Chapter 66: I thought it was a speed bump?

A tremendous boom!

Terrifying flames shot up into the sky……

The explosion, centered on Luo Qingxue, swept outward, engulfing the surroundings.

Luo Qingxue had earlier stuck a Hard Character Talisman on her body, so these explosions naturally caused her no harm.

However, just as she was about to use the terrifying shockwave from the explosion to make her escape, the surrounding space seemed to be sealed.

Even the explosion's power seemed to be swallowed and neutralized by something!

"Huh?"

Luo Qingxue frowned slightly, sensing something amiss, as the sky suddenly darkened.

She quickly looked up and saw a huge, ancient earth-yellow pagoda slowly descending from above.

The earth-yellow pagoda was hung all around with bells; as it fell, it kept rotating, and the bells above chimed, emitting terrifying sound waves!

The sound waves were like ghosts wailing and wolves howling, unsettling the mind, and they also completely swallowed the explosion's outward-spreading remnants.

After a moment, the explosion vanished, and Luo Qingxue was immobilized by the pagoda's power, unable to move.

Although Luo Qingxue felt a bit shocked, she wasn't really afraid, after all he still had his final trump card.

At the same time, the arrogant young man from before reappeared in Luo Qingxue's view.

That young man had originally been wearing a crimson robe, but now his robe was gone, revealing a black, form-fitting soft armor underneath.

His hair was somewhat disheveled, and his face bore some gray-black smudges.

Obviously, he had been shaken by Luo Qingxue's explosion talisman when caught off guard.

However, thanks to his life-saving soft armor and someone activating the pagoda to swallow those explosion impacts, he could appear before Luo Qingxue unharmed.

"Tsk tsk tsk, little beauty, amazing."

The arrogant young man regarded Luo Qingxue with slight surprise, his expression growing more playful:

"You carry an attack talisman of such power that even I felt a bit of the aftermath."

"You managed to survive this explosion unscathed; you must have used a defensive talisman beforehand!"

"Among the trash of the Myriad Worlds, someone actually has such superb talisman skill—this even surprises me a bit."

"Little beauty, how about we make a deal?"

"Have the person who helps you make talismans come work for me, and I'll elevate your furnace cauldron status to dual cultivation—how about that?"

"Being able to dual cultivate with me is a great honor for you; you must cherish this hard-won opportunity."

Indeed, this young man clearly had his eye on the talisman craftsman who makes talismans for Luo Qingxue!

The attack and defense talismans he makes are so perfect; if such a talisman craftsman could work for me, that would be a huge help!

This young man is called Mo Jingyuan, one of the three top powers in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Realm, the vice hall master of the Return to the Abyss Hall!!

The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Realm is relatively close to the Immortal Realm compared to the Myriad Worlds.

Over there, the cultivation environment is also slightly influenced by the Immortal Realm, making cultivators' progress much faster than in the Myriad Worlds.

Thus, the Emperor Realm experts there are naturally far stronger than those in the Myriad Worlds.

Take, for example, one of their three major powers, the Return to the Abyss Hall.

In the Return to the Abyss Hall, over a dozen people have cultivated immortal aura.

Moreover, their grand elder and hall master have cultivated two and a half strands of immortal aura; if they cultivate steadily, they could ascend to immortality in at most three thousand years!

The opening of the immortal road merely sped up their ascension process!

As for the Myriad Worlds side, hardly anyone has cultivated immortal aura.

Just from that earlier battle, the Return to the Abyss Hall's Emperor Realm experts almost completely crushed the Myriad Worlds' Emperor Realm experts!

Thus, the gap between the two sides is enormous!

No wonder Mo Jingyuan opens with 'the trash of the Myriad Worlds!'

He is only three thousand years old in bone age, yet his cultivation has already reached the Ninefold Emperor Realm; there in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, he is truly a heaven‑chosen prodigy!

Getting back to the point.

After Mo Jingyuan finished speaking, Luo Qingxue's reply seemed somewhat unexpected to him.

All we heard was her slowly saying: 'Good!'

Anyway, when faced with this matter, she would definitely summon the sect master, after all Li Zhangsheng is Luo Qingxue's greatest reliance.

As for whether the sect master will work for Mo Jingyuan after arriving, Luo Qingxue doesn't know that.

Hearing Luo Qingxue's answer, Mo Jingyuan nodded with a smile: 'Hmm, not bad—those who know the times are outstanding. You're smarter than I imagined; as long as you serve me well in the future, I won't mistreat you.'

"Then have the talisman craftsman who makes your talismans summoned; surely there's a way to contact him."

Luo Qingxue nodded seriously: 'Hmm, I've already summoned him.'

"Excellent!" Mo Jingyuan praised, not caring why Luo Qingxue had summoned the person.

Anyway, as soon as that talisman craftsman arrives, he has plenty of ways to subdue him and make him willingly work for him!

"Vice hall master, all the cultivators who entered this realm have been captured; we can now refine your weapons." At that moment, a stooped old man walked up behind Mo Jingyuan and said respectfully.

This stooped old man is the fourth elder of the Return to the Abyss Hall, who has cultivated a strand of immortal aura; at this moment he holds a small earth‑yellow pagoda in his hands.

