Interception

Chapter 688: Interception

March.

Traveling by carriage and boat.

Northwest of Star Luo.

An ancient great city.

Unlike ordinary cultivation cities, this city was exceptionally majestic.

As bells and drums resounded.

A thousand sails rose, ten thousand boats descended.

On the deck of a spirit vessel in the distant sky, a cultivator clad in a black Daoist robe gazed into the distance.

The cultivator was tall, around seven chi in height, with black hair and black eyes, sharply defined features, and only a faint bluish pallor to his skin. He looked extraordinarily sturdy, yet that complexion did not seem healthy.

However, the bluish pallor of his face and palms could not truly be called sickly.

For the aura he exuded was obscure and powerful. One look told others that he was a cultivator of profound cultivation, so there was no reason to judge whether he was healthy or not.

With a flick of his sleeve, a pair of scarlet eyes poked out.

The demon clung to his sleeve and looked toward the fluttering iron banner raised upon the spirit vessel.

The flagpole was cast from blue-gold, while the banner itself was woven from pale golden silk. Only the three large characters inscribed upon it were dark gold, flowing with the fluttering banner.

By rights, it was clearly no extraordinary banner, yet it made the demon look astonished. Then it turned toward the black-robed, black-haired Daoist. "Master, weren't we going to the Pill Artifact Alliance?"

The black-eyed, black-haired Daoist said flatly, "The Pill Artifact Alliance is unreliable."

The Pill Alliance and Artifact Alliance of the Star Luo Sea had merged.

After the Kunpeng Sect emerged, the pressure on the sects of the Star Luo Sea had grown ever greater. To withstand the squeezing of great sects, many smaller sects had