314: Chapter 311 Stand up, don't move.

Extreme rage caused him to completely lose his reason.

He took a sharp, deep breath, attempting to forcibly circulate the remaining immortal essence within his body to track down the person who had left the message.

However.

The very moment he inhaled the surrounding air into his body.

An extremely secretive, colorless, and odorless toxin followed his breath, silently drilling into his Meridians.

"Hmm?"

Xuantian suddenly felt a slight prick of pain in his chest.

It felt as if he had been pricked by a tiny needle.

He didn't pay it any mind, assuming it was just a hidden injury from the previous battle.

He continued to frantically urge his immortal essence.

"Boom!"

The Aura within his body began to climb steadily.

Anger, to a certain extent, had become the catalyst for him to break through his Bottleneck.

He had to break through!

He had to break through to the Heavenly Immortal Realm immediately!

Only then could he use his most powerful Divine Sense to cover a radius of ten thousand miles, drag out the little thief who stole his treasure, and tear them into ten thousand pieces!

Xuantian sat cross-legged in the center of the empty treasury, beginning to force a Breakthrough in his Realm.

The remaining Immortal Qi in the surrounding air was frantically inhaled into his body like a great whale drinking water.

As the Immortal Qi surged in, his Aura grew stronger and stronger.

Only one last step remained!

As long as he broke through that layer of window paper, he would be a high and mighty Heavenly Immortal!

Xuantian roared in his heart.

However.

Just at the moment when he gathered all his power into a single point, preparing to launch the final assault.

"Rrrrip!"

A tearing, excruciating pain suddenly came from the Meridians within his body!

That feeling was like countless venomous snakes covered in barbs, frantically slithering and gnawing inside his blood vessels!

"Ah!!!"

Xuantian let out a miserable scream, and the Aura that had been climbing instantly dissipated.

He discovered in horror that the originally pure immortal essence inside his body had turned a bizarre purple-green!

The toxin, using the violent energy generated by his forced Breakthrough, instantly spread to his entire body, even directly invading his Primordial Spirit!

"Th-this... what poison is this?!"

Xuantian's face turned deathly pale as he spat out mouthfuls of black blood.

He desperately tried to suppress this toxin, but the more he suppressed it, the more severe the backlash became.

"No... don't..."

He felt his internal organs rapidly rotting away.

His proud Earth Immortal body actually began to melt like a candle, with chunks of flesh falling off!

"Save... save me..."

Xuantian desperately reached out his hand, trying to grab something.

But in the empty treasury, no one could respond to him.

Meanwhile, on a hill dozens of miles away from Liuyun Town.

Su Lin and the other two stood in the night, gazing into the distance at the brightly lit Xuantian High Tower.

"It's about time."

Su Lin looked in the direction of the high tower, a faint smile curling the corner of his lips.

Chu Weiwei rested her chin in her hands, smiling like a little girl who had received praise.

"Revered Master, listen, that old guy is screaming so miserably."

"This Myriad Ants Devouring Heart Powder, combined with his Spiritual Qi rampage during the Breakthrough... that sensation must be ten thousand times more enjoyable than death by a thousand cuts."

Yan Rusi stood to the side, listening to the shrill, miserable screams faintly carried on the wind, and could not help but shiver involuntarily.

Her gaze towards Su Lin had shifted from awe to deep fear.

This man's strength was not only unfathomable, but his methods of calculating the human heart were even more chilling.

Without making a sound, he had played an Earth Immortal powerhouse in the palm of his hand, even making the opponent experience the most desperate pain at the very moment they were closest to success.

This was a truly ruthless character.

"Let's go."

Su Lin withdrew his gaze and turned to walk towards the more distant wilderness.

"There is no value in staying in this Liuyun Town any longer."

"Next, we go to the main city."

"We'll go and see what kind of monsters and demons this Taihuang Immortal Domain really is."

Su Lin's voice drifted away in the night wind.

Meanwhile, in Liuyun Town.

The Earth Immortal Xuantian's screams finally ceased completely.

Inside the underground treasury, only a pool of foul-smelling purple-green blood remained.

A generation of Earth Immortals had fallen just like that.

And the Half-Immortals and Vicious Beasts still slaughtering each other outside did not know that the Revered Master of this town had changed in a way that he would remain on this land forever.

...

The night in the wilderness was exceptionally cold.

Su Lin and the other two walked on the barren land, with the low growls of unknown Yao Beasts occasionally heard nearby.

Chu Weiwei clutched tightly onto the corner of Su Lin's clothes, half her body pressed against him.

"Revered Master, it's so dark here, Weiwei is scared."

