Attacked by the Female Demon at the Beginning - Chapter 193

Chapter 193: Is Jiang Hao Dead?

He briefly looked at the other items in the storage treasure.

Jiang Hao didn’t find any particularly valuable items.

It seemed as if all the good things had been used up.

Aside from some healing pills, there were no cultivation pills at all.

“Is it because they felt there was no hope of advancement? Or did they just happen to use them all up?” Jiang Hao didn’t know.

However, he found a book, a cultivation method called 《Heavenly Saint Life Technique》.

“A Tiansheng Sect’s cultivation method?”

Out of curiosity, Jiang Hao briefly looked through it and indeed found it to be a Tiansheng Sect’s cultivation method.

It contained normal cultivation methods as well as mental techniques.

“Is it a Heavenly Saint mental technique? I wonder how it compares to the Great Thousand Spirit Technique in terms of power.”

“According to the description of the technique, it seems to focus somewhat on external appearances, and overall, it seems to be not much different from the Tianyin Hundred Revolutions. But with the addition of the mental technique, it should be slightly stronger.”

After a rough understanding, Jiang Hao put the items away.

Naturally, he would not cultivate this technique; it was meaningless to him.

The same went for the mental technique, which he would see if he could sell later. It should fetch a good number of spirit stones.

After putting the items away, Jiang Hao decided to forcefully break the formation, starting with the defensive formation.

Holding the Heavenly Saber, he began attacking the formation while the divine powers were still present.

……

The next day, around noon, Jiang Hao breathed a sigh of relief.

The formation was finally almost broken, which was more difficult than he had anticipated.

If those two early-stage Nascent Souls had tried to break it, they could have completely succeeded last night.

Now he arrived at the highest point, where there was one last defense.

Once broken, he could reach the Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead. But once broken, misfortune would surge out, and it was uncertain how much it would affect.

After a moment of silence, Jiang Hao let Purple Qi envelop his entire body, and only after confirming there was no danger did he deliver the final strike.

Crack!

The Heavenly Saber came down as if shattering something.

In the next instant, the Calamity Bead emitted a bright red light, and an aura of misfortune swept the surroundings.

However, in front of the Heavenly Saber, all misfortune was cleaved apart like waves.

The Heavenly Saber feared no misfortune.

Seeing this, Jiang Hao stimulated the power of the Heavenly Saber with Purple Qi, suppressing the erupting aura of misfortune.

The moment the Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead was suppressed, he used a spell, Universe in the Palm.

In an instant, Purple Qi burst forth, and this time Jiang Hao used all his strength to seal the Bead before him.

Fortunately, the Calamity Bead was ownerless and did not resist.

The Purple Qi blew and sealed the entire Calamity Bead.

After completing the seal, it automatically flew into Jiang Hao’s palm, but it was just hovering over it.

Jiang Hao dared not touch it, and not only did he not dare, but he also immediately let it go, allowing it to fall back to its original position without undoing the seal.

After making sure he was fine, he then observed his surroundings.

The Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead was sealed, and the surrounding misfortune power did not disappear but was no longer active.

It seemed that with the source gone, it lost its vitality.

“It seems the sealing effect is not bad.”

Afterward, Jiang Hao turned his attention to the Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead, which now looked like a purple-red bead, though a closer inspection would reveal the red within.

“Appraisal.”

Regardless of whether it seemed well-sealed, it needed to be identified to prevent any hidden dangers.

【Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead: A fortune-based artifact, sealed by the Universe in the Palm, will automatically break free from the seal in fifteen days. If no one suppresses it, the aura of misfortune will gradually spread, bringing calamity to all living beings and leaving corpses everywhere. Under this seal, the Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead can suppress curses.】

“Fifteen days?”

Jiang Hao fell silent for a moment, then sat cross-legged to recover his cultivation.

He was not in a hurry to leave but needed to be sure of one thing.

At night, he recovered to his peak but did not open his eyes, continuing to cultivate.

……

The next morning.

Jiang Hao opened his eyes, activated Hidden Spirit Manifestation, and then once again used the Universe in the Palm.

