The sword immortals of the Divine Sword Immortal Sect had each used separate long-distance teleportation spells, so the locations and distances at which they were intercepted were utterly random. These few had happened to appear within our range. Within the surrounding area we could detect another dozen or so. It seemed that these immortals had gone all out to rescue their sect master.
"Otherworldly Immortals! Release our sect master at once!" one of the sword immortals roared.
"Great Elder Li Cheng, you killed my mother. We captured your sect master. One life for one life, that's all. You want us to release him? Dream on!" Li Tinglan raised the Void-Exterminating Lamp, her face set with resolve.
The moment the great elder saw the Void-Exterminating Lamp in Li Tinglan's hand, he knew that everything belonging to Li Shenjian had fallen into enemy hands.
The Void-Exterminating Lamp was a high-grade treasure. Ordinary immortals simply did not possess one, and even Sky City had never made anything similar. Of course, Sky City was not incapable of making it. Rather, it harmed Heaven's harmony and had little practical use, so no one would devote their efforts to researching it.
"Great Elder, could it be that the fragment of the Sword-Suppressing Seed..." Another great elder's expression abruptly changed. To any sect, that fragment was an invaluable inheritance treasure.
Li Tinglan also glanced at me. I remained expressionless. Of course I liked the fragment. If we gathered all twelve chapters of the Heavenly Sword and placed them in Sky City's Teaching Pavilion, quite a few elite disciples would surely emerge. It was an undertaking that could pass down an inheritance for centuries and millennia.
Li Cheng gritted his teeth and nodded, then said in a low voice, "Who would have thought that our sect master, a