Chapter 1407 - 1003: True Monarch Beixuan, Tier 5 Corpse Emperor

At the bottom of the lake, the dark current surged, and Master Shui Yuan narrowed his eyes.

His expression also turned cold.

"You’re not Junior Lu, who exactly are you?" Master Shui Yuan asked.

But before he could finish asking, he heard a thud, as the array behind him was pierced through, and a miniature Flood Dragon leaped in. In the next moment, accompanied by a loud rumbling sound.

The entire grand hall turned into ruins and began to freeze, eventually shattering like an ice crystal.

This kind of teleportation array, let alone activating it, couldn’t even be repaired.

A giant peach wood tree also began to rise skyward from the bottom of the lake.

"Nascent Soul..." Master Shui Yuan was utterly shocked, but before he could make any further moves.

A hand had already pierced through his chest.

Ye Jingcheng was a Nascent Soul Cultivator and also a Mid-Stage Golden Core Body Cultivator, so close, that he didn’t even need to use a magical treasure.

Master Shui Yuan looked incredulously at the hand in front of his chest, never uttering a word until his death.

Ye Jingcheng sensed that the three teleportation arrays within the grand hall had shattered, letting out a long sigh of relief.

He was in the Eastern Domain now, and what he feared most was the teleportation array.

After all, this teleportation array might not only summon Nascent Soul cultivators from the Celestial Water Sect but also from Penglai.

After destroying the teleportation arrays, Ye Jingcheng threw a cloth treasure into the sky, which broke through the water and soared into the sky, almost like the Island Protection Array, enveloping the region of Celestial Cloud Island and Celestial Cloud Lake.

Instantly, the cultivators of the Celestial Water Sect outside were thrown into disarray, having no idea what was happening.

They took out spirit talismans, attempting to send messages, but under the envelopment of Celestial Secret Cloth, they couldn’t even sense the breaking of soul talismans, let alone send any messages.

Together with the Celestial Secret Cloth, rose the hundred feet tall Peach Wood Demon Body.

As a Mid-Stage Fourth Tier Demon King, the power of the peach wood at this moment was equally formidable.

As the peach wood ascended, its roots pierced several array foundations.

And on the perimeter, Ye Xuefan, who had been lurking early, began to set up an array to prevent the cultivators from escaping. Though the array wasn’t high tier, it was a Tier Four Trapping Array.

At the same time, he released the Six-Colored Cloud Deer, Thunder Rhinoceros Insect Array, Late Stage Fourth Tier Golden Falcon, Late Stage Fourth Tier Roc Fish, Late Stage Fourth Tier White-Browed Cyan Wolf, Early Stage Fourth Tier Malachite Stone Spirit, Mid-Stage Fourth Tier Vermilion Bird, and even the Jade Ring Rat, placing it beside him.

Unlike other demon beasts that charged towards different array bases to slaughter the Celestial Water Sect cultivators, the Jade Ring Rat simply landed next to Ye Xuefan, listening quietly.

Ye Jingcheng’s demands of it were not low either, as it was to prevent cultivators from leaving. After all, some cultivators might exploit any loopholes if their concealment techniques were outstanding.

Even though he was Nascent Soul, since there were so many people in Celestial Water Sect, there were bound to be oversights.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack! Quickly notify True Monarch Yuanze and True Monarch Beixuan!" Several Golden Core cultivators flew out from the void, sensing the presence of demon kings. Among them, the leader at the peak of the Golden Core stage was the Sect Leader of Celestial Water Sect, known as Master Shui Guang.

Almost the moment Master Shui Guang opened his mouth, a yellow Flood Dragon appeared behind him, its claws squeezing fiercely.

A peak Golden Core was instantly fallen.

And as the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor’s Yellow Sand Domain descended all around, those Golden Core cultivators felt as if they were carrying mountains on their backs, beginning to struggle, while those in Purple Mansion and Foundation Establishment couldn’t even ascend.

The tail of the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor swept across, crushing large swathes.

Amid this terrifying scene, Ye Jingcheng took out two Spirit Beast Bags.

