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Chapter 1285: Chapter 1279: Do You Really Have A Choice
“Quick, fall back to Jade Mist Valley!”
In the cloudy sky, the watchdog’s tentacles exuded a terrifying, oppressive might.
To any cultivator present, the uneven fangs on the suction cups resembled gaping, bloody maws.
After experiencing the initial wave of terror, Zhangsun Buhuo—seeing the Jade Mist Valley’s array broken—finally found a sliver of relief amidst the panic.
Being quick-witted, she immediately called for the cultivators of the Three Prefectures to flee toward Jade Mist Valley.
“This… what are we going to Jade Mist Valley for?” Immortal Sect Master Duanmu Qi was momentarily startled. “That’s an enemy camp; are we fighting our way in?”
“The Li Clan broke the array; they definitely have preparations in place,” said Lin Yunzhi, the unsmiling Elder of the Immortal Sect’s Law Enforcement Hall.
Staring at the tentacles reaching straight into the clouds, his eyes glinted with an eager fighting spirit.
However, knowing now was not the time to fight, he turned to Duanmu Qi.
“This entity harbors ill intentions. It might be the very ‘immortal’ the Li Clan spoke of. Both we and Jade Mist Valley are its food.”
“He is right.”
Xuanyuan Yuanhua arrived beside them and said in a deep voice,
“Prepare to join forces with the people of Jade Mist Valley to deal with the ‘immortal’, but also guard carefully against them stabbing us in the back.”
Duanmu Qi’s expression changed. “What if they do stab us in the back?”
Lin Yunzhi, Zhangsun Buhuo, and Xuanyuan Yuanhua exchanged a glance and said in unison, “Then kill them all.”
Meanwhile.
Inside Jade Mist Valley, the Body Integration realm cultivators of both sides fell into a standoff as the grand array broke open.
Below them were the panicked disciples of Jade Mist Valley.
The Fire Ancestor’s array-breaking efforts had already cost them a great deal of Spiritual power and killed many of their people.
Now, with the watchdog’s appearance and the Jade Mist Valley’s grand array broken, they could feel the oppressive might of the immortal radiating from outside the valley even more acutely.
Even the Dao Seeds within their bodies were conveying primal fear to them, warning them to stay away.
But where could they flee? The watchdog’s tentacles had touched the sky; the entirety of Jade Mist Valley was already enveloped within the entity’s domain.
They could only continuously send voice transmissions to their Martial Grandfather.
Listening to his disciples’ transmissions, Linghu Xian’s expression turned extremely ugly. By his side, even the usually calm Fox Saint now wore a gloomy face.
“So, do you really have a choice?”
Li Wei’s hoarse voice, amplified by his Dao method, echoed throughout the entirety of Jade Mist Valley.
Without exception, the cultivators of Jade Mist Valley raised their heads, looking at the cultivators of the Three Prefectures flying in from outside the valley.
At this moment, they actually felt that these people surrounding Jade Mist Valley were their saviors.
“We don’t have a choice,” the Fox Saint smiled bitterly, looking at these cultivators from the Three Prefectures.
Linghu Tiangong’s plan wasn’t flawed in the slightest; struggles between major factions inherently involved mutual scheming.
Unfortunately, Jade Mist Valley lacked the strength. If they had been strong enough, they might have even been able to stop the Li Clan members from breaking the array.
Even he hadn’t expected the Li Clan to have grown to their current level.
The cultivators of Azure Cloud Prefecture had slain the array foundation guards in an instant.
Neither Jade Mist Valley nor his Peerless Hall even had a chance to react.
The tentacles swayed in the sky above Jade Mist Valley; the watchdog was trapping everyone.
The Fox Saint looked at the grim-faced Linghu Xian. “Our only choice now is to deal with this immortal.”
“Martial Grandfather!”
“Martial Grandfather, this is our only path to survival!”
“We beg you to save us, Martial Grandfather!
We don’t want to be people of the Peerless Hall; we don’t want to be reduced to running dogs for the immortals. I want to be a human, Martial Grandfather!”
The Jade Mist Valley disciples on the ground wailed and cried.
The watchdog’s tentacles brought them absolute, extreme terror.
At this moment, Linghu Xian was dripping with cold sweat.
These voices continuously entered his ears, but the crystal inside his body was glowing brighter and brighter.
The massive battle with the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor made it increasingly difficult for him to suppress the crystal.
Noticing this scene, Li Wei cast a glance at his numerous companions from Azure Cloud Prefecture, and a hint of vigilance flashed in everyone’s eyes.
Suddenly, ten thousand rays of iridescent light illuminated the sky.
Beneath the swaying tentacles, Linghu Xian clutched his head as the crystal surged.
