83: Chapter 83 Falling into the Abyss of Demons, a Shocking Change at the Bottom of the Valley

"Senior Sister Su, hold on tight! We're going down!" Lin Ye shouted sharply.

He stopped resisting the terrifying suction force, instead channeling his spiritual power into the Xuan Turtle Armor and his protective spiritual light, while simultaneously grabbing Su Waner and shielding her tightly by his side.

Like two meteors, they plummeted rapidly into the bottomless, Devilish Qi-roiling Meteor Demon Valley, following the irresistible suction force!

The wind whistled shrilly in their ears, accompanied by the screeching friction of Devilish Qi.

Before their eyes, the rock walls, illuminated by the dark red Devilish Qi, flashed past in a bizarre, distorted blur.

A terrifying sensation of weightlessness and the increasingly dense erosion of the Devilish Qi turned Su Waner's face deathly pale; she gripped Lin Ye's arm tightly, gritting her teeth.

The flame of the soul-calming ancient lamp flickered in the strong wind, yet it stubbornly emitted a halo of cyan-white light, protecting their Divine Soul.

Lin Ye's gaze was solemn; while protecting his body with spiritual power, he tried his best to keep his eyes open, attempting to see the scene below.

He vaguely saw that during their rapid descent, several black shadows (possibly Zhao Kun, people from Golden Flame Valley, or monsters or debris sucked in) were also falling, their distances from each other either closing or widening.

This Meteor Demon Valley was terrifyingly deep!

After falling for a full dozen breaths, at their speed, they had already descended at least several thousand zhang deep!

The surrounding Devilish Qi had become so dense it was like viscous, dark red liquid, frantically bombarding and eroding their protective spiritual light.

The Xuan Turtle Armor emitted an unbearable "creaking" sound.

The temperature also became extremely high, as if they were inside magma.

If not for Lin Ye possessing the Great Sun Golden Flame and Su Waner having the soul-calming ancient lamp, an ordinary Qi Refining Cultivator would likely have already been invaded by the Devilish Qi, suffered Qi Deviation, or had their Physical Body disintegrated.

Just as Lin Ye felt his spiritual power depleting rapidly and was about to be unable to hold on, the scene of "ground" finally appeared below!

It was not an ordinary ground, but a boundless, slowly flowing dark red magma lake!

Floating on the lake surface were countless enormous, charred skeletons—some human-shaped, some beast-shaped, and some in indescribable, bizarre forms.

Deep in the center of the lake, an altar one hundred zhang high, entirely piled up from skeletons, was vaguely visible!

And on the edge of the magma lake, near the area where Lin Ye was falling, a relatively "solid" (actually cooled and solidified lava) black rock zone was currently emitting a strange, silvery-white light that was completely out of place with the surrounding Devilish Qi!

That light was actually composed of countless crisscrossing silver chains emitting a biting Sword Intent!

In the center of the tangled chains, it seemed... something was bound?

But they were still far away, and with the Devilish Qi blocking the view, it was hard to see clearly.

What shocked Lin Ye even more was that he could feel the source of the terrifying suction force dragging them down seemed to be in that area of silver chains, or rather, the thing bound by the chains!

Must change the landing point!

Cannot fall directly into the magma lake, nor can they crash into those silver chains!

"Senior Sister Su, prepare to use your Magical Artifact!" Lin Ye roared.

When they were about one hundred zhang from the ground (the magma lake surface), he fiercely injected his remaining spiritual power into the red dragon sword beneath his feet!

Su Waner simultaneously activated a flying Magical Artifact (a boat-shaped vessel).

Hum!

Their downward momentum stalled abruptly, but they still heavily crashed obliquely toward that black rock zone!

Boom! Boom!

The two of them smashed onto the hard black rock one after another, rolling continuously to dissipate the force, sliding more than ten zhang before stopping.

Lin Ye used his body as a cushion to protect Su Waner, while he himself crashed solidly into a protruding rock.

A sweetness rose in his throat, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, his internal organs shaken.

Although Su Waner had a buffer, she was also thrown into a dizzy state, but she was unharmed.

"Junior Brother Lin!" Su Waner hurriedly helped Lin Ye up and fed him a healing Medicinal Pill.

"I'm fine..." Lin Ye endured the intense pain, quickly stood up, and looked around vigilantly.

Their landing position was at the edge of the black rock zone, about two hundred zhang away from the silver chain area ahead.

