Chapter 2076: Ghost Sedan Chair

The blood sea was turbulent, with several figures moving continuously within it. After the projection of the Star Constellation Palace suppressed the red vortex, the bull demon, originally incomparably powerful, rapidly weakened.

In just a moment, under the combined assault of Lu Ye and the others, the creature lost its ability to fight back.

By this point, the strength it displayed was merely the normal level expected of a late-stage Sun-Illuminated realm practitioner. Its previous immense power had clearly been unnatural.

Jiu Yan pierced him through with a spear. As the other two Sun-Illuminated realm experts rushed forward, Lu Ye seized the opportunity to strike with his saber.

The battle subsided. The bull demon was heavily wounded and unconscious. By this point, it had lost its previous ability to effortlessly mitigate attacks, and strange energy coiled around its wounds, hindering their recovery.

Lu Ye withdrew the blood sea and looked at the other two battlefields. Without exception, the other two enemies had also been subdued.

No one killed them; clearly, all the Sun-Illuminated realm experts were curious about the immense power they had displayed, so they naturally kept them alive.

A group of Sun-Illuminated realm experts converged towards Lu Ye. As he was currently the master of the Myriad Phenomena Sea and the first to arrive, everyone naturally wanted to inquire about the situation.

However, before everyone could gather, something happened again on Jade Sword Island.

Inside the red vortex, which was suppressed by the Star Constellation Palace projection, fierce ripples surged, and a shadowy figure appeared faintly on the other side.

"Something else is coming," Jiu Yan muttered, having clearly seen the changes. She gripped her silver spear tightly, subtly channeling her magical power.

Lu Ye also looked solemn. Having deeply experienced the bull demon's power, he was naturally extremely vigilant.

After observing carefully for a while, he immediately felt much more relieved. "It probably can't come over," he murmured.

Although he didn't know why the red vortex had alarmed the Star Constellation Palace, with the power of a supreme treasure now sealing it, no matter what powerful entity was on the other side, it would be impossible for it to cross over as easily as before. This was evident from the fact that the shadow on the other side couldn't solidify.

Furthermore, judging by the current situation, this red vortex might not even last much longer before shattering.

Almost as soon as Lu Ye's words fell, the Star Constellation Palace projection covering the red vortex suddenly, inexplicably, faded...

This projection was not a physical entity to begin with; it appeared ethereal and indistinct. With this fading, it became almost imperceptible.

At this very moment, the shadow on the other side suddenly solidified, and the red vortex began to shake violently.

"This isn't good!" Lu Ye exclaimed. This situation was completely different from what he had just expected, and he didn't know why the Star Constellation Palace projection had suddenly faded.

But this clearly gave the visitor from the other side an opportune moment.

The red vortex writhed, and today's fourth uninvited guest arrived in the Myriad Phenomena Sea!

Judging only from the vague shadow earlier, Lu Ye had thought some ferocious enemy would emerge from it, but when he saw clearly what had actually arrived this time, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Jiu Yan, standing beside him, was equally dumbfounded.

"What is that?" Jiu Yan frowned.

"A bridal sedan chair?" Lu Ye responded hesitantly.

Mainly because what they saw was too strange: this time, what had emerged from the red vortex into the Myriad Phenomena Sea was not a flesh-and-blood creature, but a bridal sedan chair.

It was like the kind of sedan chair used in the mortal world to pick up a bride for a wedding, covered in bright red decorations, with two large red flowers embedded on its sides. It looked extremely festive.

The other Sun-Illuminated realm experts also witnessed this bizarre scene, all of them with surprised expressions. No one understood what was happening or what this sedan chair was.

Streams of divine sense swept over it, but in the investigations of the numerous Sun-Illuminated realm experts, this sedan chair was, surprisingly, just an ordinary sedan chair, with no mysteries whatsoever, inside or out.

The more ordinary it seemed, the more vigilant the Sun-Illuminated realm experts became. Something bizarre enough to emerge from the red vortex could not possibly be ordinary; the fact that they couldn't detect anything indicated that the sedan chair's strangeness surpassed their imagination.

"Ugh..." A faint groan escaped. It was the unconscious bull demon slowly waking up. The physical bodies of demon races were truly powerful; despite such severe injuries, it was actually waking up now, while the other two uninvited guests were still unconscious.

As the bull demon opened its eyes, it realized it was restrained. It looked around, and its gaze suddenly fixed on the sedan chair, instantly exclaiming, "Ghost Sedan!"

Lu Ye immediately turned to look at him. A thought struck him: the sedan chair and the bull demon must have come from the same place. Judging by the bull demon's current reaction, it clearly recognized this sedan chair and evidently knew something about it.

He immediately asked, "What is this? Tell me everything you know!"

The bull demon eagerly replied, "Alright, take me over first. I want to get on the sedan. Once I'm on the Ghost Sedan, I'll tell you everything you want to know."

"What's the benefit of getting on that sedan?" Lu Ye asked in surprise. If not for some benefit, the bull demon wouldn't be acting so eagerly.

The bull demon didn't answer, but urgently urged, "Quickly, take me to the sedan! It'll be too late if we delay!"

Lu Ye was about to ask why it would be too late when, just then, the Ghost Sedan, which had been unresponsive, suddenly began to float. Immediately afterwards, a strange power emanated from within it. It was like divine sense, yet not; Lu Ye had never felt such power before.

That power, vast as the ocean, swept across the entire Myriad Phenomena Sea in an instant, and then radiated throughout the Myriad Phenomena Star System.

It then suddenly retracted, concentrating on Jiu Yan.

Jiu Yan instinctively sensed trouble.

