407: Kill the ship and take the treasure, human puppet, Tianlong Bayin (Part 2)

This white mist was like water, and water, being extremely soft, stretched endlessly, making it impossible for even the strongest to break through.

However, the five-colored Heavenly Lightning was the ultimate in rigidity and Yang, something demons and evil spirits feared.

Using it at this moment had a miraculous effect; the powerful lightning tore through the white mist with sizzling electric snakes wildly leaping about, and the Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Spear, with a flash of cold light, ripped open a massive crack with a tearing sound, charging into it.

A golden river of fire followed closely, roaring violently and widening the opening.

Chen Yuan swiftly flew above the large boat, his blazing Divine Eyes fixed on the shadowy figure in the second-story window, whose cloak rustled as he raised his hand and spun his spear above his head.

The dazzling, brilliant golden river of fire erupted like magma, and golden waves of fire suddenly swept out.

"Go!"

Chen Yuan spun his spear, and the golden fire wave, about a mu in size, above his head, moved with the spear, a fiery whirlwind roaring like a Dragon, a truly magnificent sight.

Then, Chen Yuan pointed his long spear towards the shadowy figure.

"Roar!"

With a loud Dragon roar, a golden Fire Dragon surged out, as massive as a mountain range, its power astonishing.

A hundred zhang away, the golden Dragon, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, seemed intent on shattering the large boat, its Dragon eyes filled with violent power, locked onto the shadowy figure on the second floor.

It was at this moment that a sigh came from within that window, from the shadowy figure.

As the sigh fell, on both sides of the large boat, surging waves crashed against the shore, and with a booming sound, two massive green waves rose up.

From within the green waves, two colossal hands reached out and slammed together in the middle, forcefully blocking the golden Dragon, which was like a prairie fire.

"Sizzle, sizzle!"

The golden fire scorched the green waves, emitting a harsh boiling sound.

The golden Dragon let out a long roar, its pupils flickering with burning flames, then exploded with a booming sound.

The golden Dragon burst apart, and surging, scorching waves of fire rapidly enveloped the two green palms from the center.

In the span of two breaths,

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The two massive green palms shattered, turning into torrential water that poured down onto the large boat.

Only two or three scattered sparks of the golden fire wave remained, rustling towards that window, piercing two holes in the window paper.

Under the lamplight, the silhouette moved, raising a finger to pinch out the two sparks, then blowing them onto the flickering candle stand, making the flame brighter by a degree, as if strolling leisurely through a courtyard.

Then, he stood up, and the voice of Marquis Wenan emerged,

"This fire is no ordinary fire, and even that lightning is true lightning, Chen Yuan, you are no ordinary person."

"But why bother? Using it on me, if you need good fortune, I can give it to you; why go through all this trouble?"

The voice was gentle and sincere, giving one the feeling of a noble gentleman, calm and composed.

In contrast, Chen Yuan was like a Vicious Beast, his light golden pupils filled with sharp ferocity, lightning raging around him, electric arcs leaping from his long spear, determined to kill.

Hearing these words, Chen Yuan knew that this fellow was still trying to bewitch people even now.

He was aware that this boat devoured souls, and he suspected that the boat's involvement in the Qingshan County battle, where it harvested a group of demons about to be teleported away at a crucial moment, was also related to this.

He had a suspicion whether it was related to his Primordial Spirit's existence, constantly roaming and absorbing fresh blood. Had he been following him, and was he perhaps looking for an opportunity to harvest his Primordial Spirit, or even to perform Possession and Rebirth?

He was not above speculating about others with the greatest malice, after all, human hearts are treacherous, and this person's origins were unfathomable.

But now, none of that mattered!

No matter what this person wanted to do or what his intentions were, if he crossed the Dao, he had to be killed. He didn't want even a hint of indecisiveness at this critical moment!

He snorted coldly through his nose, his eyes like a man-eating tiger or leopard, "The judgment of right and wrong, let us leave it to the Dao weapons in our hands."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Yuan stomped his foot, creating an air explosion, and holding his long spear, he transformed into a dazzling bolt of lightning, charging directly towards the second-story window, giving the opponent no chance to breathe!

