Chapter 708: Wait... My Disguise Has Fallen Off

Boom!

The finger of the Immortal Qin Golden Man descended, crashing into the floating Xianshan. With a light tap, the sound of countless shattered jades echoed; the Yingzhou Precious Palace, cast from exquisite immortal jade, finally shattered completely!

Pop... pop... pop...

The exquisite immortal jade, worth ten thousand gold, emitted the sound of total pulverization—like immortal music ringing out, heartbreaking to hear.

The Penglai Soul Transformation expert felt no pity for the Yingzhou Precious Palace. The white jade ruins were pulverized by that single finger. Countless cultivators fled, but many still failed to escape the finger's reach, being blasted into mists of blood.

Many Soul Transformation experts were terrified. Penglai was not targeting them; the Heaven-Locking Array of the finger-print was aimed entirely at Brother Qian Chen, leaving him nowhere to run. Yet, this heaven-toppling might still left them lingering in fear; even a Nascent Soul True Immortal facing this strike would likely be left without a corpse!

The treasure of the nation, the might of the Golden Man—too terrifying!

Legend says only those with such magic treasures to suppress their foundations can be called Immortal Dynasties or Great Sects!

Therefore, such terrifying spirit treasures are called Sect-Suppressing Spirit Treasures.

Brother Qian Chen's figure vanished beneath the Golden Man's finger, seemingly shattered along with the Yingzhou Precious Palace. Countless jade fragments scattered, resembling his grave...

No one believed he could still survive!

A Soul Transformation expert from Hundred Grass Mountain sighed: "A generation of Yan Yan Jianxian, fallen just like that. The might of Penglai truly suppresses the Hong Hong Sihai!"

A Soul Transformation expert from the Golden Crow Sect also lamented: "Spearing a Soul Transformation expert, smashing the head of another with a Yellow Ruyi, yet refusing to compromise—this is the end result!"

"The might of a Sect-Suppressing Supreme Treasure is peerless in the world; the Central Lands have truly declined! Even if they sent a Yan Yan Jianxian invincible in the Hong Hong Sihai to execute the dragons of the East Sea and subdue the overseas immortal sects, they are still no match for a single strike from Penglai!"

The remaining disciples of Yingzhou Pavilion said coldly: "Daring to offend the Upper Sect leads to this end. Even if they plundered our Yingzhou Pavilion, with the Upper Sect applying pressure, those who snatched the treasures will obediently return them! Our Yingzhou Pavilion shall be the head of the Seven Immortal Alliances and dominate the East Sea alone!"

Just as everyone was shocked, mocking, despondent, or lost in a daze, at the fingertip of the Golden Man, amidst the jade debris... a point of primordial light was still flickering.

Master Sima Shi, who had initially revealed a trace of a cold smile, suddenly changed color. He stared at the original location of the Yingzhou Precious Palace. That single finger of the Golden Man had actually failed to press the entire palace into the depths of the immortal mountain; the surrounding ruined walls had miraculously maintained a height of one person...

"This!"

The dim light instantly flared. The jade body of the immortal mountain beneath everyone's feet shook violently. From beneath the Golden Man's finger, countless cracks pierced through the mountain body. Accompanied by the explosion of the mountain peak, Brother Qian Chen's figure emerged once again.

His jade crown was shattered, his long hair fluttering behind him. Between his palms, a spirit bead hovered, emitting a dim radiance.

Yet, it was this layer of radiance that remained unmoved beneath the Golden Man's finger. As thin as a sheet of paper, it nevertheless withstood the heaven-toppling might...

At this moment, everyone recognized this Sect-Suppressing Spirit Treasure that had appeared not long ago...

"Supreme... Dao Dust!"

Brother Qian Chen spoke leisurely, and the spirit bead in his hand suddenly erupted with terrifying divine brilliance!

He held the spirit bead aloft, directly shaking the Golden Man. The two collided. No one could clearly see the moment of impact or the divine brilliance emitted; there was only a crisp Dao sound of bead striking jade, ringing throughout the Earth Immortal Realm!

Even the White-Haired Demon God far in the Northern Frontier; the old monk meditating in a ruined temple in the Buddha Lands; the Daoist in a simple Dao hut on Mount Western Kunlun;

An old man in green Daoist robes on a towering divine tree amidst the sea of clouds...

Hearing this sound, they all looked up, gazing with a look of melancholy toward the direction where Brother Qian Chen was!

"Boom!"

The floating immortal mountain collapsed completely. The jade mountain body crumbled entirely, and countless black fissures appeared on its surface, piercing through the mountain body.

