plumnovel Chapter 55 Xuanlei Water Mansion
Chapter 55 Xuanlei Water Mansion
Meanwhile, Xuan Yao and his servant descended from the clouds and plunged straight into the deepest part of the vast cloud marshland.
But the surrounding water vapor grew increasingly cold and gloomy, plunging straight into a bottomless abyss, where a massive underwater palace finally came into view.
The area is rife with undercurrents, and the palace is shrouded in layers of poisonous miasma and eerie lightning. Inside, a crude yet extremely ferocious water formation operates continuously, protecting this underwater territory completely.
Xuan Yao stood amidst the clear light created by the Water-Avoiding Technique, his hands behind his back, not in a hurry to unleash his magic weapon to sweep across the area.
He turned to look at Lingxiao beside him and said calmly, "Now that your injuries have stabilized, go and challenge them. Let me see just how skilled you are in combat, aside from your incredible speed."
Lingxiao was incredibly intelligent and immediately understood that the master was testing her combat skills and temperament.
Now that you've joined the sect of a powerful being as a guardian spirit bird, if you're just a useless creature that can only watch and not fight, you'll surely be looked down upon in the future.
"Please sit down, sir, and watch how this little demon works."
Lingxiao's eyes turned cold, and his figure suddenly transformed into a gray-white stream of light, rushing directly into the poisonous miasma.
Although she was injured, once the trace of the Great Roc bloodline within her was activated, her speed was as fast as a ghost.
A gray-white afterimage flickered repeatedly on the water's surface. Several evil demons at the Celestial Immortal level guarding the outer perimeter of the water palace didn't even have time to warn the others before their skulls were crushed by a pair of incomparably sharp claws.
The demon's blood seeped into the water, eventually alerting the leader deep within the underwater palace.
Accompanied by a muffled horn sound, the Water Fiend Formation began to operate with a roar.
A three-headed dragon with a single horn and a cultivation level at the early stage of the Xuanxian realm broke out of the water, leading hundreds of shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and stood in a fierce formation in front of the palace.
These three Xuanxian Jiaos were used to acting arrogantly and domineeringly. When they saw that the attacker was just a spirit vulture that had been chased and seriously injured, they immediately revealed a ferocious look and were about to activate the water evil in the array eye to kill it.
Seeing that Lingxiao was locked by the formation, Xuanyao knew that she alone could not break this great formation that gathered the power of many demons, so he slowly stepped forward.
He simply flicked his sleeve casually.
He tossed a dark golden object from his sleeve, and it landed squarely in the mud in front of the two armies.
The demons stared intently, terrified out of their wits.
That demon, bound tightly by the black gold chains like a dead mudfish, its spiritual light dimmed, was none other than their arrogant Xuan Shui Jiao Wang!
"Your Majesty!"
"The king has been captured alive!"
Xuan Yao remained indifferent, simply placing one foot on the old dragon's head, his tone revealing neither joy nor anger: "You beast, make them stop."
The old dragon had long been worn down by Xuan Yao, losing all its temper, and a life-and-death restriction had been placed deep within its true spirit.
Seeing that his former subordinates were still putting up a stubborn resistance, and fearing that angering this evil star would lead to his own annihilation, he immediately howled in his hoarse voice, "Stop! All of you! Quickly dismantle the great formation and kneel to welcome the great immortal's carriage!"
With their own king now a prisoner, these water demons, who were born to depend on the strong, had no will to fight left.
The Water Fiend Formation collapsed on its own, and hundreds of demons collapsed to their knees in the mud, trembling in fear.
Xuan Yao coldly swept his gaze across the group, and the pure Qi of virtue circulated within his Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness, clearly seeing the karmic causes and effects above the heads of these water demons.
Although he cultivates virtue and good fortune, he would never emulate those pedantic and indiscriminately kind-hearted people.
Now that we have taken over this place, we must eliminate all potential threats.
"You, a vile beast, have led this Yunze aquatic tribe into a den of poison."
Xuan Yao raised his hand and pointed, and a pure and intense flame of Nanming fire shot out like a dragon, instantly disappearing into the demon horde.