Purple Qi covered the Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead, and after a moment, it was sealed again.

“Appraisal.”

Jiang Hao dispelled the Hidden Spirit Manifestation and performed the identification.

He needed to know if the sealing effect could be stacked.

If it could, he would take it with him; if not, he would abandon it.

Fifteen days was not short, but if he fell into a coma or was cultivating, fifteen days was too brief.

Once the seal was broken, no one knew what could happen.

He himself might not escape death.

【Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead: A fortune-based artifact, sealed by the Universe in the Palm, will automatically break free from the seal in twenty-nine days. If no one suppresses it, the aura of misfortune will gradually spread, bringing calamity to all living beings and leaving corpses everywhere. Under this seal, the Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead can suppress curses.】

“It seems it can be stacked, but I don’t know what the limit is.”

This time, Jiang Hao did not continue to wait but got up and left.

He could not continue to experiment; it was time to go back.

If it could be stacked, there was nothing to fear.

He would just seal it once a day.

If one day he really needed to use it, he would unseal it.

But the Calamity Bead was too deadly; he dared not use it unless absolutely necessary.

He was actually curious about what the person who originally made the Calamity Bead was thinking.

It was as if it was made to annihilate all living beings.

“However, in this state, it can suppress curses, which is somewhat useful.”

Without further thought, Jiang Hao sped up his departure from the ruins.

It took a lot of time to enter, but it felt particularly quick to leave.

……

After a short while, Jiang Hao stood outside the ruins and took a deep breath.

That heavy feeling was gone.

The sensation below the ruins was indeed due to the mountain and river’s power suppressing the Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead.

“I need to make sure if the Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead behaves the same outside as it did inside the ruins.

Perhaps outside, it will be more active, and there is a possibility that the time to break through the seal could be shortened.”

With this concern, Jiang Hao started heading towards the defensive line.

Before leaving, he glanced at the core area.

Although there was still some power shining there, it was much weaker than before.

It seemed to be coming to an end.

Now that he was returning, what awaited him was probably just the final cleanup.

At most, it would delay him for another month or two.

……

Defensive Line

Zheng Shijiu sat by a tree, covered in many wounds.

Fortunately, he had time to rest.

After several days of effort, the defensive line had returned to normal.

All that was left was to wait for their rest to end, then go in and clean up the demons.

Moreover, the blockade here seemed to have disappeared, meaning they were in an invincible position.

There will be support coming at least.

“It seems that the matters here will be over in a month or two.”

“So many days have passed, if Senior Sister Ye Ji and the others were successful, shouldn’t they be back by now?”

Le You’s hands were nearly ruined, but fortunately, there were medicinal pills, and the healing power of the Hengliu Waterfall was quite strong, so there was no immediate worry.

“It should still take a few more days,” Xin Yuyue said, her injuries severe, not even knowing where to rest.

She could only stay with Zheng Shijiu and the others, where it was somewhat safer.

“According to what you’ve said, if someone comes back, Jiang Hao Junior Brother must be among them, right?” Le You asked.

Zheng Shijiu and Xin Yuyue fell silent for a moment before nodding slightly.

“Why?” Le You was puzzled.

“Just a hunch,” said Zheng Shijiu.

They waited for three more days.

Sure enough, they saw people returning, but it wasn’t Jiang Hao; it was two other Foundation Establishment cultivators at the peak of their stage, a man and a woman.

Both were seriously injured, having narrowly escaped death.

Seeing the grateful looks from others, they felt for a moment that they had achieved a great feat, constantly talking about how they risked their lives to cover for Senior Sister Ye Ji and the others.

After listening for a while, Zheng Shijiu, who was puzzled, asked about Jiang Hao.

However, the answer he received was that Jiang Hao had died early on.

Being the weakest in the late Foundation Establishment stage, he was the first to fall behind.

His death was quite normal.

Dead?

Zheng Shijiu found it hard to believe.

Le You also sighed; Jiang Hao was a good person, and they had cooperated a few times.

His death was somewhat regrettable.