The Chaotic Immortal Wood Sect: Immortal Cultivation War - Chapter 62

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62. Killing the Four-Throat Demoness

 

Kang Hyeon, who had barely freed himself from the golden binding rope with Trent’s help, connected his consciousness with the trees that formed the axis of the Ghost Tree Phantom Sea Formation inside the Mysterious Mirror.

 

And he quietly watched the battle between the Female Monk and the Chaotic Heaven Serpent.

 

When the giant snake bit the Female Monk in one gulp, he expected her to become the snake’s prey just like that.

 

However, the confrontation between the Female Monk and the Chaotic Heaven Serpent continued for a long time inside the snake’s throat.

 

The Female Monk tormented the Chaotic Heaven Serpent with all kinds of spell arts, while the Chaotic Heaven Serpent struggled to suppress the Female Monk with its innate natural ability, the legendary power of having swallowed the chaotic heavens.

 

But the Chaotic Heaven Serpent’s cultivation level was only at the middle stage of Core Formation, the same as its master, the Female Monk, so it couldn’t properly manifest the legend of swallowing the heavens.

 

Rip rip rip rip! Thud thud thud! Squelch!

 

In the end, the Female Monk pierced through the skin under the Chaotic Heaven Serpent’s jaw and came out.

 

“How dare you! I have cherished and raised you all this time! You betray me?!”

 

Female Monk Seo Ok Yeong flew up into the void as soon as she came out, facing the Chaotic Heaven Serpent and exploding with rage.

 

However, the Chaotic Heaven Serpent neither understood nor accepted Seo Ok Yeong’s anger.

 

Ever since being captured and subdued by Seo Ok Yeong when young, how much harsh time had it endured.

 

Now that an opportunity to escape that oppression had arisen, how could it retreat.

 

Hissss hiss hiss!

 

Whoooooosh!

 

“Th-this! Are you really determined to die! To even spew out your Innate Heavenly Energy!”

 

The Chaotic Heaven Serpent spewed out all the numerous energies it had absorbed and kept trapped inside its body all at once.

 

The energy even included the True Blood that the Chaotic Heaven Serpent had possessed since birth.

 

For demon beasts, True Blood was no different from a cultivator’s Spiritual Root.

 

Consuming too much True Blood would inevitably result in a decline in cultivation aptitude.

 

“Foolish thing! Since it has come to this, though it’s a bit early, I have no choice but to open a simplified Blood Ritual and take you!”

 

When the Chaotic Heaven Serpent made such a final desperate struggle, Seo Ok Yeong could no longer hold back and mentioned the Blood Ritual.

 

In fact, Seo Ok Yeong had planned to use the Chaotic Heaven Serpent as a sacrifice for her Spirit Body Stage advancement.

 

That’s why she had been making the Chaotic Heaven Serpent absorb various energies until now.

 

Every time she made it absorb one type of energy, she would feed it another energy that was in opposition to maintain balance – all of this had a reason.

 

She had fed it tremendous energy like this, planning to use it as a foundation for her Spirit Body Stage advancement later, but now that the Chaotic Heaven Serpent was trying to topple the tower she had built with such effort, she thought of the Blood Ritual as a way to minimize her losses.

 

“Hohohohoho! This was your original purpose, so now fulfill that role.”

 

Seo Ok Yeong shouted this while putting her hand into her chest and taking out something.

 

And she threw it into the void, and what had been held in one hand immediately swelled up when thrown into the void, becoming a massive structure.

 

There was a circular stone slab over ten zhang in diameter, with a Blood Stone Altar where blood had hardened on top, and on that altar was a ritual guillotine two zhang long.

 

The blade of the guillotine was also red, but looking closely, it was originally silver metal with red spell patterns carved on the surface, making it appear red.

 

Hissssssss!

 

When that altar appeared, the Chaotic Heaven Serpent instinctively felt rejection and quickly retreated.

 

However, since snakes are creatures that cannot move backwards by nature, only the Chaotic Heaven Serpent’s head and upper body moved away from the altar.

 

The rest remained as it was.

 

“Now die. Die and become a sacrifice!”

 

Seo Ok Yeong formed hand seals with both hands, summoning red demon energy and absorbing it into the guillotine as she shouted.

