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Chapter 661: As Terrifying and Dreadful As It Is

With his Golden Core Stage cultivation, Light was much stronger than Western Nefarious Sangha, and his flying sword was like being assisted by a spirit. Strike upon strike was dished out, stirring and smashing Western Nefarious Sangha's magic wand. The moment the monk spurted out blood, the sea of flames was pierced through by the flying sword as it hacked the two Bloodthirsty Chiropterans afterward.

"Come back!"

Western Nefarious Sangha was so frightened that his soul almost flew away. He hastily rushed to collect the two Bloodthirsty Chiropterans the moment those sword images hacked them, and then retreated back into the middle of the stone inscriptions and statues. His hands kept conjuring seals and, with his blood as the guide, he activated the array in the blink of an eye.

"You're indeed very strong! Strong enough to make me feel inferior. But this array of mine originates from an ancient scripture I've studied. Back when those powerful Eight Buddhas attacked me for seven days and seven nights, they were unable to break it in the slightest. This array even injured the seven of them to the essence, so they had to retreat in defeat. Come inside and kill me if you have the ability," furiously shouted Western Nefarious Sangha as he glared at his opponent. He was pained due to his magic weapon being destroyed.

Light hesitated. He was confident that he could break this array by unleashing a mighty move, and yet he could not put it to use either. Despite possessing Golden Core Stage power, the chances that he could escape once the whole mountain collapsed were slim. More so that Tang Xiu was still here.

"It's just a skill not worth to speak of!"

A sneering comment came from Tang Xiu as he gave a look of "don't be impatient" to Light, and then floated to the front of the array. His hands kept conjuring seals in the air, as the previously invisible and colorless light curtains of the array then swayed all of a sudden the moment after. As the ripples appeared and surged forward, a faint traces of cracks emerged.

"Destroy its base!"

A silver needle suddenly shot out from Tang Xiu's hand. The moment it penetrated through the crack, it hit the rock at the feet of Western Nefarious Sangha and easily pierced it.

BOOM…

The array instantly shattered and the light curtain vanished in the blink of an eye. Even the twelve stone statues exploded at this moment, broken by the explosion and scattered around.

After retreating several meters, Tang Xiu waved his hand to block the spattered stones and gravel as he looked at the horrified Western Nefarious Sangha and said, "Maybe I would not be able to figure out much if you were to use other methods, but you're still worlds apart if you want to play with me on arrays."

Western Nefarious Sangha retreated tens of meters back. As he raised his hand to wipe the blood off of the corner of his mouth, he stared intently at Tang Xiu and said, "I'm really baffled. You can arm each and every subordinate of yours with flying swords, indicating that you or some of your men are proficient in arrays since you would need to lay out an array to aid in refining flying swords. I won't hide it from you. This array is only one of my many deadly trump cards, and I still have another that I have yet to use. Of course, I'll tell you something. The second trump card of mine is a method that will make me perish with you. Even if I can kill you, I'll also die here."

Tang Xiu slightly knitted his brows and looked at the monk with a chilling cold expression. Suddenly, he smiled and said, "Do you think you really can unleash your final trump card?"

"What do you mean?" Western Nefarious Sangha's heart jolted and his pupils contracted in an instant. His strong figure stiffly moved several meters away in a flash as a flying sword suddenly appeared out of the blue and swept toward the spot where he just stood. Following which, a black silhouette emerged a dozen meters away from him and threw away his arm.

"BLOODY HELL!"

Western Nefarious Sangha roared curses. A pungent green mist spread out from his armpit and the rolling green mist turned into a pair of arms, pulling his chopped arm back directly. While hastily avoiding the sword light that came shooting fast at him, he pressed the arm into its original place.

Dark, who wore a black robe and black mask, was twice faster than Western Nefarious Sangha. Even though the monk tried to avoid, the sword light still swept past his back and inflicted a long, bloody wound.

At this time, Light's figure shot forward like an artillery shell and launched a strike on the other side of Western Nefarious Sangha. Attacking and killing this monk alone would take some effort, but with the two combining their forces, their strength greatly soared in an instant. The two flying swords hovered in the air, blooming sword lights that looked like Lotus flowers. The dense and numerous sword lights then transformed into a giant dragon that flashed towards Western Nefarious Sangha.

"Demonic Flame Sarira!"

