52: Golden Core Demon Spider, Fragment Mutation

Lin Xuan transformed into a golden rainbow, charging straight toward the altar!

The three Early Golden Core Stage Weeping Matron Demonic Spiders let out even sharper, ear-piercing screeches. Their eight pale, human-like hands flailed wildly, whipping up gusts of foul-smelling, sinister wind that wove into an airtight net of death, descending upon him!

This was no simple physical attack; the sinister wind contained a bizarre power that eroded the Divine Soul, enough to cause an ordinary False Core Cultivator to lose their composure and have their Spiritual Qi dissipate.

Yet, was Lin Xuan ordinary?

He pushed his Nine Revolutions Golden Body Art to the limit. The Qi and blood throughout his body burned like a furnace, and a pale golden light condensed into a tangible Protective Aura. This extremely Yang and rigid aura was the natural nemesis of such sinister demonic creatures!

The sinister wind crashed against the golden aura, emitting a sizzling sound as if being scorched, unable to advance even an inch!

"Break!"

Lin Xuan let out a low shout. His fists, like dragons emerging from the sea, struck the two demonic spiders in front without any fancy tricks!

At the tips of his fists, golden light condensed, and faint phantoms of dragons and elephants roared. The power was incomparably fierce, a testament to him pushing his Body Refining power to the limit!

The two demonic spiders clearly had not expected Lin Xuan's Qi and blood power to be so overbearing, and they hurriedly used their pale, human-like hands to block.

"Boom! Boom!"

Two muffled thuds, accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of shattering bones!

Those seemingly tough, pale, human-like hands were easily snapped like withered branches before his golden fists, which contained terrifying power!

The momentum of his punches did not stop, slamming heavily into the bodies of the two demonic spiders, causing their carapaces to cave in as they were sent flying backward, emitting painful wails.

However, Golden Core demonic creatures were not to be trifled with, and their vitality was extremely tenacious. Despite suffering such heavy injuries, they did not die immediately. Instead, they struggled to rise, spitting out even stickier spider silk that flickered with dark, cursed runes, coiling toward Lin Xuan like living things.

At the same time, the third demonic spider seized the opportunity to attack from the side and rear. Its eight human-like hands, sharp as blades, thrust directly toward Lin Xuan's heart and head, his vital points!

The twisted, weeping woman's face was almost pressed against Lin Xuan's ear, letting out a mental shriek that pierced straight into his marrow!

"Big Brother Lin, look out!"

In the distance, Gongsun Yu, who was clearing out the cannon fodder with thunder, caught sight of this scene. Her face turned pale with shock, and the thunder light silver ring flew from her hand, transforming into a brilliant streak of lightning that slammed into the ambushing demonic spider, attempting to alleviate the pressure on Lin Xuan.

Su Wanqing and Qu Feiyan were also facing immense pressure.

As Lin Xuan broke into the altar, the ordinary demonic spiders in the vicinity surged toward the two women even more frantically, as if possessed. Spider silk rained down, and mental curses surged like tides, crashing against their Sea of Consciousness in wave after wave.

Su Wanqing's face was cold as frost. She pushed her Taiyin Moon Essence to the limit, and as her ice sword danced, the surrounding area of several zhang transformed into a Domain of ice and snow. Countless demonic spiders were frozen into ice sculptures, only to be shattered by her Sword Qi immediately after.

However, her face was also slightly pale; clearly, the consumption was immense.

Qu Feiyan's movement technique was ghostly. Petals of blood-colored lotuses spun, precisely slicing into the joints and compound eyes of the demonic spiders. Her Charm Origin power interfered with their minds, causing no small number of them to slaughter each other.

Although she appeared relaxed, sweat was already visible on her forehead; maintaining such high-precision control was by no means easy.

"We must hold on and buy him time!"

Su Wanqing's cold, clear voice carried an unquestionable firmness, and her sword momentum surged by another thirty percent.

On the altar, facing attacks from both front and rear, Lin Xuan remained calm in the face of danger.

