Spirit Vessel - Chapter 588

Chapter 588: 588



The wild grass and trees on the plain were infected by fiery sparks, turning the whole place into an inferno .

Su Yun and Yan Ziyu gathered all of their energy and essentially wrapped themselves around Feiyun, leveraging the ground in order to stop him .

Feiyun could pull a mountain right now so the two of them have been dragged for more than thirty miles . Two deep trails stained with blood were left behind . Nevertheless, Feiyun seemed to have used all of his energy . The bottoms of his shoes were gone too; his hands dripped with blood .

Nevertheless, he continued to move forward towards the formation .

In the distant, one could faintly hear the sounds of a zither and a woman crying - a heart-wrenching melody .

“His demonic blood is awakening again . If we don’t subdue him now, he’ll become a monster . ” The scholar took out a white piece of eaglewood, resembling a spiritual ruler . He aimed it straight for Feiyun’s spine .

“Ra!” Despite his near-demonic state, Feiyun’s awareness remained . He turned back and roared, releasing a plume of flame from his eyes that blew the scholar flying . His white robe had a thousand burnt holes .

“Let me!” A white moon suddenly arrived with an ethereal woman right behind it - like a god coming out of a painting .

Dongfang Jingyue was here . A jade vessel flew out of her forehead and landed in her palm . Everything nearby became slow as if time itself was being affected, except for her . She walked towards Feiyun with a gentle gaze and touched the Yama’s spine with one finger .

Though Feiyun was ten times slower, he still retaliated with a palm strike on her shoulder .

She didn’t try to dodge at all and managed to subdue him . Nevertheless, she dropped on her knees as if struck by a lightning bolt .

Her right shoulder was broken but she continued to hug him with her left hand, not allowing him to hit the ground . She slowly propped him downward and they maintained this position .

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The entire area around the shrine was now lava . Everything was refined .

“Haha! She’s dead for sure, not even a single strand of soul is left behind!” Shenya laughed and raised his hand .

Two divine garments flew out . One of them was on fire with red feathers - the Firebird Gown . It would never go away unless its master was dead . It looked like Hongyan had been refined in the formation .

The second garment was golden with nine embroidered dragons . They looked animated as if sealed within - the Regal Dragon Robe worn by the emperors of Jin .

He was shaken after holding these two garments and instantly put on the dragon robe . An imperial aura surged and blessed him . The four Giants next to him all kneeled and loudly said: “Greetings, Your Majesty . ”

“Haha!” Shenya laughed with both hands behind his back, looking quite stalwart . Suddenly, he furrowed his brows and looked for something within the formation but failed .


“Your Majesty, what are you looking for?” An old man asked .

“The imperial letter . ” Shenya became more anxious .

“Was it refined by the formation?”

“Nonsense, Father personally wrote the letter . It has an indelible mark of the Imperial Seal, this formation still can’t refine it . ” Shenya had a cold expression: “That bitch must have already sent someone with the letter to Feiyun . This is not good, we need to return to the capital right now . ”

Shenya started flying away . The four Giants and the experts performing the formation also followed right behind him . This impressive group didn’t waste time going towards the capital .

Meanwhile, the inferno was still raging, destroying everything within a thousand miles radius . The center had an unbelievable heatwave, looking like an ocean of lava .

“Whoosh!” Alas, the hot gales couldn’t warm Feiyun’s heart .

Once he regained his sanity, Shenya’s group was already gone for six hours .

The flame had extinguished but the ocean of lava has yet to solidify . A wave of flame still burned on top of it .



He stood next to the lava and kicked a boulder into the lava . It instantly broke apart and melted .

The lava still had the destructive affinity of the formation . This power was numerous times stronger than the lava found in the core, more than enough to destroy a pseudo Enlightened Being’s physical body and soul .

Dongfang Jingyue stood next to Feiyun the entire time .

“Feng Feiyun, if you blame me for this, just kill me . I won’t fight back . ” Su Yun said; his lower body was mangled and battered after being dragged by Feiyun for dozens of miles . One could almost see his bones .

Feiyun’s eyes were empty; only a forlorn gaze towards the lava existed .

