Chapter 115: Intercepting the Loot

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Hong Yun had never forgotten the solemn words spoken by the Great Martial Emperor and the Ape Emperor of the Demon Clan. What he had taken as a mere calamity essence was, in their eyes, bait. Once your calamity energy surpassed a certain threshold or underwent some change, it meant you had taken the bait.

If there was bait, it meant someone had set it. Once you bit, the one who set the bait would soon reveal themselves. But that someone might not necessarily be human.

Through his perception, Hong Yun noticed a ripple spreading across the sky. Something began to materialize, moving in his direction. Using his calamity-judging eyes, he clearly sensed the nature of this entity.

Its coarse patterns resembled abstract and twisted five-colored oil strokes painted on a curtain. At that moment, the otherwise silent panel on his arm began to activate, lines of small characters appearing one after another.

“Calamity object of the Treasure Bottle Realm has appeared. Host, please take this seriously; this concerns the mission of the Gates of the Heavens! Calamity objects are mysterious entities born between heaven and earth. Ordinary methods cannot cause substantive harm to them; only powers related to calamity can injure them!”

“Related to calamity?”

Without hesitation, Hong Yun raised his hand and nocked a Phoenix Emperor feather arrow onto his bowstring, drawing it taut once more.

The Executioner Emperor Bow!

At this moment, the bow and arrow, suffused with Hong Yun’s calamity energy, no longer glowed fiery red. Upon the Phoenix Emperor feather arrow, a faint silhouette of a heart-fire phoenix appeared. Though ethereal, its wings and feathers now shimmered in five colors, gently fluttering, emanating an aura that signified the birth and death of the Five Elements.

After having bitten the bait, Hong Yun felt an inexplicable connection to the calamity object. Even without his special eyes, he could faintly sense its presence.

His eyes darkened as if casually, he released an arrow. Without looking back, he immediately drew and fired two more in quick succession, all targeting the same spot.

Accompanied by the piercing cry of the phoenix, three heart-fire phoenixes surged forward as if with no regrets, ultimately colliding with something before vanishing without a trace. He could still sense it, but could not recall it immediately.

At that moment, his body stiffened slightly, as if his internal organs halted their functions, each feeling as though it would burst through his flesh.

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However, due to his robust physical form, already infused with calamity, no visible change occurred, and the organs remained firmly inside. Still, this did not prevent the opposing force from exerting control; the Five Elements remained, but their circulation reversed.

The birth and death of the Five Elements lie within the heart. In an instant, the life drained from Hong Yun’s face, and he coughed up blood heavily.

Yet none of this could deter him.

Hong Yun raised his hand and struck horizontally, causing the spatial folds of this world to twist unnaturally as he reached forward. His calamity energy, imbued with a deathly stillness, grew even more formidable than before. He was, after all, not of this world; his body came from the host, and all of himself stemmed from the fragment of divine soul embedded in the panel.

His grasp seemed to seize the core of the calamity object itself, and upon holding it, he felt his own calamity energy counteract it.

Without hesitation, Hong Yun tore fiercely and retreated sharply.

At that moment, a sound echoed from the panel, igniting a fire in his heart.

“Calamity object core sensed; plundering progress: 0.2%.”

Just as he expected!

Seeing this success, he immediately spread his cloud wings slightly; the ephemeral feather blade attached to them shot forward. Without further care, his wings detached and flew alongside it.

Looking back, only a pair of bone wings imbued with the aura of annihilating calamity remained on his back.

At this time, his vitality began to decay due to some unknown change. The life force waned; his once long hair turned pale from the roots, and his features aged rapidly.

Lifespan!

Though he had already broken free from his original lifespan limitations, he was still affected by this influence, unable to shake it off.

But none of this could shake Hong Yun’s determination to capture the object.

He took a deep breath and began to activate a talent and technique stored within the panel—one never before used by the host.

His cloud wings had fully extended, fixing their size. That was sufficient.

Hong Yun’s aura calmed, and without hesitation, he unleashed his power as the master of calamity.

Will Projection!

In less than a split second, Hong Yun sensed his original strength suffusing this realm.

If the starting realm of the Great Dao Nine Realms was the Murky Immortal Realm, then by his judgment, the now-lost Free and Easy Realm of the Treasure Bottle Realm was even inferior to the Murky Immortal.

He seemed to envelop the Treasure Bottle Realm from beyond heaven and earth. The silent calamity energy attached to the entire will projection, and with a flick of his hand, he suppressed the calamity object.

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Yet the calamity object did not become still. The will projection was but a fleeting thought; this technique dissipated in an instant.

In Hong Yun’s eyes, the original mountains, rivers, sun, and moon of the Treasure Bottle Realm began to tremble, as if sensing his attack, invading his sea of consciousness.

At this moment, he activated a talent the host had never used before: Calamity Infusion!

With its activation, his calamity energy began to boil, first flooding his sea of consciousness.

He only heard a piercing scream as the invasion sensation began to recede.

But this was not true retreat, rather a reverse invasion.

With the reversal of the Five Elements, the annihilating force poured over the calamity object like a crushing weight.

Another scream echoed; this retreat seemed like an attempt to escape. The panel warned again from within the sea of consciousness:

“Calamity object core sensed; plundering progress: 90%.”

As expected, the calamity object was attempting a self-cut escape!

Suddenly enlightened, Hong Yun’s previously dark eyes snapped wide open, gazing forward.

From his eyes shot two beams of deathly calamity energy like nails driven into the calamity object.

His bone wings trembled softly behind him, moving at a speed like cleaving through space, reaching the calamity object before him.

With a mere thought, he scattered his bone wings, enveloping the calamity object.

The deathly calamity energy on the bone wings gradually contracted, eventually condensing into a bone orb the size of half a fist, which he lifted and grasped.

Before the panel could react, he pressed the bone orb against his abdomen, placing it at his dantian.

The reversed Five Elements halted and began to normalize. The rotation of the Five Elements formed a seal, locking the orb within his dantian.

At that moment, a low, resonant sound came from the panel.

“Calamity object core sensed; 100% plundering of calamity object complete. Mission of the Gates of the Heavens accomplished. Host’s physical state detected; calamity object transformation commencing.”