326: Chapter 321 Let's go in and take a look.

Along the streets of Xiaofeng Ridge, shanties pieced together from the withered bones of massive Yao Beasts and discarded spiritual gold emitted a musty stench from years of being hidden from the sun.

Su Lin and his party of four walked along a street filled with mud and dark red stains. On both sides of the road, countless eyes filled with greed, wariness, and malice scanned back and forth from the gloomy gaps. The Laws of survival here were even more naked than in Liuyun Town; there were no so-called rules established by Earth Immortals, only absolute violence and plunder.

The gazes of those Half-Immortals and desperados hidden in the shadows were like maggots on a bone, sticking tightly to Chu Weiwei and Su Hongling behind Su Lin.

In this lawless land full of filth and slaughter, these two stunningly beautiful women were even more eye-catching than the highest grade Immortal Plants.

Normally, someone would have long since been unable to restrain themselves and rushed forward to seize them.

Yet at this moment, no one dared to act rashly.

Su Hongling carried that [no edge] great sword, as wide as a door panel, extremely casually over her shoulder.

With every step she took, her tyrannical and overbearing blood-qi power would unreservedly push outward in all directions.

The heavy sound of her footsteps falling on the muddy ground actually caused the surrounding rickety bone houses to emit an overburdened creak.

Any Divine Sense that dared to release malice would be instantly crushed to pieces upon touching the golden battle-mark Aura surrounding Su Hongling.

Chu Weiwei was even more terrifying. Her petite and delicate body pressed close to Su Lin's arm, a pure and innocent smile on her face as she walked with light steps.

Wherever she passed, the mutated poisonous insects and carrion rats on the ground that had been trying to crawl closer all turned into puddles of green-smoking pus in the blink of an eye.

An extremely faint yet deadly sweet fragrance permeated the air, causing the Cultivators within a hundred-zhang radius to feel their blood-qi stagnate and their heads spin.

“The living things in this place look so filthy, it’s really nauseating.” Chu Weiwei wrinkled her delicate nose in disgust, burying half her face behind Su Lin's arm.

Su Lin's expression remained normal, his gaze looking straight ahead.

Yan Rusi kept her head down, leading the way with quick, steady steps at the front.

She had clearly conducted an extremely detailed investigation into the internal structure of Xiaofeng Ridge, specifically choosing dark alleys that appeared intricate but could actually avoid large-scale brawls.

After walking for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the four of them stopped before a massive building with an extremely arrogant design.

This building was constructed entirely from some kind of pitch-black Void Realm Ore. The main gate was pieced together from two complete skulls of one-horned sub-dragons, with ghastly white bone spikes protruding outward, showcasing the ferocity of the Revered Master of this place.

There was no plaque on the lintel, only a tattered flag stained with dried blood snapping in the wind.

“Senior Su, this is the place.” Yan Rusi lowered her voice, her tone carrying a hint of caution. “This is the largest underground black market in Xiaofeng Ridge. The person who controls this place is named Hei Sha, an extremely powerful expert at the Early Stage of the Earth Immortal Realm. He has recruited a large number of vicious desperados under him, specifically to engage in murder, robbery, and the forging of immortal registries.”

Su Lin nodded slightly, his gaze sweeping over the ghastly white bone gate.

“Since it is a place of business, let us go in and see.”

Su Lin took the lead and stepped onto the stairs.

The eight guards standing on either side of the bone gate were all broad-shouldered and thick-waisted, emitting the ferocious Aura of the Peak of the Half-Immortal stage.

Seeing Su Lin’s party of four approaching, these eight guards immediately crossed the cold-glinting halberds in their hands, blocking the way.

“Halt! Don't you new faces know the rules? This is Lord Hei Sha's territory; you must pay an entry fee! Ten Low Grade Immortal Stones per person, and if you're even half a stone short, get lost!” The leading guard, his face full of fatty flesh, scanned Su Hongling and Chu Weiwei with unscrupulous eyes, his throat emitting a heavy, coarse panting sound.

Su Lin stopped, not even looking directly at the guard.

“Hong Ling, open the door,” Su Lin instructed in a flat tone.

“You got it!”

Su Hongling had long been unable to restrain herself. She grinned, revealing two sharp little tiger teeth.

Without any nonsense, she directly swung the [no edge] great sword from her shoulder, sweeping it across like swatting a fly, taking out both the guard and the halberds blocking the front.

“BANG!!!”

A deafening muffled explosion erupted.

The fleshy-faced guard didn't even have time to make any defensive move. Along with the fine iron halberd in his hand, he was directly smashed into a blur of bloody flesh by this mountain-toppling, terrifying force, flying backward.