At this moment, the silver chains were emitting a flickering light, seemingly resisting something.

In the center of the chains, a constantly twisting and changing, huge object shaped like a heart, composed of pure dark red Devilish Qi, was vaguely visible!

Every pulsation stirred the Devilish Qi of the entire magma lake to churn, emitting an evil and destructive Aura that made the Soul tremble!

"Demon Heart! It is a Demon Heart condensed from the remnant demonic thoughts and Origin of an ancient Devil Head!" Su Waner exclaimed in shock.

She was well-read and recognized this object.

"Those chains... are the Seal left by an ancient powerful figure!"

Lin Ye's heart shook violently.

So the core of the Meteor Demon Valley was not the remains of a Devil Head, but a sealed, yet still "living" Demon Heart!

Was this the goal of Zhao Kun, the Yinkui Sect, and the Golden Flame Valley?!

Just then, dull thuds of heavy objects hitting the ground and sounds of exclamation and curses came one after another from around them.

Zhao Kun, the Foundation Establishment Cultivator of the Yinkui Sect, the red-haired elder of the Golden Flame Valley, and others also fell here one after another, all looking disheveled and with unstable Auras, clearly not lightly injured.

They were also shocked by the scene before them, their eyes fixed on the Demon Heart sealed by the silver chains, filled with greed, fanaticism, and a trace of fear.

The two sides subconsciously separated, confronting each other vigilantly, while also noticing Lin Ye and Su Waner not far away.

"Little beast, it's you?!" Zhao Kun saw Lin Ye at a glance, and murderous intent surged in his eyes, but he was immediately attracted by the Demon Heart.

Suppressing his anger, he gave a look to the Yinkui Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

The red-haired elder of the Golden Flame Valley also flickered his eyes, wondering what he was thinking.

At this moment, the three forces (Zhao Kun and Yinkui Sect, Golden Flame Valley, Lin Ye and Su Waner) stood in a triangular formation at the bottom of the Meteor Demon Valley, in front of the Demon Heart.

No one dared to move first, and the atmosphere was extremely heavy.

And that sealed Demon Heart seemed to sense the presence of "living people," pulsating more violently.

Although the Devilish power and suction force it emitted weakened, a strange mental wave began to spread silently, attempting to erode, seduce, and control everyone's mind.

"Hold onto your Dao Heart, don't be taken advantage of by demonic thoughts!" Lin Ye shouted in a low voice, the "Lingyun Sword Intent" seed between his brows radiating a righteous Sword Intent to protect himself and Su Waner.

The light of the soul-calming ancient lamp also stabilized.

A flash of blood light appeared on Zhao Kun, who seemed to be using the power of the "Blood Demon Finger" to resist.

The Yinkui Sect Cultivators released some ghosts to surround themselves.

Golden flames rose on the bodies of the Golden Flame Valley crowd.

"Hehehe... How many years has it been... finally, fresh flesh and blood and Souls... have delivered themselves to the door..."

A hoarse, chaotic, weird consciousness, seemingly composed of countless overlapping voices, resounded directly in everyone's heart, filled with endless hunger and malice.

It was the consciousness of the Demon Heart!

It had awakened, or rather, it had always been awake!

"Everyone, this is not the time for infighting. This Demon Heart has been sealed for countless years and still possesses such power. The Demonic Path Origin and ancient memories contained within it are of immeasurable value. However, the Seal still exists and shows signs of weakening. Why don't we join forces for now to break this outer Seal, and then compete for the Demon Heart Origin based on our own abilities, how about it?"

The red-haired elder of the Golden Flame Valley suddenly spoke, his voice carrying a strange seductive power.

Join forces to break the Seal?

Dealing with the devil!

Zhao Kun and the Yinkui Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivator looked at each other and smiled coldly: "Fine. But these two juniors must be cleared away first."

He pointed to Lin Ye and Su Waner.

"Hmph, mere Qi Refining juniors, what waves can they stir up? Leave them be; if they dare to make trouble, just kill them. The priority is to break the Seal and take the treasure!"

The red-haired elder didn't seem to take Lin Ye and Su Waner seriously, or rather, he was more eager to obtain the Demon Heart.

"Fine!"

Zhao Kun no longer insisted, swept a vicious glance at Lin Ye, and turned to the silver chains.

