The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 156 - 141 Stir up the Waves_1

Chapter 156: Chapter 141 Stir up the Waves_1

Just as Zhu Yuanxi felt surprised,

Pang Jian suddenly leaped down from the domeless Stone Hall, no longer entangling with him.

"Our Ghost Leader has arrived. He is your opponent now,"

came Pang Jian’s voice from the air.

Zhu Yuanxi was stunned for a moment, then looked down to indeed see Dong Tianze, who had killed a group of Individual Cultivators, charging towards him with a well-charged Ghost Howling in hand.

"Ghost Leader, please take revenge for them!"

Pang Jian, hovering mid-air, and Dong Tianze, who sprang up, brushed past each other as Pang Jian urgently pleaded.

"Leave it to me,"

Dong Tianze said with a stern face and a cold huff.

His eyes, fierce and determined, showed rare admiration when he looked towards Pang Jian.

Pang Jian, with his Marrow Cleaning Realm cultivation, had actually entangled Zhu Yuanxi for so long, which he found satisfactory.

Considering Pang Jian as one of his subordinates, Dong Tianze hadn’t been particularly concerned about Pang Jian’s life or death. But Pang Jian took the risk to challenge Zhu Yuanxi, buying precious time for him to hunt Individual Cultivators and gather momentum for Ghost Howling.

And now,

Pang Jian had not only stubbornly survived, but also decisively jumped down from the Stone Hall as soon as he saw his Spiritual Power had fully gathered,

The timing couldn’t have been more perfect.

He suddenly felt that this Hall Master under his command might indeed be a talent worth paying more attention to.

"Thank you, Ghost Leader!"

Pang Jian, having landed thunderously, showed a moved expression within his reddened eyes.

Dong Tianze nodded lightly and even gave an "Mhm" sound.

"Whoosh!"

The Green Ghost Demon God, standing tall among numerous Soul Spirits and Ghost Objects, floated above Dong Tianze’s head as he ascended.

Seeing that familiar Demon God appear, Pang Jian knew that after a spree of indiscriminate killing, Ghost Howling had absorbed sufficient souls.

The imposing Green Ghost Demon God was a manifestation of the Secret Skill activated by Dong Tianze, which had also appeared over Lake Heart Island.

He knew that what followed would be Dong Tianze unleashing his full power to execute Zhu Yuanxi of the Blood Moon.

Having successfully triggered this battle, he now felt a sense of relief at this moment.

Glancing around, he noticed dozens of Individual Cultivator corpses by his side and saw that several Black Gold blade seas actively chased after the fleeing cultivators as if they were sentient.

Here, there were no more Individual Cultivators left to watch the spectacle.

"Swoosh!"

The hovering Heavenly Spirit Tower swiftly returned above the Great Stone Hall.

Pang Jian looked up and saw someone step out of the Heavenly Spirit Tower and leisurely float down.

"To activate the Soul Array, a part of the souls must be filled in..."

Wang Yisen muttered to himself, then tossed a talisman-like Soul-Calming Talisman to Pang Jian, saying, "After this, Dong will have some questions for you. Hold onto this Soul-Calming Talisman tightly."

"Oh."

Pang Jian nodded, not quite understanding.

The five-story White Tower, with an eerie luminescence, suddenly had its Soul Array on the fifth floor whirl into motion, emitting an evil fluctuation that could suppress the souls of all beings and draw in the weak ones.

Pang Jian immediately felt a terrifying sensation, as if his soul was about to be torn out.

Just for a moment,

before the bronze plaque in his chest responded, the "Soul-Calming Talisman" given by Wang Yisen steadied his soul completely.

"Wuu wuu!"

The Individual Cultivators pursued by Dong Tianze’s Black Gold blade sea felt their souls distorting, and either were caught off-guard and sliced apart by the blade sea or had their fragile souls flee their bodies, sucked up to the fifth floor’s Soul Array of the Heavenly Spirit Tower.

Wisps of greyish souls ascended to the heavens, entering the Soul Array on the fifth floor through the window openings.

Pang Jian’s expression was complex.

He remembered his initial venture onto Lake Heart Island, where under Luo Hongyan’s instruction, he had destroyed the Soul Array that had confined the soul of the Mysterious Turtle.

At that time, everyone was afraid that once the Heavenly Spirit Tower ascended, it would affect their souls.