Even the Mountain-Suppressing Array and the nine spirit veins could not withstand the aftermath of this strike, shattering completely! The sound of mountain-toppling and sea-roaring collapse echoed. Huge boulders, each resembling a mountain, tumbled down, splashing up heaven-toppling water...

The wealth accumulated by Yingzhou Pavilion over tens of thousands of years poured into the East Sea just like that!

The Golden Man's finger was shaken back several hundred zhang. The spirit bead in Brother Qian Chen's hand emitted unparalleled divine brilliance. Everyone in Yingzhou Pavilion who had not retreated from the immortal mountain was suppressed and killed by this strike.

The might of the collision between the two seemed to make even the East Sea, spanning hundreds of millions of miles, collapse by a palm's depth!

The Penglai Soul Transformation expert who delivered that strike was already exhausted, but Brother Qian Chen, having shaken the Golden Man head-on with the Dao Dust Bead, did not even pant.

That Soul Transformation expert vomited blood continuously, his hair slowly turning gray-white. He looked at Brother Qian Chen and roared: "Impossible, impossible! How can you summon the Dao Dust Bead? Did you exterminate the Supreme Louguan Sect?"

"Fool!" Brother Qian Chen held the Dao Dust Bead and said coldly: "Who could exterminate my Supreme Louguan Sect?"

This time, the old dragon of the Ao clan finally changed color. Looking at the spirit bead hovering in Brother Qian Chen's hand, entwined with chaotic qi and emitting Supreme Dao mystery and endless divine might, he blurted out: "I wondered why three small rogue cultivators burned incense and prayed the day before yesterday, and the Dao Dust Bead appeared, snapping the Buddha's two fingers. So he was the mastermind behind the scenes!"

"This person executed my Dragon Clan and swept away the Hong Hong Sihai True Water Array!"

"Cleanse the Buddhist sect, and with the help of a single stick of incense, shatter the golden bodies of several great Buddhist masters!"

"And this time, he took action against Penglai..."

"Who exactly is he?"

Ao Bing was dumbfounded. Hearing this, he only trembled and said: "Uncle! The world knows that the only successor of the Supreme Louguan Sect is Li Er—Li Taibai, who once beheaded the Dragon God on the Great River and executed the Master Sima clan during the Jiankang calamity!"

"And this person..."

He looked at the jade Yellow Ruyi in Brother Qian Chen's sleeve and the long spear burning with Zhu Que divine fire behind him.

He finally matched the last piece of the puzzle: "He is the 'Daoist Brother Qian' who once beheaded my fourth brother and executed Uncle Ao Ao Cangwu!"

Master Sima Shi in the crowd also revealed a look of extreme solemnity, almost unable to breathe. He thought of the scene in Jiankang City where Brother Qian Chen summoned the Azure Dragon, Zhu Que, and Black Tortoise to attack him, and saw the familiar Zhu Que divine spear.

He finally revealed a struggling, fearful smile: "Li Er once used the alias Brother Qian Chen! Riding a white deer, he went far to Jiankang!"

"Daoist Brother Qian is Li Er, and Li Er is Brother Qian Chen!"

"And this Lu Master Chunyang is also Li Er and Brother Qian Chen!"

"Oh!"

Brother Qian Chen scanned the crowd, a trace of faint regret rising in his heart: "My disguise has fallen off!"

"Brother Qian Chen of Supreme Louguan, an external avatar, executes the Penglai cultivators here!"

Brother Qian Chen shook the Dao Dust Bead, and circles of cleansing light exploded instantly, heading toward the Golden Man. The Golden Man's fingers shattered inch by inch, turning into a phantom and vanishing.

Finally, that Penglai Soul Transformation expert also wailed, about to be exhausted and die from the backlash.

But Brother Qian Chen did not wait for him to die slowly; he flicked a ray of bead-light, shattering his body and primordial spirit...

At this moment, all the Soul Transformation ancestors and immortal sect cultivators were silent. A blankness appeared in everyone's minds—he is Daoist Brother Qian!

Everyone gradually pieced together many clues. After the Jiankang calamity, Li Er disappeared to the sea... and at the Flying Boat Market, Daoist Brother Qian also appeared for the first time, seeking news of overseas spirit plants and spirit roots. Soon after, he was invited by Feng Feng Yangzi of the Hundred Boat Sea Assembly to refine pills at the Luo Zhen Immortal Sect!

After refining the Reincarnation Divine Pill, the Luo Zhen calamity occurred, and several Soul Transformation experts broke into the Luo Zhen mountain gate!

After this calamity, several overseas Soul Transformation experts went to the Chaotic Star Sea together, attempting to summon the Heavenly Origin Divine Ao, seize the Ao, and enter the Return to Ruins!