One Spirit Beast Bag contained thirty thousand Soul-Devouring Insects, the other contained a hundred and twenty thousand Spirit-Slaying Locusts, among them, eight thousand were Golden Light Spirit-Slaying Locusts.

Even with so many Fourth Tier Demon Kings ready, for Ye Jingcheng, the speed of slaughtering was still slow.

The appearance of Soul-Devouring Insects and Spirit-Slaying Locusts was just in time.

At this moment, suddenly, in the lake, a giant transparent Water Dragon Spirit Shadow condensed, striking towards Ye Jingcheng.

But this otherwise unstoppable Water Dragon Spirit Shadow could only halt inches before Ye Jingcheng, blocked by a Conical Hat-shaped treasure.

The water quickly dissipated, posing no threat at all.

"Oh, there’s actually an unexpected gain!" Ye Jingcheng’s Divine Soul Cultivation now already comparable to the Mid-Stage Nascent Soul, utilizing secret techniques, ordinary Early Stage Nascent Soul couldn’t see through it.

Ye Jingcheng’s displayed cultivation at this moment was Late Stage Golden Core.

Evidently, the hidden Nascent Soul mistook him for Late Stage Golden Core, moving to eradicate him.

Intending to kill him with one strike, yet unexpectedly, Ye Jingcheng was well prepared, equipped with the Tier Five Treasure Wuyuan Conical Hat.

This treasure was the Tier Five treasure of True Monarch Heiyu, refined by Ye Jingcheng during his two years of seclusion.

And that instant, seeing a strike fail, Ye Jingcheng being the Nascent Soul Cultivator.

That Nascent Soul swiftly urged the lake water to surge high, spreading wide.

And quickly escaped into the water, using extraordinary Water Escape Skill.

Ye Jingcheng used the Star Illusion Eye, finally seeing the figure of that person.

It was a man in his early thirties, through Lu Zichuan’s Soul-Searching and Dream-Devouring, Ye Jingcheng knew he was the disciple of True Monarch Yuanze, a True Master of Celestial Water Sect, with the Dao name Beixuan.

Just over fifty years ago, Beixuan was still at the peak of Golden Core, and that day had revealed Nascent Soul Cultivation.

And judging by his True Essence, it wasn’t superficial either, likely having broken through long ago, serving as the Celestial Water Sect’s hidden ace.

Unfortunately, if True Monarch Beixuan was Late Stage Nascent Soul, it might have been somewhat tricky.

As for the Early Stage Nascent Soul, it’s no exaggeration to say that he himself could easily suppress and kill it.

Without waiting for Ye Jingcheng to act, a brilliant white light flashed by; it was the Jade Qilin Flood Dragon. In terms of the Water Escape Skill, who could match the Jade Qilin Flood Dragon?

As the chill erupted, the Profound Cold Domain engulfed the entire Celestial Cloud Lake.

In an instant, all the water turned into profound ice, and those cultivators who had fallen into the water, hoping to escape through the water, instantly turned into ice sculptures.

Accompanied by the flickering flood dragon horn of the Jade Qilin Flood Dragon, it shattered into countless ice cones, rushing towards True Monarch Beixuan.

Boom!

"My master is True Monarch Yuanze, at the Peak of Mid-stage Nascent Soul. Fellow Daoist, let’s talk it out; there’s no need for this!" True Monarch Beixuan activated a Tier Five Defense Treasure Shield, trying to buy some time.

But the Jade Qilin Flood Dragon wouldn’t stop.

Its terrifying Flood Dragon Tail slashed down repeatedly, each time carving a sizeable gap in the Tier Five Treasure Shield, causing a considerable amount of its treasure light to dissipate.

True Monarch Beixuan’s face became even more livid.

Neither able to fight nor to flee.

Just as his attention was entirely focused on the Jade Qilin Flood Dragon, a streak of blood light approached him; the next moment, it invaded his Heart Spirit—it was the Blood Soul Bead.

His expression froze slightly, and in the next moment, he was cleaved in half by the Jade Qilin Flood Dragon, his Nascent Soul attempting to escape, but was absorbed by the Yin Yang Chessboard Bead that Ye Jingcheng had released earlier.

