Chapter 280: Why Does This Old Ancestor Always Keep Her Eyes on My Body?!

"Creak—"

A heavy, harsh scraping sound echoed at the bottom of the dead silent abyss.

The hundreds-of-feet-tall bone gates slowly swung open to both sides, and a surge of dark Death Qi, as if capable of freezing the Soul in an instant, poured wildly out from the gap like a breached flood.

"Click, click, click…"

Wherever the Death Qi passed, the already bone-chilling ground instantly formed a thick layer of black, hard ice.

"So cold!"

Saintess Ji Wushuang, following behind Gu Lan, suddenly shivered.

Although she was a Demon Cult Saintess of the Mid Golden Core Stage, facing this kind of ancient, pure Death Qi that had accumulated for tens of millions of years, she still felt that her protective true essence was like paper, and the chill drilled straight into the crevices of her bones.

Beside her, although Jiang Wanqing's spiritual power was sealed, she possessed the Ice Marrow Sword Physique, so her resistance to this extreme cold was actually a bit stronger than Saintess Ji Wushuang's.

Yet now she was like a Mortal, and her body still trembled slightly, forcing her to wrap the rough gray cloak even tighter.

"Useless."

Ye Hongzhuang stood at the very front, sneering.

She didn't even spare a glance at the surging Death Qi.

The terrifying demonic might of the Peak Soul Transformation Stage automatically formed an absolute vacuum Domain three feet around her. The Death Qi that could freeze a Golden Core Cultivator into an ice sculpture obediently parted to both sides the moment it approached her, like mice seeing a cat.

"Let's go."

Ye Hongzhuang strode forward with her slender, straight, beautiful legs, stepping on black-gold long boots, and stepped into the bone palace without hesitation.

Gu Lan swallowed a mouthful of saliva and hurried to follow.

Daring not to be careless, the ten-pattern purple extreme golden core in his body roared into operation, and an extremely domineering and scalding Pure Yang Devilish Qi burst through his body, quietly enveloping Saintess Ji Wushuang and Jiang Wanqing behind him.

Feeling the instantly warmed air around her, Saintess Ji Wushuang's peach-blossom eyes instantly lit up.

She naturally took two steps forward, her entire body almost pressing against Gu Lan's back, and her hands even boldly wrapped around Gu Lan's waist.

"Consider you blockhead as having some conscience." Saintess Ji Wushuang pressed her face against Gu Lan's broad back, greedily inhaling the pleasant Pure Yang Qi on him, a smug smile curling the corners of her mouth.

Jiang Wanqing walked on the other side, feeling the warmth quietly passed over by Gu Lan, and a layer of mist rose once more in her cold eyes.

"Junior Brother…"

Jiang Wanqing was moved in her heart. "Right under the Female Demon Lord's nose, he still forcibly divides his true essence to protect me. He bears the risk of exposure at any time, yet he refuses to say a single word to claim credit…"

"I must not become a burden to him!" Jiang Wanqing gritted her teeth, enduring the discomfort in her body, and quickened her pace to closely follow.

Walking in the middle, Gu Lan felt the mischievous small hands on his waist and the affectionate gaze of the Senior Sister beside him, feeling his scalp go numb.

Big sisters! This fucking is a dungeon run to fight the final boss! Can you be a bit serious?!

"Bang!"

The exact moment all four of them stepped into the palace.

The hundreds-of-feet-tall bone gates behind them slammed shut without warning!

The entire palace instantly plunged into absolute darkness.

"Whoosh—whoosh—"

Immediately after, a strange, eerie wind swept past.

On the walls on both sides of the palace, one ghastly green ghost fire after another automatically lit up, extending all the way to the end of vision.

Taking advantage of the eerie green firelight, Gu Lan finally saw the full internal appearance of this main devil god palace.

This was simply an Asura slaughterhouse piled high with skeletal remains!

The ground was covered with a thick layer of skulls from unknown Yao Beasts and human Cultivators.

On both sides of the main hall stood eighteen towering bone pillars a hundred feet high.

