Chapter 352

"Escaped?"

In the Chaotic Sword Reef, Master Huolong looked at the scene in the Du Du Qiankun Mirror, somewhat surprised.

An ordinary Nascent Soul mid-stage cultivator is naturally difficult to completely kill a Nascent Soul early-stage one.

Being able to destroy their physical body can already be considered a great victory.

However, Immortal Taibai was clearly different. If he were to use a secret treasure like the 'Nascent Soul Restriction Net', it would be entirely possible to completely kill Zhenjun Baibao, so that even his Nascent Soul could not escape.

"Naturally, one must let the opponent's Nascent Soul escape, otherwise how would the news spread?"

"Furthermore... only by knowing that Immortal Taibai cannot kill a Nascent Soul spirit body can these Zhenjuns feel at ease falling into the trap."

Fang Xing was quite emotional: "Prepare yourself, the Bai Hu Seven-Kill Sword Formation is about to receive guests..."

On a reef without a single blade of vegetation.

A Nascent Soul Zhenjun with an ancient appearance, wearing a high crown and a black robe, was sitting cross-legged.

He looked to be about forty years old, with thin lips and eyes like an unfathomable darkness.

At this moment, this Zhenjun cast his gaze toward another location.

"Fellow Daoist Yu Xue, long time no see."

Accompanied by a voice that was hard to distinguish as male or female, a figure wearing a white robe, seemingly shrouded in clouds and mist, floated into view.

Their aura was ethereal; they were actually also a Great Zhenjun of the Nascent Soul late stage.

"Fellow Daoist Master Xu Yun, have you brought that item?"

Zhenjun Yu Xue's voice was magnetic and carried a soul-captivating magic.

After all, he was the Great Hall Master of Yu Hua Hall, famous in the Hanhai Cultivation World for his 'Heavenly Demon Blood Transformation Wei Shentong'.

"Naturally, I brought it. If that Immortal Taibai knew it was the two of us Great Zhenjuns joining forces to deal with him, he would surely feel incomparably honored."

Great Zhenjun Master Xu Yun said with a chuckle.

"I just received a message from Baibao that he has discovered Immortal Taibai's location... his physical body was destroyed, his Nascent Soul fled, and he even took the opportunity to cast a tracking secret technique that landed on Immortal Taibai..." Great Zhenjun Yu Xue said: "What do you think?"

"The acting is a bit overdone." Great Zhenjun Master Xu Yun replied with a light laugh: "The Killing Sword lineage is bloodthirsty and loves to kill, but they do not kill indiscriminately... Immortal Taibai is currently at the Nascent Soul mid-stage cultivation. For the sake of that great opportunity in a few years, he can only risk charging into the Nascent Soul late stage... There are only a few methods, and judging by the current posture, the most likely one is the 'Nine-Child Mother Divine Nascent Soul Sword Refining Technique'... If this guess is true, the Nascent Soul Zhenjuns who strike this time will suffer heavy losses."

"If trash dies, it dies... I have secretly tampered with several Zhenjuns in my hall. Once Immortal Taibai truly performs the sword refining secret technique, he will inevitably reap what he sows."

Great Zhenjun Yu Xue sneered.

It seemed they were very familiar with the various secret techniques of the Profound Heaven Sect.

"Good, blocking his promotion is only part of the goal; it would be best to capture him alive... The Killing Sword lineage only passes on to one person per generation, and the consumption of various treasures is very small. Now they might still have the fifth-grade 'Grand Void Escape Talisman'. Once this talisman is activated, one can immediately perform a void great teleportation to hundreds of millions of miles away, and even a Spirit Severing Venerable would find it difficult to pursue and kill."

Great Zhenjun Master Xu Yun said: "I have already borrowed the 'Mountain and River Map' secret treasure from the 'Infinite Hall'. It might have miraculous effects at a critical moment!"

"Very good. You captured the successor of the Thunder Sword lineage last time. If you make another contribution this time, the ranking for the Spirit Severing opportunity in the future will inevitably be far ahead of mine. I haven't congratulated you yet, Fellow Daoist."

Great Zhenjun Yu Xue congratulated him.

