Record of a Demon's Cultivation

Chapter 454 - The Maze’s Exit

Translator: Cinder Translations

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Just before the wind blade dragon was about to close in, Niu Ying finally managed to complete the formation.

A faint golden light curtain lit up, tightly protecting Ma Qi inside.

Clang, clang, clang...

A series of golden metal clashes rang out.

The wind blades were shattered one after another.

The formation's light curtain flickered uncontrollably.

Niu Ying, within the formation, gritted his teeth, his face contorted with strain.

He desperately channeled the last of his magical energy to stabilize the formation.

Fortunately, as Xing Yixuan's rage escalated, her attacks became like a violent storm. The two Golden Core Cultivators from the Jing family tried to defend together, but they were still overwhelmed, showing signs of exhaustion.

To rescue the two Golden Core Cultivators of the Jing family, Jing Lie had no choice but to redirect the wind blade dragon to strike at Xing Yixuan.

In the midst of the intense battle, no one noticed that after Ma Qi's death, the bloodstains scattered on the stone platform and the corpse remnants had quietly disappeared without a trace.

What had once been fresh, fragmented flesh had now dried and decayed, as though it had been eroded by countless years.

Even the shattered soul fragments of Ma Qi had vanished without a trace.

It was as if Ma Qi's death had awakened some strange presence deep underground, which devoured his blood and soul fragments entirely.

On the cold stone platform, blood-red markings slowly began to appear.

These markings spread like live blood vessels, flowing across the surface of the stone.

As the blood-red markings continued to spread, the entire stone platform was stained with a seductive crimson hue, as if fresh blood was seeping out from inside, creating an eerie, unexplainable atmosphere.

The people in the midst of the fierce battle were also disturbed by the strange changes in the stone platform and halted their actions.

The three Jing family members were closest to the exit and held a geographical advantage.

Ignoring the cause of the stone platform's transformation, they turned and rushed toward the stone stairway passage.

In relics left by demonic forces like the Hall of the Nether Gods, any sudden change was an ominous sign.

"Xing Yixuan, if you want to leave this cave, bring the treasures you've obtained here as an exchange," Jing Lie shouted loudly.

This underground corpse pit only had one exit. If he blocked the stone stairway passage, Xing Yixuan and Niu Ying wouldn't be able to escape for a while.

"Dream on," Xing Yixuan retorted sharply.

In this corpse pit, aside from the malevolent crystals, there were no other treasures. Even if there were, if she handed them over to Jing Lie, he would never let her leave.

Xing Yixuan was very clear on this point. She waved the Flag of Waves, and surging torrents of water surged toward the three Jing family members as they entered the passage.

The passage immediately resounded with deafening crashing sounds as the floodwaters surged upward, continuously slamming into the stone walls.

Jing Lie glanced back, only to see the churning waters rapidly closing in.

"Wind Wall!"

Jing Lie quickly cast several wind walls, blocking the water behind them, buying a moment for the three of them to escape.

At that moment, the stone platform in the center of the corpse pit suddenly began to shake violently, as if a powerful force deep underground was awakening.

With a sudden jolt, the stone platform rose from the ground.

The length of the platform was far greater than expected.

Or rather, this wasn't just a stone platform, but a massive stone pillar. A large portion of the pillar was buried underground.

Boom!

The stone pillar slammed into the corpse pit's dome.

The impact was so great it seemed to shake the very heavens, and the entire dome vibrated violently as countless pieces of debris fell.

The stone pillar also showed clear cracks from the impact and began to crumble.

However, what shocked everyone even more was that after the stone pillar collided with the dome, it did not stop its upward trajectory.

It pierced through the dome!

Massive cracks spread across the dome as if a demon had opened its ferocious jaws, ready to devour everything in its path.

The stone pillar continued to rise from deep underground, as if there were no end to it.

Large chunks of stone fell from the dome, quickly threatening to bury the corpse pit.

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Jing Wuming realized that this underground labyrinth was much more difficult than he had imagined.

Although he had a map of the labyrinth, vengeful spirits occasionally appeared, causing him great trouble.

These spirits were all Fourth Stage vengeful spirits, very powerful.

Jing Wuming wasn't skilled in lightning techniques and lacked soul-attacking spells. If he hadn't prepared beforehand and brought along some high-level lightning talismans before entering the secret realm, dealing with these vengeful spirits would have been incredibly difficult.

It was a hard slog!

TL/N: Slog, a period of difficult or tiring effort.

At one point, he was surrounded by three vengeful spirits. While retreating and fighting back, he finally managed to repel the spirits, only to realize that he had lost his sense of direction.

He spent a lot of time before he finally found the correct passage again.

After a month of struggle, he finally reached the end of the labyrinth.

It was a bronze door.

What Jing Wuming didn't expect was that this bronze door was half-open.

"Someone got here first!" Jing Wuming exclaimed in surprise.

How could this be?

He had the labyrinth map, which gave him a significant advantage over others.

The spiritual senses in the labyrinth were severely restricted, and without a map, Jing Wuming believed that even if he waited until the secret realm closed, he wouldn't be able to find his way out.

"Who could have been faster than me and made it through the labyrinth?"

As Jing Wuming wondered in disbelief, he suppressed his presence and cautiously passed through the bronze door.

On the other side of the bronze door was a vast underground passage.

There was almost no ghost fog inside the passage, with only a small amount near the bronze door.

It seemed that when the bronze door opened, the ghost fog from the labyrinth had spread into this area.

The cave twisted and turned, with many natural stone spires standing in place.

The cave wasn't completely dark; from some of the fissures in the ground, bright red light seeped out, casting a crimson glow across the cave.

Lava flowed through these fissures.

Once inside the cave, the oppressive feeling on his spiritual sense immediately disappeared, making Jing Wuming feel much lighter.

However, he didn't release his spiritual sense recklessly, fearing it would disturb the person who had gotten there first.

Jing Wuming slowly flew to the center of the cave, looking around carefully. It was clear that the cave ran east-west.

The eastern passage gradually narrowed, while the western passage seemed to be widening.

Without much thought, Jing Wuming decided to head west.

He hadn't gone far before hearing the sound of fighting ahead.

After cautiously flying through several turns, the cave in front of him grew larger.

Jing Wuming pressed himself against the stone wall at a bend and looked across the corner.

A massive underground hall appeared before him.

In the center of the hall stood a raised platform several hundred feet in size.

At the center of the platform stood a square stone pillar several feet wide and tall.

The pillar extended all the way up to the ceiling, piercing into the dome above.

At the base of the pillar, there was a giant stone coffin.

The stone coffin was so large it could be considered a stone chamber.

The coffin had no lid, and the stone pillar pierced directly into the coffin.

There were four chains at the four corners of the coffin, each about the thickness of a human arm.

One end of the chains was inserted into the corner of the platform, while the other extended into the coffin, as though binding some powerful entity inside.

(End of the Chapter)

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