This mass of shredded meat slammed hard against the ghastly white bone gate, the powerful impact directly shattering the heavy bone gate into pieces.

The remaining seven guards were completely dumbfounded. They were used to acting tyrannically in Xiaofeng Ridge and had never seen such a lunatic who dared to be so blatant as to kill someone right in front of Hei Sha’s gate.

“Enemy attack! Someone is crashing the place!”

The guards who came to their senses screamed sharply, one after another summoning their Magic Treasures in preparation for a coordinated attack.

“So noisy!”

Evil Qi flared up in Su Hongling's crimson eyes. Her figure suddenly lunged forward, her explosive power fully revealed at this moment. She didn't even use her sword, instead swinging her fists clad in dark gold bracers, smashing them one by one into the chests and heads of those guards.

Accompanied by the continuous sound of shattering bones, those seven Peak Half-Immortal guards were like tattered sacks, completely blown into the interior of the building by Su Hongling’s overwhelming force, slamming heavily against the hall walls and losing their lives on the spot.

“Let's go.” Su Lin flicked his sleeves and, stepping over the debris of the shattered bone gate, walked unhurriedly into this notorious underground black market.

The space inside the hall was extremely wide, with rows of eerie green torches burning on the surrounding walls. At this moment, the hundreds of desperados who were originally conducting various shady deals in the hall were all startled by the massive commotion coming from the entrance.

All eyes converged simultaneously toward the gate.

When they saw the four uninvited guests walking in over the corpses of the guards, the entire hall first fell into a brief, dead silence, followed by an eruption of intense killing intent and commotion.

“Who is tired of living and dares to run wild in Lord Hei Sha's place!”

“Kill the men and extract their souls; keep the women!”

Dozens of thugs, confident in their high cultivation, brandished their weapons one after another. With cruel sneers, they closed in on Su Lin's party like a pack of bloodthirsty wolves.

Facing this group of vicious bandits, Su Lin's expression did not change, and he didn't even pause his footsteps for a moment.

“Weiwei,” Su Lin spoke softly.

“Revered Master, don't worry. Weiwei hates these filthy things getting close to you the most.”

Chu Weiwei released Su Lin's arm, a terrifyingly morbid smile appearing on her pure and beautiful face.

Her hands quickly formed a strange hand seal in front of her chest, and dozens of tiny medicine pouches of various colors suddenly flew out from her wide sleeves.

These medicine pouches exploded in mid-air, turning into a thick, poisonous miasma of eerie purple and green, spreading in all directions at an alarming speed.

“This... what is this smell?!”

The first few thugs to inhale this poisonous miasma instantly turned a sickly green.

They discovered in horror that the immortal essence within their bodies had completely lost control, running wild through their Meridians like boiling water.

“Ah!! My Meridians! My eyes!”

Shrill screams rose one after another. Large purple-black poisonous sores rapidly grew on the skin of the Cultivators who had been touched by the miasma. The sores burst, oozing foul-smelling pus, and even the Magic Treasures in their hands were corroded and lost their luster from this toxic gas.

In just a few breaths, the dozens of thugs who had rushed forward in the hall lay scattered on the ground, rolling and wailing in pain, no longer able to pose any threat.

The Cultivators in the back, who had originally wanted to join in for a share of the spoils, were scared out of their wits. they desperately retreated toward the depths of the hall, fearing they would be touched by even a tiny bit of this terrifying toxic gas.

“Which sacred being dares to come to my, Hei Sha's, territory to cause trouble!”

Just as the hall fell into extreme panic, a roar like muffled thunder came from the corridor at the very back of the building.

Immediately following, a powerful pressure belonging to the Earth Immortal Realm swept out from the depths of the hall like an invisible gale.

Under the impact of this pressure, the purple-green poisonous miasma was forcibly pushed aside, creating a wide passage.

Accompanied by heavy footsteps, a burly giant nearly a zhang tall, covered in black scales with a single horn on his head, strode out with dozens of elite guards.

This person was none other than the Revered Master of the Xiaofeng Ridge black market, Hei Sha.

His pair of bell-like yellow eyes stared fixedly at Su Lin's group. His gaze lingered on Su Hongling and Chu Weiwei for a moment, a hint of admiration and greed flashing in his eyes before finally fixing his sight on Su Lin, who stood in the center.

“Kid, was it you who killed my men outside and used such lowly methods to poison my subordinates?” Hei Sha spoke coldly, the pressure of an Early Stage Earth Immortal pressing down unreservedly toward Su Lin.

Su Lin stood with his hands behind his back. When that Earth Immortal pressure reached three feet in front of him, it was like a mud cow entering the sea, vanishing into nothingness.

