Chapter 165: Immortal Lord Offers a Strategy
Chapter 165: Immortal Lord Offers a Strategy
After a conversation with Immortal Lord Yuding, Lu Hangzhi quickly realized that although the lofty personages of the Seven Great Sects hadn’t appeared on the front lines at Two Realms Mountain, they had been working hard behind the scenes.
These past days, Immortal Lord Yuding, Immortal Lord Jiuzao, Master Bitter Sea, and other experts from the Seven Great Sects had collected all sorts of materials from ordinary Blood Fiends and Elite Blood Fiends!
From blood to hair, from chunks of flesh to internal organs, from nails to eyes, even spirit forms were gathered. In short, they secured every single part. They had been researching intensely for many days…
Studying everything from their Magical Artifact-level strong bodies to their incredible self-healing and regenerative abilities, the group analyzed the Blood Fiends and Elite Blood Fiends countless times, inside and out.
They tested various Art Techniques!
What astounded Lu Hangzhi even more…
Immortal Lord Yuding had personally captured remnants of a special bloodline Elite Blood Fiend that had been hiding right under their noses. He took it out of Two Realms Mountain and placed it in a specially designed Magic Formation for research. Every day, he provided it with a small amount of blood and then subjected it to various cruel experiments.
Finally!
Immortal Lord Yuding discovered.
The vitality and adaptability of these Elite Blood Fiends were indeed near perfect. They seemed vulnerable only when attacked by the Law of Fire. In all other situations, they were very powerful. They could resist and expel many poisonous substances from their bodies.
Except…
Once.
Immortal Lord Yuding mixed the Imperial Wine Sect’s most famous Immortal Liquid into blood and fed it to the Elite Blood Fiend, then…
The Elite Blood Fiend got terribly drunk.
Immortal Lord Yuding laughed:
“Elite Blood Fiends are strange creatures. Although their structure is similar to ours, the Human Race, their blood flows extremely fast. Their organs help them retain beneficial substances in the blood while expelling harmful ones! But, unfortunately, the Immortal Liquid contained too many beneficial substances and had a very strong delayed kick. Even creatures as strong as Elite Blood Fiends couldn’t digest it quickly.”
Lu Hangzhi’s heart raced.
“You mean…”
“Our human blood doesn’t flow that fast. After drinking the Immortal Liquid, it takes a while before we slowly feel the full effect of drunkenness. But the Blood Fiends, trying to retain and digest the beneficial substances in the Immortal Liquid, will crazily accelerate their blood circulation, leading to a more severe drunken effect. They directly lose most of their abilities.” Immortal Lord Yuding stated decisively. “For this purpose, I specially ordered my disciples to rush and produce a batch of Talismans overnight.”
“Talismans?”
“Yes! Wanting to attack inside the Sky Passage is impossible unless one reaches the Mystic Light Stage. Ordinary people simply can’t do it. But there is one way.”
“Arrows?” Lu Hangzhi blurted out.
Immortal Lord Yuding and Master Bitter Sea exchanged a smile:
“Young friend Hangzhi truly possesses extraordinary intelligence. With just a slight hint from us, you already guessed it.”
“Correct.”
“The method we came up with is to shoot the Immortal Liquid into the Sky Passage using powerful bows. The arrows themselves are preserved within the Talismans using a special sealing technique.”
“But, won’t they be unable to penetrate the skin of the Blood Fiends?” Lu Hangzhi quickly pointed out the biggest challenge.
The bodies of Blood Fiends were Magical Artifact level tough!
Forget ordinary arrows; Art Techniques below the Mystic Light Stage were like tickling them.
“This leads to our second line of research.”
Immortal Lord Yuding gave a mysterious smile and opened his palm. Resting on it was a sharp, pale-white fang.
“This is a fang we collected from a Blood Fiend. It’s exceptionally sharp, capable of easily damaging the body of a Magical Artifact. After I engraved a Sharp Gold Demon-Piercing Formation on it, even an ordinary person shooting it from an arrow can produce shocking destructive power. It could pierce through several Matrix Towers!”
