The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 308 - 291: Surprise Attack!_1

Chapter 308: Chapter 291: Surprise Attack!_1

"Luo Yuan!"

Li Yuanchen’s harsh scream echoed, his head buzzing, his scalp tingling with numbness.

The man who had suddenly appeared was the Sword Tower’s Luo Yuan whom he had previously impersonated!

Mischievously, through an incredibly profound impression in Ye Fei’s mind, he had changed his bone structure and facial features to take on the appearance of Sword Tower’s Luo Yuan, and now he had eerily manifested himself on the Bright Heaven Battleship!

His state of mind in turmoil, waves towering in his Spiritual Sea, an abrupt transformation occurred within the Spiritual Soul in his Sea of Consciousness.

Li Yuanchen, who had once disguised himself as Luo Yuan aboard the Sword Boat and killed without scruple, was now on the verge of lapsing into a state of demonic possession!

"Hisss! Hisss Hisss!"

Strands of his silver Divine Sense were being stretched and unraveled like tufts of cotton.

A small silver head, because of his mental shock, because of his momentary distraction, chaotically shattered with a bang!

The path he had taken to refine his Spiritual Soul instantly regressed, and he immediately suffered the backlash.

"Phwah!"

Li Yuanchen spat out crimson blood, his complexion deathly pale as paper, and he roared furiously, "You dare to ruin my Spirit Condensation Great Tao!"

"Was it you who impersonated me on the Sword Boat?"

Pang Jian stood tall and straight in the air like a sharp sword.

He hadn’t summoned his Astonishing Spear, hadn’t called forth the Star-shattering Umbrella or the Nine Suns Tripod, nor had he taken out any of the artifacts Li Yuanchen had seen.

Empty-handed and with an indifferent expression, he looked at the man from Bright Heaven Divine Kingdom who had failed in his advancement and said coldly, "I am Luo Yuan, an outer disciple of Sword Tower."

"I’ve just discovered that Sword Boat, met my senior fellow disciples Qi and Zhuang, and learned of the things you’ve done."

"Li Yuanchen, you dare to impersonate even my name. Do you know the consequences?"

Pang Jian asked coldly.

"You weren’t on the Sword Boat at the time?"

Li Yuanchen was shocked again.

This disciple of Sword Tower’s outer sect whom he had never met, only heard of through Ye Fei, was said to have one hundred and twenty-eight strands of Divine Sense.

During the time in Cloud Thunder Forbidden Zone, this person also held the title of Electric Chaser and was regarded by Ye Fei as the most talented cultivator of the Second Realm.

Most importantly, Luo Yuan was extremely low-profile and incredibly mysterious.

Now, this mysterious figure had suddenly appeared, and he hadn’t entered the Mysterious Fog along with the Sword Boat, which immediately raised the level of danger several times.

Feeling slightly nervous, Li Yuanchen asked again, "If you weren’t on the Sword Boat, where were you before?"

"I’ve been drifting through the Mysterious Fog for quite some time,"

Pang Jian replied indifferently.

"Indeed!"

Li Yuanchen’s apprehension deepened.

In his eyes, Pang Jian became increasingly mysterious and dangerous.

"Through what did you enter the Mysterious Fog? And, how... did you survive?"

As Li Yuanchen spoke, he discreetly took out a dark red Pill and swallowed it.

After only a second’s hesitation, he took down the "Mysterious Heavenly Thunder Hammer" above his head, and with the use of Spirit Spells, he merged the ice glaciers, transforming them into a glacier filled with bone-chilling cold.

Standing on the glacier, his hand gripping the silver hammer named "Mysterious Heavenly Thunder Hammer," he gave up on advancing to the Spirit Condensation Realm.

—Preparing to fully engage with the troublesome person before him.

Pang Jian didn’t answer his question.

Seeing that he had stopped his attempt to advance to the Spirit Condensation Realm and was ready for a desperate battle, Pang Jian finally said indifferently, "The silver Divine Senses that you released and left lingering around their ears, I’ve devoured them one by one."

"Thread by thread, containing Divine Consciousness, these Divine Senses are still somewhat... nourishing."

Pang Jian sneered with a mocking expression.

