The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 427 - 406 Full Retreat_1

Chapter 427: Chapter 406 Full Retreat_1

Zhou Yi’s final cry of "traitor" was filled with frustration and humiliation.

With the mystery of his "Void Mirror Skill," had he known that Pang Jian still had strength to spare, he never would have allowed himself to be trapped in such a predicament.

When Pang Jian’s alien power rose again, and his Spiritual Sea surged tumultuously, Zhou Yi realized that like a dazzling shadow, Pang Jian could also quickly replenish his energy through another miraculous object.

Clearly possessing such power, clearly not needing to suffer such a grim fate, why had Pang Jian not even brought out his Firm Cover?

Why had he shown himself to be on the verge of death?

Naturally, it was to lure him over, to take the opportunity to kill him first!

Indeed, in the split second of realization, Zhou Yi understood this, which fueled his angry shout, hurling the words "traitor" to bitterly curse Pang Jian’s vile and despicable nature.

However, he could only shout those two words.

"Huh!"

The more severely wounded Pang Jian, clutching the Origin Demon Sword, descended, his body enveloped once again in a radiant blue glow that wrapped around his bloodied form.

The Alien Tribes that had arrived, along with the strong warriors of the Demon Spirit Continent, all looked on with shock and awe at Pang Jian’s falling figure.

—But there was not a second Zhou Yi daring to come near.

Even someone as powerful as Zhou Yi was caught off guard and suffered a fatal loss, resulting in both physical destruction and annihilation of his soul.

Who could know if Pang Jian, appearing even worse off at this moment, might unleash another frenzied sword technique?

Having plotted to eliminate Zhou Yi, and having succeeded, Pang Jian made all the Alien Tribes apprehensive, too wary to act rashly.

"Dazzling Shadow!"

Ling Yimo shouted low.

"Understood!"

A beam of faint light descended from the heavens, heading straight for the Demon Spirit Continent.

Dazzling Shadow said, "He actually dared to mock me, reserving his fighting strength to hunt down Zhou Yi, clearly not taking me seriously!"

This Devil Scale Tribe female was unable to suppress her fury.

Pang Jian, seemingly grievously injured, was nonetheless able to once again wield his sword and choke Zhou Yi’s life, which naturally meant Pang Jian had not exerted his full strength.

Clearly, Pang Jian considered Zhou Yi to be the greater threat!

She, Dazzling Shadow, was the pride of the Devil Scale Tribe in this new era, with the potential to ascend to a God Spirit in the future. How could she be compared to Zhou Yi?

This battle-loving and skilled warrior, Dazzling Shadow, was filled with a strong sense of humiliation and resolved to slay Pang Jian on the Demon Spirit Continent to vent her anger!

"Dazzling Shadow!"

Seeing her descend from the upper echelons to pursue Pang Jian, those Alien Tribes who were eying him dared not make a move.

Even the eighth-level Alien Tribe warriors did not dare to compete with Dazzling Shadow for prey.

Thus, those Alien Tribe warriors who hoped to intercept Pang Jian before Dazzling Shadow and deliver a finishing blow were compelled to halt in place for various reasons.

"Little junior brother!"

Hu was shocked and felt an agonizing pain in her heart as she screamed.

Liou Youyu, biting her blood-stained lips, said, "He, he should be... alright."

The Mysterious Heavenly Divine Mirror hung high above their heads, and the divine power left in the mirror by the True God was nearly depleted.

The mirror faintly targeted Pang Jian, but his figure inside became smaller and more blurred.

"I can’t go down to save him, the Mysterious Heavenly Divine Mirror has almost no power left. But I can feel that his condition isn’t that bad. Sister, what I can do, is to take you with me and leave."

Liou Youyu’s voice trembled lightly.

"His falling destination is the Demon Spirit Continent, which is increasingly crowded with Alien Tribes and Ferocious Beasts! Even if he has strong power, if he can’t leave the Fourth Realm, he will eventually die!" cried Hu in pain.

