354: Salvation

“I didn't expect Junior Brother Su to be so righteous and understanding!

If we're talking about killing, my Great Dao of Illusion is nothing special, but when it comes to finding people, among the few of us, no one should be better at it than me.

Let me use the Great Dao of Illusion to track them down!”

Hearing this, Meng Qianqiu immediately offered to help.

Her Great Dao of Illusion could plunge the surrounding hundreds of billions of miles, or even trillions of miles, into an Illusory Realm.

However, because the power was too diffused, it could only affect True Immortals and those below.

It was completely ineffective against Golden Immortals.

If someone was still alive, given their Golden Immortal stage Realm, she would fundamentally be unable to pull them into the Illusory Realm.

This made it very simple to confirm whether someone was alive and present here.

As the Illusory Realm enveloped the entire Forging Immortal City, Meng Qianqiu quickly noticed several unusual spots under the investigation of the Great Dao of Illusion's power.

In these places, her Great Dao of Illusion was completely unable to pull them into the Illusory Realm.

This strange situation instantly allowed her to discover that these were the strongholds of the Nixian Cult.

Only the Nixian Cult's strongholds would be difficult for even a Golden Immortal cultivating the Great Dao of Illusion like her to infiltrate.

After locating the five strongholds of the Nixian Cult in the city, Su Yu and the others split up.

Li Daoxing, whose strength was weak, remained outside.

Su Yu entered an underground palace.

As soon as he entered, a wave of bloody Evil Qi rushed toward him.

Even Su Yu, who had countless souls under his hand, couldn't help but frown facing this bloody Evil Qi.

It was clear just how dense this bloody Evil Qi was.

Moreover, this underground palace was paved everywhere with Heaven's Secret Stones.

This kind of stone was not considered very precious; it merely possessed a slight ability to isolate the secrets of heaven.

But when the quantity of Heaven's Secret Stones was massive, even a Golden Immortal would find it difficult to divine this location.

No wonder they dared to openly perform such blood sacrifices in Forging Immortal City.

Previously, Li Daoxing was merely a minor True Immortal, and even if he had advanced to Golden Immortal, he would have struggled to detect them.

After sweeping away the Heaven's Secret Stones, Su Yu frowned, looking at the thick layer of blood residue around him.

Especially the ground beneath his feet seemed to be forged from blood, flesh, and bone.

With every step, wronged souls seemed to wail.

“Didn't they only capture Golden Immortals? How could there be so many dead souls here!”

Anger flashed across Su Yu's brow.

As his Immortal Sense explored, he found that nearly ten quadrillion members of the Human Race had perished here!

The condensed dead souls possessed enough vengeful power to devour the flesh and blood of a Golden Immortal!

“Forget it. Although I am not benevolent, since I have already forced back the powerful enemy, I shall grant you salvation and send you into Reincarnation!”

Su Yu thought for a moment and decided to grant them salvation.

Although, given his current state, his dao cultivation was already depleted, and granting them salvation would require consuming his Origin.

Yet, he still retained some humanity. In any case, for him, recovery would only be delayed by a few decades, which he could afford.

With a wave of Su Yu's hand, an Altar was conjured out of thin air.

The Altar was fully equipped with incense burners and Talisman Banners, and then Su Yu began chanting incantations.

Shen Dongyue, petition Taiyi, guide them to the Netherworld.

A golden light emanated from Su Yu. Under the salvation performed at the constructed Altar, the resentment covering countless vengeful spirits continuously dissipated.

Countless ghostly figures appeared out of nowhere in the Void Realm. Their eyes shone with clarity. They bowed deeply to Su Yu, then vanished, entering Reincarnation.

Su Yu sighed. This was the Immortal Path Dao; so-called living beings were merely tools readily available in the hands of the strong.

Just as Su Yu was about to continue deeper into the underground palace, golden light suddenly shone brightly in the sky.

A surge of Karma Qi actually appeared out of thin air.

Su Yu's eyes flashed with golden light, and he immediately perceived the abnormality in the sky.

He saw the Karma Qi penetrate the underground palace and land on Su Yu.

With a “whoosh,” a golden light screen appeared around Su Yu.

This Karma Qi amounted to over ten thousand wisps. Although faint, it transformed into Karma Immortal Light, protecting Su Yu.

“I, a fellow who Cultivates the Great Dao of Slaughter and has killed countless people in this life, can actually obtain Karma Qi—this is truly fate playing tricks!”

Seeing this, Su Yu shook his head and chuckled self-deprecatingly.

However, with this Karma Immortal Light present, even if Su Yu's premonitions and the secrets of heaven were blocked by others in the future, his Karma Qi would react once a Killing Calamity descended.

Although this Karma Immortal Light could not withstand a Killing Calamity, it could resist the full-power strike of a Late-stage Golden Immortal.

That was pretty good.

The others also received varying degrees of Karma Qi; clearly, they too had granted salvation to the vengeful spirits here.

Continuing downward, Su Yu arrived at the deepest part of the underground palace. He didn't know if the Black-Robed People had all left, but the place seemed entirely devoid of danger.

