"Let me go!"
"The Righteous Sun Gate carries on the True Martial Immortal Sect's lineage! If you kill me, the True Martial Immortal Sect will never let you off!"
Chen Changqing released a faint pulse of magical power from his palm.
Violent true essence poured into the primordial spirit through its apertures.
True Lord Blazing Flame's clamoring instantly turned into agonized screams.
"Stop!"
A rolling thunderous voice suddenly exploded at the edge of the sky.
A black rift a thousand feet wide was forcibly torn through the void.
Violent astral winds surged out of it.
A tall figure in purple-and-gold Daoist robes strode out of the spatial rift.
The newcomer had crane-white hair and a youthful face, his expression stern, with the phantom of a Black Tortoise coiling around him.
An oppressive, formidable pressure poured from his body, pulverizing the scattered rocks across the entire mountain range.
A half-step Heavenly Monarch!
At the sight of him, True Lord Blazing Flame's primordial spirit cried out in wild delight.
"Elder Tianying, save me!"
"Please, save me!"
The newcomer was none other than Elder Tianying, one of the influential elders of the True Martial Immortal Sect's Inner Sect.
The Righteous Sun Gate was nominally an affiliated lineage of the True Martial Immortal Sect. In reality, it was Elder Tianying's private holding in the Northern Border, plundering hundreds of millions of spirit stones and other resources for him every year.
True Lord Blazing Flame had just crushed a Communication Jade Talisman. Elder Tianying happened to be inspecting the sect's Northern Border branch in Central Province, so he had immediately rushed over using a Great Teleportation Talisman to traverse the void.
Elder Tianying stood high in the heavens, looking down at the devastated ruins of the Mountain Gate.
His expression was exceedingly ugly.
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