Chapter 208: Playing Tricks with My Saint Sect?
“You actually aren’t running.”
Watching Lu Yang standing with his hands clasped behind his back, the Treasure-Laden Youth dispersed his escaping light, his face ashen. He subconsciously released his Divine Sense to sweep the surroundings.
“Something’s wrong… there’s no ambush.”
The Treasure-Laden Youth looked puzzled.
In all fairness, seeing that Lu Yang had absolutely no intention of fleeing, he had thought he was the one being fished and had fallen into an ambush, but the result was not so.
On the other side, Lu Yang also frowned. “Why is it only you?”
Wasn’t there an Old Man Dragon Angler too?
Didn’t they come together? Not accomplices?
Or could it be…
In the next second, Lu Yang’s brow smoothed out. If the other party truly had connections with the Dao Court, presumably, he must have gone south to the [Kingdom of Qing] to find helpers.
In that case, there were big fish?
Thinking of this, Lu Yang’s expression became even calmer. “As expected of a rural rogue cultivator, utterly devoid of morals. Just finished trading on the front foot, and come to rob and kill on the back foot.”
These words instantly pierced the Treasure-Laden Youth’s inner demon, and his expression turned extremely ugly. “You, a Demonic Sect Perfected One, dare to talk extravagantly about morals here? Trading on the surface but robbing and killing behind the scenes, collecting numerous rare Treasures without paying a single cent—isn’t that exactly what you Demonic Sect Perfected Ones do?”
“You can actually recognize me?”
Lu Yang deliberately frowned, then his expression turned solemn. “You are quite bold. Knowing that I come from the Saint Sect, you still dare to chase and kill me?”
“I kill exactly the Demonic Sect!”
Hearing this, the Treasure-Laden Youth suddenly shouted explosively. Then, a round mirror appeared behind his head. As the mirror light fell, it actually reflected the spiritual light of a flying letter.
“Hahaha.”
In the next second, the Treasure-Laden Youth waved his hand, intercepting the flying letter’s spiritual light. After sweeping it with his Divine Sense, he laughed loudly. “So it was just a bluff!”
Inside this flying letter was impressively a distress signal. In the Treasure-Laden Youth’s view, this clearly meant the Demonic Sect Perfected One before him was feigning calmness while actually stalling for time to secretly call for help. However, he hadn’t expected that his own methods were superior and had intercepted the flying letter used for help!
Thinking of this, the Treasure-Laden Youth’s suspicions vanished completely.
“Don’t think about leaving today!”
As his voice fell, brilliant precious light instantly lit up behind the Treasure-Laden Youth. The precious light gathered into a tide, surging like waves, and instantly transformed into a long river.
[Myriad Treasures River]!
This river was entirely formed by gathered precious light, within which countless objects bobbed up and down—sabers, spears, swords, halberds, pagodas, bells, cauldrons, furnaces—seemingly endless.
Then, this long river washed downwards. Lu Yang instantly felt a vigorous and massive force descend. For a moment, he couldn’t control his figure and stumbled into the river. Following that, the objects in the river pounced one by one, bombarding his body.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The bombardment of numerous Treasures landed on Lu Yang’s body, but only produced a dazzling fiery light. Lu Yang remained motionless, like a reef under the ocean waves.
“What a [Myriad Treasures River]…”
Lu Yang’s gaze was peculiar as he sized up the hundreds of Treasures in the river. These Treasures weren’t chosen randomly; each one was meticulously crafted.
Taken individually, the Treasures weren’t rare.
However, they complemented each other. After being combined and activated with a secret technique, they could actually borrow the Qi of Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends, manifesting superior Divine Wonders!
A pity, small workshops were still too conservative.
“[Myriad Treasures River], named ‘Myriad Treasures,’ naturally should have ten thousand Treasures to be considered a river. A mere five hundred Treasures can only be called a small stream…”
Of course, this couldn’t be helped.
After all, the Treasure-Laden Youth was merely the Sect Master of a small sect in Jiangbei. Having five hundred Treasures was already not easy; having ten thousand Treasures was too difficult for him.
However, the Saint Sect was different!
The Saint Sect had a specialized Artifact Refining Hall teeming with talent, refining Treasures twenty-four hours a day without stopping. They could completely meet the demand for a [Myriad Treasures River] with ease!
“Moreover, with only a few hundred pieces, the flaws are too big.”
Lu Yang shook his head, then took out the Centipede Bee Bag. Pulling open the bag, in an instant, a black mass of Qi-Eating Insect shadows swarmed out from the bag.
Lu Yang had always kept the legend of the Qi-Eating Insects mentioned by Patriarch Nether Whisper in mind, so he had never neglected their nurturing. Released by Lu Yang in one breath at this moment, over a hundred million Qi-Eating Insects pounced like hungry tigers. Completely disregarding casualties, they rushed forward one after another to gnaw at the precious light emitted by the [Myriad Treasures River].
Seeing this scene, the Treasure-Laden Youth’s expression changed instantly.
“What kind of demon insects are these?”
Although his [Myriad Treasures River] could combine numerous Treasures into one Superior Spirit Treasure, its essence was still a combination of hundreds of Treasures.
Therefore, flaws still existed between the Treasures.
And the Qi-Eating Insects were pervasive, targeting these flaws to drill in and then gnaw at its precious light. Although the damage caused by a single Qi-Eating Insect was negligible…
There were simply too many of them!
Thinking of this, the Treasure-Laden Youth hurriedly pinched a hand seal. The [Myriad Treasures River] shook with a boom. Countless spiritual treasures struck against each other, and the ringing sound instantly triggered a Divine Wonder.
