Spirit Realm Chapter 463-467

Chapter 463: Collision!

“Luo Chen, Chu Li, Xue Moyan!”

Yu Men of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain raised his head and saw the procession coming out of the area that was exploding. His craggy face was filled with a strange smile.

Niu Shaojun and the other Ten Thousand Beast Mountain martial practitioners were sitting in lotus position behind him.

There were a dozen old trees that were torn apart around them. Clearly, before Qin Lie and the others had arrived, they had also been attacked by Ye Yihao and had fought a hard battle.

At this time, for Qin Lie, Luo Chen, and the others, or for Yu Men of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain, it was not a good time to fight.

That would just benefit Ye Yihao.

However, for some, when they were angry, they would not care about the circumstances, or about what they should or should not do.

Luo Chen was also a person like that.

“Cold Moon Wheel!”

The silver sword beam of Luo Chen’s sword turned into a cold moon that was as large as a wagon wheel. It spun in the dark sky and then flew towards Niu Shaojun.

It seemed like a cold moon shooting at him.

“Niu Shaojun, in the eyes of I, Luo Chen, you are a small person not worthy of mention!” Luo Chen mocked cuttingly. “No matter if I am wounded or not, a small fry is a small fry. If I want to beat a dog like you, I won’t even care who your owner is!”

A few days ago, Luo Chen and Chu Li had endured a hard battle. Both had expended much energy and were heavily wounded.

At that time, Niu Shaojun and Situ Tong had tried to kill him and Chu Li for the fresh blood of the voodoo insect.

They had also said some words that Luo Chen had remembered hatefully.

Days later, Luo Chen had recovered. His pride had come back, and naturally, he wouldn’t be polite when he saw Niu Shaojun again.

The Cold Moon Wheel was like the moon falling. As it spun, rays of cold light were like swords that fell towards the people of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain.

Niu Shaojun’s face immediately darkened. He raised his head to look at the disk that was about to come down, but didn’t dare to move.

Because Yu Men had not said anything yet.

“Don’t even care who the owner is? Hmph!” Yu Men suddenly twisted his mouth.

His book-sized left hand was wrapped in a glove in the shape of a vicious beast head. It appeared as though a vicious beast was eating his left hand.

Just as the Cold Moon Wheel fell down, Yu Men’s left hand punched into the air.

“Aooo!”

That vicious beast head glove gave a furious howl. Circles of blue-purple light formed along with his punch above people’s heads.

The layers of blue-purple light rippled and spread into the surroundings.

They were like a clear and transparent mirror.

Among the ripples, it was possible to see the miniaturized forms of the remnants of beast souls that looked to be roaring.

Roars also occasionally sounded out.

“Bam bam bam bam!”

The Cold Moon Wheel that was formed from a sword beam continued to shoot at the purple lights. They created a spray of sparks that released rainbow lights.

Under the multiple layers of light, all the martial practitioners of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain remained unharmed.

“Beast Manifestation!” Yu Men shouted in a hoarse voice.

The blue-purple light suddenly changed.

All of the ripples of light coalesced into a dozens of meters long vicious beast with the body of a lion and the head of a snake.

The vicious beast’s feet were covered in bloody clouds. It roared furiously as it charged at Luo Chen.

At the same time, Yu Men’s entire skeleton started to pop and snake. His broad and powerful body that was almost two meters tall actually grew even taller.

Yu Men was like a human-shaped monster. He started to exude a vicious and savage aura, while his eyes filled with a bestial gleam.

“Roar!”

Yu Men’s body changed into mostly that of a beast. At that moment, he seemed to posses the power of hundreds of beasts, and his aura was terrifying.

Even Qin Lie, who was on the side watching, changed expression and showed seriousness.

Out of everyone present, he was probably the only one that would dare to fight this Yu Men in melee combat just using physical power.

Yu Men’s sudden eruption of power definitely came from his body, and a mutation of flesh!

Qin Lie who had once used beast blood in the blood pool to cultivate could smell the scent of a vicious beast from Yu Men’s body. This meant that both Yu Men’s blood and flesh had changed due to some terrifying spirit art.

“Seven Moon Slash!”

Seven new moons appeared and spun above Luo Chen’s head with a cool and sharp aura.

They seemed to have formed a complete circle.

As Yu Men roared and shouted, about to charge, the moons created for the sword beast suddenly fell down towards him.

The moonlight filled the sky and attracted everyone’s eyes!

“Ye Yihao is hurrying over… “

Just as the two were about to start viciously fighting, the cool and pleasing voice of Xue Moyan of Illusory Demon Sect suddenly came over.

A slender and soft figure floated into the air between the two. Numerous blue, white, green, and indigo lights flew from her sleeves.

A strange field that was like quicksilver suddenly formed in the area between Luo Chen and Yu Men. A restraining power that blocked spirit power also appeared.

Both Luo Chen’s Seven Moon Slash and Yu Men, who was in his beast form, immediately felt it was difficult to advance when they touched the barrier.

“The Graveyard of the Gods Trial is still far from over. There will be many chances to battle in the future, there is no need to fight now,” Xue Moyan said in a cool voice between the two.

“Too many people have been entrapped by Ye Yihao in this forest. Why don’t we all rest first, and then eliminate him?” He Wei also came in. “At the very least, shouldn’t we make some distance to escape Ye Yihao’s perception?”

“Yes! We should rest!” Song Tingyu added.

The females came out to persuade everyone to be patient.

Qin Lie, Chu Li, and Du Xiangyan crossed their arms and were just watching. They didn’t try to act as peacemakers.

They acted as though it had nothing to do with them.

“Hm! You better keep control over your dog!” Luo Chen glared at Niu Shaojun and put away his sword art.

“We will have a fight sooner or later,” Yu Men gave a strange laugh.

His strong bestial aura gradually faded. It seemed that he also knew this was not a good time to have a fight to the death with Luo Chen. In addition to that, Xue Moyan had personally come out to act as a peacemaker, so he stopped fighting.

The two geniuses that had just engaged in a fight retreated back to their original positions.

“Let’s go.” Yu Men waved his hand and moved forward first.

The group of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain martial practitioners closely followed him.

