Chapter 466

Daoist Bu Yu had already calculated everything the moment he received the letter from his good disciple.

A battle was unavoidable. He could contend with a Great Yu Tribulation Transcendence-stage cultivator for a while, but he would definitely be at a disadvantage in a prolonged fight.

The letter had already stated that experts from the imperial court and the Five Great Immortal Sects had been dispatched. What he needed to do was to erupt into a battle of great momentum, attracting them and holding on until they arrived to help.

"Senior Chen Tao." Daoist Bu Yu looked up at the person currently fighting Venerable Po Xiao, his heart settling.

The Luoshui Guard was an agency specifically established by the imperial court to deal with bandit cultivators and ancient cultivators. The nine most powerful among them were known as the "Jiugong." As the head of the Jiugong, Chen Tao's strength and realm were unfathomable.

In terms of seniority, Chen Tao was half a generation higher than Daoist Bu Yu's master; he was a true, genuine old monster.

Sending Chen Tao showed how much the imperial court valued the Great Yu cultivators.

"Pah!" Daoist Bu Yu spat out a mouthful of blood, wincing in pain, feeling as if his body were about to fall apart.

He had used sword Qi to support his body and temporarily boost his physical strength during the fight, but now that the sword Qi had dissipated, his injuries erupted. Every acupuncture point was bleeding, and within a few breaths, his clothes were soaked with blood, turning him into a bloody mess.

"That was a brutal fight." Daoist Bu Yu fished out several top-grade elixirs from his sleeve, which contained pill patterns and emitted a pungent medicinal fragrance, and swallowed them in one gulp.

His wounds gradually healed, and he felt much more comfortable.

"Cleanse body, cleanse clothes."

Daoist Bu Yu cast the Body Cleansing Spell and the Clothes Cleansing Spell. The bloodstains vanished, his clothes became clean as before, and his body felt light.

"Seventh Senior Brother's elixirs really are effective."

The top-grade elixirs he had just consumed were rare ones refined by the Seventh Elder using the root hairs of a small Medicine King. They were worth a thousand gold pieces and could serve as the grand finale item at an Integration-stage auction; they were extremely precious.

Daoist Bu Yu traveled often and inevitably encountered danger, so he always carried life-saving elixirs with him.

"Luoshui Guard Chen Tao?" Venerable Po Xiao stared fixedly at the old man who had suddenly appeared, not daring to be the least bit careless.

He felt a deep sense of threat from Chen Tao.

"Run!"

This place was not a place to stay for long; he had to flee quickly!

"I'd like to see where you can run to!" Another voice appeared behind Venerable Po Xiao.

Venerable Po Xiao turned his head abruptly, only to find that yet another Tribulation Transcendence-stage cultivator had arrived!

Below, Daoist Bu Yu recognized the newcomer; they were also one of the Jiugong of the Luoshui Guard.

"The Luoshui Guard has a total of three Tribulation Transcendence-stage cultivators, and the imperial court sent two of them at once—they've really gone all out." The more people who came, the happier Daoist Bu Yu was; this meant the chances of Venerable Po Xiao escaping were diminishing.

The newcomer did not give Venerable Po Xiao a chance to react. A river of runes flowed out from the void, converging into chains of laws, intending to capture Venerable Po Xiao alive!

Venerable Po Xiao saw that the situation was bad. The runes were naturally formed, like a trickling river, endless and continuous. This meant the other party was a master of rune cultivation. If chains woven by a rune cultivator bound him, he feared he would not be able to break free in a short time.

He soared into the sky, intending to break out of the encirclement of the two Tribulation Transcendence-stage cultivators.

"Want to run? Have you asked my Wendao Sect!" Old Man Ba's voice appeared above Venerable Po Xiao's head, and he stomped on Venerable Po Xiao's head.

Old Man Ba stood at the eye of the formation, forming a blockade at the very top of Dingxin City, while the Third Elder and others were positioned at the Seven Stars.

The Seven Stars guarding the center—the North Star Formation!

Venerable Po Xiao did not tangle with Old Man Ba and the others; he manifested his Asura body, and the Asura flew into a rage, shattering space.

Just as he was about to dive into the spatial rift, a voice came from within it.

"Do you think my Prison-Suppressing Sect isn't here?"

Many ancient fierce beasts crawled out of the spatial rift—the Di Jiang, the Golden-Winged Great Peng, the Chaos, and others. They were ferocious, baring their fangs, their figures as large as mountains, exuding a chilling primordial aura!

Eight powerful figures walked out from the spatial rift, with tattoos of these ancient fierce beasts on their bodies.

The Prison-Suppressing Sect's war-tattoo cultivation method!

