Chapter 126: Taking Money to Solve Problems

As they spoke, Jia Youke began to drool. This wine was exorbitantly expensive; it was most fitting to value it at one Immortal Stone per drop.

A single cup was worth a thousand Immortal Stones!

For Immortals with a high tolerance, like the Immortal Emperor Antuo, a single sitting could consume millions of Immortal Stones. In the Third Immortal Realm, one top-grade Immortal Stone was equivalent to over a dozen high-grade, several hundred mid-grade, or tens of thousands of low-grade Immortal Stones. There was no fixed exchange rate, as it depended entirely on individual needs, but the general value remained fairly consistent.

Upon hearing this, Wuyun could not help but realize what kind of mischief Long Yi and the others had been up to. Even Yue Qi, with his flushed face, was incredibly proficient at looting, raiding, and burning houses despite his small stature.

In particular, every time they finished ransacking a place, he would pause to either relieve himself—deliberately using magic to form a lake—or breathe fire to set everything ablaze.

He was destroying the evidence!

Yue Qi was so young; how could they dare let him drink? An image of a cloud drifted before Wuyun’s eyes. After querying with his divine sense, a tipsy Long Yi replied dismissively, "Would I, Immortal King Long Yi, let a little brat drink? Absolutely not! The fumes from our breath alone were enough to make him tipsy! Hahaha, look, look, he’s staring at that fairy's legs without blinking!"

Old Bear Three, who was covering his face and suppressing his aura, shook his head in denial, saying, "No, that’s just him missing his mother, longing for the taste of milk!"

Antuo rolled his eyes, returning to his naive, black-horse state, while Jia Youke swallowed hard, wishing he were the one being bathed in wine fumes. He remembered a time when he had the fortune to catch a whiff of that wine in a shop. The aura that circled his soul, the intoxication, and the magnanimous flavor had remained etched in his heart, impossible to forget.

He had heard that some Immortals, after drinking it, dreamed for three thousand years of spring and autumn! Upon waking, their cultivation would soar to the peak of the Great Immortal stage. It was also said that only those at the peak of the Mysterious Immortal stage or Immortal Kings could take small sips and praise it endlessly.

As for Great Immortals purchasing it, they could only buy it drop by drop, with a ten-drop minimum, and it required a specific container to hold. Otherwise, it would manifest into a spirit and vanish into the heavens. It was said that when it vanished, the world would turn topsy-turvy—raining one moment, snowing the next, clear skies following, and then filling with clouds.

Finally, Wuyun’s gaze shifted to the space within the Dou King’s belt. He nodded with slight satisfaction before turning his attention back to Dongyin Gonggong, whose cultivation method granted him the power of an Immortal King despite his current state.

If Dongyin Gonggong maintained this state and allowed the corpse beasts he raised to reach the peak of the Great Immortal stage, it would only delay his ascent to the Immortal King stage. This was primarily because the path he practiced was rejected by the heavens. Even after passing the Immortal King Tribulation, he had to suppress his cultivation; otherwise, once the death aura surged and disrupted the laws of the world, the Heavenly Tribulation would descend again. Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, he would not reveal his full cultivation and waste his previous efforts.

As one corpse beast after another was destroyed while resisting the Heavenly Tribulation, Dongyin Gonggong closed his eyes. A phantom rose from behind him—a shadow composed of death aura—and with a wave of his hand, he unleashed forbidden techniques. Each technique could turn a living Immortal into a corpse, animate withered bones into skeletal monsters, alter the colors of an entire space, or emit death rays that corroded immortal plants and trees.

The numerous immortal artifacts surrounding him were knocked away one by one. Even the six inner sect elders dared only to widen their encirclement to suppress him.

*Snap!* The most severely damaged was the life-bound weapon of the Fourth Elder, Wuying Feng. Since this weapon covered a large area, it was scorched like paper by the death rays and shrank back in retreat.

His "Shadowless Universe Falling Sky Cloth," which usually covered heaven and earth to control the weather, had never faced such an evil enemy. Usually, leaders of other factions would bow and scrape before him, begging for higher-quality immortal medicine.

After the Fourth Elder retreated, the Fifth Elder, Jiliao Wuqing, tipped his teapot treasure, and a metallic malevolent aura surged out. This treasure was used to concoct immortal medicine, capable of enhancing the metallic medicinal properties within the herbs, making it extremely rare.

When the metallic aura collided with Dongyin Gonggong, a strange scene unfolded: the metallic aura ignored the death aura, and the death aura ignored it. The two attacks passed through each other like attacks from different worlds.

As the death aura surged, the Fifth Elder held his palms toward the sky, chanting. A green light of vegetation rose from a valley below, colliding with the death aura and temporarily suppressing it.

When the metallic aura was about to hit Dongyin Gonggong, the latter showed a trace of wariness. He spun his spine-like eighteen-knotted weapon. Eighteen identical bone knots appeared in the air, then sprouted eight limbs, resembling pale-faced ghost dolls. As they grew larger, they formed煞 spirits (malevolent spirits) similar to the Immortal King level.

These eighteen spirits each had their own abilities. After receiving consciousness from Dongyin Gonggong, they formed an "Eighteen-Fold Formation," protecting him tightly. Moreover, the Fifth Elder's metallic aura vanished upon entering the formation.

Jiliao Wuqing doubted his own attack had been countered, but stopped when the Third Elder called out. Sure enough, one of the enemy's spirits had grown a size larger, having swallowed the attack.

