Chapter 78

"The Xun family's main hall? You come over and speak." Thus: Xuantang Xingjun waved his large hand, ensnaring Senior Brother Xing's flames and pulling them back.

Jiang Yu's heart gave a thump, she transmitted, "You wouldn't intend to possess a low‑rank junior on the spot, would you?"

"Not at all; merely borrowing a flesh body for a use." Thus: Xuantang Xingjun never intends a full possession.

At this moment, Min Wu and the others transmitted to Senior Brother Xing, "Is it truly the Supreme Elder?"

"Ancestor…" Senior Brother Xing's excitement instantly receded; he remained still, wanting to examine Thus: Xuantang Xingjun's appearance more closely—was it only a soul form?

"You, how come you are here? Everyone says that when the sect was in trouble, you were on the overseas Immortal Continent."

"Enough chatter; if you dare not approach to speak, then go fetch the people inside for my use." Thus: Xuantang Xingjun lifted his sleeve again, and in an instant flung Senior Brother Xing into the stone gate.

Senior Brother Xing, left and right, first grabbed two wandering cultivators and brought them out.

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun said no, so he ran back to fetch Hong Young Master, only then realizing the person was not completely dead.

He let out a cold snort, about to kill again, when Xuantang's voice came, "If you kill me, how will you use it?"

Senior Brother Xing hesitated a few breaths: "Ancestor, the Hong family is also a great clan of the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect; they have four Nascent Souls in the family. If they discover your possession…"

"The old man possessing you, a junior, would be even more convenient." Thus: Xuantang Xingjun grew impatient, wondering why everyone thought he intended to possess.

"Um…" Senior Brother Xing was afraid of having his flesh body taken, so he dared not approach him; after all, certain possession techniques, when used on blood‑related people, allow the spirit and flesh to merge more easily.

"But our target this time is to kill him and the female cultivator you have fixed; these two families have been pursued by the Cloud‑Mist descendants for years."

"Now they have guessed our identities, it is necessary to kill them." Senior Brother Xing hesitated whether to erase Hong Young Master's neck, and the Ancestor immediately let him move people, indicating he could not enter here.

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun, seeing his procrastination could not be dealt with, in a single breath displayed something that failed to ascend.

Brother Chen, seeing Senior Brother Xing not coming out, volunteered, "Supreme Elder, let me go fetch."

"The disciple is willing to go." Others also hurried to seize the opportunity.

"Very good!" Thus: Xuantang Xingjun waved his sleeve again, the flames were completely extinguished, and the group rushed into the stone gate.

"They aren't all afraid of being possessed, are they?" Ao Ze poked his head out from behind Jiang Yu; he saw those Foundation Establishment cultivators enter the cave and none dared to come out.

But someone tried to seize Hong Young Master from Senior Brother Xing's hand.

Senior Brother Xing held him down: "Wait a moment first."

"Thinking yourself clever." Thus: Xuantang Xingjun's words hadn't finished when he already seized the token from Jiang Yu's hand, his figure flashing to the doorway.

The Foundation Establishment cultivators, startled, tried to retreat; this was a Hua Shen cultivator, but the sudden oppressive pressure immobilized them.

"Disciple…" Senior Brother Xing, as he attempted to argue, the Hong Young Master he was holding was already drawn away by a suction force, flying down the corridor.

Jiang Yu sprang forward to catch him, brushing a few times just stopped the bleeding, and saw Thus: Xuantang Xingjun swiftly sealing the stone gate.

Only after the people behind the gate caught their breath did they look at Senior Brother Xing, "Senior Brother Xing, what were you thinking? Could that not be the Supreme Elder?"

"Yes." Senior Brother Xing was confident, would not admit error; he had seen the Ancestor's portrait since childhood—alas, the regret is that his own timidity caused him to miss the Ancestor.

"Should we first take the artifacts?" a female disciple nearby was already eyeing a heap of treasures.

"Quick, there may be a time limit." Brother Chen leapt up at the front, and the others hurried after him.

Senior Brother Xing looked at the sealed stone gate, helplessly levitated to take the treasure.

Unexpectedly, the person who flew up first kept snatching three items, and when he went for a fourth, he triggered a blade formation; innumerable magical blades rained down from the cave ceiling, attacking them.

Sealed outside the gate, Jiang Yu naturally couldn't see these; at this moment she was staring intently.