"This Seal is formed by the ancient 'Pure Yang Demon-Slaying Sword Array', which requires Supreme Yang power or filthy blood to corrode its nodes. This seat has the 'Blood Demon Finger' essence blood, which can stain its spirituality. The 'Chi Yang True Fire' of the Golden Flame Valley can burn its structure. The 'Ten Thousand Soul Banner' of the Yinkui Sect can erode its Sword Intent. We three parties will attack the three formation eyes where the chains connect to the rock wall simultaneously!"

He pointed to the three positions where the chains extended to the rock wall, where there were indeed three points with particularly dense runes and the brightest light.

"Do it!"

Zhao Kun was the first to force out a drop of essence blood.

The essence blood was red with black, exuding strong bloodiness and evil, turning into a blood arrow and shooting towards one of the formation eyes.

The Yinkui Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivator sacrificed the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, black Qi rolling, ten thousand ghosts crying, surging towards another spot.

The red-haired elder of the Golden Flame Valley pinched Seals with both hands and struck out a condensed red-gold fire pillar, roaring towards the third spot.

Three parties attacked simultaneously, with amazing power!

The silver chains vibrated violently, the light flickering, fiercely confronting the three forces.

The Demon Heart also seemed to be stimulated, pulsating more wildly, emitting stronger demonic thought impacts.

Lin Ye and Su Waner were forced by the momentum of the three parties to retreat continuously, approaching the rock wall.

"Junior Brother Lin, what should we do? Are we just going to watch them break the Seal?" Su Waner asked anxiously via voice transmission.

"Wait and see."

Lin Ye stared fixedly at the three formation eyes and the Demon Heart, his brain spinning rapidly.

Breaking the Seal was by no means easy, and the three parties were all harboring evil intentions.

Perhaps... there was a chance?

Sure enough, the three-party attack lasted for about the time it takes to burn an incense stick.

Although the light of the silver chains had dimmed a lot, they were still tough and had not broken.

And Zhao Kun, the Yinkui Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivator, and the red-haired elder of the Golden Flame Valley all had sweat on their foreheads, clearly consuming a huge amount of energy.

"No! The Seal is stronger than imagined! We need to increase the intensity or find other methods!" The red-haired elder shouted.

"I have a method that might work," Zhao Kun said, a strange red light flashing in his eyes. "By using the Souls and essence blood of living beings as a sacrifice to perform the 'Blood Soul Seal-Breaking Technique,' we can greatly weaken the Seal! There are no other living people here, only..." His gaze slowly turned towards Lin Ye and Su Waner, then swept across the lower-cultivation Disciple in his own group and the Golden Flame Valley group.

At these words, everyone's expression changed!

"Zhao Kun! What do you mean by that?!" a Qi Refining Disciple from Golden Flame Valley exclaimed in shock and anger.

"Heh, it is your honor to sacrifice yourselves for my great cause," Zhao Kun sneered. Suddenly, he struck. With a flash of blood-red light, he instantly captured the nearest Qi Refining Disciple from the Yinkui Sect and one from the Golden Flame Valley. He crushed their throats, extracted their essence blood and Souls, turned them into two balls of blood-Soul energy, and struck them against the silver chains!

"Zhao Kun! How dare you!" The Foundation Establishment Cultivator from the Yinkui Sect and the red-haired elder from Golden Flame Valley were shocked and furious. However, seemingly anticipating the 'Blood Soul Seal-Breaking Technique,' they did not immediately turn against him, though they grew more vigilant.

As the blood-Souls merged into the chains, the chains let out a "hissing" sound, and their light indeed dimmed a fraction!

It worked!

A look of madness appeared on Zhao Kun's face, and his gaze swept towards the others again, including Lin Ye.

He could wait no longer!

Lin Ye knew that once Zhao Kun began a large-scale blood sacrifice, he and Su Waner would be the primary targets! Furthermore, he absolutely could not let the Seal be broken and the Demonic Heart be unleashed!

A fierce look flashed in his eyes, and he sent a voice transmission to Su Waner: "Senior Sister Su, prepare the soul-calming ancient lamp to its maximum power to protect us, and try to interfere with the demonic intent! I will go destroy that Demonic Heart, or... reinforce the Seal!"

"What? How will you do that?" Su Waner was greatly alarmed.

"I'm taking a gamble!" Lin Ye offered no further explanation. At the moment when Zhao Kun turned his gaze back and the three factions showed a slight lapse in vigilance due to infighting—

He moved!

