#577 - Red-haired demon, the curse of the end of the world

Inside the Eternal Life Temple, Jun Wuxie lay on the ground, gasping for breath.

His soul was too exhausted; he longed to rest for a moment, but he knew this was not the time to relax.

The crisis of the soul had passed, but his physical body was in grave danger. At this moment, his body was likely invaded by a great deal of Dark Curse.

He roused his spirits and opened a passage in the Eternal Life Temple's space, allowing his soul's will to enter his physical body and control its power.

This method differed from the soul residing within the body in that his main soul would not be attacked by the Dark Curse; only a portion of his soul's consciousness would return to his body.

Although that portion of soul consciousness would suffer a fierce impact, the main soul remained intact, preventing that portion of soul consciousness from completely losing control.

"Fortunately, I have the Eternal Life Temple, or I would have been finished this time…"

A portion of his mental consciousness returned to his physical body. He saw that his body was filled with the power of the Dark Curse. Just as the World Tree had said, that Dark Matter was like a terrible virus, already permeating every corner of his body, his limbs, and his bones.

"My body, every inch of flesh and blood, has been soaked in darkness. How can I expel it from my body right now?"

He couldn't help but feel a headache coming on. Those Dark Curses filled his entire body, with the most concentrated in his inner world and brain.

The Dark Curse in his inner world was frantically eroding the stars condensed from his blood energy and impacting his Natal Star.

However, it seemed to be hindered when it impacted the Natal Star.

The Natal Star was invisible, but it truly existed at the center of the Star Ocean. Due to the enormous devouring power it generated, a dazzling, rotating golden halo formed around its dark periphery.

He discovered a strange phenomenon.

The power of the Dark Curse, the gray-black substance, while eroding the Star Ocean, divided into thousands of strands, slowly heading towards the central Natal Star.

Slowly!

The strangeness lay here.

Those gray-black substances were unscrupulous when eroding the Star Ocean, piercing into the blood energy stars like long strands of hair, causing the golden stars to begin to show black纹络 and even exude a gray-black aura.

However, its erosion of the Natal Star seemed cautious. When the Dark Matter, like thousands of strands of hair, reached the golden halo around the Natal Star, Jun Wuxie felt his Natal Star tremble slightly.

In an instant, a devouring power, much stronger than usual, was generated, causing the Dark Force that touched the golden halo to be suddenly sucked and twisted, rotating with the golden halo, being pulled into the black void in the middle.

At this moment, he saw the gray-black aura of the Dark Matter surging into the sky, resisting the devouring power of the Natal Star, seemingly wanting to break free, causing his physical body to shake violently, the inner world to roar, nearly disintegrating his already broken body!

"What's going on? That Dark Matter, does it seem to fear my Natal Star?"

Seeing this, Jun Wuxie's spirits lifted.

"It seems that it can't erode my Natal Star in a short time. As long as the Natal Star is not eroded, my body will not completely fall into darkness!"

Jun Wuxie felt a little relieved. The most important thing right now was not to expel the Dark Matter, but to repair the damage to his physical body.

Otherwise, after the Dark Matter clashed with the Natal Star a few more times, his body would fall apart.

As for why the Natal Star would autonomously resist the Dark Curse without his will controlling it, he had no mind to think about it.

Immediately, he mobilized the source of life within his body, starting to nourish and repair the damaged internal organs, bones, meridians, flesh, and so on.

At the same time, he controlled his physical body to take out the blood of a Half-Sage, violently gulping down several mouthfuls, and refining life spirit milk and other resources.

These resources were all great medicines of life, with extremely strong effects.

The vigorous and pure life energy circulated within his body, flowing to his limbs and bones, nourishing his body and repairing his wounds again and again.

During this process, the Natal Star and the Dark Curse continued to clash, occasionally shaking out a burst of aftershocks. If it weren't for the inner world separating them, his physical body would not have been able to withstand it.

However, with his repairs, his physical body did not nearly disintegrate as it had before.

Although each vibration would cause damage to his body, its frequency was not high, which allowed his body to continuously recover.

