jdhmnovel Chapter 348 Exploring the Mystery of the Restriction
Chapter 348 Exploring the Mystery of the Restriction
The morning mist condensed into blood droplets on the crimson thorns. When Ye Shuli crushed the third piece of withered bone, the birthmark behind her ear suddenly burned with pain.
Jiang Ye immediately tightened his fingers, the calluses on his palm brushing against the spiritual veins on her wrist, and warm spiritual energy surged in through the Hegu acupoint.
"Afraid I'll fall?" Ye Shuli flung away the silk shawl offered by her pursuer from the spirit world and deliberately crushed the ghost-faced mushrooms sprouting at her feet with the tip of her shoe.
The moment the purple poisonous mist rose, Jiang Ye's Spirit-Breaking Dart pierced through the wriggling vines seven steps away.
The spirit seeker crushed the cold jade to dispel the poisonous mist, and ice crystals condensed into frost flowers on his moon-white robes: "Miss Shuli's birthmark resonates with the Heavenly Pivot Restriction; it must be preserved now..."
The sound of something cutting through the air shattered his admonition.
Twelve bone blades were driven into the ground where they had just stood. The leader of the turbulent forces landed on a three-eyed corpse vulture, his dark gold python-patterned waistband wrapped with seven writhing soul-devouring worms. "You dare to trespass into the forbidden area with two burdens?" He flicked away the spirit-breaking darts that Jiang Ye had shot at him, and the swarm of worms transformed into a blood-red rain of arrows amidst maniacal laughter.
Jiang Ye spun around and pushed Ye Shuli into the protective barrier of the Spirit Realm Pursuers. Sparks flew as the black iron wrist guards collided with the barrier. "Keep your cold jade in check!" He leaned back to avoid the poisoned arrow that grazed his Adam's apple, and twenty-eight star-patterned darts woven into a net of light from his sleeve.
As the two men in black robes collapsed to the ground clutching their ruptured dantian, his boot heel crushed the third Soul-Devouring Worm.
"The Kan position stone pillar!" Ye Shuli's voice pierced through the chaos.
Her back was pressed against a barrier made of millennia-old ice, while a spirit balancing her energy perched on her shoulder, nibbling on fluorescent fragments.
As the eighth drop of blood from the birthmark seeped into the groove of the inscription, the eyes of the black bird circling at the top of the stele suddenly flashed with a blue light.
The leader of the turbulent forces roared and lashed out with his dragon bone whip, shattering the protective barrier that the Spirit Realm Pursuers had pushed to their limit.
Jiang Ye parried the bone spur aimed at Ye Shuli's heart, but his left shoulder was torn open with three bloody gashes by the whip tip.
Using the force of the impact, he shoved Ye Shuli towards the glowing inscription, and the blood-stained star compass precisely wedged into the gap in the black bird's tail feathers.
"Stop them!" The roar of the leader of the turbulent forces shook the stalactites off the cave ceiling.
Six spirit lords wearing ghost masks simultaneously formed hand seals, and rotting corpse puppets that emerged from the ground blocked all escape routes.
Ye Shuli's fingernails dug into the cracks in the inscription, and the spirit balancing sprite suddenly jumped into her bleeding palm.
As crimson flames, the same color as her birthmark, rose around the elf, she had a sudden inspiration and drew a line across her forearm with her fingers: "By blood, begin!"
Cracks instantly spread across the star compass that Jiang Ye had just repaired, and the cold jade thrown by the spirit realm pursuer froze the rotting corpse that was rushing towards Ye Shuli.
As the leader of the turbulent forces swept away Jiang Ye's hair-binding jade crown with his whip, the black bird on the restriction stele suddenly stretched its neck and cried out.
Jiang Ye wiped the blood from his eyes and saw that Ye Shuli's dress was soaked with the blue light of the inscription.
The nine-palace array that appeared beneath her feet was devouring the puppet, but the spirit balancing sprite suddenly screamed and pulled her hair—the blue light in the black bird's left eye began to flash violently.
"The Zhen position array eye is missing!" The Spirit Realm Seeker swung his sword and cleaved the falling boulder, causing the cold jade pendant to suddenly shatter into dust.
Ye Shuli turned to grab Jiang Ye's star-patterned dart to fill the gap, just as she saw him kick the third black-robed man away, his back exposed but locked by the dragon bone whip.
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As the three Soul-Devouring Worms wrapped around Jiang Ye's ankle, Ye Shuli touched the protruding bronze gear on the back of the restriction monument.
