329: Chapter 324 Second Senior Sister, Use Your Brain First
Su Hongling's entire body trembled with rage, and on the surface of her bronze skin, those dark-gold battle patterns slithered frantically like living creatures.
"Even though Old Five usually has a bit of a poisonous tongue, more schemes than a sieve, and daily competes with me to curry favor before you, she is still a person of our Daochu Sect! She is my, Su Hongling's, Junior Sister!"
"What do these local dogs of the Taihuang Immortal Domain take her for? A monkey for people's amusement?! And they want to use her as a Cauldron?!"
Su Hongling suddenly drew her great sword, pointing the blade directly out the door, her voice sounding like an utterly maddened Primordial Tyrant Dragon:
"Old Man! Give the order! I'll go right now and smash that bullshit Blood Arena to pieces! I'll drag out those bastards hiding behind the scenes watching the show one by one, pull out their guts, and strangle them with them!"
Yan Rusi, who had followed Su Hongling inside, watched the world-destroying posture of this Second Senior Sister. Her face turned pale with fright, and she pressed herself tightly against the doorframe, trying to keep her breathing as low as possible.
She had once been the Saintess of the Hehuan Sect in the Lower Realm and considered herself to have seen many ruthless characters. But since following this Revered Master and his disciples, she had profoundly realized what a true 'Living Yama' was.
Su Lin did not answer Su Hongling immediately. He still stood quietly by the window, his deep gaze piercing through the prosperous and brilliant night view of Tianhai City, locking onto a patch of shadow in the deepest part of the city.
"Revered Master."
Chu Weiwei walked silently to Su Lin's side. On her pure and sweet face, there was no longer a trace of naivety or charm; instead, it was replaced by a hair-raising, bone-chilling dead silence.
Her hands were tucked in her sleeves, her fingertips rapidly blending several types of colorless powders that emitted an extremely dangerous aura.
"Weiwei has just used the 'Tracing Gu' scattered downstairs to roughly map out the location and defense levels of that Blood Arena."
Chu Weiwei's voice was kept extremely low, like a venomous snake coiled in the darkness, ready to reveal its fangs at any moment.
"That Blood Arena is located ten thousand zhang beneath Tianhai City, its entrance hidden under the city's largest pleasure house called the Paradise Pavilion.
The entire underground structure is shrouded by an incredibly massive Eight Desolations Dragon-Locking Formation.
This Formation not only completely isolates internal spiritual energy fluctuations but also suppresses the Origin Law of all gladiators, forcing them to rely only on their most primitive Physical Body and a small amount of immortal essence to fight."
"Even more troublesome is that the VIP seats and core areas of the Blood Arena are guarded by three powerhouses at the half-step Heavenly Immortal Realm on rotation. The outer perimeter is further garrisoned by ten thousand Death Soldier guards at the Early and Middle Stages of the Earth Immortal Realm."
Hearing this, Su Hongling gave a cold laugh, her face full of disdain: "So what if they're half-step Heavenly Immortals? What of ten thousand Earth Immortals? I'll still smash them into meat paste with one swing of my sword!"
"Second Senior Sister, use your brain first."
Chu Weiwei turned her head, a hint of severity flashing in her amethyst-like eyes. "If it were normal times, even if you tore down Tianhai City, Weiwei would only help pass you the knife. But now, Fifth Senior Sister is in their hands!"
"In a place like the Blood Arena, they will inevitably plant extremely malicious Restrictions in the Soul or heart of disobedient high-level gladiators. Once we attack forcefully and alert those behind-the-scenes bosses, they would only need a single thought to make Fifth Senior Sister's body and Soul perish!"
Chu Weiwei's words were like a bucket of cold water, instantly extinguishing most of Su Hongling's fury.
Su Hongling froze in place, the veins on her hand gripping the great sword bulging, but she remained stiffly in mid-air.
Yes, although she was reckless, she wasn't stupid. If her impulsiveness caused Luo Ximei's death, she would never be able to forgive herself in this lifetime.
"Then what do you say we do?!" Su Hongling irritably grabbed her messy red hair and punched the wall hard, "Are we just supposed to watch Old Five down there being played like a monkey and besieged?!"
"Of course not."
Su Lin, who had been silent, finally turned around slowly.
His green robes fluttered gently in the breeze blowing from the window, and his entire being emitted an extreme calm.
But his disciples who knew him well all knew that when Revered Master appeared calmer, it meant the killing intent in his heart had accumulated to a critical point sufficient to destroy heaven and earth.
"Since they treat Ximei as the grand finale prey, wanting to use this competition to grab the eyes and Immortal Stones of the spectators."
