478: Chapter 478 Walking into a Trap

The Su Family Clan Chief, the Asura King, and the Yaksha Clan Chief looked at each other.

Looking at the woman on the main seat, whose smile was as toxic as a datura flower, they all saw approval and deep awe in each other's eyes.

The methods of the Heavenly Demon race, killing the heart to destroy the person, were truly impossible to guard against.

To turn an enemy's beloved daughter into the most venomous blade piercing their heart—who could counter such an overt scheme?

"Good! Vicious! Absolutely brilliant! We shall follow Jialan Heavenly Demon's plan!"

Qingyun Mountain, secret chamber, the night was deep, and everything was silent.

The hour of the Rat had arrived.

[Ding, daily intelligence has refreshed.]

The System's voice rang out in his Sea of Consciousness right on time.

Three pieces of intelligence slowly unfolded like a scroll. The first two were just information regarding the resource mobilization of various forces in Daluo Heaven. Lu Yuan glanced over them, his gaze finally fixing on the third piece of intelligence, which was flashing with blinding purple light.

[Purple Intelligence: The supreme Dominator of Daluo Heaven, the "Daluo Immortal King", has been out wandering for one hundred thousand years and has not returned. The "Nine Nether Immortal King" of the Nine Nether Underworld has sensed that Daluo Heaven is empty and has ordered the four Immortal Lord-rank forces under his command (the Blood Nether Su Family, the Asura Royal Clan, the Yaksha race, and the Heavenly Demon race) to prepare for an inter-Domain war.]

"The Daluo Immortal King... has been wandering for one hundred thousand years and hasn't returned?"

Lu Yuan's brows locked tightly, and a stormy sea surged in his heart.

The Daluo Immortal King was the very Dominator of the Daluo Heaven Domain, an old-school Immortal King-rank existence who had lived for who knew how many epochs.

It was precisely because he held the fort that the jackals of the Nine Nether Underworld dared not act rashly.

But now, this pillar of stability had actually left Daluo Heaven for a full one hundred thousand years?

And over in the Nine Nether Underworld...

Lu Yuan's gaze continued to scan downwards.

[Conspiracy Revealed: The leader of the Heavenly Demon race, a Golden Immortal Peak powerhouse, "Jialan Heavenly Demon", in order to eradicate the variable that is the Qingyun Dao Sect, has split off a soul fragment carrying her core memories and Origin Laws. This soul fragment is currently carrying a Heavenly Demon secret treasure and infiltrating Daluo Heaven.

Her goal is to forcibly perform Possession on the immortal fetus in the womb of the Host's wife, Gu Qingxue, before she gives birth! She intends to become the most pampered "Little Princess" of the Qingyun Dao Sect, steal its foundation, and deliver a fatal blow to the Host from within during the future inter-Domain war.]

Boom—!

The temperature inside the secret chamber plummeted to freezing point!

A thick layer of frost instantly condensed on the surface of the white jade bed, and the Dao treasure pearls on the walls emitted an overwhelmed humming sound.

The space within the entire secret chamber was trembling violently, as if unable to withstand this sudden, terrifying pressure.

Lu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes!

Within those double pupils, originally as deep as the starry sky, it seemed as if two Chaos storms were now crazily raging, colliding, and annihilating each other! Deep within the pupils, purple-gold lightning struck down, and cracks in the Void Realm flickered in and out of existence.

The killing intent was almost solidifying, making the surrounding air become thick and heavy!

His fists clenched subconsciously, his knuckles popping with the sound of bones cracking due to the excessive force.

"Possession... my daughter?"

Lu Yuan's voice was terrifyingly low, each word sounding as if it had been squeezed out from the deepest part of a ten-thousand-year ice abyss, carrying bone-chilling cold and suppressed, extreme rage.

"Jialan Heavenly Demon... Nine Nether Underworld..."

His mouth curled into a cold, heart-palpitating arc, his double pupils reflecting visions of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

"Good! Very good!"

Lu Yuan slowly stood up, each step as heavy as if he were treading on a pile of bones.

