With a chill in his grasp, he swiftly condensed the icy, deathly aura into more than a dozen spheres of pure Yin Cold Thunder, each the size of a pigeon's egg, resting in his palm. Here, where conventional flying swords and magical artifacts were ineffective, it was fortuitous that Gu Xiechen practiced the Supreme Yin Scripture, the very controller of all Yin and cold energies in the cosmos. Condensing a few Yin Thunders on the fly to engage an enemy was an exceedingly convenient maneuver.

A faint, cold chuckle drifted from a mass of grey mist several miles distant, followed by the sound of soft pads meeting the ground. In the blink of an eye, a young girl riding a white tiger burst forth from the fog. She charged forward in a gust of wind, interposing herself between the two girls and Gu Xiechen—this young woman was also completely nude, her lithe, strong physique strikingly alluring. Her skin shared the same ashen-grey hue, but unlike the other two, hers contained a faint, underlying luminescence, a change seemingly brought about by some cultivation technique. Gu Xiechen’s attention, however, was immediately drawn to the great bow in her hands. This eight-foot-long, deep blue bow, if he wasn't mistaken, was forged from the essence of Earth's Core Nether Cold Qi—the Extreme Blue Abyss Ice. Within the transparent bow's body, tens of thousands of sesame seed-sized grey-white runes visibly swirled and danced. The bow possessed an ancient and weighty design, emitting an aura that caused even Gu Xiechen to subtly furrow his brow.

Those grey-white runes... Gu Xiechen instantly recognized them as a form of the Supreme Yin Divine Script. These were runes used by ancient great divine practitioners to manipulate and control the energy of the Supreme Yin, possessing the magical power to connect with and command all Yin and cold energies of heaven and earth. The Supreme Yin Scripture contained annotations for various Supreme Yin Divine Scripts, so Gu Xiechen naturally understood their meaning. What shocked him, however, was the implication: while these ancient Supreme Yin Divine Scripts held immense power, their effective deployment typically required the cultivation of at least a Grand Unity Golden Immortal. This girl's cultivation level was merely that of an ordinary Celestial Immortal; how could she possess such a formidable long bow?

As for the white tiger, that was negligible; a mere demonic beast that had barely condensed its Golden Core was hardly worthy of Gu Xiechen's notice.

"Who are you? Why do you look so strange?" the bow-wielding girl commanded sharply, pointing at Gu Xiechen. "Why are you bullying my sisters? Do you think they are easy targets just because they have just manifested solid forms?" As the girl berated him, the first two girls playfully scampered over to the white tiger, tugging at its long fur, causing the tiger to shake its head and whine impatiently.

"Who I am is irrelevant." A fierce light flashed in his eyes, and Gu Xiechen glared sharply at the girl.

A sharp bolt of lightning arced across the void. The girl instinctively sensed that the purple and gold light emanating from Gu Xiechen’s eyes was not beneficial to her, and she hurriedly patted her white tiger, retreating several steps in haste. But how could the speed of Gu Xiechen’s Divine Eye of Spirit and the Buddhist Eye of Dharma supernatural abilities allow for retreat? The golden Buddhist light firmly fixed the girl's body, rendering her immobile. Then, a purple, sharp light circled her body, instantly discerning the origin and fate of this girl.

"So, a (Youmei, Wraith/Ghost) condensed from Xuanming Qi! How strange, such a creature born in the morning and dying by night, yet capable of cultivating to the Celestial Immortal realm?"

Gu Xiechen, having pierced through the girl’s true form, exclaimed in astonishment. Wraiths condensed from Xuanming Qi are among the most peculiar lifeforms in existence. They are born in desolate and secluded Yin places, arising from a wisp of Yin cold energy, living only from dawn till dusk, or instantly perishing if exposed to any light or Yang energy. Generally, such Wraiths cannot cultivate supernatural powers, let alone possess the cultivation of a first-grade Celestial Immortal like this girl and wield a long bow of such destructive power.

"Interesting!" Gu Xiechen laughed heartily and reached out to seize the girl.

Xuanming Qi is one of the ultimate cold energies of heaven and earth. A Wraith formed from Xuanming Qi is a creature of absolute Yin; capturing her alive and sending her to the Supreme Yin Continent nurtured within the Supreme Yin Mystic Pearl would save the pearl the trouble of evolving and generating life on its own.

