Crafting an Immortal Race with Daily Hexagrams-Chapter 357 - 201: People of the Underworld

Everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them.

"Senior Brother Chu, this phenomenon is..."

Behind Chu Yuanfeng, Wu Yang, with a delicate face, was dumbfounded, gazing at the phenomenon on Luoxia Mountain in the distance, and murmuring.

Chu Yuanfeng was also somewhat entranced by the lotus flowers swaying in the air, hesitantly saying: "Is this the phenomenon produced by a cultivator achieving the Golden Core Dao?"

Unlike the focus of others, Shen Wen’an’s attention was entirely on the slowly falling strands of golden rain.

He faintly sensed that those raindrops contained a hint of immortal divine aura.

"Is that... what Senior Sister Lingshan referred to as golden nature?" Pondering in his heart, Shen Wen’an suddenly furrowed his brows, casting his gaze to other areas surrounding Luoxia Mountain.

Lingshan Sword Immortal had mentioned that the golden nature contained within a cultivator’s Golden Core is immortal and disrupts balance.

In fairness to the Dao, underworld beings would prevent cultivators from breaking through to the Golden Core and obtaining golden nature.

He intended to see if there were any underworld beings present around Luoxia Mountain.

However, the peaks around Luoxia Mountain were densely forested, and within his field of view, Shen Wen’an found nothing peculiar.

With a slight thought, he immediately released his divine sense slowly.

"Brother Shen, don’t!"

Feeling a faint wave of divine sense emanating from Shen Wen’an, Chu Yuanfeng panicked and hurriedly spoke to stop him!

Shen Wen’an was slightly startled upon hearing this.

Just as he was about to ask, his released divine sense suddenly discovered something unimaginable!

In the void more than ten miles away from the mountain peak where the five were located, there stood a mysterious figure silently!

The figure had its back to the five, hands clasped behind, wearing a black, fitted robe, with a headpiece, exuding a terrifyingly chilling aura!

Sensing Shen Wen’an’s divine sense scanning over, the figure only slightly turned its head.

The next moment, a terrifying chain suddenly appeared from the void beside it, rushing straight towards the mountain peak where the five were!

In an instant, Shen Wen’an felt as if his body and divine spirit were locked by a bizarre force, unable to muster even a sliver of resistance against the chain shooting towards him.

Underworld!

Seeing this scene, this thought instantly surfaced in his mind.

At the same time, a sliver of regret also arose.

Curiosity truly killed the cat.

As the pitch-black chain was about to pierce through his body, Shen Wen’an had already closed his eyes, awaiting the arrival of death.

Suddenly, his Lifebound Flying Sword within the dantian trembled violently, breaking free from the bizarre force shackling his entire body, suddenly flying out from the dantian!

Facing that jet-black chain shooting towards him, it erupted with dazzling golden light!

This scene happened so fast that the people around him, including Chu Yuanfeng, hadn’t reacted before their bodies were engulfed by the golden light.

Clang!

Their eyes stung from the golden light, closing involuntarily, hearing only a dull collision sound from the void ahead!

The next moment, the golden light dissipated, and the pitch-black chain had disappeared.

The eerie power binding his body suddenly dissipated, as if it never appeared.

Shen Wen’an, puzzled, glanced at the void, then suddenly felt a sense of weakness.

Feeling a stirring in his heart, his divine sense quickly delved into the dantian.

There, within the dantian, the once radiant Sword Embryo now glowed dimly, with two fine cracks appearing on the three-inch sword body.

The Sword Embryo of a Sword Cultivator, like the Immortal Embryo of an Immortal Dao Cultivator, is a condensation of one’s cultivation.

Now that the Sword Embryo’s brilliance had faded, and the body had cracked, Shen Wen’an could clearly feel that his power had been significantly affected.

The most obvious feeling was that the originally smooth Sword Element Power within his body was now less fluid.

Upon careful inspection, he also discovered a wisp of sinister black aura, as fine as a hair, clinging to the three-inch Dragon Soul Magical Sword.

Trying to strip the black aura from the Sword Embryo with his divine sense, Shen Wen’an found that the aura seemed to have taken root on his Sword Embryo, rendering him unable to remove it no matter what he tried.

"Brother Shen?"

Externally, Chu Yuanfeng’s voice came, and Shen Wen’an could only retract his divine sense back to his body.

Seeing him awaken, Chu Yuanfeng asked with a serious face, "Are you alright, Brother Shen?"

Shen Wen’an shook his head slightly, not revealing the damage to his Sword Embryo to the others.

Seeing this, Chu Yuanfeng, alert and cautious, looked around with a solemn expression.

Although he hadn’t seen the figure of the underworld being, he clearly witnessed the eerie black chain appearing in the void, targeting Shen Wen’an.

Following this, Shen Wen’an erupted with dazzling golden light, blinding them temporarily.

After a dull collision sound, all phenomena vanished.

This scene happened extremely fast, from the appearance of the pitch-black chain to things returning to normal, taking less than a single breath.

Chu Yuanfeng didn’t know of the underworld’s existence.

However, when Lingshan Sword Immortal broke through to the Sword Immortal Realm, they were all advised that when observing a cultivator achieve the Golden Core Dao, they mustn’t release their divine sense, or they’d attract big trouble.

Seeing Shen Wen’an merely release his divine sense and suffer such a bizarre attack, Chu Yuanfeng and the others felt a sense of trepidation.

From beginning to end, they never saw the existence of the enemy, nor knew what attacked Shen Wen’an.

"Senior Brother, look!"

Just as the group was in shock, the young man with phoenix eyes suddenly pointed in alarm at Luoxia Mountain in the distance.