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun, who had delved into Hong Young Master's Sea of Perception.

In a few breaths he saw him sit up; his cultivation suddenly transformed into the Core Formation stage.

The nearby Qi Haohau, with a kind heart, missed a few beats, not knowing whether he would be silenced, when Thus: Xuantang Xingjun opened his eyes, walked toward him, extended his hand, and immediately the person fell unconscious.

Jiang Yu saw his hand pressed to Qi Haohau's forehead, seeming to search the soul, and transmitted to Ao Ze: "He probably isn't making people stupid by searching them, right?"

"See whether he wants to."

"You are now entering the space."

"No, he's only using a possession technique; he can't maintain it long." Ao Ze objected.

"Just in case." Jiang Yu wasn't negotiating; with a single thought she sent the person into the space, lifted her hand and seized the floating Dragon Pearl before her.

Not long after, Thus: Xuantang Xingjun withdrew his hand; Jiang Yu wanted to ask something when she again saw him pinch a point and draw a number on Qi Haohau's forehead.

Fortunately this time he quickly released, and said: "I erased her memory of today; whether to keep her or kill her is your decision."

"Already erased; toss it aside by the roadside." Jiang Yu had no grudge with her, "Can we leave now?"

"Wait a bit longer." Thus: Xuantang Xingjun opened the stone gate again, and saw inside everyone scrambling to avoid the endless knives falling from the cave ceiling.

Among them, three female cultivators, their long skirts turned into tattered ones, bloodied all over, yet still alive.

Male cultivators, however, two died under the blades.

Senior Brother Xing shouted: "Ancestor, please save us; the disciple will no longer dare disobey."

"Useless indeed." Thus: Xuantang Xingjun's spiritual power turned into threads, pulling more than ten people out of the sealed gate.

Jiang Yu, quick‑eyed and swift‑handed, flew to affix fixing talismans onto these people, then retrieved silver needles for backup.

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun was very pleased with her initiative: "Don't be afraid; I will not kill you."

"Little girl, seal their sleep points for me."

Jiang Yu lifted the needle, and in the blink of an eye she stunned the group, "Can you erase the memories of over ten people at once?"

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun demonstrated with concrete action that he could.

In half an hour he not only erased everyone's memories of the day but also searched the souls of Min Wu and Senior Brother Xing.

Even before departing, he repaired the subterranean array again, prompting Jiang Yu to sigh that a Hua Shen's soul is indeed formidable.

……

In the forest a few hundred li from the old Cloud‑Mist site, Jiang Yu opened Qi Haohau's storage bag and retrieved the formation plates to set up the array.

"Alas, having a flesh body is truly good. What are you doing?" Thus: Xuantang Xingjun, after sitting in meditation to replenish his spirit, approached Hong Young Master's body; the moment he erased the latter's memory, he saw Jiang Yu and Ao Ze opening each storage bag.

He said, "You've taken everything, hasn't that sufficed? Why bother opening them one by one?"

"I only need spirit stones; the teleportation array you mentioned is on West Sea Island—this route is too costly." Jiang Yu, you'd better not have any marked items.

After obtaining the spirit stones, the storage bag was stuffed back onto its owner.

Only after she rushed to Floating Tower City to take the teleportation array did the dozen or so people here gradually wake up.

But they all forgot what happened today, and they don't know why they were injured.

But then they discovered that their storage bags had no spirit stones left, and instead had gained one or two magical treasures.

A feeling of great alarm.

Only Qi Hao Hao got no treasure and was uninjured, but she always felt staying with her senior brothers and sisters was dangerous, so she found an excuse and immediately flew away.

"She's afraid of us." Min Five stared at the unconscious Young Master Hong, then quickly sent out several message transmissions.

Elder Brother Xing's eyes flickered slightly; as he woke, a phrase echoed in his mind: "I haven't erased your memory; if you leak my whereabouts, your soul and spirit will self-destruct.

The restrictions of the underground secret treasury have been changed into a linked killing formation, warning the Xun family's disciples not to enter.

He paused, then said, "Wake Young Master Hong."

Min Five: "Not kill him? Lately he's been overzealous in investigating the descendants of Yunwu."

"Let's see his condition first." Elder Brother Xing suspected that he had been lent a body by the old ancestor, and his soul was already injured.