The door of the Ghost Sedan suddenly opened, and a large red silk ribbon floated out, coiling directly towards Jiu Yan. Its speed was so great that even a powerful expert like Jiu Yan had no time to react.

The red silk ribbon directly wrapped around her and sharply pulled back. Jiu Yan, with a stunned expression, flew towards the Ghost Sedan and plunged into it, disappearing from sight.

After taking Jiu Yan, the Ghost Sedan began to drift away into the distance.

"Trying to leave?" Lu Ye was furious. He flashed forward and chased after the Ghost Sedan. If it had been anyone else captured by the Ghost Sedan, it might have been acceptable, but Jiu Yan...

The bull demon shouted, "Take me with you!" looking as if it feared Lu Ye would abandon him.

Lu Ye originally didn't want to bother with him, but then he thought that this guy clearly knew something about the Ghost Sedan and might be useful, so he grabbed him. He activated his Blood Escape technique, transforming into a streak of bloody light.

As he made his move, the other Sun-Illuminated realm experts also gave chase. Although they came from different star systems and different factions, they had, after all, spent many years in the Myriad Phenomena Sea, and many of them had a friendship with Jiu Yan, so they naturally wouldn't stand by and do nothing.

The Ghost Sedan's speed was not fast at first, but it was clearly accelerating, with a significant increase in speed.

Lu Ye, chasing behind, watched as the Ghost Sedan actually pulled further and further away from him. No matter how he urged his Blood Escape technique, it was useless. Gritting his teeth, he raised his Immovable Mountain Saber. As his magical power surged, a massive saber light slashed down towards the Ghost Sedan from a distance.

The saber strike hit the Ghost Sedan directly, but his Giant Blade Slash couldn't damage it in the slightest.

Instead, following this attack, another large red silk ribbon floated out from the Ghost Sedan and lashed towards Lu Ye from a distance!

Completely different from Jiu Yan's encounter just now, this large red silk ribbon had merely coiled around Jiu Yan, but it lashed at Lu Ye. It seemed as if Lu Ye's previous attack had provoked a retaliatory action from the Ghost Sedan.

Almost the instant he saw the red silk ribbon, Lu Ye's vision was enveloped in a blood-red haze.

He vaguely heard something shattering, and his whole body suddenly felt sticky, followed by a wave of dizziness. His protective magical power instantly shattered, and he heard a series of dense cracking sounds from within his body, as if an unknown number of his bones had broken.

It was then that he suddenly realized that under the Ghost Sedan's single strike, the bull demon he was holding hadn't even uttered a sound before it was whipped into a mist of blood, and he himself had suffered severe injuries!

His body tightened as if something had enveloped him, and then he was uncontrollably pulled rapidly in one direction, his consciousness becoming hazy.

Many Sun-Illuminated realm experts pursued for a moment, but the Ghost Sedan was no longer in sight. Because in that very instant, the Ghost Sedan seemed to have vanished into thin air, disappearing directly, leaving them clueless on how to continue the pursuit.

"This is bad!" Wu Qimo's face turned ashen.

He didn't care about Jiu Yan's fate; they didn't have much of a relationship. But Lu Ye couldn't be allowed to come to harm. Not only was Lu Ye Su Yuqing's Dao-companion, but he was also the master of Fangcun Mountain. If anything happened to him, it wouldn't be a minor issue.

"Fellow Daoist Wu, you don't need to worry. Fellow Daoist Lu should be fine. That sedan chair didn't seem to intend to kill him just now," Sui Lin said, comforting Wu Qimo from beside him.

Lu Ye himself was dazed due to his severe injuries, so he had no idea what had truly happened, but the others had seen everything clearly.

His Giant Blade Slash had provoked the sedan chair's counterattack. Under that strike, the bull demon was utterly annihilated, and logically, Lu Ye should not have been spared either. But in fact, the moment the large red silk ribbon touched Lu Ye, it changed from a lash to a coil, sweeping him into the sedan chair as well.

Judging by what they had seen previously, the bizarre sedan chair originally seemed to only intend to capture Jiu Yan, but for some unknown reason, it ended up taking Lu Ye as well.

As for why Jiu Yan was captured, no one knew. If it was because of her identity as a woman, that was clearly incorrect, as Jiu Yan was not the only female Sun-Illuminated realm expert present.

If that was the case, then it could only be due to cultivation level; among the Sun-Illuminated realm experts present, Jiu Yan's cultivation was the highest. Of course, this was just speculation; no one truly knew the reason.

"That bull demon just called it a 'Ghost Sedan,' and he even wanted to get on it!" a Sun-Illuminated realm expert, who had just allied with Lu Ye and naturally heard the bull demon's words, suddenly spoke. "Judging from that, there might be some benefit inside this Ghost Sedan."

"Whether there's a benefit or not, we'll know if we ask," Sui Lin said, turning her head to look at the other two enemies who were still unconscious.

What the bull demon knew, they should also know.

It wasn't just about the Ghost Sedan; the Sun-Illuminated realm experts wanted to know even more!

On Jade Sword Island, the Star Constellation Palace projection had vanished, and the red vortex had also disappeared. A chaotic situation thus ended, but it concluded with the simultaneous disappearance of the Master of Myriad Phenomena Island and the Master of Three Realms Island.

After subsequently interrogating the two uninvited guests, the Sun-Illuminated realm experts from all sides finally learned some never-before-known secrets and at last understood what the 'Great Trend's Arrival' meant!

After this battle, with the Myriad Phenomena Sea as the center, all forces worked hard to accumulate their own foundations to prepare for the arrival of the Great Trend. For a time, large-scale and high-level conflicts throughout the starry sky significantly decreased.