“Yu Men shouldn’t be offended. This guy is the same as Chu Li, he loves to cause trouble and doesn’t submit to anyone.” He Wei grimaced as she shook her head.

“Who likes to cause trouble? If you want to curse Yu Men, do it, but why drag me into it?” Chu Li rolled his eyes.

“Within the Land of Chaos, who has caused the most trouble among the contenders from the Silver factions?” He Wei glared at him fearlessly. “There was a period of time when even the forefather couldn’t stand you and imprisoned you. It was only then that you became docile. Otherwise, just the love debts you caused are irritating enough for Terminator Sect!”

When she mentioned love debts, Chu Li immediately became docile. He smiled uncertainly, rubbed his nose, and said, “There aren’t any… you are the only one in my heart, don’t you know that?”

He Wei snorted and ignored him.

“Qin Lie, that Yu Men… his body is very strong. He might be a great enemy for you.” On the other side, Song Tingyu reminded him in a low voice.

Qin Lie nodded inside.

Of the geniuses from the forces that had attended, other than seeing Feng Yiyou of Heavenly Artifact Sect, he had came into contact with the other eight.

Of these eight, Lin Dongxing, Su Yan, and Xiaohou Yuan of the three families were clearly a bit weaker. The three great families clearly did not have enough of a foundation which caused Su Yan, Lin Dongxing, and Xiahou Yuan to be slightly weaker.

The five, Luo Chen, Chu Li, Ye Yihao, Xue Moyan, and Yu Men who had just appeared were all extremely powerful.

After secretly observing, Qin Lie felt that these five had power that was not weaker than a martial practitioner in the early stages of the Fulfillment Realm, and might even be a bit stronger.

Of the five, Luo Chen, Chu Li, Ye Yihao, and Xue Moyan did not focus on the cultivation of their bodies. Their great battle abilities came from spirit artifacts or special spirit arts.

Yu Men was the only exception.

Just now, he had closely observed Yu Men’s fighting style. He found that this person, when he attacked, would always charge towards his enemy.

It was clear that he was very skilled in close combat. His powerful body and his animalistic intuition caused him to have an advantage in close combat.

This was someone that had a battle style similar to his.

“Yu Men cultivates the Hundred Beast Art of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain. From childhood, he lived and ate together with all kinds of vicious beasts, absorbed the savage energy of hundreds of beasts, fought against them, and tempered his body.” Du Xiangyan suddenly started to explain, “This guy might be the most accomplished in this generation of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain! He was born with the skill to speak to beasts, and can converse with them just through his gaze. He also understands the personalities of the beasts. Fortunately, this is the Graveyard of Gods and there are no places where beasts gather. Otherwise, it is likely no one could beat Yu Men.”

“How do you know that the Graveyard of Gods doesn’t have any places where beasts gather?” He Wei glared at him. “It is just that you did not see it! If it was as your inauspicious mouth said, and Yu Men found a place like that, he probably would be scarier than Ye Yihao!”

When she said this, everyone became shocked.

Just a sheer thought of a possibility made people feel anxious.

“You say that Ye Yihao is about to come? How do you know when he is arriving?” Luo Chen asked at the front.

“I don’t know when he will come.” Xue Moyan shook her head. “I only know that he is definitely heading towards our position!”

“I suggest for everyone to leave this forest as soon as possible!” Du Xiangyan shouted.

“I think the same!” He Wei expressed her opinion.

“Luo Chen, continue leading the way.”

“Yes, lead the way!”

“Alright.”

In a patch of forest hundreds of miles away from the group.

There was an enormous and ancient tree with a great canopy that was moving rapidly through the forest. It appeared to be floating in an ocean and it flashed by along with the ripples of the ground.

On the branches of the ancient tree, Ye Yihao’s expression was dark. There were tree branches inserted into his body, and a little mark of a tree that flashed on his brow.

He was communicating with the spirit tree.

“What? They are about to get out of the forest? How could they recognize the way out?” Ye Yihao suddenly became restless.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!” The leaves of the ancient tree shook as though it was objecting.

“Quick! Faster! Use your power to move the nearby trees and stop them!” Ye Yihao shouted.

“Crack! Crack!”

Branches of the ancient tree suddenly snapped. The emerald green branches suddenly flew into the distance.

As the branches passed, the trees along the way started to move.

Chapter 464: The Wooden Sculpture’s Change!

Qin Lie’s group abruptly came to a stop.

A shabby village suddenly appeared before them. The village looked as if it was hidden within the ancient trees, its flat stone floor covered with grass, leaves, and dust.

The group became dumbstruck as they stared blankly at the village ahead of them, then at Luo Chen with strange looks on their faces.

Luo Chen’s eyes were filled with puzzlement as well as he shook his head beneath their gazes, “When I came here, it was probably through this path. But I did not notice that there was a village along the way.”

“Are you… lost?” Du Xiangyang taunted him bluntly.

Surprisingly, Luo Chen did not object to his accusation. After frowning for a moment, he said honestly, “I might be.”

The crowd immediately broke out in a clamor.

“Luo Chen! What the f*ck are you doing?” Chu Li was the first one to voice his frustrations as he scolded, “Do you know the road or not? We’ve ran into countless troubles and lost a few men along the way, but you brought us to this place instead? Do you have a hidden agenda or something?”

The Illusory Demon Sect girls all turned anxious and worried. They looked everywhere with doubtful gazes.

Qin Lie was also angry on the inside.

However, he did not join in. He knew very well that Luo Chen absolutely could not stand his angry rebukes.

He did not wish to fight against Luo Chen right then, so the best course of action would be to keep his silence and find out what exactly was going on first.

“Luo Chen, do you still recognize the path? Are you still confident that you can lead us away from this place?” He Wei asked for confirmation.

Luo Chen appeared to be a little hesitant.

“Why is there a village in the forest? This is the Graveyard of the Gods, the ultimate battlefield where experts fought and were buried in this strange land. Why is there a village in this place?”

Puzzlement and confusion appeared in Xue Moyan’s clear eyes. After a moment of ponderment, she suggested, “Let’s go in and take a look.”

Everyone agreed to her suggestion.

Luo Chen was the only one who did not speak. He took out a pocket-sized silver sword from his spatial ring and rubbed its blade with his palm.

