Chapter 227: Utterly Dumbfounded (1/2)
Outside Mauve Peace Paradise, a man in a white tunic sat cross-legged, his features obscured. Lu Daoling saw him as soon as he stepped outside. Conflicted emotions wrestled each other through his face before he finally turned back with a sigh.
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“Go back, Miss Ruyan. For your child’s sake.” A few figures blocked Qing Ruyan’s way outside the Panorama Pavilion’s blessed lands. She narrowed her eyes and unleashed her inner energy, planning to hack a way out in blood.
“Come back, Ruyan,” a wizened voice transmitted to her. “Lu Yun must have a contingency plan if he dared leave Xiankan. You couldn’t help him even if you went to him.”
Qing Ruyan nodded mutely before suddenly saying, “From now on, the Panorama Pavilion will terminate all collaboration with the Qing Clan and the Exalted Immortal Sect.”
Dumbfounded silence reigned.
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“Give up, senior brother Zhurong.” Gu Zun winked at a glowering Zhurong Cangshan. “You’re not influential enough to save Lu Yun. He put himself in the situation this time, and has no one else to blame.”
“Hmph!” Zhurong Cangshan scoffed and left with a flourish of his sleeves.
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“If death is what you lot wish for, I won’t intervene again.” Wayfarer sat in a little tavern in the outer city of Xiankan, sighing into the cup of water he was holding.
A powerful dao immortal had locked onto him. Not far away, the other Wayfarer stared at him coldly.
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No one showed themselves or said a word. The only sound came from the whirling Diabolic Formation of Soul Refinement as it continued to refine the fortress ship.
Crack.
In only a few breaths, ugly cracks had spread through the ship’s defensive formation, threatening imminent destruction.
“The Exalted Immortal Sect has gone to a lot of effort to kill you!” Wu Tulong said with a wry smile. He’d expected the sect would send dao immortals to attack Lu Yun, but they’d opted for the great formation instead, leaving nothing to chance.
“Not only that,” Lu Yun shook his head, “but the formation is also protected with a barrier to prevent anyone from breaking it from the outside.”
“Barrier?”
“It’s the Arcane Goldenlight Formation of the Qing Clan!” Color drained from Qing Han’s face, along with all faith in his clan. “Give me the Arcane Golden Bell!”
Lu Yun tensed at the change of expression. “What for?”
“I’ll detonate the bell and break the formation!” Qing Han declared. The Arcane Golden Bell was the Qing Clan’s supreme treasure. Although the bloodline within it had been erased by Empress Myrtlestar, the dao immortal power left by the Qing ancestor still remained. Its explosion would shake the heavens themselves.
“Don’t!” Lu Yun jumped in shock. “That’ll kill all of us as well!”
Qing Han lowered his head and fell silent, nails biting into his palms as he balled his hands into fists.
“I can deal with a little formation.” Lu Yun sneered at the crimson clouds in the sky. “I didn’t want to take this many lives, but can’t blame me for not showing mercy when you’ve shown me none.”
He slowly rose into the air.
“What are you doing?” Back on the ship, the others gaped at him.