Eternal Life from the Golden Needle Technique

Chapter 455: Chapter 453: Search

A Perfection Level, Tier Two Top Level Skill erupted in an instant.

In a flash,

the sharp ring of a sword echoed between heaven and earth.

A verdant green light burst forth from the void,

A vast sword beam, possessing an unrivaled momentum, cut through everything in its path, blotting out the sky as it slashed toward the three men!

Along its path,

the very world seemed to be sliced in two!

RUUUUMBLE!!!

The terrifying sword beam, hundreds of feet long, slammed into the Black Sun Wheel conjured by the three men.

The two terrifying attacks collided,

and instantly caused an earth-shattering explosion.

An unbelievably terrifying shockwave swept across the long sky, creating a tempest in the heavens!

Some Soul Emergence Realm Cultivators, who had been engaged in their own battles, had to retreat far into the distance.

They had to avoid being swept up in the terrifying blast of Magical Power.

Amidst the violent roar, the ears of the Qi Introduction Realm Cultivators from both the Righteous and Demonic Sides, who were fighting chaotically on the ground below, began to ring. The weaker ones even felt a piercing pain in their eardrums!

And at this moment,

up in the sky,

the two terrifying attacks had already vanished without a trace,

replaced by an energy storm that swept through the world, devouring everything!

Within a radius of hundreds of feet, the very air was pulverized. Rampaging power battered every inch of space, causing the void to ripple and emanate a terrifying aura that would make anyone’s heart pound with fear!

Under the force of the terrifying impact,

the three Demon Cultivators who had arrived together shuddered, thrown back hundreds of feet.

The flow of their Magical Power, once perfectly merged and intertwined, was shattered in that instant!

”What?!”

”How is this possible!”

Horror and shock were written on all three of their faces.

After all,

they were triplets, their minds linked, and they even practiced an Ancient Secret Technique they had discovered in some ruins.

It even allowed them, with their Soul Emergence Eighth Layer Early Stage Cultivation, to combine their power and unleash an attack at the Soul Emergence Ninth Layer!

Thanks to this ability,

although the three of them couldn’t be considered true Soul Emergence Ninth Layer experts,

in the outside world,

they were still a cut above ordinary Eighth Layer Late Stage or even Eighth Layer Peak Cultivators!

A single combined attack from the three of them

was always invincible when facing enemies of a lower Realm!

’But what is going on now?’

’A mere brat at the Soul Emergence Seventh Layer, one who supposedly broke through only recently, actually blocked our Combined Attack Technique in a single blow?!’

”It’s a Tier Two Top Level Skill! And he’s already honed it to the Realm of Perfection!”

The leader of the trio, the eldest brother, spoke in a cold, grave tone.

At the moment of impact,

he, as the pivot for their combined power, had faced the terrifying sword beam head-on and felt it far more deeply than his two brothers!

’That was also an attack at the Soul Emergence Ninth Layer Level!’

’For a mere brat at the Soul Emergence Seventh Layer Early Stage to unleash an attack that jumps two entire Realms...’

’...the only explanation is that it had to be a Tier Two Top Level Skill honed to Perfection!’

”No wonder the so-called Righteous Dao of the Tian Nan Domain hails him as a peerless prodigy, the kind you see once in a millennium. To successfully cultivate a Tier Two Top Level Skill and bring it to Perfection while still in the Soul Emergence Seventh Layer Realm!”

”I originally thought it was just the so-called Righteous Dao blowing their own horn, but it seems his reputation is well-deserved!”

The tall, thin second brother of the trio also spoke, his voice chillingly cold.

Long before any of this,

the Li Family had learned through inside sources that Shen Changchuan was offering a high bounty for the Flying Heaven-Splitting Spirit Ant.

As it happened,

that was a family heirloom Spirit Gu, passed down in their Li Family for eight hundred years!

Its secrets were forbidden to outsiders,

and if any were ever lost, they were to be recovered at any cost, even unto death.

Twenty-some years ago, an internal conflict started by a traitor in the Li Family had led to the loss of several Flying Heaven-Splitting Spirit Ant eggs.

But during that turmoil, the traitors had been hunted down and annihilated.

Only Pan Yunfei, the one suspected of pulling the strings from behind the scenes, managed to escape.

But a few years ago, news spread that Ghost Shadow Pan Yunfei had been killed by Shen Changchuan.

Since Shen Changchuan was now publicly offering a bounty for the Flying Heaven-Splitting Spirit Ant, it meant he hadn’t gotten it from Pan Yunfei.

This meant that,

if Shen Changchuan wanted to obtain the Flying Heaven-Splitting Spirit Ant,

he would have to come to them!

This was also the reason why the Li Family hadn’t fled after being discovered.

It all came down to mutual interest.

Shen Changchuan had his eyes on their Flying Heaven-Splitting Spirit Ant,

and they, in turn, had their eyes on Shen Changchuan himself!

To that end,

the Li Family paid a great price to hire a Demon Dao expert at the Soul Emergence Ninth Layer.

They also hired a group of skilled Demon Cultivators from the Middle to Late Stages of the Soul Emergence Realm.

And now,

these three fighting Shen Changchuan, the Mu Lan Brothers, were among the hired experts!

In fact,

because they anticipated that the Righteous Alliance might have two Soul Emergence Ninth Layer experts intervene,

so,

their mission from the very beginning had been to hunt down and kill Shen Changchuan!

When they accepted the contract,

the Mu Lan Brothers hadn’t thought much of it.

As far as they were concerned,

dealing with a mere brat at the Soul Emergence Seventh Layer would be child’s play.

At first, the three brothers even planned,

after killing Shen Changchuan in a single move, they would kill a few more people from the Righteous Alliance, seize their Cultivation Resources, and rack up battle merits.

They even dreamed of participating in the battle between the Soul Emergence Ninth Layer experts.

If they could pull off a successful sneak attack,

the rewards would be even greater!

As for Shen Changchuan?

They hadn’t given him a second thought!

It wasn’t until this very moment,

that they realized,

they were wrong,

dead wrong!

The little rabbit they thought they could toy with at will had, in the blink of an eye, transformed into a ferocious tiger capable of battling them to the death!

”Hmph! No matter how extraordinary he is, he’s still just at the Soul Emergence Seventh Layer.”

”Never mind that our Combined Secret Technique can unleash the power of the Soul Emergence Ninth Layer—our own individual Realms are already a cut above his!”

”He just got lucky and mastered one powerful move. The gap between Realms isn’t so easily overcome!”

The short, stout third brother, however, wasn’t too concerned.

This point,

he knew all too well.

It was just like with the three of them.

They could unleash a strike with power comparable to the Soul Emergence Ninth Layer Level,

but they were no match for a true Ninth Layer Realm Cultivator.

That was because

the Soul Emergence Ninth Layer Realm wasn’t just an increase in attack power.

It was a comprehensive improvement in every aspect, from Magical Power and Divine Soul to Physique and reaction time!

Although Shen Changchuan’s technique had certainly taken him by surprise,

applying the same logic,

he wasn’t worried.

”Be that as it may, this brat is strange. We can’t afford to be careless!”

”Remember, the rumors from six months ago said he killed Qiu Kunsheng, the Sect Leader of the Corpse Refining Sect!”