327: Chapter 322 The Price is Your Life

An overlord who dominated an area at the Early Stage of the Earth Immortal Realm could not even withstand a single move from his opponent!

Just what kind of terrifying monster was this seemingly frail young man in green robes?

Su Lin slowly withdrew his finger, looking down coldly at Hei Sha, who was kneeling on the ground.

"It seems you didn't hear my question clearly just now."

Su Lin took a step forward, approaching Hei Sha one step at a time. With every step he took, the pressure emanating from him grew heavier.

That terrifying aura, fused with the Chaos Laws of his inner world, made Hei Sha feel as if he were carrying an entire divine mountain on his back; even breathing became extremely difficult.

"I want four copies of the immortal registry." Su Lin looked down at him from above. "Do you have them, or not?"

Hei Sha was drenched in cold sweat from the pain, and there was no longer any hint of arrogance in his eyes, only extreme fear. He finally realized that he had kicked an indestructible iron plate today.

"I have... I have! Senior, spare my life! This lowly one failed to recognize your greatness!"

Ignoring the excruciating pain of his severed arm, Hei Sha endured the humiliation and nodded repeatedly, fearing that if he was a step too slow, he would be completely obliterated by this malevolent star before him.

"This lowly one does indeed have a few blank immortal registry jade tokens that were recently intercepted through special channels.

Those are authentic goods issued by the main city. As long as Senior imprints your Divine Soul aura into them, absolutely no one will be able to find any flaws!"

"Lead the way," Su Lin said in a cold, stern tone.

Hei Sha forced himself to stand up despite the pain. Like a tamed servant, he tremblingly led Su Lin and the other three toward the secret chamber in the deepest part of the building.

After passing through several dark passages filled with traps and mechanisms, Hei Sha stopped before an extremely heavy profound iron gate.

Using his remaining left hand, he cast several complex hand seals. The gate slowly opened, revealing a small, top-secret treasury.

Various rare Materials and Immortal Stones were placed inside the treasury, but at the very center, on a crystal jade platform, four jade tokens emitting a soft white light were quietly displayed.

Su Lin stepped forward and picked up one of the jade tokens.

He probed it slightly with his Divine Sense and indeed felt an extremely precise main city Formation verification circuit contained within.

There was no identity binding inside this jade token; it was in a completely clean, blank state.

"Not bad, they are indeed the real deal." Su Lin satisfiedly swept all four jade tokens into his sleeve.

Hei Sha stood to the side, carefully putting on a fawning smile. "Since Senior has obtained the items, then this lowly one's worthless life..."

Su Lin turned his head and looked at him.

"When I do business, I have always been fair," Su Lin said indifferently. "Since I took your things, I naturally have to pay a price."

Hearing this, Hei Sha breathed a massive sigh of relief and was about to say some flattering words.

"Weiwei." Su Lin tilted his head.

"What are Revered Master's orders?" Chu Weiwei immediately leaned forward obediently.

"Clean this place up; do not leave any future trouble." Su Lin's tone was laced with absolute coldness.

This black market controlled the channels for forged Immortal registries. A local snake like Hei Sha, who lived his life on the edge of a blade year-round, would absolutely never swallow such a huge loss silently.

If his life were spared, it would surely lead to endless trouble and investigation from the main city.

Hei Sha's face instantly turned deathly pale. He suddenly realized what was happening, his eyes widening. "You... You aren't keeping your word! You said you would pay a price!"

"I said the price is your life."

Su Lin turned around expressionlessly, leading Su Hongling and Yan Rusi out of the secret chamber.

"No! I'll take you down with me!" Hei Sha let out a desperate roar, wanting to burn his final Primordial Spirit to launch a counterattack.

However, just as he made a move, Chu Weiwei's petite figure already blocked his path.

"Big guy, Revered Master said to clean up thoroughly. Don't move around recklessly, or you'll get this treasury dirty."

Chu Weiwei smiled like a blooming flower and lightly snapped her lily-white fingers.

*Snap.*

Accompanying that crisp sound, Hei Sha suddenly felt an extremely cold and terrifying power explode violently at his heart's meridian.

It turned out that as early as when Su Lin severed his arm, Chu Weiwei had already secretly sent a poison called [Formless Soul-Dissolving Powder] into his body through his spraying blood.

Hei Sha didn't even have the chance to self-detonate his Primordial Spirit.

His body stiffened instantly, and then that massive, scale-covered frame began to melt at a hair-raising speed, like ice and snow exposed to a scorching sun.

