The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 259 - 244 Initial Battle with the Evil Cultivator_1

Chapter 259: Chapter 244 Initial Battle with the Evil Cultivator_1

Prayer Spirit Forbidden Land.

The moonlight was like water.

Pang Jian came to a leisurely stop, standing next to a broken stone statue.

The stone statue was carved from grey-white boulders and depicted a strange being with a human face and a spider’s body. Its numerous spider legs were sharp as long spears but had long been chopped off and broken.

Its spider body was also cut into segments, scattered all around like dismembered limbs.

Only a seductively beautiful female face had been perfectly preserved.

The lifelike stone statue, bathed in the bright moonlight, bore a female visage so enthralling that it emitted a faint, glowing white luminescence.

At this moment, Pang Jian maintained a vigilant stance, gazing at the statue’s beautiful face.

Suddenly, he felt that those who had initially flooded into this forbidden land, destroying numerous altars and stone statues, seemed to have a change of heart after severing its spider legs and dismembering its body, as if out of pity.

Those people truly could not bear to destroy its exquisitely tempting female face, which was why it had remained intact until now.

"A being with a human face and spider body, could it also be... an Alien God Spirit?"

Pang Jian was filled with doubts.

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!"

The three unheeded Different Kinds evil cultivators, after a short wait, still hurried over.

Pang Jian shook his head and sighed, "I told you not to chase."

"Slash!"

A dazzling sword light, mixed with Extreme Cold Alien Power, was casually unleashed towards the bald evil cultivator in the lead.

"Thunder Skill, no, there’s also... Extreme Cold Alien Power!"

The bald evil cultivator’s complexion changed slightly as he stepped back.

His figure shifted and he first dodged the brilliant sword light.

After seeing the sword light endowed with thunder and Extreme Cold Alien Power tear apart a piece of green fragmented rock behind him, he sneered coldly, "Just by looking, one can tell it’s not a conventional cultivation method. It seems you and I are indeed from the same mold."

He immediately produced a stark white Beast Bone.

Swinging the large-jointed beast bone like a mace, he slammed it heavily into Pang Jian’s Spirit Sword, which was coming at him again.

"Clang!"

The Spirit Sword, gifted by Lei Kun, was actually deformed by his bone strike, and a powerful and wild force surged into the sword, instantly destroying its internal Array.

"Boom!"

The wild momentum surged along the blade and hilt, aiming towards Pang Jian’s sword-wielding hand as if it sought to break his arm.

"Rich Qi and Blood, Spiritual Power, and a hint of bestiality..."

Pang Jian expressionlessly exerted his own strength silently. In the palm of his hand, where the hilt of the sword lay, a red light screen suddenly shone forth.

Thin strands of lightning intermixed with Flame Force and sunlight erupted, grinding away the residual force that had infused into the opponent’s attack.

Without its core Array, the Spirit Sword couldn’t withstand the collision of two vast Alien Powers and it snapped in two with a "crack".

The bald evil cultivator’s color drained from his face as he quickly retreated with the beast bone in hand, looking over in shock.

The other two also wore a heavy expression, immediately realizing they had encountered a tough opponent.

"No, you’re not someone of our kind!"

The bald evil cultivator signalled with his eyes to the other two to encircle, then he continued, "Only naturally formed objects can express their intended power in the Land of Prayer Spirit. Any man-made object inscribed with Spirit Arrays is unable to fully exhibit its power!"

"Objects naturally nurtured by the heavens contain the implicit Great Tao Truth. The Sects of the present era, on the other hand, insist on defying nature."

"They foolishly try to decipher the mysteries of the universe through numerous Spirit Arrays, which is utterly dull-witted."

He suddenly soared into the air.

The wide-jointed beast bone emitted a radiance akin to the sun, as if the innate talents of a dead Ferocious Beast were being stimulated through his own power.

He charged directly at Pang Jian from midair.

A crimson creature with beastly pupils like twin Fierce Suns and three tails – a shadowy Flame Sun Beast – enveloped him and the beast bone as they pounced for the kill.

