East Sea, an isolated island.
Chen Yun defeated Shen Xiu with a single strike using the Seven Treasures of Great Splendor.
The branch of this tree was from the first Bodhi tree after Shakyamuni Buddha created the heavens and the earth, fused with the seven treasures of Buddhism to craft, possessing attributes of being unbreakable, indestructible, and able to conquer all.
Although Chen Yun's strength was relatively weak, Shakyamuni Buddha sealed most of the energy of the Seven Treasures of Great Splendor because of this, it was still sufficient to defeat Shen Xiu, who had reached the late stage of High Achiever.
Yes, the enemy's strength is indeed very strong.
The strength that Shen Xiu claims, however, does not come from within himself but from the Zhou Tian Star Sword.
If the Zhou Tian Star Sword were taken, even if she sacrificed her life, what could she do?
Chen Yun is from Zhongli Quan's door and has even taken three fire dates. Adding the enhancement of the Seven Treasures of Great Splendor, he even hasn't shown his strongest skill, "Zhang Liu Jin Shen," yet and already defeated Shen Xiu.
"Zhang Liu Jin Shen" is a deadly fighting method, and if it is used, it's either I will defeat you instantly, or if I can't defeat you instantly, then you will have to wait for your death.
Of course, Chen Yun has only shattered Shen Xiu's flesh so far, not destroyed their soul.
The reason for this is twofold: first, because the other party had let him off last time, and second, because he has not yet obtained the information he wanted.
If he were to kill this evil woman at this point and not find out why she was doing so, he would still have to face the endless dangers lurking in the shadows in the future.
Therefore, Chen Yun's strike just now was powerful and shaking the earth, but he actually had a little trick up his sleeve.
After bursting Shen Xiu's flesh, Chen Yun quickly took out the soul-refining banner and began to shake the bronze bell.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
The clear and melodious bell sound echoed across the East Sea.
A faint starlight emanated a strong fear and was summoned to Chen Yun's presence.
Chen Yun knew that this beam of light was the soul of the woman in pink clothes. Without hesitation, he raised the soul-refining banner and brought the other party's soul into it. Then he sent a divine consciousness to forcefully ask: "Who are you? Why did you come to bother me every time? Speak! If you dare lie by even half a word, I will sacrifice your soul and refine it into an undead general without consciousness with the soul-refining banner. From then on, you will never be able to ascend!"
Hmm, he hasn't studied soul-searching techniques.
Alternatively, since Chen Yun has been following Zhongli Quan for spiritual cultivation until now, he has never heard of soul-searching techniques.
Perhaps it is because this kind of technique is too malicious, so the orthodox sects of the Xuan School do not practice it, only leftist demon cults or evil spirits would try to develop it.
Shen Xiu seemed to have no fear of death. Even though her soul was being drawn into the soul-refining banner, she laughed maniacally, saying, "Hahaha, what joy is there in life? What fear in death? Joy and sorrow all return to dust. I have no regrets!"
Chen Yun did not expect someone to be fearless even towards complete destruction of their physical and spiritual form.
To be honest, if this woman wasn't his opponent, he would have been a bit impressed.
However, having had enough of being attacked in the dark time and again, and seeing that the other party was unwilling to reveal the reason, Chen Yun was about to unleash the soul-refining banner to severely torment them.
Suddenly!
A surge of qing qi (a type of energy) shot up in the distance.
This surge of qing qi instantly condensed and rose to the heavens, spanning the sky like a rainbow, undisturbed by even the strongest of celestial gales.
A sudden and powerful surge of spiritual energy fluctuations began to emanate.
Chen Yun looked with great urgency, not having the chance to thoroughly examine the situation.
Another stream of purple qi spread out from the ground, covering the entire sky and dyeing the miles of white clouds purple, rolling and surging like the boundless sea.
For a moment, the blue and purple qi were intertwined together, vying for prominence, as if they were about to produce something.
The fluctuations of spiritual energy between heaven and earth became more intense. However, the previously turbulent ocean had now calmed down.
"Trouble! There's someone else in the shadows!"
Chen Yun immediately realized the situation and rushed to strike his body.
In an instant, the Tai Chi Zi Shuian Cloak released a mist of purple qi and colorful radiance, enveloping him layer by layer.
In the time it takes for a blink of an eye, at the spot where the blue and purple qi were converging and surging in the distance, two faint beams of light shone.
The two faint beams of light were both blue and purple.
As soon as the two beams of light shone, the world seemed to be frozen in place.
Chen Yun felt as if he had been frozen in time, unable to move, and even his thoughts seemed to have come to a halt.
From his perspective, the earth and sky seemed to vanish in an instant, leaving only boundless darkness, as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss.
This abyss was not only impenetrably dark, but also extremely narrow, as if the left, right, up, and down of Chen Yun were all pressed against him.
It was as if he had been locked inside a small world composed of black glass.
That feeling of powerlessness and loneliness was suffocating.
Chen Yun's eyes, in the darkness, were glowing like flowers in dawn, with one blue and one purple beam of light.
In a blink of an eye, these two beams of light pierced through layers of time and space, suddenly appearing before him!
Even though the situation was extremely perilous, the five-colored radiance and purple mist emanating from the Tai Chi Zi Shuian Cloak reached their peak in an instant.
The purple mist was almost overwhelming.
The five-colored radiance was even more brilliant and shining brightly as if it had illuminated the world!
As the two beams of light and the purple mist and five-colored radiance approached contact.
A more astonishing scene suddenly emerged.
It was as if countless stars shining like diamonds in a galaxy spread out across the darkness, slowly blooming and shining brilliantly amidst the radiance, mist, and purple qi.
