Chapter 834 - 832: Unstoppable

Chapter 834: Chapter 832: Unstoppable

"It’s a water well again."

Xu Yang grew even more curious about the secrets hidden beneath it. It was so well concealed that it could at least ward off detection from cultivators at the Middle Stage of Golden Immortal. Moreover, it was located in a Blood Marsh stronghold. All of this proved that the secret beneath the well was highly unusual. However, it would be best to investigate it after dealing with the others.

With this thought, Xu Yang once again locked his focus onto the houses shrouded in the darkness of the night.

"One, two, three... there’s another one here," he muttered.

Just to be safe, Xu Yang assumed the expert at the Middle Stage of Golden Immortal was also present. Sensing his Primordial Spirit, he found his condition to be at its peak. Immediately after, his Seven-Color Mysterious Embryo was primed and ready to strike. At the same time, a segment of Holy Source Green Bamboo quietly merged into his Primordial Spirit.

BUZZ! In an instant, his Primordial Spirit surged dramatically.

The next moment, Xu Yang transformed into a bolt of lightning, darting straight toward the Golden Immortal cultivator in the foremost house. To his perception, the aura within this house was the faintest and most difficult to discern. If the expert at the Middle Stage of Golden Immortal was indeed here, this room was the most likely location. As it turned out, his guess was correct.

WHOOSH!

The moment the door burst open, the cultivator sitting cross-legged on the bed opened his eyes with lightning speed. The aura of the Middle Stage of Golden Immortal surged forward.

"Who’s there?"

"Heaven Locking Intent!"

BOOM!

Bolstered by the Holy Source Green Bamboo and the Seven-Color Mysterious Embryo, the Heaven Locking Intent reached a terrifying extreme. It instantly engulfed the entire residence, including the three Golden Immortals in the three rooms behind. The expert at the Middle Stage of Golden Immortal who had just erupted with power was struck as if by lightning. He crumpled to the floor, instantly robbed of all his strength, and let out an agonized groan. Xu Yang arrived in the blink of an eye, knocked the man unconscious with a single palm strike, and tossed him into the Minor Immortal Realm.

He then flashed toward the rear courtyard. Even the expert at the Middle Stage of Golden Immortal had been instantly immobilized without any power to resist, let alone those at the Early Stage of Golden Immortal. The entire process was clean, efficient, and proceeded without a hitch. After everything was done, the courtyard fell into a deathly silence, as still as an ancient well. Xu Yang walked into the backyard, cast a glance at the water well, and probed his Primordial Spirit into the Minor Immortal Realm.

Half a quarter-hour later.

Xu Yang opened his eyes, his gaze fixed on the water well with bone-chilling coldness.

SWISH! He darted into the well, no longer bothering to conceal himself, and descended straight to the very bottom. A layer of blood-red light film gleamed brightly. According to his interrogation, only the four of them were stationed here, yet beneath this well, two cultivators at the Early Stage of Golden Immortal remained. They posed absolutely no threat. Xu Yang threw a punch.

BANG! The blood-red light film shattered upon impact.

"Who is it?"

"Oh no, an intruder! Notify the Lord, quickly!" Panicked shouts and screams rang out from below the moment the Array was broken.

"Heaven Locking Intent!" Without even looking, Xu Yang instantly unleashed a dense cluster of Heaven-Locking Divine Chains. They crashed into the underground cavern like a tidal wave, completely filling the space. The two Golden Immortal cultivators froze on the spot. One of them was still clutching a palm-sized blood jade, having not yet found the chance to crush it. Xu Yang stepped up and flicked his finger. The blood jade fell squarely into his hand. It contained a staggering amount of blood Evil Qi, intricately covered in blood patterns that made its true nature difficult to decipher. Just in case, he threw it directly into the Minor Immortal Realm. The two Golden Immortals stood stiffly, their eyes darting around in absolute terror. Xu Yang swept his gaze over them and with a wave of his sleeve, the restraining Heaven-Locking Divine Chains erupted, instantly knocking their Primordial Spirits unconscious.

Only then did he begin to inspect the massive and sprawling underground cavern. The dense blood Evil Qi was suffocating and nauseating. A pool of blood sat near the edge, its contents flowing through a central trench toward the depths of the cavern. The bloody water exuded a chilling Evil Qi, ferocious like a wild beast. It was entirely composed of the essence blood of various immortal and mutated beasts. Xu Yang slowly ventured deeper. The edges of the blood pool and the trench were entirely covered in bizarre and complex blood patterns. They were densely packed and crisscrossed in a way that made one dizzy just looking at them for too long.

