276: Chapter 274 Second Senior Sister, Can't You Use Your Brain?

Su Lin looked down at Yue Xiaoxiao's pale little face, which was filled with hope, and nodded slightly.

“Eat. This is the reward you deserve.”

These words fell upon Yue Xiaoxiao's ears like celestial music more beautiful than any other. She cheered and bounded up from the ground, opening her cherry-red mouth and taking a sudden, forceful breath.

The mass of remnant soul she had kneaded, cut, and rewoven let out a final, faint wail before turning into a streak of black Qi, all of which vanished into her mouth.

Yue Xiaoxiao closed her eyes, her small frame trembling slightly as a look of extreme satisfaction appeared on her face.

To a ghost Cultivator like her who specialized in the Law of Death, the remnant soul of a Mahayana Stage Cultivator was a Peerless Grade tonic of the highest order.

“Burp...”

She let out a quite unladylike belch before dutifully retreating behind Su Lin, quietly assuming her role as a dedicated soul slave.

Su Lin ignored her, turning around instead as his deep gaze slowly swept over the several disciples present.

“Did you all hear clearly?”

Su Lin's voice was calm, yet it echoed through the empty underground dungeon.

“Those high-and-mighty fellows who call themselves Immortals treat our world like a wheat field ready for harvest at any time.

The cultivation you have risked your lives for is, in their eyes, nothing more than fuel to fill their altars.”

He paused, his tone turning cold and hard. “Now, they have prepared their sickles and are coming to reap our wheat.”

“To hell with their sickles!”

Su Hongling exploded in rage, slamming her no edge great sword onto the ground so hard the entire dungeon shook three times.

“I haven't trained these muscles for so many years just to be food for a pack of rats hiding in the sky!

Old Man, give the word! When do we kill our way up there? I'll go sharpen my door panel right now and smash that damn altar of theirs into smithereens!”

“Second Senior Sister, when will you fix that temper of yours? All you know is fighting and killing.”

Luo Ximei waved the folding fan in her hand, light swirling in her platinum-gold right eye as a cold smile played on her seductive face.

“Since they call themselves the Heavenly Court, there must be many so-called Immortals up there.

If I can pull out all their Divine Souls and stuff them into my myriad soul banner... then my Magic Treasure might just ascend directly into a true Divine Artifact.”

Chu Weiwei also leaned in, playing with several emerald-green poison vials, her smile sweet yet lethal.

“I also think Fifth Senior Sister has a point.

The Physiques of those Immortals must be different from ours. If we can capture a few alive, my new poisons will finally have perfect testing Materials.”

Cold Moon stood to the side, clad in her purple-gold Phoenix robe, her majesty as an Empress fully revealed at this moment.

She slightly tilted her chin, Imperial Golden Flames dancing in her eyes.

“Only I can decide the life and death of the Southern Yu Divine Dynasty's subjects. We shall see if their necks are harder than my Dragon Qi.”

Seeing his disciples one by one filled with towering Battle Intent, looking as if they couldn't wait to charge into the nine heavens, Su Lin felt very gratified, but he also knew that impulse would not solve the problem.

“It is good to have this Battle Intent, but avoid blind arrogance.”

Su Lin raised his hand, signaling them to quiet down.

“Since the opponent can seal the Ascension path of this world and even casually arrange for Grey-Robed Figures with Mahayana Stage combat power to come down for missions, it shows that the resources and foundations they possess far exceed our imagination.”

“That so-called Reception Altar and the Great Harvest plan are not the work of a single day.

If we rashly charge up now, it would be no different from throwing eggs against a stone.”

Su Lin began walking out of the dungeon, and his disciples immediately followed closely behind.

“Then does Revered Master mean we can only wait for them to come knocking on our door?” Su Hongling grumbled somewhat indignantly from behind.

“Of course we won't passively take a beating.”

Su Lin stepped out of the dungeon, took a deep breath of the outside air, and gazed toward the horizon.

“But before we counterattack, we must first arm ourselves to the teeth.

Since the Laws of this world are incomplete, we will complete them ourselves.

Since the Spiritual Qi of this world is depleted, then we shall go and seize it!”

“Come, to the main hall.”

A moment later, inside the Daochu Sect's main hall.

“Did you discover any troublesome intelligence?”

Su Lin walked to the main seat and sat down, signaling the others to take their seats as well. He then recounted in detail the information Yue Xiaoxiao had obtained from the soul search.

After listening to Su Lin's narrative, a long silence fell over the hall.

