Chapter 1979: Its Precisely the Three of You

Chapter 1979: It's Precisely the Three of You

No one had expected Wang Zhenlong to be so unyielding. He burned his entire lifespan to condense such devastating sword intent.

Once the three outsiders reacted, brilliant divine light erupted all over their bodies. They blocked Wang Zhenlong's sword strike effortlessly, barely causing a ripple.

Everyone's expressions were strange.

"Sword cultivators of the Void Immortal Sword Sect... indeed cannot be offended easily..."

They didn't believe for a second that Wang Zhenlong hadn't anticipated this outcome. Yet even so, while he was no longer being suppressed by the enemy, he had still chosen to burn away the entirety of his remaining lifespan.

The three outsiders of the Huosui lineage looked at each other. They were livid.

"His wandering soul is still here."

"I wonder if the method of travelling through the Underworld works in this place?"

"Let's try it. Capture his wandering soul! We must pry the secrets of the Immortal Hong lineage out of his mouth."

One of them immediately travelled to the Underworld. The moment he entered, he saw Wang Zhenlong standing right in front of him and was instantly overjoyed.

The man grinned, his eyes filled with mockery. "Little bug, did you think your sword could hurt us? Take a look at the difference between our cultivations first!"

Just as he reached out to grab Wang Zhenlong, endless white mist suddenly surged out nearby. One figure after another walked out from the white mist. In an instant, the mountains and fields were packed full of Yin soldiers.

"At least we made it in time."

Xia Ji exchanged glances with several Division Heads of the Underworld. Seeing that no casualties had occurred, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

The outsider who was just about to seize Wang Zhenlong felt a terrifying force descend on him from the surrounding Yin soldiers. He had absolutely no ability to resist. Terrified, he immediately turned around and returned to the Mortal Realm.

"How was it?" the other two outsiders asked their companion.

His expression was wooden. His lips moved, but before he could say anything, the soil behind them suddenly exploded in every direction.

A black coffin floated out from underground. The coffin lid opened, and Lu Yuan, the Founder of the Spirit God Sect, walked out.

She swept her cold gaze around. "You three are making so much noise that you've disturbed me!"

Lu Yuan's gaze locked onto the three outsiders of the Huosui lineage. "Since when was there a divine ability user hidden here?"

The two outsiders who had not tried to attack Wang Zhenlong—their gazes sharpened. In the next instant, they simultaneously attacked Lu Yuan without any prior discussion.

The fact that she had remained hidden all this time without being detected meant that her strength couldn't possibly be weaker than theirs. There was a high chance she was a Limit Breaker. And their strength was already extremely close to the Limit Breaking Realm.

Xun Guozhu and the others also hadn't expected such an expert to be secretly hiding at Three World Mountain. They subconsciously assumed it was a contingency plan that Fang Chen had arranged. And what happened next only strengthened that belief.

When Lu Yuan saw the two actually dared to attack her, she immediately erupted with an aura that far surpassed the ninth-transformation realm. A trace of Limit Breaking power descended upon the two and suppressed them on the spot.

That was what was called tables turning. When the two were crushed against the ground by her Limit Breaking power and rendered completely immobile, the pressure suppressing Xun Guozhu and the others instantly disappeared as well.

Everyone immediately stood up. They felt both relieved and somewhat gleeful at the enemy's misfortune.

"Limit Breaking..."

The two outsiders of the Huosui lineage glanced at each other with gravity.

Only then did they notice that their third companion had remained standing motionlessly in the same spot all this time. They couldn't help shouting, "Summon the Breaking Limit puppet the young master gave us and suppress her!"

The dazed man mechanically summoned a puppet.

The moment the puppet appeared, even Lu Yuan felt a tremendous pressure descend upon her. Her expression abruptly changed, shock and uncertainty filling her eyes.

She had cultivated in seclusion for countless years and had only recently managed to break through the shackles of the ninth transformation and step into a higher level. Yet these three ninth-transformations could casually pull out a puppet stronger than her? What kind of joke was this?

