Chapter 282

White light, pure light, intense light, like substantive light.

Beams of light streamed down from the vault like waterfalls, outlining beautiful pillars, like rolling clouds forming arches and eaves; the ground was flooded with strong light, silver rays flickering and interweaving into square meters-sized squares, just like flat tiles.

The dim, damp stone cavern instantly turned into a magnificent, sacred hall of light.

An extremely strong pressure came from above, accompanied by a wonderful, bewitching beautiful music, crushing toward Wu Tie's soul.

When switched to the Chonglou Realm, this force already posed a great threat to Wu Tie's soul.

But after condensing into a life pool, the life pool formed from countless cosmic mysteries' light threads emitted boundless light; Wu Tie's soul sat comfortably cross-legged at the bottom of the life pool, and this strong pressure slammed into Wu Tie's ridiculously large life pool.

The light swayed, the radiance flickered; Wu Tie's soul felt nothing, suffered no impact.

But he quickly pressed the escape light, stopped his steps, and the metallic wings behind him stiffly drooped down, just like a wooden puppet foolishly floating in the air.

Several beautiful figures emerged from a strong light.

"You Yu Jieya must be playing crazy here." A beautiful girl, her whole body surrounded by intense pure light, with a pair of beautiful phoenix-tail-butterfly-like large wings behind her, said mockingly.

"According to her information, this man is called Wu Tie? Yu Jieya listed him as an important threat target…… but he is so weak." The girl leisurely, step by step, walked toward Wu Tie.

Inside the girl's body seemed to be a cluster of intense light source; white light shone through her body. Behind her, the splendid phoenix-tail-butterfly large wings slightly fluttered, and on the semi-transparent light wings countless pale gold runes flickered.

"It shows how decadent Yu Jieya's life is in this mortal world." The girl sneered: "She has fallen."

A youth with a pair of white wings behind him, whose shape was almost identical to the winged sisters Wu Tie had seen, smiled and looked at the girl indulgently: "We must understand that the fallen are not just Yu Jieya alone."

The youth sighed lightly: "Whether it's the Heaven Crystal Divine Clan, the Ice Spirit Divine Clan, or other clans…… in soul cultivation they are far inferior to our Radiant Divine Clan. Only our Radiant Divine Clan can eternally maintain the purity and sanctity of the spirit."

Another youth laughed, and unlike the girl's large phoenix-tail-butterfly wings behind her and the youth's white wings behind him, this burly youth, whose body seemed surrounded by a layer of white flame, actually had a pair of huge, bat-wing-like massive flesh wings behind him.

Bat wings always give a feeling of ferocity and sinisterness.

Yet this youth's massive flesh wings behind him were pure white throughout, semi-transparent, with immeasurable white bright light shining through; they showed no ferocity or sinisterness, but instead exuded a strong sacred aura, filling with great oppressive pressure.

"This is good; when they all begin to fall, only we who hold to our original hearts and follow our ancestors' teachings will grow stronger, while they, as their spirits gather dust…… I seem to see that the day their strength continually wanes is approaching."

The youth's massive flesh wings behind him spread, and a fierce hot wind howled toward Wu Tie, blowing him far backward.

"When a god's heart gives rise to dust, their downfall is right before our eyes." The youth curled the corner of his mouth, calmly said: "Watching them step by step slide into the abyss is truly pleasing to the eye."

The girl and the two youths laughed together.

The youth with flesh wings laughed even more gleefully; he flapped his wings, quickly came before Wu Tie, and reached out to grab Wu Tie's neck.

"Then, let us help them eliminate the enemy that Yu Jieya and they cannot resolve…… This is the territory monitored by the Ice Spirit Clan; we have descended here to fight for them, and the reward cannot be meager."

The youth licked the corner of his mouth, murmuring: "Eternal ice brew, this time I must drink my fill."

The girl and the other youth laughed easily, especially that youth, who couldn't help licking his lips: "Yeah, eternal ice brew…… truly an addictive supreme brew. We must have the Ice Spirit Clan brew more."

When the flesh-winged youth's palm was about to touch Wu Tie's neck, he muttered indistinctly: "This guy's armor is a bit in the way."

Wu Tie's Eagle God armor had no protection on the arms and below the knees; besides that, his upper body and helmet were fully enclosed, and there was a neck guard on his neck. When the youth's palm touched the armor's neck guard, the tactile sensation told him this armor was not easy to deal with.

