Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Facing the combined attack of four Nascent Soul cultivators, She Zhelin held out for a full hour before finally succumbing to defeat.

The moment the Heavenly Talisman failed, he knew that he was doomed to die today.

He neither bowed down nor fled for his life; instead, he turned back without hesitation to meet Chen Yuan and his companions.

The human race would never let a demon general go, just as the demon race has never allowed the human race to produce a Nascent Soul cultivator in the past tens of thousands of years.

She Zhelin's relentless fighting saved Chen Yuan and his companions a lot of trouble, as they no longer needed to exert themselves in pursuit.

However, She Zhelin is far more difficult to deal with than Yin Qianjie. His strength is perhaps only about equal to Yin Qianjie's.

However, the innate supernatural abilities of the Blood-Eyed Serpent Clan made the four of them feel extremely troubled.

Those blood-red eyes could create an illusion, concealing the true location of She Zhelin.

Chen Yuan and his companions' magical weapons failed to hit She Zhelin at all, and all of them landed on empty air.

Even the supernatural power that She Zhelin used seemed to be aimed at Qin Wuyai, but in reality, it flew silently towards Cangsong Daoren.

Fortunately, the four of them knew about the Blood-Eyed Serpent Clan's innate supernatural abilities from the white-robed youth, so they were prepared and were not injured.

However, when they attacked Yin Qianjie earlier, the four of them had the upper hand and could attack freely. Now, they had to be on guard against She Zhelin's counterattack at all times, and the battle became deadlocked for a while.

However, She Zhelin was unable to escape. The illusion created by his blood-red eyes could only cover an area of ​​a thousand feet. The four of them surrounded him, and Chen Yuan controlled this area, sealing off all his escape routes.

Since Cangsong Daoren and Lu Wangquan were of limited strength, Chen Yuan did not go all out. He simply used the Zhu Yan True Fire to burn She Zhelin's soul.

He then struck the Purple Kui Thunder Drum, summoning heavenly lightning to strike. Even if it couldn't hit She Zhelin, it would still make him constantly expend his demonic power to defend himself.

However, Qin Wuyai unleashed the Jade Ruyi Spiritual Treasure, conjuring hundreds of Ruyi phantoms that appeared and disappeared at will, constantly suppressing She Zhelin and keeping him busy.

As the patriarch of the Blood-Eyed Serpent Clan, She Zhelin also possessed a magical weapon, a strangely shaped serpent sword that was entirely blood-red and exceptionally sharp.

The thousand-foot-long azure dragon formed by the Taoist Cangsong could be severed from its claws and body with a single swing of the Snake Sword.

Wherever the snake sword passed, it left a layer of bloody light, quite similar to Qin Wuyai's jade ruyi, but even more sinister.

The severed claw of the thousand-foot-long azure dragon requires several times the amount of wood elemental spiritual energy to recover. After being struck by several swords in succession, the azure dragon's entire body was covered with a layer of dull blood color, and its body decayed on its own.

Daoist Cangsong had no choice but to expend his true essence again to condense a thousand-foot-long azure dragon, which then pounced on She Zhelin.

This thousand-foot-long azure dragon possessed immense strength and was extremely difficult to deal with; even an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator would find it hard to resolve.

However, the Thousand-Foot Azure Dragon was much weaker when facing the demon generals whose physical bodies were even stronger. But with the endless vitality of the Wood element, like the immortal body of the demon race, it was fearless and managed to hold off one of the demon generals.

The other three also launched a relentless attack. After holding out for half an hour, She Zhelin finally began to show signs of weakness.

He took out a second Heavenly Horizon Talisman, but Chen Yuan immediately condensed the Kunpeng Dharma Image, interrupting the Heavenly Horizon Talisman's teleportation.

She Zhelin seemed to have anticipated this, and with a sigh, he continued to resist the four men's attacks.

He endured the burning pain in his soul, looked at Chen Yuan, and said, "Your ability to condense the Kunpeng Dharma Image means you must possess the true blood of the Kunpeng, making you a descendant of a true spirit. Why then do you associate with human cultivators?"

