182: Chapter 182 Ding Yu

"Ninth Hall Master."

Seeing the figure appear, Li Ning trembled.

The Ninth Hall Master of the Netherworld Hall, Venerable Ji Lie...

Breaking Delusion!

This was a master who killed without blinking,

a ruthless person who could even boil and eat his own kin.

"Truly trash."

"How many resources did the Netherworld Hall give your Blood Slaughter Sect?"

"You couldn't even take down a small Immortal Stone mine; how do you still have the face to return?"

Cursing wasn't enough to vent his anger; Breaking Delusion kicked Li Ning into a bloody mist with one foot.

A few breaths later, the bloody mist reformed into Li Ning, his face deathly pale.

"Ninth Highness, it's not that the Blood Slaughter Sect is useless, but that the Immortal Ancestral Master of the Lower Profound Sect is too savage."

"He used an Immortal hoe, just one hoe strike, and the Blood Slaughter Sect was destroyed. We couldn't even run away..."

"An Immortal hoe?"

Breaking Delusion became interested. The Great Awakening Spirit Realm was poor in resources and lacked everything;

whether it was Immortal Stones or Immortal Artifacts, they were all good things for the Netherworld Hall.

"Where is Right Protector Ding Yu?"

"Greetings, Ninth Hall Master."

A figure appeared from the Void Realm, carrying endless Evil Qi.

"Take a group of men and, along with Sect Master Li, go destroy the Lower Profound Sect and reclaim the Immortal Stone mine."

"And..."

"Bring back that Immortal hoe as well."

Hearing there was an Immortal Artifact, Ding Yu's eyes also lit up.

"Yes, your subordinate obeys!"

"Sect Master Li, let's go."

...

Lower Profound Sect, Immortal Stone mine.

Veins bulged on Zhao Yi's forehead.

He swung the hoe, smashing Approximate into several segments.

"Damn it."

"What kind of bullshit Immortal technique is this?"

"You can't even understand it yourself, yet you dare to teach me? How did I believe your nonsense?"

Zhao Yi had truly reached his limit;

to learn Immortal arts and Immortal techniques, he had endured again and again these past few days.

In the end, Approximate himself wasn't familiar with it.

This was ridiculous.

"Master, you're the one who wanted to learn, and you're the one who doesn't want to learn. What exactly do you want?"

Having returned to normal, Approximate still showed no remorse.

"You~"

Zhao Yi...

This Dead Dragon...

If it weren't still useful, he really wanted to smash it to death with one hoe strike.

"You should just get familiar with it yourself first."

"What an idiot, a pure waste of time."

"I'm stupid too."

"Without Immortal techniques, can't Spells be used?"

"Heavenly Manifestation."

"Grow!"

Boom!

Zhao Yi's body instantly shot up to a hundred zhang tall. His feet stepped on mountain rocks, and his head reached the clouds, like an ancient demon god.

He tightly gripped the great sumeru treasure hoe with both hands. Immortal power surged, heating the hoe's blade until it was glowing red, and he slammed it toward the Immortal Stone mine.

"Open for me!"

The moment the tip of the hoe touched the mine wall, a sudden change occurred.

Buzz!

The entire ore vein suddenly emitted a layer of golden halo, trembling violently like a living thing.

A counter-shock force surged in through the hoe handle. Zhao Yi felt as if his internal organs had been struck by lightning. A sweetness rose in his throat, and he spat out a mouthful of blood on the spot. His hundred-zhang giant body staggered back and he knelt on the ground.

"What the hell is that!"

He looked up in horror.

He saw countless ancient runes appearing on the surface of the Immortal Stone mine, layered upon each other like a pulsing Bloodline, actually absorbing the power of his strike just now.

Even more terrifyingly, a low hum came from deep within the ore vein, as if some Restriction had been triggered.

"Retreat quickly!"

One Who Listens to Emptiness's voice rang out urgently.

"That is the protective Restriction inherent to the Immortal Stone mine. The stronger the external force, the more violent the rebound. If you hit it again, the entire Immortal Stone mine will return to heaven and earth."

Before his voice faded, the ground cracked like a spider web, and crimson magma erupted from underground, mixed with black toxic smoke.

The entire Immortal Stone mine actually squirmed like a living creature, forming rotating spirit blades that shot towards Zhao Yi.

"Holy crap!"

