Chapter 679: Immortal Lord

Inside one of the great halls of the Immortal Palace, the man surnamed Lei stood with his hands hanging down. On the main seat sat a young man, appearing to be in his twenties, wearing a long cyan robe. His five fingers, like clean white jade, tapped lightly on the back of the chair. A faint white light naturally radiated from his body, making him look as if he were inside a mass of mist!

"Immortal Lord, just a few days ago, I suddenly discovered that the void of the lower realms seemed to have been breached! Could it be that the remnants of the Shunxian Faction have returned?"

The man surnamed Lei spoke solemnly, looking up from time to time toward the man in the cyan robe on the main seat.

"How is this possible? The members of the Shunxian Faction are still sealed beneath Wuling Mountain. Could it be the one who escaped back then?"

At first, the man in the cyan robe did not quite believe it, but suddenly, as his thoughts shifted, he seemed to recall something and spoke with a slight frown.

"Your subordinate suspects exactly that! Among the True Immortals back then, only Jialouluo escaped to the lower realm, and he even evaded those who were hunting him!"

The man surnamed Lei nodded slightly.

"Jialouluo? Hmph, he is only at the True Immortal Third Layer, while this Immortal Lord has already advanced to the True Immortal Seventh Layer. Even if he has returned, what can he do? Does he still want to break the seal of Wuling Mountain and rescue those people of the Shunxian Faction?"

The man in the cyan robe's expression sank. Following his anger, the spirit light shrouding his body also trembled several times before finally returning to calm a moment later!

"That may be so, but there is always a one-in-ten-thousand chance. I believe the Immortal Lord must take precautions!"

Emboldening himself, the man surnamed Lei hesitated for a moment before finally speaking these words!

"En! What you say also makes sense. Caution is the parent of safety. Very well! Send people to search all around to see if any cultivators from the lower realms have entered the True Immortal Realm! Once any outsiders are discovered, kill them without exception, regardless of whether it is Jialouluo or not!"

After bowing his head to think for a moment, the man in the cyan robe finally adopted the suggestion of the man surnamed Lei!

"Leave this matter to you to handle! The Battle for Heaven is imminent, and this Immortal Lord does not want any mistakes to occur. As long as we can hold out until the arrival of the Extraterritorial Heavenly Demons, we can consider ourselves half-successful!"

"Understood!"

After the man surnamed Lei bowed and performed a salute, he exited the great hall directly! Afterward, he gathered his men and quickly left the Immortal Palace!

Inside a certain underground karst cave in the True Immortal Realm, Jialouluo and the others sat cross-legged in meditation. At this time, they had already been in the True Immortal Realm for half a month! For the sake of safety, the group had been hiding inside this underground cave!

Due to breaking through the high-altitude gale winds earlier, everyone had lost some Spirit Power to varying degrees, and they were all working hard to recover their strength during this half-month!

The abundance of Spirit Power in the True Immortal Realm far exceeded everyone's imagination. No wonder cultivators all wanted to ascend and enter here; compared to the several lower realms, it was simply a world of difference!

On this day, Zhang Nuo slowly opened his eyes, and with a glance, he looked at Jialouluo not far away! Standing up, Zhang Nuo walked before him.

"Senior, we cannot just keep hiding underground like rats, can we?"

Having just entered the True Immortal Realm, only to stay in such a place that never saw the light of day, Zhang Nuo felt truly frustrated!

Hearing this, Jialouluo also stood up, though his face wore a faint look of helplessness!

"Human Emperor, with your current strength, you cannot contend with the members of the Anti-Immortal Faction! Among them, several have already advanced to the True Immortal realm! And you are only at the Great Accomplishment Stage! If you go out like this, it will be a dead end!"

Jialouluo's words startled the others around them, and everyone gathered toward this side one after another.

"Senior, what exactly is the True Immortal realm like? We only feel that the aura on you, Senior, is powerful! And at the same time, there is a sense of oppression!"

Zhuanlun Wang frowned. Likewise, he and Zhang Nuo both felt that living in the True Immortal Realm like this was not even as happy as being in the lower realms!

"The True Immortal realm is divided into nine layers! Only by stepping into the True Immortal realm can one be considered an immortal! This master currently only has the strength of the True Immortal Third Layer, while the Immortal Lord of the Anti-Immortal Faction likely has the Seventh Layer realm now! Comparing it this way, we are like ants in front of him! Wanting to rescue the sealed members of the Shunxian Faction is harder than ascending to heaven!"

This was the first time everyone had heard an explanation regarding the True Immortal realm. They had not expected that, even within the True Immortal realm, the difference between the Third Layer and the Seventh Layer would be so vast. One could imagine how terrifying the Ninth Layer of the True Immortal Realm would be!

Seeing that everyone was bowing their heads in silence, looking heavy-hearted, Jialouluo said again:

"This underground karst cave is a refuge left behind by this master back then. There are powerful Restrictions all around. Without the method, it is very difficult for outsiders to discover it, and even those Patrol Envoys cannot find it! As long as you cultivate well here and strive to advance to the True Immortal realm in a short time, we will have a chance to rescue the True Immortals of the Shunxian Faction who are trapped!"

Everyone fell silent again! Cultivating to the True Immortal realm here—who knew how many years or months that would take! Were they to spend hundreds or even thousands of years here?