Chen Yuan did not answer, but instead summoned a bolt of heavenly lightning, which struck She Zhelin. However, it strangely passed right through her and exploded in the air, spreading lightning in all directions and turning the area within a hundred feet into a pool of lightning.

Qin Wuyai smiled leisurely: "Your Excellency need not waste your energy. Why must a descendant of a true spirit be forced to join the demon race?"

She Zhelin said, "Since you possess the blood of a true spirit, you must be a descendant of my demon race. Your ancestors must have included a great demon."

"That's right, the ancestor of the Kunyu clan was a demon king from the upper realm and a descendant of a true spirit. You should be his descendant, yet you are an enemy of the demon race..."

Chen Yuan narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "I am a human cultivator, so don't spout nonsense!"

She Zhelin wanted to persuade him again, but Chen Yuan struck the Purple Kui Thunder Drum heavily, and a bolt of lightning descended from the sky. She Zhelin had no choice but to use his supernatural powers to dodge it and shut his mouth.

Over the next half hour, She Zhelin found it increasingly difficult to cope with the attacks from the four men.

The illusion created by the Blood Eye was soon shattered by the azure light of the Jade Ruyi. She Zhelin could only withstand the Heavenly Thunder Azure Dragon and the Storm Ruyi, struggling against all odds, and finally died under Lu Wangquan's azure ring blade.

With She Zhelin's death, the remaining demon generals of the Blood-Eyed Serpent Clan, who were still fighting desperately, also collapsed.

After Chen Yuan broke through the great formation, the human Nascent Soul cultivators swarmed forward and left all the demon generals in the Crimson Ridge Mountains behind.

Ten other Nascent Soul cultivators, under Cui Yuheng's orders, were tasked with eliminating the Blood-Eyed Spirit Snakes that had not yet taken human form, as well as other low-level demonic beasts.

Before Chen Yuan broke the formation, he had instructed him not to let a single demon beast leave and to prevent the day's events from being revealed.

There is a deep-seated blood feud between humans and demons in this world, especially the eight royal families, who are hated to the core by everyone.

Having personally annihilated the Blood-Eyed Serpent Clan, Chen Yuan has ordered a bloodbath in the Crimson Ridge Mountains, leaving no one alive, and the human Nascent Soul cultivators will show no mercy whatsoever.

Several demon generals begged for mercy, but the crowd ignored them.

Those blood-eyed spirit snakes that have not yet taken human form, no matter how low their cultivation level is, even if they are only level one demon beasts, cannot escape death.

After the great formation was broken, She Zhelin abandoned his clansmen and fled alone, only to be besieged by four Nascent Soul cultivators.

The demon generals had lost their will to fight. Apart from a very few extremely fierce demon generals, the rest of the demon generals scattered and fled, only wanting to save their lives.

The Blood-Eyed Serpent Clan used to be high and mighty, and the demon generals in the clan, under the protection of the demon general, were not as resilient as ordinary demon generals.

But when they saw that the human Nascent Soul cultivators were determined to exterminate them and there was no way out, they had no choice but to fight to the death. Two Nascent Soul cultivators in their early stages unfortunately died.

However, faced with twice the number of Nascent Soul cultivators, the demon generals were powerless to fight back. Although they had not yet been defeated, they were completely at a disadvantage, and one demon general after another died.

The white-robed youth also flew out of the cave, and amidst curses, he attacked the Blood-Eyed Serpent Clan demon general with a complex expression.

With She Zhelin's death, the morale of the human Nascent Soul cultivators soared, while the remaining demon generals lost all will to fight and scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing for their lives.

As soon as the demon generals' formation was disrupted, half of them died under the magical powers and treasures of the human Nascent Soul cultivators, but a small number of them still managed to escape.

Seeing this, Chen Yuan raised his hand and threw four Kunyu short arrows, which shot towards the four demon generals.