Zhao Yi rolled awkwardly, his giant body dodging and weaving among the mountains, but he was still grazed on the shoulder by a spirit blade. His flesh instantly charred, and his Immortal power became chaotic.

He forcibly suppressed his injuries and said angrily,

"Has this damn mine become a spirit?"

"I can't dig it, I can't touch it, and it even has its own counterattack?"

"This is an Immortal Stone mine."

One Who Listens to Emptiness looked at Zhao Yi strangely.

"Doesn't Ancestor Zhao know how to mine Immortal Stones?"

"You don't even know this?"

Then he said to himself,

"Mining Immortal Stones can only be done using the 'Spirit Gathering Method,' like a farmer harvesting grain, inch by inch, slowly 'plucking' them."

"It cannot be rushed."

Zhao Yi: "Huh?"

He then realized that this meant digging Immortal Stones was the same as digging Spirit Stones; they could only be dug one hoe strike at a time.

"Well..."

"I was just testing the hoe."

"Yes, just testing the hoe."

"Is the Sect Head so free? You arrived quite quickly just now."

One Who Listens to Emptiness...

Before he could speak,

Zhao Yi suddenly turned around, his expression changing drastically as he looked at the sky and shouted loudly,

"Enemy attack!"

"Quickly go back and activate the mountain-protecting Formation."

"Oh, oh, oh."

One Who Listens to Emptiness could feel the urgency in Zhao Yi's heart and also glanced at the sky.

"Where is the enemy attack? Why can't I see it?"

Although puzzled, One Who Listens to Emptiness followed Zhao Yi's words implicitly, never hesitating.

Just as One Who Listens to Emptiness activated the mountain-protecting Immortal Formation, the entire sky turned black.

Looking at the black clouds in the sky, One Who Listens to Emptiness gritted his teeth and said,

"Netherworld Hall!"

"The Netherworld Hall is conducting business. Lower Profound Sect, surrender quickly!"

"I'll give you ten breaths of time. Once the time is up, not even a chicken or dog will be left in the entire Lower Profound Sect."

Before Ding Yu even arrived, his arrogant voice reached Zhao Yi's ears.

A moment later, a figure appeared before Zhao Yi,

"You are the Immortal Ancestral Master of the Lower Profound Sect?"

"Oh my, you're quite handsome!"

"I am Ding Yu, the Right Protector of the Netherworld Hall."

"How about it? Interested in joining the Netherworld Hall?"

Ding Yu scrutinized Zhao Yi unscrupulously, his gaze extremely aggressive.

Zhao Yi...

With Ding Yu's gaze, he understood in a second; he was 'one of those'.

But...

This is a cultivation world! How can there be people like this?

"Truly fucking disgusting."

"Go die!"

Before the goosebumps could rise on his body, Zhao Yi attacked Ding Yu.

The great sumeru treasure hoe vibrated through the sky, carrying the power of his hundred-zhang giant body, and slammed toward Ding Yu wrapped in rolling Immortal power.

boom!

Before the hoe blade even arrived, the violent pressure had already distorted the Void Realm and shattered the ground into spiderweb cracks.

Ding Yu's pupils constricted, but a cruel grin spread across his face,

"Good, interesting!"

He slammed his hands together, and the Evil Qi around him soared into the sky, condensing into a bone saber as black as ink,

the blade was entwined with countless wailing Souls; it was a sinister weapon forged from the Souls of thousands of living beings.

"Evil-Breaking Slash!"

The bone saber slashed out fiercely, colliding heavily with the great sumeru treasure hoe,

Clang!!

The sound of clashing metal echoed through the heavens. A violent wave of air swept in all directions like a storm, shattering rocks and turning vegetation to powder.

Zhao Yi's hundred-zhang dharma body shook violently. The webbing between his thumb and forefinger split open, and Immortal blood dripped down the hoe handle.

Ding Yu fared even worse. He was sent flying like a broken kite, crashing through half a mountain peak and spitting out blood wildly.

"How is this possible?"

He struggled to get up, his eyes full of horror,

"Mid-stage Human Immortal Realm?"

"Damn it, how can you be in the Mid-stage Human Immortal Realm?"

"And with such great strength?"

How could he know that Zhao Yi had been mining for years, doing all sorts of physical labor,

and his Physical Body had been tempered thousands of times in the Hundred Deaths Tribulation Realm, and with the addition of a Heaven-Defying item like the great sumeru treasure hoe, his pure strength under Heavenly Manifestation had far exceeded common logic.