"Don't kill!" Sun Lingtong shouted.
No need for his reminder, Ning Zhuo had already given the order to the Battle Ape, Dasheng.
Yuan Dasheng was a martial arts master, able to act freely, and in an instant, he stopped his hand.
"Xiao Zhuo, use the talismans I gave you!" Sun Lingtong added.
Ning Zhuo nodded, "Don't worry, boss, I'm familiar with this."
Ning Zhuo took out several talismans, rushed to stand in front of Qi Bai, and stuck them on his three dantians and other vital spots.
The talismans took effect, the light they emitted intertwined and sealed Qi Bai completely.
"Hurry and go!" Sun Lingtong urged. After this, his eyes went dark, and he could no longer hold on, passing out.
On the peak of Mount Huoshi.
Meng Kui’s face subtly shifted, capturing the results of Qi Bai and Ning Sun’s battle.
The outcome of this battle slightly surprised him.
When he saw that Ning Zhuo placed the talismans but didn't take Qi Bai’s life on the spot, his brows furrowed slightly.
Immediately, he murmured under his breath, sending a message out.
Chi Dun and Fei Si had been on standby.
Chi Dun instantly rushed into the sky, heading toward the location of Qi Bai's defeat.
Ning Zhuo’s retreat was very timely.
By the time Chi Dun descended to the ground, the place was already in ruins, with no one in sight.
"Sigh, too late." Chi Dun quickly used a spell, attempting to catch some clues.
How could Ning Zhuo have left any obvious clues?
Seeing Chi Dun’s movement, Zhu Xuanji, who was hundreds of miles away, immediately had a thought, "The City Lord’s mansion is starting to take action."
"Meng Kui's divine power technique is about to end!"
Zhu Xuanji immediately realized this.
When the entire fortune field was activated, the City Lord’s mansion, under Meng Kui’s order, had retracted all its influence, remained inactive, watching from the sidelines.
Zhu Xuanji understood: this was because the City Lord’s mansion and Meng Kui’s fortunes were connected, especially Fei Si and Chi Dun, who were Meng Kui’s right-hand men, their fortunes intertwined and inseparable.
If the two of them were drawn into the fortune field, Meng Kui would not sit comfortably and would be implicated as well.
"Meng Kui’s divine power technique this time ended much faster than I expected."
"According to past battle examples, he could continue for much longer. This time, he restrained himself a lot, likely out of concern for the citizens of Huoshi Immortal City."
"Perhaps, he’s also considering the Lava Immortal Palace."
"After all, Lava Immortal Palace’s performance under the siege of the beast horde was far below expectations. Sigh, it’s much weaker than I anticipated."
Zhu Xuanji stopped watching the battle and moved again.
He cautiously advanced toward Huoshi Immortal City. During this process, whenever the bell rang, he would stop and retreat a distance, ensuring his fortune was not affected.
Just as Zhu Xuanji had guessed, the intangible fortune field was rapidly shrinking. Moreover, the speed of this shrinkage was increasing.
Ning Zhuo put away the Battle Ape, Dasheng, and took Sun Lingtong and Qi Bai to an underground base.
For over a decade, he and Sun Lingtong had secretly sought out the cracks in the Immortal City, building more than twenty underground bases in secret.
Many of these bases had never been used since their construction.
In his daily life, Ning Zhuo mostly used only one of these underground bases—the one his mother had left for him, which had also once held Han Ming.
This underground base was small. Since it was built, Ning Zhuo had not returned to it.
Mainly, it housed a healing formation. Due to the solid materials used and the disregard for cost, the healing effects were outstanding.
The white cloud smoke touched Qi Bai’s body and quickly seeped into his upper dantian sea of consciousness.
The cloud smoke rolled in, continuously.
Moments later, the cloud smoke withdrew. Unlike before, it was now swollen, clearly wrapping around something.
Sun Lingtong controlled the cloud smoke, which floated to an empty spot beside him, then slowly dispersed.
A seal was revealed.
It was a square jade seal, its body as black as ink, cold and sinister. On the top of the seal was a human skull, like transparent crystal, clear and gleaming. Inside the skull’s teeth was a spiritual pearl, and within the pearl, a blue ghostly fire was burning.
The inscription on the
bottom of the seal was four characters—Underworld Ghost Deity!
The Underworld Ghost Deity Seal.
This wasn’t a magical instrument, but a treasure!
Qi Bai had relied on this treasure to summon the two avatars of Judge Cha and the Bull-headed Ghost Soldier.
This was Qi Bai’s most important treasure, the core of his overall strength, and the first thing Sun Lingtong took.
"This kind of jade seal can be refined as long as it’s infused with yin-attributed mana."
"Even though we aren’t ghost cultivators, if we ever explore the underworld, this will be a powerful weapon!"
"Seal it first."
Sun Lingtong took out talismans and placed them on the front and back of the treasure.
He once again summoned the white smoke, which surged into Qi Bai’s sea of consciousness.
Not long after, the smoke returned, bringing back a rattle drum.
It was the Soul-Stirring Drum that had given Ning and Sun such a hard time during the battle.
Like the Underworld Ghost Deity Seal, it was also a treasure.
Sun Lingtong easily sealed it with talismans.
After all, it wasn’t a spiritual treasure and didn’t contain any inherent spirit.
There were no more treasures in the upper dantian sea of consciousness.
But Sun Lingtong still extracted a lot of spiritual thoughts, storing them all in a jade slip.
Next, he used the Sea-Gazing Cloud-Catching Hand to probe Qi Bai’s qi sea.
There were no tangible treasures in the qi sea, but there were many spell seeds.
When a cultivator practices a certain spell to a certain level, it forms spell seeds. Continuing down this path, it can eventually develop into a divine ability.
However, the difficulty and cost far exceed natural talent. Moreover, the divine abilities formed in this way are often quite ordinary.
Natural talent is recognized as the soil for divine abilities, and the abilities condensed from it are either immensely powerful or uniquely extraordinary.
Sun Lingtong used the cloud smoke to gather the spell seeds, but he only obtained some of their shadows.
He took out talisman paper, and the cloud smoke deposited the spell seed shadows onto it, instantly transforming the paper into talismans.
"They’re all high-quality, they’ll fetch a good price!" Sun Lingtong nodded in satisfaction.
Ning Zhuo remarked, "It’s better to keep some on hand for ourselves first."
In the recent battle, he had nearly exhausted ten years’ worth of mechanical creations, leaving him feeling uneasy.
Finally, Sun Lingtong used the cloud smoke to extract a large amount of Qi Bai’s mana and infused it into a Spirit Storage Orb.
The cloud smoke officially entered the essence sea lower dantian.
Sun Lingtong fumbled for a moment, then suddenly his body shook, a look of delight appeared on his face, and he blurted out, "It’s actually this thing, what a treasure, what a treasure!"