Ancient Ancestral Ruins - Chapter 58: The Truth About Evil Spirits

Lu Jiu has already arrived here.

From afar, I could see the shape of its sharp claws outlined by the jet-black smoke.

“A fragment of a body that escaped from an ancient seal?”

Lu Jiu had a vague guess in his heart.

The ancient seals he had seen were not completely broken, so it was impossible for all the evil spirits suppressed inside to escape.

At the same time, Lu Jiu’s ideas were confirmed.

Evil spirits are not merely a force; they also have a form, resembling a creature of extreme evil.

Meanwhile, to others, all they saw was a pitch-black world, with dense forests seemingly corroded by some force, countless tree spirits dancing wildly like demons, and the earth a desolate wasteland.

But Lu Jiu saw a different scene.

What he saw was a burial ground, with countless corpses of demons, cultivators, and so on, stretching like the sea and piled up like mountains, innumerable!

I don’t know from which year it started.

Any living being that entered this area, whether demon or human cultivator, perished here.

“phantom?”

Lu Jiu narrowed his eyes.

The illusion he was referring to wasn’t one he saw himself, but rather one seen only by those who had entered the place.

Those cultivators appeared to be fighting against the tree demon, but in reality they were just jumping around everywhere. There was no tree demon at all; they were being influenced by an invisible illusion.

Just then.

Some people saw the Demon Blood Roc in the sky and naturally noticed Lu Jiu and Li Hanlu as well.

Everyone was immediately filled with curiosity.

Why are these two flying in the air without being attacked by the tree demons?

After all, the air they were in wasn’t very high above the ground, and the tree spirits could easily reach them with their branches.

These people were naturally unaware that the reason they were attacked was because they failed to see through the illusion.

Lu Jiu saw through the illusion; in his eyes, there was no such thing as a tree demon, so how could it be attacked?

“Oh dear, isn’t this little Huanhuan? She looks a bit disheveled.”

Lu Jiu saw Xu Huanhuan fighting the tree demon below.

Although she was accompanied by protectors, there were too many tree demons, so the protectors were not idle either.

Sinking into the illusion, the tree spirits these people encountered were extremely troublesome and almost impossible to kill.

Xu Huanhuan also saw Lu Jiu, rolled her eyes, and pouted, “Senior Jiu, are you just going to stand by and watch? Don’t you want to lend a hand?”

Although she was dressed as a man, her voice was still extremely beautiful and pleasant. “Senior Ninth, please help me.”

This girl is starting to act cute.

“Hanlu, go and help her.”

Lu Jiu smiled slightly, raised his hand and waved, and Li Hanlu’s figure involuntarily fell from the air to below.

Without Lu Jiu’s protection.

Li Hanlu quickly sank into the illusion, surrounded by countless tree demons dancing wildly, their branches lashing out like snakes and whips.

Her face was full of speechlessness, but she also knew that Master Lu wanted her to experience more trials in battle.

“Sister Li, you’ve really gone to a lot of trouble.”

Xu Huanhuan ran over excitedly and joined forces with Li Hanlu.

“Master Lu’s high regard for you is also a test for me, so there’s no need to be so polite,” Li Hanlu said with a slight smile.

“Master Lu? You are Senior Nine’s disciple?”

Xu Huanhuan’s eyes widened. “This isn’t right! Sister, aren’t you the Holy Master of Yaochi this generation? Yaochi has always only had female disciples…”

“Master Lu was not born in Yaochi, and I am merely Master Lu’s nominal disciple.”

Li Hanlu gave an explanation.

At the same time, her hands were not idle either. She kept recalling the scene when Lu Jiu used the Primordial Heavenly Art and the Great Dao Myriad Transformations Technique, carefully comprehending the meaning.

“Registered disciple…”

Xu Huanhuan was surprised again. She had heard some rumors about Li Hanlu. She was undoubtedly a first-class genius who could become the Holy Master of Yaochi at such a young age.

So, when I came to Senior Nine, I could only be a nominal disciple?

In a short time.

Xu Huanhuan became even more curious about Lu Jiu.

She couldn’t wait to go home and ask her grandmother who this Senior Lu Jiu really was.

Because Lu Jiu had previously said that he knew his grandmother, and his tone sounded very familiar.

