Gu Chen had traveled the world with Du Mang during the Eastern Jin dynasty, their enemies then were formidable experts like Elder Kuzhu and Jile Perfected.

Later, his master, the Sky Lusting Sect Leader, committed outrageous evils, invited heavenly punishments upon himself, repeatedly lost to Elder Kuzhu, Jile Perfected, and Master Changmei, had his laboriously refined Magical Treasures continuously destroyed, and his Primordial Qi severely damaged, making him weaker with each battle while their enemies only grew stronger.

Fortunately, they were cunning and adept at spellcasting for escape, fleeing immediately when outmatched, thus they were not entirely annihilated.

Just as Master Changmei was about to ascend, he found Gu Chen, intending to eradicate his body and soul entirely, only to discover he had stolen one of the Daoist books from Ke Yizi and cleverly reached an undying state of Primordial Spirit in an extremely short time.

Although termed undying, he was not truly indestructible, but with Master Changmei's impending ascension, lacking the time to refine him bit by bit, he only used the Seven Cultivation Swords to slay him, burying him beneath the earth of Mangcang Mountain, foreseeing his revival years later and binding him with the Treasure Fire Cloud Chain.

Because the Green Rope Sword was somewhat unruly, Master Changmei had placed it underground not far away, using Earth Evil to constantly temper it, waiting for future disciples like Li Yingqiong and Zhou Qingyun to retrieve the swords and eliminate Gu Chen.

Due to Shi Feiyang's arrival, everyone's lines of fate became entangled, the Emei Sect found some treasures meant for them in other's hands fearing the Purple Ying and Green Rope Divine Swords might also get stolen, they preemptively retrieved them to Emei Mountain.

Their retrieval of the Green Rope Sword also disturbed Gu Chen, who hadn't fully recovered at the time, needing the perennial Warm Jade in the mountain to nourish his stiff corpse, wearing a Fire Cloud Chain around his neck, Xun Lanyin and others could have taken some time to completely refine and eliminate him.

Unfortunately, they coincided with Deng Yin having taken in Zen Master Xiao Yue. Sending him to retrieve the Purple Ying Sword unsuccessfully, he later got Heavenly Wisdom and Yin Guang, feeling discontented.

From Deng Yin's perspective, he was the rightful owner of the Purple and Green Swords, later acquiring the Purple Ying Sword, and Master Changmei obtaining the Green Rope Sword, one for each.

It was rightfully his, yet taken by Xun Lanyin, a truly detestable act. Thus, after directing Zen Master Xiao Yue to obtain the Heavenly Wisdom Twin Swords, he sent him to retrieve the Green Rope.

If Deng Yin had acted himself, the Green Rope would surely have been captured by him, but unfortunately, Deng Yin couldn't appear, Zen Master Xiao Yue lacked the strength, and the Emei Sect reacted quickly, subsequently rushing to seize the sword, overpowering Zen Master Xiao Yue.

So, from the beginning, he played a game causing trouble for the Emei Sect by aiding Gu Chen in quickly recovering, even using Heavenly Wisdom and Yin Guang to sever the Fire Cloud Chain that bound Gu Chen… Eventually, both men worked together to seize the Green Rope, Xun Lanyin leading a team for a duel, Zen Master Xiao Yue and Gu Chen escaped, with the Emei Sect retrieving the Green Rope back to Emei Mountain.

In this way, Gu Chen's situation was much better than originally, his body was not destroyed, a part of the Mystics Yin Beast-Gathering Banner was preserved, and he kept the perennial Warm Jade…

Especially that Warm Jade, formed from the thousand-year Dragon Vein primordial qi of Mangcang Mountain, a celestial treasure capable of nourishing the body and even housing a Second Primordial Spirit.

Gu Chen, being a millennial old demon, had cultivated his Primordial Spirit to nearly an undying state, over the years cultivating a Second Primordial Spirit housed within the Warm Jade, his divine powers growing immensely powerful.

As Guang Chengzi's Golden Ship contained a treasure named the Reincarnation Divine Sound, capable of obliterating all indestructible Primordial Spirits and bursting all Undying Bodies, posing a deadly threat to him, he specifically brought his close ally Du Mang to prevent it.

