576: Fu Zhenren

As expected! That battle outside Jinling City!

Yao Delong's gaze swept over the distant south, toward the swirling, miraculous colors—the strangely beautiful clouds in the direction of the Ten Thousand Flowers Spring Roaming Valley.

The extreme Grand Sun True Intent that erupted from the collapse of world dust could not be hidden from those old monsters in the Sect.

Summoning him now... is it out of fear of attracting a powerful enemy? Or have they glimpsed a deeper connection within it?

He made a split-second decision—Qiong Shuang and Luo Yan were in the Ten Thousand Flowers Spring Roaming Valley, a place gathered with the Righteous Path, so they were safe for the moment. The Demonic Domain should not know of their connection to him.

On the contrary, behind this urgent Sect decree, perhaps lies the secret behind that A-Da!

"Understood." Yao Delong nodded.

Before he could finish speaking!

"Tch! Dragging your feet! Babbling with a bunch of little saplings for so long? Still heading to the Ten Thousand Flowers Spring Roaming Valley? Keep dawdling, and the flowers will have already withered!"

The You Yuan spirit sitting on his shoulder suddenly bristled with impatience!

Her illusory little hands on her hips, she lectured the Disciples bowing respectfully below!

In the end, she even rolled her eyes and made an extremely exaggerated, distorted face at the void:

"Stop standing there staring! Keep looking, and This old lady will gouge out your eyes to refine into swords!"

Whoosh—!

Golden light erupted! In the eyes of the Disciples, who stood frozen in shock,

That arrogant loli spirit swung her legs, merged into the stream of light, and vanished instantly into the southern horizon.

"Hiss... A... A spirit! That is definitely the spirit of a high-grade Magic Treasure!"

After a long while, a pale-faced Foundation Establishment Disciple tremblingly pointed at the sky and whispered.

"Idiot!"

The leading youth slapped the back of his head, but his eyes were burning hot,

"This is a Dao Artifact! After Senior Brother Yao killed six demons in the Northern Territory and thwarted the Demonic Sect's conspiracy, the Sect opened the 'Second Layer of the Immortal Mausoleum' as a reward!

What Senior Brother chose was a xuanhuang dao artifact. That is a treasure of the Dao of Killing that has been silent for ten thousand years! That sword spirit just now..."

The Disciples' gasps for air merged into one. A xuanhuang dao artifact! An ancient relic! No wonder its intelligence was so arrogant!

Their gazes toward the fading light in the south were filled with nothing but infinite fanaticism and awe.

...

Guanhai City, North Ward, Wutong Lane, the temporary stronghold of the Yin Yang Sect.

Within the quiet little courtyard, array patterns circulated, isolating the noise.

As soon as Yao Delong landed, the light curtain of the "Primordial Five Elements Life and Death Talisman Array" covering the courtyard rippled open like water.

Behind the moon gate, under the wisteria trellis, sat a scholarly middle-aged man wearing simple white Daoist robes with cloud patterns,

his body seemingly surrounded by invisible, flickering talisman scripts. He looked over with a smile; it was the Master of the Fuyang Peak of the Yin Yang Sect—Immortal Master Fu!

"Senior Martial Uncle Fu." Yao Delong bowed in salute.

"No need for such formalities!"

Immortal Master Fu stepped forward, his gaze like lightning, scanning Yao Delong from head to toe, and laughed heartily,

"Incredible! At the Soul Transformation stage, you can go head-to-head with and defeat a Celestial Domain powerhouse with the combat strength of the Void Refining Peak?

If this old man, your Senior Martial Uncle, were to spar with you, I'm afraid not even my bone fragments would be left!"

"Senior Martial Uncle is well-versed in talisman arrays and the derivation of the Dao of Heaven and Earth. If you were to set up a Primordial Grand Array to create your own realm, this Disciple would be no match at all."

Yao Delong smiled and humbly declined.

Immortal Master Fu stroked his beard and laughed, then his expression turned serious:

"Enough small talk! That heaven-collapsing change outside Jinling City—was one of the parties you?"

Yao Delong nodded:

"It was. This Disciple was tracking the trail of Old Demon Hundred Refinements, but ended up encountering demonic Cultivators outside Jinling City.

The reinforcements from the Demonic Sect turned out to be the Heavenly Demon Saintess Xin Yuelan and her personal servant, 'A-Da'.

The great power that A-Da utilized was neither demonic nor orthodox; it was a power this Disciple had never seen before,

a divine Law of destruction whose essence was the return of all things to nothingness, inducing the collapse of space!"

"As expected... the world dust Law!"

Immortal Master Fu's eyes flashed wildly as if talisman scripts were exploding within them, his face grave,

"This power is not a Legacy of the Eastern Domain! According to the records, that is a Sect-guarding level Legacy that only the major Heavenly Sects at the core of the Celestial Domain could possibly touch!

The Demonic Domain and the Celestial Domain have always been like fire and water... How could..."

He stared intently at Yao Delong: "What about that person? Such a powerful enemy..."

"Executed!" Yao Delong spat out the two words, his tone calm and ripple-free.

