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Inner City, Eastern Glory Ward.
Compared with Outer City where sewage flows across the street and where fish and dragons are mixed, here Spiritual Qi is dense and the streets are filled with neat white jade and blue bricks.
Mortal cars and horses are isolated from the three passes. Those who can walk here are all immortal cultivators wearing various brocade robes.
On a suspended floating island at the core of Fang City, a heavy green and black building rises majestically from the ground.
A sharp green sword is carved on the corner of the eaves, and the sword whistles in the wind - this is the branch hall where the second-rate sect Canghai Sword Sect is stationed in Azure Cloud City.
At this time, the atmosphere in "Soul-Pointing Hall" behind the main hall was as dull as a cold pool before a storm.
On the bronze shelves on both sides of the palace, thousands of glazed soul lamps and natal tablets are densely enshrined.
It was a wisp of Divine Soul sustenance left by the outer sect disciples, inner sect deacons and True Disciple monks in the sect.
On weekdays, the green lanterns are swaying and the aura is woven, symbolizing the unshakable majesty of the Immortal Sect in this majestic city.
However, at this moment, on a jade platform on the left side of the third floor, a life tablet carved entirely from the finest cold jade had been broken into dozens of charred pieces.
Around the debris, the fire of Divine Soul that was originally warmed by Spirit Gathering Formation has long been extinguished and turned into a wisp of dead ashes.
Underneath this True Disciple life tablet, there are four fine bronze life tablets representing disciples. They are also broken and peeled off, and their spirituality is completely gone.
"Pah."
A crisp explosion sounded particularly harsh in the hall.
A burly middle-aged man wearing a gray Daoist robe with gold patterns stood in front of the jade platform with a gloomy expression.
This person is Canghai Sword Sect Azure Cloud City sub-helm Enforcement Hall elder, Chen Yuan.
His cultivation has reached the peak of the Fifth Realm Profound Passage, and he has even faintly touched the threshold of the Sixth Realm Spirit Wandering. He is only half a step away from being able to condense the second mouthful of Pure Yang Sword Gang in his body.
In the entire Azure Cloud City, except for a few Commander who were stationed at the City Lord's Mansion and Great Xia Immortal Dynasty, even the deacons of ordinary first-class sects had to politely call out to Daoyou Chen when they saw him.
"Song He's life card... is broken."
Chen Yuan's voice was extremely low, but it carried a chilling chill that made Divine Soul tremble. "It was broken so long ago, and it was only today that Black Dragon Secret Realm was completely closed and the number of people at the entrance and exit was counted, did you report to the palace?"
Below the main hall, the two Fourth Realm deacons on duty Soul-Pointing Hall were trembling all over. They knelt down directly on the ground with their foreheads pressed against the cold ground, not even daring to raise their heads.
"Elder, please calm down!"
The voice of the deacon on the left trembled. "Black Dragon Secret Realm has complex restrictions, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi is rioting, in the past, disciples encountered restrictions and shocks in the secret realm, and the life cards also had the illusion of hidden spiritual light... The disciples originally thought that Master Nephew Song was just trapped in the remnant formation, but who knew, who knew..."
"Song He is my close disciple, Fourth Realm Late Stage swordsman. He has practiced Canghai Sword Fiend to the point where he can do whatever he wants. He also has Heart-Guarding Treasure Mirror and three Fifth Stage Teleportation Talisman given by me!"
Chen Yuan turned around suddenly, the gray-gold robes moved automatically without wind, and a burst of spiritual pressure suddenly spread around the body, causing the bronze sword racks around the hall to shake violently, and the glazed lamps emitted a continuous mournful cry:
"The person who can kill him is either Black Dragon Secret Realm deep inside Fifth Stage Demon King, or the True Disciple leader of Three Great Sects! If killed by Demon Beast, no bones will be left, and the life card will be shattered and glow red. If he died from high-level Law Technique, the life card will remain mottled Spiritual Power!"
Chen Yuan raised his right hand and sucked the residue of the Song He life tablet on the jade platform into his palm. He twisted his fingertips slightly, and there was a trace of uncontrollable horror and anger in his eyes:
"But... there is no trace of the Law Technique bombardment on it!"
Divine Sense's brand was shattered by a blunt force that was haphazardly pure and unruly!
It's like using an ordinary large Iron Hammer to smash a piece of Mortal Iron in front of your face!
Pure blunt force?
The two deacons looked at each other with a look of extreme absurdity in their eyes.
Immortal cultivators' fighting skills focus on Law Treasure echoing, Five Elements creating and defeating, and swords breaking the sky.
Who would crush a Fourth Realm sword cultivator to death with an ordinary person's blunt instrument? This is totally unreasonable!
"Check."
Chen Yuan closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, there was only a biting murderous intent in his eyes. "No matter which sect's little beast has a hand, as long as he takes Song He's Storage Bag and uses the things inside, it will never be possible to erase the traces."
"Retrieve all the hidden stakes outside the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion and check all the monks who have been in and out of the Black Dragon Secret Realm in the past half month!"
"Yes!"
An hour later.
The branch steward held a thick stack of files and several sound transmission Image-Recording Stone, and hurriedly walked into the main hall.
"Elder, we found it!"
The deacon knelt down to report, but there was a strong sense of uncertainty in his expression. "Image-Recording Formation at the entrance to the secret realm has investigated and found out that the teams of Three Great Immortal Sects and Aristocratic Clan had records before the secret realm was closed. They did not conflict with Master Nephew Song, but from the confessions of the few surviving Rogue Cultivator outside... we captured an extremely strange piece of information."
Chen Yuan's eyes were like lightning. "Say."
"According to the confessions of seven Rogue Cultivators, there was a group of people dressed in extremely weird clothes near the medicine garden on the middle floor of the Black Dragon Secret Realm."