As if he had eyes in the back of his head, he abruptly turned to the side, dodging his vital heart point by a hair's breadth. At the same time, he struck back with an elbow, golden light bursting forth like a heavy hammer, slamming into the head of the demonic spider behind him!

"Crack!"

The twisted, weeping woman's face let out a scream of extreme shrillness; it was actually shattered by this elbow strike, with cracks spreading everywhere and dark green fluid splattering about.

Meanwhile, the cursed spider silk attacking from the front was about to ensnare Lin Xuan.

Yet he neither dodged nor evaded. A sharp glint flashed in his eyes, and he suddenly raised the immortal abode pivot token that he had been holding in his left hand!

"Hum—!"

A clear, hazy radiance bloomed from the cardinal edict. It was not intense, yet it carried a profound Dao Rhyme that was impervious to all methods and repelled all evil.

The spider silk, which contained powerful cursed energy, dissolved and disintegrated rapidly the moment it touched the clear light, just like snow meeting the sun. The cursed runes upon it even let out a mournful cry before shattering directly!

The immortal abode pivot token was the authority token of the Misty Immortal Palace, possessing a natural power to restrain and command forces of the same origin or of a lower level!

Although these demonic creatures were bizarre, the root of their power seemed to come from the same source as these ruins, making them perfectly restrained by the cardinal edict!

The three Golden Core demonic spiders, having been injured and sensing the aura on the cardinal edict that instilled instinctive fear in them, could not help but pause in their movements.

Lin Xuan seized this fleeting opportunity. His figure moved like lightning, and no longer entangled with them, he charged straight toward the rhombic crystal fragment floating in the center of the altar!

He was close!

He could feel even more clearly the dilapidated and dim nature of the fragment; it was covered in crisscrossing cracks, as if it would completely shatter at the slightest touch.

Yet within it, it faintly contained an indescribable, ancient energy that transcended Spiritual Qi, producing a strong resonance with the immortal abode pivot token.

Without hesitation, Lin Xuan extended his hand, covered in pale golden Qi and blood, and grabbed toward the core fragment of the Immortal Palace!

The instant his fingertips touched the cold surface of the fragment—

"Boom!!!"

The entire altar shook violently!

Centered on the rhombic crystal fragment, an invisible yet majestic energy shockwave erupted!

Bearing the brunt of it, Lin Xuan felt a barbaric, ancient force with a strong sense of rejection slam into him. Even with his Golden Body constitution, he was shaken, his Qi and blood churning. He let out a muffled groan and stumbled back several steps!

Meanwhile, the three Golden Core demonic spiders, as well as the ordinary demonic spiders attacking from further away, were like ice cubes thrown into boiling magma under this energy shockwave. They emitted desperate screeches as their bodies rapidly dissolved and vaporized, turning into wisps of black smoke in the blink of an eye and dissipating into the thick fog!

The sudden turn of events caught Su Wanqing and the other two women off guard. They were pushed back repeatedly by the residual energy waves, looking toward the altar with shock and uncertainty.

After the energy shockwave passed, the area around the altar was cleared; all demonic creatures were gone without a trace.

However, the fog in that area seemed to have become even thicker, and the air was filled with an aura of both scorching heat and antiquity.

On the altar, after erupting with such astonishing energy, the rhombic crystal fragment did not shatter. Instead, the cracks on its surface lit up with a faint, extremely weak glimmer that seemed as if it could be extinguished at any moment.

It was no longer completely dim; instead, like a dying heart, it began a rhythmic... pulsation, albeit extremely slow and difficult?

A more vast and obscure consciousness, like a giant beast that had been sleeping for eons, seemed to have been disturbed by the previous touch and energy eruption, and from deep within the fragment... it slowly awakened a sliver.

Lin Xuan steadied himself and wiped the trace of blood from the corner of his mouth. He looked with a heavy gaze at the fragment that had begun to "breathe" weakly. The immortal abode pivot token in his palm was still scorching, but what it transmitted, besides a strong attraction, now contained a hint of... an unfathomable warning.

The fragment was in his possession, but the crisis seemed to have just begun.