Sweat!
Lu Hangzhi felt a chill run down his spine upon hearing this.
Immortal Lord Yuding’s analogy was truly something!
Who uses their own crafted Magical Artifacts as test subjects and advertising copy.
However…
He was still very excited.
After a hundred years, Immortal Lord Yuding had made another world-shaking contribution.
Truly worthy of the Yuding Sect! Truly worthy of Immortal Lord Yuding!
“Situ, what do you think?”
“Using Blood Fiend fangs against the Demon Army is a good idea. We can try it out. We’ll decide everything after seeing the effect.” The conversation among the four didn’t exclude Situ Chuyun, who naturally heard everything clearly and made a quick decision.
Let Immortal Lord Yuding try it first!
Without another word, Immortal Lord Yuding lifted off the ground, rising slowly. He ascended towards the Sky Passage, utterly ignoring the Flight Prohibition Array at Two Realms Mountain, performing land ascension. Lu Hangzhi watched, intensely curious and itching to do the same.
Since cultivating to the sense of the tenth grade, he could also perform land ascension himself. Unfortunately, at Two Realms Mountain where the Flight Prohibition Array was active, he had never tried flying through the air.
Seeing Immortal Lord Yuding ascend so effortlessly now naturally made him envious and eager.
Lu Hangzhi couldn’t help but secretly transmit a message:
“Senior, does the Flight Prohibition Array simply not work on cultivators of your level?”
“Hehe…”
Immortal Lord Yuding saw through Lu Hangzhi’s intention and replied with a laugh, “The Flight Prohibition Array can seal the land ascension ability of all Mystic Light Stage cultivators. What I’m using is a unique Art Technique. It’s not impossible for you to learn it if you want.”
“Really? Then Hangzhi thanks the Immortal Lord in advance!”
Lu Hangzhi eagerly followed up.
Immortal Lord Yuding smiled slightly and said seriously,
“The Flight Prohibition Array was originally only meant to seal the flying abilities of Monster Beasts and Demonic Fiends, preventing them from quickly breaching Two Realms Mountain. The reason I don’t teach it to ordinary cultivators is that I worry they lack the strength and might be controlled by Demonic Fiends. But in your case, there’s no problem.”
“Hehe, thank you for your recognition, Venerable.”
Lu Hangzhi said.
“Don’t thank me. I have a condition.”
“Please say.”
Lu Hangzhi wasn’t surprised that Immortal Lord Yuding had a condition.
Firstly, possessing the ability for land ascension at Two Realms Mountain added many advantages and conveniences. Secondly, the same Flight Prohibition Array also existed within the Yuding Sect. It wasn’t something he could casually teach to others.
“It will be an effortless task for you,” began Immortal Lord Yuding. “I only have three months of life left. After that, I would be immensely grateful if you, Sect Leader Lu, could help watch over the Yuding Sect a little.”
Immortal Lord Yuding revealed this astonishing secret.
Lu Hangzhi was dumbstruck.
Three months?
Immortal Lord Yuding only had only three months left to live?
Instantly, the good mood brought by the earlier good news vanished like smoke. Lu Hangzhi’s heart filled with thick desolation and regret.
Immortal Lord Yuding’s contributions to Two Realms Mountain and to the Barbarian Continent were irreplaceable!
The imminent fall of such a hero of his generation felt like terrible news.
“Venerable…”
“No need to say anything,” Immortal Lord Yuding said with a calm expression. “Actually, decades ago, I had already reached my destined moment of death. In the end, it was Master Long Jiao who burned his own lifespan. He used the Canon of Time, invoking the Power of Years, forcibly extending my life by several tens of years. That’s how I’ve managed to cling to life until now. Having these final three months to hold back the Demon Army for the Barbarian Continent a little longer gives me great peace of mind.”
“The Canon of Time?”
Lu Hangzhi’s eyes lit up. “That Codex is currently in the hands of this junior.”
After the Mystic Light Stage, a cultivator’s lifespan could extend to around three hundred years. Lu Hangzhi felt that even giving up ten or twenty years wouldn’t mean much.