The marvel within the beast bone, combined with his own strength, seemingly revived the fierce Flame Sun Beast.

"Roar!"

With a roar from the Flame Sun Beast, the altar that had burned to death a prodigy of the Raging Sun Sect suddenly burst forth with the Sun God Glare.

Pang Jian frowned and looked up, not yet seeing the Flame Sun Beast, but was first overwhelmed by the formidable sea of blood and Alien Power.

He immediately understood that this bald evil cultivator was also adept in body refining secret skills, and his body was extraordinarily well-crafted.

A blinding sea of light appeared abruptly!

Under the intense irradiation of Sun God Glare, the Flame Sun Beast, like a pet nurtured by God Spirits, stepped off the sunbeams and descended from the high sky.

Luxurious chariots, towed by many high-ranking Flame Sun Beasts, flew out from the sun palace.

This scene shook Pang Jian’s soul, seeking to make him lose the will to resist, to kneel down and quietly meet his end.

"Sinister mind-bending illusions!"

Pang Jian snorted coldly and reconstituted the previously dissipated Qingying Gang Shield.

Within the depths of the solid ice-like shield, streaks of silver-white lightning roamed, suddenly erupting with the sound of thunder.

Inside the shield, he was like a Sovereign wielding thunder and ice, instantly free from the restraints of the illusion.

The Flame Sun Beast, both lifelike and illusory, reappeared in his field of vision.

But there were no more visions of luxurious chariots or the sun palace, nor the daunting Alien Power to intimidate his will.

"Pop!"

The Qingying Gang Shield, constructed of Spiritual Power, Extreme Cold Alien Power, and thunder, was struck and deformed by the Flame Sun Beast’s claw, scattering shards of ice and lightning. It seemed on the verge of collapse.

"Eh!"

"Humph!"

Just as both the bald evil cultivator and Pang Jian were slightly startled.

The other two evil cultivators intervened, one throwing out withered yellow leaves, while the other tossed a smooth Beast Skin.

As the withered leaf emerged, Pang Jian’s flesh and vitality swiftly began to drain away.

He immediately sensed that the Spiritual Power Strong Shield he used to protect his body could not block the evil power contained within the withered leaf.

At that moment, Pang Jian remembered the amethyst pendant Jiuyuan tore off before his death when he was blasting Jiuyuan apart in the Yuan Mang Fragmented Lands.

When the pendant absorbed Jiuyuan’s fresh blood and shattered, the amethyst sword light it emitted also bore the same essence—

—withering vitality, eroding flesh and blood.

"Huff! Huff huff!"

Suddenly, a miasma of dark green gas wafted out of the smooth Beast Skin, carrying with it a malevolent force that weakened one’s will and made people feel drowsy.

"Evil door."

Confronting an evil cultivator for the first time, Pang Jian no longer foolishly resisted with his Strong Shield.

Before the bald evil cultivator touched the ground again, Pang Jian instead accelerated forward, skillfully evading the ambush by the trio.

In his left and right hands, he wielded white and red lightning, which he violently launched at the trio as they adjusted their rhythms.

"Hiss! Hiss hiss!"

The one who had released the withered leaves and the one who threw out a piece of Beast Skin were both struck by the explosive lightning.

The two screamed sharply, their bodies instantly stained red with dark blood, yet their control over the withered leaves and Beast Skin remained intact.

"Huff!"

That piece of Beast Skin chased after him like a cluster of dark green clouds.

The bald evil cultivator, as if roaring together with a Flame Sun Beast, bellowed from within the beast’s terrifying maw.

"Kid, in this Land of Prayer Spirit that has already attracted divine attention, our power is somewhat amplified. And you, you should have never felt the presence of a God Spirit; you fight against us with techniques from the outside world, which shows you’re here for the first time."

"That you dare fight over our spoils of war!"

"Roar!"

The Flame Sun Beast roared again at Pang Jian.

