepped out from the fierce light. His body had infinite light and heat and grasped the fierce light as a long spear, substituting for Qin Guang King's spear and again killing towards Ji Yan Yue's eyebrows.

At this moment, he was so brilliant, like that proud figure running on the Qi Xia battlefield in the past.

But the fierce light long spear he saw turned blood-colored—just like the blood spear on the Qi Yang battlefield.

This blood color was not dyed by the enemy but came from himself.

Ping Deng King's body was torn open, with the sound of a water sac being cut. Fresh blood sprinkled on the fierce light long spear and then scattered together, without a trace.

Still not truly killed? Still only killed out of Yin Cao, unable to kill the life soul?

Ji Yan Yue's mind moved slightly, but it did not affect the fight. At this moment, she had already killed into the Yan Luo team. Suddenly, her body released five colors, like a lotus born, opening glazed fire everywhere!

The Hug Moon Lamp was squeezed dry of its last value at this moment. The five-colored glazed fire covered all the Yan Luo, even engulfing the sky, forcing its way towards the Yan Luo Hall.

For a time, all the Yan Luo avoided.

Only Qin Guang King stepped into the flames.

His eyes were so manic and chaotic, yet his steps were so composed and unhurried. Seeking order in chaos, treading pain as stairs. He had lived this life this way, and now he also walked towards Ji Yan Yue this way.

Ji Yan Yue, however, raised a hand and held her palm out in front.

A wooden door rose into the air, suppressing the air and locking momentum, blocking Qin Guang King outside the door.

Looking at Yin Guan through the door was like looking down on ants from a high mountain. Looking at the wooden door, Yin Guan was ethereal, as if in clouds and mist.

Earth Rank Dao Technique, Ethereal Door!

This door could be seen but not reached, remotely unseen. It was a first-class method to obstruct enemies. Most importantly, it could cut off qi and hide traces.

Yin Guan, however, just turned his evil eyes, then imprinted green on the door lintel. Green light wandered on the Ethereal Door, using the curse to establish initial contact, like grasping an iron chain in the mist, then approaching with big strides.

Ji Yan Yue, however, didn't care. She only roughly judged the time, then turned her feet, casually selected a Yan Luo, and killed straight over.

The one she selected was exactly the Eight Halls Du Shi King.

Seeing the true person of this world coming over, Du Shi King didn't fear but laughed. He wiped his hands open in front, revealing a total of eighteen array discs, arranged in a fan shape.

These were not simply stacked array discs. Each array disc was made by him personally, and there were inseparable connections between the array discs.

In this battle, all losses had organizational reimbursement, and he was rarely extravagant this once.

Thus, there was this style—

Linked Arrays Kill!

The heart of the divine spirit responded to heaven and earth. Array patterns successively lit up, inciting yuan force like tides.

The so-called heavenly thunder hooking earthly fire was like hail hitting withered flowers.

At this moment, eighteen array discs simultaneously burst strong light, like thousands of troops and horses mixed together—

Ji Yan Yue's index finger inserted straight into Du Shi King's eyebrows, emitting a crisp sound as her finger broke through the skull.

In this sound, the array discs stopped one by one, destroyed one by one. Losing the main control power, leaderless, they collapsed like a defeated army.

And Du Shi King's corpse hung down, sliding off Ji Yan Yue's finger.

One could see that this finger, at this moment, was like cast gold, emitting a dazzling brilliance that was hard to look at directly.

Da Jing imperial secret transmission, only a non-Heavenly Son bloodline could not use it, the Gao Huang Sever Life Finger!

Penetrate dragon qi and imperial might, cut off the life path and fate momentum.

After failing to kill Yan Luo twice in succession, Ji Yan Yue had already grasped reality and found the method to pierce the rules of the Yin Cao, using this style of Gao Huang Sever Life Finger to break the illusion, pierce the Yin Cao, and truly kill the opponent!

Eight Halls Du Shi King, war dead!

The so-called Yan Luo were extremely vicious, killing people like mowing down hemp. They never cared about human lives. As long as the reward was sufficient, they could also not care about their own lives. But one should not expect them to have any camaraderie.

Except for Wu Guan King, not a single one was willing to collect the corpse for their colleague.

As soon as Du Shi King died, the remaining Yan Luo suddenly scattered like birds and beasts. There was no sadness for the dead rabbit or fox; what was spoken of was a great disaster at hand and seeing who ran fastest.

And Ji Yan Yue didn't care about them. She circled back in the air, heading towards the Ethereal Door.

Killing one or two Yan Luo was not the purpose. Using Du Shi King's death to verify the rules of the Yin Cao world was her goal!

At this moment, she already had some insight and was about to kill her way out of this sinister hell into a bright heaven and earth. Her large sleeves flew, and her plain hand probed out, holding the reopened True Fate King Realm in her hand, inversely curved into a narrow knife with yin-engraved dragon patterns.

At this moment, Yin Guan had only just approached the Ethereal Door. She directly pushed the door open and killed out with the knife.

Like divine might descending from the nine heavens, pouncing to kill the rebellious ants in the mortal world.

It was the so-called, Heavenly Splendor Cut Dust Knife!

In the past, Jing Tai Zu Ji Yu Su cultivated the Heavenly Emperor Dharma Body, self-opened the heavenly realm, unified all sides, claimed to be the strongest derivation in ancient and modern times, and was invincible even without national power.

Her True Fate King Realm, although far incomparable and unprecedentedly weak after being reopened, could still make gods and ghosts avoid it when held as a narrow knife at this moment!

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