334: Chapter 329 Dare to touch our people?

She lowered her head slightly, looking at her hands which were covered in blood and filth.

“The boss behind this place is a powerhouse at the Early Stage of the Heavenly Immortal Realm named Xue Mie.

If I hadn't sensed Revered Master's presence today, I'm afraid I really would have completely devolved into a monster that only knows how to kill in that out-of-control state.”

Su Lin listened quietly, his expression calm, showing no signs of any intense emotional fluctuations.

However, within his deep eyes, a destructive storm was brewing, sufficient to overturn the entire Tianhai City.

As the boss behind the scenes with an Early Stage Heavenly Immortal cultivation, that man named Xue Mie must be a powerful figure with immense influence in Tianhai City.

“He will pay the price for his actions.”

Su Hongling, who had been listening nearby, was already fuming with rage. She slammed her great sword onto the ground, causing the surrounding rubble to tremble and fall.

“I don't care if he's a Heavenly Immortal or an Earth Immortal! Anyone who dares to move our people, this old lady will twist his head off and use it as a chamber pot! Old Man, let's kill our way up right now and flatten this crappy place!”

“Second Senior Sister, please calm down.” Chu Weiwei stepped out slowly from behind Su Lin. A harmless smile hung on her pure and sweet face, but in her hands, she held several delicate Jade Slips, carefully collecting the strange blood flowing from the fallen Death Soldiers on the ground.

“The blood of these Death Soldiers in the Taihuang Immortal Domain seems to be mixed with some kind of poisonous curse that can forcibly stimulate potential.

If I can extract it and reverse-engineer it, I might be able to formulate a 'Power Dissipating Powder' specifically for those high-level Immortals. Fighting and killing is so much effort; wouldn't it be more fun to let them become useless without even realizing it?”

As Chu Weiwei spoke, she sealed the collected blood. She turned her head, looked at the center of the arena that had already turned into ruins, and suggested:

“Revered Master, this Blood Arena has been operating for so many years; it must have accumulated an unimaginable amount of wealth. Since we've already smashed this place, we can't go back empty-handed, right?”

To establish a foothold in this strictly hierarchical Tianhai City and to find the other scattered disciples, a massive amount of resources was essential.

“Go search.” Su Lin gave the command.

Having received approval, Su Hongling and Chu Weiwei immediately went into action.

The underground Blood Arena was incredibly vast. Although more than half of it had been destroyed by the Heavenly Immortal power unleashed by Luo Ximei earlier, the treasure vaults hidden deep beneath the rock walls remained intact.

Relying on her powerful Physical Body strength, Su Hongling didn't need any decryption Formations at all. She simply used that incredibly heavy great sword to smash open the thick steel doors one by one.

“Boom!”

Another treasure vault door covered in defensive runes was violently breached, and rich immortal spiritual qi instantly surged out like a tide.

“Old Man, come look! These guys are simply filthy rich!”

Standing at the entrance of the treasure vault, Su Hongling shouted loudly at Su Lin.

Su Lin led Luo Ximei slowly into the vault. Inside this underground secret chamber spanning hundreds of feet, small mountains built from Low Grade Immortal Stones were neatly stacked.

In the center of the vault, dozens of jade boxes emitting a soft glow were placed. They were all filled with Medium Grade Immortal Stones, which were rare to see in the outside world, and there were even a few crystal-clear High Grade Immortal Stones.

Besides the Immortal Stones, the surrounding shelves were filled with various Immortal Realm Materials emitting strange fluctuations, Cultivation Technique Jade Slips, and some oddly styled Magic Treasures.

She stuffed rare poisonous herbs—things that hadn't even been heard of in the Lower Realm—into her storage space all at once.

“These Star-Speckled Grasses might not be old enough, but they're excellent for extracting neurotoxins; and this Blood Fiend Vine, combined with the blood of those Death Soldiers earlier, can definitely brew a pot of world-class soup...” Chu Weiwei muttered to herself while happily carrying out her clean-up.

Su Lin stood before the mountain of Immortal Stones and waved his sleeve.

His Half-Immortal Essence circulated, and his wide sleeve seemed to turn into a bottomless pit, sweeping away all the Immortal Stones, Materials, and Jade Slips in the vault.

In this crisis-ridden Upper Realm, resources were one's confidence; he naturally wouldn't be polite in the slightest.

“Revered Master, there is an account book here.”

Luo Ximei discovered a heavy dossier made from unknown beast hide in a hidden compartment. She flipped through a few pages, and her face instantly became extremely grim.

