Chapter 2027: Blood Mosquito and Purple Soul Corpse-Controlling Insect

He had many divine abilities he hadn't yet used, and to die like that was truly a frustrating end.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan emerged from the ground. They traveled underground all the way, and after arriving near the rendezvous point, they discovered Feng Yao fighting members of the Thunder Crane clan. Naturally, they intervened to help.

The Thunder Crane clan had no Nascent Souls; they were all spirits.

As soon as the young man in the golden robe died, a miniature golden crane spirit flew out of his body. The moment it left, the Myriad Souls Pagoda descended from the sky, enveloped the miniature golden crane, and drew it into the pagoda!

The purple-robed maiden's beautiful face changed drastically. She broke out in a cold sweat as innumerable purple electric arcs appeared on her body.

Just then, a gust of wind swept by, and Feng Yao suddenly appeared beside the purple-robed maiden.

Feng Yao formed a hand seal, and ten thousand rays of green light burst forth from his body, enveloping the purple-robed maiden.

The purple-robed maiden seemed to be frozen in place, unable to move.

Feng Yao's right hand transformed into a sharp green eagle claw, reaching towards the purple-robed maiden's head, as if to crush it.

The purple-robed maiden suddenly emitted a shrill and piercing screech. Her body rapidly swelled, with countless purple electric arcs appearing on her, seemingly about to self-destruct.

Feng Yao was startled. His body glowed brightly with green light, and he transformed into a gust of wind, vanishing.

The Two-Eyed Rat emerged from underground, opened its mouth, and bit off the golden-robed young man's right hand, along with a golden storage ring.

A blindingly bright purple lightning bolt suddenly flared, clearly visible from a thousand miles around. Numerous towering ancient trees instantly turned to ash.

After the purple lightning dispersed, a giant crater appeared within a hundred-mile radius. All vegetation was utterly destroyed, and the golden-robed young man's corpse was also obliterated.

"She didn't self-destruct, Fellow Daoist Feng, you were tricked," Wang Changsheng said with a frown. His divine sense detected that the purple-robed maiden was five hundred miles away. The next moment, she appeared eight hundred miles away, and then vanished.

Clearly, this was a very profound escape technique.

"This is the Thunderstorm Spirit Escape Art! A unique secret technique of the Thunder Crane clan. It's almost impossible to catch her. We've stirred up trouble. Let's get what we need as soon as possible and leave this place!" Feng Yao said, his brows deeply furrowed and his tone heavy.

Wang Changsheng nodded. With a member of the Thunder Crane clan having escaped, he also didn't wish to linger. It was better to leave quickly.

The Two-Eyed Rat emerged from underground, its body covered in blood. It had risked its life to obtain the golden-robed young man's storage ring.

It opened its mouth and spat out a pale golden storage ring, which landed in Wang Changsheng's hand.

Feng Yao flipped his hand and took out a shimmering yellow jade ruyi. With a gentle shake, a hazy yellow light swept out, covering the three of them, and they escaped underground.

Enveloped by the yellow light, the three swiftly moved stealthily, disappearing into the depths of the earth.

In a dark and damp dense forest, a golden escape light swiftly streaked across the sky above, moving at extreme speed.

Behind the golden escape light was a black cloud spanning over ten acres. Upon closer inspection, the black cloud was astonishingly composed of hundreds of millions of black demonic mosquitoes. Each mosquito had a bloody tail stinger and a pair of exposed mouthparts, appearing incredibly ferocious.

The Mosquito King was a hundred *zhang* in size, with concentric circles of bloody spirit patterns on its abdomen and four wings on its back. It was, astonishingly, a sixth-order demonic insect.

The Mosquito King emitted a sharp and piercing hiss, and the golden light suddenly plummeted from high altitude. It was Jin Yue.

She usually paid no mind to ordinary sixth-order demonic beasts, but she simply could not afford to provoke hundreds of millions of Blood Luo Mosquitoes, such ferocious insects.

Blood Luo Mosquitoes ranked ninety-second on the Myriad Insects List. One should know that there are no less than a hundred million types of spirit insects in the Xuan-Yang Realm, but only ten thousand made it onto the list. The higher the ranking, the more powerful the spirit insect.

Blood Luo Mosquitoes have a strong reproductive rate, easily reaching tens of millions. They are brutal and bloodthirsty, possessing the innate divine ability of soul devouring. However, these spirit insects also have significant drawbacks: their defense is not strong, and more powerful magic treasures can kill them. But with hundreds of millions of Blood Luo Mosquitoes, she could only flee in panic.

The Mosquito King spewed a sheet of bloody flames directly at Jin Yue. Other Blood Luo Mosquitoes followed suit.

The overwhelming bloody flames surged forth, covering the sky, and Jin Yue's vision turned blood-red.

Jin Yue formed a hand seal, and a sharp, piercing cry rang out. A massive phantom golden eagle suddenly appeared above her head.

The phantom golden eagle flapped its wings fiercely. The void twisted and deformed, as if about to tear open. Over a thousand hazy golden tornadoes swept out like a golden torrent, charging towards the bloody flames.