Beneath these eighteen bone pillars, eighteen colossal ancient devil general statues, holding various heavy weapons, knelt halfway!

At the deepest part of the main hall was a tall, nine-tiered blood-jade staircase.

At the end of the staircase stood a throne pieced together from nine giant dragon-headed bones!

Above the throne hovered a fist-sized blood-red crystal emitting a dazzling red light.

That pure Demonic Path Legacy aura that even made Ye Hongzhuang go crazy was emanating precisely from that blood-red crystal!

"demon gods heart!"

In Ye Hongzhuang's previously tranquil phoenix eyes, an unprecedented fanaticism finally erupted.

"One thousand years! The original demon god's core that my Heavenly Demon Palace lost for a thousand years has finally been found by this seat!"

As long as she devoured this demon gods heart, her Heavenly Demon Nine Tribulations could completely achieve Major Achievement. Let alone the Peak Soul Transformation Stage, even the legendary Void Refining realm was within easy reach!

By then, the entire Righteous Path of the world would tremble beneath her feet!

Ye Hongzhuang simply couldn't suppress the excitement in her heart; her figure turned into a black lightning bolt, directly surging towards the nine-tiered blood-jade staircase.

"Crack… crack crack…"

However.

The exact moment Ye Hongzhuang stepped into the middle section of the main hall.

A hair-raising sound of bone friction suddenly echoed one after another within the spacious main hall.

"Hmm?"

Ye Hongzhuang's figure paused, hovering mid-air.

Gu Lan and the others also immediately stopped in their tracks, gripping the weapons in their hands and vigilantly looking around.

They saw that in the empty eye sockets of the eighteen half-kneeling ancient devil general statues on both sides of the main hall, two clusters of scarlet Soul fire simultaneously ignited!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The dust and stone chips on the surface of the statues peeled off one after another, and the eighteen ancient devil generals standing five zhang tall actually stood up in unison!

From the rusted battle axes, spears, and giant hammers in their hands, a terrifying Evil Qi sufficient to tear the Void Realm apart erupted.

The aura on every single devil general had actually reached the astonishing Early Stage Nascent Soul!

Eighteen Early Stage Nascent Soul guards!

"Those who trespass into my master's sleeping grounds… die!!!"

The eighteen devil generals let out a deafening roar simultaneously.

Without the slightest hesitation, they waved the heavy weapons in their hands, transforming into eighteen black gales, fiercely strangling towards Ye Hongzhuang in mid-air and Gu Lan and the others on the ground.

"My goodness! Eighteen Nascent Soul Stage monsters?!"

Saintess Ji Wushuang was frightened pale, subconsciously hiding behind Gu Lan.

Although she was in the Mid Golden Core Stage, facing ancient demonic entities of this level, she wasn't even enough to fill the gaps between their teeth!

"Mere skeletal Puppets whose Divine Souls have been drained, how dare they block this seat's path?"

Ye Hongzhuang in mid-air let out a disdainful sneer.

She was an peerless Female Demon Lord of the Peak Soul Transformation Stage!

"Heavenly Demon Hand—shatter for me!"

Ye Hongzhuang pressed her jade hand sharply downward.

A massive black hand covering the sky, a hundred feet in size and condensed from extreme Devilish Qi, carrying the terrifying might to crush everything, slapped fiercely down towards the six devil generals rushing at the very front!

"Bang!!! Crack—"

Amidst the earth-shaking loud noise, the entire bone palace shook violently.

How terrifying was the full-strength strike of a Soul Transformation Stage powerhouse?

Those six Early Stage Nascent Soul devil generals didn't even have time to let out a scream before they were directly slapped into flying bone powder and debris all over the sky by this giant black hand!

"Hiss—" Gu Lan drew in a sharp breath as he watched from below.

This Old Hag was truly too ferocious! Hugging this thigh really provided such a fucking sense of security!

However.

Gu Lan hadn't even had time to rejoice.

A strange scene occurred.

The shattered bone powder of those devil generals, the moment it touched the ground, turned into streams of black airflow.

