Chapter 342

Chapter 342: Infinite Chains, Unleashed! The Heavenly Lock Realm!

After Tu Su the nine-tailed fox spoke, the Demon Race members all frowned.

It was clear not just White Deer and Tu Su doubted Mu Lin’s chances—the other demons agreed.

As they schemed to secure Mu Lin’s victory and perpetuate the North-South conflict, a northern scholar leaped onto the arena, hurling a challenge:

“Mu Lin, fight me!”

Mu Lin showed no interest in responding immediately.

He’d been preoccupied—the Yan family, Chu family, Si Ye, the Merfolk tribe, and local nobles had spent days gathering essence for him.

With multiple families contributing and Mu Lin accepting any essence type, he even absorbed hazardous energies like Great Luo Merging Heaven and Calamity Qi that others avoided.

This flexibility allowed his allies to collect hundreds of essence portions within days. The sheer quantity overwhelmed even the True Spirit Domain Chart, forcing Mu Lin to refine them gradually.

He also balanced this by Refining the Evil to stabilize his foundation through yin and yang harmony.

His intensive harvesting had worn bare sections of the yellow dirt road in Grave Lord’s secret realm.

Juggling dual cultivation processes, Mu Lin saw no reason to waste time on battles.

Fortunately, he’d recruited subordinates precisely to handle such chores rather than play the selfless hero.

Thus, Yan Yunyu entered the arena first while Mu Lin remained absent.

Her motives were twofold: testing her enhanced abilities and outshining rival Blood Cherry.

“I’ll never lose to you,” she muttered. “Mu brother’s queen will be me.”

When northern scholars jeered, she vaulted into the combat zone.

“Hmph! Dealing with you doesn’t require Mu brother. I’m more than enough.”

Chains clattered into existence mid-sentence, lashing toward her opponent.

This wasn’t treachery—the duel began the instant the challenger stepped onto the platform. Mimicking her prior victory over Black Wolf, Yan Yunyu’s Infinite Chains phased through space undetected until striking.

The northern youth scanned his surroundings warily but only noticed the attack when cold metal touched his skin.

“There they are—Yan Yunyu’s Infinite Chains!”

“Rumor says those chains seal everything they bind. Will this end as fast as last time?”

“Ha! If so, those northern barbarians will look like fools!”

News of her three-day-old triumph had spread, granting bystanders some faith in her. Yet sharp-eyed observers noted only ordinary civilians cheered loudly.

The southern aristocrats, along with clan elders and family heads of powerful clans, showed no joy.

Their unease stemmed from one thought: "Though those northern barbarians act wild and arrogant, they’re formidable opponents…"

As an elder from a powerful clan sighed these words, sudden movement erupted in the fighting arena.

"Gurgle…"

Not the clatter of chains this time, but the rush of flowing water.

When Yan Yunyu’s Infinite Chains touched the northern scholar, his body burst apart with a loud "bang!"

The exploding scholar didn’t die – instead, he became endless flowing water.

Without solid form to grasp, Yan Yunyu’s chains passed harmlessly through liquid.

Had she restrained him earlier, the chains’ silencing power could’ve frozen Lu Yun’s limbs, stopping his transformation.

But the northern youth acted fast – exploding before the chains’ power took hold.

"?!?"

The watery explosion made Yan Yunyu hesitate briefly.

Lu Yun didn’t pause.

"Swish…"

Countless water droplets morphed into gleaming blades, flying at Yan Yunyu.

"Whoosh-whoosh!"

Magic-charged water cut sharper than steel, capable of slicing through stone walls.

Though startled, Yan Yunyu’s chains reacted fiercely.

"Bam! Bam! Bam!"

Thrashing like enraged serpents, the chains shattered every watery blade mid-air.

But water reforms endlessly. The fragments coalesced again into fresh blades under Lu Yun’s command.

His voice echoed through the arena:

"You can’t win! Your chains can’t hold water. Without them, you’re nothing!"

The watery onslaught intensified – blades falling like monsoon rain.

Yan Yunyu’s chains whirled faster, forming protective barriers around her.

"Crash-crash-crash!"

Each attack met thrashing metal. Water became arrows, daggers, even liquid beasts – all smashed by dancing chains.

Neither combatant gained ground. Water shapes kept reforming, chains kept destroying them – an endless storm of collision and spray.

——Lu Yun’s water attacks couldn’t breach his defenses, and Yan Yunyu’s chains appeared equally ineffective.

This scene drew sighs from the southern aristocrats.

"Unusual tricks can’t overcome the northern prodigies. Their numbers and varied abilities can’t be beaten through mere strangeness."

"They haven’t even used forbidden power yet… Yan Yunyu’s about to lose."

The southern aristocrats felt little disappointment at Yan Yunyu’s impending defeat, having pinned their hopes on Mu Lin instead. While they remained indifferent, Yan Yunyu refused to retreat shamefully.

"Don’t act so smug…"

Lu Yun initially wanted to mock her, but her next words silenced him.

"I admit my weakness, but Mu brother’s gift surpasses your imagination!"

"Witness true power!"

"Boom!"

Yan Yunyu’s aura erupted with the completed Refining the Evil might.

"What…"

"She finished Refining the Evil already?"

"Three days from start to completion? How?"

"Mu Lin’s influence, obviously."

"First his own rapid cultivation, now boosting others? Unfair…"

Many spectators grumbled as Lu Yun faced mounting pressure. Still, the water-form fighter remained confident.

"Completing Refining the Evil surprises me, but battles aren’t won by cultivation alone. My liquid form counters your chains."

"Really?" Yan Yunyu formed a seal, sneering. "Counter Mu brother’s gift? You overestimate yourself."

"I’ll show you true power."

Activating her seal, she declared:

"Infinite Chains, unleash—Heavenly Lock Realm!"

"Boom!"

A massive chain dragon surged skyward, splitting into dozens that plunged earthward like spears.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The chains formed a prison-like cage around the arena.

"Bad move!" Lu Yun’s watery form shot upward, but too late.

Silence. Anti-magic. Immobilization. Suppression. The prison’s pressure drained Lu Yun’s power, sealing abilities and forcing his body back to humanoid form.

"No!" His watery distortions failed against the unyielding chains.

Yan Yunyu’s unleashed realm fused Root Word "Fixing", divinity silence, and hellish concepts. This space silenced powers and immobilized ordinary beings through primordial words—a design beyond Yan Yunyu’s grasp, but not Mu Lin’s.

The creator of Scarlet Blood Abyss, Other Shore Flower Sea·Illusion Prison, and Black Water Soul-Consuming Prison had easily crafted this sealing field. Using Infinite Chains as formation conduits with Root Word "Fixing" and Sky Wall Palace Formation principles, Mu Lin transformed chain bindings into area suppression.

Lu Yun became Heavenly Lock Realm’s first casualty.

Water’s formless nature?

Irrelevant when the entire lake gets frozen silent.