… …

"Tian Ming, what have you found?"

Outside the strange cave, Gu Yin and Hun You arrived here. Seeing that there was a stone cave here, and the rune light at the entrance supported a patch of quagmire, their faces both showed surprise: "There is actually a cave here?"

Tian Ming glanced at the cave in front of him, his expression somewhat unnatural. If you looked closely, you could faintly see cold sweat on his temples.

He turned to look at Gu Yin and Hun You, pointed to a protruding rock platform in front of the cave, and said: "Look, what is this?"

"Golden blood!"

Gu Yin and Hun You's pupils shrank violently, and their killing intent soared into the sky in an instant.

"That kid has been here. It seems that his injuries are indeed extremely serious. Otherwise, with his body's recovery ability, he would have stopped the bleeding long ago. How could blood have flowed out!"

Gu Yin stepped forward, staring at the golden blood on the ground. He had never thought that the target would be in the stone cave in front of him.

If he was really in that stone cave, Tian Ming would have already taken action. How could he have endured calling them here?

"Hey! Fellow Daoist Gu Yin, you predicted that he was hiding under this quagmire, and it is indeed so. Now there is nothing to doubt. Since he is here, then he will not be able to escape!"

Hun You's eyes flashed with a cold light.

"I have already found him!"

Tian Ming said suddenly.

"What? Where is he?"

The corners of Gu Yin and Hun You's eyes twitched, and the two couldn't help but look at the cave in front of them.

"That's right, he should be inside, but whether he is dead or alive is unknown."

Tian Ming moved his body a few steps to the side, and Gu Yin and Hun You immediately saw the entrance of the cave. There was also golden blood there, as well as footprints, some deep and some shallow.

Seeing such a scene, they knew that Tian Ming's analysis would not be wrong, and that kid must be inside.

"Is there anything special about this cave that you didn't go in?"

The two realized that Tian Ming seemed to be very afraid of the cave in front of them.

At the entrance of the cave, and at a distance of more than ten meters inside the cave, there was golden blood on the ground.

Tian Ming said: "Why don't you go to the entrance and feel it?"

Hearing this, Gu Yin and Hun You almost simultaneously stepped towards the cave.

When they came to the entrance, their expressions changed drastically. A strange and evil aura surged out from inside like a flood.

Moreover, strange and sharp sounds drilled into their ears, like the wails of fierce ghosts, impacting people's minds, impacting people's will and souls, causing their minds to shake violently.

At this time, they saw a corner of the cave.

In the direction directly opposite the cave entrance, there was a hexagonal stone platform in the depths of the cave, with six stone pillars standing on it, and a corpse was locked on it, with an ancient sword inserted into its chest.

The corpse lay in the air in the shape of a large character, pulled by iron chains. Its hair was several meters long and fell to the ground. The skin exposed outside the clothes was actually covered with blood-red hair, and the sharp fingernails on its hands shone with a dark light.

"Crimson-haired demon, Doomsday Curse!"

Gu Yin and Hun You exclaimed, retreating, and did not stop until they could no longer feel the strange and evil aura.

They looked at the cave in horror, and it took a long time to come back to their senses, looked at Tian Ming, and said: "How can there be such a thing here?"

"This is the Dragon Ridge Mountains, and anything, no matter how terrible, is possible. It has always been like this since ancient times. You can't not know!"

Tian Ming's face was very gloomy. That kid actually went in. How dare he go in?

"No, that kid actually dared to go in?" Gu Yin said in a deep voice: "Judging from his growth trajectory, he is definitely not the kind of person who accepts his fate. If he knew he would die, why would he enter?"

"Not necessarily die!" Tian Ming's face was slightly distorted, with an unspeakable jealousy, and said: "We have been searching for him here for many days, and he has avoided us all. How do you think he did it?"

"You mean, he can find us before we find him?"

Gu Yin and Hun You's hearts jumped violently.

They had been suspecting it all along, but they were unwilling to admit it, because it was too impossible, simply like a fantasy.