Accompanied by a streak of Sword Light, the Nascent Soul was cleanly severed and devoured by the Dream-Devouring Worm.

Thus, True Monarch Beixuan perished!

In the sky above, in front of the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor, after five Golden Core cultivators had perished, the remaining Golden Core cultivators, realizing they could not escape, finally lifted a blood-red coffin.

As the coffin was hoisted, a blood-red figure materialized within.

The figure stood a full height of several meters, its entire body covered in blood-red corpse hair, with green pupils—it was clearly a Tier Five Spirit Corpse Emperor.

A Tier Five Spirit Talisman was affixed to its forehead, which was the key to controlling this Tier Five Corpse Emperor.

When the Corpse Emperor appeared, the remaining Golden Core cultivators visibly heaved a sigh of relief, but upon sensing that the life force of True Monarch Beixuan was gone, they all turned pale again.

And once more fled in all directions.

The Corpse Emperor no longer charged towards the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor, but was used to pave the way.

However, how could the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor let the Corpse Emperor leave to harm other Spirit Beasts of the Ye Family?

A Mountain Prison was summoned, and compared to a cultivator, the Corpse Emperor was much easier to trap.

Just as the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor was about to perform Rock Burst, Ye Jingcheng intervened.

Ye Jingcheng was already present at the previous location of the Golden Core cultivator, unbeknownst to when he showed up.

His hand gripped the Golden Core of the Golden Core cultivator, as well as a bell.

The Golden Core scattered into golden light, but the bell was the one controlling the Corpse Emperor.

The Tier Five Spirit Corpse Emperor—Ye Jingcheng wasn’t willing to destroy it by self-detonation.

As Ye Jingcheng refined the bell, he quickly obtained control over the Corpse Emperor.

However, at this moment, the Corpse Emperor, having been activated, was extremely aggressive, attempting to break free from the bell’s control.

But as Ye Jingcheng released his immense Divine Sense and activated the Blood Soul Bead, the Corpse Emperor immediately calmed down.

The Corpse Emperor too had a Divine Soul presence, and this Divine Soul was its thoughts.

Ye Jingcheng subsequently retrieved the blood coffin from earlier, sealing the Corpse Emperor within.

One by one, the Storage Bags fell into Ye Jingcheng’s hands.

"Dragon Ancestor, there are still some small fry around; I hope Dragon Ancestor can assist in taking care of them!" Ye Jingcheng looked towards the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor again.

The entire Golden Core and Nascent Soul combat strength of the Celestial Water Sect had been nearly wiped out, although many Purple Mansions remained, scattered too quickly to eliminate, while not escaping the array prepared by Ye Xuefan, nor the encirclement of spirit creatures like the Vermilion Thunder Rhinoceros Insect King.

But, like annoying flies, they remained troublesome.

The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor nodded, while Ye Jingcheng stepped towards a Spirit Mountain, upon which loomed a formidable presence.

The Spirit Vein was also the center of a Tier Five Spirit Vein.

Ye Jingcheng’s Divine Sense forcibly shattered the array, allowing him to finally see the person before him. This person was also at the Golden Core Peak, the previous Sect Leader of the Celestial Water Sect, Master Sishui.

Currently in the process of breaking through to Nascent Soul.

Ye Jingcheng observed that the latter was still in the first stage of Perfect Golden Core.

His expression grew quite interested as a Flying Sword in Ye Jingcheng’s hand flew by; Master Sishui, still in seclusion, fell dead on the spot.

Ye Jingcheng seized a Storage Bag and examined it, indeed finding a Nascent Soul Pill inside.

This, to Ye Jingcheng, was a complete unexpected gain.

After all, the Nascent Soul Pill was extremely precious for Nascent Soul cultivators.

With Master Sishui killed, it was difficult to find another living soul in the Celestial Water Sect.

Ye Jingcheng flew towards the Spirit Medicine Garden in the lake’s center.

Regarding the Tier Four Spirit Medicine Garden, his spirit beasts and the Peach Wood were enough to harvest it. However, for the Tier Five Spirit Medicine Garden, Ye Jingcheng wished to inspect personally.