260: Chapter 26 The Mysterious Seed!

Replacing it was a layer of golden light membrane, thin as a cicada's wing yet pure to the extreme.

Like the most exquisite gold plating, it perfectly covered the surface of that four-foot golden Spear Light!

Unity!

The killing move of the Nine Revolutions Golden Body Spear's Blood Refining Chapter!

Simplifying the complex, ten thousand auras returning to the source!

Transforming eighty-one scattered Spear Auras, condensing them into an ultimate aura membrane that amplified the Spear Light itself!

Its effect was to quadruple the power of spear-type Martial Arts Skills!

Qin Yan's Spear Light was four feet long, representing an amplification of 40 Cal of blood qi explosive power.

A four-fold amplification meant an extra 160 Cal of explosive power!

This was nearly double the total power provided when the eighty-one Spear Auras attacked separately!

At this moment, upon the long spear, there was no longer the magnificent sight of surrounding astral qi.

There was only a single, unadorned yet brilliant Spear Light of pure gold that made all the surrounding darkness pale in comparison!

A terrifying pressure that made the surrounding thick evil mist recede in fear spread out from the spear tip!

"Break—!!!"

Qin Yan concentrated all his strength and all his will into this single spear strike.

He thrust out boldly toward the seemingly indestructible vine shield ahead!

The spear struck out; there was no light, only a straight golden line slicing through the darkness!

Wherever the spear tip passed, the viscous black mist was pushed aside as if by an invisible force, forming a vacuum channel!

The instantaneous blood qi explosive power contained in this strike, after multiple amplifications, had reached—4264 Cal!

Crack—!!!

There was no world-shaking roar.

Only an extremely crisp sound.

The moment it touched that golden spear line, the indestructible vine shield exploded into countless black fragments!

The momentum of the spear tip did not diminish at all, plunging deeply and without hindrance into the core rhizome of the central Evil Spirit!

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

The central Evil Spirit's body suddenly stiffened, and its black crystal-like flower bud trembled violently.

It let out a shrill, mournful screech that was neither human nor beast, piercing to the level of the soul!

It was as if countless resentful souls were wailing at the same time!

The pure black luster flowing on its surface instantly dimmed and became chaotic, as countless cracks spread wildly from the point of the spear's entry!

Viscous black liquid surged out from the cracks like a fountain!

Immediately following—

"BOOM—!!!"

A dull, extreme roar!

The central Vine Evil Spirit hidden deep underground could no longer withstand this devastating blow, and its entire trunk and roots exploded!

It turned into countless fragments and even denser black mist dust, shooting out in all directions!

The aftershocks of the explosion subsided, and the dust slowly drifted down.

Almost at the same time, the first Vine Flood Dragon about to pounce a meter behind Qin Yan, and the second flood dragon that had just fully formed nearby, simultaneously stiffened as if they had instantly lost their energy source and control core.

Then, like sand sculptures, they crumbled into two large clouds of black mist and slowly dissipated.

The floating Nine-Square Grid formation also flickered a few times before being completely annihilated.

The cavern fell into a brief, dead silence.

Qin Yan remained in his spear-thrusting posture, standing in place.

On the spear tip, the golden aura membrane had already dissipated, and the Spear Light had dimmed significantly.

He was panting heavily, his chest rising and falling like a bellows.

He was covered in blood, his wounds stinging with pain, and the blood qi in his body was nearly drained dry by this 'Unity' form.

Waves of tearing pain came from his meridians, and his spirit was dazed from excessive concentration and exhaustion.

However, a relieved smile, tinged with fatigue and the joy of victory, slowly bloomed on his face.

In this battle, he had won!

In a near-hopeless situation, relying on his killing move and the courage to find life in death, he had destroyed the true core beneath the Vine Forest!

Just as the smile appeared, an extreme sense of weakness hit him like a tide.

His vision went black, and his body swayed.

Unable to hold on any longer, he collapsed with a 'thud' onto the cold, damp vine-covered ground, his consciousness rapidly fading.

After he fell, a strange glimmer of ghostly light quietly emerged in the air above where the central Evil Spirit had originally been.

It was a strange seed, about the size of a pigeon's egg, pitch black as the deepest night sky, yet with strands of dark gold profound patterns flowing on its surface.

It floated there quietly, slowly rotating.

Even more astonishingly, although the Evil Spirit's main body below had been destroyed,

the four thick main vines extending from above

still spontaneously and continuously poured into this floating black seed like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

On the seed's surface, those dark gold patterns seemed to light up slightly with the injection of energy, yet also seemed more restrained and profound.

Suddenly, the black seed floating in the air seemed to reach its carrying limit.

The deep ghostly light flowing on its surface abruptly became dazzling and unstable.

Then, the connection between it and the four main vines still pouring energy into it was suddenly severed as if by an invisible blade, abruptly collapsing!

The light on the seed's surface dimmed, it lost its floating power, and it fell straight down.

With a soft 'tap,' it landed on the vine debris below.

It lay there quietly, the layer of ghostly light on its surface becoming extremely weak and restrained, no longer possessing the eerie power that connected heaven and earth.

The entire underground space, with the falling of the seed, fell into a deathly silence.

The churning black mist stopped flowing, and the writhing vine walls also seemed to lose their vitality, becoming stiff.

Only Qin Yan's own slightly rapid breathing was clearly audible in this absolute silence.

...

Meanwhile, in the vast and eerie black Vine Forest above,

an earth-shaking upheaval was taking place!

Countless black vines that entwined, occupied, and formed the main body of the forest,

regardless of their thickness or size, began to wither and weather at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The dull luster on their surfaces quickly faded, becoming shriveled and gray.

Then they turned into wisps of black smoke, curling upward and dissipating into the air.

Swaths of vines fell and were annihilated like dominoes.

More importantly, the dense black mist barrier that had always shrouded the outermost edge of the forest, blocking the way like a heavy curtain, also began to slowly thin and dissipate!

The long-awaited light and aura belonging to the normal regions of the Canglin Ancient Peak began to permeate from the edge of the forest.

The path to life appeared!

However, beneath this scene of hope was a shocking and tragic sight.

In the core square area in the center of the forest, only a dozen or so geniuses from various tribes could still stand!

Compared to the nearly three hundred who had initially entered this place, it could be said that not even one in ten remained; the casualties were tragic to the extreme!

On the square and among the vines, severed limbs and cold corpses were everywhere, and blood had stained the black ground almost dark red.