“No wonder...” Gu Qiuyue took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the surging blood in her chest as she leaned down to pick up her golden abacus, her voice cold enough to freeze. “No wonder my Chamber of Commerce has found, through reviewing countless ancient trade records over the last century, that every few thousand years, a bizarre resource gap appears in the Cultivation World.

Massive amounts of Heaven And Earth Treasures, Peerless Spiritual Veins, and even some renowned top-tier experts would vanish without a trace in a very short period of time.

History books attribute it to Great Calamities or wars between ancient gods and demons...”

Her gaze swept over everyone present. “As it turns out, there were no natural calamities at all.

Those so-called disasters were all man-made harvesters!”

“They don't just want our lives, they want our money!”

Gu Qiuyue slapped the table, brimming with Killing Intent. “I will definitely settle this account with them down to the last cent!”

“Sixth Junior Sister is right. These bastards playing god treat us like livestock. Have they asked the sword in my hand?”

Su Hongling stood up abruptly, slamming the no edge great sword on her back onto the floor tiles with a boom, shaking the entire hall three times.

A raging fire burned in her red eyes, and her muscles were taut, making her look like a primeval dragon ready to pounce on its prey at any moment.

“Old Man!” Su Hongling stared at Su Lin with burning eyes. “Since we already know their nest is in that inverted pyramid thing, what are we waiting for?

Let's just kill our way over! We'll smash that crappy tower into a pancake, drag out those Grey-Robed Figures playing god inside, and twist their heads off one by one to use as balls!”

“Second Senior Sister, can you use your brain?”

Luo Ximei sat to Su Lin's right, playing with a strand of black and white hair. Deep demonic light swirled in her platinum-gold heterochromatic eye.

Though her tone was lazy, her expression was more serious than ever before.

“Did you not look closely at the images Yue Xiaoxiao saw during the soul search?”

Luo Ximei unleashed her Devilish Qi, simulating a phantom of the inverted pyramid from the images in the center of the long table.

“This structure is made entirely of Abyssal Black Gold.

This metal has long been extinct in this world. Its greatest characteristic is its ability to completely isolate or even devour Divine Sense probes. Moreover, it floats in a grey space of absolute silence.”

Luo Ximei pointed to the grey mist surrounding the phantom. “That mist isn't ordinary toxic miasma or Void turbulence; it's a Law Vacuum Zone.

This means that place isn't in our world's manifest space at all, nor is it in an ordinary Void layer.”

Mu Qingxue nodded slightly, her cold voice flowing like an icy spring. “Fifth Senior Sister is correct. It is hidden in the deepest part of the world barrier, a blind spot of the Heavenly Dao's rules.

Without exact spatial coordinates, even if we are in the Mahayana Stage, we could search the Void blindly for ten thousand years without even catching a glimpse of its shadow.”

“Not only that.”

Cold Moon, who had been silent, spoke up. The Empress of Southern Yu now had her brows deeply furrowed, her fingertips unconsciously tracing circles on the tabletop.

“Did you notice the giant soul orb floating inside the inverted pyramid?”

Cold Moon's voice held a deep sense of wariness. “That soul orb is kneaded together from the Divine Souls of countless high-level Cultivators.

It isn't just an energy source; it's a terrifying alarm system.

Any external aura that doesn't belong to their system will be instantly locked onto by that soul orb the moment it gets within a million miles of the inverted pyramid.”

“If we just charge in as Second Senior Sister suggested, I'm afraid we'll be focused down by their dragnet before we even see the tip of the tower.”

The hall fell into a brief silence once again.

Impulsive as they might be, none of those present were fools.

Facing a high-dimensional power that could ranch the entire Cultivation World and use the Heavenly Dao as a tool, any hint of carelessness would result in eternal damnation.

“Then what do we do? Do we just wait for them to come and harvest the wheat?” Su Hongling scratched her hair irritably and plopped back into her chair, making it creak loudly.

“Of course not.”

Su Lin finally spoke.

He picked up the Spiritual Tea in front of him, gently brushing aside the tea leaves. His deep eyes seemed to hold the birth and death of stars.

“Now that we know where they are and what they are doing, we have already seized the initiative.”

Su Lin put down his teacup, his gaze sweeping over his seven disciples and Yue Xiaoxiao, who stood in the corner with downcast eyes.

“First, the first problem we need to solve is how to locate the specific coordinates of that inverted pyramid.”

Su Lin opened his hand. In his palm lay the grey jade pendant made of nether soul stone, taken from the Mahayana Stage Death Soldier.

“This jade pendant is the guide they use to traverse the Law Vacuum Zone.”

