Free Web NovelChapter 804: Chapter 664: Breaking Through to Tier 4
Using the Soul-Fixing Pearl to lock down his Spiritual Power, and that would be enough to trap him?
Even without circulating his Spiritual Power, he still did not take these Golden Core Sect Leaders of Yue Country into account.
Under the watchful eyes of all.
Shen Xuan’s body gave a shudder.
The blood and Qi throughout his body boiled.
His figure abruptly transformed, face turning green with fangs bared, visage ferocious, Golden Body blazing with radiance.
The immortal armor battle robe tightly covered his entire body.
Behind him appeared the Dharma Aspect of a Profound Ice Divine Dragon, which let out a furious roar in unison with Shen Xuan.
"Roar!"
After activating [Dragon Blood Boiling], his body gradually grew larger.
The Immortal-Binding Rope dug deeply into the immortal-gold battle armor.
"Not good!"
True Master Celestial Secret’s face changed.
He could naturally see that this was an extremely advanced Body Refining Technique.
No need for Spiritual Power.
Relying solely on the Power of the Flesh Body, he could move mountains and overturn seas, shaking heaven with his might.
Within his line of sight.
Shen Xuan exhaled with a shout, his body swelling violently.
The Soul-Fixing Pearl had no effect at all.
The Immortal-Binding Rope snapped inch by inch, powerlessly drifting down.
Shen Xuan stretched out his hand.
"Staff, come!"
The strange-metal cold-iron staff burst forth with dazzling golden light in his hand.
A golden staff shadow smashed toward the Soul-Fixing Pearl hanging in midair.
True Master Celestial Secret gritted his teeth and, steeling himself, sacrificed a treasure shield to block the strange-metal cold-iron staff.
With his other hand, he hastily beckoned to recall the Soul-Fixing Pearl.
With a boom.
The treasure shield exploded, and True Master Celestial Secret’s figure was blasted backward.
In an instant.
Both True Master Celestial Secret and True Master Qing Xi had each lost a Spiritual Artifact.
Their Divine Souls were wounded, their faces ashen.
"Peak of the Dharma Realm!"
Down below, the other Golden Core Sect Leaders were all greatly shocked.
Many of them cast their gazes toward Spirit Music Immortal of Miaoyin Sect.
She was the only Nascent Soul Sect Leader left among them.
Her strength was second only to True Master Celestial Secret and True Master Qing Xi.
However, Spirit Music Immortal’s eyelids remained lowered; she had not the slightest intention of stepping forward to assist.
The other Golden Core Sect Leaders looked at each other.
In the end, their gazes fell upon True Master Shou Yuan of Taiyi Sect.
The meaning was very clear.
As the one who started all this, he had to step out and clean up the mess.
Helpless.
True Master Shou Yuan could only fly forward.
"True Master Profound Ice, let us talk this out!"
After shattering True Master Celestial Secret’s treasure shield with a single staff strike, Shen Xuan stood aloof and unperturbed, making no move to continue his attack.
"For Fellow Daoist Shou Yuan’s sake, I won’t hold it against you!"
"If you keep pestering me, don’t blame me for being ruthless!"
Once Shen Xuan finished speaking.
He directly used the [Soaring Clouds and Mist] skill.
A cloud of auspicious vapor rose beneath his feet, turning into a streak of flowing light that flew dozens of miles away in an instant.
Very soon, he disappeared without a trace.
Shen Xuan did not hound True Master Qing Xi to the bitter end.
After all, he was a Nascent Soul Sect Leader.
For now, it was not yet the time.
As for the Demon Race, both sides tacitly chose not to bring it up.
Without solid evidence, they could not convict a Golden Core True Master.
True Master Qing Xi merely had Shen Xuan bear the crime of trespassing into the Yue Country Secret Realm.
By using the inspection of his Storage Pouch to exacerbate the conflict between Shen Xuan and the cultivators of Yue Country.
This matter, Shen Xuan engraved in his heart.
One day, he would make True Master Qing Xi pay the price.
...
After Shen Xuan left.
True Master Celestial Secret, True Master Qing Xi, and True Master Shou Yuan descended from the sky.
The thirteen Sect Leaders of Yue Country all remained silent.
This expedition into the Spirit Stream Secret Realm.
The harvest being meager was one thing.
They had even lost forty percent of their elite disciples.
Now there was an even bigger problem.
True Master Qing Xi had taken the lead, joining forces with True Master Celestial Secret.
Only to be cowed into silence by Shen Xuan revealing his Divine Dragon Dharma Aspect.
If this matter were to spread.
It would be the face of all the Sects of Yue Country that was lost.
As the head of the thirteen sects, True Master Celestial Secret felt it all the more keenly.
He was very clear on True Master Qing Xi’s intent.
In his heart, he agreed as well.
To investigate Shen Ruochén’s origins.
No matter who he was, he would take the blame for this.
Regard him as a scapegoat, to ease the failure of this Spirit Stream Secret Realm expedition.
The other Golden Core Sect Leaders mostly tacitly agreed.
Though they were Sect Leaders, wielding high authority and status.
They were also kept in check by the Sect Elders.
When things went wrong, there had to be an explanation, someone to take the fall.
What they did not know was.
True Master Profound Ice’s strength was so formidable.
With one against two, and his opponents were the strongest combat forces in Yue Country below Nascent Soul.
Even after being trapped by the Soul-Fixing Pearl and Immortal-Binding Rope.
True Master Profound Ice could still easily break the encirclement, directly destroying two Spiritual Artifacts belonging to True Master Celestial Secret and True Master Qing Xi.
Although it did not show on the surface.
Everyone knew full well.
True Master Celestial Secret and True Master Qing Xi’s Divine Souls were surely wounded.
If True Master Shou Yuan had not stepped forward to mediate.
If they continued to fight.
True Master Celestial Secret and True Master Qing Xi would surely suffer grievous losses to their vitality, with consequences unimaginable.
"Regarding Shen Ruochén and True Master Profound Ice, none of you are allowed to spread a word!"
After a long moment.
True Master Celestial Secret said in a deep voice.
"What Brother Celestial Secret says is very true."
"It must be so."
No one voiced any objection.
Unconsciously, once again, everyone’s gaze fell upon True Master Shou Yuan.
"I will issue a gag order. No one is allowed to mention Shen Ruochén."
True Master Shou Yuan vowed solemnly.
Later, rumors spread through the Market.
That among the thirteen sects of Yue Country, someone had colluded with the Demon Race.
The Demon Race had set a trap in the Spirit Stream Secret Realm, arranging a Demon Array to capture the elite disciples of the Sects of Yue Country.
Attempting to turn them, to infiltrate the Sects of Yue Country.
All the Sect Disciples who had fallen were men of firm resolve, loyal and devoted to Yue Country.
The thirteen sects of Yue Country would grant generous compensation payments.
As for the name of Taiyi Sect disciple Shen Ruochén.
No one mentioned it.
It gradually vanished into the dust of history.
...
Soaring Clouds and Mist beneath his feet, Shen Xuan flew at ten thousand-zhang altitude, braving the fierce astral winds, and left Yue Country.
He did not return to Song Country.
He flew straight toward the east, in the direction where the water vapor grew ever more abundant, yet the Spiritual Qi gradually thinned.
The direction was the East Sea.
The mountains and veins beneath his feet gradually became flat and desolate. The Spiritual Light of the Spirit Veins vanished bit by bit, like sparks fading out.