"I know, but I... I really can’t help it." The girl from the Yuan Qing Divine Nation wept remorsefully, "I can’t save him; all I can do is save you."

By the time Pang Jian’s figure finally disappeared from the Mysterious Heavenly Divine Mirror, the Divine Mirror itself fell at the feet of the two women like a plaque.

Liou Youyu forcibly dragged Hu to stand on the opposite side of the mirror, using this Divine Artifact to take them both far away.

She had long noticed that many powerful members of the Alien Tribes were getting closer and closer to this area, and if they didn’t evacuate quickly, both she and Hu would not be able to escape.

"Zhou Yi is actually dead!"

In the depths of the heavy Lead Clouds, Dong Wenjian, with a Divine Talisman affixed to his forehead, shone with a brightness akin to torches.

"Pang Jian swiftly regained strength and used a similar method to blast Zhou Yi to death!"

He screamed at Lin Manhe.

Lin Manhe pressed her fingertips to her temples, peering below with the secret skill of the Ancient Law Sect, and also clearly saw that scene.

She exclaimed, "Pang Jian’s apparent distress and severe wounds in his fight with the Devil Scale Tribe female were to entice Zhou Yi to make a move! He always knew that Zhou Yi was our biggest enemy in escaping!"

"Exactly!" Dong Wenjian nodded vigorously, "He’s resolved our worries!"

"So..."

Dong Wenjian, who had not overextended his power, hesitated for a moment before taking out another Divine Talisman and placing it on his chest, saying, "I will use this talisman to try and save Zhou Qingchen and the others!"

Talisman Paper is different from tools; most are single-use items, and using one meant one less in possession.

Divine level Talisman Paper was a rare commodity in the entire Purgatory World, only known to be crafted by the True Gods of the Ancient Law Sect.

This "Lifeline" Divine Talisman was Dong Wenjian’s lifesaving item, which he shouldn’t have used unless absolutely necessary.

But now, seeing Pang Jian paying such a price to kill Zhou Yi to allow them a safe escape, Dong Wenjian, who had long left the battlefield, decided to protect Zhou Qingchen and the others on behalf of Pang Jian for a while.

The Divine Talisman suddenly caused intense spatial turbulence.

As Dong Wenjian locked onto Zhou Qingchen with his Divine Sense, he also passed through the void within the clouds, appearing instantly beside Zhou Qingchen, and shouted, "Follow me!"

A Divine Talisman unfolded like a carpet, and after bringing Zhou Qingchen onto it, he once again activated the power of "Lifeline."

The Divine Talisman, symbolizing "a thread of life," was like a moving Space Teleportation Array, constantly blinking and changing position, and also connected with Wu Yuan and Dong Tianze.

"The Talisman Paper holds limited power, I can only take the three of you with me," Dong Wenjian said while continuously shifting through the void.

Elsewhere.

"Bang!"

In the Taiyi Divine Kingdom, Fan Chen, wielding the Divine Bones inscribed with "Tai," saw it collapse, turning into bits of golden bones that made up gestures.

The golden bars and the shimmering "one" mark, carrying streams of Fan Chen’s silhouettes, scattered in the dense Lead Cloud’s alien land.

Each fragment of Divine Bones, with Flesh and Blood and the breath of Soul, confused the eighth-level Armored Demon Beast, making it unable to discern which one was the real Fan Chen.

Fan Chen seized the opportunity to flee for his life.

"I really should thank Pang Jian. If he hadn’t gone to kill Zhou Yi, I would never dare to use this life-saving trick!"

"If the Armored Demon Beast can’t tell, Zhou Yi of Jiuli Sect, of course, can sense the truth and use the Void Secret Skill to chase and kill."

"But..."

"Alas, I hope you’ll have divine protection and manage to escape this disaster."

Fan Chen’s true spirit sighed ethereally.

Below.

Ling Yimo from the Gui Sacrificial Sect, quietly appeared in the weakening "Fission Star River," using a Divine Secret Technique to bring the illusory "God and Demon Origin Academy" back into existence.

"Reunion of the Soul."

