Daoying

Chapter 564: Refining the Dark Skeleton and Returning to the City of Hell

After Xie Huan thought for a while, he reached out to the seal.

He formed seals with his fingers in the air, removing the seals on the dark energy layer by layer. At the same time, he activated his immortal body and absorbed the energy in the immortal jade.

When there were only four or five layers of the seal left, the energy vibrated violently, and circles of black ripples spread out from it.

Xie Huan's eyes focused, and the seal in his hand turned into sword energy. A sword beam as fast as lightning turned into a black light in the air and shot into the ball of energy, nailing it to the ground.

The terrifying force spread out, and the remaining elemental seals were completely shattered.

That sword was exactly the sword of dark elements that Xie Huan had refined in the Black Abyss back then - Ye Si.

In fact, it has the same origin as the power of dark skeleton, but the level difference is too big.

Ye Si nailed the ball of energy to the ground, shaking violently with fear, and making a low sword sound, as if whimpering.

If Xie Huan hadn't forcibly suppressed him with his sword intent, he would have escaped long ago.

Even so, the sword was shaking violently and could break at any time.

Xie Huan condensed several golden auras at his fingertips and shot them onto the sword. He also summoned elements such as fire, thunder, earth, and some precious materials, all of which were melted into the sword.

"What a novel idea."

Long Xiu's eyes lit up, and he naturally realized that Xie Huan wanted to use the sword to refine the power of the dark skeleton.

But Ye Si obviously couldn't bear it, and even though Xie Huan tried his best to support it, it still began to break.

Xie Huan waved his hand, and the other twelve swords were inserted around Ye Si, forming a Great Zhoutian Element Inverted Sword Formation. The vast sword power turned and poured into Ye Si.

Use the entire sword formation to fight against the dark energy.

This was how Ye Si's tendency to collapse was resisted, and a certain weak balance was slowly formed.

Xie Huan directed the energy confrontation in the sword formation, while observing the changes in the Dark Skeleton energy. Ye Si was just the carrier he used, because this ball of energy was not just pure energy, but a small part of the Dark Skeleton, which was too dark and overbearing. If it penetrated into the body during the refining process, it would be troublesome, so a "medium" was needed to isolate it and avoid direct contact. Ye Si, who possessed the Black Abyss energy, was undoubtedly the best carrier.

Seeing Ye Si stabilized, Xie Huan stretched out his hand and grabbed him, and Ye Si immediately flew into his hand. He sat down cross-legged in the sword formation, pinched his left hand and tapped the sword. Taixu Lingyao blocked it from his fingertips and merged into the dark skeleton energy, dispersing and suppressing it.

Dark fluctuations mixed with Taixu Lingyao spread out in circles and intertwined with the sword power to form a peculiar energy field and enter a state of strong balance.

Long Xiu made a hand gesture with his right hand, and a circle of tiny ripples appeared at his fingertips, which went straight into the top of the cave, broke through the ground, and scattered into the coral reefs and sea water above. Several kinds of dreamy lights surged in the nearby area, and then gradually returned to calm.

This is a hidden restriction set up by Long Xiu.

He saw that Xie Huan had entered a stable state, and he didn't know how long it would take to refine it, so he set up a ban just in case.

Then he also sat down cross-legged opposite Xie Huan and practiced quietly.

Time passed little by little, I don’t know how long it took.

The dark energy on Ye Si was getting weaker and weaker, and was beginning to become peaceful.

One day, Xie Huan suddenly opened his eyes, raised his sword, and stuck it upside down into the ground. The dark power inside the sword flowed into his hand along the hilt and entered his body along the meridians.

The immortal body's light suddenly shone brightly, and the whole body became bright, transparent, and like jade.

With the naked eye, one could see a faint layer of black moving beneath his skin, forming strange lines.

Xie Huan had no expression on his face, but he made a protective seal and continued to sit cross-legged. The thirteen swords around him all dimmed and lost their light.

This was his last step. After using Night Thoughts to refine and stabilize the Dark Skeleton Energy, he had gained sufficient understanding of the Dark Skeleton Energy over this period of time. The next step was to use his Immortal Body to completely suppress and refine it, so that he could achieve complete control over it.

The dark energy quickly surged throughout the body, twisting the structure of the immortal body in subtle ways.

However, the foundation of Xie Huan's physical body, down to the most subtle detail, is the DNA structure of an immortal, a "perfect structure" that has surpassed the limits of practitioners and reached the "other shore".

In addition to constantly absorbing the energy of the fairy jade to replenish the body, the dark skeleton force gradually calmed down after repeated failures and was subdued by the fairy body.

Finally, after an unknown amount of time, Xie Huan stopped absorbing the fairy jade. The seal in his hand changed, and thick black air quickly permeated his body from within the transparent fairy body. He was completely filled with the power of the dark skeleton, becoming dark, gloomy, and intense.

