Golden lightning illuminated the entire cavern like the sun at midday, turning the corpses of ten thousand men into black ash under its power.
Four massive hands, charred black by the blasts, slowly opened.
The old woman stood within the hands, her face as dark and heavy as water. Only half of the eyeball on her head remained, oozing crimson blood and greyish-white fluid.
"Good! Very good!"
Her aged body trembled with rage as she clutched the scepter in her hand, panting as she gritted her teeth and said, "All my years of effort, ruined by you just like that. Truly excellent..."
Before the old woman could finish, she felt a figure suddenly blur before her, startling her into hastily manipulating the giant hand seals to protect herself.
In her heart, she couldn't help but curse this person for being so unsportsmanlike.
As a righteous cultivator, to attack an old woman like her without even letting her finish speaking was truly despicable.
The old woman sneered inwardly, fortunate that she was still sharp and quick, her skills undiminished.
She had protected herself with the giant hand seals at the first possible moment.
Chen Changsheng's fist landed, striking the giant hand seal with fierce and violent force.
The enormous back of the hand caved inward from the impact, unfortunately hitting the old woman's face.
Bang—
The terrifying force, like the crushing weight of an ancient divine elephant, sent both the protective hand seal and the old woman flying backward simultaneously, crashing into the cavern wall in a disheveled manner, stirring up a cloud of dust.
Suddenly.
A streak of energy pierced through the dust cloud, shooting out with astonishing speed.
Chen Changsheng's Dharma Idol emerged behind him, holding the Dragon Elephant Heaven Suppressing Halberd, and he cleaved the incoming streak of energy in half!
Boom!
In an instant, the void shattered, and chaotic Daoist energy exploded and scattered, causing the entire stone cave to tremble.
The old woman's figure soared into the air, and one could vaguely see blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, the bones of her jaw caved in by the earlier punch, though the eyeball on her head had already returned to normal.
Thump!
A blood-colored ripple spread from the eyeball, accompanied by the deafening sound of a heartbeat.
The two giant hand seals in the air formed seals once more, creating a beam of blood-red light that shot towards Chen Changsheng's brow.
Seeing this familiar scene, Chen Changsheng calmly produced a bronze mirror and shone it towards the eyeball.
Buzz!
The red light shattered like glass, and the rippling blood-colored energy dissipated like smoke at that moment.
Only a smooth, blood-colored eyeball remained, staring wide-eyed in mid-air.
The old woman's face instantly froze upon seeing this: "How is this possible?! He broke my illusion with just one look?"
The eyeball's main function was to create illusions.
The evil illusion cast by the old woman was enough to control even late-stage Deity Transformation cultivators, which was why Cheng Ziyue had lost consciousness so quickly.
But Chen Changsheng possessed the Divine Eye, making him not only immune to illusions but also able to discern the weaknesses of the old woman's evil arts.
The source of the old woman's bizarre evil arts was precisely this eyeball in the air!
Compared to her previous arrogance and ferocity, the old woman's face was now visibly weakened, and a few almost imperceptible beads of sweat had appeared on her forehead.
"This old one does not wish to continue entangling with you, fellow Daoist. Surely you are not interested in arguing with a group of dead people, so why don't we part ways here?"
They were just a group of dead people; it would be unwise to fight her, an evil cultivator, to the death in this secret realm for their sake.
Under normal circumstances, wise righteous cultivators would choose to part ways with evil cultivators.
After all, the main purpose of exploring the Spirit Sea Secret Realm was to seek opportunities, not to slay demons and exterminate evil.
"Part ways here?" Chen Changsheng chuckled lightly, shaking his head. "Do you know my identity?"
"This old one knows that someone of your profound background must have a noble identity..."
"I am from the Demon Suppression Division of Taiping Town!"
Chen Changsheng interrupted the old woman's flattery, and the moment his words fell, the old woman's pupils constricted, and she immediately understood his meaning.
The Demon Suppression Division of Taiping Town existed precisely to suppress all demons and evil under heaven.
Any demon or evil cultivator who encountered a Demon Suppression Division disciple was destined to die!
Even if they were in the secret realm, they would inevitably fight to the death; they were the only group of cultivators who would abandon opportunities to slay demons and exterminate evil.
"Damn it!"
The old woman couldn't help but curse under her breath.
What bad luck, to run into a Demon Suppression Division disciple!
Realizing that there was no room for negotiation, she immediately shook her scepter.
The four giant hand seals, blackened by lightning, instantly formed two overlapping triangular hand gestures, and beams of Daoist energy shot out from the triangles.
Chen Changsheng also did not waste words with the old woman, and the Dharma Idol phantom floating behind him continuously cleaved.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The entire cavern space was blasted into fragments, and deep purple void energy leaked out.