The palm-sized silver blade glittered with silver light and let out a crisp sword ring.

“Ring!”

Several hundred meters away, an identical sword ring resonated and vaguely heeded the call of this small silver sword.

While he was doing this, the group’s attention fell on him once more.

“Wait for me!”

After throwing down such a line, Luo Chen headed in the direction of the sword ring, seemingly wanting to test something.

The group did not walk into the strange village and waited for Luo Chen. They wanted to see what kind of answer he would give them.

Luo Chen went swiftly, and returned just as quickly.

Before long, he held up another small silver sword and appeared before the group once more.

“The direction of our path is probably correct.” Luo Chen pointed at a location, “As long as we continue in that direction, we should be able to leave this forest. I have used this small sword to confirm my path. These are small swords that can transmit signals with each other, and they’ve been forged by the same person who made Heavenly Sword Mountain’s sword tokens. It was my grandmother who entrusted him to help forge another batch of these small blades for me…”

Luo Chen explained to the group.

There were a total of thirty five Sound Summoning Swords. They could sense and communicate with one another within fifty kilometers.

This batch of Sound Summoning Swords came from the same person who forged the Heavenly Sword Mountain sword tokens.

Ever since Luo Chen entered the forest from the thunder-filled zone, he had been stabbing Sound Summoning Swords into ancient trees and marking his path this way.

He had prepared a path of retreat for himself since the beginning.

The reason he had confidence that he could lead the group away from the forest and into the thunder-filled land wasn’t because he had a terrific sense of direction. It was purely because he had many Sound Summoning Swords to lead the way.

After listening to his explanation, the people who suspected his motives earlier no longer said anything.

“The reason I didn’t find this village before is because the ancient tree I stabbed with a Sound Summoning Sword had moved elsewhere on its own. However, it hadn’t moved too far away. It is at the edge of the village right now. I am still confident about the approximate path of retreat…” Luo Chen said.

“So this is how it is.” He Wei nodded and smiled apologetically, “It seems that we have blamed you wrongly.”

Everyone saw with their own eyes that the ancient trees in the forest could move. Naturally, they no longer suspected Luo Chen’s explanation.

“There is another Sound Summoning Sword fifty kilometers to the front. There is no mistaking the direction.” Luo Chen withdrew the two small silver swords and turned around to glance at the shabby village. He said indifferently, “Ye Yihao may be rushing towards us. Would you like to leave as soon as possible, or enter this village and look around for a bit?”

“Let’s head in and have a look,” said Chu Li, rubbing his chin.

“This village is very strange. I also think that we can go in and inspect it for a bit. Maybe we’ll discover something.” Xue Moyan agreed.

“What about you guys?” He Wei looked at Qin Lie and Du Xiangyang.

“I’m fine. I’m just going to follow the biggest crowd no matter what. I have no intention of facing that Ye Yihao alone,” Du Xiangyang nonchalantly shrugged.

“With our joined numbers, I do not believe that Ye Yihao and the people of the three great families can do anything to us!” Qin Lie grinned and looked just as unconcerned, “Let’s go in and take a look!”

“What about you, Luo Chen?” He Wei said again.

“I’m fine with whatever.” Luo Chen’s expression was indifferent.

“Then let us go into this strange village and have a look.” He Wei had also become interested.

“Let’s go!”

Therefore, due to the change in movement of the ancient trees, the group of people who passed by the village formed their respective colorful light shields with spirit energy and carefully stepped in.

The village’s limestone floor was filled with dead leaves. It was as thick as snow, reaching all the way up to one’s knees.

The many ebony houses were only one or two stories high. They gave off a simple and crude feeling.

With cautious expressions, the group investigated the many small wooden houses while being on guard against potential danger.

“Creak!”

A wooden house’s doors were pushed open by Du Xiangyang, letting out a creak that suggested it could not bear the heavy force.

Qin Lie followed closely behind.

The wooden chairs and beds inside the house were covered in thick dust. The place had probably been devoid of life for thousands of years.

All furniture appeared to be simple and crude, they could not be considered fine or delicate at all.

It was as if tools used to carve them were an entire era behind those used by the Silver forces of the Land of Chaos.

“There is no life here. There’s nothing at all.” Chu Li’s voice came from a wooden house.

“There’s nothing here as well,” Xue Moyan also said loudly.

“There’s no need to go through them one by one. Let’s just go to the center of the village and see if there is anything unusual. If not, let us leave as soon as possible,” Luo Chen said impatiently.

“Alright,” the group answered him in succession.

The group of people walked out of their respective wooden houses and gathered together once more. They headed straight into the deeper areas of the village.

“Sha sha sha!”

There were only the sounds of their feet pressing against dried tree leaves inside the silent village.

“The front! Look in front!” He Wei screamed.

The group looked towards the indicated direction.

There was a stone well and a floor of corpses at the center of the village.

Those corpses obviously did not belong to humankind.

They had gray brown skin and their bodies were as dry as logs. Upon closer inspection, it was as if the trees had suddenly grown consciousness and turned from tree trunks into humanoid beings.

These corpses had four limbs and a head just like a human being. However, they felt like wooden sculptures.

Were they wooden men?

“They are clansmen of the Wood Race. The Wood Race is an ancient race of forest elves. They are highly intellectual and capable of cultivation just like us. However, they can only cultivate the power of wood,” Xue Moyan explained in a soft voice.

The Wood Race?

A bolt of inspiration suddenly flashed past Qin Lie’s mind. A blurry memory gradually grew clearer in his head.

It was a memory related to the Wood Race…

He did not say anything. Instead, while frowning and narrowing his eyes, he slowly combed through the memory in his mind.

He didn’t know why, but he had subconsciously taken out the wooden sculpture his grandfather left him from the spatial ring as he watched the Wood Race corpses.

Li Mu once told him that he had seen a corpse covered in mist from the memory of a person condensed into a Memory Fragment Crystal. There was also an identical wooden sculpture beside that corpse.

Li Mu could not identify the corpse’s face, nor did he know where the corpse was. He only saw the wooden sculpture clearly.

The wooden sculpture in Qin Lie’s hand suddenly lit up!

He hadn’t combed through the memories of the Wood Race completely, but he could clearly sense that there was something causing the change of his wooden sculpture in the nearest wooden house beside the stone well at the front!

