Evil Venerable of the Sword Dao
Chapter 452 - 101: Netherworld Beast and Mysterious Sword Spirit

Chapter 452: Chapter 101: Netherworld Beast and Mysterious Sword Spirit

Zhuge Jiayue and Yan Ran immediately came to Zhou Yan’s side without hesitation. Zhou Yan first took out two sets of Soul Artifact Battle Armor and gave them to the two women. They subconsciously accepted them and initially didn’t think much of the Soul Armor, but upon sensing its power, expressions of immense shock and ecstasy quickly spread across their faces.

Then, the two women looked at Zhou Yan with heated gazes, their eyes almost dripping with charm.

Both were knowledgeable, extraordinary women, how could they not recognize that this was top-level Soul Artifact Battle Armor? Top-level Soul Artifact Battle Armor, something only Saints were qualified to use, how precious was that?!

To give away such a precious item without a second thought, Zhou Yan was truly someone worth befriending.

Suddenly, all their fears dissipated significantly, and Zhuge Jiayue and Yan Ran were utterly convinced by Zhou Yan.

While they were moved and awed, Zhou Yan immediately applied the Nirvana Rebirth Technique on their shoulders, and their injuries started healing rapidly.

The injuries were severe for them, but for Zhou Yan, it only used a fraction of his origin energy, barely a matter at all.

For Zhou Yan, it was a small effort, but for Zhuge Jiayue and Yan Ran, it was a lifesaving grace.

Both of them felt immense gratitude, almost ready to die for Zhou Yan.

Simple favors, simple alliances, yet shockingly effective, this too was one of Zhou Yan’s methods.

Had the two not been genuinely interested in helping him find the secret realm without any greed, he would never have helped, despite the small effort it took.

But these two were indeed decent, and so he had helped.

Besides Zhuge Jiayue and Yan Ran, Si Yuan was also very impressive, and Jia Yongheng was beyond reproach, the only uncertain one was Qingyao.

This woman had a background and skills, not so easily subdued. However, so far, Zhou Yan hadn’t sensed any schemes or murderous intent from her; otherwise, he wouldn’t hesitate to act against her.

...

Seeing Zhou Yan simply resolve the matters for Jiayue and Yan Ran, making them incredibly loyal, Qingyao merely sighed softly, realizing she no longer had any significant clout.

Still, she remained composed and had her own convictions.

She occasionally glanced at Holy Daughter Jiang Yuning, her eyes filled with a trace of inexplicable doubt.

However, she didn’t show this doubt outwardly, merely kept it buried deep within her heart.

During her contemplations, several more terrifying flash attacks occurred, but with previous experience, the group of seven was now quite adept at dodging these attacks.

"Zzt zzt—"

After another quick and fierce flash attack, suddenly, the atmosphere between heaven and earth quieted down a bit, and the miasma began to dissipate, making the environment somewhat clearer.

"This lightning, it feels familiar, like it’s a record of an ancient cultivator’s tribulation... like a playback of a scene."

Qingyao suddenly spoke.

"Yes, I sensed it too. There must be some incredible Holy Artifact recording the process of a Sword Tribulation Realm under tribulation here, repeatedly playing it back. But even though it’s just a playback, the Heavenly Tribulation experienced by that Sword Tribulation Realm shows unprecedented destruction, which indicates how extraordinary the person who went through the tribulation was."

Holy Daughter Jiang Yuning analyzed and spoke solemnly.

At this time, Jia Yongheng concentrated energy into his eyes and stared into the distance, pondering something.

After a moment, he withdrew his cultivation technique and said, "The Holy Daughter’s judgment is very accurate. This is indeed a broken Holy Artifact replaying the tribulation process. This indicates that this place is a holy land where ancient saints underwent tribulations."

"If that’s the case, it must be someone from Tianji Mountain. I can feel a familiar breath of Heavenly Mechanism here. The reason I couldn’t dodge that lightning initially was due to that faintly familiar feeling which distracted me, otherwise, I would have been confident in avoiding it."

After sensing for a long time, Zhuge Jiayue shared her thoughts.

"If that’s the case, then I have a clear idea now. Everyone, be extra cautious, I’ll try to view it with my soul capability."

Seeing everyone agreeing on this, Zhou Yan didn’t say much more, for his instincts were similar to everyone else’s.

Moreover, when Zhuge Jiayue mentioned this, Zhou Yan realized that it was likely that Gu Xi’s father, Gu Yan, was here.

Gu Yan was none other than Zhuge Guyan, the genius disciple of Tianji Mountain, just unknown to himself due to certain circumstances.

But during that time at Tianji Mountain, when he met Zhuge Wuwei, Zhou Yan had almost completely figured out everything about Uncle Gu Yan, therefore knowing that it was highly likely he was here.

Zhuge Guyan’s void body might have had encounters against Zhou Yan, but a void body doesn’t necessarily share the same will as the original, and regardless of anything else, just for Gu Xi’s sake, Zhou Yan wouldn’t hold things against Gu Yan.