No screams were heard, because his vocal cords were completely dissolved by the toxin in the first second. Within a few short breaths, a black market overlord at the Early Stage of the Earth Immortal Realm had turned into a pool of foul-smelling black water. Even the Primordial Spirit within his body was eroded clean by the poison, completely erased from this world.

Chu Weiwei glanced at the black water on the ground with disgust. With a wave of her delicate hand, she unceremoniously looted all the rare Materials and Immortal Stones in the treasury that caught her eye, then caught up to Su Lin with light steps.

The four of them returned to the dilapidated streets of Xiaofeng Ridge.

Su Lin distributed the four blank immortal registry jade tokens to everyone.

"Sit cross-legged and focus your minds."

Su Lin gave the order in a solemn tone.

To completely solidify these identities, simply imprinting the Divine Soul was not enough. The rules of this Taihuang Immortal Domain were extremely strict; the main city's detection Formations could easily distinguish the heterogeneous aura of those who had ascended from the Lower Realm.

Su Lin had to use the power of the world tree from his inner world to perform an extremely thorough aura camouflage for the four of them.

The three of them sat cross-legged on the ground as instructed, pressing the jade tokens against their foreheads.

Su Lin formed hand seals, and a vast, pure stream of Chaos Immortal Qi surged from his body, completely enveloping the four of them.

Under the terrifying ability of the world tree to evolve the Laws of all things, Su Lin carefully extracted the local rule aura of the surrounding Taihuang Immortal Domain and perfectly fused it with the Divine Soul fluctuations of the four people.

This Fusion was extremely precise; it not only masked their identities as ascenders from the Lower Realm but also formed an impeccable energy circulation loop within the jade tokens.

After a full hour, the Chaos Immortal Qi enveloping everyone gradually receded.

Su Lin slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath of turbid air.

"It's done."

Su Lin looked at the jade token in his hand, which was now imprinted with his own aura and flickering with a faint green light, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes.

At this moment, their auras were identical to the native Immortals of this Taihuang Immortal Domain, with no flaws remaining.

"Let's go." Su Lin hung the jade token at his waist and looked toward the northwest in the distance.

There was Tianhai City, the prosperous center that governed this vast region.

He could sense that the faint spatial bond fluctuation was guiding him to find his lost disciple.

"With this identity, we can enter the main city openly."

Su Lin strode forward against the freezing wind blowing across the wasteland.

"Tianhai City, I want to see just how deep the waters of this Upper Realm are."

At the very front, Su Hongling carried the broad no edge great sword across her shoulders.

This high-intensity gravity environment was not an obstacle for her; instead, it had become an excellent natural gravity training ground.

"This godforsaken place doesn't even have a ghost in sight. Just how much longer do we have to walk to reach that Tianhai City?"

"What's the rush? The spatial structure of this Taihuang Immortal Domain is millions of times tighter than the Lower Realm. We are currently equivalent to traveling while carrying several great mountains on our backs.

If we were to forcibly use immortal essence to fly at full speed, it would easily attract unknown ancient Vicious Beasts from the depths of the void."

Su Lin's steps were steady, his green robes fluttering loudly in the wild wind.

His expression was calm, and the world tree seedling within his body was continuously emitting Chaos clear light, devouring and transforming all the surrounding violent Immortal Qi to nourish his newly forged Earth Immortal body.

Chu Weiwei followed closely on Su Lin's right, her two hands tightly clutching Su Lin's arm.

Her moon-white Medicine Immortal dress looked a bit dusty from the wind and sand, but not a hint of fatigue could be seen on her pure and beautiful face; instead, it held a touch of morbid excitement.

"Revered Master is right, Second Senior Sister, you are just too impetuous. Although there are no living people on this wasteland, there are unique poisonous herbs and mineral veins of the Upper Realm everywhere."

As Chu Weiwei spoke, she quick-handedly plucked a strange plant from a crack in the roadside rocks—it was entirely black with poisonous thorns on its leaf edges—and carefully tucked it into a jade bottle in her sleeve.

"When we get to the city, Weiwei will use these newly collected Materials to concoct several new types of soul-soothing medicinal soups for Revered Master. I guarantee that Revered Master will feel physically and mentally delighted after drinking them."

Su Lin listened to the girl's bold words and sighed inwardly.

He knew all too well what dangerous ingredients were hidden in Chu Weiwei's "soul-soothing medicinal soups."

Ever since the two of them were completely bound by the Life-and-Death Fate-Binding Gu in the tree hollow, this girl's possessiveness had become increasingly blatant, almost as if she had "I want to poison Revered Master unconscious and hide him away" written all over her face.

