Deep within the Demon Rune Valley, dead silence and oppression had almost solidified into substance.
On the ground, those dark red formation patterns like living things slowly writhed, greedily drawing the refined resentment force transformed from the imprisoned mortal souls.
The air was permeated with an, mixed with the demonic energy is inherent.
Every breath was like swallowing blades, scraping the lungs and soul.
Tang Xiaoqi, Third Senior Sister Liu Yun, Senior Brother Mu Qingfeng, body cultivator Zhao Tiezhu, and the rabbit spirit curled in Xiaoqi is embrace shivering yet still forcefully, the five-person team was currently hiding in the shadow of a half collapsed.
They had high-level breath-concealing talismans attached to their bodies, their spiritual energy fluctuations suppressed to the lowest, like five lifeless stones.
However, that Foundation Establishment Late Stage elder of the Shadow Snake Pavilion, along with his eight disciples behind him with yet equally strong auras, like blood-scented hounds catching a scent, were the area where they hid.
The elder is being played with, his slowly scanning the, the corner of his mouth carried a.
Hiding and skulking like insects thinking can?
The hoarse voice was not loud, yet clearly, carrying.
Do you come out yourself, taste the suffering of, or wait for to drag you out, extract your souls and refine them, turn you into soul lanterns?
Powerful spiritual sense, like an invisible tide, repeatedly washed over this area.
Xiaoqi could feel Third Senior Sister is body tightly behind him, her knuckles white from gripping the sword hilt.
Senior Brother is breathing was long and steady, his gaze, but the oozing from his temple exposed the immense pressure he bore.
Zhao Tiezhu is body surface faintly glowed with earthy yellow light, that was him preparing to at any moment.
Cannot fight head-on.
Xiaoqi is heart in his chest.
The opponent is strength far exceeded what their team could handle.
Once discovered, it would certainly be total destruction.
He, that was the mystery of his origins, also the only keepsake from Xu Lan Mountain Manor.
Since first activating its power in the abandoned medicine garden behind Qingxu Temple to save the Clarity Heart Grass, he had gained a over the purification source contained within this jade pendant, but merely for nourishing spiritual plants and alleviating low-level toxins.
Never had he considered using it to confront such vast demonic energy.
The Shadow Snake Pavilion elder seemed to lose patience.
He,.
That wisp of pitch-black demonic energy, letting out, shooting toward possible hiding spots like lightning.
One was precisely toward the where they hid.
Prepare.
Senior Brother is voice transmission sounded in everyone is minds, short and solemn.
Third Senior Sister is sword tip began to.
Zhao Tiezhu is throat let out, muscles.
At this critical moment, something in Xiaoqi is mind seemed to.
It was fear, the weighing of reason, also a determination from deep within his blood and soul when driven to desperation.
He could not watch his senior brothers and sister for his sake, could not watch these countless living souls suffer eternally.
I will do it.
Two words, without any deliberation, carrying a, from between his teeth.
He did not wait for others is reaction.
His left hand that had been tightly gripping the jade pendant his.
At the same time, he abandoned all control over his own spiritual power,,, the jade pendant at his chest.
Xiaoqi.
Do not.
Third Senior Sister is was drowned by a.
Initially, just a point of light.
It radiated from between his fingers, gentle, pure, like the first ray of dawn appearing in the darkest moment before dawn.
The next moment.
Hum.
As if a pure white sun had in the core of the Demon Rune Valley.
Centered on Tang Xiaoqi, an indescribable.
No longer the, but with a,.
Where the light reached, like pouring boiling water on snow.
The writhing dark red formation patterns on the ground, the moment they touched the white light, made.
The dense, almost materialized demonic energy was rapidly, purified.
The patterns is light quickly dimmed.
Large areas became ineffective, becoming like scorched.
The demonic energy permeating the air was forcibly, purified.
The.
Those vengeful ghost shadows continuously letting out imprisoned in the formation eyes, under the white light is illumination, their twisted painful faces, as if feeling.
Although quickly pulled back by the formation is power, that fleeting moment of relief made the of the entire Demon Rune Valley pause.
Ah.
A Shadow Snake Pavilion disciple closest was swept by this.
His.
He let out.
His entire person, like being thrown into, rose from his skin surface.
He fell to the ground twitching.
The Foundation Establishment elder was.
He.
The pure light is contained power was like encountering a natural nemesis for him.
His.
He.
His.
His, trying to avoid this light is core area.
His eyes were full of.
The white light continued erupting.
Not intense, yet carrying a emanating from the.
It continuously purified the demonic energy within range.
Xiaoqi stood in the light is center.
His face pale, his body trembling uncontrollably.
He felt his soul.
His, the jade pendant.
The pendant was now scalding hot, tightly pressed against his skin.
Even the subtle sound seemed still ringing in his ears, reminding him his actions were so reckless.
This eruption far exceeded what his current cultivation could.
It was a complete, a of betting everything, regardless of consequences.
Go.
Senior Brother Mu Qingfeng was the first to.
He Xiaoqi, his voice trembling from agitation and urgency.
Third Senior Sister Liu Yun swept her sword light, cutting open the obstacles revealed because the formation had failed.
Zhao Tiezhu.
His,.
He two Shadow Snake Pavilion disciples weakened by the white light, who had tried to obstruct.
The purification light is eruption, like throwing a into the.
It not only temporarily, tearing open a path of survival, but also like in the silent night.
It exposed them five, especially Xiaoqi at the light is core, completely to all that sensed this.
Outside the Demon Rune Valley, more Shadow Snake Pavilion patrol teams were.
A series of were rushing from all directions.
And farther away, some also, because of this refined and restraining purification aura.
The path of survival had appeared, but greater crises were also following.
Xiaoqi, supported by his senior brother,.
He looked back at that yet, and those within it.
He,, that,.
He had detonated the purification source, illuminating the path of survival, also igniting himself, becoming the most conspicuous target within this demon domain.