The Yinsha Soul Locking Bell shattered in an instant!

"You!" the Underworld Puppet shrieked in terror.

THUD!

It collapsed to the ground.

"Underworld Puppet! Hah! A mere half-step Golden Core adept dares to call itself a puppet? You're nothing but trash!" the sinister youth sneered coldly.

"Boy, don't even think about possessing me!" the fallen Underworld Puppet roared ferociously.

"Possess you? Your Underworld Puppet physique is garbage, utterly unworthy of my possession! If I took it, wouldn't my own body become even more trashy? I want your body! I'll use it to transcend my tribulation!" the sinister youth cackled, lunging with his mouth open to bite the Underworld Puppet.

CRACKLE!

However, before he could even touch the puppet, he let out a pitiful howl.

BANG!

The Underworld Puppet instantly exploded!

BOOM!

At that moment, the very sky seemed to collapse as a mushroom cloud billowed into the air.

The Yinsha Soul Locking Bell was also flung away, soaring to a height of 10,000 meters in the blink of an eye to escape the mushroom cloud's reach. Just then, the Yinsha Soul Locking Bell's Artifact Spirit materialized. It glanced in the direction outside the Yinsha forbidden area, and its expression changed abruptly.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

At that moment, a series of earth-shattering tremors rocked Xiqi City.

"What's going on!"

"Heavens! Is the sky falling apart?"

"The Yinsha Old Demon's cavern has exploded!"

Inside Xiqi City, the mundane Martial Artists were thrown into a panic.

"It's coming from the direction of the Yinsha forbidden area!"

"Could it be that the Yinsha Soul Locking Bell has been destroyed?"

"The Yinsha Soul Locking Bell is the Yinsha Ancestor's magic weapon! If it was destroyed, does that mean the Yinsha Ancestor has been revived and has returned?"

The disciples of the Yinsha Ancestor paled, their faces a mixture of terror and manic excitement.

Back in the direction of the Yinsha forbidden area, the mushroom cloud dispersed, and the Yinsha Soul Locking Bell flew back. It was completely undamaged, without even a single crack.

After the mushroom cloud vanished, a man in a purple robe stood proudly in the void. His eyes were dark and profound, like two black holes.

"You… you are Chen Zheng!" The Underworld Puppet stared at the purple-robed man in utter shock. It trembled violently, shaking its head and yelling, "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I can feel it! You have true immortal qi in your body! You are a True Immortal Realm powerhouse! You didn't just slay the Yinsha Old Demon! You devoured all of the Yinsha Ancestor's Primordial Spirit and blood essence! You restored your cultivation by devouring him! The Yinsha Ancestor… he must have been devoured by Chen Zheng!"

WHOOSH!

The purple-robed man raised his hand and gestured. The Underworld Puppet flew toward him, and he swatted it with his other hand.

SLAP!

With a crisp sound, the Underworld Puppet was instantly reduced to ash.

Around the Yinsha forbidden area, the assembled cultivators looked on, dumbfounded. They glanced down at the skeletons on the ground and the several tombs within the forbidden area, and their hearts seized. Their gazes shot back to Chen Zheng, who was floating in midair.

HISS!

They all drew a sharp, collective breath.

The ancestor of the Yinsha Sect had just made a move! The Yinsha Ancestor was a peak Heavenly Gang cultivator, just shy of a Profound Immortal, yet he was still effortlessly crippled by a single punch from Chen Zheng! Just how powerful was this man?!

"Master, although your divine body has recovered, your cultivation is only at the early Heavenly Immortal stage," Li Mu sighed softly, her voice laden with immeasurable worry. "If you encounter a formidable Earth Immortal, True Immortal, or even a Golden Immortal, you will be no match for them. I can sense that several old men from the Yinsha Sect have already broken through to the Heavenly Immortal realm!"

"Heavenly Immortals? Mere ants," the purple-robed Chen Zheng sneered disdainfully. "Ha!"

"You! How arrogant! You little thing, even though you restored your cultivation by devouring the Yinsha Old Demon's Primordial Spirit and blood essence, you're ultimately just a Heavenly Immortal. Our own cultivation levels are at the Earth Immortal, True Immortal, and even Heavenly Immortal tiers! Even though we are only avatars, we are not someone a Heavenly Immortal can withstand! If you don't want to be annihilated, hand over the Yinsha Soul Locking Bell at once!"

From the depths of the Yinsha Sect, an old crone stepped forward. Her aura was immense; her cultivation had astonishingly reached the Golden Immortal level. The other avatars with her were also Golden Immortals.

