Chapter 71

Other than sending the Black Dragon back to Qianyuan City to search, he had no better option.

"Aunt Liu."

Su Chen rubbed his temples and again spoke the words he had repeated eight hundred times: "I've already sent the Black Dragon to Cheng Manor; Cheng Manor has some connections in Qianyuan City, so if necessary, the Black Dragon will stay at the Purple Yang Sect until Liyan appears."

"Searching for Liyan is something that could never involve the Heavenly Mystic Dao Sect; the Cheng Manor will agree."

"Worried…… never mind……"

"I'm worried to death, but there are still several thousand cultivators in Yunhai City waiting to be saved; I can't leave, so I can only trust the Black Dragon and slowly wait for news."

"When we reach Yunhai City, if there's still no news of Liyan, I'll bring you back to Qianyuan City myself to fetch her; stop going on about it, it's making me anxious."

Sect Master Liu's eyes were wet and swollen; she gently wiped her tears with a handkerchief.

Turning her head away, whenever she imagined Liu Liyan in danger in her mind, she felt terrified and anxious.

Maternal love overflowed; as a daughter-obsessed, Sect Master Liu's mouth twitched.

Suddenly embracing the lost-in-thought Madam Su, she burst into tears: "My dear daughter, talented and diligent in cultivation, my precious daughter! It's mother… mother who let you down……"

"Liyan, don't act rashly; under no circumstances should you get into trouble."

"You must stay safe, you must live well, you must live in peace."

"No, mother doesn't want to live either."

Su Chen's eyelids twitched wildly.

That sobbing voice made him feel anxious.

Second Sister Su Lingxue pressed her lips, revealing a hint of worry in her eyes.

Madam Su gently patted Sect Master Liu's back until night fell and the last glimmer of light faded; then she asked Su Chen a heartfelt question: "Chen'er, Liyan, she really won't come to any harm, will she?"

"Mother, please don't worry; I'll temporarily entrust Sect Master Liu to you and Second Sister to look after, while I have other matters to attend to."

After Madam Su and Second Sister left, Heigou approached Su Chen and asked what was on his mind: "Young Sect Master, are we going to loot their treasury completely?"

"What's the rush?" Su Chen brushed off the dust on his body.

The treasury of Dragon City, needing to resist the beast tide of the Myriad Demon Mountain Range, required a formation master to set up a killing formation; and since a formation was to be set up, spirit stones would definitely be needed.

With so many spirit stones, the storage ring's space is limited.

Naturally, we would use the Exquisite Small World to hold them.

Having so many spirit stones would save us a lot of points.

He lifted his gaze.

He stared into the distance, locking onto Dragon City's treasury; his eyes gleamed with a cold light, and a chill emanated from his body: "Heigou, the talismans and magical weapons we've prepared for you are ready; this place is less than thirty li from Demon Valley."

"For the news to spread and cause the enemy to fall into disarray, it will take at least half an hour."

"Within the time it takes to burn an incense stick, we will directly seize the treasury."

"Afterward, I want you to bury a Divine Fire Mansion talisman at every point in the city. I want to see whether their formation will trap us first, or whether I will loot their treasury first."

The words fell.

All of his attending guards were deployed.

At this very moment, the City Lord never imagined that Su Chen would take advantage of their time setting up formations in the valley to loot the city's treasury completely.

In the generals' view, a storage ring only offers a few cubic meters of space; to transport spirit stones, at least a Martial Saint cultivator with a refined small world is needed.

Su Chen couldn't possibly be a Martial Saint, and besides, they were rushing to Yunhai City—how could they possibly target their treasury?

They simply couldn't have imagined it.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Until raging flames engulfed Dragon City, the booming sound shook heaven and earth.

At the moment the firelight reached the heavens, those ambushed in the valley and the formation masters setting up the formation failed to react immediately.

Furrowing his brow, he gazed toward Dragon City, instantly petrified, stammering: "Just… just now… was that… heavenly fire?"

