Chapter 247: Coming by Appointment

Above the sea of clouds, Su Chen, sensing the shattering of the jade token, paused his figure.

Then he reversed direction, like a meteor falling to the ground, and sped toward the direction of West Niuhe Zhou.

His expression seemed unchanged, but a trace of chill quietly gathered in his profound eyes.

`Repay kindness with kindness, repay hatred with hatred, is Su Chen's usual code of conduct. `

`A promise back then was a piece of karma. `

`Now the karma formed that day has come, so it should be settled. `

West Niuhe Zhou, Gong Mountain.

Mingxin Temple, which used to be shrouded in immortal mist and peaceful, was now heavily surrounded by a thick black-gray demonic energy.

A huge light cyan light curtain, like a giant bowl turned upside down, protected the entire temple within it.

On the light curtain, runes flowed and spiritual light flickered, but it was already flickering uncertainly, obviously supporting it extremely arduously.

Outside the light curtain, an old man wearing a black scorpion-patterned Dao robe, with a gloomy and thin face, was floating in mid-air.

Demonic energy surged around him, turning into black giant scorpion phantoms the size of millstones, constantly attacking the mountain-protecting array.

Every collision made the light curtain tremble violently, emitting a "humming" wail.

"Old Daoist Xuan Ming, this seat gives you one last chance!" The black-robed old man's voice was hoarse, his tone filled with impatience. "Quickly withdraw this turtle shell and offer the temple and that junior to this seat; this seat might show mercy and leave you a whole corpse!"

Inside the array, Daoist Xuan Ming's face was pale, a trace of blood hanging from the corner of his mouth; obviously, he was exhausted from maintaining the array.

Beside him stood a burly gray-robed old Daoist and a young female cultivator who looked terrified but was still trying to stay calm, holding a long sword.

"Master, this demonic Daoist is bullying people too much! Let me go out and fight him!" The young female cultivator opened her apricot eyes wide and said angrily.

"Qingyan, don't be impulsive!" The gray-robed old Daoist scolded in a deep voice, then turned to Daoist Xuan Ming, full of shame. "Brother Xuan Ming, it is I who implicated you. If I hadn't brought my inferior disciple to visit, this disaster wouldn't have been summoned."

This person was Daoist Xuan Ming's close friend, the Master of Qingsong Temple, "Daoist Gusong," a cultivator in the Return to Emptiness realm.

"Brother Gusong, what are you saying." Daoist Xuan Ming gave a bitter smile and said panting, "This Demon Ancestor Black Scorpion is a notorious demonic cultivator in the Earth Immortal realm nearby, eyeing the spiritual vein of my Mingxin Temple for a long time. Even if you didn't come, he would have done it sooner or later."

He looked at the crumbling mountain-protecting array, a trace of despair flashing in his eyes.

This array was left by the founder and could withstand a blow from a Heavenly Immortal, but after all, it was old and the spiritual power was lost seriously; facing the relentless attack of an Earth Immortal, it was already at the end of its rope.

At most, it could last for half an hour.

"Brother Xuan Ming, let us two join hands and fight him!" Daoist Gusong glared, his magic power surging.

"No!" Daoist Xuan Ming refused decisively. "He is an Earth Immortal; we are far from his match. If we die, it is a small matter, it is just a pity for this child Qingyan..."

Looking at the only disciple of his good friend, the struggle in Daoist Xuan Ming's eyes became more and more intense.

He remembered the young Daoist who came to ask for directions more than a hundred years ago.

He remembered the map he gave out back then, and the jade token the other party gave back.

"Daoist, please accept this jade token; if there is anything in the future, you can crush the jade token."

The words the little friend said when he left were still in his ears.

But that Daoist Disciple Wu Chen was only in the Human Immortal realm back then.

Now that only a hundred years had passed, even if his talent was high, he was at most at the peak of Human Immortal or the early stage of Earth Immortal?

How could he be the opponent of Demon Ancestor Black Scorpion at the late stage of Earth Immortal.

Asking him to come, wasn't that harming his life in vain?

"Boom—!"

