Heavenly Secret Old Daoist Sought Easy Pickings, Zu Tangtang's Curse Eye Pupil Technique Awakened

The instant they stepped through the vermilion, gold-trimmed gates of the Profound Sun Immortal Mansion, the heavy doors slammed shut behind them, sending overlapping ripples through the barrier of light surrounding the mansion's outer layer.

The Xuanyang White Jade floor beneath their feet, originally warm and smooth as jade, suddenly lit up with dark gold runes. Hundreds of thousands of barbed spikes erupted from the gaps between the tiles, carrying soul-devouring, icy gleams.

The Spirit-Eroding Poison coating the tips, capable of piercing a Golden Immortal's protective spiritual light, had only just begun to gleam a sinister blue when the pressure of Yun Che's black-and-white curse power spread without restraint.

Those poisoned spikes, each several dozen feet long, shattered inch by inch with a series of cracks before they could come anywhere near the hems of their clothes, turning into clouds of fine dust that sifted down.

Mechanisms clicked one after another in hidden compartments on both sides. Millions of Xuanyang Divine Crossbows poured down like a torrential storm, bearing armor-piercing runes inscribed by ancient artifact refiners. Their sharp tips even pierced the surrounding void with dense white fissures.

Yuezheng Xiangling pinched a bloom of Red Lotus Karmic Fire between her fingertips and gently sent it forward. The palm-sized flame instantly swelled into a towering flame net hundreds of yards wide.

Every divine crossbow that struck the flame net melted into scalding golden molten iron without making a sound. It dripped down along the net's edges, burning bottomless, charred holes into the white jade floor.

The low-level cultivators who had rushed in behind them had no time to react. Most were riddled with the arrows that followed. The few who barely escaped the arrow rain lost their footing and fell into the Lost-Trace Void-Trapping Formation beyond the entrance hall. Before even