Record of a Demon's Cultivation Chapter 1416: Unexpected Turn

Translator: CinderTL

"Ji Yin, what are you doing?!" Shangguan Ren exclaimed, his voice a mix of shock and fury. "Aren’t you afraid Ancestor Yuanrong will activate the Sword Qi within you, crushing your dantian and nascent soul?"

Tian Ming shared his horror and rage, but unlike Shangguan Ren, she wasted no words. She summoned a Soul Breaking Awl, its black aura swirling menacingly as it shot straight for Song Wen’s face.

The awl pierced Song Wen’s skull, shattering it instantly. Yet no flesh or bone splattered; instead, his entire body exploded into a crimson rain.

"Heh heh heh," Song Wen’s voice echoed from the surrounding blood sea, his presence felt but unseen. "Even if Yuanrong wants to kill me, he needs to know what happened here first. Trapped within my blood sea, you won’t escape. Accept your fate and die!"

Before his words faded, the blood sea surged violently, pressing in from all sides.

To ensure their encirclement, Song Wen had forced the blood sea to seep through the stone walls and the rocky ground.

The walls and ground crumbled first, countless fragments of rock slamming against Tian Ming and Shangguan Ren’s mana shields with deafening crashes.

"Fellow Daoist Shangguan, you focus on breaking through the blood sea. I’ll handle the defense," Tian Ming said, already summoning a protective shield.

The shield, towering over three meters tall, radiated a cyan spiritual light and conjured three illusionary clones, forming an impenetrable barrier around Tian Ming and Shangguan Ren.

Shangguan Ren summoned his flying sword.

Its blade shimmered brilliantly, as dazzling as the sun.

No sooner had they completed these preparations than the blood sea surged toward them.

Shangguan Ren’s flying sword bore the brunt of the initial assault.

The sword tore through the blood sea, plunging straight into its depths.

Yet Shangguan Ren quickly realized his sword hadn’t cleaved through the blood sea at all. Instead, it was trapped like a blade mired in quicksand, unable to advance or retreat.

Meanwhile, the blood sea continued to surge relentlessly toward them.

Boom!

The blood sea crashed against Tian Ming’s shield from all directions.

Tian Ming’s eyes widened as she frantically channeled spiritual power into the shield.

The shield and its three illusionary clones blazed with cyan light, resisting the blood sea’s onslaught.

Yet the blood sea, behaving like a living entity, churned and pressed relentlessly against the shield.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The deafening roars echoed endlessly as the cyan spiritual light on the shield flickered erratically.

"You two, stop your futile struggles and accept your fate. Heh heh heh..."

Song Wen’s sinister laughter reverberated from within the blood sea.

The blood sea’s assault intensified, as if countless ferocious demon beasts were tearing at the shield with savage fury.

Tian Ming’s forehead was covered in fine beads of sweat that trickled down her cheeks. Her body began to tremble slightly, clearly reaching its limit.

Seeing this, Shangguan Ren grew frantic. He frantically urged his flying sword to break through the blood sea, hoping to relieve some of the pressure on Tian Ming. However, the blood sea was like a bottomless abyss; no matter how the flying sword struggled, it couldn’t escape its grasp.

"Hold on, Fellow Daoist Tian! We’ll carve a path out of this!" Shangguan Ren shouted anxiously, but his voice was drowned out by the relentless roaring of the blood sea.

Crack!

Amidst the deafening roar, a crisp sound suddenly rang out.

Though faint, the sound struck Shangguan Ren and Tian Ming like the icy winds of the Nine Nether, sending shivers down their spines and filling their eyes with terror.

For, a crack had simultaneously appeared on all three phantom shadows conjured by the shield.

The fissures rapidly spread, instantly covering the shield phantoms like spiderwebs. Then, with a thunderous crash, the phantoms shattered into countless motes of light, swallowed by the surging blood sea.

"Ji Yin, you dare interfere with Ancestor Yuanrong’s grand scheme? Ancestor Yuanrong will surely..."

The blood sea surged like a burst dam, instantly engulfing Tian Ming and Shangguan Ren’s bodies, cutting off Shangguan Ren’s words mid-sentence.

Outside the blood sea, Song Wen gazed up at the narrow crevice in the cave ceiling, his gaze piercing through the thick layers of rock and earth as if reaching for the heavens.

The three azure figures had already arrived directly above him.

Given their formidable eighth-tier strength, it was impossible for them to have missed the anomaly here.

Song Wen clutched a teleportation talisman, ready to activate it at any moment.

He had originally possessed two teleportation talismans.

Though precious, these talismans were his only reliable means of escaping the three Eighth-Tier Azure Foxes with certainty.

Moreover, Shangguan Ren still carried a teleportation talisman, and Tian Ming had a Seventh-Tier Earth Evasion Talisman, which would partially compensate for the loss.

However, the scenario Song Wen had feared never materialized.

He only felt the sudden, overwhelming pressure of three divine senses, as deep and vast as the ocean. Yet the three figures in the sky showed no signs of stopping, nor did they launch a single attack. They simply swept across the horizon without pause.

"What’s going on?" Song Wen murmured, his expression bewildered.

"Could it be... that the forbidden territory contains some exceptionally precious spiritual object?"

As Song Wen pondered this, a sudden thought flashed through his mind.

Could those three Seven-Colored Fruits truly be Life-Replenishing Fruits?

Life-Replenishing Fruits had a unique property: each cultivator could only consume one in their lifetime; consuming more would be useless.

Presumably, the same held true for demon beasts.

Three Life-Replenishing Fruits perfectly matched the three azure foxes!

Song Wen didn’t dwell on it further. In truth, this development was advantageous to him.

The more precious the treasures within the forbidden territory, the lower Yuanrong and Daoist Monarch Yongcheng’s chances of escaping alive.

Tian Ming and Shangguan Ren struggled desperately against the crushing force of the blood sea, relying on their formidable spiritual power, but ultimately they couldn’t withstand its overwhelming pressure and were reduced to mangled flesh.

Song Wen swiftly retracted the blood sea and tucked the two storage rings into his sleeves.

Then, he activated a fifth-tier Earth Evasion Talisman, burrowed into the ground, and vanished without a trace.

Song Wen continued his stealthy retreat, focused solely on escaping the Azure Jade Fox Clan’s forbidden territory as quickly as possible.

The Azure Jade Fox Clan still had an Eighth-Tier Azure Fox that hadn’t yet revealed itself. Who knew when it might appear?

As for the battle in the forbidden territory, Song Wen couldn’t participate.

He had done everything he could. The rest was up to fate.

He could only pray that the Eighth-Tier Azure Foxes would prove their worth and annihilate both Daoist Monarch Yongcheng and Yuanrong.

Song Wen fled with all his might, quickly covering hundreds of thousands of miles.

Convinced he was far enough from the Azure Jade Fox Clan, he emerged from the ground.

He gazed at the endless mountain range ahead, momentarily hesitating.

After a moment’s contemplation, he decided to head to the deep valley where the cultivators had gathered. There, he would secretly contact Wang Qiuyue, instructing her to monitor news of Daoist Monarch Yongcheng and Yuanrong’s fates and to inform him immediately of any developments.

However, just as he was about to move, a voice suddenly rang in his ears:

"Ji Yin, come here. This venerable one is here!"

Song Wen froze instantly.

It was Yuanrong’s voice!

A flicker of disbelief flashed in Song Wen’s eyes.

Yuanrong was still alive!

And somehow, he had arrived here, by sheer coincidence, just as Song Wen emerged.

(End of the Chapter)

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