It was just this pagoda he deployed that swallowed the power of Luo Qingxue's crushed explosion talisman!

The earth‑yellow pagoda in his hand is not an imperial artifact but a semi‑immortal artifact!

Resources in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths are richer than in the Myriad Worlds, so the peak experts there forge their weapons as semi‑immortal artifacts rather than imperial arms.

Hearing this, Mo Jingyuan nodded, turned his body, and looked toward the flat ground elsewhere.

There, a group of cultivators knelt, seven of them Emperor Realm experts, the rest Quasi‑Emperor Realm cultivators.

They are all cultivators from the Myriad Worlds side; above them now hovers a huge, ancient bowl that spins, restricting all their movements!

That huge ancient bowl is also a semi‑immortal artifact, emanating unparalleled power!

Besides that, the area around those cultivators had already been etched with countless weird runes, the runes flickering with a weird red light.

"Then let's begin the sacrificial refinement." Mo Jingyuan looked at the kneeling cultivators with a mocking expression.

The reason he spared their lives was to refine his own weapon.

He was also about to cultivate immortal energy on this immortal path, so naturally he needed to preliminarily refine a half-immortal artifact for himself!

As he spoke, Mo Jingyuan pointed a finger at his abdomen, and a ferocious, sharp knife shot out from his dantian.

This is his natal weapon nurtured by his own body.

And he intends to use the blood and qi of the cultivators from the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds here to refine his natal weapon into a half-immortal artifact!

Swish!

Under Mo Jingyuan's control, the knife flew over the heads of the kneeling All Heavens cultivators on the ground, then immediately began to enlarge.

"You... what are you doing?!"

Among the kneeling All Heavens cultivators, someone asked in fear.

"Of course we're going to use you to refine the Junior Hall Master's weapon; otherwise, what did you think we kept your lives for?"

An Emperor Realm from the Return Ruins Hall laughed loudly.

"Sacrificial refinement? How dare cultivators do such a heaven-defying act; aren't you afraid of heavenly punishment?"

A kneeling All Heavens Emperor Realm shouted angrily.

"Noisy!"

A bald Emperor Realm from the Return Ruins Hall snorted coldly; this bald Emperor Realm is the Third Elder of the Return Ruins Hall, has also cultivated an immortal aura, and the massive, ancient bowl hovering in the air is his half-immortal artifact.

As he activated that half-immortal artifact, the All Heavens Camp Emperor Realm who had just spoken instantly deformed, his body twisted into a braid by a tremendous force.

"Ahhhh!"

That All Heavens Camp Emperor Realm let out a heart-rending howl!

"You... you're practically a bunch of demons; what's the difference between this and demonic cultivators?"

Another Emperor Realm from the All Heavens Camp whispered.

Upon hearing that, the people from the Return Ruins Hall all burst out laughing.

"Hahaha, you All Heavens trash are too hilarious!"

"Survival of the fittest is simply the law of the cultivation world!"

"Trash should just become nourishment for the strong's cultivation!"

"Being able to serve as cultivation nourishment on the Junior Hall Master's path to immortality is the value of your existence as trash, understand?"

Mocking!

Taunting!

Savoring…

Laughter echoed incessantly!

"Really humorous, how does it feel that the trash cultivators of the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds have had their brains refined into stupidity?" The Third Elder of the Return Ruins Hall rubbed his bald head:

"Cultivation is cultivation; as long as it boosts your strength, what's the difference between demonic and orthodox paths?"

The Fourth Elder holding a pagoda also laughed, saying: "It's simply naive, like a bunch of children!"

Beside them, Luo Qingxue, who was being controlled, furrowed her brows slightly.

The cultivation principles of these Nine Heavens and Ten Earths cultivators are somewhat crazy.

Besides, I've already crushed the Sect Master's positioning talisman; why hasn't the Sect Master arrived yet?

Could it be that the signal is bad?

At the summit of Stone Mountain, the spectator Li Zhangsheng leisurely took a sip of wine, then stepped forward…

On this side, Mo Jingyuan looked at Luo Qingxue and asked with a smile: "Did the talisman maker you summoned arrive?"

"He should have... arrived." Luo Qingxue blinked, not entirely sure.

"Hehe, whether you become a furnace cauldron or practice dual cultivation depends on your performance." Mo Jingyuan chuckled playfully.

"Hehe, Junior Hall Master, this girl is really pretty; I like her. Once you've had your fun with her, can you lend her to me?" The bald Third Elder stared lustfully at Luo Qingxue, licked his lips, and was speaking to Mo Jingyuan.

However, before he could finish speaking, his body seemed to be struck by something and then exploded with a boom!

Flesh and blood flew everywhere, and his soul was also shattered by the impact!

Both body and spirit destroyed!

Immediately afterward, a white-clad youth appeared in his former position, taking his place!

"Huh?" Mo Jingyuan frowned slightly, looking at the suddenly appearing white-clad youth.

The white-clad youth spread his hands with an apologetic, innocent look and said to Mo Jingyuan: "Sorry, I couldn't stop in time; I thought it was a speed bump!"