"Haha... we are both peripheral forces of the Infinite Hall. When it comes to truly exchanging for the Spirit Severing opportunity, we will inevitably be ranked after the core Nascent Souls of the Infinite Hall. We should still encourage each other, encourage each other..."

Great Zhenjun Master Xu Yun felt a chill in his heart, but his face showed the most sincere smile.

A few days later.

Chaotic Sword Reef.

"They're here."

Fang Xing and Master Huolong were invigorated, and they saw in the Du Du Qiankun Mirror that Immortal Taibai's sword light was crisscrossing, heading straight for the sword formation.

Behind him, several escape lights were biting hard, all of them Nascent Soul mid-stage cultivators.

The leader among them had a leopard head and round eyes, wore a beast robe, and every casual strike seemed to be accompanied by ten thousand beasts.

Another one in green robes had sword light crisscrossing, occasionally releasing a life-bound flying sword to fight fiercely with Taibai's flying sword. He was actually also a Nascent Soul Sword Lord!

As fellow sword cultivators, they naturally coveted the inheritance of the Profound Heaven Sect.

Even if they didn't, Immortal Taibai was an excellent opponent, sufficient to verify everything he had learned in his life!

The last two rays of light came from a male and female Nascent Soul early-stage cultivator. They operated two strange concentric ring spirit treasures, and by joining forces, they erupted with Nascent Soul mid-stage combat power.

In Fang Xing's view, they were just monkey versions of Jiaoyue and Zhenjun Huoyun.

"Zhenjun Wan Shou, Sword Lord Qingzhu, and the Cloud-Rain Pair... these are all well-known experts in the Outer Sea."

Master Huolong couldn't hide the worry on his face when he saw this scene.

"Don't worry, Taibai has his own sense of proportion."

Fang Xing didn't care at all, and even complained that Immortal Taibai hadn't 'lured' enough monsters.

He had been too lazy to cultivate these past few days and had casually comprehended the jade slips of the 'Grand Void Flying Sword Technique' and the 'Nine-Child Mother Divine Nascent Soul Sword Refining Technique'.

The result was that the 'Grand Void Flying Sword Technique' was still a fog, difficult to enter.

However, he had quite a bit of insight into the sword refining technique, probably because his Second Nascent Soul had already practiced it.

But Fang Xing also discovered a problem. In terms of resource utilization, the sword refining technique of the Profound Heaven Sect was clearly inferior to the primitive demonic path method of devouring Nascent Souls.

'But the method of devouring Nascent Souls has a 100% chance of backlash and going into demonic deviation when reaching the Nascent Soul late stage... The Nine-Child Mother Divine Nascent Soul Sword Refining secret technique does not have this worry.'

'However, for me, it's all the same... the primitive demonic path secret technique is still more suitable for me.'

Fang Xing now had a faint feeling that because the Second Nascent Soul had promoted to the Nascent Soul mid-stage, the bottleneck of his cultivation avatar had loosened quite a bit.

Even if he did nothing, he would probably break through naturally after a while.

'Looking at it this way, this Second Nascent Soul secret technique is also quite effective for breaking through bottlenecks... It's just a pity that, apart from me, no one can make the Second Nascent Soul and the main body have such a large cultivation gap without rebelling...'

Theoretically speaking, in the current Cultivation World, even if a cultivator has the great supernatural power to cultivate a Second Nascent Soul, they would definitely not dare to let the Second Nascent Soul's cultivation exceed the main body.

And, basically, it wouldn't exceed it either...

Just as Fang Xing was pondering, the several Nascent Soul Zhenjuns who were fighting fiercely had already continuously approached the range of the Chaotic Sword Reef.

Swoosh!

The various Nascent Soul Zhenjuns were not fools. Although the large formation near the Chaotic Sword Reef had been hidden as much as possible by Immortal Taibai, it was difficult to escape the various probing secret techniques of the Cultivation World.

"Go!"

Zhenjun Wan Shou roared, and the spirits of various birds and beasts emerged from his beast robe, among which there were even the spirits of fourth-grade transformed great demons.

It was in the shape of a Lei Peng, with wings spread over a hundred meters long.

With a light flap, wind and thunder followed, and it charged into the Chaotic Sword Reef ahead.

Countless birds and beasts touched the formation restrictions and were shredded by streaks of sword light.

