Chapter 178 - 90: Divine Seed of the Eternal Golden Bell

Chapter 178: Chapter 90: Divine Seed of the Eternal Golden Bell

Having been assigned to instruct the new disciples, the three instructors were naturally worldly and experienced.

Jiang Xuan’s earlier methods, and even the shocking spectacle of Yun Shengjie’s Qi Condensing Cloud Whale, failed to stir even the slightest ripple in their eyes.

This was the Shenxiao Sect, after all—a top-tier major sect in the Northern Domain. Any prodigy who managed to stand out here was bound to have something special about them.

They had seen through Yun Shengjie’s technique at a glance and found it neither novel nor particularly powerful.

"Using Harmony Resonance to draw in Spiritual Qi can indeed create a grand spectacle, but it also causes the gathered Spiritual Qi to become diffuse, making it difficult to focus its power into a single point. It might work against ordinary Cultivators, but against a true prodigy, it lacks staying power... It was clever of him to think of using the White Whale Divine Charm to command the Cloud Qi. A pity, though. That Cloud Sea White Whale’s Intent isn’t something he comprehended himself. He forced it into his foundation using a Ritual Path. A foundation forcibly grafted like this will create hidden dangers for his future cultivation."

This was Chen Chengguang’s assessment.

However, despite the potential future complications, Yun Shengjie’s condensed Cloud Whale was still formidable at present—at least, for someone in the early to middle stages of Spirit Core Awakening.

Of course, they wouldn’t have been surprised if Jiang Xuan had unleashed some ability to destroy the Cloud Whale. After all, between the diffuse Spiritual Qi gathered through Harmony Resonance and the forcibly integrated Divine Charm, the Cloud Sea White Whale that Yun Shengjie manifested was far from perfect.

With just a single glance, the three instructors had already devised several ways to counter it, each capable of easily dismantling the seemingly unstoppable Cloud Sea White Whale at minimal cost.

’Still, Jiang Xuan doesn’t have our level of insight... Letting Yun Shengjie fully form the White Whale was, in the end, a bit too arrogant of him.’

But just as Song Zhou was furrowing his brow and silently weighing the pros and cons, while the other two instructors watched the confrontation with keen interest, waiting for the battle to conclude, Jiang Xuan’s next move left them utterly aghast.

"Nether Abyss·Open!"

Facing the roaring, colossal White Whale, Jiang Xuan didn’t use any special techniques, nor did he release the Frosty Winter Cold Qi from before.

He simply raised a sword-finger to the space between his brows and opened the Dharma Eye on his forehead to its absolute limit.

WHOOM...

The opened Dharma Eye was profoundly dark, so deep that a single glance caused one’s Divine Soul to tremble and one’s heart to palpitate with extreme dread.

At the same time, boundless and infinite like a bottomless abyss, it seemed capable of devouring everything in the myriad phenomena of heaven and earth.

To the three instructors’ horror—the nightmare had become reality!

BZZZZZ—!

Following a massive hum, the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye, opened to its limit, suddenly unleashed a tyrannical suction force.

WHOOSH...

The terrifying suction was so strong that the massive Cloud Sea White Whale, with its unique and majestic divine charm, was caught fast by Jiang Xuan’s Nether Abyss Dharma Eye.

In the next instant, Jiang Xuan used Gravity to brutally drag the enormous Cloud Whale toward his Dharma Eye.

WHOOSH—!

A breath later, as the White Whale drew near, its body inexplicably shrank. The Cloud Qi and Spiritual Qi that formed its body were violently sucked into Jiang Xuan’s Dharma Eye.

ROAR!

Throughout this process, the Cloud Sea White Whale naturally struggled with all its might.

But it was useless. It was not a creature of flesh and blood, after all, possessing only a faint wisp of divine charm.

As it neared Jiang Xuan’s Dharma Eye, the powerful Gravity had already begun to tear its body apart.

And just like that, in a mere dozen breaths, Jiang Xuan used Nether Abyss: Eye Opening to completely devour the Cloud Sea White Whale!!!!

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The horrifying scene plunged the battlefield into a dead silence, so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Even though Jiang Xuan was their teammate, Su Linyin and Dong Hao instinctively took a step back in fear upon witnessing the scene before them.

Outside, the three instructors stared at each other, utterly speechless.

They had considered the possibility of Jiang Xuan being devoured by the White Whale, and they had also considered him finding its weakness and dismantling it.

But no one could have ever predicted that Jiang Xuan would use his eye as an abyss and simply swallow the massive Cloud Sea White Whale whole. Such an inconceivable technique sent crashing waves of shock through their hearts that refused to subside.

"...What is that Spiritual Pupil?"

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While the spectators outside were lost in shock, Jiang Xuan turned his gaze toward Yun Shengjie.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How can someone at the Spirit Core Initial Stage do something like this... Am I being affected by an Illusion Realm?"

"That must be it. The third trial of the Road of Purgatory tests the Divine Soul. I must have been entranced by some phantom."

"Dispel—"

The utterly absurd scene had already shattered Yun Shengjie’s composure.

Believing himself to be in an Illusion Realm, he channeled his Magical Power, trying to break free from the bewitched state.

Naturally, he couldn’t.

When the spell failed and he realized he was in ’reality,’ the despair on his face deepened.

"You monster! You’re from the Lower Court, how can you be this strong... PFFT!"

Before he could finish his sentence, a colorless, transparent Blade of Frost pierced through his chest.

He had actually noticed the attack—Yun Shengjie had constantly been wreathed in mist, with several mist-manifested Shrimp Soldiers and Water Demons circling around him, protecting his physical body.

As someone who had entered the Daozi Courtyard, been valued by Cheng Jin, and invited to serve as outside support, he had never been weak.

Using melody to create a resonance with the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, gathering cloud masses, and then manifesting a hundred-strong legion of water soldiers—he was a one-man army. He could have even put up a fight against Chen Qianjun.

Unfortunately, he had run into Jiang Xuan. Having his strongest White Whale swallowed in a single gulp had caused his mind to simply break.