229: Chapter 229 [Heavenly Yin Ghost King Banner], Nine-Headed Hydra Demon, Purification and Restraint

The best course of action now was to stall for time.

Since this Cancong Baixiang had brought a heavy treasure to seal the region, he was clearly prepared. Since he could not be killed here for the moment, it was better not to reveal his full strength too early.

Wang An looked at the surrounding barrier walls, trying to find a breakthrough point to see if he could get out first.

But clearly, his opponent would not give him that opportunity.

Seeing that he was being ignored, the middle-aged man grew angry and stopped holding back. In any case, with this appearance, even if seen by ordinary people, his identity could not be distinguished.

He immediately produced a bronze-colored white cloth banner. It radiated a cold, sinister aura that Wang An, as a normal living being, found extremely repulsive, but its Tier 3 intermediate aura was undeniably powerful.

A hoarse voice accompanied the incantation of boundless sinister ghosts, resonating with this evil bronze white banner.

"Souls, return~"

Deep within the white banner, a tiny, illusory Yin-attribute realm abruptly appeared, and a giant, black ghost—rotting and embodying negative energies of resentment, death, evil, balefulness, and gloom—crawled out from the banner.

The mountain range, already transformed into a cold region, became even more depraved under this influence, and the vitality and activity of living things were suppressed to the extreme.

Wang An clearly felt that his surroundings, which were constantly being transformed into Vital Qi by transcendent laws, were being continuously polluted.

"This? It's similar to my Netherworld Realm."

There was no time to think further. Seeing that this person was about to create excellent terrain for himself, he naturally could not let him have his way.

A silver river rose into the air, with a bright moon ascending within it, shining brilliantly.

Droplets of rain fell from the sky; this was the water of the Nine Heavens' Clarity and Cold, possessing the ability to freeze all things and purify all beings—the ultimate counter to such demons, ghosts, witchcraft, evil arts, and forces of filth, gloom, and erosion.

He also discovered that after purifying the filth of the earth, a continuous stream of ley line energy gathered on him.

This was the auspicious blessing of purifying heaven and earth.

On the other hand, this person, by continuously using such evil artifacts, had black energy roiling above his head and dark clouds covering his crown; clearly, his days were numbered.

However, for a Tier 3 intermediate lifeform traversing the universe, the backlash of karma would not manifest as an immediate disaster.

Seeing that his sacrificial artifact, the [Heavenly Yin Ghost King Banner], which had always been invincible in offense, was being so effectively countered, he felt a chill and thought to himself that things were going poorly.

He used the blackish-green Power of Bronze Sacrifice to drive the [Heavenly Yin Ghost King Banner], commanding this thousand-meter-tall giant ghost king to launch a fierce attack.

At the same time, he took out a beast-headed mask. Suddenly, under the weak influence of the laws of illusion and transformation, his entire body morphed into a several-thousand-meter-large, nine-headed snake monster with a green face and fangs.

Wherever it went, it immediately turned into a poisonous swamp. The nine heads continuously spat poison and miasma, attacking Wang An together with the ghost king.

Seeing this, the Return-to-One Heavenly River that had been purifying the surroundings immediately retracted to within a hundred meters of his body to neutralize the physical poison and evil energy attacking him. The [Jade Earth Heavenly Palace] cast down a layer of heaven-shielding curtain, making his true body seem to be in a different dimension; the true attacks from both sides passed right through, blasting apart the mountain ranges behind him.

Within a hundred meters, it was all within Wang An's domain, but beyond that, it was filled with Tier 2 superior transcendent poisonous swamps, which actually had the ability to isolate Yin Spirit thought detection, leaving him unaware of the locations of these two ghosts and exotic beasts.

He gripped the long sword at his waist with one hand, ready to strike.

He immediately activated his divine ability again. The bright moon that had been illuminating the world suddenly descended, transforming into a bright lamp to guide his path. The rolling, thick evil and poisonous vapors were peeled away by the lamp's radiance, though the range was not as large as when it had covered the entire land.

A long, serpentine neck was suddenly revealed by the light.

Seizing the opportunity, Wang An raised his hand and drew his sword. The sword intent, sharpened by long-term accumulation in the [Cold Hidden Scabbard], combined with the harvesting and severing power of the [Autumn Emperor Edge], and fused with the [Thunder Execution Cold Severing Seal Sword Intent]—which was meant for punishing evil and destroying wickedness—slashed out fiercely.

Without giving this long snake neck any chance to react, the sword intent and sword energy sliced through it like a hot knife through butter.

"Hiss!"

At the same time, eight painful, serpentine wails echoed throughout the barrier.

Rolling blood and a fishy stench fell from the severed end, making the already cold region even worse.

The long snake neck fell to the ground. Once completely severed from all connections by his sword, it came into contact with the Xutong Spiritual Rhyme and immediately transformed into a bronze snake mountain, with thick poisonous gas coiling upon it.

The mind-freezing sword intent coiled around the wound, attempting to erode it, but was blocked by the thick poison mist; the two remained in a stalemate.

Cancong Baixiang, who had suffered the injury, secretly marveled at this extremely tenacious sword intent that could not be completely removed.

"What a strange attack."

This was a drawback of this type of [Illusion Sacrifice Path]. Although illusion and transformation laws allowed one to transform into a corresponding exotic beast based on certain patterns, any damage sustained would also be inflicted upon the original body.

Empathy was also a function of this law.

Seeing that the strike was effective, just as Wang An was preparing to continue the hunt, a bone-chilling wind howled from behind him. It was a pitch-black ghost claw, grabbing at his back from an unknown location.

However, this type of ghost king was extremely countered by Wang An's divine abilities. The fierce, polluted Yin-attribute power, upon contacting his two divine abilities, was purified and dissipated by eighty or ninety percent in an instant. Just as the ghost claw was about to touch him, it was blocked by the Heavenly Palace curtain, unable to even touch his dharma body.

Of course, if Wang An used the status and authority of the Lord of the Netherworld to deal with him, it would not be difficult.

As for the power to purify such pollution and fear no evil, he had not displayed it during the previous debate, so naturally, his opponent did not know how to respond.

Fortunately, he only had this one barrier artifact involving the level of law mysteries; otherwise, he would not be handling things so easily.

Clearly, the nine-headed snake monster hiding in the dark had also noticed this and had thoughts of leaving. However, without obtaining that law resource, his strength would decline in another hundred years, and how could he find such precious resources to accumulate again?

As an old antique who had lived for over 4,000 years, he only possessed three or four treasures above Tier 3 intermediate, and the one involving law mysteries was not even his own, but borrowed from his master.

After thinking for a long time, Cancong Baixiang finally gritted his teeth and used the [Heavenly Yin Ghost King Banner] to summon the ghost king to his side.

Of the original nine heads, one had been severed and was now replaced by a phantom image. At this moment, the nine heads integrated into one, transforming into a massive snake body several hundred meters in diameter.

The snake mouth opened, expanding more than ten times in an instant, and swallowed the ghost king in one gulp.