"Otherwise?" Tian Ming gritted his teeth and said: "We are all unwilling to admit it, but we have to admit that that kid's soul realm is higher than ours, and he has probably reached the Great Heavenly Realm!"

"Great Heavenly Realm…" Gu Yin pondered slightly, then suddenly looked at the cave and said: "That is to say, his soul may be able to resist the erosion of the Doomsday Curse?"

"That's right, he dared to enter, presumably because he had confidence in his heart! Now, he is hiding in the cave, but we can't do anything about him! If it takes a long time, and he recovers from his injuries, if he finds another way out in the cave, he may escape from us again! This person is too monstrous, many things that seem impossible to us, but have become possible in him!"

"There is Jin Luo guarding outside, even if he finds a way out, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to escape, right?"

Hun You said this.

Tian Ming shook his head: "At that time, he was exhausted under the heavenly tribulation, and he was still able to escape from my hands. Can you guarantee that Jin Luo will not fail? The most important thing is that kid's pet, that strange blue divine beast!"

"You said that is a divine beast? Impossible, how could it be a divine beast?"

Gu Yin looked incredulous. Apart from the fact that a dragon in the Dragon Ridge Mountains succeeded in transformation a year ago, there has never been any trace of divine beasts in this world.

At that time, they were all self-sealed and asleep, and they did not know about this, and they missed the opportunity to capture the fire dragon in vain. Thinking about it now, they are still annoyed.

Later, they searched for a long time in the edge area of the Dragon Ridge Mountains, but they could not find the fire dragon, and finally they had to give up.

What are Divine Beasts? According to legends, they are beings whose bloodline growth intensity can reach the Mythic Realm upon adulthood, possessing immense power!

In fact, it wasn't that he didn't believe it; he had suspected it for a long time, but he deliberately avoided mentioning it.

“How is it impossible? If it were a Sacred Beast or a Heavenly Sacred Beast, it wouldn't possess such heaven-defying secret techniques! That beast is only in its infancy, its realm only equivalent to a Half-Step Saint Realm, yet one secret technique caused me to be unable to avoid it, instantly losing all six senses! Have you ever seen such heaven-defying methods?”

Tian Ming glanced at Gu Yin meaningfully. How could he not know what the other party was thinking?

At that time, because he had lost track of Jun Wuxie, he was thinking about how to explain it to avoid losing too much face. In a moment of haste, he mentioned the secret technique of the strange beast beside Jun Wuxie.

But he regretted it as soon as he finished speaking. He knew that Gu Yin and Jin Luo might have ideas.

Now, Gu Yin was doing just that, clearly guessing that it might be a Divine Beast, but deliberately pretending not to believe it.

“We can't miss the opportunity to kill him!” Gu Yin's heart stirred, his eyes burning with madness and ruthlessness, and he charged directly towards the cave: “Watch me go capture and kill him!”

“Gu Yin, don't enter!”

Tian Ming and Hun You's expressions changed drastically, and they rushed forward almost simultaneously, grabbing him and pulling him back.

“Are you afraid of death?”

Gu Yin sneered, deliberately mocking.

“Fellow Daoist Gu Yin, watch your words! If we were afraid of death, we wouldn't risk being liquidated by the Martial Saint to kill that Jun brat!” Tian Ming pointed to the cave and said: “In which era was the Red-Haired Fiend suppressed and killed? Even today, the aura of the doomsday curse inside is still so terrifying. Do you think you can resist the erosion?”

Hun You also said: “If you can't resist the erosion of the doomsday curse, you will turn into a Red-Haired Fiend with no sanity, killing anyone you see, and you will definitely attack us. Wouldn't that create an opportunity for the Jun brat to escape?”

“Hmph!”

Gu Yin was unconvinced on the surface, but he knew in his heart that the result was very likely to be like that, and he didn't really want to rush in.

Tian Ming said: “We all know what you're thinking. Who doesn't want a Divine Beast? But rushing in like this is equivalent to helping that Jun brat. We only need to retreat from the swamp mud and return to the surface to completely seal off this area!”

