Eternal Life from the Golden Needle Technique

Chapter 552: Chapter 75: The Demon Sect’s Scheme

The Array Light Curtain that suddenly appeared instantly enveloped everyone inside!

Almost no one escaped!

Meanwhile,

Outside,

Over a hundred miles away,

The void suddenly trembled.

Luo Jiuzhang’s disheveled figure squeezed out from it, a trickle of blood at the corner of his mouth.

”Damn it! What are people from the Celestial Demon Sect doing here?!”

”They forced me to use a Celestial Secret Escape Talisman. This is a huge loss!”

After sweeping the area with his Divine Sense and confirming there was no danger,

Luo Jiuzhang let out a long sigh of relief, but he couldn’t help the sharp pang in his heart.

One had to understand,

the Celestial Secret Escape was no ordinary trinket.

With a life-saving tool like that, even an expert at the Divine Travel Peak Realm wouldn’t necessarily be able to threaten him.

That alone was enough to prove how precious it was!

But now,

it was all gone!

All his hard work of late had just gone down the drain.

He had truly suffered a loss on all fronts!

The pain of his loss made Luo Jiuzhang grimace.

But what was done was done;

the past was irreversible.

After taking a few deep breaths to compose himself,

the now relatively safe Luo Jiuzhang had no choice but to consider the current situation.

’This is trouble!’

’The people gathered there are basically all prodigies from the various domains.’

’With the Celestial Demon Sect pulling something like this, they’re all trapped inside. I’m afraid the outcome won’t be good!’

Snapping back to his senses, Luo Jiuzhang glanced back toward the Enlightenment Grotto Heaven and murmured,

worry creasing his brow.

He didn’t know how those members of the Celestial Demon Sect had managed to appear here so suddenly.

But one thing was certain:

their objective was anything but simple!

’Could the Celestial Demon Sect be planning to use this opportunity to slaughter all the prodigies gathered here, severing a part of the Immortal Sect’s future?’

’If all those prodigies die in there, the Immortal Sect will suffer a crippling blow!’

Luo Jiuzhang thought, a guess forming in his mind.

There were rumors circulating that

the Yuqing Immortal Sect was about to reignite the great war against the Celestial Demon Sect from three hundred years ago.

This matter was already causing a huge stir.

The Celestial Demon Sect had likely already learned of this through spies planted within the Southern Great Domain.

As the archenemy of the Yuqing Immortal Sect,

it was impossible that the Celestial Demon Sect would not react.

Perhaps,

this was the very reason the Celestial Demon Sect had come!

To slaughter a large number of prodigies from the Southern Great Domain, severing a portion of the Yuqing Immortal Sect’s future potential—it would serve as a warning, or a show of force!

The more Luo Jiuzhang thought about it, the more certain he became!

’That must be it!’

’Damn it! This is a huge problem!’

’My Divine Calculation Sect had no small part in fanning the flames for the appearance of the Xiangshan Sect Gate Ruins this time.’

’If all these prodigies are killed here by the Celestial Demon Sect, won’t the Divine Calculation Sect be branded as spies for the Celestial Demon Sect and face a reckoning from the Immortal Sect!’

Luo Jiuzhang bit his lip,

his face turning deathly pale.

Granted,

most of the top-tier prodigies of the new generation in the Southern Great Domain were direct Inner Sect Disciples of the Yuqing Immortal Sect.

And the prodigies from various regions currently gathered in these Xiangshan Sect Gate Ruins

were not the Immortal Sect’s direct Inner Sect prodigies,

but rather geniuses from the various Small Domains, from affiliated sects under the Immortal Sect’s influence.

But,

so what?

The founders of those affiliated sects of the Immortal Sect in the various Small Domains had almost all come from the Immortal Sect, and they cultivated the Immortal Sect’s techniques.

They were all prodigies within the Immortal Sect’s own system,

a part of the Yuqing Immortal Sect’s strength!

They simply came from a different branch of the system.

Besides, if these external prodigies ever wanted to advance to the Divine Travel Realm, or even higher, they would eventually have to enter the Yuqing Immortal Sect.

If all of them died here,

then more than half of the Yuqing Immortal Sect’s younger generation would be annihilated!

It would even affect the Immortal Sect’s grand competition, set to take place in a few short years!

With such dire consequences,

the Divine Calculation Sect, as the instigator of this incident, would face a terrible fate!

Regardless of whether they had actually colluded with the Celestial Demon Sect to sabotage the younger generation of the Southern Great Domain’s Immortal Cultivation Realm,

with so many prodigies dead, someone would have to take the blame.

Luo Jiuzhang could already picture it:

he and his Divine Calculation Sect becoming public enemy number one!

’Forget it. With my strength, I wouldn’t be much help in a rescue anyway.’

’The right thing to do is to leave now and contact the Immortal Sect’s leadership, or find nearby Divine Travel Realm experts to come to the rescue!’

’I just hope the situation isn’t too dire!’

Luo Jiuzhang’s expression flickered with indecision

as countless thoughts warred in his mind. Finally, he steeled his resolve.

He glanced one last time toward the Enlightenment Grotto Heaven,

then turned and flew away in a streak of light.

...

Shen Changchuan was completely unaware

of what was happening outside.

At that moment,

his attention was entirely focused on the girl in the black skirt.

As the canopy overhead descended,

the crowd, which had been scattering in all directions, was instantly trapped within the array with no hope of escape.

Many were panicked and at a loss, their terrified gazes darting about as they tried to see what others would do.

Some attacked the black light curtain enveloping the world, trying to brute-force their way through the Grand Array.

But their powerful attacks struck the light curtain without creating the slightest ripple.

Others shouted words of encouragement, trying to rally the crowd to join forces and besiege the black-skirted girl. ”That woman is merely at the Soul Emergence Ninth Layer Peak! So what if she’s a Candidate Saintess of the Celestial Demon Sect? I refuse to believe she can kill all of us by herself!”

But very few responded to the call.

Everyone understood the logic, but the problem was that given the power the black-skirted girl had displayed, the first to resist would surely die.

No one possessed the selfless courage to die for others.

The crowd of prodigies,

at that moment, fell into complete chaos.

The girl in the black skirt, however, paid them no mind.

She took a light, graceful step.

Her figure seemed to pass through space itself, appearing in the next instant before Chen Lingfeng, who had used the chaos to hide.

”You...”

Chen Lingfeng’s face was filled with terror, and he had just started to speak.

SCHLICK!

A flash of black light,

The world spun before Chen Lingfeng’s eyes. He thought he saw a familiar headless corpse before his consciousness faded completely into darkness.

The black-skirted girl’s expression remained impassive.

With a flick of her jade-white hand,

the Storage Bag in Chen Lingfeng’s grasp flew into her own.

She erased the Magical Power imprint on it, opened the Storage Bag, and sensed the Jade Platform inside, which was tinged with the aura of the Enlightenment Stone. A smile that could eclipse the beauty of the world blossomed on her face.

’So it really was here. It was worth the trip!’