[Precious Chime Sound]!
As the Divine Wonder activated, the continuous sound of chimes instantly resounded between Heaven and Earth. It was generated by the collision of hundreds of Treasures within the [Myriad Treasures River], carrying a wondrous resonance force. Wherever it passed, the Qi-Eating Insects lost control of their insect bodies and exploded from the inside out.
“Interesting…”
Lu Yang revealed a look of curiosity upon seeing this. Under his Divine Sense, he knew that besides the Treasure’s Divine Wonder, the other party must have also used an Innate Divine Ability.
However, what specific Divine Ability it was had been deliberately concealed by the Treasure-Laden Youth.
‘A pity, this matter concerns the success or failure of Perfected One Chong Guang seeking the Golden Core. Perfected Lord Qingcheng Feixue personally took action to obscure the heavenly secrets, so Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones are also powerless to calculate karma…’
Lu Yang pondered in his heart, but his hands were not slow in the slightest. With a wave of his large sleeve, a purple-gold official seal hung in the air. It was impressively the [Supreme Golden Seal of Ziwei Authority], the Spirit Treasure Ying Tongshou had given him overseas, which had miraculous effects in suppressing metal and iron objects.
“Freeze!”
Lu Yang pinched a seal and pointed. The [Supreme Golden Seal of Ziwei Authority] crashed down with a boom, pressing directly onto the surging [Myriad Treasures River] like Mount Tai crushing the top.
In the next second, the [Myriad Treasures River] stiffened abruptly.
All Treasures were basically refined from metal and iron, and were severely countered by the [Supreme Golden Seal of Ziwei Authority]. With one seal falling, they instantly lost their Divine Wonders!
Seeing this scene, the Treasure-Laden Youth couldn’t help but narrow his eyes. “Demonic Sect…”
There was greed in his eyes, as well as hatred. But soon, he revealed a look of joy, looked up at the sky, and then laughed loudly: “Hahaha! Your time of death has arrived!”
As his voice fell, several streaks of escaping light tore through the air and arrived!
When the escaping lights landed, Old Man Dragon Angler, Perfected One Five Elements, and others strode out. A full six Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones, including two at the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment!
Adding the Treasure-Laden Youth, that made three Middle Stage Foundation Establishment cultivators!
In an instant, a massive aura locked down the void, firmly pinning Lu Yang in place, ensuring he had nowhere to flee and couldn’t even escape into the Foundation Establishment Realm.
“Fellow Daoist Treasure-Laden, you have established great merit this time.”
Perfected One Five Elements laughed loudly, and the Treasure-Laden Youth also looked relaxed. The other Perfected Ones, even the most cautious Old Man Dragon Angler, couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
After all, no matter how one looked at it, this was already secure.
Seven Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones, three at the Middle Stage and four at the Initial Stage—almost more than half of the Foundation Establishment combat power of the [Kingdom of Qing]—besieging one Saint Sect Perfected One.
Even if Saint Sect Perfected Ones were famous for their strong combat power.
The combat power ratio was seven to one; the advantage was with me!
However, just as everyone felt the outcome was set, Lu Yang suddenly smiled. “Not bad, Fellow Daoist Treasure-Laden, you indeed have established great merit!”
The Treasure-Laden Youth was stunned upon hearing this. “What?”
Before his voice fell, an even more massive aura suddenly erupted from outside the encirclement formed by the seven Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones, actually surrounding them in return!
“Ah!”
In the next second, Xia Weiming, the ancestor of the Zhaoxia Clan and one of the four Initial Stage Perfected Ones, suddenly let out a miserable scream. His chest was brazenly pierced through by a large hand!
Xia Weiming’s reaction could not be said to be slow. His True Body disintegrated with a boom, turning into sky-filling flowing light that rapidly reassembled beside Perfected One Five Elements. But even so, his expression remained terrified to the extreme. That strike had not only pierced his True Body but also his Dao Foundation!
This almost crippled ninety percent of his combat power; he had nearly died!
“…Quite good at running.”
In the crowd, Perfected One Yin Shan’s expression was shadowed, his tone devoid of any emotional fluctuation as he merely shook his hand. “Whatever, heavily injuring one is enough.”
On the other side, Lu Yang laughed loudly. “Why is Senior Brother so late?”
Only then did Perfected One Yin Shan twitch the corner of his mouth, revealing a smile. “Finding people wasted a little time, but we really caught a school of big fish this time.”
As his voice fell, figures strode out just outside the group of seven Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones from the [Kingdom of Qing]. Their auras erupted; they were impressively the Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones who had just left the trade fair. Besides Han Xiang at the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment, there was also a heroic woman clad in armor and wielding sharp weapons.
From the very beginning, Lu Yang and Perfected One Yin Shan had realized there was a problem.
Or rather, they just suspected there was a problem. But given the style of Saint Sect Perfected Ones, naturally, they shot the arrow first and then drew the target to prevent trouble before it happened.
Therefore, while Lu Yang used himself as bait, Perfected One Yin Shan secretly gathered the Jiangbei cultivators and lay in ambush, just waiting for the fish to take the bait!
“A bunch of Jiangdong rats dare to play tricks with my Saint Sect?”
“Overestimating yourselves!”
Seeing this scene, Perfected One Five Elements’ face changed drastically. Recalling Lu Yang’s words just now, he turned around abruptly and looked viciously at the Treasure-Laden Youth:
“You betrayed me!?”
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