But his face remained calm and his eyes were extremely clear.

Long Xiu clasped his fists in delight and said with a smile: "Congratulations, fellow Daoist, for refining this part of the Dark Corpse."

The thick darkness quickly dissipated from Xie Huan's body, gathered in his right arm, and then compressed into his palm. Xie Huan's right hand was like a ball of burning black flame.

He grabbed with his five fingers, and the black mass disappeared in an instant, leaving no trace.

Xie Huan also came out of his immortal body state and breathed a sigh of relief.

"The immortal body is indeed powerful. Even the hidden part of the spirit can be subdued and refined."

Long Xiu's face was full of envy.

Xie Huan said nothing, just looking at the few remaining fairy jades. With a pang of pain, he asked, "How long has it been?"

"Three months less seven days."

"so long!"

"How long does it take? You have already refined the dark skeleton part."

Long Xiu said dissatisfiedly.

For practitioners, this is a great opportunity, and spending decades or even hundreds of years on it is not a long time.

"Let's go back to the Hell City. After refining these energies, I sensed something. The dark space in the Hell City is the body of Dark Skeleton back then, but it is only the body, without the most important thing."

Xie Huan stood up and looked towards the direction of the Prison City.

"What's missing?"

Long Xiu asked in surprise.

"It's hard to explain. I'll call it the 'core'. This 'core' is extremely important, not only to Dark Remains, but even to God's Hidden Core. We must obtain it to complete the mission."

Xie Huan felt the importance of the core, which was even more important than the dark body. In fact, what Shen Xin wanted to obtain first was definitely the core, not the body, and the body came second.

“Where is the core?”

"Haitu."

"you sure?"

“That’s what I sensed.”

"Okay, let's go to Haidu then."

Long Xiu was overjoyed and said, "I wonder if the Hell City or the nearby teleportation array is open. If it is still closed, it will take us half a year to swim to the sea."

Xie Huan gave him a sarcastic look and sneered, "Is it fun for you to pretend to be stupid?"

"Uh...what do you mean?"

"Your dragon-shaped weapon can cut through any restrictions silently. Find the point of the teleportation array, cut through the space and go in directly."

"But this is very dangerous. We might get stuck in the turbulence of the wormhole."

"Use the dragon-shaped weapon to cut through the turbulent flow of the wormhole and you will be able to get out."

"...It might have been teleported directly to an unknown strange place."

"You have so many f*cking tricks, I won't go there!"

"Go, let's do as you say." The two of them left the cave, turned into a beam of light, and flew towards the direction of the Prison City.

After arriving at the City of Hell, they found that the alertness and defense in the city had been relaxed, with people coming and going everywhere. It was much more lively than before, but the expressions on everyone's faces were more serious and slightly ferocious.

The crack that was split by Long Xiu still stretched terrifyingly across the earth, like an unhealable scar.

Xie Huan entered the city, suddenly stopped and looked in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion.

"what happened?"

Long Xiu asked curiously.

"She's still here. She hasn't left."

"Logically speaking, she got most of the Dark Skeleton's body, so she should be able to sense the core more clearly than you. Why didn't she go to Haidu?"

Long Xiu asked doubtfully.

"She must be waiting for me. She sensed that I was still in the Deep Sea of ​​Prison, and she wanted to take back the part she lost."

Xie Huan said quietly sensing it.

"So she can sense you entering the city?"

Long Xiu asked vigilantly.

"Yes, but she can't confirm my location. But I can confirm her approximate location. This is because her energy is large and her target is large, while my energy is small and I am suppressed by my immortal body. I can sense that she has sensed me and she is restless. If she can locate me, she should be in front of me now."

Xie Huan said calmly.

"Oh, all right."

Long Xiu breathed a sigh of relief, then teased: "It seems that An Hai is a perfectionist. Such people usually have obsessive-compulsive disorder. You are in trouble. She will hunt you down wherever you go."

Xie Huan sighed and walked towards the Youhai Rare Goods Shop.

There are too many people who want to kill him, so he doesn't care about one more Dark Skeleton.

One of his images is a salmon man, and Long Xiu is a jellyfish man. Soon he meets Boze in the exotic goods shop.

Boze saw the two people turning back, his face turned pale with fear, and he hurriedly took them to the secret room. He was about to set up some restrictions, but was stopped by Xie Huan, who said: "That person can't locate me. You set up restrictions, but don't let her sense it. Besides, there is no one in this city who can eavesdrop on our conversation without being discovered."

Boze was even more frightened and whispered, "I thought the two adults had left the deep sea, why did you turn back?"

In fact, after the big incident that day, the two people disappeared. Bozer thought that they were most likely dead, and most likely escaped.

