Chapter 349: Grandma Yinhua’s Decision

“This thing can actually absorb the Dao rhyme from these spiritual patterns!”Su Jingzhen was astonished.

He suddenly remembered the time he killed those demonic beasts with the black brick, and how their demonic beast cores became incredibly pure.

“Could this be the same principle as those demonic beast cores?

What secrets are hidden within this black brick?”

Su Jingzhen looked at the unassuming black brick, covered in spikes and even cracks, and his curiosity grew.

When he first received this thing from Feng Qingya, both he and Shuang Jiang had realized it was a fragment.

Now, Su Jingzhen desperately wanted to know what the black brick looked like when it was whole.

But these questions were destined to remain unanswered.

Perhaps even Feng Qingya, who sold him the black brick, or even the higher-level Treasure Gathering Pavilion wouldn’t know.

Otherwise, this black brick wouldn’t have ended up in the Linjiang City Treasure Gathering Pavilion.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Su Jingzhen walked silently to another complete stone carving.

He still held the black brick in his hand. This time, he didn’t choose to strike it directly.

He simply leaned it against the pattern, and once again felt the fluctuations emanating from the black brick.

His gaze then fell upon the pattern itself. It depicted a sprawling palace complex, shrouded in clouds and mist, resembling a prosperous and powerful sect.

After the mysterious Dao Rhymes on the stone carving was absorbed by the black brick, when Su Jingzhen looked at it again, it seemed ordinary.

Just like any mundane object.

Su Jingzhen’s heart pounded with excitement.

However, he didn’t continue experimenting on the stone carvings.

After all, these things weren’t going anywhere, and Zhao Tianming also knew how to enter this place. He could always come back later.

As for the secrets of the black brick, he didn’t want to expose them.

If all the Dao Rhymes on the stone carvings were absorbed by his black brick, it would inevitably raise suspicion from Shen Yifeng and Luo Yuebai.

He valued the black brick immensely, like a secret system, and didn’t want anyone to know about its wonders.

After all, he himself hadn’t fully understood its functions yet.

Su Jingzhen had to keep his excitement in check. He couldn’t expose the black brick’s secrets until he felt safe enough.

After suppressing his emotions, Su Jingzhen carefully put away the black brick and walked silently back to Shen Yifeng’s side. He waited patiently for Luo Yuebai to wake up.

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Meanwhile, outside in the Spiritual Medicine Sect’s central plaza, the Foundation Establishment and Qi-refining stage disciples of the Free and Unfettered Sect were still surrounded by representatives from various factions, their faces etched with fear and anxiety.

Grandma Yinhua and the other Nascent Soul cultivators from various factions had managed to escape their confinement. They gathered at the edge of the void passage, but hesitated to step inside.

The previous individuals who had emerged had already relayed the events within to them. They knew that Hong Seng, a Nascent Soul cultivator of mid-stage, had perished inside.

None of the Nascent Soul cultivators present felt confident in defeating Shen Yifeng.

Furthermore, the stance of the Evil Moon Sect remained unclear. No one dared to provoke them.

As time passed, the Golden Core cultivators from various factions, who had been imprisoned by the jade bricks, gradually broke free.

When the last one escaped, the void passage before Grandma Yinhua and the others trembled violently before slowly disappearing.

“Not good!”

The Golden Core cultivators’ expressions changed drastically.

Although they had been tricked by Hong Seng earlier, leading to their imprisonment within the stone pillars and jade bricks, the formation on the plaza had indeed relied on their power to activate and maintain the void passage.

Now that they had all left their designated positions, the spirit seals Hong Seng had cast lost their potency, causing the passage to vanish. S~eaʀᴄh the Novelƒire.n(e)t website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

They had been debating whether to enter the passage, but now even the option was gone.

“What are we to do? The alchemists we captured were merely low-level members of the Spiritual Medicine Sect. The more important individuals must still be within that mysterious space. It seems we have all lost our chances.”

A middle-aged woman from Lingxiu Pavilion spoke, her voice laced with discontent.

“What can we do? Even when the passage was open, none of us dared to confront Shen Yifeng and his group. Now that we’ve all lost our nerve to face the Evil Moon Sect, what’s the point of dwelling on this?”

Grandma Yinhua of Spirit Sound Valley snorted coldly with a hint of sarcasm in her tone.

In truth, their alliance could have stood a better chance against Shen Yifeng and his companions if the Free and Unfettered Sect hadn’t resorted to such underhanded tactics from the beginning.

But as they say, there are no ifs in life.

Grandma Yinhua’s words hung in the air, followed by the Nascent Soul elder of Flowing Wind Sword Sect, who declared, “Since that’s the case, there’s no need for us to linger here. I have no desire to be mocked by others.”

With that, he beckoned to the disciples of Flowing Wind Sword Sect and departed on their flying swords.

With the Free and Unfettered Sect’s high-ranking members all dead, there was no point in staying. The remaining cultivators had no desire to fight the Evil Moon Sect, and there is no point in staying here, except to be ridiculed by Shen Yifeng and others who come out later.

Flowing Wind Sword Sect’s decisive departure cast a heavy pall over the plaza.

“In that case, Lingxiu Pavilion will take its leave as well,” the Nascent Soul leader of Lingxiu Pavilion sighed, resigning herself to their fate.

Lingxiu Pavilion’s rules prohibited them from accepting male disciples, and they hadn’t captured any female alchemists from the Spiritual Medicine Sect. Their mission was a complete failure.

The consecutive departures of Flowing Wind Sword Sect and Lingxiu Pavilion left the remaining eight secondary factions and dozens of smaller factions in a state of stunned silence.

Their faces were etched with confusion and uncertainty.

They couldn’t comprehend how things had escalated to this point.

For most, they felt like they had done something, yet nothing at all.

Looking back at the whole incident, it seems that even this alliance came out of nowhere.

The cultivators realized, with a chilling sense of dread, that they had been manipulated by an unseen hand, leading them to this disastrous outcome.

While the eight secondary factions and the smaller groups were still grappling with the situation, a cruel glint appeared in Grandma Yinhua’s aged eyes.

Her gaze fell upon the remaining Foundation Establishment and Qi-refining disciples of the Free and Unfettered Sect, who stood frozen in fear.

With icy coldness, she uttered a single word: “Kill!”