Chapter 16 The Ancestor Emerges from Seclusion! My Maid Wants to Clean Up the House, Any Objections?

"Rumble—"

The massive profound iron gate of the Demon Suppressing Death Prison, which had been sealed for three years, slowly opened to both sides under the gaze of thousands, carrying a heavy aura from the ancient primordial era.

Inside the gate was pitch black, as if it connected to the Nine Netherworld Hell.

However, the moment the gate opened, an indescribable and strange field instantly swept across the entire Taixuan Main Peak. It was a pure sense of absolute suppression, as if originating from the very level of life itself.

"Playing tricks!"

In mid-air, the Blood Demon Ancestor steadied himself, his pair of ghastly green eyes staring intently into the darkness at the prison entrance. His voice was bone-chillingly cold. "This seat would like to see just when the Taixuan Dao Sect started hiding such a 'Old Ancestor' who is a shrinking turtle afraid to even show his face!"

Right at that moment.

"Step, step, step..."

A series of steady, crisp, and leisurely footsteps echoed from the darkness.

The first to walk out was a young man dressed in the most ordinary gray robes of a Taixuan Dao Sect Utility Disciple. His features were delicate, his expression lazy, and a crystal-clear Little Ice Snake was wrapped around his neck, flicking its tongue to fan him.

Following closely behind.

"Clatter... Clatter..."

An extremely ear-piercing and incredibly heavy sound of metal dragging rang out from the depths of the death prison.

Under the horrified gazes of tens of thousands, a woman dressed in fire-red clothes with peerless beauty slowly walked out from behind Lin Yuan.

Her hands respectfully held a Purple Clay Teapot.

However, her right shoulder, legs, back, and other vital points—eight in total—were shockingly pierced and locked by eight ten-thousand-year-old profound iron chains as thick as thighs!

Each of these chains shimmered with blinding golden Demon-Suppressing Runess. One end was locked into her Physical Body, while the other end vanished into the darkness deep within the death prison, as if integrated with the very earth veins of the entire Taixuan Dao Sect.

With every step she took forward, the eight taut chains let out overstrained moans. The terrifying suppression of the Formation kept her aura firmly suppressed at the Peak of the Core Formation Stage.

"This..."

On the Taixuan Square, thousands of Taixuan Disciples who were waiting for death were all dumbfounded.

A Mortal Utility Disciple with no cultivation, leading a peerless maidservant who was covered in forbidden chains like a high-security prisoner? Is this the Old Ancestor the Sect Head called out for with his life?!

However, Immortal Master Qingxu, who was kneeling at the very front, trembled violently with excitement the moment he saw Lin Yuan, banging his head against the ground repeatedly.

"Your unworthy descendant Qingxu greets the Old Ancestor! We welcome the Old Ancestor back from seclusion! I beg the Old Ancestor to save my Taixuan!!!"

Lin Yuan stopped, reached out to pick his ear, and said, "Alright, alright, stop wailing. I'm not deaf."

He looked up, his calm and indifferent eyes falling upon the insufferably arrogant Blood Demon Ancestor in the air.

"So it's you. Making all this noise at my doorstep in the middle of the day and even threatening to tear down my courtyard?"

The Blood Demon Ancestor's powerful Divine Sense repeatedly scanned Lin Yuan. After confirming he was just a Mortal, the wariness in his eyes turned completely into fury and disdain.

"Jie jie jie! Old man Qingxu, you actually found such a wet-behind-the-ears Mortal kid to pose as the Old Ancestor? This seat will refine him into human oil for a lamp right now!"

As he spoke, the Blood Demon Ancestor raised his hand and unleashed a Blood Fiend Heart-Palm Thunder, carrying the terrifying pressure of the half-step Soul Transformation Stage towards Lin Yuan!

"Presumptuous!!!"

A delicate shout filled with sky-high killing intent and fury suddenly exploded from behind Lin Yuan!

"Clang—!"

The eight taut ten-thousand-year-old profound iron chains instantly erupted with blinding golden light, pulling back forcefully on Tantai Jinyue's body. But in her extreme rage, disregarding the agonizing pain of the chains tearing through her flesh, she forcibly dragged the eight Earth Vein Chains and took a hard step forward, blocking the way in front of Lin Yuan!

"Boom!"

A bolt of pure dark-red Devilish Qi swept out, actually smashing the Blood Demon Ancestor's palm thunder to pieces in mid-air! However, the massive recoil combined with the Formation's suppression caused Tantai Jinyue to let out a muffled groan, a trace of blood overflowing from the corner of her mouth.

"Blood... Demon!"