She looked up, her amethyst-like eyes shimmering with a faint light in the darkness.

"It would be great if Revered Master could hug Weiwei."

Su Lin sighed helplessly.

"Walk properly, and don't take advantage of your Revered Master."

"Weiwei isn't taking advantage, Weiwei is truly scared."

Chu Weiwei pouted aggrievedly.

Yan Rusi followed silently behind, trying her best to minimize her presence.

She only hoped now that this Senior Su would quickly find his lost disciples.

Otherwise, she was truly afraid that one day she would be poisoned to death by this Medicine Immortal who looked pure and cute but was actually ruthless.

"There's a light ahead."

Su Lin suddenly stopped, his gaze fixed on the distant horizon.

There, a faint glimmer of light was flickering.

It appeared exceptionally abrupt in the pitch-black wilderness.

"Let's go check it out."

Su Lin quickened his pace.

As the distance closed, that glimmer of light gradually became clear.

It was actually a dilapidated temple!

The temple stood alone on the wilderness, surrounded by waist-high weeds.

The temple door was half-open, and a dim, yellowish firelight shone from within.

"How could there be a temple in a place like this?" Yan Rusi asked, somewhat puzzled.

The Taihuang Immortal Domain was filled with crises; Mortals could not survive here at all, let alone build such a structure without any protection.

"We'll know once we go in and take a look."

Su Lin walked to the temple door and reached out to push open the old, dilapidated wooden door.

The old wooden door let out a dull, long groan in Su Lin's hands, sounding as if the temple was struggling in its death throes.

The moment he pushed the door open, Su Lin had even prepared himself for an evil god from the Upper Realm to jump out, his right thumb already resting on the guard of the "destiny" ancient sword.

However, the expected bloody storm did not occur.

What rushed towards them was a scent so rich that one could not ignore it... the smell of cumin?

"Who is it? In the middle of the night, disturbing old lady here roasting chicken, are you tired of living?"

A rough, slightly impatient female voice came from the center of the temple.

Su Lin was stunned, his hand pushing the door frozen in mid-air.

Chu Weiwei's pupils constricted sharply, her small hand that had been holding Su Lin's arm tightening involuntarily, her nails nearly digging into Su Lin's flesh.

She let out a silent wail in her heart: This damned voice... how could she run into this brute everywhere?

The interior of the temple was extremely empty; there was no deity statue worshipped in the center, only a bare stone platform.

At this moment, beneath that stone platform, a pile of dark red fire was burning, and on top of the fire was a ridiculously large... avian leg, roasting and sizzling with oil.

A woman dressed in a bright red martial outfit, with messy red hair tied behind her head, was sitting in a wide-legged stance on a broken stone pillar.

Beside her feet lay that black great sword, as wide as a door panel, and in her hand, she held a jug of strong liquor stolen from who knows where, glaring at the door with a fierce look.

Su Hongling.

Su Lin looked at that familiar figure, and his temples throbbed even more vigorously.

Although he had long guessed that this Second Disciple had a tough life and could swim out even if she fell into a cesspit, seeing her in these dangerous ruins of the Immortal Realm, not only managing to get a barbecue going but also acting like she was camping in her own backyard, the psychological gap still made him feel like his worries had been fed to the dogs.

"O-Old Man?!"

When Su Hongling saw who was standing at the door, her red eyes, originally filled with Killing Intent, instantly froze, and then an extremely exaggerated, almost comical smile bloomed on her oil-stained little face.

"Thump!"

She casually smashed the wine jug in her hand onto the ground, not caring about the still-dripping roast meat, and transformed into a red afterimage, bringing with her a wave of heat as she rushed towards Su Lin without a care.

"Revered Master! You Old Man, you're not dead yet? Great! I thought you had been blown by that wind into some corner and turned to ash!"

Seeing Su Hongling's signature "bear hug" about to slam into Su Lin's chest, if it connected, with her strength capable of shattering an Earth Immortal body, Su Lin suspected his newly mended ribs would go on strike again.

"Second Senior Sister, please mind your demeanor."

A moon-white figure silently positioned herself between the two.

Chu Weiwei smiled with such dignity and elegance, even politely extending a hand to steadily press against Su Hongling's highly impactful forehead.

"Revered Master has just recovered from a serious illness and cannot withstand such barbaric affection from you. Besides..." Chu Weiwei cast a disgusted glance at the grease stained on Su Hongling's chest, "The smell on you really affects the air quality here."

Su Hongling's momentum was forcibly stopped; she was like a husky with its forehead pressed down, her legs carving two deep furrows into the ground before she finally stabilized her figure.