Chen Changsheng's figure flickered and alternated between the void and the real world, breaking through dozens of energy beams to reach the old woman and unleash a punch.
His qi and blood and the power of the Divine Elephant erupted simultaneously, stirring up a howling gale.
While manipulating the giant hand seals to intercept the attack, the old woman also used her scepter as a weapon, smashing it out.
The collision of two Deity Transformation stage true qi Daoist arts caused the rock layers and soil layers within the cavern to be lifted layer by layer!
The overwhelming energy fluctuations triggered a violent earthquake.
Many of the demons and evil creatures on the other side of the tunnel were like ants in a boiling pot, collectively rushing about within the tunnel, searching for the source of the tremors.
Watching the collapsing cavern, the Thousand Mountains Sect disciples were at a loss.
Two blurry figures, like streaks of light, fiercely clashed in the cavern.
The only thing the Thousand Mountains Sect disciples could discern was that the evil cultivator old woman was being suppressed throughout the entire fight, repeatedly being sent flying into the rock walls, and even the scepter in her hand had shattered into pieces, showing signs of defeat.
"As expected of an elder from an ancient immortal lineage, to be able to beat the old woman so helplessly!" a Thousand Mountains Sect disciple exclaimed in shock.
They knew that even their Thousand Mountains Sect's strongest sect master would be instantly defeated by this evil cultivator old woman, showing that it wasn't that the old woman wasn't strong, but that the ancient immortal lineage's Elder Chen was even more powerful.
"That's not it. This tunnel is about to collapse. Are we really not leaving?"
Dust and gravel were constantly falling from above, and there were also some noisy sounds of insects and beasts crawling from the depths of the tunnel, making it seem unsafe no matter how one looked at it.
"We can't leave! Elder Chen told us to wait here, so we must wait. Activate the formation to hold on for a while and wait for Elder Chen's next instructions."
A Thousand Mountains Sect senior brother solemnly said, "The sect master has not yet awakened from the illusion. The only one we can rely on is Elder Chen. If we get separated, we won't be able to survive with just a few of us!"
Hearing this, everyone felt it made a lot of sense.
They were well aware of their own capabilities. They had survived until now thanks to the sect master's protection, and now that the sect master needed them to take care of him, the only one they could rely on was Elder Chen from the ancient immortal lineage.
Even if they were seriously injured and collapsed on the ground, they had to hold on here until the very last moment.
Just then, a large number of snake demons and scorpion demons emerged from the depths of the tunnel.
The moment they saw the humans, their eyes turned red, and they emitted excited screams, their crawling speed suddenly increasing.
"Form ranks!"
The Thousand Mountains Sect senior brother shouted loudly.
More than a dozen people immediately formed the sect's formation, raising a phantom of a mountain to guard the cave entrance and resist the flood of demonic attacks.
Suddenly, a gust of wind swept in from behind.
A pair of blood-soaked hands, wrapped around the old woman's half-destroyed body, instantly swept past the crowd, like a star interwoven with thunder and flame, smashing into the flood of snakes and scorpions.
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
A large number of demons and evil creatures, like ants swarming, died on the spot, blood raining down, and corpses and wreckage flying everywhere.
But this could not stop the continuous stream of snake and scorpion demons.
The demons, sensing the aura of humans within the blood-colored hand seals, violently tore open the blood-colored giant hand seals, forcibly dragging out the severely injured old woman and tearing at her and biting her with fierce eyes.
The evil cultivator old woman emitted a painful scream as her old body was bitten until it was a bloody mess. She forcibly used Daoist arts, attempting to resist the demons' gnawing.
But even ants could kill an elephant if there were enough of them. Having just killed the snake demons on the ground and not having had time to escape, the scorpion demons above followed closely and smashed down.
More than a dozen scorpion demons' venomous stingers simultaneously pierced into her body, and her aged body instantly swelled and turned purple, her reactions becoming sluggish.
Immediately afterward, a large number of snake demons pounced over, binding her hands and feet, their venomous fangs tearing at her flesh with a snorting sound.
"Damn ancient immortal lineage!! I will never let you go, even as a ghost!"
The old woman's body was quickly devoured by the group of demons, but her Nascent Soul was still there, separated from her bloody flesh, and fled towards the depths of the tunnel under the protection of magic.
She secretly vowed that after her body was reconstructed, she would make the ancient immortal lineage pay the price!
The old woman's soul quickly fled into the darkness, and just as she thought she had successfully survived.
The void in front of her suddenly cracked open, and a sharp halberd light vertically cleaved out.
Pfft!
The old woman's Nascent Soul was split in two with a shocked expression, resentment rising in her heart, but she was powerless to roar and curse, and instantly turned into two wisps of smoke and dissipated...