Tantai Jinyue stared fixedly at the traitor in mid-air, gritting her teeth.

The moment he saw who had attacked, the Blood Demon Ancestor's wild laughter came to an abrupt halt.

"Tantai Jinyue?! Cult Leader?! You... you're actually not dead?!"

But he immediately saw through Tantai Jinyue's weakened state, suppressed by the Formation to only be able to exert the Peak of the Core Formation Stage.

In the next second, an even more unrestrained and malicious laugh echoed through the sky:

"Hahaha! I was wondering who it was, so it's my washed-up old Cult Leader!"

The Blood Demon Ancestor pointed at the eight taut profound iron chains on Tantai Jinyue's body, laughing so hard he doubled over.

"Tsk tsk tsk, a dignified Demon Venerable of a generation has actually fallen so far as to be a tea-serving maid for a Mortal? Look at you now! Tied up by eight chains, unable to even walk ten zhang away from the prison gate! You're just like a bitch tied to the entrance of a kennel! You've truly disgraced our Demonic Path!"

"You're looking for death!!!"

Tantai Jinyue's eyes felt like they were splitting, and she trembled with rage. She desperately wanted to charge into the sky and tear the traitor to shreds, but the eight chains connected to the earth veins pinned her firmly to the ground, making it impossible to move a single step.

Under the terrifying pressure of the half-step Soul Transformation Stage, she, who was only at the Peak of Core Formation and restricted in her movements, appeared so desperate and powerless.

Yet she still stood firmly in front of Lin Yuan, looking back at him with eyes filled with a mix of determination and humiliation.

"Young Master... this scoundrel is treacherous and is my Mortal enemy. I am trapped by these Formation chains and cannot ascend to kill the foe, but I implore the Young Master... to permit me to detonate my Demonic Core and perish together with him!"

She would rather be reduced to ashes than tolerate this traitor's insolence before the Young Master, let alone endure the humiliation of being called a "bitch tied to the gate"!

Lin Yuan looked at the stubborn red-clad figure in front of him, her eyes red and blood being squeezed out by the eight thick iron chains; his gaze turned completely cold.

"Self-detonating at the drop of a hat, is that how I usually teach you?"

Lin Yuan stepped forward slowly, reached out a hand, and gently patted Tantai Jinyue's shoulder.

"Since you are my, Lin Yuan's, maidservant, how can there be any reason for you to be cursed at to your face?"

Lin Yuan's voice remained calm, yet it carried an unquestionable dominance.

"A mere half-step Soul Transformation piece of trash, and he thinks he's worthy of mocking my person?"

Lin Yuan looked up at the arrogant Blood Demon Ancestor in the sky. Then, in the hand resting on Tantai Jinyue's shoulder, a faint, almost imperceptible... dark-golden light lit up.

"Buzz—"

It was a single Divine Elephant Particle from the God Elephant Prison-Suppressing Strength!

"I'll lend you a grain of 'sand' to play with," Lin Yuan said nonchalantly.

Boom!!!

As the dark-golden "sand" entered Tantai Jinyue's body, an indescribable, ancient, and overbearing pure power exploded within her!

"Crack, crack, crack..."

The void around Tantai Jinyue shattered frantically! With the boost from this power, her aura instantly broke through the shackles of the Core Formation Stage, soaring all the way until it reached a terrifying Realm sufficient to contend with a half-step Soul Transformation!

"This... what power is this?!"

In the sky, the Blood Demon Ancestor's smile completely froze, a flash of terror passing through his eyes.

But soon, the Blood Demon Ancestor suppressed the shock in his heart and let out another cold sneer.

"So what if it's a secret technique to forcibly increase cultivation? The eight chains of the Taiji Heaven-Sealing Array on your body are connected to the Nine Netherworld Earth Veins of the Taixuan Dao Sect! You can't even fly; are you going to bark at this seat from the ground?!"

Facing this extremely malicious mockery.

Tantai Jinyue, who already felt the world-destroying power within her, calmed down surprisingly.

She did not answer the Blood Demon Ancestor but instead turned around and respectfully took half a step back.

Because she saw her Young Master casually extending his fair, slender right hand, which appeared to have no calluses.

Lin Yuan sighed.

"Indeed, fighting in this scrap metal is too inconvenient; it damages the image of my head maid of the death prison."

Under the gazes of the tens of thousands present, as well as the Blood Demon Ancestor who looked at him as if he were a madman.

Lin Yuan's seemingly boneless right hand casually grabbed the eight taut ten-thousand-year-old profound iron chains—the ones claimed to be "unbreakable by any method" that had suppressed the demoness for three hundred years.