Mu Linsen couldn’t help but feel a surge of pride when he saw that his opponents were only two Soul Transformation cultivators.
He remembered the Grand Elder’s instruction not to kill them.
This made him feel even more smug; after all, he was a Unity-stage big shot now.
Dealing with two Soul Transformation cultivators should be as easy as pie!
A few moments later...
Mu Linsen was being chased through the array by the two Soul Transformation cultivators in a pathetic state, crying out for his life.
“Grand Elder, save me!”
“I’m going to be beaten to death!”
“Waaaah... Big Brother, Second Brother, Third Brother, I won’t be able to serve you anymore...”
At the same time, he was filled with confusion. Didn’t the Grand Elder tell him not to kill them?
Why was he the one about to be killed instead?!
Where exactly did things go wrong?
Huo Furong frowned as she watched Mu Linsen scrambling away in the array.
“I didn’t expect a forced cultivation breakthrough to be this fragile.”
The Grand Elder stroked his beard.
“It’s fine. The kid is clever. Even if he can’t counterattack for now, he won’t actually be killed... Let them temper him slowly!”
Huo Furong and Hanyan both nodded in agreement.
Just then, the Grand Elder’s eyebrows twitched again.
“More sparring partners have delivered themselves to the door!”
Hearing the Grand Elder’s words, Huo Furong and Hanyan also frowned and looked toward the void.
“Second Elder, Third Elder, capture them all. Keep them as sparring partners for these little guys!”
“By the way, don’t be too heavy-handed. Don’t kill or maim them!” the Grand Elder couldn’t help but remind them.
Hanyan and Huo Furong, who had just taken flight, stumbled mid-air. Were they really that unreliable?
As if sensing their thoughts, the Grand Elder’s voice rang out again.
“Yes, you both are very unreliable!”
“Hmph... Grand Elder, just you wait and see!” Huo Furong’s voice echoed in the void.
A short while later...
Several bruised and battered cultivators from the Tianqi Dynasty and the Yunhua Sacred Palace were tossed in front of the Grand Elder by Huo Furong and Hanyan.
The Grand Elder’s lips twitched.
“This is what you call ‘wait and see’?”
Huo Furong looked at the people at her feet with an embarrassed expression.
“Well, they aren’t dead, are they?”
She hadn’t expected these people to be so unable to take a hit. She had already held back!
Hanyan, meanwhile, placed his hands behind his back and looked up at the distant sky.
Mm! The clouds today are quite beautiful.
There’s even one shaped like the sect’s second disciple, Big Yellow!
The Grand Elder looked at their attitudes and sighed.
“Forget it. We don’t need them right now anyway. Once they recover from their injuries, they might be useful!”
With a wave of his hand, he tossed the cultivators directly into the large array.
The cultivators from the Tianqi Dynasty and the Yunhua Sacred Palace were filled with despair.
They had received orders to come to the Eastern Province to investigate the Qingshan Sect.
And what happened?
As soon as they crossed the Wuwang Sea, they were slashed by a sword and smashed by a cauldron...
But from what they heard, these people intended to keep them as sparring partners.
They were prestigious Unity-stage and Soul Transformation cultivators! Even in the Central Province, they were considered notable figures—or at least not nobodies!
Yet now they had fallen to the level of being training dummies.
The problem was, they didn't even know who they were supposed to be training!
Thud, thud...
After the heavily injured group was tossed into the array, they immediately saw the Unity-stage cultivator from the Tiansheng Sect, who looked utterly weary of life.
Instantly, they felt a sense of kinship, like fellow sufferers at the end of the world.
“Fellow Daoist Wei, do you know where this is?” the Unity-stage cultivator from the Tianqi Dynasty asked weakly.
The others also looked at the Tiansheng Sect elder with curiosity.
Since they had all been captured, there was no need to remain on guard against each other.
The Tiansheng Sect elder sighed with a dark expression. “The Qingshan Sect!”
“What?”
“The Qingshan Sect?”
“How is that possible?”
As soon as the Tiansheng Sect elder spoke, the others couldn’t help but cry out in shock.
The Tiansheng Sect elder said nothing more, merely nodding solemnly.
Afterward, the group fell into silence.
The good news was that they had found the Qingshan Sect; the bad news was that they had all been caught.
This Qingshan Sect was definitely not simple!
Just then, the Tiansheng Sect elder looked at the new captives.
Like them, the Tianqi Dynasty and the Yunhua Sacred Palace had each sent one Unity-stage cultivator leading two Soul Transformation cultivators.
“Is this all of you?”
The leaders from the Tianqi Dynasty and the Yunhua Sacred Palace nodded weakly.
Remembering something, they suddenly looked up at the Tiansheng Sect elder with a glimmer of hope.
“Did anyone from your sect escape?”
The Tiansheng Sect couldn't have sent only one person. If someone had escaped, they might be able to report back and bring reinforcements!
However, while their thoughts were beautiful, reality was cruel.
“No! They were captured and taken elsewhere!”
The Tiansheng Sect elder’s words instantly snuffed out their hope.
The Soul Transformation cultivators were already heavily injured, and two of them even fainted on the spot!
The others quickly shoved recovery pills into their mouths.
“Sigh... we can only leave it to fate. At least we won’t die for now!”
Subsequently, the cultivators from the Tianqi Dynasty and the Yunhua Sacred Palace began to heal.
They knew they were being watched. If they didn’t heal properly and the captors decided they had no value as sparring partners, they might be killed outright—and that would be a total loss!
After all, as long as they were alive, there were infinite possibilities.
If they died, nothing else mattered!
Seeing that the group had settled down, Huo Furong and Hanyan prepared to leave.
“Holy shit!”
Just then, the Grand Elder suddenly cried out in shock.
Huo Furong and Hanyan both looked at the Grand Elder in astonishment. They didn't know what had happened to make the Grand Elder use such colorful language.
It had been many years since those words had come out of his mouth.
“What is it, Grand Elder?” Huo Furong asked.
The Grand Elder looked at Huo Furong and then at Hanyan, his voice sounding hollow.
“That old geezer of a Sect Master has contacted me!”
“What?”
“Really?”
Huo Furong and Hanyan’s eyes widened as they stared at the Grand Elder.
“What did he contact you for?” Huo Furong asked curiously.
Hanyan was also full of curiosity.
The Grand Elder did not answer her immediately.
Instead, he raised a hand and tapped the large blue stone.
Immediately, a streak of azure light shot up from the stone.
It propped up an azure light screen that was invisible to outsiders, shielding the entire Qingshan Sect.
Seeing this, Huo Furong and Hanyan were startled for a moment.
Then, their expressions turned serious as they looked intently at the Grand Elder.
“The Sect Master told me to ask the Second Elder... Has the poison to kill the Heavenly Dao been refined yet?”
Huo Furong was stunned. Then, with a look of disappointment, she shook her head and whispered, “No!”
Hanyan wasn't surprised by her answer; he clearly knew about this matter.
Just then, the Grand Elder’s voice continued.
“The Sect Master also said that if the poison to kill the Heavenly Dao isn't ready, then could you refine something to knock it out or make it fall into a deep sleep? He’s waiting to use it...”
Huo Furong’s eyes lit up, and she nodded vigorously.
“That should be possible!”
The Grand Elder’s gaze sharpened. “Refine it immediately!”
Without another word, Huo Furong nodded firmly.
The Grand Elder tapped the large blue stone again, and the azure light screen vanished.
Once the screen was gone, Huo Furong’s figure flashed, and she disappeared from sight.
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