At the same time, the others had already made their moves, simultaneously unleashing brilliant Divine Abilities towards the large boat.

Huyan Qing's Twin Wind-Fire Wheels rolled in the Void Realm, cutting through the sky, drawing two dazzling lines of fire across the night sky;

Yuwen Guang raised the Blood Drinking Saber with both hands, striking down with the force of splitting Mount Hua, a bloody thin line slashing towards the large boat, causing the Void Realm to shriek as it went straight for its target.

Jin Yu Mountain, with stern eyes, threw the white jade brush in his hand into the Void Realm ahead, and the bristles of the brush instantly whistled through the air, transforming into thousands of steel wires, shooting downwards.

And those who came with Chen Yuan, becoming Chen Yuan's "partners in charge"—the old man of the Huanlong Clan and the North Sea Dragon Girl, who was like a "dowry maid"—one controlled his Luck Gourd, manipulating the dragon binding cord, while the other unleashed the Dragon Horn Twin Swords, formed from her Dragon horns, transforming into dazzling silver light.

Six Martial Divine Repositories, three of whom had reached the Peak of Martial Divine Repository, with the North Sea Dragon Girl not even at her full power, collectively attacked this Dragon Tiger Dao field.

Chen Yuan, holding the Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Spear, surrounded by true lightning, his spear tip reached the window!

The Divine Abilities of the other five, from three other directions, shot through the sky and rushed over, a terrifying sight.

At this moment, the large boat hummed, and deafening roars echoed.

It was clearly visible that the brightly lit rooms within the large boat suddenly soared into the air, like giant lanterns blooming, and the room Chen Yuan's spear tip pointed at directly retreated, disappearing into the silhouettes of those many lanterns!

At this time, the silhouettes reflected on the windows moved, releasing powerful Qi mechanisms. Inside were Martial Divine Repositories, Dao Fruits, and Dao weapons, with mixed auras; visually, there were over a hundred figures.

It was a force not to be underestimated!

At the same time, angry shouts, curses, sneers, and venomous voices rose noisily in this heaven and earth.

"Amitabha, greed, anger, ignorance, and hatred. If you Fellow Daoists do not enter Hell, who will enter Hell?"

"Fa Fa Fa Kong Kong, kill them, they want to destroy our Dao field."

"Let them also become a lamp within!"

"..."

The lantern rooms ascended, and figures inside laughed, cursed, roared through the heavens and earth, and then, spiritual light suddenly appeared, and streaks of Divine Abilities manifested above the rooms.

Great Luo Buddha Hand!

Ice Soul Rain!

Black Fire Dragon!

Even candlelight floated out from between the windows, sweeping upwards in a rush, transforming into three bizarre-looking Dharma Idols!

These three Dharma Idols were eighty to ninety zhang tall, with green faces and fangs, exuding malevolent Qi. The spiritual light and Dharma veins flowed through their bodies, tinged with faint black Qi, and their eyes lacked any spiritual vitality, being entirely black with red pupils, filled with emotions like greed, desire, and slaughter.

Chen Yuan swung the Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Spear in his hand fiercely at a room blocking his path, and lightning bloomed into a lightning tree in the Void Realm.

Above that room, a black Fire Dragon, about thirty zhang long, roaring at Chen Yuan, was touched by the branches extending from the lightning tree, and like a boiling oil pot meeting fire, it instantly burst into flames with a "xiong" sound. Immediately after, the long spear directly pierced through it, and the room below also exploded.

"Boom!"

From the exploding room, a green oil lamp flickered with light, and the bronze lamp stand cracked with spiderweb-like fissures, then shattered with a crash. The lamp's flame also sputtered out, and the shadowy figure reflected in the lamplight, accompanied by a wail, dispersed like sand blown away by the wind.

Amidst the flying fragments, Chen Yuan, in that instant, saw the true forms of these shadowy figures: they were merely two demonic thoughts, like the ghostly things he had seen in the great fog in Qingshan County back then, only much stronger than those things.

At this moment, a prompt also sounded in his mind.