The Divine Ao appeared, and the Soul Transformation experts vied for it.

In the end, it was Daoist Brother Qian who schemed against everyone, executed all the Soul Transformation experts, and entered the Return to Ruins.

Then, a year ago, in the Twelve-Story Building, fragments of the Dew-Receiving Tray appeared, reflecting a secret realm within the Return to Ruins. The Immortal Divine Medicine and the Zhou Tian Star Ship were revealed, shocking the world.

Immediately after, it was this Daoist Brother Qian's avatar, Lu Master Chunyang, who broke the Dragon Clan's Profound Water Array in the East Sea, executed the dragons, and broke the Dragon Clan!

The Flying Boat Immortal City triggered the phantoms of two great spirit treasures, breaking the Fomen!

Today, inside Yingzhou Pavilion, he tore the Star Chart Scroll, executed three Soul Transformation experts, shook the Golden Man with a finger, and the Dao Dust Bead shocked the world, breaking Penglai!

"This person is the mastermind behind the series of overseas calamities!"

"The true mastermind has appeared!"

"Daoist Brother Qian schemed against the world from behind the scenes, manipulating three major forces with one hand and executing over a dozen Soul Transformation experts. What exactly does he want to do?"

The Soul Transformation experts of the overseas immortal sects were shocked, but they had to look at Brother Qian Chen, who had shattered the Golden Man's finger, destroyed the floating immortal mountain, stood in the void, held the Dao Dust Bead, and looked down upon the living beings of the Hong Hong Sihai.

"Dew-Receiving Tray! Go!"

Brother Qian Chen used the Dao Dust Bead to pull a silver mirror fragment, which flew out from his sleeve, turning into a phantom bright moon, emitting clear silver radiance.

Under the illumination of the silver moon, a ray of moonlight appeared on everyone present, to varying degrees.

Naturally, the floating immortal island of Yingzhou fell into the ruins below, and even the Soul Transformation expert who had died, as well as that Xu clan Nascent Soul expert of extraordinary status whose name no one had even asked, had several fragments float out from them!

On the phantom moon, a small, incomplete, powerful silver tray was pieced together...

Brother Qian Chen pulled in more fragments of the Dew-Receiving Tray—from the Fomen, from the Demonic Sect...

He glanced at the location of the Zhu Wuchang Sect. The Soul Transformation expert of the Zhu Wuchang Sect, shrouded in a layer of faint Yellow Springs qi, gave a bitter smile, waved his large sleeve, and flew out two fragments, then asked: "Daoist Brother Qian, our Zhu Wuchang Sect submits! I wonder if our sect's spirit treasure, the Nine Springs..."

"This treasure was trapped in the Return to Ruins along with my true body!" Brother Qian Chen said calmly: "My layout to gather the Dew-Receiving Tray fragments was precisely to recast this treasure, in order to explore the Return to Ruins and rescue my true body!"

"My true body is the Guardian of the Supreme Louguan Sect!"

Brother Qian Chen said calmly: "Li Er is one of my avatars, and my true body, Lu Master Chunyang, is also a Sword Dao avatar of my true body... In the past, when the overseas Soul Transformation experts wanted to explore the Return to Ruins, my true body sensed that the leader, Yun He of the Qingyu Sect, was a successor of Penglai's crane-raising lineage. There were also rumors that during the final battle of the Immortal Qin, a Golden Man fell into the Return to Ruins."

"My true body feared this Golden Man would be obtained by Penglai, so he killed Yun He, executed that Zhu Wuchang Sect expert and Penglai's Void Saint, and entered the Return to Ruins to explore!"

"Unexpectedly, he was trapped inside. I had no choice but to have this avatar ask Shaoqing to take action and rescue him..."

Brother Qian Chen lied without even drafting it, fabricating a story along the lines of everyone's imagination: "That is why the Return to Ruins secret realm appeared, shocking the world, and I set a plan to attract the attention of many forces holding Dew-Receiving Tray fragments..."

"Then you executed the Dragon Clan, drove away the Fomen, and broke Penglai, just to eliminate us first and reduce the resistance to your recasting of the Dew-Receiving Tray!"

The old dragon of the Ao clan flared his dragon whiskers and glared at Brother Qian Chen.

A crowd of cultivators looked at this mastermind of the overseas calamity, feeling cold in their hearts!

This person is too terrifying! He coldly and ruthlessly schemed against the overseas living beings, playing countless cultivators in the palm of his hand!

"In the past, the Supreme Louguan Sect suffered a calamity, and all forces that might be related... I must verify them one by one! Anyone related to this matter... must die!"