Gu Yin said: “What if there is an exit inside the cave leading to another place? What if he runs away?”

“Even if there is an exit, it will most likely lead to other areas of this swamp.”

Gu Yin thought for a while and said: “The field here is too strong, and our perception is limited. If that brat escapes through the farthest gap between our defenses, he still has a chance of success! I think we should inform the Great Heavenly Realm experts above and let them come here. In that case, even if the Jun brat grows wings, he will not be able to escape death!”

Tian Ming pondered slightly, and then said: “The problem is, if the Great Heavenly Realm makes a move, will it directly lead out the Martial Saint? If that's the case, the consequences would be unimaginable.”

Gu Yin said in a deep voice: “There's no need for the Great Heavenly Realm to kill that brat, but they can use some means to stop him. If that brat delays for even half a second while escaping in front of us, he will definitely die.”

Tian Ming looked at Hun You, and they looked at each other, both remaining silent and thoughtful.

Gu Yin's suggestion was playing on the edge, which was very dangerous.

They came from the Pure Heaven Sect and the Soul Hunting Hall, and they had suffered too much at the hands of the Martial Saint. This was something that Gu Yin of the Ancient Phoenix Sect could not understand, because the Ancient Phoenix Sect had never suffered at the hands of the Martial Saint, and they would not know that kind of pain!

But if only the Great Heavenly Realm Half-Saint of the Ancient Phoenix Sect came, wouldn't the Divine Beast definitely fall into the hands of the Ancient Phoenix Sect when Jun Wuxie was killed?

“Tian Ming, we two forces only need one Great Heavenly Realm to come. Afterwards, if the Martial Saint wants to liquidate, he won't liquidate us all. Your Pure Heaven Sect and my Soul Hunting Hall have the same origin, one in the light and one in the dark, and are originally one.”

Hun You transmitted his voice to Tian Ming, saying this.

“Then let the Great Heavenly Realm of our Pure Heaven Sect come. Your Soul Hunting Hall has already lost a large number of Half-Saints at the hands of the Martial Saint, and you can't afford to lose any more.”

Tian Ming secretly responded, and then nodded to Gu Yin, saying: “Since Fellow Daoist Gu Yin has this suggestion, then I will send a message to the Great Heavenly Realm Half-Saint of the sect and let him come here.”

Gu Yin's expression changed slightly upon hearing this.

He originally thought that the Pure Heaven Sect and the Soul Hunting Hall had suffered a lot at the hands of the Martial Saint, and they would not agree this time.

In that case, if they killed Jun Wuxie, their Ancient Phoenix Sect would be able to obtain that Divine Beast.

But he didn't expect that Tian Ming would actually agree with his idea and also want to let the Great Heavenly Realm of the sect come here.

“Two Fellow Daoists, the Great Heavenly Realm Half-Saints of my Soul Hunting Hall are all sealed and sleeping and cannot come here. Having the Great Heavenly Realms of your two sects is already sufficient.”

Hun You said this.

“Well, so be it. I know that your Soul Hunting Hall is afraid of the Martial Saint, and since that's the case, I won't force it.”

Gu Yin's words were sarcastic, pretending to be displeased, but he was relieved in his heart.

At that time, only their Ancient Phoenix Sect and the Pure Heaven Sect would be competing for the ownership of the Divine Beast, without the Soul Hunting Hall, and the hope would be much greater.

“Let's go, let's go to the surface. The aura here is unsettling.”

Tian Ming said, and Gu Yin and Hun You nodded in agreement.

They also felt frightened. When they saw the Red-Haired Fiend inside and thought of the doomsday curse, their backs felt cold.

Red-Haired Fiends were not unfamiliar to sects like them that had been passed down for many epochs!

They were things that only appeared at the end of the Great Era in each epoch.

Red-Haired Fiends could be humans or other living beings, all of whom were contaminated by the power of the doomsday curse that appeared at the end of the epoch, thus undergoing mutation.

The end of the epoch! Their sect's ancient books recorded too much, unimaginable terror!