The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 1306

Chapter 1306: Chapter 1303: Stone Stele Chapter 1306: Chapter 1303: Stone Stele Shen Luo followed the direction of Purple Bamboo's gaze and saw a purple fairy bamboo about three meters tall leaning there, its whole body as crystalline as purple jade, with clusters of dense and translucent purple leaves that were of a much higher grade than the Dark Spring Purple Jade Bamboo.

“Elder Shen, this…” Purple Bamboo's divine soul looked at Shen Luo, her eyes brimming with earnestness.

“Don't worry, I won't go back on what I promised you earlier,” Shen Luo said with a smile.

After that, he lifted the prohibition in the climbing staff, and the divine soul of Purple Bamboo immediately danced out and plunged towards the purple fairy bamboo.

“Crackle…”

A burst of black lightning suddenly erupted from the purple fairy bamboo, and as soon as Purple Bamboo's divine soul approached, she was struck and sent flying back.

She became anxious, and was about to throw herself at the fairy bamboo again immediately.

Just then, Shen Luo hurriedly extended a palm and stopped her.

“Daoist friend Purple Bamboo, don't be hasty. It seems that someone has placed a prohibition on your fairy bamboo body. Let me examine it before we proceed,” he said.

Hearing this, Purple Bamboo's divine soul stopped, moving up to him with eyes full of urgency.

“Looking at this mark, it seems to be left by Ghost Yan. He seems to have wanted to refine your true body, but because your divine soul has not dissipated and the connection between the body and the soul still exists, he couldn't succeed. So, in a fit of rage, he left a Forbidden Thunder on your true body, fearing that if you truly attempted to return, you would be struck and your soul scattered,” Shen Luo said after a careful examination.

“I implore you, Daoist friend, to help erase this Forbidden Thunder,” Purple Bamboo said.

“The way this Forbidden Thunder is applied is quite special; it looks like a secret technique used in Tianji City for artifact refining. If I remove it forcibly with ordinary methods, it could harm your true body,” Shen Luo said.

Upon hearing this, Purple Bamboo's expression turned melancholic again.

“However, this Forbidden Thunder seems to have a time limit. The marks and potency on it are fading bit by bit. It shouldn't be long now before it becomes completely ineffective,” Shen Luo added.

“Really?” Purple Bamboo asked, somewhat surprised.

“Of course, it's true. If it does not dissipate on its own within three months, I will find a way to help you erase it,” Shen Luo assured her.

“Thank you, Brother Shen. A great kindness cannot be expressed in words, and I shall repay it in the future,” Purple Bamboo bowed and said.

“For the time being, you'll have to bear with staying in this Dark Spring Purple Jade Bamboo,” Shen Luo waved his hand and said.

Hearing this, Purple Bamboo thanked him again and flew into the Purple Jade Bamboo.

After storing the Dark Spring Purple Jade Spirit Bamboo in the Qiankun Bag, Shen Luo turned to look at the dazzling array of heavenly treasures, a smile hard to conceal on his lips. He waved his hand and collected them all without leaving a single one, planning to tally them after leaving this place.

Then, he searched every corner of the main hall meticulously, making sure not to miss a thing, before turning to leave the hall and continuing towards the area where he had previously detected the battle.

After a while, Shen Luo arrived at a spacious square where the sounds of a fierce mana collision constantly emanated from a majestic golden hall ahead.

Since Divine Sense could not be extended within Puppet City, Shen Luo hid at a concealed spot outside the main hall and quietly peered in.

Inside the hall, the eight Earth Evil Corpses and the Thousand Mechanism Sword, along with the black wooden birds, were locked in combat. The Earth Evil Corpse King waved his arms, and countless streams of Corpse Air yellow light shot out like rain. The Thousand Mechanism Sword and the black wooden birds were equally fierce, with soaring black and white Sword Qi and tides of black light, clashing with the Corpse Air that filled the sky.

Moments later, the interior of the great hall shook incessantly, with howling and colliding sounds intertwining. Yellow light and black luminescence intertwined and collided, which could be clearly sensed from a great distance away.