He pushed his speed to the limit. He was not attacking anyone, nor was he fleeing; instead, he dashed straight towards the Demonic Heart sealed by the silver chains!

"Little beast, you're courting death!" Zhao Kun was stunned, then flew into a rage, slashing out a beam of blood-red light. The Yinkui Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivator and the Golden Flame Valley red-haired elder also instinctively struck to intercept him.

However, Lin Ye seemed to have anticipated this. His figure twisted strangely in the air, dodging several attacks by a hair's breadth. At the same time, he raised his right hand and hurled all his remaining disposable attack items, such as 'Heavenly Thunder Talismans' and 'Flame Burst Orbs,' towards the three attacked array eyes!

Boom! Boom! Boom!!!

A series of explosions erupted at the array eyes! Although they failed to destroy the array eyes, they temporarily interrupted the attacks of Zhao Kun and the other two, also causing a violent backlash from the chains and a surge of wild Devilish Qi!

Taking advantage of the chaos, Lin Ye had charged to within fifty zhang of the Demonic Heart! The terrifying demonic pressure and chaotic Sword Intent (from the chains) threatened to tear him apart!

He roared, pouring all the spiritual energy in his body, along with the 'Lingyun Sword Intent' seed between his brows, without reservation, into the yan jun token in his hand!

It was time to use this final trump card!

"With my Sword Heart, I communicate with the Seal! Ancestral Master above, help me suppress the demon!"

The yan jun token erupted with an unprecedented pure golden radiance! A vast, majestic Aura, seemingly capable of commanding ten thousand fires, burst forth!

This was not to attack the Demonic Heart, but to... attempt to communicate, resonate with, and even control those silver chains of Sword Intent, which also contained the essence of the supreme Yang and rigidity to slay evil and break demons!

The yan jun token was the token of Flame Lord; the fire of Flame Lord was supreme Yang and rigid, sharing the same Origin as the "Pure Yang Demon-Slaying Sword Array" here! And Lin Ye's 'Lingyun Sword Intent' seed was left behind by Sword Immortal Lingyun, perhaps also having a connection to the Seal here!

He was gambling—gambling that the combination of these two could trigger the power of the Seal, and perhaps even... temporarily control part of the Seal to suppress the Demonic Heart and counter Zhao Kun and the others!

Hum—!

As if sensing the familiar Aura and that resolute Sword Heart, the silver chains filling the sky suddenly shook!

Immediately after, in the shocked and incredulous eyes of everyone, a portion of the chains deviated from their original trajectory. As if possessing life, they converged towards Lin Ye's direction, wrapped around the yan jun token in his hand, and through the token, fed a pure, vast, and incomparably sharp Pure Yang Sword Intent back into Lin Ye's body!

"No—! How is this possible?! How can he control the Seal?!" Zhao Kun let out a roar of extreme shock and rage.

The Golden Flame Valley red-haired elder and the Yinkui Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivator were also dumbfounded.

Lin Ye felt an indescribable, massive power surge into his body; his Meridians felt as if they were about to burst, and his Divine Soul was under immense pressure. But he gritted his teeth and persisted. Using the yan jun token as a medium and himself as a conduit, he guided this Pure Yang Sword Intent from the ancient Seal, locking onto the pulsating Demonic Heart and... Zhao Kun and the others!

"Suppress!"

He shouted hoarsely, transforming the converged silver chain Sword Intent into a brilliant silver torrent, as if capable of purifying all evil in the world, and blasted it first towards the dark red Demonic Heart!

"Roar—!!!"

The Demonic Heart let out a painful and furious roar. Dark red Devilish Qi surged wildly, fiercely resisting the silver torrent, making the entire Meteor Demon Valley shake!

At the same time, Lin Ye split his attention, controlling another portion of the chain Sword Intent like a dancing silver dragon, sweeping towards Zhao Kun, the Yinkui Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivator, the Golden Flame Valley red-haired elder, and the others!

"Brat, are you crazy?! Fighting the Demonic Heart and us at the same time?!" The Golden Flame Valley red-haired elder was shocked and angry, raising his defenses.

Zhao Kun's eyes flared with blood-red light. He violently pushed his 'Blood Demon Finger' to the limit and pointed out. A beam of blood-red light, condensed to the extreme, actually temporarily held off the sweeping chains. At the same time, he hissed at the Yinkui Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivator: "Quick! While he is distracted, attack his Physical Body! Kill him, and the Seal will break on its own!"