Seeing the terror Wang Yisen wreaked upon activating the Soul Array, Pang Jian understood how crucial it was to have destroyed that Array.

Otherwise, once Dong Tianze emerged from the pit, gaining control over the Heavenly Spirit Tower, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Cloud Ascetics, do you think I can’t sense you hiding underground?"

Wang Yisen sneered, "I know you don’t want to be our enemy, but things have come this far, and there’s no turning back for us. If you’re going to blame someone, blame Zhu Yuanxi for not knowing better and insisting on lifting this veil!"

"Little did he know, even the Raging Sun Sect, Star River Alliance, and Red Mountain are unwilling to touch it."

"Does he really think that by doing so, the three powers will join hands with their Blood Moon to annihilate my Yin Spirit Temple?"

"That’s utterly laughable!"

As Wang Yisen’s derision continued, the suspended Heavenly Spirit Tower suddenly moved towards a spot and began to sink slowly:

"Without this Heavenly Spirit Tower, my battle against you might not be a guaranteed victory. What a pity, after successfully activating the Soul Array inside, with the Array’s and the Heavenly Spirit Tower’s amplification, you, Cloud Ascetics, are doomed!"

As soon as his words fell, Wang Yisen vanished into thin air.

The fleeing Individual Cultivator Cloud Ascetics remained silent, not uttering a word, their hiding place unknown.

"Huh!"

Pang Jian suddenly felt the ground beneath his feet grow increasingly colder.

The remains of the Great Stone Hall, with every piece of collapsed giant rock, now wrapped in bone-piercing chill.

The climate of Ice Rock Island rapidly deteriorated, growing colder and colder.

"Wang Yisen, don’t push me!"

The brooding voice of Cloud Ascetics finally came from deep within the earth: "This piece of Fragment Land I have cultivated for many years, I’ve thoroughly explored its wonders! If you and that madman Dong leave now, I can pretend nothing ever happened. But if you insist on forcing a battle, it will do neither of us any good!"

"And what if I do pressure you?"

Wang Yisen’s distant voice came from the hovering Heavenly Spirit Tower: "Since you refuse to come out, then I shall seek you in the earth!"

The Great Stone Hall shook violently, as if a massive creature delved deep into the earth, stirring an earth-shattering tumult.

The Heavenly Spirit Tower, hovering in midair, continued to unleash its unholy energy that drew in souls, with one after another gray and hazy soul shadows being absorbed into it.

Pang Jian, holding a Soul-Calming Talisman, remained safe and sound.

"You’ve indeed made a lot of progress."

The leisurely voice of Luo Hongyan came from beneath the corpses of two female cultivators.

Pang Jian turned his head and saw her lying under the two female cultivators, feigning death.

Lifting the hair that veiled her eyes, Luo Hongyan winked at him, giggling, "Two cultivators of the Hollow Profound Realm, as long as one of them dies first, I can deal with the other one."

Her voice was like a taut string, unheard by anyone else apart from Pang Jian—even if someone stood right there, they wouldn’t catch a whisper.

"Mmh."

Pang Jian, having instigated the trouble, simply sat down to wait quietly for the showdown between the two sides.

Stirring up the storm, then silently observing as others fall into it, engaging in fierce struggle within the vortex, was also a novel enlightenment for him.

"Boom! Crack!"

The sound of explosions continued from the exterior of Ice Rock Island.

Anytime a Cloud Sail attempted to leave, the Heavenly Spirit Tower floating above the Great Stone Hall would smash it to pieces.

Wang Yisen was thoroughly implementing Dong Tianze’s will.

After delving into the ground, he also manipulated the Heavenly Spirit Tower with his divine sense, strangling all who dared to leave the island.

The individual cultivators on the island, those closer to the Great Stone Hall, had their souls drawn out by the Heavenly Spirit Tower, while those who tried to leave on a Cloud Sail faced destruction and death.

Because of the terrifying soul array concealed within the Heavenly Spirit Tower, aside from Luo Hongyan, any other person feigning death would still have their souls targeted and taken.

The chilling Ice Rock Island instantly became a forbidden land for all living beings, a slaughterhouse for the individual cultivators.

The individual cultivators were continuously killed by the drifting, oscillating Heavenly Spirit Tower.

Among the stones.

Gao Yuan and Yuan Fei watched the malevolent Heavenly Spirit Tower with terror, seeing it starting inside the Great Stone Hall, combining with the Black Gold sword sea Dong Tianze had conjured, harvesting the lives of individual cultivators.

