Chapter 293: Nascent Soul Lurking, Divine Ability Small Success (5k, please subscribe)

As they neared the blockade, the figures of the Fudong trio began to swell; no longer hiding or concealing themselves, they were about to unleash secret arts to break through the blockade, charge directly into the mortal realm, and begin a massive slaughter.

Their goal was to destroy this entire nearby region, roughly the mortal territory of three kingdoms, with an estimated death toll of at least tens of millions in a short period.

To this end, they had prepared many ruthless methods, including various demonic items obtained after the Fudong Immortal Sect had wiped out demonic path sects in the past, enough to silence every cockcrow within a thousand miles in an instant.

Then, they would transform the blood and lives of the masses into a driving force, rolling that snowball of slaughter larger and larger until enough were killed to leave the land completely devastated!

"However, if our sect still has spare strength, we will inevitably use the border grand formation to suppress and stop the losses."

"From this point of view, they actually don't know yet that the fighting on the front lines has become stagnant?"

Because of this, the Luoyu Immortal Sect currently had sufficient spare strength.

Therefore, these fellows would not be stupid enough to think such an action was meaningful.

Although Du En pondered this, he did not wait for them to begin their massacre before acting; he decisively and cleanly launched a sneak attack right then and there.

And the moment he erupted, he immediately drew the startled attention of these three elite individuals.

"Who?!"

Pfft!

The only response to the cold shout was an even colder sound of shattering.

The two Fudong cultivators wanted to scatter, having already caught sight of their companion in the middle having his skull and dantian Golden Core blasted apart; they could not help but widen their eyes, yet there was no shock or fear, only an extremely cold judgment and a very fake look of astonishment on the surface.

This kind of method?

Is it that Du En?

He actually wasn't injured?

It is I.

He revealed his figure, answering silently.

At the same time, he raised both hands, directly tearing the corpse apart without staining himself with blood, then grabbed fiercely, catching the two who were about to scatter, and pulled them violently, causing them to collide heavily.

Bang!

Armor cracked and shattered, heads dizzy, blood flowing from broken skulls.

In an instant, they lost any room to resist, as if they were mere chicks easily caught in hand.

Since their raw strength was already inferior to Du En's, and they had been ambushed by him, this was naturally the situation.

However, at this very moment, the Golden Cores in their two dantians suddenly chimed in unison!

Hum!

A pair of scarlet eyes opened.

A beam of red light suddenly burst forth.

Sensing the arrival of a crisis, Du En immediately tore off two arms amidst his eruption, his body already violently retreating, while hundreds of ice-wrapped ambush magic tools took his place, flying out swiftly without any hesitation or delay, and directly began to self-detonate.

Boom, boom, boom!

"Roar!"

"How dare a junior deceive me!"

Like a beast's roar, yet carrying a human voice, it rang out from the suddenly shattered Golden Cores of those two.

Blood colors converged, and a blood-red Nascent Soul, three inches tall and resembling both man and beast, tore through the wave of self-detonating magic tools with its protective magic power and blood light, staring coldly at Du En as if looking at a dead man, though its expression carried the facade of explosive rage.

Its figure vanished abruptly.

Spatial movement!

It arrived before his eyes!

Die!

The gap of a major realm was right before him; although Du En had often fought and killed enemies across minor stages, he had never before had a precedent for fighting and killing an enemy across a major realm.

Because once a major realm is broken through, the increase in strength is hundreds or thousands of times greater, enough to compensate for any gap in talent.

Even a strong first-rate expert can suppress and kill a genius!

Therefore, even though Du En possessed the Inexhaustible Azure Spirit Body and was worthy of the name of a genius in every aspect, he only felt his hair stand on end, smelled the scent of death enveloping him, and a feeling of being unable to resist welled up in his mind.

But fortunately, he had long sensed that something was wrong.

After all, if this were the key direction for the Fudong Immortal Sect's operation, how could it be executed by only those three Golden Core Perfection cultivators?

Therefore, he had secretly taken precautions, with more than one trick up his sleeve!

And then.

The surrounding spiritual Qi suddenly fell into chaos; pulled by this sudden turbulence, the Nascent Soul, lacking a physical body to reside in and having slightly poorer anti-interference capabilities, was actually slowed down for a moment.