Western Nefarious Sangha released a dark, ball-like Sarira with a black flame burning around it. After he forced out a mass of blood essence, the black flame instantly turned into balefire and enveloped the dozens of meters of the area around him in the blink of an eye.

A miniature version of the Black Sarira appeared out of the blue and turned into a Black Dragon in a flash as it shot torward the Sword Dragon.

BOOM…

The Black Dragon was smashed and scattered, but the power of the Sword Dragon drastically plummeted and even showed signs of collapsing. However, under Light and Dark's control, the Sword Dragon still flushed toward Western Nefarious Sangha.

"Escutcheon of Destruction!"

The moment Western Nefarious Sangha had blood flowing out of his seven orifices, a black shield was released from his body to the front and guarded him. The Sword Dragon then hit the shield. Cracks appeared on the shield's upper layer, yet it was not completely destroyed like his magic wand but blocked the Sword Dragon before it hit Western Nefarious Sangha.

Western Nefarious Sangha's body was like falling leaves as the monk heavily slammed onto the walls of the cave dozens of meters away and crashed down loudly. Blood spurted out from his mouth at this time, as he gained a deathly pale complexion.

"You're good for being able to block our joint strike!"

Light's feet stepped in the air and returned to his flying sword; he seemed like he was going to fly toward Western Nefarious Sangha yet again.

Golden Armored Zombie, who stood at the entrance of the cave, had been paying attention to the situation inside. Never once had he dreamed that Light and Dark would be so formidable, neither did he expect that after they joined forces the two could unleash such a terrifying power.

If it was him who got attacked by them, then… just one strike a while ago would destroy the powerful body he was always proud and the only path opened for him would be death!

One strike of their collaborated power was enough to kill and smite him to smithereens!

At this moment, Golden Armored Zombie suddenly felt very lucky inwardly, feeling fortunate that he did not continue to become Tang Xiu's enemy, else he would have already died now, wouldn't he?

A glint flashed in Tang Xiu's eyes. He raised his hand and shouted, "Light, Dark. Spare his life for now."

Light stared for a moment and instantly stopped, while Dark released black smoke and her whole figure disappeared.

Tang Xiu treaded forward in the air and came to the front of Western Nefarious Sangha, and said, "You have endless cards up your sleeves, and also have many treasures as well. However, I can see that you're very afraid of death. You're still unwilling to resort to perishing together with us even at this most essential moment. Such being the case, I'll give you a chance to preserve your life."

Severely wounded as he was at present, Western Nefarious Sangha's body was battered by hundreds of sword lights, but he temporarily sealed his wounds with his True Essence to stop the bleeding. He was even secretly prepared to use that last deadly trump card if Light and Dark attacked him again. Tang Xiu's words, however, gave him a feeling of going from hell to heaven.

"Under what conditions?" Western Nefarious Sangha got up in an instant with his back leaning on the mountain wall.

"You know my secrets, but I can't trust you enough considering your character," said Tang Xiu slowly. "In this case, I must control your life and death so that you can preserve your puny life. As long as you ease your soul and let me cast a ban on it, not only can you stay alive, there will also be great benefits for you in the future."

With contracted pupils, Western Nefarious Sangha suddenly asked in astonishment, "Do you know the method to rule one's soul?"

"You actually know about it?" Interjected Tang Xiu, astounded.

Western Nefarious Sangha let out a wan smile and said, "The ancient scripture I obtained has a record about it. One who gets controlled by it can only become a puppet. The reason why I fought Golden Armored Zombie four numerable times is that I wanted to use this Soul Ruling technique on him. But it's a pity that my strength is slightly inferior to his, so I was unable to make it come true even if I had lots of cards up my sleeve."

"The Soul Ruling technique you described is different from mine." Tang Xiu shook his head. "The Soul Ruling Spell I will use will only cast a seal on your soul, with which I can decide your death with a thought if you dare to betray me. You will still retain your intelligence and freedom to do whatever you wanna do just like before."

"Y-you… you really will do that to me?" Western Nefarious Sangha's expression changed and he stared intently at Tang Xiu, trying to see whatever hints were there.

"You'll die now if I will it so. Don't think that you still have means to perish together, for you have yet to see what means I have," said Tang Xiu straightforwardly. "Now, you only have two roads ahead. The first one is for you to submit to me and have the seal cast on you, whereas the second one is death. I have countless ways to kill you and ensure myself to be safe and sound."