Lu Wangquan, Cangsong Daoren, and Qin Wuyai also took action, killing all the escaped demon generals and leaving no one behind.

Those low-level demonic beasts that escaped had already been slaughtered by the ten human Nascent Soul cultivators.

However, many blood-eyed spirit snakes that had not yet taken human form were still hiding in the mountains. Chen Yuan ordered several Nascent Soul cultivators to exterminate them, while the others were responsible for collecting the demon cores, demon beast materials, and mustard seed rings left behind by the demon generals after their deaths.

As for the Blood-Eyed Serpent Clan's treasure vault, herb garden, and scripture pavilion, Cui Yuheng personally led a group to retrieve them, accompanied by the white-robed youth. Although he was not a demon general of the Blood-Eyed Serpent Clan, he was quite familiar with the demon race's restrictive formations and treasure-storing habits, which saved him a lot of trouble.

Chen Yuan used a short arrow with Kun feathers to pierce the enormous corpse that She Zhelin had transformed into after his death, and found his demon core.

As for the other monster materials, they were divided among the other three people.

Those most precious blood-red eyes fell into Qin Wuyai's hands.

Lu Wangquan and Cangsong Daoist collected the snake skin, snake tendons, snake gall, and other items. There was too much snake blood, so the four of them each took several dozen kilograms and placed them in their magical artifacts.

Lu Wangquan handed She Zhelin's Mustard Seed Ring to Chen Yuan: "I would like to trouble Fellow Daoist Chen to remove the soul restriction on the Mustard Seed Ring."

Chen Yuan nodded, took the Mustard Seed Ring, and then used the Vermilion Flame to envelop it.

Qin Wuyai's eyes flashed, and he said, "I never expected Fellow Daoist Chen to have such a profound control over the power of space. He was able to break through this Five Elements Formation without even using his Thunder Dao Divine Power."

Chen Yuan removed the divine sense restriction, handed the Mustard Seed Ring back to Lu Wangquan, and sighed: "I was just using a trick."

“The three fellow Daoists have each used their own methods to weaken the power of the great formation by more than half, making it extremely fragile and full of flaws.”

"I was merely going with the flow, but it's a pity that top-tier divine weapon was wasted..."

If he were to condense the Kui Niu Dharma Image and exert all his strength, he could also break through the great formation.

However, after refining that mysterious blood bead, the Kunpeng True Blood in Chen Yuan's body became extremely pure, surpassing even the Kui Niu Blood. His control over spatial power also became more profound, making him even more suitable for breaking formations.

However, the power of space is ultimately not as fierce and violent as the power of thunder. If one simply uses the Black Blade Divine Power, its power is somewhat insufficient.

Chen Yuan simply covered the black longsword he had obtained from Kunyang with the black blade and slashed with all his might. With the divine weapon and the black blade combined, he broke through the great formation in one fell swoop.

However, even the black longsword could not withstand the sharpness of the black blade, which was comparable to a spatial rift, and it broke inch by inch, thus being destroyed.

But precisely because of this, he had an excuse to prioritize choosing a treasure after this battle.

Upon hearing this, a hint of regret flashed in the eyes of the Taoist Cangsong.

Chen Yuan destroyed a top-tier divine weapon, and he also used up an incomparably precious four-colored barrier-breaking talisman.

This is one of the most precious treasures of the Shaoxuan Sect. He had always been reluctant to take it out, but today he was forced to use it to break the formation, yet he gained nothing.

But Daoist Cangsong also knew that Chen Yuan's sword strike was not as simple as he claimed, and only he could have unleashed such a strike.

This sword strike wiped out nearly half of the power of the Five Elements Formation, broke the formation, and severely damaged the origin of the giant spiritual vein. It was almost capable of destroying the world. If it had struck a Nascent Soul cultivator, they would have been doomed.

The power of the true spirit is indeed well-deserved; no wonder Chen Yuan was confident in killing a demon general.

He possesses at least three types of True Spirit Blood within him. Daoist Cangsong believes that Chen Yuan's Thunder Dao Divine Power is far more powerful than this, and may even surpass the power of this single sword strike.