Everyone noticed the abnormal change on Qin Lie.

“Qin Lie, you?” Chu Li asked him with wide open eyes.

Qin Lie looked at the wooden house beside the stone well and walked step by step towards it with an intimidating look in his eyes.

Everyone in the group was staring at him with shock.

……

Chapter 465: Demon Sealing Tombstone!

The wooden sculpture in Qin Lie’s hand had started up a couple of times before. Once, it was in the Nether Realm when he first met Ku Luo of the Horned Demon Race.

It was caused by another wooden sculpture in Ku Luo’s possession.

The other time was when he saw the white bone nether spirit altar at the back of Herb Mountain. He had obtained the Nine Hells Evil Scripture and a soul message from another member of the evil races that time.

This was the third time.

The sculpture was emanating with dark wood-colored light. It wasn’t especially bright, but it was very eye-catching.

It was a thing inside the wooden house beside the old well that triggered the change in the wooden sculpture.

Qin Lie’s footsteps quickened!

Chu Li, Luo Chen and Du Xiangyang chased after him.

Stepping over many wood clan corpses, Qin Lie charged into the wooden house and smashed the doors open.

A person who absolutely shouldn’t have shown up at this place suddenly entered Qin Lie’s eyes—it was Xie Jingxuan!

On the bed inside the shabby wooden house, Xie Jingxuan, dressed in white, sat alone like a ghost.

The voodoo toxin in her body obviously hadn’t fully dissipated yet. Black tendrils still remained within her pupils.

But she was still hanging on to life!

Not only was she alive, she was even gripping a wooden sculpture that was a size smaller, but exactly identical to the one he had in his hand!

This shocked Qin Lie greatly.

However, just when Qin Lie was about to question her, Xie Jingxuan suddenly charged at him from the bed like a beam of cold light.

A cold and immense energy that was filled with the refined scent of plants enveloped the entire wooden house.

In the next instant, a terrifying feeling of being entangled tightly by thousands of vines enveloped Qin Lie. The shackling power made even his breathing difficult.

Since when did Xie Jingxuan possess such a terrifying power?

Qin Lie looked at her in utter shock.

Black and white spots appeared deep within Xie Jingxuan’s dark gray pupils. A blank expression appeared on her face.

It was as if she didn’t recognize him at all.

Just when Qin Lie was about to cry out, Xie Jingxuan forcefully snatched the wooden sculpture tightly gripped in his hand and turned blurry.

A cold and white mist spread eerily throughout the entire wooden house. Qin Lie could feel the invisible vines shackling him swiftly dissipating inside the room.

Qin Lie soon recovered a short while later. The white mist inside the room had also dissipated.

Xie Jingxuan had vanished as well.

There was an open window beside the wooden bed. It seemed to be the path where she left from.

All of this had happened in the blink of an eye. It was so quick that Qin Lie did not even manage to react or let out a cry of shock.

When Chu Li, Luo Chen, Xue Moyan and the others had come over and walked into the wooden house, they neither saw anything nor noticed anything amiss.

They only saw Qin Lie’s pale face and the huge shock in his eyes. He appeared to have been greatly shocked by something.

“What is it?” Song Tingyu came in and asked gently.

“Who do you think I saw just now?” Qin Lie’s expression was odd to the extreme.

“Who was it?”

“Xie Jingxuan.”

“Ah?!”

Song Tingyu covered her mouth and exclaimed softly, “She’s… she’s still alive? How did she manage to hold out after being infected by the voodoo toxin for so long?”

He Wei had also cried out in surprise, “She was already about to collapse when I last saw her. Logically speaking, she should’ve died a long time ago.” She was also wrought in disbelief.

Meanwhile, Xue Moyan and the rest of the people looked confused by the situation.

“Not only is she alive, she even hid in this wooden house on purpose and waited for my arrival while holding the wooden sculpture. The second I walked in, she shackled me with a great power and immobilized me in an instant. After she snatched the wooden sculpture from my hands, she then escaped through that window!” Qin Lie sucked in a deep breath and exclaimed, “I dare not say if she is still the Xie Jingxuan I know. The aura she unleashed and that immense power was absolutely far greater than her peak form!”

“Just what on earth happened to her?” Song Tingyu was incredibly shocked.

“Why didn’t you go after her?” Chu Li asked.

“Go after her?” Qin Lie smiled bitterly, “I know I can’t catch up to her. The reason she lured me with the wooden sculpture was for the wooden sculpture I possessed. I’m confused as to what happened and I want to know what happened to her as well. I want to know if the… current her is still the real her!”

The group fell into a momentary silence.

While frowning deeply, Qin Lie carefully inspected everything inside the wooden house to see if there was anything out of the ordinary.

Ultimately, he retreated in helplessness.

According to He Wei’s explanation, Xie Jingxuan had been deeply infected by the voodoo toxin earlier. The voodoo toxin would absorb her soul and life energy every second until she was empty and passed away.

Taking timeline into consideration, there was no way for Xie Jingxan to survive up to this point if a miracle hadn’t happened.

But now that he met her again, Qin Lie discovered that she was still fine despite still being infected with the voodoo toxin.

It was as if Xie Jingxuan had a huge amount of life and soul energy to be expended.

“The Wood Race, the Wood Race,…”

He recalled the memory that had appeared in his mind when he experienced the flashback earlier and carefully combed through it again.

At the same time, after he walked out of the wooden house, he summoned the blank tombstone from his spatial ring with a thought.

The tombstone containing seven bolts of rainbow light instantly appeared in front of the group, causing everyone’s faces to change instantly.

“This tombstone came from the God Corpse’s bellybutton. It is said to be related to the Graveyard of Gods.” Qin Lie explained, “The seven divine lights inside the tombstone are probably related to the other seven God Corpses, and this tombstone… had been in Luo Chen’s possession for a short time. Then, it had flown towards me on its own and even led me to the Fire Qilin’s body at in the Land of Fire…”

For the first time, he explained everything that had happened after he discovered the God Corpse, how he obtained it from Jiang Tianxing and how he lost and recovered it later. He also explained blank tombstone’s powers.