"Killed a Dao Fruit Second Layer Human Puppet, Luck +123"

Chen Yuan's gaze brightened, then he looked up at the two Dharma Idols roaring amidst the dense lights, and snorted coldly.

This fellow finally showed his hand!

Presumably, these people had their souls devoured by that person named Wen, and their demonic thoughts were refined by him into subservient Puppets, never to be reborn. And these people, presumably, were lured onto the boat by the legend of hearing the Dao, then trapped here, becoming Puppets. Perhaps this itself was a trap, a trap laid hundreds of years ago.

Of course, this was no longer important!

Chen Yuan looked at the three green-faced, fanged Dharma Idols, and the laughing, cursing demonic shadows under the various lights, and with his other hand, he formed a sword-finger and pointed it at his glabella.

Golden light flowed within the vertical eye between his brows, radiating awe-inspiring majesty, suddenly intensifying as it searched for the mastermind hidden amidst the layers of fire shadows.

In the span of a breath, his eyes fixed, his brow furrowed fiercely, and then his Physical Body vibrated, his bones resonating in unison. Within his Dantian, the Golden Core hummed and spun rapidly, and within his various acupoints, furnaces overturned their lids, roaring out, dozens of furnaces containing the true meaning of Divine Ability boiling.

And within his five viscera, in the Divine Repository of the heart, crimson flames burned fiercely. On top of an upright coffin, a new sprout emerged, bearing a phoenix tree leaf, around which divine fire swirled. A clear Phoenix cry rose from within, and then this phoenix tree leaf, like fiery jade, detached from it, transforming into a blazing firelight that shot up into the sky within the Divine Repository. Amidst the blazing firelight, a Fire Phoenix, its body like dazzling fiery jade, was born from the flames, and thus surged out of the Divine Repository.

"Li!"

At the same time, in the Divine Repository of wood, a Dragon Qi Mother Tree, with jade-like leaves and gnarled branches like a Dragon, trembled. Massive amounts of vital essence gathered, and emerald-like green leaves flew upwards, converging into a mass. "Roar!" A Dragon roar echoed, and an Azure Dragon majestically coiled out from within, then with a long cry, it burst forth from the Divine Repository.

This wasn't all; the other three Divine Repositories, which had not yet forged their divine altars, also emitted divine light.

The golden Qi of the lungs, the black Qi of the kidneys, and the yellow Qi of the spleen gathered with the Qi of the liver wood and the Qi of the heart fire, forming the Five Viscera Zhou Tian. The next step was the Five Qi Facing the Origin!

Only when the remaining three Divine Repositories were in place, and all five Divine Repositories exerted their power simultaneously, could this step be taken without any obstruction.

This was Chen Yuan's "reverse cultivation" action, and it was something others could not emulate.

At this moment, the Azure Dragon and Fire Phoenix manifested from the Divine Repository, Dragons and Phoenixes crying in unison, growing larger with the wind, instantly reaching a size of a li. As they moved through the Void Realm, they caused the night sky to tremble and roar, dancing and circling above and below Chen Yuan, their aura terrifyingly powerful.

Chen Yuan's entire body surged with immense power, eager to unleash it. He opened his mouth and roared, a metallic clang coming from his lungs, accompanied by a thunderous shout.

With this roar, the Void Realm in front of him suddenly rippled, layer upon layer, like one wave pressing against another, creating folds—this was a manifestation of air being rapidly compressed.

The next second, the Void Realm boomed, like a mighty bell, and those layers of sound waves suddenly unleashed, rapidly propagating towards the lanterns ahead.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

One by one, the lantern cabins blocking the way were shattered by this boiling sound wave, their lights extinguished, and the Human Puppets inside vanished like smoke, pushing forward for about a li.

Chen Yuan's foot exploded, transforming into a swift stream of light, charging through the scattered fragments and flowing fire, shooting straight towards one direction.

All of this happened in a flash.

Meanwhile, the attacks from the five other Martial Divine Repositories around Chen Yuan—the three Taibao of Tai Sui Mountain, the Huanlong Clan, and the North Sea Dragon Girl—had already surrounded and attacked from the other three directions, crashing into the lanterns and unleashing their Divine Might.

One after another, firelights burst open, then sputtered out.