Gu Xiechen’s cultivation of second-grade Celestial Immortal power was more than ten times stronger than the girl's. With one grasp, the immense pressure pinned the girl firmly to the ground, unable to move. The girl let out a scream of panic, and the white tiger beneath her roared toward the heavens, spitting streams of piercing cold energy at Gu Xiechen.

If it were any other attack, it would be different, but attacking him with cold energy was something Gu Xiechen didn't even bother to evade.

Supreme Yin Qi permeated his body, and grey-white cold energy surged outward. The cold blasts spat out by the white tiger were entirely absorbed by the Supreme Yin Qi, instead transforming into Gu Xiechen’s own strength. The bow-wielding girl shrieked as Gu Xiechen snatched her up. The Supreme Yin Mystic Pearl flashed above Gu Xiechen’s head, and in a moment, the girl was drawn inside.

The white tiger and the two other girls were horrified. The two girls cried and retreated backward; they were indeed Wraiths who had only just attained corporeal form and rudimentary intelligence, possessing absolutely no magical power. The Supreme Yin Qi surging around Gu Xiechen was the very source of all Yin and cold energy in the cosmos. Seeing him, the two girls reacted as mortals seeing their divine sovereign—they dared not confront Gu Xiechen.

Only the white tiger shuddered violently for a moment, then its eyes flashed wide, charging at Gu Xiechen with a savage, reckless aura.

"Hmph!"

Praising the tiger's spirit, Gu Xiechen pointed a finger. The Supreme Yin Mystic Pearl spat out a white light that enveloped the tiger, sucking it entirely into the Supreme Yin Space and depositing it next to the shrieking, scrambling girl on the Supreme Yin Continent. Then, upon taking the long bow into his hands, Gu Xiechen couldn't help but murmur his praise. The Extreme Blue Abyss Ice used to forge this bow was one thing; while rare, it was easily obtainable for Gu Xiechen, who controlled the Supreme Yin Mystic Pearl. What truly impressed him was the Supreme Yin Divine Script sealed within the long bow; it could automatically gather the Yin and cold energies of heaven and earth, storing them as arrows within the bow. Merely drawing the string would release a grey light to harm the enemy. This girl, with only the cultivation of a nascent Celestial Immortal, could unleash attacks equivalent to a third-grade Celestial Immortal with that grey light. The creator of this long bow was truly remarkable, having applied the Supreme Yin Divine Script to a level of perfection—perhaps not absolute perfection, still lacking compared to the True Lord of the Supreme Yin, but far surpassing Gu Xiechen himself.

After fondling the long bow back and forth for a while, just as Gu Xiechen was about to toss it into the Supreme Yin Mystic Pearl to accompany the girl, the sound of ordered footsteps echoed from the distance. The surrounding grey fog suddenly thickened more than a hundredfold. "Swoosh, swoosh," an icy wind whirled around Gu Xiechen’s feet, already condensed into substantial matter like viscous glue, binding his feet and continuing to snake up toward his torso.

With a cold snort, the dozen Yin Thunders condensed in Gu Xiechen’s palm flew forth. With a thought, the Yin Thunders, formed from Yin cold energy, detonated silently, blasting large holes several miles wide in the surrounding grey fog. The malicious Yin wind beneath his feet dissipated instantly. As the grey fog slowly dispersed, it revealed three perfectly aligned formations of a thousand people each, arrayed in a triangular pattern that perfectly enveloped Gu Xiechen. The formations were composed of three thousand beautiful, grey-skinned, grey-haired girls, all holding identical long bows, staring angrily at Gu Xiechen.

Scanning the girls, Gu Xiechen quickly assessed their strength. The strongest two barely possessed Void Realm cultivation, while the rest ranged from the Spirit Transformation stage to the Nascent Soul stage. The weakest thousand girls were likely only at the late stage of Qi Condensation, barely capable of casting a few minor spells.

But the long bows in their hands were extraordinary. Every single bow was identical to the one Gu Xiechen had just confiscated, containing the exact same aura. This meant that if these three thousand girls attacked simultaneously, it would be equivalent to three thousand third-grade Celestial Immortals launching an assault on Gu Xiechen!

An attack coordinated by three thousand third-grade Celestial Immortals? Thinking of this, a bead of cold sweat formed on Gu Xiechen’s forehead.

