After leaving Musha City, Xu Chunniang headed west. Before she had gone far, someone recognized her identity.
Three Void Refining Stage cultivators blocked her path, sizing her up with hostile gazes.
"So you are the thief who stole the Profound Yellow Pagoda? Saint Lord Meng kindly invited you to visit the Meng Household, yet you took the chance to steal the Meng Household's Innate Supreme Treasure. You are simply digging your own grave!"
"Hand over the Profound Yellow Pagoda and obediently come back with us to turn yourself in. Perhaps Saint Lord Meng will be merciful enough to spare your life."
"Why waste so many words on her? Kill her directly, and we can naturally search her body for the Profound Yellow Pagoda!"
Without a word, Xu Chunniang struck first. She directly deployed the Three Talents Formation to lock down the mid Void Refining stage cultivator nearest her, then sent forth the Heartfall Flame to engulf him.
"Ah!"
The poor man had his movements trapped by the Three Talents Formation. He could only watch helplessly as the magic treasure he had summoned melted into molten iron beneath the Heartfall Flame, his face turning deathly pale with fright.
Before he could cry out for help, the Heartfall Flame pressed its advantage and reduced him to charred coke in one stroke.
Seeing him burned to death, the others were filled with terror and instinctively retreated into the distance.
Xu Chunniang's eyes turned faintly cold. She used the formation to lock onto the second cultivator, teleported close, and likewise took his life with the Heartfall Flame.
In the blink of an eye, two of the three Void Refining Stage cultivators had fallen. Only the last one remained—a female cultivator in the early Void Refining stage—who fled in panic.
Xu Chunniang did not pursue