He looked towards the group and asked, “Does any one of you know anything relating to the Graveyard of Gods and this tombstone?”

He observed everyone’s faces one by one.

He saw doubt and confusion on Luo Chen’s face, and he saw indescribable surprise on Du Xiangyang and He Wei’s faces as well.

It was obvious that these people did not know anything about the tombstone and the Graveyard of Gods.

Qin Lie then looked at Chu Li.

Chu Li was rubbing his chin while his eyes shone with the light of ponderment. He seemed to be sorting out the thoughts in his mind.

Meanwhile, the translucent eyes of Illusory Demon Sect’s Xue Moyan were shining with many crisscrossing lights. It was as if there were many secrets contained behind them.

She knew something about this!

Qin Lie’s expression changed, and he put all of his attention on Xue Moyan. As his eyes grew brighter and brighter, he exclaimed, “I have taken out the tombstone and showed you my sincerity. What do you know about the Graveyard of Gods and the tombstone?”

After the wooden sculpture he left behind had been snatched away by Xie Jingxuan in an odd fashion, a huge seed of doubt grew inside Qin Lie’s heart.

He desperately wanted to know what kind of secrets were hidden in the Graveyard of Gods and the tombstone.

Right now, he felt like a headless fly flying around without aim or purpose throughout the Graveyard of Gods. He felt as if he was trapped in a thick mist, completely baffled by the sudden developments around him.

While Xue Moyan was still hesitating, the seven brilliant rainbows inside the blank tombstone standing in front of Qin Lie began to twist and turn like a snake.

Imposing magical energy abruptly spread out.

“Glug glug! Glug glug!”

An odd sound of water flowing came from inside the stone well surrounded by the Wood Race corpses.

The stone well actually contained water!

The people closest to the stone well immediately looked at it. Qin Lie was among them.

Inside the stone well, the dark green water was bubbling as if it was being boiled.

After the bubbles popped, they released a grass-green mist that floated up and filled the air around the well.

This energy was full of life and natural, refreshing aura of refined wood. This green-colored mist was spreading towards them.

“The ageless spring, also known as the Spring of Life, can replenish one’s life energy and greatly increase one’s lifespan.” Xue Moyan suddenly spoke up, “The reason that Xie Jingxuan managed to hold out until now after she was infected by the voodoo toxin was probably because she drank from this Spring of Life. It maintained her life force at a peak state, and since the rate at which her life was dissipating was slower than the rate at which her life was replenished, she was able to survive until now…”

“The Spring of Life!” Chu Li’s eyes lit up.

Luo Chen and Du Xiangyang immediately became spirited as well.

“Sister Xue, the holy medicine you’re looking for is the spring water of the Spring of Life, am I right?” Pan Qianqian asked.

“Correct. The reason I came to the examination is because I hoped to find the Spring of Life.” Xue Moyan was lost in thought as she stared at the stone well beside her and frowned, “However, it would seem that the spring water of this Spring of Life has been tainted. There seems to be something polluted inside the well.”

“What is it?” The group of people attempted to make heads or tails of the situation.

“Swoosh swoosh swoosh!”

Inside the tombstone, the seven dazzling bolts of divine light began to twist madly like chains.

The picture of a sapling vaguely appeared on the tombstone’s smooth surface. The sapling shook continuously as if it was trying to struggle out of its bindings, but the chains formed by the seven godly lights kept it firmly shackled.

“The wood spirit inside the Demon Sealing Tombstone is changing! Ye Yihao is about to arrive!” Xue Moyan’s face was filled with severity.

“Wood spirit? Demon Sealing Tombstone?” After a surprised pause, Qin Lie exclaimed, “Just how much did you know?”

“I didn’t think that you would have the Demon Sealing Tombstone.” Chu Li also sighed.

“What did you know?” Luo Chen also exclaimed.

“Chu Li!” He Wei yelled angrily.

Chu Li and Xue Moyan matched each other’s eyes before Chu Li spoke, “We do know something about the secrets of the Graveyard of Gods and the Trial. Once we’ve dealt with Ye Yihao’s attack, we will tell you everything we know.”

“Alright!” Qin Lie snorted.

“Withdraw the Demon Sealing Tombstone first! During the short time you exposed the tombstone, the wood spirit had probably sensed it already. Quickly!” Xue Moyan urged him.

Qin Lie looked at Chu Li. He trusted him.

“Listen to her!” Chu Li yelled.

Only then did Qin Lie withdrew the blank tombstone.

“Now we can only for Ye Yihao’s arrival. He will be very happy to know that there is the Spring of Life here.” Xue Moyan sighed quietly.

Both her and Chu Li obviously knew a bit more than the rest about the Graveyard of Gods and the Trial. However, they did not immediately explain its secrets, so Qin Lie and the others were still completely clueless.

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Chapter 466: Wood Spirit

There was only a single stone well at the center of the numerous Wood Race corpses that were as dry as rotten wood. The dark green water in the well was currently boiling up and bubbling.

Every time a bubble burst, wisps of grass green smoke seeped out and filled the air with the refreshing scent of plants and life.

Everyone was gathered around the stone well.

Qin Lie looked down and noticed that the dark green water inside the well was filled with black-and-white spots.

They were exactly the same as the spots that appeared deep inside Xie Jingxuan’s pupils.

This caused Qin Lie to experience a strong feeling of oddness—did these black-and-white spots appear because Xie Jingxuan drank from the well?

What did these black-and-white spots mean?

He realized that he had far too many questions during his journey in the Graveyard of Gods. He, Luo Chen, He Wei and Du Xiangyang obviously lacked basic understanding about the Graveyard of Gods.

“Pak pak pak!”

The sounds of destroyed wooden houses gradually came from afar. The people beside the stone well were all paying attention to their surroundings.

“There are a lot of trees that are moving towards this village.”

Du Xiangyang stood on the rooftop of a wooden house and was looking into the distance. His face was riddled with surprise.

The group jumped atop taller houses one after another and looked into the distance with narrowed eyes.

Many black and densely packed trees slowly filled up the village. It was as if the forest itself was slowly shifting towards them.

Among them, the biggest ancient tree was over a hundred meters tall. It had lush leaves and branches, and it was moving across the ground like a little hill.

It was coming at them at top speed!

