Chapter 698: Sprint

Magic Calculator looked at his two tragically dead Junior Brothers, his heart filled with extreme terror!

After all, he was no bumpkin from the Far West; he could recognize that what Aaron was wielding was vaguely the renowned Invisible Sword divine ability of the Shushan Sword Pavilion!

The reason Aaron had not been recognized all these years was that the cultivators of the Far West had limited knowledge.

Furthermore, the cultivators who had seen him use the Invisible Needle were all dead...

"The feeling of killing small fry is indeed different from killing those of the same rank... Is this the feeling of a Sword Cultivator? In the snap of a finger, life and death are decided; indestructible, invincible... It really is... sharp enough!"

Aaron stood with his hands behind his back, fully displaying the demeanor of an expert.

Although his Invisible Needle and Sword Formula were both Pinduoduo-brand knockoffs, Magic Calculator did not know that.

Within this, there seemed to be something that could be exploited?

Once he broke through to the late Golden Core stage, not to mention the terrifying trump card of opening the passage between the two worlds.

After the eighty-one tolls of the Startling God Bell, within the Yaowang Main Hall, all the sect Elders, deacons... and Foundation Establishment Dashiu who heard the bell gathered together, looking at the incomparably aged figure on the main seat.

"It has been lifted?"

And for a small, broken place like the Far West, the main Black Demon Sect did not look upon it at all, at most sending a few old demons at the late Golden Core or even False Nascent Soul realm.

Roar!

Even though he had repeatedly used divine abilities and annihilated powerful enemies, Aaron's mood was not happy; rather, it was quite heavy.

Yes...

Those abacus beads were actually pierced and shattered into powder by an Invisible Needle in mid-air!

But Magic Calculator had long anticipated this; when he released this protective Dharma Treasure, he did not think he could withstand an enemy who had refined an Invisible Sword—that was something the Black Demon Child of his sect should do!

Intense blood-colored flames erupted from his body, and his entire person turned into a shooting star, fleeing rapidly toward the horizon, abandoning even his life-bound Dharma Treasure that was entangled with the Black Jade Seal!

Aaron chuckled, used the Blood Burning Escape Technique, and arrived behind Magic Calculator.

And after the mid-stage Golden Core, he still encountered a bottleneck!

"According to previous experience... for this late Golden Core barrier, if I rely on time to slowly grind it out, I should thank the heavens if I can break through in two hundred years..."

Aaron struck with a sword directly in mid-air, mincing the corpse into pieces, took a Storage Bag into his hand, and returned to the original spot, searching the battlefield carefully to ensure there were no fish that slipped through the net.

Safety was still well-guaranteed.

Magic Calculator propped up a protective Dharma shield, but it was instantly burned full of holes.

What was lacking was opportunity, environment, and even luck!

"Supreme Elder..."

"This is a great suggestion! He Yu... as the Sect Master, you go and contact all parties, and attempt to form an alliance!"

Aaron returned to Hou Shan, closed his Cave Abode, and continued to practice.

Looking at the fleeing Magic Calculator, he flicked his finger, and gray-black intertwined demonic flames fell like a blanket.

At this time, a mid-stage Foundation Establishment Sect Master whom Aaron had previously chosen stood up: "This Disciple actually came to find the Supreme Elder earlier regarding an urgent matter, but was blocked by the Spirit Venerable; it is also related to this!"

Once these words were spoken, the cultivators below were in an uproar: "Demonic Dao attack? Which Demon Sect would actually attack a True Disciple of our Yaowang Sect?"

【Name: Fang Yu (Aaron)】

"Then..."

"Previously, the Black Demon Sect had an attitude of slowly plotting, but now they have changed to aggressive assassination and seizing power... that is the best evidence!"

Only then did he discover that it was a pitch-black jade seal like a small mountain, which had arrived above him at some unknown time, falling down like Mount Tai pressing on the top.

Aaron echoed in his heart, then asked: "Then in your view, what should we do?"

"In these past ten-plus years, it is actually not just our Yaowang Sect; the various Golden Core forces in the Far West have actually encountered many twists and turns... such as the heir in whom high hopes were placed suddenly dying, the sect's Great Elder suffering from Qi deviation and passing away, or even opposition factions within the sect seizing power... and even situations of sudden collapse..."

If it were changed to Song Zhong, then he could not reveal too much strength, which would be quite inconvenient.

For example, Aaron's Invisible Needle and Black Jade Seal had actually been nurtured by him for seven or eight hundred years, their power far exceeding ordinary Dharma Treasures, making the annihilation of Demon Cultivators easy.

It is normal for an old cultivator who has been at the Golden Core stage for hundreds of years to have fierce combat power.

The other party was the founding Ancestor of the Yaowang Sect, and had outlived who knows how many ambitious people and disciples...

The mountain-protecting Array Formation here was personally set up by Aaron; leaving a back door was naturally easy.

Then he felt a bit regretful: "Seen through, huh... then you can go die!"

"Fortunately... I was prepared."