He had no more doubts about what Chen Yuan said, and he had no more complaints about Chen Yuan taking away all the pills, spiritual herbs, and demon cores.

Lu Wangquan retrieved the Mustard Seed Ring, flicked his sleeve, and took out the treasures inside. The four of them quickly divided it up as previously agreed.

Like Yin Qianjie, She Zhelin didn't have many treasures. He only had three extra cultivation pills, which Chen Yuan took. The other treasures were divided among the other three.

Lu Wangquan temporarily put away the strangely shaped snake sword, to be redistributed after the battle.

She Zhelin's mustard seed ring also contains two jade slips, one of which is a notebook left by the ancestor of the Blood-Eyed Spirit Serpent clan.

It records the process of ancient human cultivators invading this world, and how the demon race invited the Kunyu Demon King from the upper realm to descend and rush back to the human world, as well as the process of establishing the Blood-Eyed Spirit Serpent clan.

Lu Wangquan, Qin Wuyai, and Cangsong Daoren were not interested in this, but they still made a copy. Chen Yuan kept the slightly ancient-looking jade slip.

The other jade slip was a map, but the place names on it were extremely unfamiliar, and none of them were located on the Myriad Demon Continent.

The center of the map is highlighted, with the words "Place Where Bones Are Hidden" written next to it.

None of the four understood its meaning, but the map that She Zhelin had placed in the mustard seed ring must be an extraordinary object, so they each made a copy.

Daoist Cangsong carefully examined the jade slip again and found nothing unusual, but still asked for it.

After dividing the treasures, the four arrived at the Spirit Serpent Palace.

About two hours later, Cui Yuheng and the others had also looted all the treasures of the Blood-Eyed Serpent Clan, and led everyone to pay their respects.

Looking at the mountain of treasures, everyone was still amazed, even though they had seen them once before in the Silver Moon Mountains.

They were already used to a life of careful budgeting. With thousands of cultivators and only one medium-sized spiritual vein for cultivation, every spirit stone, every herb, and every pill had to be carefully calculated.

Countless cultivators, despite having the potential to reach the Nascent Soul stage, have been prevented from making progress due to insufficient spiritual energy and a lack of elixirs.

From then on, human cultivators would never lack cultivation resources again.

Chen Yuan and his companions collected all the treasures that a Nascent Soul cultivator could use, including two demon cores of a low-level demon general, nine three-thousand-year-old spirit herbs, and seventeen thousand-year-old spirit herbs, which Chen Yuan accepted.

Compared to the Howling Moon Silver Wolf clan, the Blood-Eyed Spirit Serpent clan has fewer spiritual herbs, but one more demon core, so the value is not much different.

The other spiritual materials, magical treasures, talismans, and divine weapons were divided among the other three.

In addition, there are 274 top-grade spirit stones. The Blood-Eyed Serpent Clan and the Kun Fish Clan joined forces to fight against the Frost Bear and Flood Dragon Clans, which will consume a lot of spirit stones.

The four of them divided the top-grade spirit stones equally, with Chen Yuan receiving sixty-eight pieces.

Other low-level cultivation resources were distributed according to everyone's contributions today.

By the time all the treasures had been distributed, six hours had passed, and night had fallen.

The crowd dispersed and occupied the cave left behind by the Blood-Eyed Serpent Clan's demon general, where they meditated and regulated their breathing to recover their true essence.

The deep valley where She Zhelin lived and the two mountain peaks next to it were reserved for the four Nascent Soul cultivators, and no one dared to set foot there.

However, Cui Yuheng stayed behind with the white-robed youth and another Nascent Soul cultivator who looked somewhat listless.

Chen Yuan asked, "Is there anything else?"

Cui Yuheng hesitated for a moment, then clasped his hands in a respectful bow: "This junior has discovered a piece of blood-red crystal in She Zhelin's cave. It is extremely strange, and I would appreciate it if the seniors could examine it personally." (End of Chapter)