“Feng Feiyun, I am also responsible for Nangong Hongyan’s death . If you want to kill me, I won’t utter a single word of grievance . ” Ziyu was just as miserable as Su Yun . His leg bones were visible while his left hand was nearly crippled from hanging on to Feiyun .

“She’s dead?” Feiyun murmured .

The scholar, Su Yun, and Ziyu were silent . They saw Hongyan being refined by the formation and burnt alive . One could only imagine the gruesome pain, identical to being boiled alive or fried in a cauldron .

Worst of all, because of her Firebird Gown with its powerful resistance, she must have suffered an agonizing and slow death - no way to escape and too difficult to actually die .

Dongfang Jingyue said: “You have tried your best, just blame us . ”

He hoarsely whimpered: “She’s really dead… but there should be a soul left?”

Unfortunately, not to mention remnant souls, even a mark of life would be completely erased by the incinerating formation .

Jingyue didn’t answer .

“Where is her soul?!” Feiyun grabbed her shoulders and shook her back and forth . His fingers dug into her skin .



Her right shoulder was broken earlier so the pain made her grit her teeth .

“There should be a strand of soul left! There should be a strand of soul left…” Feiyun murmured .

As long as there was a soul left, she could still cultivate the dao of the ghost with his full support . He didn’t mind that she would turn into a bloodthirsty fiend of sorts but this formation was ruthless . She didn’t have a chance to switch to a different path .

Her mark of life was completely gone along with her soul .

“Splash!” He jumped into the ocean of lava .

Dongfang Jingyue and Su Yun were scared out of their mind and wanted to jump too . However, the scholar stopped them: “It’s fine, let him go . "

After two more hours, Feiyun climbed out of the fiery shore, looking lost . He had burns all over but didn’t care about them .

He found two items, a phoenix bone and the Cloak of Invisibility .

This cloak was made from the strings of invisible silkworms . Only Feiyun with his phoenix gaze could actually see them . That’s why Shenya could find the other two garments but not the cloak .

As for the phoenix bone, it sank to the depth of the ocean and Shenya’s divine intents weren’t enough to spot it . Of course, he didn’t expect for Hongyan to have something like this either .

Feiyun had planted it into her body . Now, it had none of her presence, only a regular piece of phoenix bone . It became the proof of her death .

Eternal parting was one of the greatest sufferings in life .

He recalled the first time seeing her, so incredible and shocked as if he was seeing a goddess .

The first time hearing her voice was akin to hearing the sounds of heaven . Her performance back at the Martial Tower still echoed in his mind right now: ‘For whom the beauty smiles as youth is passing by? In this mundane realm, the heart will not age, but without you, the world is a waste . Don't climb all alone till gray hair flutters on the steep pavilion . With no time remaining, who will draw her eyebrows in the end?’

This song would never appear again in this world . Even her zither was refined to ashes as if it had never existed .

The sad tunes of pan pipes came from the horizon; no one knows who was playing it . The sorrowful melody made tears flow down .

“Hongyan is dead, this is an undeniable truth . What you need to do right now is to calm down and plot her revenge instead of wallowing in grief . ”

She was the only one who dared to speak at this moment .

“No, you’re wrong! She’s not dead and is waiting at Steelmountain for me right now! Haha, she likes to trick people, we’re all being fooled right now . I’ll go there to find her, she’s definitely there . ” He suddenly had a bright smile: “Why are you all looking like that? I’m fine, I’ll go right now, you guys can go do whatever!”

Having said that, he excitedly rushed for Steelmountain . The brighter his smile, the more worried they became .

“Leave him to me . ” Dongfang Jingyue followed right behind him, not giving up an inch .

He noticed and tried to lose her but she didn’t let up until they reached Steelmountain .

His smile quickly went away, leaving behind an expression much uglier than a crying grimace .

Nangong Hongyan was obviously not there . He sat down on a boulder by the entrance and waited while holding the phoenix bone that had turned cold .

He looked at the people coming and going; his eyes occasionally turned bright from anticipation before becoming disappointed . In the end, he seemingly turned into a statue, not blinking even once and becoming part with the boulder .

This lasted for seven days and eight nights already .

Night fell again, accompanied by spring rain . He became soaked; the water was cold enough to reach the bones .

Jingyue stood next to the boulder, unmoving just like him .

1 . I don’t get this part too much or if it is significant