This 'Nine-Star Pill' was a pill of great benefit for Golden Core cultivators to break through bottlenecks, made from the Nine-Eyed Begonia that cost him a thousand years of investment; only one pill was formed!

"If I take this pill and break through the bottleneck... then I might as well play with the Black Demon Sect branch..."

"Oh? Tell me in detail!"

【Cultivation Method: Mingyu Art 15th Layer (20000/20000)】

"Begin!"

He was already very old; at this moment, his hair turned white, and he transformed into a withered corpse, falling from mid-air...

Except for Xiaoqing, who was lying in the Spirit Pool and lazily raised its head to take a look, everything was normal...

Then, successive explosion sounds came.

"Since that is the case... toll the Startling God Bell!"

The gray-black flames erupted violently, and Magic Calculator suddenly felt his own lifespan dissipating rapidly...

He snuck all the way back to Yaowang Mountain.

His once-proud "calculating everything without omission" seemed to become a joke after the appearance of this Dharma Treasure: "You... you are not Song Zhong... you are Fang Laoguai! Damn it, you hid so deep!"

Thinking of this, Aaron directly used the Invisible Evasion Technique to speed up and rush back to Yaowang Mountain.

"There is... earlier the Sect Master came to find you, but was blocked by Xiaoqing..."

【Realm: Golden Core Mid-Stage】

Watching the crowd disperse and leave, Aaron muttered silently to himself.

"Of course... Immortal Cultivators do not need evidence."

"The Demon Tribulation is likely not a hundred years away, but about to erupt immediately!"

With Bai Caiwei having left, Shen Le having passed away, and the Supreme Elder being frail and aged, the only one in the entire Yaowang Sect who could still put up a fight in the eyes of the outside world was actually Xiaoqing!

Aaron made a decision: "Those who do not plan for the overall situation are not fit to plan for a single region. Although this old man cannot see a hundred years into the future... but if the Demon Tribulation rises again, it will certainly not be good for the Far West!"

【Age: 1401】

Magic Calculator felt his head spinning a bit.

"He lacks a broad perspective, and more importantly, intelligence..."

"Looking at it now, the Black Demon Sect branch's premature movement... clearly has another reason!"

Even though Fang Laozu was already frail and aged, they still dared not be the slightest bit negligent on the surface and hurriedly bowed: "Greetings, Supreme Elder..."

Clang!

Clang, clang!

Aaron straightened his sitting posture.

"Cough, cough... No need for formalities." Aaron gasped after every sentence, his lungs sounding like two giant bellows: "The reason I summoned you all here this time is that a major event has occurred within the sect... This old man recalled my sixth Disciple, Song Zhong, a few days ago, but I did not expect that my Disciple would encounter an attack by the Demonic Dao on the way. At this moment, his whereabouts are unknown, and it is unclear whether he is alive or dead..."

"There are quite a few talents in the world of cultivation..."

Aaron coughed.

"Little Zong? The Sect Master?"

Aaron took out the jade bottle containing the 'Nine-Star Pill', his expression grave.

Without alerting anyone, Aaron returned to his Cave Abode.

Aaron strolled out of the Cave Abode and coughed: "Xiaoqing... during the time this old man was in seclusion, did anyone come to disturb me?"

Having exhausted the last Spirit Pill that increased Dharma Power, combined with bitter cultivation, he finally completed the fifteenth level of the Mingyu Art!

The fifteenth level of the Mingyu Art was indeed extremely difficult; if one only cultivated on a Spirit Vein, it would probably take five or six hundred years to complete.

The Black Jade Seal crashed down with a boom, colliding fiercely with the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Demon Treasure.

"Go to war! We must go to war!"

No matter what, this scapegoat had to be thrown onto the Black Demon Sect to carry.

"Isn't there still over a hundred years left on the Thousand-Year Covenant? What does it mean for the Shushan Sword Pavilion to have personally annulled it?"

Magic Calculator had only said half a sentence when his expression changed abruptly.

He Yu loudly agreed.

"Actually... if it weren't for this Ancestor, the Yaowang Sect would be finished sooner or later anyway!"

After he mastered this Secret escape technique, he actually used it more often to chase down enemies.

Aaron habitually chose to keep an ace up his sleeve.

Boom!

Aaron felt a momentary trance, woke up from his meditation, felt the powerful Dharma Power of the Mingyu Art within his body, and smiled slightly: "Finally... complete."

"At a time when a great war is about to start, an old 'mask' at the Golden Core Mid-Stage seems to be more useful than a new one?"

【Talent: Immortality】

"This Disciple is incompetent, I ask the Ancestor to contact the Golden Core Ancestors of the major sects, reorganize the Extreme West Alliance, and seek aid from the Shushan Sword Pavilion in Great Gan!"

"If I can't break through... sorry... I'd better go hide in the mortal world..."

This Sect Master He was intelligent and courageous; he could be considered a talent.

And a Natal Magical Treasure can grow alongside a Golden Core Cultivator.

Pills refined from Ancient prescriptions are indeed extraordinary.

"What's more... if I take action, I must disguise myself as an old monster at the Golden Core Mid-Stage... I will never expose my true strength, so if I encounter danger, I can escape unexpectedly..."