His ethereal and melodious Divine Voice, inside the illusory magnificent city, created two intertwining rivers of souls.

Countless Soul Spirits and Ghost Objects flew towards the convergence point from both ends of the rivers, continuously disappearing into nothingness.

Ling Yimo, a High God of the Ghost Clan, using the reformed "God and Demon Origin Academy" and wielding the Divine Power of his authority, enveloped the area where Zhou Yi’s soul perished and body died.

Strands of Zhou Yi’s soul that had not yet dissipated, one after another, fell into the convergence point of the two soul rivers.

Seconds later, Zhou Yi’s Spiritual Soul reappeared.

"I am powerless over the physical body. As long as the Spiritual Soul has not been utterly extinguished and still exists in the world, I can help you reunite," Ling Yimo stated indifferently.

Zhou Yi, with his resurfaced Spiritual Soul, was in a state of confusion, murmuring, "Am I dead, have I become a Ghost Object, or am I still alive? My memories... "

As Zhou Yi murmured, numerous faint lights shuttled within his soul altar, arranging and sorting his scrambled memories.

"Pang Jian!"

Once his memories were restored, Jiuli Sect’s great talent screamed in his Spiritual Soul form.

"Dazzling Shadow has already gone to kill him. Now that you’ve lost your physical body, don’t risk venturing into the Demon Spirit Continent," said the Ghost Clan High God, advising, "This man is cunning and extremely ruthless, more difficult to deal with than any prodigy from Sword Tower in history, and moreover..."

"He is different from previous possessors of the Chaos Sea; he stockpiled too much divinity before reaching the Spirit Condensation Realm. His Spiritual Soul is extraordinary!"

"Those born with the Chaos Sea would fail to become a True God due to practicing too many mixed Alien Powers. However, he might not be limited by the characteristics of the Chaos Sea."

The High God’s face was solemn.

Zhou Yi was astounded, "He might break the shackles of the Chaos Sea?"

"That’s a possibility."

...

In the Demon Spirit Continent.

Under the active avoidance of many Alien Tribes and Ferocious Beasts, Pang Jian fell into a wide fissure and swiftly sank underground.

Shortly after, Dazzling Shadow appeared abruptly and followed the crevice directly underground.

Time ticked away by the second.

The submerged Pang Jian did not surface again, and the Devil Scale Tribe woman, who ventured deep underground to hunt and kill, also failed to show herself for a long time.

Hours later, the impatient Ling Yimo, with Zhou Yi’s Spiritual Soul in tow, descended.

"Dazzling Shadow is still searching, but there is no sign of Pang Jian’s soul, nor any fluctuations of flesh and blood," Ling Yimo stated with dark green eyes, speaking to the ghastly-faced Zhou Yi, "It seems that he has something akin to your Void Mirror Skill."

"He deliberately fell towards the Demon Spirit Continent instead of flying into the Lead Clouds, aiming to lure Dazzling Shadow into pursuing him."

"Once underground, Dazzling Shadow wouldn’t be able to do anything, and neither could she attack those youngsters up in the sky."

The Ghost Clan High God, feeling a sense of frustration from Pang Jian’s repeated successes, said, "Zhou Yi, he will be your and Dazzling Shadow’s strongest opponent."

Zhou Yi was silent, lacking both the strength and the will to respond.

As the second on the Jiuli sect’s Soul Wandering Realm list, a rare genius, he had always considered Li Yuqing his primary adversary in his mind.

Before this, he never saw Pang Jian as a threat, not thinking that Pu Zhaotian’s newly accepted Direct Disciple could disrupt his meticulously planned scheme.

Looking back now, the murder of Hong Qiming from the Demon Sect and his own loss of a physical body were all thanks to Pang Jian!

Half a day later.

Dazzling Shadow’s narrow, blade-like eyes, full of dejection, left the depths of the earth. She came to the Ghost Clan High God’s side, shaking her head, "I don’t know where he is."

"Remember this name, Pang Jian—your struggles with him have only just begun," said the Ghost Clan High God.

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