Chapter 714 - 187: Five Cauldrons Break the Limit to Open the Secret Realm, Undercurrents of Xuan Yuan Conceal Killing Intent

Chapter 714: Chapter 187: Five Cauldrons Break the Limit to Open the Secret Realm, Undercurrents of Xuan Yuan Conceal Killing Intent

Mo Yunzi was trapped, surrounded by hazy, gray streams of chaos.

Demonic Qi billowed around her and her hair whipped about as she furiously battered the cage, trying to break the seal.

Yet no matter how much force she used, the gray barrier, though it shook relentlessly, remained as resilient as ever, completely undamaged.

Chu Fan’s gaze was piercing, penetrating the thick walls of the cauldron to stare directly at the disheveled woman within.

Mo Yunzi finally ceased her frenzied assault. Her chest heaved violently as a trickle of crimson blood spilled from the corner of her pale lips, its stark color a shocking sight as it dripped into the gray, dim space.

"How... How is this happening?"

She was utterly horrified.

She felt that more than half of the force she had just unleashed had rebounded back onto her.

’She was trying to break the seal, but it felt like she was fighting herself...’

Just then, Chu Fan’s coolly imperious voice, like a divine oracle, penetrated the barrier of the Five Elements Cauldron and boomed within the Sealed Space. "The Five Elements are in chaos, giving rise to Evil Qi. The very power you use to break the seal will become your own undoing..."

"The fiercer your attacks, the stronger the Five Cauldrons Seal’s counter becomes. This formation redirects your own power, perpetuating itself endlessly."

Chu Fan paused before continuing, "There is only one way to break this formation—you must be so overwhelmingly powerful that you exceed the seal’s conversion limit and can shatter it completely with a single strike!"

Mo Yunzi’s pupils contracted at his words.

’What a terrifying Five Cauldrons Seal... It not only traps but also harms. Every single one of his techniques is this astounding!’

Her eyes widened as she surveyed the deathly silent, gray space around her.

’If conventional methods won’t work, then I’ll use brute force to shatter this intricate technique!’

A moment later, her Sea of Consciousness churned, and with a single thought—

"Come out!"

As her sharp cry faded, the gray void was suddenly torn asunder, and a black fog spewed forth.

CRACK!

CRACK!

The grating sound of bone on bone was ear-piercing.

Four enormous Demon Puppets, like Nine Nether Evil Ghosts, slowly crawled out from the void.

The Demon Puppets were pitch-black from head to toe, their bones inscribed with countless bizarre, blood-red runes. The Fierce Evil Qi they exuded was suffocating.

Not long ago, Chu Fan had used the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to devour a Soul Division of the Ghost Bone Elder. He then let Mo Yunzi’s Divine Sense probe within the banner to read its memories, allowing her to learn a much more sophisticated Puppet Refining Technique.

She had used this technique to reforge the Demon Puppet Bone Powder, and the power of these puppets was now worlds apart from what it had been.

Mo Yunzi scanned her four masterpieces, a mix of pride and regret in her heart. ’If I’d had enough time to fully master the Ghost Bone Elder’s Secret Techniques, these four Demon Puppets would be far more powerful.’

’Even if they couldn’t match his personal Demon Puppets, they would surely be more terrifying than they are at this moment.’

Even so, based on the fluctuations they radiated, each of the four Demon Puppets was firmly at the Third Heaven of the Acupoint Realm or higher!

"Form up!"

Mo Yunzi commanded with a thought.

The four Demon Puppets instantly fanned out, taking positions in the four cardinal directions and shielding her in the center.

In the next instant, Mo Yunzi’s eyes flew wide open, and the Demonic Qi around her erupted toward the heavens.

Simultaneously, as if linked to her will, the four Demon Puppets’ Demonic Qi surged violently, rising like four black pillars of power that seemed to prop up the very sky.

"ROAR—!!"

The four Demon Puppets roared as one, their voices inhuman, as they raised the massive Bone Blades in their hands—weapons polished from the leg bones of giant beasts.

And behind them, Mo Yunzi’s movements mirrored theirs perfectly!

The Long Saber in her hand was a Middle-Grade Profound Weapon, far more formidable than the Demon Puppet Bone Sabers. Although her own strength was less than that of the puppets, the aura she projected while wielding the Middle-Grade Profound Weapon completely suppressed that of the four puppets!

At this moment, five streams of power converged on a single point.

It felt as if they would tear space-time asunder!

"Strike!"

Mo Yunzi bellowed in her mind.

Five streaks of incomparably terrifying, pitch-black saber light flashed like lightning, viciously slashing toward the dome above!

The slashes were so sharp they actually tore a fissure into the gray, hazy space within the Five Cauldrons Seal!

BOOM—!!!

Amid the earth-shattering boom, the Five Elements Cauldron floating outside trembled violently. The sheer force of the blast sent it flying dozens of feet into the air!

The once-indestructible, invisible seal finally gave way, unable to withstand a blow that surpassed its limits. A jagged rift tore open.

"Now!"

Mo Yunzi’s eyes were as sharp as a blade as she pushed her Body Technique to its absolute limit.

WHOOSH!

Activating her Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step, her form blurred into a flickering afterimage. The very instant the seal shattered, she slipped through the rift like a phantom!

With a shimmer of light, her feet finally touched the solid ground of the courtyard.

HUFF—HUFF—HUFF!

Mo Yunzi was bent at the waist, gasping for breath.

Cold sweat beaded on her temples, and her aura was in utter disarray.

The onlookers had been stunned silent and were only now snapping back to their senses.

Seeing her state, White Snake and Cyan Snake gasped, covering their mouths. "How... how did she get so injured?"

In their eyes, Chu Fan had only been testing the power of a new technique.

How could it have gotten so brutal?

"My seal isn’t some inanimate object."

Chu Fan said calmly as he stepped forward.

He took a fragrant Healing Pill from his Sumeru Ring and offered it to Mo Yunzi. "Forcing your way out of the formation naturally results in a backlash."

"Sir, I’m alright..."

Mo Yunzi’s face was ashen, but she forced herself to stand straight. She managed a weak smile for Chu Fan and dutifully accepted the Elixir, swallowing it.

The Elixir dissolved into a warm current inside her, and a hint of color returned to her cheeks.

Chu Fan nodded and, with a wave of his hand, recalled the Five Elements Cauldron into his sleeve.

He frowned slightly, seemingly dissatisfied. ’It’s still too weak,’ he thought. ’At this level of power, it could trap a Bright Heart Realm expert for a moment at most.’

’At this speed, it wouldn’t even pose much of a threat to a Bright Heart Realm cultivator.’

He assessed his own cultivation. He was at the peak of the Third Heaven of the Divine Power Realm, and his Primordial Qi was far richer than that of his peers.

But compared to the Bright Heart Realm, it was a drop in the ocean.

’The Five Cauldrons Seal isn’t a high-grade technique to begin with, and it’s limited by my own Primordial Qi and Divine Sense...’

’The Five Elements Cauldron itself, however, is a different story. A matching set of five High-Grade Profound Weapons... its power is truly remarkable.’

’In the future, once my cultivation breaks through and I find the materials to reforge the Five Elements Cauldron into an Ancient Treasure, only then will this technique become powerful enough to shake the heavens and make gods and ghosts weep!’