Chapter 80: Chapter 73: Heaven-Devouring Frost Flame Wolf

The colossal avatar standing between heaven and earth was none other than Mr. Qian.

Or rather, Mr. Qian!

Law of Heaven and Earth!

This was a supreme Divine Technique that legend said only mighty Nascent Soul experts, or even Divinity Transformation patriarchs, could master!

How could a mindless flesh-and-blood puppet possibly unleash such a world-altering power!

What kind of terrifying entity was hiding behind the Guixi Sect?!

’Why would he use the Law of Heaven and Earth?’

’Could it really be like Eldest Brother said? Are we being attacked by bandits?’

’Bah!’

’What bandits? It has to be an attack from the righteous path!’

’Did... did such a wonderful thing really happen?’

Just as Su Ling’er was deeply shocked by the scene before her, Mr. Qian’s avatar slowly lowered its head.

Its gaze swept over every inch of the sect’s land, finally settling on a point in the void.

Then, a profound voice that seemed to originate from beyond the heavens resounded in everyone’s minds.

"The spatial rift has opened. An ancient calamity has descended!

This is a tribulation that threatens the sect’s very survival, and also a testament to your path on the Great Dao!

All disciples, hear my command! Enter the Demon Refining Realm and slay this beast together!"

At the same time, a sect interface suddenly materialized before all the player disciples of the Guixi Sect.

[Urgent Sect Event: Ten Thousand Beasts Ascending to Heaven: Ancient Beast Invasion!]

[Event Introduction]

The ancient demon beast, the ’Heaven-Devouring Frost Flame Wolf’, attracted by the Spiritual Qi of the Golden Autumn Harvest Festival, has torn through the spatial barrier and descended upon the sect!

Sect Leader Qian Buyu, to protect the sect, has used a supreme Divine Technique to create an independent trial space, and suppressed it to the Core Formation Realm.

This beast carries a rare treasure and possesses monstrous power. We urgently need all disciples to go and vanquish it!

[Name]: Ancient Calamity: Heaven-Devouring Frost Flame Wolf

[Type]: Ancient Demon Beast

[Cultivation]: True form unknown. This incarnation has been suppressed to the Core Formation Realm.

[Shadow God’s Gift: Frost Flame]

Soul locked in space-time for millennia,

Returning on a golden autumn day.

Say not the Frost Flame devours all, 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

But hear the caged beast’s sorrowful call.

In another world, there are no seasons. Only bitter cold and scorching heat take turns reigning over the wastelands.

From this collision of ice and fire, a giant beast was born.

Its body was made of frost and flame. Its breath could freeze mountains or burn rivers to ash, and it grew stronger over the long eons.

Early in its life, it found the eyes of a kinsman who had been dead for many years. This allowed it to see into the worlds within others’ eyes, worlds unknown to outsiders.

It wandered the wastelands for countless years until a group of Cultivators discovered its existence.

The Cultivators were terrified of its power and saw it as a "calamity" of heaven and earth.

A great expert believed that if it were allowed to grow, it would one day devour heaven and earth.

Thus, a great hunt for the giant beast began.

The Cultivators used countless magic treasures but found that the beast’s body of frost and flame could not be destroyed.

But at some point, they found two magic treasures.

The first was the [Yin Yang Warm Jade Coffin], carved from ten-thousand-year-old Warm Jade. It seemed capable of using the Black and White Impermanence inscribed within the Warm Jade to forcibly strip and suppress its soul, sending it into eternal annihilation.

The second was a [Soul Banner], an evil object that craved souls. However, it seemed to have a past that contradicted its nature, and it might be able to prevent the demon beast from ever being reincarnated.

That battle tore the heavens and shattered the earth.

In the end, the giant beast was defeated, its soul brutally dragged into the jade coffin.

However, at the last moment, it erupted with a monstrous frost flame that turned the entire sect into scorched earth.

The Soul Banner, seemingly because it had not been properly refined, did not play a significant role.

This resulted in the wolf’s soul, merely imprisoned in the jade coffin, not falling into annihilation.

But it was still trapped forever in that moment.

In endless pain, its body shattered and its soul torn asunder.