Any evil demon with a red and black mark on its head, burdened with heavy karma and having devoured countless lives, will have its primordial spirit and physical body burned away and turned to ashes into the water as soon as it is gently scorched by this crimson-gold fire, before it even has time to scream.
In a short while, the key members of the Water Palace who had committed numerous evils were all killed.
The remaining little demons, trembling on the ground, were mostly lowly spirits who drifted with the tide and had not yet been tainted by major karmic obstacles.
Xuan Yao extinguished the flames and casually unleashed hundreds of restrictions imbued with his innate Xuan Sha, which all fell into the bodies of these lesser demons.
"You may be spared the death penalty, but you cannot escape punishment. From now on, you will be escorted back to the outskirts of my Green Black Mountain to perform hard labor dredging the waterways, in order to atone for your past sins."
With a casual gesture, Xuan Yao recruited hundreds of laborers before stepping into the depths of the now-empty water palace.
Stepping through the dilapidated palace gate, Xuan Yao looked up and saw an ancient stone plaque hanging above the main hall, its surface obscured by water plants for countless years.
Brushing away the moss, several innate Daoist characters faintly appeared, clearly displaying the six large characters "Nine-Bend Mysterious Thunder Water Palace".
"There are innate Daoist inscriptions left here. It seems that this is not an ordinary demon cave, but a blessed land where nature has flourished."
Xuan Yao's heart stirred slightly, and he led Ling Xiao to continue exploring deeper into the area.
After passing through several crude isolation formations, the man and the bird arrived at the most secluded rear hall of the Water Mansion.
The moment you step inside, an extremely pure and piercing stream of yin energy, mixed with a faint yet violent rumble of thunder, rushes towards you.
In the center of the main hall, there was a cold pool about ten feet in diameter.
The surface of this icy pool was sealed off by layers of poisonous miasma and dark lightning arranged by the evil dragon, and the pool water had a nauseating dark red color, obviously caused by the dragon's blood polluting it over the years.
Upon seeing the pool, Lingxiao took a deep breath, a look of realization dawning on his face, and respectfully said to Xuanyao:
"Master, I have always had doubts. That old dragon was just an ordinary mudfish who attained enlightenment. He had no background or great lineage, so how could he have achieved the Golden Immortal status in this resource-scarce Yunze?"
Now it seems that it's mostly thanks to this strange ancient pool.
Xuan Yao nodded slightly, his divine sense probing into the depths of the polluted cold pool like mercury spilling onto the ground.
Upon this investigation, Xuan Yao couldn't help but feel a sense of amazement.
This seemingly unremarkable ancient pool, only a few feet in size, actually leads directly to the deepest part of the earth's veins in this vast and cloud-shrouded land. What continuously gushes forth from the bottom of the pool is not ordinary spiritual water, but rather a rare combination of profound yin water vapor and underground thunder essence found in the primordial world.
What concerned Xuan Yao even more was that at the very core of that water eye, a wisp of ever-flowing wind and thunder Dao rhythm was faintly interwoven.
"What a magnificent eye for profound Yin, wind, thunder, and water!"
Xuan Yao withdrew his divine sense, having thoroughly understood the mysteries involved, and a trace of regret couldn't help but appear in his eyes.
It should be known that the potential within the eyes of wind, thunder, and water is immense.
The profound Yin water energy is extremely nourishing to the physical body of a demon immortal, while the underground thunder essence can temper scales, armor, and feathers. If it is slowly absorbed with the help of authentic Xuanmen methods, it can not only lay an extremely solid foundation, but also hope to comprehend the unpredictable Great Dao of Wind and Thunder.
However, that old dragon was just a rogue cultivator, and he had no idea about the proper methods of gradual progress.
It guards this precious land, yet it's like a cow chewing on a peony.
They would only crudely drip their own dragon blood into the pool, attempting to pollute the water eye with a blood sacrifice, thereby forcibly plundering the water and thunder essence within.
Although it managed to open the gate to the Golden Immortal realm by taking advantage of this immense power, it also suffered a hidden backlash from the Xuan Yin Thunder Fiend.
