Chapter 81: A True Body Cultivator, The Might of a Core Formation Elder
Ghost Demon Pass was divided among three factions: the Tianhai Gang, the Medicine Gang, and the Ghost Demon Gang.
Among them, the Ghost Demon Gang was the most powerful. In fact, the entire Ghost Demon Pass was originally their territory.
The current territories of the Tianhai Gang and the Medicine Gang were all seized from the Ghost Demon Gang.
Being able to carve out a piece of this chaotic land for themselves, the Tianhai Gang was naturally not to be trifled with.
In fact, the last time someone openly challenged the Tianhai Gang was decades ago.
And now…
The monkey-faced man, pointed at by the masked beauty’s mace, was stunned.
“Rob me? Me?” The monkey-faced man pointed at himself, as if he had heard a great joke, and burst into laughter. “Do you know who I am? You dare to rob me?”
The masked beauty’s expression darkened, and just as everyone thought she had backed down, she whispered,
“Don’t you have any money?”
“I do, I have plenty of money!” The monkey-faced man sneered, taking off the storage pouch at his waist and placing it on the table. “There are three Mystic-rank Qi Condensation Pills inside. If you want them, come and get them.”
“Then I won’t stand on ceremony.”
The masked beauty threw the crying alchemist aside, shouldered her mace, and walked straight towards the monkey-faced man.
The smile on the monkey-faced man’s lips turned cold, and he looked at the masked beauty as if she were already dead.
“I thought this little girl had some background to dare rob the Tianhai Gang’s assets, but she’s just a brainless bimbo…”
“But even if she has a background, in Ghost Demon Pass, dragons have to coil and tigers have to crouch. No matter if you’re from the Nine Sects or the Four Forbidden Areas, you have to behave yourself in Ghost Demon Pass!”
“Heh, with her figure and looks, I wonder how much will be left for me after the elders are done with her…”
The monkey-faced man’s gaze heated up, a lustful fire rising within him.
At the same time, the masked beauty had approached him and reached out to take the storage pouch.
“Attack!”
The monkey-faced man shouted, a long sword appearing in his hand, slashing directly at the masked beauty.
The other Tianhai Gang disciples also took out their weapons, their techniques and abilities bombarding the masked beauty.
The masked beauty frowned, but didn’t dodge. She grabbed the storage pouch without hesitation.
“So you want money more than your life,” the monkey-faced man laughed triumphantly. “A brainless woman… perfect!”
The sword light fell, aiming straight for the alluring figure in black.
Countless techniques and abilities rained down on her.
The masked beauty didn’t flinch. Her expression turned cold, blood energy surging around her as she faced the attacks head-on.
Boom!
With a loud bang, the alchemy shop collapsed.
The alchemist, who had just escaped, watched helplessly as his shop was destroyed. The color that had returned to his face drained away again, replaced by an unhealthy flush.
He vomited a mouthful of blood and fainted.
At the same time, the customers who had just been robbed didn’t dare to stay any longer and fled the ruins of the alchemy shop.
Many auras noticed the commotion, and several cultivators stood nearby, intending to watch this rare spectacle.
It had to be said that the love for a good show was human nature, and even immortals couldn’t avoid it.
Luo Xue didn’t leave immediately. She stealthily ran to the unconscious alchemist and took his storage pouch.
“Serves you right for bullying me,” Luo Xue stuck her tongue out at the alchemist, weighing the storage pouch in her hand. “Consider this my compensation. I probably won’t get those twenty Yellow-rank Qi Condensation Pills back.”
Then…
Luo Xue looked towards the battlefield, her expression turning serious.
The dust and smoke from the earlier battle gradually dissipated, revealing the figures lying on the ground.
The monkey-faced man looked at the masked beauty in front of him with terror. She was holding him by the neck, lifting him high in the air.
“You… want to kill me?”
The masked beauty seemed like a different person now, her cold aura sending chills down one’s spine, completely different from her earlier goofy and crazy demeanor.
“Spare me, Immortal, spare me…”
The monkey-faced man was so scared that he wet himself, his face turning an unhealthy purplish-red from the chokehold.
What just happened…
This woman… was terrifying…
In an instant, she had completely ignored the techniques and abilities, not even bothering to dodge his sword.
She just swung her mace relentlessly, knocking down all the Tianhai Gang disciples one after another, and finally grabbed him by the neck.
During this process, the monkey-faced man realized in despair that no matter what they did, they couldn’t stop this woman.
