novelraw Chapter 112 : Anomaly Beneath the Dead Spirit Abyss
Chapter 112 : Anomaly Beneath the Dead Spirit Abyss
Chapter 112: Anomaly Beneath the Dead Spirit Abyss
After a period of flight, Lu Xueqi and Ancestor Duanmu arrived one after the other at an extremely desolate place.
Lu Xueqi swept her gaze across the area. Ahead stood a massive stone platform, with the three large characters “Dead Spirit Abyss” engraved along its edge.
Below the stone platform was a bottomless chasm.
Understanding dawned in her heart—this was precisely the place where Zhang Xiaofan had met Elder Nian and the others in the original work.
Sensing that there were no other auras behind her anymore, her gaze sharpened. She fixed her eyes on the still-fleeing Ancestor Duanmu and coldly shouted, “Ancestor Duanmu, today is the day you die!”
Ancestor Duanmu turned a deaf ear.
In his view, Lu Xueqi’s threat was nothing more than empty words.
As long as she could not catch up to him, he could stall for time until Qin Wuyan finished dealing with the Qingyun Sect members and came to reinforce him.
By then, how could a lone and unsupported Lu Xueqi withstand a joint siege?
Seeing that the other party ignored her, Lu Xueqi hesitated no longer.
Her figure suddenly surged forward, her speed as fast as lightning. In an instant, she turned into an afterimage, appearing before Ancestor Duanmu in the blink of an eye.
Ancestor Duanmu, who had been vigilantly watching his rear, was struck with shock. He abruptly raised his head and saw that Lu Xueqi had already blocked his path. His entire body trembled involuntarily. “How is this possible?!”
“Why wouldn’t it be possible?” Lu Xueqi sneered. “Your strength is nothing but that of an ant in my eyes. Today is your death day!”
Though panic-stricken, Ancestor Duanmu still forced himself to retort, “So what if you’re fast? My cultivation surpasses yours. Wanting to kill me is nothing but wishful thinking!”
Before his words had even fallen, an overwhelmingly terrifying pressure erupted from Lu Xueqi’s body.
Ancestor Duanmu felt as though he had suffered divine retribution. His eyes instantly dimmed as his body seemed to be crushed beneath ten thousand jun-weight boulders, plummeting straight down from the air.
He desperately activated his spiritual power with all his might, yet he could not resist in the slightest.
With a thunderous boom, he was suppressed into the ground, smashing out an enormous deep pit.
Despite his formidable physical body, the intense pain nearly drove him to collapse.
He raised his head in terror. “So this is your true strength? You’ve been playing with me all along!”
“You’re fairly perceptive,” Lu Xueqi said calmly. “You’ve run long enough. It’s time to end this.”
Ancestor Duanmu completely panicked, cold sweat pouring down his face. “Fairy Lu, spare my life! I’m willing to submit and be at your disposal!”
“No need.” Lu Xueqi’s expression was icy. “Your meager strength is useless to me. Entanglement with the demonic path would only damage my reputation.”
She lightly pointed with her right hand, and golden lightning instantly descended. Amid Ancestor Duanmu’s miserable screams, everything returned to nothingness.
Lu Xueqi looked at the dissipating figure, her expression calm.
Her gaze then fell upon the Ten Thousand Souls Banner on the ground. With a wave of her right hand, she put it away, then issued an order in the chat group: “Appraise how many points this Ten Thousand Souls Banner is worth.”
A mechanical voice rang out: “Ding. Appraisal complete. Ten Thousand Souls Banner (damaged), Foundation Establishment–stage magic treasure. Can be exchanged for 8,000 points.”
Hearing the voice in her mind, even Lu Xueqi could not help feeling pleasantly surprised.
After a moment of thought, she decided that the item was of no use to her and immediately instructed, “Chat group, sell this Ten Thousand Souls Banner.”
“Ding. Sale successful. Congratulations, you have obtained 8,000 points.”
After receiving the notification, she nodded slightly and began calculating how to use these points.
Lu Xueqi looked at the system panel. Her original total of over 17,000 points had now become more than 25,000.
This unexpected windfall caused a smile to appear on her face. Having accumulated such an amount of points, she could finally break through her realm!
She did not hesitate any longer and immediately issued a command to the chat group: “Chat group, increase my strength by one level.”
The moment her words fell, a vast and surging power churned within her body.
This force was like a breached flood, pushing her cultivation higher and higher.
Originally at the late stage of the First Level of the Supreme Purity Realm, her cultivation instantly broke through to the Second Level of the Supreme Purity Realm, and the momentum did not stop, surging all the way to the peak of the Second Level of the Supreme Purity Realm before slowly coming to a halt.
Carefully sensing the surging spiritual power within her body, Lu Xueqi felt overjoyed.
