Spirit Realm Chapter 547-548

Chapter 547: Shatter

Qin Lie’s True Soul entered the Blood Progenitor’s mind.

While the Demon Sealing Tombstone worked to intimidate and suppress Jiang Zhuzhe, Qin Lie was examining the sanguine soul pagoda within the Blood Progenitor’s sea of consciousness.

The seven-level soul pagoda quietly sat on the surface of the boundless sea of blood. It resembled a majestic mountain glowing with dazzling bloody light.

“A soul pagoda?”

Qin Lie’s soul materialized into an indistinct, floating silhouette that slowly made its way to the top of the pagoda.

A bloody bone fragment could be seen floating atop the pagoda. The moment Qin Lie’s soul flew up to it, the bloody threads of light spread throughout all of the Blood Progenitor’s sea of consciousness lit up.

Suddenly, a powerful force of attraction erupted from the top of the soul pagoda, and Qin Lie’s soul miraculously entered it like a fish diving into the sea.

A miraculous feeling instantly came over him, one in which he shared an unfathomable intimate connection with the Blood Progenitor’s body. However, his soul energy was also depleting at a ridiculously fast rate!

It was as if he had put on a precious blood treasure—he could unleash its might, but he would rapidly exhaust his blood energy in order to do so.

“Boom!”

The Blood Progenitor’s eyes, which had been closed all this time, opened, glittering with bloody light.

Within them… Qin Lie’s expression took shape.

With his soul inside of the Blood Progenitor’s soul pagoda, Qin Lie took control of the Blood Progenitor’s body and appeared to the world as the Blood Progenitor himself.

Just like how the Viridian Blood Toad, the first voodoo creature, controlled the Voodoo Progenitor’s body.

Qin Lie could feel his soul energy swiftly depleting and see his own body sitting in front of him, lifeless..

This made him feel incredibly strange.

He attempted to channel the Blood Spirit Art.

Seemingly endless wisps of blood energy, so refined and potent that they felt stifling, began surging out of the sea of blood within the Blood Progenitor’s dantian.

“Fwoosh!”

Like a viscous river of blood, a lengthy bloody light suddenly wrapped around Qin Lie’s actual body.

The river of blood flowed toward Song Tingyu and the others like a bloody rainbow. As it did, Qin Lie yelled in a hoarse voice.

“Watch over my body for me!”

All of them were stunned.

They stared at the Blood Progenitor with shock, anxiety, and confusion in their eyes.

They had no idea what in Spirit Realm was going on.

“The Blood Progenitor… he opened his eyes and spoke? H-he told us to watch over Qin Lie’s body?” Pan Qianqian exclaimed, covering her mouth in shock. “What’s wrong with Qin Lie?”

“The Blood Progenitor woke up?” Du Xiangyang trembled.

“No! That isn’t the Blood Progenitor!” Xue Moyan blurted out, shaking with realization. “That’s Qin Lie! His soul has taken control of the Blood Progenitor’s body!”

“What!?” Song Tingyu cried. “Qin Lie… is currently the Blood Progenitor?”

“It’s Qin Lie!” Xue Moyan said confidently. “Just like how the ice spirit took over Jia Yue and the Viridian Blood Toad controls the Voodoo Progenitor’s body, Qin Lie is inside of the Blood Progenitor’s body right now!”

“That’s correct,” Qin Lie exclaimed through the Blood Progenitor’s body. “I’m Qin Lie. Watch over my body!”

As he spoke, the bloody rainbow gently delivered Qin Lie’s actual body to them.

Still in a sitting position, it landed in front of Song Tingyu. Aside from the fact that no soul fluctuations could be sensed from it, it looked perfectly normal.

This astounded Song Tingyu, and she hurriedly pulled Qin Lie’s body into her embrace. She enveloped it with her shield of light and kept a close eye on it.

At the same time, the bewildered gazes of the rest of the group were locked on to the Blood Progenitor’s body.

“Swoosh swoosh swoosh!”

Seven godly chains whipped through the air, repeatedly striking Jiang Zhuzhe like serpentine dragons or enormous pythons.

Having transformed into a demon, Jiang Zhuzhe executed exquisite, earth-shakingly powerful secret arts of Blood Fiend Sect, constantly struggling and retaliating against the godly chains of light. Bloody lights shot from his body and rocketed into the sky.

Countless runes poured down onto Jiang Zhuzhe’s body, continuously channeling the Demon Sealing Tombstone’s terrifying restrictive power onto him.

However, it wasn’t enough to silence and bind him. He seemed a lot stronger than any of the seven spirits had been.