The Dao-Comprehending realm aura around him grew increasingly majestic, and a red light radiated from within his body.
“Ah!!!”
“Not good.”
Accompanying Linghu Xian’s cry of agony, the Fox Saint waved his hand at the crowd. “The immortal seed is acting up.”
The crowd hastily retreated.
Linghu Xian clutched his head, his face twisted in agony and ferocity.
The immortal seed inside his body sensed the watchdog’s aura and urged him to flee.
He had fallen into a trap.
The Li Clan members were right before his eyes; that bastard, the Li Clan’s Old Ancestor, using such despicable methods, actually dared to force him into cooperating to fight the watchdog!
He reminisced about scenes from the past.
The entirety of Grandhaven Prefecture was under the enlightenment of the Martial Academy and the rule of the Banshu family.
Yet he had grown up step by step in Grandhaven Prefecture.
He had experienced so much in his life, until he finally reached the Body Integration realm and established his own Dao lineage in Jade Mist Valley.
Under the heavy pressure of the Human Emperor, he was forced into seclusion.
Now that an opportunity had finally arrived with great difficulty, even Min Tiange under the Blood Moon had no choice but to give him an immortal seed.
He had never cared for the so-called number one person below the Body Integration realm.
He had never put the watchdog or the Red Dust Immortal in his eyes.
He still held many grand ambitions, rather than being oppressed by the Li Clan and threatened by a mere watchdog like he was now.
“Flee… hurry up and flee!” The immortal seed inside his body trembled.
“No, I cannot flee! Why should I flee?!!” Linghu Xian’s soul roared furiously at the immortal seed.
“I am a half-immortal, and I will become a true immortal! You shouldn’t be afraid of a mere watchdog, nor should you fear the people of the Three Prefectures, or a mere Li Clan Old Ancestor!”
“My rank is not high enough!” the immortal seed roared.
“We still have to devour the lands of the Three Prefectures.” Linghu Xian’s soul surged into the immortal seed.
The immortal seed erupted with resisting force, causing the red light from Linghu Xian’s body to intensify, yet it could not stop the invasion of Linghu Xian’s soul.
Linghu Xian said madly, “And the Blood Moon! The master beneath the Blood Moon should be me!”
“Boom!”
Mirror surfaces materialized one after another before Linghu Xian’s eyes.
Li Wei frowned, staring at the red-glowing Linghu Xian. The Fox Saint was right beside Li Wei. Linghu Xian’s red light was filled with a corrosive power.
A trace of doubt flashed in Li Wei’s eyes: after fighting for so long, Linghu Xian had constantly been suppressing the immortal seed, yet now, having clearly escaped his pursuit, he was actually letting the immortal seed out.
“No… that’s not right.” Li Wei’s expression turned cold.
He seemed to have guessed wrong; it wasn’t the immortal seed influencing Linghu Xian at all.
He nudged the solemn Fox Saint beside him with his elbow. “Does he also possess a ‘Childlike Heart’?”
“A Childlike Heart?”
Facing an immortal now, the Fox Saint wasn’t tangling with the mighty figures of the Three Prefectures.
Hearing this, he blanked for a moment, but knowing that this bizarre Li Clan’s Old Ancestor was asking about Linghu Xian, he said in a deep voice,
“No. I have been in Grandhaven Prefecture for many years and have interacted with him for a long time.”
“This person is a lunatic who would do absolutely anything for power.”
He glanced at the begging Jade Mist Valley disciples on the ground and said with pity,
“He has never put anyone in his eyes. The immortal seed inside his body has a very low influence on him.
It looks like he is suppressing the immortal seed, but I’m afraid even he hasn’t realized that in reality, the immortal seed is terrified of him.”
“Hm?”
Li Wei’s expression sank slightly. Linghu Xian, under the swaying tentacles, glowed with an increasingly bewitching red light.
The man’s pained expression eased, his body gradually turning pale, and his strength climbing as he fused with the immortal seed.
He actually sneered coldly at Li Wei and the figure slowly surfacing on the watchdog’s body in the distance.
The Fox Saint said eerily,
“He is even more greedy than an immortal. The reason he held back from unleashing the immortal seed and his half-immortal body all this time might be the same as yours; he was likely waiting for the watchdog and the Red Dust Immortal to appear, and then…”
“Eat them.”
Li Wei looked at Linghu Xian, then at the body of the Zhao Clan’s Old Ancestor tied to the other end of Li Kuanghua’s Heaven-Imprisoning Lock, and understood.
He cursed inwardly.
Dammit, this Linghu Xian was just as ruthless as the Zhao Clan’s Old Ancestor.
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