With a thunderous roar, the thousand golden hurricanes surged into the insect cloud. A large number of Blood Luo Mosquitoes were shredded by the golden hurricanes. However, the sheer number of Blood Luo Mosquitoes was too great, so it had little effect.

Seizing this opportunity, the golden feathered wings on Jin Yue's back glowed brightly. She flapped them fiercely and vanished from her spot.

Ten thousand miles away, in a somewhat desolate grassland, the ground was pockmarked and scorched black, with numerous demonic beast skeletons scattered about.

A fierce wind howled past, and Jin Yue suddenly appeared, her face pale. She had used the Wind Escape Art to flee for her life, casting it over a dozen times consecutively.

The moment she appeared, a deafening roar immediately came from high in the sky. A colossal black thundercloud appeared high above without warning, with lightning flashing and thunder rumbling.

A deafening clap of thunder rang out, and a thick black lightning bolt tore through the sky, striking towards Jin Yue.

"Damn it, I triggered the restriction," Jin Yue cursed. If not to evade the Blood Luo Mosquitoes, she would never have escaped ten thousand miles in one go, much less triggered the restriction.

Senior Xuanfeng was a Body Integration cultivator during his lifetime. The independent space he created certainly held dangers; otherwise, previous generations would have long ago obtained Senior Xuanfeng's legacy. If not for the Body Integration cultivators of the three races fighting fiercely here, causing spatial instability and preventing cultivators of too high cultivation from entering (with only Void Refinement cultivators being able to enter at most), coupled with the powerful restrictions of the Xuanfeng Grotto-heaven, Senior Xuanfeng's legacy would have likely been acquired long ago.

Jin Yue hastily conjured a hazy golden command flag, casting a hand seal into it. The golden command flag swayed in the wind, suddenly transforming into a golden gale, protecting Jin Yue.

The black lightning struck the black gale, like mud entering the ocean, absorbed without effect.

Thunderous roars erupted as dozens of black lightning bolts tore through the sky, striking towards Jin Yue.

Jin Yue's expression hardened. Not daring to be careless, she quickly activated her magic treasure to defend.

In a small valley surrounded by mountains on three sides, numerous giant purple flowers grew. Their flower buds were closed, and their stems were covered with sharp golden thorns.

A beastman with a simian head and human body stood outside the valley. Not far away, a purple giant python over a hundred *zhang* long lay on the ground, its head smashed to a pulp.

The beastman held a pigeon-egg-sized azure orb in his hand. It shimmered with spiritual light, clearly a low-grade Sky-reaching Spirit Treasure.

With the help of the azure orb, he could clearly see a faint azure light screen on the stone wall at the end of the valley, appearing faintly.

"Senior Xuanfeng's meditation cave? Haha, it seems my destiny has arrived!" The beastman laughed wildly, his expression agitated.

He opened his mouth and spat out a jet of blue flames, which landed on a giant purple flower and ignited. The fire quickly spread, and the giant purple flowers successively turned to ash.

In less than ten breaths, all the giant purple flowers in the valley turned to ash.

The beastman cast several defensive spells on himself and strode into the valley.

Before long, he arrived at the end of the valley, where an uneven stone wall blocked his path.

He punched towards the void with his right fist. A piercing whooshing sound echoed from the void, and a blue fist-shadow over a hundred *zhang* in size flew out, striking the stone wall.

The stone wall suddenly shattered, and a large amount of rubble tumbled down.

Just then, an unexpected change occurred. A purple light suddenly emerged from underground, heading straight for the beastman.

The beastman's expression changed. He hastily spat out a jet of blue flames, striking towards the purple light.

The purple light suddenly elongated, passing through the blue flames and entangling the beastman. The purple light was astonishingly a long purple worm. This spirit insect had no eyes, only a small mouth, and its body was only two fingers thick.

The beastman grabbed the long purple worm with both hands and pulled hard. His face turned red, but he couldn't tear the purple worm apart.

The purple long worm opened its mouth, revealing a row of sharp golden teeth, and bit the beastman's arm. It then burrowed into the beastman's body through the wound.

"A Purple Soul Corpse-Controlling Worm? It's actually this bizarre insect," the beastman murmured to himself, his face flushed crimson.

The Purple Soul Corpse-Controlling Worm ranked 105th on the Myriad Insects List. It possessed the innate divine ability of assimilation, typically parasitizing other life forms to assimilate the host's Nascent Soul or divine soul, thereby gaining control over the host. It would only seek another host after the current host's death.

Two purple long worms suddenly emerged from the beastman's eyes. Blood flowed incessantly, and his gaze became vacant.

After a moment, he released the Purple Soul Corpse-Controlling Worm. The Purple Soul Corpse-Controlling Worm's body fully burrowed into him, taking control of the beastman.

"I cannot break the restriction alone. I need to rendezvous with Fellow Daoist Yu and the others," the beastman murmured to himself, and transformed into an escape light, leaving the area.