211: Betray your sect, catch the real culprit!

[Fairy Xuanji, an Inner Sect Enforcement Elder of the Yaochi Holy Land and a Peak Body Integration Stage Cultivator, had long been secretly turned by the Soul Clan, one of the three great Evil Clans of the Central Region.

The Soul Clan planned to steal the Yaochi Saintess's Primordial Spirit, erase her memories, and refine her into a Puppet Saintess.

Fairy Xuanji was currently using the excuse of 'executing an urgent Sect mission' to obtain the Sect exit token and was preparing to leave via the Western Gate teleportation array of Yaochi, intending to deliver the Jade Pendant sealing the Saintess's Primordial Spirit to the Soul Clan rendezvous point.]

After digesting the intelligence in his mind, a chilling cold light flashed in Lu Yuan's eyes.

What a case of hiding in plain sight.

If they had truly believed Li Changsheng's nonsense, and a group of powerful figures went to the Void Immortal Realm to make a fuss, by the time they realized something was wrong, Luo Lianyi would have already been refined into a Puppet by the Soul Clan.

At this moment, the Yaochi Holy Mother had already gathered people here, and Li Changsheng had even volunteered to lead the way, his face having swept away the previous gloom, as if he could already see himself turning the tide and winning the Saintess's affection.

"Wait a moment!"

A cold shout once again interrupted everyone's actions.

Hearing this voice, Li Changsheng's body instinctively trembled. He turned back abruptly and glared furiously at Lu Yuan: "Senior, what do you want to do now? Saving someone is like putting out a fire; every second now concerns the Saintess's safety! Are you trying to obstruct us from saving her?"

"Save people? I think you are sending people to their deaths while helping the culprit delay time..."

Lu Yuan strode forward, his gaze like lightning. He completely ignored Li Changsheng and said gravely to the Yaochi Holy Mother, "Holy Mother, Seal the Sect immediately! Anyone who dares to step out of Yaochi by even half a step will be killed without mercy!"

"Lu Yuan! You are too presumptuous!" Li Changsheng jumped up and cursed: "How can the result I deduced using a hundred years of Lifespan be slandered by you? If you don't understand the Art of Heavenly Secrets, don't point fingers here!"

The Yaochi Holy Mother also looked puzzled: "Fellow Daoist Lu, this... what is the meaning of this? Could Young Friend Li's deduction be wrong?"

Lu Yuan laughed coldly, "Dead wrong! The Saintess's Primordial Spirit is not in the Void Immortal Realm at all, much less at the South Heaven Gate!"

"It is right here within the Yaochi Holy Land! Outside the realm!"

"How is that possible?" Everyone was astonished.

Lu Yuan had no time for further nonsense. His terrifying Divine Sense, characteristic of a Middle Stage Mahayana expert, instantly erupted like a tide, ignoring the numerous Formations inside Yaochi, and covered the entire Holy Land in an instant.

Since the coordinates were known, capturing someone was as easy as taking something from his pocket.

"Found you..."

Lu Yuan's gaze suddenly fixed towards the west, the corner of his mouth curling into a cruel arc.

He raised his right hand and fiercely grabbed at the void.

The Great Dao of Space surged.

"Get back here!"

A thousand miles away, at the Western Gate of Yaochi.

A middle-aged beautiful woman dressed in the attire of an Enforcement Elder stood anxiously on the teleportation array, tightly clutching a token in her hand, urging the gatekeeping Disciple: "Quick! I have an extremely urgent Sect mission, activate the teleportation array immediately!"

The gatekeeping Disciple dared not delay and was about to activate the Formation.

Suddenly, the space above the teleportation array collapsed without any warning.

A heaven-covering hand, woven from the Chaos Law and the Law of Space, reached out from thin air, carrying an irresistible, majestic heavenly might, and grabbed the middle-aged beautiful woman like she was a small chick.

"Ah!! Who is it?!"

The middle-aged beautiful woman screamed in terror, desperately urging her Peak Body Integration Stage cultivation to break free, but before that giant hand, her strength was as insignificant as an ant.

"Whoosh!"

In the next instant, space was displaced.

