Chapter 676: The Big Dipper

Swish! Swish!

Invisible Sword Qi streaks across the sky!

After refining the Dharma Treasure "Invisible Needle," Aaron continuously honed his swordsmanship in coordination with the techniques of the "Invisible Needle Art"!

The Golden Core True Inheritors of the Shushan Sword Pavilion, having refined an "Invisible Sword" and paired it with the "Taiqing Formless Sword Art," each possess Sword Qi that pierces the heavens and astonishing divine abilities; even killing enemies across a minor realm is no challenge for them.

Whether it be the techniques or the sword formulas, Aaron's are all "monkey versions" that have been comprehensively scaled down, but feeling that he can roam freely through the early Golden Core stage with few rivals, he is certainly worthy of it!

Pop!

While practicing the needle techniques, Aaron was suddenly struck by a whim and flicked his finger like a thunderbolt.

A shadowless and formless Sword Light suddenly surged, and in the silence, it pierced through a small mountain in front of him.

It entered from the front of the mountain and protruded from the back... just like a needle piercing tofu!

"This lethality... as expected of a Sword Cultivator!"

Aaron thought for a moment and spat out a mouthful of primordial Demon Fire.

He had returned to the sect once this time, and then received a piece of news.

A miraculous thing happened...

Qianyang City.

Looking at the Immortal Cultivator city that seemed not to have changed much from a hundred years ago, Aaron muttered to himself.

Mentioning this, Luo Kun could not help but sigh: "This Xuantian Sect ruin actually has three layers... divided into the outer perimeter, the inner circle... and the core 'Beidou Hall'!"

"Of course, I cannot be arrogant or complacent; although the 'Soul-Devouring Demon Flame' is sharp, it must burn the cultivator's physical body to have any effect!"

"Sigh... that 'Beihai Sanren' is just a Loose Cultivator who disguised himself as a Golden Core Cultivator to sneak in, and no one could do anything to him... perhaps there are quite a few Nascent Soul old monsters doing the same."

The two entered the Cave Abode together and drank tea by a Lotus Pond.

After some aimless chatting about this and that, Luo Kun asked about Aaron's purpose for coming.

After Aaron's experiments, the temperature and destructive power were not much different from the ordinary version of the Black Sun Demon Fire, but the key was that it added a special lethality, which was even terrifyingly lethal to cultivators!

Should he really go himself?

Hmm... wait until the people in front clear the dungeon and release a guide, then perhaps he can consider it...

Aaron suddenly felt as if his old age had all been lived in the pursuit of caution.

"Sigh..."

Driven by the Dharma Power of a Golden Core Cultivator, it remained incredibly fast; when he arrived at the city gate, countless Loose Cultivators respectfully cleared a path.

And Aaron, without undergoing inspection, simply flashed his Guest Elder Token from the Shushan Sword Pavilion and was respectfully invited into the city by the patrolling cultivators.

At this time, he used a simple Flight spell.

Under the cover of the "Invisible Needle," his own escape light became indistinct... eventually even vanishing into invisibility, silent and soundless...

"If the Sword Cultivators of the Shushan Sword Pavilion aren't nerfed... can this game still be played?"

After eighty-plus years of refining, this primordial Fire Seed has undergone a fundamental change.

If it were the previous him, facing a Golden Core early-stage True Disciple of the Shushan Sword Pavilion, he truly would not be able to win!

That Shen Qingmei, after decades of bitter cultivation, finally entered the "False Core" realm and then went directly into seclusion to form a Golden Core...

"Fortunately, I have finally refined an 'Invisible Needle,' making up for the deficiency in attack; in the future, the 'Black Jade Seal' will handle defense and control... attacks will be handled by the 'Invisible Needle'... and my trump card will be the Black Sun Demon Fire amplified by the 'Sacrificial Fire Art,' so my sense of security has finally improved a little."

After becoming familiar with the "Invisible Needle Art," Aaron had to admit it.

"I would like to hear the details!" Hearing the news update, Aaron's eyes lit up.

