167: The Battle of the Celestial Keys

"Where is the immortal key?"

The Fierce Woman's eyes flashed with a hint of greed as she asked.

"In the southwest direction from here, thirty million li away in the Xiaren Mountain Range..."

福妹 - Lucky Sister's spiritual body spoke slowly.

Upon hearing this and obtaining the specific information, the Fierce Woman immediately prepared to depart.

But the words that followed made the Fierce Woman pause for a moment.

"Senior, this Junior begs you, help me destroy the members of the Clawed Duck Clan! I am willing to forgo Reincarnation and serve as Senior's slave for all eternity!"

A surge of Yin Evil Qi erupted from the spiritual body, followed by a bone-chilling ghost qi that instantly spread through the air.

福妹 - Lucky Sister, who was already as dead as could be and relied entirely on the Yin-Gathering Tree to condense her spiritual body, actually managed to revive a sliver of consciousness through her overwhelming hatred.

"The Clawed Duck Clan killed you? However, I cannot agree to this. After all, the Clawed Duck Clan has Integration Stage Cultivators, and I am merely at the Half-step Body Integration Stage."

The Fierce Woman shook her head; naturally, she could not agree to it.

That person from the Clawed Duck Clan was at the Mid Integration Stage and was also skilled in divination. Even a Late Integration Stage Cultivator would find it difficult to kill him. She would not provoke such a powerful enemy for someone who was already dead.

"It was this Junior's impudence..."

Hearing this, a hint of despair flashed in 福妹 - Lucky Sister's voice, and the ghost qi on her body grew even stronger.

Seeing this, the Fierce Woman had a different thought.

"However, this Palace Mistress can promise to eliminate the ones who killed you.

But the condition is that you must use your spiritual body to assist me in cultivating a secret Ghost Dao technique.

This secret technique is extremely vicious. If it fails, your soul will fly away and your spirit will scatter, and you will never be reborn!"

"This Junior is willing! I only ask Senior to avenge my Senior Brother and me!"

福妹 - Lucky Sister agreed without a second thought.

No matter how insidious or vicious the secret technique was, as long as she could get revenge, it was fine.

Even if her soul flew away and her spirit scattered and she died a horrible death, she would make the Clawed Duck Clan taste that bitterness.

"Good. Stay here for now; I will be back shortly."

The Fierce Woman nodded in satisfaction.

Then, she shot out a streak of Spiritual Light to protect the spiritual body before quickly flying toward the Xiaren Mountain Range in the southwest.

The Xiaren Mountain Range, as the name suggests, looks like a peeled shrimp.

It was only about three hundred thousand li in size.

There were only a few Grade 5 Spiritual Veins, so it couldn't be considered a blessed land.

Furthermore, with demons, ghosts, and foreign races running rampant, the Xiaren Mountain Range was not a peaceful place.

At this moment, the Xiaren Mountain Range welcomed an uninvited guest as a Peak Void Refinement Stage Cultivator personally descended upon the mountains.

A terrifying aura exerted pressure over ten thousand li; everywhere it passed, countless living beings surrendered, not daring to act recklessly.

"My goodness, why would a Void Refining Great Power descend here? He wouldn't be planning to use us to refine some evil object, would he?"

"How should I know? He comes with ill intent. With such terrifying, bloody Evil Qi, he must be some demonic practitioner!"

In the Xiaren Mountain Range, some foreign races around the Soul Transformation Stage were trembling with fear, their Divine Thoughts communicating in the Void Realm.

Especially as this Peak Void Refining expert searched throughout the Xiaren Mountain Range, they had already prepared for the worst.

After all, such things happened frequently in the Xiaren Mountain Range.

For example, a thousand years ago, a Body Integration Great Expert blood-sacrificed the inhabitants of nearly half the Xiaren Mountain Range to refine a Blood Seal.

And three hundred years ago, a Middle Stage Void Refining expert blood-sacrificed another half of the Xiaren Mountain Range to break through to the Late Stage of Void Refining.

Now, this person looks like they are about to reach Body Integration; could they be planning to blood-sacrifice the entire Xiaren Mountain Range to seek a Breakthrough?

But breaking through to Body Integration requires facing the Heavenly Tribulation directly; such actions would suggest they don't think they've lived long enough.

