“Do not kill!” Sun Lingtong shouted.

No reminder was needed. Ning Zhuo had already commanded the Tree Martial Ape, Great Victory, to cease.

Yuan Dasheng, being a martial arts grandmaster, controlled his strength with ease, stopping his attack instantly.

“Xiao Zhuo, use the talismans I gave you!” Sun Lingtong urged again.

Ning Zhuo nodded. “Rest assured, Boss, I know these well.”

Ning Zhuo took out several talismans and rushed to Qi Bai’s side, affixing them to his three dantian and other vital points.

The talismans activated, their radiant light connecting seamlessly, sealing Qi Bai on all sides.

“Leave quickly!” Sun Lingtong urged, his vision darkening before losing consciousness, unable to endure any longer.

At the peak of Fire Persimmon Mountain.

Meng Kui’s expression shifted subtly as he observed the outcome of the battle between Qi Bai, Ning Zhuo, and Sun Lingtong.

Seeing that Ning Zhuo had affixed talismans without immediately taking Qi Bai’s life, his brow furrowed slightly.

Immediately, he murmured a sound transmission.

Chi Dun and Fei Si had been awaiting orders.

Chi Dun immediately soared into the sky, heading towards the location of Qi Bai’s defeat.

Ning Zhuo’s retreat was timely.

By the time Chi Dun landed, the area was a ruin. Empty.

“Alas, too late!”

Chi Dun hurriedly used magic, attempting to grasp any clues.

How could Ning Zhuo leave obvious traces?

Seeing Chi Dun move out, Zhu Xuanji, hundreds of miles away, felt a stirring in his heart. “The City Lord’s Manor is entering the game.”

“Meng Kui’s divine art is coming to an end.”

Zhu Xuanji immediately realized this.

When the entire Qi Luck Field was activated, the City Lord’s Manor, under Meng Kui’s orders, had withdrawn all its feelers, remaining on the sidelines, watching the fire burn.

Zhu Xuanji knew: this was because the City Lord’s Manor and Meng Kui were connected in destiny, especially Fei Si and Chi Dun, who were Meng Kui’s right and left hands, their destinies closely intertwined.

If they were drawn into the Qi Luck Field, Meng Kui would be uneasy and would be implicated.

“Meng Kui’s divine art ended very quickly this time, far exceeding my expectations!”

“According to past examples, he could continue for a long time! This time, is it because he is concerned about the citizens of Fire Persimmon Immortal City? So he deliberately restrained himself.”

“Perhaps, he is also looking after the Magma Immortal Palace!”

“After all, the Magma Immortal Palace’s performance under the beast horde was far from expected!”

“Alas, it is weaker than I anticipated!”

Zhu Xuanji stopped watching and began to act again.

He tentatively advanced, approaching Fire Persimmon Immortal City.

During this process, if a wind chime rang, he would stop and retreat a certain distance, ensuring his Qi Luck was not affected.

As Zhu Xuanji had predicted, the formless Qi Luck Field was rapidly shrinking.

And the speed of this contraction was accelerating.

Ning Zhuo recalled the Tree Martial Ape, Great Victory, and brought Sun Lingtong and Qi Bai to an underground base.

For more than a decade, he and Sun Lingtong had secretly searched for gaps in the Immortal City and secretly built more than twenty underground bases.

Many bases had not been used since they were built.

Ning Zhuo usually only used one of the underground bases—the one his mother had left him, which had also held Han Ming captive.

This underground base was small.

Ning Zhuo hadn’t been back since it was built.

It mainly housed a treatment formation, and because the materials used were solid and nearly unsparing, the treatment effect was outstanding.

When Ning Zhuo and Qi Bai began their battle, he teleported continuously, deliberately exposing more than a dozen underground bases, doing his best to exhaust the powerful enemy.

But a treatment-focused underground base like this didn’t need to be exposed.

Such exposure was pure waste.

Ning Zhuo was not muddleheaded.

So, when Sun Lingtong woke up again, weakly opening his eyes, he found himself in a formation.

Countless emerald green specks of light skillfully merged into his body, vigorously repairing his physical injuries.

As soon as Sun Lingtong woke up, he shouted, “Xiao Zhuo, help me up. I need to disarm Qi Bai.”

Ning Zhuo immediately stopped the treatment formation and brought Sun Lingtong out.

Sun Lingtong was very weak. In the recent battle, his body and soul had been severely damaged. His injuries were terrifying. If he hadn’t taken the Late Autumn Life-Saving Pill, he would have died already.

Sun Lingtong was too weak to walk on his own. Supported by Ning Zhuo, he gasped for breath, his face pale and foolish, his forehead quickly covered with a layer of sweat.

“Boss, can you do it?”

Ning Zhuo asked with concern.

Sun Lingtong held out his small hand. “Give me a Vigorous Erection Pill.”

This kind of pill could allow a cultivator to erupt into a powerful state in a short period of time, with magic power, energy, and divine power sharply restored, sweeping away the fatigue.

The after-effects were that for a long time afterwards, they would fall into a very weak and debilitating state.

In fact, Ning Zhuo had already taken one during his battle with Qi Bai.

At that time, he controlled the Azure Steel Armor, erupting into its ultimate form, but he failed to focus on Qi Bai’s vitals, instead hitting his chest.

Afterwards, under Sun Lingtong’s reminder, he barely managed to fight again, regaining his momentum and attacking Qi Bai in the ruins of the house.

It was at this moment that Ning Zhuo secretly took a Vigorous Erection Pill inside the Azure Steel Armor.

A Vigorous Erection Pill could only be taken once a day. Taking more had no effect.

A weak person might suddenly die if they took it rashly.

