380: Chapter 380 Revisiting the Void Fortress, Six Peak Mystic Immortals!

Awe, fear, disbelief, and even a trace of gratitude for having survived a disaster—various emotions intertwined and shifted across Li Xingzhou's typically stern face.

He knew very well that if not for Lu Yuan's swift and thunderous intervention, using god-like methods that were practically a dimension-reduction strike to instantly kill Elder Tutian and the other five heinous Profound Immortal bandits, everyone on the ship, along with the priceless merchant vessel itself, would have long since become ghosts under the blades of the Six Bandits of Guanghan in the Luanxing Sea, turning into dust in the starry sky.

"Hoo..."

Li Xingzhou took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the surging waves in his heart, and straightened his slightly disheveled clothing.

He took a step forward, carefully walked until he was three paces behind Lu Yuan, stopped, and bowed slightly, reporting with unprecedented respect and solemnity in his tone: "Lord Lu."

Lu Yuan did not turn around; only his long eyelashes fluttered slightly.

"In another half day's journey ahead, we will be passing through Taixu Fortress again."

Li Xingzhou swallowed hard, his voice sounding somewhat dry due to nervousness: "I dare to speak boldly, my Lord. When we came, you... you used thunderous means to behead the two Peak Profound Immortal commanders of the Taiyi Immortal Sect and the Taixuan Immortal Sect. Such an earth-shattering event cannot possibly be hidden from the eyes and ears of those two sects."

A fine layer of cold sweat seeped from Li Xingzhou's forehead again. He raised his head, looking at Lu Yuan's back, his eyes filled with worry: "These two great Immortal Sects are the veritable super overlords of the Daluo Heaven, with unfathomable foundations and a history of acting tyrannically and shielding their own. Having suffered such a significant loss, losing two Peak Profound Immortal combatants, they... I fear they will absolutely not let this go. They will certainly set up a dragnet at Taixu Fortress, waiting for us to walk right into it."

"My Lord, should we... take a detour? Although it will add several months to the journey, it would be relatively safer."

Li Xingzhou tentatively offered his suggestion.

After listening to Li Xingzhou's report, Lu Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

In those eyes, deep as an abyss, there was not the slightest panic or apprehension; instead, a cold, bone-chilling, and tangible glint of cold light flashed through.

"A detour?"

Lu Yuan turned his head slightly, the corners of his mouth curling into a faint, mocking sneer.

"They won't let it go? Then I shall just slaughter my way through them."

His tone was flat, carrying only an extreme domineering and composed attitude that treated life and death as trivial and all things as mere straw dogs.

Yet, this light sentence struck Li Xingzhou's heart like a thunderclap from the Nine Heavens!

It made his heart contract violently, and his legs trembled involuntarily.

Slaughter his way through Taixu Fortress?

Li Xingzhou widened his eyes, looking at Lu Yuan's back as if he were looking at a madman.

That was a throat of the starry sky jointly controlled by two Daluo Heaven overlord-level powers! It was garrisoned year-round by tens of thousands of elite troops, and had who knows how many old Profound Immortal monsters guarding it.

One person, boasting about slaughtering their way through a super fortress? Such arrogant words—looking across the entire Daluo Heaven, besides those high and mighty Golden Immortals and Immortal Kings, who would dare to say such a thing?

But as he looked at Lu Yuan's calm profile, he inexplicably developed an absurd illusion—the other party might actually be able to do it!

...

Half a day later, at Taixu Fortress, the starry sky that originally floated with countless massive meteorites and wreckage of broken Immortal Artifacts was now shrouded in layers of blood-colored, murderous aura so dense it had almost become tangible.

The entire fortress was terrifyingly quiet, without even a whisper of wind, like the deathly silent surface of the sea before a storm.

At the very outer perimeter of the fortress, on the path the merchant ship was bound to take on its return journey.

Six terrifying and peerless powerful auras, soaring straight into the sky like six pillars supporting heaven and earth, tightly locked down this Void Realm.

These six auras intertwined, forming an invisible barrier visible to the naked eye, causing the surrounding starlight to distort.

Those were six peerless experts at the Peak of the Profound Immortal realm!

Moreover, these six were not like the previous Lei Yan and Gu Yue, fighting on their own and scattered like loose sand.

They belonged to the Taiyi Immortal Sect and the Taixuan Immortal Sect, three from each, and had actually cast aside their previous grudges, standing in an ancient and profound Formation.

The three from the Taiyi Immortal Sect stepped on purple lightning Formation patterns, forming the prototype of a Taiyi Nine Palaces Formation.

While the three from the Taixuan Immortal Sect had Sword Qi soaring into the sky around them, forming a Taixuan Killing Formation.

Even more terrifying was that these two great Formations faintly echoed each other, their Qi connected, forming a composite Formation with exponentially increased power!

Under the terrifying amplification of this combined attack Formation, the pressure erupted by these six people working together had forcibly broken through the limit of the Profound Immortal Perfection, faintly touching that ethereal wall of immortality, almost approaching the level of a true Golden Immortal!

"They are here!"

In the Taiyi Immortal Sect camp, an old man with a head of red hair like a wild lion, standing at the eye of the Formation, suddenly opened his eyes.

In his eyes, it was as if two clusters of lightning fire were burning, staring fixedly at the Deep Sea Silver merchant ship gradually revealing its outline in the distant starry sky.

"That is the ship flying the flag of the Jiuding Chamber of Commerce! The culprit from the Lower Realm who killed our sect's Elder Lei Yan and Junior Brother Taiyi is on board!"

The red-haired old man's voice exploded in the starry sky like muffled thunder, shattering the surrounding meteorites.

The murderous intent on his body had condensed into substance; he wished he could immediately swallow Lu Yuan alive.

"Hmph, today Taixu Fortress is completely closed! The Formation is complete; not even a fly will be able to fly past alive!"

On the Taixuan Immortal Sect side, a middle-aged man carrying two ancient long swords on his back, acting as the eye of the Formation, sneered repeatedly.

His face was cold and stern, his eyes revealing a bloodthirsty, cold glint.

"No matter who he is or what background he has, daring to kill our Taixuan Immortal Sect's Elder Gu Yue is a slap in the face to our Taixuan! Today, I will have him destroyed in body and soul, stripping him of even the qualifications for Reincarnation!"

Under the oppressive pressure of the six Peak Profound Immortals, which was comparable to that of a Golden Immortal, the massive merchant ship trembled violently. The defensive Formation's light screen flickered wildly, and it was finally forced to stop in the Void Realm a hundred miles outside the perimeter of the Formation, unable to advance even an inch further.

On the bow of the ship, Li Xingzhou felt the terrifying pressure rushing towards him, which threatened to crush him, his face turning as pale as paper, devoid of all color.

His hands gripping the sword hilt were trembling violently, and even breathing had become extremely difficult.

"It's... it's over..."

Li Xingzhou's voice carried undisguised despair and fear: "Six Peak Profound Immortals! They have actually set aside their prejudices and formed a composite combined attack Formation! Such a battle array, such power... unless a Golden Immortal powerhouse arrives in person, even a Half-step Golden Immortal would likely have to avoid the brunt of their force and retreat!"

He turned his head and looked despairingly at Lu Yuan, who was still calm beside him, with a gaze that was almost pleading: "Lord Lu, as long as the green hills remain, there is no need to worry about firewood... Shall we... shall we retreat? We must quickly notify the President to come and save us!"