She tore off the silk veil covering her dress and, using the still-damp blood on her palm, drew a modified Tesla coil diagram—the only chapter in her modern physics class that she understood.
"Here!" She tossed the cloth bag wrapped with star-patterned darts into the air.
The spirit balancing sprite suddenly spat out crimson flames, burning the cloth bag into a floating metal net.
Just as Jiang Ye flipped over to dodge the dragon bone whip, the metal net covered his bleeding left shoulder.
A surge of electric spiritual energy coursed through Jiang Ye's body, and his pupils gleamed with a silver light.
The star-patterned dart swelled three times in size at his fingertips, cleaving through five rotting corpse puppets with arcs of electricity.
The leader of the turbulent forces had half of his python-patterned waistband cut off, and seven soul-devouring worms frantically burrowed into the crack in the ground.
"Use the water vapor in the Kan position to conduct electricity!" Ye Shuli kicked away the black-robed man who lunged at her.
The spirit seeker immediately slammed the cold jade into the ground, and ice crystals crawled all over the cave along Jiang Ye's metal net.
As the sixth Ghost-Faced Spirit Lord was frozen into an ice sculpture, Jiang Ye's Star-Patterned Dart pierced the right shoulder blade of the leader of the turbulent forces.
"You're courting death!" The leader roared in fury, tearing off his waistband. Dark red spiritual energy wrapped around the Soul-Devouring Insects and coalesced into a giant python.
The spirit seeker suddenly slammed the hilt of his sword into Jiang Ye's wrist guard, and the two spiritual energies twisted into a spiral in the air.
The moment the giant python bit into the spiritual energy, Jiang Ye's star-patterned dart precisely pierced the python's vital spot—where half a piece of unburnt silk cloth dangled.
Soul-devouring insects rained down like a storm, and the spirit balancing sprite suddenly spread its transparent wings.
After swallowing the three Soul-Devouring Worms, its crimson flames surged, transforming the destructive energy released by the leader into shimmering blue light spots.
However, the barrier stele emitted a dull rumble, the black bird's left eye went completely extinguished, and black mist seeped from the cracks in the stele's inscription.
"The entrance is closing!" The spirit balance elf screamed, grabbing Ye Shuli's hair.
Jiang Ye was about to rush over when he was trapped by the combined attack of the last three Ghost-Faced Spirit Lords.
Ye Shuli suddenly grabbed an unmelted ice crystal from the ground and inserted it into a bronze groove, following the principle of modern clock gears.
The black mist suddenly froze, and a faint blue light seeped from the cracks in the inscription.
The spirit energy balancer suddenly burrowed into the burning birthmark behind her ear, and Ye Shuli felt as if countless star maps were exploding in her mind.
When Jiang Ye severed the last Spirit Venerable's chain, the restriction stele had already turned into an ordinary stone, and the star track compass on the tail feathers of the Xuan Bird was corroding at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Thirty seconds left." Ye Shuli touched the warm chalcedony at the bottom of the stone tablet, which was the fluorescent trace left by the spirit balancing elf.
She suddenly tore open Jiang Ye's blood-stained clothes and used his blood to draw equally divided circles on the surface of the chalcedony—just like the diagram for calculating pi taught by a high school math teacher.
The trembling ground suddenly calmed down, and the rusty star compass emitted the clicking sound of gears meshing.
The spirit seeker inserted the Cold Jade Sword into the Zhen position array eye, but when he turned around, he saw Ye Shuli fiddling with Fresnel lenses using broken jade pieces.
When the last piece of jade reflected a bluish light, the closed restriction stele tore open a hair-thin crack.
Jiang Ye's star-patterned dart suddenly flew towards the crack on its own, turning into dust the instant it touched the crevice.
The spirit balancing entity emerged from the birthmark, clutching half a piece of chalcedony and weeping fluorescent tears: "The passage rejects physical entities..."
Ye Shuli pressed her throbbing temples, and the principles of particle colliders in modern laboratories suddenly flashed through her mind.
She grabbed Jiang Ye's spirit-breaking dart, pricked her fingertip, and drew a wave function trajectory on the surface of the chalcedony: "Convert spiritual power into..."
Before he could finish speaking, the barrier monument turned to ashes.
The spirit energy balancer suddenly expanded into a ball of light, enveloping everyone in a crimson barrier.
Through the gradually fading light curtain, Ye Shuli saw bronze gears automatically reassembling deep within the ruins—it was clearly the Tesla coil structure she had drawn.