The deacon swallowed his saliva and whispered, "That team... there were two people in total, one male and one female. They didn't have any Spiritual Power fluctuations, no Flying Sword, no Cosmic Bag, and they didn't even wear robes.
They were carrying Mortal Iron sledgehammers and Greatsword weighing hundreds of kilograms, and they were running through the mountains and forests purely on their legs!
More importantly, Master Nephew Song had previously reported to the sect that he had discovered mature Fifth Stage main medicines Dragon Marrow Zhi and Earth Spirit Fruit in the medicine garden.
But according to what Rogue Cultivator said, the ferocious beasts that accompanied the medicine garden were killed, and what was left at the scene were not sword marks at all, but the bones of the beasts that were smashed alive by the huge force! The two Tier Five Great Medicine plants... were forcibly taken away by the man and the woman!"
There was deathly silence in the hall.
Chen Yuan stared at the deacon, as if listening to a ridiculous joke.
"No Spiritual Power fluctuations? Carrying Mortal Iron heavy equipment? Running on your legs?"
Chen Yuan's voice suddenly rose, and his tone was cold and biting. "You mean, I have carefully cultivated Core Formation for thirty years, and was expected to be within Sexagenary Cycle, but died at the hands of two ordinary people who didn't even have Spiritual Power?!"
"Disciples dare not speak nonsense!"
The deacon trembled and quickly presented a White Paper Crane: "Just half an hour ago, the informant at the Outer City tea stall sent a message to Feihe! Following the clues, my subordinates investigated all the bulk iron and stone transactions of Azure Cloud City in the past three months, and finally discovered the clues!"
"Go on!"
Afterwards, the deacon briefly explained what happened.
In the most remote Western Ward of Outer City, a few months ago a force named Eternal Life Martial Sect suddenly appeared. It does not practice Immortal Dao and does not worship the immortal sect.
In just a few months, he secretly annexed three mortal streets, secretly ordered tens of thousands of kilograms of Refined Iron from seven mortal blacksmith shops to build heavy armor and spears, and even built a three-foot-high Bluestone wall in Outer City!
The deacon pointed at the paper crane and said in a quick voice:
"The eyeliner saw with his own eyes that a man and a woman were seriously injured and fled back to the Martial Sect compound! But early this morning, an extremely violent dark gold Qi and Blood wave rose up inside the Martial Sect, and its aura... was impressively fused with the smell of Fifth Stage Dragon Marrow Zhi!"
"Pah!"
Chen Yuan The crumbs of the life card in his hand were completely twisted into ashes by the sword in his palm.
At this moment, his chest heaved violently, and what surged in his eyes was not pure anger, but a deeply offended, even absurd and twisted humiliation!
Mortal warrior.
In the eyes of immortal cultivators, what is a martial artist?
They are just a group of maggots without Spirit Root and completely abandoned in the mire by Heavenly Dao!
Immortal cultivators breathe out the essence of heaven and earth, move their swords thousands of miles with a single thought, and live for hundreds or even thousands of years.
As for a mortal martial artist, if he exhausts all his Essence Blood and beats his body, even if he trains to the point where Qi and Blood is exhausted, his life span will be less than a hundred years. In front of the immortal Law Technique, the most basic Li Fire Talisman can burn the so-called Martial Dao Grandmaster into black charcoal.
Immortals and mortals have different paths, how dare an ant defy heaven?!
But now, it was this group of ants that he usually didn't even bother to look at, that actually sneaked into the Black Dragon Secret Realm, took away the Tier Five Great Medicine that Canghai Sword Sect was bound to win, and even smashed his proud True Disciple to death in the mud of the secret realm!
What a shame!
If this matter spreads, let other major sects in Azure Cloud City know Canghai Sword Sect's Fourth Realm True Disciple was killed by a mortal warrior. His Chen Yuan face and Canghai Sword Sect's prestige in all parties in the Immortal Dynasty will be completely reduced to the laughing stock of the entire Cangyun Cultivation World!
"Mortal Martial Sect... What a Eternal Life Martial Sect!"
Chen Yuan was so angry that he laughed back. The laughter echoed in the hall, and it was so cold that it was creepy. "A group of mud-legged people who were digging for food in the ground were lucky enough to pick up a few ordinary and crude Hardening Technique. How dare they establish their own sect? How dare they kill my immortal sect True Disciple?!"
The deacons below the main hall and the several sword cultivator disciples who came over also had cold and disdainful expressions on their faces.
In their view, this is not even an evenly matched sect feud.
This is a purge.
It's like an immortal discovers a nest of wild dogs that dare to eat the spiritual valley next to his Spirit Field. The only thing he should do is to go over with a sword, take away the nest, and chop up those evil beasts who dare to show their teeth!
"Pass on my decree."
Chen Yuan fluttered his sleeves and turned around, striding out of the hall, his eyes like ten thousand years of ice:
"Enforcement Hall Three Fourth Realm Late Stage disciples came out and ordered twelve Third Realm elites."
"Follow me to wield the sword and go to Outer City."
"Today, I will use the heads of all mortals above and below the so-called Eternal Life Martial Sect to build a Jingguan, and use their mortal blood to wash away the Flying Sword of Song He!"
Outside the main hall, the sound of a long sword being unsheathed became clearer and harsher.
Chen Yuan jumped up, and a five-foot Flying Sword emitting cold green light suddenly appeared at his feet.
The light of the sword penetrated the sun like a rainbow, tearing apart Inner City the clouds that lingered all year round.
Behind him, fifteen sharp cyan rays of light followed closely behind, bringing with them the vast and violent murderous intent, like an overwhelming cold wave, heading straight towards the sewage-filled, dilapidated and chaotic mortal neighborhood!