Was this what a crazy body cultivator was like…
Both at the peak of Foundation Establishment, yet their combat power was vastly different.
The masked beauty was unmoved by the monkey-faced man’s pleas for mercy.
Her grip tightened, and she could snap his neck in the next moment.
“Stop!—That’s enough!”
A low shout rang out, followed by a flash of sword light.
This time, the masked beauty instinctively sensed danger and finally dodged for the first time, forced to release the monkey-faced man.
The sword light struck the ground, leaving a narrow but bottomless chasm.
It was conceivable that if this sword had hit, even a body cultivator wouldn’t be able to withstand it.
“Core Formation…”
The masked beauty murmured.
A figure descended from the sky, a middle-aged man in a cyan robe, his expression stern.
His face carried an air of authority, and his gaze was sharp.
“Protector Wu, you’re here!” The monkey-faced man’s face lit up, and he scrambled to the newcomer’s side. “Save me, quickly save me…”
“Can’t even handle such a small matter, useless,” Elder Wu kicked the monkey-faced man away in disgust. “Liu Qingfeng, if not for your sister, with your unstable peak Foundation Establishment cultivation, you wouldn’t even be qualified to join the Law Enforcement Squad!”
The monkey-faced man, Liu Qingfeng, repeatedly acknowledged his mistake, but his gaze towards the masked beauty was filled with resentment.
“Elder Wu, it’s her, it’s this woman! She dared to openly rob the Tianhai Gang’s assets and even attacked the Law Enforcement Squad! This is a slap in the face of the Tianhai Gang! And a slap in your face!”
Elder Wu’s expression darkened. He had just happened to pass by and sensed Liu Qingfeng’s weak aura, which was why he rushed over to save him.
If it wasn’t Liu Qingfeng causing trouble, but this woman deliberately robbing the Tianhai Gang…
The nature of this matter would be different.
“Is that true?”
Elder Wu asked suspiciously.
It wasn’t that he was naturally cautious, but Liu Qingfeng, relying on his older sister, a prodigy of a major immortal sect, had been acting arrogantly in Ghost Demon Pass for years.
He had even offended the other two major factions, and it took a lot of effort to smooth things over.
“Yes, yes, it’s absolutely true!” Liu Qingfeng nodded repeatedly. He saw the unconscious alchemist and quickly pulled him awake. “Wake up, tell him if your alchemy shop was robbed!”
The alchemist woke up groggily, saw Elder Wu, and instantly became more alert.
“Gree… greetings, Elder Wu…”
“No need to ask, I was indeed robbing them.” The masked beauty spoke, her indifferent demeanor gone, seemingly returning to her earlier goofy and ferocious self. “But I’m not robbing you. You’re at Core Formation, I can’t beat you.”
“It’s her, it’s her! Elder Wu, you have to uphold justice for me…”
The alchemist also pointed at the masked beauty. Then he realized that the storage pouch he carried with him was gone.
Sensing the spiritual imprint, he instinctively looked in a certain direction and saw a small, sneaky figure.
It was that little bitch! She actually dared to steal his storage pouch amidst the chaos!
“And her! She’s an accomplice!”
The alchemist screamed, pointing directly at Luo Xue.
Instantly, all eyes fell on Luo Xue, including the masked beauty’s.
Luo Xue was trying to sneak away from this troublesome place, not using Flashing Blossom because she was worried about attracting attention.
With so many eyes watching, using a divine ability she wasn’t familiar with would only make her more conspicuous.
However, Luo Xue didn’t expect that storage pouches were usually marked with a spiritual imprint by their owners.
If it wasn’t erased, even if it was lost, its location could still be sensed.
This was something that happened because she lacked experience. Experienced cultivators, upon obtaining someone else’s storage pouch, would immediately erase the spiritual imprint—referring to those who stole them, not those who robbed them.
Because the masked beauty hadn’t erased it, she simply put it away.
“An accomplice…”
Elder Wu looked over and frowned slightly.
Just a little girl at the Innate Realm, dressed like a slave, how could she have the guts to openly rob someone in Ghost Demon Pass?
And she didn’t seem to be a slave of the other woman…
Regardless, this behavior was indeed a challenge to the authority of the Tianhai Gang. If he didn’t handle it firmly, anyone would dare to step on them in the future.
As for whether the slave girl was wrongly accused, Elder Wu didn’t care.
“In that case, arrest them both.”
