Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 628

The woman in the silver robe, from the other group, was a peerless beauty with an elegant figure and skin as white as snow. The ferocious high-level demon beasts were flustered and didn’t know what to do in the presence of the seemingly fragile beauty.

“It seems the cultivators from the Sojeok Palace are also using their full strength this time, Feng Seonja. To release the cold energy they’ve accumulated for over a thousand years all at once, what are they going to do if a stronger enemy appears later?”

The old man clicked his tongue.

“Doesn’t Cheong Susa know? They are resisting desperately because they don’t know that we are not aiming for a direct attack. If they are defeated, it’s not like leaving behind cold energy will be of any use.”

The woman in the silver robe replied expressionlessly.

“I was surprised that Feng Susa personally stepped forward this time. I heard that you had been in seclusion for two thousand years and hadn’t left Bingyeon Island.”

The child spoke, but his voice was that of an old man, giving a strange feeling.

“I wouldn’t have come out for any other matter, but this concerns ascending to the Spirit Realm, so I couldn’t be at ease without personally taking charge. Isn’t that why Susa also personally went into battle?”

“Still, I didn’t expect Seonja to accept so readily! It seems the Sojeok Palace has already become an eyesore to you. Seeing that you’re thinking of cutting off the lineage of the sect that Bingbaek Seonja left behind in the Human Realm. In that case, it can be said that Bong Susa is borrowing the power of our Manyogok [Demon Beast Valley].”

The child narrowed his eyes and smiled.

“Our clan has been wary of the Sojeok Palace cultivators because Bingbaek Seonja froze Bingyeon Island for hundreds of years with her immense divine power. But a long time has already passed, and the opportunity to ascend to the Spirit Realm has come, so why would we hesitate? Cha Hyeong, you must have put considerable effort into creating your avatar, aren’t you worried that the losses might outweigh the gains?”

The woman asked coldly.

“As Bong Susa said, the matter is critical, so even if the losses are great, we must bear them if we can obtain accurate information. But I never imagined that the spatial junction where the Reverse Spirit Passage and the Human Realm meet could be within the spatial rift of the Heoryeongjeon [Void Spirit Hall]. If I hadn’t failed several times in trying to send my children to confirm it beforehand, I wouldn’t have had to come out personally. Anyway, the Sojeok Palace forces are not weak, so it will be difficult to annihilate them all.”

The child let out a bizarre laugh.

“That’s only possible in cases like the Heoryeongjeon, which contains a huge spatial rift. Listening to Cha Hyeong, it seems you’ve already tried to find the place where the spaces meet several times, what will you do if you fail this time?”

“It’s simple. I’ll just keep looking for other spatial junctions! If the ancient cultivators found it, why wouldn’t I be able to? It will just take more time.”

“But we don’t have much time left. I heard that Susa is a descendant of a Spirit Realm demon beast, with great divine powers and a longer lifespan than ordinary demon beasts, but even so, so much time has passed, so you must be in a similar situation as me. You must have already sealed your main body to extend your lifespan.”

“Why do you ask when you already know?”

The child’s face hardened for a moment. It was as if he had been hit on a sore spot.

“It’s just a temporary fix, how long can you hold out? I heard news from the Oryong Sea [Five Dragon Sea] a few days ago that the old White Deer monster has already passed away. He was also a descendant of a celestial spirit beast, who had achieved great success in cultivation since ancient times, and I heard that he never moved his main body unless his life was in imminent danger. He tried to extend his life in a pathetic way, but in the end, he entered the path of reincarnation, didn’t he?”

The woman sighed and looked at the distant Geumjedaejin [Golden Imperial Formation].

“That’s why we need to find the exact location. No matter how dangerous it is, I will try. If Bong Susa wishes, we can join forces and try together.”

“Let’s talk about that after we find the spatial junction. The Sojeok Palace in front of us doesn’t seem like they’ll be easy to deal with either.”

The woman in the silver robe didn’t clearly respond to the child’s suggestion.

“Don’t worry about that. With the power of Manyogok alone, we have broken through the ice fortresses several times and forced them to hide inside the Heoryeongjeon. It’s just that if they tear through the Heoryeongjeon space and run away, then Seonja will have to step in.”

“Our Bingbong clan is born with the ability to tear through space, so you won’t be disappointed.”

The woman smiled faintly.

Even while listening to the conversation of the three demon beasts, the other demon beasts never interrupted. They kept their mouths shut as if they were mute.

The child smiled and was about to say something when his expression suddenly changed, and he stared into the distance. The old man and the woman also sensed something at the same time and turned their heads with surprised expressions.

A powerful pressure of spiritual energy surged through the white snowstorm and began to spread in all directions.

In an instant, a bell-like sound, whether it was a dragon’s cry or a tiger’s roar, swept through the sky and the sea, and even the level 8 and 9 demon beasts of the Bingbong clan changed their expressions and staggered.

The Manyogok demon beasts with the Hyeonggi [Form Qi] cultivation base were dumbfounded by the changes in the Binghae demon beasts, with calm faces. The level 10 demon beast, the woman, was not affected by the bell sound, but when she realized what it was, she shouted in anger.

“The Jinhaejong [Sea Quelling Bell]! So our Binghae clan’s treasure fell into the hands of Bingbaek Seonja!”

The old man and the child exchanged glances at those words.

The bell sound continued to ring, but the time it affected the level 8 and 9 demon beasts was only momentary. They all suffered for a while, but they protected their bodies by releasing their demonic energy.