 

Then the guillotine took on a red radiance, and from the moment the Chaotic Heaven Serpent saw that light, it lost control over its body.

 

Though it didn’t want to do it itself, the Chaotic Heaven Serpent pushed its own head under the blade of the guillotine.

 

Now, as soon as the guillotine blade came down, the Chaotic Heaven Serpent’s neck would be severed.

 

The Chaotic Heaven Serpent also seemed to realize such a fate, as its body trembled.

 

“That shouldn’t happen like that, should it?”

 

Kang Hyeon shook his head while watching this scene from inside the Mysterious Mirror.

 

He realized that if the Chaotic Heaven Serpent was defeated like this, it might actually result in Seo Ok Yeong’s cultivation level increasing.

 

“How dare you perform a Blood Ritual inside my Ghost Tree Phantom Sea Formation? Hmph!”

 

Kang Hyeon snorted and quickly began moving the trees that formed the axis of the Ghost Tree Phantom Sea Formation.

 

Though normally trees couldn’t move by themselves, when Kang Hyeon directly projected Wood Spiritual Energy, they could move freely like Trents.

 

Thus, the moment Kang Hyeon quickly took control of over ten trees, moved them to where he wanted, and made them take root.

 

Rumble rumble rumble! Crash!

 

“Ahhh! Wh-what is this? How is the Blood Ritual’s communication cut off!”

 

Whoosh! Thump!

 

“Ahhhhh!”

 

Everything happened in an instant.

 

Kang Hyeon made changes to the Ghost Tree Phantom Sea Formation, interfering with the Blood Ritual that Seo Ok Yeong was performing.

 

Originally, a Blood Ritual is a concept of offering a sacrifice to someone and receiving compensation from the one who receives that sacrifice.

 

But the target receiving such Blood Rituals is always an existence from the Upper Realm, so when a Blood Ritual is performed, a communication channel with the Upper Realm is bound to open.

 

The change Kang Hyeon made to the Ghost Tree Phantom Sea Formation was precisely to block that communication channel.

 

Usually, when an Upper Realm existence is involved, it’s almost impossible for Lower Realm cultivators to interfere with it.

 

However, in this case, since Seo Ok Yeong was hastily performing the Blood Ritual, she hadn’t received proper permission from the Upper Realm existence.

 

So proper communication would only be established after cutting the Chaotic Heaven Serpent’s neck and offering it as sacrifice, but Kang Hyeon used formations to block the faint communication channel with the Upper Realm.

 

Then the Upper Realm existence, not knowing the situation here, only realized that the Blood Ritual had gone wrong and expressed anger toward Seo Ok Yeong, and at that moment the Chaotic Heaven Serpent bit Seo Ok Yeong again.

 

This was what happened at the Blood Ritual altar in that brief moment.

 

Chomp chomp chomp chomp!

 

“Ahhhhh! S-save me! Save me!”

 

The Chaotic Heaven Serpent quickly pushed Seo Ok Yeong into its throat.

 

Seo Ok Yeong couldn’t properly resist the Chaotic Heaven Serpent’s predatory behavior.

 

The moment the Blood Ritual failed, she received tremendous backlash, severely damaging her essence, energy, and spirit.

 

So now she could only hope for the Chaotic Heaven Serpent’s mercy, but how could the Chaotic Heaven Serpent, which had just been trembling in fear under the guillotine blade facing the fate of having its neck severed, forgive her.

 

Rather, the Chaotic Heaven Serpent was using all its strength to try to get Seo Ok Yeong into its stomach.

 

“Ah, ahhh.”

 

Just as the Chaotic Heaven Serpent had done earlier under the guillotine blade, Seo Ok Yeong also sensed her fate and let out a sigh of despair.

 

Now she would enter the Chaotic Heaven Serpent’s stomach and be slowly digested bit by bit for a long time.

 

This was due to the Chaotic Heaven Serpent’s innate ability that it possessed from birth, so she would never be able to escape from its belly by her own power.

 

“Like this, I can’t die like this. Not like this!!”

 

Seo Ok Yeong acknowledged that there was no way for her to escape from the Chaotic Heaven Serpent.

 

But that didn’t mean she could just meekly submit to this fate.

 

To think she would die being devoured by a mere beast she had raised for sacrificial purposes.

