Chapter 57

Dark Guard Leader: "……"

As a Dark Guard of the Ye family, he had never been humiliated like this before; furious, his clenched fists crackled.

But he himself was well aware that the talismans in Su Chen's hands, as well as the saint-grade arcane weapons, were genuinely hard to believe.

You should know that even some top powers in the Central State might not possess such things.

Since the chief senior brother refuses to believe, how arrogant! He won't listen to his good advice.

Then he has nothing more to say!

After the Dark Guard Leader calmed for a moment, he curled his lip in a cold smile: "Believe it or not, don't lose your life over it later! Su Chen went to the Blackwater Heavenly Prison of the Azure Abyss Sect; go after him, I want to see what a half-step Martial Venerable like you can do to catch him."

"An ant like him, Su Chen doesn't deserve me using my Martial Venerable cultivation!" The chief senior brother lifted his head, wearing an arrogant look, a hint of greed flashing in his eyes.

He immediately turned and, facing the Azure Abyss Sect disciples behind him, gave a cold order: "All disciples, hear the command! Return at once to the Azure Abyss Sect's Blackwater Heavenly Prison and capture the calamity Su Chen."

"Received the order!!"

Amid the deafening responses of the disciples, accompanied by a pillar of light from a teleportation array shooting up into the sky, they vanished from the sight of the Dark Guard members.

The Dark Guard disciples frowned, timidly asking in a low voice: "Leader, they just went like that… Su Chen's talismans… can they beat them?"

"Hah! Why not? He's the chief senior brother of the Azure Abyss Sect, possessing half-step Martial Venerable cultivation." The Dark Guard Leader felt a mix of anger and amusement: "Wait a few hours and we'll know the answer—maybe the Thunderfire Talisman won't kill him, Chief Senior Brother?"

Since he looks down on our Ye family's secret guards like that, why should we try to win his favor?

He's so eager to prove himself; let him go.

Su Chen! What a worthless piece of trash, only knows how to lick women, it's all a facade to deceive us—I really underestimated him.

After all, if he were truly useless, how could he produce something so terrifying?

Moreover, he hid it until before Ye Xuan made his move.

Only then did he fully reveal his trump card!

At first, Black Dragon and the others didn't dare use these talismans and spirit treasures, thinking they might be fake—surely not every one could have such power.

But after continuously swallowing several Rejuvenation Pills and using several Thunderfire Talismans in succession, they became completely convinced and grew increasingly proficient.

Moreover, midway they took a Breakthrough Pill, raising their cultivation by a major realm, and relying on the previously practiced Combined Attack Sword Formation, working together, they had virtually no opponents.

Even a Martial Ancestor Realm cultivator seemed somewhat lacking before them.

Moreover, the arcane weapons—some they even directly used as explosive talismans, self-detonating the arcane weapons.

"Boom—"

A heaven-shaking, earth-rumbling sound echoed through the Blackwater Heavenly Prison.

Not far from the Blackwater Heavenly Prison, the Azure Abyss Sect's Sect Master, Ye Xuan.

Sitting upon the gilded throne, the entire hall trembled violently; his divine sense instantly spread out, and then a smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Su Chen…… you have finally come personally to deliver yourself to death."

Kieh kieh kieh……

A strange laugh echoed in the Azure Abyss Sect's hall, many elders' faces grew solemn, and then Ye Xuan's figure vanished from the hall.

Inside the Blackwater Heavenly Prison, the Sect Master Liu, imprisoned in the deepest cell, faintly heard the rumbling; he sat on the damp ground that occasionally emitted a foul odor, his cultivation sealed.

His six senses' perception also weakened without limit; the cell contained only a worn straw mat and a tattered thin blanket.

Now, in the depths of winter, the yin cold pierced his marrow.

"Old Su, old Su, I've done all I can, but that brat Ye Xuan is dead set on exterminating the entire Heavenly Profound Dao Sect."

