Above the Great Dao

Chen Shi gritted his teeth and struggled forward, forcibly integrating with the skeleton.

Everyone watched with their hearts in their throats. Chen Shi's small temple followed Chen Shi's Primordial Spirit, not his Skull Body. If Chen Shi's Primordial Spirit was forcibly taken away, the small temple would also be taken away.

Currently, they mainly relied on Stone Rock Lady and Chen Shi's True Martial Evil Extermination Sword for protection. Without the two of them, they feared a catastrophic disaster awaited them!

"Crack!"

The cracking sound in the dense mist of the sky grew more frequent. Suddenly, the stony texture hidden in the mist rapidly receded, reverting to flesh and blood, pressing down.

Stone Rock Lady once again expanded the Ghost God Domain, petrifying the surging fleshy tendrils in the sky.

A voice from the distant Innocent Taoist came: "It seems like a fellow Daoist here is unwilling to ascend! Ascension is wonderful. After ascending, you are free and unrestrained, harmonized with the Heaven and Earth Great Dao! Now, I am the Dao, I am the Heaven!"

He approached at a breakneck speed, heading straight for this place.

Stone Rock Lady's face changed drastically, feeling her loyalty rapidly depleting.

"Out of regard for the Upper Envoy's good treatment of me, I will be loyal a bit longer!"

She gritted her teeth and inwardly thought, "Although it seems like the person Innocent Taoist is targeting is me... so be it, I'll fight him!"

In the underworld, atop Gao Gang.

Granny Sha stood on the altar, frowning slightly. Her two recent attempts at soul summoning were blocked by an inexplicable powerful force, preventing her from summoning back Chen Shi's Primordial Spirit.

"Qiutong Aunt."

Chen Tang below the platform was a bit nervous, cleared his throat, and said, "Have you encountered any trouble?"

Granny Sha calmed herself and said, "A little trouble, but it can be resolved. I sense Little Ten's Primordial Spirit loosening. The Ghost God opposing me is strong, but not much stronger than me."

She sneered, "I always engaged in cost-free trade. When summoning souls, I never offer sacrifices. But this time, I'm confronting an equal, I must make a sacrifice!"

At her command, five ghosts rode the ghostly wind, howling away. Soon, several cattle and sheep appeared on the altar.

Granny Sha said, "Little Tang, while I'm summoning souls, don't just stand there. You're his father, calling his name, the voice of close relatives, can also increase the success rate."

Chen Tang agreed.

Granny Sha unified with her Primordial Spirit, transforming into a hundred-zhang Emperor's Daughter, pushing her cultivation to the extreme, absorbing the Power of the Great Dao of the underworld, activating the altar, and sacrificing pigs, horses, cattle, and sheep.

With the invocation of the grand soul summoning spell, the power of Five Mountains Great Emperor, Taiyi Heavenly Venerable, Great Emperor, and Fengdu, and other powers were all mobilized by Granny Sha, transforming into an overwhelming force!

At the same time, Chen Tang called out Chen Shi's nickname, each shout merged with this force.

At this critical moment for Chen Shi, Xiang Kun, and others, suddenly, a radiant light burst forth around Chen Shi. Ancient Divine powers from China crossed time and space, acting on him.

At the same time, the pervasive, wriggling flesh hidden in the mist fell downward, continuously contracting like a flapping wing.

Innocent Taoist appeared before them. This little daoist boy was half-human-bodied, the other half should have been a Skeleton Body, but now it was filled with wriggling flesh, barely forming a humanoid shape. However, at the body's edge, the flesh grew wildly outward, like huge flesh-formed wings.

The wings flapped slightly, causing the entire world to tremble.

"Too strong!" Stone Rock Lady's eye twitched uncontrollably.

Innocent Taoist had long since died; this current Innocent Taoist was a resurrected corpse, already monstrously transformed. Ignoring Chen Shi and the others, his eyes fell on Stone Rock, his eyes lit up, and he smiled, "Fellow Daoist, you are also a dead body, forcibly using incense to extend life, adding only to your troubles. Why not merge with me and harmonize with this world!"

In high excitement, the massive meat wings swung forward.

Stone Rock Lady shouted, pushing her cultivation to the utmost!

Chen Shi groaned, his Primordial Spirit being pulled out of his Skull Body. He suddenly grabbed the True Martial Evil Extermination Sword, stabbing it into the ground with force to resist Granny Sha's soul summoning!

"Whoosh—"

Innocent Taoist's meat wings, carrying a power to destroy everything, came crashing down, engulfing them!

Chen Shi roared, channeling the last bit of his strength, offering up the White-clad Female Immortal lying in the master shrine of the small temple.

The female immortal, taking a nap, appeared puzzled when she was offered in mid-air. Seeing the terrifying meat wings coming, she floated up without thinking, raising her sleeve to meet them.

"Boom!"

The Immortal Light shone brilliantly, sweeping away all the mist within hundreds of miles. The meat wings exploded in pieces, flesh flying everywhere, scattering all around.

Innocent Taoist's body trembled greatly, he was blasted away, disappearing into the mist.

The misty moon hanging over Yin Mountain suddenly rolled once, ninefold eye pupils whirring toward this side.

Everyone exchanged anxious glances, turning to look at the white-clad woman floating in the air.

Chen Shi could hold no longer and shouted loudly, "Wen Wuyu, I'm leaving this to you! Escort them to Heavenly Pond Capital!"

Wen Wuyu heard this and exclaimed, "No way! I can't hold on my own! If you're leaving, I'm leaving too!"

Xiang Kun and the others felt a heaviness in their hearts.

Wen Wuyu could do so much. If she stayed, their chances of climbing Infinite Cliff alive and returning to Heavenly Pond Capital were greater. But if both Chen Shi and Wen Wuyu left, they feared they wouldn't last long before perishing on a foggy moonlit night.

"Wuyu, please," Chen Shi looked at Wen Wuyu.

Wen Wuyu met his gaze, bit her lip, and nodded involuntarily.

Chen Shi could no longer resist the soul summoning Divine Power, released his grip, and his voice echoed from the mist.

"I will leave a thought behind, vowing to protect you, escort you safely back to the Capital——"