These airflows rapidly burrowed into the depths of the main hall's ground, and immediately after, dazzling red light lit up on the eighteen towering bone pillars.

"Roar—!"

Accompanied by a roar, the six devil generals that had just been shattered re-condensed into shape completely unscathed within the red light!

Even the aura on their bodies was a bit more berserk than before!

What kind of ghost thing is this? It can even infinitely resurrect?!

Gu Lan widened his eyes.

"It is the Undying Demonic Array."

Jiang Wanqing, who had been standing behind Gu Lan all along, suddenly spoke up.

Her cold eyes stared fixedly at those eighteen bone pillars.

"As long as these eighteen array pillars do not fall and the Death Qi within the main hall is endless, these devil generals can absorb Evil Qi and infinitely regenerate. Furthermore, with every regeneration, their physical bodies will become even tougher."

Ye Hongzhuang in mid-air obviously also discovered this problem.

Her delicate brows slightly furrowed, and a trace of impatience flashed in her eyes.

"Since smashing them can still piece them back together, then this seat will directly overturn your damned array!"

The Devilish Qi around Ye Hongzhuang surged violently, clearly preparing to use a major ultimate move to forcefully dismantle the main hall.

Right at this moment.

"Hold on."

The "demon gods heart" hovering above the nine-headed dragon king's throne suddenly emitted an ancient, vicissitudinous voice that nonetheless exuded endless evil.

This voice exploded directly in everyone's Sea of Consciousness, making Gu Lan's eardrums ache with pain.

"Having waited for a full ten thousand years… this deity has finally waited for it…"

Along with the sound, the eighteen devil generals frantically charging and killing actually stopped their actions in unison, standing stiffly in place like sculptures.

Ye Hongzhuang also stopped the actions in her hand, her gaze locked tightly onto the blood-red crystal.

They saw an extremely illusory black Remnant Soul slowly drifting out from the demon gods heart.

The Remnant Soul's facial features could not be seen clearly; it only had a pair of blood-red eyes like an abyss, condescendingly looking down from above.

When those blood-red eyes swept past Ye Hongzhuang, the Remnant Soul let out a contemptuous cold snort.

"A Soul Transformation Stage girl? Your cultivation is quite good, but unfortunately… this extremely Yin outer shell cannot withstand this deity's domineering and pure supreme Devilish Qi; using it for Possession will only result in exploding and dying."

Possession?!

As soon as these words were spoken, Ye Hongzhuang's expression changed drastically.

She originally thought there was only the demon god's Legacy here, but she didn't expect that this demon god had actually left behind a trace of a Remnant Soul preparing for Possession and Rebirth!

"Old thing, a mere strand of Remnant Soul dares to spout nonsense before this seat!" Ye Hongzhuang sneered, demonic light condensing in her hand once again, "Since you refuse to hand over the Legacy obediently, this seat will refine you personally!"

"Hehehe…"

The Demon God Remnant Soul completely ignored Ye Hongzhuang's threat.

Its gaze crossed past Ye Hongzhuang in mid-air, landing directly on Gu Lan standing at the entrance of the main hall.

At that instant, in the Demon God Remnant Soul's blood-red eyes, an unprecedented greed and fanaticism erupted, just like a wild dog starved for three days seeing a piece of plump, delicious fresh meat!

"Perfect… simply a perfect vessel that seizes the creation of heaven and earth!"

The Demon God Remnant Soul's voice was trembling with excitement.

"With a Top-grade Pure Yang Body as the Foundation! He has actually condensed a ten-pattern purple extreme golden core inside his body! This Physical Body, this Foundation, is simply a resurrection cauldron tailored specifically for this deity!!!"

"Hahahaha! Heaven will not cut off my path! Heaven will not cut off my path!"

Stared at fixedly by those blood-red eyes, Gu Lan felt a chill run down his back, and every hair on his body instantly stood on end.

"What the fuck?"

The corners of Gu Lan's mouth twitched frantically, and he felt completely unwell.

"No, you ancient immortals, do you all have some special fetishes?"

"How come every single one of you fucking keeps eyeing my body?!"