Above the Yaochi Spirit Island, the void cracked open.

That heaven-covering hand emerged from the rift and was casually tossed aside.

"Bang!"

With a loud crash, the middle-aged beautiful woman was thrown heavily in front of the crowd, the hard Spirit Jade ground cracking like a spiderweb under the impact.

"This is... Elder Xuanji?"

Lin Miaoyin and the others recognized the disheveled woman on the ground at a glance and exclaimed in shock: "Fellow Daoist Lu, what are you doing? Elder Xuanji is one of our Yaochi Enforcement Elders, always diligent..."

Fairy Xuanji's hair was disheveled, blood was seeping from the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were filled with terror and panic. However, she reacted extremely quickly and immediately began crying tearfully: "Holy Mother, save me! I was just going out to execute a mission, and this person attacked me for no reason! This is provoking the majesty of our Yaochi!"

Li Changsheng seemed to have seized the opportunity and said, "Senior Lu! You are acting lawlessly! Not only obstructing the rescue, but also assaulting a Yaochi Holy Land Elder, you..."

"Shut up."

Lu Yuan didn't even look at him, merely flicking his finger.

"Slap!"

A stream of sharp energy directly slapped Li Changsheng across the face, sending him flying dozens of feet away, knocking out two of his teeth.

Afterward, Lu Yuan stepped in front of Fairy Xuanji, looking down at her with an icy gaze, his voice piercingly cold: "Executing a mission? I think you were going to deliver someone..."

"I don't know what you're talking about..." Fairy Xuanji's eyes flickered, and the magic power within her body surged wildly; she was actually trying to self-detonate her Physical Body to destroy the evidence.

"Trying to die in front of me? Did you ask my permission?"

Lu Yuan snorted coldly and pointed a finger at Fairy Xuanji's glabella.

Vast Chaos spiritual power instantly surged into her body, directly sealing her Qi Sea Dantian and Divine Soul Sea of Consciousness.

Immediately after, Lu Yuan formed a claw shape with his right hand and virtually snatched at Fairy Xuanji's chest.

A pitch-black, sinister Jade Pendant exuding an extremely cold aura flew out from her embrace and landed in Lu Yuan's palm.

The moment she saw this Jade Pendant, Fairy Xuanji's face turned ashen, and she completely collapsed onto the ground.

"Golden Eyes of Truth, activate!"

Golden light surged in Lu Yuan's eyes, and two beams of golden light, almost substantial, shone directly onto the black Jade Pendant.

The seemingly ordinary Jade Pendant instantly became transparent under the golden light.

The crowd clearly saw that inside the Jade Pendant, a miniature cage was actually sealed.

And within the cage, a thumb-sized, extremely weak, and painfully contorted Primordial Spirit figure was curled up.

The appearance of that Primordial Spirit was precisely that of the missing Yaochi Saintess—Luo Lianyi!

"Lianyi!"

The Yaochi Holy Mother cried out, and her figure instantly appeared beside Lu Yuan. She stared fixedly at the Jade Pendant, trembling all over, and a monstrous killing intent erupted from within her, soaring straight into the sky.

"Xuanji!!! How dare you betray the Sect! How dare you lay a hand on Lianyi!!"

At this moment, the truth was laid bare.

If Lu Yuan had not acted in time to intercept Fairy Xuanji, the consequences would have been unimaginable once she managed to leave Yaochi with the Jade Pendant.

The entire scene fell into a dead silence, followed by bursts of gasps.

The gazes of all the Elders towards Lu Yuan were no longer just filled with awe, but also with deep fear and gratitude.

This person was too terrifying.

Not only did he see through the crux of the divine medicine issue with one glance, but under Li Changsheng's misleading guidance, he accurately pinpointed the real culprit as if foreknowing it, capturing her from a thousand miles away.

Such methods, such intellect, were simply close to monstrous!

And Li Changsheng, who had been slapped flying by Lu Yuan, now clutched his swollen cheek, staring blankly at the Jade Pendant, his mind a complete blank.

His deduction... was wrong again?

Not only was it wrong, but he had almost become an accomplice?