It seemed as if in this instant, Chen Yun's frozen thoughts were flowing again.
He watched, unable to move, as the darkness before him shattered like glass, forming layers of cracks.
The sound of breaking something kept ringing in his ears.
Perhaps a thousand years had passed.
It might have been only a moment.
All the darkness suddenly shattered and turned into tiny purple and blue light points, which were scattered and thrown into the sea one by one.
Chen Yun finally regained his vision.
He saw that he was still standing on the solitary island, and the blue and purple qi in the distance had all disappeared.
In their place was a brilliant galaxy in the sky.
Suddenly, the galaxy's light flashed, and it also vanished abruptly.
If it were not for the continuous emanation and burst of the five-colored radiance and purple mist from the Tai Chi Zi Shuian Cloak, Chen Yun might have doubted whether what had just happened was a delusion.
The answer is very obvious, the Tai Chi Zi Shuian Cloak released a strong defense, which was excited by an invincible force.
"What powerful technique was just used? It gave me a feeling more terrifying than the previous sneak attack by that witch?"
Chen Yun was genuinely scared, though he believed in the unbreakable defense of the Tai Chi Zi Shuian Cloak and was sure it could withstand the power. But the scene just now was too terrifying, evoking a deep sense of fear.
That feeling of being suffocated and lonely in the darkness was terrifying beyond words.
It seemed as if, without someone to save him, he would forever be lost in the darkness and then be ground into dust by the two faint beams of light - one blue and one purple!
He knew there was someone in the shadows launching an attack, and he also knew there was someone intervening to save him.
However, before he could fully grasp the situation, Chen Yun dare not act rashly.
He madly poured out his divine consciousness to cover a range of two or three thousand miles, investigating any unusual phenomena that might exist.
In an instant, he saw many people hiding.
At the top of a small mountain several hundred miles away on the seashore, there stood a beautiful woman in a green robe holding a jade hairpin.
The jade hairpin in her hand was flowing with white light, as if she had just used a powerful technique.
Upon seeing the green-robed woman, Chen Yun immediately realized that it was she who had come to his rescue just now.
What he saw went far beyond that.
Thousand miles away, a rosy-cheeked boy, holding a silver bead in his slingshot, made an attacking stance.
However, his expression was one of shock, as if he hadn't expected someone to act before him.
This child, Chen Yun had once met at the Erlang Temple, knew that he was the grandson of Erlang Shen.
In the sea of clouds, Zhang Jiwen was holding the Baodao Yili, emitting brilliant light from it, as if he was also preparing to help, but like the child, he looked shocked and surprised as well. It seemed that he hadn't expected anyone to be quicker than him in aiding Chen Yun.
There are more than just these people.
A young girl dressed somewhat similarly to He Xingu was holding tightly onto a lotus leaf.
A ghost king raised a night gem.
The elderly man holding the gourd, the strong man dressed as a woodcutter carrying an axe, the middle-aged Daoist holding a Dragon-carrying Platform, and many others entered his vision.
Even more, Chen Yun saw a Daoist with whom he had only met once before.
This Daoist, with long beard flowing, held a Fire Pearl Flag in his hand.
It was Qiu Chuji, who had followed Zhongyang Zhenren to Daoist Sect to seek immortality pills before.
Qiu Chuji has not yet become an immortal and is not yet the all-powerful Changchun Zhenren.
As for the ones hiding in the shadows, Zu Chi and Yu Ji, Chen Yun did not see them.
But Chen Yun saw two Daoists, a man and a woman, at the place where the blue and purple qi had surged before.
The man, about thirty to forty years old, held a sword with flowing blue qi suspended three feet above his head.
As for the woman, she looked a bit younger, like in her mid-twenties to thirty-seven, and also had a sword with purple qi swirling around above her head at a distance of three feet.
It goes without saying that the two of them must have been the ones who had just attacked him!
Chen Yun was surprised to find out that so many people had witnessed his duel with the woman in pink robes.
What made him even happier was that the pink-clad woman had indeed accomplices.
If the pink-clad woman refused to disclose the truth, catching her accomplices would surely do the trick!
Yes, Chen Yun could feel the overwhelming spiritual energy emanating from these two people, indicating that they were both at the level of a sect leader.
It appeared that only Chen Er's embodiment was on his side, making it seem unlikely that he could be a match for the opponent.
In reality, within Chen Yun's soul-calling banner, there were hidden thirty-thousand divine soldiers and commanders, the Ghost King Wei Shu, two great ghost marshals, five ghost commanders, and eight thousand ghost soldiers!
This was originally what Chen Yun had feared and prepared for in case he couldn't match the pink-clad woman.
What Chen Yun hadn't expected was that the Qibao Miao Tree was too powerful, instantly defeating the pink-clad woman with a single move.
Therefore, the divine soldiers and commanders, as well as the ghost soldiers and commanders, had no time to display their might.
As for the disciples of Jiao Dao Zhenren, Ba and Gong Ju Ji, they were not brought because it would be inconvenient to hide them.
But with so many divine soldiers and commanders, as well as ghost soldiers and commanders, plus his numerous treasured artifacts, capturing these two sect leaders should pose no significant issues.
Good!
You two should have stayed hidden and kept silent, but you dared to sneak attack me and let me discover your tracks?
Chen Yun's anger blazed within him, burning with the intensity of a wildfire, and he yearned to unleash his divine soldiers and commanders, as well as his ghost soldiers and commanders, to slaughter that man and woman mercilessly!
The consecutive sneak attacks had pushed him to the brink of fury, and he was so angry that he wanted to wipe out their entire family!
(Chapter completed)