Located at the edge of Ice Rock Island and thus far from the Great Stone Hall, the two of them were not the current targets of the Heavenly Spirit Tower.

——Provided they didn’t rush to leave on a Cloud Sail.

However,

The Heavenly Spirit Tower floating above the Great Stone Hall, preying on the souls of individual cultivators, would eventually expand the range of its deadly assault.

Eventually, whether or not they chose to leave on a Cloud Sail, they would still be strangled by the Heavenly Spirit Tower.

Taking a Cloud Sail to flee Ice Rock Island, they would immediately face a fate of shipwreck and loss of life; staying equated to a slow death.

The two were on the verge of tears, cursing the Yin Spirit Temple and Dong Tianze in anger, yet powerless to do anything.

All they could do was passively await the arrival of death.

"Gao Yuan, those brother and sister who came down from the Upper Realm, could they also have perished inside?"

Yuan Fei asked with a heavy sigh.

Gao Yuan hesitated for a moment, then said, "I have a feeling that the two of them might not escape their doom. Despite their significant background, the Yin Spirit Temple’s actions this time clearly show no intention of sparing anyone."

"Their level of cultivation, unless surpassing that of Yin Spirit Temple’s Wang Yisen, he who would then hesitate to act fearing the repercussions."

After a pause, Gao Yuan added, "To me, they seem like two young cultivators of the Marrow Cleaning Realm, not enough to cause Wang Yisen any headache."

With these words, Yuan Fei, who had hoped to rely on Pang Jian and Luo Hongyan, lamented and utterly lost heart.

Inside the hall.

Pang Jian, sitting quietly on the spot, took out two spirit stones, one for each hand, intending to replenish his spiritual power.

"Hm!"

He was surprised to find that a dense nature’s spiritual energy was emanating from the bronze plaque, directly pouring into his Spiritual Sea within his Dan Tian.

With a thought, he sensed the Mysterious Turtle!

Hidden deep within an unnamed Fragment Land, as if in a Turtle Breathing state, the Mysterious Turtle, recognizing the unusual depletion of his spiritual power, was actually channeling a rich supply of nature’s spiritual energy to him through the bond between them, with the bronze plaque serving as a conduit!

Because of resisting Zhu Yuanxi during the Blood Moon, the ten to twenty percent of spiritual power that Pang Jian had been forced to expend was being steadily replenished.

The Mysterious Turtle, capable of concentrating the surrounding nature’s spiritual energy into a Fragment Land, seemed like it could become an additional Spiritual Sea for him in critical moments!

Even if he was in a state of combat, it could still transfer some spiritual power to help him recover a portion of his strength.

However, the current rate of transfer was somewhat slow and couldn’t instantly replenish his consumed spiritual power.

Yet, Pang Jian felt a sense of anticipation.

The Mysterious Turtle was still young, and the unnamed Fragment Land was not absorbing too much of nature’s spiritual energy yet.

In the future, as the Mysterious Turtle grew stronger and fostered the Fragment Land with care, it should be able to transfer enough overwhelming spiritual power to influence the tide of battle in crucial moments!

"The Corrosion Boundary Vine provided Life Vitality, the Mysterious Turtle can supplement spiritual power at critical times, that creature..."

Pang Jian then remembered the Dark Giant Python.

He snorted coldly in his heart, swallowed a Calming Pill, and then attempted to communicate with the Rebel Kid from the Fifth Realm.

His vision subtly began to change.

Toweringly imposing stone buildings, hundreds of feet tall, stood majestically between heaven and earth, suddenly filling his sight.

In front of a hall that lacked walls, stood dozens of towering giants, seemingly awaiting someone’s arrival.

Looking at the towering stone buildings, the dozens of Cyclops towering at great heights made Pang Jian feel incredibly minute.

"We greet the Goddess as she descends upon Sky-Splitting City!"

The Cyclops, suddenly kneeling on one knee, bowed their heads and worshipped in Pang Jian’s direction.

"No need for such formalities."

The next moment, Pang Jian heard a gentle female voice and then felt someone sitting astride on him.

The speaker was the mysterious female entity from the Alien Tribes, with six pairs of pristine white wings, whose true face he had yet to see.

At this moment, the creature Pang Jian saw as the Rebel Kid, the Dark Giant Python, was being ridden by her.

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