Chapter 182: and ===GLOSSARY===

Kill Lv. 25 Yuan Jiao (Shengsheng), over‑level kill grants double experience, gain Experience Points 16, gain Skill Compress Earth to an Inch*1.

The long‑awaited skill burst out! But time is tight now, Chen Shicheng doesn't have time to examine it, quickly turns to soothe the Grey Immortal Clan members crowded together in the cell due to fright.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you."

"Save us?"

One of the slightly larger Grey Immortals mustered courage and stepped forward on its own.

"Hmm, that's right, Grey Siye knows, it asked me to come." Chen Shicheng quickly called Grey Siye in his mind, asking it to return and soothe these panicked clan mice.

A moment later, Grey Siye darted back, slid to the cell door, its small eyes brimming with tears, reenacting the tearful gaze scene. Chen Shicheng did not disturb them, but frowned at the purple lightning on the cell door and then tried to slash it with a Blade Thunder.

When not being attacked, the lightning remained relatively stable, only occasionally leaping between the bars, but when the Blade Thunder was about to strike it, the lightning suddenly roiled, instantly matching its power, and both were annihilated together.

"Eh, what are you doing?"

The sound of the lightning fading startled Grey Siye, who looked up in surprise and asked.

Chen Shicheng looked down; the Grey Immortals in the cell, perhaps stressed from long confinement, all clutched their heads and trembled in unison at the moment the lightning cracked, forgetting even to scurry.

"I"

"Ka."

Just as he began to explain, a faint click sounded from the cell tunnel entrance; Chen Shicheng whirled around and saw a man in vine armor sneaking along the wall.

The distinctive aura about him made Chen Shicheng recognize at a glance that he was a player.

But he didn't realize that Chen Shicheng's Evil Ghost Mask had seen through his invisibility, and his eyes gleamed as he stared at the cell, moving his steps inch by inch.

After a long silence, the man finally noticed something was wrong.

The person standing at the cell door had been watching him all along, his gaze following his movements, and a grin of suppressed amusement spread across his face.

Invisibility failed? He looked bewildered at his own hands. No, the invisibility skill seemed to work fine—could it be a coincidence? While he was questioning his fate, Chen Shicheng was also contemplating whether to eliminate the troublemaker outright.

But it was clear the other also shared his goal—both were rescuing the Grey Immortals in the cell. He acted because of Grey Siye; what about this person? The Shengsheng's territory isn't easy to breach, even with invisibility, so the only place that could assign such a task would be the Grey Immortal Clan outside.

He also didn't know where to take the rescued ones, so perhaps a one‑time cooperation? Unfortunately, the other was clearly not on the same wavelength; after his invisibility was exposed, Chen Shicheng didn't strike immediately, assuming the opponent was weak, and launched an attack outright.

"Why make it so painful?"

Amid Grey Siye's sigh, the Blade Thunder lightly sliced the player in two.

Kill Lv. 17 North Polar Tiger (Zhou Jun), gain Experience Points 1, gain 3 silver.

He died as lightly as a feather, yet the player clearly refused to give up; under Chen Shicheng's gaze, the corpse turned into a flash of light and vanished, instantly reviving on the spot, then charged forward again.

"Pfft."

The scene repeated, the player named North Polar Tiger hadn't even reacted before stepping into the same dust as before. Chen Shicheng had assumed this attack would make the opponent aware of the disparity, yet he still underestimated the player's tenacity; the player, oblivious to death, revived on the spot again and, defying fate, charged forward.

Kill Lv. 17 North Polar Tiger (Zhou Jun), gain Experience Points 1, gain 56 copper.

The first on‑spot revival costs ten years of Lifespan, the second costs twenty years; even a Lv. 17 Golden Core Stage cultivator with over five hundred years of Lifespan cannot endure such depletion.

After losing thirty years of Lifespan, the player finally faced reality, stopped recklessly attacking, revived on the spot once more, tossed a handful of lime, then turned and fled, apparently seeking another chance to strike.

Watching his panicked retreat, Chen Shicheng hesitated briefly, then lowered his finger and gave a signal to Grey Siye.

"My clan members beg you."

Grey Siye, already in sync, instantly activated invisibility, left a pleading word, and followed the fleeing player.

After the man and the mouse vanished from his Divine Perception range, Chen Shicheng finally resumed studying the cell door behind him.

The earlier Blade Thunder gave him some insight; the mechanism of this cell door is similar to a formation, both absorbing heaven‑and‑earth spiritual energy to maintain the purple lightning.

However, because an inscription carved on it is active, the absorption speed of spiritual energy has an upper limit and is somewhat rigid.

Thus, the easiest way to breach the door now is to use the Blade Immortal Array to wrest spiritual energy from it, then forcibly destroy it.

But this method creates too much disturbance and takes a long time; given the Shengsheng leader's concern for this place, it's likely that before the door is broken, the returning Shengsheng will swarm and beat him to death.

So the idea flashed briefly in his mind and was immediately abandoned; instead, he began pounding the stone walls surrounding the cell door.

During his first visit, from Grey Siye's interaction with its clan, Chen Shicheng learned that the surrounding walls were unremarkable, merely ordinary stone blocks stacked together.

The imprisoned Grey Immortals were sealed due to their cultivation level, and the purple lightning also protected the stone walls, preventing them from digging a tunnel to escape.

Their cultivation was sealed, but his was not.

Moreover, the purple lightning triggered by excavating the stone wall is far weaker in power than that of the cell door.

Chen Shicheng thought it over, and for safety activated the Golden Body Spell, then unleashed a full‑power Blade Thunder strike on the stone wall beside the cell door.

"Pa"

The purple lightning flashed by, and the Blade Thunder was unsurprisingly shattered, yet Chen Shicheng displayed an excited expression.

A door!

The stone wall's lightning defense indeed has a limit; his full‑force strike didn't fully succeed, but like the Blade Thunder just shattered by the armored Shengsheng, the residual force left a few shallow pits on the stone wall.

What more is there to say? Let's get to work!

Chen Shicheng checked his internal True Essence reserves, directly activated the Blade Immortal Array, and then countless Blade Thunders rained down on the same spot within the cell, amid the shocked expressions of the Grey Immortal Clan.

In an instant, lightning and Blade Thunders flew together before the cell, thunder clashing with the whistling blades.

(End of Chapter)