Yan Rusi walked at the very back of the group, always maintaining a relatively respectful distance.

Her coarse hemp clothes seemed exceptionally thin in the cold wind. The Cultivation Techniques of the Hehuan Sect were not suited for long-distance travel in such extreme and harsh physical environments. At this moment, she was only holding on by a thread, relying entirely on the two Medium Grade Immortal Stones Su Lin had previously bestowed upon her.

"Reporting to Senior Su, at our current pace, we should be able to see the outer city protection Formation of Tianhai City after crossing that black stone mountain range ahead."

Yan Rusi panted, trying to make her voice sound steady. "Tianhai City is the only main city governing this million-mile radius. The City Lord is a Heavenly Immortal powerhouse with heaven-reaching cultivation. Although we have forged immortal registry jade tokens, we will still need to undergo extremely strict inspections when entering the city. Senior must not let your guard down."

Su Lin nodded slightly, the light of contemplation swirling in his deep eyes.

The immortal registry jade token he had seized from the black market stronghold hung at his waist.

The surface of the jade token emitted a faint green glow, and its interior had been perfectly imprinted with a native aura matching this world using the power of the world tree.

As long as he did not encounter a high-ranking Golden Immortal far beyond his Realm who directly performed a soul search, it was absolutely impossible for this camouflage to be seen through.

The four continued forward. When they finally crossed that black stone mountain range stretching for thousands of miles, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

At the end of the extremely distant horizon, a magnificent city so massive it was suffocating sat quietly, like a peerless beast from the primordial era crouching on the ancient wasteland.

The city walls were tens of thousands of feet high, cast entirely from a type of deep-sea star iron that emitted a faint blue fluorescence, their surfaces engraved with dense and incredibly complex defensive Formation runes.

The length of the city wall was simply beyond sight, as if it had forcibly split the entire world in two. Above the giant city floated hundreds of massive floating islands, connected by Formation chains flashing with piercing lightning, forming a tightly woven net that prohibited flight.

"What a grand display." Su Hongling stopped in her tracks and looked up, a rare hint of shock appearing in her red vertical pupils. "With the thickness of this wall, even I might not be able to hack a gap in it with a full-strength strike."

"Tianhai City gathers nearly seventy percent of the Luck and top-grade Spiritual Veins of this region; naturally, the city walls are indestructible." Yan Rusi walked to Su Lin's side and explained in a low voice, "The city is divided into the outer city, inner city, and the core Immortal city. Semi-Immortals without an immortal registry aren't even qualified to come within a hundred miles of the outer city. Once discovered by a patrol team, they would be blasted into powder on the spot."

"Let's go and see this so-called main city."

Su Lin did not dwell on his impressions and strode toward the towering giant city.

As the distance closed, the figures of Immortals appearing around them gradually increased. Unlike those ragged and numb Semi-Immortals seen in Liuyun Town earlier, most of those who could walk on this main road leading to Tianhai City were Immortals carrying immortal registry jade tokens, with cultivation reaching the Early Stage or even Middle Stage of the Earth Immortal Realm.

They were either riding majestic void beasts or traveling in magnificent flying Magical Artifacts, their demeanors all carrying a high-and-mighty arrogance. Occasionally, a few gazes would fall upon Su Lin and his group of four who chose to walk, mostly with a hint of contempt and scrutiny.

Su Lin ignored this, perfectly suppressing his own aura to around the Early Stage of the Earth Immortal Realm, which was neither overly ostentatious nor so low as to attract unnecessary trouble.

Soon, the four arrived before the south gate of Tianhai City.

The city gate was hundreds of feet wide and towered into the clouds. On both sides stood two rows of city gate guards clad in silver heavy armor and holding long halberds. The auras of these guards were all above the half-step Earth Immortal level, and the leading general was a genuine Middle Stage Earth Immortal expert.

A massive light curtain was set up at the city gate. Any Cultivator wishing to enter the city had to hold an immortal registry jade token and pass through this light curtain to undergo inspection.

"Line up! Hold your jade tokens in your hands! If anyone dares to try and sneak through, they will be executed without mercy!"

That guard general stood on a high platform, his voice as cold and sharp as a blade, constantly echoing before the noisy city gate.

Su Lin led his three disciples to the back of the line, quietly observing the movements ahead.

He saw a Loose Cultivator in grey robes walk up to the light curtain and hand over the jade token in his hand.

A soft green light immediately lit up on the light curtain, scanning the Loose Cultivator's entire body, followed by a crisp "ding" sound. The light curtain split open on its own, allowing him to pass.