Moreover, Gu Yan had always been very good to Zhou Yan since his childhood, protecting and teaching him like a kindly father, Zhou Yan could not hold a void body’s actions against Uncle Gu Yan.

If there was a chance to rescue Uncle Gu Yan, Zhou Yan would naturally do everything in his power.

Upon Zhou Yan saying this, Qingyao suddenly looked at him astonished, seemingly shocked that Zhou Yan could use soul capability here.

In the Frosts Tears, especially in such a core land, not to mention using soul capability, even the physical abilities were heavily suppressed. Initially, Qingyao could demonstrate many abilities, but here, they were gradually being suppressed as well.

This was also the reason why the group initially appeared a bit rushed in dodging the lightning.

Zhou Yan was now able to use his soul, which couldn’t help but stir her emotions once again.

"Brother Zhou Yan, you truly are formidable. I, Jia Yongheng, am genuinely convinced."

Jia Yongheng sighed with amazement, expressing the thoughts of many cultivators present.

"Just some minor tricks, nothing worth mentioning."

Zhou Yan said casually, not paying much attention to this situation.

As Zhou Yan spoke, he extended the Purple Flame Void Power around him.

The Purple Flame Void Power acted as a mutated Soul Power and rapidly spread out in all directions.

Between heaven and earth, the isolated land gradually turned into scenes, appearing within Zhou Yan’s sensing range.

The Purple Flame Void Power spread like waves, and Zhou Yan’s sensing range grew larger. Besides the initial isolated land, Zhou Yan began to see rows of weak yin spirits gradually appearing.

In addition to the Yin spirits, there were also some fierce beasts with moderate strength. These beasts had bizarre appearances, but each one seemed to be composed of pure Sword Intent, possessing terrifying murderous intent.

Further still, Zhou Yan saw white leopards mixed with lightning arcs, cloud horses, lizards, Desolate Dragons, pangolins, and other mutant beasts.

These mutant beasts had odd life characteristics. Besides the combination of heavenly tribulation lightning, they also contained a Primordial Magnetic Halo within them and a dense aura of death.

This was an unknown type of fierce beast.

When Zhou Yan’s sensing power spread out, these beasts, whether they were roaming, pausing, or resting, all more or less raised their heads and looked cautiously towards the void.

Zhou Yan’s sensing power continued to extend. Further away, the number of fierce beasts grew larger, stronger, and more terrifying.

Aside from these unknown life forms, Zhou Yan also sensed a very strong and terrifying Sword Spirit aura.

If those unknown life forms were terrifying, the faint whiff of Sword Spirit aura that Zhou Yan sensed was profoundly dreadful.

Upon sensing this Sword Spirit aura, Zhou Yan felt as though he had plunged into an ice cave, his body growing cold.

He felt, at that moment, a pair of extremely cold eyes had thoroughly seen through his soul, making his entire body chill.

At that moment, Zhou Yan was unable to continue sensing, for his sensing was interrupted by the stimulation of those cold eyes, halting the process.

Still, there was wind between heaven and earth.

The sound of the wind, carrying with it the distant roars of fierce beasts, was sorrowful.

"What’s the situation?"

Qingyao was the first to ask.

Zhou Yan looked indifferently at her, and she immediately reined in her somewhat eager attitude, becoming much calmer.

"What’s the situation?"

Jia Yongheng asked gravely.

"I sensed many unknown life forms, their strength is extremely terrifying."

"I’ve never seen such peculiar life forms before; these life forms have dense death aura and also possess a terrifying strength and vitality. Yet, they are not pure life forms but rather contain chaotic energies like lightning and Sword Intent, very bizarre."

Zhou Yan slightly furrowed his brows and described what he saw.

However, he withheld the information about the eyes, not mentioning that he saw a terrifying Sword Spirit’s eyes.

"What? That... that must be Netherworld beasts!"

Qingyao exclaimed suddenly.

Her voice was very peculiar, causing Zhou Yan, Jia Yongheng, and Holy Daughter Jiang Yuning to look at her strangely.

Her complexion showed shock and panic, but this time she did not hold back and sighed, "The Netherworld Life and Death Illusion Realm has been invading our world for a long time. If Frost Tears has a large number of Netherworld beasts, then let’s just say, Frost Tears is likely to fall.

The Ten Thousand Ghosts Sword Tomb seems to not be safe either.

If the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sword Tomb falls, it would be only normal for Yuan Ci Secret Realm to be breached."

"You seem to know a lot about this?"

Zhou Yan nodded thoughtfully, then directed his gaze at Qingyao.

"I’ve killed a Netherworld Eight Soul Envoy, so I know some things, but I didn’t expect things to happen so fast. Netherworld beasts, besides their rich death aura, also produce a destructive energy. This energy can cause hallucinations, a surreal familiarity, can summon the power of great calamities of heaven and earth, and kill invisibly."

After hesitating for a long time, Qingyao finally revealed such information.

Clearly, she had intended not to mention it, but given the current situation, she had no choice but to disclose it.