Chapter 448 Could he really be that petty?

If he had mastered the Law of Metal, this single finger could turn this small patch of ground into gold.

The legendary "touching a stone and turning it into gold" would not just be talk.

"Hoo..."

Yan Chu let out a long breath of turbid air.

Just this light tap of a finger consumed as much energy as a major battle.

The source of this power that directly changed the essence of matter was the Law that Yan Chu had mastered, which consumed a vast amount of mana when utilized.

Few Saints were bored enough to do such a thing.

"Hmph, now the Zhao Family and the Ziyun Sect are hunting me down, heh heh! Go ahead and hunt me, in a few days, I'll give you all a surprise!"

A cold glint flashed in Yan Chu's eyes as he looked toward Yunqi City, a thousand miles ahead.

When he had first appeared in this city, those few local native families seemed hospitable, but in reality, as soon as the gathering ended, they notified the forces behind them to deal with him.

He hadn't forgotten that grudge!

The reason he came here today was to conveniently deal with them first.

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Yunqi City, although located in a remote area, was just an unremarkable small city in the Fusheng Domain.

However, as the only city within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, it still had a permanent population of several million, covered an area of over two hundred miles in radius, and the city walls were over ten zhang high.

City Lord Yu Chongyue had been keeping a low profile these past few days.

The news of the battle at Shengjue Ridge had already reached Yunqi City.

Now, the entire Fusheng Domain knew that Yan Chu had achieved the Saint realm and had killed the Ziyun Sect Elder, the Saint-Method Realm Second Heaven Saint, Fang Yi.

When he heard this news, City Lord Yu Chongyue felt as if the sky had collapsed.

For these past few days, he couldn't eat or sleep well, and his hair had turned half white with worry.

The situation for the ancestors of the other two families in Yunqi City, the Chen Family and the Liu Family, was the same as his.

Today, Chen Family Ancestor Chen Jing and Liu Family Ancestor Liu Jiupo both appeared in the secret chamber of the City Lord's Mansion to discuss countermeasures with City Lord Yu Chongyue.

"What should we do? Yan Chu has already become a Saint; will he come to kill us in Yunqi City?"

The Chen Family Ancestor scratched his scalp, feeling it itch a little.

"Damn that Yan Chu! Which place couldn't he have ascended to? Why did he have to appear in our Yunqi City? And he didn't even tell the truth!"

"If I had known earlier that he was an Ascender, wouldn't I have reported it to the Sect and extended an olive branch to him?"

City Lord Yu Chongyue couldn't help but curse loudly.

Every major Sect in the Yuanqing Holy Realm was extremely fond of Ascenders.

Those who could successfully ascend had top-tier Heart-Nature, talent, and Luck; such figures would have limitless future achievements.

The Chen Family Ancestor tentatively asked:

"How about we report to the Sect and ask them to send someone? Maybe Yan Chu might come back to deal with us."

City Lord Yu Chongyue glared at him irritably:

"Do you think the Sect would send a Saint here for us few small fries? Besides, the theory that Yan Chu would return to Yunqi City doesn't hold water at all; the Sect wouldn't believe it."

Ancestor Liu Jiupo's wrinkled face scrunched up like old tree bark as she frowned and said:

"Yan Chu shouldn't be that petty, right?"

"He is now a dignified Saint after all; is it worth it for him to lower himself to our level?"

"Sigh!"

City Lord Yu Chongyue sighed and said:

"Who knows what kind of person he is? But I saw that his attacks were ruthless; in any case, he is definitely not a magnanimous person."

"At that time, Lady Pan even showed him favor repeatedly, but she ended up dying directly under his saber."

"To have made an enemy of such a Saint, we are truly unlucky to the extreme!"

"Tsk tsk, City Lord Yu, your judgment of people is quite accurate!"

Just as the three were discussing whether to leave Yunqi City and hide elsewhere, a voice suddenly appeared in the secret chamber, causing the three to instantly fall into an ice cellar.