Zhang Nuo's expression was uncertain. He understood everything Jialouluo said, but this life of never seeing the light of day truly made him feel very uncomfortable!

"There are several Stone Chambers here. Each Stone Chamber is connected to a Spirit Vein. Given your aptitude, you should be able to step into the True Immortal realm in about five hundred years. Five hundred years should not be a problem for you; just consider it closed-door cultivation!"

While comforting the group, Jialouluo flicked his sleeves, and several Stone Chambers appeared side-by-side on one side of the karst cave!

"Very well! Everything will be as Senior arranges!"

Zhang Nuo nodded slightly and then walked into one of the Stone Chambers! Once the others saw him do this, they found it hard to say anything else, and they all entered the Stone Chambers one after another!

Just as Jialouluo said, five hundred years was nothing to cultivators at the Great Accomplishment Stage like them. If they could enter the True Immortal realm in five hundred years, it would be worth it!

Several months later, high above a certain place in the True Immortal Realm, the man surnamed Lei was standing quietly in mid-air with two cultivators at the Great Accomplishment Stage, though the expressions of all three were extremely ugly!

"Lord Lei, the clues from the Spirit Power search have broken off here! Could it be that they have hidden themselves?"

A strange man wearing a gray cloth vest with a single horn on his head held a magic disk about half a foot in size in his hand and asked with a suspicious look on his face.

"Hmph! Does that even need asking? If it really is Jialouluo, he will definitely hide first and then wait for an opportunity to strike! However, judging from the scattered Spirit Power collected by the magic disk, it seems there is more than one cultivator who entered the True Immortal Realm! Could it be that he has found helpers again?"

The man surnamed Lei snorted coldly, his eyes staring at the ground below like a hawk.

"Cultivators ascending from the lower realms are at most at the Great Accomplishment Stage; how can they compare to the True Immortal realm! Even if he finds more helpers, they are all just cannon fodder!"

Another man with a green face crossed his arms and said noncommittally.

"That may be so, but we must still be cautious! The Immortal Lord's plan has been brewing for so long; it cannot fail because of some person!"

The man surnamed Lei raised his eyebrows. With a flicker of his figure, countless phantoms flew out from his body—counting carefully, there were over a thousand!

"In a moment, I will send these phantoms of Divine Sense Transformation to search various places. You two stay here and guard my true self! You must not be disturbed by anyone!"

"Yes!"

Hearing the instructions of the man surnamed Lei, the two Great Accomplishment cultivators answered in unison! Afterward, the man surnamed Lei sat cross-legged directly in mid-air. With his eyes slightly closed, the thousands of Divine Sense phantoms separated from his body and scattered in all directions, disappearing in the blink of an eye!

About two years later, on this day, the Divine Sense phantoms of the man surnamed Lei all returned to his body! Through the method of Spirit Wandering Ten Thousand Miles, in the more than two years, the Divine Sense of the man surnamed Lei had searched almost the entire True Immortal Realm, but he had never found any clues of Jialouluo!

With his primordial spirit fully returned to his body, the man surnamed Lei slowly opened his eyes, his face full of astonishment!

"How did it go, Lord Lei?"

The single-horned man behind him had not moved a single step in these two years. Seeing the man surnamed Lei wake up, he immediately stepped forward to ask!

"How strange, the people who entered the True Immortal Realm have truly evaporated; they haven't left a single trace!"

Bowing his head in contemplation, the man surnamed Lei seemed to be extracting information from all the Divine Sense phantoms! But the result was far beyond his expectations!

"Should we go back and report to the Immortal Lord?"

The green-faced man's expression also turned extremely ugly! Cultivators of the True Immortal realm could use the method of Spirit Wandering Ten Thousand Miles to search extremely vast areas. Even if the cultivators who entered the True Immortal Realm were fast, it was impossible for them to escape!

Since no clues were found, it meant that the other party was hiding very deeply and could not be found by the three of them!

"Very well! If Jialouluo has returned to the True Immortal Realm, he must have come prepared. This matter must be handled with caution! Even if the Immortal Lord is unhappy, I, Lei, must go and remonstrate again!"

After speaking, the man surnamed Lei stood up and flew toward the direction of the Immortal Palace, taking the two people behind him along!

At the same time, inside the lower cavern, a translucent screen of light appeared before Jialouluo, and on the screen, three small points of light were gradually disappearing at the outer edge!

Witnessing this scene, Jialouluo let out a long breath.

"Lei Fengyu! I didn't expect you to have advanced to the True Immortal Third Layer! It is just a pity that your Spirit Wandering Ten Thousand Miles technique is still lacking some refinement!"

With a cold sneer, Jialouluo waved one hand, and the light screen in front of him vanished, his gaze shifting to land on the several Stone Chambers where everyone was in seclusion!

Returning to the True Immortal Realm this time, whether the trapped True Immortals of the Shunxian Faction can be rescued depends on these people! They are like cocoons in the midst of gestation; as long as they can transform from cocoons into butterflies and complete the metamorphosis from the Great Accomplishment Stage to the True Immortal realm, the matter will be half-successful!

However, this waiting process is extremely agonizing; even with a state of mind like Jialouluo's, a ripple still stirred within!