Chapter 626 - 174: Refining the Golden Body with Geng Metal Evil Qi, Old Demon Ghost Bone’s Killing Intent Arrives

Chapter 626: Chapter 174: Refining the Golden Body with Geng Metal Evil Qi, Old Demon Ghost Bone’s Killing Intent Arrives

The whole affair was utterly bizarre!

With a thought, the Ghost Bone Elder’s vast and chilling Divine Sense surged forth like an invisible tide. It swept over the Geng Metal Evil Qi Forbidden Land ahead, attempting to probe the situation within.

However, the moment his Divine Sense touched the core of the Forbidden Land...

It was deflected and misled by an unseen force, as if it had crashed into a complex, invisible labyrinth, unable to find anything tangible.

’He actually set up an Array?’

A glint flashed in the Ghost Bone Elder’s eyes as he instantly realized something was wrong.

Someone had laid an exquisite Array in the very core of the land, where the Geng Metal Evil Qi was densest!

This Array not only disrupted the already violent Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism, but it also perfectly blocked his Divine Sense from probing any deeper.

He let out a cold snort as a palm-sized bone disc slid out from his wide sleeve.

On the disc’s surface, Runes flickered in and out of view, and two specks of light—one red, one green—shone with a faint glow.

The green dot, which represented Chu Fan’s location, was particularly bright, its light almost spilling off the edge of the disc.

But the disc tracked the aura of the Blood Curse he had planted. It could only confirm that Chu Fan was in this area, not pinpoint his exact location.

The Ghost Bone Elder’s withered fingers gently caressed the disc, his eyes darting about, gleaming with cunning and caution.

He didn’t recklessly charge into the heart-pounding Geng Metal Evil Qi region just because his prey was close at hand.

To have remained at large, evading the Demon Suppression Bureau’s pursuit for so many years, he relied on more than just tyrannical strength; he possessed a caution and meticulousness that was dozens of times greater than an ordinary person’s—it was almost pathological.

His Divine Sense no longer focused on breaking through the Array. Instead, it spread out meticulously in all directions like a fine spiderweb, refusing to miss the slightest disturbance.

「In an instant—」

The Ghost Bone Elder’s stooped figure trembled violently as if bitten by a viper, and alarm bells screamed in his mind!

With no time to think, his entire body exploded into a cloud of dense black fog with a BANG, fleeing westward like a startled crow!

At the very same moment he dissolved into fog and fled...

The enormous black skeletal Demon Puppet at his feet let out a silent roar. The Soul Fire in its eye sockets flared to several times its normal size as its massive Bone Scythe swung backward in a ferocious slash, letting out a sharp shriek that tore through the air!

The move was swift, vicious, and fast as lightning—a purely instinctual reaction to protect its master!

WHOOSH!

A blurry Residual Image appeared just beside the arc of the Bone Scythe’s swing. Like a phantom, he had dodged the mountain-cleaving blow by a hair’s breadth!

The Residual Image solidified in an instant. It was Chu Fan!

His face was as cold as ice. The moment he dodged the Bone Scythe, he used his forward momentum to suddenly drop lower. The muscles on his arm bulged and knotted, glowing with a faint Dark Gold luster. Clenching his right fist like iron, he threw a fast, unadorned punch that smashed right into the Demon Puppet’s right ankle joint!

"BOOM!"

A dull thud, like striking tanned hide, exploded outward!

The Demon Puppet’s bones, as hard as Refined Gold, were as fragile as rotten wood before Chu Fan’s fist, which was infused with Vajra Gang Qi. They instantly shattered, sending bone fragments flying everywhere!

The Demon Puppet’s enormous body immediately lost its balance. With a sickening, grating sound of bone scraping against bone, it began to topple to the right!

Pressing his advantage, Chu Fan executed a profound footwork technique, his figure closing the distance again in a flash of lightning!

Before the Demon Puppet could even crash to the ground, he had already leaped into the air and thrown another punch. The wind from his fist howled, carrying an unstoppable, ferocious power as it smashed squarely into the Demon Puppet’s massive skull, where the eerie green Soul Fire burned!

"SPLAT!"

A loud noise, like a watermelon bursting, rang out!

The Demon Puppet’s skull was instantly crushed to powder by the ferocious power. The eerie green Soul Fire was abruptly extinguished, and shattered bone fragments shot out in all directions!

With a CLATTER, the massive skeleton collapsed to the ground, falling completely still, unable to move another inch.

"Chu Fan!"

In the distance, the black fog reconsolidated, and the Ghost Bone Elder’s furious, startled shriek tore through the air!

He never imagined that the boy would not only dare to take the initiative, but that his strength would have soared to such an unbelievable degree!

The last time they met, Chu Fan could only flee in a panic. Now, he actually dared to face the Demon Puppet head-on. His methods were so vicious and his physical body so tyrannical—it was as if he were a completely different person!

Amidst his shriek, a bizarre Black Sword wreathed in black energy—condensed from countless Resentful Souls—shot out like a bolt of black lightning, aiming straight for the vital point on Chu Fan’s back!

Before the sword even arrived, a bone-chilling, venomous aura washed over him. It carried a malevolent power that could erode the Divine Soul, enough to freeze the Divine Soul of an ordinary Bright Heart Realm Cultivator and leave them helpless, awaiting their death!

But Chu Fan, as if he had eyes in the back of his head, didn’t even turn around. He reached back, and his five fingers clamped onto the body of the Black Sword like iron pincers!

His fingers suddenly tightened, and Dark Gold Gang Qi erupted from his palm!

"BANG!"

The Black Sword of Resentful Souls, capable of piercing metal and corroding meridians, actually exploded in his palm, dissolving into pure yin qi and shattered resentment.

The surrounding Geng Metal Evil Qi immediately swept in, slicing it apart and dispersing it. In an instant, it vanished without a trace, not even a single wisp remaining!

"Netherworld Soul Refining Technique!"

Chu Fan let out a low shout. His fingers moved like butterflies flitting through flowers as he instantly formed a profound and complex Dharma Seal.

The next moment, several chains of spectral light, condensed from pure Divine Thought, shot out from his palm. Like vipers striking from a cave, they accurately bored into the Demon Puppet’s remains!

The chains pulled taut with a RATTLE, instantly locking onto a powerful Fierce Soul that was hidden in the Demon Puppet’s core, trying to escape amidst the chaos!

Then, something bizarre happened.

From Chu Fan’s surprise attack to his effortless destruction of the Demon Puppet and the forced Refinement of its Fierce Soul, only a few short breaths of time had passed.