At this moment, the Sixth Elder and the others shot their life-bound weapons at him, but the earth-shattering power was blocked by the Eighteen-Fold Formation.

This stalemate was what Dongyin Gonggong wanted to avoid most. He roared, "Sun and Moon Above, Plants and Trees Become Spirits!"

The eighteen spirits reverted to their bone-knot forms and began to spin faster and faster until they transformed into eighteen transparent, glowing orbs. Wuyun grew worried. He feared the formation trapping his treasures like the Wind-Fire Wheels was not secure enough. If the attacks penetrated, and Jia Youke couldn't withstand them, the Piaoyi Great Immortal Sect would truly be wiped out, and he would break his promise!

"Run! Don't throw your lives away! They’re using a major technique—an Immortal King-level technique!" Wuyun yelled on purpose, only to be met with cold stares. Especially He Youqing, who held a miniature prison with torture instruments clattering inside, pacing outside the formation.

Jia Youke glanced at the prison and felt a chill run through his body. As an Immortal, how could he endure the tortures that even Great Immortals couldn't withstand? The horrific illusions of torture within instantly shook his Dao heart. Had it not been for the "Piaoyi" characters protecting his forehead, his heart would have shattered!

Wuyun pulled Jia Youke, deliberately falling backward, and shouted, "You inner sect elders! Taking advantage of the battle to seize our souls—ouch, have mercy!"

As Wuyun and Jia Youke fell, the short-horned black horse just giggled, oblivious to the situation.

In the distance, Dongyin Gonggong had been watching them. Startled by Wuyun’s scream, he looked closely and saw an Immortal waiting for an opportunity with a fifth-grade soul-locking prison artifact.

He could not hesitate. Regardless of whether it was a ruse, his goal was clear. If the badge of the Piaoyi Great Immortal Sect fell into the hands of the Hundred Flower Valley, the consequences would be endless. And if the secrets hidden in Jia Youke's soul were exposed, it could lead to the extinction of the Piaoyi Great Immortal Sect and perhaps trigger a cataclysmic bloodbath. If the Piaoyi Great Immortal Emperor returned, it would surely mean rivers of blood!

"Wind and Clouds Unstoppable, I am God!" Dongyin Gonggong roared. The eighteen light orbs fired eighteen beams of condensed death rays, forming a straight line, then launched overlapping beams of even heavier death energy. These beams were so substantial they tore through space, leaving fissures that refused to heal.

But that wasn't all. After those two strikes, the light orbs suddenly expanded, breaking into the surrounding formation that was suppressing him, and detonated like smoke bombs.

First came the smoke, then the light. When the fog cleared, the eighteen orbs vanished. The Three-Eyed Immortal saw this and cried out, "Retreat quickly!"

He wasn't speaking to the five inner sect elders, but to He Youqing. The overlapping ray that had just struck passed by his head, breaking the formation and leaving a spatial fissure.

He Youqing, just overcoming his panic, was stunned—Dongyin Gonggong was still trapped in the formation; was he really about to break through?

He hesitated for just a moment, but by the time he tried to retreat, it was too late!

Dongyin Gonggong had used a feint. That spatial fissure was the hidden passage for the "vanished" eighteen light orbs. Just as He Youqing tried to flash away, a death ray shot out from that line—and not just one, but eighteen.

Furthermore, the eighteen rays could bend. Like a ball of yarn, they surrounded and swallowed him. His physical body gone, only his soul remained, which was then sucked into the prison artifact and vanished amidst the pulling of the rays.

The six elders didn't even react. He Youqing’s disappearance was just the beginning. Many other internal and external sect elders were corroded by the death aura because of their formation positions.

Just as the eighteen light orbs enveloped Wuyun to drag him away, a majestic voice resonated.

"In the ancient times, the Yin Spirit Sect was nothing but a low-class sect of tomb raiders. You dare to covet the bones of the fallen Immortal Kings and Emperors of the Piaoyi Great Immortal Sect—are you not afraid that their spirits will annihilate you all from beyond?"

As the voice faded, the eighteen light orbs surrounding Wuyun were repelled, and Wuyun and his group were shifted to a corner of the sky through a tear in space.

As the oppressive aura vanished, Jia Youke was about to take a deep breath when he saw a hand appear beneath them in the sky. It was this hand that had broken the forbidden formation and pulled them back.

Jia Youke looked back and nearly fell over, for right behind them stood the Lady Bai Wan he had seen before, along with the owner of that hand—the Vice Valley Master of Hundred Flower Valley, Yang Chi.

Jia Youke trembled. Yang Chi said calmly, "Since you are the resurrected Sect Master of the Piaoyi Great Immortal Sect, you naturally possess immense fortune."

"This fortune is the most important part of cultivation. No matter how hard you work or how much you suffer, without such fortuitous opportunities, how could you become a Sect Master?"

Yang Chi spoke slowly. With a wave of his hand, he released his Soul-Suppressing Pagoda, capturing the eighteen light orbs that had been repelled. He then said to Wuyun, "Sir, you must be a descendant of the Piaoyi Great Immortal Sect or a trusted confidant of the Piaoyi Emperor, right?"

Wuyun laughed heartily. "How could that be? I originally had nothing to do with him, then I had a little to do with him. I take people's money and eliminate their troubles, though this particular job is a bit of a hot potato!"

A faint smile touched Yang Chi's face. In truth, his eyes had already scanned Wuyun from top to bottom. Aside from a hint of danger in his divine sense, his upper body was strong, while his lower body was weak. In particular, he was hiding a True Fire and a Shadow Beast in his chest.