“Boom boom boom! Bang bang bang!”

The Graveyard of Gods continued to violently collapse as the Demon Sealing Tombstone went on its sealing rampage. Terrifying spatial rifts could be seen in the depths of the dark, gray clouds in the sky. Beautiful flowing lights of spatial energy shone from inside of them.

Seven types of potent spirit energy surged out of the fissures that kept tearing open the earth. The icy mountains in the surroundings fell apart one after another.

It was clear to everyone that since six of the seven spirits had been sealed and the six forbidden lands continued to explode, the Graveyard of Gods would soon cease to exist.

“Bloodthirsty Dragon!”

Qin Lie’s roar suddenly resounded from deep within the cold, desolate plain. The Bloodthirsty Dragon suddenly materialized in a burst of fiendish blood aura.

Qin Lie, in the Blood Progenitor’s body, sat atop the bloody bone dragon’s head as it howled and charged at Jiang Zhuzhe, a turbulent sea of blood taking shape around it.

“Blublublub!”

Bloody lights quickly shot from that bubbling sea of blood, flying high up into the air. It seemed as if thousands of bloody dragons had charged out of a bloody abyss, biting and clawing toward Jiang Zhuzhe.

Inhabiting the Blood Progenitor’s body, Qin Lie pulled at the air with both hands and conjured countless bloody lights, sending them flying downward like cutting blades.

“Zzzt zzzt zzzt!”

The surroundings grew more and more volatile as starlight gushed from bloody spatial tears that Qin Lie suddenly created.

A terrifying, fiendish bloody claw as large as a mountain grasped at Jiang Zhuzhe..

The Demon Sealing Tombstone seized the opportunity to shoot multiple dazzling godly lights down at almost the exact same time.

Qin Lie and the tombstone seemed to have an unspoken mutual understanding, acting in tandem to kill Jiang Zhuzhe as soon as possible!

“Aaooooooooo!”

Jiang Zhuzhe released an inhuman howl, every bone in his body beginning to break with resounding cracks. A giant bloody shadow filled with insanity, bloodlust, and the desire to destroy and wreak havoc emerged from Jiang Zhuzhe’s body and roared toward the sky. It exuded an aura that made it seem capable of ravaging the world.

This towering blood demon was the culmination of a thousand years of malevolent emotions, all of which belonged to the countless people whose blood Jiang Zhuzhe had devoured.

This was the physical manifestation of Jiang Zhuzhe’s inner demon, the source of his recurring bouts of insanity. This was the evil blood spirit that could take over Jiang Zhuzhe.

Qin Lie’s attack and the Demon Sealing Tombstone’s sealing power surged to heights reminiscent of gigantic mountains, striking this blood demon that gave off an evil aura that reached the sky.

The towering figure of the blood demon ceaselessly struggled, letting out roars that threatened to tear the sky and the earth to pieces. It used its terrifying, destructive blood aura to resist the attacks. Despite the combined efforts of Qin Lie and the Demon Sealing Tombstone, the blood demon would not be easily subdued.

“Jiang Zhuzhe truly is powerful,” Xue Moyan said with a grave expression. “His body hid that blood demon, the physical manifestation of the unyielding emotions of the countless victims that died by his hand. If Jiang Zhuzhe were to completely perfect that blood demon in the future, who knows how powerful he could become?”

“Phweeeeeeeeee!”

A sharp, earsplitting whistle resonated from the Viridian Blood Toad. In the next instant, the body of the Voodoo Progenitor, which had been hiding until now, charged toward the Demon Sealing Tombstone in the form of pitch black light surrounded by waves of toxic miasma.

In this critical moment, the Viridian Blood Toad attacked the Demon Sealing Tombstone it so desperately hated.

“Krik… kr-krak!”

At nearly the same time, a power of absolute frost also appeared in the Land of Buried Gods. A series of strange cracking noises accompanied streams of frost that surged into the open, threatening to freeze space itself.

The spatial rifts that Qin Lie had created using the body of the Blood Progenitor were instantly reduced to strange strips of ice, suspended in midair like thin, long icicles.

Another icy power, both white and vast, suddenly gathered toward the body of the Blood Progenitor.

Streams of frost invaded the sea of blood formed from the fiendish blood aura of the bloody bone dragon, forcing it to quickly freeze over.

The ice spirit attacked from the shadows as well!

Jiang Zhuzhe, the Viridian Blood Toad, and the ice spirit joined forces to resist Qin Lie and the Demon Sealing Tombstone. All three unleashed their power at the same time, intent on shattering the Demon Sealing Tombstone’s restrictive power and its control over the Graveyard of Gods.

