Chapter 480: Leave It to Me

"Hehe! Pavilion Master Zhang! What you say is not quite right! Didn't your pavilion's Elder just say that you have never left the Giant Spirit Pavilion?"

Duanmu Yebai gave a sinister smile; he had finally caught a loophole in the two men's words! Liu Qingshan was secretly shocked! Before this, he had thought that as long as he insisted that Zhang Nuo had never left the Giant Spirit Pavilion, it would be enough. Who would have thought that the Duanmu Family would actually pull such a move! It was truly unexpected!

Zhang Nuo's face remained calm, but his heart was already in a chaotic mess! Looking at Duanmu Yebai's determined appearance, he knew that today's matter would not end here! If the Duanmu Family could not get an explanation, they might even resort to force! However, even if they did, Zhang Nuo was not afraid in the slightest. On the territory of Yulong Immortal Mountain, would he ever come out at a disadvantage?

"Fellow Daoist Duanmu, judging by the meaning of your words, are you certain that I kidnapped your nephew?"

Zhang Nuo's expression suddenly turned as cold as frost, a powerful killing intent erupted from his body, and at the same time, his eyebrows stood up!

"The facts are all here, you cannot deny it! I just have one thing I cannot understand! How exactly did my nephew offend you!"

Seeing that Zhang Nuo was truly angry, Duanmu Yebai was not afraid! The muscles on his face twitched a few times, and he said in a stern and severe tone!

Everything before them was very clear: Zhang Nuo simply refused to admit it, and was even relying on his reputation on the Immortal Illusion Continent to oppress the Duanmu Family!

"Fellow Daoist Duanmu! Zhang will say this one last time! I have not seen Duanmu Xiaofeng! As for your two witnesses, they are all people from the Duanmu Family, which lacks credibility! I think you had better go look for your nephew elsewhere! I will not see you out!"

Zhang Nuo flicked his robe sleeve and turned his face away directly! At this moment, Duanmu Yebai was so angry that his old face turned pale and his breathing became rapid. If it were not for the fact that they were on Yulong Immortal Mountain, and if it were not for the fact that the person opposite him was Zhang Nuo, he would have likely attacked long ago!

"Pavilion Master Zhang! The net of Heaven is vast, with wide meshes, but nothing escapes! I do not believe that anything can be hidden from the world forever! We shall meet again!"

After finishing, Duanmu Yebai turned around and left Yulong Immortal Mountain with his subordinates!

Zhang Nuo sat alone on his chair! Ever since he entered the Cultivation World, he had never been so unreasonable! Looking back at the pain Duanmu Yebai felt from losing his nephew, his heart could not help but ache!

With a long sigh, Zhang Nuo laughed at himself! It seemed he really was not cut out for great things! Being so soft-hearted and lacking any decisiveness!

This matter with the Duanmu Family would surely trigger a great storm, which meant that Yulong Immortal Mountain would likely become a target for all! Looking at the development trend of the Giant Spirit Pavilion, in another hundred years or so, there would certainly be no sect that could contend with it! Therefore, before the Giant Spirit Pavilion's wings were fully grown, someone would surely take this opportunity to eliminate it!

While bowing his head and thinking about which sects might have such thoughts, a white figure suddenly flashed into the main hall! Zhang Nuo looked up and saw that Huo Lifeng had arrived before him!

"Is Fellow Daoist Zhang troubled by something?"

He was secretly a bit surprised; this Huo Lifeng had been in seclusion and had not stepped out of her Cave Abode for decades. Why had she come today?

"Hehe! Just some small matters!"

Zhang Nuo did not tell the truth; for now, Huo Lifeng might still be an outsider!

"Is Fellow Daoist worried about the matter regarding the Duanmu Family?"

Much to Zhang Nuo's surprise, Huo Lifeng actually knew about this too!

"How did you know, Fellow Daoist?"

"What is difficult about that! The head of the Duanmu Family came to visit; one only needs to ask the disciples on the Immortal Mountain to know!"

Huo Lifeng walked over to a chair near Zhang Nuo and sat down, her calm face showing not a ripple of emotion!

"So that is how it is!"

Zhang Nuo let out a long breath; it seemed Huo Lifeng only knew the surface-level details!

"All these years, the Cave Abode I live in and the Pills I eat as a cultivator on the Immortal Mountain have all been provided by the Giant Spirit Pavilion. So, if there is a need, I can help you, Fellow Daoist, to deal with the Duanmu Family!"

Huo Lifeng's words were very soft, as if they were coming from the back of her throat, but Zhang Nuo heard them clearly! His eyebrows twitched a few times, and he looked at her in astonishment!

"The Duanmu Family's power is not small! Even with the strength of my Giant Spirit Pavilion, I dare not provoke them lightly! So, there is no need to trouble the Immortal Mountain!"

"Is Fellow Daoist Zhang afraid that I will make a mess of things and cause the situation to become even more serious?"

Zhang Nuo was stunned; his heart had indeed been thinking exactly that! Huo Lifeng's cultivation was currently damaged, and her divine abilities were not what they once were! If she were still at the Nine-Tier strength, this matter might have been possible!

"This..."

He was speechless for a moment, and Zhang Nuo calculated his words in his heart.