In the depths of the underground palace, there was only a blood pool. The blood in this pool was so thick it resembled mud; if you stuck a chopstick in it, it wouldn't tilt even slightly.

In the center of the blood pool stood a huge stone monument.

The stone monument was carved with dozens of golden tadpole scripts, such as “Seven Ghosts Devouring the Heart” and “Ten Thousand Ghosts Swallowing Blood.”

It seemed to be some kind of evil sacrificial method.

Su Yu walked toward the stone monument and saw a figure submerged in the blood pool.

Only the top of its head floated above the blood pool.

Before Su Yu even got close, his immortal body felt a burning sensation.

He released the Evil Warding Divine Thunder to strike the area, but it barely affected it.

The power within this blood pool specialized in defiling the immortal body; even the Evil Warding Divine Thunder struggled to cause significant damage.

Nowadays, the Evil Warding Divine Thunder was no longer considered a powerful divine thunder in the Immortal Realm. Once he had surplus immortal spirit points, he would evolve it into the Immortal Capital Evil Warding Thunder.

After all, it was a Divine Ability that had greatly helped him multiple times in the Lower Realm.

Moreover, once upgraded to the Immortal Capital Evil Warding Thunder, its power would increase several times, perhaps even more than ten times!

That was a divine thunder ranked fifty-seventh on the Immortal Realm's Myriad Dao Immortal Thunder Ranking. Later, it could continue evolving into the Jade Pivot Grand Heavens Thunder.

This was a genuine Daoist Sect divine thunder, ranked third on the Myriad Dao Immortal Thunder Ranking!

It was only surpassed by the Supreme Purity Dao Heavens Thunder and the Vast Righteousness Jade Heavens Thunder.

The ultimate Dao and ultimate technique, specializing in countering all evil, capable of restraining even the Heavenly Tribulation.

“Go!”

Su Yu pointed a finger, and the immortal slaying sword, imbued with the Power of the Great Dao of Slaughter, immediately struck the blood pool.

The immortal slaying sword, imbued with the Power of the Great Dao of Slaughter, ignored the defiling power within the blood pool.

It instantly split the blood pool in two. Large amounts of blood solidified in the air, emitting a dense, bloody odor.

However, under the resistance of the Karma Immortal Light covering Su Yu, this defiling Qi instantly retreated, daring not to approach.

After the blood pool was split open, only a skeleton with some scalp remaining fell to the bottom.

This skeleton was still covered in bloody, writhing flesh, clearly indicating that it had not been completely devoured.

Furthermore, there were countless bite marks on the white bone, suggesting it had been flayed and devoured by the vengeful spirits Su Yu had granted salvation to earlier.

Given the strength of a Golden Immortal's Physical Body and immortal soul, being flayed and devoured alive should have been nearly impossible.

Yet, despite this, the Golden Immortal had perished, proving the immense suffering they endured before death.

It was likely that their immortal soul no longer existed, making Reincarnation difficult.

The bottom of the blood pool was littered with white bones.

It was truly brutal.

Su Yu waved his hand, summoning these white bones upwards.

However, among so many white bones, only the very first skeleton had a cyan jade tablet hanging from a shredded piece of cloth around its waist.

This was clearly the identity token of the skeleton.

“Taiyi Sect, Lin Zhenzhao.”

The front of the jade pendant was engraved with Taiyi Sect, and the back held the person's name.

“Which Immortal Sect is the Taiyi Sect? Forget it, I'll take it out and ask Senior Brother and the others.”

Su Yu did not recognize the Taiyi Sect, so he simply put the skeleton away and left the underground palace.

However, after leaving, Su Yu waved a hand toward the underground palace, and a streak of Scarlet Flame Heavenly Fire appeared out of thin air, burning the palace to nothingness.

Having finished all this, he found Heavenly Lord Fu You, who had also just left his underground palace.

“Senior Brother, do you recognize this person?”

Heavenly Lord Fu You also had a streak of Karma Golden Light on him at the moment. As soon as Su Yu approached, he took out the skeleton and the identity jade pendant and asked.

“The Taiyi Sect is a branch of the Daoist Sect. Its Dao Lord Old Ancestor hails from the Daoist Sect's Xuanti Lineage and is a Dao Lord Faction within the Yuntian Immortal Residence. As for this person, I do not recognize him.

However, Junior Brother, you could bring this person's remains back to the Taiyi Sect. I imagine that Dao Lord will heavily reward you for traveling a thousand miles to deliver the bones.”

Heavenly Lord Fu You looked at the jade tablet and began explaining to Su Yu.

The Taiyi Sect was not weak. At least, Heavenly Lord Fu You knew about the Dao Lord Factions with names and reputations in the Qingtian Immortal Domain; after all, he was a Golden Immortal expert who had lived for nearly ten million years.

He then suggested that Su Yu take the remains to the Taiyi Sect.

For a Dao Lord originating from the Daoist Sect, ensuring fallen leaves return to their roots is an act of ultimate benevolence, and there would definitely be a reward.

When Su Yu heard the words “heavily reward,” his eyes immediately lit up.