The violent lightning essence accumulated in its meridians for many years and could not be released. Over time, it completely eroded its spiritual center, making its nature increasingly cruel and violent, and eventually transforming it into a vicious dragon burdened with karmic obstacles.
Xuan Yao connected these causes and consequences, and suddenly everything became clear to him.
"No wonder that guy would target the Great Roc True Blood within you."
Xuan Yao glanced at Ling Xiao beside him and explained with a faint smile:
"That old dragon guarded this eye of wind, thunder, and water, absorbing only the violent thunder essence, but due to its limited foundation, it was never able to comprehend the true meaning of the light and ethereal wind within it."
It possesses thunder but lacks wind; its internal power is already unbalanced, and it is in constant danger of going berserk.
"It hunted you because it saw the natural affinity between you and the wind in your roc bloodline, and tried to use it to make up for its weakness in the convergence of wind and thunder, which is why this karmic debt has been formed today."
Upon hearing this, Lingxiao broke out in a cold sweat.
If it weren't for the fact that the master happened to pass by today, I would probably have already become food for that old dragon to complete the Great Dao.
"This old dragon is wasting a precious resource, turning a perfectly good immortal water eye into such a filthy place."
Xuan Yao said no more and immediately activated the Southern Brightness Guardian General in his Purple Mansion.
A wisp of brilliant crimson-gold fire fell from his fingertip and plunged straight into the dark red, icy pool.
The fire of Nanming is most effective at suppressing yin poison and foul air.
A series of hissing sounds, like the screams of vengeful ghosts, rang out as the dragon blood poison that had accumulated in the water eye for many years was gradually burned away by the extremely yang and powerful fire.
In less than half a day, the pool of water completely lost its dark red color and returned to its original clear color, like deep, cold jade.
A wisp of pale blue air and purple lightning began to intertwine and leap naturally on the water's surface, producing a clear, resonant thunderous sound.
"Although this Wind, Thunder and Water Eye cannot compare to any innate spiritual treasure, it is an exceptional opportunity that is hard to find even with a lantern in the present Qingheishan Mountain."
Xuan Yao secretly made his own plans.
The wind and thunder Daoist energy within this water eye is perfectly suited for cleansing the feathers and marrow of birds like Lingxiao, and tempering their bloodlines.
The continuous flow of Xuan Yin water qi and thunder essence, if drawn back to the Daoist temple, could greatly enrich the protective array of Qinghei Mountain.
With the combined influence of water and mines, the foundation of the temple will surely reach a new level.
Now that he had set his mind on it, Xuan Yao didn't intend to just take a few scoops of water from the pool and call it a day.
He took a half step back, formed an extremely complex array hand seal with one hand, and suddenly pointed upwards.
"go!"
Thirty-six streams of black and gold light shot out from his sleeves with a roar; they were none other than his top-grade acquired spiritual treasure, the Zhou Tian Sha Qi, which he had painstakingly crafted.
Thirty-six large flags swelled in the wind and rain, and according to the positions of the celestial stars, they were planted in all four directions of the Nine-Bend Mysterious Thunder Water Palace.
"rise!"
Xuan Yao let out a low shout, and poured his immense Golden Immortal power into the array flags without reservation.
The entire underground of Yunze suddenly erupted in a violent tremor.
Thirty-six beams of black and gold light, reaching to the heavens and the earth, intertwined to form a net, forcefully uprooting the palace hidden underwater, along with the Xuan Yin Wind and Thunder Water Eye that was deeply embedded in the earth's veins.
As the grand formation swirled, it completely sealed and compressed this vast water palace's earth veins, ultimately transforming it into a radiant mud ball that fell into Xuan Yao's palm.
Xuan Yao flipped his hand and put it into his sleeve. Then, with a flick of his sleeve, he swept up Ling Xiao and the hundreds of water demon laborers who had been placed under the restriction, turning them into a gentle breeze that broke through the water.
The cause and effect here have been resolved.
Without lingering, Xuan Yao rode a cloud, carrying his newly recruited team and a bountiful spoils, heading straight towards Xikunlun and returning laden with his spoils.