She raised her head, her vertical red pupils staring fixedly at Chu Weiwei, her teeth grinding with a creaking sound.

"Chu... Wei... wei! I knew it was you, you little green tea! I smelled the sour stench of rotten leaves in the forest earlier; so it was you hogging Revered Master the whole time?"

"Oh my, Senior Sister, that's not right of you to say." Chu Weiwei shrank weakly into Su Lin's arms, her tone becoming delicate, "When Revered Master was most severely injured, it was Weiwei who used her own body as a medicine base day and night to pull Revered Master back from the gates of hell. Unlike Senior Sister, who only knows how to kill and eat meat here."

Su Hongling was so angry that her entire head of red hair seemed to stand on end: "Medicine base? I think you just wanted to take the opportunity to eat the Old Man clean! I just saw the high tower in Liuyun Town collapse over there; was that your doing?"

Su Lin rubbed his temples and walked into the temple.

The gravity in this wretched place was still exerting its force; every step felt like trudging through a mud pit.

"Both of you, shut up."

Su Lin's voice was not loud, but the accumulated authority of being their Revered Master caused both of them to quiet down instantly.

He glanced at the messy temple, then at Su Hongling, "Hong Ling, when did you fall into this vicinity? Did you not encounter those patrolling guards?"

"Don't mention it." Su Hongling sat back down on the stone pillar carelessly and grabbed the roasted meat leg again to take a bite, "When I first fell, my body felt as heavy as if it were filled with lead; I was almost flattened into the dirt by that pressure. When I finally caught my breath, I ran into three bird-men wearing red armor who said I hadn't paid some city entry fee and wanted to drag me back to be some kind of laborer."

She snorted coldly and patted the great sword beside her feet, "I just used one sword strike for each of them, smashing them and their horses into meat patties. Later, I found that although the beasts around here have thick skin, the meat is indeed delicious, so I happened to kill one and found a place to light a fire."

Yan Rusi, standing at the very back, felt her eyelid twitch wildly as she listened.

Listen to that, is that human language?

The red-armored guards of Liuyun Town, who killed without blinking, were a nightmare in the eyes of ascenders from the Lower Realm, but in the mouth of this red-haired witch, they were just flies to be swatted away?

And... after swatting the Earth Immortal's guards to death, she actually still had the mind to have a barbecue here?

The thought processes of these three people were probably truly born in another dimension, right?

"You killed the guards?" Su Lin raised an eyebrow, found a cleaner step to sit on, "It seems we need to move faster. Although that old fox Xuantian died at our hands, the changes in Liuyun Town will sooner or later reach the main city above."

"Hong Ling, when you killed those guards, did you find anything special on them? For example... a token like this?" Su Lin gestured.

"No tokens, but a bunch of rotten stones." Su Hongling pulled a dirty little cloth bag from her bosom and tossed it to Su Lin, "The guy leading them tried to beg for mercy before he died, but I couldn't be bothered to listen to his nonsense and just sent him to Reincarnation."

Su Lin took the bag and opened it to look.

Inside, besides a dozen Low Grade Immortal Stones, there was actually a dark purple metal piece engraved with the character "Patrol."

"Patrol Token..." Su Lin furrowed his brows, "This is not something an Earth Immortal can possess. It seems there is a patrol team stationed near this Liuyun Town."

"The point is, when I killed that leading guard earlier, I heard him muttering before he died.

He said that in the so-called Demon-Forbidden Abyss behind Liuyun Town, inexplicable explosive sounds have been coming out recently, as if something extraordinary is about to break through the ground."

Su Hongling responded vaguely while tearing another large chunk of meat from that entire huge avian leg.

Her pretty little face, though stained with oil, faintly revealed a kind of dark golden treasure light under the dim firelight.

Su Lin's expression became completely solemn at this moment.

He originally thought this girl just had a tough life and great strength, but when he calmed down to examine her closely, he realized that his Second Disciple's current state could simply be described as a "human-shaped Vicious Beast."

In the Lower Realm, although Su Hongling had already reached Perfection in the Mahayana Stage and her Physical Body had become holy, it was ultimately limited by the nourishment of Spiritual Qi in the Mortal world.

But now, Su Lin could clearly feel that every muscle and every piece of bone in her body was undergoing some kind of extremely violent "immortalization" process.

The speed of this transformation was unreasonably fast.

The heavy Immortal Qi inhaled from the air was like knives or lead-mercury in others' bodies, but for Su Hongling, it had simply become the top-tier lubricant, frantically lubricating her terrifying machine of violence.

"Hong Ling, stand up, don't move."