When a cultivator breaks through to the Foundation Establishment stage, from the piled-up Dao foundation to the slowly collapsing Golden Core, it can be said that they are creating an increasingly obvious source of spiritual Qi gravity.

And by the Nascent Soul stage, this point is even more prominent—the Nascent Soul, a condensed form of magic power, silently becomes a center point of spiritual Qi just by existing there, pulling on the spiritual Qi within a large range.

Therefore, if many sources of interference suddenly appear, even if each one seems weak, tearing together from multiple points can still cause an impact, creating a drag invisibly.

Talismans!

These were the third-tier talismans obtained from Wang Zhun; as Du En had followed along the way, he had quietly placed them nearby, and with all of them activated at this moment, they were greedily swallowing spiritual Qi at multiple points, creating a chaotic flow of spiritual Qi together.

Because they were placed too densely, and due to the existence of the Nascent Soul, they were actually difficult to form and could not be turned into spells for an attack, but they did effectively form invisible tethering ropes, briefly dragging the lurking Nascent Soul.

"Roar!"

Pausing for a moment, the blood-red Nascent Soul roared again, the numerous talismans shattered abruptly, and the spiritual Qi exploded violently, actually forming a vacuum zone.

And at this moment, when the old force was spent and the new force had not yet been born, another four hundred magic tools were detonated right in its face!

"The junior deserves to die!"

If not for the fact that he had used a secret art to split his Nascent Soul and lurk in the three Golden Cores, and one had been shattered and rendered useless by Du En's shameless sneak attack, causing him to be severely injured and weakened, how could he have been dragged and interfered with by the spiritual Qi turbulence caused by mere third-tier talismans, to the point where even spatial movement required a moment of preparation?

Caught off guard for a moment and lacking follow-up power, he could only watch helplessly as the group of magic tools detonated toward him!

Boom, boom, boom!

"Awoo!"

The blood-colored Nascent Soul let out an even more terrifying roar; its infant body trembled and shed debris amidst the explosion, but then it suddenly stretched and elongated, transforming into a massive winged blood tiger. Its eyes were completely devoid of humanity, filled only with a viscous, blood-sea-like desire to slaughter.

With one stomp of its foot, the ground sank; with one sweep of its tail, the self-detonation subsided.

Just as it was about to pounce on Du En, a cold-faced, beautiful figure suddenly appeared before it.

"Hmm..."

It couldn't help but subconsciously hold its breath, sensing a thick sense of threat, and instinctively wanted to flee.

It was only natural that Ying Dongqing would not be late.

She had originally thought she would have no way to take action herself and ruthlessly take revenge on these fellows from the Fudong Immortal Sect, but she hadn't expected the opportunity to come so quickly!

"So he isn't actually completely dense?"

Just as she thought this, her divine sense saw the scene behind her.

Du En silently stopped his previous movements; as he hooked his hand, the three fragmented corpses behind the enemy Nascent Soul were dragged away by quietly growing vines.

Hmm... alright, I overthought it.

Also, why does he want those corpses? Could it be that there is some hidden danger among them?!

Thinking of this, she immediately glared at the enemy, her dharma power roaring; the Nascent Soul in her dantian also opened its eyes and threw out her natal dharma treasure.

She went all out from the start, with no delicacy or softness at all; the white-gold treasure seal flew out of thin air and grew in the wind, becoming like a mountain, rumbling as it ruthlessly suppressed the winged blood tiger, making it completely unable to perform spatial movement, while also raining down streaks of sharp Geng-metal white light.

With each brush and scrape, the winged tiger was shaved down by a whole circle, and after being fiercely pressed by the White Cave Treasure Seal, it turned into a pile of fragments amidst teeth-aching crackling and squelching sounds.

Continuing to crush it ruthlessly, the white light rained down in streaks, brushing continuously until not even a scrap of this blood-colored winged tiger Nascent Soul remained, only then did she satisfiedly and comfortably retract her natal treasure seal.

She calmed the roar of her dharma power, adjusted her expression back to a cordial one, quickly returned to a proper state, and turned her head to smile gently at Du En's side.

He had no change in expression on his side, and didn't even pay much attention; after all, for a Nascent Soul at the Great Circle, a Nascent Soul that had lost its body, was already injured, and had an unstable mid-stage realm, even if the original owner was a genius, they could still fall here, let alone when they were not.