 

“Let’s die together!”

 

Seo Ok Yeong shouted this as she pulled dozens of vine tendrils from her sleeve and swung them around.

 

These were the very vine whips that carried the parasitic moss, the calamity of the Black Secret Wetlands.

 

Slash slash! Slash slash! Slash slash!

 

As Seo Ok Yeong swung the tendrils inside the serpent’s narrow esophagus, they scraped and wounded the throat.

 

And just as she expected, parasitic moss attached to the areas that came into contact with it.

 

The parasitic moss clung to the Chaotic Heaven Serpent and began reproducing.

 

However, Seo Ok Yeong’s actions soon resulted in her also becoming a host for the parasitic moss.

 

As parasitic moss bloomed in the Chaotic Heaven Serpent’s esophagus, she couldn’t avoid touching that throat either.

 

Thus, both Seo Ok Yeong and the Chaotic Heaven Serpent were instantly invaded and merged with by the parasitic moss.

 

***

 

“What? Why did it suddenly become quiet?”

 

At that moment, Kang Hyeon saw the blood ritual fail, the Chaotic Heaven Serpent swallow the female monk, then thrash about violently before suddenly becoming quiet, and tilted his head in puzzlement.

 

“Did that woman already die? This quickly? Then why is that snake quiet too? It’s clearly still alive?”

 

Its breathing was clearly transmitted through the trees that formed the formation.

 

While the presence of the female monk swallowed by the snake was difficult to read properly, the snake was definitely alive, yet it suddenly stopped moving and became quiet, which was puzzling.

 

Gurgle gurgle! Gurgle gurgle!

 

“Huh? It’s vomiting?”

 

Then, the quiet Chaotic Heaven Serpent suddenly opened its mouth and vomited something out.

 

But since the snake had swallowed the female monk last, if it was going to vomit, she would have to come out first.

 

So Kang Hyeon was startled and had to focus.

 

Sluuuuurp! Thud!

 

“As expected!”

 

While Kang Hyeon concentrated his consciousness to observe, the Chaotic Heaven Serpent finally vomited out the female monk.

 

Kang Hyeon wasn’t particularly surprised by the female monk’s appearance since he had already expected it from when the snake started vomiting.

 

However, while secretly observing the female monk, Kang Hyeon was suddenly startled.

 

Parasitic moss was growing all over the female monk’s body.

 

“Why is that?”

 

Not knowing that Seo Ok Yeong had attempted mutual destruction with the Chaotic Heaven Serpent, Kang Hyeon could only be bewildered.

 

Hissss! Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!

 

But when the Chaotic Heaven Serpent’s breathing became rough after vomiting out the female monk, and parasitic moss gradually showed through the gaps in its torn jaw skin, Kang Hyeon could somewhat guess the situation.

 

“That woman spread parasitic moss saying let’s die together when she was being eaten by the snake?”

 

It was a guess fairly close to the truth.

 

“Uuugh! Uuuugh!”

 

Hiss hiss, hiss hiss hiss.

 

After that, as Kang Hyeon quietly watched, the female monk and Chaotic Heaven Serpent could only moan or writhe slightly, unable to move properly.

 

“Why are they like that? Gil Cheong Ho maintained consciousness even after his head disappeared?”

 

Kang Hyeon was puzzled by the state of the female monk and Chaotic Heaven Serpent, but couldn’t know the answer.

 

Originally, if a single parasitic moss entity reproduced, one could maintain consciousness for a long time like Gil Cheong Ho.

 

But now Seo Ok Yeong and the Chaotic Heaven Serpent were invaded and merged with by dozens of parasitic moss entities at once, so their condition was much worse than Gil Cheong Ho’s.

 

However, since Kang Hyeon couldn’t know this fact, he spent several days watching the state of the female monk and Chaotic Heaven Serpent.

 

And finally, only after more than half of the female monk’s body was covered by parasitic moss did he leave the Mystic Realm and ascend to the surface.

 

= Uugh, it really was you.

 

When Kang Hyeon reached where the female monk and Chaotic Heaven Serpent were, the female monk’s heart speech was transmitted to him.

 

The Chaotic Heaven Serpent also writhed but it was unclear what it was trying to convey.

