Chapter 26: Extermination

Someone in the crowd shouted out, though it was unclear who.

Everyone hurriedly retreated.

These people included Tu Wan and the other two.

Everyone was panting, holding various Dharma Artifacts in their hands.

They saw that on the throne at the very front and center of the great hall sat a person in black robes.

The black robe had dark golden patterns, making the person in the black robe appear even more menacing.

The person in the black robe rested one hand on the chair to support their head, looking down at the sect disciples below with an unreadable expression.

"Stop joking, how could Jun Tianling possibly be alive?"

Li Wanqing, the junior sister of Hua Bairui, said this while looking at the Shushan disciple who had shouted that sentence.

Hua Bairui's internal energy had just recovered, and at this moment, she still had the highest internal energy among this group, though she was covered in cold sweat.

This was much harder than dealing with Demonic Beasts.

"I came to this battle a thousand years ago; I was only at the Foundation Establishment Stage then. I am very familiar with this Demonic Qi—it is the Demon Venerable Jun Tianling!"

The Shushan disciple gripped his long sword, looking at the person on the throne with a shocked and solemn expression.

He was the head disciple of Shushan, Cao Zhangqing.

"That's not right." Tu Wan looked at the person in the black robe on the throne and spoke: "If it really were Jun Tianling, we would already be dead."

Just a moment ago, the three of them had entered Xuwang Hall and were preparing to find the path to the treasure vault when this person in black robes suddenly appeared on the throne.

A wave of Demonic Qi surged toward them.

Left with no choice, they could only resist, becoming drenched in sweat and exhausting a great deal of internal energy.

At this moment, the sect disciples also rushed in.

They had originally intended to attack Tu Wan, but upon seeing the situation before them, they immediately chose to join forces.

"Then what on earth is this thing?"

They did not continue to attack, and the person in the black robe also ceased moving.

"The treasure vault is beneath the throne; if we want to enter the treasure vault, we must kill this person in the black robe."

Cao Zhangqing said, looking at the person in the black robe.

Hearing this, everyone could not help but gulp.

The aura radiating from the person in the black robe just now was the terrifying Great Vehicle Realm, yet these Nascent Soul disciples were able to barely block their attacks.

That proved their strength should be between Nascent Soul and Spirit Severing, at most not exceeding the Peak of Initial Stage of Transformation Realm.

But although there was only one realm difference between Nascent Soul and Spirit Severing, the gap was as vast as heaven and earth!

"What is that?"

At the same time, Jiang Xun and the others heading toward the great hall saw a visible black barrier gradually forming outside the hall.

"... Space Lockdown?" Jiang Xun's pupils dilated slightly at the sight.

"Space Lockdown? Isn't that a technique that only those at the Spirit Transformation Stage who have mastered the Space Law can use?" Gu Qing was also stunned upon hearing this.

"If this continues, we won't be able to get in. What should we do?"

Lin Feng looked anxious at the sight.

"Does that mean there might be a monster above the Spirit Transformation Stage inside? If so, should we still go in?"

Liu Ruoyun's cherry lips parted slightly, and she felt a bit afraid.

Jiang Xun's brain spun rapidly.

If he had the Purgatory Fireball, Liu Hong Sword, and Nine Heavens Reversal Robe in hand, and joined forces with those sect disciples, perhaps they could clear this hurdle.

If he didn't go, these sect disciples would all be wiped out, and his group of six alone would never be able to break in.

"Let's go!"

Thinking of this, Jiang Xun steeled his heart and dashed forward in a single bound.

They couldn't come here for nothing!

If everyone joined forces and still couldn't win, Jiang Xun still had the Great Displacement Talisman and Small Displacement Talisman he had bought at the Heavenly Secret Pavilion.

These two types of talismans were expensive, but they were excellent tools for escaping.

The Small Displacement Talisman could move one over a short distance, and the Great Displacement was naturally for long distances.

It was just that the location after moving was not necessarily certain.

