Escaping the Reception Hall

Xiao Hua's smile was no small matter. The Immortal's expression changed drastically. He would never forget the feeling of being attacked by over a hundred Scattered Infants. Without the slightest hesitation, silver light flashed around him, and his figure instantly disappeared. When he reappeared, he was already at the other corner of the dried-up Spirit Cleansing Pool.

However, when the Immortal's figure reappeared, his hands, which were forming seals, stopped awkwardly in mid-air. His handsome face was filled with embarrassment as he looked at the Spirit Cleansing Pool. Xiao Hua's figure had already turned into a stream of light and silently rushed to the mid-air of the Spirit Cleansing Pool. As for the over a hundred Scattered Infants he feared, not a single one was visible. No one knew where Xiao Hua had collected them all in that moment!

"Damn it, damn it!" The Immortal was furious. It wasn't just because Xiao Hua had teased him, but also because he felt sorry for those over a hundred Scattered Infants. The Immortal unleashed an Immortal Art, and with a "woo..." a walnut-sized rune fell into the air, instantly transforming into several pythons as thick as a zhang, lunging towards Xiao Hua. Before the pythons could reach him, a confining force arrived. Xiao Hua felt the surrounding space solidify, and a suffocating sensation arose!

"Is this a true Immortal Art??" Xiao Hua was terrified. He quickly urged Thunderous Might to prepare to resist, but before his Mana could be channeled, Xiao Hua felt a knife-like pain all over his body. He quickly looked down again and saw hundreds of thread-like gray strands covering his entire body. The intense pain came from the gaps between these gray and silver strands!

In a moment of hesitation, the pythons pounced. They coiled around Xiao Hua in several places, and as they moved, Xiao Hua felt as if he were pinned by nails, unable to move an inch!

"Heh heh..." The Immortal chuckled, clapping his hands. "You're just a nobody Mortal Immortal, daring to show off in front of this Emissary. Quickly tell me, where did you collect those Scattered Infants?"

"Roar..." Just as the Immortal was about to fly over, a beastly roar sounded from above their heads. Following the roar, a yellowish-brown light and surging might descended from the sky!

"Who?" The Immortal was greatly alarmed. He tapped the crown of his head, and his spiritual pressure instantly erupted. Amidst several waves of air, the Kirin Spirit descended!

The Immortal looked at the Kirin Spirit, then at the Xingtian Immortal Artifact on the Azure Stone Array, and asked with a hint of frustration, "Ah? Why is it you, you beast??"

"Roar..." The Kirin Spirit let out a low growl and shattered the several pythons trapping Xiao Hua with a single claw. Then, it slapped its four claws in mid-air, and the yellowish-brown light lunged towards the Immortal!

"Hmph..." The Immortal snorted, opened his mouth, and flew out a crystal plaque shaped like a rhombus. This plaque looked ordinary, even its luster was dim, but when it landed in the air, it actually forced the Kirin Spirit to stop.

At this moment, Xiao Hua couldn't afford to worry about anything else. As soon as he felt he could move, he immediately urged his figure and rushed towards the exit outside the Azure Stone Array. As his figure swept past the edge of the Spirit Cleansing Pool, his gaze happened to fall upon the Green Fruit growing in the cracks. Although Xiao Hua hadn't read the Ascension records of the Heavenly Alliance and the Dao Alliance, he had heard from Xu Zhi about the situation after Ascension. He knew that the place he ascended to was one of the Three Great Continents. And the Ascension Point corresponding to the Three Great Continents had not had anyone ascend for a long time and might have long been abandoned. Wasn't the current situation exactly as expected?

This pool, dug up three feet deep, was undoubtedly the Spirit Cleansing Pool. Since the Green Fruit grew in the Spirit Cleansing Pool, it must be a spiritual item. Therefore, without thinking, almost instinctively, he beckoned and took the Green Fruit from the crack. In such a critical moment, being able to snatch the last spiritual item from the Spirit Cleansing Pool was something only Xiao Hua could do!

"Boom boom..." Just as Xiao Hua escaped to the edge of the Azure Stone Array, the Xingtian Immortal Artifact above the Azure Stone Array let out a rumbling sound. A massive lightning bolt roared down. As Xiao Hua looked back, he saw the lightning falling like a waterfall. With mournful cries, the Kirin Spirit was defeated.

Fortunately, Xiao Hua knew that the Kirin Spirit was indestructible, so his heart felt a little better.

"Where do you think you're going!" The Guiding Emissary shouted, his figure crossing the lightning and chasing after him!

However, when the Guiding Emissary rushed out of the Azure Stone Array and flew out of the bronze palace, looking at Xiao Hua's disappearing back, he hesitated again. He stopped and looked at the flags planted all over the palace, as well as the Xingtian Immortal Artifact on the palace and the lightning within the Azure Stone Array. He said with some distress, "This Xingtian Immortal Artifact was borrowed from the Palace of Punishment. Although I served in the Palace of Punishment back then, it was a hundred lifetimes ago. I've long forgotten how to activate the Xingtian Immortal Artifact. When I just triggered the Lightning Punishment, I actually activated the Black Qi Kill and White Light Kill. Fortunately, this fellow is not an ordinary cultivator, otherwise, he would have already died under the Black and White Kills, and he wouldn't have reached the Immortal Realm! Now, if I leave and leave the Xingtian Immortal Artifact here, and another Immortal takes it, how can I explain it to the Hall Master?"

As the Guiding Emissary hesitated, he suddenly saw the dark green moon essence at the place where the palace collapsed. He couldn't help but slap his forehead and laugh, "Hahaha, I forgot. This fellow is of the Scattered Infant Body. He hasn't had his spiritual body reforged with Spirit Cleansing Liquid, nor has he taken the Spirit Changing Pill to suppress the Dust Qi. How can he withstand the Autumn Hair Moon Essence? If he doesn't flee back here to hide, where else can he go?"