In fact.

Li Hanlu was also very curious, because Lu Jiu seemed to favor this girl from the Xu family, which was completely different from his attitude towards others.

Having followed Lu Jiu for some time, she knew very well that ordinary people could not catch the eye of that Master Lu.

He was willing to accept her as a disciple because she came from Yaochi. Master Lu seemed to have some connection with the founder of Yaochi. In addition, she showed extraordinary courage by abandoning her cultivation at that time, which made Master Lu look at her differently.

Even so, he was only a nominal disciple.

As for Lu Changhe, it’s purely because he comes from the Lu family; Master Lu seems to have a deeper connection with the Lu family.

It’s as if Master Lu is the ancestor of the Lu family?

Many people have speculated about this possibility, but there is no name Lu Jiu on the family tree. Surely the Lu family wouldn’t not even know the name of their ancestor?

Apart from her and Lu Changhe, Master Lu did not treat anyone else differently, except for Lu Xingyun, who also came from the Lu family.

However, Xu Huanhuan was completely different.

When she first appeared, Master Lu only glanced at her before seeming quite interested in her.

While everyone was fighting the tree demon and slowly advancing deeper into the area in an attempt to find the so-called immortal destiny.

Lu Jiu’s gaze was fixed on the enormous claw suspended in the dark air.

Currently, the claw is merely hovering in the air, outlining a phantom shape, and has not yet made any further moves.

Suddenly.

The enormous claw trembled slightly.

Streaks of dark light spread across the sky and earth like rain, spreading in all directions.

The black light moved at an astonishing speed. In an instant, someone was pierced by the black light, and their body decayed at an alarming rate, leaving only a skeleton that fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

The whole process happened in just a moment!

The piercing screams were incessant.

In the blink of an eye, a sudden change occurred, and many people fell victim to it.

Someone tried to use a defensive magic weapon, but the weapon’s defense was as fragile as paper and was pierced in an instant, leaving them no chance of survival!

Even when powerful celestial beings tried to attack the incoming dark light, it was as hard as divine iron, and no attack could destroy it!

“brush!”

Li Daotian held up a tattered oil-paper umbrella with several holes in the canopy.

However, the incoming dark rays were all deflected and failed to harm him.

“A damaged ancient immortal artifact?”

Lu Jiu looked up, his expression unchanged.

Even though ancient immortal artifacts are damaged, they still possess incredible power, far surpassing that of so-called divine artifacts.

Some dark light naturally flew towards Lu Jiu as well.

But Lu Jiu showed no intention of dodging. He transformed into a black hole, and the incoming dark light was swallowed up by the black hole he created.

“You still want to corrupt me?”

A cold smile crept across Lu Jiu’s lips. After he swallowed the dark light, an endless evil aura rushed into his mind.

But his Dao heart is eternal and unshakable. No matter how those evil ravings assault him, his heart remains as still as water, completely unaffected.

Soon, countless dark lights flew into the air again, merging into the phantom of the giant claw.

Upon closer inspection, one can see that the phantom of the giant claw seems to have solidified slightly.

Although the erosion devoured the life essence of some low-level cultivators, those cultivators with considerable strength were not affected.

Furthermore, the dark light that was flying towards Lu Jiu was swallowed up by him.

So this wave.

The evil spirit with the giant claws didn’t gain any advantage.

over time.

Lu Jiu used his Void Devouring Body ability to continuously refine the evil power contained in the dark light.

At the same time, Lu Jiu also used his seventh sense to deduce the nature of the evil power.

“It can’t be refined?”

Lu Jiu’s brows gradually furrowed.

His Void Devouring Body, which is said to be able to devour everything, is now unable to refine the dark light that it has swallowed.

The word “void” refers to the myriad realms of the void. Therefore, the Void Devourer can devour, refine, and absorb anything that exists in the myriad realms of the void and is useful to itself, thereby strengthening itself!

Since this dark light cannot be refined…

Could it be that this thing doesn’t belong to the void?

“Or is it that everything in the world has two sides, and if the myriad realms I know are the positive side, then the evil power represented by this dark light is the negative side?”

“Is it more of a kind of antimatter than an evil spirit?”

Lu Jiu narrowed his eyes, as if he felt he had touched upon some of the truth.