376: Chapter 376 Half-Step Golden Immortal, Joining Forces to Set Up an Array!

"Especially the leader—Elder Tutian!" Li Xingzhou pointed at the man in black with the most terrifying aura, his voice trembling. "He is not only a peak expert at the Profound Immortal Perfection stage, but rumors say he has already comprehended and fused a sliver of Immortal Golden Nature, making him a Half-step Golden Immortal! Once, a true powerhouse at the Early Stage Golden Immortal realm chased him down because he killed one of their Disciples, but he managed to escape from that Golden Immortal's hands using an extremely evil Low Grade Immortal Artifact, the Blood-Transforming Demonic Banner!"

"A Half-step Golden Immortal? And an Immortal Artifact?" Hearing this, instead of fear, a glimmer of excitement flashed in Lu Yuan's eyes.

This was a prime experience pack and a wealth-delivering boy.

"Jie jie jie... Fat sheep of the Jiuding Chamber of Commerce, this old man has been waiting for you for a long time."

Just then, the leader of the men in black let out a burst of grating, unpleasant laughter, like that of a night owl.

He slowly raised his hand and tore off the ghost mask on his face, revealing a withered face as dry as orange peel, covered in brown age spots, looking like a dried corpse.

Those eyeballs, deeply sunken in their sockets, flickered with a hair-raising, eerie green light.

This was the notoriously fierce Elder Tutian!

As he tore off the mask, a light flashed in his hand, and a blood-colored demonic banner, about ten feet long and dark red as if soaked in fresh blood, appeared in his grasp.

On the surface of the demonic banner, countless distorted souls of the suffering could be seen silently wailing and struggling, emitting a nauseating bloody stench and Devilish Qi that could corrode the Divine Soul.

This was the evil Immortal Artifact that even Golden Immortals feared—the Blood-Transforming Demonic Banner!

"Senior Tu Tian!"

Li Xingzhou forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, braced himself to take a step forward, and shouted loudly, "My Jiuding Chamber of Commerce has always minded its own business with the heroes of the green forest. Whenever we passed through this Luanxing Sea in the past, we always paid the tolls according to the rules."

"Why has Senior set up a grand Formation today to block our path? If we have offended you in any way, please state your terms. My Jiuding Chamber of Commerce is willing to pay double the price for safe passage!"

Facing a Half-step Golden Immortal, Li Xingzhou could only choose to spend money to avert disaster, hoping to use the wealth and background of the Jiuding Chamber of Commerce to make the other party hesitate.

"Mind our own business? Double the price? Jie jie jie, Li Xingzhou, do you think this old man is here to collect a pittance?"

Elder Tutian sneered, and the Blood-Transforming Demonic Banner in his hand suddenly struck down. A wave of blood surged out, crashing against the merchant ship's light barrier with a sizzling corrosive sound.

"Entrusted by others to handle their affairs—we assassins have professional ethics too."

Elder Tutian's gaze bypassed Li Xingzhou and, with undisguised murderous intent, locked directly onto Lu Yuan, who was standing at the bow of the ship in fluttering white robes.

"Several big figures from the Taiyi Immortal Sect and the Taixuan Immortal Sect teamed up to offer a sky-high price to buy that batch of mysterious cargo you brought back from the Guanghan Domain... and the head of this young man named Lu Yuan!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone on the merchant ship gasped.

The Taiyi and Taixuan sects hired assassins?

To seek revenge and seize the Immortal King's secret treasure, these two overlords actually cast aside their dignity to hire such notorious interstellar bandits to do their dirty work! Moreover, the other party clearly possessed precise information on the merchant ship's movements and cargo!

"Kid, I heard you were quite impressive at the Taixu Fortress? You killed those two wastes, Lei Yan and Gu Yue, in one move? Interesting."

Elder Tutian stared at Lu Yuan sinisterly, bloodlust flickering in his eyes. "But you absolutely should not have provoked people you shouldn't have."

"You killed the Elders of the two sects and still expect to leave the northern Daluo Heaven alive with the heavy treasure? Naive!"

"Today, this old man will take your head to claim the reward and, while I'm at it, drain your Essence Blood to refine my demonic banner! Die obediently, and this old man might consider leaving you an intact corpse!"

"Assassins hired by the Taiyi and Taixuan sects, huh?"

In the face of Elder Tutian's death threat, Lu Yuan's expression remained as calm as a pool of stagnant water.

He slightly raised his chin, looking at the six fierce bandits surrounding the merchant ship. Not only was he not panicked in the slightest, but he also performed an action that left everyone dumbfounded.

Right in front of the six Profound Immortal bandits, he actually took a long, deep stretch, his bones letting out a series of crisp pops.

"Just as well."

Lu Yuan cracked his neck, his lips curling into a lazy yet chillingly murderous smile. "I've been on this broken ship for so many days, meditating all day long; my bones were starting to rust."

"Since someone has taken the initiative to come to my door as a punching bag, I'll reluctantly stretch my limbs a bit."

He turned to look at the side at Li Xingzhou, who was acting as if facing a formidable enemy, and casually instructed:

"Li Xingzhou Li, activate the immortal ship's highest defensive Formation. Protect your people and the cargo in the hold well. Don't let them be damaged by the aftershocks of the battle."

"Leave the rest to me."

"Lord Lu! You must not be careless!"

Li Xingzhou became anxious upon hearing this and hurriedly warned, "This Elder Tutian is a Half-step Golden Immortal who has fused with Immortal Golden Nature! The Blood-Transforming Demonic Banner in his hand is even..."

However, Li Xingzhou's words were not yet finished.

Lu Yuan had already taken a step forward, passing through the merchant ship's defensive light barrier. Standing alone in the vast starry sky, he directly faced the six ferocious bandits of the Six Bandits of Guanghan.

His white robes billowed, looking like a transcended immortal descending to the mortal realm, yet exuding a domineering aura of a ruler of the world.

"Ignorant and arrogant brat! You dare to come out alone to seek death?"

Seeing Lu Yuan dare to fight alone, Elder Tutian was first stunned, then flew into a rage.

This was simply a blatant contempt for him, a Half-step Golden Immortal!

"Brothers! No need to be polite with him! Form the array and slaughter him! Make it quick to avoid any complications!"

Elder Tutian shouted and was the first to attack.

"Yes, Big Brother!"

The other five bandits, who had been building up their momentum at the periphery at the Middle and Late Stage Profound Immortal realms, immediately understood and let out a collective sinister laugh.

They coordinated with extreme tacit understanding, clearly being a veteran killing squad.

Their figures flickered instantly in the starry sky like five bolts of black lightning. In the blink of an eye, they used Lu Yuan as the center to set up an extremely evil blood-colored pentagram array, trapping Lu Yuan tightly in the middle.

"Blood-Fiend Immortal-Refining Array! Rise!"

The five men simultaneously bit their tongues and spat out a mouthful of Essence Blood, their hands rapidly forming seals.

"Boom!"

Five powerful Profound Immortal Laws intertwined, mixing with that sky-piercing blood-fiend aura, transforming in the void into a giant strangulation net tens of thousands of feet wide, composed of countless blood-colored blades.

This net carried the terrifying power to seal space and obliterate the Primordial Spirit. Like a giant maw of the abyss, it shrouded down toward Lu Yuan in the center of the Formation!

"You think a broken net like this can trap me?"

Lu Yuan looked up at the blood net emitting the aura of death, a trace of disdainful mockery flashing in his eyes.