Unlike others, he wasn't aiming to snatch treasures from the Golden Ship, but to prevent others from removing the treasures from it.

Recognizing the Rainbow Bridge as crucial for retrieving treasures from the ship, he immediately attacked it, intending to destroy both the people and the whole bridge together, turning them into ash, then hitting just-emerged Golden Ship with a series of Mystics Yin Divine Thunder, exploding it back beneath the water, submerging it completely into the fiery magma at the Earth's Core, ensuring it would never be recovered.

On Rainbow Bridge, Yuan Hua saw the fierce pitch-black qi approaching, concealing roaring tigers, black bears, elephants, knowing the imminent danger, quickly opened his gourd, pouring out the bipolar magnet Divine Sand, transforming into a starry river of infinite colorful light encircling the Rainbow Bridge.

The Mystics Yin Beast-Gathering Banner had a total of eighty-one sides, waving down eighty-one streams of black qi initially, each containing the soul of a fierce animal refined through the Mystics Yin Great Method.

These animal spirits were all ferocious beasts in life but not demon beasts that had cultivated the Dao. Nonetheless, after his Sect's secret techniques of sacrificial refinement, they became unusually tough and cohesive, immune to damage from water, fire, wind, and thunder. Some had been refined by him a thousand years ago, reaching an undying state.

Vast amounts of black qi filled the space between heaven and earth, all imbued with malevolent and gloomy energy, as eighty-one beast spirits encircled and flew around, spewing smoke and fog, continuously assailing the bridge.

Yuan Hua used the Divine Sand of Magnetism to form a galaxy, defending without attacking, keeping the beast spirits and malevolent energies at bay.

They had already decided beforehand that the main person to confront the Evil Corpse Gu Chen was Huo Wuhai.

As the beast spirits filled the river, some attacking the Rainbow Bridge and others aiming for the Golden Ship, Huo Wuhai made his move!

Just like previously on Yellow Dragon Mountain when he dueled with Poison Hand Mo Shen and Blood Rock Hermit, he conjured a gigantic fireball with a diameter of over three hundred yards in the air, situated directly above Evil Corpse Gu Chen. Seated inside the fireball like a Sun Child, he then formed spells and cast downward thousands of clusters of True Sun Fire.

Each cluster of True Sun Fire, spanning more than thirty yards in diameter, fell like meteor showers from outer space onto the Human World, especially lethal to the likes of Black Evil Silk and all other forms of sinister and evil energies. Upon contact, they sizzled fiercely, and those variously thick and tangled Black Evil Silks twisted and writhed like fiery serpents, melting in turmoil.

Gu Chen used the Mystics Yin Heavenly Curtain to cover a thousand miles of the sky, which in a blink had thousands of holes burned into it, and the holes were multiplying!

Gu Chen, both startled and enraged, glared upward, sneering coldly, "Just a millennium-aged Fire Essence! Perfect for capturing and refining into my Mystics Yin Beast-Gathering Banner!"

He had roamed the world for over a thousand years, encountering all kinds of adversaries. The Mystics Yin Great Method, being vulnerable to Pure Yang Magical Treasures, had been countered countless times in his life. Even though his Dao Level had only recently recovered from repeated degradations, and his strength was not as before, his experience and insight remained.

Tilting his head back, he let out a thunderous long howl, retracting the Mystics Yin Beast-Gathering Banner. The Banner surrounded him completely, with eighty-one faces revolving around his body. Using his withered corpse claws to cast spells, the Mystics Yin Beast-Gathering Banner also continuously emitted Mystics Yin Divine Evil, with each mass of Evil Qi spanning more than thirty yards in diameter, flying toward Huo Wuhai in the sky.

The True Sun Fire could refine and neutralize the Mystics Yin Divine Evil, and vice versa—the two powers counteracted each other—it was a battle of who had stronger Mana and more powerful output.

Black clouds continuously ascended while bright, scorching Fire Clouds descended in large quantities. The forces met in the air, hissing and shrieking as they annihilated each other.

As the Evil Banners around Gu Chen spun faster and faster, sending out more and more black clouds, Huo Wuhai also exerted his full effort in casting, not utilizing any Magical Treasures, merely waving his hands to release one fire cloud after another, his motions relentless, the barrage of fire rain growing denser.