"Rest assured, Fellow Daoist! Although I do not know which of your two families is right or wrong, as long as it endangers Yulong Immortal Mountain, it is a bad thing for me! Leave this matter to me to handle! It will absolutely not implicate the Giant Spirit Pavilion!"

After speaking, Huo Lifeng's figure flashed, and she left the main hall directly! Only Zhang Nuo was left standing there in a daze! This young woman's temper was too stubborn! Once she decided on something, she didn't ask about right or wrong at all; she was truly free-spirited and decisive in her grudges!

Half a month after Huo Lifeng left Yulong Immortal Mountain, news that both shocked and delighted Zhang Nuo arrived! It was said that the head of the Duanmu Family, Duanmu Yebai, was suddenly ambushed and killed by an unknown cultivator while out! After only a few exchanges, he fell into the opponent's hands!

That was not all; immediately after, several high-level members of the Duanmu Family were also bizarrely slaughtered! Not even their Nascent Souls managed to escape! In just half a month, the Duanmu Family suffered this disaster and withered away! Even various forces near the Duanmu Family set their sights on the 'Baoli Immortal Mountain' they occupied!

A piece of fat meat aroused everyone's greed. Two months later, several forces struck simultaneously, and the once-prosperous Duanmu Family was wiped off the Immortal Illusion Continent!

When Liu Qingshan learned of all this, he was greatly puzzled. Besides Zhang Nuo, who else would have such a deep grudge against the Duanmu Family? Putting everything else aside, the ability to consecutively slaughter several top experts of the Duanmu Family—one could ask, how many people on this Immortal Illusion were capable of that?

Zhang Nuo already understood all of this in his heart! It could be no one other than Huo Lifeng! However, even he had not expected that Huo Lifeng's cultivation had actually recovered to such a degree!

When his figure stood before the gate of Huo Lifeng's Cave Abode, he saw the door was tightly shut! The entire Cave Abode was shrouded in a layer of faint fire-light Restriction! It seemed as if she did not want to be disturbed!

Zhang Nuo simply sent a voice transmission into the Cave Abode, and then quietly walked away!

At this time, Huo Lifeng was sitting cross-legged in the Cave Abode. Her face, which was already like white jade, had become even paler. The matter with the Duanmu Family was indeed her doing, and for this, she had paid a not-insignificant price! She had utilized her True Spirit Phoenix Bloodline, and although she had killed Duanmu Yebai in one stroke, she had been heavily injured by his final counterattack before death! It seemed she would need to remain in seclusion for a long time to recover!

With old wounds not yet healed and new ones added, Huo Lifeng felt somewhat distressed, but being able to let Zhang Nuo clearly understand her strength was not a bad thing!

One day, having nothing to do, Zhang Nuo walked to the Cave Abode where Baji Laomo was located. As soon as he stepped into the Cave Abode, he felt a wave of Demonic Qi rushing toward him! Its degree of purity made his whole body tremble!

He hurried two steps into the interior of the Cave Abode and saw several Array Masters fully exerting several large arrays. The Cave Abode was filled with constant humming sounds, and the various colors of light emitted by the arrays were dazzling!

As for Baji Laomo's Kuluotou, it was suspended in the center of the numerous Dharma Arrays, its only silver eye rotating slowly, looking extremely terrifying!

"Kid Zhang, you came just in time! I intend to begin condensing my physical body! You stand guard for me on the side; you must not let anyone disturb me!"

Stopping his figure, Zhang Nuo looked at the old demon in the middle of the Dharma Array and gave a light grunt! The momentum of this old demon was enough to be frightening!

At this time, the nine cultivators with Natural Demon Bodies who had been captured earlier arrived one by one beneath the black Kuluotou, their eyes tightly shut, like walking corpses! They lined up and stood with their hands bound!

"Are you all prepared?"

The old demon asked the several Array Masters around him.

"Yes!"

The few of them spat out the word simultaneously! Their eyes were filled with excited light! It seemed that during this period, they had also learned many arrays they had never seen before!

"Good! Push all the arrays to their limit!"

Following the old demon's order, several Dharma techniques were pointed out by the hands of these Array Masters simultaneously. A humming explosion echoed endlessly throughout the Cave Abode, and at the same time, the Demonic Qi in the cave intensified!

Zhang Nuo watched everything before him, his heart filled with horror. Recalling the time the Demon Emperor rebuilt his physical body, the scene must not have been much different from this!

Just as his thoughts wandered, he saw Baji Laomo let out a cold snort, and immediately after, a ray of light shot out from his silver eye, sinking exactly into Duanmu Xiaofeng's body!

With a clear cry of 'Awoo!', a black light flew out from Duanmu Xiaofeng's body. As the light faded, a black Nascent Soul was revealed!

Looking at the Nascent Soul before him, Baji Laomo was so moved he was about to cry; ever since the great battle of the "Ten Thousand Year Calamity," he had fallen into the Human Realm and had been continuously controlled by the Great Underworld Mansion, even having his skull refined into a Magic Treasure! Today, he finally had the chance to see the light of day again!

A silver eye flew out from the black Kuluotou and hung upside down from the cave ceiling; within its ghastly pupil, a silver glow radiated out, directly shrouding the nine people below!

This faint silver light was like soft moonlight, giving people a feeling of peace and tranquility, yet when the nine people below were illuminated by the silver light, their entire bodies shuddered, and large amounts of Demonic Qi surged into their bodies!