Chapter 668 550: Pei Yuhang's Unbearable Past, Returning to the Saintess Hall

"Did we succeed?"

Ji Shenyun watched Yuan Tianming's limp body fall to the ground, a flash of joyful surprise in her eyes.

But Pei Yuhang shook his head.

"This body is just a puppet. His true self has likely already attached to that skeleton, and besides—"

Pei Yuhang looked at the ground and walls, which were paved with thick blood vessels. Seeing no sign of them receding, he knew the battle was far from over.

SQUELCH SQUELCH—

A viscous, squirming sound echoed.

Pei Yuhang focused his gaze and saw half of a scarlet skull, swarmed by blood vessels, flying toward the giant skeleton.

He recognized the skull. It was the Blood Skull Chalice he had seized from the Demon Race. He recalled Yuan Tianming's scarlet eyes and familiar aura back in the Endless Sea.

Pei Yuhang instantly understood.

'Has Master truly gone mad? His real consciousness... it was transferred into this skull!'

"Ji Shenyun, stop it! That's his real body!"

The moment Pei Yuhang spoke, Ji Shenyun shot forward like an arrow released from its bow.

Pei Yuhang followed close behind, cutting off Yuan Tianming's escape route.

Just as the two closed in, Shang Miaoyan, her eyes still bleeding, suddenly noticed the divine light radiating from the mountain-sized skeleton flicker unnaturally.

"Xiaohan, something's wrong!"

Shang Miaoyan cried out urgently.

But before Pei Yuhang could react, two incandescent white pillars of light, refracting a seven-colored spectrum, descended from the sky and slammed into him and Ji Shenyun.

In an instant, both felt as if a mountain range had been dropped on their backs.

The ground beneath their feet cracked layer by layer. Pei Yuhang coughed up blood, pinned directly to the floor.

Ji Shenyun was forced to her knees. She struggled to lift her head and look at the Divine King's Skeleton above, but she couldn't move an inch.

The crimson skull, held aloft by the incandescent light, slowly flew into the air, and Yuan Tianming's voice emanated from it.

[Pei Yuhang, my dear disciple, thanks to your efforts, I was forced to use Its power during the initial stage of controlling this divine body. This means my thousands of years of preparation in this life have all gone to waste. My fusion with the divine body is continuously dropping, and I have to start all over again.]

[Heh heh, I went to great lengths to start a war and trick so many Cultivators into coming to the Endless Sea to become fodder for my control over It. Tricking that many people again will be very difficult.]

[Yuhang, how do you plan to compensate your master?]

Crushed to the ground by immense gravity, Pei Yuhang painstakingly forced out a few words:

"Monster... I'm certain of it—you're not the old man. Kill me or torture me, do as you please. Just spare me the bullshit!"

[Hmph. As it happens, I need a body that is young and promising enough to walk the mortal world and start my plans anew. Your Giant Sun Saint Body is quite good. Since you've ruined everything for me, you can compensate me with your life.]

As the crimson skull spoke, countless tentacles extended from below it, attempting to cover Pei Yuhang's body.

"Stop!"

Ji Shenyun struggled to get up, but as a second incandescent pillar of light pressed down on her, the body she had just managed to prop up was slammed back down.

"Bastard..."

Ji Shenyun watched Pei Yuhang with indignation. 'I can't let him fall into Yuan Tianming's hands so easily, or else I'll die too because of the Mother-Child Unity Curse!'

Suddenly, a graceful figure shot through the air like an arrow released from a bow.

It was Shang Miaoyan.

Her black hair was a mess, and two streaks of undried blood stained her beautiful face, but her bright eyes shone with astonishing brilliance. The Red Lotus Rune circulating within them seemed to burn with a fire that could incinerate all things.

The crimson skull slowly turned, its empty eye sockets sweeping indifferently over her wretched figure.

The next moment, a scarlet frost erupted, engulfing her completely like the maw of a great beast.

The frigid energy raged, instantly forming a translucent iceberg that froze her within.

[Futile.] The skull's voice was a dull boom, laced with a hint of mockery.

[I truly don't understand why you moths still fly into the flame, only to die such a pathetic death.]

After the voice faded, Yuan Tianming paid no more attention to the frozen figure—her ant-like Cultivation was not even worthy of him using the divine body's power to crush.

However—

"CRACK... CRACKLE..."

A faint cracking sound suddenly rang out.

The crimson skull trembled, and he whipped his head around.

Within the scarlet iceberg, a boundless crimson light suddenly burst forth! Fiery patterns bulged and spread like blood vessels, as if some terrifying power was expanding wildly inside!

"BOOM—!!!"

The entire iceberg exploded, sending shards of ice shooting out like arrows!

A giant red lotus bloomed defiantly. As its petals swayed, a massive wave of energy, carrying a destructive Suppression, slammed violently into the Divine King's Skeleton!

"Damn it!"

The crimson skull could no longer be bothered with anything else. It hastily activated its Divine Power to protect the skeleton and suppress the immense Red Lotus, but the skull itself was shaken and wobbled continuously.

In that fleeting, spark-like instant, a brilliant, purplish-red stream of light shot out from the core of the Red Lotus. It moved so fast it tore through the air, plunging directly into Pei Yuhang's body, which was wrapped in layers of crimson tentacles!

After Yuan Tianming stabilized himself, he stared at the dissipating illusion of the Red Lotus, his voice finally tinged with alarm.

[Self-detonating her physical body... so decisive!]

[Truly a madwoman...]

He had to admit he had underestimated the woman's ferocious, self-destructive resolve.

Although it was still futile.

SQUELCH SQUELCH—

The squirming sound intensified as more crimson tentacles surged forward, completely engulfing Pei Yuhang. They compressed and enveloped him... finally solidifying into a pulsing, bloody coffin.

Just then, in the dead silence, when all seemed lost...

Beneath the writhing crimson mass, a single point of purple light abruptly shone from Pei Yuhang's lower abdomen.