“That’s the wood spirit!” Xue Moyan sucked in a deep breath, “Ye Yihao probably communicated with the ancient trees of this forest through the wood spirit. If the wood spirit is here, so is Ye Yihao!”

“Wood spirit?” Qin Lie’s eyes were filled with confusion.

“It is an ancient tree that was worshipped and gifted faith by the Wood Race for over ten thousand years as their god. Gradually, the ancient tree gained intelligence and a blurry consciousness of its own. It evolved to have a wood spirit body and was called a wood spirit from that point onward.” While composing her words, Xue Moyan explained slowly, “The Fire Qilin you saw at the Land of Fire is the fire spirit.”

“I still don’t really understand.” Qin Lie shook his head.

“It’s hard to explain in such a short time.” Xue Moyan was also helpless, “Let’s wait until we’ve dealt with Ye Yihao.”

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

Many big, ancient trees swiftly approached the crowd’s location as tree leaves were scattered everywhere.

Ye Yihao appeared on top of the tallest ancient tree. His body has been pierced with countless tree branches that were so green they looked like they would ooze color. A small tree’s imprint flashed on top of his forehead, and his eyes shone with a strange green luster.

The refreshing scent of plants emerged from the ancient trees from every direction and spread throughout the entire village.

“Glug glug! Glug glug!”

The water in the stone well behind Qin Lie boiled even stronger and bubbled non-stop.

“We meet again.” Ye Yihao let out an odd grin and laughed.

Lin Dongxing, Xiahou Yuan, Su Yan and the martial practitioners of the three great families appeared one after another from behind the ancient trees. They all looked spirited and recovered.

“How many of you were killed by the Tree God?” Ye Yihao laughed brashly.

Luo Chen and Xue Moyan’s faces turned green.

“You think that you can dominate the Graveyard of Gods just because you formed a contract with the wood spirit and controlled this forest?” Xue Moyan bit her teeth and fished out the Illusory Demon Orb.

“Maybe I can’t dominate the Graveyard of Gods, but at the very least I can fully unleash my powers inside this forest!” Ye Yihao said confidently.

He tore off the shirt on his chest and revealed the Eight-winged Centipede Queen nested around his heart. Beneath his translucent skin, the Eight-winged Centipede Queen’s eight wings had reconnected with its main body and made the creature appear as if it had never taken any damage.

“Bzz zzz zzz!”

The voodoo insect within Ye Yihao’s skin and flesh whistled shrilly, seemingly howling and explaining something madly to Ye Yihao.

Ye Yihao listened closely to its words.

At the same time, the ancient tree imprint before his forehead twisted fiercely as if it was issuing orders to its subordinates.

Ye Yihao’s eyes focused onto Qin Lie, and his face was riddled with shock, “The one who broke my queen’s wings is you. The one who holds the Demon Sealing Tombstone is also you!”

Through the voodoo insect and wood spirit, Ye Yihao seemed to know everything.

“Just who is this guy?” Xiahou Yuan’s bald head was shiny, “He was the one who caused the massive change in the lava pond at the Land of Fire. He used the Demon Sealing Tombstone to forcefully pull out the Fire Qilin’s body from the depths of the lava pond!”

“Who knows!?” Lin Dongxing snorted.

“Qin Lie, if you see Ye Yihao weakening and find an opening, remember to release the Demon Sealing Tombstone and seal the wood spirit!” Chu Li suddenly messaged Qin Lie, “Just like how you sealed the fire spirit earlier and sucked the Fire Qilin into the Demon Sealing Tombstone!”

Sealing the fire spirit? Sealing the wood spirit? The Demon Sealing Tombstone?

Qin Lie slowly figured out the key points from these bits of words. He understood that the Demon Sealing Tombstone he owned existed to seal the strange spirit bodies inside the Graveyard of Gods.

The Fire Qilin was the fire spirit, and this ancient tree that could control trees was the wood spirit.

Were there other spirit bodies then?

As if noticing the doubt in his mind, Chu Li explained again, “If my information is correct, there are seven such spirit bodies in the Graveyard of Gods…”

Seven spirit bodies?

Was this what the seven divine rainbow lights inside the Demon Sealing Tombstone meant?

“It is incredible that you guys managed to find the Spring of Life’s location, but unfortunately you are unable to drink it the way it is right now.”

Ye Yihao looked at Xue Moyan, clicked his tongue, and said, “Xue Moyan, the holy medicine you sought inside the Graveyard of Gods was probably the Spring of Life, wasn’t it? Heh, if you can drink a pure portion of the spring of life then maybe you’d really be able to live longer. But now…”

Ye Yihao shook his head and laughed derisively, “You are just wasting your time.”

“Sister Xue, wh-what did he just say?” Pan Qianqian exclaimed in surprise.

Another Illusory Demon Sect girl also turned pale with surprise as she exclaimed, “Sister Xue, what’s the relationship between the Spring of Life and your life?”

Huang Zhuli was the only one who did not seem surprised. She seemed to know about the inner details.

Luo Chen, Chu Li, and the others also wore confused looks on their faces.

But Qin Lie understood his meaning.

The problem that confounded Xue Moyan was her lifespan. She had expended too much of it inside her mother’s womb, which led to her being born with a life force that was almost depleted.

The Spring of Life could replenish one’s life force. As long as she drank even a portion of it, she would be able to extend her life and truly live.

This was the reason she entered the Graveyard of Gods.

“Before I die, I will take revenge for Little Wan and the others. I will do my best to kill as many Black Voodoo Cult people as possible, and you.”

“You stand no chance,” Ye Yihao said arrogantly.

“I don’t understand what you guys are talking about, and I’m not interested in listening further!” Luo Chen had gotten impatient.

A cold and bright crescent moon formed from a sword beam suddenly fell from the sky like a dazzling disc.

Luo Chen’s back straightened, and like a sword that had exited its sheath, his body immediately overflowed with sword will.

Then, a wisp of silvery sword light rose right into the air with amazing force like a fire beacon.

The sword ray transformed in midair and formed crescent moons one after another.

“Seven Moon Slash!”

Seven cold crescent moons crashed down upon Ye Yihao like countless shiny wheels that were emanating with deadly sword intent that could cut the sky and shatter the earth itself.