“This records all the human trafficking the Blood Arena has done over the past few hundred years.

They not only capture Lower Realm ascenders but even secretly kidnap some low-level half-Immortals with no background.

And the ultimate destination for most of these transactions points to a place in the inner ring of Tianhai City—the City Lord's Mansion.”

“The City Lord's Mansion?” Su Lin's eyes narrowed slightly.

“It seems the backing behind this Blood Arena is even tougher than we imagined.” Luo Ximei let out a cold laugh. “That Heavenly Immortal named Xue Mie is likely just a white glove put forward by the City Lord's Mansion to collect wealth. The waters in Tianhai City are very deep.”

Just as they were talking, the entire underground space suddenly began to vibrate.

The air became as thick as a swamp, and the dust floating in mid-air was instantly crushed into nothingness by this invisible pressure.

“What madman dares to destroy my Foundation?!”

A roar like a thunderclap pierced through layers of rock, exploding directly in the Sea of Consciousness of Su Lin and the others.

Along with this roar, the ruins of the dome above the Blood Arena were suddenly melted away by a dazzling blood-red light.

A middle-aged man with a sinister face, wearing a crimson cloak, descended slowly from that blood-light like a demon god descending upon the world.

He was surrounded by an incredibly dense Heavenly Immortal Law. Every breath he took caused the surrounding space to produce ripples of distortion.

This Early Stage Heavenly Immortal powerhouse, who controlled the underground order of Tianhai City, had finally arrived in person after his nest was raided.

Behind him followed twenty guards with stern auras.

These guards were all at the Late Stage of the Earth Immortal Realm. Holding standard-issue Immortal weapons and with cold expressions, they instantly dispersed, locking down the exit of the entire treasure vault.

“The main player is here.” Su Hongling shouldered her great sword, meeting Xue Mie's murderous gaze without fear.

“You... you actually broke through to the Heavenly Immortal Realm?!”

Xue Mie's voice carried a hint of astonishment.

He knew all too well how difficult it was for a Lower Realm ascender to Breakthrough in this Taihuang Immortal Domain.

Without an immortal registry and without resources distributed by the main cities, relying solely on absorbing that wild, violent Immortal Qi to force a Breakthrough was a suicide mission.

But the woman before him had not only survived but even possessed a cultivation Realm equal to his own!

“Are you surprised?” Luo Ximei raised her chin slightly, a lethal demonic light flowing in her platinum-colored right eye. The myriad soul banner in her hand moved without any wind, and countless mournful Souls flickered on the surface of the banner.

“This venerable one remembers every bit of the torture you inflicted upon me very clearly. Today, this Blood Arena shall be your burial ground!”

“Arrogant!”

Xue Mie quickly recovered from his shock, and a contemptuous cold smile, typical of someone in a high position, reappeared on his face.

“Even if you luckily stepped into the Early Stage of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, you are nothing but an amateur with an unstable Foundation who hasn't even fully mastered the Immortal Laws.

I have been immersed in this Heavenly Immortal Realm for thousands of years. How could an ant who has just shed their mortal coil like you possibly provoke me?”

Xue Mie's gaze bypassed Luo Ximei and landed on Su Lin. He could feel that this man wearing a white jade mask and a black-gold robe was the true backbone of this group.

“Not only did you destroy my Blood Arena, but you also dared to plunder my treasure vault.

No matter what kind of influential figures you were in the Lower Realm, once you're in Tianhai City, you must play by the rules.”

Xue Mie slowly raised his right hand. In his palm, a clump of viscous blood-red flame began to gather, emitting a terrifyingly high temperature capable of easily melting a Half-Immortal Body.

“Hand over all the treasures and cripple your own cultivation. Perhaps I can show some mercy and leave you with your lives, letting you work as the lowest slaves in the mining areas.”

Facing Xue Mie's condescending ultimatum, Su Lin didn't even knit his brows.

He stood quietly in place, his deep black eyes looking through the white jade mask, calmly observing the opponent. That calmness was not the daze of being scared witless, but rather an extreme indifference, like a dragon looking down upon an ant.

“You talk... a bit too much.”

Su Lin opened his lips slightly, his voice calm, yet carrying a chill that pierced the Soul.

“Hong Ling, Weiwei, leave those guards to yourselves. This foul-mouthed fellow, Revered Master will handle him personally.”

“Alright, Old Man! I've been waiting for this!”

Su Hongling gave a loud shout, her bronze-colored legs kicking off the ground. She shot forward like a cannonball, charging directly into the array of twenty Late Stage Earth Immortal guards.