SWISH!

Upon hearing the old crone mention the Yinsha Soul Locking Bell, all the cultivators in Xiqi City widened their eyes and stared at the purple-robed Chen Zheng.

"Yinsha hag, do you really think you've made a breakthrough?" Chen Zheng glanced at the old crone and shook his head slightly. "My cultivation isn't limited to the Heavenly Immortal Realm. Even if you had three lives, someone of your caliber couldn't be saved."

"What! Your cultivation… You've already recovered?! Impossible! That's absolutely impossible! The Yinsha Soul Locking Bell is a spiritual artifact bestowed upon me by Master. You only managed to reforge your body by seizing the Yinsha Ancestor's flesh. How could you possibly possess the cultivation of a Golden Immortal?! You little thing, you're trying to deceive me! I am a Golden Immortal!" the old crone's face twisted as she roared.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

In that instant, the other avatars swooped in.

"Damn it! Who is this purple-robed Chen Zheng?! He devoured Master Yinsha Ancestor's Primordial Spirit and blood essence! He must die, or we'll be obliterated when Master is resurrected!"

"Ancestor, let the five of us attack together! We'll capture him and force him to reveal the refining secret and usage method for the Yinsha Soul Locking Bell!"

"Yes, before the Yinsha Ancestor is resurrected, we must figure out how the Yinsha Soul Locking Bell was forged!" the remaining four Yinsha Sect avatars cried out in unison.

WHOOSH!

Without hesitation, the old crone produced a jade slip. It immediately transformed into a beam of light and shot into her brow.

OMMM!

She closed her eyes for a moment. When she opened them again, her expression had completely changed.

"On the day of Master's resurrection, the Yinsha Sect will surely rise!" the old crone whispered, unable to suppress her excitement.

"The refining method for the Yinsha Soul Locking Bell? Old thing, you actually believe that?" Chen Zheng mocked with a smile, raising his right hand and pointing at the crone. "The secret techniques of the Yinsha Sect are not for you to learn."

Eh? What did he mean? The assembled cultivators were stunned, their gazes involuntarily fixed on Chen Zheng.

"No! No! You can't strip my memories! You can't do this! I am an Elder of the Yinsha Sect! You little beast! How dare you perform a soul-search on me! The Yinsha Sect will flay you, grind your bones to dust, and scatter your ashes to the wind!" the old crone shrieked madly, realizing his intent a second too late.

"Search away," Chen Zheng nodded indifferently.

WHOOSH!

The old crone's body stiffened as a strange power erupted from within.

"This is—!"

"Not good! Retreat!"

"It's a soul-searching secret technique!"

Near the Yinsha forbidden area, the crowd of cultivators felt the invasive, bizarre power and fled in terror.

WHOOSH!

A black light suddenly shot out from the old crone's brow.

"Hmph! You want to search my memories? Not a chance!"

However, before the black light could fully escape, the old crone's expression turned frigid. She abruptly spun around and smashed her palm toward the black light.

BANG!

Her palm strike annihilated the dark light.

"Eh? This is… a fragment of the Yinsha Soul Locking Bell! So the bell was incomplete!" the Yinsha Ancestor avatar exclaimed, his face darkening as he sneered at the crone. "Yinsha hag, you actually stole a sacred artifact of our Yinsha Sect? You deserve to die!"

"Sacred artifact? Yinsha hag, you aren't worthy of calling it that," Chen Zheng said casually, cutting in. "Today, I'll use your remnant consciousness to temper my spirit. Then, I'll take my time dealing with the Yinsha old freak's remains and find him a worthy disciple to inherit his legacy." He raised his right hand and pressed it down through the air toward the old crone.

"ROAR—"

The old crone roared, and the phantom of a ferocious beast materialized, lunging toward Chen Zheng with bared fangs and claws.

RIIIIP!

Chen Zheng tore it apart with a casual wave of his hand.

"You! What kind of technique is this?! How can you be so powerful? How can your spirit surpass mine!" the old crone cried out in shock and terror.

"The Yinsha Soul Locking Bell is incomplete. I only need to study it a little, and I can restore its power, perhaps even make it stronger than before! Haha! Boy, weren't you hailed as the Emperor of an Eternal Epoch, the strongest being in all the heavens and myriad realms? How have you become such a waste in this life? As a Heavenly Immortal, you should understand the vast chasm between a Golden Immortal and a Profound Immortal! You're just trash. So what if you obtained the Yinsha Ancestor's inheritance!" the Yinsha Ancestor avatar laughed maniacally.

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