“Boom boom boom!”

Thunderclaps reverberated through the air, and numerous ruined palaces in the Land of Buried Gods crumbled in succession.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone was slowly losing its grasp on the Graveyard of Gods.

The Viridian Blood Toad unleashed another sharp whistle, using the Voodoo Progenitor’s body to cover the Demon Sealing Tombstone’s godly light with its ink-black toxic miasma.

The ice spirit’s power of frost made the sea of blood beneath the Blood Progenitor’s body freeze over and forced the Blood Spirit Art that Qin Lie executed to become extremely weak.

“Zzzt zzzt zzzt!”

Long and narrow spatial rifts appeared in the air one after another, visible cracks appearing all throughout the Graveyard of Gods like a breaking mirror.

Everyone could see that with this shocking battle, the space that made up the Graveyard of Gods was on the verge of shattering.

All of the martial practitioners who were still inside of the Graveyard of Gods feared for their lives. They looked to the sky, despair filling their eyes.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

The godly lights shooting from the Demon Sealing Tombstone suddenly changed their target, striking the bodies of the ancient elites that lay around it.

All of the enormous corpses touched by the godly lights instantly turned into streams of energy that the tombstone extracted. The corpses then dissolved into dust.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone was extracting the remaining energy inside all of the ancient corpses!

“Boom!”

A clap of sky-fracturing thunder rang resounded throughout the Graveyard of Gods.

And the space that couldn’t take much more in its shattering state began to explode without end.

Chapter 548: Escape of the God Corpses

The seven forbidden lands maintained the stability of the Graveyard of Gods. They were also closely connected to the seal that restricted entry..

When the six spirits were sealed away, their respective forbidden lands exploding one after another, the balance of the Graveyard of Gods had finally been broken. This independent space within Spirit Realm began shattering to pieces.

The earth shook, and icy mountains collapsed. Spatial rifts appeared in the sky one after another.

Destruction filled every corner of the Graveyard of Gods for a time.

Even the Demon Sealing Tombstone noticed that the situation couldn’t be reversed and withdrew its restrictive power, no longer protecting the Graveyard of Gods. It instead turned its attention to the immense amounts of energy that remained within the bodies of the ancient elites, collecting them for its own use.

“Aaoooooooo!”

The giant shadow of the blood demon emerged from Jiang Zhuzhe’s body and howled angrily at the sky. It continuously attacked the eight dazzling god heads that resembled suns.

The Voodoo Progenitor’s body, which the Viridian Blood Toad occupied, charged toward the Demon Sealing Tombstone, enveloping it with its dense toxic miasma . However, the dazzling godly light shining from the surface of the tombstone quickly dispelled it.

The ice spirit gathered its power of absolute frost and aimed it at Qin Lie. It froze his skyrocketing blood aura and the thick sea of blood.

“Break!” Qin Lie shouted.

His True Soul sat within the Blood Progenitor’s sea of consciousness, crazily channeling the Blood Spirit Art in order to instantly discharge the potent blood energy stored within the Blood Progenitor’s body.

The sound of ice shattering resonated from the sea of blood beneath the bloody bone dragon. Thin wisps of sanguine smoke began to rise from the frozen sea of blood,

Bloody light sparkled in Qin Lie’s eyes, and he suddenly looked at Song Tingyu’s group off in the distance, pondering for a brief moment. Then he gathered blood energy and formed a bloody shield of light, sending it flying toward Song Tingyu and the others like an enormous bloody sphere.

The fiendish sanguine sphere of blood enveloped Song Tingyu, Luo Chen, Xue Moyan, Du Xiangyang, Xie Jingxuan, and Pan Qianqian, protecting all of them.

“Whoosh whoosh!”

A gigantic spatial rift appeared in the sky and expanded, an intense suction force coming from within it. The countless ruined palaces in the Land of Buried Gods were drawn into it.

More and more spatial rifts opened up, reducing the Graveyard of Gods to a state in which it could collapse at any moment.

At the same time, the Demon Sealing Tombstone noticed that the situation had gone awry. It abruptly sent its godly lights downward, enveloping the bodies of ancient elites that lay scattered throughout the desolate plain beneath it.

A wondrous wave of energy resonated from the Demon Sealing Tombstone as if it were calling out to Qin Lie, who shivered as it passed through him.

Qin Lie understood that the Demon Sealing Tombstone was calling out to him.

He immediately realized that the Graveyard of Gods was on the verge of collapse… and that the Demon Sealing Tombstone sought to take him away from here.

