Chapter 701 - 185: Ghost Bone Elder: You’ve Gone Too Far! You’ve Gone Too Far

Chapter 701: Chapter 185: Ghost Bone Elder: You’ve Gone Too Far! You’ve Gone Too Far

The jagged rocks, like blades and swords, pierced the heavens, emanating a heart-stopping chill.

Chu Fan came to a halt, not daring to approach rashly.

His hands flew through a series of seals as the Spiritual Power inside him circulated along a specific trajectory.

"Light and Shadow Escape Technique."

"Spirit Turtle Hibernation Technique."

In an instant, his speeding figure vanished as if erased from existence, disappearing completely into thin air.

Even his aura, heartbeat, and body temperature dropped until they were indistinguishable from the surrounding cold rocks.

Only after doing all this did Chu Fan, like a phantom, silently stalk to the edge of the Chaotic Stone Forest.

HUMMM!

The Spirit Array Map of the Demon Dragon Celestial Spirit Scripture quietly activated.

A vast and stealthy Divine Sense extended like tentacles, carefully probing the deathly silent Stone Forest.

The next moment, a clear image was projected into Chu Fan’s mind.

In the center of the Chaotic Stone Forest, Evil Qi so dense it was almost tangible churned like a boiling sea, surging madly toward a vortex at its core.

Right in the middle of the vortex, a massive skull was exposed on the surface.

In its two deep eye sockets, eerie green Ghost Fire flickered violently, like lamps from the Netherworld.

Most of its body was submerged underground, like a dormant volcano.

’It’s only been a few months, yet it’s grown this powerful.’

A chill ran through Chu Fan.

His Divine Sense told him this Demon Puppet’s aura was more than ten times stronger than when he had first encountered it!

That ferocious aura was almost solid, stinging his Divine Sense.

’For the past few months, it has been like a greedy monster, devouring the Evil Qi here day and night... If this Demon Puppet is given more time, who knows what terrifying state it might reach.’

Chu Fan’s Divine Sense didn’t stop, passing through the Demon Puppet’s skull and continuing to probe deep underground.

One hundred feet... two hundred feet... five hundred feet...

Finally, he saw the truth of the Chaotic Stone Forest.

Beneath the earth was not soil, but endless withered bones!

Each skeleton was astonishingly large, with spines a thousand feet long and fangs the size of millstones. They were clearly the remains of ancient Exotic Beasts.

After these giant beasts died, their bones were piled up by some kind of power, forming a natural Ten Thousand Beasts Corpse Pit.

Someone had set up a Gathering Evil Array here, locking in the monstrous Evil Qi emitted by the bones and preventing even a sliver from escaping, thus forming a terrifying source of Evil Qi underground.

But this person was not the Ghost Bone Elder.

Chu Fan had learned from a Soul Division memory that the Ghost Bone Elder had also discovered this Chaotic Stone Forest by chance.

When he found it, the Ancient Array was already damaged, and the Evil Qi was leaking out.

The Ghost Bone Elder had expended considerable effort to repair the Array. Then, ecstatic, he sealed the hard-won ancient Demon Puppet here to "nourish" it.

To human Martial Artists, Evil Qi was a potent poison. Absorbing too much would lead to Qigong Deviation.

Even a titan of the Demon Dao like the Ghost Bone Elder didn’t dare to absorb too much in a short period.

But for a Demon Puppet, this place was a Grotto Heaven Blessed Land.

If it were given three to five years, it could surely drain all the Evil Qi here and break through to the fifth realm, the Ruyi Realm.

At that time, the Ghost Bone Elder could use a Secret Technique to forcefully absorb the Demon Puppet’s power, allowing him to ascend to the heavens in a single step.

’Too bad you ran into me.’

Chu Fan’s eyes narrowed. He looked at the giant Demon Puppet greedily inhaling the Evil Qi as if it were a ripe fruit in his own backyard.

He hesitated no longer. His body moved like lightning, using the cover of the chaotic stones to silently close within a thousand feet of the giant skull.

For experts, this distance was practically face-to-face—a guaranteed kill zone.

’Rise!’

Chu Fan roared in his mind, his Divine Thought as sharp as a blade, severing all hesitation.

SWISH SWISH SWISH SWISH SWISH!

Five streams of light shot out from his body. They swelled in the wind, instantly transforming into five ancient, mountain-sized Copper Cauldrons!

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth!

The energy of the Five Elements flowed as the five Giant Cauldrons descended with the terrifying might to suppress mountains and rivers!

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—!

Five tremendous booms erupted almost simultaneously, sending dust and dirt flying.

The Five Elements Cauldron, arranged according to the Five Elements, instantly and completely enveloped a hundred-foot radius in the center of the Chaotic Stone Forest.

A five-colored curtain of light shot into the sky, directly severing the Demon Puppet’s connection to the outside world and also blocking the Ghost Bone Elder’s Divine Thought.

ROAR—!!

The previously dormant Demon Puppet sensed a fatal crisis and suddenly let out a heaven-shaking roar.

The roar was laced with tangible sonic waves that shattered the surrounding rocks!

RUMBLE!

The ground surged like a wave. The Demon Puppet’s enormous body tried to break through the earth and forcibly charge out of the Five Elements Cauldron’s seal!

However, just as it erupted upward—

RATTLE! RATTLE!

A cringe-inducing screech of scraping metal rang out.

The Ancient Array that already existed within the Chaotic Stone Forest was activated by the Demon Puppet’s rampage.

Dozens of thick Array chains shot out from underground like countless venomous snakes, instantly piercing the Demon Puppet’s body.

The Demon Puppet roared in pain and violently tugged at the chains. The entire Chaotic Stone Forest trembled violently, as if it could collapse at any moment.

’Still trying to run?!’

Chu Fan’s expression was cold. He slammed his palms together, his ten fingers blurring like a spinning wheel as he formed one complex and obscure Seal Technique after another.

"Netherworld Soul Refining Technique, bind!"

Following this low chant, the surrounding Evil Qi, which had been chaotic and rampant, seemed to have heard its monarch’s command.

It madly condensed, forming chains of Evil Qi, black as ink and covered in strange Runes. Arriving second but striking first, they once again brutally pierced the Demon Puppet’s iron-hard body, pinning it firmly in place!

A triple suppression!

The Ancient Sealing Array, the suppressive power of the Five Elements Cauldron, and the Netherworld Soul Refining Technique’s Evil Energy Lock Chains.

The Demon Puppet, which possessed the terrifying combat power of the Bright Heart Realm, now had the strength to destroy heaven and earth but couldn’t even move a finger. It could only roar in helpless fury.

Chu Fan snorted coldly and flipped his wrist.

WHOOSH!

A small, pitch-black banner appeared in his palm. With a flick, it swelled in the wind, instantly growing to about ten feet tall.

On the banner’s surface, countless tormented faces flickered in and out of view amidst a howling, ghostly wind.