Pfft! The warm, moist jade cup that Immortal Master Fu was toying with silently turned into powder!

An uncontrollable, massive Spiritual Pressure shook the entire trellis of wisteria flowers, causing them to fall like rain!

He stared at Yao Delong as if seeing this nephew for the first time.

Killing A-Da... that was a monster capable of proficiently wielding the power of world dust collapse!

Although he knew his nephew's combat strength was world-shocking, to say "Executed" so nonchalantly... the horror behind this...

He took a deep breath, suppressing the surging waves in his heart: "Where is the Saintess?"

"Severely injured, then swept away by a strange 'Void Blood Escape Divine Bone', the speed of her escape was too fast to lock onto."

After answering, Yao Delong frowned and asked, "Is Senior Martial Uncle Li still in the city?"

"Not here!" Immortal Master Fu immediately sobered up,

"Recently, the demonic movements seem to be searching for someone. Under the Sect Master's order, Senior Brother Li has personally led the Elders to clear out the Demonic Sect's hidden nails!

The one they are searching for... is likely the Heavenly Demon Saintess who managed to escape!"

A sharp glint flashed in his eyes, and he flipped his palm to take out a cyan jade talisman with a Yin and Yang fish as the knob,

and patterns that seemed to condense billions of tiny talisman scripts. He handed it to Yao Delong.

"This is the 'Dual Instrument Myriad Transformation Unity Talisman'; within ten thousand miles, it can transmit a sliver of Divine Thought!

If there is any news regarding the whereabouts of that Old Demon Hundred Refinements or the Mad Extreme Demon Lord, I will inform you with this talisman!"

Yao Delong closed his fingers around the jade talisman:

"Senior Martial Uncle, this Disciple has old grudges lingering in his heart that are not yet resolved. This trip is aimed directly at Hundred Refinements' Foundation; I will definitely crush his bones and scatter his ashes!"

"Good! Go ahead and do it!"

Immortal Master Fu flicked his robe sleeve, and the courtyard array silently dissipated. An invisible clear Qi sent Yao Delong to the high sky outside the courtyard!

The wind carried his solemn voice transmission: "This talisman is also a beacon! If you are in danger of being overwhelmed, crush it! The Sect... is your backing!"

Before he could finish speaking!

"Boom—rumble!!!"

A blood-colored stream of light burning with golden flames, like an angry dragon, had broken through the Restriction cloud vortex above Guanhai City!

It was so fast that countless Cultivators in the city only saw a scorching red scar cutting across the sky!

The loli phantom on his shoulder was screeching excitedly: "Faster! Faster! Stop dilly-dallying! The flowers ahead are about to bloom!"

Immortal Master Fu watched the golden-red Escape Light that split the long sky and burned up the clouds disappear completely into the southern horizon,

and only after a long while did he slowly retract his gaze.

In the courtyard, the wisteria petals he had inadvertently shaken loose fluttered down, as if a purple rain had fallen.

He stroked his beard, but his fingertips were rarely trembling with a barely perceptible tremor, his eyes complex and difficult to understand.

"Seven years old... Spiritual Power affinity... a mere two points..."

Immortal Master Fu muttered to himself, and that scene, long sealed in the depths of his memory, became clear once again:

The Spirit Testing Plaza shrouded in dark clouds, the huge Spirit Appraisal Stone dull and lightless, a thin, small child standing alone in the center,

surrounded by undisguised sneers and sighs.

"Trash among trash," the judgment was cold, almost cutting off his path to immortality.

At that time, Yao Delong's eyes were stubborn but could not hide his confusion, like a wild blade of grass that could be snapped by the wind at any moment.

"Eighty years of time... passed in a snap..."

Immortal Master Fu's thoughts drifted to that Inner Sect assessment that had shocked the Sect.

On the arena, a figure fought while bathed in blood like a god or demon, his fist wind like thunder, his movement technique treacherous, taking first place in multiple assessments!

His eyes were terrifyingly bright, like a Vicious Beast lurking in the abyss that had suddenly opened its eyes!

Senior Brother Sect Head White Cloud Master made the decision on the spot, overcoming all objections to promote him exceptionally to an Inner Sect Core Disciple!

That time, Immortal Master Fu witnessed the whole process from the high platform, and his only thought was:

This child is definitely not something to be kept in a pond! That ruthlessness and potential are shocking!

"And this time..." Immortal Master Fu spread his hands, his palm seemingly still retaining the sensation of the jade cup turning into powder.

"Soul Transformation killing Void Refining Peak... the opponent was using the world dust collapse power that only the core of the Celestial Domain could possibly master... a xuanhuang dao artifact acknowledging its master..."

Every word was as heavy as a thousand jun.

He, this Senior Martial Uncle who had immersed himself in the Dao of Talismans for hundreds of years and was only one step away from the Late Void Refining Stage,

at this moment actually felt the absurd sensation of the surging back waves, with the front waves being slapped onto the beach.

It was not jealousy, but a shock akin to facing the majestic might of Heaven and... a trace of desolation at being left behind by the torrent of the era.

The speed of Yao Delong's growth could no longer be described as "earth-shattering"; it was simply tearing apart common sense!