Therefore, Du En's main focus was on the corpses he had retrieved that hadn't been ruined by the aftershocks.

"Did you discover anything during your travels?"

Ying Dongqing landed in front of him.

She was actually quite concerned about Du En's repeated actions of collecting corpses, but she didn't overthink it, just normally suspecting that he had some means to obtain enemy intelligence from the corpses.

So at most, she would mutter a complaint about his behavior of being too eager to earn merit.

"It is a bit strange."

Du En scooped up a handful of Golden Core fragments, where one could see blood threads entwined, consistent in aura fluctuation with the Nascent Soul from just before.

"You were truly decisive, Youli; killing one person first shaved off at least thirty percent of the strength of that Nascent Soul hidden by secret arts, otherwise I really might not have been able to win so easily!"

Ying Dongqing couldn't see what was unusual about it for the moment, so she followed protocol and flattered him first; that was never wrong.

Du En didn't care, just picked up a small piece, crushed it finely with his fingers, and slightly closed his eyelids.

"This method of internal infiltration and concealment is quite evil and strange. During the ambush in the city earlier, one person seemed to use a similar technique. If these are actually feints to draw attention away from the main target, could the Fudong Immortal Sect be trying to take advantage of the chaos to seize power in the city?"

"You mean!?"

Ying Dongqing also realized where the problem lay.

She was currently located here.

In fact, even without Du En's intervention, as long as someone tried to cross the blockade, she would inevitably come to investigate.

Because Zhang Qing and the others were currently in the middle of encircling and suppressing the enemy.

In other words, the Nascent Soul stage cultivators were basically not at their posts, appearing unable to spare themselves. If the people of the Fudong Immortal Sect took the opportunity to attack those small cities and infiltrate or control the Golden Core stage city lords and managers, they might be able to usurp power, attempt a counter-subversion, and trigger even greater waves of destruction!

As for the Changle City she guarded?

It was already in a state of full alert, especially the City Lord's Mansion, which was basically in a state of lockdown to cooperate with Du En's act, which was why she had been able to move so quickly just now without the slightest hesitation or pause.

Even if the enemy chose Changle City as a target now, they couldn't enter the City Lord's Mansion in a short time, which was why she had placed her focus on the upper echelons of those small cities in the first place.

Who told them to be only at the Golden Core stage, making them so easy to target?

"I will go patrol the various cities now!"

Ying Dongqing threw down only this sentence and left in a hurry.

Whether for public or private reasons, she had to deal with this matter!

Better to believe it exists than to believe it doesn't!

Hmm, that counts as having fooled her.

Du En thought to himself.

Admittedly, such a possibility existed, but with the precedent of Lin'an City, Luoyu certainly had higher defenses recently, making such a move appear somewhat laborious and thankless.

Therefore, even if they really did that, it would at most be a feint to distract and contain Ying Dongqing's side, while incidentally causing chaos in those small cities.

Ying Dongqing, as a mid-city lord, was only a lower-level member of Luoyu and didn't know the specific truth about Lin'an City, which was why she was fooled by him.

But it was just right to let her go and eliminate the potential disaster; therefore, he wasn't entirely fooling her. Letting Ying Dongqing patrol the cities now could prevent such a situation from occurring and avoid any unnecessary casualties.

As for his side, he would first bury the corpses and officially reach the count of five hundred.

【Divine Ability: Burying Death, Flourishing Life (Minor Achievement 0/100)】

Finally, it reached Minor Achievement!

He could only see the death zone manifested by the divine ability suddenly expand to a radius of twenty zhang; the change was very obvious, containing accumulated death intent, death energy, and death tribulations that were unfathomably deep, and reflecting upon the living owner of the divine ability above it, it brought an extremely strong contrast!

Reflecting life, flourishing and prosperous!

Du En silently and naturally understood the changes and enhancements brought by this breakthrough in the divine ability.

Previously, it was to restore his full state to its peak, but now, on top of that, it further highlighted his vitality, which was to nourish it to its peak, thus obtaining a temporary state of flourishing prosperity, as if he had unleashed a secret art or technique that required self-damage to explode with power.

Pure, simple, yet powerful!

To put it intuitively, even if Ying Dongqing hadn't arrived in time to save the situation, as long as he could seize the opportunity to bury the corpses, he would be able to fight that incomplete Nascent Soul head-on, and his chance of winning would jump directly from the original slim hope to a one-to-nine split!