City Lord Yu Chongyue and the others turned their heads stiffly, only to see Yan Chu sitting comfortably on a chair not far away.

They didn't know how long he had been there.

"Yan... Senior!"

"Thump!"

"This old one has seen Senior Yan, I beg Senior Yan to forgive me!"

The three knelt instantly, their faces twisted into smiles uglier than crying; speak of the devil and he appears, Yan Chu had really come looking for them.

His heart was really that small...

"Senior Yan, have mercy! We never intended to be enemies with Senior!"

The Chen Family Ancestor's head had been pulled bald by himself over the last two days, and as he knelt on the ground, the bald spot on the back of his head was exposed.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, didn't you just hear City Lord Yu say it? I am not a magnanimous person."

"I am not! I didn't..."

City Lord Yu Chongyue hurriedly raised his head to argue, but before he could finish speaking, the ground beneath his feet cracked, and a massive earthy smell surged up, covering his entire body in an instant, filling his mouth with mud, and turning him into a living terracotta figurine.

[Killed a Late Stage Divine Ability Realm Martial Artist, settled the grudge, Origin +3]

"If begging for mercy were useful, then there would be no need for people to die in this world." Yan Chu shook his head.

Such terrifying means left City Lord Yu Chongyue unable to even struggle, and his vitality dissipated instantly.

Chen Jing and Ancestor Liu Jiupo looked at each other, revealing a helpless, bitter smile.

In the next moment, yellow light flashed on both of them simultaneously, and two more terracotta figurines were added.

"Hmm, a total harvest of 48 points of Origin!"

All the Divine Ability Realm cultivators in the three families had already been dealt with before he arrived, which was quite a harvest.

However, compared to Saints, the efficiency of killing Divine Ability Realm cultivators was still too slow.

"Let's upgrade first!"

So, right there in the secret chamber, the mana within Yan Chu's body surged, his body shimmered with magical light, various insights poured in, and his aura climbed steadily once again.

[Cultivation Technique: Supreme Daluo Heaven (Sixth Layer 150.6/200)]

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Fusheng Domain, Shangluo City.

This was a city governed by the Ren Family, a Family under the Ziyun Sect, and the Ren Family Ancestor was precisely the Ziyun Sect Elder, Ren Qianjun.

Now, in the City Lord's Mansion, Ren Qianjun and others were receiving a white-haired old man.

The white-haired old man wore a plain robe and had an extraordinary bearing.

However, his appearance was incredibly ugly.

His nose didn't look like a nose, his mouth didn't look like a mouth; his facial features looked as if they had been casually kneaded together, without a trace of aesthetic beauty.

Only a pair of eyes were clear and transparent, carrying a profound vicissitude that saw through all things in the world, pointing directly to the depths of the human heart.

He was none other than Immortal Master Ling Shu from the Yantian Sect, who had traveled from the distant Xuanyou Domain.

The Yantian Sect was also a famous Sect in the Fusheng Domain, even above the three major forces of the Ziyun Sect, belonging to the same level as the Biluo Sect.

It was just that this Sect did not participate in the disputes of the cultivation world.

They specialized in Yin and Yang numerical arts and the path of observing stars and divining fate, which could judge good and bad fortune and deduce the fate of others.

However, this kind of deduction art belonged to leaking heavenly secrets in advance, which would cause various disasters to befall the members of the Yantian Sect.

Immortal Master Ling Shu's ugly appearance was caused by this.

If one were to talk about his real age, he was the youngest among those present, but he looked the oldest, clearly having had much of his Lifespan taken away.

"Greetings, Immortal Master Ling Shu, you have finally arrived, we have waited so long!"

Ren Qianjun and the others stepped forward to offer greetings, their attitude quite respectful.

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Besides Ren Qianjun, Zhao Family's Zhao Yuanke, Tianxing Sect's Deng Fang, and Biluo Sect Elder Qian Yuan were all present.

Everyone was a Saint of the Saint-Method Realm Third Heaven.