 

So Kang Hyeon decided to focus on the female monk.

 

“Me? What did I do?”

 

Kang Hyeon feigned ignorance like this.

 

= I may not know other things, but it was definitely you who interfered with my blood ritual midway. Who else but you could have moved the Strange Tree Formation to block the passage to the Upper Realm?

 

“Hmm, you figured that out?”

 

= Hmph! If I couldn’t even notice that, the realm of mid-stage Foundation Establishment would be wasted on me. But child.

 

“Why are you calling me? Do you have something to say?”

 

= Both me and that child acting like we weren’t in our right minds, as if bewitched by something – was that also your doing?

 

“Did such a thing happen? It seems the Black Secret Wetlands has scary things besides moss? In that case, it would be best to leave this place as quickly as possible.”

 

This time Kang Hyeon feigned ignorance and pretended not to know.

 

And he casually waved his hand to pull out a storage pouch from the female monk’s sleeve.

 

= With the owner’s eyes wide open, you’re boldly committing theft.

 

“You won’t have any use for this anyway, right? Even now you can only babble with your mouth at best, unable to properly manipulate spiritual energy.”

 

= Haah. How did the Four-Throat Demoness Seo Ok Yeong end up in such a state?

 

“Four-Throat Demoness? Wow, I got that right? You really were the kind of woman who deserved such a title from the beginning?”

 

= ….

 

“But why did you suddenly reveal your title and name? You hadn’t opened your mouth even once until now?”

 

= At least you should know who I am so you can spread word of me wherever needed later.

 

“Me spread word of you? Would there be such an occasion?”

 

= If not to spread the news, then at least to boast. How much could your reputation rise if word got out that a mere mid-stage Qi Accumulation cultivator took down the Four-Throat Demoness who was close to late-stage Foundation Establishment?

 

“I’m not particularly interested in that?”

 

= It’s not about interest, it’s about fame. Having a reputation in the Cultivation World can be a very strong foundation.

 

“So you want me to spread word of your death to raise my reputation? That’s why you told me your alias and name? You’ll have to say something believable. What kind of scheme is this?”

 

= A scheme? Don’t tell me you’re worried that if you talk about my death, someone will come looking for revenge?

 

“Who knows. Judging by what you’ve been up to, I imagine there are many who’d say good riddance, but you never know, right? Maybe whatever organization you belong to will come seeking revenge.”

 

= Ho ho ho ho, revenge? For me? Ho ho ho ho.

 

At the mention of revenge, Seo Ok Yeong burst into long laughter.

 

To Kang Hyeon’s ears, Seo Ok Yeong’s laughter transmitted through Mind Speech sounded very hollow and lonely.

 

Though there seemed to be some circumstances behind it, Kang Hyeon had no intention of caring about Seo Ok Yeong’s situation.

 

“By any chance, don’t you have anything else besides the Storage Pouch? Since you’re going to die anyway, how about doing a good deed for future generations? They say accumulating merit helps with reincarnation.”

 

= Merit? What merit could I possibly accumulate by giving my possessions to you? When I’ve already accumulated so much bad karma.

 

“Well, that does sound about right.”

 

= ….

 

“So, how about it?”

 

= What do you mean?

 

“Like I did with Gil Cheong Ho, I’m planning to do the same to you. Is that alright?”

 

= You’re going to burn me?

 

“Looking at Gil Cheong Ho, it didn’t seem painful. So it seems like there’s no better method for cleanly dealing with the parasitic moss, don’t you think?”

 

= You bastard!!

 

“Whoa, calm down. Think of it as getting what you gave… Ah, putting oneself in another’s shoes was never easy, was it? Anyway, farewell.”

 

Saying this, Kang Hyeon set Seo Ok Yeong’s body on fire.

 

= Kyaaaaaaah! You bastard! Blessing Oil! You should use Blessing Oil! Kyaaaaaaah!

 

“Ah, sorry. I thought about it, but I can’t just open your Storage Pouch carelessly. Who knows what’s inside. Maybe tendrils with parasitic moss attached might jump out.”

 

= Aaaaaaaah! Aaaaaaaah!

 

“Uh, sorry about that.”

 

Kang Hyeon scratched the back of his head at Seo Ok Yeong’s screams transmitted through Heart Speech.

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