The Heavenly Mandate Fairy smiled faintly. "Actually, I don't like cultivating. I was forced to come this far. What I enjoy is playing the flute, so please listen to me play a tune!"
As she spoke, she swept her hand out. The sword in her palm vanished, replaced by a jade flute.
Waves of Destiny Law swept out from around her. As she played, they traveled with the sound of the flute, as though it were the voice of fate itself.
"That's the Soul Melody Immortal Sound! A true Dao Artifact, hailed as one of the Immortal Domain's ten greatest musical instruments!"
"The Heavenly Mandate Fairy is playing a Dao Artifact flute and infusing it with Destiny Law. How can Lu Ren withstand that?"
Many of the older experts recognized the jade flute at once.
It was no ordinary jade flute, but a genuine Dao Artifact—and a High-grade Dao Artifact at that. Ordinarily, only an expert of the Immortal Realm could unleash its full power.
Yet the Heavenly Mandate Fairy was only a late-stage Heavenly Immortal Realm cultivator. How was she using it?
The flute's melody flowed, beautiful as mountains and running water. It drew its listeners in until they could not pull themselves free.
Then the melody turned. It became a song of slaughter, like the clash of spears and the thunder of armored horses. Endless notes fused with Destiny Law and surged toward Lu Ren like a flood.
This was a true sound of slaughter. An ordinary cultivator's immortal roots might snap in an instant merely from hearing it, let alone taking its force head-on.
As Lu Ren listened, he knew that without the Power of Faith bolstering him and swelling his Immortal Soul Power to just barely reach the peak of the Extraordinary Level, his Immortal Soul