Their comprehension and mastery of the Law were not comparable to ordinary First or Second Heaven Saints.

Qian Yuan came to the Fusheng Domain because his Disciple Ji Hanshi had died at the hands of Yan Chu; he had come to avenge his Disciple.

So, as soon as Ren Qianjun and the others invited him, he immediately came to Shangluo City.

And he used his own connections to invite Immortal Master Ling Shu of the Yantian Sect.

Of course, collecting some introduction fees in the middle was inevitable.

After all, it was the Ziyun Sect and the others who were asking for help.

"You are too polite, everyone!"

Immortal Master Ling Shu said politely, then opened his hands:

"Where are the items?"

Seeing this, everyone hurriedly had Ren Qianjun present the prepared Storage Pouch:

"Immortal Master Ling Shu, inside are the Zhao Family's Millennium Moon Essence Dew, the Tianxing Sect's Top-Grade Star Marrow, and my Ziyun Sect's Rootless Cloud Qi, which are of great use for diverting the backlash of heavenly secrets and breaking the Three Deficiencies and Five Evils!"

Immortal Master Ling Shu took the Storage Pouch, opened it, glanced at it, and shook his head faintly:

"Not enough!"

The few looked at each other, and then Ren Qianjun handed over another Storage Pouch:

"Here are twenty Dao Pattern Crystals, engraved with natural Dao patterns. If one day you break through to Saint Monarch and open the path of fusing Laws, you can use them for comprehension and cultivation."

Actually, there were originally thirty Dao Pattern Crystals, with each of the three families contributing ten.

However, Qian Yuan had intercepted ten of them, so there were only twenty left.

Immortal Master Ling Shu took the Storage Pouch again, weighed it in his hand, then put it into his bosom, and then asked:

"Do you have any items belonging to the person to be deduced?"

The four were overjoyed, knowing that the other party had agreed.

Ren Qianjun reached out from his sleeve robe, and in his palm was a mass of formless and intangible Saber Qi, which made the surrounding air hiss and crackle.

"We don't have that guy's items, but this is the Saber Qi left over after his great battle that day, which I intercepted. Do you think this will work?"

Immortal Master Ling Shu's upturned eyeballs rolled downward, looking at the Saber Qi in Ren Qianjun's hand, and he couldn't help but change color slightly:

"Saber Intent at the Edict Saber level? This child's talent in the Dao of the Saber is so high?"

Zhao Yuanke nodded and said in a deep voice:

"This child is titled Saber Demon, so one can imagine that the Dao of the Saber is his strongest means. That day at Shengjue Ridge, he once slashed the land within a thousand miles with one strike, and the Saber Intent did not dissipate for a long time."

"Hmm."

Immortal Master Ling Shu nodded slowly, reached out to receive that wisp of Saber Qi, and said:

"Find me a quiet secret chamber; I need to set up the Yantian Formation to perform the deduction!"

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Meanwhile, in Tianyong City, hundreds of thousands of miles away.

The group from the Cold Ice Holy Sect was staying at the guest courtyard of the Han Family, a Saint Family residing in this place.

Today, introduced by the Han Family Ancestor, the Cold Ice Holy Sect Third Elder He Qi met here with the Zhao Family Elder Zhao Xuan, and the two Young Masters of the Zhao Family, Zhao Qingshang and Zhao Nanyu.

"Fellow Daoist Zhao has come to see me, I wonder what for?"

In the majestic hundred-zhang hall, Third Elder He Qi stared at the uninvited guests in front of him, his brows slightly furrowed.

He had heard of this Zhao Family Elder; he was a Saint-Method Realm Third Heaven cultivator.

However, he had already lived for more than six thousand years and was a living fossil of the Zhao Family, his Lifespan was coming to an end, and there was little hope of breaking through to Saint Monarch in this life.

Since arriving in the Fusheng Domain, Third Elder He Qi had realized that finding Yan Chu was not a simple matter.