The second this realization occurred to him, Qin Lie gestured toward Song Tingyu and the others, continuously making pulling motions with both hands.

“Come!” he exclaimed.

One sphere sparkling with bloody light suddenly became many, individually enveloping Song Tingyu and the others. They shot toward Qin Lie in the Blood Progenitor’s body, gathering by his side in a flash.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone and the eight god heads instantly formed their own shields of light, wrapping them around Qin Lie and the others.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone lifted Qin Lie’s group into the air as its seven godly lights combined to form a miraculous prismatic tunnel. It threw them into the tunnel, twisting into its depths until they vanished entirely.

After Qin Lie’s group entered the tunnel of light, the few bodies of ancient elites that remained were also drawn into the tunnel. They vanished as well.

As this happened, Jiang Zhuzhe, the Viridian Blood Toad controlling the Voodoo Progenitor’s body, and the ice spirit in Jia Yue’s body furiously assaulted the Demon Sealing Tombstone in an attempt to destroy the tunnel.

However, just as the three had gathered their strength and were about to blast the tunnel with everything they had, the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the god heads disappeared into the tunnel as well.

Before the space that made up the Graveyard of Gods could collapse altogether, Qin Lie’s group, the Demon Sealing Tombstone, and the eight god heads escaped.

……

At the top of a mountain deep within the seas near the Heavenly Fissure Continent.

Eight headless god corpses, each of which were hundreds of meters tall, were restrained to the top of the top of the mountain, bright silver chains wrapped all around them.

Celestial Artifact Sect and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain martial practitioners were gathered within a crystal palace built into the mountain’s peak.

All of them were there to watch over the god corpses.

This place was extremely close to the island where Qin Lie’s group had entered the Graveyard of Gods.

“Prak!”

All of a sudden, the god corpses that seemed inert as if they were hibernating, sprang to life, struggling intensely against their restraints.

The martial practitioners in the crystal palace watched this scene indifferently. They had long since become used to this.

They had been watching over these eight headless god corpses for some time now, and they knew that these god corpses would go crazy from time to time.

Every time they did, however, their frenzy would subside before long.

“The god corpses are struggling a little longer than usual this time.”

“Mn… I believe they should be coming to a stop any time now.”

“That should be the case.”

Everyone watching from inside of the crystal palace chatted amongst each other on and off.

“Almost eight months have passed. The Trial within the Graveyard of Gods is about to conclude. I wonder who has the upper hand right now.”

“Yu Men of our Ten Thousand Beast Mountain definitely does! Who else could it be? It may seem like a lot of people of the nine great Silver rank forces participated in the Trial, but in my opinion, not a single person can go toe to toe with Yu Men!”

“Hmph! If we’re talking about who will get the last laugh, then that person will undoubtedly be our Celestial Artifact Sect’s young sect master! He’s intelligent, wise, and possesses a full collection of spirit artifacts. How would he not be able to survive in the Graveyard of Gods? He’d be like a fish to water!”

“Him? How can a guy who only knows how to rely on external strength possibly be a match for Yu Men?”

Whenever the martial practitioners of Celestial Artifact Sect and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain talked about the situation within the Graveyard of Gods, they would, without exception, argue with each other. It always happened, and whenever it did, neither side would back down even the tiniest bit.

“Pak!”

A crisp noise suddenly resounded from the chains wrapped around a god corpse.

“Pak pak pak!”

Even more noise continued to come from the god corpses, and they roared madly, causing the entire mountain to shake.

All of the martial practitioners who were chatting in a relaxed manner suddenly went pale and screamed in terror. They began evacuating the crystal palace, escaping toward the surface of the sea with all of their might.

“The god corpses have escaped their restraints!”

“The god corpses are free!”

Amidst the din of the crystal palaces collapsing atop the mountain at the bottom of the sea, all of the martial practitioners responsible for keeping watch over the god corpses fled. They headed upward to the nearest island, the one that Qin Lie’s group had been on before entering the Graveyard of Gods.

“Elder Bi! Elder Bi!” A soaking wet Celestial Artifact Sect martial practitioner shouted loudly, gasping for breath after rushing to the island. “The god corpses had struggled free from their shackles!”

“Elder Tumou! A huge change has occurred under the sea!” the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain martial practitioners screamed.

Bi You, who had previously appeared at Sea Moon Island, and another elder of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain, were the ones in charge of overseeing this area. News of the enormous change that occurred under the sea greatly shocked them both.

Almost without hesitation, the two informed their respective sect masters as fast as they could.

Two hours later, the sect masters of Celestial Artifact Sect and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain, Feng Yi and Qi Yang, arrived at this island at the same time. They immediately entered the sea upon arrival.