In other words, only until this moment did he finally have a bit of a chance of winning a battle across a major realm!

Even if it could actually only target the likes of the elite, and the cultivation base could not be too far apart, it was already a qualitative change.

"So, go back to Changle City. Next, they might go to Changle City again to cause destruction, although it would actually be quite strange if they really went, a move leaning towards hysteria..."

With such calm thoughts, Du En put away the divine ability Dead Land and hurried back.

At this moment, situations were unfolding in various places.

First, it goes without saying, was that not long ago, Zhang Qing and the others suddenly attacked the hidden stronghold of the Fudong cultivators, catching them off guard, and thus realizing that their own situation was deteriorating rapidly!

This meant that the Southern Hub City of Luoyu must have taken action!

Then, when the main force suffered a blow and a chaotic battle broke out, they noticed that the actions in the direction of the mortals were obstructed; not only did the Golden Core stage personnel die on the spot, but even the hidden Nascent Soul stage had their Nascent Soul crushed, directly resulting in the dissipation of their Dao and death of their bodies!

The main body died along with them, but before dying, it spat out a name ferociously.

"Du En?! He wasn't injured?!"

"Damn it! The situation has changed!"

"What do we do now?!"

In shock and anger, they had to quickly change their plans; while fighting desperately against Zhang Qing and the others, who were holding their breath and drawing on the support of the eight cities, becoming braver the more they fought, they hurriedly and secretly activated some hidden pawns laid out previously.

As things stood, they were facing a situation where the tide had turned and everything was lost.

Then, there was no need to hide or hold back; kill one and break even, kill two and make a big profit, just go and cause massive destruction!

So, in the seven small cities, those who had been infiltrated and possessed immediately rose up to cause chaos... and were then encountered by Ying Dongqing, who had already begun patrolling the cities.

This City Lord Ying began to put out fires and suppress the chaos without stopping.

You all anticipated this too?

Could it be that the previous display of incompetence was actually just weaving a net in the dark?

And at this very moment, it is time for you to close the net?!

The commander, receiving real-time feedback, had a very gloomy expression, mixed with disbelief.

Because the previous Changle City Lord, Ying Dongqing, was indeed inclined to be conservative and appeared incompetent, and it didn't look like it was faked!

Moreover, looking at the frantic Zhang Qing before them, they felt even more that this was wrong.

Because the accumulated anger of this Inner City Superintendent was not fake; it was truly the look of someone who had been treated like a dog for too long, with too much pent-up frustration, leading to explosive rage.

So, it wasn't that it was anticipated early on, but that a leak appeared in certain links?

Their eyelids twitched involuntarily, and they quickly thought of a situation.

"Is it you again? Du En!"

First, they encountered the outer sentry posts, which had countermeasures in place and were able to successfully counter-kill; judging from the blockade that appeared afterward, the magical artifact must have been taken away.

However, this actually didn't matter, because that pig-face mask was originally intended as a precaution, a method deliberately used to be given to the Luoyu Immortal Sect if necessary.

Up to this point, it was still relatively normal, and Du En's influence was not too great.

It was just that the subsequent actions surrounding the town were unsuccessful because of him, and the subsequent assassination and ambush targeting him were also unsuccessful; instead, they were deceived, and that guy actually escaped unscathed!

Then, looking at the sudden arrival of Zhang Qing and the others like divine soldiers, it could be inferred that some key item was lost during my two actions.

So, what followed was the frustration of the action after changing direction, with even a Nascent Soul stage member being lost, and now, the rapid suppression of the hidden hands in each city, without causing any waves...

The situation is clear; it must be that Du En keenly sensed something beforehand, which is why Ying Dongqing, who was clearly stable and incompetent before, was able to react so quickly this time and make timely remedies!

Even though he was just a guy who seemed to be on the sidelines and did not directly intervene in the search for them, in the end, the bystander sees clearly; he doesn't act, but once he does, he goes straight for the vital point?

This is even more unstable and threatening than previously anticipated, no, even more than that!

Damn it!

In such a fit of rage, they immediately decided to teach Du En a harsh lesson.

Anyway, things have reached this point, and it can basically be determined that this infiltration operation has completely failed, so it would be better to have one last frenzy and see if they can drag this guy Du En to hell together!

(End of this chapter)