Chapter 2670 - 867: Captured in Battle, Reinforcements Arrive
Chapter 2670: Chapter 867: Captured in Battle, Reinforcements Arrive
The cultivators of Red Peak Immortal City were fleeing in mad collapse.
Yet facing the Fourth Rank Beast Kings, the Demon Path army, and the overseeing, commanding Nether Moon Saintess, they simply could not escape from the Immortal City.
A Purple Light Sect cultivator at the Late Stage of Core Formation activated a Blood Burning Secret Technique, intending to use a Teleportation Talisman to flee.
Standing tall above the Immortal City, the Nether Moon Saintess, with her slender figure, wore a cold expression as her figure suddenly appeared before him.
Her fair, crystalline, power-filled beautiful leg lashed forward.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!!!"
Like a crazed dragon surging out of the abyss, like an eternal volcano erupting, the air exploded segment by segment, stirring up layer upon layer of ripples, squeezing the void until it burst.
The Core Formation cultivator fleeing with a Teleportation Talisman spat blood, the bones all over his body shattered, and he flew sideways like a kite with its string cut, crashing down.
The gap between Core Formation and Nascent Soul was like an unbridgeable chasm.
Even though the Nether Moon Saintess had only recently broken through to Nascent Soul, and her Divine Skills had yet to reach Great Success.
Yet relying solely on her Mana, Suppression, and the initial grasp of the Power of the Void, she could utterly crush such Core Formation cultivators.
The fact that he was not killed in one strike was because the Nether Moon Saintess had stayed her hand.
After all, a living Core Formation cultivator was far more valuable than a dead one.
They could not only be interrogated for news of Yue Country, used as prisoners to exchange for resources, but also be taken as slaves and forced labor.
Especially at the Core Formation Level, most carried fortuitous encounters and secrets.
If those could be extracted under torture, one could sometimes gain quite a good harvest.
"The might of a Nascent Soul... so terrifying..."
The Jiang Country and Yue Country cultivators of Red Peak Immortal City, seeing this scene, all felt their hearts chill, terror surging within.
After all, this Mirror Shadow True Man, with Late Stage Core Formation Cultivation, was already an existence they normally could only look up to.
Yet now, before the Nether Moon Saintess, he was like an ant, unable to withstand a single blow.
Even after using Secret Techniques and Teleportation Talismans, he still could not escape.
"So this is the gap between Core Formation and Nascent Soul..."
Lu Qingxuan looked at the Nether Moon Saintess—her tall, lithe figure, long hair of ghostly violet whipping wildly, like a peerless war maiden descended from the heavens—and his heart was filled with despair.
As an Early Stage Core Formation Cultivator, in front of such a Nascent Soul True Lord, he could not raise even the slightest will to resist.
There was only deep, endless despair!
Yet seeing the Fourth Rank Beast Kings and Demon Path army that had breached the city, he still grit his teeth and tried to flee with Lu Xingyang, Lu Ziyun, and the others.
However, Foundation Establishment Cultivators, relying on Teleportation Talismans and life-saving Secret Treasures, still had a chance to slip away amidst the chaos and escape the Immortal City.
Core Formation cultivators were key targets, and had no way to escape.
"Buzz!"
Just as Lu Qingxuan, mixed within the crowd, was about to rush out of the Immortal City, a bone-deep chill crawled over him.
He felt as though some primordial Fierce Beast was fixing its gaze upon him, his entire body’s Mana sluggish, hard to circulate.
"Thunder Fire Nine Arts!"
He hurriedly circulated his Cultivation Technique, the Exorcism Golden Thunder and Thunder Gang Flame within his body surging out, intertwining and roiling as he clutched two Third Rank Talismans in his hands.
Nurtured by the Thunderstrike Fosang Wood, his Thunder Fire Body was but half a step away from advancing to an Upper Class Spirit Body.
Possessing the Thunder Fire Body, Exorcism Golden Thunder, Thunder Gang Flame, and a Superior Grade Gold Core, his strength, among those at the Initial Stage of Core Formation, could be considered a top-tier existence.
Even when facing some Core Formation Middle Stage Cultivators, he could hold his own and contend.
However...
He was now facing a Nascent Soul True Lord!
Above the Immortal City, beside the Nether Moon Saintess, a Heavenly Wolf Illusion dozens of zhang tall had appeared at some unknown time.
This Heavenly Wolf Illusion overlooked and fixed its gaze upon all the Core Formation cultivators of the Immortal City.
Whoever tried to flee the Immortal City, it would let out a furious roar and pounce.
"Roar!!!"
The Heavenly Wolf glared at Lu Qingxuan and let out a roar at him, forming ring after ring of ghostly violet sonic ripples.
Like floodwaters released from a giant dam, like ten thousand great beasts roaring, they blasted Lu Qingxuan’s body, sending him flying, his head ringing, blood streaming from his seven orifices.
A Core Formation cultivator from Liang Country suddenly stepped forward, throwing out a Chain Treasure that bound Lu Qingxuan, sealing his Mana and confiscating his Magical Treasures.
"Brother Qingxuan!"
Lu Xingyang, Lu Ziyun, and the others, their faces ashen and blood flowing from their seven orifices beneath the sweep of the sonic ripples, cried out in terror at this sight.
After so many years together, their bond with Lu Qingxuan had grown extremely deep.
Now, seeing Lu Qingxuan fall into the hands of a Liang Country cultivator, their faces were instantly filled with fear and panic, at a loss for what to do.
"Whoosh!!!"
At the same time, several killing intents slashed toward them.
Faced with Core Formation cultivators, Liang Country would try their best to capture them alive.
But when it came to Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment cultivators, they were far less courteous.
After all, with the Demon Path army storming the Immortal City, how could they possibly show mercy?
What they wanted was to kill the enemy cultivators in the shortest time possible, seizing the Magic Artifacts and Storage Bags upon their bodies.
Only at the final stage, when gathering the battlefield, would they take part of the surviving cultivators as prisoners, to be used as forced labor and slaves.
"Puff! Puff! Puff!!!"
Yet just as those Spiritual Artifacts were about to cut down Lu Xingyang, Lu Ziyun, and the others, a white light surged from their bodies, wrapping around them, about to teleport them away into the distance.
"Hm!?" A Liang Country Core Formation cultivator who was serving as a Plundering Formation overseer saw this, and his expression immediately turned suspicious. Mana surged as he sacrificed a Magical Treasure to seal and intercept them.
Though Substitute Talismans were Third Rank Talismans, they could not enable one to escape from the hands of a Late Stage Core Formation cultivator.
All of them were intercepted and cut off, smashed to the ground, blood spurting from their mouths, some falling unconscious, losing any ability to fight.
"Which faction are these people from, to all possess life-saving Teleportation Talismans!?"
This Core Formation True Man looked at the few before him, his brows lightly knitting, then tossed out a rope Spiritual Artifact to bind them all, intending to interrogate them later.
After all, for Foundation Establishment cultivators to possess such rare life-saving Talismans meant they had elders of profound cultivation, were highly valued, and thus held considerable worth.
They could be used to exchange for resources, or to attempt conversion.
Without the Purple Light True Lord overseeing their army, the Yue Country and Jiang Country cultivators of Red Peak Immortal City were like a pile of loose sand, thinking only of fleeing.