Of course, theoretically, his current physical body could immunize him against all attacks below the sixth-grade Celestial Immortal level. But nothing in the world was absolute; even the firmest defense could be breached. While the Indestructible Body of Profound Yellow was immensely powerful, it also had its limits of endurance. Gu Xiechen dared not risk enduring such an attack with his incomplete Indestructible Body.

Three thousand long bows simultaneously locked onto Gu Xiechen, immediately emitting a faint grey-white glow. An overwhelming pressure locked down Gu Xiechen's body, making the very air around him feel like a wall of iron and steel, making even the slightest movement difficult.

A muffled sound of air being broken was heard overhead. A thousand enormous, grey-white Great Dark Birds, with wingspans reaching ten zhang, swooped out from the distant clouds, forming a circular encirclement around Gu Xiechen in the sky. A thousand girls holding long bows and a thousand girls holding jade-green spears simultaneously locked onto Gu Xiechen’s body.

The long bows were of standard make, but after scanning the thousand jade-green spears with his divine sense, Gu Xiechen recognized them clearly: they were refined using the essence blood of the Celestial Nether Green Mark Snake, with Shattered Jade Earth Tendons as the primary material. Not only was their cold energy deep enough to crack ordinary Immortal Artifacts, but they also contained the deadly venom of the Green Mark Snake; an ordinary Celestial Immortal struck by this venom might well see their physical body dissolve into sludge. As for these girls, being Wraith bodies, they possessed absolute immunity to all poisons and miasmas in the world, so they were unafraid of the faint green mist emanating from the spears.

Gu Xiechen's pupils contracted to two pinpoints. The Celestial Nether Green Mark Snake was rare, but the Shattered Jade Earth Tendons were treasures seldom seen in the world. They formed only when the Netherworld Freezing Qi had crystallized an underground spirit vein, extracting the essence of millions of years to create a material that was neither metal nor iron, wood nor jade—harder than diamond, pliable as flowing water, and non-conductive—the absolute pinnacle material for artifact forging.

Although the thousand girls wielding spears were like the others—their strongest cultivation barely reaching the Void Realm and their figures gracefully sculpted—Gu Xiechen dared not underestimate this group of violent women. The reason they were called violent women was that the Shattered Jade Earth Tendons were the concentrated essence of underground spirit veins, tempered by Netherworld Freezing Qi for millions of years. A piece the size of a thumb weighed over ten thousand jin. These thousand spears, each about two zhang long and as thick as a man's wrist, weighed hundreds of millions of jin!

Yet, these girls wielded these spears as if they were handling straw brushes, tossing them about with ease! Though they were Wraith bodies, they must have cultivated supernatural powers similar to the Divine Magic of Great Strength, otherwise, they wouldn't possess the immense strength required to swing such heavy spears. But how could a formless Wraith body cultivate body refinement techniques? Gu Xiechen found this exceedingly strange.

As these thousand girls emerged, a faint roar sounded behind Gu Xiechen. He spun around instantly to see a girl riding a towering, ten-zhang-high tiger composed entirely of ghastly white bones slowly approaching. Behind this girl followed over three hundred figures, wielding long spears and mounted on white tigers—these girls had all reached or neared the Celestial Immortal realm. They brandished long spears, carried long bows on their backs, and all stared menacingly at Gu Xiechen.

As for the girl mounted on the skeleton tiger, she held two strangely curved blades and was curiously examining Gu Xiechen. Gu Xiechen glanced at this girl—very good, a second-grade Celestial Immortal Wraith! He truly wondered what fortune she had stumbled upon to cultivate such formidable equipment with a Wraith body.

As for the two strange, crescent-shaped blades in her hands, each about a zhang long, one finger wide, thin as a cicada’s wing, they were forged from Lunar Stone. Gu Xiechen stared at the transparent blades in disbelief, looking again and again—yes, it was Lunar Stone, condensed from the extreme compression of Supreme Yin Qi, the most Yin and cold material in existence. The dense swarm of countless Supreme Yin Divine Scripts contained within those two blades made the skin on Gu Xiechen's scalp crawl.

These were all top-tier Supreme Yin Divine Scripts, each capable of freezing the void and turning a star into an icy hell. However, to drive these Supreme Yin Divine Scripts and inscribe them into weaponry required the cultivation of at least a High-Stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal. Which great divine being was hidden behind these girls, granting them such incredible fortune?