Images described in the intelligence kept flashing through his mind—a soul fragment of a Heavenly Demon, infiltrating his wife's body, erasing his daughter's nascent consciousness, and occupying that yet-to-be-born body...

Then, wearing that innocent smiling face, calling him "Daddy"!

And then, on some future day, at the moment he was most off-guard, stabbing that knife into his back!

"Heh."

Lu Yuan let out a low laugh, the laughter devoid of any warmth, containing only chilling killing intent.

In the world of immortal cultivation, the weak are prey to the strong; he had seen plenty of killing and treasure-snatching, and the number of enemies he had slain with his own hands was countless.

He, Lu Yuan, had never been a kind soul, but—

To target his unborn daughter?

And to plot against him by disguising herself as his closest kin?

This was no longer testing his bottom line; this was tearing his reverse scale off, flesh and all, and then crushing it underfoot!

Lu Yuan closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened them again, the storm within those double pupils had been forcibly suppressed, replaced by a calmness that was even more heart-palpitating.

"Want to play at Possession?"

A curve hooked at the corner of his mouth, containing coldness, mockery, and the composure of a hunter having locked onto their prey.

"Then I shall ensure you never return."

Lu Yuan did not alert anyone, did not summon the high-level members of the Sect to discuss countermeasures, did not inform the Elders guarding the various Peaks, and he did not even reveal a single word to Gu Qingxue herself.

Because he was very clear that since Jialan Heavenly Demon dared to split a soul fragment and bring a secret treasure to infiltrate, she must have unique concealment methods.

Once the grass was beaten and the snake startled, given the cunning and changeable nature of the Heavenly Demon race, she might very well shrink back and refuse to appear, or even abandon this operation entirely.

Such a result was not what Lu Yuan wanted; what he wanted was a permanent solution.

It was to make that soul fragment of the opponent, along with that so-called "Heavenly Demon secret treasure", remain in the Qingyun Dao Sect forever!

That night, Lu Yuan quietly left the secret chamber.

He did not alert anyone, his figure like a breeze merging into the night as he arrived at Qingxue Palace, where Gu Qingxue resided.

Qingxue Palace was situated on the Peak of the main summit of Qingyun Mountain, shrouded in moonlight all year round.

Outside the palace, several hundred-thousand-year-old ice crystal plum blossoms were in full bloom, their crystalline petals emitting a soft silver light in the night.

On the surface, the defenses of Qingxue Palace were no different from usual—the perimeter was guarded in turns by Liu Qingli and Su Wanqing, both at the True Immortal Early Stage, the palace gate was engraved with several Immortal Rank defensive array patterns, and patrolling Disciples passed by according to routine from time to time.

But no one knew that beneath this calm facade, Lu Yuan had already used his Immortal Lord-rank cultivation to lay down layer upon layer of killing moves around this palace.

"Pure Land of All Gods—"

Lu Yuan formed hand seals, and an invisible Domain spread outward from him like water ripples, enveloping the entire Qingxue Palace.

This was the supreme Domain he had comprehended after fusing the Law of Space and the Law of Reincarnation.

Within this Domain, all intruders would unknowingly lose their sense of direction, and spatial coordinates would be scrambled.

If he wished, with just a single thought, he could compress the Domain and crush the enemies trapped within, along with the space itself!

But this was not enough. A flash of light shone in Lu Yuan's double pupils, and he formed hand seals again. Threads of Law, like a spiderweb, intertwined and extended in the Void Realm.

Law of Space—Spatial Cutting, Void Exile!

Law of Reincarnation—Life and Death Reversal, Memory Stripping!

Several killing arrays were layered one upon another, forming a lethal trap targeting the Divine Soul.

After finishing all this, Lu Yuan finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.

But he still did not lower his guard. From that night on, he went nowhere else and moved directly into the outer chamber of the inner palace where Gu Qingxue resided.

He stayed day and night, never taking a step away, just waiting for that moth to walk into the trap.

...

Several days later, on a moonless, pitch-black night, the sky was like ink, and thick clouds obscured the starlight completely.

The entire Qingyun Mountain was shrouded in darkness, with only the light emitted by the Sect-protecting array, like a huge dome of light, shielding the mountain gate within.