Su Lin took steady steps, sat down at the table in the center of the room, and lightly tapped the tabletop, making a crisp "thump, thump, thump" sound.
"Then we shall walk in openly as spectators."
The corners of Su Lin's mouth curled into a cold and cruel arc.
"Don't they like watching a show? Then tonight, I shall book the highest-level VIP seats of this Blood Arena and accompany them in watching a grand show."
"I want them to watch with their own eyes as the Death Soldiers they take pride in are slaughtered to the last; I want them to watch as their painstakingly managed underground kingdom collapses; I want all the powerful elite of Tianhai City to know..."
"What kind of price must be paid for touching Su Lin's people."
As soon as these words were spoken, the temperature in the room seemed to drop dozens of degrees.
Yan Rusi's legs went weak with fear, and she knelt directly on the ground. She could feel that the man before her had, at this moment, transformed into a Primordial Demon God about to descend a world-ending divine punishment.
"Revered Master, your meaning is... we are to infiltrate in disguise?" Chu Weiwei's eyes lit up, immediately understanding Su Lin's intention.
"Not infiltrate, but walk in grandly."
Su Lin looked at Yan Rusi. "Yan Rusi, you used to frequent various top-tier underground black markets in the Lower Realm. What conditions are needed to enter the highest-level VIP seats of the Blood Arena in this Taihuang Immortal Domain?"
Yan Rusi trembled all over and quickly looked up, her brain working rapidly as she answered shakily: "Rep... replying to Senior! Such underground Blood Arenas only recognize two things! One is power that reaches the heavens, and the second is... wealth that rivals nations!"
"The top elite of Tianhai City naturally have their own exclusive channels. As for powerful outsiders, the Blood Arena has a rule: as long as one can verify their funds on the spot and pay a verification fee of ten thousand High Grade Immortal Stones, they can directly obtain an entry ticket to the Heaven-grade VIP boxes and enjoy absolute privacy protection; even the behind-the-scenes bosses of the Blood Arena have no right to investigate their true identity!"
"Ten thousand High Grade Immortal Stones?"
Su Hongling sucked in a breath of cold air.
In Liuyun Town, a few Low Grade Immortal Stones could make a half-immortal fight to the death. Ten thousand High Grade Immortal Stones was simply an astronomical figure that an ordinary Earth Immortal couldn't earn in thousands of years!
"Old Man, where do we have that much money? Although we scavenged a lot from that old dog Xuantian's treasury in Liuyun Town, the High Grade Immortal Stones combined were only a few thousand, right?" Su Hongling asked somewhat anxiously.
Su Lin did not speak, but instead gave a casual wave of his hand.
"Clatter!"
Accompanied by a series of crisp clashing sounds, a small mountain of incredibly dense and pure Immortal Qi appeared directly on the empty floor of the room.
Those were not Immortal Stones, but neatly cut pieces of rare Ore emitting a chaotic luster!
"This... this is..." Yan Rusi's eyes widened, and her breathing instantly stopped.
"taihuang chaos gold?!"
Chu Weiwei also couldn't help but cry out in surprise.
This was the top-tier Artifact Refining material they had scavenged from the storage rings in the Star Sea Treasury! In the Taihuang Immortal Domain, this kind of immortal gold born alongside Void storms, even a piece the size of a fingernail, was enough to exchange for over a hundred High Grade Immortal Stones!
And the amount Su Lin had brought out now weighed at least a hundred catties!
"Money, we have plenty of."
Su Lin's expression was indifferent as he waved his hand, sweeping the Chaos Gold back into his sleeve.
"Next, we need to change our skins."
Su Lin closed his eyes, golden light shining at his brow, and the phantom of the Myriad Heavens Star Chart slowly unfolded behind him.
"Weiwei, Hong Ling, come closer."
The two women did not hesitate for a second and immediately walked to Su Lin's side.
Su Lin formed hand seals, the world tree sapling within him swaying gently, as a stream of extremely profound and mysterious Space Law and disguise Law overflowed from his palm, slowly enveloping the three of them.
"Although the rules of this Taihuang Immortal Domain are strict, there are still loopholes to be found before the Laws of my Inner World."
As Su Lin's voice fell, a miraculous scene occurred.
Su Hongling's signature fiery-red short hair, bronze skin, and her exaggerated muscle lines began to change rapidly under the distortion of this Law power.
After just a few breaths, the short-tempered, great sword-carrying female tyrant dragon had disappeared. In her place was a towering figure nearly a zhang tall, shrouded in heavy black armor and wearing a ferocious ghost mask—a burly guard. Her aura was also perfectly disguised as an extremely deep and restrained Earth Immortal Peak fluctuation; anyone who saw her would think this was a cold and heartless top-tier Death Soldier.