“Heh.”
Immortal Lord Yuding showed a touched expression and smiled slightly. “Your kindness, I accept it. You are a good kid, but the Canon of Time is not all-powerful. Each person can only bear the blessing of ‘Years and Time’ once. Even if you use the Canon of Time again now, it cannot make me live one more day.”
“…”
Lu Hangzhi showed a regretful expression.
Immortal Lord Yuding was a true hero of the Barbarian Continent!
If it was for someone like Immortal Lord Yuding to burn his lifespan, he felt he could accept it.
But if each person could only bear the life-extending art technique of ‘Years and Time’ once, there was nothing he could do.
As they spoke, Immortal Lord Yuding had already flown to the front of the huge Sky Passage…
Standing before the Sky Passage, Immortal Lord Yuding was like a tiny black dot, very small.
Lu Hangzhi stopped speaking in time.
It was about to happen.
Immortal Lord Yuding also put on a serious and focused expression, holding a Talisman in each hand…
Immortal Lord Yuding did not immediately strike.
The Spatial Rift Formation shone brightly, countless Blood Fiends shattered and scattered toward the ground.
Now…
It was not yet the time.
Lu Hangzhi held his breath;
Situ watched with a heavy gaze;
Countless Cultivators at Two Realms Mountain watched intently;
A few breaths passed…
The light of the Spatial Rift Formation gradually dimmed!
“Go!”
Immortal Lord Yuding acted without warning, the two Talismans shot out from his hands, just avoiding several passing Spatial Fissures.
The moment the Talismans shot into the Sky Passage, they flashed brightly.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Dozens of Blood Fiend fangs imbued with the ‘Sharp Gold Demon-Shattering Magic Formation’ and containing Immortal Liquid shot out from the Talismans toward the densely packed Blood Fiends and Elite Blood Fiends inside the Sky Passage.
The Demon Army encountered this situation for the first time…
Being attacked inside the Two Realms Passage.
And!
There was no Law Power, no Power of Heaven and Earth. All the Blood Fiends did not dodge or avoid these familiar-smelling Blood Fiend fangs, not taking them seriously at all.
However…
As the Blood Fiend fangs easily pierced into the bodies of the Blood Fiends one by one, the Immortal Liquid quickly injected into the Blood Fiends’ bodies. Only then did these Blood Fiends realize something was wrong.
The Immortal Liquid rapidly evaporated inside their bodies.
While their aura weakly increased, a strong drunkenness swept over the dozens of hit Blood Fiends!
The movements of the Blood Fiends immediately became sluggish!!
Immortal Lord Yuding’s mission was complete. Without hesitation, he withdrew and fell back to Two Realms Mountain…
The Sky Passage instantly fell into chaos.
It was more complicated than expected.
As these Blood Fiends’ movements slowed, and thick blood-scented alcohol emanated from their wound areas, it stimulated even more Blood Fiends and Elite Blood Fiends inside the Sky Passage…
The first to lose control was an Elite Blood Fiend.
It saw a blood hole on the neck of the nearest Blood Fiend in front. The intense blood scent crazily stimulated its taste buds. Its fangs exposed, it flapped its wings, accelerated, pounced behind its companion, and without hesitation bit down…
Crunch!
It plugged into the blood vessel!
The windpipe was bitten through.
The strong blood scent mixed with the enticing alcohol aroma of the Immortal Liquid instantly spread inside the Sky Passage…
More Blood Fiends lost their minds and started pouncing on the nearby hit Blood Fiends.
Dozens of Blood Fiends were immediately surrounded and torn apart by a larger number of Blood Fiends.
In an instant, blood began to flow in the Sky Passage! The blood scent soared to the sky!!
After absorbing the blood with incredibly high alcohol concentration, Blood Fiends and Elite Blood Fiends became heavy-headed and sluggish.
Before their consciousness completely faded, they saw countless Blood Fiends from all directions covetously surrounding them…
The Sky Passage, the Demonic Fiends erupted into chaos!