For millions of years, it could not die, nor could it escape, left with only hunger and ferocity.

After an unknown amount of time, the ruins of the sect that had sealed it were long buried by the ages.

But whenever the "Golden Autumn Harvest Festival" reached its peak, this power would resonate with the wolf’s soul in the jade coffin, tearing open a temporary spatial rift.

And so, this imprisoned giant beast would return to the mortal world, bringing with it endless wails and fury.

[Event Objective]

All sect disciples will be teleported to the event’s secret realm to join forces and slay the demon beast ’Heaven-Devouring Frost Flame Wolf’!

[Event Rewards]

First Kill Reward: The disciple who deals the final blow to the demon beast will receive a massive amount of Sect Contribution Points (50,000)!

Collaboration Reward: All disciples who participate in the kill will receive a large number of Contribution Points and generous rewards based on their damage contribution ranking!

Sect Reward: After successfully killing the demon beast, the sect’s prestige will slightly increase, and a new sect building blueprint will be unlocked—[Yin Spirit Institute]!

Killing it within two hours will greatly increase the drop rate of rare treasures from the Core Formation Realm and even the Nascent Soul Realm!!!

[Sect Channel]

[Lu Wu: Holy shit! The event boss is finally here!]

[Lin Qingfeng: Little Junior Sister looks like she’s pretty much recovered. Good thing we made it in time!]

[Shen Nong: Fifty thousand Contribution Points! We have to let Little Junior Sister get this one. Her contribution rank will shoot way up!]

[Ji: Guild Leader, are you confident we can take it down in two hours!]

[Lin Qingfeng: You guys just handle the adds, leave it to me!! For the Horde! For the Alliance! For the Sect!]

[Everyone: For the Horde! For the Alliance! For the Sect!]

Meanwhile, Su Ling’er only felt a formless, immense power envelop her.

Her spiritual soul was already injured, and her physical body had just recovered. At this moment, she felt the world spin, but her spiritual Cultivation Technique still maintained her clarity of mind.

The first thing that entered her sight was endless darkness, followed by a strong sense of weightlessness.

She clearly felt every inch of the fall, as if she were plummeting into an eternal abyss with no sound, no light, and no direction.

Just when she thought she would fall forever.

"HMMMM!"

A grand sound, as if from the dawn of creation, rang out from the void.

In the next instant, a tiny speck of light was born at the edge of her vision.

Immediately, the speck of light exploded, and billions of crisscrossing, blood-red chains spread out wildly in all directions, sketching the outline of heaven and earth!

Dark red matter instantly surged forth, filled the space, and solidified, becoming the pitch-black earth beneath her feet.

In a single breath, this world unfolded from nothingness. Wisps of black energy constantly rose from bottomless fissures.

Su Ling’er staggered a step before barely managing to steady herself.

She was no longer falling and finally had solid ground beneath her feet, but she felt no relief, only endless shock.

Above her, the endless void was constantly "bleeding." A thick, dark red stained the entire sky, finally turning into a boundless, blood-colored firmament!

RUMBLE!

The earth began to shake.

’This is... creation!’

’They’re creating a real, small world out of thin air, from nothingness!’

’This Evil Cultivator sect can actually master a creation art so close to the authority of a god!’

’How terrifying are its foundations?’

’And how insane is its ambition?!’

’Qingxu Temple...’

’Qingxu Temple can’t possibly deal with a sect like this!’

’I must... I must ask the Sect Leader, ask the Upper Sect Celestial Furnace Sect for help! That’s the only way!’

’No... maybe even the Celestial Furnace Sect can’t handle this!’

’This is the creation of a small world!’

The moment this purgatory fully formed, a roar echoed between heaven and earth!

"AWOOOO—!!!"

Su Ling’er snapped her head up and saw, in the center of this blood-red world, a giant, pure-white wolf burrowing out from underground.

Countless thick, black chains bound it.

The giant wolf’s four paws burned with ethereal blue flames, and every breath it exhaled was a mixture of ice and fire.

’This is the "ancient calamity" the Sect Leader spoke of?’

’It’s not an attack from the righteous sects?’

’Doesn’t that mean... I could die here too?!’