Just when Daoist Xuan Ming was hesitating, Demon Ancestor Black Scorpion gave another heavy blow, and a gap appeared on the light curtain of the mountain-protecting array.

The demonic energy cultivated by Demon Ancestor Black Scorpion seeped in through the gap, making the female Daoist named Lin Qingyan shiver.

"Hahaha! The turtle shell is about to break!" Demon Ancestor Black Scorpion let out a harsh, wild laugh. "Little girl, don't be afraid; later, the ancestor will love you well!"

Looking at the fear appearing in his disciple's eyes, looking at the desperate intent burning on his old friend's face, the hesitation in Daoist Xuan Ming's heart was completely shattered at this moment.

Forget it!

Even if there is only a glimmer of life, it must be tried!

He did not hesitate anymore, took out the jade token Su Chen left back then from his storage magic treasure, activated his magic power, and crushed it fiercely!

"Crack!"

The jade token shattered in response, turning into dots of fluorescent light, dissipating into the invisible.

"Hmm?"

Demon Ancestor Black Scorpion saw Daoist Xuan Ming's action and showed doubt, a bad premonition suddenly flashing through his heart.

"Old Daoist Xuan Ming, you are looking for death!"

Demon Ancestor Black Scorpion shouted angrily, fully activating his magic power, wanting to shatter the mountain-protecting array maintained by Daoist Xuan Ming in one blow.

Just at this moment, a voice came from the sky.

"Daoist Xuan Ming, Disciple Wu Chen, has come by appointment."

Before the words fell, a cyan-robed figure appeared above Mingxin Temple without warning, standing quietly between Demon Ancestor Black Scorpion and the mountain-protecting array of Mingxin Temple.

The person was tall and straight, with a handsome face and a restrained aura; everyone present could not feel the slightest magic power fluctuation on him, looking like an ordinary young man.

Seeing Su Chen who appeared suddenly, the three people in Daoist Xuan Ming's array, as well as Demon Ancestor Black Scorpion outside the array, were all stunned.

"Daoist Disciple Wu Chen?" Daoist Xuan Ming looked at Su Chen's figure, which seemed a bit strange, and said uncertainly.

Demon Ancestor Black Scorpion narrowed his triangular eyes, his spiritual sense swept over Su Chen, and he did not feel any powerful magic power fluctuation, so a cruel, ferocious smile appeared on his face instantly.

"Another one coming to die? Brat, seeing you are delicate and tender, your essence must be pure, just right to be the furnace for my demonic cultivation!"

Having said this, he opened his mouth and sprayed, and a stream of pure demonic essence turned into a black long river composed of countless resentful souls, carrying a harsh sound of ghosts crying and wolves howling, and swept toward Su Chen.

"Daoist, be careful!" Inside the array, Daoist Xuan Ming and Daoist Gusong shouted in unison.

However, facing Demon Ancestor Black Scorpion's supernatural power, Su Chen just slowly raised his right hand and extended a finger.

On his index finger, a wisp of imperceptible gray airflow quietly lingered.

That was the gift obtained from Luo Hou, the Dao rhyme that terminates all things.

Since inheriting Luo Hou's Dao, he had never used Luo Hou's methods to take action.

Now using it to deal with this mere Earth Immortal demonic cultivator, it belonged to using a cannon to hit a mosquito.

He pointed lightly at the surging demonic energy long river.

That surging and roaring demonic energy long river, which was enough to corrode a mountain range into fly ash, at the moment of contacting the termination Dao rhyme lingering on Su Chen's fingertip, seemed to encounter the most terrifying natural enemy in the world.

Starting from Su Chen's fingertip, that black demonic energy, along with the countless resentful souls struggling within, began to "disappear" silently.

Not purified, not scattered, but erased from this world by a higher-level law, returning to nothingness.

In just a snap of a finger, that massive demonic energy long river vanished into thin air, without leaving even a trace of aura.

Between heaven and earth, there was dead silence.

"This... this is impossible!" The ferocious smile on Demon Ancestor Black Scorpion's face solidified completely, replaced by endless horror and fear. "What kind of means is this? Could it be that you are a Heavenly Immortal?" ===== CHAPTER 248 =====