Western Nefarious Sangha's expression was constantly changing. He did not know whether he should believe in Tang Xiu, and yet he was afraid that there would only have the end of the road ahead of him if he was to refuse. He was in a dilemma and struggled inwardly for a long while, before he eventually nodded and released his soul.

With a faint smile, Tang Xiu quickly cast the Soul Ruling Spell on his soul. After finishing it, he said with satisfaction, "One who knows to act according to circumstances is a wise one. Your life is in my hands from his moment onward, thus you must obey all of my orders unconditionally."

Western Nefarious Sangha could sense that his fate was controlled by Tang Xiu. But as things had already gotten to this point, so he could only sigh inwardly as he nodded and respectfully said, "I will do everything you bid me do in the future."

"There's nothing I want you to deal with for the time being." Tang Xiu waved his hand. "You are to stay here and cultivate well. Also, I'll impart you a new cultivation technique that may help you to cultivate to the peak of Nascent Buddha Stage. I will contact you later if there's something I want you to do."

After saying that, he took out a jade slip and recorded a cultivation technique of the Buddhist school and then threw it to Western Nefarious Sangha, saying, "My surname is Tang, Tang Xiu. The owner of the Everlasting Feast Hall, to where you must come every year to its HQ in Jingmen Island."

"Understood!" Western Nefarious Sangha nodded respectfully.

While pointing at Golden Armored Zombie, Tang Xiu continued, "You must not blame him, for I was the one who spared his life and gave him some benefits as well, so he was naturally willing to tell me about you. What I demanded from him is very simple, he's not allowed to hurt any ordinary person and I forbade him to kill and rob people for their possessions, which will also be the same thing I demand from you."

Chapter 662: Artificer

Inside the spacious cave, a raging fire was burning under the Demon God Spirit Devourer Cauldron, whereas Tang Xiu was standing in front of it and constantly throwing pieces of jade inside the cauldron and conjuring Daoist techniques and secret arts. Amidst the mysterious aura, the jades went through the process of liquefaction and formed various shapes according to the images inside Tang Xiu's mind: jade bottles, jade boxes, and jade buckets.

While enduring the terrifying heat, Western Nefarious Sangha looked at Tang Xiu's every action, dumbfounded and tongue-tied. He watched as jade bottles, jade boxes, and a jade barrel flew out from the Demon God Soul Devourer Cauldron and then disappeared when Tang Xiu raised his hand.

As a cultivator himself, he was naturally aware that cultivators possessed numerous means and magical abilities, though he himself was only able to arrange a simple array and cast several simple magical spells.

Artificer refining techniques! It was the ability Western Nefarious Sangha had once dreamed of learning. However, he also knew that the refining techniques of Artificers were too abstruse. It would require one to have a good command in controlling True Fire, mastery on arrays, the knowledge on the uses of refining many materials, and many others. The comprehensive amalgamation of these abilities would be needed in order to successfully refine the devices or tools, and also the method to augment and amplify the might of the devices.

"It's nearly done."

A loud voice came from Tang Xiu's mouth. When the last piece of jade was thrown into the Demon God Spirit Devourer Cauldron, his hands conjured a seal and, ten seconds after, the last one-foot-long and half-foot-wide jade box flew out from the inside and then was stored inside his interspatial ring.

Inside the Demon God Spirit Devourer Cauldron remained a lump of warm jade quintessence. After it floated in front of Tang Xiu, his hands quickly drew inscribing lines of an array, as visible light then connected to the dense jade quintessence lump, the pattern of the array constantly flowing into it.

"Aerolite Essence."

Tang Xiu quickly glanced at Western Nefarious Sangha and shouted in a deep tone.

The monk suddenly snapped back to his senses and instantly threw a fist-sized Aerolite Essence to Tang Xiu. After Tang Xiu caught it, he threw it into the Demon God Spirit Devourer Cauldron along with two fist-sized Sky Sandstones and with his last Star Fragment Stone.

Time fleeted by.

The Demon God Spirit Devourer Cauldron was faintly shaking after Tang Xiu threw the jade quintessence into it. The True Fire was blazing more intensely all of a sudden. After a long time burning, Tang Xiu waved his hand to remove the cauldron's lid while his body then rose and floated midair.