Chu Weiwei's transformation was even more thorough.
Her pure and sweet appearance was obscured by a thin layer of mist, and her original moon-white dress transformed into a magnificent purple palace gown encrusted with countless dark gems. Her gaze became deep with a hint of high-born laziness, her temperament shifting from a sickly-sweet girl to a mysterious maid from some hidden ancient clan in an instant.
As for Su Lin himself, his change was the most startling.
His green robes turned into an extremely luxurious black-gold long robe, embroidered with a baring-claws-and-fangs Primordial Heaven-Devouring Beast using star-thread. His face was covered by a white jade mask carved with complex star orbits, revealing only a pair of bottomless black eyes that seemed capable of swallowing all light.
The aura on him was wrapped in layers of the world tree's Chaos power, disguised as an extremely ancient, decaying, yet suffocatingly powerful half-step Heavenly Immortal Realm!
This aura was neither so strong as to alert a true Heavenly Immortal like the Lord of Tianhai City, yet strong enough to run rampant in a place like the Blood Arena and deter all lowlifes.
"Revered Master... this disguise Law is simply too miraculous!" Chu Weiwei looked at her own magnificent attire, then at the tower-like "black-armored guard" beside her, and couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. If not for the connection of the Life-and-Death Fate-Binding Gu in her Soul, she wouldn't even have recognized these two as her Revered Master and Second Senior Sister.
"Under this skin, our true auras are completely locked away. As long as we don't actively expose Law power beyond our disguised Realm, no one in this Tianhai City can see through our true forms."
Su Lin's cold, low voice, sounding like the friction of two pieces of metal, came from behind the white jade mask; he had completely entered the role of this "Mysterious Ancient Clan Young Lord."
"Yan Rusi." Su Lin turned his head toward Yan Rusi, who was already dazed in the corner.
"Se... Senior, what are your orders?" Yan Rusi hurriedly knelt on the ground, her voice unable to stop trembling.
"Stay here and go nowhere. If there are any changes, immediately crush this jade talisman I've left on the table."
Su Lin gave the order indisputably. A place like the Blood Arena was too dangerous; Yan Rusi's cultivation was too low, and bringing her along would only make her a burden.
"Yes, Rusi understands! Rusi will wait here for the triumphant return of Senior and the two Fairies!" Yan Rusi kowtowed repeatedly.
"Let's go."
Su Lin gave a sweep of his sleeve and was the first to step out of the room.
Night fell, and Tianhai City, this city that never sleeps, welcomed its most boisterous and crazed moment.
The three followed the route Chu Weiwei had scouted, passed through the bustling streets, and arrived directly in front of the massive pleasure house named "Paradise Pavilion."
The Paradise Pavilion occupied a vast area, the entire building brilliantly lit, with the sounds of silk and bamboo instruments never ceasing. Two rows of beautiful, scantily-clad female Cultivators stood at the door, working hard to solicit passing guests.
However, when Su Lin's trio approached, the coldness and nobility radiating from their very bones, which kept people at a distance of a thousand li, made those female Cultivators who originally wanted to approach change their expressions and instinctively retreat to the sides, not even daring to breathe loudly.
Su Lin ignored these common beauties and walked with steady, arrogant steps directly into the main hall of the Paradise Pavilion, ignoring the scenes of debauchery around them, heading straight for a secret door guarded by two Earth Immortal Early Stage Cultivators at the deepest part of the hall.
"Stop!"
A guard took a step across, his halberd crossing to block Su Lin's path. He sized up Su Lin's trio, a hint of caution and arrogance flashing in his eyes: "This is a restricted area of the Paradise Pavilion; unauthorized personnel are not allowed! If you want to seek pleasure, go to the front hall and find a pimp!"
Su Lin did not stop his pace, not even glancing at the guard.
"Presumptuous."
Chu Weiwei, following behind Su Lin, had a flash of chilling killing intent in her eyes hidden under the purple palace gown.
She didn't use any Spells at all, but merely lifted her right hand casually and gave a light flick in the air.
"Buzz."
A trace of colorless and odorless strange fragrance instantly entered the nostrils of the two guards.
The two Earth Immortal Early Stage guards didn't even have a chance to scream; they only felt their vision go black, and the immortal essence in their bodies was like melting snow encountering boiling water, vanishing completely in an instant. Their bodies slumped down softly, black poisonous blood flowing from their seven orifices, their life force clearly snuffed out in an instant.
Chu Weiwei's movements were too fast and the poison too potent; the surrounding Cultivators who were still indulging in pleasure didn't even notice the change here.
"Let's go, Young Lord." Chu Weiwei bowed slightly, her tone respectful, as if she had just casually brushed away two eyesore flies.
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