Immortal of the Nine Realms

Seeing Fire Venerable’s forced smile, Long Mao’s heart sank.

What was the background of that abbess? Even an Ancient Immortal had been subdued so effortlessly?

Fang Chen said with a faint smile, ”Little abbess, just keep this person restrained. We’ll handle the rest ourselves.”

In the next moment, his immortal boat shot straight toward Long Mao’s side. Seeing that, Wang Ye and the others immediately reacted and rushed forward as well. Only Leng Buqi was still dazed, but it was only for a moment before he recovered from his shock, roaring, ”Attack!”

The pent-up resentment of many years finally had a chance to be unleashed. He didn’t care about his injury. He would still fight with everything he had! Both sides had dozens of core disciples combined, including experts like Wang Ye who were at the sixth transformation of the immortal realm.

Although Long Mao’s side seemed to outnumber them, they were far inferior to the core forces of the two realms in reality.

Fire Venerable was now restrained by Abbess Qinghe and unable to move. Seeing that, Long Mao grit his teeth and ordered his subordinates to block Fang Chen’s group, shouting, ”Sit down and talk properly! No need to fight! Let’s sit down and talk!”

”Talk your ass!”

Leng Buqi suddenly charged to the front, forming a sword seal with both hands. Two swords, one black and one white, shot out, carrying terrifying immortal energy, and struck toward Long Mao. Long Mao’s cultivation was far inferior to Leng Buqi’s. The reason he had been able to chase them for so long before was because of Fire Venerable’s support. Now that Fire Venerable was restrained and unable to act, he could only desperately dodge Leng Buqi’s killing moves, relying on others’ help just to avoid dying immediately.

”Senior... this is just a misunderstanding between juniors. Why not let us resolve it peacefully and turn hostility into friendship?”

Seeing Long Mao in danger, Fire Venerable forced a smile and tried to negotiate with Abbess Qinghe,

”You should ask Young Master Fang about that,” replied Abbess Qinghe.

Fire Venerable looked confused. Young Master Fang? Who is that?

Before he could even figure out who ”Young Master Fang” referred to, the battle was already nearing its end. Most of Long Mao’s subordinates were dead. The ones still alive were kneeling on the ground, having surrendered their weapons. Even Long Mao himself was now pinned to the ground by Leng Buqi’s foot, his distorted face pressed against the earth beyond recognition.

The few cultivators who had been protecting him earlier had all been killed.

Long Mao said in panic, ”You... you’d better not act recklessly. If you kill me, the Demonized Alliance will definitely investigate this matter!”

When had a proud immortal realm cultivator born of a prestigious background been forced into such a desperate situation? Now that his life and death were in others’ hands, all his former composure was gone.

”So you really did know our identities all along,” said Leng Buqi coldly, increasing the pressure under his foot.

Cracking sounds faintly came from Long Mao’s skull.

Long Mao said urgently, ”Wait! Spare me! For the sake of my father letting you go before, spare my life!”

”Leng Buqi, what’s going on here? If we hadn’t happened to show up, you guys would’ve been finished,” said Xian Yueguan as he walked over with a mocking grin.

At that time, Li Shanzi had already reunited with Fang Chen and Wang Ye. From his account, Fang Chen had learned what had happened.

Leng Buqi glanced over the crowd. All the faces were familiar to him except for the core disciples of Shenwang Realm. He was not angered by Xian Yueguan’s antics and let out a soft sigh instead. ”We were being hunted all along the way. In the end, I used my connections to find the head of the Long family and asked him to cooperate with me in staging a play, and we got through that checkpoint. Who would have thought this man would be so persistent, chasing us the entire way over? I originally thought it was because that incident had damaged the Long Family’s reputation. But now it seems he wanted to take our heads and exchange them for a future in the Demonized Alliance.”

As he spoke, Leng Buqi grew increasingly angry, slowly grinding the head of Long Mao under his foot with his toe.

Long Mao’s veins bulged. Cold sweat poured down his face from the pain.

Xian Yueguan said with a faint smile, ”Could it be that his father refused to cooperate with your act, so he sent him to hunt you down? After the matters in the Taicang Realm are settled, we can go to the Long family and take a look. By then, we won’t need to go secretly anymore.”

A flash of fear crossed Long Mao’s eyes.

Someone noticed that Fire Venerable’s expression flickered several times at Xianyue Guan’s words as well.

”So you already know our identities.”

A core disciple laughed in anger. ”If it weren’t for this special period, any one of us could step forward and make you all speak to us with bowed heads. Yet now we’ve been chased all miserably like some stray dogs all the way.”

Fire Venerable’s expression changed slightly, and he tried to explain in a low voice, but no one listened.

Xian Yueguan waved a hand. ”Alright, alright. Let Monarch Fang decide whether to kill this man or not.”

”Step lighter with your foot. Don’t crush him to death. Monarch Fang may still need to interrogate him.”

”Monarch Fang?”

Leng Buqi and the others all turned to look at Fang Chen. After a few breaths, their mouths slowly hung open as they finally recognized him as the protagonist of the previous phenomena.

Li Shanzi had the most complicated expression. He had known Fang Chen relatively early and could tell that even before Fang Chen became an external cultivator, he had already been the inheritor of Monarch Yan’s inheritance. It was just that back then, he had not noticed anything at all.

”Monarch Yan, long time no see. Since our parting at Great Thunder Sound, it has been several hundred years.”

Leng Buqi withdrew his foot, a look of emotion appearing on his face as he cupped his hands toward Fang Chen.

Fang Chen said with a smile, ”We can reminisce after we deal with the matter at hand.”

Leng Buqi’s expression shifted as he asked, ”How do you plan to deal with them? Kill or spare them?”

For a moment, all eyes fell upon Fang Chen. Even Long Mao was no exception. He had finally realized the true identity of the man before him, and the revelation left him paralyzed with terror. Had he recognized this figure earlier, he wouldn’t have dared to utter a single word of arrogance!

In ancient times, Monarch Yan was a legendary top-tier figure within the Three Realms. An existence that an ordinary ninth-transformation Immortal couldn’t even hope to be compared to.

”What else is there to do? Kill them all,” ordered Fang Chen.

”Our thanks!”

Leng Buqi and the others were overjoyed, immediately moving in for the kill. Seeing that, Xian Yueguan and his companions also stepped in to assist.

In a short span of time, not a single soul was left alive on the immortal boat. Only a field of dazed wandering spirits remained, all of whom were collected by Fang Chen using his Yin Gourd.

Abbess Qinghe’s gaze settled on Fire Sovereign. ”What about this one?”

”I—”

”The Ancient Immortal Register should be reserved for those who are actually useful to the Nine Realms,” interrupted Fang Chen before the Fire Sovereign could finish his plea.

A moment later, his Ancient Immortal Register was stripped and collected by Fang Chen. As his wandering spirit attempted to flee, it too was sucked into the Yin Gourd. The immortal boat brought by Long Mao was promptly torn to shreds by Wang Ye and the others until not a single trace remained.

Even though Leng Buqi and the rest didn’t dare to ask about Abbess Qing He’s origins, they couldn’t help but steal glances at her, their eyes flashing with shock.

With the task complete, the group resumed their journey. Upon learning that Wang Ye’s trip had been relatively smooth thus far, Leng Buqi and the others felt a wave of envy, though they had already begun to piece together exactly why that was so.