The time to inscribe runes came. A glittering green flute flew out from the Demon God Spirit Devourer Cauldron and Tang Xiu stretched his hand out to catch it. At this time, he released the Bloodguzzler Dagger and unceasingly inscribed exquisite and elegant patterns of a dragon and a dancing phoenix on the jade flute. The exquisite pattern of the Coiling Dragon and Phoenix then took shape, as either the five-clawed Dragon or the spread-wings Phoenix was so skillfully imitated and indistinguishable from the original as they were so lifelike.

Quiver…

As Tang Xiu carved the seal runes on the jade flute, an incomparably magnificent resplendent light immediately emitted out from it.

Tang Xiu waved his hand to completely destroy the Raging Flame Symbol and put out the True Fire. After collecting the Demon God Spirit Devourer Cauldron into his interspatial ring, he looked at the at jade flute in his hand that he just successfully crafted with a satisfied expression. It could only be considered as a magic treasure previously, but after he carved a special array of runes on it, calling it a magic flute was not an exaggeration, as the object gained magical power on its own.

"Western Nefarious Sangha, do you want to hear me play a song for you?" Tang Xiu turned around and asked with a smile.

"You will play me the flute? Alright… I'll be listening." Western Nefarious Sangha was surprised.

Tang Xiu lightly smiled and melodious flute sounds floated out in an instant. The sound of the flute was very beautiful, fascinating, and mesmerizing; while the fluttering note seemingly had a magical force within, making Western Nefarious Sangha not help but be attracted to the flute's sound. His state of mind gradually relaxed, and along with a blurriness that covered his sight, the Immortal World was finally presented to him.

Enthrallment. It was like an endless temptation, and Western Nefarious Sangha was pulled deeply to immerse himself within. His eyes were blurry and a smile was painted on his face. The wrinkles on his face were stretched out and a smile covered his old face.

"Demonic attack!"

Tang Xiu shouted inwardly, and the melodious sound of the flute abruptly changed, from the previous mellow tone to a violent explosive gale. But in the eyes of Western Nefarious Sangha, that fairyland-like world instantly began to submerge. The shining golden light in the firmament was covered with black flames from all sides, and countless black fireballs containing destructive force continuously fell from the sky.

The land shook, rivers flowed backward, and every beautiful thing in the world was reduced and scattered into fragments. Cracks were formed and expanded while the lava billowed upward; countless humans, birds, animals, and beasts were screaming, howling, as they were swallowed and smashed.

Hideous and sinister Ashura looking monsters descended from the vault of heaven riding on the devastating black fireballs, carrying weapons and jumping down to smash all walk of lives all over the world.

Corpses were littered on the ground and covered the land everywhere, while blood was flowing over the ground like rivers.

Inside the world sketched and depicted by the flute's sound, Western Nefarious Sangha could only see his family and friends being either ruthlessly engulfed by the magma or killed more cruelly by the savage Ashura monsters. In front of him there was only left his former son, who was about to be hacked by an Ashura monster's blade.

Sorrow and grief; wrath and rage. The emotion swallowed him up like a tide. He raised his wand, wanting to protect his son. And yet, the world before his eyes abruptly changed and he could not move his raised hand.

At this time, Tang Xiu stopped blowing the flute and watched the raging expression on Western Nefarious Sangha's face. He folded his arms and smiled with indifference as he said, "Well, the refinement of this magic weapon could be said as successful since its demonic sound can drag you deep into a phantasmagoric state. If there was someone around you at that moment, it would be very easy to kill you."

Was it all an illusion?

Western Nefarious Sangha's pupils contracted and his body shook. He staggeringly stepped backward and then looked at Tang Xiu with fear on his face, like he was seeing a ghost in broad daylight.

That's right! If anyone wanted to kill me a while ago, I would never have the chance to detect them; even an ordinary person could have killed me.

"How did you do it?" Asked Western Nefarious Sangha with a bit dry voice. There was fear on his face.

"Playing the flute is nothing but a trivial skill, to be frank." Tang Xiu smiled and said, "What I played before is called 'The Song of Apocalypse'. A Demonic cultivator who was proficient in music created this song after spending a lot of time and energy before finally composing the song. Anyways, forget it. You won't understand it even if I tell you more considering your current knowledge."