The Yinkui Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivator understood. The black energy of his Ten Thousand Soul Banner surged to the sky, transforming into a giant ghost claw, grabbing towards Lin Ye, who was fully occupied with controlling the Seal and could not spare any effort!

Su Waner's face turned deathly pale. She desperately urged the soul-calming ancient lamp, expanding its cyan-white halo to the maximum in an attempt to block, but it was clearly insufficient.

Lin Ye was beset on all sides. He had to suppress the Demonic Heart while dealing with the siege of two Late Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators (Zhao Kun, the Golden Flame Valley elder) and one Middle Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator (Yinkui Sect), not to mention the insidious erosion of the demonic intent!

A look of madness flashed in his eyes. He was about to disregard everything and detonate a portion of the Great Sun Golden Flame Origin stored within the yan jun token for a desperate final struggle—

Suddenly!

A new twist occurred!

The Demonic Heart, battered by the silver torrent, suddenly split a tiny crack in its core during its violent pulsation! A wisp of pure, dark "Origin Devilish Qi," as if capable of devouring all light, escaped from the crack!

And within that Origin Devilish Qi, something was vaguely enveloped!

It was a palm-sized token, neither gold nor jade, pitch-black all over, but with mysterious dark golden patterns flowing on its surface—a token?!

The style of the token was eight or nine parts similar to the one Lin Ye had snatched from Zhao Kun's secret compartment! Only its Aura was more ancient, profound, and evil!

What shook Lin Ye even more was that the moment this token appeared, the yan jun token in his bosom, as well as the one on Zhao Kun in the distance (in the black box snatched back earlier), simultaneously emitted a strong palpitation, as if they wanted to break out of their containers!

There seemed to be some mysterious connection between the three tokens!

When Zhao Kun saw the token appearing from the Demonic Heart, he was stunned at first, and then his eyes erupted with unprecedented, almost maniacal greed and fervor!

"It's it! It's it! The 'command token of ten thousand ghosts' of 'Demon Lord Yinming'! So it was hidden here! Hahaha! Heaven helps me! With this token, I can control ten thousand ghosts, command the Yinkui, and even... communicate with the Demonic Lord! I don't want this Demonic Heart Origin anymore! The token is mine!"

He actually abandoned his attack on Lin Ye and the struggle for the Demonic Heart. His figure turned into a beam of blood-red light, desperately lunging towards the pitch-black token floating out from the crack in the Demonic Heart!

"Zhao Kun! You..." The Golden Flame Valley red-haired elder was furious, but he too was attracted by the Aura of the token, a flash of shock and greed appearing in his eyes.

The Yinkui Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivator was even more shaken, his gaze towards the token filled with immense awe and longing: "command token of ten thousand ghosts... the sacred object of the sect... is actually here?!"

The scene, due to this sudden third token, became once again incredibly chaotic and subtle!

Lin Ye also stared fixedly at that "command token of ten thousand ghosts." The palpitation of the yan jun token, as well as the warning in the Flame Lord's Legacy regarding "Demon Lord Yinming," made him instantly understand that this object was likely what the Yinkui Sect, and even the "Demon Lord Yinming" behind Zhao Kun, truly cared about! Its importance might even exceed that of the Demonic Heart!

He absolutely could not let Zhao Kun or the Yinkui Sect obtain it!

But at this moment, he was fully occupied with controlling the Seal's Sword Intent to suppress the Demonic Heart, and was held back by the Golden Flame Valley and Yinkui Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivators; how could he stop them?

Seeing the blood-red light that Zhao Kun had transformed into about to touch the "command token of ten thousand ghosts."

Just at this critical moment—

The pitch-black token suddenly trembled slightly, the dark golden patterns on it flowing with light, and it actually began to float on its own towards one direction—the direction where Lin Ye was!

As if attracted by the yan jun token, or rather, by some quality in Lin Ye (Great Sun Golden Flame? Lingyun Sword Intent?)!

"No—! Stop for me!" Zhao Kun's eyes were splitting, and his speed increased further.

And Lin Ye, watching the "command token of ten thousand ghosts" floating slowly towards him, radiating endless evil and temptation, had countless thoughts flash through his mind in an instant.

To take it, or not to take it?