"There really is an ambush."

Zhenjun Wan Shou pinched hand seals, wanting to recall the Lei Peng.

But a sword light reaching the sky fell, instantly killing the Lei Peng spirit.

Seeing this, Zhenjun Wan Shou's expression suddenly turned gloomy.

"Haha... if you want to kill me, come into the formation."

Immortal Taibai laughed loudly and flew into the Bai Hu Seven-Kill Sword Formation.

Streaks of sword light soared into the sky, causing the surrounding void to be filled with strands of sharp Qi.

"Indeed... just like the rumors, Immortal Taibai cannot leave this place for long. Could it be that some heavenly treasure is about to be born?"

Sword Lord Qingzhu waved his hand casually, setting up a wood-attribute sword formation with mottled bamboo shadows around him, watching that formation, a trace of solemnity appearing on his face.

"Who knows... this person is, after all, a madman of the Killing Sword lineage. Maybe he just wants to find cultivators to sharpen his sword."

'Zhenjun Yu' of the Cloud-Rain Pair spoke, their voice as clear as an oriole.

"That is indeed quite possible..."

Zhenjun Wan Shou was startled, then nodded in agreement: "The madmen of the Killing Sword lineage, if they don't kill some evenly matched opponents every once in a while, they don't feel comfortable all over... He set up a formation here, could it be that he is prepared to kill some Nascent Soul mid-stage Zhenjuns one-on-one?"

No matter how powerful a Nascent Soul Sword Lord is, if they encounter several experts of the same level surrounding them, they can only flee in panic.

Therefore, in the history of the Cultivation World, it is not that there haven't been Nascent Soul Sword Lords who did this on purpose.

"In any case, let's contact more Nascent Soul fellow Daoists first, and then find a formation master to come..."

Sword Lord Qingzhu looked at that large formation, somewhat eager to try.

Not long after, one Nascent Soul Zhenjun after another, bringing more disciples, operating tower ships, strange beasts, and flying swords... arrived around the Chaotic Sword Reef.

"Everyone... the situation is as such. If we delay too long, perhaps Immortal Taibai will just walk away."

Zhenjun Wan Shou said: "Therefore, breaking the formation must be fast! Does anyone have any high opinions?"

While speaking, his gaze turned to an old man with white hair and beard, wearing a star robe.

This 'Shangren Yixing' was a fourth-grade formation master. Although his cultivation was only at the Nascent Soul early stage, his status was extraordinary.

"If this old man hasn't misjudged, this formation should be the 'Bai Hu Seven-Kill Sword Formation', known for being able to block seven cultivators of the same level, incomparably dangerous."

Shangren Yixing said: "If we want to break the formation in a short time, I'm afraid we can only have many Nascent Soul Zhenjuns with power exceeding the formation's capacity forcibly kill their way into the various formation gates... The Bai Hu Seven-Kill Sword Formation has seven great sword gates, and our side needs at least nine Nascent Soul Zhenjuns... it would be best if they were Nascent Soul mid-stage experts to avoid being killed directly."

Once these words were spoken, the various Nascent Soul early-stage cultivators couldn't help but look at each other.

Nine Nascent Soul mid-stage experts!

Even most of the first-rate forces in the Cultivation World probably couldn't gather that many.

In the Hanhai Cultivation World, Nascent Soul early-stage cultivators can be called sect founders, and Nascent Soul mid-stage ones are true experts even in the Holy Lands.

"There are six Nascent Soul mid-stage fellow Daoists here already... the rest can perhaps be left to several powerful Nascent Soul early-stage fellow Daoists. As long as they are equipped with powerful magic treasures, supporting for a moment in the hands of a Nascent Soul mid-stage expert is not a problem."

'Zhenjun Yun' of the Cloud-Rain Pair was a refined young man who suggested.

"Hmm... or, we can all charge into the formation together."

Shangren Yixing suggested: "With the power of the dozens of Nascent Soul Zhenjuns present, the Bai Hu Seven-Kill Sword Formation won't be able to kill them all, and the formation base will be pierced through very quickly..."

Zhenjun Wan Shou was originally about to nod, but received a divine sense transmission and immediately shook his head: "No... if Immortal Taibai sees too many people, he might just run away directly."

(End of chapter)