In such all-out assaults, after the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the confrontation was evenly matched, with neither gaining the upper hand.

Gu Chen was greatly surprised, then bellowed furiously again. Recognizing that he could not let the opponent tie him up, he knew he must win quickly; otherwise, if the fight dragged on, Jiang Shu would retrieve the Treasure!

He displayed his Mysterious Skill and transformations, emitting a black qi from his head, which disappeared in the blink of an eye. The next moment, a Purple Flame Lotus appeared next to Huo Wuhai, bearing another Gu Chen within—his Second Primordial Spirit—who roared and extended his claws, applying the Mystic Sky Shifting Technique. In an instant, he appeared before Huo Wuhai, entering the three-hundred-yard "Great Sun" created by Huo Wuhai, unleashing black qi from his claws and brandishing the Black Evil Sword and the Fire Cloud Chain toward Huo Wuhai's head.

Huo Wuhai's Great Sun was actually a Magical Treasure, capable of both offense and defense. When Shi Feiyang led his disciples to defeat the Qian Kang couple, they had seized a Sun Pearl and an Extreme Fire Pearl.

The Sun Pearl had been collected from the highest dome of Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, refined from True Sun Essence, and the Extreme Fire Pearl had been formed by extracting wisps of Fire Essence from the Aurora Fire and injecting them into a millennia-old Five-Colored Pearl. Shi Feiyang had given these to Huo Wuhai, teaching him to fuse the two Treasure Beads and the method for their re-refinement into a more formidable and pure Sun Divine Pearl.

This Sun Divine Pearl, capable of both offense and defense, could eventually house his Second Primordial Spirit. Although seated inside, Huo Wuhai was virtually impervious to outside forces, allowing him to continuously draw from the pearl's abundant True Sun Fire to assail others. Unfortunately, although Gu Chen's Evil Corpse Dao Level was gravely diminished and his Mana far inferior to before, his Primordial Spirit had been cultivated to being undying and indestructible, his worldly experience first-class. Using his Second Primordial Spirit and directly applying the Mystics Yin Great Method, he managed a teleportation shift into the pearl, directly attacking Huo Wuhai's vital points.

Huo Wuhai was startled, quickly standing up while manipulating the Sun Divine Pearl's internal True Sun Fire. It gathered from all directions to refine the Demon Corpse's Primordial Spirit while releasing the Sun Divine Needle.

Inside the pearl, a vast amount of True Sun Fire was stored. When the pearl was initially refined, Shi Feiyang had given Huo Wuhai a bottle of liquid True Sun Fire. Throughout the years, Huo Wuhai had also crafted numerous Magical Treasures and traded them at Mingyu Immortal Market to procure more, all filling the pearl. This True Sun Fire, the most condensed and pure, burned thickly, nearly in a liquid state. Originally, aside from himself, if someone else's Primordial Spirit dared to rush in, it was tantamount to seeking their doom, certainly to be refined into energy by the dense True Sun Fire within minutes!

However, Gu Chen's Second Primordial Spirit was housed in Warm Jade, grown on the sunny side of Mangcang Mountain. Though named warm, it was also a supremely yang entity, transformed into a purple lotus underfoot, providing protection. Gu Chen's Second Primordial Spirit was not bothered by the fire; he deployed the highest Mystics Yin Sect spells amidst the flames, flying up and down, left and right, appearing now before, now behind, spinning a series of afterimages, and striking fiercely and swiftly.

While the Black Evil Sword was somewhat restrained within the True Sun Fire, the Fire Cloud Chain—crafted by Master Changmei in the past with true Daoist Pure Yang Immortal Law—was a silver chain wrapped with Pure Yang Immortal Fire, designed to suppress all evil demon entities. Yet, it had been instructed by Zen Master Xiao Yue on how Gu Chen could refine it into a supreme treasure. Released, it could extend indefinitely, behaving like a spirit snake or bizarre python, automatically seeking the opponent's vital points to attack. In the blink of an eye, it expanded thousands of yards in length, tightly coiling around Huo Wuhai.

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