They arrived at the peak of the mountain at the bottom of the sea.

The crystal palace at the top of the mountain had already been reduced to countless crystal fragments, and the eight god corpses were originally chained to the mountain… had mysteriously vanished.

Feng Yi, Qi Yang, and the many elders that came with them sat down, their auras as vast and deep as the sea. They either took out sparkling spirit artifacts or spread their all-encompassing soul consciousness outward.

Using this mountain as a starting point, they searched for the auras of the god corpses.

This group of experts was silent for a time.

A while later, the elders of Celestial Artifact Sect and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain shook their heads, indicating that they had failed to find anything.

Feng Yi and Qi Yang ultimately stood up and looked each other in the eye. Both see graveness in the eyes of the other.

“A shocking change must have occurred in the Graveyard of Gods!” Feng Yi exclaimed with a grim voice. “There’s no other way those eight god corpses could have escaped their restraints!”

Qi Yang nodded, saying, “Should we open the spatial passageway ahead of time?”

“It’s only been eight months!” Feng Yi said, his hesitation obvious. “There’s still some time left before the Trial ends. Furthermore, we don’t have people of the other seven forces to act as witnesses. If we open the spatial passageway now… won’t it be against convention?”

“I’m afraid that, if we wait any longer, we may not see a single person return alive.” Qi Yang had a rough, square face. He looked like an animal clad in human skin, and his eyes shone with an intimidating light. “I heard that everything Celestial Artifact Sect learned about the Graveyard of Gods was given to them by Jiang Zhuzhe, the remnant evil from Blood Fiend Sect! Did you people of Celestial Artifact Sect make a secret deal with him? If there are too many casualties in this Trial… if the elite martial practitioners of each force died due to your selfish motives… be prepared for face the wrath of every force!”

“My son is participating in the Trial as well. He’s inside the Graveyard of Gods too! What selfish motives could I possible harbor?” Feng Yiyou spoke with a calm expression on his face. After a moment of thought, he nodded and said, “Let’s open the spatial passageway first.”

An elderly man from Celestial Artifact Sect obeyed his command and prepared to open the passageway.

However, when he took out a jade token and prepared to unleash the tremendous amount of spatial energy it contained, the wrinkles on his face pressed together in shock.

“I can’t locate the spatial coordinates!” he yelled.

Panic and confusion filled everyone’s faces the moment he said this.

“Why can’t you find the spatial coordinates, Uncle Luo?” Feng Yi shuddered.

“Spatial coordinates don’t just disappear.” Luo Han, who was well-versed in the secrets of space, enjoyed a prominent status in Celestial Artifact Sect. Even Feng Yi had to treat him with respect. At this moment, he rubbed the jade token and carefully examined it from top to bottom.. “I can’t even sense the Graveyard of Gods…”

“You can’t even sense the Graveyard of Gods? W-what do you mean, Elder Luo?” Bi You asked respectfully.

Luo Han sighed. “The Graveyard of Gods had probably suffered a spatial collapse.”

His words made everyone turn pale with terror.

Everyone knew what a spatial collapse was.

Energy caused by a spatial collapse could make even a Fragmentation Realm or Nirvana Realm martial practitioner’s body to shatter to pieces, extinguishing both their mind and soul, much less juniors in the Netherpassage Realm.

“My son… my son…” Feng Yi muttered to himself. An odd light continuously flashed through his eyes, his expression changing again and again.

After a while, Feng Yi gritted his teeth and yelled, “Send word to the other seven forces and clearly explain what happened the Graveyard of God. Tell them that the god corpses broke free of their restraints and escaped!”

“Brother Feng?” Qi Yang exclaimed in surprise.

“I can’t hide this anymore. The changes in the Graveyard of Gods may lead to an even bigger incident in the future.” Feng Yi took a deep breath. “We must inform all forces to get ready as soon as possible.”

“What in Spirit Realm have you hidden from us?” Qi Yang snorted coldly.

“The Heaven Fighting Race created the Graveyard of Gods.” Bitterness filled Feng Yi’s face. “I’m afraid the the changes that occurred within the Graveyard of Gods may have attracted their attention.”

“The Heaven Fighting Race? The most powerful ancient race that considers themselves gods?!” Qi Yang suddenly went pale.

Feng Yi sighed and nodded helplessly.

“The Graveyard of Gods isn’t a public space used to bury the bodies of ancient elites at all. It is a divine altar that the Heaven Fighting Race uses to trap the remains and soul fragments of ancient beings for the sole purpose of raising their next generation.”