Thousands of silver sword beams fell like rain from the sky onto the ancient trees that were everywhere.

“Crack crack!”

Many ancient trees were broken and blasted away by the sword rain’s rainbow ray impact.

“Heh, as expected of Luo Chen. You truly are impressive.” Ye Yihao praised him before censuring him, “However, this is my domain!”

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

At the ancient tree he was on, the thin, long tree branches that were as green as jade were glowing with the luster of gemstones.

Wisps of visible green energy flowed through every tree branch and looked astonishingly like the spirit energy in a human’s body.

A great and invincible dark green energy instantly enveloped the surrounding area like a dome of light screen.

The sword rain fell on the dark green light screen and exploded into many dazzling explosions, but they were unable to break through the green light screen.

“Break the walls!” Chu Li yelled.

Xue Moyan, Du Xiangyang, He Wei, and the others all unleashed their spirit weapons and attempted to destroy the green wall formed by the ancient tree and damage Ye Yihao himself.

However, there was one person who was faster than all of them!

A white light streaked by, and a person appeared out of nowhere and stabbed fiercely at the green wall while using a wooden sculpture as a spear.

It was Xie Jingxuan yet again!

“Jingxuan!”

Song Tingyu abruptly cried out.

He Wei also wore a look of surprise as she stared disbelievingly at the Xie Jingxuan who had appeared out of nowhere like a ghost.

Besides Qin Lie, only Song Tingyu and He Wei were familiar with Xie Jingxuan and knew that her True Soul was infected with the voodoo toxin, and that she could be killed by it at any moment.

When Qin Lie said earlier that Xie Jingxuan was not only alive, but filled with extraordinary strength, both Song Tingyu and He Wei were frankly half believing and half doubtful of his words.

Now, however, they believed him completely.

Xie Jingxuan’s soft and jade-like hands were gripping a wooden sculpture each, and a careful glance would reveal that her palms had turned dark green. The nerves and blood vessels beneath her skin were also green and were like delicate tree branches.

While gripping the wooden sculptures and stabbing them fiercely at the green wall, rays of green light blossomed from her whole body like a peacock spreading its tail.

She was as dazzling as a green sun!

The two wooden sculptures seemed to have turned into the sharpest spears in the world and displayed an unbelievable amount of elegance.

The tip of the wooden sculpture, the place where the piece of wood was carved into the shape of Qin Shan’s head, stabbed powerfully against the green light screen formed by the ancient tree.

“Rip!”

Two narrow and long cracks instantly split open at the thick and solid green wall like it was a thin film.

“Pak pak pak!”

The many green and tender tree branches of the ancient trees instantly exploded and shattered into smithereens like jade stones on the floor.

Ye Yihao was currently enshrouded by the ancient tree’s lush leaves and branches. The distinct small tree imprint on Ye Yihao’s forehead suddenly turned dim.

Ye Yihao’s face had obviously paled a little as well.

“Lowly servant! How dare you act savagely even after you’ve been infected by the voodoo toxin!” Ye Yihao yelled harshly.

“Bzz zzz zzz!”

The Eight-winged Centipede Queen lying around his heart suddenly howled angrily. The shrill whistles pierced through everyone’s ear drums like a bladed weapon.

Even those who were not poisoned by the voodoo toxin felt their scalp crawl and were unable to hear anything around them for a time.

Xie Jingxuan, who took out the ancient tree’s green wall with a single strike suddenly bled from all seven apertures and looked absolutely horrible to the extreme.

The voodoo toxin was still inside her True Soul, and even if she had acquired a sudden burst of godly power and strength, she could not completely escape the voodoo toxin’s eroding effects.

Naturally, there was a unique and fearful reason the why Black Voodoo Cult’s ancient voodoo art, their signature voodoo toxin, was famed throughout the entire Land of Chaos and stuck terror in many people.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

The wood spirit that had wrapped around Ye Yihao with its tree leaves began to shake its trunk violently, causing its branches to shake wildly.

Ye Yihao’s eyes abruptly concentrated at the stone well behind the group.

“Glug glug! Glug glug!”

Inside the stone well, the spring water of the Spring of Life boiled violently like it was being boiled.

“Good! Very good! The spring water of the Spring of Life has begun its purification process under the effects of the Demon Sealing Tombstone!” Ye Yihao opened his mouth and laughed loudly, “That pollution should’ve been purified and kept from causing trouble a long time ago!”

Qin Lie turned his head to look behind himself.

The dark green Spring of Life inside the stone well was bubbling non-stop.

A bubble burst, and a thin wisp of wood green smoke seeped out and hovered about two meters above the well.

There was nothing unusual if one were to look at them with their eyes. However, when Qin Lie attempted to sense it with his own soul consciousness, he discovered that the thin smoke floating above the well was filled with fragment souls and shattered thoughts.

The tiny black and white spots inside the well seemed to be decreasing as the well continued to boil up.

The black and white spots were the pollution Xue Moyan and Ye Yihao were speaking of. Those black and white spots had also appeared deep within Xie Jingxuan’s pupils earlier.

Qin Lie couldn’t help but feel that they shared a connection with each other.

“The Wood Race, the Spring of Life, the pollution, the purification, the cleansing…”

The words flashed across his mind one after another as he frowned deeply while pondering. He was attempting to sort out a memory that had suddenly entered his mind.

“Kill Ye Yihao!” Luo Chen called loudly.

Chu Li, Xue Moyan and Du Xiangyang all rushed towards that direction.

“Kill them all!” Ye Yihao also issued his order.

Xiahou Yuan, Lin Dongxing, Su Yan and the rest of the martial practitioners of the three great families also charged out from behind the ancient trees to cut off the crowd.

Colorful spirit light barriers, dazzling but harsh lightning, and countless magical and exquisite spirit artifacts filled the air for a time.

A bitter battle between Qin Lie and Ye Yihao was drawn in an instant.

“Qin Lie! Don’t forget to find a chance to seal the wood spirit with the Demon Sealing Tombstone!” Chu Li did not forget to message Qin Lie again even in battle.

At the same time, everyone around him including Song Tingyu had participated in the battle.

While standing beside the stone well and staring at the floor of Wood Race corpses around it, he frowned deeply and crouched on the ground. He stretched a hand and touched the closest corpse beside him.

