You Call Yourself an Immortal?
Noticing that there was a suspected resistance from Origin Qi Annihilation Immortal clone, thousands of miles away, glanced in Lin Xiao's direction with slight surprise.
The thirty-two Void Return cultivators were naturally aware of Annihilation Immortal's actions, but Annihilation Immortal's clone moved too quickly and unexpectedly, leaving them powerless to stop it.
"Annihilation Immortal... Bah! You dare call yourself an immortal!" Sensing the sudden disappearance of hundreds of thousands of lives in the direction the rescue ships had left, a Void Return cultivator couldn't help but curse.
They continued to control their respective Law Treasure, the dazzling giant bowl seemingly trying to completely engulf the Annihilation Immortal's clone.
After absorbing all the Execution Qi and the life force of the wounded in Cloud Gathering City, the avatar of the Annihilation Immortal merely snorted and said mockingly, "Some things... require matching abilities to use... Your Grandpa of Annihilation has other matters to attend to today... so I won't play house with you..."
After saying that, the black mist around it trembled, as if it were contracting inward.
Lu Xunfeng saw its intention and shouted, "Oh no, it's trying to run away!"
The thirty-two Void Return cultivators desperately activated their respective Law Treasure, trying to make the dazzling light fall faster and leave the Immortal Annihilation Immortal behind. However, perhaps because they had never practiced these coordination techniques, their ability to quickly merge and activate the magic weapons earlier relied mainly on the connection between the Law Treasure themselves. Now, they simply couldn't accelerate suddenly.
So they could only watch as the avatar of the Annihilation Immortal Extermination shrank its black mist right before their eyes, then gradually disappeared into Cloud Gathering City until it had completely escaped.
No one noticed that a moment before the Annihilation Immortal's clone left, it shot out a very subtle Execution Qi in a certain direction.
Although this Execution Qi was subtle, it was incredibly powerful, possessing the strength to pierce through thousands of mountains!
[Host, be careful! Buzz -- An abnormal danger has been detected. Emergency defense function is automatically activated, deducting 10,000 Spirit Stone.]
Lin Xiao, who was still trying to save Jiang Qu, didn't even have time to react before he heard the system in his mind broadcast a message at an extremely fast pace for the first time. Immediately afterward, he felt an extremely powerful aura rushing towards him!
In an instant, he felt himself facing the power of death! This power was so fast that he couldn't react and was firmly imprisoned in place.
Lin Xiao almost thought he was going to die; his brain couldn't even process any thoughts.
He could only see a thin Execution Qi, as fine as a hair, appear directly in front of his forehead at the last second. Then, in the next instant, he felt the Execution Qi pierce his forehead, followed by a very faint "crack" sound, as if something tiny had collided and shattered!
Lin Xiao felt a sharp, piercing pain in his forehead, but the Execution Qi didn't actually penetrate his brain.
The pain made him suddenly dizzy, and Jiang Qu in his arms was already seeing things too clearly to see Lin Xiao's condition. His weak voice reached Lin Xiao's ears intermittently.
"Fellow Daoist Lin... the place you asked me to recommend before... actually there's a place I think is even better than the one I wanted to tell you about... it's my hometown..."
Lin Xiao, feeling dizzy, felt a Jade Slip being shoved into his hand. Then he felt a weight in his arms, and the person in his arms had completely stopped breathing.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang...? Jiang Qu... Jiang Qu!" Lin Xiao suppressed his dizziness to check on Jiang Qu's condition, frantically channeling Spiritual Power into him, but the person in his arms no longer responded.
"Jiang Qu..."
A person who was alive and well just hours ago died right before his eyes.
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As the aftershocks of the battle subsided, Cloud Gathering City, once a bustling hub and an almost inevitable passage through the second level of the Chongxiao Domain, was completely razed to the ground.
The huge crater that was originally blasted open by the Annihilation Immortal's clone has long been filled back into the clouds on the ground.
"Qianxin, how is it?" Cloud Gathering City, thirty-two Void Return cultivators gathered together. The sect leader of the Hundred Spirits Sect asked the Supreme Elder of the Cloud Water Sect.
Yun Qianxin, the Supreme Elder of the Cloud Water Sect, frowned and shook his head, saying, "I'm not sure. Although I used a secret technique to catch him off guard, that clone was entirely formed from Execution Qi, which is naturally effective against us spiritual cultivators. I'm not entirely confident that I can track down its true form."
After saying that, she made several Method Formula with her right hand, her expression serious as she closed her eyes as if sensing something.
Cloud Water Sect possesses a secret technique that can trace the source of power, and it is extremely difficult to detect even those whose cultivation level is much higher than the caster's. Within the entire Cloud Water Sect Cloud Water Sect, only the Supreme Elder Yun Qianxin and the Sect Leader are proficient in this secret technique.
The sect leader of the Cloud Water Sect, whose cultivation level was only at the Late Spirit Transformation, did not come to the rescue this time but stayed at the sect to oversee the situation.
The remaining thirty-one cultivators remained silent, awaiting Yun Qianxin's decision.
A moment later, Yun Qianxin opened her eyes and said somewhat uncertainly, "I just tried it, and I could sense it, but..." She hesitated, as if considering how to put it, "The target seems to be moving, or rather, it seems to be teleporting, its location keeps changing, and... it's intermittent, which is a bit strange."
Upon hearing this, everyone was somewhat confused.
"What should we do?" someone asked.
"Alright then," Lu Xunfeng was the most accomplished in terms of cultivation, age, and reputation, so he stepped forward to take charge, "Mark out all the locations and directions where they appeared, and we'll send people to investigate them one by one."
"But that Annihilation Fiend Law Power powerful. Even if we went into battle ourselves, we would have a hard time stopping him. Wouldn't it be too dangerous to send someone to investigate?" Gongsun Jingge said.
Lineage is different from a sect; they are mostly blood relatives. As the patriarch of the Gongsun Household, Gongsun Jingge cherishes his family's members.
"But if we are too hesitant and afraid of sacrifice and don't investigate, are we just going to let the Annihilation Fiend develop like this and expect to be safe?" someone countered.
Gongsun Jingge sighed, "That's not what I meant."
"What Fellow Daoist Gongsun said makes sense. We can't just blindly send our disciples to investigate. What if this is a trap set by that Annihilation Fiend?" Some people also supported Gongsun Jingge's point of view.
"Are you questioning the secret techniques of the Cloud Water Sect? Or are you doubting Fellow Daoist Yun's abilities?" Yun Qianxin's friend began to find fault with her words, clearly displeased.
"Hey! When did I ever doubt the secret techniques of the Cloud Water Sect or question Fellow Daoist Yun? Although the Cloud Water Sect's ancestral secret technique for tracking is very powerful, the Annihilation Fiend' Law Power is strong, and the Execution Qi ' is inherently somewhat restraining to us spiritual cultivators. How can you be sure it hasn't discovered it? Even if we take a step back and say it hasn't discovered it, how do we know it won't be on guard and set a trap? It's not easy to train so many disciples and followers. Will you take responsibility if something happens to them?" The supporter of Gongsun Jingge launched a series of questions with some displeasure.