“Your subordinates didn't know the rules, so I merely disciplined them on your behalf.” Su Lin's tone was calm, unaffected in the slightest.

He looked directly into Hei Sha's eyes and stated his purpose: “I came here only to seek a few things. Four sets of completely clean immortal registry identities that can withstand the inspection of the main city.”

Hearing the words 'immortal registry,' Hei Sha was first stunned, then let out a burst of arrogant, wild laughter.

“Hahahaha! And here I thought it was some formidable dragon crossing the river, but it turns out to be a few greenhorns who just ascended from the Lower Realm!”

The flesh on Hei Sha's face twitched violently, and his eyes became extremely ferocious. “In the Taihuang Immortal Domain, you want an immortal registry? Fine! Go to the main city's coliseum and win a hundred matches in a row, or go to the Abyssal Mine and dig for ten thousand years! You come to my place for an immortal registry and even dare to kill my people? Do you really think this Xiaofeng Ridge is that backwater place in your Lower Realm where you can run wild as you please!”

Hei Sha stepped forward abruptly, the violent immortal essence surging within his body.

“Originally, if you had just knelt down obediently and handed over all your belongings, then left these two women to serve me well, I might have left you an intact corpse. Now, you all must die. I will pull out your Primordial Spirit and light it as an Everlasting Lamp at the entrance of this black market!”

Before his voice had even faded, Hei Sha had already made a fierce move.

He didn't use any weapons; his massive, scale-covered right claw lunged forward. The Void Realm distorted violently under his claw strike, and a huge black vortex instantly formed, carrying a terrifying suction force capable of tearing apart mountain Peaks as it grabbed straight for Su Lin's crown.

The intensity of the Law contained in such an attack from an Earth Immortal expert far surpassed those of Half-Immortals.

Facing this thunderous strike, Battle Intent flared in Su Hongling's eyes. Just as she was about to raise her sword to meet the attack, she was stopped by Su Lin raising his hand.

“Step back. This person practices high-dimensional spatial crushing. Your Physical Body has not yet fully adapted to the Laws here; forcing a direct confrontation could easily lead to internal injuries.”

Su Lin's voice remained steady. He didn't even draw the Half-Immortal Artifact [destiny], merely slowly raising his right hand.

Facing the black vortex that could shred everything, Su Lin directly extended his index and middle fingers, joining them like a sword.

Deep within his Qi Sea, that world tree sapling swayed slightly. A surge of extremely pure Chaos Immortal Energy, which transcended the conventional Laws of the Taihuang Immortal Domain, instantly converged at his fingertips through his Meridians.

“Break.”

Su Lin lightly uttered a single word, and his joined fingers pointed casually toward that massive black vortex.

An extremely subtle dark golden Sword Qi, almost difficult to catch with the naked eye, shot out from his fingertips.

This Sword Qi had no earth-shaking light or shadow effects, yet it carried a spatial Profound Truth of absolute severance.

“Squelch!”

The sound, like a sharp blade slicing through silk, spread clearly through the empty hall.

The aggressive black vortex, which seemed as if it could swallow all things, was actually split perfectly in two from the center the moment it touched that dark golden Sword Qi!

The violent suction stopped abruptly. The energy balance within the vortex was completely shattered, and it collapsed into a harmless breeze of Spiritual Qi.

“What?!”

The wild laugh on Hei Sha's face instantly froze, and his yellow pupils suddenly contracted to the limit.

His proud, ultimate strike had actually been neutralized so nonchalantly by the opponent with just two fingers?

After cutting through the vortex, the dark golden Sword Qi did not slow down in the slightest, continuing forward like lightning, heading straight for Hei Sha's face.

Hei Sha was horrified, a strong sense of mortal crisis enveloping his entire body. He let out a wild roar, his scales standing on end, and all the immortal essence of an Early Stage Earth Immortal surged frantically, laying down three full layers of heavy protective light shields in front of him.

However, all these defenses appeared so laughable before that Chaos Sword Qi.

“Crack! Crack! Crack!”

The three layers of protective light shields shattered like fragile glass.

The Sword Qi passed through Hei Sha's defenses without any hindrance, accurately sinking into his right shoulder.

“AHHH!!!”

Hei Sha let out an extremely shrill scream. That thick, pillar-like right arm covered in hard scales, along with a large piece of flesh from his shoulder, was directly and cleanly sliced off by that tiny Sword Qi!

Dark red blood shot up like a fountain, splashing all over the ground.

Hei Sha's massive body lost its balance in the intense pain, kneeling heavily on one knee on the hard floor, clutching the stump of his arm and wailing frantically.

The elite guards following Hei Sha, as well as the desperados watching from the corners, were all scared pale.