[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique":3,"chapter-eternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique-eternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique-chapter-49":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Eternal Life from the Golden Needle Technique",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1649200,2112,"Chapter 49 - 48: Awkward","eternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique-chapter-49",49,"\u003Cp>The men in black moved as fast as lightning, their gleaming blades slashing forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The auras they emanated revealed they all had a Cultivation at or above the Qi Introduction Fourth Layer!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And further away,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the leader of the men in black erupted with the terrifying pressure of a Qi Introduction Sixth Layer Peak expert!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The terrifying pressure assaulted their very souls,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>making the village Patriarchs—who were only at the Qi Introduction Third or Fourth Layer—feel as if they were suffocating!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s over!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their hands and feet trembled, and their faces turned deathly pale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’How could we possibly resist this kind of power?!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Run!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At someone’s desperate shout,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Patriarchs, who had been on edge for the entire journey, finally snapped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, they scattered, fleeing in every direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the caravan,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>seeing the members of the Immortal Families flee, the Mortal Martial Artists at the rear—who had come along to help as guards and handlers—also descended into panicked chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The long column of people collapsed into a full-blown rout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at this critical moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>DING!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A crisp Bell rang out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An invisible ripple spread forth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>instantly enveloping the area ahead and catching all the men in black within its range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The men in black, who had been charging forward, froze in mid-air. Their minds went blank, as if they had been brutally clubbed on the back of the head with a heavy iron rod. The Magical Power that had been in Circulation of Qi within their bodies ran rampant, and the spiritual light glowing around them violently dispersed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, one by one, they tumbled out of the air and crashed haphazardly to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the assassins flanking from the sides and their leader—the one at the Qi Introduction Sixth Layer Peak—were caught by the Bell’s chime, their bodies frozen in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan stood holding the Soul-Attracting Bell. He channeled his Magical Power into it, causing it to shimmer with a faint white light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single chime from the Soul-Attracting Bell had neutralized nearly all of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a pause that lasted only a breath,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan raised a hand, palm open, toward their leader—the strongest of the group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>FWOOSH FWOOSH FWOOSH!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A volley of crimson Fireballs shot through the air, unleashing a wave of scorching heat as they blasted toward him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fearsome heat was so intense it visibly distorted the air!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The assassin leader was only human, after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was not some peerless prodigy, nor was he a Demon Beast like a Gale Falcon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A peerless prodigy might have been able to endure the Soul-Attracting Bell’s Divine Soul Attack and counter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Gale Falcon, after suffering a blow to its Divine Soul, could still rely on its instincts as a Demon Beast to resist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the assassin leader clearly could not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the span of a single breath,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>before he could even regain consciousness,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a volley of five crimson Fireballs was already bearing down on him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fireballs detonated in succession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A monstrous firestorm erupted like a tidal wave, instantly engulfing the assassin leader.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The terrifying flames not only incinerated the fallen leaves on the ground,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but even the assassins more than ten meters away were blasted by the intense heat, their hair singed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few breaths later,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the roaring inferno subsided, leaving behind smoldering embers on the scorched earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the assassin leader, he was now nothing more than a charred corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It collapsed to the ground,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>utterly lifeless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it takes time to describe,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>everything—from the chime of the Soul-Attracting Bell to the assassin leader being blasted to death by five Fireball Techniques—happened in the blink of an eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the fleeing village Patriarchs could even react,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan didn’t pause for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a wave of his hand,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SWISH SWISH SWISH...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crescent-shaped, cyan Wind Blades tore through the air. They shot across dozens of meters like lightning, slicing toward the remaining assassins still frozen by the Soul-Attracting Bell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the wet, tearing sounds of slicing flesh,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the surrounding assassins were grievously wounded or killed outright by the briefest touch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood and severed limbs flew everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the span of just a few breaths, eight or nine assassins had been slain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the remaining assassins, who had been stunned by the Soul-Attracting Bell, began to stir.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They opened their eyes to a gruesome scene of blood and bodies strewn across the ground!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Agh! There’s a master here! Fall back!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t kill me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Run!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing their leader easily slain and more than half their comrades lost in an instant, the few lucky survivors were terrified out of their wits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They immediately fought through their splitting headaches and scrambled away, practically tripping over themselves to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wished their parents had given them two more legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan made no move to pursue them,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>letting them go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the saying goes, a cornered beast will still fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those fleeing men were at the Qi Introduction Fifth and Fourth Layers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t as if they were completely powerless to fight back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he tried to annihilate them, there was no telling if one of them, in a desperate struggle, might pull out some devastating trump card and inflict a heavy loss on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Don’t pursue a desperate foe. Better to play it safe,’ Shen Changchuan thought to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It might have looked easy for him to slay the Qi Introduction Sixth Layer Peak leader and then cut down more than half of the assassins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in truth, the credit mostly belonged to the Soul-Attracting Bell he possessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surprise attack with the Soul-Attracting Bell had left his opponents stunned and defenseless for a short period.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Paired with his own instantaneous, Perfection Level Magic, he had managed to achieve such a decisive victory in just a dozen breaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they had fought head-on from the start,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>facing so many enemies,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even someone like Shen Changchuan, who had mastered numerous Perfection Level Magic skills, would have had to avoid a direct confrontation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On this point,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan had a very clear understanding of his own abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that rapid series of attacks had left him with only seventy percent of his Magical Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Better to be cautious.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan did not pursue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining assassins soon vanished into the forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The area instantly fell quiet,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>leaving behind only the corpses scattered across the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air suddenly became still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him, in the long caravan, the Mortal Martial Artists who had panicked during the ambush now stared blankly at the scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Mortal Martial Artists, they had only come along to help with the transport.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the assassins attacked and the members of the Immortal Families had scattered,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they had been certain they were going to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they never expected that,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>in the span of just a dozen breaths, the tables would be completely turned!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That young Upper Immortal had suddenly unleashed his divine power, effortlessly crushing the invaders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This roller-coaster-like turn of events left them speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And not far away,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the village Patriarchs who had fled at the very beginning,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>upon seeing Shen Changchuan deal with the attackers in short order,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>all gasped in shock!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Wasn’t that assassin leader’s aura at the Qi Introduction Sixth Layer Peak?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’And weren’t the others at the Qi Introduction Fourth and Fifth Layers?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’How were they defeated so quickly?!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This is simply unimaginable, incomprehensible!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Who on earth is that Shen Changchuan? How could he possess such terrifying strength?!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Leaping two whole layers of Cultivation Realm to effortlessly slay his foe.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Does that mean... the one who personally killed the He Mountain Four Fierce was none other than this young Shen Family disciple right in front of us?!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>soon they had no time to dwell on such thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they had realized something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the battle had broken out,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they had run away!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had abandoned the young man from the Shen Family and fled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, they were still in the middle of their retreat,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>though their feet had come to an abrupt halt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, they didn’t know whether to keep running or turn back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked at each other,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the air of awkwardness\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>palpable.\u003C\u002Fp>",1369,"2026-06-06T11:55:28.346Z",1,"novelbin.me","ecc7b0cd9a34c5fa55a33c42c1c3e62d334209c7be64d6a6946606d517b6cf44","eternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique-chapter-50","eternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique-chapter-48",85,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique-cover.jpg"]