"'Daughter! It's mother's inadequacy! I can no longer continue guarding by your side.'" Sect Master Liu's formerly charming appearance now seemed to have aged ten years overnight, his head full of silver strands, the cold invading his body, his face pallid.

He gazed at those hands that had once helped Ye Xuan through his hardships, his face filled with sorrow and resentment.

"Our sect has spent a lifetime doing good, yet we end up like this—Heaven truly is blind!"

"'Daughter, my only regret is never having seen you wear the phoenix crown and rosy robes.'"

"'My poor daughter! It was no easy feat for you to come together with Su Chen; the Eastern Wasteland had finally found peace, only to… after all, the ways of Heaven are ever-turning.'"

"'Good daughter, what I worry about most, what I cannot set my mind at ease about, is you.'"

For now, the affairs of the Heavenly Profound Dao Sect remain unresolved; Ye Xuan likely won't openly move against Su Chen.

But if the Heavenly Profound Dao Sect is exterminated, then any forces tied to the Heavenly Profound Sect and to the Su family will inevitably be purged.

Once she marries into the Su family, and second, once she testifies for Su Changfeng, she will surely face calamity.

If she perishes, the Purple Yang Sect behind her will surely decline as well.

What should the daughter do?

"'Ye Xuan once personally sent a message, telling the daughter to join the Star Pavilion, saying something about a Buddha-body holy physique; considering the holy physique, he ought not to make things difficult for her!'" Sect Master Liu thought sorrowfully, carefully sensing the several major acupoints sealed within his body, intending to gather all his spiritual energy to break through the apertures.

This thought had just arisen.

Suddenly.

Outside the gate came the sound of chains being torn apart with a clatter, and immediately a petite black-clad figure rushed into the cell, slashing the iron lock with a sword.

She seized Liu Zongzhu's wrist, her feet surging with energy, and sprinted swiftly out of the cell.

"'Who… who are you?'" Liu Zongzhu stared at the black-robed assailant who had burst in, shocked, his expression full of bewilderment.

"'Shut up!'" came a female voice.

Her voice sounded impatient, tinged with reproach: 'I've come to rescue you on the orders of the Young Sect Master Su; Ye Xuan has dealt a lethal blow to the Heavenly Profound Dao Sect—if you want to live, follow me and don't speak.'

"'Su… Su Chen? But how could he?'" Liu Zongzhu still hadn't come to his senses; Su Chen? Perhaps saying Su Changfeng would be more believable.

But now her cultivation is sealed; she can only be dragged along by the woman.

Run toward the cell's exit!

They had only just run halfway.

Several explosions boomed outside the gate.

The petite figure's face turned pale with shock.

Soon after,

A tall man wearing the same black robe rushed in quickly, his eyes filled with panic.

He shouted at the woman with a rough voice: "Hurry up, if we wait any longer it'll be too late; a group of cultivators has rushed in, seemingly also here for Sect Leader Liu."

Although there are only a few of them, though their cultivation is low, they are only at the Martial Emperor Realm, yet the talismans in their hands seem inexhaustible; hundreds of prison guards and wardens, at a single glance, all perished.

"Damn it, could it be that we've alerted Ye Xuan's people?" The petite black-robed woman's face fell.

Half an hour earlier, she suddenly received her master's order to spare no effort in rescuing Sect Leader Liu.

She didn't hesitate, arranging personnel to come break into the prison; unexpectedly, just as they had rescued halfway, they ran into Ye Xuan's people.

They don't seem like disciples of the Qingming Sect; they wield saint-tier arcane weapons and seventh-grade healing pills like Return Spring Pill as if they were candy, and they also have a sword formation, their combat prowess not to be underestimated.

Even the restrictions set up in the Blackwater Heavenly Prison were blown open with just two talisman papers.

The petite woman looked furiously yet helplessly at Sect Leader Liu, gritting her teeth: "Just how many people did you send to rescue you?"

Sect Leader Liu looked bewildered: "I, I don't know anything at all..."