“Mountain Cleaving Slash!”

The incredibly heavy great sword, carrying a terrifying gravity that seemed to crush the void, slammed down toward the guard at the very front. That guard turned pale with fright and hastily raised his Immortal weapon to block.

“Clang!”

The Earth Rank Immortal weapon in that guard's hand was actually snapped into two pieces by Su Hongling's strike! The violent physical kinetic energy continued unabated, slamming into the guard's chest and sending him flying, armor and all, until he was deeply embedded into the hard rock wall.

“This woman's strength is too bizarre! Form a defensive array!”

The guard captain shouted out, and the remaining nineteen guards quickly shifted their positions, attempting to trap Su Hongling with a combined attack Formation.

However, Chu Weiwei's support had already arrived.

“Uncles, fighting is so tiring. Why don't you come smell the new fragrant spice Weiwei just made?”

Chu Weiwei's smile was as bright as a flower as her hands danced gracefully in the air. Dozens of transparent bubbles floated out from her sleeves, silently bursting within the guards' Formation.

A strange, light-purple mist instantly filled the entire space.

The mist didn't have any pungent smell; instead, it carried a faint, delicate fragrance. But the faces of the guards who inhaled the mist turned a sickly green in an instant.

“It's poison! Hold your breath!”

The guard captain roared in terror, but it was already too late. Chu Weiwei's toxins had already been refined countless times in the Lower Realm, and now, fused with the violent Laws of the Taihuang Immortal Domain, their penetrative power was not something ordinary Earth Immortal protective qi could block.

Several guards felt their immortal essence boiling like water, their Meridians sending out tearing pain. Their weapons fell uselessly to the ground as they curled up in agony.

Su Hongling seized the opportunity and charged in like a tiger among sheep. Her great sword swung with wide, sweeping motions, treating the defenseless guards like punching bags in a flurry of explosive attacks.

Seeing the elite guards he brought being routed in the blink of an eye, Xue Mie's face finally turned ashen.

“A bunch of useless trash!”

Xue Mie cursed angrily, no longer able to suppress his killing intent. He snapped his head around, concentrating all his attention on Su Lin.

“You fellow playing tricks, I want to see exactly what ability you have to dare speak such arrogant words before me!”

Xue Mie let out a piercing shriek and thrust his right hand forward. The blood-red flame gathered in his palm instantly transformed into a hundred-fathom-long blood-fire dragon, opening its flaming maw and lunging toward Su Lin with the power of high-dimensional Laws capable of boiling rivers and seas.

Everywhere the blood-fire dragon passed, the air was instantly sucked dry, and even the hard underground rocks showed signs of melting. This full-strength strike from a Heavenly Immortal was definitely not something an ordinary half-Immortal could withstand.

Luo Ximei, seeing this, was about to step in to intercept when she heard Su Lin's steady voice ring in her ear.

“Step back. You've just broken through; your Realm still needs to be stabilized. Just watch from the side.”

Su Lin took a step forward.

He did not draw his [destiny] Immortal sword, nor did he display any flashy or complex Immortal techniques.

He simply raised his right hand slowly, fingers slightly spread, aiming at the roaring blood-fire dragon.

“With just this little bit of temperature, you dare to show off?”

Deep within Su Lin's eyes, an extremely subtle flash of Chaos light appeared. The world tree seedling rooted in his Inner World gently swayed its leaves.

A unique world Law, completely independent of the Taihuang Immortal Domain and both profound and vast, surged out from Su Lin's palm.

He didn't meet the blood-fire dragon head-on; instead, he lightly flipped his wrist in a very casual 'pulling' motion.

A bizarre scene unfolded.

The blood-fire dragon, carrying destructive power, suddenly seemed to crash into an invisible, bottomless vortex when it reached three feet in front of Su Lin's palm.

The violent blood-red flames didn't produce any explosion, nor did they spread outward. Instead, following that invisible vortex, they were forcibly pulled and distorted, finally turning into a razor-thin line of fire that continuously vanished into Su Lin's palm!

“This... how is this possible?!”

Xue Mie was terrified beyond belief; he felt his Law-based connection with that mass of blood-fire being instantly severed. What scared him even more was that he could clearly sense that the opponent hadn't used any defensive means, but had directly... devoured his attack which contained Heavenly Immortal Laws!

“The taste is too muddled, and there are too many Impurities. It's simply hard to swallow.”

Su Lin slowly withdrew his hand; his palm didn't even have the slightest trace of a burn mark.