A wide river of flames gushed exuberantly from its fierce maw, carrying with it the hot breath that could incinerate everything, as if aiming to melt Pang Jian into a pool of blood.

"Whoosh!"

Pang Jian, who had summoned the Astonishing Spear, traced an arc with the tip of his spear, forming a "Silver Moon Ring" as if forging a massive shield in front of him.

The "Silver Moon Ring," unenhanced by any Array, still emitted an air of extreme chill, with stars and moons twinkling within its core, forcibly blocking the river of flames.

But at this moment...

A myriad of withering leaves and that sheet of Beast Skin wafting with dark green toxic gas had taken advantage of the chaos to approach both in front of and behind Pang Jian.

Pang Jian was enveloped by a flurry of leaves and pestilential gas.

At this time, his artifacts like the Astonishing Spear and the Star-shattering Umbrella saw a significant reduction in their powers within the Prayer Spirit Forbidden Land.

On the contrary, the three evil cultivators’ tools, like Beast Bones, Beast Skin, and leaves, being naturally nurtured by the world, were not only unaffected by the land’s restrictions but even seemed to gain a slight enhancement.

With this disadvantage, Pang Jian found himself severely hampered in combat, feeling awkward at every turn.

"Let’s try the innate divine skill of the Mysterious Turtle Shell."

"Burrowing!"

With a single thought, right under the eyes of the three evil cultivators, Pang Jian disappeared into the ground like water dissolving into the sea.

The leaves and the piece of Beast Skin creating a bizarre binding constraint suddenly lost their target.

"Be careful!"

The bald evil cultivator cried out in alarm, sensing something was amiss.

The Hollow Profound Realm mid-stage evil cultivator controlling the Beast Skin suddenly felt a sharp edge beneath his feet, and when he looked down—

"Pfft!"

The reappearing Astonishing Spear pierced him through with a single thrust.

Before he fell backward, the silver spear that had abruptly emerged from the earth disappeared once again into its depths.

"He’s underground!"

The bald evil cultivator shouted, no longer daring to stay in one place, instead constantly leaping into the air.

Engulfed by the aura of the Flame Sun Beast, each time he was about to land, he looked at the ground with trepidation, fearing a Long Spear would thrust through the earth.

The evil cultivator controlling the leaves also dared not step on the ground, promptly deciding to fly and perch above a broken half pillar.

Seconds later.

"Splurt!"

The one standing atop the pillar was also pierced through by a silver spear, skewered above the pillar.

The successive deaths of his companions greatly changed the bald evil cultivator’s expression.

He felt that not only the ground but also the scattered statues, pillars, and sacrificial altars seemed to hide a cunning and malevolent foe.

His wary and fearful eyes kept scanning the surroundings, feeling that Pang Jian could suddenly spring out from any object at any moment.

After a short while, he suddenly realized that his ally’s piece of Beast Skin, along with the withered leaves, had vanished.

"Kid, what kind of treacherous secret skill are you using?"

"If you have the guts, come out and fight me fairly, instead of hiding and striking from the shadows!"

Wrapped in the phantom of the Flame Sun Beast, he kept moving in a pattern of rising and falling, hovering around the giant spider-like body of the God Spirit.

Ten feet under the earth, Pang Jian hadn’t summoned his protective shield, his body naturally surrounded by a black and yellow glow.

The radiance came from the Mysterious Turtle Shell on his chest.

Looking up, buried beneath the surface, he could clearly see the bald cultivator enveloped by the shape of the colossal Flame Sun Beast, frantically leaping without pause.

Calming his heart, he scrutinized the situation carefully from below and realized that the Flame Sun Beast was a manifestation formed from concentrated Qi and Blood.

The thick beast bone was in the palm of the bald evil cultivator; with Spiritual Power and Qi and Blood as the source of power, he harnessed the wondrous essence within the bone as if resurrecting the Flame Sun Beast in the world.

"Evil cultivators truly differ a bit from the mainstream cultivation methods," he thought.

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