"Besides, even if he doesn't come back, as long as he has Dust Qi in his body, I can still find his whereabouts. In this desolate Yunmeng Marsh, without a Teleportation Immortal Array, where can he go?"

Saying that, the Guiding Emissary leisurely returned. He had plotted against Xiao Hua, but unexpectedly, he was attacked by Xiao Hua's over a hundred Scattered Infants. Although the over a hundred Scattered Infants had just entered the Immortal Realm, they used the lightning power of the Palace of Punishment, which injured his Immortal Mark. The healing of an Immortal Mark was not a day's work, nor could it be handled in this dilapidated Reception Hall. He could only temporarily suppress it. But he couldn't neglect the injuries to his immortal body. The Guiding Emissary's immortal body was also severely injured, otherwise, he wouldn't have let Xiao Hua escape so easily in front of him. Thinking that Xiao Hua could pass through the Black and White Kills, the Guiding Emissary couldn't help but take it seriously again.

It was precisely because Xiao Hua could pass through the Black and White Kills that the Guiding Emissary temporarily changed his mind and disguised himself as Xu Zhi to plot against Xiao Hua. But even so, he was still seen through by Xiao Hua and injured. The Thunderous Might of the over a hundred Scattered Infants had truly taught the Guiding Emissary a lesson. He still felt an indescribable lingering fear. He felt that if he didn't have absolute confidence, he wouldn't dare to act rashly again.

The Guiding Emissary returned to the Azure Stone Array. First, he beckoned, and the rope-like Immortal Artifact, like a dead snake, slowly fell into his hand. Then, he sat cross-legged and took out a crystal box the size of a fist from his Hundred Treasures Bag. The surface of this crystal box was hollowed out and engraved with some plant patterns. In the hollowed-out areas, faint wisps of clouds lingered, and as the clouds flowed, ant-sized runes rolled. The Guiding Emissary raised his hand and opened the crystal box. A green glow emanated from within, revealing a pill the size of a fist.

The Guiding Emissary didn't raise his hand, but opened his mouth and inhaled. The pill's glow fell into his mouth like fireworks. With a "woo," the pill trembled, and a silvery-white streak appeared on the surface of the pill. Immediately, with a loud "boom," real fireworks erupted from the streak, circled the pill once, and layers of green and red luster leaped within the flames. The pill seemed to have a spirit and flew into the air.

"Alas, a Fifth-grade Immortal Pill that was hard to obtain, and it's wasted here!" The Guiding Emissary looked at the pill within reach and still sighed. "I thought it was an easy task, and I could easily gain the Hall Master's appreciation, but I didn't expect..."

At this point, the Guiding Emissary looked in one direction outside the Azure Stone Array, hesitated for a moment, and then opened his mouth. The pill went directly into his mouth.

As the pill entered his mouth, the Guiding Emissary formed seals with both hands. With a loud "boom," a wisp of green and red flame emerged from his body. This flame first bloomed like a flower bud, layer by layer. As the flame spread, strange silver runes surged out one after another, with constant "sizzling" sounds. Occasionally, scorched-like breaths mixed with a fishy smell rushed out. The silver light around the Guiding Emissary began to slowly emanate, with a grayish-black color at the bottom of the silver light. Looking around, wisps of Immortal Spiritual Energy formed small vortices and frantically rushed into the silver light, as if to wash away the grayish-black color.

After about half an hour, the Guiding Emissary's hand seals suddenly stopped, and the silver light on his body also stopped flickering. Within the silver light, he murmured in a confused tone, "Why hasn't this guy returned yet? Could he have died outside? No, I have to go and see. I absolutely cannot let him fall into anyone else's hands!"

"Woo..." The sound of wind whistling rose again. The silver light was retracted into his body, and the Guiding Emissary stood up. He looked up at the Xingtian Immortal Artifact, which was several mu in size, above the Azure Stone Array. He raised his hand and took out the crystal plaque. He lowered his head and pondered for a moment. The Guiding Emissary reluctantly began to form the somewhat clumsy Immortal Art. His body trembled a few times, and the phantom-like Immortal Mark on his brow appeared. The Immortal Mark flashed and disappeared, and the silver light on the Guiding Emissary's hand greatly intensified.

"Collect..." As the Guiding Emissary recited the incantation, the Immortal Art in his hand transformed into silver light and shot into the sky, directly striking the Xingtian Immortal Artifact.

"Boom boom boom..." A huge rumbling sound came from the Xingtian Immortal Artifact, and then the silver light spread across the Xingtian Immortal Artifact like flowing water. In just a few breaths, the Xingtian Immortal Artifact began to shrink, and the Guiding Emissary let out a long sigh of relief. He was injured internally, and collecting this Xingtian Immortal Artifact also consumed his Immortal Power. He felt he couldn't handle it.

The Guiding Emissary thought about Xiao Hua's whereabouts and dared not delay. Watching the Xingtian Immortal Artifact shrink, he quickly flew to the top of the palace. He raised his hand and collected the small flags around him. As the small flags turned into butterflies and flew into his hands, "Boom, boom, boom..." the floating bluestones all fell with a loud crash!

The Azure Stone Array was closed. The ripples generated when Xiao Hua's Immortal Mark was first born and condensed into the "Dao" mark now rushed out like birds escaping their cages, disappearing into the void without a sound.

After an unknown amount of time, in another mysterious place in the Immortal Realm, these ripples inexplicably appeared. As soon as the ripples appeared, they transformed into a lightning bolt and struck a mountain-like light shadow...

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