Star Sky Professional
Chapter 269 - 224: Shi Lan Stele (Extra - for Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 269: Chapter 224: Shi Lan Stele (Extra Chapter for Monthly Ticket)

Inside the Sea of Consciousness of Fang Xing’s original body.

A grey and white beast charged in frenziedly.

To have its Divine Sense manifest to such an extent, it was already not inferior to an ordinary Nascent Soul.

The Demon Path is adept at sacrifice, communicating with various powerful existences, summoning powers or projections, often achieving the miraculous effect of triumphing over the strong with the weak!

But at this moment, as the grey and white beast invaded Fang Xing’s Sea of Consciousness, it was taken aback.

A round of scarlet sun descended as if it were a melter.

The terrifying heat enveloped it, with endless fire akin to the True Sun Fire, yet even more eerie, surged towards it.

The grey and white beast let out a howl of shock, its body emitting a great amount of grey and white light, transforming into all sorts of strangely shaped runes, guarding its entire body.

But it was useless!

Upon encountering the scarlet flames, the runes indeed crumbled instantly.

Then, that bit of scarlet flame landed on the grey and white beast, as if lighting a ’torch’.

The many scarlet flames wrapped around the grey and white beast, causing it to let out beastly howls filled with agony.

This beastly howling was very rhythmic, seemingly an ancient language.

But Fang Xing had no interest in knowing.

Because of the characteristics of the ’Great Sun Tathagata Mantra’, as it burned the intruder, it automatically acquired some information:

"Stone Demon Beast... Ancestors from the ’True Demon Realm’... Skilled in ’Void’, ’Fossil’ Divine Skills..."

"Original body wandering in the void fissures of this world... Discovered by accident by a Nascent Soul of the Nine Infant Sect thousands of years ago, gained a part of the sacrificial ritual after communication..."

"That’s it?"

"Quite brief, eh? The interest of Great Sun Tathagata Mantra isn’t high, can only be considered general fuel..."

Countless events transpired within the Sea of Consciousness, yet to the outside world, it was but a moment.

Stone Daoist, seeing the grey and white beast charging into Fang Xing’s Sea of Consciousness, couldn’t help but feel a surge of excitement.

He was harnessing the power of a powerful demon beast, telling himself that even experts like ’Zhengqi Zi’ would suffer greatly if they failed to dodge or lacked a Divine Sense defense Magic Treasure, and might even fall.

But suddenly, the joy on his face rapidly faded away, blood spilled from the corners of his mouth, and he looked at his own Lifebound Magical Treasure, the Stone Bowl, with a face full of horror.

On the Bowl, a crack had emerged out of nowhere.

"Backlash from the contract? No!"

Stone Daoist let out a howl, not only injured himself, but also felt a tide of terrible malice and fury.

It was likely not just him; from now on, no one from the Nine Infant Sect could communicate and summon that terrible demon beast through the Array and ritual.

It was equivalent to him having squandered a portion of the Sect’s foundation; upon his return, he would inevitably face severe punishment.

If... he could return alive!

Bang!

Fang Xing pressed down with a palm, the Sky-covering Hand covering the sky and smothering the earth, directly hitting the Stone Bowl Magic Treasure.

Various glows flashed on the Stone Bowl, and the original crack grew wider until it split into two halves.

From the broken half of the Stone Bowl, blood-red blood actually flowed.

Stone Daoist spat out a mouthful of Essence Blood, his aura rapidly waning.

For a Cultivator, the Lifebound Magical Treasure was closely related to oneself, and being destroyed, it was natural to sustain severe injuries.

Not just that!

The faces of those stony demon beasts in the sky regained a trace of clarity, their eyes carrying a scarlet hue, they suddenly let out strange cries, ignoring Fang Xing, and returned to encircle Stone Daoist, actually suffering Demon Skill backlash!

"What are you doing? Ah..."

The Talismans surrounding Stone Daoist were desperately countered by a large number of stone demons, breaking through...

Then countless bat-like creatures with human heads flapped their wings and engulfed him whole, gnawing his flesh continuously.

If he were a regular Core Formation Cultivator, he wouldn’t have lasted long before dying.

But for Stone Daoist who practiced Dual Cultivation of Body and Technique, death was a luxury.

His strong physique allowed him to endure longer in such backlash, as if constantly suffering the torture of a thousand cuts, even his Divine Soul felt the same...

When the screams gradually subsided, those bat-like creatures with human faces also turned into stone statues, plummeting from the mid-air, bursting into pieces.

With a flash of sword light, a Stone Seal and a storage bag from the corpse were retrieved.

"Let’s go!"

Fang Xing murmured softly, turned into a sword light, and with his original body, instantly departed far away.

...

Mountain Gate of the Nine Infant Sect.

Nine bizarre mountain peaks rose abruptly, surrounded by a vast poisonous swamp.

It was said these mountain ranges were not naturally formed, but were relocated and filled in by the opening patriarch of the Sect, a Nascent Soul Late Stage Great True Monarch, who had used Divine Skills to move seas and reshape mountains, seizing them from other families and Sects.

At this time, within a Cave Mansion where Fourth Rank Spiritual Energy was abundant.

A stele depicting an exotic beast figure suddenly shattered.

This stele originally stood silently, with eight other steles engulfed in pitch-black Demonic Qi.

"Hmm? Why has the Shi Lan Stele shattered?"

Before long, a green-robed Elder came before the Stone Plate, extending hands as withered as chicken claws, caressing the broken stele fragments.

He produced a Sound Transmission Talisman, and not long after, several streaks of light reached the entrance of the Cave Mansion, all high-ranking Jiedan members of the Nine Infant Sect, kneeling on the ground, calling him Ancestor.

"The Shi Lan Stele has shattered... Who is the True Inheritor practicing the ’Fossil Demon Skill’?"

The green-robed ancestor stepped out of the cave entrance and asked casually.

"Reporting to the ancestor, it’s Shi Qi’s true inheritance... The Life Soul Hall has reported just now, Shi Qi’s Life Plate has also shattered..."

The Sect Leader of the Nine Infant Sect, a Core Formation Late Stage Cultivator wearing a beast robe with bizarre divine demon patterns, promptly reported.

"Waste!"

The green-robed ancestor coldly snorted: "It’s bad enough to die by himself, but to also drag the Sect down, losing the projection of a powerful demon beast..."

Hearing this, a schadenfreude expression was inevitable in the eyes of several nearby Core Formation Cultivators.

In a Sect of the Demon Path, infighting was even more intense, often being overtly contested.

These Core Formation Elders had long desired to overthrow the Sect Leader.