Chapter 960 - 453: Stealing the Elixir and Seizing the Corpse, Duqing’s Affair Settled (8k8)

Outside, the sound of the magical battle was deafening.

The roar of magical treasures intertwined with the magic of the Golden Core True Man, causing the Emotion Crossing Sect to quake.

The multi-colored spiritual light illuminated the dim sleeping palace, flickering on and off.

However,

neither the Emotion Crossing Sect with its hidden schemes nor the Li Family with their blatant heist could have anticipated someone snatching the treasured pill right under their noses.

"Dare I ask, Divine Son, have you arranged everything for my disciple?"

Chen Ye, fully dressed, lifted his gaze and glanced at the magical battle outside.

In the past, he would certainly have been very concerned for his disciple at this moment.

But after many trials, his disciple was no longer the girl who needed her master’s worry.

"Of course, didn’t big brother see Jiaming arrange everything with his own eyes? Once it’s over, we’ll go together to the Yan Kingdom. With me protecting you, the Qi Kingdom will be no obstacle..."

The girl twirled lightly, and the clothes scattered on the ground flew to her and dressed her neatly,

"Let’s go, big brother. Let’s take down Tuoba old dog’s pill furnace!"

Chen Ye put aside his distractions and used the Qi Concealment Technique, blending his aura seamlessly into the world.

This surprised Qin Jiaming, who glanced at Chen Ye: "Hmm? Big brother’s Qi Concealment Technique has become even more profound."

"Divine Son, at this point, let’s skip the idle chatter and focus on the task at hand."

Chen Ye casually performed a Qi Concealment Technique on Qin Jiaming as well.

Seeing that Chen Ye wasn’t in the mood for small talk, the girl sighed and said nothing more as the two quietly left the palace.

Outside.

The sky was completely engulfed by the frenzy of magic.

The three Golden Core True Men of the Li Family stood towering like mountain peaks, while Tuoba Mianjiang and Tuoba Zhenshi relied on the Emotion Crossing Sect’s Mountain Protection Array and Wuyang Palace’s array patterns to stalemate them, turning the sky dark and the sun and moon invisible.

"Fight, the more fiercely the better."

Qin Jiaming glanced up, pulling Chen Ye along to leave the palace.

But now, Wuyang Palace had been reduced to a tool in the Divine Venerable’s magical battles.

At the edge of the palace, a light curtain rose high, even the Li Family Six Ancestors found it difficult to leave this light curtain.

Qin Jiaming chuckled softly:

"This Wuyang Palace isn’t just a place to sleep..."

"It was a magical treasure the Lord Luoxiao specifically refined back then. Unfortunately, she perished before completing it. Even so, ordinary Golden Core True Men can’t easily break through."

Chen Ye furrowed his brows.

As expected of Qin Jiaming’s past life—a truly peculiar character.

To turn a resting palace into a trap-killer magical treasure is utterly baffling.

"So what does the Divine Son plan to do?" Chen Ye asked quietly.

"With Jiaming here, what is big brother afraid of."

Qin Jiaming extended a flawless white jade index finger and bit down hard.

A drop of intensely crimson blood was forced out.

As Qin Jiaming used her blood-stained fingertip to swiftly draw in the air,

profound and esoteric runes formed out of thin air, causing the light curtain to ripple and shrink, tearing open a pitch-black rift!

At the edges of the fissure, silvery spatial turbulence writhed like serpents.

"Let’s go!"

Qin Jiaming grabbed Chen Ye’s wrist and pulled him into the spatial rift.

...

After leaving the spatial rift.

What lay before them was a dilapidated bamboo grove, far removed from the confines of Wuyang Palace, now at the Duqing Seven Peaks.

The Emotion Crossing Sect was already in chaos.

Although Wuyang Palace blocked most of the residual effects of the battle, the invasion of Golden Cores within the sect naturally terrified the ordinary cultivators.

Should the Divine Venerable fall, their fate would be grim.

The two paid no mind to the surrounding chaos.

Chen Ye’s Qi Concealment Technique was quite overwhelming; amidst the chaos, none of the numerous cultivators along the way could detect the two sneaking through.

The closer they got to the center of the seven peaks, the stronger the medicinal fragrance became.

Chen Ye exclaimed in surprise:

"What grade is this pill? Despite many years of alchemy, even while refining multi-patterned elixirs, I’ve rarely encountered such a rich fragrance."

Could it be a Fourth Tier Elixir?

No,

If it truly were a Fourth Tier Elixir, it wouldn’t only be the Li Family Six Ancestors who came.

Yet, a Third Tier Elixir doesn’t seem to match the current phenomenon?

"Hmph, this is a pill refined with my blood; how can it be classified by grade?"

Qin Jiaming explained privately to Chen Ye,

"To be frank, this pill has no grade, or rather, it can’t even be called a pill. Because Jiaming’s blood is quite unique, making pill formation difficult."

"As for the effect..."

"If Tuoba old dog and his ilk consume it, they could forcibly break through realms, turning an Early-stage Golden Core into a Mid-stage Golden Core."

"And if you, big brother, consume it... it’s hard to say you’d reach Nascent Soul Formation, but crossing the chasm to form a Golden Core would be a sure thing!"

Chen Ye’s heart skipped a beat.

Though he had a panel,

the bottleneck of the Golden Core is a monumental barrier; Xu Family’s patriarch Xu Henshan was stuck in this realm for over a century.

As for himself, without twenty to thirty years of cultivation, forming a core would be difficult.

Previously,

Chen Ye even suspected Jin’er would form a core before him!

But if the treasured pill has the miraculous effects Qin Jiaming claims, forming a core would no longer be an issue.

As such, he must acquire these nine emerging treasured pills at all costs!

Even one would save him decades of arduous cultivation!

"We’re here."

Qin Jiaming’s voice snapped Chen Ye back to reality.

The two halted.

Ahead lay an abyss with no visible bottom—the entrance to the Soul-Locking Abyss.

The cliff seemed as if cleaved by a sword, steep and perilous, barren, adorned with sharp, bizarre rocks.