Sun Lingtong had taken it many times.

When he lost contact with his master and was rescued by Ning Zhuo, he was only at the Qi Refining stage. It was not easy for him to make a living in the vast Fire Persimmon Immortal City. Sometimes he faced danger and had to take Vigorous Erection Pills to deal with great crises.

Because he had taken it so many times, Sun Lingtong had a lot of experience.

At this moment, after taking one, his breath suddenly became rougher, his pale cheeks became rosy again, his spirit rose greatly, and his eyes began to flicker again.

His hair stood on end, as if it had been electrocuted.

He looked down, pulled apart his pants, and glanced inside, nodding with satisfaction. “This pill is high-grade!”

A high-grade Vigorous Erection Pill could make everything on Sun Lingtong’s body stand up!

Mid-grade ones wouldn’t do.

Sun Lingtong had not yet taken a superb Vigorous Erection Pill.

Superb pills were very rare and often had magical effects.

Sun Lingtong held his head high and came to Qi Bai with a heroic spirit.

Qi Bai had talismans stuck all over him and was also placed in a formation.

He himself was unconscious and showed no signs of waking up.
Simultaneously, his three seas – Essence, Qi, and Spirit – were precisely suppressed by talismans.

Sun Lingtong extended her delicate hand and, with a ‘smack’, delivered a light slap to Qi Bai’s cheek.

Qi Bai remained motionless, but the area struck on his cheek visibly swelled and reddened.

Sun Lingtong huffily sat down cross-legged, brought her hands together in a prayer-like gesture, closed her eyes, lowered her head, and softly chanted a series of exquisite and profound incantations.

After a considerable period of building up power, she slowly opened her eyes.

The whites and pupils of her eyes were covered in spiritual light, and her hands emitted smoke, wisps of white smoke, like clouds and mist.

Specks of silver light, like countless shattered diamonds, incessantly twinkled within the white smoke, extraordinarily dazzling.

Sun Lingtong continued to chant, her voice growing fainter, nearing silence.

After a few breaths, her hands completely disappeared, replaced by two streams of cloud-smoke connected to her wrists.

This was a technique of the Not Empty Gate – the Cloud Grasping Hand of Sea Gazing.

The white cloud-qi touched Qi Bai’s body and then swiftly probed into his upper dantian, the Sea of Spirit.

The cloud-smoke surged and churned incessantly.

A moment later, the cloud-smoke recoiled.

Unlike before, it was significantly expanded, clearly enveloping something.

Sun Lingtong manipulated the cloud-smoke, floating it to an empty space beside her, and then slowly dispersed it.

An imprint seal immediately revealed itself.

This was a square jade seal, its body square and imposing, like ink jade, somber and frigid.

On the seal’s face was the skull of a human, like transparent crystal, exquisitely clear.

Within the skull’s teeth was clasped a spirit pearl. Inside the pearl, azure netherflame constantly burned.

The inscription on the seal’s base consisted of four words: Netherworld Ghost God.

The Netherworld Ghost God Seal.

This was not a magical implement, but a magical treasure.

Qi Bai had relied on this treasure to successively summon the incarnations of Judge Chacha and the Ox-Head Wraith.

This was Qi Bai’s most important treasure, the core of his overall combat strength, and it was the first item Sun Lingtong had filched.

“This kind of jade seal can be refined using only Yin-attributed spiritual power!”

“Even if we aren’t ghost cultivators, this will be a powerful tool if we ever explore the netherworld.”

“First, we’ll seal it!”

Sun Lingtong retrieved talismans and affixed them to the front and back of the magical treasure!

She once again stirred the white smoke, pouring it into Qi Bai’s Sea of Spirit!

Soon after, the white smoke returned, bringing out a pellet drum.

It was the Soul-Shaking Pellet Drum that had given Ning and Sun so much trouble in the battle.

Like the Netherworld Ghost God Seal, it was also a magical treasure.

Sun Lingtong easily suppressed it with talismans.

After all, it wasn’t a spiritual treasure, lacking the inherent foundation and spirituality.

There were no more treasures hidden in the upper dantian, the Sea of Spirit.

But Sun Lingtong still extracted a great deal of divine sense, storing it all in a jade slip.

She then used the Cloud Grasping Hand of Sea Gazing to probe into Qi Bai’s Sea of Qi.

There were no tangible treasures in the Sea of Qi, but there were quite a few spell-rune seeds.

Continuing to develop along this path could lead to the development of divine abilities.

However, the difficulty and cost would be far greater than relying on innate talent.

Furthermore, the divine abilities formed would be relatively common.

Innate talent was the recognized foundation of divine abilities; the divine abilities formed were either powerful or uniquely peculiar.

Sun Lingtong used the cloud-smoke to retrieve rune seeds, only obtaining the phantoms of some rune seeds.

She retrieved talisman paper, and as the cloud-smoke brought the rune seed phantoms to rest upon it, it immediately transformed the paper into talismans.

“They’re all excellent quality, they can be sold for money!”

Sun Lingtong nodded in satisfaction.

Ning Zhuo said, “It’s better to hoard a batch for ourselves first.”

In the previous battle, he had nearly exhausted his accumulation of over a decade of mechanist creations, leaving him feeling uneasy.

Finally, Sun Lingtong used the cloud-smoke to intercept a large amount of Qi Bai’s spiritual power, channeling it into a spirit-storing orb.

The cloud-smoke officially entered the lower dantian, the Sea of Essence.

Sun Lingtong groped around for a moment, then suddenly her body trembled, her face showing surprise and joy, and she exclaimed, “It’s actually this item, what a treasure, what a treasure!”

End of this chapter…