Thus, Chen Yuan charged through, the Azure Dragon and Fire Phoenix circling his body in the Void Realm, crushing everything in their path, carving out a fiery path straight into the depths.

The three Human Puppet Dharma Idols, manifesting amidst the lanterns and filled with malevolent Qi, all six of their red eyes stared at the direction Chen Yuan was coming from. With green faces and fangs, looking like malevolent spirits, they snorted angrily from their mouths and noses, their eye whites protruding from their sockets.

One was a yellow-robed monk with an unusually large skull and downcast eyelids, two drooping mustache strands reaching his chin, standing on a white lotus platform, his face a solemn Buddha-like expression, only the crimson color in his eyes marred this sense of solemnity.

Facing Chen Yuan's direction, he uttered obscure and difficult-to-pronounce syllables, word by word.

"Om, Mani, Padme, Hum."

As each syllable was uttered, the Void Realm vibrated, with great sounds and subtle silence, and Buddhist chants resonated, seemingly containing immense power.

One could see that Chen Yuan, who had been moving extremely fast and killing everything in his path, felt a resistance in the Void Realm.

Then, as the Buddhist chants resounded, golden light, like the shimmering surface of a river at sunset, spread out, and tiny Sanskrit characters flew from within, Seal-ing the Void Realm where Chen Yuan was located.

Chen Yuan vaguely felt a sense of familiarity with these strange syllables, recalling that when he was a Patrolling Mountain Commandant in Qingshan County, he had also killed a bald monk.

That monk seemed to possess this Divine Ability, called the Eight Sounds of Heavenly Dragon.

This was a Great Divine Ability in Buddhism that was quite difficult to master.

The eight obscure syllables represented by the eight sounds referred to the extremely good sound, the soft sound, the harmonious sound, the respectful and wise sound, the non-feminine sound, the unerring sound, the profound and far-reaching sound, and the inexhaustible sound.

For example, the "extremely good sound," also known as the best sound, meant that the Buddha's virtue was vast, and the sound he emitted was pure, elegant, and wise, making listeners never tire of it; it was the best of the best, hence its name.

The "respectful and wise sound" meant that the Buddha's virtue was noble and his wisdom clear, and the sound he emitted could make listeners respectful and enlighten their wisdom.

The "non-feminine sound" meant that the Buddha resided in the Shurangama Samadhi, always possessing the virtue of a world hero, having long abandoned the soft and feminine mind, and the words he uttered could make all listeners revere and fear him, with heavenly demons and heretics all surrendering.

These eight sounds were vast, indicating the boundless nature of Buddhist Dharma, which could be seen from this.

Those tiny Sanskrit characters illuminated the Void Realm, like shining stars, and each one shot towards Chen Yuan.

Meanwhile, the other two Human Puppet Dharma Idols, looking like vengeful spirits, simultaneously unleashed Divine Abilities. One spat out black dust, which was actually composed of dense, strangely shaped, sharp-mouthed venomous insects, a rare sight of Gu cultivators in the outside world, while the other Human Puppet held a bronze umbrella and flew it towards the Void Realm where Chen Yuan was.

The three Human Puppet Dharma Idols ignored the others and chose to attack Chen Yuan simultaneously, indicating that the mastermind behind them was getting anxious.

Chen Yuan's gaze intensified, and he flicked the long spear in his hand backward, emitting a startling clang. A golden light illuminated the night, and a majestic Dharma Idol emerged, instantly growing to a hundred and twenty zhang in size, with Martial Dao Divine Rings lighting up one by one.

Then, thunder exploded, and he stomped his foot fiercely!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The Void Realm around him roared, and the reflected Sanskrit sounds exploded one by one.

The protective Azure Dragon and Fire Phoenix around him let out a cry. The Azure Dragon's myriad scales bristled, like countless sharp blades, and it directly rushed into the sky, crashing towards the bronze umbrella. Countless blades cut and clanged, sending sparks flying, and in one or two breaths, they cut the bronze umbrella into pieces.

And the Fire Phoenix opened its sharp beak, and a raging flame swept across the sky, burning towards the myriad black insects. (End of this chapter)