However, the girl with double phoenix-tail-butterfly wings behind him was watching; the youth gritted his teeth, and a large sheet of white flame spurted from his palm.

"After all, descending here, my this body only has life pool realm strength…… heh heh, if my true body were here, this armor, I could easily……"

The youth was about to brag, but Wu Tie's right hand had already moved.

The White Tiger Split sprang forth from his hand as if from nothing; Wu Tie gripped the spearhead a few inches from the tip, treating the White Tiger Split as a long sword, and thrust it toward the youth's brow.

For high-level cultivators, even if you crush his heart, they have countless means to heal, counterattack, or flee.

But the brow is certainly a vital point for all cultivators.

The White Tiger Split flashed with cold light and stabbed down swiftly; the youth's expression changed, white fire light coiled around his left hand, and a splendid golden shield suddenly appeared, quickly blocking in front of the White Tiger Split.

Screech

Like a dagger piercing paper, the White Tiger Split pierced the shield and went straight into the youth's brow.

The spearhead over a foot long pierced straight through the back of the head; Wu Tie infused a stream of magical power into the White Tiger Split, and with a earth-shaking tiger roar, the youth's half-body exploded into countless points of white light and sticky white flame spraying all over the ground.

"This shield…… not so great." Wu Tie raised his head, looking at the stunned girl and youth, shook his head: "Are you descended as avatars? It seems your avatars can't wield good gear; this shield is really poor."

The girl and youth simultaneously swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

They had been led astray by Wu Tie; they were very confident, thinking that whatever they did was the best, so they dared to openly criticize the Heaven Crystal Divine Clan, the Ice Spirit Divine Clan, etc.

Wu Tie's words made them convinced that it wasn't the White Tiger Split being too strong, but that the personal gear they brought was too poor.

Isn't that right.

It's not like the tactical strike of deploying the winter; they couldn't expend too much force, they merely descended with a life pool realm avatar, and their carried equipment was also ordinary, so being easily broken is natural.

"Mortal…… you dare to injure the noble……" The girl arrogantly lifted her chin, wanting to reprimand Wu Tie.

"On the way, no time." Wu Tie smiled, then golden light flared again.

The earth-sundering golden light whooshed away; Wu Tie gripped the White Tiger Split with both hands, and as his body swept past the girl and youth, the White Tiger Split traced two points of cold light, piercing their brows.

The two couldn't see Wu Tie's move, then heard two tiger roars, and their half-bodies shattered into fragments.

With a loud bang, Wu Tie smashed the white-light-entwined light gate blocking the passage ahead, and quickly rushed into the corridor.

"Radiant Divine Clan? It seems arrogance is your flaw." Wu Tie, while closely following the jade talisman's flowing light as he sped, muttered: "But you said this is the so-called Ice Spirit Divine Clan's territory, and you came down to help?"

"It seems the Triple Linked City has truly become a thorn in their eye, a splinter in their flesh."

"We must beat you into submission in one go, and kill all your lackeys, so you can be pacified."

"Otherwise, one avatar after another, like the Mystic Spider, her avatars have already been wiped out twice, yet they keep popping up again."

"But how exactly are their avatars made?"

"Like that winter, descending from the heavens?"

All the way lost in thought, he hurried forward along the passage for an hour; ahead suddenly opened up, and shouts of killing echoed far away.

Wu Tie charged into a stone cavern hundreds of li in radius, and saw that the stone fortress Shibao inside the cavern remained intact; the besieging rat-people and dwarves seemed to have expended too much strength, their arms could barely lift, they had withdrawn to a distance, their formation scattered as they rested.

Those gray dwarves also seemed to have exhausted their potency, they too retreated far away, took off their armor, and lay spread-eagled on the ground panting heavily.

On the city wall, Yu Qi and dozens of Triple Linked City cultivators stood in a row, facing off against dozens of python people and snake people cultivators below the city.

Neither side made a move; they just spat some nutritionally worthless nonsense at each other.

It's just very obvious that the honest-natured Yu Qi cannot match these python-people and snake-people in verbal sparring.

Others had greeted his female relatives with dozens of sentences, but Yu Qi could only stammer back a couple of unfamiliar phrases. If insults could be turned into siege power, Yu Qi and his group would already have been stormed onto the city walls and the gate breached.