“But this guide is inscribed with extremely complex self-destruct Restrictions and Bloodline verifications.” Su Lin looked at Chu Weiwei and Luo Ximei. “Ximei, Weiwei, one of you is proficient in the Demonic Path Origin, and the other in toxicology.

I need you to work together to wash away the Bloodline verification on it without triggering the self-destruct Restriction, and then replace it with our own aura.”

“Wash away the Bloodline verification?”

Chu Weiwei's eyes lit up, and she immediately perked up. “Revered Master, Weiwei is good at this! By using Spirit-Dissolving Powder combined with Formless Water, I can peel away the original aura bit by bit, just like changing its skin.”

“Just changing the skin isn't enough; we also need to pull the wool over their eyes.” Luo Ximei's lips curled into a wicked smile. “Leave it to me. I will wrap it in True Immortal Origin to simulate the unique deathly fluctuations of those Grey-Robed Figures. As long as they don't break this jade pendant apart to check it inch by inch, they definitely won't find anything wrong.”

“Good, I'll leave this first step to you.”

Su Lin nodded, then turned his gaze toward Gu Qiuyue and Mu Qingxue.

“The second step is the transportation.”

“While the hidden dragon is a secret treasure of the Southern Yu royal family, extremely fast and capable of hiding its form, its grade is, after all, only that of the Mortal Realm.”

Su Lin tapped the table, his expression becoming exceptionally solemn. “We need to cross a ‘Law Vacuum Zone’. There is no Spiritual Qi there, no natural power we can borrow, and even gravity and light are distorted. An ordinary flying boat would be crushed to powder by the Void tides within three breaths.”

“We need a ‘warship’ that can truly ignore spatial barriers and withstand the crushing force of high-dimensional Laws.”

Hearing this, Gu Qiuyue's brow furrowed slightly, her golden eyes darting as her mind frantically searched through all the high-level Magic Treasures in the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce's treasury.

A moment later, she slapped her thigh. A hint of pain at the cost flashed in her eyes, but it was outweighed by her resolve.

“Revered Master, I have something that might work!”

“Oh? Let's hear it.” Su Lin raised an eyebrow.

Gu Qiuyue took a deep breath, seemingly calming her heart before the impending massive expenditure.

“A violent tsunami once occurred in the Abyss of the East Sea. At that time, a massive ancient remain was washed up from the seabed.

My Chamber of Commerce sacrificed the lives of over a thousand elites to salvage it.”

“The material of that dragon bone is neither metal nor wood, indestructible, and can even automatically absorb the power of Void storms as propulsion. However, because it is too ancient, the outer hull and Formations have long been destroyed, leaving only a shell, so it has been sealed in the lowest level of my Chamber of Commerce's top-secret treasury.”

Gu Qiuyue looked at Su Lin with burning eyes. “If we can use this section of dragon bone as a foundation to rebuild a Magical Artifact, it can definitely withstand that so-called Law Vacuum Zone!”

“The dragon bone of a Void-Traversing Shuttle?”

Su Lin's eyes flashed with brilliant light. This was truly good stuff!

“Good! We'll use it!”

Su Lin made a prompt decision. “Qiuyue, immediately mobilize all the Chamber of Commerce's resources to transport that dragon bone to the back mountain of the Daochu Sect.”

“Qingxue.” Su Lin turned to Mu Qingxue.

“Disciple is here,” Mu Qingxue replied coldly.

“For the warship's hull, I need you to forge it using ‘Extreme Cold Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice’,” Su Lin said solemnly. “Profound ice is not only sturdy but can also maximize the isolation of internal Life Qi, which is our best camouflage for sneaking through that dead land. Can you do it?”

“Revered Master, rest assured.” A hint of pride flashed in Mu Qingxue's eyes. “My current Law of Ice is enough to instantly turn an entire mountain into ice armor harder than a top-grade Spiritual Artifact. Forging a warship hull is no problem at all.”

“Very good.” Su Lin nodded slightly.

“What about me? Old Man, what do I do?” Su Hongling rubbed her hands anxiously. Seeing everyone else with a task while she remained idle made her whole body uncomfortable.

“You? Your task is the heaviest.”

Su Lin looked at Su Hongling, a hint of a smile flashing in his eyes. “Once the warship is built, we need an engine that can instantly burst with terrifying thrust to tear through the final spatial barrier.”

“In the Law Vacuum Zone, Spiritual Power cannot be released, and Magic Treasures lose their effectiveness. The only thing we can rely on is the purest, most extreme strength of the Physical Body!”

Su Lin pointed to Su Hongling's legs, which were filled with explosive power. “When the time comes, the final propulsion of this warship will depend on you kicking it.

You are our human thruster, understood?”