Western Nefarious Sangha gulped down and let out a hollow laugh with an embarrassed expression. He was already shocked to the point of dread ever since Tang Xiu and his two subordinates came here and unleashed their endless means. Needless to say about that young man and young woman whose strength was at Golden Core Stage, Tang Xiu's refining techniques were enough to make him look up to them.

Whoosh…

A projectile made of stencil paper was shot at him. After Western Nefarious Sangha caught it, he looked at Tang Xiu in a surprised expression, "What is this, Boss?"

"I borrowed your treasure to refine something, so it's only natural that I give you something in exchange." Tang Xiu smiled. "That is half of an Essence Amassing Pill; it can increase strength worth 30 years of cultivation. Unfortunately, I have no precious medicinal herbs, else I could easily refine one or two Essence Amassing Pills."

Half of this pill would add 30 years of cultivation?

Western Nefarious Sangha was greatly shaken inwardly. His hand that held the Essence Amassing Pill was trembling. Although he had taken a lot of precious medicinal herbs such as Tianshan Snow Lotus, several hundred years old Fleece-flower Root, and nearly 1000 years old Spirit Affinity Mushroom… yet, none of those medicinal herbs had the effect of increasing his cultivation by this much.

"What a treasure!"

Western Nefarious Sangha stared at the Essence Amassing Pill in his hand with a fervent expression, and could not wait to immediately swallow it. However, with Tang Xiu present in front of him, he could only suppress the desire. He then said gratefully, "Thank you so much, Boss."

"Leave the ceremony out. There's no need to be overly courteous." Tang Xiu shook his head and smilingly said, "I already told you that you will get many benefits as long as you really submit yourself to me wholeheartedly. Alright, it's about time I leave this place. I have stayed here for a couple of days already."

"Boss, maybe I can give you some precious medicinal herbs if you need them," said Western Nefarious Sangha hastily.

"Do you have precious herbs?" Asked Tang Xiu with a surprised expression.

"Other types of objects are not many in existence in the Western Region, but we can find many precious herbs here," said Western Nefarious Sangha. "I have dug out a lot of precious herbs and planted them in a nearby cave. I usually take them as a medicated diet since I don't know anything related to alchemical techniques, though."

Tang Xiu was overjoyed and immediately said, "Take me there to have a look, then."

"Alright."

Western Nefarious Sangha brought Tang Xiu out of the cave. He nodded at Light, who sat cross-legged in the cave entrance, and then flew toward the left side of the pathway halfway up to the mountain. A minute later, the two men arrived in front of the entrance to a dark cave. Just as Tang Xiu entered the cave, he was surprised and amazed to find six fist-sized Soul Tranquilizer Stones embedded on the ceiling of the cave, while the most ingenious thing here was a legendary Luminous Night Pearl placed in the center of those six stones, its bright milky white light illuminating the entire cave.

"No. That is not an ordinary Luminous Night Pearl. Is it… a solidified Dragon's Eye?" Tang Xiu suddenly turned his head and asked in a deep tone, "Is everything here arranged by you?"

"No, I did not arrange it." Western Nefarious Sangha hurriedly shook his head. "It was already like this when I found this place. I've spent a lot of effort and used all sorts of ways I could think of to remove those special ores and that Luminous Night Pearl, and yet I failed every time. Since I found that the spiritual energy here is very rich, then I transformed it into a herb garden. You can see it for yourself. Those are herbs I planted. Some are from seeds I found while some others originated from other places and I transplanted them here."

Tang Xiu also saw that there were dozens of precious herbs planted in the over a thousand square meters of space in the cave, and all of them were very rare and precious herbs. What surprised him the most was that some of those herbs were several hundred years old and there were even two Millennium Wild Ginseng.

"Great. This is great." Tang Xiu nodded with satisfaction. He waved his right hand and layers of qi uprooted dozens of the herbs and stored them in the jade box he just refined.

Upon hearing Tang Xiu's praise, Western Nefarious Sangha turned a bit excited. He looked at Tang Xiu with fervent eyes, wanting to get more concocted pills.

"Go to Shanghai two months later! I will give a few more concocted pills by then. That's right, I have a Holy Healing medicine here, I'll give it to you first!"

After saying that, Tang Xiu threw the Holy Healing medicine to the monk.

He did not take all the herbs planted in this cave since he could feel that the spiritual energy in this place was very rich and was very suitable to the growth of herbs.

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