Luo Kun sighed, then sneered: "Once the core of the ruins, the Beidou Hall, appeared... treasure-seeking cultivators swarmed in like madmen, and then it was a great tragedy!"

"What? Wasn't it said that Nascent Soul cultivators couldn't intervene?" Aaron asked in surprise.

"Could it be that the casualties from the magical battles were too miserable?" Aaron guessed.

At this time, having arrived at the Cave Abode of a Shushan Sword Pavilion deacon, and after sending a Transmission Talisman, a cultivator wearing a yellow robe came out to greet him: "Junior Brother Shen... I am 'Luo Kun'; you can contact me for any affairs in this city in the future."

"Senior Brother Luo!"

At this moment, the originally pitch-black Demon Fire had turned half-gray and half-black.

This statement was half-true and half-false.

"Such a Sword Cultivator, even if they can't win, they can run! Let alone chasing them, even finding them is difficult... if this is used for sneak attacks, tsk tsk..."

Any life burned by this gray-black Demon Fire would lose its vitality at a terrifying speed; in other words, it—burns lifespan!

This is a demonic fire that even Nascent Soul old monsters would absolutely not want to touch, even at the cost of being severely injured!

Luo Kun's face was full of lingering fear.

"To tell you the truth... Junior Brother has been stuck at the early Golden Core stage for a hundred years since forming my core, unable to make any progress... I came out to seek opportunities, especially the Xuantian Sect ruins at Ten Thousand Demon Lake..."

"The outer perimeter and inner circle go without saying; after so many years of exploration, cultivators have long since discovered stable and safe paths, and relatively speaking, most of the opportunities have been taken, so there is little to gain... but this 'Beidou Hall' was only discovered a few years ago... at that time, it was truly a bloodbath, and even Nascent Soul old monsters fell!"

"Fine... this isn't a game, but the real Immortal Cultivation World; that's just how the strong stay strong... they deserve to rise and dominate the Great Gan!"

"This fire has changed... can it be called 'Soul-Devouring Demon Flame'? With its terrifying effect, even if a Nascent Soul old monster were to be touched by it, they would end up miserably... after all, in the Immortal Cultivation World, all kinds of old immortals nearing the end of their lifespan are the mainstream!"

"I probably still can't beat a Nascent Soul cultivator... even a late-stage Golden Core cultivator would likely be hard to break through their defenses to directly damage their physical body... after all, I haven't tried, and I don't want to try..."

Aaron bowed first; after all, the other party was a True Disciple, so the treatment was different.

'I didn't expect... Shen Qingmei has already gone into seclusion to form a Golden Core.'

Thinking of the other party's age, and then thinking about what he was doing when he was over a hundred years old...

"It's too much of a foul... the Sword Escape Technique of a Sword Cultivator is already unparalleled in speed... and if they use an Invisible Sword, it even comes with an invisibility effect..."

Aaron's eyes lit up, and with another wave of his hand, he steered the "Invisible Needle," turning it into a streak of escape light.

Aaron hadn't expected at first that when the Black Sun Demon Fire met the "Sacrificial Fire Art," such a gratifying change would occur!

Fine... in reality, that is exactly the case!

He had a very good mindset; after all, he had seen too many geniuses, and after being struck down time and again, he had simply gotten used to it...

Aaron certainly would not use the Invisible Needle to travel; although its escape speed was extremely fast and it was very concealed, the origin of his own Invisible Needle could not see the light of day.

Aaron came here mainly for the sake of making acquisitions.

"Junior Brother Shen, what is the purpose of your visit?"

"No! It is the Array Formation and Forbidden Technique!"

Luo Kun's voice was eerie: "That which guards Beidou Hall is a Great Array, capable of emitting ten thousand zhang of Mysterious Light, ignoring all Dharma Treasure and spell defenses, and directly whittling away a person's lifespan! That Beihai Sanren and the other Golden Core Cultivators were instantly aged and withered away the moment they were enveloped by the Array Formation..."

(End of this chapter)