"How can you see them?"

Li Yuanchen was startled.

Pang Jian chuckled darkly with an unfathomable air and quietly initiated the "Purgatory Gate".

He vanished into thin air right in front of Li Yuanchen’s eyes!

"Teleportation!"

Li Yuanchen’s mind was in turmoil, completely at a loss.

The person who had unexpectedly appeared and disrupted his Spirit Condensation Great Tao was shrouded in mystery, causing him to feel stifled and uneasy.

The man before him could teleport, appearing and disappearing suddenly.

How then could he concentrate on Spirit Condensation?

The silver Divine Sense strands he had painstakingly refined and that contained Divine Consciousness had been devoured by the other party.

Leading to him, not daring to diffuse his Divine Sense outward, to search for the other party’s traces in his surroundings.

And the other party just wouldn’t stay to face him in a fight to the death on the Bright Heaven Battleship, leaving him feeling powerful yet helpless.

"I’ve been marked by this man, no matter where I go, he’s going to keep an eye on me!"

Li Yuanchen was troubled and frustrated.

He racked his brains for a strategy but couldn’t come up with any way to approach the situation.

"That Luo Yuan truly deserves to die. As long as he can appear at any time, I’ll have difficulty smoothly condensing my spirit. Without advancing to the Spirit Condensation Realm, I won’t have absolute certainty to execute Zhuang Yuyan, Qi Qingsong, and the others."

The more Li Yuanchen thought, the more vexed he became.

Gradually, he began to feel an immense regret and thought he should never have discovered the Sword Boat and then stealthily hidden within Xu Jie, nor should he have acted so surreptitiously and ruthlessly.

"If, at the beginning, I had appeared openly, revealed my identity, and boarded the Sword Boat, what would have happened?"

"Would this Luo Yuan still target me?"

"Damn it! My ancestors once boasted a True God, facing an outer disciple of Sword Tower, how could I be so timid?"

"I’ll seek another place to attempt reaching the True God!"

"Whoosh!"

The greyish-green vortex carried him, along with the "Bright Heaven Spirit Gathering Array", swiftly away from the severely damaged battleship, accelerating into the distance.

After about an hour.

"That should do it."

Li Yuanchen stopped, releasing both the "Mysterious Heavenly Thunder Hammer" and the glaciers once more.

He thought...

Even he himself didn’t know his own direction or position, having already become lost here, that outer disciple from Sword Tower named Luo Yuan, should also be unable to find him.

He took out a Soul Nourishing Pill and swallowed it, then drank a bucket of level seven ferocious beast’s beast blood, silently adjusting his state of mind.

Afterward, Li Yuanchen once again attempted to break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm.

Several hours later, he finally managed to refine a silver thread-like divine sense into a tiny skull within his Sea of Consciousness...

A space of extreme and violently erratic energy sea suddenly appeared!

Lightning and thunder erupted above Li Yuanchen’s head, with stars and moons colliding and shattering, suns and ice rocks conflicting and exploding, along with countless meteor fire rains plummeting down!

This terrifying boundless energy sea seemed as if it would destroy the heavens and earth, shattering the sky and the universe.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The thunder sea forged with the silver hammer suddenly collapsed, and the glaciers, too, couldn’t hold on for long, collapsing one after another.

Li Yuanchen, who was halfway through the Spirit Condensation process, grunted, blood gushing from his seven orifices.

The golden battle armor he wore, with its mirror-smooth golden plates, revealed numerous talismanic inscriptions.

The armor firmly protected his body, allowing him to withstand this wave of wild aggression.

"Who is it?"

"Luo Yuan? Or Pang Jian?!"

Li Yuanchen roared into the sky.

The sudden terrifying energy sea began to dissipate slowly, but Luo Yuan, who was on his mind, did not show up, and neither did Pang Jian show his face.

Li Yuanchen distinctly felt that the extremely chaotic energy sea was consistent with the sword technique and sword intent previously used by Pang Jian.

He suspected that the mysterious Luo Yuan had found Pang Jian, who was lost in the Mysterious Fog, and the two of them had joined forces to launch a sneak attack on him while he was breaking through his realm.