"My Five Elements Sect..."

"My Laurel Immortal Palace..."

"Hanging Temple..."

The Hanging Temple had only sent one person, the Temple Supervisor, whose combat power was no weaker than Qiu Jin'an's!

There were also the civil and military officials sent by the imperial court, all of them high-spirited and eager to fight.

The two Jiugong members of the Luoshui Guard had the highest cultivation and arrived the fastest. Soon, the Integration-stage cultivators of the Five Great Immortal Sects arrived one after another above Dingxin City, surrounding it until not even a drop of water could leak through.

Counting them all up, there were actually over forty Integration-stage cultivators who had arrived here.

These Integration-stage cultivators were all from the Five Great Immortal Sects; any one of them pulled out at random could fight better than an ordinary Integration-stage cultivator.

With two of the Jiugong plus the Immortal Sect Integration-stage cultivators, if this lineup were to take action, even Wu Youdao and his two companions would only have to obediently take a beating.

Even if Wu Youdao and his two companions obtained the power of the Huangzhou national destiny, and Wu Youdao's Dragon-Tiger Qi completed its transformation, they still wouldn't be able to beat these people!

To prevent another Hanshui City incident, the imperial court and the Immortal Sects had specifically mobilized a large number of personnel to comprehensively sweep away potential dangers in Jizhou!

It could be said that as long as the Great Yu cultivators dared to show their faces, they would be met with a joint attack from the righteous path!

By the same token, Daoist Bu Yu did not dare to show his face either.

The people of Dingxin City had never seen such a scene. They couldn't distinguish who was at the Tribulation Transcendence stage and who was at the Integration stage; they didn't even know that any one of these people was stronger than the City Lord of Dingxin City.

The City Lord of Dingxin City was only at the Void Refinement stage.

But this did not prevent them from becoming excited and cheering. They had been tortured by the rules set by Venerable Po Xiao for too long; violating even a single rule meant facing the threat of death, and they had lived every day with extreme caution.

"Boss, I'm leaving now. We shall meet again." Daoist Bu Yu said goodbye to the already dazed teahouse owner.

The teahouse owner was actually a cultivator, just not with high cultivation; he had opened a restaurant in Dingxin City to pass the time.

He could vaguely judge that the cultivation of these cultivators was higher than the City Lord's; they were top-tier experts of the Cultivation Realm.

In the past hundred years, there had never been such a number of cultivation experts taking action together. Even now, he couldn't believe the scene he was seeing.

"Ah, you're leaving?" The teahouse owner wanted to keep Daoist Bu Yu. Just a moment ago, Daoist Bu Yu had spoken as if he were ready to die, looking like he was going to fight Venerable Po Xiao to the death. Why was he leaving now that Hanshui City had been saved?

"If I don't leave now, I won't be able to leave later." Daoist Bu Yu didn't explain too much to the teahouse owner and slipped away while everyone's attention was focused on Venerable Po Xiao.

"Capture him alive!" Chen Tao gave the order, and he was the first to take action himself.

He bit his fingertip, and drops of golden blood flew out, transforming into divine weapons that flew toward Venerable Po Xiao like a rain curtain.

"It's been a long time since I've seen Senior Chen Tao's Hundred Refinements of Divine Weapons!" The people from the Immortal Sects sighed while taking action alongside Chen Tao. Their diverse attack methods left Venerable Po Xiao without the slightest ability to fight back.

Venerable Po Xiao felt despair and was finally bound by the chains of rules transformed from runes, unable to mobilize even a bit of his cultivation.

"Finally caught one!" Chen Tao sneered. Up until now, Great Yu cultivators had all been caught by the Wendao Sect; now it was finally the imperial court's turn.

"By the way, where did that cultivator who fought Po Xiao to a draw go?"

When they arrived, Chen Tao's attention had been entirely on Venerable Po Xiao; he hadn't noticed who the person fighting him was.

"Ask the City Lord; he must have seen it." Old Man Ba suggested.

Watched by a group of experts whose cultivation far exceeded his own, the City Lord trembled all over and drew a face that everyone was very familiar with.

"Damn it, we let that brat Bu Yu run away!"

Everyone slapped their thighs in excitement, as if they had missed a heaven-sent opportunity.

If Daoist Bu Yu were here, what a great opportunity for revenge it would have been!

"Interrogate Po Xiao with torture. If it weren't for him, that brat Bu Yu wouldn't have been able to run!"

Venerable Po Xiao: "..."

Wasn't it said that the cultivators of Great Xia lived in peace? It didn't look like it.

The second update is at eleven o'clock.

(End of chapter)