Magic Calculator suddenly felt the sky darken.

"Or... leave the Far West and go to Great Gan to take refuge? Hmm, there shouldn't be many Nascent Soul old monsters still keeping an eye on the Xuantian Sect ruins there, right?"

"And breaking through in life-and-death situations through combat is not suitable for me either..."

The current Yaowang Sect is no longer the behemoth it was in its prime, with four Golden Core Cultivators in one sect.

Precautions against a late-stage Golden Core Cultivator are bound to be completely different from those against a mid-stage one.

In his life, he had encountered too many prodigies and heroes, so he naturally knew that the world was never lacking in geniuses.

After all, besides their realm, the strength of Golden Core Cultivators mainly depends on whether their Dharma Treasures are sharp or not.

As for whether Song Zhong lives or dies?

It just depends on when Aaron decides to discard the 'Fang Laozu' mask.

During cultivation, time passed quickly.

Subsequently, Aaron vanished into thin air, emerged from the void on the other side, and stabbed Magic Calculator with a sword, exposing his Golden Core Mid-Stage cultivation without reservation!

On Magic Calculator, a Dharma Treasure in the shape of an abacus appeared, and countless abacus beads splashed out.

The fact that he rushed to Wu Country like that back then, and the cultivators along the way were like blind men and discovered nothing, was the best proof!

He took a deep breath, as if he had made an incredibly important decision.

Aaron could feel the powerful bottleneck that lay before the late-stage Golden Core realm!

Aaron extracted half a sentence, and the information contained within it made even him feel surprised.

Among them, several old Foundation Establishment cultivators wore expressions of worry.

Once he became serious, his escape technique was not only extremely fast, but also left no shadow as he came and went.

Having Three Spirit Roots is just that miserable; he was stuck once at the peak of the early Golden Core stage.

"And the facts have proven that I am indeed not some child of Heavenly Mandate..."

If one were to go to the mortal world, that would likely take several thousand years!

While he was terrified to the point of despair, he did not notice a spark that had already broken through his defenses and reached the surface of his body.

'If the shrunken version is like this, what kind of power would the true Invisible Sword combined with the Taiqing Formless Sword Art, or even the Spirit Treasure Invisible Sword, possess?'

This new Sect Master was clearly also a person of talent, speaking very methodically: "If there were only one or two cases, it might be a coincidence or the work of hostile forces... but with so many, there must be a mastermind, and one targeting the local forces of the entire Far West... although there is no evidence, in my opinion, the mastermind must come from Yuanchen!"

The terrifying Earth Pole Meta-Magnetic Divine Ability swept across, and the Demon treasure he had painstakingly refined by collecting Five Metal Essence actually showed a tendency to fly out of his hand!

"This... black little seal... seems to be Fang Laoguai's Natal Magical Treasure?!"

Boom!

"Cough cough... judging by Song Zhong's previous fragmented words, it should be the Yuanchen Black Demon Sect!"

A trace of yearning emerged in his heart, and then he said proudly: "That's right... I am indeed a True Disciple of the Shushan Sword Pavilion... are you not afraid of violating the Thousand-Year Covenant by expanding your Black Demon Sect's influence now?"

'A perfect stealth...'

Even with the Dharma Power of the late Golden Core stage, combined with two Dharma Treasures nurtured for seven or eight hundred years, plus the secret arts and escape techniques he had mastered, Aaron felt that even if he encountered a Nascent Soul old monster, he had a certain degree of confidence in being able to escape.

How many geniuses of the Far West, if they could have been born in Great Gan, would surely have been able to walk much further on the path of Taoism!

However, with the assistance of Third-tier Spirit Pills, Aaron's progress over these years had been quite fast, the cost being that the Third-tier Spirit Pills were almost completely exhausted.

The new Sect Master immediately knelt down and said with resounding force.

"Disciple obeys!"

Aaron understood Xiaoqing's turtle-speak very well; compared to Bai Caiwei's little white, Xiaoqing was still decent.

Xiaoqing raised its head and answered cutely.

He left the Third-tier Longevity Turtle behind specifically to act as a door god, to prevent people from breaking into his Cave Abode and discovering clues.

He made up his mind, opened the jade bottle containing the 'Nine-Star Pill', took out a strange pill with restrained luster that seemed to contain nine stars within it, and swallowed it directly.

But that was about it.

There was still one hundred years left until the Thousand-Year Covenant expired!

"Was the Thousand-Year Covenant not personally dissolved by your Pavilion Master when he visited? My Black Demon Sect... eh... no, if you are a True Disciple of the Sword Pavilion, how could you not even know this?"

After finishing all this, he sighed instead.

After refining the medicinal power, Aaron immediately felt his own Dharma Power become restless, and his Golden Core even began to tremble; this feeling was extremely similar to when he broke through from the early to the middle Golden Core stage before!

Opportunity must not be missed!

He immediately closed his eyes, entered a deep state of cultivation, and launched an assault on the bottleneck!

(End of chapter)