The moment the Limit Breaker puppet came out, it immediately engaged in battle with Lu Yuan. The two sides fought from the ground into the sky right away, bursting with extremely terrifying commotions. Had Lu Yuan not been using her Limit Breaking power to protect the surroundings from the shockwaves, Xun Guozhu and the others would have turned to dust already.

Meanwhile, the other two outsiders were no longer suppressed and immediately got to their feet. After dusting themselves off, they turned and cursed at the companion who had just traveled through the Underworld.

"Why are your reactions so slow!"

"N-No, that's not..." stammered the man, trying to explain.

"Not what?! How did we never realize you were this spineless before? A mere first-step Limit Breaker frightened you that badly?!"

"Young Master took this into account long ago, which is why he handed the puppet to us. You almost got us killed."

"You'll get a smaller share of the merit this time. Otherwise, the two of us will definitely report you to Young Master."

"I—"

"Cut the nonsense. The battle is over."

In the blink of an eye, the puppet had already grabbed Lu Yuan by the neck and landed before the three.

Lu Yuan was held aloft in its grasp. Her hands and feet seemed to have been restrained by some mysterious power, leaving her completely unable to resist.

The two outsiders of the Huosui lineage couldn't help laughing. "So what if you broke the limits? Weren't you still subdued by us?"

Lu Yuan was livid with anger. Her mind raced as she desperately searched for a way out. She refused to accept that she had only just broken through, only to immediately die at someone else's hands.

The fellow holding the bronze disc aimed it at Lu Yuan, and brilliant divine light erupted again. Only, it was even more intense this time!

"Hahaha! Another core disciple of the Immortal Hong lineage! Her inheritance seems even stronger than that bunch over there!"

"Who would've thought that the true core was actually right under our noses?"

"Capture her! When the Young Master arrives, this will be an enormous contribution!"

The two outsiders were thrilled. Neither noticed that their companion's face had already turned ashen.

Just as the two were immersed in their excitement over the tremendous merit they were about to earn, a pair of hands reached out from the void and tore off the Limit Breaking puppet's head.

The instant it lost its head, every trace of power within the puppet vanished. It collapsed to the ground. Lu Yuan immediately regained her freedom.

At the same time, figure after figure materialized around everyone. The Yin soldier who plucked off the puppet's head held it in its hands and stood behind Xia Ji.

"It's been confirmed. It's precisely the three of you. We really didn't expect that just as we prepared to go out and look for you, you delivered yourselves right to our door. You three certainly travel fast."

Xia Ji stared at the three outsiders of the Huosui lineage with a half-smile.

Beside him stood over a hundred Limit Breakers, two of whom were at the third step of Limit Breaking.

These were all Yin soldiers of the Eighteen Heavens Prison Tower. They were the force Fang Chen had left behind for Xia Ji to command.

"So many Limit Breakers?"

When the two outsiders sensed an aura resembling that of the Soul Race emanating from Xia Ji and the others, they suddenly understood why their companion had immediately fled back to the living world after entering the Underworld, and why his face had looked so terrible afterward.

Remembering how their strongest trump card, the Limit Breaking puppet, had already been destroyed by the enemy. In an instant, the three outsiders' moods plunged from the highest heavens straight into the abyss.

Seeing Xia Ji and the others reveal themselves, Xun Guozhu and the rest breathed sighs of relief. Some of them recognized Xia Ji as the former adopted son of the Corrosive Dragon King. But now, his true identity was that of the Division Head of the Underworld's Hidden Guard Division.

His status had risen by an unimaginable degree compared to the past, making him one of the Nine Realms' foremost figures.

Lu Yuan looked at Xia Ji and the others with a strange expression. When she sensed that many of the Ghost Gods around Xia Ji had cultivation bases far exceeding her own, she instantly lost her composure.

How long has it been? How could that person's subordinates have reached such a level already?

Don't tell me I accidentally slept for another few tens of thousands of years here at Three World Mountain since last time I woke up?