The stone cave was not large; Wu Tie flashed with golden light and appeared out of thin air above the city wall.

Yu Qi and the others were startled, almost attacking Wu Tie together, but upon suddenly seeing his appearance clearly, they all cheered.

Lord Wu Tie!

Yu Qi shouted loudly: "Lord, be careful; they are deliberately dragging their feet, not attacking with full force—there must be a plot."

Wu Tie hovered in midair, his eagle-headed visor open, smiling as he nodded at Yu Qi: "Indeed there is a plot, but it doesn't matter."

Upon seeing Wu Tie, the group of cultivators standing on a small mound in the distance stirred slightly.

Below the mound, several black flagpoles suddenly sprang up; black clouds roiled, spiritual light flickered, the black clouds split left and right, revealing over three hundred cultivators standing in neat rows.

Wu Tie raised an eyebrow.

Earlier, Yu Qi used a warning jade talisman to call for help; that talisman only had a pure distress function and could not break formations or seals. I never expected that outside the city there would actually be hidden such a considerable force.

He Luo wore a black robe, his left hand grasping a large black pearl; his fingers moved slightly, slowly rotating the pearl in his palm as he stepped out of this concealed great formation one step at a time.

"Are you Wu Tie?" He Luo narrowed his eyes at Wu Tie: "It's you, no mistake; my son He Jiao, did you kill him?"

"He Jiao? Who's that?" Wu Tie stared at He Luo in astonishment.

"Not admitting? No matter." He Luo said lightly: "Just a little brat, you could pinch him to death… hehe, killing you would give Xuan Zhu no excuse to keep delaying with me? She's so beautiful, and the child she bears with you would surely have excellent aptitude."

Wu Tie gazed at He Luo with a strange expression.

He couldn't have heard wrong, could he?

This guy, wants to have a child with Xuan Zhu?

Um, my lord, do you know Xuan Zhu's background?

They constantly call her 'mortal', 'lowly breed'; would she willingly bear your child?

She's purely into novelty, seeking different men for amusement.

"You… your idea is quite creative." Wu Tie couldn't help but say playfully, a line he learned from Lao Tie.

"I am He Luo." He Luo said with a grim face, ignoring Wu Tie's teasing: "The Dark Guild has five vice‑presidents, each overseeing the specific affairs of the hundred major regions under the Dark Guild's influence. Three Linked City happens to be within my jurisdiction."

Wu Tie raised his eyebrows: "A hundred major regions? The Dark Guild really is that strong?"

He Luo glanced at the mixed army of rat‑people, dwarves and gray dwarves resting outside the city, then smiled reservedly: "The Dark Guild's strength surpasses your imagination. Three Linked City… hum, if it weren't for our Dark Guild's help, could the Twelve Original Appearance families have breached the Great Peacock King Palace?"

He Luo said proudly: "We can help the Twelve Original Appearance families overthrow the rule of the Great Peacock King clan, and then we can destroy Three Linked City."

Wu Tie gave He Luo a deep look; the Dark Guild is a troublemaker, but he never expected them to be so adept at meddling.

Wu Tie couldn't help but wonder: the decline of the Great Peacock King clan and the Twelve Original Appearance families might also be related to the Dark Guild, right?

After all, these families of Three Linked City base their cultivation on Buddhist methods.

Buddhist methods emphasize cultivating the mind; like the disciples of the Six Paths Palace, aside from a few bad apples in the Reception Hall, the others all observe the precepts, each being upright and solemn cultivators.

These families of Three Linked City have sunk quite deep into corruption…

Without external pressure, Wu Tie really finds it hard to believe they would fall so far.

He Luo smiled at Wu Tie, raised his right hand high, then swept it forward: "Attack the city, kill everyone inside."

The rat‑people, dwarves, and gray dwarves who had been resting, having taken off their armor, all rose to their feet.

They quickly equipped themselves, then each produced a vial of red potion and drank it.

Soon, these numerous soldiers bulged with veins, howling 'ao ao', like mad beasts charging toward Shibao.

Wu Tie laughed and shook his head; accompanied by a sharp sword‑drawing sound, the Seven Slaughters White Bone Banner rose from above his head.

A vast expanse of white mist coiled around the Seven Slaughters White Bone Banner.

Wu Tie merely shook the white bone banner, and the tens of thousands of soldiers outside the city all howled in unison and fell over.