Elder Wu reached out with his hand, and Luo Xue felt the surrounding spiritual energy solidify. She felt a sense of suffocation.
It wasn’t that she couldn’t breathe, but that her spiritual power couldn’t circulate, and she couldn’t use any techniques or abilities.
This was the might of a Core Formation cultivator. At Core Formation and above, they formed their own small world, and with a single breath, they could suppress lower-level cultivators with the power of their small world.
Before a Core Formation cultivator, no matter how many Foundation Establishment cultivators there were, they wouldn’t be a match.
Those who could defeat a Core Formation cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Realm were extremely rare, appearing only once every few thousand years.
Elder Wu deliberately used his Core Formation power to make everyone see.
No matter who it was, no matter their cultivation level, if they dared to offend the Tianhai Gang, this would be their fate.
The masked beauty was in a similar situation, but she quickly broke free—body cultivators didn’t rely on spiritual energy from heaven and earth. This was something Elder Wu hadn’t expected.
“…A body cultivator, how rare.”
Elder Wu narrowed his eyes slightly, but he wasn’t panicked.
It was just breaking free from the power of his small world. The advantage of Core Formation over Foundation Establishment wasn’t just this.
Just as Elder Wu was preparing for the masked beauty’s counterattack, she suddenly turned and charged towards Luo Xue.
“What!” Elder Wu’s pupils constricted. “Is she planning to… save that slave?”
For powerful cultivators, a slave who hadn’t even reached the Spirit Condensation Realm wasn’t even considered a resource.
A slave who had reached the Innate Realm through cheap resources and life-draining secret techniques was useless except as a cauldron.
In everyone’s eyes, Luo Xue was such an existence.
After all, she was too young. If she had grown up normally, she would be considered a prodigy even in a small sect.
But Luo Xue appeared here in tattered clothes, so she could only be a cauldron slave.
This crazy woman… was actually going back to save that slave?
Luo Xue was equally stunned. Her only connection with the masked beauty was that the latter had robbed her of twenty Yellow-rank Qi Condensation Pills.
Now that the masked beauty had broken free from the power of his small world, whether it was fighting Elder Wu or escaping, it was much better than choosing to save her.
Because by doing so, she was exposing her back to Elder Wu.
“Crack—”
The power of the small world surrounding Luo Xue shattered. The masked beauty crashed into Luo Xue’s arms, holding her tightly.
Luo Xue was enveloped by a soft body and a faint fragrance, and in a trance, she was reminded of Senior Sister.
But the current situation was extremely dangerous. After seeing this, Elder Wu quickly reacted.
A sharp sword beam condensed, mercilessly slashing towards the masked beauty’s back.
The masked beauty’s demeanor turned cold again at this moment, but Luo Xue clearly saw that her face beneath the mask was stained with blood, blood seeping from her seven orifices.
The sword light fell, and the masked beauty didn’t dodge, taking the blow directly.
But… there was no reaction.
She just stood there, holding Luo Xue.
“Why… why…”
Luo Xue asked blankly.
She watched as the light in the masked beauty’s eyes gradually faded, her face turning pale.
This sword strike had severely injured her.
“You… aren’t you my accomplice?” The masked beauty struggled to speak, her voice weak. “They said…”
“Am I?”
Luo Xue was stunned. She didn’t even know when she had become the masked beauty’s accomplice.
“You… aren’t you?”
The masked beauty blinked, confusion in her eyes.
“Even if I wasn’t before, I am now.”
Luo Xue looked at the gazes around her, a hint of bitterness in her heart.
What a mess, even exchanging currency could lead to this…
In everyone’s eyes now, she was the masked beauty’s accomplice.
“That’s good…”
The masked beauty closed her eyes slightly, seemingly unable to hold on any longer.
“Big Sister, don’t faint! If you faint, I can’t escape either…”
Luo Xue panicked, searching for medicine in her storage ring.
Fortunately, Senior Sister, worried that Luo Xue might encounter danger, had given her a lot of healing medicine, even some that could be used by Core Formation cultivators.
No matter what the situation was just now, only if the masked beauty lived could Luo Xue avoid being captured by the Tianhai Gang.
“Nine Revolutions Soul Returning Pill… what a wuxia-like name…”
Luo Xue took out a pill and quickly stuffed it into the masked beauty’s mouth.
The masked beauty unconsciously opened her mouth, and Luo Xue’s fingertips felt a soft, warm touch.
Why was she licking her finger…
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