Little Master and Ghost Yan, however, were standing in the central area of the great hall. Little Master now donned a Golden Immortal Armor, teeming with auspicious Qi, immediately recognizable as an indestructible heavenly treasure; above Ghost Yan's head floated a large black Luo Umbrella, spinning as countless streams of black light fell, forming a black protective cover around him.

The two stood motionless, appearing quite odd.

“What are they doing?” Shen Luo wondered silently. He took two steps forward to get a clearer view of the situation inside the great hall and then suddenly realized.

It turned out that in front of Little Master and Ghost Yan stood a dark-golden stele, reaching three to four zhang high, with a smooth and flawless surface. The stele's face was covered with incredibly complex Yan Patterns, with the center bearing two ancient seal characters.

Shen Luo recognized them; they were the characters for “Doll.”

Little Master was exhaling a stream of white light that enshrouded the top of the Doll stele, swiftly refining the Yan Patterns on the stele, with the white light slowly seeping down along the patterns.

Similarly, a stream of Black Qi shot out from Ghost Yan, beginning the refinement from the bottom of the Doll stele, with the black light quickly moving upward.

Perhaps because Little Master had entered earlier, the section of the stele refined by the white light was noticeably larger.

“Little Master and Ghost Yan are refining the Doll stele; could it be that this stele is key to controlling the prohibitions in Puppet City, similar to the existence of a Mansion Town Stone Tablet?” Shen Luo conjectured as he observed.

Shen Luo's guess was correct. This stone tablet was indeed the core prohibition hub of Puppet City. Controlling it meant control over the entire Puppet City.

Originally, Ghost Yan had already refined the Doll stele. However, the city had refined a vast amount of Copper of Lingxiao, transforming into creation-level Armor, and the prohibitions within the Doll stele had evolved along with it, requiring re-sacrifice and refinement.

Little Master had seized this opportunity and thus dared to enter Puppet City.

The radiance of their sacral refinement was yet to meet; only when the black and white lights intersected would the real battle between the two ignite.

As Ghost Yan and Little Master urged the eight Earth Evil Corpse Kings and the Thousand Mechanism Sword and the Black Wooden Bird to attack each other, they were also trying their best to disrupt the other, attempting to interrupt the sacral refinement of the Doll stele.

However, both were protected by formidable magical treasures, as sturdy as a fortress. Neither the Yellow Corpse Qi nor the sword Qi and black light that struck them had any effect whatsoever.

Seeing that he was falling behind in the refinement process, Ghost Yan changed his magic spell, and his hands radiated a purple ghostly glow filled with charm.

The eight Earth Evil Corpse Kings contained their Corpse Air within, revealing layers of purple light and began to perform the Heavenly Demon Silk Dance again.

Masses of purple mist materialized and drifted toward Little Master, penetrative waves of powerful charm seeping through his Golden Immortal Armor and into his body.

The Golden Light around Little Master became chaotic in an instant, and the speed at which he was refining the Doll Stele slowed down considerably, clearly affected by the Heavenly Demon Silk Dance.

But as the Master of Tianji City, Little Master's cultivation level was slightly higher than that of Ghost Yan. With a low shout, a flash of light passed through the space between his brows, revealing a complicated talisman the size of a fingertip.

This talisman, unknown in its divine power, released a burst of crystalline light, promptly restoring tranquility to the Golden Light surrounding Little Master.

He immediately formed a magic spell with his hands and pointed toward the Thousand Mechanism Sword and Black Wooden Bird beside him, causing the light on both to surge, engulfing the bodies of the eight Earth Evil Corpse Kings with numerous sword Qi and black luminescence.

At that moment, the Earth Evil Corpse King were performing the Heavenly Demon Silk Dance, and without the Silk Array in place, they were defenseless and were punctured like sieves, their bodies exploding into countless Corpse fragments.

But these Earth Evil Corpse Kings were already immortal and invincible, unafraid of such attacks. They could immediately recover as before after shattering, without any significant impact, and even the purple mist surrounding them remained undispersed.

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