With fresh blood flowing from his mouth and nose, Li Yuanchen, furious and agitated, wished he could fight to the death with the two of them.

"Luo Yuan! Pang Jian! Stop skulking around in the shadows!"

"If you have the guts, come out and fight me to the death!"

Realizing he couldn’t shake off Luo Yuan even after leaving the Bright Heaven Battleship, Li Yuanchen knew he would no longer be able to find a truly safe realm and that it would also not be possible for him to successfully advance to the Spirit Condensation Realm.

This made him decide to fight to the death with Luo Yuan and Pang Jian!

"Buzzing!"

A golden bee insect suddenly emerged in the vast depths of the Mysterious Fog.

The bee insect, with its dark, cold icy compound eyes, quietly observed him and then turned to leave.

Li Yuanchen, who had lost his direction and didn’t know how to find his opponents, saw this golden bee insect as if a drowning man had found a piece of driftwood and pursued it desperately, regardless of everything.

He didn’t care what the bee insect was or who had raised it; he just wanted to quickly find the person behind it.

Having failed to achieve Spirit Condensation twice in a row and suffered heavy blows to both his spirit and body, Li Yuanchen, who dared not attempt Spirit Condensation again, saw the bee insect as a breakthrough point.

Along the way, he continuously swallowed pills and guzzled beast blood, trying to recover his combat state as much as possible.

After flying for a long time, he saw a huge bird skeleton.

He also saw buildings and palaces built on both sides of the bird’s wing bones, and on the bird’s smooth forehead sat a man.

"Again?"

The handsome man, dressed in a raincoat woven from white feathers, frowned and snorted coldly.

Looking at the golden bee insect that kept reappearing and then abruptly vanishing, a look of anger emerged in his profound eyes.

This was the sixth time already!

A sneaky golden bee insect repeatedly provoked him, and every time he tried to pursue it, the bee insect would escape into the Mysterious Fog and disappear without a trace.

Each time he gave up and returned, just as he settled down to sit quietly, the golden bee insect would reappear.

The bee insect’s repeated comings and goings, and the hidden surveillance from the darkness, annoyed him immensely.

This time, when the golden bee insect reappeared, he couldn’t even be bothered to stand up and chase after it.

He knew the bee insect was tricky, knew it was as quick as lightning within the Mysterious Fog, and truly chasing it would be futile.

So he allowed the golden bee insect to hover in front of him, deciding not to pay it any attention.

Suddenly, after a short while...

Li Yuanchen, who was also pursuing the golden bee insect, appeared with a foot on a grey-green vortex, holding a silver hammer in one hand and an Ice Seal in the other, looking agitated as he suddenly emerged.

"The master behind this has finally shown himself!"

"Despicable wretch! You have finally revealed yourself!"

As their eyes met, both of their hearts burst into flames of rage, each regarding the other as the bee insect’s owner.

The handsome man abruptly stood up!

He opened the Divine Eye hidden between his brows, and countless rays of domineering spiritual light poured from his pores, condensing into a hundred-zhang-tall figure of an Ancient God Dharma.

This law form sat upon a lotus platform, with hands forming seals over its chest, bathed in a raging purifying fire.

Using the Divine Eye on his forehead, the man locked onto Li Yuanchen and shouted sternly, "Die!"

The hundred-zhang-tall towering ancient god, wielding the lotus platform beneath it, majestically sent down a sky-full of purifying fire towards Li Yuanchen.

"Rise!"

Li Yuanchen unleashed the "Mysterious Heavenly Thunder Hammer," creating a Thunder and Lightning Sea, which was smashed to pieces by the enormous lotus platform, scattering endless electric light.

"Boom!"

The lotus platform crashed down, and the silver hammer was crushed out of shape.

All the extremely cold glaciers, including the polygonal "Bright Heaven Spirit Gathering Array," shattered in an instant.

The Icy Square Print, which was back in Li Yuanchen’s hand, exploded, blurring the flesh of his left hand, and he hastily activated a secret skill to escape.

He disappeared into the grey-green vortex, which contracted continuously as the surrounding clouds were dissipated by the pressure of the lotus platform.

This revealed a grey-green iron funnel.

"Whoosh!"

The iron funnel vanished in a flash.

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