The nine strands of innate mother qi symbolizing supreme fortune, like nine dragons possessing spirituality, precisely shot toward the nine people seated on the cushions. Tang Xiaoqi and the others' hearts were surging, completely devoting themselves to the process of receiving and merging this Great Dao bestowment. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, not tolerating any disturbance, and no one would think that in the core of the Transmission Hall where the Dao Ancestor manifested sanctity and laws covered everything, someone would dare to snatch food from the tiger's mouth!
However, crises often incubate at the most impossible moments.
Just as those nine innate qi flows were about to contact their respective targets, when Xiao Qi could even feel the vast vitality and origin power contained in that chaotic-colored qi flow that resonated with his Dao seed from the same source—
Anomaly, erupted without warning!
The first to strike was not from outside the hall, but from within! From one of the nine cushion owners!
"Heh heh heh... Such pure innate mother qi, fitting as the resources for this seat to condense a supreme demon body!"
A hoa.rse, cold, greedy and destructive strange laugh suddenly rose from the cushion emitting "concealment" and "devouring" Dao rhyme!
It was that black-robed cultivator!
One could only see his surrounding black mist that had been merely profound, suddenly becoming violent and viscous, transforming into countless twisted wailing ghost faces, a pure and ancient, far exceeding what he had displayed before, terrifying demonic qi, like a dormant volcano, explosively erupted! The purity of this demonic qi even resonated with the law fragments in the surrounding void representing "darkness,""destruction," and "chaos"!
He had been a demon seed hidden extremely deep all along! His true strength had actually reached Nascent Soul middle stage, and his demonic arts were bizarre and domineering!
The black-robed cultivator's target was extremely clear! He didn't bother with the dark innate qi shooting toward himself, but both hands suddenly extended, transforming into two sky-covering demonic qi giant palms, one grabbing toward Mu Xue who was closest to him and fully receiving the ice-blue innate qi! The other, even more sinister, directly grabbed toward Tang Xiao Qi who had just sprouted his Dao seed and was at the critical moment of fusion! Intending to interrupt his fusion and forcibly snatch that chaotic-colored innate mother qi!
"How dare you!"
"Demon scum!"
Ao Qin, Ling Jueyi, and others were both shocked and furious, shouting sternly! They never expected that a "companion" who had listened to the Dao Ancestor's preaching with them, even jointly resisted external enemies, would be a lurking demon insider!
However, the black-robed cultivator's sneak attack was too sudden, the timing was extremely tricky, exactly when everyone's minds were completely immersed in receiving the innate qi, their defense at its weakest moment!
Ao Qin roared, dragon origin erupting, trying to intercept the demonic palm grabbing toward Mu Xue, but in haste, his power was inevitably discounted. Ling Jueyi's sword qi shot to the sky, slashing toward the demonic palm grabbing toward Xiao Qi, but was layer-by-layer weakened by the countless wailing ghost faces and chaotic lawsentwined on that demonic palm.
Mu Xue's ice eyes contained killing intent, extreme cold qi instantly condensed into thick ice walls, but that demonic palm contained terrifying devouring and corrosion power, the ice walls were rapidly melting! Xiao Qi's heart was even more frantically warning, that chaotic-colored innate qi was close at hand, yet seemed separated by the ends of the world! If he forcibly merged, he would definitely be interrupted by the demonic palm, even his Dao seed might be damaged; if he diverted attention to resist, this supreme opportunity might be missed!
Just at this critical moment—
"Boom!!"
At the originally peaceful entrance of the Transmission Hall, the chaotic fog was forcibly torn by a brutal force! Several figures shrouded in dense demonic qi, like ghosts, rushed in! They were precisely those latecomers who had been wandering outside the hall or had been scared away by the cushion dispute! Their eyes were now blood-red, their bodies emitting demonic qi, obviously already eroded and controlled by the demon source, becoming demon puppets that only knew slaughter and plunder!
"Snatch the innate qi! Dedicate to the Demon Lord!"
These demon puppets issuedcrazy shouts, like moths flying into fire, disregarding everything as they rushed toward the others who were receiving innate qi! Their target was not killing, but creating greater chaos, interrupting the fusion process, even self-detonating, wanting to pollute or destroy those precious innate mother qi!
The scene instantly became chaotic!
The black-robed cultivator's betrayal and sneak attack, the crazy assault of demon puppets from outside the hall, made the originally sacred and solemn Transmission Hall, in an instant, transform into a chaotic battlefield!
"Guard!"
Tang Xiao Qi's eyes flashed with determination, making a decision in this lightning-flash moment! The opportunity was good, but if he couldn't even protect himself, everything was empty talk!
He forcibly interrupted the fusion process with that chaotic-colored innate qi, though his heart felt a stab of pain, meaning he might forever lose the opportunity to perfectly merge this qi. But his movements didn't pause at all, guardian sword intent and purification origin erupted with unprecedented strength!
The platinum light shield instantly expanded, not only protecting himself, but also enclosing Mu Xue beside him and that ice-blue innate qi before her! At the same time, with a thought, a trace of chaotic core fire that had been nurtured in the depths of his dantian was activated, merging into the guardian light shield!
"Sizzle—!"
That demonic qi giant palm grabbing toward Mu Xue, and the demonic palm grabbing toward Xiao Qi, upon touching the platinum light shield merged with chaotic core fire breath, met its nemesis, the demonic qi violently boiling, dissolving, the forward momentum forcefully stopped!
On the other side, Ao Qin had already manifested a hundred-zhang dragon body, dragon tail sweeping, directly exploding a demon puppet rushing toward him! Dragon breath spraying, forcing back two others. Ling Jueyi merged human and sword, sword light like a dragon, shuttling through the void, intercepting and slaying all the demon puppets trying to interfere with the palace-robed woman and bronze-skinned burly man! The palace-robed woman's formation patterns flashed before her, transforming into a trapping formation, temporarily holding one demon puppet. The Mysterious Turtle Elder's Wu Earth light shield was thick, hard-receiving attacks, unmoving. Master Hui Ming's Buddhist light shone universally, Sanskrit chants continuous, purifying demonic qi, delivering the demon puppets' crazy thoughts. The bronze-skinned burly man roared repeatedly, both fists swinging, qi blood like a rainbow, smashing approaching demon puppets to pieces.
The nine people after all had deep foundations and strong strength, though ambushed, they quickly reacted, each displaying divine abilities, barely stabilizing the formation, resisting the first wave of crazy assault, and tightly guarding the innate qi before them that concerned their Dao paths.
However, that betraying black-robed cultivator, seeing his sneak attack failed, his face showed even greater ferocity. He no longer hid, his body's demonic qi rising like wolf smoke into the sky, actually faintly resonating with some of the dark laws within this Transmission Hall!
"Useless! The Demon Lord has long understood this place's mysteries! This innate qi, you cannot keep!" He laughed madly, both hands forming a bizarre demon seal, that innate qi hovering before him, originally his, was forcibly polluted and assimilated by his demonic art, transforming into a pitch-black demonic qi flow emitting ominous aura, swallowed by him in one gulp!
After swallowing the demonized innate qi, the black-robed cultivator's aura instantly surged, reaching Nascent Soul late stage, even approaching peak! His blood-red eyes swept the field, finally locking onto Tang Xiao Qi and Mu Xue again, and the two pure innate qi flows before them, his killing intent boiling!
"First eliminate these two obstructing sources of purification!"