With just a single realm breakthrough, her strength had increased severalfold.
The Tai Chi Profound Immortal Dao she cultivated grew ever more disparate between realms the further one advanced.
Now, if she were to face her pre-breakthrough self, victory could be decided within a single move.
After dealing with Ancestor Duanmu, Lu Xueqi did not rush back to the passage to support Qi Hao and the others.
She knew that although the remaining demonic cultivators were numerous and not weak, with Qi Hao’s abilities, holding them off for a while would not be a problem.
At this moment, her gaze locked onto the Dead Spirit Abyss beneath her feet.
Staring at this gloomy land, her expression turned solemn.
From beneath the Dead Spirit Abyss, a strange and eerie aura was faintly seeping out—utterly different from what was recorded in the original work.
According to the original story, although countless muddle-minded souls existed beneath the Dead Spirit Abyss, these souls possessed no intelligence. They merely instinctively devoured the vitality of intruders and did not possess formidable combat power.
Yet the aura she sensed now suggested that even an expert of the Upper Purity Realm would likely fall into danger if they rashly entered.
Filled with doubts, Lu Xueqi’s figure flashed as she flew straight into the Dead Spirit Abyss.
The instant she stepped inside, a mysterious figure far away in a cave behind Tianyin Temple seemed to sense something. He abruptly raised his head and muttered to himself, “System, what’s going on?”
Immediately afterward, information about Lu Xueqi entering the Dead Spirit Abyss ahead of schedule surfaced in his mind.
“No, I can’t let her go in early.” The mysterious figure’s expression tightened. His plan was to wait until all the righteous path disciples gathered so he could reap even more shock points.
Without delay, he urgently issued an order to the system: “System, use 10,000 shock points to exchange for a barrier. Stop her!”
As his words fell, 10,000 shock points were instantly deducted from the panel.
Looking at the sharply reduced shock points, the mysterious figure felt a stab of pain in his heart.
These were the fruits of his painstaking accumulation over a long time.
But when he imagined the righteous path disciples entering the Dead Spirit Abyss and being stunned by the scenes he had carefully arranged, anticipation surged within him once more, a glint of determined ambition flashing in his eyes.
Meanwhile, after probing downward into the Dead Spirit Abyss for a while, Lu Xueqi flew back up with an unsightly expression.
It turned out that during her descent, she had actually encountered an invisible barrier.
This barrier appeared without warning, stretching across her path and instantly blocking her advance.
Lu Xueqi stared at the barrier below, her expression grave.
This barrier exuded an indescribable strangeness. No matter how she looked at it, it did not resemble something that should exist in this world.
She immediately understood that the abnormality of the Dead Spirit Abyss was very likely caused by yet another transmigrator.
At this thought, anger rose within Lu Xueqi.
Becoming a woman after transmigrating into the Zhuxian world was one thing, but now so many transmigrators had appeared—it truly infuriated her.
In truth, Lu Xueqi’s personality was rather easygoing.
If it did not involve matters of her own chastity or life and death, she would much rather live as a reclusive homebody cultivator, slowly increasing her cultivation and hoping that one day she could ascend to immortality and roam freely between heaven and earth.
But now, with large numbers of transmigrators flooding into this world, she felt both angry and perplexed. What exactly had happened to this world? Why were transmigrators appearing in clusters, throwing everything here into chaos?
Even so, all Lu Xueqi could think about right now was entering the depths of the Dead Spirit Abyss.
She was extremely interested in the Heavenly Book inside. If there were a chance, she was determined to take a look, thinking that it might greatly benefit her cultivation.
Without further hesitation, Lu Xueqi abruptly poured her spiritual power into the Tianyao Divine Sword.
In an instant, the Tianyao Divine Sword erupted with brilliant blue light, terrifying might filling the entire Dead Spirit Abyss.
She prepared to unleash her full power in a single strike to shatter the barrier of the Dead Spirit Abyss.
Once ready, she swung her sword down with all her might.
A resplendent blue sword light tore through the air, carrying terrifying power capable of cleaving heaven and earth as it struck heavily upon the barrier.
“Boom—!”
A tremendous sound echoed throughout the Dead Spirit Abyss. Even the entirety of Kong Sang Mountain shook violently under this single strike.
Within the passage, Bloodsucking Old Demon, Qi Hao, and the others were all startled by the commotion and began speculating, “Could it be that Kong Sang Mountain is about to collapse?”
Immediately, their figures flashed as they rushed out of the passage.
Inside the Dead Spirit Abyss, however, Lu Xueqi’s expression grew even uglier.
Under her all-out strike, the barrier remained completely unscathed.
This bizarre situation filled her with extreme wariness toward the person who had set up the barrier.