Only then did the woman’s face improve, but suddenly, as if she had thought of something, she flashed her figure and soared into the air. The sparkling light exploded in the void and turned into countless thin threads, disappearing into the void.

After a while, the woman in the silver robe, who had gathered the light and returned to the iceberg, looked a little pale.

“What happened that made Seonja use so much magical power to perform a tracking technique?”

“The Sojeok Palace cultivators dared to activate the Jinhaejong and at the same time dispatched a large number of cultivators to slaughter the Binghae clan. I only looked at some areas, but many of our kin have already been harmed.”

The old man narrowed his brows and asked, and the woman’s eyes turned cold.

“Did such a thing happen? Come to think of it, I heard that there was a treasure that could immobilize demon beasts with ice or extreme attributes. That was the Jinhaejong. But how did it fall into the hands of human cultivators?”

The child said as if he had remembered something.

“It doesn’t matter. That’s just a replica of the Tongcheonryeongbo [Heaven Piercing Spiritual Treasure], so it can’t match the power of the real one. It only has a slight effect on those above level 8. It was said that it disappeared when Bingbaek Seonja froze Bingyeon Island…”

“It seems that Bingbaek Seonja left it behind as a means to deal with the Binghae clan for future generations. Bong Susa, what are you going to do now? Shall we send people to help?”

The old man stroked his beard and asked.

“No, the influence of the Jinhaejong won’t last long anyway. The human cultivators will retreat before we even go to catch them. Besides, there are many of them in our Binghae clan. But we must avenge this grudge. As soon as we enter the Ice Palace, we must capture and kill the lower-realm cultivators.”

The woman in the silver robe revealed her killing intent.

“Very well. Shall we try to break the barrier now? It seems that Seonja’s subordinates won’t be able to arrive on time, but the lower-realm kin of Manyogok are still intact, so they will be a great help once the cold energy dissipates.”

The child laughed and released a black aura from his mouth, and a gray flag fluttered within it.

The woman looked at the flag, calmed her anger, and examined it closely.

The surface of the flag, which was wrapped in a gray aura about six or seven inches long, was covered with demon patterns, as if it had gathered countless ghosts and monsters.

“Is that perhaps the Manyoban [Myriad Demon Banner] of the Gui Gok [Ghost Valley]?”

“Bong Susa’s insight is accurate. This is indeed the Manyoban. The power of the flag, which has absorbed demonic energy for tens of thousands of years, is beyond imagination. It’s just a pity that I can’t exert my full power because I came here in an avatar body. But with the help of Susa, we will be able to neutralize all the restrictions in a few days.”

The child replied triumphantly. Then, he clapped his hands together and sent a gray magic seal towards the flag. The flag began to spin, emitting a gray light, and various illusions of demon beasts appeared densely and flickered.

The woman in the silver robe nodded at the sight of it, and after giving some instructions to the demon beasts beside her, they released their demonic energy and activated various magical treasures. The old man also gave similar orders expressionlessly.

The Manyogok demons used various escape techniques to fly into the sky and took out various magical treasures and artifacts. Demonic energy fluttered, and colorful lights covered the sky.

The child burst into a maniacal laugh and then suddenly became serious and began to chant a spell. The Manyoban slowly grew in size at the sound of his spell, and it rose to a height of a hundred feet and stood tall on the iceberg.

The illusions of the demon beasts on the surface of the flag were now rampaging as if they were alive.

“Go!”

The child shouted and activated a magic seal in his mind. Then, countless demons from the flag cried out and rushed towards the white cold energy in front, enveloped in various demonic energy.

At the same time, a dozen or so figures suddenly appeared from within the cold energy and launched an attack from within the restrictions, and a large-scale battle began.

While a large-scale battle was taking place outside the Sojeok Palace, a whirlwind was blowing over the stone mound of Hyeonok Cave [Profound Jade Cave].

On top of a half-palm-sized purple lotus, Han Li was forming hand seals and injecting a thin purple flame from his mouth into the giant light orb in front of him. The light orb was absorbing not only Han Li’s purple flame but also black, white, yellow, and green cold flames.

The faces of the five cultivators, including Han Li, looked tired and pale.

In the center of the light orb in the middle of the formation, someone was sitting cross-legged, and his height had grown significantly, so he certainly didn’t look like the previous Han Ryeo Sang-in [Han Ryeo Immortal]. The dwarf old man had returned to the appearance of a healthy man in his thirties.

However, silver daggers were deeply embedded in the bare man’s shoulders, chest, back of his neck, and abdomen, but no blood was flowing.

That wasn’t the only thing that stood out. Insects a few inches in size were entering and exiting the man’s body through his skin as if it were their own home. Every time the insects burrowed into his flesh, Han Ryeo Sang-in seemed to be in pain and trembled, like someone enduring some kind of penance.

If you looked closely, the insects were five different colored auras condensed from extreme cold energy. They decreased in size each time they burrowed into the man’s body, and eventually disappeared with a pop.

Then, a stream of flame of the same color would fly in from the outside and take the form of an insect again, burrowing into the man’s skin.

This process continued endlessly.

In the place where Han Ryeo Sang-in’s inner core was located, a Nascent Soul [a nascent soul, a stage of cultivation] that looked similar to the man was forming hand seals and was covered in dark blue ice flames. The cold flame insects entered the man’s body, went into the Nascent Soul’s nose, came out of its mouth again, and repeated the process of going out of the man’s skin.

The Nascent Soul was expressionless, but the dark blue light surrounding it brightened and dimmed, creating a mysterious atmosphere.