He touched the corpse’s arm.

The arm was like rotten, wilted wood, devoid of any luster or green color at all. It was gray, dry, and very dead.

It was as if something had extracted all of its life force and energy.

The corpse’s eyes sockets were sunken, and its entire being gave off the impression of despair, anger and fear. It was as if this person had gone through something horrific while they were still alive.

“The Spring of Life!”

An inspiration flashed across his mind and sent a shudder through Qin Lie’s body. Suddenly, the memory became clear in his head.

It was a memory relating to the Wood Race!

He looked at the giant ancient tree wrapping around Ye Yihao and said suddenly with a dark face, “The Spring of Life inside this well had originated from the surrounding Wood Race clansmen’s life essences. They were refined alive and all of their life force and energy were extracted to form the Spring of Life inside this well!”

“Hehe, it looks like you know quite a lot, don’t you kid?” Ye Yihao chuckled strangely.

Tree branches that were like long spears and sharp blades shining with a green and exuberant luster swung all around where Ye Yihao was to create a sky full of green light and shadow, whipping at Xue Moyan and Luo Chen.

He was obviously borrowing the wood spirit’s strength.

He was no longer met with any danger that came close to the time when Xie Jingxuan shattered the wood spirit’s green wall with a single strike and damaged both him and the wood spirit.

Despite Xue Moyan, Chu Li and Luo Chen’s ferocious attacks, they were actually unable to get close to him at all. They were unable to charge through the lush bushes and land a solid strike on him.

He appeared to be far more collected than anyone else in the area.

The Wood Race was a powerful race of the ancient times, and they were well-versed with the spirit energy of wood.

It was rumored that there was an ancient Ancient Life Tree standing between heaven and earth, and the Wood Race was a highly intellectual race that had relied on the Ancient Life Tree to evolve to what they were.

Every Wood Race clansman addressed the Ancient Life Tree deferentially as “Mother.” It was said that the emerald green leaves of the Ancient Life Tree formed the Spring of Life after they were squeezed into juice.

The Spring of Life contained life energy, and they could replenish a living creature’s life energy and extend their lifespan greatly.

Besides that, the life energy contained within the Spring of Life could literally raise the dead and rob the world’s very own fortune.

Legend said that as long as a living creature still had a breath of air left in their lungs, then no matter how severe the damage to their physical body, they could be saved by the Spring of Life.

The Spring of Life was the Wood Race’s panacea in ancient times!

Normally speaking, the Spring of Life was created by plucking the tree leaves of the Ancient Life Tree and squeezing them into juice.

However, after a long time passed and countless racial wars, clansmen of the Wood Race became extremely rare, and even the Ancient Life Tree’s very existence was questionable.

It was gradually growing impossible to obtain a Spring of Life through this method.

Therefore, a second method had appeared…

The Wood Race clansmen who were of high realm and pure blood could obtain energy from the Ancient Life Tree and strengthen themselves continuously while cultivating wood spirit energy.

A small amount of the Spring of Life would remain inside their blood. By using some extreme methods and refining them alive to their deaths, it was possible to obtain the Spring of Life from their blood.

There was a flaw to this method, however—the Spring of Life they obtained this way was not pure.

The Wood Race clansmen were high level living creatures after all. They had intelligence, and they had souls and memories. There were fragment thoughts and souls inside their very own blood.

Just like how Jiang Zhuzhe and the others would absorb impurities when they drank another person’s blood to cultivate the Blood Spirit Art, the Spring of Life obtained from a Wood Race member’s blood after refinement would contain such impurities as well.

These so-called impurities were in actuality the wood clansmen’s unyielding soul fragment and will!

These black and white spots were these impurities.

If they could not be purified completely, the person who drank the Spring of Life directly would be affected by the unyielding will and soul fragments contained inside the blood of the wood clansmen who were cruelly refined to death.

Xie Jingxuan had obviously drank the tainted Spring of Life after being driven to a dead end by the voodoo toxin. Therefore, she was corrupted by the wood clansmen’s soul fragments and will.

“Kid, the Demon Sealing Tombstone in your hands can purify the pollution inside the Spring of Life! Heh, the well water boiled because the wood clansmen’s remaining wills were being purified, and when the Spring of Life in this well was purified and absorbed by the Tree God, it will have this tiny bit of chance to evolve into a Ancient Life Tree!” Ye Yihao grinned and laughed loudly, “And I will be able to acquire a breakthrough speed unmatchable by any man alive through the Tree God!”

“These wood clansmen who were refined to death were actually the deeds of your so-called Tree God, weren’t they?” Qin Lie smiled coldly.

“If the Tree God wants to walk out of this forbidden area of the wood, if the Tree God wants to walk out of the Graveyard of Gods, then it must do so!” Ye Yihao’s expression was cruel, “The seven great spirit bodies and eight God Corpses have suppressed and sealed the Graveyard of Gods for far, far too long. Now that its entrance has been discovered, and we have entered into the Graveyard of Gods, this place is no longer the peaceful place it once was. The seven great spirit bodies have long since lost their obligation to continue suppressing this place!”

After he had formed a contract with the wood spirit, Ye Yihao had an understanding of the Graveyard of Gods that far exceeded everyone else.

“The Tree God and I are connected by soul now. It will not be as easy as you think if you wish to seal the Tree God with the Demon Sealing Tombstone!” Ye Yihao grinned sinisterly, “Even worse for you is that you are in the forbidden area of wood! Here, the Tree God and I are the real masters!”

“Ooooo!”

While the duo were speaking, Xue Jingxuan howled in pain in a low tone while still gripping the two wooden sculptures and pressing the back of her hand against her forehead.

Her life and soul energy were being swiftly extracted.

No matter how powerful she was, she could not avoid the voodoo toxin’s erosion as long as the voodoo toxin was still in effect and the Eight-winged Centipede Queen was screeching shrilly.

This was especially true when she was so close to the voodoo insect.

The voodoo toxin was far scarier than the Wood Race clansmen’s soul fragments that had invaded her mind!

“Qin Lie! Cure her with a drop of voodoo insect blood!” Chu Li messaged him.

Qin Lie’s spirit shook at the thought.

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