Seeing this, Lin Feng and the others immediately followed and rushed in.

"Bad! It's not that it isn't moving, it's deploying a Space Lockdown! Run!"

Zhuo Yang saw the Demonic Qi outside through the smashed wall of the great hall and shouted hurriedly.

Upon hearing this, everyone's faces turned black, and they scrambled to run outside.

Just as they were about to rush out of the great hall's entrance, Jiang Xun and the others charged in.

This action unintentionally blocked their path.

"Damn it!"

Even these righteous sect disciples could not help but curse at Jiang Xun and the others upon seeing this scene.

The six of them had rushed in and happened to block their path, and at the same time, the Space Lockdown was completed; everyone was now unable to get out.

"Didn't you see the Space Lockdown? Why did you still rush in?"

Cao Zhangqing shouted, looking at Jiang Xun and the others.

"Just give up on the Secret Realm like this?" Jiang Xun ignored them, his gaze fixed on the source of the Demonic Qi: the person in the black robe on the throne.

"Careful!"

Hua Bairui was not surprised to see Jiang Xun and the others enter; her gaze had been fixed on the person in the black robe, and when the person in the black robe suddenly moved their finger, Hua Bairui shouted out.

Following that, they saw blades formed from Demonic Qi slashing toward the crowd, centered on the black-robed figure.

The range was extremely vast, with nowhere to hide.

"Master!" Gu Qing and Liu Ruoyun hurriedly summoned their Dharma Artifacts to block in front of Jiang Xun, the two of them joining forces to deploy six layers of pink shields in front of Jiang Xun.

Seeing this, the others also displayed their own unique abilities, with various defensive Dharma Artifacts blocking before them.

The two black-robed men from the Tianwu Sect stood before Tu Wan, deploying a black barrier and layering it four times.

The Shushan disciples took out the Dharma Artifact Eight Trigrams Plate, the three of them working together to form a formation, creating a white barrier.

Hua Bairui and Li Wanqing stood together, raising the Flower-shaped Bracelet on their left wrists, and cyan barriers resembling lotus flowers bloomed around them.

With a boom, the Demonic Qi expanded, and the six-layered Dharma shields of Gu Qing and Liu Ruoyun shattered on the spot; fortunately, the three of them with Jiang Xun were uninjured.

Those who were unlucky, or perhaps whose skills were not refined enough, had their bodies shattered on the spot.

After the Demonic Qi dissipated, only the three from Shushan, two from the Baiyun Sect, three from the Tianwu Sect, two from the Baihua Sect, two from the Spirit Sound Sect, and the three with Jiang Xun remained in the arena.

The female disciple of the Baiyun Sect, Pei Shulan, failed to block the Demonic Qi slash and was pulverized on the spot.

Jiang Che of the Spirit Sound Sect blocked in front of Lu Yingying just as her barrier was about to shatter, dying in her stead.

"Junior Sister!"

"Jiang... Senior Brother Jiang..."

Seeing Jiang Che explode before her eyes, Lu Yingying widened her eyes, her face full of disbelief.

"This is all your fault!"

Another Shushan disciple pointed at Jiang Xun and shouted: "If you hadn't rushed in, we would have already gotten out!"

"You wouldn't have gotten out," Tu Wan looked at that disciple and said coldly; when they were running earlier, the three of them had not run either: "Once the Space Lockdown begins, the people within the range can no longer leave; if they hadn't rushed in, you would have already been crushed to death by the Space Lockdown."

"This..." The Shushan disciple was stunned upon hearing this, not having expected it to be this way.

"The senior definitely had no intention of harming us; it was he who gave me the Huiyuan Pill. The only plan now is to join forces to defeat that black-robed person, and only then can we survive!" Hua Bairui also looked at the crowd and said.

"Hmph, hmph."

No sooner had Hua Bairui finished speaking than everyone heard a cold laugh.

It made everyone look toward the throne, shivering with fear.

This... was this a woman's voice?