Brother Qian Chen's tone was chilling, and ruthless cold light flickered in his eyes, making everyone tremble.

Just for an investigation, he turned Penglai upside down.

If he really found out who exterminated the Supreme Louguan Sect, he would likely bring about this person's terrifying revenge... he wouldn't even care if the world collapsed!

"Ao clan..."

Brother Qian Chen held the Dao Dust Bead and asked coldly: "Do you intend to make things difficult for me for the sake of the Dew-Receiving Tray? You still have a Primordial Spirit expert in the Dragon Clan..." Brother Qian Chen glanced at the horizon where the sea met the sky and said coldly: "Do you want to try?"

Ao Bing's forehead was covered in sweat, and he looked at his uncle beside him.

"No wonder he wanted to break the Hong Hong Sihai True Water Array! If we had followed the original plan and set up the array here, we wouldn't fear him!"

The old dragon of the Ao clan took a deep breath: "Give it to him... if he wants to recast the Dew-Receiving Tray, let him! Gathering the fragments of this treasure will surely make him an enemy of many. When the treasure is successfully recast, it might not necessarily be his! Let it stay in his hands for now!"

Ao Bing nodded slightly and waved his hand, sending out over a dozen fragments. The Dragon Clan ruled the Hong Hong Sihai, and they held the most fragments that had fallen into their hands.

At this moment, the Dew-Receiving Tray gathered nearly half its pieces...

Lan Jiu stepped out and said: "Thank you, Senior, for the gift of opportunity. This junior also has a Dew-Receiving Tray fragment, which I offer up!"

Brother Qian Chen nodded slightly and said: "I will still abide by the agreement of the past. Except for the Dragon Clan and Penglai, anyone who offers up fragments will naturally be allowed to bring ten people into the Return to Ruins once the passage is opened!"

"Although my layout was to gather the Dew-Receiving Tray fragments, that secret realm in the Return to Ruins is not fabricated! My true body entered that secret realm and was unfortunately trapped, requiring this Dew-Receiving Tray to lock onto that secret realm and find a way to rescue him!"

As soon as these words were spoken, many immortal sects were moved.

At this moment, Brother Qian Chen held the Dao Dust Bead in one hand and carried the world-shaking might that had executed Penglai, the Dragon Clan, and the Fomen in the other. Although his tone was not threatening, everyone was sensible.

There were also some immortal sects that hoped Brother Qian Chen would come forward to find all the fragments of the Dew-Receiving Tray, and once the spirit treasure was recast, they would then plot to seize the complete Dew-Receiving Tray.

For a time, no one objected, and fragments kept flying up, merging into the silver moon.

When eighty percent of the fragments were gathered, Brother Qian Chen summoned the Dao Dust Bead, which hovered in the silver moon, and gave a clear shout!

The Dew-Receiving Tray and the Dao Dust Bead worked together to break the void, forcibly gathering the scattered Dew-Receiving Tray fragments from all directions...

With this, except for a small corner still in the Return to Ruins, all the Dew-Receiving Silver Tray fragments were gathered here.

The Dao Dust Bead in Brother Qian Chen's hand suddenly dissipated like a dream bubble. The Dragon Clan and Master Sima Shi both felt a stir in their hearts: "This Dao Dust Bead is also just a summoned phantom; the true body is likely still in the Return to Ruins! In that case, there is a chance..."

They each restrained themselves; recasting the Dew-Catching Plate would still take some time, and only by seizing it after success would it be the proper course of action.

Brother Qian Chen arrived at an island below that connected to the submarine fire veins, waved his hand to open a volcanic vent, and said to the crowd, "I will recast the Dew-Catching Silver Plate here. Three years from now, when the silver plate emerges, I will open the path to the Return Ruins for you all!"

Upon hearing this, everyone felt a chill in their hearts!

The emergence of the Dew-Catching Silver Plate would inevitably lead to a heaven-shaking battle; this person was merely an avatar, and even if he could summon the Dao Dust Bead, he might not necessarily be able to protect the Dew-Catching Silver Plate.

This was not three years of seclusion for recasting; this was a three-year truce...

The Dew-Catching Plate was not only a supreme treasure of the Immortal Han, but it was also linked to the golden men, the immortality elixirs, and the many treasures within the Return Ruins.

Moreover, this person had killed so many people from Penglai and the Dragon Clan; how could these terrifying great powers let him off?

Three years from now would be when the great tribulation truly begins...

Thoughts churned in everyone's minds, but on the surface, they all bowed respectfully, retreated from the volcano, and then circled the volcano, each opening a temporary cave dwelling to reside in for the time being, quietly waiting for the Dew-Catching Plate to emerge three years later!