"Hey, what are you? Why are you wearing clothes? This thing you wear, is it called clothing? Strange, why don't you have..." The girl with the curved blades hung them on the skeletal frame of her mount, then gestured with both hands around her chest, outlining a silhouette.

Gu Xiechen shook his head and smiled at the girl.

The weapons of these girls were terrifying. Had they attacked Gu Xiechen immediately upon meeting, he would indeed have faced immense trouble. But since they chose to converse with him...

His eyes glared, and Gu Xiechen’s massive spiritual sense suddenly transformed into an invisible shockwave that blasted toward all the nearby girls. A chorus of delicate cries arose. Including the strongest girl, everyone was knocked unconscious by the spiritual sense, which approached the Golden Immortal realm. The powerful weapons in their hands clattered to the ground as they fell.

Laughing loudly toward the heavens, Gu Xiechen pointed a finger. The Supreme Yin Mystic Pearl flew out of the void, sweeping the ground with streaks of white light, sucking all the girls and their mounts into the pearl. With these girls, the Supreme Yin Space would no longer be lonely. Once their bodies were assaulted by the Supreme Yin Qi, and the Netherworld Qi composing their bodies was converted into pure Supreme Yin Qi, they would naturally be at Gu Xiechen's command. Furthermore, because the grade of Supreme Yin Qi was several levels higher than Netherworld Qi, once the energy within these girls was transformed, their cultivation would immediately ascend a level.

Just as he finished capturing this group of girls, dense footsteps echoed from the distance.

Gu Xiechen swept his divine sense around and discovered at least ten thousand girls rapidly rushing toward this location from tens of miles away. The cultivation of these arriving girls was even weaker; some were merely newly formed Wraiths, while the strongest among them were only at the Golden Core level. However, every single one carried weapons—long bows, spears, curved blades, or short daggers—all forged from various profound Yin materials, each sealed with a powerful Supreme Yin Divine Script.

Gritting his teeth, Gu Xiechen decided to meet them head-on. He unleashed his spiritual sense shockwave, knocking all the girls unconscious and sweeping them into the Supreme Yin Mystic Pearl. Gu Xiechen then immediately summoned the Giant Spirit God.

The colossal Giant Spirit God emerged from a streak of purple light. He grabbed Gu Xiechen, intending to use brute force to hurl him away.

Gu Xiechen realized that the restriction preventing him from flying on this planet likely extended from the ground up to an altitude of one hundred li. With the Giant Spirit God’s brute strength, he could easily toss Gu Xiechen beyond the hundred-li mark. Once outside the restricted zone, Gu Xiechen could immediately use his escape light to flee, and the Giant Spirit God could retreat into Gu Xiechen’s Sea of Consciousness, escaping the bizarre planet.

He had to flee. Having plundered over ten thousand strange Wraith girls, the divine practitioner behind them would surely seek trouble with Gu Xiechen. Merely observing the power required to control so many high-level Supreme Yin Divine Scripts indicated the terrifying cultivation of that person. Gu Xiechen dared not engage such a powerful being in a direct confrontation.

But just as the Giant Spirit God grabbed Gu Xiechen and was about to throw him, an oppressive divine sense swept over from the distance, so potent it felt suffocating.

Pfft! The Giant Spirit God was knocked back a hundred li by the divine sense, crashing into a mountain peak condensed from profound ice. A large section of the muscle and bone on the Giant Spirit God’s chest was pulverized by the substantial divine sense, even exposing his internal organs. The Giant Spirit God, spitting blood from all seven orifices, managed to shake his head at Gu Xiechen before dissolving into a purple light and fleeing back into Gu Xiechen’s Sea of Consciousness to recuperate.

A graceful figure emerged slowly from the distance, wearing a palace dress with high coiled hair, several long, flowing ribbons dancing around her in the air. Hazy white mist clung to her, obscuring her features, allowing only a glimpse of her slender silhouette.

"It has been many years since anyone dared cause trouble in the domain of this Undying Heavenly Monarch."

"Release my children, and then choose your own method of death!"

"Do you wish to die utterly dissipated, or suffer eternal torment within the flames of Xuanming? Or perhaps, would you prefer to become a Wraith yourself?"

With a soft, crystalline laugh, the white mist surrounding the figure gradually dispersed, revealing a face of overwhelming, world-shattering beauty.

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