"It's okay to turn back. First, I want to ask about the current situation in the city, and second, I want to inform you that we plan to go to Haidu."

Xie Huan said slowly, with a hint of ambiguity in his tone.

Bozer said hurriedly, "After the big incident that day, the entire city lord's mansion was destroyed, and the city's defenses and formations were all lifted. Now they are rebuilding the damaged parts. The news I heard is that there is a terrifying existence in the city, who has subdued the city lord Hai Mo. Now everything is under the control of that person."

"The reason why the defenses and formations were removed is because that person saw our true strength and knew that these things were useless in front of us, so he simply cancelled them. The dark power that has existed in the Hell City since ancient times has been destroyed by me, and the forbidden refining here will inevitably suffer a great blow. What do you think of the future of this city?"

Xie Huan asked.

Boze's heart was shocked. He had also heard that the source of energy was destroyed, but from his current perception, the dark energy in the city had not been reduced much, so he was not sure. Now hearing what Xie Huan said, it must be true without a doubt.

He was so nervous that his hands were sweating. He was extremely afraid of the two people's strength. After thinking deeply for a while, he said, "With the energy source gone, the forbidden refining will definitely be greatly affected, but the refining scale of the Hell City has been developed over countless years. It is impossible for it to collapse in a short time. The forbidden refining will continue, but it will be more difficult. At least as an important supply base for the sea clan's refining resources, this place is enough to support it until the end of the war between the two clans."

Xie Huan frowned slightly.

He originally thought that if the forbidden refining here was destroyed, it would inevitably cause a certain blow to the logistical strength of the sea clan.

Now listening to Boze's analysis, there was a blow, but the effect was far lower than he expected.

So he said: "In that case, you should continue to stay here and provide us with the latest and important information."

"Yes, my lord."

Bozer breathed a sigh of relief and accepted the order.

Xie Huan looked at him and suddenly said, "His strength is as great as that of a mountain and his courage is as great as that of the world."

Bozer was stunned for a moment, his whole body shook violently, and he fell to his knees with a plop. His face was full of fear and his body was shaking.

"Hey, what spell did you just chant? Why is it so effective?"

Long Xiu laughed in surprise.

Xie Huan's eyes turned cold, and he leaned down to look at Bo Ze, and asked without a trace of emotion: "What's the next sentence, Shopkeeper Bo, did you forget it?"

"Times...times are not favorable...Zhui...Zhui will not...go..."

Boze said this while trembling all over, his face was pale and bloodless, his eyes were almost rolled over.

"It seems the shopkeeper hasn't forgotten. Work hard, and the higher-ups won't treat you unfairly."

Xie Huan patted Boze's shoulder and said in a cold tone.

"Please spare my life, sir, please spare my life, sir, please spare my life, I know I was wrong!"

Boze kowtowed and begged desperately.

After knocking for a while, he found no response. When he moved his eyes tremblingly, he found that there was no one in the secret room. But he still lay on the ground and dared not move. He continued to beg for mercy and talk to himself. After half an hour, he was sure that there was no one left and then he slowly got up.

The last words Xie Huan said were the secret code of the Holy Island.

This means that this person knew from the beginning that he had a double identity and deliberately exposed it before leaving, but he did not punish me. It was obvious that he was just trying to warn me and did not intend to kill me.

Boze was covered in cold sweat, and his hands were still shaking.

He suddenly thought of another serious problem. Was the other party from Shadow Market or Holy Island?
After a moment of hesitation, I became even more anxious.

Bozer paced back and forth in the room with a gloomy face, then left quickly and came to an inconspicuous small secret room under the shop.

It's very old inside, like an abandoned warehouse.

Bozer took a mahogany lacquer box from the shelf, wiped it gently, and opened it. Inside was an exquisite communication array.

He stretched out his hand and drew in the void, recorded a series of information, and input it all into the magic circle. After seeing the magic circle transmit it synchronously, he breathed a sigh of relief.

After Xie Huan and Long Xiu left the rare goods shop, they headed towards the teleportation area.

Xie Huan warned Boze to let him know that he could control him at any time, and now at such a critical moment, he should not do anything small under his nose.

The reason why we didn't go deeper or even completely dig out Bozer is because Bozer still has huge value, and it's not advisable to break up with him and leave some room for the other party.

The two quickly arrived at the teleportation zone.

Although the alert and the formation were lifted, the teleportation formation was still sealed.

The two found several responsible persons in the jurisdiction and searched their souls directly to find out the coordinates of Haidu.

Long Xiu rotated the Dragon-Splitting Blade Realm with his fingertips and swiped it forward. A huge opening appeared silently, and inside was a dark passage. There was an oppressive feeling of distorted space.

Two figures flashed and entered one after another.

The crack slowly closed.

(End of this chapter)