’No way!’

’That demonic sect shouldn’t be destroyed just yet!’

’I take back what I just thought!’

’I have to take care of this "ancient calamity" first!’

’What kind of powerful being did this demonic sect provoke to attract a Core Formation demon beast like this?!’

’Wait, this great demon beast isn’t as strong as the Sect Leader, is it?’

’Could it be... they’re using a great Core Formation demon beast as a training dummy for the disciples???’

’Hiss—!’

’Such resources, such audacity... As expected of an ancient demonic sect!’

At this time, the Sect Channel was already buzzing with activity.

[Lin Qingfeng: Alright, listen up! When the fight starts, everyone go up and hit the wolf once to tag it for the assist reward. Deal a little damage and then immediately fall back!]

[Ji: Roger! Hit and run!]

[Lin Qingfeng: After that, everyone is responsible for clearing the mobs spawning from the surrounding fissures. Don’t let them interfere with me and Little Junior Sister! The first kill on this boss must go to Little Junior Sister!]

[Shi Gandang: OK! Oh right, Eldest Brother, I brought that item we prepared for Little Junior Sister! Should we stick some more Defense Talismans on it? Don’t want Little Junior Sister getting killed by the Core Formation demon beast!]

[Lin Qingfeng: It’s a shame. If this was a humanoid boss, I could’ve used the line I specially prepared for killing Core Formation cultivators! Too bad it’s a demon beast boss that can’t understand human speech. Otherwise, I’d get to say my line!]

[Shen Nong: Who knows, maybe some blind Core Formation Cultivator will show up at our door one day! You have to have hope!]

The commands in the channel were quickly passed down.

The surrounding senior brothers and sisters also transformed into streaks of light, rushing toward the smaller demon beasts constantly pouring out of the fissures in the ground.

The light of swords, Magic, and talismans instantly illuminated the dim world.

But Su Ling’er couldn’t understand this situation at all.

’That huge wolf demon is right there! Why aren’t you taking advantage of the fact that it’s bound—kicking it while it’s down—and instead running off to fight those small fries?!’

’You guys might want to die, but I don’t!’

’Hurry up and fight it!’

’It’s about to break free, are you all blind?!’

’My god, is this how you people of the demonic path fight?’

’Ignoring a Core Formation demon beast that’s breaking its chains to clear out insignificant minions?’

’You can’t possibly be concerned with some sort of "dishonorable victory," waiting for it to recover to its full strength, right?!’

’Are you demonic sects really that honorable?!’

She watched helplessly as with every struggle of the "Heaven-Devouring Frost Flame Wolf," several chains snapped.

The pressure between heaven and earth grew heavier, crushing her to the point where she could barely breathe.

’Where’s Eldest Brother?’

’Where did Eldest Brother go?!’

She frantically searched the crowd for his familiar figure, only to find Lin Qingfeng at the distant edge of the group, pointing at an iron box and muttering something.

’???’

’It’s one thing not to command the battle, but why did you run so far away?!’

’What are you doing?!’

She also discovered with horror that, without realizing it, her senior brothers and sisters had cleared a space around her.

’???’

’Why did you all run so far away?’

’N-No... it can’t be, right?’

’You can’t be planning to make me, someone at the peak of Qi Refining, solo this Core Formation demon beast, can you?!’

’Do I look like I’m up to it?!’

’Stop joking! I’m not even qualified to pick its teeth!!!’

And in the center of the vast battlefield, the only one left to face the giant wolf that was about to break free was her slender figure, clad in conspicuous red clothes.

"ROAR—!!!"

Along with this earth-shattering roar, a dense series of "BANG BANG BANG" sounds of metal snapping echoed!

The dozens of chains binding the front half of the Heaven-Devouring Frost Flame Wolf snapped in response!

It had broken free!

The moment it broke free, its massive wolf head whipped around.

Its ice-blue, demonic eyes immediately locked onto the nearest and most conspicuous little speck on the field!

When Su Ling’er sensed the terrifying frost and wind behind her, she turned to look.

What filled her vision was a gigantic wolf paw, several times larger than her entire body!

’It’s over... it’s all over...’

’I’m done for!’