The sight of the second blood pool turned Xu Yang’s gaze icy. Rows of vials filled with essence blood were placed along its edges, and their auras clearly belonged to countless cultivators. According to what the cultivator at the Middle Stage of Golden Immortal had confessed, this cavern housed an evil Array known as the Blood Soul Star Array. It gathered the essence blood of numerous immortal beasts and cultivators, along with vast amounts of natural treasures and cultivator immortal foundations, offering them as sacrifices to condense a star. The blood star ultimately condensed would possess astonishing power. An ordinary one could significantly enhance the strength of someone at the Middle Stage of Golden Immortal and increase their chances of breaking through to the Late Stage of Golden Immortal. A high-tier one would bring immense benefits even to a cultivator at the Late Stage of Golden Immortal, making it an absolute treasure. However, the methods used to create it were utterly inhumane. Sacrificing immortal beasts was one thing. But the Primordial Spirits, essence blood, and immortal foundations of cultivators were its most crucial and indispensable components. Especially high-quality immortal foundations. It was unspeakably cruel.

Gazing at the astonishing blood water and swirling, multicolored energy within each pool, he finally reached the area directly beneath House Number Seven, where a hazy blood sphere had already taken shape. The aura it exuded made even Xu Yang’s heart palpitate. If the energy within it were to fully detonate, it would be no less devastating than the self-destruction of an expert at the Middle Stage of Golden Immortal. To reach such a terrifying level, one could only imagine how many cultivators the Blood Marsh had secretly hunted down.

"The resources and treasures stripped from these cultivators can almost cover the debt I owe," Xu Yang thought.

"The rest of the natural treasures have all been dissolved into the five blood pools here.

"Although their methods were cruel, the energy within these blood pools is staggering.

"And the most incredible prize is this incomplete blood star."

The Celestial Refining Divine Tripod and the Celestial Refining Divine Scripture could refine all things. Xu Yang was not a pedantic man. He was not the one responsible for this atrocity, and even if he were to disperse this energy, the innocents who had perished would not come back to life. Doing so would be a complete waste. After a moment of thought, he got to work. He summoned the Celestial Refining Divine Tripod, rapidly devouring the energy within the blood pools. Finally, he approached the blood star. Enveloping it with the Heaven-Locking Divine Chains, the Divine Tripod swallowed it whole. He kept the blood star securely stored inside the Divine Tripod for now, in no rush to refine it. Refining it into Purest Essence Qi would significantly boost his cultivation. But in the event of an unexpected crisis, detonating this blood star would be equivalent to the self-destruction of a cultivator at the Middle Stage of Golden Immortal. Caught off guard, any victim would suffer a miserable fate.

"Although this was unexpected, it’s safe to say I’ve made a massive profit on this trip," he thought. However, settling his debt would have to wait a little longer.

Subsequently, Xu Yang formed hand seals as he retreated. Rolling immortal essence poured from his body, gradually permeating the entire cavern. The moment he exited the well, he triggered it with a single thought.

RUMBLE!!

The massive underground cavern violently exploded. The ground caved in, and a raging tide of energy erupted outward. The Array within completely collapsed and disintegrated. Xu Yang, meanwhile, transformed into a shadow and disappeared into the darkness.

...

Tens of thousands of miles away from Hualuo City.

A streak of rainbow light speeding through the void suddenly came to a halt, revealing a middle-aged cultivator. He turned to look in the direction of Hualuo City, his expression instantly turning exceedingly gloomy.

"The Blood Soul Star Array in Hualuo City has been broken... Who did this?" he muttered. Leaving behind those muttered words, blood-red light flickered around the middle-aged man. With a SWISH, he vanished from his spot. A faint blood glow flashed in the void like a star before swiftly fading away.

Outside Hualuo City.

Xu Yang didn’t pause for even a moment. Concealing his aura, he sped toward Chongshan City. With the matter here resolved, there were still about three days left until the battle between Liou Xueyan and Situ Ke. It was the perfect opportunity to go and watch from the shadows. As Hualuo City was gradually swallowed up by the towering mountains and ridges behind him, Xu Yang continuously accelerated, breathing a sigh of relief in his heart. Losing a few Golden Immortal experts wasn’t a massive blow to the Blood Marsh, but losing that blood star was definitely enough to make them bleed. Even in its incomplete state, it held energy comparable to the self-destruction of an expert at the Middle Stage of Golden Immortal. If completed, it could likely allow a cultivator at the Peak of Mid-stage Golden Immortal to break through to the Late Stage of Golden Immortal. Experts at the Late Stage of Golden Immortal were rarely seen, even among the seven top immortal sects. Even the masters of some major factions were only at the Late Stage of Golden Immortal.

Suddenly, an indescribable sense of danger struck him. Xu Yang’s expression changed drastically. Before he could even react, he saw the world in the darkness distort violently in all directions. It was as if invisible, giant hands were pushing the very fabric of heaven and earth, crushing down on him. A suffocating, bewitching blood-red light suddenly tore through the darkness. It was blindingly brilliant, illuminating the world in an explosive glare.