"It's Dragon City… in that direction… hurry, hurry, put out the fire!"

Cultivators with strong perception suddenly came to their senses.

However, at the same moment, a Dragon City disciple stumbled over, flying on his sword, and from dozens of li away he shouted in panic: "City Lord! City Lord, something's wrong!"

"Su Chen and his men rushed into the treasure vault, looted all the spirit stones inside, and even used talisman paper to summon heavenly fire, burning the vault to ashes!"

The City Lord jumped up from the stone bench in an instant: "How, how could this be possible?"

"I clearly had people set up a fifth-grade spirit formation; without Martial Sovereign-level cultivation, it's impossible to forcibly break it."

Looting all the spirit treasures and spirit stones from the vault was bad enough, but they even burned it down—truly extreme.

The Dragon City commander of the city guards' face suddenly changed: "Not good, Su Chen anticipated we would set up a killing formation here to ambush him, so…"

"This is a demonstration against us!"

"Everyone, follow me back to the city at once and intercept Su Chen!"

Five thousand cultivators swiftly flew on their swords back to Dragon City.

Unfortunately…

They didn't know that Su Chen had laid a heaven-shaking killing formation in Dragon City, waiting for them to walk into the net.

Su Chen alone broke the fifth-grade spirit formation and stored the spirit stones from the vault into his Exquisite Small World.

Furthermore, he used some spirit stones to have his guards set up a Grand Demon-Slaying Formation outside the vault.

"Can we leave some of the Divine Fire Talismans for your formations? Have you finished setting them up?"

"Second sister, mother, you guard the city gate for me."

Su Chen opened his Exquisite Small World; looking inside, he saw nothing but crystal-clear middle-grade spirit stones, with only a few high-grade ones.

It seems Ye Xuan really spared no expense to prepare for the beast tide, though Su Chen suspected most of it was meant for him.

Scanning with his divine sense, he counted no less than six million spirit stones.

Sure enough, a person without unexpected wealth won't get rich, a horse without night grass won't get fat! Looting the treasury is just comfortable, saving me six or seven thousand points.

Whoosh!

Su Chen withdrew from the Linglong Small World, at the instant he stepped out of the treasury.

Pfft!

A burst of flame ignited, firelight shot up to the sky, dyeing half the heavens red.

Meanwhile, Su Chen's guards had already laid out a killing formation according to his orders.

Su Chen led the group into hiding at a location dozens of li away, inside a ninth‑level defensive formation.

From here they could clearly see the layout while also blocking any perception.

They're here.

Junior Sect Master, they're here.

The black dog gazed at Su Chen with admiring, excited eyes.

The leading city lord, seeing the destruction Su Chen had caused along the way, flew into a rage and cursed: 'Su Chen, you truly deserve to die!'

Damn it, they actually took advantage of our unpreparedness and intercepted the treasury's spirit stones.

If I don't repay this grudge, I swear I won't be human!

Everyone, use your divine sense to investigate; they surely couldn't have fled far in such a short time.

The city lord, bursting with anger and having nowhere to vent, ordered five thousand cultivators to use their divine sense to probe Su Chen's aura.

Meanwhile, he led some formation masters into the treasury to investigate the situation.

However,

Just as he stepped forward, countless flying swords shot at him from behind.

A formation?! That damned Su Chen set up a formation here!

Swish—swish—swish—

My arm, ahhh…… I can't hold on much longer!

Flying swords filled the sky, quite a spectacular sight.

Like a violent rainstorm, they bombarded indiscriminately.

Thousands of cultivators with slightly weaker cultivation didn't even have time to react before dropping dead on the spot.

Those with somewhat stronger cultivation could barely resist, but were still badly shaken.

Then, in chaos within the formation, a cultivator stepped on an explosive talisman.

Boom—boom—boom—

Deafening explosion sounds rang out incessantly.