Fortunately, this Peak Void Refining expert was only searching for something in the mountains and did not engage in mass slaughter.

After half a day, the expert departed.

Soon after, an even stronger individual appeared. After staying in the Xiaren Mountain Range for a moment, they chased after the person who had just left.

For a time, various speculations emerged in the Xiaren Mountain Range... "Where did this crazy woman come from? Her strength is actually so terrifying!"

Above the clouds, Tuna Demon of the Clawed Duck Clan was currently transforming into a streak of light, fleeing with all his might.

From time to time, he would vanish into the Void Realm, attempting to shake off the crazy woman not far behind him.

His current situation was very poor; not only had one of his hands vanished.

But even the duck bill that symbolized his identity in the Clawed Duck Clan had been torn off by this crazy woman.

The key was that he was simply no match for her.

Moreover, this person seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

It wasn't surprising that Tuna Demon had never seen the Fierce Woman; after all, he had never entered the Underground City.

In fact, very few people in the Underground City had ever seen the Fierce Woman.

Just the massive Evil Qi she carried when she appeared was enough to make people afraid to look at her.

Even a Void Refinement Stage Cultivator would feel intense pain in their eyes just by taking a glance.

However, such terrifying strength combined with the Evil Qi still allowed Tuna Demon to guess the Fierce Woman's true identity.

Thus, his flight speed increased even more.

The two of them chased each other for a full half-year.

During this period, Tuna Demon constantly detoured through dangerous lands, hoping the terrifying existences there would block the Fierce Woman for him.

But those existences, sensing the Fierce Woman's terrifying strength, didn't dare to show themselves.

This forced Tuna Demon to flee into the lair of a Body Integration Yao Beast.

At this moment, a Demon Ape that blotted out the sun glared with wide eyes at the two people who had disturbed its sleep, its nostrils snorting thick air mixed with terrifying flames.

"Roar!"

The Demon Ape let out a furious roar and immediately swung its massive palm, intending to kill the two of them.

However, a strange smile appeared on Tuna Demon's lips as he immediately tore open a Talisman.

A green light emerged, enveloping him, and then he broke through the Void Realm to escape.

The Fierce Woman looked at the sky-propping giant palm and, before it could fall, she threw out a jade tablet.

As soon as the jade tablet appeared, it caused the Demon Ape's giant palm to freeze in mid-air, leaving it unable to either strike or withdraw.

Even though its intelligence wasn't very high, it knew whose aura this was.

The Fierce Woman took back the jade tablet and continued her pursuit of Tuna Demon.

Only the Demon Ape was left scratching its head in place, feeling a wave of relief in its heart.

It still remembered the scene from six hundred years ago when it was pinned to the ground and pummeled by the owner of this aura.

With its strength approaching the Mid Integration Stage, it hadn't had the slightest power to resist.

That existence had even forced it to squeeze out a few drops of heart's blood to feed a Flood Dragon he was raising.

That Flood Dragon had two horns on its head, and its scales were already transforming into dragon scales; it wouldn't be long before it successfully turned into a dragon.

Once it successfully became a dragon, it would be a Body Integration Stage Yao Sovereign.

It was just a mere Flood Dragon, yet it actually had the Opportunity to become a dragon.

It had the Bloodline of the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Ape in its body, after all; why hadn't that person thought of subduing it?

It couldn't figure it out, so it could only return to its lair and take a nap.

As for Su Yu, he sensed it the moment the Fierce Woman used his jade tablet.

However, he was currently still breaking through to the Late Integration Stage; even for him, the transformation of the Divine Soul would take quite some time.

If his Divine Soul successfully transformed and advanced to the Late Integration Stage.

With his strength, even if he faced a Mahayana Cultivator, he would have some possibility of self-preservation, if not the power to fight.

Ordinary Integration Stage Cultivators could be killed with a wave of his hand.

He just didn't know why the Fierce Woman had gone out or what danger she had encountered that forced her to take out his jade tablet.

However, he wasn't worried about the Fierce Woman having any accidents.

After all, his jade tablet was equivalent to his reputation; within a radius of ten billion li, no one dared to cross him.

After all, some unruly Integration Stage Cultivators had already experienced his methods.

As long as they weren't stupid, they wouldn't easily offend him.