In such a vast territory, a person falling into it was like dust.

Not to mention that Yan Chu had broken through to the Saint realm and, after mastering the Law, could hide himself by borrowing the Law at any time, making him impossible to find.

So, during this time, Third Elder He Qi and his party had been staying in Tianyong City, eating and waiting to die, like headless flies not knowing what to do.

"Fellow Daoist He, I came today to discuss something with you!"

The Cold Ice Holy Sect was a Saint-level force of the same level as the Zhao Family, so he could not force them and could only come to discuss with the other party.

With a gesture from his eyes, the Zhao Family Fifth Young Master Zhao Qingshang stepped forward to offer greetings:

"Junior Zhao Qingshang, I have seen Elder He of the Cold Ice Holy Sect!"

Third Elder He Qi looked at the handsome and elegant young man in front of him; his cultivation was only Late Stage Divine Ability, which did not attract his attention at all, but the other party's status was extraordinary, being the son of the Zhao Family Head.

"Young Master Zhao is too polite; feel free to speak if you have anything to say."

Zhao Qingshang smiled slightly and immediately recounted the purpose of their visit, which had been prepared in advance.

He was certain that the Cold Ice Holy Sect knew about the world Yan Chu came from before; otherwise, they wouldn't have formed a grudge with Yan Chu before he ascended.

Speaking of which, these things were leaked by the Cold Ice Holy Sect's own people.

After listening, Third Elder He Qi's expression turned cold.

The world Yan Chu came from before his Ascension, according to the Cold Ice Holy Sect's deduction, was a Middle World, unlike an ordinary Small World.

How much use could a Middle World be to a Sect?

As long as it was transformed by his Cold Ice Holy Sect, it could form a superior blessed land, have a complete world will, be able to produce many precious cultivation resources in batches, and serve as a training ground for Sect Disciples.

It could be said that the benefits were unimaginably large.

Moreover, according to Goddess Xueyao, there were many legends of gods and demons descending in that world, and there were suspected traces of gods and demons.

One must know that even in the Yuanqing Holy Realm, traces of gods and demons descending were extremely rare.

This further proved the mystery and extraordinariness of that world.

How could he possibly leak the coordinates of such a world to others?

"So you all came for this matter."

Third Elder He Qi smiled, directly denying it:

"To tell you the truth, Elder Zhao, my Cold Ice Holy Sect does not know the world coordinates of Yan Chu's Ascension. The reason Yan Chu formed a grudge with my Sect is that this child once appeared in the Qiong Tian Domain and killed my Sect's Disciples, which led to my Sect's pursuit, and he escaped to the Fusheng Domain."

Zhao Qingshang and Zhao Nanyu looked at each other. Zhao Qingshang wanted to speak but was held back by Zhao Xuan, who cupped his hands and smiled:

"Since that is the case, it seems we were intrusive!"

"Then this old one will not disturb Fellow Daoist He."

Saying this, he bade farewell to the other party.

"Alright, go slowly, Fellow Daoist Zhao!"

Third Elder He Qi sent the Zhao Family group out the door, watching their figures disappear into the distance, and the smile on his face gradually turned cold.

In the distance, after the three Zhao Family members stopped, Zhao Qingshang spoke anxiously:

"Fourth Grandfather, he was clearly lying just now. How could he not know the coordinates of that world? It's obvious he didn't want to tell us."

Zhao Nanyu also echoed:

"After you finished speaking, Third Elder He Qi's expression turned cold for a moment, which shows that this matter touches on the interests of the Cold Ice Holy Sect."

Zhao Xuan stroked his long beard under his chin and pondered slightly:

"In your two's opinion, what should be done?"

The two frowned and thought for a moment, and after a while, Zhao Qingshang spoke first:

"The Cold Ice Holy Sect also wants to catch Yan Chu. After we provide the method, they will most likely send people to cross the world. We just need to keep a close eye on them, and we can be the oriole behind the mantis, and catch Yan Chu."